The warrant the FBI used in the Playpen investigation—which resulted in the delivery of malware to over a thousand computers, located around the world—violated Rule 41, an important rule of federal criminal procedure. Although Rule 41 may seem obscure, it…
SAN RAFAEL, CA – AUGUST 20: Bottles of Arrowhead water are displayed on a shelf at a convenience store on August 20, 2014 in San Rafael, California. Despite the historic California drought that has left most of State to ration…
Drug Policy Forum of California Pro-reform candidates are in green; Anti-reform in red; Neutral in black. (ref to orig for color) PROP 64 – PRESIDENT – US CONGRESS – CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE – LOCAL RACES – BALLOT PROPOSITIONS Proposition 64 Californians…
Submitted by ButtCracker “In the wake of the DNC server hack and well-documented efforts by states to suppress the vote, citizens are rightly concerned,” Rep. Hank Johnson said in a statement. A pair of comprehensive, complimentary election infrastructure reform bills,…
We get reaction to this week’s Senate Banking Committee hearing where Senator Elizabeth Warren grilled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf over a growing scandal at the major Wall Street bank involving thousands of employees who took private customer information to…
Submitted by: ButtCracker New Revelations—always on a Friday or just before a major holiday, or both A 189-page summary of interviews conducted in the year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private server shed new light on the shifting stories Clinton’s aides…
Submitted by Buttkicker The government isn’t regulating how highly dangerous viruses and bacteria are rendered safe for shipment, posing risks to the public, auditors say The map depicts sites that received anthrax samples from the Defense Department’s Dugway Proving Ground…
Sane Progressive. (Petition is in video description on Youtube): The Department of Homeland Security Je Johnson has stated the Department is considering seizing unconstitutional jurisdiction over US Elections and has recently formed a Cybersecurity Election Infrastructure working group (two of…
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson // J. Scott Applewhite/AP Less than 20 percent of states have asked the Homeland Security Department for help assessing the security of machines at the polls and for scans of online voter registration databases…
Submitted by: ButtCracker This Friday, Oliver Stone’s film ‘Snowden’ hits theaters. The release will be accompanied by a campaign that is focused on procuring a presidential pardon for the whistleblower who revealed the NSA’s mass surveillance program in 2013. With…
Nuclear power may never recover its cachet as a clean energy source, irrespective of safety concerns, because of the ongoing saga of meltdown 3/11/11 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Over time, the story only grows more horrific, painful, deceitful.…
Last Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that Wells Fargo was paying $185 million in fines and penalties for allowing its employees to open “more than two million deposit and credit card accounts” that were not authorized by…
RT, the Russian government-funded English-language television channel, presents its country’s view of the world. So, it claims, does every other broadcaster. RT is just honest enough to admit it. “Media outlets do not exist in a vacuum. Can you really…
Exclusive: When Israel launched a covert scheme to steal material and secrets to build a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials looked the other way and obstructed investigations, as described in a book reviewed by James DiEugenio. By James DiEugenio In 1968,…
In a few days it will be the 15th anniversary of 9/11, and this November 22 will be the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. These two state crimes against democracy destroyed American…
The paradox of democracy is that it depends on the integrity of those who have the most to lose if an election goes the wrong way — you know, the people in power. That’s a particularly thorny dilemma when the…
Submitted by ButtCracker Congressional candidates that are running for office and being supported by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee appear onstage on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 27, 2016. © Mike Segar /…
Many public employees utilize a tool, known as “salary spiking,” to boost their annual pensions payment in retirement and we taxpayers get to foot the bill. So what is “salary spiking?” Typically, a public employee’s pension benefit in retirement is…
In the latest stunning development involving a documented failure of a bank to deliver physical gold when demanded, yesterday we reported that according to German website godmode-trader.de, a client of the Xetra-Gold Exchange-Traded Commodity was told the fund’s designated sponsor,…
Submitted by ButtCracker It’s been roughly three months since Hillary Clinton promised, during her Feb. 4 debate with Bernie Sanders on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, to “look into” releasing the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman…
