I welcome Putin and his entourage buddies to stock up on bitcoin. This is the perfect time for them if they haven't already as this would be a nice boost for the price at this point. This friendly attitude by Russia towards bitcoin is perfect at this last semblance of a bear market.

Charleston Shooting: A Closer Look at Alleged Gunman Dylann Roof

Dylann Roof, the alleged gunman authorities say is responsible for killing nine people in a predominantly black Charleston, South Carolina, church Wednesday night, had been “planning something like that for six months,” according to his roommate.

Dalton Tyler, who said he has known Roof for seven months to one year, said he saw the white, 21-year-old suspect just last week.

“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler said. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”

Tyler said he met Roof, a Lexington, South Carolina native, through a good friend. He also said Roof’s parents, with whom he said the suspect was “on and off,” had previously bought him a gun but never allowed him to take it with him until this past week.

Dylan Roof’s grandfather, Joe Roof, declined to comment to ABC News.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/charleston-shooting-closer-alleged-gunman-dylann-roof/story?id=31865375

A woman deemed the world's oldest person died in Michigan, about a month after her 116th birthday.

Jeralean Talley died Wednesday evening at her home in the Detroit suburb of Inkster, according to her daughter, Thelma Holloway. Holloway said Thursday that her mother was recently hospitalized and treated for fluid in her lungs before returning home "just where she wanted to be."

Talley turned 116 last month. She celebrated at her church and a local office of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Attendees at the second event included U.S. Rep. John Conyers. The Democrat is the longest-serving member in the House, but even at 86 he was still three decades younger than Talley.

"People asked her, 'How do you feel about being the oldest person in the world?'" Holloway said of her mother. "She said, 'I still feel the same. That's God's work, not mine.' ... She enjoyed life as long as she was here."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/woman-deemed-worlds-oldest-person-dies-116-michigan-31865460

PASSERBY SCREAMS LIVE ON CNN: ‘WHITE PEOPLE ARE TERRORISTS,’ OBAMA AN ‘UNCLE TOM’

Thursday while reporting on the tragic aftermath of the mass shooting live from outside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston Don Lemon was yelled at by a Africa-American woman upset with the coverage.

Right before Lemon is in introduced you can hear the woman off camera shout, “Report the real truth. We are angry. White people are terrorists.”

Once lemon came on the woman went on camera and said several times “Are you angry Don?”

Before they cut away she added, “The President is a puppet. Stop the Lies. He’s an uncle Tom too. President Obama is an Uncle Tom.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/18/passerby-screams-live-on-cnn-white-people-are-terrorists-obama-an-uncle-tom/

CHARLESTON SHOOTER WAS ON DRUG LINKED TO VIOLENT OUTBURSTS
Dylann Storm Roof was taking habit-forming drug suboxone

Charleston shooter Dylann Storm Roof was reportedly taking a drug that has been linked with sudden outbursts of violence, fitting the pattern of innumerable other mass shooters who were on or had recently come off pharmaceutical drugs linked to aggression.

According to a CBS News report, earlier this year when cops searched Roof after he was acting suspiciously inside a Bath and Body Works store, they found “orange strips” that Roof told officers was suboxone, a narcotic that is used to treat opiate addiction.

Suboxone is a habit-forming drug that has been connected with sudden outbursts of aggression.

A user on the MD Junction website relates how her husband “became violent, smashing things and threatening me,” after just a few days of coming off suboxone.

Another poster on the Drugs.com website tells the story of how his personality completely changed as a result of taking suboxone.

The individual relates how he became “nasty” and “violent” just weeks into taking the drug, adding that he would “snap” and be mean to people for no reason.

Another poster reveals how his son-in-law “completely changed on suboxone,” and that the drug sent him into “self-destruct mode.”

More...http://www.infowars.com/charleston-shooter-was-on-drug-linked-to-violent-outbursts/

12-year-old YouTube Star Explains What Millennials Think About Rand Paul

CJ Pearson, a 12-year-old YouTube pundit, believes presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has a unique ability to connect with millennial voters and even younger fans like himself.


Pearson is a Georgia student entering 8th grade whose videos backing conservative causes have gone viral. He said he is currently part of Paul's Georgia leadership team.


In a conversation with Business Insider on Thursday, Pearson said one of the first things people his age notice about Paul is his distinctive hair.
"What I've seen as far as the optics of other young people, they look at Rand with this head full of hair, really curly," Pearson said.


Once younger people take a longer look at Paul, Pearson added, they quickly grow fond of his libertarian-leaning views and deviations from Republican orthodoxy.


