http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=donations Mon, 20 May 2013 00:21:08 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=donations Sat, 18 May 2013 00:10:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d4_1368849938 Detroit Iron By Barnini Chakraborty Published May 17, 2013 FoxNews.com Jay Devereaux hadn't paid much attention to the daily drumbeat of partisan politics in D.C. He wasn't a Washington nerd, and didn't know who said what during congressional hearings -- nor did he care. But when news broke that the government was using taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street banks, he started paying attention and didn't like what he was hearing. So the Florida father and information technology specialist decided to form a group, Unite in Action, to educate people in his area about the issues, he said. It was originally formed as a corporation before Devereaux decided to apply for tax-exempt status from the IRS. That was two years ago. It was never approved. "It's all but killed us," Devereaux told FoxNews.com. "We could lose everything. Today, it's me and my organization, but tomorrow it could be you." Devereaux is among a group of activists, being represented by the American Center for Law and Justice, who are preparing to sue the federal government for the practice of targeting Tea Party groups. ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow told FoxNews.com he'll likely file the civil suits next Wednesday or Thursday on behalf of more than a dozen Tea Party groups who say they were singled out by the IRS and had their tax-exempt status severely delayed or denied altogether. The suits, combined with congressional inquiries and an FBI probe, signal that the heated hearing on Capitol Hill Friday - with the outgoing IRS chief - was just the start of a protracted legal and political battle over the scandal. Sekulow said the number of plaintiffs in the civil suit are growing as is the list of who his organization wants held accountable. It's still unclear whether the organization will file as a class-action or individually in the 17 different states where the complaints originate. Litigation could take months or years and for some like Devereaux, time isn't on their side. While initially waiting for IRS approval, Devereaux dipped into his own bank account, maxed out credit cards and even borrowed money from friends so his group could put on a civic-engagement training session at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington. His goal was to eventually set up a steady stream of revenue for a tax-exempt nonprofit. The next time Devereaux heard from the IRS, they had requested details and credentials on every single speaker and all the educational materials provided in the 78 classes held at the hotel. The IRS also wanted information on all 45 vendors, their credentials and a donor list. Devereaux refused. Five rounds of IRS letters later, and United in Action's tax-exempt status is still in limbo. If they are denied, Devereaux's group would owe the federal government "somewhere in the neighborhood of $70,000 in back taxes," he said, referring to money he would owe the government on donations. "It's more than we have in our bank account," he said. He's not alone. Waco Tea Party President Toby Walker said her group applied for a 501(c)(4) status in July 2010. She'd call the IRS from time to time to check on the progress but was basically told, 'Don't call us, we'll call you,' she said. Then in February 2012, the IRS finally made contact. Walker said she was asked questions that went well beyond the purview of the agency's authority. They wanted to know everything about the Waco Tea Party group, their relationships with public officials, lists of volunteers and every single news story the group had ever been mentioned in. Walker said the request was so lengthy and intrusive that had she complied with the demands, she "would have needed a U-haul truck of about 20 feet." While Walker's group was finally granted tax-exempt status in March 2013, she said a lot of damage has already been done. She said people were afraid to support her group financially because they had not received the IRS-stamped status. Others were afraid that they might be targeted by the IRS if they supported Walker's group publicly. Having one of the most powerful government agencies angry at them wasn't a risk many people were willing to take. And so the group suffered, she said. "We spent thousands of our own dollars fighting this," she said. "If this happens to one organization in America, we should all be outraged." Allegations that the IRS had been targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status date back years but a government report released Wednesday backed up the claims. The White House has spent most of the week trying to contain the fallout from the scandal. "Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it," President Obama said earlier this week. By Friday, two of the agency's top tax officials had been removed from their posts. One, outgoing acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller, was grilled Friday morning in the House Ways and Means Committee by Republican and Democratic lawmakers who demanded answers on why the unfair practice of targeting conservative groups was allowed to continue on his watch. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/17/could-lose-everything-tea-party-groups-prepare-to-sue-irs/#ixzz2Tc7oBrur http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d4_1368849938 Detroit Iron 'We could lose everything': Tea Party groups prepare to sue IRS Unite in Action, IRS, Thu, 16 May 2013 17:50:29 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f4_1368740930 Baron_Kaz LITTLETON (New Hampshire, US): In December James Cleaveland made an unusual New Year's resolution: to do all he could to keep police in the city of Keene, New Hampshire, from issuing parking tickets. Cleaveland and a group of friends took to the streets with pocketfuls of change and began shadowing the city's three parking enforcement officers, stuffing coins in expired meters before they could issue $5 tickets. They call their practice "Robin Hooding," and in just over four months, the group claims to have spared motorists more than 2,000 tickets in the city of some 23,000. "It's my philosophy," said Cleaveland, 26, a member of a group called Free Keene, which subscribes to the libertarian principle of smaller government. "I could go talk to the city council at every meeting but to me, actions speak louder than words. I can go out and try to save people and reduce the number of tickets." The southern New Hampshire city's government does not share Cleaveland's view. This month it filed suit in state court against him and five others seeking a restraining order to keep them at least 50 feet from parking enforcement officers. The suit accuses Cleaveland and five others of videotaping, taunting and intimidating its parking meter personnel. The alleged behavior includes chasing officers on bicycles, shouting insults and accusing them of stealing people's money. One officer became so stressed that he complained of heart palpitations and began having nightmares about the group, according to court papers. "It's affecting the employees and it's taking a lot of time and energy to deal with it, and so the city's intent was to try to establish some clear boundaries and a little