http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=progressive Tue, 21 May 2013 13:59:50 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=progressive Tue, 21 May 2013 02:42:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4f6_1369118011 Bob_Lablaw The 28-year-old University of Wyoming student who allegedly threatened herself with rape in a Facebook hoax in April was convicted of aggravated assault in 2005 after she brandished a gun at an employer who fired her. Meg Lanker-Simons, now a newly-minted UW graduate, was charged with interference with a police investigation after she allegedly posted on an anonymous Facebook forum that she wanted to engage in angry sexual intercourse - with someone named "Meg Lanker Simons." The posting on UW Crushes read: "I want to hatefuck Meg Lanker Simons so hard. That chick runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn't care who knows it. I think its so hot and makes me angry. One night with me and shes gonna be a good Republican bitch." It turns out that the April 24 incident isn't the strident leftist's first rodeo in Wyoming's criminal system. As the Laramie Boomerang reports, Lanker-Simons had an aggravated assault conviction in 2005 as the result of a bizarre gun-brandishing incident. After Lanker-Simons was fired from a radio station in the fall of 2005, she returned and pulled a Glock 22 .40 caliber handgun from her purse. She waved the semi-automatic pistol around. She pointed it at the man who sacked her. He testified that he was "in fear for his life," notes the Boomerang. The radio station was evacuated. Police caught Lanker-Simons as she tried to flee the scene in her vehicle. They held her at gunpoint. In July 2006, Lanker-Simons - then known as Meghan Michelena - was sentenced to six years of probation. Her term of probation was subject to a number of conditions. She had to undergo counseling, complete community service, pay fines and apologize to her victims. She was also prevented from owning any guns. The alleged Facebook hoax brought national attention to the Cowboy State's flagship college. Initially, the administration stood firmly behind Lanker-Simons. "No student should have to deal with such threatening language," said one sternly-worded official statement. A school official also denounced "rape culture," according to KOWB. Concerned fellow feminists also threw a rally for Lanker-Simons - complete with all manner of signs condemning rape threats - before police concluded that Lanker-Simons herself was behind the threats. This month, Lanker-Simons participated in the University of Wyoming's commencement ceremonies despite the charges against her. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Lanker-Simons is also a blogger and a local radio host. In 2010, Lanker-Simons and Bill Ayers sued the University of Wyoming after school officials decided to cancel a speech by Ayers, a former Weather Underground radical and mentor to President Obama. Also in 2010, her husband, Andrew Simons, ran a failed Democratic campaign for Wyoming secretary of state. According to the Boomerang, the interference charge is a misdemeanor punishable by a prison sentence up to a year and a fine up to $1,000. http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/18/wyo-student-who-threatened-to-rape-self-on-facebook-was-convicted-of-assault/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4f6_1369118011 Bob_Lablaw Think Progress award-winning blogger Who Was Charged with Faking own Hate Crime Was Convicted of Assault Meg Lanker-Simons, Think progress, fake hate crime, Assault,Liberal Progressive Mon, 20 May 2013 21:04:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=35e_1369097797 RussleJimmiez "Daily Show" Creator Lizz Winstead: Oklahoma Tornado Meant for Conservativehttps://twitter.com/lizzwinstead/status/336580629191856128 her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/lizzwinstead her twitter: https://twitter.com/lizzwinstead 'Daily Show' Creator Says Okla. Tornado Meant for Conservatives, Apologizes Lizz Winstead heard about the tornado touching down in Oklahoma today and her liberal ideology quickly kicked in. Winstead, who created The Daily Show and uses social media to promote her far-left views, sent out this Twitter joke earlier today: This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives. Social media brushback quickly followed, and Winstead served up a speedy apology for letting her progressive nature supercede a sense of decency toward the victims of the tornado. Made a political joke, Twas before devastation revealed. In hindsight, had I understood, I would have refrained. Beyond sorry. #LetMeHaveIt http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=35e_1369097797 RussleJimmiez Obama voting Liberal "Daily Show" Creator Lizz Winstead: Oklahoma Tornado Meant for Conservative..24 chilldren killed, infants being pulled from m daily, show, jon, stweart, lizz winstead, leftist, left, wing, liberal, hate, intolerance, dead, children, oklahoma, tornado, democrats, are, scum Tue, 14 May 2013 14:05:46 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3bd_1368554256 Detroit Iron by