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HOUSTON Parents who thought their home was safe are battling with the state over the custody of their kids, and they believe they re being punished because they re poor.
You shouldn t take our kids because we ve fallen on hard times, said Prince Leonard, a married father of six whose family resides in a northeast Houston storage shed. Continue reading “CPS takes custody of 6 kids living with parents in storage shed”
Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson
A whistleblower who claims to work inside the Los Angeles Department of Health Services has told Infowars that L.A. officials are planning to forcibly remove homeless people from the streets later this summer and house them in facilities which they will not be permitted to leave.
The source, an office clerk within the LADHS, said that during a policy meeting on the morning of June 18th last month, his supervisor announced that the Los Angeles County Dept. of Health Services had struck a deal with the government to open up “low cost housing” facilities for homeless people, otherwise known as “FEMA camps.” The source said that his supervisor ordered staff not to use the term “FEMA camps.” Continue reading “Whistleblower: L.A. Planning to Forcibly House Homeless Citizens in Camps”
USA Today – by Donna Leinwand Leger, Elizabeth Weise and Jessica Guynn
LAS VEGAS — Security researchers say a Russian crime ring has pulled off the largest known theft of confidential Internet information, including 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses.
The cyber gang injected malicious code to steal databases from at least 420,000 websites, says Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer for Hold Security in Milwaukee, Wisc. Continue reading “Russian gang stole 1.2 billion Net passwords”
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — Two illegal immigrants from Mexico who were charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent in front of his family in Texas have been arrested and deported numerous times, police sources told FoxNews.com.
One suspect has been arrested no fewer than four times for entering the U.S. illegally, according to federal court records. The other has been deported twice after entering the U.S. illegally, sources said. Continue reading “Suspects in murder of Border Patrol agent arrested and deported numerous times”
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Every production phase or civilization or other human invention goes through a so called transformation process. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation. In this article I will use one such transition to demonstrate the position of our present civilization and its possible effect on stock exchange rates.
When we consider the characteristics of the phases of a social transformation we may find ourselves at the end of what might be called the third industrial revolution. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation (= 25 years). A transition has the following characteristics: Continue reading “New stock market crash, a pattern?”
Harold Greene has been identified as the US Army major general gunned down in an attack by an Afghan soldier at a military academy near Kabul.
The Afghan National Army soldier opened fired at the British-run training facility in Kabul on Tuesday morning after a dispute broke out, killing the US major-general and wounding up to 15 other personnel, including a German brigadier general and an Afghan general. Continue reading “US general killed by Afghan soldier identified as Harold Greene”
A government audit has revealed that roughly $619 billion in federal grants and loans given out in fiscal year 2012 have not been properly accounted for.
The latest figures come courtesy of the US Government Accountability Office, who on Friday published a report in which it warned that much-needed oversight is all too absent from a federal awards website after it discovered gross instances of ”underreporting and inconsistencies” on USASpending.gov. Continue reading “Government transparency website is missing billions of dollars, watchdogs report”
USA Today – by Teresa Blackman
DUNDEE, Ore. — Missing Dundee mom Jennifer Huston has been found dead in a remote area of Yamhill County near Sheridan, police said.
A property owner spotted her dark green SUV Tuesday morning in a grove of trees near Highway 18. He alerted police around 10:30 a.m., who soon found Huston’s body nearby, according to the Newberg-Dundee Police Department. They said there were no clues which indicated foul play, but this remains “an active death investigation.” Continue reading “Missing Oregon mom found dead in remote area”
El Paso Times – by Luis Carlos Lopez
A convoy of anti-illegal immigration demonstrators was pulled over by El Paso police after receiving a call alleging that one of its members had threatened a pro-immigration activist who was following the convoy through the city on Sunday, officials said.
Police stopped the convoy of about 10 vehicles on Interstate 10 East between Lomaland Drive and Lee Trevino Drive early Sunday evening, backing up traffic to McRae Boulevard. Continue reading “El Paso police stop anti-illegal immigration convoy after alleged gun threat”
USA Today – by Larry Copeland and Doug Stanglin
ATLANTA — Nancy Writebol, the second American medical missionary stricken with Ebola virus in Liberia, arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta Tuesday after a trans-Atlantic flight in a small jet outfitted with an isolation pod.
Writebol, 59, arrived at Dobbins Air Reserve Base aboard the same jet that brought the first American patient, 33-year-old physician Kent Brantly, to the medical center from Liberia on Saturday, WXIA-TV reports. The plane made a brief refueling stop in Bangor, Maine. Continue reading “2nd U.S. Ebola patient arrives at hospital in Atlanta”
USA Today – by Jim Michaels and Tom Vanden Brook
WASHINGTON – A U.S. Army major general was killed in an attack at an Afghan military base in Kabul on Tuesday, according to a defense official who asked not to be named.
If confirmed would be the highest ranking American officer to be killed in the war in Afghanistan.
A defense official confirmed the information on the condition he not be named since the family had not been fully notified yet. Continue reading “Man in Afghan uniform kills U.S. general”
Daily Mail – by Richard Spillett
An incoming plane has been escorted into Manchester Airport by the RAF ‘as a result of information received by the pilot about a possible device on board’, Greater Manchester Police said.
It is thought that the plane involved was a Qatar Airways Airbus A330, which had reportedly come from Doha, and that the RAF plane was a Typhoon from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Continue reading “RAF fighter jet escorts passenger plane into Manchester airport amid captain’s fears of device on board”
Three interim shelters that have housed thousands of children who have come unaccompanied to the United States from Central America will close within weeks, leading U.S. newspapers reported on Monday.
More than 7,700 children have been sheltered in facilities on military bases in California, Texas, and Oklahoma since they were opened in May and June, the Department of Health and Human Services said, according to media reports. Continue reading “U.S. to close three interim shelters housing migrant children”
President Barack Obama will announce on Tuesday that U.S. businesses have committed to investing $14 billion in construction, clean energy, banking, and information technology projects across Africa, a White House official said.
The announcement will occur at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum, part of a three-day Africa summit in Washington meant to showcase U.S. interest in improving trade and investment in the region. Continue reading “Obama to announce $14 billion in U.S. corporate investments in Africa”
Our nation has suffered too much at the hands of dangerous people who use guns to commit horrific acts of violence. As President Obama said following the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, “We won’t be able to stop every violent act, but if there is even one thing that we can do to prevent any of these events, we have a deep obligation, all of us, to try.”
Most gun owners are responsible and law-abiding, and they use their guns safely. The President strongly believes that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. But to better protect our children and our communities from tragic mass shootings like those in Newtown, Aurora, Oak Creek, and Tucson, there are common-sense steps we can take right now.
Continue reading “The White House: Now is the Time to do Something about Gun Violence”
Market Watch – by Joseph Adinolfi
Two U.S. citizens who contracted the ebola virus in Liberia have showed signs of recovery after receiving an experimental treatment called ZMapp, which was developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., according to CNN.
The medicine is a “three-mouse monoclonal antibody,” which means that antibodies were harvested from mice exposed to the virus, CNN reported. These antibodies in turn can boost the human immune system’s ability to fight off the virus. Continue reading “Experimental drug improves ebola patients’ condition”
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CNN – by Phil Gast, Mariano Castillo and Greg Botelho
The college student accused of hijacking the webcam of Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and other young women is a former high school classmate of the pageant winner.
Jared James Abrahams, 19, was arrested Thursday for allegedly taking nude images of the women using their own webcams, and then blackmailing them to send more explicit material. Continue reading “Miss Teen USA: Screamed upon learning she was ‘sextortion’ victim”
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