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Americans Everywhere Should Support the Gilets Jaunes
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American media seems to have taken painstaking effort to give the massive protests in Paris as little coverage as possible, but by now most people are aware of the facts. A protest over a hike in fuel prices by the exceedingly smarmy president Emmanuel Macron, has exploded into full scale civil disobedience relating to a number of grievances including mass migration and membership in NATO. This protest of men and women in yellow high visibility vests (leading to the name Gilets Jaunes) has gripped the country and brought its capital to a standstill as the president has du...
California Hopes to Tax Text Messages: What? Who? Why?
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California residents may be facing yet another tax….this time for every text they send. Soon, Californians may have to think twice before texting. The proposal was filed by California's Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), a group that regulates public utilities operating in the state. In addition to communications services, such as cell phone carriers, the group is also responsible for regulating energy, water, and transportation over rail systems, and passenger cars. “From a consumer’s point of view, surcharges may be a wash, because if more surcharge revenues come from...
Langley Air Force Base Employee Cheated the Department for 17 Years Until Trump's Audit
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VIRGINIA - December 13, 2018 A former employee at Langley Air Force Base admitted Wednesday that she bilked the federal government out of $1.46 million — mainly by faking the amount of overtime she worked over 17 years — 42,847 hours between December 2001 and July 2018. She came up with a way to bypass any checks that would refute her words. Michelle M. Holt, 52, was a civilian secretary at the base, where she worked in the communications support squadron of Air Combat Command. According to court records, in 2001 the woman used a co-worker's login information without th...
Minnesota Write-In Votes Disappeared Along With Their Candidates
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MINNESOTA - December 12, 2018 Most states require write-in candidates for higher offices to register before or after an election to have their votes counted, including Minnesota. St. Louis County Clerk Phil Chapman said no write-in candidates filed to have their votes counted for county attorney, county sheriff, and county commission board seats or for the 8th District Congressional race. Any write-in candidate for federal, state, judicial or county office in Minnesota must submit a simple form to the Minnesota Secretary of State at least a week before the general elect...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Minnesota
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MINNESOTA - December 11, 2018 Jeff Johnson's campaign team in Minnesota has undergone scrutiny after several reports of telephone ads about the November 6 election that happened a little less than a week before the elections. A Kasson resident received a voicemail November 3 that said: "Hi, this is Nathan and I am calling to remind you to turn in your mail-in ballot and to ask for your vote for Jeff Johnson to be our next Governor. Since you live in a vote by mail only precinct, you should have received a ballot already. Mailing it in as soon as possible will make a huge...
Brave New World as we “Faceoff with Facebook” – But what’s the Alternative?
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Facebook is not really anybody’s friend and that is becoming too obvious, not only in terms of internet censorship and their so-called community standards; they are most selective at whom they block. This begs the question as “who is really behind the curtain?” Coincidence or not, two of my publishing outlets: Veterans Today. VT, and USA Really are both blocked—their links cannot be shared by facebook. I guess that says something good about me, and the company that I keep, or that I keep VERY BAD Company and I am not a very politically expedient or correct person—even a...
New data shows asylum claims spiking at U.S. ports of entry
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SAN DIEGO – December 11, 2018 The number of migrants requesting asylum at ports of entry at the Mexican border doubled in financial year 2018 from the previous year, according to Customs and Border Protection data released on Monday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection released the figures Monday reflecting the first step in the asylum process. The agency fielded nearly 93,000 claims of so-called "credible fear" in the 2018 fiscal year ending Sept. 30, up 67% from the previous year. The claims accounted for 18% of all people arrested or stopped at the border, up from 13%...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Michigan
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MICHIGAN – December 10, 2018 Metro Detroit couldn’t shake its reputation for problematic elections. Problems at the polls in Detroit popped up sporadically, leaving some voters waiting in line for more than an hour while others left altogether, Detroit Free Press reported. Several would-be voters in Redford Township did not stay Tuesday morning while the lone voting machine at Pierce Middle School was being fixed. Rex Nagy, a retired voter in Redford Township, said that his polling place at Pierce Middle School was relying on just one broken voting machine that he was t...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Maryland
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MARYLAND – December 10, 2018 Maryland is famous for its ghost polling stations, of which there are 54--51 scattered across ten counties, plus 3 in Baltimore. These places are called ghosts because there are no voters, or they are in such small numbers that it is much easier for the authorities to register a voter at a different address. Most of Maryland's ghost precincts were created as a result of the last redistricting when political boundaries for legislative, congressional and councilmanic districts were redrawn based on population data from the 2010 U.S. Census. Af...