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The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution is the strongest statement therein that powers not expressly granted the State are retained as rights of the People. The State has misconstrued, misrepresented, ignored, and denied the People's rights by elimination of protections reserved alone to them, not recognized by the Supreme Court, the Legislative, and worst the Executive Branch in the illegitimate exercise of draconian powers which unlawfully disparage the inalienable rights of the People.
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01 June 2018
23 November 2016
Vote Recount President Battleground States, Security Audits, Congressional Inquiries Urges Growing Chorus Of Nonpartisan Academics And Activists In 2016 Trump "Election" Over Clinton Turned On Only 55,000 Suspect Votes In Michigan, Pennsylvania And Wisconsin Irregularities Raised With DOJ While Director Of National Intelligence Declines To Confirm Security Of Vote Refers Press To Department Of Homeland Security Which Fails To Give Response UPDATE: NY Times: "Administration Statement" Defends "Integrity" Of Vote
Wednesday, 23 November 2016, WASHINGTON, D.C. - A growing chorus of nonpartisan academics as well as activists reportedly have voiced strong concerns about alleged statistical irregularities in voting results in key battleground states Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin where a mere shift in 55,000 votes total would give the 2016 U.S. Presidential victory to Hillary Clinton making her the 45th President of the United States. Another group of analysts led by the Voting Rights Institute's founder John Bonifaz and Professor Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan's center for computer security and society also are calling for a review of the vote.
Meanwhile The Washington Post dismissively reports that misinformation posted by others on social media urges recipients to deluge the Department of Justice (DOJ) with requests for an investigation of voting irregularities in the alleged Trump victory apparently based on what that publication emphasizes is a misconception that DOJ would initiate any investigation based on the volume of public outcry. The Post refers to a DOJ spokesman who unsurprisingly states (untruthfully) that DOJ operates strictly on the facts, evidence and federal statutes (although anyone paying attention especially now knows that DOJ acts based on the politics of those in charge and routinely among other things ignores laws and tailors tortured bogus legal opinions as ordered) although the Post further does note that DOJ would still initiate an investigation of this election based on evidence of election or voter fraud, intimidation, discriminatory election practices or other violations of federal law.
Reportedly presumably based on earlier United States unprecedented government statements including by Vice-President Joe Biden of unspecified coming U.S. retaliation apparently related to extremely rare pre-election public predictions by two U.S. intelligence agencies, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), although curiously not joined by Republican operative James Comey's rogue Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), based on their "confidence" that the Russian government directed hacking largely perpetrated specifically at the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign in particular as well as raising the possible but unlikely specter of direct election interference based on "scanning and probing" of some states' "election-related systems" traced mostly to servers of a Russian company (all of which "President-elect" Trump currently -- unless he changed his mind -- claims entirely to dismiss despite receiving most highly classified national security briefing on this matter) the press yesterday requested assurance that the Director of National Intelligence was confident that the actual election indeed had been secure.
The DNI spokesman somewhat curiously declined to provide such an assurance on the security of the election on the seemingly specious grounds that "colleagues at the DHS" (which actually is one of the 16 national intelligence and security agencies under the DNI) were "best positioned to address this." The DHS however apparently was not aware that it was so positioned because when then dutifully approached the spokesman for the "colleague" DHS which was the only other intelligence agency to have given public notice of the Russian cyber election meddling somewhat oddly gave the press and therefore the public no response at all to a request for comment. The press was not then referred to any other agency at all presumably ending the U.S. intelligence agency wild goose chase at least for the day. Nor apparently did any unnamed source surface.
Readers interested in more information regarding the above can go to the links below. The first link below is to an article from The Guardian which details growing concerns about the presidential election results from various quarters and actions being planned and/or taken by those concerned. The second link below is to a Washington Post article which on its face confirms that it is indeed the mere 55,000 votes described above on which the Trump "victory" depends which votes if shifted to Hillary Clinton would make her the President-elect. The Washington Post notably haughty article however is more focused on and preoccupied with sleuthing the source(s) of the social media pathways claimed to be misleading with the article effectively dissuading the general public which is unlikely to have hard evidence from raising any unsubstantiated outcry to DOJ. In furtherance of this objective it paternally even notes that it is not providing the People for unstated reasons with certain of the alleged DOJ phone number(s) to call circulating in social media.
The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment observes as to the latter position that is not necessarily in concert with the masses nor the core values of the United States Constitution encompassing in particular unequivocally the unfettered right of the People to petition the State for a redress of grievances without regard to what branch or department the People may choose to petition and on what grounds. Furthermore as a practical matter should such petitioning reach an overwhelming crescendo which also may be augmented by the related fundamental core constitutional right of the People peaceably to assemble in as large a number as they may choose to participate in person in the petitioning of the State when that assembly has amassed to the point of occupying a large area of the People's capital we would suggest that it shall once again become apparent to any organ of the State that the will of a sea of the People outside its windows or walls as the case may be shall not and will not be ignored even if strictly speaking the People have not got exactly the "right department" nor recently reviewed the procedures in the most recently amended pertinent parts of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Given the grave domestic damage and needless international bloodshed and unconstitutional warfare and other horrific disasters of the illegitimate administration which flowed from the 2000 non-election in the Bush/Cheney coup d'etat made a fait accompli by a partisan Supreme Court the majority of whose members have shown themselves to be either mentally incompetent, deranged, brain dead, suffering from Alzheimer's, demented, living on another planet, senile and/or all of the preceding, one might expect that should something significant come of the matter set forth in this post that the People will not again tolerate such a blatantly partisan inappropriate illegitimate unconstitutional interference with the People's fundamental right to choose the President of the United States.
UPDATES: A more recent BBC article added as a third link below for interested readers further details that groups mentioned above including data analysts joined by some lawyers find the 55,000 Trump battleground state votes suspect because Trump inexplicably performed better and Clinton worse in those locations with electronic voting machines potentially vulnerable to hacking in contrast to those with paper ballots and optical scanners definitely not subject to hacking. As vote counting still continues Clinton's popular vote lead over Trump has been steadily increasing now surpassing two million votes. For interested readers further fourth and fifth links have been added below to two articles on this matter most recently now appearing in The New York Times the latter originating from the Associated Press.
UPDATES: The Times more recently reports that faced with the growing likelihood that all three battleground state votes will be audited and/or recounted that (unidentified without explanation) "officials" in the "administration" defend the "integrity" of the vote. The Times curiously provided no information at all as to who or where those "officials" might be or as to why they are not identified. The Times further summarily refers to the Department of Homeland Security and "other intelligence officials" pre-election predictions discounting the possibility of Russian election hacking and essentially ignores that some other irregularity might turn up in recounts and/or audits even if the earlier predictions by the DHS and DNI prove correct. Interested readers can go to this more recent article added as a sixth link below. The Times the following day did then release a "U.S. Statement on Reliability of Election Results" it had been given by a "senior administration official" on the unexplained condition of anonymity which apparently was the source for the above-referenced article but not mentioned nor provided to the public until added by a link the following day by the Times. Interested readers can read the statement at the added seventh link below.
The Times further also reported that unsurprisingly the Hillary Clinton campaign had joined the Jill Stein initiated vote recount in Wisconsin to the extent of paying lawyers to participate in oversight and would do the same if Ms. Stein's Green Party further initiated recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan, which has not yet completed its initial vote count. The Green Party's success in collecting what is expected to be seven million dollars in donations in a mere few days to fund recounts assuredly was made possible not mostly by Green Party supporters but by those holding out hope for a Clinton victory. Readers interested in more information on the Clinton campaign's "change of heart" to participate can go to the added eighth link below.
The recount saga continues as more recently Trump supporters have joined the fray by mounting various challenges seeking now to stop the three state vote recounts in their tracks seemingly on the basis of whatever arguments they find most expedient in each of the different state venues and depending on what available procedures may be feasible in each state. Their motivation is unclear and their arguments as to the futility of recounts seemingly at odds with Mr. Trump's oft-repeated assertions of a "rigged election" and his more recent tweet(s) since apparently winning the election by electoral votes nevertheless claiming (without evidence) that he actually won the popular vote as well if one deducts the "millions" of fraudulent votes for Hillary Clinton who according to those who have been actually counting the votes now leads Trump by more than 2.5 million votes.