breathing room," said James Duffy, a member of the Keene City Council. "We're not saying you can't complain about the meters or plug them, it's just how that's done." Cleaveland has vowed to continue. He said he knows each parking attendant by name. "I don't follow them home or try to find them off duty," he said. "They always use the excuse 'I'm just doing my job.' I always say 'I'm just doing my activity too.'" Calling card The Free Keene movement is part of the Free State Project, a group that has sought to get 20,000 libertarians to settle in New Hampshire, a state already known for its limited government and which has no sales or income tax. The Keene chapter's prior actions included publicly smoking marijuana in the city's central square to protest drug laws, and holding a protest against gun restrictions that featured a half-nude woman armed with a holstered handgun walking through downtown. Cleaveland's compatriot Garrett Ean, 24, said he feeds meters up to five days a week in three- to four-hour shifts during the 8am to 5pm period when motorists must pay to park downtown. He said he spends less than $15 a day since some of Keene's meters cost as little as 10 cents for 30 minutes of parking. Like Cleaveland, he leaves a card on the windshield of each "saved" car that says: "Your Meter Expired! However we saved you from the king's tariff! - Robin Hood &amp; The Merry Men." The card leaves an address for an activists' center and encourages motorists to send a donation. The group sometimes receives handwritten thank-you notes in addition to donations, which are sometimes enough not only to cover the costs of feeding meters but also to allow the group to pay the activists a small amount, said Cleaveland. City councilor Duffy said the city, home to Keene State College, is a progressive community whose tolerance is sometimes stretched by the group's scrutiny of even the most minor actions of local government. "In many ways this is a progressive community and also a tolerant one, but it's been going on long enough," he said. "This won't be the last issue." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f4_1368740930 Baron_Kaz Parking meter 'Robin Hoods' provoke New Hampshire city's ire robin hood Wed, 15 May 2013 08:02:18 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e77_1368618903 Detroit Iron By DAVID NATHER , TARINI PARTI and BYRON TAU 5/14/13 7:36 PM EDT Updated: 5/15/13 7:27 AM EDT The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls. It asked for printouts of Facebook posts. And it asked what books people were reading. A POLITICO review of documents from 11 tea party and conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency wanted to know everything - in some cases, it even seemed curious what members were thinking. The review included interviews with groups or their representatives from Hawaii, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere. The long-awaited report Treasury Department inspector general report released Tuesday says the agency itself decided some of its questions to conservative groups were way over the line - especially the one about donors. ( Also on POLITICO: Watchdog: IRS used 'inappropriate criteria' ) The report shows that top IRS officials put a stop to some of the questions in early 2012, including the ones that asked tea party groups who their donors were, what issues were important to them, and whether their top officers ever planned to run for office. And they told the investigators they planned to destroy the donor lists that had already been sent in. But interviews with members of the groups paint a more dramatic picture than the bland language of the report, which just says the IRS "requested irrelevant (unnecessary) information because of a lack of managerial review, at all levels, of questions before they were sent to organizations seeking tax-exempt status." "They were asking for a U-Haul truck's worth of information," said Toby Marie Walker, the president of the Waco Tea Party. ( Also on POLITICO: White House stuck on IRS scandal response ) Some groups even gave up in the face of the IRS questions. Several of the groups were asked for resum'es of top officers and descriptions of interviews with the media. One group was asked to provide "minutes of all board meetings since your creation." Some of the letters asked for copies of the groups' web pages, blog posts, and social media postings - making some tea party members worry they'd be punished for their tweets or Facebook comments by their followers. ( PHOTOS: 10 slams on the IRS ) And each letter had a stern warning about "penalties of perjury" - which became intimidating for groups that were being asked about future activities, like future donations or endorsements. In one instance, the American Patriots Against Government Excess was asked to provide summaries or copies of all material passed out at meetings. The group had been reading the " The 5000 Year Leap " by Cleon Skousen and the U.S. Constitution. The group's president, Marion Bower, sent a copy of both to the IRS. "I don't have time to write a book report for them," she said. The Albuquerque Tea Party was asked about connections to other groups - Conspiracy Brews, Marianne Chiffelle's Breakfasts, Concerned Citizens for Limited Government, Concerned Citizens for Common Sense. The Hawaii Tea Party was about Dylan Nonaka, the former head of the Hawaii Republican Party. Some were asked about any connection to Americans for Prosperity , a nonprofit group backed by the Koch brothers that ironically never underwent the same level of IRS scrutiny . And then they asked whether one group knew Justin Binik-Thomas. Never heard of him? He's a former leader of the Cincinnati Tea Party, and clearly someone in the Cincinnati IRS office knew who he was. So when the Liberty Township Tea Party applied for tax-exempt status, the IRS threw this question into its March 2011 letter to the group: "Provide details regarding your relationship with Justin Bink-Thomas." (They didn't know him well enough to spell his name right.) In an interview Tuesday, Binik-Thomas said he has never worked with the Liberty group and isn't sure why the IRS asked that group about him - although he says it's "possible that they just Googled 'tea party' and assumed that we're all the same." But Binik-Thomas said it was a chilling experience when the Liberty group told him his name was in their letter - because now he wonders what else the IRS has in store for him. "Will my personal taxes get audited? Will my small business taxes get audited? Am I a pawn to try to get at another group?" Binik-Thomas asked. "There are a lot of people involved in the tea party. Why was I isolated from thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people? Why was I singled out?" All this took time. Several conservative group leaders spoke of 18 months or more of delays, only to get missives in early 2012 demanding answers to detailed questions within a few weeks. "The thing that would characterize the attitude of the IRS was silence. We submitted our application and it would be almost a year before we would an answer back," said Laurence Nordvig, the executive director of the Richmond Tea Party. "It's not like we were talking to someone every day and they were being polite or rude. We weren't hearing from them at all." The Richmond group first applied for 501(c)(4) status in December 2009, and got final approval in July 2012. The letters came from IRS offices in Ohio, California and Washington, D.C. And one letter - to American Patriots Against Government Excess - came under the name of Lois Lerne r, the director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations office. Lerner was the IRS official who announced last Friday the agency had singled out certain groups for review based on search terms like "tea party" and "patriot." Tea party groups felt that the requests for donors was particularly intrusive. