Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico

May 4, 2013 Government, Law & Justice, Politics No comments

Originally posted by Sharyl Attkisson

Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief.

He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico?

“Yes ma’am,” Dodson told CBS News. “The agency was.”

An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson’s job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen.

Investigators call the tactic letting guns “walk.” In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States.

Watch the interview here

Sharyl Attkisson’s original “Gunrunner” report

Center for Public Integrity report

Read Sen. Grassley’s letter to the attorney general

Report: Registry does more harm than good for teen sex offenders

May 1, 2013 Sex Offenses No comments

Originally posted by Emanuella Grinberg May 1, 2013

 Joshua Gravens can’t do a lot of the normal things parents do, like drop his son off at school, attend parent-teacher conferences, or take his daughter to the park, a library or anywhere else children gather.

For the offense of inappropriately touching his 8-year-old sister when he was 12, Gravens, 26, has spent almost half his life as a registered sex offender. The designation subjects him to residency and zoning restrictions that dictate where he can live and spend time. It has also made him the target of harassment, death threats and hampered his ability to find a job or keep a home, he said.

As he sees it, his wife and four children are still paying the price for what he did as a child.

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Ben Swann’s Reality Check – Internet Privacy Bill CISPA Means ‘No More Privacy’?

April 20, 2013 4th Amendment, Reality Check No comments

An internet bill that would mean less privacy on the internet just passed the House and it’s on it’s way to the Senate. What does this bill mean for you and your privacy?

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Australian journalist wins prestigious award for exposing flu vaccine scandal

April 18, 2013 Health No comments

Posted on November 28, 2011 by The Refusers

MB Comment: Natasha Bita, a journalist for The Australian has just won a Walkley Award (the Australian equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize) for an in-depth article series on the CSL Afluria flu vaccine, a shot that caused convulsions in one percent of Australian infants who received it.

To put this vaccine scandal in perspective, the CDC states that ‘seizures can occur after vaccination,’33% of infants who have a first seizure will have more seizures and 10% of infants who have one seizure can develop epilepsy. According to the Merck Manual (the largest-selling medical textbook), seizures are a symptom of encephalitis, which the Merck Manual defines as a vaccine adverse reaction. Vaccine-induced encephalitis can leave a spectrum of permanent brain damage in its wake –post-encephalitic syndrome (aka epilepsy and autism). In other words, kids that have convulsions from Afluria can have lifelong neurological disabilities.

Incredibly, the defective CSL flu vaccine Afluria is still on the market in the US:FDA-approved and CDC-recommended. The only concession US vaccine authorities have made to this Afluria scandal is to raise the recommended age for this vaccine, but even that feeble response is colored by a direction to give Afluria to young kids anyway if no other flu vaccine is available.

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Ben Swann’s Reality Check: Did the FBI know about Boston bombing beforehand?

April 17, 2013 Reality Check No comments

Originally posted April 16, 2013

Tonight we are learning more about the Boston Marathon bombing tonight and yet there are still so many questions that have not been answered.

The biggest question of course, who is behind it?

Could it be that the FBI knows more about this attack than they are letting on?  Could they have known about the attack before hand?

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Disentangling Child Pornography from Child Sex Abuse

April 15, 2013 Sex Offenses No comments

by Hessick, Carissa Byrne, Disentangling Child Pornography from Child Sex Abuse (March 24, 2010). Washington University Law Review, Vol. 88, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1577961

Abstract:      
Recent years have seen a significant increase in the criminal penalties associated with possession of child pornography. The new severity appears to be premised on arguments that blur the distinction between those who possess images of child pornography and those who sexually abuse children. In particular, sentences have been increased based on arguments that possession of pornography is equivalent to or worse than child sex abuse, arguments that viewing child pornography increases the risk that an individual will sexually abuse a child, and arguments that those who possess child pornography are abusing children undetected. This Article identifies instances where possession of child pornography and child sex abuse have been conflated, critically evaluates the arguments that promote such conflation, and identifies independent concerns with conflation. Specifically, it argues that blurring the distinction between the two crimes allows us to continue to misperceive child sex abuse as a stranger-danger issue, and that when law enforcement statistics aggregate possession and child sex abuse, then the public may be misled into believing that law enforcement is successfully battling child sex abuse, when that is not the case. The Article concludes that the modern trend of increasing sentences for possession of child pornography ought to be reviewed, and it suggests several possible areas of reform.

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Classified Documents Reveal Feds Attempt To Rewrite History

April 9, 2013 Government, Video No comments

Originally posted by  Alexander Higgins Tuesday, April 9, 2013

WikiLeaks has yet again caught the United States government red-handed conducting a brazen act of totalitarianism as illustrated in George Orwell’s famous novel 1984.

According to the organization’s founder Julian Assange WikiLeaks was tipped off to the whereabouts of the documents as the federal government went through years of documents in the national archives and systematically removed all references to WikiLeaks.

Upon further digging into the archives to unraveled the disappearance of documents on their own organization WikiLeaks uncovered nearly two million documents of communications in the US Department of State which is being released to the public under the title Project K.

Boeing Helps Kill Proposed Law to Regulate Warrantless Drones

April 3, 2013 4th Amendment No comments

Originally posted by Pratap Chatterjee March 31, 2013

Boeing, the aircraft manufacturing giant from Seattle, helped defeat a Republican proposal in Washington state that would have forced government agencies to get approval to buy unmanned aerial vehicles, popularly known as drones, and to obtain a warrant before using them to conduct surveillance on individuals.

Local authorities in Seattle and in King county experimented with conducting surveillance from Draganfly Innovations drones last year, only to cancel both programs in the fact of public protest. “I’m not really surprised that people are upset,” said Jennifer Shaw from the American Civil Liberties Union, a human rights group that campaigned against the drones. “It’s a frightening thing to think that there’s government surveillance cameras overhead.”

On February 7, 2013, David Taylor, a Republican member of the state legislature, introduced a bill to regulate drone use. The proposed law quickly won support from several Democratic party politicians on the state Public Safety Committee.

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Ben Swann’s Full Disclosure: Rand Paul’s 13 Hours That Changed Public Opinion

April 2, 2013 Full Disclosure No comments

Originally posted April 2, 2013

Ben Swann Full Disclosure explains how the Rand Paul filibuster has been responsible for a 50 point swing in public opinion on the use of drones to kill U.S. citizens who are also terror suspects overseas

Bitcoin: Cyprus Sparks Scramble for Digital Dollars

March 28, 2013 Economics No comments

Originally posted By Jeff Cox 3/28/2013

They won’t make a sound no matter how many of them you try to toss in a bucket, and you can’t pitch them in a fountain and wish for good luck. But make no mistake, bitcoins are getting big.

The online alternative currency, previously little more than a curiosity in financial markets since its 2009 inception, has zoomed in trading value since the Cyprus banking crisis erupted two weeks ago.

With fears spreading that even insured deposits might not be safe in similar nations hit by banking crises, those looking for a haven to store their wealth have fled to the complicated world of digital cash.

“Incremental demand for bitcoin is coming from the geographic areas most affected by the Cypriot financial crisis-individuals in countries like Greece or Spain, worried that they will be next to feel the threat of deposit taxes,” Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx, said in a report on the startling trend.

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