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‘MILLION MUSLIM MARCH’ TO BE HELD ON 9/11 ANNIVERSARY – AND THE GROUP BEHIND IT IS JUST AS RADICAL AS YOU’D EXPECT

The Blaze – by Jason Howerton

A radical Muslim political advocacy group has sparked controversy with its plans to hold a “Million Muslim March” on Washington, D.C., on the 12th anniversary of the 9/11. The gathering is intended to condemn the discrimination of Muslims following 9/11 and urge the U.S. government to reveal the “truth” about the attack.    Continue reading “Million Muslim March Labeled “Radical” for “Truther” Affiliation”

Arizona Daily Star – by Doug Kreutz

The widow of one of the 19 firefighters killed in a June 30 wildfire near Prescott Thursday called for a special session of the Arizona Legislature to address benefits issues for firefighters’ families.

Roxanne Warneke, widow of firefighter BillyWarneke of the Tucson area, said her husband was one of 13 seasonal employees on the stricken Granite Mountain Hotshots unit. Their families are slated to receive fewer financial benefits than the six permanent members.   Continue reading “Widow: Arizona lawmakers must address hotshot crew benefits”

US Senator David Vitter – August 7, 2013

(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today is urging the President and Congressional leadership to change the recent decision by the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM) that requires that all Members of Congress, all Congressional staff, the President, Vice President, and all political appointees in the Administration must purchase their health insurance on the Obamacare Exchange without the help of taxpayer-funded subsidies. Vitter plans to work on a legislative fix in September if the Administration does not act first.   Continue reading “Obamacare Fix for Bureaucrats is Why American People Despise Congress”

Reuters – by Eric Beech

The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since 2008, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

Most of the infractions involved unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order, the paper said.    Continue reading “NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year: report”

Fox News

The federal government has been low-balling the public for years on how much debt it actually has, a University of California, San Diego economics professor says, adding that the real amount is $70 trillion – not $16.9 trillion.

James Hamilton’s claim the United States is in a much deeper financial hole than many realize comes as Congress gets ready for another budget battle when lawmakers return in September. Both sides have been digging in on their policy positions over the debt, spending and the country’s future fiscal health.   Continue reading “California economist says real US debt $70 trillion”

Defense One – by Marc Ambinder

Want to understand how an organism really works?  Take a look at its plumbing. Figure out where the pipes fit together. That’s the approach I take to national security and that’s the spirit behind this look at the structure of one of the most important institutions in U.S. intelligence: the National Security Agency.

Some intelligence organizations, such as the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, have declassified most of their organizational charts. The NRO develops, launches and controls spy satellites; the NGA analyzes and distribute imagery. For these agencies, the plumbing matters less than what flows through the pipes, which is highly classified.    Continue reading “What the NSA’s Massive Org Chart (Probably) Looks Like”

CNS News – by Terence P. Jeffrey

The Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service (FMS), which publishes both the federal government’s official Daily Treasury Statement and its official Monthly Treasury Statement, is reporting that in July the federal government ran a deficit of $98 billion but that the federal government’s debt remained exactly $16,699,396,000,000 for the entire month.

The FMS said that the deficit went up $98 billion ($97,594,000,000) in the Monthly Treasury Statment for July, which it released on Monday.   Continue reading “Treasury Ran $98 Billion Deficit in July–But Debt Stayed Exactly $16,699,396,000,000”

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HOUSTON — A loving husband triggered a massive police presence on Tuesday at a Cricket Store in southeast Houston.

Police received a call that someone in the store was being held against their will.   Continue reading “Hug triggers hostage scare at SE Houston Cricket store”

The Blaze – by Liz Klimas

The Colorado parents of a teen with cerebral palsy were told by the city they were legally permitted to build a ramp at their home to assist their child, but now neighbors are balking about it.

KKTV-TV reported Vincent and Heidi Giesegh from Fountain, a city outside of Colorado Springs, saying their neighbors are even threatening legal action over the ramp they put in for their 16-year-old daughter.   Continue reading “Neighbors Threaten Family Over… Child’s Handicapped Ramp”

Big data, bigger opportunities.

“It’s a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” Oscar Wilde

90% of the world’s data was created in the last two years.   Continue reading “Big Data Infographic”

Yahoo News

HOUSTON (AP) — BP is suing the U.S. government over a decision to bar the oil giant from getting new federal contracts to supply fuel and other services after the company pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The Houston Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1eFijiB ) BP filed the lawsuit Monday in Houston federal court.   Continue reading “BP sues to get new contracts after oil spill”

Salon – by DAVID DAYEN

If you know about foreclosure fraud, the mass fabrication of mortgage documents in state courts by banks attempting to foreclose on homeowners, you may have one nagging question: Why did banks have to resort to this illegal scheme? Was it just cheaper to mock up the documents than to provide the real ones? Did banks figure they simply had enough power over regulators, politicians and the courts to get away with it? (They were probably right about that one.)   Continue reading “Your mortgage documents are fake!”

DVIDS – by Staff Sgt. Amanda Smolinski

U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborn)

ASHWAUBENON, Wis.—As the Humvees rolled slowly through the city’s streets, children waved and others stopped to watch as soldiers dismounted their vehicles to meet with civil authorities and assess the local infrastructure.

For three days in August, 22 Civil Affairs soldiers of the 432nd Civil Affairs Battalions, Charlie and Delta Companies, traveled in their High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, or “Humvees,” 37 miles north of their headquarters here to the small town of Gillett.   Continue reading “U.S. Army Conducts Military Occupation Drill in Small Town Wisconsin”

Boing Boing – by Cory Doctorow

Back in 2012, the major US banks settled a federal mortgage-fraud lawsuit for $95,000,000. The suit was filed by Lynn Szymoniak, a white-collar fraud specialist, whose own house had been fraudulently foreclosed-upon. When the feds settled with the banks, the evidence detailing the scope of their fraud was sealed, but as of last week, those docs are unsealed, and Szymoniak is shouting them from the hills. The banks precipitated the subprime crash by “securitizing” mortgages — turning mortgages into bonds that could be sold to people looking for investment income — and the securitization process involved transferring title for homes several times over. This title-transfer has a formal legal procedure, and in the absence of that procedure, no sale had taken place. See where this is going?   Continue reading “Unsealed court-settlement documents reveal banks stole $trillions’ worth of houses”

The Guardian – by Matt Williams and Ryan Devereaux

A New York judge ruled Monday that “stop-and-frisk” searches carried out by city police are unconstitutional – and ordered that a federal monitor be brought in to oversee their reform.

In a major victory for civil rights activists who have long contended that stop-and-frisk amounts to racial profiling, US district court judge Shira Scheindlin said the stops violated individuals’ right to privacy and equal treatment under the law.   Continue reading “New York’s stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional, judge rules”

End of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder

The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control.  Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer.  In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less crime it tends to have.  In other words, there is a very strong positive correlation between more guns and less crime.  This is the exact opposite of what the mainstream media would have us believe, but it makes sense.    Continue reading “18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer”

Herald Net – Anchorage Daily News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska fishermen and fish consumers shouldn’t be concerned about the new disclosures of radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean near the site of the hobbled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, according to an ocean chemist and a spokeswoman for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The amount of radioactive material flowing into the ocean is relatively minimal, compared to the size of the spills that occurred in the wake of the meltdowns that occurred at the site in 2011 following an earthquake and tsunami, said Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.   Continue reading “Scientist, FDA: Don’t worry about radioactive fish”