Texas Sheriff Says You Have To Obey the Police Because Their ‘Authority Comes From God’

(Their god is Lucifer thru the Rothschilds and the Government Corporations!)

Texas Sheriff Says You Have To Obey the Police Because Their ‘Authority Comes From God’

Cops says he is doing “God’s work”

by M. David | Counter Currents | September 4, 2015 

A Texas sheriff recently lashed out at critics, saying that citizens have a moral obligation to “obey the police” because their “authority comes from God.”
Randy Meeks is the Hunt County sheriff, and he believes Cops
Meeks recently published a guest editorial in the local Herald-Banner. In it, he cited Bible verses that he claims argue that any one the government puts in charge of you must be obeyed.
The article was run in print only, but photographed by our friend Brett Sanders. Check out those images below…




Brett posted these photographs just days after a grand jury cleared one of Meeks’ deputies for beating a pregnant Air Force veteran, which we reported on the same night that Brett informed us of this incident.
Meeks decided that now was the time to break his silence on the role of police in the community.
“Due to recent events, I can no longer be silent concerning what our country allows,” Meeks stated. “It is amazing to me that the criminals who break into our homes and steal from us, those who sell drugs to our children, those who abuse innocent and defenseless children, those who rape our wives and daughters, those who commit cold-blooded murders are all innocent until proven guilty.”
“Yet, law enforcement officers are found guilty as soon as it ‘appears’ that the officer has done something wrong,” he continued. “Way before the whole incident can be reviewed and the TRUTH obtained, that officer is found guilty and nobody cares what the facts are. This folks, is a travesty!”
Meeks asked rhetorically, “What has our country come to? When will we wake up to the fact that a country established ‘under God’ is now a Godless nation. People evidently don’t want law and order. They want to kill, threaten and to harm the very officers who are in place to protect them.”
Hoping to deal the final blow to his critics, he cited Paul’s letter to the Romans, saying: “Guess where that authority comes from to law enforcement? It comes from God,” Meeks wrote. “Read Romans 13:1 in the Bible. And while you are at it, you folks in Ferguson, Baltimore, Arlington and here, take a Gander at Romans 13:2.”
The sheriff added that anyone who criticizes the police is defying God, and that this is merely “the ignorance of some people.” He urged officers to “hang in there” while Godless citizens criticize them for punching pregnant women in the belly.
Do you agree with the Sheriff and his use of the Bible to justify police brutality? 

http://www.infowars.com/texas-sheriff-says-you-have-to-obey-the-police-because-their-authority-comes-from-god/

Man takes to the skies in world-first pentacontakaitetracopter

(How many of you will be allowed to fly these drones?)

Man takes to the skies in world-first pentacontakaitetracopter

YouTuber gasturbine101 flies in a 54-rotor homemade vehicle

Alex Hern

@alexhern

Friday 4 September 2015 08.28 EDT 

 

The Swarm manned aerial vehicle. 

Stop the search: the greatest Briton in history has been found – sitting astride a makeshift helicopter comprised of 54 drone rotors dressed like one of Monty Python’s Gumbies.
YouTuber gasturbine101 built the world’s first pentacontakaitetracopter (that’s a vehicle with 54 blades), and flew it almost three meters above the ground, alarming his cameraman in the process.
The craft weighs 148kg, can lift a further 164kg and can fly for 10 minutes, according to its inventor. He admits it’s not the safest craft in the world, but says that 54 “18 inch propellers at 5000 rpm, though hazardous, are still much less so than six five-foot ones”. And he’s added the plastic dome for his own protection – since the propellers are “inline with my head”. “It also doubles as a rain shelter,” he added.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/04/man-takes-to-the-skies-in-world-first-pentacontakaitetracopter

2,000 cases may be overturned because police used secret Stingray surveillance

2,000 cases may be overturned because police used secret Stingray surveillance

A motion filed Friday says the State’s Attorney’s office colluded with police to withhold ‘discovery’ material obtained via Stingrays from defendants

Nicky Woolf in Baltimore

@nickywoolf

Friday 4 September 2015 14.09 EDT

 This undated handout photo provided by the US Patent and Trademark Office shows the StingRay II, a cellular site simulator used for surveillance purposes. Photograph: Uncredited/AP

