"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Civil Disobedience
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"Documents show law enforcement agencies obtain information from AT&T and then use “parallel construction” to build their cases without revealing the company’s involvement. In other words, police “confirm” the evidence through conventional police work, such as obtaining a court order for a wiretap or physical surveillance. That allows prosecutors to create what Electronic Frontier Foundation Adam Schwartz called a “false investigative narrative...
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"One month before the presidential election of 2008, the giant Wall Street bank Citigroup submitted to the Obama campaign a list of its preferred candidates for cabinet positions in an Obama administration. This list corresponds almost exactly to the eventual composition of Barack Obama’s cabinet."
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"Anheuser-Busch InBev, the parent company of beer brand Bud Light, has pulled the company’s Amy Schumer-Seth Rogen-starring “Bud Light Party” television advertisements weeks ahead of schedule as sales of the beer declined in the third quarter."
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"FBI has raided a Democrat office outside Philly looking for evidence related to voter fraud. The entity raided was tied to 3 cases of mass voter fraud in the 2012 election. The news comes less than 1 day after a frivolous DNC lawsuit against Trump is all but dismissed."
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"When I was reading the news this morning, I discovered a quote that was so very ironic, I wanted to think that it was satire. But it wasn’t. The Clinton campaign, who really liked the FBI during their first go-round, had the audacity to say now that the FBI has double standards."
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"Early this evening, CNN tried to catch Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a heavily compromising position over comments he made at a rally in Colorado. There was only one catch — Trump didn’t say what they thought he said. And, when the network realized the mistake, they tried to stealthily cover it up. In the online story of the rally, CNN used a headline that stated that the real estate mogul urged his supporters in the state to vote multiple times. Check out the screengrab...
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"Mack and Johnson explained how they bus minority members of their community congregation to the polls and tell them how to vote. “The thing is, I keep repeating this, our people getting to the polls. If we get our people to the polls they know who to vote for. It’s not going to be, ‘Oh who do I vote for?’ Because we’re going to tell them who to vote for,” said Johnson. IRS code provides that 501 (c) 3 organizations cannot “Participate in, or intervene in, any political campaign on behalf of/in...
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"The consortium of news networks that commissions election exit polls will survey 28 states on Tuesday, eschewing state-level polls in many smaller and less-competitive states. In recent elections, the National Election Pool — which includes The Associated Press, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News — and Edison Research, which conducts the exit poll, have eliminated state-level surveys in an effort to cut costs. In 2012, there were 31 state-level exit polls, with exit pollsters...
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"Before he became FBI director, James Comey lived the Gold Coast high-life in Connecticut as a hedge fund high-roller. Now the besieged Comey - under fire for his surprise letters to Congress about Hillary Clinton's controversial emails that have thrown the presidential election into chaos - is about to take another hit, this time on his palatial $3 million-plus home. Comey bought the estate on more than three acres not far from where Martha Stewart used to live in ritzy Westport, Connecticut,...
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"Given the rancorous tone and often highly personal nature of this year’s presidential campaign, supporters of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump might be expected to hold similarly negative views of one another. But a new Pew Research Center survey finds that Clinton backers – particularly highly educated ones – have more difficulty respecting Trump supporters than the other way around."
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"The United States lost 9,000 manufacturing jobs in October while gaining 19,000 jobs in government, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Government employment grew from 22,216,000 in September to 22,235,000 in October, according to BLS, while manufacturing jobs dropped from 12,267,000 to 12,258,000. The 22,235,000 employed by government in the United States now outnumber the 12,258,000 employed in manufacturing by 9,977,000."
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"The U.S. Navy can't fire its awesome new gun that can hit a target more than 70 miles away because the rounds are costing the service nearly a million bucks a piece. Just a couple weeks after the Navy commissioned its most advanced warship, the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), the service says it won't be buying any more of the guided precision munitions the ship's Advanced Gun Systems uses, called the Long Range Land-Attack Projectile (LRLAP)."
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"NASA has reported that Antarctic sea ice (different from Artic ice) reached a new record maximum. Meanwhile, top Russian scientist Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov, who is the head of space research for the Pulkovo Observatory at the Russian Academy of Sciences, has come out and stated that the new mini-Ice Age began at the end of 2015. Using data from ice core samples, our models also targeted 2015.75 as the turning point in the decline in energy output of the sun."
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"Before she was ejected from class by her professor, the student wrote a Facebook post scolding those who were “comparing 11/9 to 9/11”: You are comparing today to a day that killed thousands of people in MY HOME. You are disrespectful, you are unintelligent and you should think before you post things on social media. I am disgusted. That comparison continued in the student’s class, she said. (The student requested anonymity to share her story, so The College Fix is not...
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"A quick Google search shows jobs nationwide to protest trump while CNN and Hillary “fact checkers” insist there is no evidence of paid professionals being involved in any of the protests or riots. While CNN and The NY Times continues their year-long onslaught skewed bias anti-trump propaganda they continue to ignore violent hate crimes being committed across the country against Americans that voted for Trump. Meanwhile Donald Trump and his staff have pointed to paid professionals being behind...
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