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Edward Snowden Reveals Aliens Live Inside Earth – VIDEO

<p><img alt="Edward Snowden" class="" height="212" src="http://cdns.yournewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/blogger-image-466362808-620x264.jpg" width="498" />A little-remembered piece of information has resurfaced recently in which it is claimed that <strong>Edward Snowden</strong>‘s leaked documents from the U.S. Government show that UFO’s and aliens come from inside the Earth.</p>
<p>According to CosmosTV.org:</p>
<p>Edward Snowden has reported on the facts known to the U.S. Government concerning UFOs. According to the documents (which Snowden copied to the CIA), the U.S. government has long known that UFOs exist and are a species more advanced than humanity. These species are not alien, but from our own earth, only more advanced. They have lived here for billions of years, and are far ahead of us in development.</p>
<p>The CIA stores data tracking systems and deep-sea sonar on them, but they have the status of state secrets, and even the scientists do not have access to this data about these objects.</p>
<p>Extremophiles can live at different temperatures, they have been able to flourish and develop intelligence at a more accelerated pace than Homo Sapiens and they have evolved at the same rate, but their living conditions in the Earth’s mantle defended their civilization from the many disasters that have occurred on the surface of the earth. .</p>
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<p>The general consensus is that we’re just ants from their point of view and there is a small chance that they will continue to pay attention to us.</p>
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Court Fees Trap Ex-Inmates In A Prison of Debt

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<h2>Court Fees Trap Ex-Inmates In A Prison of Debt</h2>
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<p>SPOKANE, Wash. — Jason Hill has been free, sober and out of trouble for six years, working, raising a son with his fiancée and seeing his mother through her last days. Yet he maintains the nervous hands and simmering gaze of a man just released from prison. His record seems to cast a permanent gloom over his prospects.</p>
<p>“I’m doing better than a lot of other people are, because I do have a job,” he said, though his commute to the corner store where he works can be a challenge. He’s developed a strategy to reduce the risk of interacting with the police: walking, taking the bus or paying a trusted friend, a white man without a record, to give him a lift. On a scorching day in June, however, he made an exception: He accepted a ride to work in a car with out-of-state plates, a quick drive that takes him two hours by bus.</p>
<p>His fiancée disapproved of the offer, fearing for his safety, and that put him on edge. All the way there, he scanned the road for cruisers and pointed out the changing speed limits. Hill, who is of mixed race and tattooed, explained that riding in an unfamiliar car through heavily policed neighborhoods could attract unwanted attention.</p>
<p>From 2002 to 2009, Hill racked up two felonies for drug possession and unlawful possession of a firearm, two misdemeanors for driving with a suspended license and about 15 minor traffic violations. He’s avoided run-ins with the law ever since, yet his fear of getting stopped and arrested is understandable. It’s not a “guns and drugs” charge he’s worried about; it’s the unpaid fines and fees.</p>
<p>Although his crimes were victimless — no one was assaulted, no property damaged or stolen — Hill owes Spokane County and the state of Washington some $14,000 in fines and fees. The state’s annual interest rate on judgments is a borderline-usurious 12 percent.</p>
<p>In Washington, a state whose progressive reputation masks a tough-on-crime undercurrent, defendants and prisoners are charged “user fees” that fund the state and local systems designed to put them away. Those who do not or cannot pay are at risk of arrest and reimprisonment. It’s a national trend: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/05/19/312455680/state-by-state-court-fees" rel="nofollow">In nearly every state</a>, offenders pay for court costs, representation by a public defender, jail and probation, and fees are on the rise. The county clerk’s offices that depend most on these sums routinely refer to defendants as “<a href="http://countyofficials.org/Documents/LFO-Report-2012.pdf" rel="nofollow">customers</a>."</p>
<p>Since 2003, Spokane County, home to about <a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/53063.html" rel="nofollow">half a million people</a>, has more than doubled what it collects in these legal financial obligations, or LFOs, from criminal defendants. Under pressure from ex-felons and advocates, the newly elected county clerk and prosecutor have vowed to focus on collecting restitution (money to compensate victims) while making other fees less punitive, and a recent Washington Supreme Court decision may offer additional relief. Statewide, those with felony records owe an average of nearly $2,500 in LFOs.</p>
<p>Hill’s debt has bulged to the point that he can no longer keep track of how much he's being billed for which convictions. Every month, he pays $75 toward the $10,000 or so he owes for old misdemeanors and traffic tickets, accounts handled by Valley Empire Collection, a private agency contracted by the county’s lower level courts. Until he was asked to inquire for this story about his total obligations to Valley and to the Superior Court clerk’s office, which handles his felony debts directly, he had no idea what the total was. But he knew the drill: “As soon as I miss one, they can issue a warrant for my arrest.”</p>
<p><strong>Back to Jail</strong></p>
<p>On a recent morning in Spokane County Superior Court, handcuffed men wearing prison orange were escorted, two at a time, from the downtown jail to be sentenced by Judge Harold Clarke. Every defendant that morning had opted for a guilty plea over trial, and they stood defeated, stiff as wooden planks. One prisoner cried — when the judge asked about his children, ages 5 and 7.</p>
<p>Each man was sentenced to jail time and at least $800 in LFOs: a $500 victims penalty assessment, $200 in court costs and $100 for a DNA test, per state statute. “I have no discretion on those,” the judge said.</p>
<p>Once or twice that day, Clarke seemed to take his lead from State v. Blazina, a state Supreme Court case from March that requires judges to consider the defendant’s current or future ability to pay before ordering fees and fines. If the ruling is properly adhered to, indigent defendants are charged no more than $800 per case in LFOs — but still at 12 percent interest, a rate set by statute during the inflationary 1980s. If they fail to pay, they can be arrested and thrown in jail.</p>
<p>Blazina would have helped Amber Holly, a 23-year-old who works 80 hours a week at a local grocery outlet. She recalled that during sentencing for her first drug felony, the lawyer she refers to as her “public pretender” neglected to seek financial mercy. Last year, Holly was released from prison with approximately $18,000 in debt, a third of which was for “meth cleanup fees,” though she never cooked the drug herself, she said. Her husband, Joshua Letchworth, separately owes about $104,500 in fees, interest and victim restitution for a burglary. Combined, the couple pays at least $240 every month toward their LFOs. “I pay that before I eat,” Holly said.</p>
<p>Criticism of criminal justice fees has grown in recent years, particularly since the killing of Michael Brown by a white police officer drew attention to Ferguson, Missouri, a city notorious for extracting money from low-income defendants of color. The National Association for Public Defense has observed that a small infraction can become “a life-changing struggle to satisfy ever-mounting debt. … Its effect can be generational and condemns the poorest communities to persistent poverty."</p>
<p>Studies from professors at the University of Washington, the ACLU of Washington and the Brennan Center for Justice show that these debts prevent former misdemeanants and felons from escaping poverty and moving on with their lives, not only because of what’s owed but also because of the accompanying stress and surveillance.</p>
