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October 27, 2015
http://powderedwigsociety.com/trump-kills-hitlery-in-head-to-head-matchup/
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Based on an average of the RCP (Real Clear Politics) polling data from all the states and all the “head to head” matchups between Donald Trump (by far the winner of the GOP) and Hillary Clinton (The winner of the Democratic Party) shows bad news for the Democrats.
Clinton is losing handily in all the swing states, and is even losing Democrat strongholds of Maryland, Connecticut, and Oregon.
According to many polls, and the averages, Clinton cannot even hold on to California and New York without a major fight. On the bright side for the Democrat party, they make gains in the south as Obama is now off the ticket.
Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton by 5 percentage points nationwide: getting 52% and Clinton gathering 47% (presuming the pollsters are citing the popular vote)
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This is one freaky website!
poll shows Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton...Trump taking 70% of the electoral votes
Latest presidential poll shows Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton in head-to-head contest, Trump taking 70% of the electoral voteshttp://powderedwigsociety.com/trump-kills-hitlery-in-head-to-head-matchup/
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Based on an average of the RCP (Real Clear Politics) polling data from all the states and all the “head to head” matchups between Donald Trump (by far the winner of the GOP) and Hillary Clinton (The winner of the Democratic Party) shows bad news for the Democrats.
Clinton is losing handily in all the swing states, and is even losing Democrat strongholds of Maryland, Connecticut, and Oregon.
According to many polls, and the averages, Clinton cannot even hold on to California and New York without a major fight. On the bright side for the Democrat party, they make gains in the south as Obama is now off the ticket.
Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton by 5 percentage points nationwide: getting 52% and Clinton gathering 47% (presuming the pollsters are citing the popular vote)
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This is one freaky website!
October 27, 2015
About 22 blocks of vacant land in Detroit are destined for a future in agriculture. The Detroit News reports that officials detailed a plan Monday that calls for 60 acres on the city’s east side to be used for greenhouses and hoop houses where specialty vegetables will be grown.
The project will be operated by RecoveryPark Farms and is expected to provide 128 jobs with 60 percent going to Detroit residents. Mayor Mike Duggan says the project is taking “the hardest to employ” and “putting them to work on land that had been long abandoned and forgotten.”
The Detroit Land Bank Authority will lease 35 acres to RecoveryPark, a nonprofit that turns blighted areas into land that can be farmed. The Detroit City Council has to OK the plan.
I SURE HOPE THEY ARE HYDROPONIC, OR BRING IN CLEAN SOIL, OR AT LEAST TEST FOR HEAVY METAL AND ORGANIC AND INORGANIC CHEMICAL POISONS. PARTS OF DETROIT ARE UNMITIGATED BROWNFIELDS.
Farming Planned For 60 Acres Of Blighted Detroit Land
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/10/26/farming-planned-for-60-acres-of-blighted-detroit-land/About 22 blocks of vacant land in Detroit are destined for a future in agriculture. The Detroit News reports that officials detailed a plan Monday that calls for 60 acres on the city’s east side to be used for greenhouses and hoop houses where specialty vegetables will be grown.
The project will be operated by RecoveryPark Farms and is expected to provide 128 jobs with 60 percent going to Detroit residents. Mayor Mike Duggan says the project is taking “the hardest to employ” and “putting them to work on land that had been long abandoned and forgotten.”
The Detroit Land Bank Authority will lease 35 acres to RecoveryPark, a nonprofit that turns blighted areas into land that can be farmed. The Detroit City Council has to OK the plan.
I SURE HOPE THEY ARE HYDROPONIC, OR BRING IN CLEAN SOIL, OR AT LEAST TEST FOR HEAVY METAL AND ORGANIC AND INORGANIC CHEMICAL POISONS. PARTS OF DETROIT ARE UNMITIGATED BROWNFIELDS.
October 26, 2015
Gov. Rick Snyder sat down for an interview with WDIV-TV, Channel 4 News "Flashpoint" host Devin Scillian that aired Sunday. VIDEO AT LINK
Snyder was asked about a number of issues, including the Flint water dilemma, his plan to revamp Detroit schools and the new road funding plan.