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/the-irs-wants-you-to-share-everything-91378_Page2.html#ixzz2TMVXnS5i http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e77_1368618903 Detroit Iron The IRS wants YOU - to share everything IRS, TEA Party, obama Mon, 13 May 2013 20:52:41 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=826_1368492270 Detroit Iron Lengthy questionnaire arrived more than two years after the Richmond Tea Party applied for tax-exempt status IRS demanded 'names of the donors, contributors, and grantors' and insisted: 'Please identify your volunteers' Tax collectors began in 2012 to scrutinize conservative nonprofits more closely than others Documents show senior IRS officials in Washington knew of the practice as early as August 2011, but the White House says it learned last month. By DAVID MARTOSKO IN WASHINGTON PUBLISHED: 16:18 EST, 13 May 2013 UPDATED: 16:20 EST, 13 May 2013 The Internal Revenue Service wrote to the Richmond Tea Party last year demanding to know the names of all its financial donors and volunteers, as part of a 55-question inquisition into its application for tax-exempt status, MailOnline has learned. The agency wanted to know 'the names of the donors, contributors, and grantors' for every year 'from inception to the present.' It also demanded 'the amounts of each of the donations, contributions, and grants and the dates you received them.' 'How did you use these donations, contributions, and grants?' the IRS asked. 'Provide the details.' And in addition to the names of board members, officers and employees, the nation's taxing authorities insisted on knowing the names of everyone who helped the Richmond Tea Party without compensation. 'Please identify your volunteers,' the January 9, 2012 letter from the IRS read. The agency also required the Virginia conservative group to provide copies of sections of its website that only its members can access. The IRS came under fire on Friday when its Office of Inspector General released a draft of an investigative timeline showing that the agency had played political favorites with nonprofit groups seeking tax-exempt status. In 2010, according to that investigation, the Cincinnati-based IRS office responsible for vetting tax-exempt applications began targeting groups with 'Tea Party or similar' words in their names - including words like 'patriots' and '9/12' - for tighter scrutiny. The Richmond Tea Party received this demand along with dozens of others from the IRS, asking for a list of its donors and the amounts they had contributed. The group refused, citing their donors' right to privacy The IRS ultimately identified approximately 300 such organizations, many of which were independently organized in 2009 and 2010 under the larger 'tea party' banner. Those groups had a decisive impact in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, and became a thorn in the side of the Democratic party, costing it race after race, especially in the House of Representatives, which shifted to Republican control. In the nearly three years since the IRS began looking more closely at conservative nonprofit groups than others, 125 of the 300 target organizations have been approved for tax-exempt status. Another 25 withdrew their applications. The remainder are still waiting. The Office of Inspector General's timeline shows that in Washington, senior officials with the IRS were made aware of the practice by at least August 4, 2011. On that date, the chief counsel of the IRS met with the agency's Rulings and Agreements unit 'so that everyone would have the latest information on the issue.' But during a press gaggle about Air Force One on Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney insisted the White House was unaware of the investigation or its political implications until last month. 'My understanding,' Carney told reporters while en route to New York City for the president's appearance at political fundraising events, 'is that the White House Counsel's Office was alerted in the week of April 22nd of this year, only about the fact that the IG was finishing a review about matters involving the office in Cincinnati. But that's all they were informed as a normal sort of heads-up.' 'And we have never - we don't have access to, nor should we, the IG's report or any draft versions of it.' Asked whether heads would roll at the IRS if the IG's report concludes that there was substantial wrongdoing, Carney was cautious. 'I think you're getting ahead of it,' he told a reporter, according to a transcript released by the White House. 'I think you heard from the President on this today and how he feels about it. But the "if" is very important, so we're not going to start predicting outcomes if we don't know what the conclusions of the IG report are.' The Washington Post reported on Friday that the IRS has apologized for its practices, which sought to scrutinize conservative nonprofit groups 'that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution.' In early 2012 a group of tea party organizations refused the IRS's requests for what they considered overreaching information about their operations, instead asking the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee to investigate. That committee wrote in June 2012 to the IRS inspector general, asking for 'periodic updates' on its investigation. California Republican Rep. Darrel Issa, who chairs the committee, has promised it will 'aggressively follow up' on the IG's findings. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said in a statement Friday that the IRS 'cannot target or intimidate any individual or organization based on their political beliefs.' 'The House will investigate this matter,' Cantor promised. Add appearing on the Fox News Channel on Sunday, Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Rogers said the IRS had 'agents who were engaged in intimidation of political groups.' 'I don't care if you're a conservative, a liberal, a Democrat or a Republican,' he said. 'This should send a chill up your spine. It needs to have a full investigation.' President Obama echoed that sentiment during a press conference on Monday, sayign any IRS personnel who played political favorites 'have to be held fully accountable. ... And you should feel that way regardless of party. I don't care whether you're a Democrat, independent or a Republican.' 'At some point, there are going to be Republican administrations. At some point, there are going to be Democratic ones. Either way,' the president said, 'you don't want the IRS ever being perceived to be biased and anything less than neutral in terms of how they operate.' Richmond Tea Party Executive Director Larry Nordvig did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But in 2012 his organization lashed out at the IRS for making 'unreasonable documentation requests.' 'This illustrates everything the American people find unacceptable from their government,' the group said in a press release. 