So far as to the challenges the Trump supporters have mounted seeking to halt the three state vote recounts the different state election officials involved have all taken positions strictly without exception along partisan lines. Readers interested in more information can go to the added ninth link below. On Saturday, 3 December 2016, Jill Stein dropped a pending bid for a Pennsylvania statewide vote recount after Pennsylvania courts imposed a $1 million bond requirement to start a statewide recount which she criticized including on the grounds that petitioners were "citizens of ordinary means."
Dr. Stein nevertheless as of Saturday evening had collected $6.9 million in donations to fund recount bids with further funds still being sought. A campaign for a much more limited recount of Pennsylvania votes in Philadelphia and other targeted areas rather than statewide is going forward. Meanwhile calling the bond requirement evidence of "antiquated" state law Jill Stein seemed to leave open the possibility of further plans for challenging the Pennsylvania vote stating that " [w]e will pursue every available remedy to ensure Pennsylvanians can trust what happened in this election." She also promised a forthcoming "major announcement" on this coming Monday morniing. Readers interested in more information can go to the tenth link below.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/hillary-clinton-election-vote-recount-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/11/22/the-department-of-justice-is-not-going-to-conduct-a-vote-audit-based-on-your-phoned-in-outrage/?utm_term=.0e7b3bfac178
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38087150
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/vote-count-hillary-clinton-trump.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/11/23/us/politics/ap-us-election-recount-push-.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/us/politics/hacking-russia-election-fears-barack-obama-donald-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/us-statement-on-reliability-of-election-results.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/clinton-camp-will-join-push-for-wisconsin-ballot-recount.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us/trump-recounts-wisconsin-michigan-pennsylvania.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us/jill-stein-pennsylvania-recount.html
Copyright 2016 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
Meanwhile The Washington Post dismissively reports that misinformation posted by others on social media urges recipients to deluge the Department of Justice (DOJ) with requests for an investigation of voting irregularities in the alleged Trump victory apparently based on what that publication emphasizes is a misconception that DOJ would initiate any investigation based on the volume of public outcry. The Post refers to a DOJ spokesman who unsurprisingly states (untruthfully) that DOJ operates strictly on the facts, evidence and federal statutes (although anyone paying attention especially now knows that DOJ acts based on the politics of those in charge and routinely among other things ignores laws and tailors tortured bogus legal opinions as ordered) although the Post further does note that DOJ would still initiate an investigation of this election based on evidence of election or voter fraud, intimidation, discriminatory election practices or other violations of federal law.
Reportedly presumably based on earlier United States unprecedented government statements including by Vice-President Joe Biden of unspecified coming U.S. retaliation apparently related to extremely rare pre-election public predictions by two U.S. intelligence agencies, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), although curiously not joined by Republican operative James Comey's rogue Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), based on their "confidence" that the Russian government directed hacking largely perpetrated specifically at the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign in particular as well as raising the possible but unlikely specter of direct election interference based on "scanning and probing" of some states' "election-related systems" traced mostly to servers of a Russian company (all of which "President-elect" Trump currently -- unless he changed his mind -- claims entirely to dismiss despite receiving most highly classified national security briefing on this matter) the press yesterday requested assurance that the Director of National Intelligence was confident that the actual election indeed had been secure.
The DNI spokesman somewhat curiously declined to provide such an assurance on the security of the election on the seemingly specious grounds that "colleagues at the DHS" (which actually is one of the 16 national intelligence and security agencies under the DNI) were "best positioned to address this." The DHS however apparently was not aware that it was so positioned because when then dutifully approached the spokesman for the "colleague" DHS which was the only other intelligence agency to have given public notice of the Russian cyber election meddling somewhat oddly gave the press and therefore the public no response at all to a request for comment. The press was not then referred to any other agency at all presumably ending the U.S. intelligence agency wild goose chase at least for the day. Nor apparently did any unnamed source surface.
Readers interested in more information regarding the above can go to the links below. The first link below is to an article from The Guardian which details growing concerns about the presidential election results from various quarters and actions being planned and/or taken by those concerned. The second link below is to a Washington Post article which on its face confirms that it is indeed the mere 55,000 votes described above on which the Trump "victory" depends which votes if shifted to Hillary Clinton would make her the President-elect. The Washington Post notably haughty article however is more focused on and preoccupied with sleuthing the source(s) of the social media pathways claimed to be misleading with the article effectively dissuading the general public which is unlikely to have hard evidence from raising any unsubstantiated outcry to DOJ. In furtherance of this objective it paternally even notes that it is not providing the People for unstated reasons with certain of the alleged DOJ phone number(s) to call circulating in social media.
The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment observes as to the latter position that is not necessarily in concert with the masses nor the core values of the United States Constitution encompassing in particular unequivocally the unfettered right of the People to petition the State for a redress of grievances without regard to what branch or department the People may choose to petition and on what grounds. Furthermore as a practical matter should such petitioning reach an overwhelming crescendo which also may be augmented by the related fundamental core constitutional right of the People peaceably to assemble in as large a number as they may choose to participate in person in the petitioning of the State when that assembly has amassed to the point of occupying a large area of the People's capital we would suggest that it shall once again become apparent to any organ of the State that the will of a sea of the People outside its windows or walls as the case may be shall not and will not be ignored even if strictly speaking the People have not got exactly the "right department" nor recently reviewed the procedures in the most recently amended pertinent parts of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Given the grave domestic damage and needless international bloodshed and unconstitutional warfare and other horrific disasters of the illegitimate administration which flowed from the 2000 non-election in the Bush/Cheney coup d'etat made a fait accompli by a partisan Supreme Court the majority of whose members have shown themselves to be either mentally incompetent, deranged, brain dead, suffering from Alzheimer's, demented, living on another planet, senile and/or all of the preceding, one might expect that should something significant come of the matter set forth in this post that the People will not again tolerate such a blatantly partisan inappropriate illegitimate unconstitutional interference with the People's fundamental right to choose the President of the United States.
UPDATES: A more recent BBC article added as a third link below for interested readers further details that groups mentioned above including data analysts joined by some lawyers find the 55,000 Trump battleground state votes suspect because Trump inexplicably performed better and Clinton worse in those locations with electronic voting machines potentially vulnerable to hacking in contrast to those with paper ballots and optical scanners definitely not subject to hacking. As vote counting still continues Clinton's popular vote lead over Trump has been steadily increasing now surpassing two million votes. For interested readers further fourth and fifth links have been added below to two articles on this matter most recently now appearing in The New York Times the latter originating from the Associated Press.
UPDATES: The Times more recently reports that faced with the growing likelihood that all three battleground state votes will be audited and/or recounted that (unidentified without explanation) "officials" in the "administration" defend the "integrity" of the vote. The Times curiously provided no information at all as to who or where those "officials" might be or as to why they are not identified. The Times further summarily refers to the Department of Homeland Security and "other intelligence officials" pre-election predictions discounting the possibility of Russian election hacking and essentially ignores that some other irregularity might turn up in recounts and/or audits even if the earlier predictions by the DHS and DNI prove correct. Interested readers can go to this more recent article added as a sixth link below. The Times the following day did then release a "U.S. Statement on Reliability of Election Results" it had been given by a "senior administration official" on the unexplained condition of anonymity which apparently was the source for the above-referenced article but not mentioned nor provided to the public until added by a link the following day by the Times. Interested readers can read the statement at the added seventh link below.
