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True Activist – by Sophie McAdam
Suspicions that the CIA covered up JFK‘s murder have finally been confirmed, according to an explosive Politico report out this week. Fifty-two years after the President’s death, declassified documents show that the CIA were in communication with alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK’s murder in 1963, and they were monitoring his mail since 1959. Continue reading “Finally, The CIA Admits Covering Up JFK Assassination”
In 1950, Senator Pat McCarran said to me, “If the American people ever find out what the Jews are doing to them, they won’t leave a Jew alive from coast to coast.” An official of the American Jewish Congress said “We must never lose sight of the fact that the only thing preventing pogroms in the United States today is our watchful control over the channels of communication.” And in 1977 a Jewish columnist wrote, “We have been overthrown by the television show Roots, as many whites have been inculcated with feelings of shame, fear and guilt by this revelation of black history. This should warn us that we are sitting on a powder keg, if unfriendly elements should be allowed the chance to present the Jews in an unfavourable light on television. The success of Roots must reinforce our determination to deny native fascist elements any and all opportunities to use the media to spread their poison to impressionable Americans.” Continue reading “Boycott – The Jewish Weapon”
Facts & Events
(a) In 1964 the Hammonds purchased their ranch in the Diamond Valley. The purchase included approximately 6000 acres of private property, 4 grazing rights on public land, a small ranch house and 3 water rights. The ranch is around 53 miles South of Burns, Oregon.
Continue reading “Facts & Events in the Hammond Case”
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NORTH SALEM, N.Y. (AP) — The 83-year-old wife of a millionaire McDonald’s franchisee found dead in the couple’s New York hilltop estate died of blunt force trauma, police said Tuesday.
A caretaker at the 300-acre manor found Lois Colley’s body in the laundry room of the couple’s home in North Salem, authorities said. The Journal News reported that investigators believe Colley, a socialite know to mingle among New York’s most powerful families, died sometime between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Monday. Continue reading “Police: Millionaire’s wife, 83, died of blunt force trauma”
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Veterans Today – by Preston James
Note: This is a long article and bold print can be read to give a quick summary. Anyone interested in more can read more.
Slowly but surely more and more Pentagon officials and their subordinates are beginning to wake up and understand that they have been seduced to fight foreign wars of aggression for the World’s largest Organized Crime Syndicate. Continue reading “Divided Loyalties inside the Pentagon”
World Beyond War – by David Swanson
November 11 is Armistice Day / Remembrance Day. Events are being organized everywhere byVeterans For Peace, World Beyond War,Campaign Nonviolence,Stop the War Coalition, and others.
Ninety-seven years ago, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, fighting ceased in the “war to end all wars.” People went on killing and dying right up until the pre-designated moment, impacting nothing other than our understanding of the stupidity of war. Continue reading “Armistice Day 97 Years On”
Waco Tribune – by Tommy Witherspoon
A McLennan County grand jury, working a marathon nine-hour session to consider evidence in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout, returned 106 indictments Tuesday charging bikers allegedly involved in the melee with engaging in organized criminal activity.
McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna said the grand jury will return to consider charges against the other 80 bikers arrested on identical charges following the incident in which nine bikers were killed and 20 were wounded. Continue reading “Grand jury indicts 106 bikers in connection with Twin Peaks shootout”
Courthouse News Service – by Tim Ryan
WASHINGTON (CN) – The federal judge who first ruled the government’s collection of cellphone metadata unconstitutional again blocked the National Security Agency program Monday.
The decision comes nearly three months after the D.C. Circuit reversed U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s original injunction on the grounds that none of the plaintiffs in the case, including conservative legal activist Larry Klayman, could prove their data had been collected. Continue reading “Injunction Reinstated Against NSA Spying”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s executive action to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation suffered a legal setback on Monday with an appeal to the Supreme Court now the administration’s only option.
The 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to uphold a May injunction deals a blow to Obama’s plan, opposed by Republicans and challenged by 26 states. Continue reading “Obama’s immigration action blocked again; Supreme Court only option left”
ABC News – by Jake Pearson, AP
Three people were shot, one fatally, in midtown Manhattan near Penn Station early Monday morning, police said. No suspects were immediately arrested.
The shooting happened at about 6 a.m. near the entrance of a subway station at 35th Street and Eighth Avenue, a block north of Penn Station, one of the nation’s busiest transit hubs. Continue reading “NYC Officials: 3 People Shot, 1 Fatally, Near Penn Station”
WATERTOWN, Wis. (AP) — A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying crude oil derailed Sunday and prompted some evacuations in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state.
The eastbound CP train derailed about 2 p.m. in Watertown, in the southeastern part of the state. The railroad said at least 10 cars derailed, and some were leaking.
No fires or injuries were reported. CP was sending teams to the site. Continue reading “2nd train derails in Wisconsin in 2 days, spills crude oil”
Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said on Sunday.
In a report, the bank said ending poverty – one of 17 new U.N. goals adopted in September – would be impossible if global warming and its effects on the poor were not accounted for in development efforts. Continue reading “World Bank warns climate change could add 100 mln poor by 2030”
A 9-year-old girl died after she was attacked by a pit bull in the backyard of a Long Island home Sunday morning.
According to Nassau Police, a 911 call came in at 10:30 a.m. reporting the dog attack at a home on Holland Avenue in Elmont. When two Fifth Precinct officers entered the backyard, they observed a male pit bull attacking the young girl, police said. Continue reading “9-Year-Old Girl Killed in Pit Bull Attack on Long Island”
CBS Philadelphia – by Mike Dougherty
BUCKS COUNTY, P.A., (CBS) — An autopsy has been completed on the man who was found shot dead inside a Bucks County motel room yesterday, following a barricade situation that lasted several hours.
Authorities say the man, 34-year-old Lloyd Wayne Franklin, was killed by a self inflicted gunshot wound. Continue reading “Authorities: Man Found Dead Following Standoff Died From Self Inflicted Gunshot Wound”
A giant ‘sinkhole’ about 50-feet wide opened up in an IHOP parking lot in Mississippi over the weekend, swallowing at least 14 vehicles, officials said.
At about 7:15 p.m. CT Saturday night, “we received a call of vehicles going through the pavement at the IHOP in Meridian,” Patrol Lieutenant Rita Jack with Meridian Police told NBC News. Continue reading “Giant ‘Sinkhole’ Swallows Over Dozen Cars at Mississippi International House of Pancakes”
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he planned to discuss defence aid with President Barack Obama as he left for his first meeting with the US leader in over a year.
Netanyahu is due to meet Obama on Monday in Washington as the two leaders seek to set aside their testy personal relationship and turn the page after a sharp disagreement over the July nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. Continue reading “Netanyahu stresses defence aid ahead of Obama meeting”
State District Judge Julie Kocurek, the presiding felony judge for Travis County, was shot in the driveway of her West Austin home late Friday, authorities said. Police said the injury is not considered life threatening.
Kocurek was taken to University Medical Center-Brackenridge, where she was joined by several other Travis County judges and her court staff. Her condition initially was considered critical, but shortly after midnight officials said her condition had been upgraded to stable. Continue reading “Travis County judge Julie Kocurek shot outside home, officials confirm”