More than 2,000 cases could be overturned in Baltimore as the first motion for a retrial is filed accusing the state’s attorney’s office and the police of “deliberate and wilful misrepresentation” of the use of the secret surveillance equipment known as Stingrays.
The motion, which was filed on behalf of defendant Shemar Taylor by attorney Josh Insley in the Baltimore city circuit court on Friday, says the state’s attorney’s office colluded with the police department to withhold “discovery” material from the defendants and the courts about the use of the Stingray device. Taylor was convicted of assault, robbery and firearm possession.
Manufactured by the Harris corporation and around the size of a briefcase, Stingrays are one of a class of surveillance devices known as “cell-site simulators”, which pretend to be cellphone towers in order to extract metadata, location information, and in some cases content from phones that connect to it.
Prosecutors are required to reveal the evidence against defendants in the “discovery” phase of a criminal trial.
However, a Guardian investigation in April revealed a non-disclosure agreement that local police and prosecutors were forced to sign with the FBI before using the Stingray devices, which mandated them to withdraw or even drop cases rather than risk revealing Stingray use.
“It shocks the conscience that a police commissioner and an elected State’s Attorney would conspire to commit obstruction of justice unless the FBI told them they could disclose,” Insley told the Guardian.
In the motion, Insley cited part of a specific 2011 agreement similar to the one revealed by the Guardian, between then-states’ attorney Gregg Bernstein and then-police commissioner Frederick Bealefeld which stated that their offices “shall not, in any civil or criminal proceeding, use or provide any information concerning the Harris corporation wireless collection equipment/technology” without permission from the FBI.
The motion also stated that in Taylor’s original trial in November 2014, attorneys for the state told defence counsel that “the device” was not used in the investigation. But a USA Today investigation that unearthed a log of cases in which the device was used showed that a Stingray was in fact used in Taylor’s case.
“This was clearly a deliberate and willful misrepresentation to the court to conceal the use of extrajudicial clandestine surveillance by the Baltimore City police department,” the motion stated, adding later that the State’s Attorney had demonstrated “an intentional wanton disregard of the Rules of Evidence.”
The Baltimore public defender’s office has also begun re-examining more than 2,000 cases in which police secretly used Stingrays.
The move also follows a change in federal policy on Thursday in which the US department of justice said that agencies under its aegis would have to obtain a specific warrant to use Stingrays. But this change in policy does not affect local police forces or state-level agencies, where the use of cell-site simulators and other devices is still shrouded in secrecy, and requires only a low-level court order called a PEN register, or “trap-and-trace” order, to grant police permission for its use.
Defence attorneys and civil liberties activists told the Guardian that prosecutors and police departments go to extraordinary lengths to avoid being forced to reveal their use of these devices. They do this by using Stingrays in the first instance, then reverse-engineering a case which they can safely bring to trial without mentioning the surveillance equipment.
In other instances, according to Nate Wessler, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s speech, privacy and technology project, police would present “inscrutable euphemisms” to courts.
“Terms like ‘we located this phone using information from a confidential source’, which sounds a whole lot like they had an informant; it doesn’t sound like they were using a sophisticated electronic device forcing all phones in the area to report back,” Wessler told the Guardian. “Those efforts to hide what the police were doing are very difficult to smoke out.”
“It’s really very frightening,” Natalie Finegar, the deputy public defender for Baltimore city, told the Guardian. She said that her office was starting the process of going through their clients’ cases to see if the police and prosecutors had committed a “discovery violation” in not disclosing the use of Stingray devices - starting with currently incarcerated clients.
Finegar said that it was “too early to tell” how many cases might be affected. “We know there’s 2,000 potential cases,” she told the Guardian, “but there may be more.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/04/baltimore-cases-overturned-police-secret-stingray-surveillance

Iranian general vows to ‘cut off hands and fingers’ of enemies

Iranian general vows to ‘cut off hands and fingers’ of enemies

If attacked, Hossein Salami says Tehran will ‘set fire to’ Israeli and American ‘economic and political interests’

By Times of Israel staff September 4, 2015, 11:17 am

Hossein Salami (AP)

 

A senior commander of Iran’s Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Thursday vowed to “cut off [our] enemies’ hands and fingers” should the Islamic Republic come under a military strike.

“We monitor their acts day and night and will take every opportunity to set fire to all their economic and political interests if they do a wrong deed,” said Brigadier General Hossein Salami, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.

In an apparent reference to Israel and the US, Salami said that if Iran was attacked, it would “cut off [our] enemies’ hands and fingers will then send its dust to the air.”

Escalating Iran’s rhetoric against Israel, another senior commander of the IRG said on Wednesday that the regime would boost its military capabilities relentlessly until Israel was destroyed.

“The Islamic Revolution will continue enhancing its preparedness until it overthrows Israel and liberates Palestine,” the IRG’s Tehran province commander, Brigadier General Mohsen Kazzemeini, said in an address in Tehran, the semi-state Fars news agency reported.

He also vowed that Iran would maintain its aid to those who fight Israel. “We will continue defending not just our own country, but also all the oppressed people of the world, specially those countries that are standing on the forefront of confrontation with the Zionists,” Kazzemeini claimed.