WYNTON HALL 14 May 2013, 7:59 AM PDT The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending. The commendable admission lends further evidence to the lengths the IRS went during an election cycle to silence tea party and limited government voices. ProPublica says the documents the IRS gave them were "not supposed to be made public": The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year ... In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved-meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made six of those public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.) The group says that "no unapproved applications from liberal groups were sent to ProPublica." According to Media Research Center Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor, ProPublica's financial backers include top progressive donors: ProPublica, which recently won its second Pulitzer Prize, initially was given millions of dollars from the Sandler Foundation to "strengthen the progressive infrastructure"-"progressive" being the code word for very liberal. In 2010, it also received a two-year contribution of $125,000 each year from the Open Society Foundations. In case you wonder where that money comes from, the OSF website is http://www.soros.org. It is a network of more than 30 international foundations, mostly funded by Soros, who has contributed more than $8 billion to those efforts. On Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to hold a formal hearing on the IRS conservative targeting scandal. IRS Commissioner Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George are slated to testify. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/14/Progressive-Group-Says-IRS-Gave-Them-Confidential-Docs-On-Conservative-Groups http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3bd_1368554256 Detroit Iron <span class="highlight">PROGRESSIVE</span> GROUP: IRS GAVE US CONSERVATIVE GROUPS' CONFIDENTIAL DOCS ProPublica, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Fri, 17 May 2013 16:35:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2f_1368822736 star53 Progressive heads need to roll ! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2f_1368822736 star53 Senator Rand Paul - TheBlazeTV Senator Rand Paul,TheBlazeTV,Obama Regime Fri, 17 May 2013 12:27:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=48f_1368806567 Brockk Democratic Party Marches in Washington DC 1928 Fear And IntimidationThe apple does not fall far from the tree Remember your roots Representative Paul Ryan was my guest Thursday and we covered a lot of ground. The transcript will be posted ASAP below. On the question of DOJ's snooping of the House press gallery, Representative Ryan replied to my question about it: "Of course I'm troubled. Are you kidding?" Most of the MSM hasn't figured out yet that if the DOJ can grab the press phone records originating from the House, they can grab any phone record coming out of the Hill. Ryan also comments on the impact on the election of the manipulation of the Benghazi attack by the White House and on the IRS scandal. For additional background on the IRS scandal, read this post and this post by Carol Platt Liebau, and this post by National Review's Kevin Williamson, for background on Benghazi this post by Powerline's John Hinderaker, and for the impact of all the scandals on the president this important column by Peggy Noonan. Transcript of the Paul Ryan interview: HH: Joining me, a member of the Ways And Means Committee, and of course, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Congressman Paul Ryan. Congressman, welcome back, good to talk to you. PR: Hey, Hugh, how have you been? Good to see you, or good to be with you, excuse me. I guess I can't see you. Good to hear you. HH: Thank you. I want to begin with what my colleague, Carol Platt Liebau at Townhall.com has pinned as the key thing thus far in the IRS scandal. On August 4th, 2011, Obama appointee Williams Wilkins, who is chief counsel of the IRS, was briefed on the political targeting of conservative groups. Now he's a well-trained lawyer. PR: Right. HH: Could he possibly have learned of this and not informed the White House, in your view, Paul Ryan? PR: We're going to find out. You know, I don't know the answer to the question, but I can tell you this, we're going to find out the answer to these questions. The reason we know about this already is because of the Ways And Means Committee and the oversight and research we've been doing, which prompted the Inspector General report. We had hearings last year in the Ways And Means Committee where we asked the commissioner about this, and they just denied it. And so they have had a couple of opportunities since that moment you just, you know, since then, to affirm, confirm or deny with Congress whether this happened or not. They denied it. So there's a lot we have left to learn. They can try and have disciplinary action, they can call for resignations. Those things are necessary. But they're not enough. And Hugh, this goes much bigger than this. And this is unfortunately the kind of thing you have with a big government and a really bad tax