Jennifer Groves's Blog Posts Tagged 'senate' (7)

Is your bank laundering money for al-Qaeda and Mexican drug lords? It is if you bank at Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation.

"International banking giant HSBC may have financed terrorist groups and funneled Mexican drug money into the US economy through its lax policies, a damning Senate report reveals. The bank’s bosses have apologized for the misconduct.

"David Bagley, HSBC’s Head of Group Compliance, admitted during a Senate subcommittee hearing that the…

Remember Democrat Elizabeth "Fake Indian" Warren, running for Scott Brown's senate seat? Her biggest campaign contributors are John Krasinski (Jim on The Office), Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Susan Sarandon . . . the list goes on.

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The Teamsters Union has supported Hoekstra for the last decade:

" TheDC previously reported that Hoekstra and Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. struck up a relationship over the past decade or so. The Teamsters endorsed and supported Hoekstra in Congress and in his failed 2010 bid for governor of Michigan because the Republican agreed to…

"Alabama became the first state to adopt a tough law protecting private property and due process by prohibiting any government involvement with or participation in a controversial United Nations scheme known as Agenda 21. Activists from across the political spectrum celebrated the measure’s…

“During a Senate committee hearing Monday, Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, said a bill he was sponsoring did one thing and one thing only.

“The bill "simply states in a courtroom of state of Florida, the only laws that might be applied are the laws of the state of Florida and the United States, period," he said.”

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Tennessee is the latest state to join the anti-shari’a bandwagon; OK, WY, and TX have pursued and are continuing to pursue similar legislation.

 “A conservative group has put together the boldest legal attempt yet to limit how Muslims worship in America."

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FCC will vote on internet control in December.



When S773 and S778--the Senate bills designed to establish total fed control of the Internet--created a huge public outcry, Congress "dropped" them . . . and as per usual, the issue has re-surfaced now as an "FCC" issue.…