[Breitbart] According to the Associated Press, the "Hood Billionaire" and well fed rapper joined fellow artists Alicia Keys, Common, Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, Janelle Monae, Ludacris, Chance the Rapper and others at the White House on Friday, where the group met with the president to discuss the administration’s "My Brother’s Keeper" initiative, which focuses on empowering black and Latino youth.
But according to TMZ, Ross’s ankle monitor, which he must wear as a condition of his release on kidnapping and assault charges last summer, beeped loudly shortly after the president concluded a speech.
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South Africa' answer to "Affirmative Action" is something called "BEE" or (Black Economic Empowerment). As one might predict, BEE is doing wonders for the entire country.
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The WH is a 'dead zone' for the type of two-way radio communications these monitors require, due to the SS communications security protocols. When they can't 'Talk to Home Base' after a certain period of time, they go into alarm.
Having a guy on LE monitoring (of any sort) really troubles me as to the security situation here.
Of course, lots of other things about this administration do the same.
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Sort of works as a metaphor for the entire administration. Even the left is starting to see the alarm go off.
[NYDAILYNEWS] The bad news has been snowballing for Bill de Blasio, what with the emergence of a federal probe involving, among other things, top cops in Brooklyn accepting diamonds, trips and more from two big donors to various appendages of his political operation and what’s now four separate investigations into a city-aided flip, again involving a wired backer of the mayor, of a Lower East Side nursing home for AIDS patients into luxury condos.
I wrote last Sunday that "after this week, I’m losing faith that de Blasio’s horse trading is paying off for the city." And it appears I’m not the only one.
Ace New York corruption buster Preet Bharara, fresh off turning two of Albany’s three men in a room into convicted felons (and exposing one of them, former Assembly Speaker and de Blasio ally Shelly Silver, as an adulterer who had one mistress who was a major Albany lobbyist and another who he helped get a state job), is now reportedly looking into these messes and their links to the mayor’s 2013 campaign.
When Bharara announced last year that he was charging Silver -- who de Blasio then called "a man of integrity" -- the lawman said that the "unfinished fight against public corruption continues," and New Yorkers should "stay tuned."
He repeated the phrase last week at a gala for Common Cause, the good government group whose pointed questions about de Blasio’s main outside money operation, The Campaign for One New York, came just before the group suddenly announced it would be closing up shop. Bharara elaborated, just a little, on what we should be tuned in for, saying that "executive offices in government are far from immune from the creeping show-me-the-money culture that has been pervading New York for some time now."
Which, given that Bharara has already ended a probe of Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo, with a public declaration that "there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime," sounds an awful lot like "I’d like to dedicate this next tune to Bill de Blasio."
Talking on background this week to people who lead groups that do business with this administration, and have long experience with previous ones, the common concerns were whether or not de Blasio has full control over his own administration and political operation -- and where, exactly, the line between them gets drawn in our post-Citizens United city.
One person compared de Blasio’s inner circle -- particularly Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on all things public-safety related and Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen on all things involving real estate -- to "independent contractors," with tremendous autonomy within their respective spheres. Which might help explain how a mayor with a reputation for micromanaging has spent the last two weeks pleading ignorance about major decisions made by his own administration.
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The first point is do not confuse the investigations.
There are bunches, but scummarxistwhore's name keeps coming up.
I wait for their shitslide to hell MOB
UnitedHealth, the nation's biggest health insurer, will cut its participation in public health insurance exchanges to only a handful of states next year after expanding to nearly three dozen for this year.
CEO Stephen Hemsley said Tuesday that the company expects losses from its exchange business to total more than $1 billion for this year and last. He added that the company cannot continue to broadly serve the market created by the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansion due partly to the higher risk that comes with its customers.
The state-based exchanges are a key element behind the Affordable Care Act's push to expand insurance coverage. But insurers have struggled with higher than expected claims from that business.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. said it now expects to lose $650 million this year on its exchange business, up from its previous projection for $525 million. The insurer lost $475 million in 2015, a spokesman said.
UnitedHealth has already decided to pull out of Arkansas, Georgia and Michigan in 2017, and Hemsley told analysts during a Tuesday morning conference call that his company will not carry financial exposure from the exchanges into 2017.
