USA news on Youtube Apr 21 2018

Ben Carson To End One Of Obama's Most Shady Illegal Pet Projects

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), headed up by Secretary Ben Carson,

is getting ready to toss one of President Obama's most prized — and illegal — policies

in the recycling bin.

Under Obama-era policies, the HUD doles out taxpayer dollars for Section 8 housing, going

against administrators and the U.S. Supreme Court.

But not for long.

Under new leadership, the HUD is now going to return to a "competitive bidding process"

to award Section 8 housing contracts — so taxpayer dollars aren't used.

WE reports:

According to a top HUD official, the department is taking many of the steps necessary to change

back to the competitive procurement method are being taken now, but didn't want to

comment on when the announcement from the department might happen for fear of tainting

the bidding process.

Supporters of the competitive bidding procurement process say the net result will increase efficiency

in the program and save taxpayer money.

And Republican lawmakers that have been critical of HUD's actions in the past are applauding

the change in course as well.

"When dealing with performance-based Section 8 contract administrators, it's clear that

full and open competition is the way to get the best value for the taxpayer," said Rep.

Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla.

"As Chairman of the Housing Appropriations Subcommittee, I have repeatedly insisted both

publicly and privately that HUD follow Congressional intent, the GAO, and the Supreme Court."

Diaz-Balart is one of a small handful of elected officials who put pressure on HUD and then-Secretary

Julián Castro during the years in which HUD ignored findings that their grant process

was illegal.

Section 8 housing is a federal program that pays rental assistance to landlords to help

low-income people acquire affordable housing.

Because HUD had problems administering the program, in 1995 it started to contract out

the management of Section 8 housing units through a competitive bidding process.

However, in March of 2012, HUD suddenly shifted away from the competitive bidding process,

and began using funding mechanisms which were more like grants.

Contractors who had previously gained HUD's business under the bidding process appealed

to the Government Accountability Office in 2012, just months after HUD changed course.

And by August of that year, the GAO ruled that HUD's actions were "unreasonable

and in disregard of applicable statutory guidance."

Undeterred, HUD pressed forward with their choice, which then made them the target of

a lawsuit.

From that point, HUD lost an embarrassing string of rulings which culminated in the

U.S. Supreme Court denying to hear an appeal from the agency in April of 2015.

Despite all those rulings, HUD didn't budge.

But the Trump administration is now set to return to the previous methods.

Eric Strong is the CEO of Navigate Affordable Housing Partners, a company that has won HUD

Section 8 contracts in the past under the competitive system.

He's also publicly lobbied HUD to change back to the performance based contracting

method.

"All we've ever wanted was fair and open competition because we know it results in

the best financial situation for the taxpayer and also will result in better housing for

the residents who live in those [Section 8] units," Strong told the Washington Examiner.

SHARE on Facebook and Twitter if you stand with Dr. Ben Carson!

H/T patrioticexpress

For more infomation >> Ben Carson To End One Of Obama's Most Shady Illegal Pet Projects - Duration: 15:51.

-------------------------------------------

Federal Judge Drops the Hammer on Facebook with New Ruling - Duration: 15:50.

Federal Judge Drops the Hammer on Facebook with New Ruling

If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thought last week was bad, this one might be worse.

Before Zuckerberg's two days of grilling by D.C. lawmakers had even faded from the

headlines, the company was back in the spotlight on Monday with a federal judge's ruling

to allow a class action lawsuit against Facebook over a facial recognition feature.

And the damages could be in the billions.

According to Reuters, U.S. District Judge James Donato ruled on Monday that a suit against

Facebook could proceed under class action status for users in Illinois who sued the

company in 2015 alleging Facebook was violating a state law by collecting "biometric information."

That opens the way for individual users to sue as a group, substantially increasing the

potential penalties the company might have to face.

The suit stems from the popular practice of "tagging" photos.

As Bloomberg reported:

"Facebook has for years encouraged users to tag people in photographs they upload in

their personal posts and the social network stores the collected information.

The company has used a program it calls DeepFace to match other photos of a person.

Alphabet Inc.'s cloud-based Google Photos service uses similar technology and Google

faces a lawsuit in Chicago like the one against Facebook in San Francisco federal court."

According to Bloomberg, the suit was initially filed in Illinois, but the California-based

Facebook successfully argued to have it moved to San Francisco.

The home court advantage didn't pay off, though.

