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ATLANTA (AP) — Police agencies across the U.S. are on edge and on guard after receiving threats and calls for violence against them on social media in the aftermath of the killings of two black men and the sniper attack that left five officers dead in Dallas. Some departments ordered officers to pair up or more generally said they were heightening security. Continue reading “Police agencies on edge, on guard amid heightened threats”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has approved legislation that for the first time would require food packages nationwide to carry labels listing genetically modified ingredients.
Thursday’s vote was 63-30 for the bipartisan measure. The measure’s fate is uncertain in the House, which has voted to make the labeling voluntary. Continue reading “Senate backs bill to label genetically modified food”
HOUSTON (KTRK) — Houston police say two officers shot and killed a man they say was armed on Houston’s south side early this morning.
Police says the officers involved were wearing body cameras and they each fired multiple shots. Continue reading “HPD Says Officers Shot, Killed Gunman On Houston’s South Side”
A suspect in the deadly shooting Thursday night that left five police officers dead was identified Friday morning as Micah Johnson, according to multiple reports. Continue reading “Dallas shooting suspect identified: reports”
The U.S. Capitol building is on lockdown, with police barring people from entering.
The Senate seargant at arms issued a lockdown alert for the building and visitor center, saying police activity has been reported. Capitol office buildings are open.
Capitol police say they are searching for an individual but offered no details. Continue reading “US Capitol on Lockdown, Police Searching for Individual”
At a press conference Friday morning to update members of the media on the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas last night, police chief David Brown identified some of the rhetoric used by one of the snipers during conversations with law enforcement.
During a standoff at El Centro College in Downtown Dallas, a suspect engaged in gunfire with police, before being taken out by a bomb robot that law enforcement sent in to end the situation. Continue reading “Dallas Police Chief Reveals Chilling Details About Sniper: He ‘Wanted to Kill White People’”
Activist Post – by Catherine Frompovich
If everyone, who is so enthralled with technology, would wake up to what really is going on in cyberspace utilizing computer networks to surveil and undermine your personal space and rights, especially what’s going on with Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating platform, we could take back our inherent God-given power of self-determination and keep our blest rights of privacy and informed consent!
Dr Katherine Albrecht, a technology security expert, discusses what YOU – and probably most folks – don’t know about Windows 10, plus how your personal space IS being invaded by Microsoft, Google, etc. who save the data you generate and send it to law enforcement, academic researchers, and marketers! Did you know that? Continue reading “Microwave Technology: The “GIFT” That Keeps Sharing – Your Information, That Is!”
Washington Free Beacon – by Lachlan Markay, November 6, 2015
As the nation’s chief diplomat, Hillary Clinton was responsible for ascertaining whether information in her possession was classified and acknowledged that “negligent handling” of that information could jeopardize national security, according to a copy of an agreement she signed upon taking the job.
A day after assuming office as secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal penalties for “any unauthorized disclosure” of classified information. Continue reading “Clinton Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info”
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Washington, D.C. has the highest rate of transgender-identifying residents in the country, according to a recently released study by the The Williams Institute, which is associated with the University of California/Los Angeles School of Law.
Of the estimated 1.4 million transgender-identifying individuals in the United States, about 14,550 – or 2.77 percent of the total – reside in D.C., according to the think tank, which specializes in “sexual orientation and gender identity law”. Continue reading “D.C. Has Highest Transgender Identification Rate in Nation”
Wall Street Journal – by Peter Nicholas and Colleen McCain Nelson
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that she is closing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information while she was secretary of state, officially ending the yearlong legal drama that had threatened the presumptive Democratic nominee’s bid for the presidency.
The nation’s top law-enforcement official said in a statement that she had met with Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and the career prosecutors and agents who had investigated Mrs. Clinton’s use of a personal email server while she was the State Department’s top official. “I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, yearlong investigation be closed and that no charges be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation,” she said. Continue reading “Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Closed by Attorney General”
Washington Post – by Dan Lamothe
A Marine Corps officer who has been locked in a legal battle with his service after self-reporting that he improperly disseminated classified information will use Hillary Clinton’s email case to fight his involuntary separation from the service, his lawyer said.
