Saturday, May 31, 2014
Friday, May 30, 2014
Whitehouse Disseminator steps down
Damn, not a good day for the socialist bastards. A couple hours after Shinsheki gets the axe,Whitehouse spokesman Jay Carney decides to spend some quality time anywhere but in front of a microphone.
That's too bad.
Heh.
One can only hope it's contagious.
That's too bad.
Heh.
One can only hope it's contagious.
President Obama announced today that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is stepping down, and will be replaced by deputy Josh Earnest.
The news came just hours after Obama announced he had accepted the resignation of embattled VA Secretary Eric Shinseki.
Shinseki Out At VA
As you probably already know.
He is just the latest sacrificial goat in a long list of scandals from this administration.
He will promptly be replaced by someone even less qualified and then the Obama administration will do it's best to make sure everyone forgets all about it as soon as possible.
Modus Operendi baby.
He is just the latest sacrificial goat in a long list of scandals from this administration.
He will promptly be replaced by someone even less qualified and then the Obama administration will do it's best to make sure everyone forgets all about it as soon as possible.
Modus Operendi baby.
You Guy's Are Awesome!
Thank you very much, especially those fellow bloggers who link to me.
You know who you are and I was very surprised to see that I don't know everyone who has me on their blog roll the other day.
I just went past a quarter million hits.
It boggles my mind and makes me feel very humble.
You know who you are and I was very surprised to see that I don't know everyone who has me on their blog roll the other day.
I just went past a quarter million hits.
It boggles my mind and makes me feel very humble.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Seattle Police File Suit Against Use Of Force Gulelines Imposed By Justice Department
They got their tits in a wringer in the first place for beating the shit out of everybody, now that there are agreed upon guidelines they are bitching that it violates THEIR Constitutional guaranteed rights?
Irony just fell over dead from head wounds sustained while resisting arrest.
Thugs ain't be happy when they can't be thuggin'.
Motherfuckers.
They finally fired one cop there recently that had over one hundred complaints against him.
I'm thinking they need to find him some company in the unemployment line.
Read more.
Irony just fell over dead from head wounds sustained while resisting arrest.
Thugs ain't be happy when they can't be thuggin'.
Motherfuckers.
They finally fired one cop there recently that had over one hundred complaints against him.
I'm thinking they need to find him some company in the unemployment line.
SEATTLE -- More than 100 officers from the Seattle Police Department are suing the city and the Justice Department, claiming their department's new use-of-force policies put them in danger and violate their constitutional rights.
In 2012 Seattle officials agreed to an independent monitor and court oversight of the city's police department as part of a deal with the Justice Department following a report that found officers routinely used excessive force.
The civil suit, which was filed Wednesday, names Attorney General Eric Holder, the City of Seattle, Mayor Ed Murray, City Attorney Pete Holmes, and federal monitor Merrick Bob.
In the suit, the officers claim the new use-of-force policies "unreasonably restrict and burden the plaintiffs' right to use force reasonably required, to protect themselves and others, from apparent harm and danger, in violation of the Second, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution."
The officers go on to say the new rules are impractical and burdensome.
"in some places it is overly complicated and contradictory, in other places overly precise and mechanical, but throughout, requires plaintiff to engage in mental gymnastics wholly unreasonable in light of the dangerous and fast evolving circumstances we face every day," the suit reads.
The officers are asking for an immediate injunction against the implementation of the use-of-force policies and a judgement that the polices are unconstitutional. They also want to be awarded damages for lost time and wages and punitive damages for the "ungrounded maligning of the good work of SPD's patrol officers."
The Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation of the Seattle department in 2011 after the fatal shooting of a homeless Native American woodcarver and other incidents involving force used against minority suspects. A Justice Department report later found officers were too quick to reach for weapons, such as flashlights and batons, even when arresting people for minor offenses.
Read more.
Federal Appeals Court Affirms First Amendment Right To Film Police
There are many states who have laws against this and this ruling is a step in the right direction to getting those removed.
Court upholds “First Amendment” right to film police
Ruling is one of many nationwide supporting right to record police.
