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Saturday, May 31, 2014

House votes to defund DOJ program that snagged legitimate gun dealers, businesses

http://www.blacklistednews.com/House_votes_to_defund_DOJ_program_that_snagged_legitimate_gun_dealers%2C_businesses/35610/0/38/38/Y/M.html

The Washington Times

The House of Representatives passed an amendment Thursday to stop all federal funding to be used for the Department of Justice's Operation Choke Point, an anti-fraud operation that was found to be cutting off legitimate businesses from their banking lines.

"This is a major victory for consumers, law-abiding businesses, and anyone who believes in due process and restraint of government encroachment," said the Community Financial Services Association of America, a trade group opposed to the operation, in a statement Friday. "Additionally, our banking system benefits as it will not be put in the position to police customers or make judgments about the political popularity of businesses and industries."

The amendment was brought to the floor by Rep. Blane Luetkemeyer, a Republican from Missouri, who is a member of the House Financial Services Committee and is vice chairman of the House Small Business Committee. The amendment was sponsored by three democrats and two more republicans.

The voice vote came as part of the debate on the annual spending bill for the Justice Department and needs Senate approval to become law.

A House panel Thursday said the Obama Administration has been using Operation Choke Point to target and "choke out" businesses it finds objectionable, from gun dealers and payday lenders to drug paraphernalia sellers and porn merchants.

Government Engaging In Pre-Crime Monitoring And Analysis

Snowden: “We Have a System of Pervasive, Pre-Criminal Surveillance Where the Government Wants To Watch What You’re Doing Just to See What You’re Up To, To See What You’re Thinking, Even Behind Closed Doors”

Snowden

Posted on May 30, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog

Government Engaging In Pre-Crime Monitoring And Analysis

When NBC’s Brian Williams interviewed Ed Snowden in Moscow last week, one of Snowden’s most interesting statements was left on the cutting room floor.

Specifically, the following statement was cut from NBC’s broadcast Wednesday night:

Now, we have a system of pervasive, pre-criminal surveillance where the government wants to watch what you’re doing just to see what you’re up to, to see what you’re thinking, even behind closed doors.

Indeed, a government expert told the Washington Post that the government “quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type.” (And see this.) And British and U.S. intelligence agencies have been recording millions of webcam videos … many of them nude videos from inside people’s homes. Indeed, the government is spying on virtually everything we do.

Moreover, the NSA is working on building a “pre-crime” computer system that uses artificial intelligence and massive amounts of data to try to predict how every thinks and what everyone is likely to do.

As we reported last year:

The government is currently testing systems for use in public spaces which can screen for “pre-crime”. As Nature reports:

Like a lie detector, FAST measures a variety of physiological indicators, ranging from heart rate to the steadiness of a person’s gaze, to judge a subject’s state of mind. But there are major differences from the polygraph. FAST relies on non-contact sensors, so it can measure indicators as someone walks through a corridor at an airport, and it does not depend on active questioning of the subject.

CBS News points out:

FAST is designed to track and monitor, among other inputs, body movements, voice pitch changes, prosody changes (alterations in the rhythm and intonation of speech), eye movements, body heat changes, and breathing patterns. Occupation and age are also considered. A government source told CNET that blink rate and pupil variation are measured too.

A field test of FAST has been conducted in at least one undisclosed location in the northeast. “It is not an airport, but it is a large venue that is a suitable substitute for an operational setting,” DHS spokesman John Verrico toldNature.com in May.

Although DHS has publicly suggested that FAST could be used at airport checkpoints–the Transportation Security Administration is part of the department, after all–the government appears to have grander ambitions. One internal DHS document (PDF) also obtained by EPIC through the Freedom of Information Act says a mobile version of FAST “could be used at security checkpoints such as border crossings or at large public eventssuch as sporting events or conventions.”

The risk of false positives is very real. As Computer World notes:

Tom Ormerod, a psychologist in the Investigative Expertise Unit atLancaster University, UK, told Nature, “Even having an iris scan or fingerprint read at immigration is enough to raise the heart rate of most legitimate travelers.” Other critics have been concerned about “false positives.” For example, some travelers might have some of the physical responses that are supposedly signs of mal-intent if they were about to be groped by TSA agents in airport security.

Various “pre-crime” sensing devices have already been deployed in public spaces in the U.S.

The government has also worked on artificial intelligence for “pre-crime” detection on the Web. And given that programs which can figure out your emotions are being developed using your webcam, every change in facial expression could be tracked.

While the government pretends that such pre-crime monitoring is meant to prevent terrorism, the fact is that it is instead being used to crush dissent.

Insider Trading Bombshell: FBI/SEC Investigating Carl Icahn & Phil Mickelson

Insider Trading Bombshell: FBI/SEC Investigating Carl Icahn & Phil Mickelson

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/30/2014 20:22 -0400

Did you hear the one about the Vegas gambler, the Pro golfer, and the Wall Street insider? Straight off the pages of some Hollywood script, the Wall Street Journal reports that Federal investigators are pursuing a major insider-trading probe involving finance, gambling and sports, examining the trading of investor Carl Icahn, golfer Phil Mickelson and Las Vegas bettor William "Billy" Walters. All three men have denied any investigations or "no comment"-ed about "well timed" stock trades in Clorox in 2011 - around the time Icahn made a $10.2bn bid for the company. Mr. Walters and Mr. Mickelson, 43, play golf together; and rather comedically, Mr. Icahn said he didn't know who Mr. Mickelson was...?

