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Sad humor for us older taxpayers...
I just received an audit on my tax return for 2012 back from the IRS. It puzzles me!
They are questioning how many dependents I claimed.
I guess it was because of my response to the question: "List all dependents?"
I replied: 12 million illegal immigrants; 3 million crack heads; 42 million unemployed people on food stamps, 2 million people in over 243 prisons; half of Mexico ; and 535 persons in the U.S. House and Senate"; and 1 useless President.
Evidently, this was NOT an acceptable answer.
I KEEP ASKING MYSELF, WHO THE HELL DID I MISS?
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Kids For Cash: Inside One of the Nation’s Most Shocking Juvenile Justice Scandals
Today a special on "kids for cash," the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities. We hear from two of the youth: Charlie Balasavage was sent to juvenile detention after his parents unknowingly bought him a stolen scooter; Hillary Transue was detained for creating a MySpace page mocking her assistant high school principal. They were both 14 years old and were sentenced by the same judge, Judge Mark Ciavarella, who is now in jail himself — serving a 28-year sentence. Balasavage and Transue are featured in the new documentary, "Kids for Cash," by filmmaker Robert May, who also joins us. In addition, we speak to two mothers: Sandy Fonzo, whose son Ed Kenzakoski committed suicide after being imprisoned for years by Judge Ciavarella, and Hillary’s mother, Laurene Transue. Putting their stories into context of the larger scandal is attorney Robert Schwartz, executive director of the Juvenile Law Center. The story is still developing: In October, the private juvenile-detention companies in the scandal settled a civil lawsuit for $2.5 million.
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AMY GOODMAN: Today, a special on "kids for cash," the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.
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3 Injured in Staten Island Gas Explosion
A gas explosion and fire Wednesday night at a house on Staten Island injured three people — one critically — and forced the evacuation of more than a dozen homes, according to the Fire Department.
Firefighters had been checking reports of a gas leak at 101 Delaware Street near Dalemere Road in Dongan Hills for about two hours when an explosion happened at the home shortly before 7 p.m., the Fire Department said.
One of the people injured was in critical condition, while another civilian and a firefighter sustained serious injuries that were not life-threatening, fire officials said. All three victims were taken to Staten Island University Hospital North.
Dennis Mangiero, who lives four doors down from the house where the explosion occurred, said he had spoken with the homeowner before he was taken to the hospital.
“He said he went into his basement and he opened the door, and it blew up in his face,” Mr. Mangiero said. He said the man had burns on his forehead and appeared to be shaken up.
Crews from National Grid, the gas company, were at the site late Wednesday searching for the source of the leak.
Homes within a three-block radius were evacuated.
NRC Special Inspection Ordered After Two Units Trip at Calvert Cliffs
Nuclear Street News Team
Tue, Jan 28 2014 10:34 AM
A two-unit shutdown caused by a partial power outage at Maryland's Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant last week has provoked a special inspection from federal regulators.
On Monday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission dispatched an additional three inspectors to the plant to review the event and operators' response. The agency also shed additional light on the Jan. 21 outage. In a release, the NRC said snow and ice appear to have affected a ventilation louver filter within a system that distributes off-site power to the plant, causing an electrical fault that disrupted power to systems that included control rod motors and circulating water pumps at unit 2. The power loss also caused the main turbine control circuit to malfunction at unit 1, resulting in its automatic shutdown.
On Monday, units 1 and 2 were operating at 97 percent power and 100 percent power, respectively, according to the NRC. They are owned jointly by Exelon and EDF.
Winter Storm Shuts Down Savannah River Site, Challenges Utilities
The Department of Energy's Savannah River Site in South Carolina sent workers home Tuesday on account of a rare winter storm that also had utilities across the Southeast preparing for power outages.
A notice from SRS indicated non-essential personnel began leaving the site at noon. The complex was scheduled to be closed completely to non-essential personnel today, with a delayed work schedule expected Thursday.
The National Weather Service forecast that the storm's mix of ice, sleet and snow would be concentrated in the Carolinas, Georgia and the eastern portion of the Florida panhandle this morning, with snowfall expected across a broad swath of the Southeast until tonight. Anticipating outages, Duke Energy announced Tuesday that it would shift an additional 300 personnel to the coast of the Carolinas. Entergy also repositioned resources. On Tuesday, that utility reported it had dispatched 50 linemen from Arkansas to join more than 2,600 restoration workers preparing for snow and ice accumulation in southeast Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Midwest and East Coast grid operator PJM Interconnection on Monday asked utility customers to conserve power because of increased demand brought on by cold weather. On Tuesday, PSEG expected to approach its record winter electricity demand of 7,195 megawatts set in 2007.
