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Gangs have increased by 40% since Obama took office

Newt Gingrich appeared on Candy Crowley’s State of the Union with Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush.

Throughout the 1960s, Rush was involved in the civil-rights movement and worked in civil-disobedience campaigns in the Southern United States. After co-founding the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers in 1968, he served as its “defense minister”. Rush has made statements saying “We needed to arm ourselves” and referring to the police as “pigs”.

He is U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 1st congressional district, serving since 1993. The district is located principally on the South Side of Chicago with its population percentage being 65% African-American, higher than any other congressional district in the nation.

A member of the Democratic Party, he holds the distinction of being the only person to defeat President Barack Obama in an election, as he did in the 2000 Democratic primaries.

NEWT GINGRICH: This fits perfectly with what I was going to say earlier. You have a congressman — and I respect Bobby Rush. You have a congressman who represents the most violent city in America. You have a congressman who represents the city in which over 500 people were killed last year, 74 percent of them African-American. You have a congressman who represents the city which is 80 percent of the killings, according to police, are by gangs. Gangs have increased — let me finish. Gangs have increased by 40 percent since this president was elected. There is no federal program to stop it. No one wants to have an honest conversation about it. And so you have a congressman whose own district is bleeding, who puts on a hoodie as a symbolic act, but he doesn’t do anything about the gangs in his own district.

REP. BOBBY RUSH (D-IL): Wait a minute.

CROWLEY: Hang on. First of all, congressman, let me let you —

RUSH: That’s a charge, Newt, that is not going to hold, doesn’t hold water. I have been working relentlessly since I’ve been in Congress, even when you were the speaker of the House and didn’t want to hear any of these matters. I have been working on trying to deal with this violence. I’m astounded and ashamed about this violence. But this is also systemic to an overall problem. Chicago will take care of this violence. That’s one of the reasons why on a Friday, the 26th, we’re having this National Summit on Urban Violence. This was before the verdict we had planned this. The congressional black caucus is coming into Chicago so that we can work on solutions to this problem.

Now, what I challenge you to, Newt, especially today, I want to challenge you and your Republican cohorts. Today is a Sunday. Today is a day of worship. We serve and worship the same God. In Michael 6:3 and 8, the words tell us that we should love justice, do mercy, and walk humbly with our God. Now, for those folks who are cheering the George Zimmerman verdict, I would challenge you and the rest of the, let us honor, and let us lift up the spirit of the words of Micah 6:8 to work together to have the conversation, but not just have the conversation. Let us deal with the disenfranchisement, and let us deal with the distortions as it relates to our nation.- Real Clear Politics

US to ‘diversify’ white neighborhoods

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government.

To ensure that “every American is able to choose to live in a community they feel proud of,” HUD has published a new fair-housing regulation intended to give people access to better neighborhoods than the ones they currently live in.

The goal is to help communities understand “fair housing barriers” and “establish clear goals” for “improving integrated living patterns and overcoming historic patterns of segregation.”

“This proposed rule represents a 21st century approach to fair housing, a step forward to ensuring that every American is able to choose to live in a community they feel proud of–where they have a fair shot at reaching their full potential in life,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.

“For the first time ever,” Donovan added, “HUD will provide data for every neighborhood in the country, detailing the access African American, Latino, Asian, and other communities have to local assets, including schools, jobs, transportation, and other important neighborhood resources that can play a role in helping people move into the middle class.”

According to HUD, long-term solutions include “helping people gain access to different neighborhoods and channeling investments into under-served areas.” The mapping tool may guide development and zoning decisions, for example.

In a July 16 speech to the NAACP, Donovan said the American Dream still isn’t within equal reach of all communities. He lamented the lack of diversity in America’s boardrooms, schools, and the nation’s “strongest neighborhoods.”

Donovan said HUD’s new neighborhood mapping tool, which uses Census data, will “expand access to high opportunity neighborhoods and draw attention to investment possibilities in under-served communities.”

“Make no mistake, this is a big deal,” Donovan said. “With the HUD budget alone, we are talking about billions of dollars. And as you know, decades ago, these funds were used to support discrimination. Now, they will be used to expand opportunity and bring communities closer to the American Dream.”

