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CNS News – by Susan Jones

 As tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors cross into the United States illegally from Mexico, the Obama administration admits it didn’t anticipate how many would come —  and it is asking Congress “for additional (taxpayer) resources to meet this challenge.”

“So there is a request to the appropriators for just over $2 billion to support HHS (Health and Human Services) facilities in particular,” a senior administration official told reporters on a White House conference call Monday.   

The administration also is requesting another $160 million in “additional support” for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Border Patrol and immigration agencies. Continue reading “WH Wants ‘Just Over $2 Billion’ From Taxpayers to House Children Crossing Into U.S.”

KOIN 6 News

Update: TROUTDALE, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A gunman and one Reynolds High School student are confirmed dead following a shooting inside the Troutdale school.

Law enforcement officials offered few other details concerning the shooting during a 10 a.m. media update, but offered condolences and praising students and staff for prompt, organized reactions.   Continue reading “Student, shooter dead at Reynolds High School, Troutdale, Oregon”

Yahoo News – by RAHIM FAIEZ

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five Americans troops were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday, in one of the worst such incidents involving United States or coalition troops since the start of the nearly 14 year war.

The official insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly to journalists.   Continue reading “5 US troops killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan”

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2005: At the Height of the Iraqi War:
• 20,000: number of non-Iraqi security contractors
Of these, 5-6,000 were British, American, South African, Russian or European; another 12,000 are from Third World countries, such as Fiji, Colombia, Sri Lanka, and India.
• 15,000 Iraqi security contractors
Most were hired mainly by the British security firm Erinys to guard Iraq’s oil infrastructure. Continue reading “Have Guns, Will Travel
: The Big Money World of Private Security”

Christopher Cantwell

The good news is, two cops are dead. The bad news is, the two shooters, and what appears to be an innocent bystander are dead too. Officer Alyn Beck, 42, and Officer Igor Soldo, 32, of the Las Vegas Metro Police were gunned down inside Cici’s Pizza while eating lunch. The shooters, one male, one female, whose names have not to my knowledge been released – reportedly shouted “This is the start of a revolution” before opening fire.

My sympathies go out to the owners, employees, and innocent patrons of the Cici’s Pizza, and the innocent bystander who was shot. That’s about where my sympathies for this particular incident end.   Continue reading “Dead Men Don’t Start Revolutions”

Information Liberation – by Chris

You might not realize it while traveling through the small town of Pulaski County, Indiana, population 13,124, but you’re actually in a “war zone,” at least so says Sheriff Michael Gayer in justifying the acquisition of a MRAP military vehicle.

From the Indy Star:

In a pole barn in Franklin, sharing space with a motorcycle and a boat, sat an imposing military vehicle designed for battlefields in Iraq or Afghanistan, not the streets of Johnson County.   Continue reading “Indiana Sheriff Says US A “War Zone” To Justify New MRAP Military Vehicle”

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Web of Debt – by Ellen Brown

Primary elections originated in the American progressive movement and were intended to take the power of candidate nomination away from party leaders and deliver it to the people.  California’s Top Two Primary takes power away from third parties representing the 99% and delivers it to the 1%.

Voters have increasingly become disillusioned with the Democratic and Republican Parties. According to a poll reported by Rasmussen in April, more than half the country believes that neither of the top two parties represents the American people. As presidential candidate Ron Paul remarked in 2011:   Continue reading “California’s Top-Two Primary Eliminates Third-Party Rivals”

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With the recent capture of “El Chapo,” the richest drug cartel leader in the world, let’s take a look at what he was known for — a global drug trade.

It’s a big question.
There’s a world of drugs out there:
Methamphetamine
Amphetamines
Cannabis
Heroin
Opium
Cocaine
Ecstasy
Hallucinogens
Continue reading “How Big Is the Drug Trade?”

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Supplements and Health – by Rolf Hefti

The Background To This Issue Of Mammogram Screening

“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.” (William Blake, 1757-1827, Engraver, Artist, and Visionary) Continue reading “The Mammogram Letter The BMJ (British Medical Journal) Did NOT Publish -Unlike All Of My Prior Letters”

New York Times- by Kirk Simple

The Obama administration said Friday that it was starting a program to provide lawyers for children facing deportation as it scrambles to deal with the soaring number of unaccompanied minors illegally crossing the border from Mexico.

Under the plan, the federal government will issue $2 million in grants to enroll about 100 lawyers and paralegals to represent immigrant children making their way through the immigration court system.   Continue reading “Youths Facing Deportation to Be Given Legal Counsel”

Boston Globe – by Kay Lazar and Shelley Murphy

US Drug Enforcement Administration investigators have visited the homes and offices of Massachusetts physicians involved with medical marijuana dispensaries and delivered an ultimatum: sever all ties to marijuana companies, or relinquish federal licenses to prescribe certain medications, according to several physicians and their attorneys.

The stark choice is necessary, the doctors said they were told, because of friction between federal law, which bans any use of marijuana, and state law, which voters changed in 2012 to allow medical use of the drug.   Continue reading “DEA targets doctors linked to medical marijuana”

NBC News – by Elizabeth Chuck

A Virginia naval base is on lockdown after a stabbing, and security forces are hunting for the suspect.

It was not immediately clear how many people were injured in the stabbing at the Navy exchange near the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia.   Continue reading “Virginia Navy Base on Lockdown After Stabbing”

11 Alive

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A police officer was shot outside the Forsyth County Courthouse Friday morning.

Cumming Police Sgt. Bryan Zimbardi confirmed the shooting to 11Alive News. It happened at around 9:30 a.m.

The extent of the officer’s injuries are not immediately known.   Continue reading “Officer shot outside Forsyth Co., GA Courthouse”