Via The Wall Street Journal,

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission are examining whether Mr. Mickelson and Mr. Walters traded illicitly on nonpublic information from Mr. Icahn about his investments in public companies, people briefed on the probe said.

Investigators are examining whether over the past three years Mr. Icahn tipped Mr. Walters—famous in Las Vegas for his sports-betting acumen—about potentially market-moving investments by Mr. Icahn's company.

The FBI and SEC are examining whether Mr. Walters on at least one occasion passed a tip on to Mr. Mickelson, these people said, and are studying the two men's trading patterns.

The denials were quick to come...

"We do not know of any investigation," Mr. Icahn said on Friday. "We are always very careful to observe all legal requirements in all of our activities." The suggestion that he was involved in improper trading, he said, was "inflammatory and speculative."

...

"Phil is not the target of any investigation. Period," said a lawyer for Mr. Mickelson,

...

When asked to comment about the investigation, Mr. Walters, reached by phone on Friday, said, "I don't have any comment about anything," and then hung up.

They kinda sorta know each other... kinda...

Mr. Icahn met Mr. Walters, 67, through a mutual acquaintance when Mr. Icahn's company owned the Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas. Mr. Icahn bought the Stratosphere in 1998 and sold it along with several other properties for $1.2 billion in 2008.

The two struck up a friendship. Mr. Icahn was once an avid poker player and enjoys betting on football games. The two have spoken about stocks.

Mr. Walters and Mr. Mickelson, 43, play golf together, said people familiar with their relationship. Sometimes Mr. Walters has suggested stocks for Mr. Mickelson to consider buying, one of the people said.

Mr. Mickelson, who has one of the most loyal followings of top professional golfers, has won the prestigious Masters three times.

Mr. Icahn said he didn't know who Mr. Mickelson was.

It seems the trades in question are focused on Clorox in 2011... (and also Dean Foods)

The government investigation began three years ago after Mr. Icahn accumulated a 9.1% stake in Clorox in February 2011, said the people briefed on the probe. On July 15, 2011, he made a $10.2 billion offer for Clorox that caused the stock to jump.

Well-timed trading around the time of his bid caught the attention of investigators, who began digging into the suspicious trading in Clorox stock, the people familiar with the probe said.

...

The investigators expanded their probe to look at trading patterns by Mr. Walters and Mr. Mickelson relating to Dean Foods Co. , said the people briefed on the probe. The FBI, following its approach to Mr. Mickelson on Thursday, expressed an interest in his trading in Dean Foods, a person familiar with the situation said.

We are sure somewhere Bill Ackman is laughing his ass off...

Cue CNBC defense... and Icahn's twitter feed seems awkwardly quiet on the matter

Federal judge dismisses trial, contends ATF “created fictitious crime”

Federal judge dismisses trial, contends ATF “created fictitious crime”

5/30/14 | by Chris Eger

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U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real dismissed the ATF's case against three men whom he contends were enticed to commit a fictitious crime by the agency. (Photo credit: CSPAN)

U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real dismissed the ATF’s case against three men whom he contends were enticed to commit a fictitious crime by the agency. (Photo credit: CSPAN)

A federal judge in California dismissed a case resulting from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ investigation this month stating that the government “created the fictitious crime from whole cloth.”

U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real heard the case involving Randy Garmon, Arturo Cortez, and Rene Flores, which included an alleged plot to rob a drug supplier’s ‘stash house,’ as USA Todayreported.

However, the house in question was the site of an ATF sting and the alleged robbers’ contact and getaway car liaison was an undercover ATF agent.

All three plead guilty after their arrest in September and were awaiting sentencing from Real, who instead, dismissed the case.

According to court transcripts, the three defendants had been recruited by confidential informants, who were given $8,600 to “convince citizens to join the government’s scheme,” in Judge Reals’ words.

He further pointed out that none of the three men had a history of being involved in matters concerning guns, tax violations, or liquor that would have brought them under the ATF’s scrutiny. This was described by the federal judge in court as,” trolling poor neighborhoods to ensure and ensnare its poor citizens.”

Judge Real dismissed the U.S Attorney’s case against the three men, “for the government’s outrageous conduct,” and ordered their release in the May 12 hearing. He found that, in his opinion, there had been no crime to charge them with in the first place.

“The government created the fictitious crime from whole cloth,” said Real.

“The government provided the location to the plan of the fictitious crime where undercover ATF Agent Carr insisted on running through a script to ensure a conspiracy had been hatched and that Carr also provided the getaway car with the fictitious conspiracy,” he explained.

The U.S. Attorney’s office filed an emergency protective notice of appeal with the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals in the case, stating that the three individuals were flight risks. The 9th Circuit approved that notice and all three remain in custody while the appeal is considered and is expected this fall.

This case is the latest example in a growing list of embarrassing investigations by the agency that seem to defy common sense and endanger public safety.