Under the proposed rule, the neighborhood data provided by HUD will be used to evaluate patterns of integration and segregation, racial and ethnic concentrations of poverty, and access to “valuable community assets.” HUD wants to know if existing laws and policies–such as zoning, financing, infrastructure planning and transportation–create, perpetuate or alleviate segregation. – CNS News

‘More white kids have to die’

Appearing on the “progressive” cable network owned by death merchant General Electric, MSNBC, a regular guest at globalist forums held at the Aspen Institute and funded by the Rockefeller Brothers and the Ford Foundation, Michael Eric Dyson, said white people will not understand racism until their children are murdered.

“Not until, and unless, the number of white kids die that approximate the numbers of black and other kids who have died will America see it is beyond logic, it is beyond rationality, its about let’s get something done,” Dyson said.

“As for Eric Holder, look the reality is you gotta act now,” Dyson said. “The president, you won the second term, you’re in office, you are ensconced. Do something courageous, bold, and helpful, not only to African-American people, but to America, because unless we do this [subject Zimmerman to double jeopardy] white Americans and others will feel this was a justifiable verdict.”

Dyson argued Sunday also on MSNBC that racism is to blame for Detroit’s financial woes, after the once-booming industrial metropolis filed for bankruptcy last week.

Host Ed Schultz asked if race could be responsible for the city’s downfall.

“Of course, it’s an 85 percent black city,” Mr. Dyson replied. “It’s been perceived as a colony of black people who are ringed by suburban white areas that are now going into the city to plunder it. The perception is that there is a massive takeover of resources and materials and properties, basically being occupied.”

“We have to acknowledge that part of this has to be the racial animus that has characterized that city for the last 50-some-odd years,” he continued. “The service industries hemorrhaged jobs in the inner city, depleted that city of its economic infrastructure and left it to its own fate.” – Kurt Nimmo, Infowars/Washington Times

Ivy League prof calls God a ‘white racist’

The mainstream media and the Obama administration’s active fomenting of racial tension and hatred following the George Zimmerman not-guilty verdict has led to some bizarre public outbursts, including a recent deranged blog posting published by a supposedly well-educated college professor. University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) associate professor Anthea Butler recently spewed her obvious disagreement with the verdict by ranting online that God is a “white racist” who walks around with a gun “stalking young black men.”

Butler, who teaches at the UPenn Department of Religious Studies, went off on a disturbing tangent in her blog posting when she began to vomit her irrational beliefs about how God “ain’t good all of the time,” insinuating that because the Zimmerman verdict was not what she wanted, God is somehow evil. Butler proceeded in her posting to accuse God of not being “for” black people in general because of the verdict, making sure to also blame Christians for Trayvon Martin’s murder.

“As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history of racism in America that, in large part, has its underpinnings in Christianity and its history,” gushes Butler. “When the good Christians of America are some of its biggest racists, one has to consider our moral responsibility to call out those who clearly are not for human flourishing, no matter what ethnicity a person is.”

Butler goes on and on to decry white people, Christians, all Americans that are not black, and of course God in her lunatic diatribe against essentially all of non-black humanity, illustrating how completely off her rocker she truly is. Not only did the Zimmerman trial have absolutely nothing to do with white Christians — Zimmerman, after all, is actually part Hispanic, for anyone that actually cares — but the verdict itself was determined based on the evidence, or lack thereof, that was presented during the trial.

“No amount of heartbreak over the Zimmerman acquittal justifies these hateful posts,” wrote Josiah Ryan, editor-in-chief of the UPenn paper Campus Reform, in an editorial about Butler’s unhinged pontification. “Professor Butler’s remarks were clearly designed to hurt when Americans needed healing and to divide when we needed unity.”

“In tumultuous times students must be able to turn to their professors for calm and wisdom. In stoking the flames of hatred, Professor Butler has betrayed her students’ trust. UPenn administrators out not to allow her back in the classroom.”

The real irony in Butler’s rant is that it really only illustrates her own seething racism towards non-blacks, whom she fallaciously blames for all of the problems faced by what she presumptuously refers to as “us,” specifically African-Americans. And by somehow managing to drag God into the mix and labeling him as a racist, Butler proves that she has literally lost her grounding in reality.

