1 dead after 10 people shot at birthday party on Detroit's west side - We'll unfortunately see this on an Investigative Discovery at some time soon.

Detroit police are investigating a deadly shooting that happened at a child's birthday party on the city's west side.

Detroit Police Assistant Chief Steve Dolunt said shots were fired around 8:30 p.m. at the basketball courts at Dexter and Webb, where a large crowd of about 400 people were gathered for a birthday party.

A 20-year-old man was killed and a 46-year-old man is in critical condition. Eight other people, including three women and five men, were also shot and some were taken to the hospital. Dolunt said it was a "miracle" no children were shot.

Dolunt tells Action News patrol officers noticed the large crowds along Dexter around 6 p.m. and asked people to disperse. The party-goers were cooperative and police left. When they returned after shots were fired, police say the crowd dispersed quickly. Although dozens of people remained on the scene, investigators have not received any strong leads in the case.

Dolunt expressed his frustration during media interviews Saturday night.

“There’s kids out here. I’m livid. There’s no excuse, there’s not any excuse why no one is talking," he said. "Man up or woman up, whatever, and tell us what’s going on," he added.

Police say shots were fired from at least two semi-automatic weapons and that the deceased victim could have been an intended target.

Police took one man into custody on a misdemeanor warrant but it's unclear whether he was involved in the shooting. Detectives are also trying to find the owner of a red car that was found crashed and abandoned in a parking lot across the basketball courts. They believe the people in the car could have been hit in the shooting.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig will canvas the surrounding neighborhood Sunday afternoon.

More...http://www.wxyz.com/news/5-people-shot-on-detroits-west-side-one-fatal

Bush Surging, Rand Paul Plunging in GOP Primary Voters Poll

Below are the overall scores, combining negatives and positives, from the poll:
Marco Rubio: 74 percent-15 percent (+59)
Jeb Bush: 75 percent-22 percent (+53)
Scott Walker: 57 percent-19 percent (+38)
Mike Huckabee: 65 percent-32 percent (+33)
Ben Carson: 50 percent-21 percent (+29)
Rick Perry: 53 percent-31 percent (+22)
Ted Cruz: 51 percent-31 percent (+20)
Rick Santorum: 49 percent-40 percent (+9)
Bobby Jindal: 36 percent-28 percent (+8)
Rand Paul: 49 percent-45 percent (+4)
Carly Fiorina: 31 percent-29 percent (+2)
John Kasich: 25 percent-30 percent (-5)
Chris Christie: 36 percent-55 percent (-19)
Lindsey Graham: 27 percent-49 percent (-22)

Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/bush-leads-primary-voters/2015/06/21/id/651550/#ixzz3dl0PV2gU

I seriously doubt that this lineup is even close to being real. W/ Rubio's immigration stand and his absurd foreign policy stance there's no way he's plus 59 and no one likes Bush at this rate. No way that Rand could be this low despite his trends against Hillary in the general. Cruz has never polled well in any GOP primary nor has Perry. But to see Jindal and Santorum outdoing Rand, this it just outright bullcrap and newsmax has never been in the corner of Rand Paul.

Rand Paul's Father's Day Tribute to Ron Paul (former Representative from Texas and 3-time Presidential contender, now retired but delivered over 4000 babies as an OBG-YN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20&v=QKHmHIFVGI8

Joe the Plumber reposts: Why the Patriot Act is Tyranny and Rand Paul is a hero

Senator Rand Paul is taking a lot of heat from establishment Conservatives and some in the media for his unwavering stand against the Patriot Act. The party line that is emerging says that we are now vulnerable to terrorist attack.

Even Senator Paul, himself, said he was being accused of damaging America’s defenses against such attacks – By Tom DeWeese

These accusations are almost humorous considering that many of these same establishment Republicans have refused to force Barack Obama to enforce immigration laws. That fact now allows literally anyone who wants to harm our nation to cross over the border and to not only remain here, but also to receive tax payer benefits and perhaps even the right to vote. Reportedly, Obama is allowing people from the same Middle Eastern nations that give rise to terrorism to flood into our nation at horrific rates.

Newly announced presidential candidate Lindsey Graham is especially guilty of this let down in American security as he has pushed for policies to open our borders even further. So too have Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. Has anyone accused them of damaging American national security?