He also vowed that Iran would maintain its aid to those who fight Israel. “We will continue defending not just our own country, but also all the oppressed people of the world, specially those countries that are standing on the forefront of confrontation with the Zionists,” Kazzemeini claimed.

Mohsen Kazzemeini (Courtesy)

Kazzemeini was speaking as Iran started two days of major drills in the capital, involving 250,000 personnel, designed to “practice fighting against security threats,” Fars said.

These drills followed reports Tuesday that Iran has bolstered defenses at its nuclear facilities, introduced new radar systems, and “raised its alert” for fear of an Israeli attack.

The regime has being carrying out a series of drills and exercises, including testing anti-aircraft missiles above its Bushehr reactor, an Israel Channel 10 report said Tuesday.

It said the regime is particularly concerned by the threat of attack in the current period between July’s finalizing of a deal with the P5+1 world powers on its nuclear program and the approval of the deal by the US Congress.

Israel has been a prominent opponent of the deal, which it argues entrenches the regime, provides sanctions relief that will enable Iran to fund terrorism, and paves Iran’s path to the bomb.

In its report on Gen. Kazzemeini’s speech Wednesday, Fars recalled that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in an address to Tehran students last year, called for the “full annihilation and destruction of the Zionist regime.”

On Tuesday, the commander of the IRG, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, threatened Israel, saying “its security will not be preserved” and asserting that the dangers posed to Israel were “growing greater by the day.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-general-vows-to-cut-off-hands-and-fingers-of-enemies/ 

Truth Jihad: Are mass shootings false flags?

Truth Jihad: Are mass shootings false flags?

By Kevin Barrett on September 1, 2015

Or are we just being paranoid?

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Patrick Henningsen and the folks at 21st Century Wirehave created a new rubric: The Daily Shooter. Has it really come to that? Are mass shootings, the most spectacular of which appear to be made-for-TV scripted pseudo-events, becoming so common that we can’t get through the day without one?
In this episode of Truth Jihad Radio, Patrick and I discuss the live-on-the-air “Truman Show” shooting in Virginia; the too-good-to-be-true episode on a TGV train in France in which two US soldiers and a language teacher took down a “terrorist”; and other symptoms of today’s society of the (false-flag) spectacle.
A listener writes:
Was listening to you… talking about the Virginia TV crew shooting …
Yeah, I reviewed the videos on that and I agree with you.  I’m pretty certain it was a fake all around.
Here are my quick point observations on that and hope they might be of some use to you.
This guy was a fired ex-employee of the station. They had forcefully escorted him from the premises … so there was hostility. All of the employees in that station “should” have been aware that this fellow was persona-non-grata … and his presence at the remote location would (in reality) have caused some problems and delays. They just wouldn’t have let him stand around on location and watch because he would likely threaten their efforts.
The station was ostensibly airing a live show. They switched to their remote site to air this interview (live) on location. It was around 6:30 AM.
Now, the question is …
WHY would any station be doing a remote location LIVE interview at 6:30 AM … to get a promotional interview on TOURISM? Why wouldn’t they -instead- do the interview off-air at some convenient time … edit the recording for content and length … and then just plug in that recording as a pseudo-live interview on their morning show? It makes no sense to have been broadcasting a live interview at a remote location on something as mundane as tourism.
But the station claims that the gunman was “stalking” that morning … and -I suppose- just showed up by stealth so that they didn’t see him there?
If that were true then …
He would have had to be hanging around the studio all night in order to FOLLOW these 2 crew members out to the location. Otherwise … how would he KNOW where they were going?
At 6:30 AM, there wasn’t another soul around. Just the interviewer, the interviewee and the cameraman.  The presence of anyone else on location COULDN’T have been missed. The gunman would have stuck out like a sore thumb if they’d seen him there.
Therefore, he had to be hiding behind something. And if he was hiding … why wouldn’t his OWN video show the “walls” of his hiding? There’s nothing between his camera and the scene … showing in his own video.
The interviewer winces slightly with the first shot … turns immediately and looks directly at the gunman (in his video) and instantly screams, turns and runs.
The problem with that is that … anyone hit by an unexpected bullet is going to feel the bullet first … maybe let out an “AUGH” … but have no idea what just happened for at least several seconds. It takes some time for the brain to process what just occurred when something is totally unanticipated. How would she INSTANTLY know where to look and instantly scream?
If she WAS hit by a Glock round … she wouldn’t just wince a little; she would double over immediately. Those bullets are wide … .40 calibre … and they impact like a truck. A .22 round? Well maybe a wince but not with a .40 calibre slug.
If she didn’t know the gunman was there … why did she instantly look at him and scream? Obviously she knew he was there. But up until then, she supposedly DIDN’T know he was there. The interviewee -in the gunman’s video- is facing him all the time but shows no notice of his presence.
And this is exactly what would occur in a dramatically staged, rehearsed event because it’s all play-acting. The interviewer might have been hit by the small piece of paper on the end of a blank cartridge … which triggered the wince. The wince looks kind of real.
The MOMENT the first shot rings out … the cameraman drops his camera downward. He hasn’t been shot but for some reason, he drops his camera instantly on the first shot … as if on cue. So HIS camera doesn’t catch the woman running … or falling.
A similar thing happens to the gunman’s camera. After about 4 shots … his camera inexplicably falls to the ground right on cue. His video catches her running off, screaming but then, for reasons not well understood, his camera falls to the ground.
Thus -almost magically- NEITHER camera captures the woman falling down!  We have no way of proving that she ever actually fell down!!
In fact … there isn’t even the sound of her or her microphone dropping!!
Now how does a woman fall to the ground and die without there being any audible thump from the microphone … in the transmission?
From the first gunshot to the end of transmission takes 7 seconds flat.
You would expect the anchor back at the station would be sitting there dumbfounded … staring at the screen … for at least 2 seconds … while she tries to comprehend what just happened. You’d expect to hear a Fetzer-like voice calling out, “Jim, are you there? Jim, are you there?”  Something to that effect. Trying to reconnect etc.
But nope. The anchor has big eyes but she wraps it all up quick and smart in 5 seconds … as if she already knows what it’s all about.
Which is exactly how it would be if this was a staged production using actors. Within 12 seconds, it’s all wrapped up. 2 people dead, one wounded and an anchor who has it summed up nice and tidy!~   Just gallops right along without a moment’s hesitation.
Which is NOT what you would see in a real life event.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/01/shooter/ 