In January the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Judiciary Committee announced that they planned to look into ATF storefront sting operations in Milwaukee and in other places around the country (Portland, Oregon; Wichita, Kansas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Atlanta, Georgia; and Pensacola, Florida) that employed questionable practices.

This scrutiny was compounded in March when California Rep. Darrell Issa slammed the ATF’s outright refusal to cooperate with the investigation, similar to the agency’s response to the Congressional probe into Operation Fast and Furious.

That fatally-flawed gunrunning program is blamed for sending upwards of 2,000 firearms south of the border, many of which landed in the hands of known cartel operatives. At least one of those firearms linked to Fast and Furious was found at the murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Meanwhile, Judge Real, nominated to his court in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, has promised to “write an opinion having to deal with all the factors which were used by the government to convince these defendants to participate in a false stash house robbery.”

And when he does, Guns.com will bring it to you.

Categories: Gun Laws, Politics & 2nd Amendment

House Votes to Stop Medical Marijuana Raids

House Votes to Stop Medical Marijuana Raids

Jacob Sullum|May. 30, 2014 7:54 am

http://reason.com/blog/2014/05/30/house-approves-amendment-to-stop-medical

WikipediaWikipediaEarly this morning, by a vote of 219 to 189, the House of Representatives approved an amendment aimed at stopping federal interference with state laws that "authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana." Theamendment, which would have to pass muster in the Senate to take effect, prohibits the Justice Department, which includes the Drug Enforcement Administration, from spending taxpayers' money on dispensary raids or other attempts to stop medical use of marijuana in the 22 states that allow it.

Similar meaures have failed in the House six times since 2003. This year the amendment attracted record support from Republicans, 49 of whom voted yes, compared to 28 last time around. "This measure passed because it received more support from Republicans than ever before," says Dan Riffle of the Marijuana Policy Project. "It is refreshing to see conservatives in Congress sticking to their conservative principles when it comes to marijuana policy. Republicans increasingly recognize that marijuana prohibition is a failed Big Government program that infringes on states' rights." Before the vote, Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, argued in Politico that it "ought to be an easy 'yes' vote for members of the 10th Amendment Task Force on Capitol Hill and other believers in limited government and federalism."

The 10th Amendment Task Force, founded in 2010, is a project of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), where conservative legislators are supposed to develop policies consistent with their principles. How many founding members of the RSC task force devoted to the 10th Amendment voted for federalism this morning? Four out of nine, which is one more than last time. Rep. Ron Bishop (R-Utah), founder and chairman of the task force, voted no in 2012 but changed his mind this year, joining Reps. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), Cynthis Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) in the yes column. Reps. John Culberson (R-Texas), Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas), Mike Conaway (R-Texas), and Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) voted no. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who voted no in 2012, did not vote this time. 

Amazon deploys 10,000 robot workers, a year after Obama’s famous Amazon jobs speech

Amazon deploys 10,000 robot workers, a year after Obama’s famous Amazon jobs speech

The Robots are coming

It is clear that no sense of irony is needed to be successful in politics. If it was, then President Obama’s team might have thought more deeply about their choice of an Amazon warehouse as a showcase for one of his key speeches about jobs in the United States. Leaving aside whether warehouse jobs are great jobs or not, no company has been more aggressive as Amazon when it comes to eliminating human labor in the supply chain. When we first covered Amazon’s acquisition of warehouse-robotics company Kiva for $775 million in 2012, Amazon bragged of having 1,000 robots in its warehouses. Now CEO Bezos has said the number will be closer to 10,000 by the end of this year. Amazon claims that current employees won’t be sacked because of the additional 9,000 robots, but obviously the robots are doing a lot of work that would otherwise have required additional human employees.

Watching videos of the step-stool-shaped orange bots race around the warehouse floor, it’s easy to see that they are faster and more efficient than humans trying to do the same job. By realizing that making the shelves come to the pickers instead of the pickers go to the shelves, Kiva made it possible to deploy relatively simple robots to automate a big part of pick-and-pack operations. The actual packing of products into boxes is still done by hand, but specific products are pointed to by a computer using a small laser, so the human packer is unlikely to make a mistake. Big data crunching going on in the background makes thesystem even more efficient than a traditional warehouse. The robots are guided to shelves that are nearest them, and frequently-used shelves are put back near the packing station. Since that process is dynamic, the warehouse reconfigures itself based on seasonal demand. For example, before the Christmas rush, toys and ornaments will be stored near the packing station, while in the summer it might be sports and camping equipment.

Kiva's stool-shaped robots use a screw-threaded jack to lift shelving units before moving them to the packing areaOne other cost savings with the semi-automated system is a lower utilities bill. Amazon has been criticized before for sub-standard working conditions in its warehouses. Well, the robots don’t care and don’t complain. Amazon only needs to heat and cool the small area where the packers are doing their job. The rest of the warehouse can stay dark and the temperature can be allowed to drift across a much wider range than if humans were spending an entire shift there. This attention to detail in its operational efficiencies is a big piece of why Amazon can deliver a huge range of products to your door faster and more cheaply than any other company on the planet. It is also why it generates nearly three times the revenue per employee of retailers Walmartand Safeway. That’s good for its customers, and its shareholders, but doesn’t bode well for the job market for unskilled and semi-skilled workers whose tasks are ones that can be done with some clever innovation and a pack of tireless robots. [Read: US military begins research into moral, ethical robots, to stave off Skynet-like apocalypse.]