According to reports, Butler has not been able to be reached for comment following her irrational blog posting, which she gleefully followed up with hateful “tweets” suggesting that God is a member of the KKK. Not surprisingly, UPenn officials have also thus far refused to comment on the situation. – Natural News

US welfare recipients shipping food stamp groceries overseas

Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found.

The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city.

The feds say the moveable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion welfare program for impoverished Americans.

A spokeswoman for the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service said welfare benefits are reserved for households that buy and prepare food together. She said states should intervene if people are caught shipping nonperishables abroad.

Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, called it just another example of welfare abuse.

“I don’t want food-stamp police to see what people do with their rice and beans, but it’s wrong,” Tanner told The Post. “The purpose of this program is to help Americans who don’t have enough to eat. This is not intended as a form of foreign aid.”

The United States spent $522.7 million on foreign aid to the Caribbean last fiscal year, government data show.

Still, New Yorkers say they ship the food because staples available in the States are superior and less costly than what their families can get abroad.

“Everybody does it,” said a worker at an Associated Supermarket in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. “They pay for it any way they can. A lot of people pay with EBT.”

Customers pay cash for the barrels, usually about $40, and typically ship them filled with $500 to $2,000 worth of rice, beans, pasta, canned milk and sausages.

Workers at the Pioneer Supermarket on Parkside Avenue and the Key Food on Flatbush Avenue confirmed the practice.

They said food-stamp recipients typically take home their barrels and fill them gradually over time with food bought with EBT cards.

When the tubs are full, the welfare users call a shipping company to pick them up and send them to the Caribbean for about $70. The shipments take about three weeks.

Last week, a woman stuffed dozens of boxes of macaroni and evaporated milk into a barrel headed for her family in Kingston, Jamaica. She said she didn’t have welfare benefits and bought the food herself.

“This is all worth more than $2,000,” she said. “I’ve been shopping since last December. You can help somebody else, someone who doesn’t live in this country.”

A man helping her pack the barrel said: “We’re poor here, and they’re poor. But what we can get here is like luxury to them.” – NY Post

Google boss is a love rat

Planning to implant microchips into the brain

He is the billionaire Google boss under fire for not doing enough to protect children from internet porn.

Yet The Mail on Sunday revealed that 58-year-old Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, does fiercely protect one thing: his own private life, which is as colorful and complex as the ever-changing ‘Google doodle,’ which pops up each time the search engine is launched.

He is all for freedom when it comes to dodging corporate tax.

But there’s one place the freewheeling views of the billionaire Google boss fizzle out – his bedroom door.

Schmidt has had a string of affairs with younger women, including TV presenter Kate Bohner, PR executive Marcy Simon and Vietnamese concert pianist Chau- Giang Nguyen.

But the unlikely sex symbol with thinning hair and pockmarked skin who is worth $5.4 billion made at least one mistress sign a confidentiality deal.

Bohner, 46, had a three-year affair from 2007 with the married mogul, dubbing him Dr Strangelove. “As far as Kate was concerned it was true love,” a friend said. “The reason I am speaking out now is it is ironic that someone like him can be so free and easy discussing other people’s privacy issues online while using his vast wealth to protect his own image.”

Schmidt’s wife Wendy, 57, has reportedly accepted their open marriage. – The Standard

Juror describes mental anguish to find Zimmerman ‘guilty of something’

A juror from the trial of George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin broke into tears as she described the mental anguish she and the other jurors felt as they weighed their decision.

She said the six-women panel was sharply divided when deliberations began.

The juror said ultimately it became a question of whether the events leading up the shooting were legally relevant or if, for self-defence, it is the moment before pulling the trigger that counts.

“It was just so confusing with what and what we could apply to what. Because I mean, there was a couple of them in there that wanted to find him guilty of something,” the juror said.

But “after hours and hours and hours of deliberating over the law and reading it over and over and over again, we decided there’s just no way.”

The jurors ultimately came to a unanimous decision, finding Zimmerman not guilty on charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the case that has brought tough questions about racism in the United States back to the fore.