The Times further also reported that unsurprisingly the Hillary Clinton campaign had joined the Jill Stein initiated vote recount in Wisconsin to the extent of paying lawyers to participate in oversight and would do the same if Ms. Stein's Green Party further initiated recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan, which has not yet completed its initial vote count. The Green Party's success in collecting what is expected to be seven million dollars in donations in a mere few days to fund recounts assuredly was made possible not mostly by Green Party supporters but by those holding out hope for a Clinton victory. Readers interested in more information on the Clinton campaign's "change of heart" to participate can go to the added eighth link below.
The recount saga continues as more recently Trump supporters have joined the fray by mounting various challenges seeking now to stop the three state vote recounts in their tracks seemingly on the basis of whatever arguments they find most expedient in each of the different state venues and depending on what available procedures may be feasible in each state. Their motivation is unclear and their arguments as to the futility of recounts seemingly at odds with Mr. Trump's oft-repeated assertions of a "rigged election" and his more recent tweet(s) since apparently winning the election by electoral votes nevertheless claiming (without evidence) that he actually won the popular vote as well if one deducts the "millions" of fraudulent votes for Hillary Clinton who according to those who have been actually counting the votes now leads Trump by more than 2.5 million votes.
So far as to the challenges the Trump supporters have mounted seeking to halt the three state vote recounts the different state election officials involved have all taken positions strictly without exception along partisan lines. Readers interested in more information can go to the added ninth link below. On Saturday, 3 December 2016, Jill Stein dropped a pending bid for a Pennsylvania statewide vote recount after Pennsylvania courts imposed a $1 million bond requirement to start a statewide recount which she criticized including on the grounds that petitioners were "citizens of ordinary means."
Dr. Stein nevertheless as of Saturday evening had collected $6.9 million in donations to fund recount bids with further funds still being sought. A campaign for a much more limited recount of Pennsylvania votes in Philadelphia and other targeted areas rather than statewide is going forward. Meanwhile calling the bond requirement evidence of "antiquated" state law Jill Stein seemed to leave open the possibility of further plans for challenging the Pennsylvania vote stating that " [w]e will pursue every available remedy to ensure Pennsylvanians can trust what happened in this election." She also promised a forthcoming "major announcement" on this coming Monday morniing. Readers interested in more information can go to the tenth link below.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/hillary-clinton-election-vote-recount-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/11/22/the-department-of-justice-is-not-going-to-conduct-a-vote-audit-based-on-your-phoned-in-outrage/?utm_term=.0e7b3bfac178
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38087150
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/vote-count-hillary-clinton-trump.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/11/23/us/politics/ap-us-election-recount-push-.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/us/politics/hacking-russia-election-fears-barack-obama-donald-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/us-statement-on-reliability-of-election-results.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/clinton-camp-will-join-push-for-wisconsin-ballot-recount.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us/trump-recounts-wisconsin-michigan-pennsylvania.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us/jill-stein-pennsylvania-recount.html
Copyright 2016 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
04 April 2015
U.S. Tech Giants In Crosshairs Of Europe Regulators As Antitrust, Privacy And Other Inquiries Of Google, Facebook, Apple And Amazon Intensify
Saturday, 4 April 2015, LONDON, ENGLAND - Although the halcyon days may be continuing to the present in the United States for giant tech companies Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and others given the longtime lassitude of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in its enforcement of U.S. antitrust laws and Americans' privacy rights taking a far back seat to many of these tech monsters' documented collusion along with telecommunications companies with the United States' spy agencies, with the CIA for example even having ownership and joint partnership interests with Google and these companies routinely feeding information to the NSA and other unconstitutional domestic spying apparatus, with the occasional charade of sham suits by these filthy rich tech behemoths back against the U.S. government in lame disingenuous efforts to demonstrate to the American people that they are are not part of the U.S. government's out of control grossly unconstitutional domestic spying ubiquitous tentacles as exposed most dramatically by the the staggering NSA universal domestic spying disclosures by Booz Allen contractor Edward J. Snowden, European regulators nevertheless reportedly are losing all patience with the abuses and encroachments of these American tech giants acting in flagrant violation of European anti-trust laws and routine invasions of European citizens' privacy.
The list of American tech monsters' physical and internet invasion of Europe especially via Ireland is well documented in previous partial European regulators' inquiries and assessment of enormous essentially meaningless fines as well as court rulings seeking to curb American tech giants' encroachments extending right into Europeans' homes in flagrant violation of free market principles and core privacy rights where a company such as Google reportedly controls 80% of internet searches effectively dictating what information European citizens will and will not see including about each other as well as undoubtedly making this information readily available to American spy agencies such as the CIA and NSA which routinely share it with the British spook octopus GCHQ which according to Mr. Snowden is even far worse in its citizen surveillance abuses than its American counterparts if such is imaginable.
Now European regulators reportedly have these U.S. technology giants in their crosshairs with the loudest complaints perhaps against Google's market domination and Facebook's laughable "privacy" policies just being the tip of the iceberg. Meanwhile in the United States it is not known if the Obama administration will order DOJ out of its dormancy while on the issue of the rank constitutional abuses of the NSA, CIA, FBI and so-called "alphabet soup" of American spy agencies the very telling sunset, i.e., end of several supposedly empowering sections supporting their illegal actions of the loathsome "Patriot Act" will be allowed to expire or will be extended by a Republican-controlled Congress seemingly incapable of doing anything positive and given the Obama Administration's latest betrayal of its voter base by taking the position that the Bush-Cheney midnight-created monstrosity should be extended.
To date however the Obama Administration has said it will not intervene to preserve the expiring provisions of the clearly unconstitutional "law" which if anything has played right into the hands of terrorists by wrenching the fabric of fundamental American values but will allow this grotesque blemish on United States legislative history to slowly and painfully die its long-overdue death as by all accounts of their debates to the Founding Fathers it no doubt immediately would have been declared "DOA" dead on arrival.
Interested readers in the below linked-to article can find many more specifics touching on some of European regulators past actions against U.S. tech giants as well as more details as to what these U.S. monsters "stomping the terra" to quote Dr. Hunter S. Thompson can anticipate coming at them hard from European regulators in the not-too-distant future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/technology/europe-regulators-apple-google-facebook.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
The list of American tech monsters' physical and internet invasion of Europe especially via Ireland is well documented in previous partial European regulators' inquiries and assessment of enormous essentially meaningless fines as well as court rulings seeking to curb American tech giants' encroachments extending right into Europeans' homes in flagrant violation of free market principles and core privacy rights where a company such as Google reportedly controls 80% of internet searches effectively dictating what information European citizens will and will not see including about each other as well as undoubtedly making this information readily available to American spy agencies such as the CIA and NSA which routinely share it with the British spook octopus GCHQ which according to Mr. Snowden is even far worse in its citizen surveillance abuses than its American counterparts if such is imaginable.
Now European regulators reportedly have these U.S. technology giants in their crosshairs with the loudest complaints perhaps against Google's market domination and Facebook's laughable "privacy" policies just being the tip of the iceberg. Meanwhile in the United States it is not known if the Obama administration will order DOJ out of its dormancy while on the issue of the rank constitutional abuses of the NSA, CIA, FBI and so-called "alphabet soup" of American spy agencies the very telling sunset, i.e., end of several supposedly empowering sections supporting their illegal actions of the loathsome "Patriot Act" will be allowed to expire or will be extended by a Republican-controlled Congress seemingly incapable of doing anything positive and given the Obama Administration's latest betrayal of its voter base by taking the position that the Bush-Cheney midnight-created monstrosity should be extended.
To date however the Obama Administration has said it will not intervene to preserve the expiring provisions of the clearly unconstitutional "law" which if anything has played right into the hands of terrorists by wrenching the fabric of fundamental American values but will allow this grotesque blemish on United States legislative history to slowly and painfully die its long-overdue death as by all accounts of their debates to the Founding Fathers it no doubt immediately would have been declared "DOA" dead on arrival.
