Archive for the 'Fraud' Category
Renegade DEA Mass Surveillance Operations
March 29th, 2019“It’s just like laundering money – you work it backwards to make it clean.” Via: Nextgov: The Drug Enforcement Administration skirted numerous legal checks on a trio of bulk data collection programs dating back to the early 1990s, according to an internal watchdog. In a heavily redacted, 144-page report published Thursday, the Justice Department Inspector […]
U.S. to Return Astronauts to the Moon by 2024, VP Pence Says
March 29th, 2019I wonder what this is actually about? Via: Space.com: The United States plans to land astronauts on the moon within the next five years, Vice President Mike Pence announced today (March 26). The nation had been shooting for a 2028 lunar touchdown, but “that’s just not good enough,” Pence said during the fifth meeting of […]
Duke Announces Research Fraud Settlement with $112.5 Million Payment to U.S. Government
March 28th, 2019Standard operating procedure. Except for the whistleblower part. Via: Duke Chronicle: Duke will pay $112.5 million to the federal government in a settlement for a lawsuit regarding its handling of falsified data that the suit alleged was linked to $200 million in federal research grants. “This is a difficult moment for Duke,” President Vincent Price […]
U.S. Mercenaries Arrested in Haiti Were Part of a Half-Baked Scheme to Move $80 Million for Embattled President
March 26th, 2019Via: The Intercept: Most of the Americans arrived in Port-au-Prince from the U.S. by private jet early on the morning of February 16. They’d packed the eight-passenger charter plane with a stockpile of semiautomatic rifles, handguns, Kevlar bulletproof vests, and knives. Most had been paid already: $10,000 each up front, with another $20,000 promised to […]
Greenwald on MSNBC Trump-Russia Fraud: “This Whole Scam Saved Them”
March 26th, 2019Via: MediaITE: The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald tore into MSNBC tonight for its Russia coverage following the completion of Robert Mueller‘s report. Tucker Carlson––who said earlier in his show there needs to be accountability for people who pushed Russia conspiracy narratives––said of Greenwald, “From the very beginning, he questioned the theory. He ultimately concluded it was […]
Russiagate Is This Generation’s WMD
March 24th, 2019Via: Matt Taibbi: The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it.
Mueller Report Finds No Evidence That Trump Campaign Colluded with Russia
March 24th, 2019The whole god damned thing was absurd from the start. Everyone knew it. Via: Russia: Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russia, and did not present enough evidence to warrant charging Trump with obstruction of justice, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Sunday. In […]
While the Nation Fragments Socially, the Financial Aristocracy Rules Unimpeded
March 20th, 2019Via: Of Two Minds: The core structure of the financial aristocracy is the state-cartel, the cartels that are funded and enforced by the central state: higher education, healthcare, national defense, banking, mortgages, student loans, etc. For the financial aristocracy, the federal government is their personal enrichment machine, collecting trillions in taxes and borrowing additional trillions […]
Virginia Woman, 19, Commits Suicide by Shooting Herself in the Head While Her Hands Were Cuffed Behind Her Back in Police Custody, Medical Examiner Rules
March 20th, 2019Via: DailyMail: The death of a 19 -year-old Virginia woman who died while in police custody from a gunshot wound to the head in July has been ruled a suicide by the medical examiner’s office. Police said Sarah Wilson managed to shoot herself through the mouth while her hands were cuffed behind her back following […]
Second U.S. Jury Finds Bayer’s Roundup Caused Cancer
March 19th, 2019Via: Reuters: A U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer, a blow to the company eight months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different case.
