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Obama: On the Horns of a Dilemma

“When seeking office, the aspirant must pretend to be what he is not. After seizing power, he should impose his agenda quickly and ruthlessly before his subjects realize what he is doing and have time to react.”

Niccolò Machiavelli  

With the underlying potential of upheaval within the Democrat Party and the Tea Party inspiring revolt against overreaching government, grassroots conservatives led a charge across the length and breadth of the United States on November 2, 2010 with the future of state, federal and local elections of 2012 in the balance. The Obama administration is on the horns of a dilemma.

The November 2, 2010 election represented a strong repudiation of the Marxist-driven policies pushed upon this nation by the misguided, unqualified, totally out-of-touch and most likely one-term resident of the White House. The "Tea Party" patriots have also sent a strong message to the ruling class elitists’ Republican Party- their time will be up soon if they continue to obstruct the new conservatives who are coming to take back their party.  (Opinion posted at Amil Imani.)

TSA Bumper Stickers

Although gangs, drive-by and freeway shootings occur every day in the United States, no reasonable person would suggest that cops should randomly pull over cars.  They need probable cause based upon behavioral cues of potential suspects.

Why then does anyone think that TSA's incompetent goons have the right to fondle Americans?

If you're a cop and you walk up and fondle someone without probable cause, you'll be sued, arrested or fired!

Are Judicial Double Benefits Constitutional?

Even if you know little about courts, you probably understand the conflict of interest when judges accept illegal payments from parties involved in criminal and civil matters.  At the very least, opposing parties should know about the payments before hearing the case so that they can disqualify judges who accept payments.  This is why the state legislature views these kinds of payments unconstitutional.


Despite these facts, LA County judges have - for more than 20 years - accepted illegal payments (~$57,000/year) from the LA County despite hearing dozens of cases in which the County was a party in the case.


When a stink was raised, the governor signed a late-night emergency bill that indemnified judges who accepted these illegal payments.  A lawsuit was filed and the case is making its way through the appellate courts.


This recent video shows three Appellate Court justices trying to avoid making a decision on whether or not the Superior Court Judges in Los Angeles can continue to receive hundreds of millions of dollars illegally from the County of Los Angeles above and beyond their State salaries. Features Sterling Norris, Lead Attorney, Judicial Watch, Jones-Day Attorney Elwood Lui (former Appellate Court Justice) Paul Orfanedes, Director of Litigation for Judicial Watch, Appellate Court Justices Gilbert Nares, Judith Haller and Presiding Judge Tricia Benke and Full Disclosure Network's® Leslie Dutton.

The California Court of Appeal 4th District in San Diego heard oral arguments on October 13, 2010 for the second time in ongoing case brought by the non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch known as "Sturgeon II" originally filed in 2006 as Sturgeon v County of Los Angeles The case has been a hot potato bouncing back and forth from Superior Court where Judges recused themselves to Appellate Court and to the California Supreme Court. Who had refused to re-hear the case that resulted in Sturgeon vs County becoming case law. In an unusual move, the Los Angeles Superior Court Judges decided to intervene and take the issue to a second round battle.

Judges Judging Judges:

This awkward court fight has judges pitted against judges. The Los Angeles Superior Court hired Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher one of the nation's most prestigious lawfirms to fight to overturn the previous decision in November 2008 that found the double benefits of $300 million paid to L A Judges since 1987 were illegal. And, L A County would not take no for an answer, they hired Jones-Day one of the largest lawfirms in the world to continue the fight to give double benefits to the highest paid judges in the nation. Apparently the costly court fees for retrying the case is not an issue. There appears to be unlimited funds for the top legal beagles.  (More at Full Disclosure.)

Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Farber Libel Suit: Case Continues

20 Nov-New York – After a fifteen-month delay, the Supreme Court of the State of New York has made a decision in the case of Farber v. Jefferys,  Kuritzky & Murtagh.

Background

Investigative reporter Celia Farber

Farber filed the case after Semmelweis Society International (SSI) asked investigator Clark Baker to investigate allegations made by pharmaceutical marketers Richard Jefferys, James Murtagh MD and Kevin Kuritzky.  Jefferys and his cohorts used Critpath and the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP) to incite activists into forcing Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) into preventing Farber and UC Professor Peter Duesberg PhD from testifying before Congressional tribunals about pharmaceutical retaliation.  Said Jefferys:

… it appears that Celia Farber & Peter Duesberg - two inveterate liars who try and persuade people that HIV is harmless and that they should avoid testing & treatment – are participating in an event called the No FEAR Tribunal in Congress on Wednesday May 14.


The No FEAR Institute is a whistleblower-supporting initiative in which Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee seems to have a lead role.  I'm afraid that they have somehow been conned into involving Duesberg & Farber in this event, if anyone has contacts with Sheila Jackson Lee's office and could alert them, that would be great... (Jefferys)

After several requests, one of Jefferys assistants wrote:

This is ridiculous. Can a bunch of us mobilize calls to her office?  Perhaps we need just a few talking points so that we're all saying the same thing? Who can help do this?   Needs to happen within the next 48 hours. Thanks Richard for the heads up! (Sue Perez)

When activists succeeded, Diana Scholl prepared the propaganda:

I'm working on a story for the Housing Works Update about the AIDS denialists Duesberg and Farber. (fyi-, they did NOT testify in Congress or attend the award ceremony but they will still receive the awards).  If anyone on the list contacted Rep. Lee or the organizers, please send me an e-mail and let me know any reaction you received.