Google and Foxconn working on displacing factory workers with robots

Foxconn's Foxbots are being deployed by the tens of thousands in part to replace some of its one million workersThe world’s largest manufacturing company, Foxconn, is also investing very heavily in robots. The first 10,000 of its “Foxbots” were deployed around the same time Amazon bought Kiva, and Foxconn has been reported to be working closely with Google’s new robotics effort to deploy many times that number of robots in its factories that currently employ over a million people. Here too, Foxconn has often been criticized for poor working conditions, stressful hours, and low pay, but the answer may be less jobs instead of better jobs. Foxconn has said that some of its workers will get new, better jobs as technicians or engineers, but certainly not most of those displaced. As always with advanced technology, you sometimes need to be careful what you wish for.

Milk-whitening nanotechnology enters the U.S. food supply without FDA oversight

Milk-whitening nanotechnology enters the U.S. food supply without FDA oversight

By Scott Kaufman
Friday, May 30, 2014 8:59 EDT

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/30/milk-whitening-nanotechnology-enters-the-u-s-food-supply-without-fda-oversight/

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The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) revealed earlier this week that there are over 1,600 nanotechnology-based products on the market today — and that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the authority to regulate them.

As Mother Jones reported, some of these nanotechnological innovations — which refer to particles less than 100 nanometers wide, or approximately 1/800th the diameter of a strand ofhuman hair — are likely harmless, such as embedded silver particles in athletic socks and underwear. According to SmartSilver Anti-Odor Nanotechnology Underwear, the microscopic silver particles are “strongly antibacterial to a wide range of pathogens, absorb sweat, and by killing bacteria help eliminate unpleasant foot odor.”

However, the PEN database also includes 96 nanotechnology-infused items currently stocked ongrocery store shelves, and none of these items listed their nanotechnology among their ingredients. Included on the list are Dannon Greek Plain Yogurt, Hershey’s Bliss Dark Chocolate, Kraft’s American Cheese Singles, and Rice Dream Rice Drink, all of which contain nanoparticles of titanium dioxide.

Titanium dioxide — often referred to as “the perfect white” or “the whitest white” — is used as a pigment because its refractive index is extremely high. It has long been present in paints, plastics, paper, toothpaste, and pearlescent cosmetics, but researchersrecently discovered the benefits of adding it to skim milk. According to David Barbano, a professor at Cornell University’s Department of Food Science, “[s]uspension of titanium dioxide in skim milk made the milk whiter, which resulted in improved sensory scores for appearance, creamy aroma, and texture…There is clearly a need to develop a whitener for fat-free milk other than titanium dioxide to provide processors with an ingredient option that would improve sensory properties and provide a nutritional benefit.”

At issue, though, is not whether nano-additives like titanium dioxide provide “nutritional benefit,” but whether they pose a potential threat to consumers. The FDA acknowledges that nanoparticles behave differently than their non-microscopic counterparts: “so-called nano-engineered food substances can have significantly altered bioavailability and may, therefore, raise new safety issues that have not been seen in their traditionally manufactured counterparts.”

The FDA is not currently empowered to regulate the entry of nanotechnology into the food supply — it cannot even require companies list nanoparticulate matter on the ingredient list because it qualifies as an “incidental amount” of a finished food product.

The concern is that just as the small size of nanotechnology makes it a potentially powerful delivery system for chemotherapeutic drugs, nanoparticles might also enter and interact with healthy cells in unexpected ways.

Edward Snowden Censored Segment: “Had All Info Needed To Detect 9/11 Plot “

Edward Snowden Censored Segment: “Had All Info Needed To Detect 9/11 Plot “

By: Joshua Cook May 31, 2014

Last June, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said on Fox News that he was “glad” that his data was being collected and analyzed.

“I’m a Verizon customer,” he added. “I don’t mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States,” Graham said.

In an unaired clip  of NBC News’ interview with Edward Snowden, he explains that mass surveillance isn’t making us safer and is just taking our rights and privacy away.

“I take the threat of terrorism seriously, and I think we all do. I think it’s really disingenuous for the government to invoke and sort of scandalize our memories to sort of exploit national trauma that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through to justify programs that have never been shown to keep us safe, but cost us liberties and freedoms that we don’t need to give up and that our Constitution says we should not give up.”

In the allegedly censored clip, Snowden also reveals that the U.S. had all of the intelligence regarding the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 but we unable to connect the dots.

“You know this is a key question that the 9/11 commission considered, and what they found in the postmortem when they looked at all the classified intelligence from all the different intelligence agencies, they found that we had all of the information we needed as an intelligence community, as a classified sector, as the national defense of the United States, to detect this plot,” Snowden said.

“We actually had records of the phone calls from the United States and out. The CIA knew who these guys were. The problem was not that we weren’t collecting information, it wasn’t that we didn’t have enough dots, it wasn’t that we didn’t have a haystack, it was that we did not understand the haystack that we had.”

And all of this haystacking is a problem: “The problem with mass surveillance is that we’re piling more hay on a haystack we don’t understand.  And this is the haystack of the human lives of every American citizen in our country.”

