On July 1, JP Morgan Chase became the Commonwealth’s bank. As the state’s official depository, JP now receives all deposits, writes all checks and makes all wire transfers on the $12-15 billion that flow through Kentucky state government in the course of a fiscal year.
It will cut payroll checks, receive federal and other funds earmarked for the state, and disburse educational or transportation or any other funds to their appropriate monetary endpoints. For its trouble, the bank will receive $1.3 million in state fees and the ability to re-lend idle state funds out to customers for private gain. Yes, you should be worried.




Gov. Scott Walker's health secretary has declined to make or back applications for federal public health grants that could have totaled more than $9 million over the next five years.
AARP’s legal battle against wrongful reverse mortgage foreclosures has shifted from government regulators to lenders.
Crooked judges are now issuing warrants to arrest, prosecute and jail anonymous video makers who create a South Park style videos that mocks the police.
While the alternative media has reporting on a cover up of the Fukushima nuclear fallout throughout the disaster we haven’t seen a mainstream news source do much more than act as a stenographer for the government and the nuclear industry through the ordeal.
Dr. Chris Busby, world famous physicist, said tests run at the respected Harwell Radiation Laboratory in England demonstrate the airborne radiation in Japan is 1,000 times higher than radioactive “fallout” at the peak in 1963 of H-Bomb detonations by the nuclear powers. The calculations were on radioactive Cesium 137.
There will, to be sure, be more official announcements from those much closer to him, but I wanted to share with you that we have sadly lost yet another compatriot. Former FBI Agent In Charge, Ted L. Gunderson, transitioned from this world to the next at around 3:30pm on Sunday, July 31, 2011. Ted had been suffering off and on from cancer for roughly two and a half years, and he finally succumbed to it after being on life support for three weeks. He was 82.
The House has voted to block action to address climate change, to stop actions to prevent air and water pollution, to undermine protections for public lands and coastal areas, and to weaken the protection of the environment in dozens of other ways.





























