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The Dissenter – by Kevin Gosztola

An “insider threat” program launched by President Barack Obama encourages a culture of snitching among federal government employees and establishes a work environment where managers can be punished for failing to report suspicious activity, according to a feature story by McClatchy Newspapers. 

Marisa Taylor and Jonathan Landay detail the “unprecedented initiative” is “sweeping in its reach.” It “extends beyond the US national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of ‘insider threat’ give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct.”   Continue reading “Obama’s ‘Insider Threat’ Program: Discourages Whistleblowing, Treats Leaking as Aiding the Enemy”

LA Times – by Andrew Blankstein

The Los Angeles Police Department said there appears to be no foul play in the one-vehicle accident that killed journalist Michael Hastings.

CNN- by Dana Bash, Ted Barrett, and Tom Cohen

A border agent every 1,000 feet, every hour of every day, supported by 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican frontier.

No green cards for the 11 million immigrants living illegally in America until those steps and others to enhance border controls are taken. And none of it increases the federal deficit or debt.   Continue reading “Senate immigration deal includes tougher border security”

USA Today – by Karl Gelles

Congress may let student loan interest rates double July 1, but some federal workers and congressional staff likely are protected from the impact by a taxpayer-funded benefit that provided more than $20 million last year for them to pay down their college debts.

Congress created the benefit more than 10 years ago to make government jobs more appealing to job candidates who could get higher-paying jobs in the private sector. Meanwhile, a 2007 law that cut student loan interest rates in half will expire July 1, and Congress has been unable to reach a deal to extend it.   Continue reading “Federal Workers Get Millions In Student Loan Relief”

Blacklisted News – by Stephen Benavides, Truth Out

Passed in 1978, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) set the groundwork for surveillance, collection, and analysis of intelligence gathered from foreign powers and agents of foreign powers, up to and including any individual residing within the U.S., who were suspected of involvement in potential terrorist activity. On October 26, 2001, a little over a month after 9/11, President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act into law. Two provisions, Sec. 206, permitting government to obtain secret court orders allowing roving wiretaps without requiring identification of the person, organization, or facility to be surveyed, and Sec. 215 authorizing government to access and obtain “any tangible thing” relevant to a terrorist investigation, transformed foreign intelligence into domestic intelligence.   Continue reading “Indefinite Surveillance: Say Hello to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014”

Activist Post- by Brandon Turbeville

As the secular Syrian government continues to mop up the mobs of death squads made up of mercenaries, religious fanatics, and the criminally insane (as well as cannibals), the second phase of destabilization is quickly taking shape – that is, the establishment of “no-fly zones” and the arming of the death squads by the West with even heavier weapons than they have previously been given. The destruction of Syria is thus apparently scheduled to take exactly the same form as that of Libya.   Continue reading “Next Phase of Syrian Invasion Begins — The Central Bank Connection”

The Independent – by ALISTAIR DAWBER

The West may be flip-flopping over whether or not to send lethal arms to the Syria rebels, but that has not stopped a 12-day military exercise in Jordan, in which thousands of troops from a variety of countries are preparing for the possibility of fighting in Syria. The war games come to an end tomorrow.

Living Not Surviving – by Ahmed Serag

Despite the near 17 TRILLION dollars in debt this country already has, and the complete failure of federal bailout programs throughout recent and past decades, and despite the Congress of the United States being on the brink of passing an unfunded 1 TRILLION dollar farm bill-which the house thankfully just rejected 234-195-the United States Department of Agriculture has announced it will be spending 38 million dollars on a preventative sugar bailout, thanks to information gathered by the Star Tribune.    Continue reading “USDA Announces 38 Million Dollar Sugar Bailout to Prevent Big Sugar Bailout”

The News Star – by Greg Hilburn

Gov. Bobby Jindal knows few things are more popular in northeastern Louisiana’s gun country than the Second Amendment.

So Jindal chose TP Outdoors’ West Monroe store as the location to sign six gun-related bills Wednesday afternoon, surrounded by legislators and walls of firearms on the second stop on his post-Legislative session 64-parish tour.   Continue reading “Jindal touts new gun laws”

Global Research – by Elizabeth Woodworth

This essay examines the connections between the foreign intervention crisis in Syria, the vast NSA surveillance program that has recently been exposed, and the sequence of events that begin with NSA program changes in February, 2001 — six months before 9/11.  The connections are illuminating.

In mid June 2013 the Obama administration announced that it will start arming insurgents against the Syrian government because the regime crossed a “red line” by using chemical weapons — which it estimates have killed, over time, an estimated 100-150 rebels.[1]   Continue reading “Obama’s Humanitarianism as Window-Dressing for the US “Deep State” Agenda: The Case of Syria”

RT News

Though not nearly as high profile, the annual World Food Prize award is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize” for agriculture, and this year’s winners – scientists with key roles in developing genetically engineered crops – may bring unwanted attention.

On Wednesday, the winners of the World Food Prize were announced at the US State Department, with Secretary of State John Kerry in attendance. This year’s award will be shared among three scientists: Marc Van Montagu, Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley, all pioneers in agricultural biotechnology.    Continue reading “‘Nobel of agriculture’ goes to Monsanto executive”

The Street – by Andrea Tse

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Major U.S. stock markets turned sharply lower on Wednesday despite the Federal Reserve saying it will maintain its current stimulus program of buying $85 billion per month to help sustain the country’s economic recovery.

The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee voted to maintain its current policy by a vote of 10 in favor and 2 against but outlined criteria which will determine when the bank begins to reduce the size and scope of its bond buying program.   Continue reading “Stocks Tumble as Fed Outlines Criteria for Reducing Stimulus”

Here is a petition I just came across while doing research on chemtrails. These bastards are spraying everyday here in Delaware. It sickens me to know that my kids are part of some evil science project created by the government. My allergies have been hell for the last year but since memorial day, I have had a non-stop headache along with my kids and wife. Checking around locally, I have found that many other people are having the same symptoms as I am experiencing. They mostly say its just a bad pollen season but I think differently.    Continue reading “Chemtrails Petition”

CNN – by Carol Cratty

FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged the law enforcement agency uses drone aircraft in the United States for surveillance in certain difficult cases.

Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that drones are used by the FBI in a “very, very minimal way and very seldom.”   Continue reading “FBI uses drones in U.S., says Mueller”

Yahoo News – by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator.

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees’ union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office.   Continue reading “Senator: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses”