Washington Post – by Ed O’Keefe

It didn’t work after mass shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, college campuses in Virginia and Oregon, a church in Charleston, or at a movie theater and high school in Colorado. Or after two lawmakers survived assassination attempts. But after a gunman killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 at a Las Vegas concert, Democrats are going to try again to revamp the nation’s gun laws.

And some Republicans signaled that this time may be different.   Continue reading “Democrats launch fresh push for gun control after Las Vegas shooting”

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Washington Free Beacon – by  Joe Schoffstall

The hidden donors to a prominent anti-Trump “resistance” organization are revealed in unredacted tax forms obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Center for Community Change Action, a Washington, D.C.-based progressive community organizing group that does not reveal its donors, has been involved in direct action against President Donald Trump and Republicans before and after the November elections. The organization’s members sit on the boards of other prominent liberal activist groups.   Continue reading “Donors of Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Group Revealed”

Business Insider – by Alex Lockie

In the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in recent US history, one witness said a woman had told the crowd that they were “all going to die tonight.”

A concertgoer who attended the Route 91 Harvest festival, where the shooting took place, told Sky News that she saw “a lady who pushed her way forward into the concert venue into the first row.”   Continue reading “Witness says woman told Las Vegas crowd they’re ‘all going to die’ 45 minutes before shooting”

Ars Technica – by Sam Machkovech

Google News took the unusual step of confirming its use of the imageboard site 4chan as a news source on Monday. The admission followed Google News’ propagation of an incorrect name as a potential shooter in the tragic Las Vegas shooting on Sunday night.

A reporter from tech-news site The Outline posted the full text of an e-mail he received from an unnamed Google representative. Reporter William Turton said that he had not discussed any “attribution terms” before receiving Google’s e-mail, which confirmed that the Google News service was bombed into automatically reposting a false shooter’s name.   Continue reading “Google admits citing 4chan to spread fake Vegas shooter news”

Yahoo News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Federal agents are trying to determine why a man pulled over for speeding in Tennessee was carrying a cache of weapons including two submachine guns and 900 rounds of ammunition.

Deputies found Scott Edmisten, 43, of Johnson City, carrying a .357-caliber Magnum, a loaded .45-caliber semi-automatic, a .223-caliber fully automatic assault rifle, a .308-caliber fully automatic assault rifle, more than 900 rounds of ammunition, and survival equipment, Washington County Sheriff Ed Graybeal said.   Continue reading “Sheriff: Traffic stop turns up assault rifles, 900 rounds”

Yahoo News

Police body camera video released Tuesday night at a press conference has revealed the sheer chaos of the Las Vegas mass shooting as officers tried to figure out the location of the gunman and shuttle people to safety.

Amid sirens and sounds of gunfire and screams, people yelled, “They’re shooting right at us,” while officers shouted, “Go that way!”   Continue reading “Chaos of Las Vegas massacre seen in newly released police bodycam footage”

ABC News

Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday pledged to build thousands of new homes in one of the West Bank’s biggest Jewish settlements and annex it to Israel.

The comments drew an angry condemnation from the Palestinians and created a new test for the Trump administration, which has been working for over eight months to restart peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.

Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Maaleh Adumim that he was announcing a period of “enhanced development.”  Continue reading “Israeli Prime Minister pledges new West Bank housing annexed to Israel”

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The book, Enemies, Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken, starts off with a scene that is almost plagiarized of what just happened in Las Vegas. The locations and who’s are different, but the scenario is the same: It was carried out by a government black-ops team in order to help push for gun control and greater government powers.

The patsy in the book is THE most unlikely shooter to every exist: a homeless Iraq veteran who was drugged, body staged in the shooters den, the shooting takes place and when the SWAT shows up he is “carrying” the gun and gets killed, no witnesses, end of the line, just speculation.   Continue reading “Bringing to everyone’s attention”

Politico

President Donald Trump on Tuesday hinted that he’ll be wading into the debate over new gun control measures, but said such conversations will likely happen later.

On his way to Puerto Rico, Trump praised the police response to the shooting that killed at least 59 people and injured more than 500 — the deadliest mass shooting in modern history. And he said conversations about gun control are forthcoming.   Continue reading “Trump: ‘We’ll be talking about gun laws as time goes by’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While there are still relatively few details about the man responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in US history, or his motive to kill at least 50 people and injure over 400 people, here is what we know so far, courtesy of the Telegraph and other public data sources.

The gunman responsible for the worst mass shooting in modern US history is believed to be a grandfather who lived in a remote desert home, reports Telegraph’s Leon Watson. Stephen Paddock, 64, was named by police as the perpetrator who left more than 50 dead. He was killed when officers blasted their way into his hotel room. Las Vegas police said they had located “numerous firearms within the room that he occupied.” Las Vegas Sheriff Lombardo said officers had confronted Paddock on the 32nd floor across the street from the concert. “There were at least 8 guns and a number of long rifles in the alleged shooter’s room”, per Las Vegas Police Undersheriff Kevin McMahill.   Continue reading “Who Was Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock And What Was His Motive”

Capital Hill Outsider – by Ronnie Herne

The greater question is not “were” Harvey and Irma magnified and steered, but “by whom”?

I cannot tell you 100% that our recent hurricanes were magnified and steered into population centers.  But I can tell you 100%  that they certainly could have been magnified and steered into those population centers.

   Readers here are generally ahead of the curve.  It’s one of the reasons you read here.  A bunch of you have encountered the awkward, somewhat  unfriendly word “Geoengineering”.  It is sometimes written more phonetically as GeoEngineering.   Continue reading “Weather Wars. Weather Weapons. Surprised?”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Friday abruptly warned Americans not to visit Cuba and ordered more than half its Havana embassy personnel to leave the island in a dramatic response to mysterious recent “specific attacks” harming the health of U.S. diplomats.

The actions deal a blow to already delicate ties between the U.S. and Cuba, longtime adversaries who only recently began putting their hostility behind them. The embassy in Havana will lose roughly 60 percent of its U.S. staff, and will stop processing visas in Cuba indefinitely, officials said. Roughly 50 Americans are currently working at the embassy in Havana.   Continue reading “US slashes Cuba embassy staff, warns Americans not to visit”

Yahoo News – by Jonathan Spyer, Foreign Policy Magazine

JERUSALEM – Israeli officials believe that Iran is winning its bid for dominance in the Middle East, and they are mobilizing to counter the regional realignment that threatens to follow. The focus of Israel’s military and diplomatic campaign is Syria. Israeli jets have struck Hezbollah and Syrian regime facilities and convoys dozens of times during Syria’s civil war, with the goal of preventing the transfer of weapons systems from Iran to Hezbollah. In an apparent broadening of the scope of this air campaign, on Sept. 7 Israeli jets struck a Syrian weapons facility near Masyaf responsible for the production of chemical weapons and the storing of surface-to-surface missiles.   Continue reading “Israel Is Going to War in Syria to Fight Iran”

Fox News

Every player on both sides of the field stood during the national anthem ahead of Thursday night’s NFL game.

Players, coaches and staff on the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears were all linked arm-in-arm, and some with hands on their hearts, as American country singer Tyler Farr sang.  Continue reading “Packers, Bears stand during anthem before NFL game”

New York Post – by Marisa Schultz

The Justice Department filed suit against a Colorado company Thursday ​saying it discriminated against American workers​ by hiring seasonal foreigners instead.​

The Loveland-based Crop Production Services Inc. refused at least three US citizens work in 2016 because ​it​ preferred to hire temporary ​workers with H-2A visas, according to​ the​ Justice Department.   Continue reading “Justice Department sues company for hiring foreigners”

Fox News

As part of a massive illegal immigration sweep, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Thursday that officials this week arrested nearly 500 illegal immigrants living in sanctuary cities across the country.

The raid, referred to as “Operation ‘Safe City’” in a news release, spanned four days in cities through the U.S., and ended Wednesday.   Continue reading “ICE arrests nearly 450 illegal immigrants in sanctuary city raids”

Yahoo News

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A hunk of rock “the size of an apartment building” fell off the granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring another on a mountain at the height of climbing season, officials and witnesses said.

At least 30 climbers were on the wall at the time, but it was not clear if the victims were climbers or tourists, ranger Scott Gediman said.

“It was witnessed by a lot of people,” he said.   Continue reading “Massive granite slab falls kills 1, injures 1 in Yosemite”

Argus

New York, 27 September (Argus) — US crude exports reached 1.5mn b/d last week, breaking the previous record of 1.3mn b/d set earlier this year in the week ending 26 May, as a glut of light crude in the Gulf coast following Hurricane Harvey improved export economics.

Most of the exports have been heading to Asia, with charterers including South Korea’s SK Energy, Japan’s Cosmo and China’s Unipec, and traders such as Trafigura, Vitol and Mercuria, according to shipbrokers.   Continue reading “US exports record volume of crude weeks after Harvey”