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The Department of Homeland Security has ordered masses of riot gear equipment to prepare for potential significant domestic riots at the Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention and next year’s presidential inauguration.

The DHS submitted a rushed solicitation to the Federal Business Opportunities site on Wednesday, which is a portal for Federal government procurement requisitions over $25,000. The request gave the potential suppliers only one day to submit their proposals and a 15-day delivery requirement to Alexandria, Virginia.

As the brief explains, “the objective of this effort is to procure riot gear to prepare for the 2012 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the 2013 Presidential Inauguration and other future similar activities.”

The total amount ordered is about 150 sets of riot helmets, thigh and groin protectors, hard-shell shin guards and other riot gear.

Specifically, DHS is looking to obtain:

- “147 riot helmets” with “adjustable tactical face shield with liquid seal”

- “147 sets of upper body and shoulder protection”

- “152 sets of thigh and groin protection”

- “147 hard-shell shin guards” with “substantial protection from flying debris, non-ballistic weapons, and blows to the leg” and “optimized protective design for severe riot control or tactical situations.”

- “156 forearm protectors”

- “147 pairs of tactical gloves”

The riot gear will be worn by Federal Protective Service agents who are tasked with protecting property, grounds and buildings owned by the federal government.

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ormer lawyer John Titus has made a fantastic movie called Bailout: The Dukes of Moral Hazard.

It’s a cross between Michael Moore and Hunter S. Thompson.

Titus walks away from his mortgage, and uses the money to take his buddies – including professional comedian John Fox – on a Winnebago tour around the country

They go on a bender, meet some of the Americans hurt by Wall Street and D.C. financial fraud, and show outstanding interviews with some

of the top financial minds in the country, including Karl Denninger, Yves Smith and Christopher Whalen, as well as journalists Chris Hedges, Dylan Ratigan, political commentator Noam Chomsky and former hedge funder and DailyBail.com publisher Steve

Megremis.

Viewers also hear from Tom Dart, the Cook County Illinois sheriff who’s stood up to the banks by thwarting various foreclosure efforts more than once.

The movie contains amazing soundbites such as this, from America’s leading independent banking analyst Chris Whalen:

We’re going back to a monarchy/corporate statism … That’s really what it is.  It’s not left and right anymore. It’s the individual versus the corporate state.

 WATCH TRAILER HERE, READ MORE!

An email campaign launched this week (pictured, below) featuring the endorsement of Sen. Rand

Paul (R-KY) depicts a rifle pointing at President Barack Obama’s head, and a message about an imaginary “million rifle ban” the president is allegedly seeking to implement.

FILE – This combination

of 2012 file photos shows U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Boulder, Colo. and Cape Canaveral, Fla. How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, an African-American and a white Mormon, representatives of two groups and that have endured oppression to carve out a place in the United States. How much progress has America made against bigotry? (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Charles Dharapak) CAROLYN KASTER, CHARLES DHARAPAK — AP

How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian.

Yet here it is: Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney, an African-American and a white Mormon, representatives of two groups and that have endured oppression to carve out a place in the United States.

How much progress has America made against bigotry? By November, we should have some idea.

Perhaps mindful of the lingering power of prejudice, both men soft-pedal their status as racial or religious pioneers. But these things “will be factors whether they’re explicitly stated or not, because both Obama and Romney are minorities,” said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology “Faith and Race in American Political Life.”

Mormons are 1.7 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Pew Research Center. African-Americans are 12.6 percent

“Americans like to obsess about ways that people are different,” said Wadsworth, a political science professor

Oregonian-

WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Wyden is pressing the Japanese government to move faster to clean up – and contain – radioactive debris from theFukushima Daiichi complex, the facility that was virtually destroyedlast year by the double-fisted disaster of an earthquake and tsunami.

“The Japanese are talking about a 10-year program to move (radioactive fuel rods an

d other waste) to dry storage,” he said in an interview. “That is not soon enough. It's got to be done more quickly. … To me this is not a debatable proposition. Waiting 10 years after these kinds of earthquakes and tsunamis . I think the clean up has a lot of significant gaps.”