In his ruling, Donato wrote that "Facebook seems to believe that a class action is not

(warranted) because statutory damages could amount to billions of dollars."

However, he wrote "substantial damages are not a reason to decline Class certification

because it is within the Court's discretion to reduce a liquidated damages award with

due process at a later stage of the proceedings."

And the damages could be substantial indeed.

The Illinois law in question, the Biometric Information Privacy Act of 2008, allows for

damages up to $5,000 for each time a person's image is used without consent.

Donato's ruling creates a potential class of Facebook users in Illinois whose pictures

were collected by Facebook after June 7, 2011, under its "Tag Suggestions" feature.

The date is when Facebook launched the program.

Given that there were 6 million Facebook users in Illinois at the time, the number of potential

violations of the 2008 law is staggering.

Multiplied by $5,000 each, the "billions" Donato ruling mentions is easy to imagine.

Zuckerberg's two days on the hot seat last week in front of House and Senate lawmakers

was no doubt extremely uncomfortable (just wearing a tie that long is probably uncomfortable

for Zuckerberg.

But a federal judge's ruling in what should be the friendly confines of a San Francisco

courthouse has to be a lot worse.

The congressional hearings only took a toll on Zuckerberg's image.

Even if the facial recognition case is likely headed for an out-of-court settlement, that

hammer Donato dropped hammer on Facebook in Monday's ruling is going to be landing on

the company's bottom line.

What do you think?

Scroll down to comment below!

H/T conservativetribune

For more infomation >> Federal Judge Drops the Hammer on Facebook with New Ruling - Duration: 15:50.

-------------------------------------------

BREAKING Justice Gorsuch Rules Against Trump Administration On Immigrant Case - Duration: 15:51.

BREAKING: Justice Gorsuch Rules Against Trump Administration On Immigrant Case

According to Business Insider, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch provided the tie-breaking

vote over to the liberal wing of the court on Tuesday in a case that ruled part of a

federal law making it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes too vague

to be enforced.

The decision is a loss for the Trump administration.

"The court's 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment in which new Justice Neil Gorsuch

joined the four liberal justices — concerns a catchall provision of immigration law that

defines what makes a crime violent," reports BI.

"Conviction for a crime of violence makes deportation 'a virtual certainty' for

an immigrant, no matter how long he has lived in the United States, Justice Elena Kagan

wrote in her opinion for the court."

Business Insider provided more details on this particular case:

Tuesday's decision involves James Dimaya, a native of the Philippines who came to the

United States legally as a 13-year-old in 1992.

After he pleaded no contest to two charges of burglary in California, the government

began deportation proceedings against him.

The government argued among other things that he could be removed from the country because

his convictions qualified as crimes of violence that allowed his removal under immigration

law.

Immigration officials relied on a section of immigration law that lists crimes that

make people eligible for deportation.

The category in which Dimaya's convictions fell is a crime "that, by its very nature,

involves a substantial risk that physical force … may be used in the course of committing

the offense."

Immigration judges would have allowed Dimaya to be deported, but the federal appeals court

in San Francisco struck down the provision as unconstitutionally vague.

The Supreme Court affirmed that ruling Tuesday.

Gorsuch did not align completely with Kagan's majority opinion, though he agreed the law

was too vague to stand on its own.

"No one should be surprised that the Constitution looks unkindly on any law so vague that reasonable

people cannot understand its terms and judges do not know where to begin in applying it,"

Gorsuch wrote in his opinion.

Justice Antonin Scalia, the man whom Gorsuch replaced, wrote the majority opinion for a

similar case in 2015 that struck down part of another federal imposing longer prison

sentences to repeat criminals.

Kagan cited the 2015 decision as the best indicator on "how to resolve

this case."

H/T dailywire

For more infomation >> BREAKING Justice Gorsuch Rules Against Trump Administration On Immigrant Case - Duration: 15:51.

-------------------------------------------

Judge Napolitano says Sessions should reopen Clinton email investigation - Duration: 15:37.

For more infomation >> Judge Napolitano says Sessions should reopen Clinton email investigation - Duration: 15:37.

-------------------------------------------

FBI RAIDS OBAMA – Find Massive Secret That Was Hidden For YEARS - Duration: 15:51.

FBI RAIDS OBAMA – Find Massive Secret That Was Hidden For YEARS

When Barack Obama was in office, he and his fellow Democrats were able to get away with

absolutely anything.

Now that Donald Trump is in office, however, he's blowing the lid open on the nation's

sleaziest scandals, and anything with Obama's name on it is being looked at.

Recently, a long overdue raid was conducted in South Carolina, and what was discovered

is worse than we initially thought.

Freedom Daily reported that the owner of a Columbia, South Carolina gas station named

after Obama has been arrested and charged with tax evasion.

The Department of Revenue confirmed that Murad A. Alhanik, owner of the Obama Mart on North

Main Street, has been charged with four counts of sales tax evasion.

Officials say Alhanik did not pay more than $136,000 in sales taxes over four years, and

that he evaded taxes by underreporting sales from 2013 to 2016.

"Alhanik filed monthly sales tax returns reporting a total of $971,935 in gross sales.

However, the DOR investigation revealed actual sales to be $2,688,533.

Due to the underreported sales, the defendant evaded paying $136,753 in sales taxes due

to the state of South Carolina," the DOR said in a statement.

Clearly, just like his idol Obama, Alhanik thought he was above the law.

Alhanik is facing up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each count.

Alhanik bought the South Carolina gas station in 2011 and made headlines when he named it

after Trump.

He claimed that the rebranding resulted in an uptick of business.

"I see more people come in," Alhanik said.

"Excited with the name."

In January of 2017, Alhanik boasted that he would not be changing the name of the store

despite Obama not being president anymore because "it's still history."

We're glad to see that Alhanik has finally been brought to justice.

Hopefully, his idol Obama can join him in prison soon as well!

h./t maxireport

For more infomation >> FBI RAIDS OBAMA – Find Massive Secret That Was Hidden For YEARS - Duration: 15:51.

-------------------------------------------

Congress Blindsides Democrats Clinton, Comey, And 4 Others Face Criminal Charges - Duration: 15:37.

Congress Blindsides Democrats: Clinton, Comey, And 4 Others Face Criminal Charges

Republican lawmakers have finally had it with those shady Democrats.

In a move that shook Washington to its very core, GOP lawmakers sent out a bunch of hard-hitting

criminal referrals to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Those facing charges include some of the biggest names in the political game, several of whom

are from Barack Obama's camp.

Former high-ranking FBI members also got hit hard, as Capitol Hill seeks to punish those

involved in the Hillary Clinton email scandal and outrageous Trump-Russia investigations.

The criminal referrals in question do include Hillary herself (has her time finally come?),

as well as former FBI Director James Comey, who has been on the hotseat for weeks.

Others facing charges are former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former FBI Deputy Director

Andrew McCabe, and FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his lover, FBI lawyer Lisa Page,

for "separate violations."

The bottom line is that Republican lawmakers believe these people, regardless of status,

should be treated as equals.

Via Breitbart:

"Because we believe that those in positions of high authority should be treated the same

as every other American, we want to be sure that the potential violations of law outlined

below are vetted appropriately."

They claim Comey potentially broke the law when he protected Hillary, and for leaking

classified info of his conversations with President Donald Trump to give to the press.

As for Clinton, they're saying she's guilty of disguising payments to Fusion GPS, the

firm that produced the infamous Trump dossier.

Strzok and Page, apparent Obama lackeys, interfered in the investigation of Clinton's private

email server, as they apparently tried to erase the necessary evidence.

"The report provides the following alarming specifics, among others:

'Mr. Strzok texts Ms. Page to tell her that, in fact, senior officials had decided to water

down the reference to President Obama to 'another senior government official," the criminal

referral said.

This is a very big deal, my fellow citizens.

At long last, some of these deceitful, two-faced higher-ups are going to face official charges.

Now, if only they can get those charges

to stick…

Here's hoping!

H/T patriotjournal

For more infomation >> Congress Blindsides Democrats Clinton, Comey, And 4 Others Face Criminal Charges - Duration: 15:37.

-------------------------------------------

You Calling Me Daddy Challenge Dance Compilation #jojoxkellsavagehitz - Duration: 3:09.

You Calling Me Daddy Challenge Dance Compilation #jojoxkellsavagehitz

For more infomation >> You Calling Me Daddy Challenge Dance Compilation #jojoxkellsavagehitz - Duration: 3:09.

-------------------------------------------

IRONMAN MARK 42 ARMY AND HULKBUSTER VS THANOS - Duration: 10:17.

IRONMAN MARK 42 ARMY AND HULKBUSTER VS THANOS !!!

Thanks For Watching !!! Like, Share And Subscribe !!!!