Snowden said that we’re taking money away from successful investigation tactics and investing in these needle-in-a-haystack-type situation.

“If these programs aren’t keeping us safe and they’re making us miss connections, vital connections on information we already have. We’re taking resources away from traditional methods of investigation from law enforcement operations that we know work.

“If we’re missing things like the Boston Marathon bombings where all of these mass-surveillance systems, every domestic dragnet in the world, didn’t reveal guys that the Russian intelligence service told us about by name, is that really the best way to protect our country or are we trying to throw money at a magic solution that’s actually not just costing us our safety, but our rights and our way of life,” Snowden said.

Makes you wonder what else are we missing and why these shocking revelations weren’t included in NBC’s primetime broadcast.

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Obama Seeks to More Heavily Censor Drone Killing Memo

Obama Seeks to More Heavily Censor Drone Killing Memo
Justice Dept Ditches Previous Promise to Comply With Court Order

by Jason Ditz, May 29, 2014

During last week’s confirmation votes on David Barron, the Justice Department was promising to comply with a court order to release a partially redacted version of the Barron Memo, which offers the administration’s legal justification for killing Americans overseas with drone strikes.

Now that the Senate has confirmed Barron, the administration has changed its mind, and is pushing the court to give them permission to even more heavily censor the document.

The initial court order had allowed the censorship of certain “facts based on classified intelligence,” but insisted the legal justification had to remain intact. The Justice Department now says there are other passages that should be censored based on “other legal protections” the court forgot about.

In addition to the motion seeking to keep more of the memo secret, the Justice Department also filed a motion asking to be allowed to keep the first motion a secret. The court rejected this, but said it will allow the motion to also be redacted before being made public.

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Some stories are so sick and so big that Big Brother will kill to cover them up |

Some stories are so sick and so big that Big Brother will kill to cover them up |

Some stories are so sick and so big that Big Brother will kill to cover them up



I couldn’t sleep last night.
I am scared for myself and my family. I feel like I am being dragged into something that is a real danger to us.
I reflected and prayed and came to the decision that I will do what is right and trust in God to protect us. I am sure a lot of people will laugh at me and say this is just another one of those “conspiracies” from D.C. Clothesline.
I can’t do anything to change the minds of those who can’t see how corrupt and evil things have become. All I can do is tell you that my gut is twisted in knots and I don’t know what to do. I want to run and I want to hide.
At the same time I think what it would feel like if I were Dave or Monika now.
Who are Dave and Monika?
Dave is Dave Hodges. He is an associate of mine and the host of The Common Sense Show. He allows me to reprint his blog articles. He is a good man. His passion in life is to get to the bottom of stories and he did just that a couple of weeks ago when he blew the lid off of a scandal so big that it put him in danger. Dave found evidence that Child Protective Services has been used as an arm of vengeance, from the powers that be, and is now engaging in child sex trafficking.
Monika is a State Department employee that has lost her son Dylan, allegedly because she is on the wrong side politically. Dylan is currently being sexually abused in a home with twogay men. You won’t likely read this story in very many places, because it is one of those stories that is just simply too big. It is one of those stories that gets people killed.
This is like IRS targeting on steroids.
Monika emailed me yesterday. I had no previous contact with her. She was Dave’s “source.” I didn’t know her but she looked me up because she was concerned. Here is that email…
Dean,
Thank you for passing the stories along that Dave Hodges wrote about Dylan and I. DFS has started attempts to silence me and intimidate me. I am scared for my son’s and my safety. My power went out in myapartment for a whole night and day, thus causing mysurveillance cameras to be powered off, while I was not home. No one in my entire apartment building lost power, just me. Dave’s website just went down, none of the stories work. Can you please ask people onyour webpage to please re-post the stories all over the web. I have a feeling “someone” is taking down all links and stories pertaining to Dave Hodges, Mary Tyndall, and myself.
Thanks -
Monika Wesolowski
xxxxxxx@gmail.com
xxxxxxx@gmail.com
P.S.
Should “anything” happen to me (would NOT be of my own doing) please circulate information about DFS/CPS corruption and child sex trafficking, and please share my story of how CPS stole my son and is trafficking him out to homosexual pedophiles.
I am very slow to answer emails lately. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. I happened to see hers about 7 hours after she sent it. I exchanged a couple of more emails with Monika and she told me that Dave has taken his site down and is laying low for a few days. Apparently he has received threats toward his family. I also told her that I would do something to try to raise some more awareness for her this weekend. That is what I am trying to do now.
I don’t ask this often but I would ask for anyone who cares to please share this article far and wide. This story has to come to light somehow. The mainstream media sites and sources will not pick this story up because of their agendas. Some of the larger alternative sites were talking to Dave the last time I was updated, but to my knowledge they had not released this story yet. I know that WND.com was one of the sites Dave mentioned. Other sites are likely scared of getting involved in this. For anyone who remembers the Franklin Credit Union Child Trafficking Scandal, you will realize that these stories can result in a lot of untimely deaths for investigators and witnesses.
This is not my story and I do not know all of the details. So I am simply going to reprint what Dave previously wrote and hope that it somehow gains traction. I am putting my belief in the Patriotic people of this country to make this story be heard. Please remember that you are the new media and you can not be silent. There are some very frightened people that are counting on us. We can’t keep looking the other way. We can not keep letting these people get by with these heinous acts.


