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Breitbart – Multiple Agencies Involved with IRS in Intimidation
Tea party groups’ allegations that the IRS has long been targeting them for their political beliefs were recently confirmed by an apology from the IRS. The scandal gained traction as congressional leaders began efforts to hold the IRS accountable and understand the depths of the federal government’s politically-motivated abuses of power. Yet given the history [...]
Fractured Paradigm – Farmer Faces Over 2 Year Jail, $10 K Fines for Feeding Community
Things are heating up in Baraboo, Wisconsin as a long awaited food rights trial approaches. Raw milk drinkers are outraged that Wisconsin DATCP is bringing criminal charges against a farmer who serves a private buying club. Do citizens have a right to contract with a producer and grow food to their own standards? That is [...]
Occupy Kc Journal – Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest
It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest Friday, April 5, 2013 25 comments Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking. Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot [...]
CityRating.com – Kansas City Crime Report (Missouri)
Kansas City crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 11 years with violent crime decreasing and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in Kansas City for 2013 is expected to be lower than in 2010. The city violent crime rate for Kansas City in 2010 [...]
Occupy Kc Journal – Kansas City Quarterly Homicide Report – 2012
Kansas City Quarterly Homicide Report – 2012 http://www.kcmo.org/idc/groups/police/documents/police/2ndq2012homicidequarterly.pdf Kansas City Quarterly Narcotics and Vice Report 2012 http://www.kcmo.org/idc/groups/police/documents/police/2ndq2012_nvd_newsletter.pdf
Tony’s Kansas City – Kansas City Ranks in Top 10 on America’s most dangerous cities list
SHOCK!!! KANSAS CITY RANKS IN TOP 10 ON AMERICA’S MOST DANGEROUS CITIES LIST!!! Kansas City crime, violence and murder top the nation and earn this cowtown a dubious distinction. Thanks to an AWESOME TKC TIPSTER for finding this link buried on the KMBC site: America’s most dangerous cities “The crime index is a weighted average [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – Insiders Dominate Mayor Sly’s Airport Panel
TKC TOLD YOU SO!!! KANSAS CITY INSIDERS DOMINATE MAYOR SLY’S AIRPORT PANEL!!! Before every other mainstream media outlet . . . KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS revealed and complained that Mayor Sly was simply gathering insiders and yes-men appointees to restart the campaign for the new airport. Now, here’s proof that we were right all along . [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – Mayor Sly James has Abandoned the East Side
TODAY’S TKC EXCLUSIVE QUESTION: HAS KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY JAMES ABANDONED THE EAST SIDE?!?! Kansas City’s Mayor Sly James has spent the overwhelming majority of his brief career as the champion of local economic development – Sadly, none of that development has occurred near the Montgall address he bragged about during his campaign. Let’s review [...]
The Guardian – Cornel West: ‘They say I’m un-American’
Cornell West … ‘I would rather have a white president eradicating poverty than a black president tied to Wall Street and drones.’ Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Cornel West, the firebrand of American academia for almost 30 years, is causing his hosts some problems. They are on a schedule but such things barely move [...]
The Kansas City Star – Missouri lawmaker’s uncle pleads guilty in KC vote fraud case
In August 2010, Missouri House candidate John Joseph Rizzo defeated his Democratic primary opponent, Will Royster, by a single vote. Rizzo On Monday, Rizzo’s uncle John Moretina told a federal judge he lied about his home address that July so he could cast a ballot in Rizzo’s district. The case revived bitter [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – MOTHER OF ALL KANSAS CITY MISTAKES: TOY TRAIN STREETCAR TRENDS!!!
Kansas City is on track to make one of the most serious mistakes in this town’s history. To wit . . . KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS HAVE COLLECTED THIS QUICK TREND LIST THAT (YET AGAIN) REVEALS THE TOY TRAIN STREETCAR IS THE MOTHER OF ALL KANSAS CITY MISTAKES!!! Check it: THE TOY TRAIN STREETCAR POWER PLAY [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – Former Kansas Gov. Katy Pitches Obamacare Thanks To Questionable Big Money Donations
Call this a local Kansas lady making not-so-good . . . Cabinet Secretary Solicits Large Donations to Publicize Health Care Law Money Quote: “Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, has solicited sizable donations from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($10 Mil) and H&R Block ($500k), the tax preparation service, as part of [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Largest Fast Food Strike Yet as Workers Walk Out in Michigan
By Kevin Zeese – Posted on 11 May 2013 Fast food workers and Reverend Charles Williams II (center) picket a Long John Silver’s in Detroit, Mich. on May 10, 2013. (Photo courtesy of Suzette Hackney, D15 coalition.) By Ned Resnikoff MSNBC, May 10, 2013 Organizers estimate that as many as 400 workers at more [...]