The fact is Rand Paul is a defender of American security unlike any other candidate currently running to lead this nation. He’s one of a very few to openly stand for the Constitutional rights of all Americans to be secure in their homes and free of government snooping into their private business.

The created hysteria over the Patriot Act being a guardian of our freedom is hog wash. This is the Patriot Act that was rushed into place just after a horrific terrorist attack – 911. Of course the nation was scared and of course out went the cry – “Do something NOW to protect us.”

When introduced, we were assured by the Justice Department that the Patriot Act was simply to give federal law enforcement agencies the surveillance and investigative tools they needed to deter future terror attacks. However, the emotional rush to “do something” by quickly passing the Patriot Act, left little time for lawmakers to put its measures under scrutiny. In fact, then Congressman Ron Paul said he couldn’t even get a copy of the Act before the vote.

As a result, provisions of the Act offered major opportunities for government abuses of law-abiding private citizens. The Act says that the government does not need to have a suspect or to even be conducting an investigation related to terrorism to monitor your visits into web sites on the Internet.

More...http://americanpolicy.org/2015/06/18/why-the-patriot-act-is-tyranny-and-rand-paul-is-a-hero/?mc_cid=d933b7001b&mc_eid=3b0a96ba69

Poll: Paul slides among GOP primary voters

Support for Sen. Rand Paul slipped in a new poll of likely Republican primary voters, with only 49 percent saying they could see themselves voting for the first-term Kentucky senator for president, compared with 59 percent in the same survey two months earlier.

Former Florida Gov.Jeb Bush led the poll, conducted for The Wall Street Journal and NBC News, with 75 percent of likely voters saying they could see themselves supporting him. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was just behind, with 74 percent support, followed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (65 percent), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (57 percent) and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (53 percent). Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (51 percent), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (50 percent), Paul, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (49 percent) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (36 percent) rounded out the top 10.

The WSJ/NBC poll, released on Sunday’s episode of “Meet the Press,” showed double-digit gains for Bush, Rubio, Huckabee, Cruz and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (31 percent) compared with where they stood earlier in the spring. “Obviously, something’s going on there,” Karl Rove, the GOP strategist and Wall Street Journal columnist, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The poll of 236 likely GOP voters, conducted June 14-18, had a margin of error of plus or minus 6.4 percentage points. The two news organizations will release horserace numbers for the primary field on Monday.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/poll-paul-slides-among-gop-primary-voters-119256.html#ixzz3diVQCU4E

Way small sample size and politico is a lefty outfit that would love to portray Rand being weak in the GOP field as he would be the toughest to beat in a general based upon repeated head-head matchups w/ Hillary in key battleground/formerly blue states.

No, it's more like their ten thousandth comment under their newest sock puppet of about a hundred. You don't pop in here as a noob and talk about despair and shit, much less start out in speculation.

Rand Paul’s demented promise: I’ll do to America what Sam Brownback did to Kansas

Libertarian-ish Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul debuted his new plan to “blow up” the federal tax code yesterday, and if you haven’t read Jim Newell’s scorching take on it, then there’s something deeply flawed with you and you should remedy it immediately. The gist of Paul’s plan (replacing the current tax structure with a 14.5-percent flat tax) is the gist of basically every Republican tax plan: massive transfers of wealth up the economic ladder with a few paltry scraps thrown to the middle class that allow Republicans to claim they’re focused on “working families.”

As Paul’s Wall Street Journal op-ed notes, he crafted this plan with the assistance of some of the high priests of supply-side economic theory: frequently and flagrantly wrong bozo Stephen Moore, flat-tax evangelist and dimwit billionaire rights activist Steve Forbes, and the also frequently wrong Art Laffer, who launched the trickle-down revolution that’s given us over three decades of bad economic policy. Anyone familiar with these knuckleheads and the economic philosophy they espouse should already know what they’re promising with Rand Paul’s tax scheme: huge tax cuts aimed primarily at corporations and the wealthy will supercharge the economy and produce untold millions of jobs and untold trillions of dollars in tax revenue.

