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New York Times – by MARK MAZZETTI, MICHAEL R. GORDON and MARK LANDLER

WASHINGTON — American and European intelligence analysts now believe that President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in the civil war there, an assessment that will put added pressure on a deeply divided Obama administration to develop a response to a provocation that the president himself has declared a “red line.”   Continue reading “Propaganda Alert: Syria Has Used Chemical Arms on Rebels, U.S. and E.U. Find”

KOBI 2 News

MULLAN, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho State Police trooper shot and killed a motorist along Interstate 90 at Lookout Pass as a sheriff’s deputy struggled with the man over a gun.

Kootenai County officials said the shooting occurred about noon Wednesday just west of the Idaho-Montana state line.   Continue reading “Idaho State trooper shoots, kills motorist near Lookout Pass”

Huffington Post – by VERENA DOBNIK

NEW YORK — Bargain hunters from around the world flock to Manhattan’s Chinatown for legally sold bags, jewelry and other accessories bursting onto sidewalks from storefronts along Canal Street.

But hidden around the city are goods labeled “Prada” or “Louis Vuitton” or some other luxury brand – counterfeits sold for a pittance. In some cases, handbags going for $2,000 on Fifth Avenue can be had downtown for, say, $20.   Continue reading “Chinatown’s Counterfeit-Goods Economy Targeted In New York City Council Bill”

The DC Caller – by Caroline May

Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are looking into allegations that the Internal Revenue Service seized 60 million medical records from a California health care provider.

“(T)he Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in the course of executing a search warrant at a California health care provider’s corporate headquarters in March 2011, improperly seized the personal medical records of millions of American citizens in possible violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” members of the committee wrote in a letter Tuesday to Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.   Continue reading “House committee looks into IRS seizure of 60 million medical records”

Activist Post – by Ginger Jane Hammack

This cage has had societies under a spell for decades. The light from the lamp post is softly glowing. We’ve been starring at it for years. Our feet wet from random sprayings through the bars. Our spirits have been provoked to hunt inner truth and we wait.

While opening the King James Bible and turning to Proverbs 28:1 the most inspirational verse reads, “The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.” While it is daunting to wake up the caged, I’m encouraged somehow to show them they can be bold as lions.   Continue reading “Humanity Roars Like Lions Caged Inside the Agenda 21 Matrix”

Fox News

MADISON, Wis. –  Wisconsin police would be forbidden from enforcing any new federal gun and ammunition restrictions, bans or registration requirements under a bill a Republican lawmaker is circulating.

Rep. Michael Schraa of Oshkosh, a first-term legislator and a member of the National Rifle Association, sent out an email Tuesday to his fellow lawmakers seeking co-sponsors for the proposal. He also issued a statement to the media saying the bill is meant to send a message that Wisconsin won’t help the federal government restrict the public’s constitutional right to bear arms.   Continue reading “Wisconsin bill would bar police from enforcing any new federal gun restrictions”

CNS News – by Elizabeth Harrington

The IRS, currently in the midst of scandals involving the targeting of conservative groups and lavish taxpayer-funded conferences, is ordering surveillance equipment that includes hidden cameras in coffee trays, plants and clock radios.

The IRS wants to secure the surveillance equipment quickly – it posted a solicitation on June 6 and is looking to close the deal by Monday, June 10.  The agency already has a company lined up for the order but is not commenting on the details.   Continue reading “IRS Buying Spying Equipment: Covert Cameras in Coffee Trays, Plants”

Washington Examiner – by Byron York

In a Spanish-language interview Sunday with the network Univision, Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform group, made his strongest statement yet that legalization of the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants must happen before any new border security or internal enforcement measures are in place, and will in no way be conditional on any security requirements.   Continue reading “Marco Rubio: In immigration reform, legalization comes first — ‘It is not conditional’”

The Daily Sheeple – by Chris Carrington

According to reports from the BBC, Edward Snowden has vanished from his Hong Kong hotel room. Ex-CIA employee Snowden, 29, was not expected to check out and the move has taken many by surprise. His whereabouts are unknown and thus far he has not made contact with anyone as to his plans.   Continue reading “Edward Snowden Vanishes From His Hong Kong Hotel Room”

Economic Policy Journal – by Robert Wenzel

In one sense it is good to see so many getting worked up over reports of the spying and data collection being done by the US government, but, on the other hand, I am very suspicious about mainstream media’s current “shock” at the disclosures. Shock doesn’t occur in MSM without at least quiet approval from those behind the scenes.   Continue reading “Are the Data Collection Leaks Just a Set Up by the Government?”

Politico – by Tal Kopan

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Monday wouldn’t say whether he knew about the National Security Agency’s PRISM surveillance system , noting there are a number of classified programs the government uses.

Asked by “CBS This Morning” host Norah O’Donnell whether he knew about PRISM before the disclosures, the No. 2 Republican in the House said, “There are a variety of classified programs that exist for us to, again, guard against a terrorist threat.”   Continue reading “Eric Cantor ducks on PRISM”

BATR

Do you intrinsically possess individual privacy rights, based upon natural law authority, or are your civil liberties arbitrarily defined by the current whims of government? How you answer, this question speaks loudly about your understanding of the nature of your very being. Those who deem that natural law is a myth or a superstition are poised for voluntary surrender of their vital identity. The cataloging of individual essence is aberrant. Your deoxyribonucleic acid is the core element of personal uniqueness and human dignity. If your DNA is subject to government collection and storage, the right of personal privacy is destroyed.   Continue reading “The Essence of DNA Identity”

Raw Story – by Agence France-Presse

A secretive deal aimed at settling a dispute with Washington over Swiss banks’ alleged complicity in tax evasion by Americans has caused uproar in the wealthy Alpine nation.

Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf announced a deal last week that she said would put an end to the row that has been poisoning relations between Switzerland and the United States for years.   Continue reading “Secretive U.S. bank deal alarms Swiss parliamentarians”

American Everyman – by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: So what exactly did the hero tell us?

1998   Continue reading “Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden – The NSA Whistleblower Exposed as Career NSA, CIA, Special Forces Trained Agent”

Politico – by PHILIP EWING

The National Security Agency pushed for the government to “rethink” the Fourth Amendment when it argued in a classified memo that it needed new authorities and capabilities for the information age.

The 2001 memo, later declassified and posted online by George Washington University’s National Security Archive, makes a case to the incoming George W. Bush administration that the NSA needs new authorities and technology to adapt to the Internet era.   Continue reading “NSA memo pushed to ‘rethink’ 4th Amendment”