Like TAG and dozens of other pro-socialist organizations, Housing Works is funded by the CDC, George Soros and companies that use AIDS to avoid corporate liability from environmental pollution. Scholl wrote:

Farber and Duesberg have long disseminated factually inaccurate and dangerous information about HIV. Duesberg, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley, believes that AIDS is caused by antiretrovirals rather than HIV. Farber has written many sympathetic portrayals of Duesberg, including a 2006 Harper's magazine article, "Out of Control: AIDS And The Corruption of Medical Science". She wrote, "Duesberg thinks that up to 75 percent of AIDS cases in the West can be attributed to drug toxicity. If toxic AIDS therapies were discontinued, he says, thousands of lives could be saved virtually overnight." This theory has been widely disproved, but has still gained currency: In one 2007 U.S. study, 45 percent of gay men didn't believe HIV causes AIDS. South African President Thabo Mbeki is a Duesberg endorser.

Scholl’s propaganda was splattered on numerous pharmaceutical websites without any mention about the millions paid to TAG and other activists to attack them.  Since 2004, the pharmaceutical has paid $9 billion to settle thousands of criminal and civil complaints related to the illegal marketing of drugs that killed or injured thousands of people around the world every year.  The pharmaceutical industry has used drug addicts and homosexuals to market AIDS drugs and protest those who question the arrangement.  (More here and here.)

The Investigation

James Murtagh MD

When SSI asked Baker to investigate the allegations, Murtagh and Kuritzky made repeated efforts to dissuade him and SSI from looking into the case.  When Baker was suddenly deluged with thousands of gay and AIDS spam emails, Baker tracked the ID theft back to Kuritzky’s IP address.  When Baker reported the inappropriate use of VA servers,  Dr. Murtagh’s contract with the Veteran’s Administration was not renewed.

According to Brian Foley PhD, Murtagh asked Foley to contact one of Baker’s witnesses. Using a false name, Foley intimidated the witness and contacted several of his associates.   Baker tracked the emails back to Foley’s employer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) – an act that Foley corroborated despite LANL’s refusal to investigate.

UC Berkeley manages LANL.  If AIDS funding was suddenly cut off at Berkeley, the university and LANL would lose tens of millions of dollars annually.  Berkeley’s latest allegations against Duesberg were dismissed last May.  Murtagh later admitted to being funded by South African activists - who are funded by TAG. (More here).

Since 1992, the National Institutes of Health have paid UC Berkeley has more than $100 million each year.

Baker memorialized his investigation at Hollywood Gumshoe.  SSI and hundreds of other websites have posted it as well, while pharmaceutically-funded editors at Wikipedia have repeatedly erased it.

Courts Not Impressed with Jefferys’ Defense


After an in-depth reading of documentation from both sides--materials pertaining to what he called "a bitter dispute in the medical, scientific, and advocacy communities over the cause and proper treatment of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome," Justice Louis B. York returned a decision this week to deny Richard Jefferys' (TAG) motion to dismiss Farber's libel suit.  Justice York converted Jefferys’ motion to a motion for summary judgment.

"Here's the good news," said Farber attorney Phil Byler, of Nesenoff & Miltenberg, a renowned New York firm specializing in libel:

The court correctly concluded that the motion to dismiss could not be granted because there is in fact a dispute over material facts here; a motion to dismiss based on documentary evidence can only be granted if the presented document or documents conclusively establishes there is no case.

Unfortunately for the drug industry, the court recognized the difference between pharmaceutical marketing and scientific evidence.

"I am delighted," said Farber. "My assailants will no longer be permitted to hide beneath the skirts of NPR, The Nation, or the Columbia Journalism Review, but will instead have to face the incorruptible facts outside their financial and ideological bubble.  I look forward to presenting the judge with the next round of documentation."

Shortly after Farber filed her lawsuit, Critpath (FAPP) scrubbed their servers and added security to prevent investigators from illustrating how the pharmaceutical industry, CDC, NIH and pro-socialist activists use libel, threats and intimidation to attack drug industry critics.  All of the Critpath traffic from May 2008 is posted here.

Lindsay Lohan & Citizen Kermit

A friend just sent these two videos - VERY FUNNY!

And if you're a muppets fan...

Who Are the Radical Extremists???

Tea Party Constituents:

Nancy Pelosi constituents

More photos at Pajamas Media.

Who Knew that Obama Would Make George Bush Look Smart?

Gumshoe's Latest Interview

Gumshoe's latest interview is posted at How Positive are You?

Prager University - The Middle East Problem Explained

Make a Joyful Noise!!!

George Soros - The Puppet Master

Last week, Glenn Beck did a great job exposing George Soros and the organizations that are tied to his money.  Beck includes a number of videos of Soros in his own words and quotes Soros from the books and the interviews he has given. The organizations he funds include Media Matters, MoveOn.org, Huffington Post, the Tides Foundation, Centers for American Progress, etc.

The Right Woman for the Job!

Now THIS is how to change a tire at 10,000 feet!

LA's Parking Meter Scam Exposed

LA County installs dysfunctional meters so that parking enforcement officers can issue $60 ticket. LA County official Paul Wong disagrees and demonstrates how EASY the meters work. If we weren't being bilked, it would be funny.

Kudos to Full Disclosure for exposing the scam.

Insanity Defined

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