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Secret Service gets chaperones

Embarrassed by a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service will assign chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that make clear that excessive drinking, entertaining foreigners in their hotel rooms and cavorting in disreputable establishments are no longer tolerated.

The stricter measures, issued by the Secret Service on Friday for agents and employees, apply even when traveling personnel are off duty.

The policies, outlined in a memorandum obtained by The [...]

Forget the Secret Service prostitution scandal… This is the weekend’s most important White House news

From SHTFplan:

While Americans focused their attention on the Colombian controversy involving U.S. Secret Service agents, prostitutes, and excessive drinking, President Obama quietly signed his latest Presidential Executive Order.
The Supporting Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources Executive Order seeks to create what amounts to a Presidential super committee that will oversee the regulation and development of the ‘unconventional’ natural gas industry..

… The President’s order establishes an “Interagency [...]

Executive Order: Feds To Take Control of Domestic Natural Gas Production, EPA Set To Move Within One Week

Mac Slavo
SHTFPlan.com
Monday, April 16, 2012

While Americans focused their attention on the Colombian controversy involving U.S. Secret Service agents, prostitutes and excessive drinking, President Obama quietly signed his latest Presidential Executive Order.

The Supporting Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources Executive Order seeks to create what amounts to a Presidential super committee that will oversee the regulation and development of the ‘unconventional’ natural gas industry for the purpose of ensuring a [...]

HUFFPOST: Heavy drinking is costing the U.S. economy more than $200 billion a year, mostly in lost workplace productivity

Heavy drinking is costing the U.S. economy more than $200 billion a year, mostly in lost workplace productivity, a U.S. health agency said on Monday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday that in 2006 the price tag for excessive drinking was an estimated $223.5 billion, nearly 21 percent higher than the $185 billion it cost in 1998, the last time a similar study was done.

Seventy two [...]

This Is How The World Really Works Folks – Power Wins Even Over This Cruelty!

Scratches on the Blackboard of Animal Cruelty
Monday 25 April 2011
by: Walter Brasch, The Moderate Voice

Take a pigeon.

Now put that pigeon, along with thousands of others, into small coops that don’t give the bird much freedom to move.

Don’t worry about food or water. It won’t matter.

Take some of the pigeons—who are already disoriented from hours, maybe days, of confinement—and place a couple of them each into spring-loaded box traps [...]

This Is How The World Really Works Folks – Power Wins Even Over This Cruelty!

Scratches on the Blackboard of Animal Cruelty
Monday 25 April 2011
by: Walter Brasch, The Moderate Voice

Take a pigeon.

Now put that pigeon, along with thousands of others, into small coops that don’t give the bird much freedom to move.

Don’t worry about food or water. It won’t matter.

Take some of the pigeons—who are already disoriented from hours, maybe days, of confinement—and place a couple of them each into spring-loaded box traps [...]