AGAIN?? U.S.A. Military and 'Government' Tries To Confiscate Property

Family Near Area 51 Fights Back After Government Tries To Confiscate Property

Carey Wedler

September 3, 2015

A family that owns a lead and silver mine overlooking Nevada’s notorious Area 51 claims they have been violently harassed by the Air Force for six decades — as long as the 'government' has sought control of the land.  

Their allegations range from illegal 'government' searches and checkpoints to the Air Force attacking their property with military jets.

The Groom Mine has been in the Sheahan family since 1889 and has been passed down through several generations. However, co-owners Joe Sheahan, Dan Sheahan, and Barbara Sheahan-Manning told local CBS Las Vegas affiliate 8 News Now that since the 1950s — when the military built the base and started conducting U-2 spy plane tests there — the 'government' has attempted to seize their land, resorting to sordid tactics in their efforts.

The family alleges that the Air Force went so far as to bomb their property, saying they believe an ore processing mill was destroyed in 1954 when an “errant bomb or dropped wing tank” blew it up.

Their grandparents “…went to the poorhouse trying to win their case of the mill that was destroyed by the Air Force,” said Sheahan-Manning. “We have some evidence they absolutely were the culprits in that, and it was never addressed.” 

News Now reported that “[t]he Sheahans say their buildings have been strafed and bombed by military jets over the past six decades.”

The family also says their land was “…showered by radioactive fallout from numerous above-ground nuclear weapons tests.”

According to the Sheahans, the military harassed them in other ways, as well. “They have driven away prospective business partners and told them, ‘If you buy the place or try to operate, we are going to condemn it, and you’re going lose your money,” Dan Sheahan claims.

In recent decades, the 'government' cordoned off large portions of the area, manning them with armed guards. “They held people at gunpoint. They withdrew 89,000 acres of land, surrounded our property and made us an island,” Joe Sheahan said. Sheahan-Manning stated that she has been illegally searched and that for years, the government has forced members of the family to go through checkpoints to access their own property. “It seems like machine guns solve anything on the property out there. That’s not the American way,” Dan Sheahan said.

“We want ‘em to know what they have done over the last 60 years to our family is not acceptable,” he also commented, saying they did not want to go public but felt they had no other choice.

The Air Force recently offered the family $5.2 million for their 400 acres of land, but the Sheahans say the offer doesn’t come close to compensating them for the rich resources in the mine or the generations of memories the family has made there. “Either give us our property, leave us alone, or pay us what you owe us,” Joe Sheahan said. 

Further, as Sheahan-Manning said, “The truth is you can get more of a view of what’s going on on that base through Google Earth and pictures that are out there all over the Internet.”

Nevertheless, Colonel Thomas Dempsey, commander of the Nevada Test and Training Range Wing, stressed the importance of the land for conducting training and tests, saying the site’s infrastructure “… directly supports range activities that cannot be replicated elsewhere.” He cited "national security concerns??? and protecting the environment"??? as reasons to move forward with the confiscation.