Illinois and Virginia CPS’ Conspire to Steal and Sex Traffic Children



Image Source: www.orphanjusticecenter.com
When holding on to sensitive information, I have found it prudent to go public as I believe it gives the greatest chance of not becoming a statistic such as BreitbartHastingsClancy and appropriately in this case, Nancy Schaefer. Subsequently, I am publishing notice of the fact that the state of Virginia Child Protective Services is sex-trafficking in children that it illegally seizes and that the Illinois Child Protective Services is cooperating with Virginia in order to complete  a child abduction with sex-trafficking connections.

Obamacare and Child Abduction

Nearly three weeks ago, I wrote an investigative article which exposed a massive conspiracy designed to separate parents from their children and an obscure element ofObamacare would subsequently give the government complete control over your children.
In the article, it was documented that  Human, Health and Services (HHS)  and their state level emissary, Children Protective Services (CPS) are engaged in a conspiracy which will culminate in (1) the Agenda 21 designed breakdown of the family; (2) the eradication of any semblance of parental authority over children; and, (3) unbridled and unfettered access to seizing children from the home in unlimited quantities for whatever nefarious purposes (e.g. child sex trafficking) which might dictate the volume of child seizures.
Based upon the emails and comments the article generated, it became clear that most people saw the threat to American children as being real. However, there were the typical allegations of fear mongering and falsifying facts and conclusions by the programmedsheeple in this country who would have everyone believe that there is no such thing as a conspiracy in which two, or more, bad people would ever jointly plan to do something nefarious. Well, it did not take more than 24 hours after publishing the article for me to receive notification of a case that would parallel the hysteria I was promoting in the April 29, 2014 article.
The case, in question, involves a single mom, Monika Wesolowski, who just happens to be a State Department employee with a security clearance.  I am vaguely aware that some of her work involves ambassadors and the White House. Please note that if Wesolowski can be targeted by the new Obamacare “child protection” guidelines, given her lofty federalemployee status, then we should conclude that no parent and no child is safe from the evil intentions of this administration and some of its sex trafficking minions.
With absolute certainty, it can be stated that the Virginia Child Protective Services and its partner, the Department of Family Services, along with the Illinois Child ProtectiveServices are conspiring to steal children and sex traffic these same kids

A Quick Review of Obamacare “Child Protection” Provisions

This unprecedented program mandates a partnership between various United Nations organizations and ICF, acting on behalf of HHS, CPS and Obamacare (i.e. The Affordable Health Care Act). The evidence demonstrates that Obamacare is representative of the fact that our families are living in a Hitler Youth Movement hellish nightmare in which the stateowns and can seize your children for whatever reason and purpose they deem appropriate.
After reviewing HHS, CPS and UN documents, what is being presently reported in the alternative media is merely the tip of the iceberg with regard to HHS’ intentions toward the ultimate outcome of the children in this country. After reviewing the documents, there is no doubt that Obama is representing international interests which will seek to remove as many children as possible from the homes of their parents in the spirit of the Hitler Youth Movement.
In the 110 page HHS/CPS manual, written by the UN think tank group ICF, on behalf of HHS, now serves as the field manual for CPS child snatching operations. The new “variables” which comprise child neglect, worthy of government intervention is frightening beyond any words I can find to express their undisguised intentions.
Under the HHS/CPS policy manual, they label any “grounding” of a child as neglect by isolation. There are no time frames set forth which constitutes isolation and it is left to the field representative. This obviously erodes parental discipline.
If your child is judged to be underachieving in school, this is referred to as educational neglect and is worthy of governmental intervention. Further, if your child is absent for five days in any one month from school, the same allegation would be made against the parent.
If your child has ADD or ADHD, you could be accused of neglect because the document details how this can be somehow caused by poor nutrition, although the variables associated with the cause are not specified.
Of course, no Obama inspired program would be complete without an attack upon the Second Amendment. Obamacare is no exception as one of the criteria for child neglect  are parents who are also gun owners.
I am sure that now some of the sheeple remember this referenced  article where provided detailed documentation on how Obamacare allowed for CPS to steal children for nefarious purposes. They said it just was not true. Unfortunately, it is true and I now have a shining example of this horrendous program in action.

Monika Wesolowski and Son Dylan

The father of Monika Wesolowski and the grandfather of Dylan sent Monika the article described above to his daughter. This prompted an introductory email sent by Ms. Wesolowski to myself.  After reading Monika’s email, I had flashbacks to the Stacy Lynne case that I have been working on since December of 2011, when Stacey’s son, Jaden, was stolen by a Judge Julie Kunce Field who was a former consultant to the IMF and World Bank. Stacy’s was not accused of committing any crime except for publicly opposing the Agenda 21 policies in her hometown of Ft. Collins, Colorado. For her public advocacy, she now has no contact with her son and has no idea where the boy is living.
Wesolowski is guilty of even less that Stacy Lynne, who was guilty of nothing. She is guilty of being a conservative working in an ultra liberal environment. She has an NRA bumper sticker on her car, he screen saver promotes conservative causes and she is not personally and morally on board with the “gay” and “green” agenda that has come to dominate every federal administration under the most liberal President in American history. Wesolowski does believe that she has been targeted because of Catholic based, conservative views. She has been audited by the IRS and “randomly drug tested” by her employer. Before you dismiss these occurrences as random events, keep in mind that the enforcement agent for the new snatch and grab policies of Obamacare is the IRS and that this President has beenexposed for using the IRS to harass Tea Party members and uncooperative members of the mainstream media.