Detroit Schools
Snyder's plan to revamp Detroit schools and address its crippling $750 million debt involves creating an entirely new district that would handle school operations. Detroit Public Schools, and its School Board, would remain for the sole purpose of paying the debt. The new district would have a school board appointed by the governor and Mayor Mike Duggan, with all of the members becoming elected officials by 2021.
Snyder said the plan takes about $50 per student statewide to deal with the Detroit problem and puts about $1,100 per student back into Detroit classrooms. Although the state is sharing Detroit's burden, Snyder said it would be much worse if Detroit Public Schools went bankrupt. He said this would put an estimated $1 billion pension liability on schools statewide.
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Gov. Snyder: Helping pay off Detroit schools' $750 million debt better than alternative
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2015/10/gov_snyder_helping_pay_off_det.htmlGov. Rick Snyder sat down for an interview with WDIV-TV, Channel 4 News "Flashpoint" host Devin Scillian that aired Sunday. VIDEO AT LINK
Snyder was asked about a number of issues, including the Flint water dilemma, his plan to revamp Detroit schools and the new road funding plan.
Detroit Schools
Snyder's plan to revamp Detroit schools and address its crippling $750 million debt involves creating an entirely new district that would handle school operations. Detroit Public Schools, and its School Board, would remain for the sole purpose of paying the debt. The new district would have a school board appointed by the governor and Mayor Mike Duggan, with all of the members becoming elected officials by 2021.
Snyder said the plan takes about $50 per student statewide to deal with the Detroit problem and puts about $1,100 per student back into Detroit classrooms. Although the state is sharing Detroit's burden, Snyder said it would be much worse if Detroit Public Schools went bankrupt. He said this would put an estimated $1 billion pension liability on schools statewide.
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October 25, 2015
President Obama and the Democratic Party dug themselves into a deep hole by claiming the Affordable Care Act would cut the nation’s health care costs when in fact it will raise them. It’s the gift that will keep on giving to opponents of the law.
The ACA cannot cut costs because its proponents subscribed to the wrong diagnosis of the U.S. health care crisis. They accepted the conventional wisdom that overuse of health care services is the most important reason why per capita health care costs are double those of the rest of the industrialized world, and that overuse is caused by two chronic failings among American doctors: They routinely order services patients do not need and fail to provide them with obviously beneficial preventive ones that would keep them healthy and minimize later need for medical interventions.
This diagnosis is wrong. First, underuse is far more common than overuse, even among the insured. To cite one example, 80 percent of insured Americans showing telltale symptoms, such as shortness of breath, do not see a doctor. Second, preventive services usually raise spending because they cost more to supply than they save.
Predictably enough, the mistaken “overuse” diagnosis led ACA proponents to the wrong solution, namely, that doctors can be forced or induced to stop ordering unnecessary services and provide more preventive services if they are subjected to more control by insurance companies. But the premises upon which this solution is based are also false. It is not true that the methods that the insurance industry uses to control doctors are so precise that they reduce overuse without aggravating underuse. It is also not true that the insurance industry’s methods are so inexpensive compared with the savings due to reduced overuse that, on balance, costs go down...The ACA’s failure to control costs might not have mattered if we were still in the 1940s or ’50s, when health care spending absorbed 4 or 5 percent of our national income. But it is 2014. Health care spending now eats up 17 percent of our income. Since the 1970s, observers across the political spectrum have agreed that America will never achieve and maintain a substantial reduction in our uninsured rate, never mind universal coverage, unless we reduce the cost of our health care system. As a candidate and as president, Barack Obama made it clear he understood that.
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Why Obamacare Can’t Lower Costs
http://itsoureconomy.us/2014/05/why-obamacare-cant-lower-costs/President Obama and the Democratic Party dug themselves into a deep hole by claiming the Affordable Care Act would cut the nation’s health care costs when in fact it will raise them. It’s the gift that will keep on giving to opponents of the law.
The ACA cannot cut costs because its proponents subscribed to the wrong diagnosis of the U.S. health care crisis. They accepted the conventional wisdom that overuse of health care services is the most important reason why per capita health care costs are double those of the rest of the industrialized world, and that overuse is caused by two chronic failings among American doctors: They routinely order services patients do not need and fail to provide them with obviously beneficial preventive ones that would keep them healthy and minimize later need for medical interventions.