code. And you know, we have a government that's working for itself, not for the people. And the IRS is fishing around people's private lives, it's approving the groups it likes and harassing the groups it doesn't. That's not who we are. HH: Congressman, Peggy Noonan, in a piece that went online minutes ago, and will be in the paper tomorrow, writes we are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. And she writes, as it always comes down to trust, do you trust the President's answers when he's pressed on an uncomfortable story? Do you trust his people to be sober and fair-minded as they go about their work? Do you trust the IRS and the Justice Department? You do not. And it goes on to say look, these are his agencies. The IRS and the Justice Department answer to him. Does he set the tone? PR: Of course he sets the tone. This isn't just about incompetence, though. This is about an overreach. This is about a government that has gone beyond its scope, and this also speaks to the philosophy of government that's at play here in Washington. And if you want to have a government that does everything for you, they've got to know everything about you. If you want to have a government that should be in the position of picking winners and losers, well then, they will pick winners and losers. And so it's not a story just about incompetence. It's about overreach. You know, big government is bad in theory, but it's much worse in practice. And effective government, that is good government that's limited, focuses in on our core duties. So this speaks to more than just, you know, did they do this to conservative groups before an election to try and give themselves an advantage? It also goes beyond that to, you know, bureaucrats are making decisions for us on behalf of government, not on behalf of the people. And so... HH: Now Congressman, I've heard... PR: That's, to me, a bigger, the bigger issue here. HH: I have heard from people that the SEC has targeted Romney/Ryan supporters. I have heard, and I know for a fact about the EPA scandals and the fake ID's, and the selective FOIA requests. I was told by Rob Portman yesterday about the HHS Obamacare fundraising scandal. PR: Right. HH: It's everywhere. How vast is this culture of intimidation and corruption? PR: I get the sense that we're just at the tip of the iceberg here. And this is why we're going to do this methodically, we're going to do this the right way, we're not going to be passioned or partisan. We're going to do our jobs as the representatives of the people, you know, the legislative branch of government doing our Constitutional duty of conducting oversight of the executive branch. The executive branch has clearly overreached. This seems more like a pattern than a couple of one-off events that a couple of rogue people in Cincinnati. It clearly goes bigger than that. And we're going to painstakingly go through this system and find out just how deep this is. But I would say at the core of the system is a government that is spending beyond its reach. HH: Now many hearings have you set aside? And how far into the summer are they scheduled? PR: Well, we're in the middle of planning all of that. And so we're just trying to collect as much information as we can right now in the Ways And Means Committee. There's a lot of people we've got to talk to, a lot of people that have to be deposed, and a lot of evidence that has to be gathered. And so just like a good investigation, you go where the evidence shows you. And here's the point we're trying to get at. We need to restore accountability, trust and transparency to government. And that means you have to get answers. That's what Benghazi is all about, getting to the actual answers so things like this do not happen again. HH: Speaking of Benghazi... PR: Tomorrow, we're holding a hearing in the Ways and Means, we're going to hold the IRS accountable, we're going to ask tough questions, but we're going to keep going. And we also need to ask deeper questions. I hope we don't lose the moment to ask deeper questions. What is the government's role? What should it be doing? And what shouldn't it be doing? We can get this right, and people deserve a government that supports them. Families deserve real security. They deserve a government that treats them equally, and that's not what we're getting right now. HH: Now Congressman, speaking of Benghazi, John Hinkeraker of Powerline is coming up after this, and he's gone through the emails. They're a MacGuffin. They reveal that they intended at the White House to mislead Congress in the election narrative, but they don't tell us where this, the video narrative came from. You were living in the middle of that campaign. As you look back at this, how great a degree of deception was being practiced and organized at Team Obama concerning Benghazi? PR: Well, I mean, now what I know, I didn't know this then, of course, but what I know now is that there was clearly an attempt to dissuade the country from thinking this was terrorism. The question is who made the decision to tell our U.N. ambassador to go on the Sunday shows and say this was just some spontaneous