<p>Jason Hill knows this well. When the police questioned him about a disturbance at his workplace a few weeks ago, “I was hoping that no warrants were gonna pop up,” he said. “I haven’t had any in a long time, but I missed that one [payment last year] and sometimes you have [a debt] from years ago — you find out they just forgot to clear it off their books.”</p>
<p>Tay Rowe has slowly paid off $3,500 in fines and restitution but still owes $1,200 in interest to Spokane County. He lives in an apartment with worn-out carpeting and a busted front door — one of the few places willing to rent to a man with a felony record. Rowe admits that he hasn’t consistently paid the county clerk, in part because his debt feels like “double or triple jeopardy.” He has been arrested and jailed four times on one delinquent account alone, he said. “I know a few people who have to go to jail once or twice a year because they’re not making their payments. … It goes back to the arrest and the racism focusing on blacks and minorities from the jump.”</p>
<p>Under state law, “willful nonpayment” of LFOs — that is, when someone has the ability to pay yet chooses not to — is a jailable offense. Technically, ex-offenders like Rowe aren’t arrested for failing to pay so much as failing to appear in court to justify why they haven’t been paying. Spokane County used to jail 30 people per night on unpaid LFOs, costing taxpayers $100 per day per person and adding to the severe overcrowding of the two local detention centers, said Breean Beggs, a civil rights attorney.</p>
<p>This began to change in 2008, when intake officers implemented a “booking matrix” that has led to a practice of releasing low-level arrestees. Two years later, the state Supreme Court ruled in State v. Nason [PDF] that the Spokane County clerk had acted unconstitutionally by having ex-offenders agree to report to jail without a hearing in the event they fell behind in their LFOs.</p>
<p>In the first half of this year, just 1 percent of total bookings in Spokane County were related to unpaid fees or restitution. The Nason case is only partially responsible for this decline. According to assistant prosecutor John Grasso and Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich, failure-to-appear warrants and arrests are a low priority due to the jail’s limited resources. The local detention system is overwhelmed.</p>
<p>Spokane County has long housed two to three times as many inmates as its bed space permits. With no room to spare, it relies on an ersatz “overflow” facility: the Geiger Corrections Center, a midcentury barracks that lacks air conditioning.</p>
<p>From May to July of this year, four prisoners died inside the county jail, one from apparent suicide, one from a heart attack during booking and two from causes not yet determined. John McGrath, director of detention services, said the recent deaths bear no relationship to overpopulation, lack of staff or inadequate on-site medical services. Nevertheless, the Spokane Human Rights Commission has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate — an embarrassing development for the county, which was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Foundation grant in May to audit criminal justice procedures and reduce the rate of incarceration.</p>
<p>The main jail is a sand-colored monolith just north of the Spokane River. On a weekday in June, new admitees were lying on cots in a glass enclosure, and upstairs, a thin, almost translucent young man appeared before court by video. “He must be just 18. He looks younger than my son who’s the same age,” said Sgt. Donald Hooper.</p>
<p>Hooper explained that small cells built for one man or woman now house two, sometimes three. The facility is so packed and understaffed that on Saturdays and Sundays, all inmates are on lockdown, not allowed to leave their cells for so much as a short walk. “When I first started,” he said, “I was naïve, thinking, ‘Well, they did a bad thing. They should do time.’ Now I think about the community spending $25 to $30 million per year for two facilities.”</p>
<p><strong>A High-Cost System</strong></p>
<p>Since the war on drugs intensified in the 1980s, every aspect of the U.S. legal system has been inundated. Beat cops, prosecutors, judges and jail wardens have not been able to keep pace with the millions of men and women newly criminalized under state and federal statutes. Nor have the clerks of court, whose humble domain of paperwork and cash registers keeps the wheels turning.</p>
<p>Tim Fitzgerald, a retired Marine colonel, is the new clerk of Spokane County. He oversees 52 people and 240,000 cases in Superior Court, from divorces and adoptions to personal injury lawsuits and criminal prosecutions. There are four full-time employees whose sole task is to track and collect debts on some 36,000 outstanding felony LFOs via mail and phone and in person at the jail. They are also responsible for reporting delinquent obligors to the county prosecutor.</p>
<p>Fitzgerald keeps on hand a bulging binder labeled “LFOs,” the raw materials of his plan to improve the collection system and avoid incarcerating people in arrears. Based on consultations with advocates, the county prosecutor, public defender, sheriff and detention director, he expects to announce new procedures in the coming months. “We’ve been beaten hard over LFOs,” he said. “We’re trying to make it a better program, so that it takes care of the victims [awaiting compensation] but supports and helps defendants and serves the judicial process.”</p>
<p>From 2005 to 2014, the clerk’s office spent an average of $277,000 every year to collect about $2.3 million, annually, in LFOs, more than twice as much as in the early 2000s. About 50 percent of the proceeds have gone to victim restitution, 30 percent to the county and the rest to the state general fund.</p>
<p>In the past, said Jeffry Finer, a social justice lawyer in Spokane, “The problem in our state has been the county court staff. It’s almost a bounty system. They were rewarded for grotesque collection practices. Someone who was trying to get their driver’s license back — you can’t get it if you have any LFOs. You don’t have a license, you drive, you get pulled over, you lose your job, you lose custody, and you go to jail. You go through it again.”</p>
<p>Hill remains wary of the courthouse and won’t so much as call the clerk’s office to ask about his fees, lest it trigger unwanted attention. His felony LFOs seem too massive to take on — a canyon to the manageable trench of his traffic tickets. Every third and fourth Thursday of the month, he makes an effort to deal with the latter. He gets a ride or walks three hours to Valley Empire Collection, the Spokane-based company that profits from the interest on these citizen debts. There Hill puts down $25 or $50 in cash at a time. He can’t deliver it all at once, as there’s rarely any slack in his weekly paycheck.</p>
<p>He and his fiancée depleted their savings earlier this year on an estimated $3,700 in application fees trying to find a place to live, not “another place with syringes and needles.” They were rejected from dozens of apartments and houses before getting approved by their current landlord.</p>
<p>Ten years ago, his boss at Hillyard Grocery did give him a chance and later rehired him after a stint behind bars. While Hill is grateful for the job, he feels that he’s being exploited, not only made to stock shelves and clean the bathroom but also tear out rotting walls and act as a bouncer. “I’ve gotten a concussion,” he said. “I’ve been hit on the head with a bottle of wine.” In July, his old temper flared up, and he was almost arrested for beating up a shoplifter. For all that, “I get paid the minimum wage. I bust my ass so much. … In 10 years, I’ve had three Saturdays off: when my mom passed away, my stepdad passed away and my son was born.”</p>
<p>Day to day, Hill experiences his LFOs not as a yoke but as a steady, permanent stone upon his chest. Without paying them off, he can’t expunge his record or renew his driver’s license. Nor does he have any other valid ID — a Social Security card or birth certificate, for example — to apply for government programs. It’s been years since he’s seen an eye doctor; his current pair of glasses is a contraption of old lenses and twisted wire.</p>
