Modesto-based Save Mart Supermarkets is warning customers at several of its Bay Area stores that their personal banking information may have been compromised.
The company issued a news release Wednesday saying that upon routine maintenance, store employees found credit/debit card readers that had been tampered with in the self-checkout lanes of 19 Lucky stores and one Save Mart store.
The company said the tampered card readers were replaced and that enhanced security was added to all of its 234 stores.
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Well, just why wasn’t security “enhanced” in the first place?
The delicate Indianapolis occupiers, of whom there are fewer and fewer, are melting as the weather gets cooler, the winds pick up and the rain falls.
But in order to pretend they’re a dynamic group, representative of an overblown percentage of humanity, one Indianapolis occupier is recruiting homeless people to prance around with occupier signs according to a Fox News report.
The organizers of the ‘Occupy’ movement in Indianapolis have turned to the homeless for help, recruiting them to help maintain the ‘Occupy’ presence in the city.
In an audio recording of a web seminar conducted November 9 between Occupy Indianapolis organizers and the demonstrators, one unidentified organizer can be heard saying, “I feel bad, man. I personally feel bad that we have you guys out here. And there’s … there seems to be really no purpose of it, other than … other than to show that Indianapolis has a physical occupation. You know, cause you are pretty much our billboard for Occupy Indianapolis.”
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Do you suppose they are paying the prevailing wage with benefits? Or is that just for others?
Sesame Street music composer charged with child abuse.
An award winning-composer, who wrote music for the PBS’ long-running children’s series, “Sesame Street,†was arraigned on charges of coercing a child “to engage in sexually explicit conduct†in South Carolina on Nov. 21, the New York Daily News reports.
Fernando Rivas was arrested on April 19 after police discovered photographs of a 4-year-old girl naked and “restrained in handcuffs and other bondage-type devices.â€
Rivas admitted to handcuffing the child, taking the photos and emailing them to two other individuals.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
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When the election returns come in, then we’ll know if the Mayans were right. If we last that long.
20+ voted from same house owned by Senator Lena Taylor who oposes voter ID laws
Media Trackers [mediatracker.org] discovered that over 20 individuals voted, some illegally, from one of Senator Lena Taylor’s (D-Milwaukee) properties during the April 5, 2011 spring election.
According to a Media Trackers open records request with the City of Milwaukee Election Commission, the property at 1018 N 35th St. in Milwaukee currently has 36 active voter registrations and at least 23 individuals voted using the address.
Senator Lena Taylor wants to recall Gov. Scott Walker for what she believes is his misuse of power, but in this case she appears to have been an accessory to illegal voting activities.
Furthermore, Senator Lena Taylor was an outspoken critic of the Photo ID bill, but if that bill had been in place it could have prevented voter fraud. A conservative political research group has accused state Senate Democrat Lena Taylor of being an “accessory” to voter fraud.
But Taylor says it’s nothing more than an act of kindness by her mother. Twenty-three people voted last April using the address of a group home and homeless shelter on the senator’s property — and it’s run by Taylor’s mother, whose name is also Lena.
Media Trackers said one of the people who voted was a 44-year-old convicted felon who was on a work release sentence, and was not allowed to vote by law. And a few months later, Taylor proposed a bill to let felons who are out of prison vote before their parole obligations are finished. The group said Taylor is guilty of gross negligence by not stopping the felon from voting. But Taylor tells the Journal Sentinel that her mother provides needy people with a place to stay. And she simply encourages them to vote, which Taylor called “admirable.”
The senator said her mother didn’t do anything more than remind them it was Election Day, and confirm information for registrations at the polls.
Media Trackers said the group home violated zoning laws, holding way more than eight people as allowed by city code. The senator says the home is not that restrictive, and many people move in-and-out frequently.
The home was listed by the state as a non-profit group until last March. But the Journal Sentinel says people still stay there, even though it’s not a legal entity.d stopped some of the potential voter fraud that took place from her property.
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It’s nice to see just plain, old fashioned fraud. These folks are at least alive.
SEIU wolf in sheep's clothing requires parents with disabled children pay union duesThe Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is collecting millions of dollars each year from the State of Michigan’s Medicaid program in the form of union dues.
It even collects from parents caring for their own mentally-ill children in their own home so the children won’t have to be institutionalized.
The SEIU now can claim and receive union dues from thousands, whether they want to be union members or not, because of a tricky arrangement to pay the union. It was put in place by the former Democratic governor of the state, Jennifer Granholm.
Robert and Patricia Haynes are particular victims of this odious arrangement. The couple lives in Michigan with their two adult children, who have cerebral palsy. They are eligible for Medicaid, the health program for low-income people and the disabled.
The state provides the family with Medicaid insurance. But it also treats them as employed caregivers.
The SEIU sees the Haynes family as public workers and thereby members of the union. Most government workers in Michigan must join unions.