Wyden, who's a senior member of theSenate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said his anxiety increased after touring the ruins April 6.

“I have to tell you, I’ve never seen anything like this. It just takes your breath away,” he said.

“I had a sense of what it was; but nothing like this. You go through the 20-kilometer area, which is sort of the evacuation zone and it’s post-apocalyptic. There are destroyed homes. The day we were there they were allowing people to come in for the first time to get some of their possessions,” Wyden said.

The Hive Daily

Here at the Hive we enjoy watching the political fireworks that are replete with side show circus acts that distract from real issues. While the latest news cycle is just that, a side show, it must be pointed out that when the Right makes ridiculous and idiotic statements the Left bathes in the bloodletting and squeezes out ever

y last drop of media attention and campaign fund raising. When the Left puts its muddy foot into its own mouth there is a 'mature' cry for 'getting back to the issues' and encouragement to ignore their own.

The state of American politics is a divide and conquer game show where the elites with a R and D behind their names are winning at the expense of common sense and the common citizen. The Republicans and the Democrats are two heads on the same snake.  More to come Sheeples….  

Washington (CNN) – A Democratic strategist apologized Thursday for a comment questioning Ann Romney's qualifications to advise her husband on women's economic issues, while the Romney campaign sought to exploit the controversy to help fix a gender gap probl

em in the race against President Barack Obama.

Hilary Rosen issued a statement after fellow Democrats, including a Twitter post on Michelle Obama's page, criticized her remarks the night before on CNN.

“I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended,” said the statement by Rosen, who is a CNN contributor. “Let's declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.” READ

Boy, do I feel like an idiot. I've been out there on radio and TV in the last few months saying that I thought there was a chance Barack Obama was listening to the popular anger against Wall Street that drove the Occupy movement, that decisions like putting a for-real law enforcement guy like New York AG Eric Schneiderman in charge of a mortgage fraud task force meant he was at least willing to pay lip service to public outrage against the banks.

Then the JOBS Act happened.

The “Jumpstart Our Business Startu

ps Act” (in addition to everything else, the Act has an annoying, redundant title) will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market.

In fact, one could say this law is not just a sweeping piece of deregulation that will have an increase in securities fraud as an accidental, ancillary consequence. No, this law actually appears to have been specifically written to encourage fraud in the stock markets.

Ostensibly, the law makes it easier for startup companies (particularly tech companies, whose lobbyists were a driving force behind its passage) to attract capital by, among other things, exempting them from independent accounting requirements for up to five years after they first begin selling shares in the stock market.

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama tops his main Republican rival in everything from personality to diplomacy – but when it comes to the economy, a new poll shows a potential weak spot in his bid to hold onto the White House.

A Washington Post-ABC poll on Tuesday found if the election were held now, the Democratic president would win in a match-up against Mitt Romne

y by 51 percent to 44 percent.

But the poll, conducted April 5 through April 8, shows Romney with a double-digit advantage among Americans when it comes to reducing the federal budget deficit, and with a narrow edge on managing the economy.

The finding show the president, who took office amid the largest economic slowdown since the Great Depression, is still vulnerable when it comes to matters of American's pocketbooks and wallets despite his overall advantages. READ MORE

WASHINGTON (AP) — A major donor to President Barack Obama has been accused of defrauding a businessman and impersonating a bank official, creating new headaches for Obama’s re-election campaign as it deals with the questionable history of another top supporter.

The New York donor, Abake Assongba, and her husband contributed more than $50,000 to Obama’s re-election effort this year, federal records show. But Assongba is also fending off a civil court case in Florida, where she’s accused of thieving more than $650,000 to help build a multimillion-dollar home in the state — a charge her husband denies.

Obama is the only presidential contender this year who released his list of “bundlers,” the financiers who raise campaign money by soliciting high-dollar contributions from friends and associates. But that disclosure has not come without snags; his campaign returned $200,000 last month to Carlos and Alberto Cardona, the brothers of a Mexican fugitive wanted on federal drug charges. READ