<p>Criminal justice debts “are impacting people at the bottom of the economic spectrum,” said Justin Pimsanguan, a childhood friend of Hill’s and member of I Did the Time, a group that organizes ex-felons. This past legislative session, he lobbied for a state bill that would have reduced the LFO interest rate, abolished discretionary fees and banned incarceration for nonpayment. After a promising start in the House, it was stripped and later discarded in the Senate.</p>
<p>Layne Pavey, another member of I Did the Time and co-founder of Revive Reentry Services, which provides housing and support to recently released prisoners, intends to try again for a legislative fix — to address LFOs as well as employment discrimination. “I got out [of prison] and found it was very difficult to get a job and find housing. I’m a middle-class, white female with a nonviolent crime, with a college degree and six years of sales experience, and I couldn’t get past the ‘box,’” she said, referring to the checkbox for indicating whether an applicant has a criminal record.</p>
<p>Hill’s search for a new job, or at least a second job, continues. He recently got word of an opening at fast-food chain Jack in the Box. “I’m thinking about going back to flipping burgers. It’s an easier life. I can make more money,” he said. “I’m on Craigslist looking for other jobs, but if I don’t have a driver’s license, I can’t get anywhere.”</p>
<p>He said he was just a preteen when his legal troubles began — for stealing school supplies. “Money is the root of all evil. You don’t have it, you need more. You have it, you still need more.”</p>
<p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/8/court-fees-trap-ex-felons-in-a-prison-of-debt.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Al Jazeera America</a></p>
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<p>Studies show that debts prevent former misdemeanants and felons from escaping poverty and moving on with their lives – not only because of what’s owed but also because of the accompanying stress and surveillance.</p>
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Obama's Clean Power Plan Hailed As America's Strongest Ever Climate Action

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<h2>Obama's Clean Power Plan Hailed As America's Strongest Ever Climate Action</h2>
<span>Obama's Clean Power Plan Hailed As America's Strongest Ever Climate Action</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com_.jpeg?itok=PiywWcDY" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com_.jpeg?itok=PiywWcDY" /></a>
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<p>Hundreds of businesses including eBay, Nestle and General Mills have issued their support for Barack Obama’s clean power plan, billed as the strongest action ever on climate change by a U.S. president.</p>
<p>The rules, announced on Monday, are designed to cut emissions from power plants and have been strengthened in terms of the long-term ambition as originally proposed by the president last year, but slightly weakened in the short-term in a concession to states reliant on highly-polluting coal.</p>
<p>White House adviser Brian Deese said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules represented the “biggest step that any single president has made to curb the carbon pollution that is fueling climate change”. The U.S. is the world’s second biggest carbon emitter <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2014/sep/23/carbon-map-which-countries-are-responsible-for-climate-change" rel="nofollow">after China</a>.</p>
<p>The rules are expected to trigger <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2015/07/31/tsunami-of-litigation-against-obama-climate-plan-set-to-fail-say-ngos/?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=ee16f7ed94-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-ee16f7ed94-303453237" rel="nofollow">a “tsunami” of legal opposition</a> from states and utilities who oppose the plans, which will significantly boost wind and solar power generation and force a switch away from coal power. Republican presidential hopefuls moved quickly to voice their opposition, saying they would be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/02/obama-white-house-emissions-cuts-clean-air-act" rel="nofollow">economically damaging</a>.</p>
<p>But 365 businesses and investors wrote to <a href="http://www.ceres.org/files/clean-power-plan-state-letters/national-cpp-letter" rel="nofollow">29 state governors</a> to strongly support the rules, which they said would benefit the economy and create jobs.</p>
<p>Mindy Lubber, who is attending the launch ceremony of the rules on Monday and is the president of Ceres, a network of investors that organized the letter, said: “The clean power plan is the right measure at the right time. It’s a flexible, practical and economically sound blueprint to transition America toward a low-carbon future.”</p>
<p>Other signatories included Unilever, L’Oreal, Levi Strauss, L’Oreal, Staples, renewable energy company SunEdison and Trillium Asset Management, which manages $2.2bn in assets. It is the largest group of businesses to support the rules so far.</p>
<p>The final rules propose a 32% cut in carbon emissions from power plants by 2030 on 2005 levels, up from the initial proposal of 30%. However states will only have to comply by 2022 rather than 2020 as originally proposed, and will be able submit their plans on meeting the targets by 2018 instead of 2017.</p>
<p>CO2 emissions from power plants fell 15% between 2005 and 2013, meaning the country is halfway to the target.</p>
<p>Monday’s version of the rules also gives an explicit boost to wind and solar power, angering the natural gas industry which will still be a large beneficiary of the switch from coal to gas-fired power plants, which produce much lower emissions.</p>
<p>America’s Natural Gas Alliance, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-new-climate-change-regulations-to-alter-challenge-industry-1438560433" rel="nofollow">a trade body</a>, said it was “disappointed and discouraged” by the rules. The World Coal Association claimed the plan “will significantly increase the cost of electricity to American consumers.” The Solar Energy Industries Association, on the other hand, <a href="http://www.seia.org/news/solar-industry-applauds-epas-clean-power-plan" rel="nofollow">said the rules</a> were “historic” and “critically needed.”</p>
<p>The new rules will give a “give a head start to wind and solar deployment”, according to a White House fact sheet. “Drive more aggressive investment in clean energy technologies than the proposed rule, resulting in 30 % more renewable energy generation in 2030 and continuing to lower the costs of renewable energy,” it said.</p>
<p>Barack Obama, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYXyYFzP4Lc" rel="nofollow">in a video address</a>, emphasized the health benefits of reduced air pollution from coal plants, and a duty to future generations as reasons for the clean power rules.</p>
<p>“Power plants are the single biggest source of the harmful carbon pollution that contributes to climate change. But until now there have been no federal limits on the amount of that pollution those plants can dump into the air. Think about that,” he said.</p>
<p>Obama’s plan to bring in the rules to cut emissions from power plants – which account for a third of the U.S.’s greenhouse gas emissions – date back to 2009 when the EPA declared carbon emissions <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/dec/07/us-climate-carbon-emissions-danger" rel="nofollow">a public danger</a>, the first step towards regulating them.</p>
<p>The final rules are likely to be welcomed by the United Nations, which is hosting a climate summit in Paris at the end of the year to agree on deal on post-2020 curbs on emissions, as well as financing to help poorer countries deal with global warming.</p>
<p>Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the Washington D.C.-based thinktank the World Resources Institute, said: “The clean power plan should reassure international partners that the U.S. administration is determined to deliver the 26-28% emissions reductions promised for 2025.</p>