“The Air Force has worked hard to be a responsible neighbor by actively working with the landowners and local neighbors??? to ensure our evolving missions and communities grew in a compatible, mutually beneficial manner???,” Dempsey said. “But in this case, the Air Force has exhausted all reasonable options to reach a settlement with the landowners.” 

The family says it understands the need for national security, but argues the treatment they have endured is still unacceptable. If their allegations of harassment are true, the Air Force’s actions have hardly been “reasonable” or “mutually beneficial.”

The Sheahans expressed hope that their elected representatives will step in to help remedy the situation but, until then, they harbor serious apprehensions about the 'government’s' decades-long siege on their land. “Is it okay to bomb your citizens, hold ‘em at gunpoint and then — just to add insult to injury — just steal their property?” Joe Sheahan asked.

“What the American people have got to realize is if they can do this to us, they can do it to each and every one of them,” Dan Sheahan warned. 

The family has rejected the Air Force’s offer and may face the 'government’s' invocation of eminent domain on September 10, when the offer officially expires.

In 2013, the CIA admitted that Area 51 existed, but claimed it was used primarily for Cold War-era surveillance programs. In June, a NASA administrator said alien life likely exists, but it is not being kept at Area 51. Even so, theories persist that alien autopsies were conducted on the premises and similar activities still transpire there — and the Air Force’s relentless, desperate attempts to kick the Sheahan family off of their land does little to quell suspicions.

Regardless of whether or not extraterrestrial life actually exists at Area 51 is ultimately — at least in the Sheahan’s case — irrelevant. That the United States military is aggressively targeting private citizens with threats, harassment, and violence is currently a more pressing, dangerous revelation than the potential presence of alien life.

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/09/family-near-area-51-fights-back.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fa6f6eaeea-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-fa6f6eaeea-386950346 

 

"Blending in" Jade Helm Style

"Blending in" Jade Helm Style: Fake Rental Trucks Reveal Hidden Spy Rooms

By Aaron and Melissa Dykes
ACTIVIST POST 
September 2 2015

Jade Helm’s tagline is “mastering the human domain”.

We have been told that, in part, this has to do with special operations outfits from the Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines using covert warfare techniques to infiltrate average American neighborhoods (as mock “hostile environments”) and walk “undetected amongst civilian populations” without being noticed by the rest of us. 

Oh, and it’s for “refining the skills needed against an ever changing foreign threat” (emphasis added on the word ‘foreign’) according to Army Special Operation Command spokesman Mark Lastoria.

Well, here’s one way they reportedly have done that.
Mike Lamb, a staff writer for Barstow, California’s Desert Dispatch, was invited to a small press meeting prior to a joint forcible entry operation training exercise at Fort Irwin National Training Center called Operation Dragon Spear last month. Military vehicles and gear were put on display and the reporters were allowed to take pictures and ask questions.

“What I’m about to share with you is not top secret. But there were U.S. Army special operations soldiers lurking around Barstow, driving down our streets and we didn’t even know it,” he wrote.

Part of the military’s stealth technology involved a Ryder truck and a hay truck:

Parked outside were a Ryder rental truck full of furniture and a hay truck. As I stood there staring at them, the same public affairs officials pointed to the dryer inside the Ryder truck, its door wide open. I walked closer and looked inside the dryer. He pointed his lighted phone at the opening, revealing a large room.
The same for the hay truck. A small doorway led to large room inside.

Just think about that for a second. A Ryder moving truck and a hay truck driving around your town with hidden surveillance and command rooms inside of them filled with special operations officers, just driving casually up and down American streets doing… well, whatever they want to, undetected.

  “When you think of the military using stealth, a hay truck is not what comes to mind. But, according to the Green Beret who stood by the trucks, it was ‘mission accomplished’,” Lamb reported.

“Mission accomplished” because they “infiltrated” Barstow and conducted surveillance on American streets in these fake trucks and, reportedly, nobody suspected a thing. 

In the lead up to Jade Helm, residents in areas where the drills would be running across the Southwest were told to report suspicious activity in order to test the military’s effectiveness.

No one must’ve reported the Ryder moving truck or the hay trucks driving up and down the street….

“It was very successful,” one of the Green Berets at the demonstration told Lamb. “We did everything we wanted to do.”

And what exactly was it that they wanted to do?

But of course this is all about the foreign threat, as evidenced by all the Ryder moving trucks driving around the Middle East, right?

Is that it? 

Or are we witnessing further training and acclimation of an occupying force in our own country?

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/09/blending-in-jade-helm-style-fake-rental-trucks-reveal-hidden-spy-rooms.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fa6f6eaeea-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-fa6f6eaeea-386950346 

 

Going After the Gougers & Climate Changers

Going After the Gougers & Climate Changers

 

With crude oil prices at historic lows, and California oil refining profits at historic highs, the Golden State is getting gouged at the gas pump in unprecedented fashion.

