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Business Insider – by David Armstrong
The dozen packages were shipped from China to mail centers and residences in Southern California.
One box was labeled as a “Hole Puncher.”
In fact, it was a quarter-ton pill press, which federal investigators allege was destined for a suburban Los Angeles drug lab. Continue reading “Chinese suppliers have been flooding the US and Canada with a deadly drug”
A sophisticated ring of money launderers — with an array of pop cultural nicknames like “Tony Montana,” “Pitbull” and “Neymar” — has been busted on charges of sending untold millions in illegal cocaine profits to Colombia using nearly a dozen businesses in Miami-Dade.
In a news conference scheduled for Thursday, Miami-Dade prosecutors will announce arrest warrants for 22 people believed to have worked in a scheme that included the suspected chief money launderer for the Mexican drug cartel headed by notorious kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Continue reading “Miami drug money-laundering ring involving ‘El Chapo’ cartel snares 22”
A private college in Arizona is charging students a fee to fund a scholarship for illegal immigrants, a controversial move supporters say gives a hand to those who need it but anti-illegal immigration advocates call irresponsible.
Prescott College is tacking a $30 annual fee onto its $28,000 annual tuition to establish an annual scholarship for “undocumented” students, as part of a policy first proposed by students and faculty from the undergraduate and Social Justice and Human Rights Master of Arts divisions. While students can opt out of paying the fee, if they do nothing it will be automatically imposed. Backers say it helps reverse what they call Arizona’s reputation as a “national example of discriminatory politics.” Continue reading “Arizona college imposes mandatory fee to fund scholarship for illegal immigrants”
Even now, they say ‘if he comes into custody’, why is not already in custody, with a guard on the hospital room door?
Via Dallas News:
A 33-year-old who officials say is in the country illegally may face criminal charges after crashing into a volunteer firefighter’s car in Lavon last week, killing him and two children.
Continue reading “Previously Deported Illegal Alien Without License Faces Charges In Crash That Killed Firefighter And His Two Children”
The legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s actions on immigration gained the support 43 Republican senators who argue that the president overstepped his constitutional authority in unilaterally expanding programs for millions of undocumented immigrations.
Led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the senators filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case of United States v. Texas on Monday – a lawsuit with 26 states challenging Obama’s actions. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments later this month with a rule possibly coming in June. Continue reading “43 senators join challenge against Obama’s executive actions on immigration”
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Market Skeptics – by Eric deCarbonnel
After months of work, the video series on the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund is finally finished!
Why you should watch these five videos: Continue reading “The ESF and its History (Part 1-5)”
(DETROIT) Ford said today it will invest $1.6 billion to build a new plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, that will be manufacturing small cars by 2018, making it the latest automaker to expand its presence there.
Ford said construction of the new plant will begin this summer. It expects to begin producing cars there in 2018. Ford’s investment in Mexico will create more than 2,800 jobs by 2020, delivering a blow to the UAW, which pushed for higher wages in its contract talks with the automaker last year, and prompted a swift reaction from the union. Continue reading “Ford to invest $1.6 billion for new plant in Mexico”
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Location:
Victoria Gardens Apartments (formerly) Blue Diamond Apartments
Dummy Corporation, Whispering Brook Acquisitions
333 Whispering Brook Drive
Louisville, Kentucky 40229
To Whom This May Concern:
I am a former tenant of these private, for-profit, multi-family apartments where I, too, alike, hundreds of other past, present, and shall be future, low-income, tenants, are unsuspectingly being exposed to these airborne, molds, black molds T-2 mycotoxins, and infectious, bio-hazardous, bacteria’s fungi’s. Continue reading “City Government corruptions, organized crimes, defrauding HUD of millions of federal, low-income, People’s, funds”
A key section of the Keystone pipeline has been shut down due to an oil spill in South Dakota, TransCanada said on Monday.
TransCanada (TRP), which operates the pipeline, reported a spill of about 187 gallons of crude oil to the Coast Guard’s National Response Center on Saturday afternoon.
Continue reading “Keystone pipeline springs leak in South Dakota”
The parents of a woman who was shot and killed Sunday by Auburn police say they hoped to get her to a hospital, but “instead the police ended up putting a bullet in her.”