<p>“Our analysis suggests that this rule can be implemented without technical or financial impediment, and in a manner that is likely to promote more, not less, economic prosperity.”</p>
<p>Describing the rules as very important, Lord Stern, the author of an influential review of the economics of climate change, said: “It shows the determination of the world’s richest country to maintain better economic growth while also cutting greenhouse gas pollution. President Obama has recognised in particular the enormous damage caused by pollution from the burning of coal in power stations.”</p>
<p>Gina McCarthy, the EPA’s administrator, said she believed the agency was on strong legal grounds for defending the rules from the legal challenges they are almost certain to face.</p>
<p>“Over the next few days we will hear the same tired old plays from the old special interests playbook,” said McCarthy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/03/obamas-clean-power-plan-hailed-as-strongest-ever-climate-action-by-a-us-president" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Guardian</a></p>
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<p>From terrible company management to supporting the Iraq war to giving away astronomical sums to corporations, here's a cast of candidates who should be dropped from the ledgers.</p>
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<p>Activists dangling by ropes from the city's tallest bridge, and kayakers on the water below, blocked the icebreaker from heading to the Arctic for a drill operation.</p>
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<p>“This is the first time fracking activists have got together on this scale internationally – from Kurdistan to Brazil, from Ukraine to Portugal and Algeria," says Catriona of Ireland, who attended the recent Frackanpada.</p>
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<p>Through discovery of place, through story, and through personal connection with people along the way, we are journeying 1,100 miles to the tar sands of Alberta – and are asking for your support in our venture.</p>
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Two Big Reasons Hillary Clinton Isn’t Taking Elizabeth Warren’s Revolving-Door Dare

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<h2>Two Big Reasons Hillary Clinton Isn’t Taking Elizabeth Warren’s Revolving-Door Dare</h2>
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<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/17/elizabeth-warren-bill-slow-revolving-door-government-big-business/" rel="nofollow">publicly challenged</a> presidential candidates a few weeks ago to support a bill intended to limit the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.baldwin.senate.gov/press-releases/today-baldwin-and-cummings-to-introduce-financial-services-conflict-of-interest-act" rel="nofollow">Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act</a> would prohibit government officials from accepting “golden parachutes” from their former employers for entering public service.</p>
<p>Within days, Democratic candidate Martin O’Malley endorsed the legislation, and Sen. Bernie Sanders became a co-sponsor. But presumed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has not said where she stands.</p>
<p>One possible explanation for Clinton’s lack of interest in banning golden parachutes is that she tolerated them when she ran the State Department — for two of her top aides. Robert Hormats and Thomas Nides previously worked as executives for financial firms Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, respectively. Both received benefits tied to their Wall Street employment contracts for entering public service.</p>
<p>Hormats, who served as undersecretary for economics, energy and agricultural affairs from 2009 to 2013, was a managing director for Goldman Sachs for over 25 years. As he wrote in his 2009 letter to the Office of Government Ethics, “Before I assume the duties of the position of Under Secretary, Goldman Sachs will accelerate and pay out my restricted stock units, pursuant to written company policy.”</p>
<p>Those unvested restricted stock units, which would have been forfeited had Hormats left Goldman for another Wall Street firm, are valued at between $250,000 and $500,000 on Hormats’ disclosure form.</p>
<p>Nides, a six-figure bundler in Clinton’s past and present presidential campaigns, worked for Fannie Mae, Credit Suisse and as a top executive at Morgan Stanley from 2005 to 2010. He became deputy secretary of state for management and resources in January 2011, replacing Jack Lew, who had himself received a golden parachute from Citigroup for entering government service.</p>
<p>Nides received a payout on Morgan Stanley restricted stock units worth between $5 million and $25 million, according to his financial disclosure. His Morgan Stanley compensation plan “allows for acceleration of payout … if employee is required to divest of interest in order to comply with federal, state or local government conflict of interest requirements.”</p>
<p>Nides and Hormats are not alone in what has become <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120967/wall-street-pays-bankers-work-government-and-wants-it-secret" rel="nofollow">a depressingly standard practice</a> in recent years. But Clinton’s unusual control over staffing at the State Department makes her directly responsible for these particular golden parachutes, at a time when she wants to gain control over staffing of the entire executive branch.</p>
<p>“I would say these are textbook examples,” said Michael Smallberg of the Project on Government Oversight, which <a href="http://www.pogo.org/our-work/reports/2013/big-businesses-offer-revolving-door-rewards.html" rel="nofollow">has closely followed</a> this issue. “I would raise concerns on how these payments affect the officials’ views, not only toward their former employers but the industry more broadly.”</p>
<p>Sometimes Wall Street firms tie bonuses explicitly to entering government, as in Jack Lew’s case. But often the inducement to executives is subtler, as through accelerating their deferred compensation, which would be forfeited if they joined a rival.</p>
<p>Deferred compensation takes a long time to vest and is used to keep executives from leaving their firms. But several companies have explicit policies, described in their SEC disclosures, that allow unvested stock options and other deferred benefits to automatically pay off if executives leave for government service.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.finance.senate.gov/newsroom/chairman/release/?id=69713724-e275-42a9-982f-3328884909e4" rel="nofollow">the wake of the Enron scandal</a>, when executives siphoned $53 million from their stock plans before the company collapsed, a <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-108publ357/pdf/PLAW-108publ357.pdf" rel="nofollow">2004 tax law</a> banned the acceleration of deferred compensation. But Congress made an exception for public service. This makes it easier for private-sector candidates for executive branch positions to divest from their firms and comply with federal ethics laws.</p>
<p>Critics charge that this incentive leads to a disproportionate number of former financial executives in policymaking positions. “It’s a subtle effort at regulatory capture,” said Craig Holman of Public Citizen, who has endorsed the legislation to ban golden parachutes. “It’s about making sure the regulator has a positive view of the bank, making sure they have the obligation of indebtedness.”</p>
<p>Clinton did not force her aides to give up these accelerated payments, unlike President Obama, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=g_1wN2RzTlcC&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=obama+asked+froman+to+give+up+bonus&source=bl&ots=jPa4ivkvk7&sig=0zUTyJpxPHv7Y2_M1XtN3jIDZmI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAmoVChMIpf_SvM6AxwIVRJyICh0LjASF#v=onepage&q=obama%20asked%20froman%20to%20give%20up%20bonus&f=false" rel="nofollow">who did ask</a> his now-U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to surrender <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Froman.pdf" rel="nofollow">the $4 million in bonuses</a> he received from Citigroup for joining the government. As secretary of state, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/us/politics/when-hillary-clinton-joined-obama-administration-friction-was-over-staff-not-email.html" rel="nofollow">Clinton fought</a> to choose her own staff, bringing in several campaign loyalists, including these former Wall Street executives.</p>