Our analysis just out finds Californians have paid $5.3 billion extra for their gasoline than Americans due to chronically low inventories by the state’s oil refiners. That’s $220 extra for every California driver since February. 
 
Action in
Sacramento before the legislature closes next Friday will help fight high gas prices, as well as climate change. You can keep up with the fight by subscribing to our new Capitol Watchdog alerts here.

California oil refiners have taken to the airwaves to claim that pending legislation to reduce petroleum use by 50% in 15 years will drive up costs at the pump.  But SB 350 will actually reduce gasoline prices by taking away their oligopolistic hold over our fuel supply.
 
In the long term, the introduction of electric vehicles and other increasingly cost-effective alternative fuel technologies will prevent oil refiners’ supply manipulation by cutting their market share in half.

SB 350's fate is a critical piece of the puzzle long term, but transparency also needs to be applied to the oil refiners in the short term to prevent their supply manipulation.

Consumer Watchdog has committed to working with NextGen Climate founder Tom Steyer on drafting a ballot measure that requires oil refiners to justify their refinery closures, maintain minimum inventories and face penalties for rigging the market.
 
The ballot measure will have to be filed for signature collection in October to make the November 2016 ballot.

You can stay informed about the ballot measure’s progress and Big Oil’s other challenges by subscribing to our new Capitol Watchdog alerts.

If we go to the ballot, this will be the last Labor Day drive that oil refiners will be able to pick Californians’ pockets for an extra dollar per gallon.
Have a great weekend,

Jamie

New York Town’s Day Laborer Law Ruled Unconstitutional

New York Town’s Day Laborer Law Ruled Unconstitutional

New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit along with several other groups challenging the law

by AP | September 4, 2015

A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a suburban New York town’s law banning day laborers from soliciting for work on public sidewalks, declaring its broad application could affect children selling lemonade in their driveway.
U.S. District Court Judge Denis Hurley said in a ruling Thursday that Oyster Bay’s law violates the First Amendment, and he suggested that the town’s concerns about public safety could be addressed by enforcing existing state vehicle and traffic laws. The town is considering whether to appeal.
“The ordinance prohibits speech and conduct of an expressive nature that does not pose a threat to safety on the town’s streets and sidewalks,” Hurley said. “It reaches children selling lemonade at the end of a neighbor’s driveway … the veteran holding a sign on a sidewalk stating ‘will work for food,’ and students standing on the side of a road advertising a school carwash.”
The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit along with several other groups challenging the law after it was enacted in 2009. Because of the ongoing litigation, the town has never enforced the ordinance, which called for fines of $250 for violators.
“Localities across the country have undertaken unconstitutional measures like this as a way of targeting vulnerable immigrant populations,” said NYCLU senior attorney Corey Stoughton. “This ruling sends a message to local governments that courts will not let them get away with subverting American constitutional values to pursue an anti-immigrant agenda.”
Read more

http://www.infowars.com/new-york-towns-day-laborer-law-ruled-unconstitutional/

Feds Say Company Discriminated Against Illegals, Orders Back Pay

Feds Say Company Discriminated Against Illegals, Orders Back Pay

Obama will perform Big Brother “compliance monitoring” of company

by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | September 4, 2015 

The Justice Department says Nebraska Beef discriminated against illegal alien workers by asking them for proof of citizenship.
The Department of Justice’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices objected to non-U.S. citizens being “targeted” because of their citizenship status, according to Judicial Watch.
Under pressure from the federal government, the company agreed to a $200,000 civil penalty and also to create an uncapped back pay fund to compensate individuals who lost wages because they were unable to prove they are in the county legally, according to the non-partisan educational foundation.
In addition, the business will be subjected to “compliance monitoring” by the government.
Judicial Watch believes the effort is part of a larger effort by the federal government and the Obama administration to facilitate the entry of illegal aliens in the United States:

This case is part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to helps illegal aliens in the U.S. Besides shielding tens of millions from deportation via an executive amnesty order, the president has also expanded the DOJ to help carry out part of this mission. It’s why the agency’s civil rights division has grown immensely under Obama.

The DOJ civil rights division is overseen by a renowned illegal alien advocate, Thomas Perez.
Prior to taking the position at the DOJ, Perez lobbied the Maryland General Assembly against a proposal by Democratic Gov. Parris N. Glendening to make it tougher for immigrants to get driver’s licenses. Perez was a director of CASA of Maryland, an immigrant rights group, at the time.
A report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found last year the Obama administration had allowed businesses to hire undocumented workers and imposed drastically reduced fines and enforcement as mandated by law.
“This inconsistent implementation hinders the government’s mission to prevent or deter employers from violating immigration laws, the DHS watchdog wrote in its report. Now the DOJ is taking it a step further by going after employers that try to ensure their workers are in the U.S. legally,” Judicial watch reports.