Occupy the Farm: Gill Tract – UC Police Make Early Morning Raid on Gill Tract Public Farm
UPDATE 9:15am UC Tractor moved on to Gill Tract Farm and plowed under the thousands of crops planted. Follow @occupyfarm for updates Albany, CA UC police moved in to break up the two-day old Gill Tract Farm in the early morning hours of May 13. Despite a transformation of the vacant lot from abandoned [...]
Russian Times – Homeland Security gathers ‘crap intelligence’ and spies on Americans
The US Department of Homeland Security has endangered the civil liberties of Americans and spent millions on collecting not counterterrorism intel but “a bunch of crap,” a Senate subcommittee investigation of DHS data fusion centers has found. The Senate’s bipartisan Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released on Tuesday their findings of a two-year-long probe that has [...]
Russian Times – Boston police accused of spying on protesters and intimidating dissidents
The Boston Police Department calls them criminals, extremists and a reason to raise a red flag in regards to ensuring homeland security. Their crime, though, is simply exercising their First Amendment rights. The American Civil Liberties Union in Massachusetts has successfully requested and obtained a trove of files from the Boston Police Department that reveals [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Boston police spied on Occupy protesters instead of investigating Tsarnaevs
Runners continue to run towards the finish line of the Boston Marathon as anexplosion erupts near the finish line of the race in this photo exclusively licensed to Reuters by photographer Dan Lampariello after he took the photo in Boston, Massachusetts, April 15, 2013 (Reuters / Dan Lampariello) RT America May 10, 2013 The US [...]
Boiling Frogs – The Financial Press – A Disinformation Machine
In America Everything is Hype for a Buck Dave Kranzler of Golden Returns Capital declares the April payroll jobs report that was released on May 3 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be “fictitious.” Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) says both the jobs report and unemployment rate are “nonsense.” I agree with both. But don’t [...]
Occupy Kc Journal – Muslims Against NDAA in Kansas City!
May 19 at 6:30pm until September 15at 7:30pm WHAT: Press Conference (Muslims Against N.D.A.A) WHEN: Sunday May 19, 6:30 p.m. WHERE: ISGKC Parking Lot (9520 James A Reed Rd, Kansas City, MO On Sunday, May 19, the American Muslim Political Action Committee (AMPAC), the St. Louis chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAR-St. Louis), [...]
Daily Dot – Hacker Jeremy Hammond, “the other Bradley Manning,” in court
By Lorraine Murphy on February 22, 2013 E-Mail On his 355th day in custody awaiting a “speedy trial” as guaranteed by law, alleged LulzSec hacker and lifelong activist Jeremy Hammond had his second week in solitary confinement interrupted by yet another pretrial hearing. The 27-year-old anarchist is in custody pending trial for [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Inspired by Freedom Riders, Workers Plan Caravans to Walmart Convention
By Josh Eidelson The Nation, May 5, 2013 Following a five-day organizing training and strategy summit in Birmingham, members of the labor group OUR Walmart will announce a plan to send civil rights movement–style caravans of workers from around country to converge at the retail giant’s June 7 annual shareholder meeting. Walmart workers [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – Kansas City Toy Train Courtroom Strong Arm Tactics
Kansas City Toy Train Courtroom Strong Arm Tactics: $20 Mil Appeal Bond Motion To Uphold Less Than 500 Gerrymandered ‘Yes’ Votes!!! Kansas City is finally getting a good look at the “win at all costs” mentality that Mayor Sly has brought to local government. Check it: KC Biz Journal: Kansas City wants the plaintiffs in [...]
41 Actions News – Kansas City Mayor wants streetcar opponents to pay for delays
By: Lindsay Shively KANSAS CITY, Mo. – As long as a lawsuit against the streetcar drags on in court, crews can’t start building the street car line. City leaders filed an emergency motion today to stop the delays they say could cost millions. “It will go away,” Mayor Sly James said. He believes the courts [...]