'A simple request for tax-exempt status should not take years to complete, involve hundreds of pages of documentation, require hundreds of volunteer hours, and request private information we should never have to disclose.' 'This grants the Federal Government the dangerous power to selectively stymie those voices with which they disagree, bogging them down in endless paperwork and compliance costs so that they are unable to spend time serving the principles they founded their organization to advance.' The Virginia organization said it applied for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status on December 28, 2009 and waited nearly 10 months for a response, which consisted of 17 questions and a two-week deadline. That demand was made on the opening day of the Virginia Tea Party Convention, which the Richmond Tea Party organized in large part. 'We fully complied,' the group wrote, 'providing over 500 pages of documentation. We received no response for over a year. Eventually the IRS sent a letter dated January 9, 2012, thanking us for our "complete and thorough responses" from the first request,' but then asking 55 more questions in 12 parts - 'including the totally inappropriate request for a full list of our donors and volunteers. We were given the same two-week timeframe for completion.' Alan P. Dye, a nonprofit attorney with the Washington, D.C. firm of Webster, Chamberlain &amp; Bean, told MailOnline that he represents six tea party groups that have been waiting for periods of up to 30 months for the IRS to issue rulings. 'They're very pissed off,' he said, 'and they have every right to be pissed off.' He advises his clients to refuse to answer invasive questions about their donors and volunteers, he said, since information they provide would be made available to the public. 'Everything these groups tell the IRS is open to public inspection once their exempt status is granted,' Dye explained. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio demanded the ouster of acting IRS commissioner Steven T. Miller on Monday. President Obama called the IRS's alleged conduct 'outrageous,' and said the bureaucrats responsible would be 'held accountable.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323978/Revealed-The-55-questions-IRS-asked-tea-party-group-years-waiting--including-demands-names-donors-volunteers.html#ixzz2TDwC9HyZ Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter DailyMail on Facebook http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=826_1368492270 Detroit Iron Revealed: The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group after more than two years of waiting - including demands for names of all its donors an IRS, Richmond Tea Party Mon, 13 May 2013 18:07:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5eb_1368482615 dfaugust Democrat officials convicted of making up names for qualifying petition Two Democrats in Indiana have been found guilty of submitting unauthorized names on the petition that placed then-Sen. Barack Obama on the 2008 presidential election primary ballot, meaning he likely did not qualify. Fox News reports the jury in South Bend found guilty on all counts former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic Party chairman Butch Morgan Jr. and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe. The two faced accusations of petition fraud and forgery, as well as falsely making a petition. The verdicts raise anew questions about election fraud by Democrats, a subject that was analyzed after the 2012 election. Contribute to the battle to uncover wrongdoing in America's elections, and put them back on the right path. The report found vote fraud occurred in the 2012 presidential election and cumulatively was likely enough to decide the outcome. "In reality, although no single instance or aspect of vote fraud was likely enough to tip the election for Obama, the aggregate of their corrupt activities - including illegal campaign donations, taking advantage of states without voter ID requirements, military ballots delivered too late ... may well have been," the analysis said. Fox News reported that two former Indiana elections board officials who pleaded guilty said Morgan told Democrat officials and workers to fake the names and signatures that Obama and Hillary Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race. Prosecutor Stan Levco told Fox, "I think this helped uphold the integrity of the electoral system. Their verdict of guilt is not a verdict against Democrats, but for honest and fair elections." Affidavits citing the testimony of former Board of Registration worker Lucas Burkett said the scheme was created in January 2008. Burkett reportedly was aboard the plan at first but later dropped out. Fox News reported he waited three years to reveal the scheme. Fox News notes that if revelations about any forgeries were raised during the election, the petitions could have been challenged at that time. A candidate who did not qualify with enough legitimate signatures at the time could have been removed from the ballot. State law in Indiana requires candidates to have 500 signatures from each of the nine congressional districts to qualify. But in St. Joseph County, Obama qualified with only 534. Prosecutors alleged that nine of the Obama petition pages apparently were forged, and each contained up to 10 names, bringing doubt on up to 90 names. Contribute to the battle to uncover wrongdoing in America's elections, and put them back on the right path. "If faked, could have brought the Obama total below the legal limit required to qualify," Fox News reported. Fox reported it was told by "numerous voters" they did not sign their names, nor did they authorize their names to be used. "That's not my signature," said Charity Rorie, a mother of four. "It's scary, it's shocking. It definitely is illegal." Added Robert Hunter Jr., "I did not sign for Barack Obama." WND's extensive report on fraud in the 2012 race looked at claims that Obama, in some districts, got 100 percent of the vote, questions about absentee ballots and efforts by Democrats to prevent poll watchers from observing the election. Some of the issues that were uncovered: o Seventy-five GOP vote inspectors were ordered to leave Philadelphia poll locations by Democrat poll judges. One judge was caught on audio. A court order sent them back but it's unknown what happened when they were gone. These poll locations were all within the 59 precincts where Romney received no votes. o In Philadelphia, the Community Voters Project, an ACORN clone that employs some former ACORN workers, shredded Republican voter registrations. It's not the first time they have been in trouble. o The Florida AFL-CIO threatened True the Vote and Tampa Fair Vote with legal action for submitting voter registration challenges. o Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings issued a highly publicized threat against True the Vote and Election Integrity Maryland just for checking voter rolls. EIM found 11,000 questionable registrations, including 1,566 dead voters. The Maryland Board of Elections took no action. o Cummings also attacked the Ohio Voter Integrity Project with the same baseless claims. o Think Progress falsely claimed True the Vote was "under investigation" by Rep. Cummings, when in fact he has no legal authority to do so. o Despite overwhelming nonpartisan public support for voter