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10th Circuit judges shocked by own court's ruling

10th Circuit judges shocked by own court's ruling

Jurists decry meddling in religious beliefs, doctrine

Published: 16 hours ago

Bob Unruh

Five judges of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have issued an opinion that easily could serve as advice for District Judge David Bunning, who found Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis in contempt of court and jailed her Thursday for refusing to violate her faith.

Davis has refused to issue any marriage licenses from her office since the Supreme Court created the right to “same-sex marriage.”
Bunning admitted there was a conflict between Davis’ religious-exercise right and the newly created right. But he refused to consider any accommodation for her and ruled she would have to violate her faith to stay out of jail.
But the 10th Circuit judges’ dissenting opinion Thursday in another case centered on religious rights warns of the dangers of having judges “examine the reasoning behind a religious practice or belief and decide what is core and what is derivative.”
In that case, the Little Sisters of the Poor in Denver object to having a health insurance policy that provides abortion-causing drugs for their employees. The nuns argue that either providing the drugs or authorizing someone else to provide them would violate Catholic doctrine.
The government has been pursuing the Little Sisters because employers are required under Obamacare to provide plans that cover the drugs.
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In the Davis case, the clerk argues authorizing marriage licenses for same-sex couples would violate her exercise of Christian beliefs, which has held for millennia that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
Regarding the Sisters, the judges concluded the judiciary should not be put in the position of evaluating the reasonableness of religious beliefs.
“Could we really tolerate letting courts examine the reasoning behind a religious practice or belief and decide what is core and what is derivative? A Christian could be required to work on December 25 because, according to a court, his core belief is that he should not work on the anniversary of the birth of Jesus but a history of the calendar and other sources show that Jesus was actually born in March; a December 25 work requirement therefore does not substantially burden his core belief.
“Or a Jewish prisoner could be provided only non-kosher food because the real purpose of biblical dietary laws is health, so long as the pork is well-cooked, etc., the prisoner’s religious beliefs are not substantially burdened,” they wrote.
“The Supreme Court has refused to examine the reasonableness of a sincere religious belief – in particular, the reasonableness of where the believer draws a line between sinful and acceptable – at least since Thomas v. Review Board of Indiana Employment Security Division,” they continued.
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The majority of the 10th Circuit refused to hear the case of the Little Sisters, who now have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“The doctrine of the panel majority will not long survive,” the 10th Circuit judges said. “It is contrary to all precedent concerning the free exercise of religion. I am aware of no precedent holding that a person’s free exercise was not substantially burdened when a significant penalty was imposed for refusing to do something prohibited by the person’s sincere religious beliefs (however strange, or even silly, the court may consider those beliefs).”
The opinion was written by Judge Harris Hartz, who was joined by Neil Gorsuch, Jerome Holmes, Timothy Tymkovich and Paul Kelly.
It explained that after the 10th Circuit’s original opinion against the nuns, the plaintiffs petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court. Nonetheless, there was a vote at the 10th Circuit on whether the full court should review the case, which went against the plaintiffs.
The dissenting judges wrote: “When a law demands that a person do something the person considers sinful, and the penalty for refusal is a large financial penalty, then the law imposes a substantial burden on that person’s free exercise of religion. All the plaintiffs in this case sincerely believe that they will be violating God’s law if they execute the documents requirement by the government. And the penalty for refusal to execute the documents may be in the millions of dollars. How can it be any clearer that the law substantially burdens the plaintiffs’ free exercise of religion?”
The Becket Fund pointed out the dissenting judges called the ruling against the Little Sisters “clearly and gravely wrong – on an issue that has little to do with contraception and a great deal to do with religious liberty.”
Mark Rienzi, senior counsel at Becket said the opinion “offers important support to the Little Sisters’ request that the Supreme Court hear their case,”.”
“These judges understand that courts and bureaucrats should not be telling nuns what the Catholic faith requires,” he said.
The judges pointed out that the result in the Little Sisters case could be used to “second-guess the religious beliefs of any faith.”
WND reported that by a 2-1 vote the court said the Obama administration can force the nuns to provide their employees with the drugs, which violate Roman Catholic teaching.
Rienzi said it’s remarkable that the U.S. government contends it must have the help of the nuns to distribute contraceptives.
“The federal government doesn’t need the Little Sisters or any other ministry to help it distribute abortion-inducing drugs and other contraceptives. Yet it not only insists on forcing them to participate in the delivery, it argues that their beliefs against participating are wrong and that government officials and judges can tell the Little Sisters what Catholic theology really requires,” he said.
“That’s wrong, and it’s dangerous – especially when those same government officials have disrespectfully compared the Sisters’ beliefs to ‘fighting an invisible dragon’ that can be vanquished with the ‘stroke of the [Sisters'] own pen.’”
Becket earlier defeated the Obama administration in a similar case involving Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court.
Rienzi said: “The government has lost every single time they have made these arguments before the Supreme Court – including last year’s landmark Hobby Lobby case. One would think they would get the message and stop pressuring the sisters.”
He said the government is “willing to exempt big companies like Exxon, Chevron and Pepsi Bottling, but it won’t leave the Little Sisters alone.”
Churches are exempted from providing contraceptives, but religion-based organizations such as the senior centers run by the sisters are not.
Obamacare requires that they provide the drugs or sign over the responsibility to another group. The nuns argue that signing over the responsibility to someone else is essentially the same as doing it themselves.
Also involved in the case are Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust, Christian Brothers Services, Reaching Souls International, Truett-McConnell College and GuideStone Financial Resources.
“The sisters consider it immoral to help the government distribute these drugs. But instead of simply exempting them, the government insists that it can take over their ministry’s employee healthcare to distribute these drugs to their employees, while dismissing the sisters’ moral objections as irrelevant,” said Rienzi. “In America, judges and government bureaucrats have no authority to tell the Little Sisters what is moral or immoral. And the government can distribute its drugs without nuns – it has its own healthcare exchanges that can provide whatever it wants.”
Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, mother provincial of the Little Sisters of the Poor, said she hopes the Supreme Court “will hear our case and ensure that people from diverse faiths can freely follow God’s calling in their lives.”
Related stories:
10th Circuit judges shocked by their own court’s ruling
Judge jails Christian clerk
Michael Reagan: Jailed Christian clerk should quit her job”
Cruz accuses federal judge of ‘tyranny’ in clerk’s case