A federal appeals court has ruled that the public has the right to film cops in public and has reinstated a lawsuit against a local New Hampshire police department brought by a woman arrested for filming a traffic stop.
The plaintiff in the case, Carla Gericke, was arrested on wiretapping allegations in 2010 for filming her friend being pulled over by the Weare Police Department during a late-night traffic stop. Although Gericke was never brought to trial, she sued, alleging that her arrest constituted retaliatory prosecution in breach of her constitutional rights.
The decision is but one in a string of decisions that are slowly sticking the needle into laws nationwide barring the recording of police as they perform their duties. But some states, like Massachusetts, outlaw the secret audio recording of police. A woman accused of secretly turning on the audio recording feature of her mobile phone while she was being arrested was charged with wiretapping two weeks ago in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts wiretapping law prohibits secretly recording police.
In the latest decision, the First US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Gericke "was exercising a clearly established First Amendment right when she attempted to film the traffic stop in the absence of a police order to stop filming or leave the area." The decision allows her lawsuit against the department to proceed.
California Supreme Court Backs Disclosure Of Officers Names Involved In Shootings
No more automatic blanket anonymity for you Pew Pew Pew Boys In Blue.
Of course they left a wide margin of latitude where the definition of "Officer Safety" applies.
The way I see it, this is a good way to keep track of trigger happy cops so they can be held accountable.
The case that started this was when the cops shot a guy in his yard holding a garden hose nozzle twelve freakin' times after a neighbor called and said there was an intoxicated guy with a gun running around and then the city paid out 6.5 million for their reckless behavior.
Police agencies generally must tell the public the names of officers involved in shootings, the California Supreme Court decided Thursday.
The state’s highest court, in a 6-1 vote, rejected blanket policies by a growing number of police agencies against disclosure. The court said officers' names can be withheld only if there is specific evidence that their safety would be imperiled.
“If it is essential to protect an officer's anonymity for safety reasons or for reasons peculiar to the officer's duties — as, for example, in the case of an undercover officer — then the public interest in disclosure of the officer's name may need to give way,” Justice Joyce L. Kennard wrote for the majority.
“That determination, however, would need to be based on a particularized showing.”
The decision is likely to make it much more difficult for police agencies to withhold the names of officers involved in on-duty shootings.
“Vague safety concerns that apply to all officers involved in shootings are insufficient to tip the balance against disclosure of officer names,” Kennard wrote.
The case stemmed from an effort by the Los Angeles Times to obtain the names of Long Beach police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Douglas Zerby, 35, in 2010. The officers mistook a garden hose nozzle Zerby was holding for a gun.
Times reporter Richard Winton made a California Public Records Act request asking for the names of the officers who shot Zerby and the identities of all Long Beach officers who had been involved in on-duty shootings in the prior five years.
The Long Beach Police Officers Assn. went court to prevent the city from disclosing the names, citing the confidentiality of personnel records and a need to protect officer safety.
The police group and the city of Long Beach, joined by other California law enforcement agencies, argued that revealing the identities would endanger officers and their families because home addresses and telephone numbers can be obtained on the Internet.
The Times, backed by other media and California ACLU groups, countered that the public had the right to know the identities of officers who use lethal force.
Los Angeles prosecutors eventually revealed the name of the officers involved in Zerby’s shooting in a report that exonerated the police. The officers had been summoned by a neighbor who said there was an intoxicated man with a gun outside a Belmont Shore apartment complex.
A federal jury later awarded Zerby’s family $6.5 million after concluding that the two officers had behaved recklessly when they shot Zerby.
This pretty much says it all though, you can't spend money when you are dead.
Of course they left a wide margin of latitude where the definition of "Officer Safety" applies.
The way I see it, this is a good way to keep track of trigger happy cops so they can be held accountable.
The case that started this was when the cops shot a guy in his yard holding a garden hose nozzle twelve freakin' times after a neighbor called and said there was an intoxicated guy with a gun running around and then the city paid out 6.5 million for their reckless behavior.
Court backs disclosure of officers' names in shooting cases
Police agencies generally must tell the public the names of officers involved in shootings, the California Supreme Court decided Thursday.