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The King of the Jews Is Dead
Edgar Bronfman—one of the world’s most powerful Zionists—finally dies
By Michael Collins Piper
The patriarch of a crime syndicate-connected empire that has operated in the sphere of the Rothschild dynasty is dead. On December 22, Edgar M. Bronfman—longtime head of the World Jewish Congress (WJC)—died at age 84. New York magazine once described him a “sometimes coarse, bullying businessman” but noted “there are some people who would simply call him king of the Jews.”
Rabbi Mishael Zion has hailed Bronfman as “a modern Talmudic Jew,” noting Bronfman’s favorite book was the Babylonian Talmud, the hero of which, the rabbi admitted, is not God but the “cunning human scholar.” Praising Bronfman’s work funding scholarships for Jewish youth, the rabbi said Bronfman was “the person who invited us to live Talmudically in the modern world.”
This recalls Meyer Rothschild, founder of the dynasty with whom Bronfman’s family has had a long association. An admiring biographer once said Rothschild was “a zealous believer in the Talmud and chose it alone as the guiding principle of all his actions.”
It is thus fitting that Bronfman biographer Peter C. Newman said the Bronfmans were “the Rothschilds of the New World,” estimating in 1978 that Bronfman assets totaled some $7B. In fact, Edgar Bronfman had a level of clout few could claim, precisely because of his front-line positioning in the Zionist movement and his family’s pivotal historic role in the crime syndicate.
Edgar was son of Sam Bronfman who immigrated to Canada from Russia and made his fortune in liquor, gambling, prostitution and drugs. Going “legitimate” when he assumed control of the Montreal-based Seagram distillery, Sam forged links with the New York crime syndicate headed by another Russian Jew, Meyer Lansky, and during Prohibition supplied—and thus controlled—the “spigot” of liquor funneled into the United States and distributed by the Lansky mob.
In many border towns in the northern U.S there are family fortunes accumulated by locals who were part of the Bronfman network. And in the big cities, a connection with this syndicate was a “must.” In Detroit, the “little Jewish navy” of Morris Dalitz—later Lansky’s top man in Las Vegas—ferried Bronfman booze into the U.S.
Even Chicago’s celebrated Italian-American gangster, Al Capone, owed his rise to his own Bronfman connection. It was Lansky who sent Capone to Chicago from N.Y. in the first place, assigned to work for Johnny Torrio (Bronfman’s Chicago contact) who was moving to unseat “Big Jim” Colosimo, as Italian-American Mafia chief in the Windy City.
Colosimo had alienated Lansky and Bronfman—whom he called “dirty Jews”—by asserting there was “no future in bootlegging,” showing little interest in patronizing Bronfman liquor, preferring to focus on drugs, prostitution and loan-sharking.
So a Jewish hitman from N.Y. “retired” Big Jim and soon enough, Bronfman liquor flowed into Chicago. The media lionized Capone, but the Chicago mob, thenceforward, was dominated by behind-the-scenes Jewish bosses.
In any case, Bronfman plowed his ill-gotten gains into legitimate enterprises, establishing his family as major patrons of Israel and expanding their power on American shores.
When Sam died, Edgar assumed family leadership and—though little known to the public—was one of the most powerful figures on the planet. Today, his legacy lives on.
Aside from wheeler-dealer son, Edgar Jr., son Matthew chairs the board of the WJC and is a controlling shareholder of one of Israel’s largest banks, Israel Discount Bank, and other Israeli enterprises. Son Adam directs a family foundation and lives off family wealth. Daughter Holly—interestingly—shares the same high-powered Texas lawyer as media icon and blowhard Alex Jones.
Bronfman bankrolled Mort Zuckerman, now a billionaire, who in turn bankrolled Dan Snyder, now billionaire owner of the Washington Redskins football team. They, too, are Bronfman heirs in their own respect.
Bronfman’s War on the U.S. Military
A longtime Bronfman henchman at Seagrams, Stephen Herbits, was recruited by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to make “heads roll” in the military, screening Pentagon promotions and appointments, enforcing Zionist control of the U.S. war machine.
This move on the military came in 2006 when top retired American military leaders publicly slammed the Bush administration for waging the war against Iraq, making it clear they spoke for many colleagues still in the Pentagon who opposed the war from the start.
Herbits urged the media to investigate military leaders who dared to take on the administration. Saying it would be “a service to this country when the media digs a bit below these attacks to examine the generals,” Herbits was sending a warning: Military leaders who stood up against civilian warmongers promoting the interests of Israel were subject to investigation by spy agencies such as the Anti-Defamation League, which could come up with “data” on the dissidents to destroy them.
After doing his dirty work, Herbits returned to the Bronfman fold, serving as secretary-general of the WJC and thus Bronfman’s subservient minion.