mob, there's nothing to see here, don't worry about it, it's not terrorism. And then there are the issues, the even bigger issues, which is what could have been done to save these lives that evening, especially the two guys who were killed later on, and what wasn't done, and why were those decisions made. And then who's decision was it to basically put out information that they knew not to be true? We heard that from the campaign. I don't want to sound like some sore loser about the campaign, but I don't want my government, as an American citizen, telling me things that they know aren't true. I don't want my government picking winners and losers for IRS oversight to harass people because of their political views. That's what a banana republic does. That's not what the United States of America should be doing. And so if we want to make sure that this kind of banana republic thuggish behavior doesn't continue, then we in the Congress are going to do our jobs and hold people accountable. HH: I'm not asking you to be sour grapes here, and I heard you say that. But do you believe the manipulation of the Benghazi story resulted, impacted the election outcome? PR: Well, I think, of course, I think it had impacts. I can't say whether this was, I don't know that anybody could say that it was the factor. I don't think that you could say that. But if people knew all of these facts that we now know, and there's more to find out, then, if we knew then what we know now, do I think that could have changed some opinion? Do I think that would have changed the direction of public opinion? Sure. Of course. But I can't, I have no idea whether it would have changed the outcome or not. HH: Your colleague, Devin Nunes, was on the program yesterday, and brought to my attention what I had not realized, which is the extent of this snooping on AP reached the House of Representatives. PR: Yeah. HH: And he used the wrong term. He said wiretapping. He meant snooping, because they just swept up the phone records. Does that shock you that the DOJ without a court order and on their own initiative, swept up the phone records of the House of Representatives? PR: Well, it's the Cloak Room, excuse me, it's not the Cloak room where members of Congress used the phones. They call it the Press Gallery, which is not far from the Cloak Room. It's in the same House floor, it's off the House floor. But my understanding is they took the records of the House Press Gallery AP. Members of Congress use the phones in what we call the Cloak Room. I don't think they took those records. So I don't think you could say they swept up the records of members of Congress' phone calls. They took the records of AP reporters in the House Gallery who were doing, were reporting on Congress. HH: But if they can do that, if they can go into the House, can't... PR: Yeah, look, I'm not making an excuse. I'm just trying to make sure that we're accurate here. HH: Does it trouble you? PR: Of course it troubles me. Are you kidding me? Look, this is why, again, the point I'm trying to make here is let's not think of this as just, oh gosh, some bad people at the IRS did those dumb things, and then oh, some overzealous prosecutor at the Justice Department did that, and oh, gosh, you know, some low level person at the State Department did this. We should not be thinking like that. We should be thinking this is what you get with big government in practice. This is what you get when you have a government that just has gone beyond its moorings, that has gone beyond its scope, and this is the kind of government you get with progressive politics. And that's just not in keeping with our Constitution. That's not what we deserve. We want equality under the law, and that's not what we're getting, whether we're a reporter, a taxpayer, or a citizen. HH: Congressman Paul Ryan, we will be watching the Ways And Means Committee hearing tomorrow with great, great interest. Thanks for joining us. End of interview. http://www.hughhewitt.com/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=48f_1368806567 Brockk Democratic Party Marches in Washington DC 1928 Fear,Intimidation Fri, 17 May 2013 11:01:51 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=416_1368802319 Alois Philby COMMUNISM WILL RETURN! "We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary." "Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital." "When feudalism was overthrown and "free" capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people." "People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises." "If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or China on Russia, and so forth, those would be "just" "defensive" wars, irrespective of who attacked first; and every Socialist would sympathise with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slave-owning, predatory "great" powers." "Convert the imperialist war into civil war." "Socialists must explain to the masses that they have no other road of salvation except the revolutionary overthrow of "their" governments, and that advantage must be taken of these governments' embarrassments in the present war precisely for