<p>When Clinton left the State Department, Nides returned to Morgan Stanley as a vice chairman. <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1AAF087C-60C2-489C-ABFF-6BE5F54AF2AC" rel="nofollow">He is reportedly</a> a leading candidate for a high-level position in a Hillary Clinton White House. “The fact that (Nides) came from Morgan Stanley, went back, and is now rumored for a senior position shows how concerns about the revolving door aren’t just hypothetical,” said Smallberg. Hormats, also a fundraiser for Clinton’s prior presidential campaign, now works for Henry Kissinger’s consulting firm.</p>
<p>Progressive groups find Clinton’s association with Nides and Hormats concerning. Nides once served as chairman for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, one of Wall Street’s top lobbying groups and a fierce opponent of the Dodd-Frank financial reform. He also helped then-president Bill Clinton sell NAFTA to Congress in 1993. Hormats, an advocate for Social Security privatization and deregulation of the financial sector, was part of a small group of economists and policymakers who met with Clinton last December to discuss her campaign’s economic strategy. He has been called Clinton’s “economic guru,” and used his position at the State Department to advocate for U.S. multinationals.</p>
<p>The Clinton campaign did not respond to repeated requests to clarify their position on the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act, or to address concerns about Nides, Hormats and their golden parachute payouts.</p>
<p>In addition to banning golden parachute payments, the bill, introduced by Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., would extend the lobbying “cooling-off” period for officials rotating out of government from one to two years, and force policymakers to recuse themselves from decisions that would benefit their former employers.</p>
<p>Warren issued her dare during an address to progressives attending the annual Netroots Nation convention. “It’s a bill any presidential candidate should be able to cheer for,” she said. “We don’t run this country for Wall Street and mega corporations, we run it for people.”</p>
<p>Kurt Walters of Rootstrikers, a progressive anti-corruption group that has endorsed the revolving door bill, said Clinton “should give a clear answer on whether she still believes it’s okay for Wall Street executives to receive golden parachutes worth millions of dollars for going into government positions.”</p>
<p>Two other Democratic presidential candidates, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee, also declined to comment on the legislation. Republican candidate Jeb Bush has proposed extending the lobbying ban for members of Congress to six years, though he did not include executive branch officials in that prohibition.</p>
<p>Clinton has attempted to disassociate herself from the banking industry in recent speeches, decrying “quarterly capitalism” and promising crackdowns on financial fraud. In a Facebook chat last week, she vowed to appoint “tough, independent-minded regulators.”</p>
<p>But her history with Nides and Hormats “complicates Clinton’s statements about Wall Street and her ability to distance herself from powerhouse firms,” Smallberg said. Holman, of Public Citizen, said Clinton could help herself by endorsing the revolving-door legislation. “She’s got a real image problem,” Holman said. “If she were to support this bill, it would go a long way.”</p>
<p>This week, Martin O’Malley criticized Clinton’s Wall Street ties in a radio interview in New Hampshire. “Her closeness with big banks on Wall Street is sincere, its heartfelt, long-established and well-known,” O’Malley told Concord News Radio. “I don’t have those ties. I am independent of those big banks on Wall Street.”</p>
<p><a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/30/two-big-reasons-hillary-clinton-isnt-taking-elizabeth-warrens-revolving-door-dare/" rel="nofollow">Originally published by First Look</a></p>
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<p>From terrible company management to supporting the Iraq war to giving away astronomical sums to corporations, here's a cast of candidates who should be dropped from the ledgers.</p>
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Unfit to Lead: 8 Democrats and Republicans Who Shouldn't Be Running for President

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<p>In the 2008 comedy "Tropic Thunder," Ben Stiller plays an actor in a Vietnam War movie who is so far removed from reality that in one scene, he withholds a map he can’t read from his fellow actors who are trying to escape the jungle, unwittingly leading them further into a dangerous environment. Just as a war movie actor is unqualified for leading a real-life mission into hostile territory, allowing any of these eight candidates – both Democrats and Republicans – to hold the nation’s highest office would be reckless and costly for all Americans.</p>
<p>To be clear, “unqualified” doesn’t refer to poll numbers, which are meaningless in themselves. During this time in 2007, the last election when candidates from both parties were running, the Republicans leading in the polls were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2008" rel="nofollow">Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson, respectively</a>, while Hillary Clinton led Barack Obama by more than 20 points. And a candidate’s resume, no matter how illustrious, likewise doesn’t qualify them to run for the presidency. Whether or not a candidate is qualified to occupy the White House should be based solely on their policy positions and voting records as public officials. Using that criteria, here are eight who should be out of the running:</p>
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<p><strong>1. Hillary Clinton, Democrat</strong></p>
<p>As the junior U.S. Senator from New York, Hillary Clinton voted for not only the <a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=1&vote=00313" rel="nofollow">USA PATRIOT Act</a> that codified some of the U.S. government’s most intrusive and unconstitutional surveillance programs, but for the <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/107-2002/s237" rel="nofollow">Iraq War resolution</a> that led our nation into the bloodiest boondoggle of the 21st century. As a result of Clinton’s vote and the resulting destabilization of Iraq, thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died – and Iraq is now one of the most dangerous countries in the world, overrun by Daesh (ISIS) terrorists who have <a href="http://www.rt.com/news/238689-isis-destroy-heritage-iraq/" rel="nofollow">destroyed</a> cultural icons, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-trains-child-soldiers-camps-cubs-islamic-state-n241821" rel="nofollow">forced children to become soldiers</a>, raped <a href="http://time.com/3825066/girls-who-escaped-isis-describe-systematic-rape/" rel="nofollow">thousands of women</a>, and <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31962755" rel="nofollow">committed genocide</a> upon the Yazidi population. Even after the Iraq vote, Clinton still hadn’t backed down from her hawkishness. In 2008, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/04/22/us-usa-politics-iran-idUSN2224332720080422" rel="nofollow">Clinton was quoted</a> saying, “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m president, we will attack Iran… we would be able to totally obliterate them.”</p>