This diagnosis is wrong. First, underuse is far more common than overuse, even among the insured. To cite one example, 80 percent of insured Americans showing telltale symptoms, such as shortness of breath, do not see a doctor. Second, preventive services usually raise spending because they cost more to supply than they save.
Predictably enough, the mistaken “overuse” diagnosis led ACA proponents to the wrong solution, namely, that doctors can be forced or induced to stop ordering unnecessary services and provide more preventive services if they are subjected to more control by insurance companies. But the premises upon which this solution is based are also false. It is not true that the methods that the insurance industry uses to control doctors are so precise that they reduce overuse without aggravating underuse. It is also not true that the insurance industry’s methods are so inexpensive compared with the savings due to reduced overuse that, on balance, costs go down...The ACA’s failure to control costs might not have mattered if we were still in the 1940s or ’50s, when health care spending absorbed 4 or 5 percent of our national income. But it is 2014. Health care spending now eats up 17 percent of our income. Since the 1970s, observers across the political spectrum have agreed that America will never achieve and maintain a substantial reduction in our uninsured rate, never mind universal coverage, unless we reduce the cost of our health care system. As a candidate and as president, Barack Obama made it clear he understood that.
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October 25, 2015
...Southern, poorer than the national average, mostly black and with longstanding ties to the army, the inhabitants of Clayton County (GA) are among the army’s likeliest recruits. Last year they furnished it with more soldiers than most of the rest of the greater Atlanta area put together. Yet Sergeant’s Haney’s battalion, which is responsible for it, still failed to make its annual recruiting target—and a day out with the unit suggests why.
Much of the friendly reception for Sergeant Haney he puts down to fine southern manners; in fact, no one in Walmart is likely to enlist. Lemeanfa has a tattoo behind his ear, an immediate disqualifier. Dseanna has a one-year-old baby, and would have to sign away custody of him. Lily’s girlfriend has a toddler she does not want to leave; Archel won’t leave his sister. Even the cookie-giver is less propitious than he seems: he symbolises, Sergeant Haney says ruefully, as he bins his gift, that paying lip-service to the armed forces, as opposed to doing military service, is all most Americans are good for.
In a society given to ostentatious public obeisance to the services—during National Military Appreciation Month, on Military Spouse Day and on countless other such public holidays and occasions—the figures that support this claim are astonishing. In the financial year that ended on September 30th America’s four armed services—army, navy, air force and marines—aimed to recruit 177,000 people, mainly from among the 21m Americans aged 17-21. Yet all struggled, and the army, which accounted for nearly half that target, made its number, at great cost and the eleventh hour, only by cannibalising its store of recruits for the current year. It failed by 2,000 to meet its target of 17,300 recruits for the army reserve, which is becoming more important to national security as the full-time army shrinks from a recent peak of 566,000 to a projected 440,000 by 2019—its lowest level since the second world war. “I find it remarkable,” says the commander of army recruiting, Major-General Jeffrey Snow. “That we have been in two protracted land campaigns and we have an American public that thinks very highly of the military, yet the vast majority has lost touch with it. Less than 1% of Americans are willing and able to serve.”
That is part of a longstanding trend: a growing disconnect between American society and the armed forces that claim to represent it, which has many causes, starting with the ending of the draft in 1973. Ever since, military experience has been steadily fading from American life. In 1990, 40% of young Americans had at least one parent who had served in the forces; by 2014, only 16% had, and the measure continues to fall. Among American leaders, the decline is similarly pronounced. In 1981, 64% of congressmen were veterans; now around 18% are...During the Korean war, around 70% of draft-age American men served in the armed forces; during Vietnam, the unpopularity of the conflict and ease of draft-dodging ensured that only 43% did. These days, even if every young American wanted to join up, less than 30% would be eligible to. Of the starting 21m, around 9.5m would fail a rudimentary academic qualification, either because they had dropped out of high school or, typically, because most young Americans cannot do tricky sums without a calculator. Of the remainder, 7m would be disqualified because they are too fat, or have a criminal record, or tattoos on their hands or faces. According to Sergeant Haney, about half the high-school students in Clayton County are inked somewhere or other; according to his boss, Lieutenant-Colonel Tony Parilli, a bigger problem is simply that “America is obese.” That leaves 4.5m young Americans eligible to serve, of whom only around 390,000 are minded to, provided they do not get snapped up by a college or private firm instead—as tends to happen to the best of them. Indeed, a favourite mantra of army recruiters, that they are competing with Microsoft and Google, is not really true. With the annual exception of a few hundred sons and daughters of retired officers, America’s elite has long since turned its nose up at military service. Well under 10% of army recruits have a college degree; nearly half belong to an ethnic minority.