"If you want a maverick, someone who's proud to be his own individual, then Rand Paul's the guy you're looking for," he said. "Young people are just naturally independent."

http://www.businessinsider.com/cj-pearson-says-millennials-think-about-rand-paul-2015-6
He also said Paul's opposition to widespread government surveillance and support for reforming the criminal justice system deeply resonate with younger crowds.

[Video] Rand Paul on Fox & Friends (morning show) 6/18/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-upRjsxnGB4
He talks about his new tax plan and arming pilots for more secure travel logistics.

New Concerned American Voters Super PAC Launches to Support Rand Paul Presidential Bid

Super PAC launches with millions pledged, 40 full-time staff in Iowa

WASHINGTON, June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Concerned American Voters, a political action committee supporting Sen. Rand Paul's campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, launched today with millions of dollars committed and 40 full-time field staff in the key primary state of Iowa, President Jeff Frazee and Senior Advisor Matt Kibbe announced.

"Once in a while, you discover a presidential candidate who has the potential to change the political conversation, to elevate key issues in voters' minds, and disrupt and transform a tired Republican brand," said Kibbe. "Once in a lifetime, maybe, you will have an opportunity to support a transformative candidate who can do all of these things, and win. Rand Paul is that candidate."

Kibbe is the former president and founder of FreedomWorks, a national community-building and grassroots advocacy organization of more than 6 million Americans who are passionate about promoting free markets and individual liberty. Frazee is executive director of Young Americans for Liberty and previously served as the national youth coordinator for Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign committee.

Concerned American Voters launches with millions of dollars in funding pledged so far.

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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-concerned-american-voters-super-pac-launches-to-support-rand-paul-presidential-bid-300101344.html

Both of these Obamas need to park the air force 1, 2 and 3 and keep their asses in the white house. Technology allows for conference calls and stuff so they should stop taking vacations and all this travel all over the world as they bring a small army of staffers w/ them and purchase large swaths of rooms in blocks at expensive hotels.

Furthermore, Saudi Arabia has a shitty record on how females are treated and especially the whole hoodie thing.

They were talking about this on the major sports talk station today on the drive time/rush hour show and none of these hosts were calling for gun control, just more focus on mental issues going forward. This is a very influential and popular show in the metro Detroit area yet it's not a standard conservative talk show as it focuses on sports. They even criticized Obama for trying to fit in some gun control talk when the main issues here were prescription drugs and racial hatred. Furthermore, the dad had to have known his son was a racist and a drug user so buying him a gun for his 21st birthday was stupid and potentially a liable against him.

Donald Trump has the least interventionist plan

ISIS revenue is from the oil. Trump wants to bomb and take the oil. No need to go and topple Syria like the interventionists want, no need to arm the Kurds as in Rand Paul's plan.

Ideally I would want a non-interventionist, but from what we have available we can only choose the least interventionist, and that is Donald Trump. Rand Paul wants to redraw the map to give the Kurds a homeland, involve Turkey and a lot of crap. Given the options, I'd prefer just taking the oil.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X_YK08d2bc O'Reilley w/Trump

At first I wanted Hillary to win so the whole country would explode in her face and Rand wouldn't be blamed for it. At least Rand isn't in the bombing camp like most of the rest of them, including Trump here.

Mediaite: Trump Campaign Reportedly Hired Actors at $50 a Head to Attend Campaign Launch

“There’s never been a crowd like this,” Donald Trump declared of the few hundred people gathered in Trump Tower on Tuesday to watch him announce his 2016 Republican presidential campaign. While that comment, among others he made, wasn’t exactly true, we are now learning that some of those in attendance were likely paid actors.

More at link...http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-campaign-reportedly-hired-actors-at-50-a-head-to-attend-campaign-launch/

Trail To The Chief: Rand Paul vs. The World

Rand Paul says the darndest things. Especially about privacy, government surveillance, ISIS and … himself. Three recent examples from last week: filibustering Patriot Act reforms; saying that GOP hawks created ISIS by sending arms into the Gulf region; and accusing his foes of wanting another terrorist attack in the U.S. so they could blame the carnage on him. That last remark was such a piece of grandiose self-pity that no one wanted to respond. Why play into the Kentucky senator’s martyrdom shtick?

Paul first became a Republican sensation in 2013, when he used a filibuster to raise alarms about the CIA’s drone program. This time around, Paul is a declared presidential candidate, and his filibuster this week against the NSA’s bulk data collection program elicited within his party a scattering of wan support, but mostly criticism, much of it from rival GOP presidential contenders.