this purpose." "Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations." "The Socialists of oppressed nations must, in their turn, unfailingly fight for the complete (including organisational) unity of the workers of the oppressed and oppressing nationalities." "Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations - all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism." "We must display determination, endurance, firmness and unanimity. We must stop at nothing. Everybody and everything must be used to save the rule of the workers and peasants, to save communism." Quotes from Lenin http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=416_1368802319 Alois Philby The Sacred Banner of Lenin lenin, communism, russia, ussr, marx, engels, kant Fri, 17 May 2013 04:38:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f81_1368779635 omniradar The Left vs. the Liberal Media Media Lens debunks the BBC's humanitarian interventionists By Neil Clark May 16, 2013 "Information Clearing House " -" The American Conservative "- It all started in July 2001 when two men, concerned about bias in the corporate news media in the UK, began to send out "media alerts" to a small number of family and friends. Twelve years on and Media Lens-the brainchild of writer David Edwards, a former manager in sales and marketing, and David Cromwell, a physicist by background-has established itself as the UK's media watchdog. There's no doubting the impact they have made. "Without their meticulous and humane analysis, the full gravity of the debacles of Iraq and Afghanistan might have been consigned to bad journalism's first draft of bad history," is the verdict of veteran reporter and filmmaker John Pilger. It's been an eventful twelve years. In addition to the "debacles" of Iraq and Afghanistan, we've had the (ongoing) menacing of Iran on account of an unproven nuclear-weapons program and Israeli military assaults on Lebanon in 2006 and on Gaza in 2008 and again in 2012. Add in the global financial crash of 2008, and there's been plenty to keep the two Davids occupied. David Cromwell's new book, Why Are We The Good Guys? , discusses these events and the work that he and Edwards have done to counter the "elite-friendly value assumptions and judgements" that characterize their coverage in Britain. Although he is clearly a man of the left-his working-class childhood was an "interesting mix of Catholic and Communist" influences-Cromwell's not one to be deceived by labels, an important skill to possess in an age when wars are sold as "humanitarian interventions" to gain support from liberals. Media Lens has been outspoken, when the need arises, in its critique of so-called liberal-left media. Many on the British center-left give the BBC a free pass because they have swallowed the line that the organization is somehow "left-wing." Yet Cromwell and Edwards have shown that when it comes to propagandizing for illegal wars and peddling establishment views, the BBC has at least as bad a record as commercial news networks. When I caught up with David to talk to him about his new book, the BBC was in the middle of what has been described by some as the biggest crisis in its 90-year history: the resignation of its Director-General and other bigwigs after the fallout from a "Newsnight" program on child abuse. But while heads rolled over the state-owned broadcaster getting allegations wrong on just one program, Cromwell points out that the BBC was never held accountable for the role it played in the lead up to the Iraq War. "There was no such pressure for senior BBC staff to go over the broadcaster's systemic failure to challenge US-UK propaganda over Iraq's non-existent WMD. This media failure paved the way towards war in Iraq and the subsequent brutal and bloody occupation. Instead of responsible public-service journalism, BBC News provides a reliable conduit for government propaganda, most notably the state's supposedly benign intentions in foreign wars and international relations. That is the daily news diet we are all spoon-fed." No such presumption of good faith applies when journalists discuss the actions of countries that don't toe the Washington line. "It is, of course, fine for journalists in the West to point to the crimes of official enemies and to mock them for their transparent propaganda efforts. Thus, the BBC's Emily Maitlis was able to introduce the flagship television program 'Newsnight' with a touch of sardonic wit: 'Hello, good evening. The Russians are calling it a "peace enforcement operation." It's the kind of Newspeak that would make George Orwell proud.' "Maitlis was referring to the invasion of Russian forces into the Georgian province of South Ossetia in August 2008. By contrast, imagine a BBC presenter referring skeptically to the government's claim of a 'peace enforcement operation' for the West's invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, or Libya and describing such language as 'the kind of newspeak that would make George Orwell proud.' It just would not happen." I ask Cromwell how he would respond to those who say that Media Lens should devote all its energies on attacking