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AMERICA DOESN'T WANT AN EMPIRE--QED! SO STOP WITH THE STUPID WARS, ALREADY!
The Economist: Who will fight the next war?
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21676778-failures-iraq-and-afghanistan-have-widened-gulf-between-most-americans-and-armed?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/whowillfightthenextwar...Southern, poorer than the national average, mostly black and with longstanding ties to the army, the inhabitants of Clayton County (GA) are among the army’s likeliest recruits. Last year they furnished it with more soldiers than most of the rest of the greater Atlanta area put together. Yet Sergeant’s Haney’s battalion, which is responsible for it, still failed to make its annual recruiting target—and a day out with the unit suggests why.
Much of the friendly reception for Sergeant Haney he puts down to fine southern manners; in fact, no one in Walmart is likely to enlist. Lemeanfa has a tattoo behind his ear, an immediate disqualifier. Dseanna has a one-year-old baby, and would have to sign away custody of him. Lily’s girlfriend has a toddler she does not want to leave; Archel won’t leave his sister. Even the cookie-giver is less propitious than he seems: he symbolises, Sergeant Haney says ruefully, as he bins his gift, that paying lip-service to the armed forces, as opposed to doing military service, is all most Americans are good for.
In a society given to ostentatious public obeisance to the services—during National Military Appreciation Month, on Military Spouse Day and on countless other such public holidays and occasions—the figures that support this claim are astonishing. In the financial year that ended on September 30th America’s four armed services—army, navy, air force and marines—aimed to recruit 177,000 people, mainly from among the 21m Americans aged 17-21. Yet all struggled, and the army, which accounted for nearly half that target, made its number, at great cost and the eleventh hour, only by cannibalising its store of recruits for the current year. It failed by 2,000 to meet its target of 17,300 recruits for the army reserve, which is becoming more important to national security as the full-time army shrinks from a recent peak of 566,000 to a projected 440,000 by 2019—its lowest level since the second world war. “I find it remarkable,” says the commander of army recruiting, Major-General Jeffrey Snow. “That we have been in two protracted land campaigns and we have an American public that thinks very highly of the military, yet the vast majority has lost touch with it. Less than 1% of Americans are willing and able to serve.”
That is part of a longstanding trend: a growing disconnect between American society and the armed forces that claim to represent it, which has many causes, starting with the ending of the draft in 1973. Ever since, military experience has been steadily fading from American life. In 1990, 40% of young Americans had at least one parent who had served in the forces; by 2014, only 16% had, and the measure continues to fall. Among American leaders, the decline is similarly pronounced. In 1981, 64% of congressmen were veterans; now around 18% are...During the Korean war, around 70% of draft-age American men served in the armed forces; during Vietnam, the unpopularity of the conflict and ease of draft-dodging ensured that only 43% did. These days, even if every young American wanted to join up, less than 30% would be eligible to. Of the starting 21m, around 9.5m would fail a rudimentary academic qualification, either because they had dropped out of high school or, typically, because most young Americans cannot do tricky sums without a calculator. Of the remainder, 7m would be disqualified because they are too fat, or have a criminal record, or tattoos on their hands or faces. According to Sergeant Haney, about half the high-school students in Clayton County are inked somewhere or other; according to his boss, Lieutenant-Colonel Tony Parilli, a bigger problem is simply that “America is obese.” That leaves 4.5m young Americans eligible to serve, of whom only around 390,000 are minded to, provided they do not get snapped up by a college or private firm instead—as tends to happen to the best of them. Indeed, a favourite mantra of army recruiters, that they are competing with Microsoft and Google, is not really true. With the annual exception of a few hundred sons and daughters of retired officers, America’s elite has long since turned its nose up at military service. Well under 10% of army recruits have a college degree; nearly half belong to an ethnic minority.