Interested readers in the below linked-to article can find many more specifics touching on some of European regulators past actions against U.S. tech giants as well as more details as to what these U.S. monsters "stomping the terra" to quote Dr. Hunter S. Thompson can anticipate coming at them hard from European regulators in the not-too-distant future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/technology/europe-regulators-apple-google-facebook.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
01 October 2014
Koch Brothers Right Wingers For Hire Under Investigation By North Carolina Board Of Elections For Flooding African-American And Other Communities With "Misleading, Incorrect, And Confusing Voter Registration Materials As A Means Of Discouraging Or Intimidating Voters In The 2014 Election" Critical U.S. Senate Race
Wednesday, 1 October 2014, DURHAM, N.C. - The Ninth Amendment passes on the below account provided by CREDO SuperPAC of reports that the Koch Brothers have taken a further step than their usual known modus operandi of using their vast wealth to buy elections as an investment strategy wherever they believe necessary by supposedly legal means to buy citizens of other states election campaigns for the sole purpose of relentlessly trying to satisfy their insatiable greed for more wealth without regard for democratic principles or the right of persons residing in other states to choose their own government representatives unmolested by two rich investors who believe that the Constitution was enacted in order to allow the likes of these arrogant richboys to distort democratic mechanisms for the sole selfish purpose of furthering their own investment strategies by buying governments as if they had the right to take the destiny of an entire democratic nation into their own greedy hands although elected by no one to do so. In doing so it would appear that they now are trying to each achieve a new notch on their platinum-plated crayons for most of the seven deadly sins in one fell swoop.
This year with a tight U.S. Senate race with stonewalling Republicans trying to achieve their childhood dreams of taking the Senate into G.O.P. hands so they may be virtually assured that Congress will accomplish nothing at all to protect and improve the lives of over 99% of the American people so that a now estimated 0.1 % can get richer since no new taxes (or anything else such as for example social services that might be necessary to secure the blessings of liberty for the remainder of the American people) will be passed allowing Republicans such as the Koch Brothers type to engage in their favorite pastime of getting paid for doing nothing at all or what they prefer to call "passive income". Now with the Koch brothers insatiable thirst such that they are parched for ever more wealth they do not need apparently has driven their efforts to control elections all over the country to the other side of the law in North Carolina.
CREDO SuperPac one of the few groups on the ground hot on the trail in North Carolina of the Koch Brothers-funded rightwingers for hire group witnessing their targeting African-Americans and other communities for voter suppression while also engaging in other allegedly illegal activities for which these rightwingers for hire are under investigation by the North Carolina Board of Elections for attempting to use "misleading, incorrect, and confusing voter registration mailers as a means of discouraging or intimidating voters in the 2014 election".
The CREDO SuperPAC asks help from interested readers in one of two ways set out below to derail the Koch Brothers latest assault on democracy and attempts to cover up the abhorrent record of Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis so he can be elected in spite of himself and his abysmal record by a concerted assault on democracy in North Carolina of confusing, tricking, discouraging, intimidating and suppressing the votes of that majority who if merely informed of the truth about the candidate and not intimidated by these crass attempts at wholesale voter suppression should ensure that Thom Tillis never would be elected to anything ever again rather than serving as the Koch Brothers most recent ticket to better investment returns through the destruction of democracy and the resultant harm caused to a vast majority of the American people and their system of government.
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23 July 2014
Perry "Enforcer" U-T Regent Wallace Hall Clings To Job As Panel Drafting Articles Of Impeachment Per Earlier Overwhelming 7-1 Vote To Impeach Perry Appointee Wallace Hall Delayed By U-T Officials Attacking Panel's Authority And Forcing "Resignation Ultimatum" On Popular U-T Austin President Bill Powers
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, AUSTIN, TX - With attention of many focused elsewhere last week UT officials grabbed the perceived strategic opportunity to try and turn the tables by delaying and distracting attention on several fronts from the already long-approved drafting of articles of impeachment against presently serving Perry U-T Regent appointee Wallace Hall. These obvious subterfuges apparently spearheaded by three top U-T system officials reportedly not surprisingly soon descended into "clashes" with antagonized oversight committee lawmakers as the U-T officials in addition to widely publicized earlier acts in direct defiance of committee requests continued at the hearing repeatedly to attack the lawmakers with seemingly specious allegations of overreaching and outright misstatements reflecting a misunderstanding of the nature of the legal relationship between the Texas legislature on whose behalf the committee served and the U-T system Regents supposedly serving at someone's pleasure other than their own or the Governor's office.
In any case the distractions of attacks against lawmakers and other apparent time-wasting heated interchanges did succeed in further delaying the actual purpose of the hearing of moving forward with reaching conclusion on the specifics of drafting the previously overwhelmingly approved articles of impeachment of Wallace Hall in order to go forward with removing him from his position on the Board of Regents in the absence of his willingness to resign that position.
For the good of the UT system overall and the withdrawal from the spotlight of bad publicity particularly exacerbated by scrutiny of tensions with its flagship UT-Austin campus and President Bill Powers it has been reported that Mr. Wallace's colleague(s) have suggested that he resign his U-T Regent position from which he so far steadfastly has declined to resign (at least to those who so far have approached him) despite widespread allegations by Power supporters and other critics that Hall's actions have been manifestly inappropriate for a U-T Regent who one might expect to promote rather than detract from the public perception of their university (the role of Regent being one however which Hall previously has described in defending his alleged actions as apparently requiring active investigations into U-T matters in what he perceives to be the absence of others available in the U-T system more appropriately tasked with such "investigative"-type activities).
Regent Hall's activities to date publicly have been alleged to encompass a spectrum of improprieties including but not limited to those which have focused unwelcome and unproductive attention on the U-T system's apparent differences with what is after all its flagship university at Austin and what have been described as actions by Mr. Hall which are subject to investigation by the Travis County District Attorney's office including but not limited to "the release of confidential student information, bullying of campus officials and submitting onerous records requests" as described in the San Antonio New-Express all with the ultimate purpose of doing the bidding on his appointment as a U-T Regent of Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry of getting rid of Bill Powers for reasons which we to date have not been able to confirm.
It would appear that the events leading up to the past week have in fact succeeded in accomplishing the objective of ridding UT-Austin of its popular President Bill Powers. At last week's hearing the UT officials reportedly aggressively attacked lawmakers by among other things distorting the reason for the lawmakers' seemingly reasonable request that officials refrain from making any "substantial personnel decision" because it would be inappropriate to do so pending resolution of current contentious issues.
These have included those which had been surrounding Bill Powers tenure and Wallace Hall's actions in relation thereto as well as questions regarding the conduct of Hall in what he apparently has understood to be his "official" capacity. His conduct to date in what he claims to understand to be his appropriate role as regent has resulted in the overwhelming vote in the Texas legislature for his impeachment as well as an increasingly long period without consequence to date given which there have been calls that Hall meanwhile be subjected to some other form of censure or reprimand also pending any criminal investigation's outcome by the Travis County District Attorney. In any case the next Texas Legislature's committee meeting on its overwhelming approval of the drafting of Wallace Hall's articles of impeachment apparently has been set for 11 August 2014.
Doubtless the greatest and perhaps best obscured irony by this not uncharacteristic Texas GOP state government fiasco is that in attacking the Texas House Select Committee in Transparency in State Agency Operations ("HSCTSAO" for those fond of acronyms but not having yet achieved the somewhat more refined elegance of Federal acronyms) is the actual outcome when one shovels away the filth that has been flung back and forth which they otherwise might "step in" but failing that has become so apparent one wonders whether they should laugh or cry. As Regents' Chairman Paul Foster lambasted the legislators for their "overreaching" in encroaching on the Regents territory he even went so far as to chastise the the legislative committee for attempting to do something so "offensive". Apparently on that basis alone it therefore merited no more discussion or answering of questions before the panel by the regents because as it turned out they not only ignored the legislators, they outright defied them and took it upon themselves in the midst of all the controversy and pending investigations to simply do their own analysis reaching the compelling (not to mention convenient) legal conclusion that "[i]t's our view that the Legislature has no authority at all to direct us on personnel matters".
