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GOP Senators Kill Paycheck Fairness Act

The PFA, introduced in both the House (H.R. 377) and the Senate (S. 84) would have updated and strengthened the EPA in important ways.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The entire cast of Republican Senators voted June 4 to kill the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA), equal pay legislation intended to close loopholes and strengthen the Equal Pay Act (EPA), first signed into law by President Kennedy.

The vote was 52 to 47 with all Republican Senators voting against the legislation. Passage of the PFA would have been a much needed 50th anniversary present to American women, indeed to all Americans.

An Example of Manning`s Whistleblowing

This is an example of the important information the US tries to keep secret from the public...

(PORTLAND, OR) - If you follow the story of the IAEA and Iranian nukes, you may have noticed a pro-US bias in the IAEA’s bureaucracy in Vienna.

That was precisely the result the US expected when it pushed Yukiya Amano of Japan, a nation with a military alliance with the US, to be secretary general. The US mission to the IAEA reported that Amano is “solidly in the US court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program”.

Police Attack 14-Year-Old Holding Puppy

What is wrong with the cops in Miami, what is accomplished injuring a young boy and causing physical injury to a newborn puppy?

(MIAMI) - On Memorial Day, I took my kids and our new puppy to the beach near our home in Miami. It was supposed to be a treat. But it turned into a nightmare when the police attacked my 14-year-old son for no reason.

Tremaine was holding a newborn puppy in one hand and a bottle in the other. The police asked him where his mother was, and he turned to walk toward me. That's when the police pounced on him, threw him to the ground, injuring our puppy and choking Tremaine so hard he urinated on himself.

Republicans Mistaken to Target University of Wisconsin Journalism Center

Wisconsin Reporter's Matt Kittle revealed that the center really doesn’t receive government subsidies.

(MADISON) - Republican legislators booted the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its offices at the University of Wisconsin.

They have been to slow to reveal their motives to the public; no one will own up to the motion.

The Guardian: Verizon Has Been Giving all of the Company`s US Phone Records to NSA

After The Guardian broke news of a secret court order that compels Verizon to feed massive amounts of data to the NSA without publicly commenting on the practice, The Washington Post cited experts who believe the practice has been ongoing since 2006.

(LONDON) - For more than a month, Verizon Wireless has regularly provided the National Security Agency with logs of every phone call that Verizon Wireless customers make in the United States.

Several weeks ago a secret federal court apparently created a three-month window that’s still ongoing, and which compels Verizon to hand over to the NSA daily logs for all calls involving its customers in which one or both parties are physically located in the United States.

Congressman Walden Stands Idly By as Defense Workers Receive Furlough Notices

“Congressman Walden and his fellow House Republicans are so dysfunctional that they won’t even stop the tremendously unpopular furloughs that are a result of sequestration,” - Emily Bittner of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

(WASHINGTON DC) - While three-quarters of a million defense workers received furlough notices this week, Congressman Greg Walden continued to ignore hardworking Americans in favor of his rigid political ideology.

Congressman Walden could have spent the past several weeks working with Democrats to avoid the defense furloughs, but instead he voted against halting the sequester furloughs in order to protect tax breaks for millionaires and corporate special interests.

ITCCS Breaking News Report: Top Vatican Official Set to Resign, to Avoid Arrest While in Office

Vatican Secretary of State Set to Resign: Insider

(BRUSSELS ITCCS) - A source within the Vatican announced today that Tarcisio Bertone, the most powerful official in the Roman Curia and one of five Cardinals convicted by a Common Law Court of Justice last February, has prepared his letter of resignation.

Cardinal Bertone has been the effective "king maker" at the papacy for many years, and helped force Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, from office on February 11 just days after an arrest warrant was to be issued against Ratzinger.

Osama bin Laden`s Ghost

"As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other human beings as an appreciable act." - bin Laden

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - How many Americans know Osama bin Laden denied being connected to the attacks on the United States, Sept. 11^th 2001?

Is it possible to imagine a terrorist going to that much effort, knowing full well that the one and only result would be an attack on an unprecedented scale against two Middle eastern countries... and failing to claim it?

Little Hoover Commission Spotlights Jail Overcrowding

Current jail overcrowding has forced sheriffs of the executive branch into the untenable position of making decisions traditionally made by members of the judicial branch of government.

(YUBA CITY CA YubaNet) - A Little Hoover Commission review of county jail populations finds that county sheriffs, not judges, increasingly are making bail and sentencing decisions.

Done as a means to manage to jail overcrowding, this trend threatens to weaken local judicial authority, undermine public confidence in the judicial system, and raises serious questions regarding due process and the separation of powers.

Santa Clara County Judge Socrates Manoukian Influences Authorities to Harass those who Report Evidence of Abuse

Judge Manoukian found to be involved in sabotaging cases involving senior citizens and the disabled.

(SANTA CLARA, CA) - FACT: Some Judges can and will commit crimes, the problem is exposing them and getting them prosecuted. When someone exposes a judge the first thing they do is attack the person who reports them.

Police often side with the judge because they can’t be objective due to working under that judge. This allows unethical judges to commit crimes, abuse victims and stay immune to prosecution.