Wesolowski Makes Contact

On April 30, 2014, I received a lengthy email from Monika Wesolowski who detailed how her son Dylan was stolen from her home without any legitimate provocation.
On 4/30/2014 11:07 AM, Monika Wesolowski wrote:
Dave,
I read your article in the RBN about how HHS is taking away children through means of CPS. This happened to me in December of 2013, the night before my son turned five years old. He is on the spectrum of Autism with PDD, sensory processing, and behavioral disorders. He is in special education. Our lives were turned upside in a matter of hours. I had no idea prior that this would happen. They came in SWAT gear to my home, with CPS arriving over an hour later. The ordeal lasted from 8:30pm to past 11pm. I did not let them in my home, and in this way they classified me as a danger. They claimed I choked my son 2 days prior and therefore he was in imminent danger of life and that they were taking him away. I never hurt my son. It was the first sign of a skin condition, eczema patches, that my son started having. He had one small round one on the back of his neck. This is what they used against me. They did not take him to a doctor but ruled on hearsay. Once in temporary custody of my neighbors, we immediately took my son to the pediatrician, who claimed there was no injury and no bruising. (EDITOR’S NOTE: I HAVE THE PEDIATRICIAN’S REPORT AND THE APPEARANCE OF A RASH WAS SUBSTANTIATED, NOT BRUISING FROM SOME MYTHICAL ATTACK). She stated my son had a skin condition and provided medication. CPS was very angry that we took him to the doctor. They used the doctor’s report against me saying I coerced the doctor and that I was trying to use the medication as a cover. I was never arrested or criminally charges, rather my son was taken based off hearsay and Civil Court Order, an Emergency Removal. Once in court, the judge refused to incorporate any medical records. By this time my son was in a foster home of two gay men. I am Roman Catholic and have been very opposed to the foster home. By the time this went to court, there were two medical records as my son was taken to the pediatrician while in foster care and given medication for a second eczema (dermatitis) rash. He has had a few of these rashes since the ordeal started. 
My son was kidnapped by CPS in order to traffic him into foster care. He is in a home of two gay dads. I don’t know what to do. I live in Fairfax County, Virginia, which is now exploding with more cases such as mine. I am having a hard time getting a lawyer, no one wants to oppose the system. People are afraid. They have now accused my son’s daycare of child abuse. The daycare testified on my behalf in court, so they are now accusing the daycare of abusing my son and pulling out his hair, leaving bald marks, and putting poop in his face. I know this is all false also. When they removed my son from my home, they took him out of the daycare too, so these were new charges, even though he was no longer attending. They are trying to scare everyone around me.
I am a good mother, and my son has developmental disabilities. This was used to interrogate and coerce my son, and kidnap him. The father started this mess when he lost custody and all appeals, I had won sole legal custody. Two months later they were taking my son away and the ex now had the chance to modify custody. He added false claims of abuse and has been working with CPS and DFS (Dept. of Family Services) to keep our son in foster care.
I need help or advice. Can you put my story out for people to see? Can you help me expose this more, or maybe let me know if you know of anyone that can help?
Kind Regards,
Monika Wesolowski
Falls Church, VA
Monika went to court to try and get her son removed from CPS custody. She took the pediatrician’s report as well as the CPS psychological investigation which stated that Monika posed no threat to her son and the fact that the boy had not been injured. Amazingly, the judge would not allow the evidence to be entered into testimony leaving with the conundrum of this being her word vs. the word of CPS.
Monika has sent me the following in a later email:
Attached are also the pediatrician records I tried to use in court, with sworn affidavits. The 12/9/13 is the evaluation to prove I did not injure my son. The full CPS report is attached too. It’s full lies and fabrication, they refused to also use my maiden name despite that I was divorced at this point. They also listed me as Hispanic in one section in order to justify their funding.…
Speaking of funding, All CPS organizations receive $ 5,000 for each child taken from the home and that money is paid by HHS. If the child and mother are minorities, the funding stipend increases, hence the Hispanic designation.
Many of these new wards of the state simply disappear and are never heard from again as was the case in Oklahoma. This is the kind of case that got former Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer killed for daring to expose the criminal connection between CPS and child sex trafficking done by organizations like DynCorps and HSBC Bank.
Child sex trafficking is big business and the business is run like a Mafia organization which eliminates with extreme prejudice those persons who would expose the practice. As an aside, I am all too cognizant of the fact who and what I am dealing with. Therefore, I have distributed the Wesolowski “proof” of these claims to trusted sources for all the obvious reasons. This article also represents a kind of insurance policy as well.