neocon "uber -hawks rather than criticizing the liberal media, which might agree with the group's standpoints, say, 70 percent of the time. "Media Lens has indeed spent more time analyzing the liberal media than right-wing outlets. Why? Because the liberal media is often regarded as the outlets where the most progressive and the most challenging views can be seen and heard. If you like, it's one end of the acceptable spectrum of news and views. But if even here there are severe limits on permissible challenges to state-corporate power, what does that say about society generally? It's like a litmus test for dissent." Cromwell believes that the role of the media in promoting the doctrine of "liberal interventionism" has been absolutely crucial. "If the public was better informed, and not so often misled by those in power, there would likely be a stronger rein on the governing elite. But it's not happening. A major reason for this is that the corporate media acts as an echo chamber and amplifier of government propaganda. Even when challenged, senior journalists say that their role is to report what those in power say and do-even what they 'think.' "For example, when the BBC's Nick Robinson was the ITN political editor, he wrote of the war in Iraq: In the run-up to the conflict, I and many of my colleagues, were bombarded with complaints that we were acting as mouthpieces for Mr Blair. Why, the complainants demanded to know, did we report without question his warning that Saddam was a threat? Hadn't we read what Scott Ritter had said or Hans Blix? I always replied in the same way. It was my job to report what those in power were doing or thinking... . That is all someone in my sort of job can do. "Robinson performs the same compliant role today as political editor for the BBC," Cromwell says. In the '90s we saw an informal alliance formed between neoconservatives and progressives united behind their support for "liberal intervention." I ask Cromwell if he thinks that a similar alliance can be formed between the antiwar left and the antiwar right. "I'd be wary of an overt alliance with anyone, right-wing or otherwise, who espouses other views that I might find distasteful. But certainly traditional conservatives should be-and often are-vehemently opposed to what goes by the benign-sounding term 'neo-liberalism,' which I unpack in the book." One of the most riveting chapters in Cromwell's book is called "Beyond Indifference," in which he talks about his philosophical influences. He concludes-rather like Aldous Huxley-that if we do want to "free ourselves" and live better lives, it all starts with undertaking "small acts of kindness for others." And in contrast, he writes, Violence feeds on violence, as wise people have known for thousands of years. For example, if brutal state repression is met by violence from some elements of society, it provides an excuse for state forces to ramp up fire-power and crush dissent with even more brutal and widespread violence. The current state of Permanent War can only be ended by people coming together peacefully to overcome state power. Cromwell certainly thinks that in challenging elite state propaganda we're in a better position now than we were when Media Lens began in 2001. "One positive thing I've noticed is that more people are challenging the media, at least judging by the messages posted on our board and Facebook page, the emails we get and the tweets we receive. Often, even before we've worked up a media alert, we've been beaten to it by our readers-although, to be fair to ourselves, we do typically wait a few days or longer to see how an event is being played out in the media. Ideally, I would hope that in five years' time there would be less need for Media Lens to be on the internet 'haranguing' and 'vilifying' journalists, as skeptics and opponents sometimes say! And surely by ten years from now I can be happily retired and pottering about in a garden shed. Preferably my own and not some random neighbor's." Neil Clark is a UK-based journalist, blogger, and writer. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f81_1368779635 omniradar The Left vs. the Liberal Media Corporate Media Manipulation Exposed ! 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 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:43:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5a3_1368733316 dcmfox Sahil Kapur May 15, 2013, 11:11 AM 3643 Two days after President Obama's commanding reelection victory, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) solemnly declared Obamacare the " law of the land " - apparently signaling that it was time to move beyond the GOP's now-hopeless quest for repeal. The conservative pushback was swift and brutal. Immediately, Boehner's office was forced to clarify that he remained committed to repealing the law. And so House Republicans will vote on Thursday - yet again - to wipe out the Affordable Care Act. By their own count, it'll mark the 37th time they've voted to fully repeal or partially dismantle the President's signature achievement. "Albert Einstein defined insanity as, 'doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' If