The state’s highest court, in a 6-1 vote, rejected blanket policies by a growing number of police agencies against disclosure. The court said officers' names can be withheld only if there is specific evidence that their safety would be imperiled.
“If it is essential to protect an officer's anonymity for safety reasons or for reasons peculiar to the officer's duties — as, for example, in the case of an undercover officer — then the public interest in disclosure of the officer's name may need to give way,” Justice Joyce L. Kennard wrote for the majority.
“That determination, however, would need to be based on a particularized showing.”
The decision is likely to make it much more difficult for police agencies to withhold the names of officers involved in on-duty shootings.
“Vague safety concerns that apply to all officers involved in shootings are insufficient to tip the balance against disclosure of officer names,” Kennard wrote.
The case stemmed from an effort by the Los Angeles Times to obtain the names of Long Beach police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Douglas Zerby, 35, in 2010. The officers mistook a garden hose nozzle Zerby was holding for a gun.
Times reporter Richard Winton made a California Public Records Act request asking for the names of the officers who shot Zerby and the identities of all Long Beach officers who had been involved in on-duty shootings in the prior five years.
The Long Beach Police Officers Assn. went court to prevent the city from disclosing the names, citing the confidentiality of personnel records and a need to protect officer safety.
The police group and the city of Long Beach, joined by other California law enforcement agencies, argued that revealing the identities would endanger officers and their families because home addresses and telephone numbers can be obtained on the Internet.
The Times, backed by other media and California ACLU groups, countered that the public had the right to know the identities of officers who use lethal force.
Los Angeles prosecutors eventually revealed the name of the officers involved in Zerby’s shooting in a report that exonerated the police. The officers had been summoned by a neighbor who said there was an intoxicated man with a gun outside a Belmont Shore apartment complex.
A federal jury later awarded Zerby’s family $6.5 million after concluding that the two officers had behaved recklessly when they shot Zerby.
This pretty much says it all though, you can't spend money when you are dead.
Thursdays Special (NSFW)
Yeah, this one is pushing it but Dayum! Ya only live once.
I might just get in twubble wif teh Google ya know. Fuckin' tight asses.
I might just get in twubble wif teh Google ya know. Fuckin' tight asses.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Thank You, Team Obvious
A day late and ten dollars short, as usual.
"A direct consequence of not appropriately placing veterans on EWLs (electronic waiting lists) is that the Phoenix HCS leadership significantly understated the time new patients waited for their primary care appointment in their FY 2013 performance appraisal accomplishments, which is one of the factors considered for awards and salary increases."
The report prompted Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, to immediately call for Shinseki’s resignation.
The VA inspector general's interim report, released Wednesday, shows the investigation has expanded to 42 facilities, more than a dozen beyond the previously reported 26.
At the Phoenix VA, the main subject of the interim report, investigators "substantiated that significant delays in access to care negatively impacted the quality of care," finding about 1,700 veterans who were waiting for an appointment but were not on a waiting list.
"These veterans were and continue to be at risk of being forgotten or lost," the report says, adding they may never obtain an appointment.
"A direct consequence of not appropriately placing veterans on EWLs (electronic waiting lists) is that the Phoenix HCS leadership significantly understated the time new patients waited for their primary care appointment in their FY 2013 performance appraisal accomplishments, which is one of the factors considered for awards and salary increases."
The report prompted Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, to immediately call for Shinseki’s resignation.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
War Zone Tactics Here At Home
Yet another Federal Government Agency run amok.
This time it's the Border Patrol,in those "Constitution Free Zones" you thought were some kind of hoax.
They are for real folks and these military tactics they are using are no joke either.
Paramilitary Tactics Learned Abroad, Used at Home
A family of eight — a grandmother, two daughters and five grandchildren — is awakened in the early hours of the morning by heavily armed paramilitaries who don’t identify themselves. One young mother is blinded by a spotlight while she nurses her tiny infant. Two of the men rifle though the family’s personal possessions while two others guard the entrance to the home. This is the third invasion of their home in the past two months. Almost every night, the paramilitaries drive by their yard, spotlighting their windows and watching them from the roadside.
