50 votes

Hits keep coming! IRS Faces Lawsuit After Stealing 60 Million Medical Records

Healthcare IT News reported:

The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges.

According to a report by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in California is suing the IRS, alleging that some 60 million medical records from 10 million patients were stolen by 15 IRS agents. The personal health information seized on March 11, 2011, included psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual/drug treatment and other medical treatment data.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/irs-faces-lawsuit-af...

49 votes

Buycott App: Scan the item in your cart... and KNOW who is benefitting from your purchase.

Whoa... this is a powerful little tool.

You can scan the barcode on any product and the free app will trace its ownership all the way to its top corporate parent company.

Once you’ve scanned an item, Buycott will show you its corporate family tree on your phone screen.

Even more impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott business practices that violate your principles rather than single companies. One of these campaigns, Demand GMO Labeling, will scan your box of cereal and tell you if it was made by one of the 36 corporations that donated more than $150,000 to oppose the mandatory labeling of genetically modified food.

50 votes

First major hemp crop in 60 years is planted in southeast Colorado

By Steve Raabe
The Denver Post

Ryan Loflin, of Colorado Hemp, funnels his hemp seeds into a baggie in Crested Butte in April. (AAron Ontiveroz, Denver Post file)

Springfield farmer Ryan Loflin on Monday planted the nation's first industrial hemp crop in almost 60 years.

Loflin's plans to grow hemp already have been chronicled, and Monday's planting attracted the attention of more media in southeastern Colorado and a documentary film crew.

Hemp is genetically related to marijuana but contains little or no THC, the psychoactive substance in marijuana. Hemp has dozens of uses in food, cosmetics, clothing and industrial materials.

99 votes

Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’

The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries.

75 votes

Rand Paul: AP Phone Spying Proves Obama is “Drunk on Power”

Infowars.com
 | Paul Joseph Watson | May 14, 2013

Senator Rand Paul responded to the barrage of scandals to hit the Obama administration, from Benghazi, to the IRS targeting conservatives, to the Justice Department spying on Associated Press reporters, by accusing President Obama of being “drunk on power.”


http://youtu.be/8BlYnWmhAsU

48 votes

Update - Justice Depart. Spied for Months on AP Reporters; Holder Recuses Self

Associated Press: Justice Dept Defends Secret Review of AP Records, May 14, 2013


http://youtu.be/I5d0lWbf0fM

Holder recuses himself from Associated Press investigation
By Richard A. Serrano May 14, 2013, 10:50 a.m.

WASHINGTON — Attorney Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. recused himself from the leak investigation in which federal prosecutors seized records from 20 telephone lines used by reporters and editors at the Associated Press, and the matter is instead being coordinated by the FBI and the local U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, a top Justice Department official said.

46 votes

Corporatism Wins, Again: SCOTUS Unanimously rules in favor of Monsanto, vs an Indiana Farmer!

Monsanto wins landmark case in Supreme Court

http://youtu.be/GxzcycOayig
RTAmerica
Published on May 13, 2013

On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the bio-tech giant Monsanto. In the case, Indiana farmer Vernon Bowman was being accused of seed infringement after he allegedly planted soybean seed without the company's permission. RT's Liz Wahl brings us more on the landmark case and how the 75 year-old man violated Monsanto's patent.

53 votes

Mother's Day Club

Mother's Day has always been a tough one for me to stomach. I lost my mom when I was 18. If you have any great mom memories, please feel free to share!

Here's just a few short ones

Sweeping the backyard so we could ice skate and play hockey with brooms
Pulling me out of school to take me to skiing
Making me toast when I was sick

I wish this post stopped right here, but there's another side to this story.

20 votes

Liberty without Love is Hollow

"Liberty is not the beginning and the end. Before I believed in liberty, I believed in Love and Truth."


http://youtu.be/seR5qBKkbC8

This is the speech I gave at the Republican Liberty Caucus of Washington State Annual Convention. It may be the most important I have given to date.

In Love and Liberty, Robin (Blue Republican)

140 votes

Glenn Greenwald Schools Bill Maher on Benghazi, US ME Bombing, and Religion

This was so nice to see. Glenn gets a lot of fantastic points out in a very short amount of time. It's almost as if he knew once he started speaking truth, they'd try and cut him off. Awesome job Glenn!


http://youtu.be/MB-itn_LJuM

67 votes

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.

75 votes

Update - IRS Targeted Tea Party in 2011

AP Exclusive: IRS knew tea party targeted in 2011
Thanks RonPaulforfreedom for link

Syndicate content