Rights groups attack snooping plans
Rights groups on Sunday slammed British government plans to expand its powers to monitor email exchanges and website visits. Read whole story below.
Daily Archives: April 1, 2012
Donor who gave $50K to Obama re-election campaign accused of fraud – The Washington Post
By Associated Press, Updated: Sunday, April 1, 3:06 PM
WASHINGTON — A major donor to President Barack Obama has been accused of defrauding a businessman and impersonating a bank official, creating new headaches for Obama’s re-election campaign as it deals with the questionable history of another top supporter.
The New York donor, Abake Assongba, and her husband contributed more than $50,000 to Obama’s re-election effort this year, federal records show. But Assongba is also fending off a civil court case in Florida, where she’s accused of thieving more than $650,000 to help build a multimillion-dollar home in the state — a charge her husband denies.
Obama is the only presidential contender this year who released his list of “bundlers,” the financiers who raise campaign money by soliciting high-dollar contributions from friends and associates. But that disclosure has not come without snags; his campaign returned $200,000 last month to Carlos and Alberto Cardona, the brothers of a Mexican fugitive wanted on federal drug charges.
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt declined comment to The Associated Press. He instead referred the AP to previous statements he made to The Washington Post, which first reported the allegations against Assongba in its Sunday editions. LaBolt told the paper 1.3 million Americans have donated to the campaign, and that it addresses issues with contributions promptly.
Assongba was listed on Obama’s campaign website as one of its volunteer fundraisers – a much smaller group of about 440 people.
Assongba and her husband, Anthony J.W. DeRosa, run a charity called Abake’s Foundation that distributes school supplies and food in Benin, Africa.
In one Florida case, which is still ongoing, Swiss businessman Klaus-Werner Pusch accused Assongba in 2009 of engaging him in an email scam – then using the money to buy a multimillion-dollar home, the Post reported. The suit alleges Assongba impersonated a bank official to do it.
via Donor who gave $50K to Obama re-election campaign accused of fraud – The Washington Post.
Video: Today in History – April 1st
Video: Today in History – April 1st
Video Opinion: Obama’s comments regarding Trayvon Martin’s death is stirring racial strife in America
Dr. James David Manning discusses the damaging effects of Obama’s comments regarding Trayvon Martin’s death is stirring racial strife in America. Recorded on 29 March 2012.
Video: The Public Needs To Be Stunned – NBC’s George Zimmerman Cut And Paste Manipulation of Dispatcher Call Exposed
Video: The Public Needs To Be Stunned – NBC’s Zimmerman Cut And Paste Manipulation of Dispatcher Call Exposed
NBC to do ‘internal investigation’ on Zimmerman segment
By Erik Wemple
NBC told this blog today that it would investigate its handling of a piece on the “Today” show that ham-handedly abridged the conversation between George Zimmerman and a dispatcher in the moments before the death of Trayvon Martin. A statement from NBC:
“We have launched an internal investigation into the editorial process surrounding this particular story.”
Great news right there. As exposed by Fox News and media watchdog site NewsBusters, the “Today” segment took this approach to a key part of the dispatcher call:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.
Here’s how the actual conversation went down:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
The difference between what “Today” put on its air and the actual tape? Complete: In the “Today” version, Zimmerman volunteered that this person “looks black,” a sequence of events that would more readily paint Zimmerman as a racial profiler. In reality’s version, Zimmerman simply answered a question about the race of the person whom he was reporting to the police. Nothing prejudicial at all in responding to such an inquiry.
In an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity,” Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, called this elision on the part of ”Today” an “all-out falsehood” — not just a distortion or misrepresentation.
And it’s a falsehood with repercussions. Much of the public discussion over the past week has settled on how conflicting facts and interpretations call into question whether Zimmerman acted justifiably or criminally. That’s a process that’ll continue. But one set of facts in the is ironclad, and that’s the back-and-forth between Zimmerman and the dispatcher. To portray that exchange in a way that wrongs Zimmerman is high editorial malpractice well worthy of the investigation that NBC is now mounting.
By Erik Wemple
Video: Lotto Nightmare For Some Winners? Attorney Discusses Lottery Pitfalls
You may have daydreamed about winning the lottery, but that “fairy tale ending” has been the beginning of a nightmare for some winners.
Caught On Video: University of Kentucky fans swarmed the streets of Lexington and even burn a car
Thousands of University of Kentucky fans swarmed the streets of Lexington last night after the men’s basketball team beat cross-state rival Louisville. At least one car was set on fire. (April 1)
Say What? Obama’s Chicago Pal, Bill Ayers: “I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to end capitalism”
Say What? Obama’s Chicago Pal, Bill Ayers: “I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to end capitalism”
By Jack Allen
Former domestic terrorist and founder of the Weather Underground Bill Ayers seems like the kind of guy that does not care about democracy and he wants to choose the United States of America’s path for us. The question one must ask is how many of these stealth anti-capitalist, Socialists, Communists or what ever are slipping in their agendas via our schools, media and government held offices? We must also look at Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers and his wealth re-distribution policies. Bill Ayers openly talks about his agenda but Barack Obama hides his agenda by calling it different names that disguises what it really is. With the aid of some in the one-sided controlled media the manipulation of the agenda seems to be hidden from unsuspecting followers and people that are just not paying attention. Below is a video of Bill Ayers talking about his agenda.
Here are some more resources to explore the Bill Ayers and Barack Obama connection
How To Take Over America? Sleeper Cells, Racial Wars! Bill Ayers And Weather Underground Connection?
Video: Mailman, Allen Hulton Says Bill Ayers Family Helped Obama With College
Corsi: Postman Says Bill Ayers’ Parents put ‘Foreign Student’ Obama Through School
Video: Postman: Ayers family put ‘foreigner’ Obama through school – Jerome R. Corsi – WND Breaking Story