But in an interview on CNN, juror B-37 – who was not named and was shown in deep shadow – said the first vote was split down the middle between those who wanted an acquittal and those who wanted to convict.

“We had three not guilties, one second degree murder and two manslaughters,” the juror said, adding she was one of the ones who voted not guilty.

Zimmerman – who has a white father and a Peruvian mother – said he acted in self-defence when he shot Martin during an altercation on the rainy night of February 26 2012.

But prosecutors said he profiled and stalked Martin, provoking the altercation that led to Martin’s death.

The juror explained her understanding of what happened that night: “I think George got in a little bit too deep … He shouldn’t have been there.”But Trayvon decided that he wasn’t going to let him scare him and get the one up on him or something. And I think Trayvon got mad and attacked him,” the juror said.

“I had no doubt George feared for his life in the situation he was in at the time.”

But she broke into tears as she described the mental anguish she and the other jurors felt as they weighed their decision.

“It’s a tragedy this happened, but it happened. And I think both were responsible for the situation they had gotten themselves in to. I think both of them could have walked away.”

In the aftermath of the verdict, race again came to the fore, with angry protesters asking if the result would have been the same had the teenager been white and Zimmerman black.

“We are all Trayvon,” some cried. – AFP

US jets bomb heritage site

Two US fighter jets dropped four unarmed bombs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park after a training exercise went wrong.

The two AV-8B Harrier jets were launched from aircraft carrier USS Bonhomme Richard.

Each jettisoned an inert bomb and an unarmed explosive bomb in the World Heritage-listed marine park, off the coast of Queensland, on Tuesday last week, the US 7th Fleet said at the weekend. There were no explosions.

The four bombs were dropped in more than 50m of water away from coral to minimise the possibility of damage to the reef, the navy said on Saturday.

The jets – from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit – had intended to drop their ordnance on the Townshend Island bombing range.

But the mission was aborted when controllers reported the area was not clear of hazards.

The pilots had to jettison the bombs because they were low on fuel and could not land while carrying them, the navy said.

About 28000 US and Australian military personnel are taking part in a biennial joint training exercise, Talisman Saber, which lasts for three weeks.

The US Navy and the Marine Corps are working with Australian authorities to identify all the factors that contributed to the incident, the navy said.- Sapa/AP

Twitter explodes with black racist tweets

Following an appearance on CNN, during which he called out host Piers Morgan for race baiting, radio talk show black host Larry Elder has been bombarded with racist remarks on Twitter from other black Americans.

Morgan admitted that he had booked Elder to appear because he had been critical of Morgan’s assertion that the key witness in the failed prosecution of George Zimmerman is a “smart cookie.”

While Morgan attempted to railroad Elder into calling Rachel Jeantel “stupid”, Elder instead focused on how he believes the media is engaging in outright race baiting over the Trayvon Martin case, stirring up division and promoting hatred.

Elder’s performance was lauded by many commentators as he slammed Morgan for treating “black people like children” and told him he should be “ashamed” of himself.

“I’m just bothered by how you are handling all this,” he said. “You think you are doing something for black people but you’re not. You’re making black people feel as if they are under siege and it’s not true, it’s an outrage!” Elder said.

Elder hit Morgan with cold hard facts, noting that there were 7,000 murders last year of black people, almost all of which were committed by other black people. Elder also highlighted the fact that there have been 480 black people murdered in Chicago alone this year, and 75 percent of the cases are yet to be solved.

“Where are the cameras, where are the shows?” Elder asked Morgan. “It’s outrageous to act as if black America should fear some non-black guy stalking some black kid at night. The likelihood of a black person being killed by a non-black person is extremely remote, which is why this became a big national issue in the first place.” he stated.

“Half of the murders in this country are committed by black people, even though black people are 12 percent of the population,” Elder urged. “This is why commonsensical people profile.”

“As if [the Zimmerman case] somehow is some sort of indictment of America and black people should look over their shoulders every night and act as if a white guy is going to jump out of a bush and get them. It’s outrageous,” he said. “Hard work wins. Get an education, don’t pay attention to negative people, stay focused and you’ll be OK in America. That’s why most of the people in the world want to come here, that’s why you want to come here, Piers.”

