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As Georgia reopens and braces for an increase in COVID-19 cases, state relies on corporate donations and PPE orders go unfilled

As Georgia reopens and braces for an increase in COVID-19 cases, state relies on corporate donations and PPE orders go unfilled

Edited by Sarah Alvarez

Almost four weeks after the State of Georgia began reopening business operations, the state’s Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) is still many months and hundreds of millions of dollars away from the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) it has projected to be necessary. 

Since the state declared a public health emergency on March 16, Georgia has had more…

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Enter A Giveaway For Amazon!

Enter A Giveaway For Amazon!

By taking the above survey about Politics, you can get nominated for a giveaway for an Amazon gift card! Be sure to Like, Share, AND comment on this or any other one of my posts to be qualified!!!

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An Open Letter About The Corona-virus

With all this talk about the Corona-virus, I figured I’d share my two sense. Crazy to think that in a world with 7 billion people, and in a country of over 350 million, a lot of them are simply ill-informed. And controlled by the media. I can’t help but laugh at the people walking into stores wearing those masks that are intended for more for dry-walling than what actual doctors use. We best go…

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$5 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway

$5 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway Survey

Hi all!

I know its been a while since I last posted, but I created a short survey about the current political climate, and your opinions on it.

Starting today, 03/07/2020, and ending in about 8 weeks, you can take the survey to be entered in a giveaway for an Amazon $5 gift card, simply to share your thoughts.

Heres the survey! I appreciate your feedback!

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FOIA (Somewhat) Weekly

FBI Files and other FOIA Requests

Thought this past week, I have received about 25-30 responses in regards to the FBI Files I sent out in two batches in regards to members in the Mafia that were on the FBI’s Dead List. A majority of them stated that they have begun processing those requests. And the other few were listed as unknown, or non existent. Most likely because of my awful handwriting.…

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Update: Don't Sleepwalk Through Life - Get Out There And Live

Update: Don't Sleepwalk Through Life – Get Out There And Live

Man, I suck at posting here as much as I want too. Reason being, is because I don’t feel like I have enough quality information or things to really post about for now other than these silly updates. But what the hell, here’s another update for the 2 people that might stumble upon this!

Current Reads

After listening to the following Joe Rogan podcast with former Black Flags vocalist, Henry…

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'Tis The Season To Start Posts With Apostrophes

'Tis The Season To Start Posts With Apostrophes

Not a whole lot has changed since my last post. So I won’t really talk about that, since I’m growing on that whole “adulting” front. And you probably don’t want to waste your precious time reading about me actually learning, as I expected too when I came crawling to my dads to live with him.

So on that note, here are the FOIA/Open Records requests I made, and plan to make:

Open Records/ FOIA…

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This Weekend in FOIA/ Open Records Requests: 12/13/19-12/15/19

So this weekend was my “off” weekend for work, so I decided I would try and hammer out a fair amount of open records requests and FOIA requests through a few different agencies for a few different reasons. Here are some of them I made.

Open Records Request through Governor of Wisconsin Office

Why?

I sent this open records request in hopes to gain some information/ facts on the…

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Early Morning Babbles

I’m not entirely sure what I want to be posting about here as I’m actually groggy, and still waking up from tossing and turning in bed. So I suppose, I’ll just start typing / thinking / babbling.

This past few weeks have been rough, I’ll admit. For myself that is. I don’t mean to mope or anything but the past 6 weeks, I have:

Gotten kicked out of my moms house and slept on the floor of my…

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FBI Files: Thomas Argo, New York Mobster

FBI Files: Thomas Argo, New York Mobster

Whenever I hear the term “the mafia” or “mobster” my mind typically jumps straight to that 1930s era gangster. Or Al Capone. I feel as if this rings true for 99.9% of us. And theirs good reason for that. As the era of liquor prohibition and the great depression ended decades ago, that was when that era was most popular.

But there are far many more mobsters that were just as bad as Al Capone,…

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Shenanigans Update: What I've Been Up Too

Shenanigans Update: What I’ve Been Up Too

After being at this new job of mine for a little bit, I started picking up some OT. This past pay period I had like 35 hours of it. Which is great for me. Because I owe some debtors -including the IRS (yes, I know,) and some collection agency for a surgery I had on my collarbone a few years ago. The grand total between the 2 is a little over $7,000. I have a payment plan set up with both. And…

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An Inconsistent Blog Post About Where I am Right Now

An Inconsistent Blog Post About Where I am Right Now

So I have some down time right now and figured I’d post on here to really hear myself think about whats going on. And figured something in my life might be interesting to someone out their in the world wide web.

About 3 weeks ago I started working a facility that manufactures plastic bottle caps. Advanced plastic closures for bottles as they put it, and it really is. At risk of getting in…

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This weeks FOIA Roundup; FBI Files, Police departments Use of Force Policies, and more

This weeks FOIA Roundup; FBI Files, Police departments Use of Force Policies, and more

After a week of filing 20+ FOI requests, I am starting to actually receive some letters back from various agencies. Matter of fact, I just picked up a file from my local police department on Use of Force Policies, totaling 35 pages. I was super excited when I got this letter [scan letter stating they have it available] But I was even more gitty when I received the following emails from the FBI…

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Memo offers a look into the CIA’s private press pool

Memo offers a look into the CIA’s private press pool

A version of this article appeared on Glomar Disclosure

While most people with an interest in the history of CIA will have heard of “Operation Mockingbird,” which weaponized the press for propaganda purposes through the “Office of Policy Coordination,” there is another side to the program that’s much less well-known. A declassified memo from 1965 reveals a network of journalists that…

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A Word about Myself

A Word about Myself

I am, I suppose, an anachronism. In this age of corporation men, I am an independent capitalist, the owner of my own enterprise, subject to neither mortgager or broker, factor or patron. In an age when young men, setting out on a career of journalism, must find their niche in some huge newspaper or magazine combine, I am a wholly independent newspaperman, standing alone, without…

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CIA instructed its historians to omit “embarrassing” details from the record

CIA instructed its historians to omit “embarrassing” details from the record

Article originally from Muckrock.com

An undated regulation uncovered in the Central Intelligence Agency archives, formerly classified SECRET, appears to outline the “Dos and Don’ts” for Agency historians. While most of the consideration goes into avoiding exposing the identities of undercover agents …DND (p. 1)

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and acknowledging the…

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Was the CIA Responsible For The Popularity Of Political Smear Campaigns today?

Was the CIA Responsible For The Popularity Of Political Smear Campaigns today?

This post was originally posted on Muckrock.com by Emma Best

  Leaks of declassified material is nothing new with the Government. As shown in thisdeclassified memo that went into detail about a meeting between Henry Kissinger, and then CIA director, William Colby, concerns over leaks were amongst were one of the very ones facing the White House, The Rockefeller Commission and the Church Committee…

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