None of his moves this week shifted his poll numbers one way or the other.

Paul managed to procure some measure of backing from his fellow 2016-ers, with the strongest support coming from Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, who has shed the nice-guy conservative approach that won him Iowa in 2008 for an edgier, to-the-right-of-everyone strategy now. As CNN reported:

Huckabee said that the original [Patriot Act] was "hastily passed" in the wake of 9/11 without extensive debate. Public opinion has shifted now, he said. "Fourteen years ago, we were worried about terrorists. Now we're worried about our government," Huckabee said, singling out controversies around the IRS and Justice Departments.

More...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/08/rand-paul-vs-the-world_n_7519988.html

Rand Paul Says He’s ‘Reagan Conservative’ in San Diego Visit

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said if he was elected president, he would be a “Reagan conservative” in foreign policy, believing in “peace through strength.”

“I want national defense to be the priority in our country, but it doesn’t mean reckless intervention and it doesn’t mean war is always the answer, it means war is the last resort,” Paul told KUSI-TV in an interview before speaking at the Republican Party of San Diego‘s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner Saturday at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.

Paul told KUSI “we do need to repel” the Islamic State group, “but the boots on the ground need to be Arab boots on the ground.”

In response to a question about whether this week’s decision by President Barack Obama to authorize the deployment of up to 450 advisers to help Iraq fight the Islamic State group would put the U.S. on a similar path to the Vietnam War, the 52-year-old Paul told KUSI “the thing with Vietnam was the South Vietnamese never seemed to want it as much as the North Vietnamese.”

“Right now, the Iraqis don’t seem to want it enough,” Paul told KUSI. “They don’t seem to be willing to fight. Until they’re willing to fight and until the Iraqi army becomes a national army, with Sunnis and Shiites in it, it’s going to be difficult.

“There are things we can do though short of sending troops. We should directly arm the Kurds. They’re the best fighters over there and I think they will fight and I think they should be promised a homeland if they fight for it.”

More...http://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2015/06/14/rand-paul-says-hes-reagan-conservative-in-san-diego-visit/

Rand Paul at Bat
Congressional Baseball Game

As  he stepped up to the plate at Nationals Park on Thursday, Rand Paul was distracted. Dressed in a cardinal-red Western Kentucky University jersey, he kept glancing back at the strange scene unfolding behind him in the fourth inning. The Kentucky Republican—a pro-life conservative, defender of gun rights, enemy of big government, and candidate for President—was batting to a standing ovation from thousands of Democrats.

Paul turned back toward the raucous third-base stands to spot the real object of their adoration, popping out of the opposition’s dugout. At a game where even the bench players are some of the most powerful lawmakers in Washington, D.C., only the town’s biggest all-star could turn this many heads. For the first time in years, the President was back at the Congressional Baseball Game.

Almost immediately from its founding, in 1909, the charity-benefit game pitting Republicans against Democrats in America’s national pastime was an event of great pageantry. In a 1926 pre-game parade, the Army and Navy bands marched behind a donkey and an elephant; in 1933, the comedian Al Jolson served as guest umpire. Commanders-in-Chief started gracing the stands in 1917, when Woodrow Wilson witnessed the Democrats pull out a 22-21 squeaker. In 1953, Joe DiMaggio and Lefty Grove were Dwight Eisenhower’s guests at the game, by then being played annually at the Senators’ Griffith Stadium.

More...http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/rand-paul-at-bat

Rand Paul Kills Patriot Act, Boosts Presidential Campaign—For the Moment

Presidential hopeful delivers on promise to shut down one NSA program. He never said it would last forever.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s victory over President Obama and most of his Senate colleagues Sunday was messy and almost certain to be brief. But by forcing key U.S. intelligence programs to go dark, he scored a clear win for civil libertarians and those backing his White House campaign.

The Kentucky Republican interrupted his Senate colleagues, threw up procedural roadblocks and even borrowed Democrats’ time to make his objections. He drew reprimands over Senate decorum and rules. Peers scowled at him as he smirked in his leather chair, and Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell called the scene inside the chamber he nominally controls “a totally unacceptable outcome.”

Yet, at the end of Sunday’s rare Senate session, Paul was able to claim victory: “I came here to defend the Bill of Rights, not to be popular,” he tweeted. The freshman single-handedly shut down intelligence agencies’ legal authority to continue collecting domestic phone records for a searchable database of who is phoning whom. The law that permitted the program, as well as several other techniques of the National Security Agency, was set to expire as the clock struck midnight Sunday, and Paul was unyielding in his effort to ensure there would be at least some temporary end to it.