ID laws, Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department and liberal jurists have delayed, emasculated or defeated ID laws in Texas, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Arizona and Pennsylvania. o Holder has vowed to fight voter ID laws as restricting voters' rights. o The Obama administration "spiked investigations" of eight states that had major voter roll problems. o The Holder Justice Department conspired with Project Vote on National Voter Registration Act (aka Motor Voter) enforcement lawsuits, which force state and local agencies to become, essentially, low income voter registration drives. o In 2009 DOJ announced to its attorneys that it would not enforce voter roll maintenance laws because it wouldn't increase voter turnout. The report also found the election rolls nationwide in shambles. Pew Research Center published a report revealing election rolls in a shambles nationwide. It found: o 24 million invalid or inaccurate voter registrations o 1.8 million deceased voters o 2.75 million registered in multiple states. The WND report also focused on the mechanics of the election: voting machines. There were a number of complaints about electronic voting machines that tallied votes for Democrats despite a Republican vote and a few instances of the opposite case. o Voters in Pueblo County, Colo., complained that their votes were being changed to Obama, reported local NBC affiliate KOAA. o Maryland congressional candidate and veteran investigative journalist Ken Timmerman reported many voters claiming this happened to them, lodging complaints with vote judges. Timmerman has requested to see voting machine records. o Maryland Delegate Kathy Afzali and Carroll County Commissioner Richard Rothschild have requested the FBI impound two electronic voting machines suspected of switching votes based on complaints from other voters, including a state official. o Robert Ashcroft, a Republican poll watcher in Allentown, Pa., reported that about 5 to 10 percent of electronic votes would "change the selection back to default - to Obama." o EVM problems were also reported to have occurred in Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas. o A 2008 Fox News report showed how electronic voting machines can be infected with a computer virus to change votes. A Princeton University study in 2006 found the same thing. And the fraud didn't go unnoticed. A few of the higher-profile cases: o Patrick Moran, son of longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, was caught on video by James O'Keefe's Veritas Project, telling an undercover journalist how to commit vote fraud. o Other Veritas videos showed Obama campaign officials in Texas, New Jersey and New York providing multiple forms to journalists posing as voters so that they could vote in two or more states. o On Election Day, Veritas reporters recorded poll officials on camera telling voters not to vote for Romney. o The Obama campaign continues to accept illegal donations from other countries. WND's Aaron Klein proved it by donating to the Obama campaign twice under the name "Osama bin Laden" using a Pakistani web address. o WND has filed a complaint with the FEC demanding an investigation of overseas donations to the Obama campaign. o In 2008, the Obama campaign accepted almost $30,000 from Palestinian donors. o A Korean interpreter in Flushing, N.Y., directed Korean voters to vote Democrat. He was expelled from the poll. o Two cases of forged votes were reported in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., by Republicans who discovered their votes had already been made. o Non-citizens were charged with voting illegally in Austin, Minn. o Cases of double voting in Ohio are being investigated. o Non-citizen allegedly voted in Iowa o Double voting is being investigated in North Carolina o NBC reported dead voters voting in California o Mentally disabled were coaxed to vote for Obama in North Carolina o Widespread absentee vote fraud is being investigated in South Texas o A non-English-speaking, under-18 youth reported he was "told he can vote." o Many other cases Contribute to the battle to uncover wrongdoing in America's elections, and put them back on the right path. ________________________________________ Here is how Democrats were preparing to "Rob the Vote." ROB THE VOTE: Obama's secret strategy for staying in power The Obama administration is widely regarded as the most lawless in U.S. history. This much you already know. Not enough votes to pass Obamacare? Bribe senators. Don't like the Defense of Marriage law? Refuse to defend it in court. Congress won't pass the "Dream Act" granting amnesty to a million illegals? Do it yourself by executive fiat. Don't want to defend America's borders? Sue states that do. Don't like congressional inquiries? Ignore their subpoenas. Click here to read more about the Whistleblower issue "Rob the Vote." Click here to read more about a Whistleblower subscription. Obama's violations are so blatant and manifold that nine states have joined together to sue the federal government for its rampant lawlessness. So, now comes election time - and guess what the Obama administration's approach is to America's most sacred and fundamental civic institution. Right: Utter lawlessness. The actions and intentions of Team Obama, if distilled into words, would be this: To hell with "the law." We're using every means possible to retain power and establish a permanent progressive voting majority in this country. Incredibly, in today's America, voter fraud has become an essential component of how Democrats win elections. This largely unreported national scandal is laid out with jaw-dropping clarity in the August issue of WND's monthly Whistleblower magazine - titled "ROB THE VOTE: Obama's secret strategy for staying in power." As "ROB THE VOTE" documents, Obama's reelection strategy - besides bribing his core constituencies in hopes of cobbling together a winning voting coalition - is to encourage, enable and empower widespread abuse of America's election system in a multiplicity of ways. After all, non-citizens, illegal aliens, felons, multiple-state voters, dead people and other ineligible voters constitute a vital Obama constituency. And make no mistake, the left's get-out-the-illegal-vote campaign is in full swing. Highlighted in one "ROB THE VOTE" report is the most disgraceful of all abuses of America's election system - the consistent suppression, disqualification and mishandling of votes cast by America's soldiers (who statistically lean Republican) who are deployed overseas while protecting their nation. Believe it or not, for the November 2010 midterm election, less than 5 percent of military voters "were able to cast an absentee ballot that counted," according to data released by the federal Election Assistance Commission. In another in-depth report in this issue, researcher James Simpson sums up the left's campaign to corrupt America's election system thusly: "Like a KGB operation, it is thorough, multifaceted and redundant. It has overt and covert, illegal and legal elements, the latter of which are designed, at least in part, to facilitate illegal activities later. It is a deliberate, premeditated, comprehensive plan to win the 2012 presidential election at all costs, and is in keeping with the organizational methods, associations and ethics of the community-organizer-in-chief, Barack Obama." Democrat officials convicted