Powerful stuff. This of course leaves open the question until their next scheduled opportunity to lambast the legislature if that personnel matter authority resides with everyone's favorite Governor who appointed them, with the regents (even when impeached), not to mention raises other fascinating questions such as whether they can employ children and women to work fifteen hours a day for ten cents an hour redeemable only at the Regent's "company store". Given all this drama it almost came as an afterthought that not as of last week there had been no "articles of impeachment" drafted pursuant to the "overwhelming vote" of the legislature as to Mr. Wallace. He once had been widely seen as "playing dirty" but now at least for the time being is a free man with a job which seems to include a lot of investigative work.
And lo and behold UT-Austin President Bill Powers in fact now has decided of his own free will to make Governor Perry and henchman Wallace Hall's dream come true as it was announced that Powers had decided to resign effective 15 June 2015. Powers apparently had been told to resign by UT System Chancellor Francisco Ciggaroa "or face a possible firing by the board of regents at its next meeting". Cigarroa nevertheless apparently adamantly denied that he had given Powers an "ultimatum". As for the great umbrage shown by top U-T system regents at the Texas legislature's attempts to interfere with its personnel decisions, Regents' Chairman Foster apparently did feel compelled despite all the strong words thrown at the legislators, including claims of overreaching and their causing "offense" purporting to direct the regents on "personnel matters" which directions were therefore ignored and the opposite actions taken, that it was only accurate that Mr. Foster did grant the panel that "only the legislature can forcibly remove a regent".
In perhaps some final counterpoint of sanity as if to balance out all else that was said and went before, Representative Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, did note that Powers resignation was "a travesty" . He further criticized the UT system's only known initiative other than ridding itself of President Bill Powers of its flagship UT-Austin campus, which was the regents pending investigation into admission practices to root out every outside influence over admissions which Larson simply described as "impossible and costly".
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In any case the distractions of attacks against lawmakers and other apparent time-wasting heated interchanges did succeed in further delaying the actual purpose of the hearing of moving forward with reaching conclusion on the specifics of drafting the previously overwhelmingly approved articles of impeachment of Wallace Hall in order to go forward with removing him from his position on the Board of Regents in the absence of his willingness to resign that position.
For the good of the UT system overall and the withdrawal from the spotlight of bad publicity particularly exacerbated by scrutiny of tensions with its flagship UT-Austin campus and President Bill Powers it has been reported that Mr. Wallace's colleague(s) have suggested that he resign his U-T Regent position from which he so far steadfastly has declined to resign (at least to those who so far have approached him) despite widespread allegations by Power supporters and other critics that Hall's actions have been manifestly inappropriate for a U-T Regent who one might expect to promote rather than detract from the public perception of their university (the role of Regent being one however which Hall previously has described in defending his alleged actions as apparently requiring active investigations into U-T matters in what he perceives to be the absence of others available in the U-T system more appropriately tasked with such "investigative"-type activities).
Regent Hall's activities to date publicly have been alleged to encompass a spectrum of improprieties including but not limited to those which have focused unwelcome and unproductive attention on the U-T system's apparent differences with what is after all its flagship university at Austin and what have been described as actions by Mr. Hall which are subject to investigation by the Travis County District Attorney's office including but not limited to "the release of confidential student information, bullying of campus officials and submitting onerous records requests" as described in the San Antonio New-Express all with the ultimate purpose of doing the bidding on his appointment as a U-T Regent of Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry of getting rid of Bill Powers for reasons which we to date have not been able to confirm.
It would appear that the events leading up to the past week have in fact succeeded in accomplishing the objective of ridding UT-Austin of its popular President Bill Powers. At last week's hearing the UT officials reportedly aggressively attacked lawmakers by among other things distorting the reason for the lawmakers' seemingly reasonable request that officials refrain from making any "substantial personnel decision" because it would be inappropriate to do so pending resolution of current contentious issues.
These have included those which had been surrounding Bill Powers tenure and Wallace Hall's actions in relation thereto as well as questions regarding the conduct of Hall in what he apparently has understood to be his "official" capacity. His conduct to date in what he claims to understand to be his appropriate role as regent has resulted in the overwhelming vote in the Texas legislature for his impeachment as well as an increasingly long period without consequence to date given which there have been calls that Hall meanwhile be subjected to some other form of censure or reprimand also pending any criminal investigation's outcome by the Travis County District Attorney. In any case the next Texas Legislature's committee meeting on its overwhelming approval of the drafting of Wallace Hall's articles of impeachment apparently has been set for 11 August 2014.
Doubtless the greatest and perhaps best obscured irony by this not uncharacteristic Texas GOP state government fiasco is that in attacking the Texas House Select Committee in Transparency in State Agency Operations ("HSCTSAO" for those fond of acronyms but not having yet achieved the somewhat more refined elegance of Federal acronyms) is the actual outcome when one shovels away the filth that has been flung back and forth which they otherwise might "step in" but failing that has become so apparent one wonders whether they should laugh or cry. As Regents' Chairman Paul Foster lambasted the legislators for their "overreaching" in encroaching on the Regents territory he even went so far as to chastise the the legislative committee for attempting to do something so "offensive". Apparently on that basis alone it therefore merited no more discussion or answering of questions before the panel by the regents because as it turned out they not only ignored the legislators, they outright defied them and took it upon themselves in the midst of all the controversy and pending investigations to simply do their own analysis reaching the compelling (not to mention convenient) legal conclusion that "[i]t's our view that the Legislature has no authority at all to direct us on personnel matters".
Powerful stuff. This of course leaves open the question until their next scheduled opportunity to lambast the legislature if that personnel matter authority resides with everyone's favorite Governor who appointed them, with the regents (even when impeached), not to mention raises other fascinating questions such as whether they can employ children and women to work fifteen hours a day for ten cents an hour redeemable only at the Regent's "company store". Given all this drama it almost came as an afterthought that not as of last week there had been no "articles of impeachment" drafted pursuant to the "overwhelming vote" of the legislature as to Mr. Wallace. He once had been widely seen as "playing dirty" but now at least for the time being is a free man with a job which seems to include a lot of investigative work.
And lo and behold UT-Austin President Bill Powers in fact now has decided of his own free will to make Governor Perry and henchman Wallace Hall's dream come true as it was announced that Powers had decided to resign effective 15 June 2015. Powers apparently had been told to resign by UT System Chancellor Francisco Ciggaroa "or face a possible firing by the board of regents at its next meeting". Cigarroa nevertheless apparently adamantly denied that he had given Powers an "ultimatum". As for the great umbrage shown by top U-T system regents at the Texas legislature's attempts to interfere with its personnel decisions, Regents' Chairman Foster apparently did feel compelled despite all the strong words thrown at the legislators, including claims of overreaching and their causing "offense" purporting to direct the regents on "personnel matters" which directions were therefore ignored and the opposite actions taken, that it was only accurate that Mr. Foster did grant the panel that "only the legislature can forcibly remove a regent".
In perhaps some final counterpoint of sanity as if to balance out all else that was said and went before, Representative Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, did note that Powers resignation was "a travesty" . He further criticized the UT system's only known initiative other than ridding itself of President Bill Powers of its flagship UT-Austin campus, which was the regents pending investigation into admission practices to root out every outside influence over admissions which Larson simply described as "impossible and costly".
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19 June 2014
WebMD Long Sordid Record As Undisclosed Biased Tool Of Big Pharmaceuticals And Others Google-Supplied "Gadget" Yanked By Ninth Amendment Immediately Upon WebMD Bias Exposure
Thursday, 19 June 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment sincerely apologizes to readers for any legitimacy WebMD may have been afforded by its Google "Gadget" WebMD presence on this site as it has come to the attention of the editorial board that WebMD has long been the subject of verified allegations that it operates with a complete lack of disclosure and no transparency whatsoever in the fact that it is nothing more than a "For Sale" totally pro-drug company biased operation which has taken in huge amounts of cash for drug companies whose medications it then has directed completely unknowing consumers toward to the extent that WebMD has been the subject of a Congressional investigation.
