Showing posts with label slashing food stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slashing food stamps. Show all posts
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Thursday, December 15, 2016
North Carolina Republicans Sink to New Depths et al
North Carolina Republicans Sink to New Depths
After a month of desperately trying to prevent Democrat Roy Cooper from taking office even though he won the gubernatorial election, the North Carolina Legislature has changed tack:
After calling a surprise special session, Republican lawmakers who control the General Assembly introduced measures to end the governor's control over election boards, to require State Senate approval of the new governor's cabinet members and to strip his power to appoint University of North Carolina trustees.Republicans also proposed to substantially cut the number of state employees who serve at the governor's pleasure, giving Civil Service protections to hundreds of managers in state agencies who have executed the priorities of Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican.
Unbelievable. Every time you think Republicans can't get any worse, they get worse. I'm curious: Have any conservatives denounced this banana republic behavior?Breitbart? The Weekly Standard? National Review? The Wall Street Journal? Anyone?
The Intellectualist shared a link.
Kenneth Blackwell, Donald Trump's New Domestic Policy Adviser:
1) Kenneth Blackwell is the former Secretary of State of Ohio and a Senior Fellow at the virulently anti-LGBT, anti-secularist "Family Research Council". He is a theocrat.
2) Blackwell has been named a domestic policy adviser to the incoming Trump administration.
3) In 2013, Republicans advocated making $40B in cuts to the U.S. food stamp program.
4) Blackwell publicly supported the food stamp cuts by stating Jesus was against the food stamp program.
5) Blackwell is a Christian Dominionist who sincerely believes that the U.S. is a "Christian Nation". [The Intellectualist]
Did NOT happen under Trump...NOT NOT NOT.
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How Police Are Watching You on Social Media
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How Police Are Watching You on Social Media
Documents from Chicago's Cook County Sheriff’s Office reveal the undercover techniques law enforcement uses to monitor—and manipulate—social media users.
In October, the ACLU released emails showing that a social media monitoring company called Geofeedia had tracked the accounts of Black Lives Matter protesters for law enforcement clients. The revelations of social media spying made headlines and led Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to cut off Geofeedia’s access to bulk user data (which in turn prompted the company to slash half its staff). Since then, two more social media monitoring companies, Snap Trends and Media Sonar, lost Twitter data access for similar surveillance activities.
Civil liberties advocates have celebrated these decisions, but new documents suggest police still have plenty of other tools to spy on social media users.
Jennifer Helsby, co-founder of the police accountability group Lucy Parsons Labs, provided CityLab with a slideshow prepared by a former employee of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office Intelligence Center that sheds some light on how police use social media. The presentation shows intelligence analysts how to mine location and content data from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram—and advises them on setting up fake accounts and assembling dossiers on persons of interest.
One tip shows sites such as Statigram and Instamap, which can help law enforcement analyze photo trends or collect photos on individuals in targeted areas. This example points to images of individuals collected using Instamap near the Cook County Jail, which the Cook County Sheriff’s Office operates, as well as images of a child, a young woman, and families in Chicago.
Other slides reveal more advanced monitoring techniques. Geofeedia, the presentation states, can be used to geolocate users and conduct a “Radius and Polygram search” of an area for social media content. Echosec, a lesser known tool can monitor and geofence users, which allows police (and marketers) to track and collect users’ posts as soon as they are disseminated within a bounded area.
These tools rely on individuals’ public social media posts, but the slideshow also explains that police can use “catfishing”—creating fake accounts—to get non-public social media data, even though such accounts are not permitted on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
While social media surveillance is often thought of as targeting certain locations or terms, such as hashtags, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office records suggest that intelligence analysts are also compiling information on persons of interest for longer term retention, not just for “situational awareness” at public events. Here’s a sample “Intelligence Information Report,” for example, to collect photos and other information.
The presentation doesn’t get into whether there are limits on who can be the target of these operations, or what legal safeguards they are ensured. One slide mentions terms such as “probable cause” and “search warrant” but there is no explanation if or how legal procedures affect the monitoring. Some of the slides suggest this police monitoring is not necessarily focused on dangerous criminal suspects. For example, the presentation links to an ABC news clip featuring a specialized LAPD unit “dedicated to tracking teen parties in real time by monitoring social media.” (The Cook County Sheriff’s Office declined CityLab’s requests for comment on its social media monitoring program.)
Officially, Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes, but a record 75,335 votes were never counted. Most of the votes that went missing were in Detroit and Flint — majority black cities. How could this happen? I flew to Motor City to investigate and filed this exclusive report for Democracy Now!