of making up names for qualifying petition http://superstore.wnd.com/SUBSCRIPTIONS/2010-2008/Whistleblower-Single-Issue-August-2012 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5eb_1368482615 dfaugust Jury: Fraud put Obama on '08 ballot obama, democRATs, lioars, thieves, voter fraud Sat, 11 May 2013 20:07:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ab_1368302780 bostonbakedbean members name I used were just the ones that were at the top of my head, lots of people disserve something for their time, and even more do not.. thanks for letting me rant... So right off the bat, I am not jealous, nor am I trying to put anyone in the spotlight. A select few in my opinion should get something for what they bring to LL. Some of them are people who do your says but even more that the people who bring videos to LL and do not do your says, what about the people who hunt all over the interwebs to bring us amazing stuff. They should get something. Were will it stop, shit why not pay us to watch some of the shit people want donations for. It just makes me cringe when someone with 3 uploads or someone who acts like a fool asks for cash. We all know who are the members who bring OC to us and who the members are who are just trying to make a buck... I just needed to vent or get it out because LL is a place I care about and I think the money thing has huge potential to change it, I hope for the better. I know we as members will give up our hard earned money to who we feel needs or disserves it, in that I know LL will not do wrong. I just hate the idea of members joining and contributing only to make a buck.. LL is not a job and it should not be. It is a community who lives and learns through one another.... I am rushing to help in the yard and I know I could have put my thoughts together better before I brought this to you all. I just needed to get it out before I lose the thought. We have a lot going on ..I am lucky mom and dad come back to help me from their dream home on the water... love you mom/dad... LL cheers and thanks for letting me vent my jimmies were rustled..... so many people bring so much to LL just drives me nuts were do you draw the line... I just think that donations can change LL. I hope it is for the better with more OC, I hope people are not just trying to grab it and go....... love you guys, you have helped me find joy is some shitty times.... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ab_1368302780 bostonbakedbean Quick tour and thoughts about the LL <span class="highlight">donations</span> rant, donations, who diserves them. what do I know, nothing, yars work, plants, Fri, 10 May 2013 06:47:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c76_1368182713 Mullet Over And true to form she is in the psych ward playing the victim role. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c76_1368182713 Mullet Over New Jersey Mom fakes son's cancer for charitable <span class="highlight">donations</span> and free money. mom, fakes, cancer, son, steals, donations Fri, 10 May 2013 18:49:41 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a23_1368225606 dcmfox You may have heard that the highest-paid employee in each state is usually the football coach at the largest state school. This is actually a gross mischaracterization: Sometimes it is the basketball coach.Based on data drawn from media reports and state salary databases, the ranks of the highest-paid active public employees include 27 football coaches, 13 basketball coaches, one hockey coach, and 10 dorks who aren't even in charge of a team. So are my hard-earned tax dollars paying these coaches? Probably not. The bulk of this coaching money-especially at the big football schools-is paid out of the revenue that the teams generate. So what's the problem then? These guys make tons of money for their schools; shouldn't they be paid accordingly? There are at least three problems. Coaches don't generate revenue on their own; you could make the exact same case for the student-athletes who actually play the game and score the points and fracture their legs. It can be tough to attribute this revenue directly to the performance of the head coach. In 2011-2012, Mack Brown was paid $5 million to lead a mediocre 8-5 Texas team to the Holiday Bowl. The team still generated $103.8 million in revenue , the most in college football. You don't have to pay someone $5 million to make college football profitable in Texas. This revenue rarely makes its way back to the general funds of these universities. Looking at data from 2011-2012 , athletic departments at 99 major schools lost an average of $5 million once you take out revenue generated from "student fees" and "university subsidies." If you take out "contributions and donations"-some of which might have gone to the universities had they not been lavished on the athletic departments-this drops to an average loss of $17 million, with just one school (Army) in the black. All this football/basketball revenue is sucked up by coach and AD salaries, by administrative and facility costs , and by the athletic department's non-revenue generating sports; it's not like it's going to microscopes and Bunsen burners. But wait. I looked up my coach's pay in a state salary database and he wasn't on top. What gives? Most of these databases include only the coaches' base salaries, which are drawn directly from the state fund. This is how you could be led to believe that Virginia's offensive coordinator earns more than its head coach . Far exceeding these base salaries is the "additional compensation" that almost all of these coaches receive, which is tied to media appearances, apparel contracts, and fundraising . While this compensation does not come directly from the state fund it is guaranteed in the coaches' contracts; if revenue falls short, the school-and thus the state-is on the hook to cover the difference. Plus, even it doesn't come directly from taxpayers, this compensation is still problematic for all the reasons listed above. Beyond salary and additional compensation, coaches earn money from bonus incentives tied primarily to the team's performance. This analysis ignored those bonuses and focused on guaranteed money, as it's impossible to guess at whether a coach will hit his benchmarks. And we're not even touching the ridiculous amounts of money coaches can get if they're fired before their contract ends. Regarding the asterisks on the map: * Penn State is technically "state-related" and not truly public, and as a result the school does not receive as much state funding as a typical public school (leading to higher tuition ) and does not have to disclose as much information about its employees. You can read the details here . ** It's difficult to track down salary information for employees at Ole Miss and Mississippi State, but the highest non-coach salaries we could find top out at around $500,000. While we can't prove that nobody at these schools earns more than Dan Mullen's $2.65 million per year , we think it's very unlikely. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a23_1368225606 dcmfox Is Something Wrong Here? highest, paid, public, workers Fri, 10 May 2013 09:45:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9fc_1368193194 aydeo Jerusalem native Moti Kahana heads a group of Israeli businessmen and American Jews who travel to the Syrian refugee camps to provide humanitarian aid to victims of one of the era's bloodiest conflicts. "We are Jews and Israelis and we can't sit still as women and children are being butchered nearby," he told Ynet. Kahana took part in an annual conference of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he raised the flag of the Free Syrian Army during a speech by an opposition activist. "While I'm here to assist the Free Syria movement, my brother Steve is on reserve service at the Golan Heights, treating injured Syrians," said Kahana, who lives in New Jersey but has family in Israel. "We said that the Holocaust will not happen again and I do not wish to compare, but people are dying next to us and we cannot sit still," he added. Since the group's activity has started two years ago Kahana invested over $100,000 of his personal funds, and helped raise over half a million dollars from US Jews. "For me entering Syria is like arriving to Tel - Aviv," he said. "We raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past two years and I'm tasked with transferring donations to liberal organizations in Syria." Kahana says the organization started as a charity operated by him and a number of friends, but they could not foresee how long the conflict would run. "When we ran out of money we started raising funds from US synagogues," he told Ynet. The group's latest initiative is offering interest free loans to women who wish start their own businesses. The gender bias is no accident as "men are either engaged in the warfare or dead, and 70% of the refugees are women," according to Kahane. "Sadly, women began to engage in prostitution in order to survive, so we give them money." He said Israelis' reactions to the initiative tend to be favorable, and the group enjoys some influential patrons, including a member of Knesset. "These days Syria looks worse than Gaza. Assad is destroying the Syrian people, but the people there are human beings like everyone else, who want to watch football and eat shawarma." The annual Soref policy conference attracts participants ranging from Middle East experts to Israeli and Arab policy makers. Speaking to Israeli reporters, two speakers affiliated with the Syrian opposition addressed the possibility of a US aerial attack against the forces of Bashar Assad's regime. "A few American aerial strikes will cause Assad's regime to collapse. Indeed, Israel has carried out an attack with surgical precision, without any problems" said Muaz Mustafa, one of the leaders of the Syrian diaspora in the US. "Assad is never going to flee, and while he's there the country's being taken over by al-Qaeda on the one hand and Iran and Hezbollah on the other." Mustafa and his associate were optimistic regarding the possibility that a future democratic Syrian government will ease tensions with Israel. "There is no reason one democracy should harbor hostilities to another, and if Israel agrees to territorial compromises in the Golan Heights, Syria can establish peace with Israel, because otherwise there is no animosity between the two peoples," Mustafa declared. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4378562,00.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9fc_1368193194 aydeo Israeli businessman raising funds to help Syrian refugees Israeli businessman,Funds, Syrian refugees Wed, 08 May 2013 08:09:53 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97d_1368014666 th1sf8te Support: http://www.ukip.org/donations http://www.ukipmeps.org http://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage o European Parliament, Brussels, 08 May 2013 o Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the 'Europe of Freedom and Democracy' (EFD) Group in the European Parliament - http://nigelfaragemep.co.uk VOTE UKIP! Maybe our only hope for a free United Kingdom a "Real" Democracy http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97d_1368014666 th1sf8te UK out of EU within six years - Nigel Farage UK out of EU within six years - Nigel Farage Tue, 07 May 2013 20:09:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0bb_1367971491 milkbone28681 The monster that did this is named Jessie Clyde Bare and is 30 years old from Lenoir, NC. LENOIR - Steve Cardwell was leaving his parents' house about noon Saturday when he heard a woman screaming. The next thing he knew, a man flung a small dog out of a nearby house into the front yard. "I was walking to the car to take my fiancee to work when I saw a door open and someone slinging the dog about 13 feet up in the air and about 20 feet out into the yard," Cardwell said. Cardwell, 18, ran to the 4-year-old Chihuahua mix and found it bleeding heavily. "When I rolled him over, it seemed to lose blood with every heartbeat," he said. Thanks to Cardwell, little Milmil lives, basically held together by a pressure bandage -- essentially a body stocking -- while his wounds heal. Jessie Clyde Bare, 30, is accused of stabbing the dog at least three times with a rusty knife and has been charged with felony animal cruelty. Milmil had been adopted from Caldwell County Animal Control by Bare's mother, Polly Moretz of Jason Place. Brenda Andrews, a neighbor, said that Moretz told her that Bare had found a long, rusty knife two weeks ago and set it on his dresser, and it was that knife that was used to on Milmil. "She told me he held the dog by its back two legs and began stabbing it," Andrews said Monday. Andrews and her husband, Kevin Mawyer, were at the civic center helping out at an event when the incident occurred. It was their son, Cardwell, who rescued Milmil from the yard and called them. They raced home, then took the dog to Lenoir Veterinary Hospital. The vet wasn't available because he was in surgery, so the hospital staff put on a pressure bandage to control the bleeding while Andrews and Mawyer took the dog to the Veterinary Referral Hospital of Hickory. An examination found three deep cuts on the dog's thorax and abdomen. The wounds were cleaned, and a new bandage was put on. On Monday they had Milmil examined again at Lenoir Veterinary. Milmil is recovering in a little makeshift bed in Andrews' bedroom. Folks who know Bare wonder what could have set him off to attack a tiny dog. He lives with his father but was visiting his mother at the time. Police say Bare told them why he did it, but they have not disclosed it. Meanwhile, money is being raised to help pay for Milmil's veterinary bill. Donations are being collected at All God's Creatures Great and Small Grooming, Boarding, and Doggie Daycare at 2001 Hickory Blvd. in Lenoir http://www.newstopic.net/news/local/x383679973/Tiny-dog-stabbed-with-rusty-knife http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0bb_1367971491 milkbone28681 Tiny Dog Stabbed with Rusty Knife NEWSPAPER REPORT monster stabs tiny dog Tue, 07 May 2013 01:54:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9ac_1367903551 Baron_Kaz So today as usual, I purchased a free range whole chicken from the local Whole foods at 3rd and Fairfax, Los Angeles. Came home, happily butchered it. Every part of it will be used, neck and spine for soup, bones and fat and plenty of meat to add to the German Shepherd puppy's kibbles, the liver and heart : special delicacies to be sauteed, and of course the regular cuts of muscle meat. I grew up like this, when I was a kid and visited India, I remember dad going with my uncles, buying fresh live chickens from the neighborhood small shop, the hired help plucking and butchering the meat, and the whole chicken