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AMERICA DOESN'T WANT AN EMPIRE--QED! SO STOP WITH THE STUPID WARS, ALREADY!
October 25, 2015
The 99% is getting restless everywhere!
102 countries pledge not to oppose UN action on genocidele
Source: India Times
UNITED NATIONS: More than 100 countries have signed a "Code of Conduct" pledging not to vote against a credible UN Security Council resolution seeking to prevent or end genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.
The initiative was launched on Friday, the eve of the UN's 70th anniversary, by Liechtenstein's Foreign Minister Aurelia Frick who called the code "a catalyst for a culture of zero tolerance for atrocity crimes within the council." She said it would also serve as a catalyst for political accountability between the council and the rest of the 193 UN member states.
While not legally binding, the Code of Conduct reflects growing concern at the power of the five veto-wielding council members — the US, Russia, China, Britain and France — to veto a resolution on atrocity crimes.
Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/102-countries-pledge-not-to-oppose-UN-action-on-genocide/articleshow/49512935.cms
The 99% is getting restless everywhere!
October 24, 2015
This story was published in June 2015 and is being republished today on the 75th anniversary of the 40-hour workweek going into effect.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) thinks Americans may have forgotten about the 40-hour week.
American workers with full-time jobs work an average of 42.7 hours per week, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Including part-timers in the calculation puts the average American workweek at 39 hours.
Sanders said he wants to appropriate the term "family values" from Republicans, who have historically used it to talk about social issues, and use it to promote legislation mandating paid vacation, paid sick days and paid parental leave for U.S. workers. Just 11 percent of workers had access to paid leave to care for newborns in 2012, according to the BLS.
Last week Sanders introduced a bill that would require employers to give at least 10 paid vacation days annually to any employees who have worked at the company for at least a year.
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Bernie Sanders Wants To Bring Back Your 40-Hour Workweek
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-40-hour-workweek_562b8942e4b0aac0b8fd182a?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business§ion=businessThis story was published in June 2015 and is being republished today on the 75th anniversary of the 40-hour workweek going into effect.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) thinks Americans may have forgotten about the 40-hour week.
"A hundred years ago workers took to the streets" to fight for 40 hours, Sanders told The Huffington Post. "And a hundred years have come and gone, we’ve seen an explosion in technology, we’ve seen an explosion in productivity, we have a great global economy, and what do you have? The vast majority of people are working longer hours for lower wages."
American workers with full-time jobs work an average of 42.7 hours per week, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Including part-timers in the calculation puts the average American workweek at 39 hours.
Sanders said he wants to appropriate the term "family values" from Republicans, who have historically used it to talk about social issues, and use it to promote legislation mandating paid vacation, paid sick days and paid parental leave for U.S. workers. Just 11 percent of workers had access to paid leave to care for newborns in 2012, according to the BLS.
"What the Republicans talk about when they speak of family values is to deny a woman the right to control her own body, to deny a woman the right to get contraceptives, opposition to gay rights and gay marriage," Sanders said. "I don’t think those are family values."
Last week Sanders introduced a bill that would require employers to give at least 10 paid vacation days annually to any employees who have worked at the company for at least a year.
"What our legislation says -- and we think this is absolutely a family value -- is that a mom and a dad should have the right to at least a couple of weeks off of paid vacation so they can spend quality time with their kids," Sanders said.
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October 24, 2015
Private jet spending. Well, look who’s #3!
http://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/657580548706144258/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
October 24, 2015
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. will hold a press conference Monday morning to respond to allegations lobbed at the company regarding its relationship with specialty pharmacies and its accounting practices.
Citron Research, John Hempton, ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal have said there is a tangled web of organizational ties between Valeant and specialty pharmacy network company Philidor RX, Philidor network member R&O Pharmacy, and other specialty pharmacies that may or may not be legally and financially related to Philidor and/or Valeant.
Valeant shares fell as much as 40% at their worst level on Wednesday after Citron, a short selling firm, issued a scathing report, alleging that Valeant was shipping product to R&O and then falsely claiming the revenue.