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Thursday, March 31, 2016
Dear Ms. Steisand: Ya got it WRONG! RSN: More Than 500,000 Americans Stand to Lose SNAP Benefits on April 1st
Dear Ms. Steisand:
Ya got it WRONG!
Hillary Clinton is just another Bought & Paid for candidate that has nothing to do with her gender.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's record SUCKS! Hillary Clinton is nothing more than Neo Con Lite.
You wrote:
"....Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of the acclaimed biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, said of Hillary Clinton, ‘I don’t think there is a First Lady who has been treated as rudely and meanly except for Eleanor Roosevelt.’” Both of these women boldly risked the scorn of “those threatened by the image of a woman carrying the fight for social justice into the public arena.”..."
OH? How about Michelle Obama?
When Chicken Hawk War Profiteer, Neo-Con Co-Founder of PNAC Kagan endorsed her, didn't that give you pause?
His wife is Victoria Nuland, Asst. Secretary of State who publicly acknowledged engineering the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Ukraine -- replaced with NAZIS.
Hillary Clinton behaves like a child playing video games, ignoring the human cost of killing and bombing nations to rubble.
She was offensively gleeful at Ghadaffi's death, ignoring the terrorist breeding ground that was created.
If you support ENDLESS WARS feeding the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex, Hillary Clinton is your candidate!
Instead of supporting a POOR CANDIDATE simply because of her gender, Ms. Streisand, Please review Hillary Clinton's record.
These are but a few articles recently written:
This Is How Corruption Works: A Hillary Clinton Example
http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini141215.htm
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-elizabeth-warren-helped-sanders-deflate-clintons-massive-political-apparatus
http://www.eurasiareview.com/13022016-ralph-nader-hillary-clinton-sugarcoating-her-disastrous-record-oped/#.VtO_wvmu5Vs.facebook
What future do you want?
RSN: The Deposer in Chief: Hillary in Honduras
Robert Parry | Hillary Clinton Seeks Neocon Shelter
When Bernie met Hillary
Hillary Clinton: Bought & Paid For!How will Hillary Clinton “Eliminate the Criticism” that Unions Protect Bad Teachers?
RSN: Robert Parry | Hillary Clinton's Failed Libya 'Doctrine'
Bernie Sanders Opposes Perpetual War. Trump and Clinton Could Usher Another Military Draft...et alRSN: Clinton Foundation Received Subpoena From State Department Investigators
RSN: Want Endless War? Love the US Empire? Well, Hillary Clinton's Your Choice
Green group endorses Hillary Clinton, and feels the Bern, the Dysfunctional Clinton Family on display, et al
Barbara Streisand | The Sexism in American Politics
Barbara Streisand, Reader Supported News
Streisand writes: "Why is it that today even a woman as impressive as Hillary Clinton is judged not by her merits and extensive resume alone, but held to a pernicious double standard?"
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Barbara Streisand, Reader Supported News
Streisand writes: "Why is it that today even a woman as impressive as Hillary Clinton is judged not by her merits and extensive resume alone, but held to a pernicious double standard?"
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President Obama Shortens Prison Sentences for 61 Drug Offenders
Associated Press
Excerpt: "President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 61 drug offenders on Wednesday including more than a third serving life sentences, working to give new energy to calls for overhauling the U.S. criminal justice system."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 61 drug offenders on Wednesday including more than a third serving life sentences, working to give new energy to calls for overhauling the U.S. criminal justice system."
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Beyond San Bernardino: FBI Now Helping Law Enforcement Hack iPhones to Collect Evidence in Other Cases
James Queally and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
Excerpt: "The FBI has agreed to help prosecutors gain access to an iPhone 6 and an iPod that might hold evidence in an Arkansas murder trial, just days after the agency managed to hack an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino terror attacks, a local prosecutor said Wednesday."
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James Queally and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
Excerpt: "The FBI has agreed to help prosecutors gain access to an iPhone 6 and an iPod that might hold evidence in an Arkansas murder trial, just days after the agency managed to hack an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino terror attacks, a local prosecutor said Wednesday."
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More Than 500,000 Americans Stand to Lose SNAP Benefits on April 1st
Eillie Anzilotti, City Lab
Anzilotti writes: "On April 1, at least half a million Americans will wake up no longer eligible for the food assistance benefits that have, for decades, been a crucial lifeline for the poor in a harsh economic landscape."
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Eillie Anzilotti, City Lab
Anzilotti writes: "On April 1, at least half a million Americans will wake up no longer eligible for the food assistance benefits that have, for decades, been a crucial lifeline for the poor in a harsh economic landscape."