Another member of the same community recalls being followed for miles by a low-flying Blackhawk helicopter with machine-gunners hanging out of the open helicopter doors. She’s also been pulled over, pepper-sprayed, beaten with batons and interrogated about her grocery shopping.
Where is this? Some godforsaken third-world hellhole? North Korea? Ukraine? Some war-ravaged African failed state?
Try the United States of America, folks. That’s where all this happened — and continues to happen every day. And it’s coming to a town near you.
This time it's the Border Patrol,in those "Constitution Free Zones" you thought were some kind of hoax.
They are for real folks and these military tactics they are using are no joke either.
The paramilitaries are from the U.S. government. The objects of their reign of terror are U.S. citizens, living peacefully in their homes on U.S. soil. There is a foreign angle to this, however — the weapons, clothing, tactics and even language these thugs use are all taken straight from U.S. combat experience in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But these brutes aren’t from the Army or Special Forces — they are civilian members of the U.S. Border Patrol. They are legally authorized to operate this way within a 25-mile zone near the U.S. border, in which they can enter anyone’s property without a warrant.
Whether the Border Patrol’s behavior is Constitutional, of course, is another matter entirely. One brave patriot who has been subject to the arbitrary terror raids, Ofelia Rivas, has put up a sign in her yard stating that the Border Patrol can’t enter her home without a warrant, a right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.
But hers is just a nostalgic sentiment, something out of ancient history. None of that Bill of Rights nonsense here.
Monday, May 26, 2014
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Barclays Bank Fined About Thirty Seconds Worth Of Profits In Gold Manipulation Case
They could shake 44 million bucks out of their couch cushions.
Call me when they start putting these people in prison because no one is taking any of this serious anymore.
This is an absolutely perfect example of why this "Corporations Are People Too" bullshit was a criminal conspiracy cover from the very beginning.
You can not, put a corporation in jail, period.
The people responsible for oversight and prosecuting these multiple instances of theft by conspiracy should themselves be on trial for abdicating their responsibilities and not prosecuting these crimes to the fullest extent the laws allow in the first place.
Britain’s Barclays is the first bank to be fined over attempted manipulation of the 95-year-old London gold market daily “fix”, although a source familiar with the fine said it was a one-off and not part of a wider investigation into gold price rigging.
It marks another blow to Barclays’ attempts to put past problems behind it.
The Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday there were failings at Barclays from 2004 until 2013, but the key event occurred on June 28, 2012, a day after UK and U.S. regulators fined it $450 million over attempted Libor rigging.
“A firm’s lack of controls and a trader’s disregard for a customer’s interests have allowed the financial services industry’s reputation to be sullied again,” said Tracey McDermott, the FCA’s director of enforcement and financial crime.
The FCA said it had banned former Barclays trader Daniel James Plunkett and fined him 95,600 pounds for exploiting weaknesses in the bank’s systems.
“Plunkett’s actions came the day after the publication of our Libor and Euribor action against Barclays. The investigation and outcomes in that case meant that the firm, and Plunkett, were clearly on notice of the potential for conflicts of interests around benchmarks,” McDermott said.
Plunkett fixed the price in order to avoid the payment of $3.9 million to a customer under an option, which boosted his own trading book by $1.75 million, the FCA said. The bank later compensated the client in full.
On the eve of June 28, Plunkett sent an email to commodities colleagues saying that he was hoping for a “mini puke” the following day. The FCA understood this to mean a drop in the price of gold ahead of the fixing.
This LIBOR Rate fixing scandal that broke a couple of years ago broke the story on the largest theft of wealth in the history of man.
Ask yourself this question,
How many financial industry workers involved in that and there were literally hundreds, do you recall going to prison for that?
Hmm?
Same ol', same ol'.
The fact that the Gold market has been being manipulated for years is no surprise to anyone.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind anyone reading this that in next November, all 435 representatives in the US House of Representatives have come to the end of their current terms.
These are the people who let this shit slide day in and day out.
They mouth platitudes and feign outrage but never do a motherfucking thing about it.
That is because of lobbyists.