"We continue to remain an advocate for more stable and sustainable approaches to serving this market," he said. Look for more insurance companies to bail like crazy if they can't raise rates this year.
As Stephen Green would say, "That means it is working." All aboard the single payer choo choo train!
This is old from about a month ago; not sure why the news is carrying it again today.
The war between Republicans and Democrats on the politically splintered Federal Election Commission flared late Monday when a Republican commissioner and former chairman charged that the panel's Democrats want to regulate the press and end free election media.
The moves by Democrats "signal an active regulatory effort within the agency, caution press organizations to look over their shoulders, and chill the free exercise of press activity," said Republican Lee E. Goodman in a statement on a recent FEC split vote.
On that vote, the Democrats voted as a block to punish the maker of an anti-Obama movie distributed free before the 2012 election. The Republicans argued that he should receive the standard media exemption, as Democrats on the FEC have granted liberal moviemakers in the past. The split voted blocked any action against Joel Gilbert and Highway 61 films for his Dreams of My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception. How DARE he make teh 0ne look bad!! i.e. tell the truth
Goodman, who has been warning of efforts by Democrats on the FEC to regulate and even block conservative news sites like the Drudge Report, said that a split vote on the anti-Obama movie proves the motives of the Democrats, Ann M. Ravel, Steven T. Walther, and Ellen L. Weintraub.
In rejecting the movie maker's bid for the media exemption, Weintraub said, "Press entities do not act as press entities when they distribute millions of free DVDs immediately before an election solely in electoral swing states."
Goodman wrote in a statement that her words could target any media that distributes news free at the end of the election in key states, from Drudge to the New York Times.
"There is no ambiguity in the point of this curt statement: all otherwise bona fide press entities are subject to investigation by the federal government through either the Commission (or the Department of Justice) based on nothing more than the means they pursue to market and exhibit their otherwise fully protected content," he wrote.
Goodman explained: "There is nothing unusual about a press entity's publication of election-related commentary in the months, weeks, and even days before an election when the public's interest is piqued. Newspaper editorials are commonplace in the weeks and days leading up to an election. It also is common for press entities to distribute their fully-protected electoral commentary and advocacy free of charge." Silly republican. That is how they want it. Only the state approved message should be broadcast before the election so the right person is chosen by the plebs. The MSM is already in line and they are going for the independents as hard as they can.
For more than five years, Donald Trump’s new top campaign aide, Paul Manafort, lobbied for a Washington-based group that Justice Department prosecutors have charged operated as a front for Pakistan’s intelligence service, according to court and lobbying records reviewed by Yahoo News.
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Mr. Manafort's clients don't appear to be doing very well these days. Did RNC Chairman Reince Priebus recommend Manafort for the Trump aide position ?
Was Manafort brought on to help Trump snare disillusioned Clinton democrats ?
[Free Beacon] The left-leaning Middle East activist group J Street, one of the key groups that lobbied in favor of the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran, hosted a fundraiser for the Senate campaign of Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.) in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
Duckworth is running against Republican Sen. Mark Kirk, a critic of the nuclear deal and architect of the U.S. sanctions against Iran. The fundraiser was held at La Tasca in Washington, D.C. and seats topped out at $5,400 per plate, according to the invitation.
The fundraiser is part of a concerted effort by J Street to target lawmakers who opposed the Iran deal, particularly pro-Israel stalwarts like Kirk. The group announced in January that it would focus on defeating Kirk and Sen. Ron Johnson in 2016, two of the more vulnerable senators up for reelection.
Although J Street describes itself as a "pro-Israel, pro-peace" organization, it has sought to unseat many of Israel’s top supporters on Capitol Hill and financed the campaigns of the Jewish state’s main critics.
In past elections, J Street targeted pro-Israel legislators such as former Reps. Joe Walsh (R., Ill.) and Allen West (R., Fla.). The group previously helped bankroll campaigns for many signatories of the 2010 "Gaza 54" letter, a congressional letter that criticized Israel’s military response to Hamas rocket-fire.