<p>As President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, Clinton created a culture of corruption within the agency, allowing corporations who donated to her family foundation to benefit from State Department contracts and projects. Clinton <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron" rel="nofollow">propagated fracking</a> in a number of Eastern European countries, allowing Clinton Foundation donors <a href="http://grist.org/news/fossil-fuel-interests-donated-millions-to-clinton-charities-is-this-a-problem/" rel="nofollow">ExxonMobil and Chevron</a> to have a foothold into new markets. Meanwhile, a recent report by David Sirota exposed how Clinton’s State Department approved <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187" rel="nofollow">$165 billion in arms sales to 20 countries</a> whose governments donated millions of dollars to her foundation. Many of those countries, like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, have reputations of trampling on human rights.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton has remained ambiguous about how she would handle a future financial crisis as president. While Bernie Sanders has made his positions clear on breaking up the big banks, jailing the bankers responsible for reckless behavior that crashed the economy, and implementing a financial transactions tax to fund jobs creation, Clinton has only chastised Wall Street for “risky behavior” in public. In private, Clinton gave two closed-door speeches to Goldman Sachs, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/hillary-clinton-speeches-pay_n_3582868.html" rel="nofollow">each paying $200,000</a>. So far, the Clinton campaign has raked in <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/7/29/9040091/hillary-clinton-wall-street" rel="nofollow">at least $46 million from Wall Street</a>, and there’s still a year and a half to go.</p>
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<p><strong>2. John Kasich, Republican</strong></p>
<p>Ohio’s governor, who was elected to his second term last November (yet may <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/30/politics/john-kasich-polls-debate-ohio/" rel="nofollow">miss a debate in his home state</a> due to low poll numbers), has done a great deal of damage to his state’s residents and public services in an effort to reward the rich with tax cuts they don’t need. The budget Kasich just signed gives away $1.85 billion in income tax cuts, <a href="http://www.policymattersohio.org/taxplan-june2015" rel="nofollow">almost half of which go to the richest 1 percent of Ohioans</a>, who would pay almost $10,000 less in taxes per person. To balance the revenue shortfall, Kasich’s <a href="http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2015/02/gov_kasichs_tax_proposal_promi.php#.VbtBaPnvl8W" rel="nofollow">sales tax increases</a> mean the poorest 20 percent of the state will pay more in taxes. Like many other Republican governors, Kasich’s tax reform takes from the poor to give to the rich.</p>
<p>In addition to his regressive economic policies, Kasich <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/07/01/john_kasich_of_ohio_signs_hb59_the_bill_cuts_contraception_funding_restricts.html" rel="nofollow">signed a bill into law</a> forcing pregnant women to have an ultrasound before terminating their pregnancy, and <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/06/22/194646715/ohio-family-planning-services-at-mercy-of-budget-bill" rel="nofollow">needlessly defunding</a> facilities that provide contraception to women. While Kasich and those like him would claim they’re “pro-life,” these policies are actually more harmful to pregnant women and the fetus in their womb, as a woman seeking an abortion and unable to get one may attempt to perform an abortion themselves, causing irreparable harm and even death. Simply providing greater access to contraception would prevent this problem from even occurring. But as George Lakoff pointed out in the book Don’t Think of an Elephant, rabid anti-abortion politicians are motivated more by a desire to punish sexually-active women than out of any self-proclaimed desire to “protect life.”</p>
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<p><strong>3. Carly Fiorina, Republican</strong></p>
<p>If former HP CEO Carly Sneed Fiorina had radically transformed her company into a paragon of innovation and workplace fairness, it would make sense to run on her business record. But Carly Fiorina is the embodiment of selfish, destructive corporate greed. Under her tenure, HP’s stock value dropped by 50 percent. Before [firing 30,000 workers]9<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/sep/17/barbara-boxer/ad-sen-barbara-boxer-attacks-carly-fiorina-layoffs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/sep/17/barbara-b...</a>), she forced them to <a href="http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2011/07/horrible-bosses-the-worst-tech-ceos-of-all-time/carly-fiorina" rel="nofollow">train their replacements</a>.</p>
<p>In 2005, after President Bush and his Republican Congress along <a href="http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2015/04/what_we_know_about_hillary_cli.php#.VbtCKfnvl8V" rel="nofollow">with the help of Sen. Hillary Clinton</a> passed the so-called “Jobs Creation Act” – allowing corporations to bring home cash stashed in overseas tax havens in order to pay a 5 percent tax rate (as opposed to the 35 percent corporate rate) – Fiorina repatriated $14.5 billion of HP’s overseas cash, then proceeded to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/opinion/bringing-it-all-back-home.html" rel="nofollow">fire 14,500 workers</a>. Before leaving the company she almost destroyed, Fiorina took a <a href="http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1848501_1848500_1848417,00.html" rel="nofollow">$40 million golden parachute</a> – $21 million in cash, and $19 million in stock and pension benefits. Both <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2009/04/30/Portfolios-Worst-American-CEOs-of-All-Time.html?slide=3" rel="nofollow">CNBC</a> and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/americas-worst-ceos-where-are-they-now/" rel="nofollow">CBS</a> include her in their lists of the worst CEOs of all time.</p>
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<p><strong>4. Bobby Jindal, Republican</strong></p>
<p>Louisiana’s governor, who is finishing his second term this year, has become one of Louisiana’s most hated politicians, taking fire from his own party as well as from Democrats. As I wrote previously <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/king-corporate-handouts-how-governor-bobby-jindal-ransacked-louisiana" rel="nofollow">for Occupy.com</a>, the budget Gov. Jindal recently signed was barely balanced thanks to flimsy accounting illusions that even Republicans in the legislature called “money laundering.” Jindal gave away <a href="http://www.ksla.com/story/28037527/zurik-11-billion-later-louisianas-incentives-fail-to-deliver?clienttype=generic" rel="nofollow">$11 billion in corporate tax handouts</a> – more than any other state – during his eight years as governor. To make up for Jindal’s new corporate entitlement programs, the state’s public colleges and universities endured <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/01/what_does_it_mean_to_cut_300_m.html" rel="nofollow">almost $700 million in cuts</a>, amounting to approximately <a href="http://www.attn.com/stories/952/corporate-tax-breaks-vs-higher-education-funding?utm_source=social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=usu" rel="nofollow">$5,000 more in tuition</a> for each student.</p>
<p>If those tax cuts resulted in enough good-paying jobs to provide full employment across Louisiana, they may have been worth it. In one case, an oil and gas company received $1.6 billion in tax breaks for just 150 jobs, meaning the state’s taxpayers had to cough up <a href="http://blogs.theadvocate.com/specialreports/2014/12/03/giving-away-louisiana-industrial-tax-incentives/" rel="nofollow">$7.5 million for each new job</a>. Duck Dynasty even got <a href="http://blogs.theadvocate.com/specialreports/2014/11/26/giving-away-louisiana/" rel="nofollow">$330,000 in taxpayer money</a> for each episode filmed there. But even after all those handouts, Jindal’s Louisiana is still the <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2015/5/13/which-states-have-the-most-job-growth-since-the-recession" rel="nofollow">15th worst state for job growth</a> in the U.S.</p>
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<p><strong>5. Scott Walker, Republican</strong></p>