Lobbyists from the banking industry and every other low life legal scam out there donating money to these sonsabitches.
I suggest that if you vote and you see an incumbent on the ticket, VOTE THAT COCKSUCKER OUT.
I don't care who it is, they are crooked one way or another.
Do you want to know why I say this?
It has absolutely nothing to do with politics, it is pure economic warfare against these lobbying whores.
Get rid of the ones who are already bought and paid for for two reasons.
One, the outgoing fuckers can then do no more favors for their buyers, thus negating any monies already spent.
Number two,make the financial whores pay top dollar grooming a completely new batch of talent.
We all know there is absolutely no saving the current system so make them pay with both monies and time.
It is basically the only course of action they will pay any attention to.
Call me when they start putting these people in prison because no one is taking any of this serious anymore.
This is an absolutely perfect example of why this "Corporations Are People Too" bullshit was a criminal conspiracy cover from the very beginning.
You can not, put a corporation in jail, period.
The people responsible for oversight and prosecuting these multiple instances of theft by conspiracy should themselves be on trial for abdicating their responsibilities and not prosecuting these crimes to the fullest extent the laws allow in the first place.
Barclays slapped with $44 million fine over gold price fix
Barclays Plc has been fined $43.8 million for failures in internal controls that allowed a trader to manipulate the setting of gold prices, just a day after the bank was fined for rigging Libor interest rates in 2012.
Britain’s Barclays is the first bank to be fined over attempted manipulation of the 95-year-old London gold market daily “fix”, although a source familiar with the fine said it was a one-off and not part of a wider investigation into gold price rigging.
It marks another blow to Barclays’ attempts to put past problems behind it.
The Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday there were failings at Barclays from 2004 until 2013, but the key event occurred on June 28, 2012, a day after UK and U.S. regulators fined it $450 million over attempted Libor rigging.
“A firm’s lack of controls and a trader’s disregard for a customer’s interests have allowed the financial services industry’s reputation to be sullied again,” said Tracey McDermott, the FCA’s director of enforcement and financial crime.
The FCA said it had banned former Barclays trader Daniel James Plunkett and fined him 95,600 pounds for exploiting weaknesses in the bank’s systems.
“Plunkett’s actions came the day after the publication of our Libor and Euribor action against Barclays. The investigation and outcomes in that case meant that the firm, and Plunkett, were clearly on notice of the potential for conflicts of interests around benchmarks,” McDermott said.
Plunkett fixed the price in order to avoid the payment of $3.9 million to a customer under an option, which boosted his own trading book by $1.75 million, the FCA said. The bank later compensated the client in full.
On the eve of June 28, Plunkett sent an email to commodities colleagues saying that he was hoping for a “mini puke” the following day. The FCA understood this to mean a drop in the price of gold ahead of the fixing.
This LIBOR Rate fixing scandal that broke a couple of years ago broke the story on the largest theft of wealth in the history of man.
Ask yourself this question,
How many financial industry workers involved in that and there were literally hundreds, do you recall going to prison for that?
Hmm?
Same ol', same ol'.
The fact that the Gold market has been being manipulated for years is no surprise to anyone.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind anyone reading this that in next November, all 435 representatives in the US House of Representatives have come to the end of their current terms.
These are the people who let this shit slide day in and day out.
They mouth platitudes and feign outrage but never do a motherfucking thing about it.
That is because of lobbyists.
Lobbyists from the banking industry and every other low life legal scam out there donating money to these sonsabitches.
I suggest that if you vote and you see an incumbent on the ticket, VOTE THAT COCKSUCKER OUT.
I don't care who it is, they are crooked one way or another.
Do you want to know why I say this?
It has absolutely nothing to do with politics, it is pure economic warfare against these lobbying whores.
Get rid of the ones who are already bought and paid for for two reasons.
One, the outgoing fuckers can then do no more favors for their buyers, thus negating any monies already spent.
Number two,make the financial whores pay top dollar grooming a completely new batch of talent.
We all know there is absolutely no saving the current system so make them pay with both monies and time.
It is basically the only course of action they will pay any attention to.
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