Rand’s op-ed describes the effect as a “steroid injection” right into the economy’s underdeveloped buttocks:

Here’s why this plan would balance the budget: We asked the experts at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation to estimate what this plan would mean for jobs, and whether we are raising enough money to fund the government. The analysis is positive news: The plan is an economic steroid injection. Because the Fair and Flat Tax rewards work, saving, investment and small business creation, the Tax Foundation estimates that in 10 years it will increase gross domestic product by about 10%, and create at least 1.4 million new jobs.

More....http://www.salon.com/2015/06/19/rand_pauls_demented_promise_ill_do_to_america_what_sam_brownback_did_to_kansas/

Ok my friend, if you think that Rand is playing the game while not having any under-thought about his end-game, you're on your own. This man is trying his best to influence and gain supporters while doing what is truly right for the US and the rest of the world, so you should finally realize it once and for all. He's done it all from civil liberties to domestic economic policy, you decide.

Dude, the rally in btc and ltc is over and the profits in both could have happened at this point. Not sure what will happen next but it's anyone's guess. There may be an upside, idk. Place your bets.

Yeah, it's possible that the glory has run has run its course at this point. I'm always looking highly on litecoin but much profit has occurred at this point. Do we try for more?

Nice thought and while I was thinking this was imminent, I took profits today. However, it still could go moon before I could go back in. I can only be awake for so long. Earning profits is the big game but going long to the moon is for the experts.

I'm glad to see this feature now for the rest of the newcomers and veterans to use, such a powerful tool to utilize at one's disposal. I just wonder if this is affected by their so-called license in the states they're cleared in and whether they can operate this kind of thing elsewhere.

Well, we haven't got out of the woods just yet but I do hope this tussle ends correctly to benefit bitcoin in the end. This entire battle/argument or whatever should make bitcoin more usable by the many but not increase the monetary supply at all. Let's hope the good happens and that's it at this point.

James Bernazzani, who took charge of the FBI contingent at the CTC in Langley, Virginia, soon after 9/11 attacks, recalled an encounter with Rossini. “Mark walks into my office one day at Langley and says, ‘Something's been really bothering me.’ He tells me the whole story" about how he and Miller had been prohibited from telling anyone about the likely presence of at least one Al-Qaeda terrorist, al-Mihdhar, in the U.S. the previous July, Bernazzani says.

“I said, Mark, if it ain't on paper, it never happened. He said, ‘I got it.’ After a few minutes he came back and showed it to me.” Miller, as it turned out, had made a copy of the warning cable he had prepared for FBI headquarters.

“I looked at it and I said, ‘Holy friggin’ shit,’” Bernazzani recalls. “I said, ‘This would've stopped this thing.’ I called up Assistant Director Pat D’Amuro,” who was in charge of the FBI’s investigation into the 9/11 attacks. “I said I needed to see him right away. He said, ‘This better be worth it.’ I assured him it was. I drove straight to FBI headquarters. It took me only about 15 minutes to get there. I probably set some speed records.”

Bernazzani, who retired in 2008 with a Presidential Award for Meritorious Service, says D’Amuro “looks at it, he looks at me, and he says, ‘I’ll take care of it.’”

Bernazzani returned to CIA headquarters. “I told Mark it was done, it was in the right hands,” Bernazzani says. Later, when congressional investigators came looking for documents related to the 9/11 attacks, “the FBI couldn't find it in their computers,” he says. “If they did, they didn't tell me.”

More...http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-911-cia-344693?piano_d=1

Seven Reasons the GOP Should Fear Donald Trump

#1. Money Talks
Unlike the other candidates, the wealthy real estate mogul doesn’t have to worry about soliciting donors, or crafting positions to appeal to special-interest money, or meeting absurd fund-raising expectations that they foolishly set for themselves. That saves him a lot of time to devote to his favorite pastime–self-promotion. If he wants to fight all the way to the convention, he could probably find more than enough money simply by searching the couch cushions at Mar-a-Lago for loose change.