Murder Discussed at High-Level Bronfman Meeting
The New York magazine article mentioned above noted Edgar Bronfman “belongs to one of the world’s most exclusive clubs, an impossibly elite gathering known as the ‘Mega Group.’ It consists of about a dozen inconceivably rich Jews who get together several times a year, often in either Bronfman’s or [CBS owner] Larry Tisch’s apartment . . . .”
In 1990, an unexpected source advised Andrew St. George—chief correspondent for The Spotlight (forerunner of AMERICAN FREE PRESS)—there had been a high-level meeting at Bronfman’s N.Y. apartment attended by top financial patrons and leaders of the Zionist movement. (This was the “Mega Group,” although its name was not then known.) Devoted to combating the purported “rise of anti-Semitism,” the meeting’s participants included financier Felix G. Rohatyn and Jacques Torczyner, president of the Zionist Organization of America.
Andrew’s source told him Torczyner said, in words to these effect: “It’s time that we put a stop to Willis Carto and his newspaper, The Spotlight.” Torczyner said specifically that Carto and his associates should be “hunted and shot like quail.”
Torczyner’s candor disturbed at least some of his fellow power brokers who responded, “We can’t use the tactics of our enemies.”
In fact, it was the aforementioned Rohatyn who told St. George about the meeting. A longtime newsman, St. George knew many people, Rohatyn among them.
St. George took the story to Carto and Mark Lane, The Spotlight’s anti-Zionist Jewish attorney, who wrote a letter to Torczyner warning him against making further threats.
Still, a continuing campaign to destroy The Spotlight culminated with the populist weekly driven out of business in 2001. But AFP picked up The Spotlight’s fallen torch.
Carto had reason to be concerned: Bronfman fingerprints were all over the JFK assassination conspiracy.
For the tip of that iceberg, read “Rothschild-Israeli Ties to JFK” in the December 9 & 16, 2013 issue of AFP.
Bronfman’s Empire
Bronfman holdings have been immense, including such famed companies as Campbell Soup, Schlitz Brewing, Colgate-Palmolive, Kellogg, Nabisco, Norton Simon, Quaker Oats, Paramount Pictures, Kodiak boots and Hush Puppies shoes.
The Bronfmans held an interest in the Ernest W. Hahn Co. (which operated 27 shopping centers in California and had plans for another 29); and the Trizec Corp., one of North America’s biggest property development companies.
They controlled the Shannon Mall in Atlanta and the Galleria in Westchester, N.Y. and a shopping center in Hickory, N.C. Bronfman controlled industrial parks in and near Los Angeles, office towers in Denver and San Francisco, and housing developments in Nevada, California and Florida, as well as Houston-based General Homes Consolidated, building houses in Mississippi and Alabama. And they owned vast tracts of land in Virginia outside Washington, D.C.
And although the famous “Du Pont” name appeared on company products, the real power behind the scenes was Bronfman who—not content with owning 20% of the distinguished institution—took complete control in 1981, ultimately divesting his holdings.
Bronfman’s Stranglehold on the Media
It was inevitable Bronfman’s Seagram Co. would purchase a controlling interest in Time-Warner in 1993. Mob-connected Bronfman associates had already moved on this media empire, going back to a 1967 merger between Warner Brothers Studios and Seven Arts Productions, run by a front man for Bronfman partner Meyer Lansky. The new operation—soon merged with Time publishing—became Time-Warner.
A sampling of holdings in the Time Warner octopus over the years:
• Time-Life Video; HBO Video; Warner Home Video;
• Cable franchises reaching 11.7 million subscribers;
• Turner Broadcasting, including all the CNN holdings;
• Magazines: Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Life, Fortune, Money, Vibe, In Style, Parenting, Martha Stewart Living, Sunset, Health, Entertainment Weekly, Cooking Light, Southern Living, DC Comics, and American Lawyer; and,
• Book Publishing: Little, Brown & Co., Time-Life Books, Warner Books, Book-of-the-Month Club.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. operated Seagram as his personal plaything after Seagram bought Hollywood giant, MCA, bringing MCA subsidiaries—Universal Studios and Universal Music—and TV channels in Europe and Latin America into Bronfman hands.
Last but far from least: With the Rothschilds, the Oppenheimers of South Africa and the late Armand Hammer, Bronfman money bankrolled the move into the U.S. by Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, now a major influence over the American “conservative” movement.
Bronfman’s Connections to John McCain
The Bronfmans were the “godfathers” behind the career of Arizona Senator John McCain (R), Israel’s most outspoken advocate in Congress. McCain’s $150M fortune comes from his marriage to Cindy Hensley, who inherited one of the nation’s largest beer distribution companies from her father, Jim Hensley. Hensley made his money as a henchman of Kemper Marley who, for 40 years, was political boss of Arizona and the Lansky syndicate’s front man in The Grand Canyon State. The Bronfmans set Marley up in business and after Hensley took the rap for Marley in a criminal case, Hensley’s reward was the beer business now in McCain family hands.