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Citron’s report, which called Valeant a “pharmaceutical Enron,” cited a report that was published on Monday by the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation, SIRF, that revealed the previously undisclosed relationships with specialty pharmacies....Valeant responded to Citron with a statement that said all sales to Philidor and its network pharmacies are “accounted for as intercompany sales and are eliminated in consolidation.” That would imply financial ownership of Philidor and an organizational connection with a distribution channel that had not been, until Monday, ever mentioned in Valeant’s financial statements or filings with the Canadian or U.S. securities regulators....Valeant had already responded to SIRF’s findings on its earnings call on Monday by saying that it has a “contractual relationship” with Philidor to fill prescriptions on its behalf, that it recently bought an option to buy the pharmacy, and that it also consolidates Philidor’s results with its own based on a variable interest entity (VIE) relationship... MORE
WELL, NOW WE KNOW WHERE THE CROOKS ON WALL STREET WENT
Valeant must untangle web of allegations on Monday call
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/valeant-must-untangle-web-of-allegations-on-monday-call-2015-10-23?siteid=YAHOOBValeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. will hold a press conference Monday morning to respond to allegations lobbed at the company regarding its relationship with specialty pharmacies and its accounting practices.
Citron Research, John Hempton, ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal have said there is a tangled web of organizational ties between Valeant and specialty pharmacy network company Philidor RX, Philidor network member R&O Pharmacy, and other specialty pharmacies that may or may not be legally and financially related to Philidor and/or Valeant.
Valeant shares fell as much as 40% at their worst level on Wednesday after Citron, a short selling firm, issued a scathing report, alleging that Valeant was shipping product to R&O and then falsely claiming the revenue.
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Citron’s report, which called Valeant a “pharmaceutical Enron,” cited a report that was published on Monday by the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation, SIRF, that revealed the previously undisclosed relationships with specialty pharmacies....Valeant responded to Citron with a statement that said all sales to Philidor and its network pharmacies are “accounted for as intercompany sales and are eliminated in consolidation.” That would imply financial ownership of Philidor and an organizational connection with a distribution channel that had not been, until Monday, ever mentioned in Valeant’s financial statements or filings with the Canadian or U.S. securities regulators....Valeant had already responded to SIRF’s findings on its earnings call on Monday by saying that it has a “contractual relationship” with Philidor to fill prescriptions on its behalf, that it recently bought an option to buy the pharmacy, and that it also consolidates Philidor’s results with its own based on a variable interest entity (VIE) relationship... MORE
WELL, NOW WE KNOW WHERE THE CROOKS ON WALL STREET WENT
October 24, 2015
FBI director: We do not use planes for mass surveillance
WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION
U.S. Rep. John Conyers put pressure on the FBI over the "spying" controversy in metro Detroit. Conyers asked FBI director James Comey about spy planes that flew over Dearborn last summer and put the community on edge.
Comey says the government isn’t spying on Dearborn residents as a whole.
"We use planes in our predicated investigations to conduct surveillance on people under investigation," Comey said. "We do not use planes for mass surveillance."
Conyers asked the questions during a congressional hearing on Thursday.
The FBI says the flyovers are not limited to the Detroit area.
LOVELY. JUST LOVELY. WHAT A MESS THIS COUNTRY IS. AND THEY ARE TRYING TO TELL US THAT NOT ONLY IS THIS A LEGAL THING THEY ARE DOING, IT IS ALSO A SENSIBLE USE OF RESOURCES?
Conyers asks FBI director about spy planes flying over Dearborn
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/conyers-asks-fbi-director-about-spy-planes-flying-over-dearborn/36019296FBI director: We do not use planes for mass surveillance
WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION
U.S. Rep. John Conyers put pressure on the FBI over the "spying" controversy in metro Detroit. Conyers asked FBI director James Comey about spy planes that flew over Dearborn last summer and put the community on edge.
Comey says the government isn’t spying on Dearborn residents as a whole.
"We use planes in our predicated investigations to conduct surveillance on people under investigation," Comey said. "We do not use planes for mass surveillance."
Conyers asked the questions during a congressional hearing on Thursday.
The FBI says the flyovers are not limited to the Detroit area.
LOVELY. JUST LOVELY. WHAT A MESS THIS COUNTRY IS. AND THEY ARE TRYING TO TELL US THAT NOT ONLY IS THIS A LEGAL THING THEY ARE DOING, IT IS ALSO A SENSIBLE USE OF RESOURCES?
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