Gov't paid $600 million in benefits to dead people



By SAM HANANEL

Associated Press

The federal government has doled out more than $600 million in benefit payments to dead people over the past five years, a watchdog report says.

Such payments are meant for retired or disabled federal workers, but sometimes the checks keep going out even after the former employees pass away and the deaths are not reported,…

With all that has been happening in America lately, are you finally fed up? The recent abuses of the Wall Street Protesters are as far as I'm concerned the nail in their coffins. Will it take the riots, and murders of our fellow citizens like we've seen in the Middle East and Europe to begin the revolution? I say let's organize via twitter, facebook, and all avaialable media and march on Washington. The can't ignore us if we peacefully protest in their base of operations. Armed insurection…

Terence P. Jeffrey

CNS News

Sept 25, 2011

 

The Internet has risen to its all-time high as a primary source of news for Americans with 43 percent…

Erdogan: Israel cannot be trusted

In interview with CNN Turkish PM continues with belligerent rhetoric towards Israel, questions the number of Israeli fatalities from Palestinian terror groups' rocket fire 'compared to thousands of dead Palestinians'

Ynet…

As I posted a few weeks ago, an important date to be mindful of is 9/27/11.  In hindsight, it seems that there was more 'intuited forewarning' in that post than I was aware of at the time.

Major governments around the world have cancelled parlimentary and/or normal governmental activities between [on average] September 23 through the second week in October. Even our own Congress and Senate are taking 'an extended recess' until mid-October.  NASA is…

Activist Post Deleted! Google Erases Popular Alternative News Source

At mid-day on Friday, September 23, 2011, the popular alternative news blog, ActivistPost.com, was taken offline. Activist Post receives over one million…

With 'real-time' apps, Facebook is always watching

By John D. Sutter, CNN updated 2:54 PM EST, Fri September 23, 2011 | Filed under: …

A recent major investigative report by theLos Angeles Times sheds light on what all this "war on terror" is actually costing--and actually accomplishing. According to the report, "A decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, federal and state governments are spending about $75 billion a year on domestic security, setting up sophisticated radio networks, upgrading emergency medical response equipment, installing surveillance cameras and bombproof…

Global market meltdown: Are stocks going to crash?

Abroad, the bear market has arrived. And many U.S. investors fear things will only get worse

Traders on the…

A Troubling - or Inspired - UCC Filing

While we've been collectively wondering what's going on that's making the whole world so wonky here lately, we happened…

These are the candidates.

Ron Paul: Audit the Fed dude, the Underdog

Gary Johnson: Former governor of New Mexico, i.e. No one

Mitt Romney: Former governor of Massachusetts, No one

Herman Cain: Token black Republican, owns Godfather's Pizza, No one

Rick Perry: Gay Dominionist Gov. of Texas, a/k/a The Chosen One

Newt Gingritch: Professional lackey, No one

Jon Huntsman: Has great hair, No one

Michelle Bachmann: Lunatic, eye candy, potential…

#OccupyWallStreet Is More Than a Hashtag - It's Revolution in Formation

Obama at the United Nations: The Arrogant Voice of Imperialism…

A bystander who suffered permanent hearing loss after Pittsburgh police deployed a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) against protestors during the 2009 G-20 Summit has filed a federal lawsuit against the city. The device emits pain-inducing sounds to disperse crowds and is also deployed on American warships.

Karen Piper, then a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University, tried to observe the G-20 protests in…

NEW YORK (AP) — The grainy photographs could have come from any undercover police file: A man in jeans talking on his cell phone. Another in a windbreaker walking past people at a coffee shop. A car parked outside a grocery store.

But the surveillance was not part of any criminal case. The photos were snapped as part of secret…

Motivating enemies: Interventionists and the UN veto