In response to Elder’s interview, he has received a torrent of racist abuse on social media sites from other black Americans. Below are numerous examples.

Warning: the following tweets directed at Elder contain extremely vulgar and racist language.

Look at this coon ass house nigger on CNN. Nigga so brainwashed.
— Trilla Bella きょあく (@RaeiaTheVillain) July 18, 2013

YOU ARE A PATHETIC PIECE OF SHIT YOU FUCKING HOUSE NIGGER @larryelder
— Trilla Bella きょあく (@RaeiaTheVillain) July 18, 2013

Larry Elder is the quintessential white man’s nigger. #PiersMorganLive
— Lindani Mazibuko (@Queer123Lindani) July 18, 2013

KEEP GETTIN ON CNN MAKING THOSE DUMBASS STATEMENTS AND SOME NIGGAS GONNA LEAVE YOUR ASS WET UP @larryelder #300
— Trilla Bella きょあく (@RaeiaTheVillain) July 18, 2013

I HOPE YOU HAVE A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK AND DROP DEAD YOU MONKEY MOUTH SELF HATING UNCLE TOM @larryelder
— Trilla Bella きょあく (@RaeiaTheVillain) July 18, 2013

Damn man, @larryelder is a house nigger blaming Blacks for their own problems and calling Rachel stupid
— Adam Rage (@abdirmo) July 18, 2013

Race boycotts loom as Jesse Jackson calls Florida ‘Apartheid state’

The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called to boycott the “apartheid state” of Florida if the Department of Justice does not lodge a civil rights case against George Zimmerman.

“Trayvon is a symbol of a deeper malady,” the reverend said in a CNN interview Thursday.

“No doubt, the inclination is to boycott Florida, stop conventions, to isolate Florida as a kind of apartheid state” if the DOJ does not act, Jackson said.

Jackson charged that homicides against blacks have tripled since stand your ground laws were put in place in Florida. The Daily Caller reported Tuesday that the law actually benefits blacks in the state disproportionately, saying blacks made about a third of Florida’s total stand your ground claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black percentage of the state’s population.

“The majority of those claims have been successful, a success rate that exceeds that for Florida whites,” the Daily Caller said.

Martin Luther King III said at a recent NAACP convention that if supporters of Trayvon Martin really want to put their money where their mouths are, they can boycott the Florida orange juice industry.

“The true way generally when people don’t understand your plight is when you decide to exercise your buying power elsewhere,” he said at the Orlando, Fla., convention, CBS reported.

He made the comments in the context of condemning “stand your ground” laws. He’s not the first to raise the idea of boycotting Florida’s citrus growers and sellers in the days since George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin — but he is one of the highest-profile figures to do so.

Hundreds of protesters at Philadelphia’s Love Park called for the same action on Sunday, just hours after learning of the acquittal. – The Washington Times

When a bomber becomes a star

It was Dr Hook that best encapsulated the kudos of getting front-page treatment in the world’s best-known music magazine. “The thrill we’ve never known,” went the lyric, “is the thrill that’ll get ya, when you get your picture, on the cover of the Rolling Stone.”

But cover star status on the rock ‘n’ roll bible is a more dubious honour after the decision this week to confer the distinction on Dzokhar Tsarnaev, currently accused of killing three people and injuring more than 200 others in the Boston Marathon terror attack. The likeness to a previous issue featuring Jim Morrison of The Doors was so striking that some readers may have been under the impression that “The Bomber”, as the tousle-haired and goatee-bearded Tsarnaev was tagged in the magazine’s cover line, was a new rock star. And if they didn’t think that, many who went on the magazine’s Facebook page to complain of an “unAmerican” piece of publishing, were convinced that they were the objects of a ghastly betrayal. “I am so disappointed with Rolling Stone magazine,” said one. “I will no longer buy/read the mag. You have just made him a ‘rock star’. How could you?”

Several suggested that the magazine should have given cover star status to the victims of the bombing, such as Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs. “I hope not a single person from Boston or New England ever buys your magazine again,” stormed another commenter. “Want to see true terrorism? Look to the media.”