Monika Wesolowski Can Prove What She Claims

Rather than placing Dylan with family and close friends as a foster care arrangement, CPS has opted to place the boy with two gay men. This is where the situation becomes very concerning. Gay rights advocates can relax, I am not going to discuss the wisdom of such a custody arrangement. Rather, I am going to expose reported criminal activity of two men who have no CPS oversight with regard to their parenting of Dylan.
As result of Monika’s visitations with Dylan, she has made some frightening discoveries. Dylan has “marks” in sensitive areas consistent with sexual abuse. The information is graphic and I am trying to determine the best method to release this photographic evidence. In addition, Dylan has regressed to defecating in his pants. He has unexplained fits of temper where he talks about cutting off his hands and the hands of others. Think sexually, this boy is describing the mechanics of sexual abuse.  As some readers know, I am a former mental health counselor. If this case was taking place in my state of Arizona, I would be compelled to report these facts to the authorities or face going to jail.
Here is another excerpt of an email that Monika sent me with graphic evidence.
These are the photos I sent to my new attorney concerning my son’s abuse & neglect, and fear or sexual abuse.
His dermatitis rashes are on his back and shoulder and have been there for at least several weeks, are getting worse. My son is skinnier and has lost weight since in the foster. He last yelled repeatedly that he wants to cut his hands off over and over and over prior to the bath….

Why the Delay In Reporting This Case?

Up until this point, I have been publicly silent on this issue because I was hopeful that Monika and Dylan would be reunited and I did not want to muddy the waters. CPS laid out a set of conditions that Monika had to follow if she was going to get her son back. She has fulfilled all of the unwarranted mandates that CPS laid out in order to get her son back. However, CPS/DFS is delaying the reunification until December of 2014. As I have discovered if this case gets dragged out for 12 months, CPS can take the child and no report requirement with regard to status has to be made to the original parent. This mother has no chance of getting her son back.
I delayed in reporting this case because Monika had a meeting, yesterday, with the Virginia Department of Family Services. I was hoping against all odds that she would get her child back and I did not want to antagonize the authorities. The following email description summarizes Monika’s meeting with DFS.
Ok. Met with DFS, all they are trying to do is damage control. I called the police, it’s a county over and their process is I have to talk to an officer first and only then it can go higher. I am saving brief clips of proof along with photos and dates, and going tomorrow during the morning as I have a feeling it will take half the day, and during the day. They won’t let me speak to a detective until I have enough proof, so I’m compiling!
But yes, I will talk on your show. Send me details of exact date, time, and number.
Monika Wesolowski

Virginia and Illinois Are Conspiring to Steal Dylan From His Mother

On May 15, 2014, I received a very disturbing email from Monika which described the following collusion between the Virginia and Illinois CPS with regard to her son’s case.
On 5/15/2014 8:20 PM, Monika Wesolowski wrote:
I just found out from my mom that the department of family services in IL tried to get my parents to sign a statement that I did something to hurt Dylan, and they wouldn’t. So when they signed their name saying I was innocent and that they support me and are on my side, IL said that VA won’t like that, and that my parents have no chance of getting Dylan since they are on my side. My mom is positive their plan is to adopt my son out into foster and no one in the family will have him. They are positive I need to make this all public. She believes DFS has NO intention of giving me my son back, despite what they tell me. I agree. I will try tomorrow, but I’m 99% sure we need to expose this and I need to file a Police report. (EDITOR’S NOTE: I HAD ADVISED MONIKA TO FILE A SEXUAL ABUSE REPORT AGAINST THE TWO GAY FOSTER PARENTS WITH HER LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT BASED UPON THE EVIDENCE THAT SHE HAD SENT ME).
Monika Wesolowski
I responded with the following show announcement:
On May 16, 2014, at 3:05 AM, Dave Hodges <davehodges@thecommonsenseshow.com> wrote:
I am booking you on my show for 2.5 hours from 930pm-midnight, Central, on May 25, 2014.  I am going to invite your contact from the organization you told me about. She called but I have been swamped and will catch up with her on Friday or Saturday.
Dave

Dot Connecting

Remember the organizational pyramid I laid out earlier in the article. Obamacare is in charge of all child welfare. The IRS is the enforcement mechanism. HHS and resulting child services is operating under the previously documented UN created document on taking children from parents. HHS is now the de facto parent organization for CPS. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that Illinois, where Monika’s parents live, would cooperate with Virginia’s CPS in getting Dylan away from Monika’s entire family to fulfill their immoral mandate.

Conclusion

This practice is a globalist practice given the fact that the operating procedures come from the UN. Does anyone still believe that anyone can acquiesce and coexist with any New World Order Agenda?
I will be providing updates on this most regrettable case in the near future.
Dave Hodges is the Editor and Host of The Common Sense Show.
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Again, I am asking people to share this and help get the word out.
I am also asking you to pray for all involved.
I have young children and I really did not want to get involved, for obvious reasons. But someone has to speak for the woman who has already lost her child, and for the man who is in fear for his family’s safety because of exposing the story. Someone has to speak for the frightened young child who has been away from his mother for too long.
Please do whatever you can to help. Somehow we must all find the courage to do whatever it takes to purge this country of the sickness which has overtaken it.
-Dean Garrison, Publisher of The D.C. Clothesline

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