Although J Street enjoys a close relationship with the Obama White House, its vocal opposition to Israel’s defensive military action and support for the Iran nuclear deal has also alienated many Democrats. A number of prominent lawmakers asked J Street to remove their names from the group’s conference host committee in 2009, including Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand.
Kirk's campaign criticized Duckworth on Monday for accepting money from J Street and tied her support for the "dangerous" nuclear deal to her involvement with special interest groups.
"After Tammy Duckworth voted in favor of the dangerous Iran Nuclear Agreement, J Street pledged to raise millions to support her campaign and launch attacks on her opponent Senator Kirk," Kevin Artl, Kirk for Senate campaign manager, said. "Rep. Duckworth continues to demonstrate that her voting record is shaped by special interest groups and political support."
[Iran Press TV] US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... is accurate in comparing Bill and Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John C. Calhoun ... to the country’s oligarchy ... derived from the Greek words oligos, a few and the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you... who are ruling the US and "squeezing" the middle and lower class households, an investigative journalist in Washington says.
"Senator Sanders has hit the nail on the head; Hillary Clinton and her husband do represent an oligarchy," said Wayne Madsen, an author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs.
"These are the upper one percent of the one percent in the United States who are doing quite well and the rest of the country isn’t," Madsen said during a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.
"Oligarchs like the Clintons and the Bushes and others are squeezing the American working people to the point where they’re angry and that anger is either now manifested in support for Sanders from members of the liberal wing or Democratic Party or their support for Donald Trump, who actually shares many of Sanders’ beliefs about Wall Street and the oligarchs and the bad trade agreements that have cost the United States so many jobs," he added.
Sanders pressed his line of attack again on Sunday that "Wall Street and other special interests" support Clinton, the candidate who wants to bring "oligarchy" to the country.
Sanders also criticized Clinton over fundraising on ABC's ’This Week With George Stephanopoulos,’ calling into question whether big ticket fundraisers belong in the Democratic Party.
Clinton attended two fundraisers co-hosted by Hollywood actor George Clooney over the weekend in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. The price tag for a ticket to dine with her at the event was $34,000.
Sanders has repeatedly condemned America’s huge wealth inequality, lack of universal healthcare and a corrupt campaign finance system, drawing significant support for his presidential campaign.
He is now hoping to defy expectations in New York state’s primary elections on Tuesday, where the most recent polls showed him trailing Clinton by about 17 points.
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Two words that should never appear in the same sentence, 'Clinton and squeezing.' My apologies in advance for the potential imagery and any follow-on convulsions.
[Guardian] US vice-president Joe Biden has acknowledged "overwhelming frustration" with Israel’s government
So the Guardian biffed the headline: Joe is the one who is frustrated...
and said prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s administration has led the country in the wrong direction, in an unusually sharp rebuke of America’s closest ally in the Middle East.
Biden, in a speech to the pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy group J Street
...the anti-Israel "pro-Israel" group wholly owned by George Soros, who considers the high point of his life to be those years when he betrayed his fellow Jews to the Nazis for fun and profit...
on Monday, offered a grim outlook for peace efforts, reflecting dim hopes for progress during the remainder of the Obama administration.
Although Biden said Israelis and Palestinians shared blame for undermining trust and shirking responsibility, he was emphatic in his critique of Netanyahu’s government, suggesting his approach raised "profound questions" about how Israel could remain both Jewish and democratic.
"I firmly believe that the actions that Israel’s government has taken over the past several years ‐ the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalisation of outposts, land seizures ‐ they’re moving us, and more importantly they’re moving Israel, in the wrong direction," Biden said.
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Joe if you hadn't noticed those jokers Trump and Bernie, the American people seem to feel 'overwhelming frustration' with the American government and the people who own and operate it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
UnitedHealth, the nation's biggest health insurer, will cut its participation in public health insurance exchanges to only a handful of states next year after expanding to nearly three dozen for this year.
[Free Beacon] The left-leaning Middle East activist group J Street, one of the key groups that lobbied in favor of the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran, hosted a fundraiser for the Senate campaign of Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.) in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
Hillary Clinton
[Guardian] US vice-president Joe Biden has acknowledged "overwhelming frustration" with Israel’s government 