When drug company advertising somewhat dried up WebMd took large amounts of U.S. readers' taxpayer money from the U.S. Government in order to give the appearance of unbiased support of Obamacare. It seems our most "transparent" President (a pretty tall order which he has no one to blame but himself for totally dishonestly claiming that title) cannot help but likewise enlist or rather pay off the least transparent but mistakenly once most highly regarded and visited web site which Americans where scammed into turning to for what seemed "to good to be true", and was, free medical advice. About as helpful as turning for advice to all those horrific prescription medicine ads the FDA true to its morally bankrupt history has allowed to deluge the public airways.
Speaking of which it turns out that WebMD also has received many millions of dollars from the FDA itself discredited for dissuading the people of this country from using time-tested natural remedies and promoting drugs which often turn out to have horrific "side effects" which somehow never came to light. Readers may learn why if they ever ask their pharmacist for the true drug information sheet which must come with all cases of prescription medicine in the form basically of tissue paper that folds out to something the size of a billboard in tiny print. If readers examine the numbers of persons actually able to survive it through the studies on which the FDA (iall costs paid by the pharmaceutical companies) approves medications readers will find that often barely a handful make it to the end of a study before the FDA approves a drug that then may be used by millions of persons.
A final note on the absolute hypocrisy of the FDA. In the 1980's the Administrator of the FDA found that the drug MDMA in a final determination did not meet the requirements of no known medical or research value such that it therefore could not be placed in Schedule I. Yet at the same time the latest chemical sweetener to be developed by Searle known as aspartame was found by the FDA to cause too high a risk of brain cancer and was to be banned. Well would readers not know that shortly after that Ronald ("McDonald") Reagan became the first brain-dead President elected since Warren Harding.
He within days reversed the FDA Administrator's determination on MDMA ("ecstasy") and ordered it placed in Schedule I on an emergency basis (no public comment) while meanwhile to the delight of one of his new cabinet members who happened to have just resigned his position as President of Searle within days of joining the new Administration Ronald (McDonald) Reagan agreed to have the FDA rush new tests on aspartame and lo and behold within weeks it was no longer banned but declared perfectly safe such that it was on readers' supermarket shelves and being dumped into all kinds of foods and beverages within the month in time to the likely severe detriment of millions of Americans' well-being. As it turned out Ronald (McDonald) Reagan had been consuming large quantities of homemade aspartame since he was a child and he after all turned out practically to be perfectly fine with no sign of no brain cancer at all.
One last tidbit about what a load of garbage the FDA and all its pharmaceutical and law enforcement chums have hoisted on Americans forever is that one just need take a look at the story of one horribly vilified "date rape" drug known as GHB the only problems for starters being that it is naturally occurring in the human body which one would think might make prosecuting possession a bit of a problem at least in some legal systems. The second being that it has been very widely and safely used for years in Europe and throughout the world as an anesthetic, a sleep aid that some have said is the best sleep aid they have ever had leaving them clear-headed, well-rested, and often even needing less sleep before being able to do more mental and physical activity and even exercise that seem indisputedly to more quickly result in healthy muscle development.
In any case the DEA of course needed its latest hysteria to keep it in business as always, and with the help of a few well-publicized anecdotes, well what did Americans know but the naturally-occurring human growth hormone that had been sold for years in places like GNC and was well known to weightlifters and athletes has become the thing of living nightmares and of course headed for "emergency" scheduling as Schedule I, no known blah blah blah. Only problem was that it turned out to be the only effective substance for certain sleep disorders including serious narcolepsy, so what did the federal acronym gang come up with, well they simply allowed a single company to sell it in pharmacies under a trade name (the name escapes us but interested readers should be able to find it, possibly under the "R"s in about one minute) as schedule III, while it was simultaneously schedule I at the same time and voila disaster was diverted. It is not known if they had the NSA lawyers or the White House lawyers review and okay that one making the legally impossible fully possible with the stroke of a pen.
The Ninth Amendment will save the story told on of all places "60 Minutes" about the drugs in regular use such as aspirin and even phenobarbital from well before the FDA even existed and which therefore had no authority to approve or disapprove those or many other drugs commonly used -- as we understood it from the television program, and though may have gotten it all wrong and be totally confused we think not. (THIS IS NOT NOR DOES IT PURPORT TO BE LEGAL NOR MEDICAL ADVICE IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. READERS MUST EXCLSUIVELY CONSULT A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL FOR LEGAL ADVICE AND A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL FOR MEDICAL ADVICE.) In any case in casual inquiries with pharmacists it has been our experience that as "60 Minutes" predicted many druggists are confused between what is known as the NDC number (?) and the actual FDA approval.
Regardless as many of our readers know pharmacists are always right unless they are speaking directly to a doctor or as for the pathetic customer prescription unless they open the bag right there and dump their prescription out on the counter and actually count it out in front of someone behind the counter and carefully compare the visual appearance to the verbal description on the label.
Because OTHERWISE ONE IS OUT OF LUCK even if one gets home with just one big square green pill for pets with the letter "A" on it but were supposed to get two hundred and twenty-five small white people ones with the number "178" on side and for example "Screw You" on the back. (The number by the way is we understand how many dollars profit the pharmaceutical company makes per pill from the patient, the insurance company, or Medicare or Medicaid -- in the last case it is doubled.)
Whatever that green pill is readers better make it last the month or whatever because the PHARMACIST DOES NOT EVER MAKE A MISTAKE WITH THE PATIENT and ONE'S DOCTOR IS NOT INTERESTED IN ONE'S ABILITIES AT CREATIVE STORYTELLING BECAUSE SHE HAS ONE GOOD ONE FOR THE PATIENT CALLED "DRUG DIVERSION" AND ALREADY HAS THE FDA, DEA AND STATE MEDICAL BOARD all breathing down her neck poring over her medical records for weeks on end of full work days (four-and-a-half hours minus lunch) just because of SUCH UNGRATEFUL PATIENTS -- and incidentally illegally practicing medicine but we will not get into that here.
In any case WebMD get off our page and good riddance you sell-out pharmaceutical pigs and good riddance again. As for Google well Google no longer has any excuse whatsoever. And MIT had such high hopes for Goog;le. Well it sure is no Noam Chomsky that has become clear. Just shows anyone can go to the dogs. . . . May Google one day have a Chromebook in the hands of some wacko talking to the parking meters so Google can track their every move and thought for the next ten years. Market that then sell the information to partner CIA -- sounds like a fine opportunity for the first candidate for MK-ULTRA-II. . . .
Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
When drug company advertising somewhat dried up WebMd took large amounts of U.S. readers' taxpayer money from the U.S. Government in order to give the appearance of unbiased support of Obamacare. It seems our most "transparent" President (a pretty tall order which he has no one to blame but himself for totally dishonestly claiming that title) cannot help but likewise enlist or rather pay off the least transparent but mistakenly once most highly regarded and visited web site which Americans where scammed into turning to for what seemed "to good to be true", and was, free medical advice. About as helpful as turning for advice to all those horrific prescription medicine ads the FDA true to its morally bankrupt history has allowed to deluge the public airways.
Speaking of which it turns out that WebMD also has received many millions of dollars from the FDA itself discredited for dissuading the people of this country from using time-tested natural remedies and promoting drugs which often turn out to have horrific "side effects" which somehow never came to light. Readers may learn why if they ever ask their pharmacist for the true drug information sheet which must come with all cases of prescription medicine in the form basically of tissue paper that folds out to something the size of a billboard in tiny print. If readers examine the numbers of persons actually able to survive it through the studies on which the FDA (iall costs paid by the pharmaceutical companies) approves medications readers will find that often barely a handful make it to the end of a study before the FDA approves a drug that then may be used by millions of persons.
A final note on the absolute hypocrisy of the FDA. In the 1980's the Administrator of the FDA found that the drug MDMA in a final determination did not meet the requirements of no known medical or research value such that it therefore could not be placed in Schedule I. Yet at the same time the latest chemical sweetener to be developed by Searle known as aspartame was found by the FDA to cause too high a risk of brain cancer and was to be banned. Well would readers not know that shortly after that Ronald ("McDonald") Reagan became the first brain-dead President elected since Warren Harding.
