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By  Tyler Bass, on May 9th, 2013%Kim Dotcom has faced illegal surveillance by the New Zealand government and now faces extradition to the United States. (Photo: Wikipedia) Eccentric German-Finnish billionaire Kim Dotcom and his attorneys fired back at federal prosecutors Wednesday by accusing them, alongside other domestic authorities, of conspiracy to “deprive defendants of their presumption of innocence.” …MOAR! By Tyler Bass, on May 9th, 2013%A leading watchdog group named Renzi, above, as one of the top 20 most corrupt congressmen for three straight years. (Photo: Wikipedia) Opening arguments in the Tucson trial of former Arizona Representative Rick Renzi (R-AZ) began Wednesday with federal prosecution characterizing Renzi as having engaged in “lying and stealing … taking advantage …MOAR! By Tyler Bass, on April 1st, 2013%Amnesty International claims that the country is running death camps. But there is a tilt relationship with the country that the U.S. military power structure has yet to admire: China. The DPRK wants to be taken seriously by the so-called international community. And in doing so they have failed miserably to communicate …MOAR! By Tyler Bass, on March 27th, 2013%WASHINGTON — The Internet Chronicle has obtained footage of classification authorities discussing the classification process and allegations of overclassification. Early this month the national intelligence director counsel, Robert Litt, and a former director of the Information Security Oversight Office, J. William Leonard, took questions from attendees of a Brennan Center forum on secrecy and security. By Tyler Bass, on March 16th, 2013%WASHINGTON — In a captivating account Friday of candidate Richard Nixon’s attempt to sabotage Vietnam War peace talks — revealed in newly released tapes along with how anti-war protesters literally blocked Johnson from claiming the 1968 nomination — BBC writer David Taylor missteps when claiming that “none of [Nixon's] successors have dared …MOAR! By Tyler Bass, on March 1st, 2013%Voting Rights Act Section 5′s Covered Jurisdictions, which are More Racist WASHINGTON — When Wednesday John Roberts and the solicitor general questioned whether any southern concentration of racism was a rationale for Voting Rights Act Section 5′s constitutionality, cynics responded as though the chief justice was blind to a vicious national legacy. …MOAR! By Tyler Bass, on February 28th, 2013%Will the US Airways-American Airlines merger, yielding a super American, cost consumers more? WASHINGTON — Consumer welfare in the balance, US Airways and American Airlines representatives faced a House Judicary subcommittee, as the Justice Department weighs a merger that would see the two airlines become the world’s largest. While consumer advocates warned …MOAR! By Tyler Bass, on February 20th, 2013%WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gesticulated to an applauding crowd as she asked bank regulators about the last time they have “taken the biggest financial institutions on Wall Street all the way to a trial.” Comptroller Tom Curry replied that he had obtained a large number of consent orders and, when pressed, claimed …MOAR! By Tyler Bass, on February 19th, 2013%SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — In an exclusive interview with The Internet Chronicle, former DEA Administrator Peter Bensinger discussed the waning percentage of citizens using illegal drugs, his opinion on the relative harm posed by different drugs, and penalties imposed in December against British banking giant HSBC for its role in aiding Mexican drug cartels. Speaking via …MOAR!  One comment  Health, News, Politics, Science, World  Cannabis, Central Intelligence Agency, Chicago Tribune, CIA, cocaine, Colorado, crack, criminalization, Dan Casey, decriminalization, Don Wycliff, Douglas Valentine, Drug Enforcement Administration, electronic surveillance, Institute of Drugs and Drug Addiction, Jared Polis, Joao Goulao, Justice Department, legalization, Mason Tvert, mass incarceration, Michele Leonhart, Nicaragua, Peter Bensinger, Portugal, prohibition, war on drugs, Washington state By Tyler Bass, on February 12th, 2013%David Granger, Editor, Esquire Magazine WASHINGTON — Esquire magazine published an error-laden piece by Phil Bronstein Monday, and the magazine’s editors are scrambling to excuse glaring factual errors in the 15,000-word profile of the bin Laden shooter — errors exposed by Megan McCloskey of the military …MOAR! |
 
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