Loretta Lynch used fake name as attorney general

Loretta Lynch used fake name as attorney general:

"The records indicate that using an alias was common in the Obama camp. WND reported in 2017 that Obama, according to former assistant U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy, knew that he had communicated with Hillary Clinton over her non-secure, private communication system “using an alias.”
FBI Director James Comey concluded Clinton was “extremely careless” but said there would be no charges for her mishandling of classified information.
WND columnist Ellen Ratner asked whether or not Obama and Lynch were using aliases “to throw off FOIA requests?”
“Did Obama and Lynch share their alias emails with FOIA officers? If they didn’t, how would those who are handling these FOIA requests know what to look for?” she wrote."

Important story!-----Akon Offered to Restore Power to Puerto Rico in 30 Days But US Gov't Refused to Let Him | The Daily Sheeple

Akon Offered to Restore Power to Puerto Rico in 30 Days But US Gov't Refused to Let Him | The Daily Sheeple: 
"...As the Guardian reported at the launch of their project, Akon and his two co-founders — Thione Niang, a Senegalese political activist, and Samba Bathily, a Malian entrepreneur and CEO of the solar energy company Solektra International — believe that what rural African communities need is not overseas charity but affordable renewable energy delivered by fully trained African professionals, managing for-profit projects that bring longevity, generate jobs and build new self-sustaining economies.
They were right.
In less than one year, according to the charity group Akon Lighting Africa, a wide range of quality solar solutions, including street lamps, domestic and individual kits, have been installed in 14 African countries — thanks to a private-public partnership model and a well-established network of partners (including SOLEKTRA INT, SUMEC and NARI).
As a result, a number of households, villages, community houses, schools and health centers located in rural areas have been connected to electricity for the first time ever. 
Local jobs, primarily for young people, have also been created in these communities, for installation of equipment’s and for maintenance.
The transformative effects that a single group has had in the region are nothing short of astonishing and speaks to the nature of the decision to refuse to allow Akon to restore power to Puerto Rico.
On the contrary, other contractors were given billions of taxpayer dollars to “aid” in the recovery efforts only to be caught swindling taxpayers.
US Rep. Elijah Cummings and Stacey Plaskett, the congressional delegate from the US Virgin Islands, signed a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, calling into question a $156 million contract awarded to a small Atlanta-based company, Tribute Contracting LLC, according to CNN.
For their $156 million dollar price tag, Tribute Contracting promised to deliver 30 million meals to starving Puerto Ricans. 
However, the company only came through with 50,000 meals, delivering just 0.25 percent of their end of the bargain.
To put that into perspective, each one of those meals cost the US taxpayer $3,120. 
In the meantime, however, a company with a proven track record of restoring power while creating a market for energy and jobs using very little government funding, is turned down..."
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How Big Is Your State’s Share of $6 Trillion in Unfunded Pension Liabilities?

How Big Is Your State’s Share of $6 Trillion in Unfunded Pension Liabilities?
"Despite a solid year for investment returns, the unfunded liabilities of state and local government pension plans increased by $433 billion, the most recent estimate from the American Legislative Exchange Council shows.
According to ALEC’s report—which uses more appropriate assumptions on investment returns than the plans use themselves—state and local governments’ unfunded liabilities now exceed $6 trillion.
That’s a whopping $18,676 for every man, woman, and child, or nearly $50,000 for every household in America.
This is bad news for taxpayers in states and localities where government workers have been promised far more in pension benefits than politicians set aside to pay them.
That’s because most states have strong protections for promised pension benefits, meaning there is little prospect of reducing a pension benefit or asking employees to contribute more to it..."
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Nut consumption may aid colon cancer survival | Science Codex

Nut consumption may aid colon cancer survival | Science Codex: 
"...The study followed 826 participants in a clinical trial for a median of 6.5 years after they were treated with surgery and chemotherapy. 
Those who regularly consumed at least two, one-ounce servings of nuts each week demonstrated a 42% improvement in disease-free survival and a 57% improvement in overall survival.
"Further analysis of this cohort revealed that disease-free survival increased by 46% among the subgroup of nut consumers who ate tree nuts rather than peanuts," said Charles S. Fuchs, M.D., M.P.H., director of Yale Cancer Center and senior author of the study. 
Tree nuts include almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, cashews, and pecans, among others. 
In contrast, peanuts are actually in the legumes family of foods.
..."The results highlight the importance of emphasizing dietary and life-style factors in colon cancer survivorship.""...
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Second Amendment Rights |

Second Amendment Rights |:

"Incidents of mass violence, often perpetrated by individuals with severe mental illness (against whose possession of guns existing laws attempt to protect), should not be used by policymakers as an opportunity to restrict constitutional rights. Lawmakers have an obligation to be faithful to the original public meaning of the Second Amendment. "

Police Unions Defend Bad Cops Who Do Awful Things. Why Won't They Defend Broward County Deputy? - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Police Unions Defend Bad Cops Who Do Awful Things. Why Won't They Defend Broward County Deputy? - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Police unions routinely defend bad cops who do awful things.

• When Hector Jimenez, an Oakland cop, shot and killed an unarmed man in 2007, he got his job back. Seven months later, after he killed another man by shooting him three times in the back, he got his job back a second time. In both cases, the local police union intervened in Jimenez' favor.
• After 13 Cleveland cops fired 137 rounds of ammo into a car in 2012, killing two people, at the end of a car chase, all but one ended up staying on the job with help from the union. 
• The same was true for Philadelphia police officer Cyrus Mann, who was fired that same year after shooting three people within three years (he killed one of his victims, an unarmed man, by shooting him in the back) and later reinstated on the force after a union-backed arbitration process.
• Last year, when cops in Salt Lake City violently arrested a nurse for refusing to draw blood from a hospital patient without a warrant, the local police union stepped in to defend the officers' actions and attack those who criticized them.

In those cases, and plenty of others, police unions have defended cops who engaged in clear-cut abuses of the public trust placed in them. 
Whether it's a question of excessive force, unconstitutional searches, or the killing of innocent civilians, police unions routinely stand up for officers who have committed acts with tragic consequences. 
Union contracts "often provide a shield of protection for officers accused of misdeeds," Reuters concluded in a 2017 investigative report.
But the head of the union that represents law enforcement in Broward County, Florida, says his union won't be stepping up to help disgraced deputy Scot Peterson, who resigned amid the fallout from the Feb. 14 school shooting.
Why not? 
It's not because the union is upset with Peterson's conduct or because it thinks he has disgraced the courageous image of law enforcement. 
No, it's really just about the money.
"From a legal standpoint, we say he was not a 'dues-paying member,'" Jeff Bell, president of the Broward County Sheriff's Deputies Association told Reason..."
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History for March 2

History for March 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Sam Houston 1793 - First President of the Republic of Texas, Sholem Aleichem 1859 - Author, playwright, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) 1904 - Writer, poet, and cartoonist


Tom Wolfe 1931 - Author, Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 - Former Soviet President, Karen Carpenter 1950 - Singer (The Carpenters)


1807 - The U.S. Congress passed an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."


1836 - Texas declared its independence from Mexico and an ad interim government was formed.


1877 - In the U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by the U.S. Congress. Samuel J. Tilden, however, had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.


1899 - U.S. President McKinley signed a measure that created the rank of Admiral for the U.S. Navy. The first admiral was George Dewey.


1917 - The Russian Revolution began with Czar Nicholas II abdicating.


1933 - The motion picture King Kong had its world premiere in New York.


1949 - The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, TX. The American plane had completed the first non-stop around-the-world flight.


1969 - In Toulouse, France, the supersonic transport Concorde made its first test flight.