More...http://time.com/3902801/rand-paul-nsa-phone-patriot-act/

If Rand Paul wins, so does Labrador

Congressman Raul Labrador, the only member of Idaho's congressional delegation to endorse someone in the GOP presidential race, may have learned something about himself when sitting on the sidelines four years ago as candidates were posturing for the 2012 election.

First, he's not much of one for sitting on the sidelines. He went to Congress in 2011, promising to make a lot of noise, and not taking up space. He has kept his word - often blasting away at the political establishment of both parties.

The second thing he might have learned is that sideline sitting does nothing for him, personally or politically. Being a non-entity in almost anything, especially a presidential race, does not fit his personality.

So it's no surprise that Labrador has endorsed Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. And it's no surprise that Paul appointed Labrador to head his campaign in the western states. Politically, it's a match made in heaven - or in the other direction, depending on your political perspective.

But, what's Labrador's end game? Labrador says if Paul moves to the White House, he'd be able to pick up the phone and say, "Hey, Mr. President, I have an issue that's important ..."

That would be nice, of course. But Labrador is not one to be satisfied with collecting private cellphone numbers. He tends to look for bigger prizes, and a Rand Paul victory could provide the ticket. If Labrador turns out to be Paul's kingmaker in the western states, there are several possibilities within a Paul administration - including a cabinet position. Or, Labrador could have more leverage in the House as the president's chief ally on Capitol Hill. If Labrador is traveling to other states and speaking on behalf of the candidate, it only raises Labrador's profile. One thing he likes is a high profile.

More...http://www.cdapress.com/columns/my_turn/article_da47bf31-1c93-5928-be71-d4bb468cee6f.html

RAND PAUL AND TED CRUZ MOVE TO THE LEFT OF LINDSEY GRAHAM ON TERRORIST RIGHTS

Earlier this week, the Senate passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that limits the entire U.S. government to only the interrogation and detention techniques outlined in the Army Field Manual. The vote was 78-21.

The Army Field Manual does not permit physical contact with detainees, not even a slap. The harshest method it permits the “Fear-Up (Harsh).” In this approach, “the interrogator behaves in an overpowering manner with a loud and threatening voice.” He “may even feel the need to throw objects across the room to heighten the source’s implanted feelings of fear.”

Hardened terrorists aren’t likely to crack under a “loud and threatening voice” and an object thrown across the room, especially when they know that no force can follow.

Three Republican presidential hopefuls voted on the amendment. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz voted in favor of limiting interrogation and detention techniques to what’s in the Field Manual. Lindsey Graham voted against doing so.

Thus it was that Paul and Cruz moved to the left of Graham, perhaps the Senate’s most outspoken critic (along with his pal John McCain) of enhanced interrogation techniques, on this issue.

More...http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/06/rand-paul-and-ted-cruz-move-to-the-left-of-lindsey-graham-on-terrorist-rights.php

Neocon bullcrap so no linky.

Rand Paul Says He Is GOP's Best Shot Against Hillary Clinton Due To Support Of Independents

Sen. Rand Paul, the Republican Kentuckian currently running for president, says he is the best positioned GOP candidate to take on presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general election because he has formed a tight alliance with the holy grail demographic: independents.


"I think in order to win these states that President Obama you got to attract independents and consistently in at least five states we're leading her - in states that were won by President Obama, we win the independent vote," Paul told Breitbart. "I think that's an important feature because people want so badly to have somebody who can beat Hillary Clinton. I think it's one of our strongest calling cards right now: We're the only one beating her in all five of these states."

A record high 43 percent of Americans identify politically as independents, according to a 2014 Gallup poll. When compared to the 30 percent of Americans who say they are Democrats, and the 26 percent who say they are Republicans, it's not hard to see why Paul believes he is the best choice to go up against Clinton.

More...http://www.hngn.com/articles/101704/20150617/rand-paul-gops-best-shot-against-hillary-clinton-due-support.htm

There's nothing made up about Benghazi, Hillary oversaw an arms running outfit out of there along w/ the topple of Gaddafi which destabilized the region in favor of ISIS and Rand is "general election" calling her on it. She point blank denied any wrong-doing and said she didn't oversee the cables out of this troubled area which is dereliction of duty or worse. I vote worse. All the while she's been fleecing foreign governments for cash and access as SOS. If you buy that then, lol on you.