<p>While Wisconsin’s governor has proven himself to be politically savvy enough to dodge a recall effort and win re-election in 2014, he’s been largely ineffective at governing. When Walker took office in 2011, he promised that under his leadership, Wisconsin’s economy would add 250,000 private sector jobs by the end of his first term. But by the time his second term began, Walker had only met <a href="http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/promises/walk-o-meter/promise/526/create-250000-new-jobs/" rel="nofollow">59 percent</a> of that goal. As I <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/extremist-governor-what-scott-walker-doesnt-want-you-know" rel="nofollow">previously reported</a> for Occupy.com, Walker set out with a strategy of making more tax dollars available for corporate handouts, and gave millions away to whomever asked for it, often with little to no accountability.</p>
<p>Walker’s own economic development agency violated state law when it failed to track the number of jobs created with taxpayer money, and even outright <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/state-jobs-agency-lost-track-of-8-million-in-overdue-loans-for-a-year-co792f0-174676461.html" rel="nofollow">lost track of $8 million</a> in its first audit. Scott Walker also puts politicians who hate environmental regulations <a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/environment/cathy-stepp-outspoken-critic-of-dnr-picked-to-head-agency/article_59520726-1440-11e0-b7f3-001cc4c03286.html" rel="nofollow">in charge of implementing those regulations</a>, takes <a href="http://www.wisdc.org/pr121510.php" rel="nofollow">legal bribes</a> from donors who ask for favors from the government, allows corporations to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/the-fight-for-wisconsins-soul.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">have a hand in drafting bills</a> aimed at regulating them, <a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/email-links-scott-walker-to-open-records-changes/article_67ee3888-1dcc-5dbe-b645-c5c951dff0ef.html" rel="nofollow">tried to change the state’s open records laws</a> so proof of corporate involvement in drafting legislation would be unavailable to the press, and signed a <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/business/budget-amendment-would-allow-7-day-workweeks-b99533515z1-312310311.html" rel="nofollow">seven-day workweek</a> into law. So what makes him so politically-savvy, and why is he leading in polls?</p>
<p>In Walker’s own words to a billionaire donor, he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1S_Pxw2n-U" rel="nofollow">“use[d] divide and conquer”</a> on Wisconsin’s working class, pitting unionized public workers against non-union, private sector workers. In the meantime he gave away their tax dollars to corporations who laughed all the way to the bank with nobody left to pay attention – save for Wisconsin’s largely complicit mainstream media which has become little more than a pool of <a href="https://twitter.com/WSJMattD4/status/622550438718611456" rel="nofollow">stenographers</a> for Walker and the cronies he’s appointed to state regulatory agencies. The only thing stopping Walker is that his power is, so far, confined to Wisconsin’s borders. A Walker presidency would be game-over for working people.</p>
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<p><strong>6. Martin O’Malley, Democrat</strong></p>
<p>Anyone looking for someone to blame for the Baltimore Police Department’s unchecked reign of terror overwhelmingly perpetrated against the black community, or the soul-crushing poverty that has plagued Baltimore’s majority-black neighborhoods, can place it solely on the shoulders of former two-term Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who was Baltimore’s mayor from 1999 to 2007 before moving on to Annapolis.</p>
<p>At the beginning of Martin O’Malley's eight years as mayor, he began a tradition of “zero-tolerance” policing, enabling police to aggressively arrest residents for even the most minor of infractions. O’Malley also greenlit the use of “CompStat,” which analyzes arrest records and crime data. CompStat’s data of police activity showed that – surprise – Baltimore police tended to make more arrests in poorer, black neighborhoods than in wealthy white neighborhoods, causing police to double down their already heavy policing of those communities.</p>
<p>By the time O’Malley was six years into his tenure, Baltimore police had arrested <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/04/28/omalleys-claim-about-crime-rates-in-baltimore/" rel="nofollow">108,447 people</a>, amounting to over one-sixth of the city getting cuffed at some point in 2005. In 2006, the Maryland ACLU sued the Baltimore Police Department over its pattern of aggressive arrests, resulting in an <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2015/4/28/a-history-of-violence-baltimores-broken-relationship-years-in-making.html" rel="nofollow">$870,000 settlement</a>. O’Malley’s policing carried on after he became governor – <a href="http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/10-06_rep_baltbehindbars_md-ps-ac-rd.pdf" rel="nofollow">a 2010 report from the Justice Policy Institute</a> showed that two-thirds of inmates at the Baltimore jail were incarcerated for nonviolent offenses, 55 percent were under 35 years of age, and 90 percent were black.</p>
<p>O'Malley’s leadership even had disastrous consequences before he was mayor. During his eight years as a Baltimore city councilman, O’Malley presided over the taxation and finance committee in which he signed off on multiple, multimillion-dollar handouts to well-connected businesses and developers. One such tax break was a $5 million loan, along with a $5.5 million grant to millionaire John Paterakis, a developer who would build a luxury hotel a mile away from the convention center while <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/columnists/bs-md-rodricks-0215-20150214-column.html" rel="nofollow">avoiding property taxes for 25 years</a>.</p>
<p>In the meantime, Baltimore’s schools suffered as property values soared. Under Maryland’s model for funding schools, state aid is based on the value of property, making property taxes largely responsible for school budgets. Because the value of Baltimore’s gentrified property was up, the state government cut aid to Baltimore’s schools <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-ci-school-funds-20150205-story.html#page=1" rel="nofollow">by $35 million</a> last year. Yet, due to property tax exemptions like those O’Malley signed, there’s hardly any property tax revenue left for schools in the first place. Baltimore loses <a href="http://patch.com/maryland/northbaltimore/young-reducing-property-tax-requires-federal-aid" rel="nofollow">approximately $120 million a year</a> in property tax revenue due to those exemptions, many of which are in place for a decade or more. Martin O’Malley is no different than his Republican counterparts when it comes to astronomical giveaways to corporations.</p>
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<p><strong>7. Chris Christie, Republican</strong></p>
<p>Out of all the candidates running, perhaps none are more despised by their own constituents than two-term New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. A recent Monmouth University poll found that <a href="http://www.northjersey.com/opinion/christie-is-not-feeling-the-love-in-new-jersey-1.1368021" rel="nofollow">69 percent</a> of New Jersey residents felt that Christie was not presidential material. Of those 69 percent, 89 percent refuted Christie’s earlier assertions that constituents don’t think he’d be a good president simply because they want to keep him as their governor – rather, they simply don’t think he’d be a good president. And yet, Christie soldiers on in early primary states, hoping to convince others elsewhere that an abrasive bully from New Jersey can be palatable to people who aren’t from New Jersey. While I stand by my statement that polls this early are meaningless, it’s still a huge blow to a candidate's credibility if more than two-thirds of their constituents say they hope their governor doesn’t become the next president.</p>