#2. Expectations
He’s a nuisance, a hothead, totally unqualified, a spoiler. But enough about Pat Buchanan, whose surprisingly strong, populist, “mad as hell” primary campaign against George H. W. Bush in 1992 left the Bush faction reeling all the way to their defeat in the general election. That nobody thinks Donald Trump has any hope of winning a primary, much less a single debate, makes it all the easier for him to surprise reporters simply by doing better than expected. If Donald Trump can manage a clever quip or two in the first debate, poke fun at himself, and not set his lectern, or the moderator daring to question him, on fire, he’ll impress the hell out of nearly everyone. Besides...


Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/donald-trump-2016-seven-reasons-to-fear-119069.html#ixzz3ddpaM3fu

Tom Cruise as CIA’s Barry Seal in ‘Mena’: movie could derail Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush

(1776 Channel) — Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is reportedly in talks to portray hefty renegade drug pilot Adler ‘Barry’ Seal, a central figure in a true story that involves one of America’s darkest secrets since the Kennedy assassination: CIA-sanctioned cocaine import/weapons export smuggling between Central America and Arkansas during the 1980s Iran-Contra affair. The project, tentatively titled Mena, will be distributed by Universal Pictures and directed by Doug Liman of Bourne Identity fame.

This studio theatrical release of the Barry Seal story featuring A-List actor Cruise could spell disaster for the 2016 presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush if the producers choose not to expunge politically explosive details from Seal’s clandestine life.

Governor William Jefferson Clinton (husband of Hillary Clinton) is alleged by an FBI/CIA whistleblower to have protected Seal’s Mena, Arkansas air base and flight operations and to have subsequently received quid pro quo CIA support that secured his meteoric rise to the U.S. Presidency.

Bill Clinton publicly denied those allegations when confronted by legendary White House correspondent Sarah McClendon.

*Seal is alleged to have blackmailed Vice President Herbert Walker Bush by threatening to release surveillance video of brothers George Walker and Jeb Bush using the family’s Beechcraft King Air turboprop to accept delivery of two kilos of cocaine during a 1985 DEA drug sting at an airport near Miami. Seal was brutally assassinated by members of the Medellin Cartel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana a short time later. Some reports claim that Seal’s body was found with Vice President Bush’s personal phone number still in his wallet.

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The producers of Mena have at their disposal politically sensitive details about Seal’s life that the creators of Doublecrossed did not. The publication of Compromised (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCSCCGLCNYA) was a game changer that the next generation of Hollywood filmmakers cannot afford to ignore. If Liman, Cruise and the studio choose to detour the politically dangerous elephants in the room which comprise Seal’s life story as it is understood post-Compromised, they risk appearing dishonest or COMPROMISED themselves.

The enormity of the responsibility resting on the shoulders of Hollywood right now cannot be underestimated. As Mena enters the production cycle, Hollywood will have to examine itself.

If the powerful (some insiders would argue dangerous) Clinton and Bush political machines are rewarded with a Wiffle ball movie that ignores Clinton’s protection of Seal’s CIA activities and Reed’s claim that Seal knew about the Bush brothers DEA sting, the country will be worse off than before Universal optioned the screenplay.

Much more...http://1776channel.com/2015/02/tom-cruise-is-cias-barry-seal-in-mena-movie-could-derail-hillary-clinton-jeb-bush/

For me, these companies that are accepting bitcoin are just looking to do business w/ us but it does nothing to spread the word and help further adoption if they aren't prominently highlighting on their site that they accept bitcoin nor offer any discount for paying w/ it. All these companies that make it possible for other companies to accept bitcoin like stripe, coinbase, etc should be offering better deals for the newer ones that decide to come on board. Or, penalize them for taking advantage of bitcoin's ease and efficiency of use w/o offering the consumer any breaks which would draw more users to pay in bitcoin.

All newer users should be acquiring as many coins as they can at these lower prices (nearing end of bear market) and making sure you're set up nicely for another future rally. Most don't know how to trade so the best method is to take available fiat, get your coins and hold. Or, earn coins by offering services to earn them from others around here. Sig campaigns are pretty good, might as well get paid to post here if you're going to do so anyway.

I'd be more inclined to use them as well but I'm a little concerned that the current lawsuit against them by Life Lock and against Cesar in particular, will have some lasting effect on the customer base once things are settled - assuming the verdict goes against them that is.

The amazing thing to me is to think about all the eras this woman lived through. I only wish she had written an autobiography to share all these interesting stories about what she lived through.