Melissa Boarts, 36, died Sunday afternoon after police said they fired on her as she charged at them with an unidentified weapon. Continue reading “Woman shot to death by Auburn police sought help but officers ‘put a bullet in her,’ parents say”
The first migrants deported from Greek islands under a disputed EU-Turkey deal were shipped back to Turkey on Monday in a drive to shut down the main route used by more than a million people fleeing war and poverty to reach Europe in the last year.
Under a pact criticized by refugee agencies and human rights campaigners, Ankara will take back all migrants and refugees who cross the Aegean to enter Greece illegally, including Syrians. Continue reading “Migrants sent back from Greece arrive in Turkey under EU deal”
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the method all states use to draw their legislative districts, rejecting a conservative challenge that could have given more clout to white, rural voters.
The eight justices rebuffed a case spearheaded by a conservative legal activist brought against the state of Texas over the manner in which it carved out voting districts for its state Senate, based on a count of every resident rather than just eligible voters. Continue reading “Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge in voting rights case”
A massive, anonymous leak of financial documents from a Panamanian law firm has revealed an extensive worldwide network of offshore “shell” companies — including ones with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin — that allow the wealthy to hide their assets from taxes and, in some cases, to launder billions in cash, a German newspaper alleges.
The documents, combed through in the past year by dozens of journalists worldwide, show links to 72 current or former heads of state, including dictators accused oflooting their own countries. Continue reading “Massive leak reveals money rings of global leaders”
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has refused to let a nationally known conservative lawyer join Cliven Bundy’s defense team because of ongoing disciplinary proceedings against him in Washington, D.C.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1Vk90wP ) that U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro wrote in a three-page order that she didn’t think Larry Klayman has been candid about the outcome of the disciplinary proceedings. Continue reading “Judge bans conservative lawyer from joining Bundy defense”
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago doctor and a member of her staff have been charged with falsifying medical documents to help applicants bypass U.S. citizenship tests, prosecutors said on Friday.
Dr. Jasminka Kostic, 59, and Nikki Pozdol, 47, who works in the billing department at Kostic’s office, were each charged with one count of knowingly making false statements in a document submitted to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said. Continue reading “Chicago doctor charged with making false diagnosis to help illegal immigrants”
Voice of America – by Pamela Dockins
WASHINGTON— U.S. President Barack Obama said in his weekly Saturday address “no terrorist group has yet succeeded in obtaining a nuclear device or producing a dirty bomb using radioactive materials,” but al-Qaida has tried.
The president delivered his address from the Nuclear Security Summit where world leaders gathered to discuss what Obama described as “one of the greatest threats to global security – terrorists getting their hands on a weapon of mass destruction.” Continue reading “Obama Warns of Nuclear Terrorism Threat”
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved a proposal to expand a telephone subsidy for low-income Americans to include Internet access, after a deal to cap the cost of the plan collapsed.
The commission voted 3-2 to approve a proposal by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, unveiled earlier this month, to expand the $9.25 monthly mobile phone subsidy to include broadband Internet access. The agency’s three Democrats voted yea and its two Republicans nay. Continue reading “FCC Approves Plan to Expand Low-Income Subsidy to Internet Use”
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed a controversial immigration bill that would require some undocumented immigrants who are convicted of crimes to serve 85% of the jail time meted out before they are deported. The proposal is the first in a series of Republican immigration proposals introduced this session.
According to The Associated Press, the new measure is a tame version of a similar bill supported by anti-illegal immigration Republicans that has lost traction. House Bill 2451 would require undocumented immigrants who are imprisoned to serve 85% of their sentences before being released to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Continue reading “Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signs controversial immigration bill”
Kids in a northern Virginia public school district unknowingly rode a school bus this week that was also carrying “explosives training materials” left behind by the CIA after it conducted exercises with local law enforcement agencies, officials acknowledged Thursday.
The materials were packed in a container and placed in the engine compartment of a bus at Briar Woods High School in Loudoun County on March 24, officials said. It was discovered nearly a week later during a maintenance check of the bus – which by then had carried dozens of kids, including elementary school students, for at least two days. Continue reading “Feds left ‘explosives’ material aboard school bus after training exercises, parents told”