that's true, the House Republicans have truly lost their minds," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Wednesday, calling the Obamacare repeal vote "political kabuki" and highlight the cost of the GOP's dead-end effort. Conscious that the vote may be perceived as a futile partisan exercise, Boehner's office is working the referees to aggressively prebut that characterization and frame his party's ongoing repeal effort as responsible. A memo his office sent to reporters Tuesday noted that only two of the previous 36 votes were for full repeal and that a few of them, which rescinded funds for smaller pieces of Obamacare, were signed into law. GOP leaders weren't eager to hold this vote. Last month, led by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), they tried a different strategy by bringing up a bill to transfer funds from one progressive piece of Obamacare to the law's underfunded high-risk pool which covers preexisting conditions. But conservatives revolted, grumbling that it shores up part of Obamacare and muddles their message. Cantor and GOP leaders were forced to pull the bill at the last minute, depriving them of a talking point about helping sick people. Behind the scenes, some conservative health wonks who supported Cantor's bill fretted that the GOP lacks credibility on health care policy. But new Republican members complained that they had not yet had the change to vote to repeal Obamacare. The vote was announced shortly after. "If you're a freshman - the guys who've been up here the last year, we can go home and say listen, we voted 36 different times to repeal or replace Obamacare. Tell me what the new guys are supposed to say," Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) said at the time. "We haven't had a repeal or replace vote this year." The vote comes as the rate of growth of national health care spending is slowing significantly and perhaps permanently, complicating GOP predictions that Obamacare would raise costs. Not surprisingly, some supporters of Obamacare have been quick to use those figures to credit Obamacare with driving down costs. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that it will not score the legislation due to time constraints. In a letter to Republicans, CBO's director pointed to its most recent Obamacare repeal score, in July 2012, which said getting rid of the law would increase budget deficits by $109 billion over the next decade. Meanwhile, Republicans are hammering Obamacare from all sides: they're investigating the administration 's decision to ask health industry executives for help financing implementation of the law, and they're using an unfolding IRS scandal to undermine it . The repeal vote is expected to pass on a party-line vote. What happens next is less clear. It remains to be seen whether Republicans will be able to close that chapter after this and move on to more serious health care legislation, or whether they'll remain trapped in a hopeless battle that they've lost in Congress, the Supreme Court and at the ballot box. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5a3_1368733316 dcmfox House GOP To Hold Yet Another Obamacare Repeal Vote - Jobs, Jobs house, votes, repeal, obamacare, 37th, time Mon, 13 May 2013 05:30:40 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=26c_1368436951 star53 The progressive former Congressman hit the Obama Regime for their Libyan policy and for their response to the attack. "We went into Benghazi under the assumption that somehow there was going to be a massacre in Benghazi," he said. "So we went there to protect the Libyan people. We couldn't go into Benghazi to protect our own Americans who were serving there? I'm offended by this, and there have to be real answers to the questions that are being raised." Dennis Kucinich a 'PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL' slamming the Obama Regime? GOT TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=26c_1368436951 star53 Dennis Kucinich Slams Obama Regime On Benghazi I'm Offended By This Dennis Kucinich,progressive,Liberal,former Congressman Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:09:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6db_1366772695 star53 That's just how those leftist progressive liberals roll Mr.Dershowitz. They Hate America http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6db_1366772695 star53 Dershowitz: 'I Don't Understand the Way Some People on the Left Glorify American Terrorists' leftist, progressive, liberals,Glorify, American Terrorists, Mr.Dershowitz Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:48:23 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c9c_1366666231 star53 The truth about the Obama Regime's crime and the cover up at Benghazi...Not the usual Progressive, Obama..ass kissing version. The White House is covering up the murders of Americans in Benghazi. American special ops people are fighting for the truth. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c9c_1366666231 star53 Blood on the White House The White House, cover up,murders,of Americans,Benghazi,Progressive, ass kissers