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Wonder Woman Banned from School Lunchbox …Seriously? But Kardashians and Miley OK!! Pic

Wonder Woman Banned from School Lunchbox …Seriously? But Kardashians and Miley OK!! Pic

Posted By: Susoni [Send E-Mail]
Date: Friday, 4-Sep-2015 12:23:39

If I was her mother, I would have dressed up as Wonder Woman and went up to the school to have a talk. :-)

As a little girl, I had many positive role models. One of my biggest–who still influences me today–is “Wonder Woman”. Not only is she beautiful, she is strong, highly intelligent. She embodies strength without compromising her feminine side. She gave little girls born in the 70′s confidence and an “I can do anything” attitude. That confidence carried over into my adults years and has helped me conquer and succeed in every area of my life.

I don’t consider super heroes to be violent. They are the good guys fighting for “truth, justice, and the American way.” Apparently, one school doesn’t feel the same way. A girl was recently sent home from school for bringing a Wonder Woman lunchbox. They sent home a letter stating, “The dress code we have established requests that the children not bring violent images into the building in any fashion, including shoes and socks, backpacks and lunchboxes.”

The image on the side of the girls lunchbox was Wonder Woman holding her truth lasso (yeah, telling the truth is really violent!). I mean, when is this rhetoric and control from schools going to end? Would it be better if the girl had a picture of Kim Kardashian instead? Maybe Nicki Minaj in something bootie-licious? How about Miley Cyrus in her Hannah Montana persona? Dress like a slut, OK! Have intelligence, values and morals and aspire to be something great- to fight corruption, not OK! This is one of those times to challenge the school and stand up for what you think is right when something is so egregiously ridiculous.

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University of Texas removes Jefferson Davis statue - SHAME ON THEM

University of Texas removes Jefferson Davis statue - SHAME ON THEM

Posted By: RumorMail [Send E-Mail]
Date: Friday, 4-Sep-2015 12:12:34

Quietly erasing history all over America in favor of lies supported by liberal BS. Are they going to place Lincolns statue there, too. He was, after a hater of black people. How about one, just one, statue of a white slave to represent the million plus white slaves, anywhere!

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University of Texas removes Jefferson Davis statue

A statue of Jefferson Davis was removed from its pedestal Sunday on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, days after a court rejected an appeal from a Confederate heritage group.

Crews were seen removing the statue of the Confederate president from its place near the university's iconic clock tower.

Davis' statue will eventually be displayed in the Briscoe Center history museum on campus, which university officials said is a more appropriate place for it. The Briscoe Center has one of the nation's largest archives on slavery.

"This is an iconic moment," said Gregory Vincent, the university's vice president for diversity and community engagement, according to the Austin American-Statesman. "It really shows the power of student leadership."

A judge last week ruled against the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which sued to stop the university from moving it. 

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