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Meet the Muslims Suing the Cops for Their Own Surveillance Records
CJ Ciaramella, VICE
Ciaramella writes: "Both men are suing the NYPD for surveillance records on themselves in what transparency advocates say is an unprecedented case about government secrecy. Public records experts believe the suit is pivotal because the cops will neither confirm nor deny whether the records Hashmi and Abdur-Rashid seek even exist."
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CJ Ciaramella, VICE
Ciaramella writes: "Both men are suing the NYPD for surveillance records on themselves in what transparency advocates say is an unprecedented case about government secrecy. Public records experts believe the suit is pivotal because the cops will neither confirm nor deny whether the records Hashmi and Abdur-Rashid seek even exist."
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The US Leads the Charge to Condemn Assad's Crime's in Syria, but Ignores Saudi Arabia's Abuses
Sarah Leah Whitson, Los Angeles Times
Whitson writes: "Although more people died in Mastaba than in Brussels - 106 versus 34 - the media and the international community in general ignored that earlier atrocity, as they've ignored most of the 150 indiscriminate aerial attacks reported by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch in the last year."
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Sarah Leah Whitson, Los Angeles Times
Whitson writes: "Although more people died in Mastaba than in Brussels - 106 versus 34 - the media and the international community in general ignored that earlier atrocity, as they've ignored most of the 150 indiscriminate aerial attacks reported by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch in the last year."
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More States Are Investigating Whether Exxon Misled the Public About Climate Change
Reuters and Fortune
Excerpt: "The top attorneys from Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands said on Tuesday they will investigate whether Exxon Mobil Corp misled investors and the public about the risks of climate change."
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Reuters and Fortune
Excerpt: "The top attorneys from Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands said on Tuesday they will investigate whether Exxon Mobil Corp misled investors and the public about the risks of climate change."
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Monday, November 9, 2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
This, that & Chicken Hawks Waging WAR!
Guthrie's ballad about the Ludlow Massacre that played a big role in introducingHoward Zinn to people's history. See here: http://bit.ly/1nAxmlO Photo: Fred Rosswith Guthrie (left) at the Arvin farm labor camp near Bakersfield, CA in 1939. By Seema Weatherwax. Learn about Ross's life as a labor organizer here:http://bit.ly/1JGM9Wx
Help us bring stories about Woody Guthrie and more people's history to classrooms across the country. Please vote NOW for the Zinn Education Project on the July CREDO donations ballot: http://bit.ly/1NWAXFK
Help us bring stories about Woody Guthrie and more people's history to classrooms across the country. Please vote NOW for the Zinn Education Project on the July CREDO donations ballot: http://bit.ly/1NWAXFK
A Republican congressman believes Donald Trump might be a Democratic plant ...
... pretending to be a GOP candidate to make Republicans appear ridiculous. Note, the congressman *wasn't kidding*.
When Republicans cut food stamps for low-income families, some say it's offensive.
When a state Republican Party equates food-stamp recipients with wild animals, it's even more offensive. Care to guess which state?
Save the bees!!
http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/local/3783150-proposed-pipeline-met-local-distrust-due-companys-history
"The company comes with baggage that it has found itself forced to address. In January this year, one of Bridger’s pipelines ruptured beneath the frozen Yellowstone River near Glendive. Approximately 30,000 gallons of crude oil leaked into the river, causing an environmental emergency and depriving Glendive residents of drinking water for a number of days... Bridger recorded nine oil spills in its pipelines between 2006 and 2014, releasing around of 11,000 gallons of crude."
"Something Big Is Happening"
It's hilarious enough that a billionaire bigot who's slandered Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals, and who makes Reddit trolls appear statesmanlike by comparison, is leading the GOP field. What's even more riotous is that Donald J. Trump is running laps around GOP senators who have built national reputations on their supposed resonance with the party's activist base.
Congress won't spend $10 billion for unemployment benefits to 3 million Americans, including 285,000 veterans, but they provide oil companies with twice that amount in corporate welfare every year.
God Bless the President of the United States sharedTriple M Sydney's video.
This bird heard that all 500 Hobby Lobby's in 41 states may be closing down because their insistence of inflicting their religious beliefs on all their employees is driving them to bankruptcy with attorney's fees. The bird seems delighted that reich wing, fascist misogynists, hiding behind their version of "Christianity," may have to board the Karma bus to pay for their judgment and condemnation of those who do not share their dogmatic BS.
Triple M Sydney
Triple M Sydney
A cockatoo dancing to Queen
You're welcome
Donald Trump is just another hypocritical Chicken Hawk.
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