He within days reversed the FDA Administrator's determination on MDMA ("ecstasy") and ordered it placed in Schedule I on an emergency basis (no public comment) while meanwhile to the delight of one of his new cabinet members who happened to have just resigned his position as President of Searle within days of joining the new Administration Ronald (McDonald) Reagan agreed to have the FDA rush new tests on aspartame and lo and behold within weeks it was no longer banned but declared perfectly safe such that it was on readers' supermarket shelves and being dumped into all kinds of foods and beverages within the month in time to the likely severe detriment of millions of Americans' well-being. As it turned out Ronald (McDonald) Reagan had been consuming large quantities of homemade aspartame since he was a child and he after all turned out practically to be perfectly fine with no sign of no brain cancer at all.
One last tidbit about what a load of garbage the FDA and all its pharmaceutical and law enforcement chums have hoisted on Americans forever is that one just need take a look at the story of one horribly vilified "date rape" drug known as GHB the only problems for starters being that it is naturally occurring in the human body which one would think might make prosecuting possession a bit of a problem at least in some legal systems. The second being that it has been very widely and safely used for years in Europe and throughout the world as an anesthetic, a sleep aid that some have said is the best sleep aid they have ever had leaving them clear-headed, well-rested, and often even needing less sleep before being able to do more mental and physical activity and even exercise that seem indisputedly to more quickly result in healthy muscle development.
In any case the DEA of course needed its latest hysteria to keep it in business as always, and with the help of a few well-publicized anecdotes, well what did Americans know but the naturally-occurring human growth hormone that had been sold for years in places like GNC and was well known to weightlifters and athletes has become the thing of living nightmares and of course headed for "emergency" scheduling as Schedule I, no known blah blah blah. Only problem was that it turned out to be the only effective substance for certain sleep disorders including serious narcolepsy, so what did the federal acronym gang come up with, well they simply allowed a single company to sell it in pharmacies under a trade name (the name escapes us but interested readers should be able to find it, possibly under the "R"s in about one minute) as schedule III, while it was simultaneously schedule I at the same time and voila disaster was diverted. It is not known if they had the NSA lawyers or the White House lawyers review and okay that one making the legally impossible fully possible with the stroke of a pen.
The Ninth Amendment will save the story told on of all places "60 Minutes" about the drugs in regular use such as aspirin and even phenobarbital from well before the FDA even existed and which therefore had no authority to approve or disapprove those or many other drugs commonly used -- as we understood it from the television program, and though may have gotten it all wrong and be totally confused we think not. (THIS IS NOT NOR DOES IT PURPORT TO BE LEGAL NOR MEDICAL ADVICE IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. READERS MUST EXCLSUIVELY CONSULT A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL FOR LEGAL ADVICE AND A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL FOR MEDICAL ADVICE.) In any case in casual inquiries with pharmacists it has been our experience that as "60 Minutes" predicted many druggists are confused between what is known as the NDC number (?) and the actual FDA approval.
Regardless as many of our readers know pharmacists are always right unless they are speaking directly to a doctor or as for the pathetic customer prescription unless they open the bag right there and dump their prescription out on the counter and actually count it out in front of someone behind the counter and carefully compare the visual appearance to the verbal description on the label.
Because OTHERWISE ONE IS OUT OF LUCK even if one gets home with just one big square green pill for pets with the letter "A" on it but were supposed to get two hundred and twenty-five small white people ones with the number "178" on side and for example "Screw You" on the back. (The number by the way is we understand how many dollars profit the pharmaceutical company makes per pill from the patient, the insurance company, or Medicare or Medicaid -- in the last case it is doubled.)
Whatever that green pill is readers better make it last the month or whatever because the PHARMACIST DOES NOT EVER MAKE A MISTAKE WITH THE PATIENT and ONE'S DOCTOR IS NOT INTERESTED IN ONE'S ABILITIES AT CREATIVE STORYTELLING BECAUSE SHE HAS ONE GOOD ONE FOR THE PATIENT CALLED "DRUG DIVERSION" AND ALREADY HAS THE FDA, DEA AND STATE MEDICAL BOARD all breathing down her neck poring over her medical records for weeks on end of full work days (four-and-a-half hours minus lunch) just because of SUCH UNGRATEFUL PATIENTS -- and incidentally illegally practicing medicine but we will not get into that here.
In any case WebMD get off our page and good riddance you sell-out pharmaceutical pigs and good riddance again. As for Google well Google no longer has any excuse whatsoever. And MIT had such high hopes for Goog;le. Well it sure is no Noam Chomsky that has become clear. Just shows anyone can go to the dogs. . . . May Google one day have a Chromebook in the hands of some wacko talking to the parking meters so Google can track their every move and thought for the next ten years. Market that then sell the information to partner CIA -- sounds like a fine opportunity for the first candidate for MK-ULTRA-II. . . .
Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
21 May 2014
Corrupt Texas GOP Scandals Mounting Apparent Election Year Blunders Governor Candidate Abbott PAC Labels Texas Women "Hoes", A.G. Candidate Paxton Non-Disclosure Fine Launches Investigations, Perry UT-Regent Defiant Wallace Hall Faces Texas House Impeachment, Sitting Grand Jury Calls Various Perry Cronies, Trailing GOP Lt. Governor Dewey Denies Role Handing GOP Opponent Patrick's Psych Records To Media, "Dark Money" Haunts All Republicans, State And Federal GOP Criminal Investigations Reportedly Commence As Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry Stays Course For GOP Disaster Hiring Personal Defense Counsel
Wednesday, 21 May 2014, AUSTIN - Well it may just seem like business as usual from Texas Republicans point of view but unfortunately for Texas GOP candidates, appointees, cronies, donors and assorted other corrupt hangers-on who once apparently felt "made" by the seemingly lifetime guaranteed protection of now lame-duck Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry the start to this year's Texas state election season would seem to suggest that that will not be the case. At all. With the worst doubtless yet to come, and come, and come.
Unfortunately for this gang of thieves and fools the rather ill-concealed cronyism of which Perry actually boasted, corruption permeating all levels of state government touched by Perry's seemingly interminable governorship, and doubtless near-countless as yet untold but soon to be discovered misdeeds, improper motives, criminal acts and conspiracies can be expected to result with many GOP sycophants either ratting each other out and/or inevitably finding their way to new long "terms" but this time behind prison bars with significantly less pay and zero good true hard-working Texans' Lone Star state tax dollars to waste, misuse and steal.
Those Perryites who find themselves at the bottom of the Republican-on-Republican food chain feeding frenzy may be best advised to get down on their knees and pray if so inclined (with someone other than Idiot Perry the "Zero Million Ninety Dollar Man" doing his phony preaching) that all time spent in the enforced "care and feeding" of the State be spent behind federal rather than Texas state prison bars for reasons previously reported upon in earlier posts here in the Ninth Amendment.
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Unfortunately for this gang of thieves and fools the rather ill-concealed cronyism of which Perry actually boasted, corruption permeating all levels of state government touched by Perry's seemingly interminable governorship, and doubtless near-countless as yet untold but soon to be discovered misdeeds, improper motives, criminal acts and conspiracies can be expected to result with many GOP sycophants either ratting each other out and/or inevitably finding their way to new long "terms" but this time behind prison bars with significantly less pay and zero good true hard-working Texans' Lone Star state tax dollars to waste, misuse and steal.
Those Perryites who find themselves at the bottom of the Republican-on-Republican food chain feeding frenzy may be best advised to get down on their knees and pray if so inclined (with someone other than Idiot Perry the "Zero Million Ninety Dollar Man" doing his phony preaching) that all time spent in the enforced "care and feeding" of the State be spent behind federal rather than Texas state prison bars for reasons previously reported upon in earlier posts here in the Ninth Amendment.
Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
13 May 2014
Impeachment Of Perry U-Texas Regent Republican Appointee Wallace Hall Voted Overwhelmingly By House Committee For Violating Criminal State And Federal Law At Perry's Direction
Tuesday, 13 May 2014, AUSTIN - Texas Republican criminal corruption scandals widened as lame-duck Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry's decades of criminal acts and cover-ups continued to unravel as a Texas house committee voted 7-1 to charge landmark specific articles of impeachment against Perry U-T Regent appointee alleged criminal Wallace Hall reportedly placed by brain-dead Perry to perpetrate further state and federal criminal acts from Republican Wallace's "inside" position, with Wallace relentlessly attacking fellow state officials in ill-disguised illegal efforts to oust UT-Austin President Bill Powers.
With the prison doors one step closer to slamming shut on lame-duck Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry the laser-sighted six-shooter carrying in his running shorts Governor-In-Absence Perry's spokespersons denied all requests Idiot Perry demand Wallace's resignation. However behind the scenes Perry sycophants presumably hastened plans to escape to asylum in Japan should Moron Republican AG Gregg "Dark Money" Abbott not buy the upcoming Texas gubernatorial election with his complete lack of popular support among true hard-working Texans giving their blood and sweat to restore the Lone Star state to pre-Perry glory where they also can once again breathe clean air, drink clean water and earn a decent living wage for themselves and their families.
Felons possibly soon to include Perry are not permitted to carry firearms for the safety of the general popuIation including coyotes. Meanwhile impeachment proceedings continue in coming days against state and federal Republican criminal suspect U-T Regent and fellow-Abbott Republican Wallace Hall for what will be only the third time they have been used in Texas history. Link below to full San Antonio Express-News article published today.
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12 May 2014
As Texas Republican AG Candidate Paxton's Non-Disclosure Fined By Texas Regulators Repbublican Candidates' Corruption Scandal Widens Federal SEC Complaint Filed
Monday, 12 May 2014, AUSTIN - Close on the heels of the Texas Moron AG Greg "Dark Money" Abbott's hastening of a State investigation for contributions from Perry-favorite "dark money" predator lenders in Texas' upcoming election, as reported here in an earlier post, a complaint has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission based on a $1,000 fine levied by a Texas agency against Texas Republican state senator Ken Paxton, R-McKinney running for Abbott's soon-to-be-vacated AG position for working for a Texas financial firm while serving in office without registering with the State.
The complaint filed by "fellow" Republican state representative Dan Branch, R-Dallas, would seem to confirm predictions that in the wake of Utah's Republican-on-Republican feeding frenzy that similar sordid dynamics, resulting in the resignation of the Utah Attorney General, could now have shifted to the wide-open Texas corruption scandals invited by lame-duck Idiot Texas Governor Rick "Payback" Perry who last year vetoed a bill passed by the Texas legislature to expose "dark money" interests.
The criminally-inclined cadre of Utah, Texas and other opportunistic Payday / Title / "Short-Term" loan sharks and usurer "dark money" predator lenders formerly operating in Utah until booted out and reportedly moved operations and deep-cover election manipulation scams to Texas where they hope to bilk the hard-working people of the Lone Star State presumably of at least hundreds of millions dollars through their puppet Republican candidates. With the stakes getting so high Republicans have resorted as in Utah now to preying upon one another with public relations and more subversive attacks.
As stated by Craig McDonald of Texans for Public Justice because each of these two latest Republicans embroiled in secretive financing matters already have a generously-described "questionable" history in matters regarding any type of real transparency or disclosure regarding their affairs in public office these "top" (at least for the time being) Republican candidates reportedly according to the San Antonio News-Express have been described as demonstrating they "don't appear to be committed to open government and transparency.
"They may talk about it but when push comes to shove, they're not here on behalf of [Texas] voters and taxpayers with respect to open government," McDonald reportedly said.
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The complaint filed by "fellow" Republican state representative Dan Branch, R-Dallas, would seem to confirm predictions that in the wake of Utah's Republican-on-Republican feeding frenzy that similar sordid dynamics, resulting in the resignation of the Utah Attorney General, could now have shifted to the wide-open Texas corruption scandals invited by lame-duck Idiot Texas Governor Rick "Payback" Perry who last year vetoed a bill passed by the Texas legislature to expose "dark money" interests.
The criminally-inclined cadre of Utah, Texas and other opportunistic Payday / Title / "Short-Term" loan sharks and usurer "dark money" predator lenders formerly operating in Utah until booted out and reportedly moved operations and deep-cover election manipulation scams to Texas where they hope to bilk the hard-working people of the Lone Star State presumably of at least hundreds of millions dollars through their puppet Republican candidates. With the stakes getting so high Republicans have resorted as in Utah now to preying upon one another with public relations and more subversive attacks.
As stated by Craig McDonald of Texans for Public Justice because each of these two latest Republicans embroiled in secretive financing matters already have a generously-described "questionable" history in matters regarding any type of real transparency or disclosure regarding their affairs in public office these "top" (at least for the time being) Republican candidates reportedly according to the San Antonio News-Express have been described as demonstrating they "don't appear to be committed to open government and transparency.
"They may talk about it but when push comes to shove, they're not here on behalf of [Texas] voters and taxpayers with respect to open government," McDonald reportedly said.
Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
17 September 2013
Below Call For Petition Signatures To Congress To Reveal The Full Extent Of NSA Spying Programs Appeared For Several Months After The Ninth Amendment's Header
Our profound thank you to
the selfless, bold and brave Mozilla.org freeware creators (including
of the Firefox browser) for its rapid launch -- amidst reports if true
as all disclosed evidence to date overwhelmingly supports of a
devastatingly fearsome misguided sprawling rotten with untold taxpayer
dollars rogue NSA seven-year-long fully unchecked universal spying
conspiracy to this day with its unapologetic army of criminal snoops
reaching to the ends of the earth arrogantly trampling the laws and
trust of our Nation to which each swore their oath of allegiance yet in
fact meanwhile embracing instead "Prism" (just replace the "m" with
"on") like a known rogue nuclear missile obviously destined to boomerang
dismissing, degrading and disgracing the denial of the express
foundation of a State built on core "truths we hold to be self-evident"
not just dogmeat for some spy-on-all-that-moves-whacked-out crazed
menacing foaming sick at the mouth NSA diving amok headlong forever off
into the dark abyss insuring the security of none by invading the
privacy of all -- yes in the face of these truths and more that the NSA
would abolish by fiat were such a feat ultimately possible except
history of course exposes again and again that neither a person nor
Nation can hold back any dark evil truth forever, all that this Nation
has held dear, indeed that for which its authentic Revolutionary
patriots fought and died, and which its Founding Fathers pronounced as
its reason and its enduring promise through the enumeration and adoption
in the United States Constitution ratified by the People of the several
states, the Ninth Amendment Log here recognizes Mozilla.org for its
extraordinary immediate recognition of what is at stake and need be done
here and now, with swift action marshaling its loose vast diverse
resources which indeed are far greater than those who can be only bought
by the NSA and all such ilk in the face of none more awesome, powerful
and effective than those who here stand up and petition for the full
exposure of the NSA and its deeds by none more surely unstoppable than
those who live by and for the values that here are at stake, who are
"not in it for the money", and perhaps above all have the necessary and
far beyond that moral, intellectual and technical ability to initiate
the petition here, and whatever other process may prove necessary and
proper, as efficiently and effectively as anyone on the planet as they
in fact are and represent everyone on the planet come together bringing
their strength to bear on salvation of this Country of promise.
Petition to help save our Constitution, our Country, and our people now collecting signatures at the site link below.
www.stopwatching.us
Petition to help save our Constitution, our Country, and our people now collecting signatures at the site link below.
www.stopwatching.us
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Stop Watching Us.
The revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance apparatus, if true, represent a stunning abuse of our basic rights. We demand the U.S. Congress reveal the full extent of the NSA's spying programs.
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