The SEIU, in effect, snatches $30 out of the family’s monthly Medicaid payment as dues. A unique agency, the Michigan Quality Community Care Council (MQC3) acts as a co-conspirator by deducting the union dues on behalf of SEIU before the Medicare payment is made to the family.
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I am sure that the female governor would weep buckets for the kids; but in the end her love of the union dollar was greater.
Huge carbon footprint for British climate change minister
The Brits climate change minister, Charles Hendry, is facing accusations of hypocrisy after buying himself a 20-bedroom castle–with a potentially massive carbon footprint–as a second home.
Blair Castle in Ayrshire, which went on the market for £2.5million [about $3.9 million], has three storeys, 16 bathrooms and a heated outdoor swimming pool set in 260 acres of beautiful countryside.
It is likely to rack up colossal energy bills during the cold Scottish winter if Mr Hendry plans to heat all 14 bedrooms, two kitchens and four reception areas.
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But the British climate minister did agree to letting the peasants wade in the moat.
Senator Kerry profits hugely from insider information
Kerry’s trust largely derives from his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, an heiress to the Heinz food fortune.
First, $750,000 worth of stock in drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals was added to their portfolios at around $50 a share. Once Obamacare passed, the value of the stock rose to $62 per share. Subsequently, in 2010, a portion of Teva holdings was dumped from the Kerry portfolio, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in capital gains.
Next, at least $200,000 of stock in medical device manufacturer ResMed was purchased in the $20 to $25 per share range. After Obamacare passed, ResMed jumped to $34, an increase of as much as 71%. “ResMed was a winner in the health care reform legislation—as Reuters declared—thanks in part to John Kerry’s efforts,†says Schweizer. The reason: earlier versions of the Obamacare bill would have slapped companies like ResMed with an “industry fee†tax. Kerry opposed the higher taxes on medical device companies and helped delay the taxes until 2013.
Next, between $250,000 and $500,000 worth Thermo Fisher Scientific were added to the Kerry family portfolios at around $35 per share. After Obamacare’s passage, the stock skyrocketed to more than $50 a share.
Even as their portfolios reflected aggressive purchasing of drug company stocks, Sen. Kerry was dumping investments in health insurance companies. At the end of June 2009, all United Health shares were unloaded from their portfolios. Their Wellpoint stocks were also sold. Six weeks later, he then introduced an amendment to tax generous health care plans, a move sure to hurt companies like United Health and Wellpoint.
Throw Them All Out contends that Sen. Kerry is no stranger to making huge profits off of health care-related trading based on his rare access to information. “Some of [Kerry’s] biggest scores,†writes Schweizer, “were tied to his knowledge of obscure matters that had huge ramifications for certain companies.â€
One such instance occurred in 2007, when the government was deciding whether an anemia drug made by Amgen would receive Medicare reimbursement. Before news of the congressional negotiations went public, however, the Kerrys’ investment fund executed two perfectly timed stock sales. On May 4th and 7th, between $500,000 and $1 million worth of Amgen were sold off. The move helped him avoid between $50,000 and $100,000 in losses.
Another example of Kerry’s deft congressional trading happened in 2003 during the negotiations over the prescription drug benefit plan. Kerry’s Senate committee was in charge of the plan’s oversight. In 2003, writes Schweizer, “a stunning 111 transactions of pharmaceutical companies and health insurance companies†were made to the Kerrys’ portfolios.
The Kerrys’ investment funds bulked up on:
More than $500,000 of Johnson & Johnson
As much as $1 million of Pfizer
At least $200,000 in Oxford Health Plans
Between $500,000 and $1 million in United Health Group
At least $100,000 of Cardinal Health
At least $240,000 of Merck
The result: after the bill was signed into law in 2004, some of the Kerrys’ investments were sold, which netted between $100,000 and $1 million from Oxford Health Plans, plus tens of thousands from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Cardinal Health.
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Remember what Nancy Pelosi said: The deomocrats will drain the swamp. Senator fraudster is in the fight against the evils of Wall Street.
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The city of Glendale is imposing a ban on artificial grass. Notices are going out to homeowners whose front yards are covered in turf.
Geneva Dotson says she was forced to pay crews $3,000 to rip up her brand new front yard after receiving a notice from city hall.
City officials say the concern is related to the plastic and chemicals used in the artificial turf.
When asked why the fake grass would continue to be allowed in backyards, officials had no answer.
City officials say they plan to press criminal charges against those who do not comply.
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A mind that can criminalize front yard turf but not backyard turf is a mind that can sell guns to Mexican cartels.
“]”]”]Beware Muslim women's eyes that provoke fitna i.e., sedition, chaosIt is not OK to provoke fitna.
According to  Al Arabiyya News, Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice confirms  that it will begin “interfering with†and “ordering†women to cover their eyes, “if they provoke fitna [sedition, chaos].â€
The spokesman added, “Our men have every right to do so.”
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Not only the evil eye but now the sedition and chaos eye.
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