Michael Collins Piper is an author, journalist, lecturer and radio show host. He has spoken in Russia, Malaysia, Iran, Abu Dhabi, Japan, Canada and the U.S.
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South Texas Project Reactor OK After Smoke Fills Computer Room
Nuclear Street News Team
Wed, Jan 22 2014 10:31 AM
A computer room filled with smoke at the South Texas Project nuclear plant near Houston Saturday. The fire triggered a brief unusual event declaration but did not cause any damage necessitating a shutdown.
Unit 1 declared the unusual event – the lowest of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's emergency classifications – just after 4 a.m. The fire set off an alarm and activated the computer room's Halon fire suppression system, according to a report filed with the NRC and released Tuesday. On-site firefighters found no visible flames. The fire was declared to be under control at 4:12 a.m.; and firefighters confirmed it was completely extinguished by 4:46 a.m.
An update to the NRC from the plant later that morning terminated the unusual event just before 10 a.m. At that point, crews were working to restore the affected fire protection systems and repair damaged equipment. The reactor did not shut down, and both units at the plant remained at full power as of Tuesday, according to the NRC.
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Man gives change to homeless person, is handcuffed and held by police for an hour
Man gives change to homeless person, is handcuffed and held by police for an hour
By Will Lerner January 16, 2014 5:32 PM Odd News
Greg Snider was in a Houston, Texas parking lot, on the phone making a business call. While in the lot, a homeless man approached his car and asked forchange. Snider gave him 75 cents and then drove off. KPRC Local 2 News reported on the shocking thing that happened next.
When Snider pulled onto a nearby freeway, a police car pulled him to the side. Greg was surprised by how aggressive the officer was, telling KPRC, “He's screaming. He's yelling. He's telling me to get out of the car. He's telling me to put my hands on the hood…They're like, 'We saw you downtown. We saw what you did.’ And I was like, 'Are you kidding me? I gave a homeless man 75 cents.'"
He was dragged out of his car and handcuffed. So what was it that police insisted Mr. Snider had done? Give that homeless man drugs. Again, he didn’t. Snider only gave the man some money.
I-10, the freeway Snider was pulled over
Snider agreed to let police search his cars for drugs, and they did so for an hour while Greg remained handcuffed. In that time, ten more police cars showed up and pulled over. The search was not fruitful – no drugs were found in the car. That is, because, as previously mentioned, Snider didn’t have any drugs to give. Snider was not happy about the damage police did to his car, or that the police were actually laughing about the mistake.
Mr. Snider has filed a complaint. Police declined to comment to KPRC about the incident.
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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Nuclear Street News Team
Fri, Jan 3 2014
Another earthquake in eastern Japan and a damaged spent fuel assembly at unit 4 highlighted the recent news from Fukushima Daiichi.
Developments related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant severely damaged following Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami include:
Plant Safe After Small Quake
On Tuesday morning, a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck the northeastern region of Ibaraki Prefecture. Jiji Press reported that the quake did not cause a tsunami or affect nearby reactors, including those in neighboring Fukushima Prefecture.
Fukushima unit 4 fuel assembly crack. Source: TEPCOWorkers Encounter Damaged Fuel Assembly in Unit 4 SFP
On Dec. 27, TEPCO reported that workers removing spent fuel from unit 4 found a fuel assembly that had been damaged. A press release translated from Japanese indicated that the assembly sustained damage to its handle and had what appeared to be a crack in its side (pictured) from plant operations years earlier. No change in dose was recorded in the spent fuel pool. Workers are inspecting the damage further and plan to set the assembly aside while continuing spent fuel removal.
TEPCO Spins Off Decommissioning to New Company
In late December, TEPCO announced it would set up a subsidiary solely focused on decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi. In a release, TEPCO announced the new company will be headed by former Fukushima Daini executive Naohiro Masuda. It will work closely with the International Research Institute on Nuclear Decommissioning, as well as Japanese regulators.
Steam Generator Issue Shuts Down Indian Point Reactor
Nuclear Street News Team
Wed, Jan 8 2014 10:33 AM
A problem affecting water flow in a steam generator shut down unit 3 at New York's Indian Point nuclear plant Monday.
A failed valve in the main feedwater system contributed to a mismatch in the SG's steam and feed flows, according to a report filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Safety systems shut the reactor down automatically from full power. The auxiliary feedwater system actuated during the trip, the main condenser served as a heat sink, and no safety valves lifted.
A release from plant operator Entergy said the shutdown at 9:15 p.m. resulted from a falling water level inside the SG after a controller failed that regulates its water flow. Unit 3 had been in service for 159 continuous days. Unit 2 was not affected by the shutdown.
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