Maj. Jason Brezler’s case has been tied up in federal court since he sued the service in December 2014. He became a cause celebre among some members of Congress, Marine generals and military veterans after he sent a classified message using an unclassified Yahoo email account to warn fellow Marines in southern Afghanistan about a potentially corrupt Afghan police chief. A servant of that police official killed three Marines and severely wounded a fourth 17 days later, on Aug. 10, 2012, opening fire with a Kalashnikov rifle in an insider attack. Continue reading “Marine’s defense for disseminating classified information will cite Hillary Clinton’s case”
Miami Herald – by Charles Rabin
There was an auction at Marlins Park on Wednesday. The items on the block weren’t high-priced baseball players but the finely tuned, spectacularly expensive automotive fleet of a notorious Miami drug kingpin.
By Wednesday morning, a shiny black 2006 Ferrari Enzo was likely on its way out of town, having already received a bid of more than $1.9 million. And the number was climbing. Continue reading “Feds auction high-end cars seized from drug lord”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate, in an election-year standoff over immigration, has blocked two measures stemming from last year’s deadly San Francisco shooting involving an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally.
Absent sweeping changes to the nation’s immigration system, the first measure would have barred federal funds from sanctuary cities, jurisdictions that resist turning over immigrants to federal authorities. The second measure would have increased the maximum sentence for illegal re-entry into the country, with up to a 10-year penalty for an individual denied admission or deported at least three times. Continue reading “Senate blocks 2 bills on immigration”
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, alleging that the network’s chairman and chief executive fired her after she refused to sleep with him.
According to the suit filed Wednesday in New Jersey Superior Court, Carlson alleges that she was terminated by Ailes on June 23 after she complained about a toxic workplace environment and “rebuffed his sexual advances.” Continue reading “Gretchen Carlson files sexual harassment suit against Fox News chief Roger Ailes”
Facing a conservative revolt, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday expressed confidence that anti-terrorism legislation would receive a vote on the House floor before Congress leaves town next week for the long summer recess.
“I think there is still a path forward …” Ryan said at a news conference after a closed-door meeting with rank-and-file Republicans. “Yes, we are [confident] because we feel this issue needs to be addressed.” Continue reading “Speaker: Anti-terror bill will get vote”
President Barack Obama said Wednesday the U.S. will keep 8,400 troops in Afghanistan through the end of the year.
“Maintaining our forces at this specific level, based on our assessment of security conditions and the strength of Afghan forces, will allow us to continue to provide tailored support to help Afghan forces continue to improve,” Obama said. Continue reading “Obama says 8,400 US troops will remain in Afghanistan at the end of 2016”
Wall Street Journal – by JENNY GROSS and ALEXIS FLYNN
LONDON—A high-profile inquiry into the U.K.’s role in the Iraq war delivered a scathing account of the decision by the government under then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to join the invasion, saying the legal basis for doing so was “far from satisfactory.”
The long-awaited findings, published in a roughly 6,000-page report Wednesday, concluded that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed assessments of intelligence and that the seriousness of the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was presented with a certainty that wasn’t justified. Continue reading “U.K.’s Long-Awaited Chilcot Report into Iraq War Criticizes Legal Basis for Invasion”
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A retired police dog wandering a neighborhood attacked and dragged a man in Southern California after he gave the animal a bowl of water because he thought it looked thirsty, authorities said Tuesday.
The man’s family members were forced to stab the German shepherd with steak knives when the dog wouldn’t release the victim and dragged him from a front lawn into a street Sunday, John Welsh, spokesman for the Riverside County Animal Services Department, told The Associated Press. Continue reading “Retired police dog attacks, drags man in California”
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Introduction
Words have a tremendous impact on us. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or evil. The basic tool for the manipulation of truth is the manipulation of words. If one can control the meaning of words, one can control the people who use those words. Likewise, the basic tool for the preservation of truth is the preservation of God’s words. If one understands the original meaning of God’s words, we can more easily recognize those who try to manipulate and control others through deception and the altering of the original definitions of words. Continue reading “The Power of Words – The Words of His Kingdom and the Words of the World Compared”