being used. Lamb we would purchase from the neighborhood butcher who would slaughter fresh ones every day, and we would go early in the morning and pick the cuts we liked best. Move to Europe, where I spent quite a few years, my girl friend was from France and another from Lithuania. Be it in the markets of Paris or Stockholm or Vilnius, buying meat and meat products was not an "anti-septic" affair. We purchased regular cuts of meat from butcher, and selected organ meat or bones for special dishes. Fish was always purchased whole, scales and all. We brought it home, descaled it, and cut it and cooked it. And NO, we never cut it in to filets without the skin. The skin was the best part, fried and crispy with its unique smell was delicious! Not to mention sucking the brains out of the fish skull was considered a delicacy and saved for favored children or honored guests. However in the US, the scenario is completely different. Every thing here is sanitized, and presented in neatly packaged cellophane and styrofoam packages in grocery stores. Maybe once in a while, you will find "Chicken Livers and hearts" in small plastic containers at the local Ralphs. And it really freaks the hell out of me, when I some times open these packages and find deformed pieces of meat. Bones with cartilage missing, glaring calcium deficiency signs - porous and missing bits. It makes me think of the factory settings, these animals are grown and butchered in. What an awful way to treat your food! But do we care, since the packaging is nice? It surprised the heck out of me, when my American friends would not touch what they called "Gristle" or organ meat. At Thanksgiving dinners, my ex's family used to give me strange looks when I asked for the "Dark meat" when everyone wanted the "White meat" from the breast. I hate the breast meat! It is dry, bereft of any flavor, and a bitch to cook. You have to literally stand right by the pan while cooking it, a quick sautee and it is done. A second more and the juices evaporate and you are left with a cardboardy unappetizing mess. But surprisingly ALL my American friends (or girl friends) LOVE breast meat. And I have yet to eat breast meat in any American restaurant or home, which is cooked right! Back in Europe, a Terrin or a liver pate was a much sought after and super expensive treat. I am lucky to have a French grocery store Monsieur Marcel at the Farmer's market near the Grove at Los Angeles. I can buy my foie gras, pate du canard, terrines, and all the prosciutto's and dry salted / smoked meats and sausages I want. I don't understand it. Lets take an example: when you feed your dog "raw" meat as compared to store bought dry kibble, you make it a point to add bones, joints with cartilage, unwashed intestines (so they literally look green and have the essential chlorophyll) and other organ meats along with the meat. People in the US spend hundreds of dollars on expensive calcium or glucosamine supplements for bones and joints, when they regularly throw out the richest natural sources of those in their everyday food (in this case - Chicken bones and joints with cartilage). Where do you think the pharmaceutical companies get the ingredients for these tablets? Did you think they have magic unicons and ponies which fart rainbows and poop nutritional supplements? Or did you think these supplements are made in a laboratory with chemicals? They use animal bones and remains to make these supplements, and you are actually paying more for chemicalized (if that is a word) nutrients which have preservatives and what not, and throwing away the natural food and nutrition your body needs. Compared to the muscle meat we are used to eating, organ meats are more densely packed with just about every nutrient, including heavy doses of B vitamins such as: B1, B2, B6, folic acid and the very important vitamin B12. Organ meats are also loaded with minerals like phosphorus, iron, copper, magnesium, iodine, calcium, potassium, sodium, selenium, zinc and manganese and provide the important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Organ meats are known to have some of the highest concentrations of naturally occurring vitamin D of any food source. Organ meats also contain high amounts of essential fatty acids, including arachidonic acid and the omega-3 fats EPA and DHA. Guess what is the best known effect of DHA? It is literally a brain and sex food! Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an omega-3 fatty acid that is a primary structural component of the human brain, cerebral cortex, skin, sperm, testicles and retina. And DHA is found the most in Fish oil ... yes the crunch fish skin and heads, that Americans throw away right at first! Is it any wonder that we have so many dumb people in our society and we spend so much on Viagra? Liver is known to be one of the most concentrated sources of vitamin A of any foods. In addition to containing dozens of important vitamins and minerals, it is an outstanding source of Vitamin D, Vitamin B12 (and other B-Vitamins), copper, potassium, magnesium, phosphorous, manganese, and iron, which is in a form that is particularly easily absorbed and used by the body. Kidney is particularly high in Vitamin B12, selenium, iron, copper, phosphorus and zinc. Even though heart is technically a muscle, it also is also a superfood. Heart is a very concentrated source of the supernutrient, Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10, important for cardiovascular health and also rich in kidney and liver), contains an abundance of Vitamin A, Vitamin B12; folic acid, iron, selenium, phosphorus and zinc, and is the number one food source of copper. Heart also contains twice as much collagen and elastin than regular meat (which means it is rich in the amino acids glycine and proline), which are essential for connective tissue health, join health and digestive health. In this article I am not even mentioning the processed meats most people buy and eat, like sausages, hot dogs, hamburgers, etc - be it in a grocery store or from fast food joints. Because that is outside the scope of this article and the discussion I hope it encourages... since that is not "Silly food snobbery" but "Stupid death-wish decision making". I hope you will pay heed to the message that I am espousing in this article and pass on this article to anyone you care about. We do waste a lot of food. Literally 60 to 75% of all food is wasted due to bad storage, transportation or (you would be surprised) because they dont "Look good"! When people are starving, jobs are less, and Scientists are predicting a dire food shortage within the next 30 years due to the effects of global warming, I implore you to not waste food. Also try to consider the moral and ethical side of things, a live animal died to provide that food for your family. Honor its sacrifice. Don't waste food, and no food snobbery! Kaz. May 6th, 2013. Los Angeles. PS: This is original content that I created. References for nutrient information taking from Scientific journals. It does take effort to create a scientifically accurate and true article. Donations would be much appreciated through Pay Pal, on the right side of this webpage. P.PS: Thank you to the kind person who donated $1.10 to me by paypal through Live leak. I do not know who it is. But it made me very happy. :) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9ac_1367903551 Baron_Kaz Silly food snobbery Nutrition