Russian Times – Homeland Security under investigation for massive ammo buys
The Department of Homeland Security is under investigation for purchasing large stockpiles of ammunition, days before legislation was introduced that would restrict the amount a government agency can legally buy. The Government Accountability Office is now conducting the investigation into the alleged DHS purchases, which is “just getting underway,” GAO spokesman Chuck Young told US [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Fast Food Workers Plan Surprise Strike
‘Keep your burgers. Keep your fries! Make our wages super sized’ A protester holds up a sign at a demonstration outside McDonald’s in Times Square in support of employees on strike at various fast-food chains in New York November 29, 2012. (Credit: Reuters/Andrew Kelly) WORKERS IN SOME 70 RESTAURANTS EXPECTED TO WALK OFF JOB, POTENTIALLY SHUTTING [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Veterans and Iraqis Join to Protest Bush Library
Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer Vietnam veteran Bruce Berry headed to get more crosses as protesters set them in a grassy area in memory of those who died in the Bush administration wars during a protest Tuesday across Central Expressway from the Bush Presidential Center, near the SMU Boulevard intersection. By David Flick Dallas Morning News, [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Show Time! Tripping the Light Fantastic as a Performance Artist for Occupy Wall Street
By Kevin Zeese By Marni Halasa, Lawyer, journalist and Occupy Wall Street performance artist Huffington Post, April 27, 2103 My conservative Arab father always told me I had no shame. Little did he know that my insatiable desire to exhibit and entertain as a performance artist would come in handy for Occupy Wall Street. I [...]
InstaPunk – Killing the Old White Guys
CROSS-POLLINATION. The liberals are having their moment. They haven’t had one of their own in the White House for 50 years, not since Lyndon Johnson. Carter was a pipsqueak (wake’em up in the middle of the night and ask — they’ll admit it) and Clinton was just a whoring deal maker, proof that policy and [...]
Occupy Student Debt Campaign – Rolling Jubilee
Greetings Fellow Student Debtors and Pledgers, Occupy Student Debt Campaign (http://www.occupystudentdebtcampaign.org/) is continuing the struggle against debt. OSDC has joined with other Occupy groups to form a collective debt refusal movement called Strike Debt. Strike Debt is spreading the word about debt as a global system of domination and exploitation. Please join OSDC and [...]
A Deerhound Diary – Nefarious Narratives
By R.F. Laird I’m still struggling with the notion that freedom from the archaisms of religion allows for a more objective and rationally enlightened consensus of morality. The argument is generally couched in terms of an increase in individual freedom by both secularist liberals and libertarians, both of which trade on their appropriations of the [...]
Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance – Oklahoma Grandmother Locks Herself to Keystone XL Heavy Machinery — Halts Construction
_________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ UPDATE- 10:30am Nancy Zorn has been extracted by local law UPDATE- 10:30am Nancy Zorn has been extracted by local enforcement and taken into custody. Please consider contributing to Nancy’s bail fund. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ALLEN, OK – Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 9:00 AM – Oklahoma grandmother Nancy Zorn, 79, from Warr Acres, has [...]
Anonymous Operations – Monsanto: All Your Seeds Are Belong to Us
Vernon Hugh Bowman, a 75-year-old Indiana farmer, says that switching to Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybeans “made things so much simpler and better.” Monsanto’s patented beans can survive when they are sprayed with the herbicide glyphosate, also known as Roundup, which makes pest control much easier. Monsanto is less impressed with Bowman: The Supreme Court heard [...]
The New York Times – Suit Settled With Occupy Wall St. Over Seizure of Library at a Park
As myriad court battles pitting the Occupy Wall Street movement against New York City agencies proceed, protesters claimed a victory on Tuesday, based not on how they were treated, but on how their books were mistreated. The City of New York and Brookfield Properties agreed to pay more than $230,000 to settle a lawsuit filed [...]
Occupy Wall Street – Mobilize for Striking Fast Food Workers
via 99pickets.org: Today, Thursday April 4 , over 400 fast food workers across NYC are starting a second wave of strikes for better wages and a union, marking the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Like the sanitation workers that Dr. King marched with in Memphis, these workers are standing up [...]
Occupy KC Journal – Muslims Againsts N.D.A.A. in Kansas City
WHAT: Press Conference (Muslims Against N.D.A.A) WHEN: Wednesday April 10, 6:30 p.m. WHERE: ISGKC Parking Lot (9520 James A Reed Rd, Kansas City, MO On Wednesday, April 10, the American Muslim Political Action Committee (AMPAC), the St. Louis chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAR-St. Louis), the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – DERRON BLACK WANTS TO RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS OF KANSAS CITY VOTERS
TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! Derron Black was cheerful, energetic, affable and almost soft-spoken at a recent Kansas City political forum held at the Bluford Library. With voter turnout at around 10% in the last Kansas City election, it’s clear that politics as usual won’t persuade the people of Kansas City – To that end, [...]