File under "Baltimore Police Lynching." [BALTIMORESUN] About three weeks before Freddie Gray was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore coppers -- the start of a fatal encounter -- the office of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked police to target the intersection with "enhanced" drug enforcement efforts, court documents show. What was that famous quote from Marion Berry again...
"State's Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St," Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby's Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a March 17 email to a Western District police commander.
The email was disclosed for the first time Tuesday in a motion filed in Baltimore Circuit Court by defense attorneys for the six officers being prosecuted in Gray's arrest and death. The attorneys said Mosby's involvement in the police initiative means that she should be removed from the case.
"Mrs. Mosby herself is now an integral part of the story and as such is a central witness," the defense attorneys argued. "This is a case where the witness and the prosecutor are one and the same."
Mosby, through spokeswoman Rochelle Ritchie, said, "Consistent with our prosecutorial obligations, we will litigate this case in the courtroom and not in the media." Mosby's office received the motion Tuesday afternoon, Ritchie said. Law school grad was she? Are her transcripts available ?
Mosby's office has dismissed previous defense calls for her recusal, including those based on conflict-of-interest allegations stemming from her husband's post as city councilman in the district where Gray was nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! .
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So will the good prosecutor also file murder charges against herself?
[KSDK] FERGUSON, Mo. -- A petition to recall the mayor of Ferguson lacks the required number of valid signatures, according to the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners.
A group called Ground Level Support delivered the petition to recall Mayor James Knowles on May 28th, saying they had 400 more than the 1,800 signatures required. All signatures must be from Ferguson residents who were registered to vote during the last mayoral election.
The St. Louis County Board of Education Commissioners began verifying the signatures' validity the day the petition was turned in. Tuesday, the board announced the required number of valid signatures was not met. It says of the 2,133 signatures submitted, only 1,008 were valid.
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Nearly half were bogus? I guess you cant rena-a-signature like you can rent-a-mob.
[BOSTONHERALD] Former Gov. Deval (Whoa! Nice) drapes! Patrick's administration secretly diverted nearly $27 million in public money to off-budget accounts that paid for a $1.35 million trade junket tab, bloated advertising contracts, and a deal with a federally subsidized tourism venture backed by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... , a Herald investigation has found.
The maneuver to fatten the hidden "trust" accounts with millions from state quasi-public agencies allowed Patrick to skirt the state Legislature and evade state budget cutbacks during the recession, the Herald found.
State politicians never approved the funding plan, and it's not clear who even knew about it, but it is clear who orchestrated the end-around the budget and got state agencies to contribute.
"The (Patrick) administration asked us to," said Katie Hauser, spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, which kicked in the largest amount to the trusts, $23.5 million.
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"Skirting the legislature"....wonder where he learned that trick ?
You never go full Pelosi!
Chief Obamatrade proponent House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted during Congressional testimony on Wednesday evening that despite tons of claims from him and other Obamatrade supporters to the contrary, the process is highly secretive.
He also made a gaffe in his House Rules Committee testimony on par with former Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)'s push to pass Obamacare, in which she said infamously said: "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
"It's declassified and made public once it's agreed to," Ryan said of Obamatrade in Rules Committee testimony on Wednesday during questioning from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX). In other words, "you'll have to pass the bill to find out what's in it." These dickheads should just rename themselves the Beltway Party and be done with it. What the hell is wrong with these 'Republicans'?
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We need a sunset (all laws expire unless renewed) and sunshine (all lawmaking must be done in the open, excepting defense/intelligence) amendment to the constitution.
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"It's declassified and made public once it's agreed to,"
I have to wonder if this is a bit of a tempest in a teapot pushed by the anti-Republican mainstream media. The House committee is in the middle of the sausage making stage that legendarily takes place in smoke-filled back rooms. Until the bill is finalized and ready to be put up for a vote, nobody knows what will be in it, only what might be.
Contrariwise, only a few of the Congresscritters who voted on the American Care Act saw any of the text until after the thing was passed, several stages down the road from where Obama's proposed trade bill is now. What comes out of committee may well look very different from the thing that left the President's desk.
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tw, my understanding, which could be wrong, is they'll finalize it then present for a straight up or down vote, take it or leave it, without any opportunity for amendments from the floor and precious little chance to actually read it before voting.
I think its quite reasonable to assume they're keeping it secret because people would scream bloody murder if the provisions were made public. Rank and file congress critters might then be spooked into voting against it. MSM will cooperate by forgetting all about it after it's passed and ordinary folks will never know what hit them.
[Breitbart] Discovered inside the huge tranche of secretive Obamatrade documents released by Wikileaks are key details on how technically any Republican voting for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would technically also be voting to massively expand President Obama's executive authority when it comes to immigration matters.
The mainstream media covered the Wikileaks document dump extensively, but did not mention the immigration chapter contained within it, so Breitbart News took the documents to immigration experts to get their take on it. Nobody has figured how big a deal the documents uncovered by Wikileaks are until now. (See below)
The president's Trade in Services Act (TiSA) documents, which is one of the three different close-to-completely-negotiated deals that would be fast-tracked making up the president's trade agreement, show Obamatrade in fact unilaterally alters current U.S. immigration law. TiSA, like TPP or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) deals, are international trade agreements that President Obama is trying to force through to final approval. The way he can do so is by getting Congress to give him fast-track authority through TPA.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[BALTIMORESUN] About three weeks before Freddie Gray was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore 
[KSDK] FERGUSON, Mo. -- A petition to recall the mayor of Ferguson lacks the required number of valid signatures, according to the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners.
[BOSTONHERALD] Former Gov. 