The episode showed how, even in an age where digital media has reduced the importance of the news-stand, a magazine cover image can still have enormous impact.

That is especially so in America, where star billing by household name titles is widely regarded as an endorsement – something to be framed and put on the wall.

But Rolling Stone has a long history of serious journalism and the current cover story is the result of a two-month investigation that introduced new insights into the bombing suspect, including details of how he surrendered to the FBI after being persuaded to talk to his former wrestling coach. It would not seem unreasonable for the magazine to illustrate its article with the best-known image of the subject, a self-portrait. The very same picture was used on the front page of the New York Times in May. Time magazine – considered one of the most prestigious covers of all – gave the front page to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 1995.

The picture of McVeigh in profile was balanced with a smaller image of a fire fighter nursing a child – but Time was promoting an interview with the terrorist.

Rolling Stone itself put mass killer Charles Manson on its cover in 1970, with the salacious strap: “The incredible story of the most dangerous man alive.”

Even Dr Hook, with a long record of musical crimes, managed to blag their way into the hallowed spot in 1973 by recording “The Cover of Rolling Stone” (see lyric above). Weeks later, the magazine granted their wish, with a lurid cartoon of the band and the caption “What’s-Their-Names make the cover.”

What makes the choice so controversial is that many believe that the brothers were set up and used as tools to manipulate public opinion. The phrase “false flag” trended on social media after the explosions in Boston. – The Independen/prisonplanet.com

Former President and Commander-In-Chief: America no functioning democracy

One of Germany’s biggest newspapers – Spiegel – reports that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in the wake of the NSA spying scandal criticized the American political system. “America has no functioning democracy,” Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the “Atlantic Bridge” in Atlanta.

Many other high-level U.S. officials have also warned that the U.S. is no longer a democracy.

Carter also said that the moral authority of of the U.S. has sharply declined due to excessive restriction of civil rights.

And – like many other top American officials – Carter also said that Edward Snowden’s revelations do not harm our national security, but are “useful”. – Washington’s blog

Bruce Springsteen dedicates song to Trayvon Martin

Bruce Springsteen dedicated his protest song “American Skin (41 Shots)” to teenager Trayvon Martin during a concert in Limerick, Ireland.

In a video posted online, the 63-year-old singer told the crowd Tuesday: “We’ll send this as a letter back home for justice for Trayvon Martin” after noticing a fan’s sign that read “American Skin (41 Shots).”

George Zimmerman was acquitted Saturday of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in Martin’s death. Zimmerman said he fired his gun in self-defense during a February 2012 confrontation with the 17-year-old in Sanford, Florida.

Lyrics in the song include “you can get killed just for living in your American skin.” Springsteen wrote the song about the 1999 police shooting death of Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo. – AP

PayPal error makes man a quadrillionaire

The 56-year-old Pennsylvania man received an online money transfer from PayPal on Friday, making his balance more than $92 quadrillion. Reynolds, who spends around $100 per month on the site, was shocked.

“I’m just feeling like a million bucks,” Reynolds told the Philadelphia Daily News. “At first, I thought that I owed quadrillions. It was quite a big surprise.”

In a monthly statement from PayPal, Reynold’s account had an ending balance of $92,233,720,368,547,800. But when he logged onto his PayPal account, he saw his balance listed as $0, correcting the balance error. Still, the Delaware County man said he would have been responsible with the cash.

“I would pay the national debt down first. Then I would buy the Phillies, if I could get a great price,” he told the United Press International. He did manage to donate $30 to the Democratic candidate for Delaware County Council, Reynolds said. “I was moved to be really generous by good fortune.”

The father of three said he has been a loyal PayPal customer for 10 years, using the site to buy and sell items on eBay, including vintage car parts. A PayPal spokeswoman said she could not comment on the incident since it would violate the site’s privacy policies.

Soon after receiving the news, Reynold received another notice from PayPal. “The sad part is that I got word that they still need me to renew the credit card that’s attached to this account,” he said. “So, even though I have 90 quadrillion dollars, they still don’t trust me.” – ibtimes.com