<p>Christie, like many others on this list, relied almost entirely on corporate handouts as a jobs creation strategy. And like the many others on this list, Christie failed, but more spectacularly than almost any other state – the same Pew study that ranked Jindal’s Louisiana as the 15th worst state for job growth ranked Chris Christie’s New Jersey as the <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2015/5/13/which-states-have-the-most-job-growth-since-the-recession" rel="nofollow">6th worst state for job growth</a>. Christie has given more than <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-11/christie-s-tax-breaks-fail-to-spur-growth-report-says" rel="nofollow">$4 billion in corporate tax handouts</a> since taking office in 2011 – many of which go to <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bee5d70f9fc043ee933d754d5734a995/christies-camden-tax-breaks-reward-political-insiders" rel="nofollow">politically-connected firms</a>. With so much tax money going to corporations, Christie has balanced the budget by drastically cutting public schools. Not long after signing off on a $1 billion cut to education, Christie handed out a <a href="http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/jpmorgan_awarded_188_million_nj_tax_break_to_move.html" rel="nofollow">$188 million tax break</a> to JPMorgan Chase. It’s no coincidence that under Christie, New Jersey’s poverty rate hit <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/new_jersey_one_of_three_states_with_increase_in_poverty_last_year_census_reports.html" rel="nofollow">its highest point in 50 years</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>8. Jeb Bush, Republican</strong></p>
<p>It takes a lot of balls to be the brother of one of the <a href="http://harpers.org/blog/2008/04/worst-president-ever/" rel="nofollow">undisputed worst presidents in U.S. history</a> – one who went to war <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YgJx8VGRA" rel="nofollow">based on faulty intelligence</a>, completely destabilizing two countries and their neighbors – then run for president proudly proclaiming that brother to be <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/07/politics/jeb-george-w-bush-adviser/" rel="nofollow">one of your top Middle East advisors</a>.</p>
<p>But, that may just be a favor for a favor, since Jeb Bush served as George W. Bush’s state chairman in Florida for his 2000 campaign, and Jeb may very likely have used his influence to swing 537 Florida votes in his brother’s favor. While Jeb officially recused himself during the recount, the governor’s office in Tallahassee <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jul/14/news/mn-22362" rel="nofollow">made 96 phone calls to his brother’s campaign</a> during the month-long process. According to the LA Times, 10 of those calls came from a line that Jeb Bush primarily used, one of which went to George W. Bush’s private line in the Texas governor’s office. Jeb also called Karl Rove, George’s top campaign adviser. At one point, he personally visited the campaign office in Tallahassee that served as the recount headquarters, and sat in on a conference call with his brother’s campaign staff.</p>
<p>Aside from questions surrounding his brother’s campaign, Jeb Bush was a champion of regressive taxation as governor of Florida. Out of the <a href="http://www.taxanalysts.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/MSUN-9VBF47?OpenDocument" rel="nofollow">$13 billion in tax cuts</a> he passed during his tenure, the largest cut by far was repealing the state’s tax on <a href="http://www.taxanalysts.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/MSUN-9VQSPY?OpenDocument" rel="nofollow">“intangible assets”</a>like stocks, bonds, and accounts receivable, which largely benefited the wealthiest Floridians. The revenue from the intangibles tax amounted to roughly $600 million a year, which, if properly allocated, may have prevented the presumed deaths of the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/22/jeb-bush-s-florida-lost-500-kids.html" rel="nofollow">500 foster children</a> that Jeb’s ill-equipped agency was unable to track down.</p>
<p>And yet, as state agencies like foster care clearly suffered from a lack of resources under his leadership, Jeb Bush is bragging on the campaign trail about <a href="http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/jun/09/jeb-bush/jeb-bush-says-he-cut-13000-state-workforce-jobs-go/" rel="nofollow">firing 13,000 state employees</a>. This is coming from the same guy who gets paid <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeb-bushs-income-soared-time-governor-tax-returns/story?id=32137625" rel="nofollow">$75,000 for an hour-long speech</a>and tells struggling Americans to <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/jeb-bush-wants-you-to-work-longer-hours/" rel="nofollow">work longer hours</a> if they want more money. It’s hard to imagine a more out-of-touch candidate than Jeb Bush (Donald Trump doesn’t count).</p>
<p>While there are certainly more extremists worth mentioning, these eight candidates stand out more than others as craven ideologues willing to do and say anything to convince those with the deepest pockets to sponsor their way to the White House. American voters mustn’t allow the punditocracy to dictate who is electable and who isn’t – a candidate’s electability should be based only on their values and actions, not their stump speeches.</p>
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Lindsey Williams: New World Order Announced On Sept 25th

<h1><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.prepperfortress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/download1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img alt="LINDSEY WILLIAMS" class="aligncenter wp-image-6427" height="306" src="http://www.prepperfortress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/download1.jpg" width="409" /></a></span></h1>
<h4><span dir="ltr">LINDSEY WILLIAMS: NEW WORLD ORDER ANNOUNCED ON SEPT 25TH</span></h4>
<p>Pastor Lindsey Williams has asked me to compile an emergency bulletin for those on his email list.</p>
<p>The information is so important he has said: “This is probably the most important bulletin we have ever sent – This is the fulfilment of everything the Elite have ever wanted to do – It will affect every human being, worldwide – They will implement this over a period of time – The dates have now been officially set for the start of implementation.”</p>
<p>The Roman Catholic Pope just announced when he speaks at the United Nations on the 25th September 2015 that he will issue an ENCYCLICAL – The definition of an encyclical is – A letter from the Pope sent to all Roman Catholic Bishops throughout the world. Every Roman Catholic is EXPECTED to obey.</p>
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<p>There are 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world. According to Pastor Williams this means that when the Pope announces the New World Order in front of the annual gathering of world leaders on September 25th, 2015 at the United Nations just before the signing and implementation of the ‘Post-2015 Development Agenda’ that the Pope will order every Roman Catholic around the world to obey unconditionally – total obedience – including the acceptance of the Mark of the Beast when it is announced. In the newsletter Pastor Williams issued in June it speaks about the visit of Pope Francis to the USA and what Holy See (The Vatican) is involved with in the United Nations (Global Government) and sustainable development (Agenda 21). (<a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://-%20see%20more%20at:%20http//www.lindseywilliams.net/warning-emergency-bulletin-from-chaplin-lindsey-williams/#sthash.PGenyDEO.dpuf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">source</a>)</p>
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<h3><span dir="ltr">LINDSEY WILLIAMS: NEW WORLD ORDER ANNOUNCED ON SEPT 25TH; NEW WORLD CURRENCY ANNOUNCED ON OCT 2OTH</span></h3>
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anon anonymous news Lindsey Williams: New World Order Announced On Sept 25th

LINDSEY WILLIAMS: NEW WORLD ORDER ANNOUNCED ON SEPT 25TH Pastor Lindsey Williams has asked me to compile an emergency bulletin for those o...