Author: Admin

Yahoo News – by Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) – BP Plc has asked a U.S. judge to direct what it called a “vast number” of businesses to repay hundreds of millions of dollars it says were wrongly awarded as compensation on claims stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

In a Friday court filing, BP asked U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans to require businesses to make restitution plus interest of excess payments, which it called “windfalls.” It also requested an injunction to stop the businesses from spending these excess sums.   Continue reading “BP seeks to recoup ‘windfall’ Gulf spill payments”

Bloomberg Businessweek

ROME (AP) — The European Union is warning its citizens and companies against doing business with Israeli settlements. It says they run legal, economic and reputational risks by making deals in what the EU considers illegally occupied territory.

The Italian Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday on behalf of the EU, the presidency of which it takes over next week. It said financial transactions, investments, purchases, contracts and tourism in Israeli settlements only benefit the settlements.   Continue reading “EU warns against business in Israeli settlements”

Sent to us by the author.

Pontiac Tribune – by Aaron

You weren’t the only one shocked by the string of recent Supreme Court rulings in support of the Constitution.

This week Americans have witnessed multiple landmark decisions against the unconstitutional procedures used by the Obama administration and police departments in the United States.

On Wednesday the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that police officers need warrants to search cell phones of the people they arrest. The decision is the most surprising in years, and it is likely to put a spotlight on the government’s ability to do the same thing.   Continue reading “Supreme Court: Obama Violated Constitution, Police Need Warrants to Search Smartphones | Federal Judge: No-Fly List is Unconstitutional”

Sent to us by the author.

The Chicago Tribune, in a June 25, 2014 editorial, asked the question: “Could you build a better school?” Indianapolis, IN. was noted for wishing to have its school district free to develop its own curriculum and, in essence, be totally run by those in the district, with no intervention from Federal or State governments. Last fall, the Tribune began seeking answers to several problems in society and now they are focusing on education. The following is an answer.   Continue reading “A Better Public School”

The Raw Story – Agence France-Presse

Outgoing Israeli President Shimon Peres on Thursday received the Congressional Gold Medal in the US Capitol rotunda, as he bids farewell to Washington after decades of working with American leaders.

The 90-year-old Peres, who will leave office next month, paid tribute to the “American dream” and hailed Washington’s steadfast support for the Jewish state.   Continue reading “Israel’s Shimon Peres receives U.S. Congressional Gold Medal”

Newsmax – by Elliot Jager

A U.S. Border Patrol academy in New Mexico will be used to house up to 700 adults with children who have crossed illegally into the United States, Fox News reported.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made the announcement before the House Committee on Homeland Security on June 24. He said the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center at Artesia would serve as a temporary holding facility where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can house illegals “in a humane manner” pending their expedited deportation. Continue reading “Border Agent Academy to House Illegals”

Grist – by John Upton

In the heavily fracked Keystone State, the economic interests of frackers trump the health concerns of residents.

That much is abundantly clear in the wake of an extraordinary story by StateImpact Pennsylvania, which interviewed two retired state health department workers. The former workers say they were ordered to not return the phone calls of residents who complained that nearby fracking was harming their health. Instead, they were told to pass messages on to their superiors, who apparently never returned the calls either. The health workers were also given a list of fracking-related “buzzwords” to watch out for:

Continue reading “Pennsylvania ordered its health workers to never discuss fracking”

The Guardian – by Nate Berg

The Los Angeles Police Department, like many urban police forces today, is both heavily armed and thoroughly computerised. The Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division in downtown LA is its central processor. Rows of crime analysts and technologists sit before a wall covered in video screens stretching more than 10 metres wide. Multiple news broadcasts are playing simultaneously, and a real-time earthquake map is tracking the region’s seismic activity. Half-a-dozen security cameras are focused on the Hollywood sign, the city’s icon. In the centre of this video menagerie is an oversized satellite map showing some of the most recent arrests made across the city – a couple of burglaries, a few assaults, a shooting.   Continue reading “Predicting crime, LAPD-style”

Sent to us by a reader.

Breitbart – by Caroline May

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tom Homan, the official overseeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s removal operations, said Wednesday it will take years for the unaccompanied minors streaming across the border to appear before an immigration judge.

In a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the tens of thousands of Central American unaccompanied minors Wednesday, committee chairman Bob Goodlatte pressed Homan on the idea that it will likely take years for the children and family unit members apprehended at the border to have their cases heard, noting that many likely will never be removed — even if they show up for their hearings — given the administration’s enforcement priorities.   Continue reading “ICE Removal Operations Director Confirms: Years Before Illegals Have Cases Heard”

Sent to us by Pepper who said: The new narrator of the next false flag.

Syracuse – by Ben Axelson

ABC News star Diane Sawyer will be stepping down from her role as anchor on ” ABC World News” this September. She will be replaced by “20/20” co-anchor, former WTVH-5 anchor and Syracuse-area native David Muir.

Muir anchors the “World News” weekend edition, and will be stepping into a role Sawyer has filled for five years, according to The Hollywood Reporter.   Continue reading “Syracuse native David Muir to replace Diane Sawyer as ‘ABC World News’ anchor”

Sent to us by the author.

Somewhere between reason and feeling exists another basic component of our humanness known as conscience. So important is this faculty of human existence-an individual’s conviction about the rightness or wrongness of their actions-that James Madison believed conscience should have been a permanent part of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, even an unalienable right.

When Madison spoke to the First Congress he proposed 20 amendments for a Bill of Rights, not the ten that most people are accustomed to today. One important liberty that Madison wanted to protect from federal and state governments and abusive powers was conscience. According to Madison and in a pre-preamble to the constitution: “No state should violate the equal rights of conscience, …”(1)   Continue reading “Why Is Most Important Right Missing from U.S. Constitution?”

National Review Online – by Ryan Lovelace

Ronnie Osburn was preparing to talk to National Review Online Thursday about lawlessness in his border community when his home was broken into.

Osburn, a rancher who lives just south of a Border Patrol checkpoint in Brooks County, Texas, says he stepped away for about 45 minutes, and when he returned somebody had trashed his house. The trespassers shattered his gun case, leaving a trail of blood throughout the house, but dropped the guns near the kitchen before scattering out the back door. They had searched through the house, opened drawers, and even left a heap of uncooked bacon in a frying pan on the stove.   Continue reading “Texas Ranchers Under Attack”

ABC News – by Alicia A. Caldwell

The Obama administration has released into the U.S. an untold number of immigrant families caught traveling illegally from Central America in recent months — and although the government knows how many it’s released, it won’t say publicly.

Senior U.S. officials directly familiar with the issue, including at the Homeland Security Department and White House, have so far dodged the answer on at least seven occasions over two weeks, alternately saying that they did not know the figure or didn’t have it immediately at hand. “We will get back to you,” the Homeland Security deputy secretary said Friday.   Continue reading “US Releases Immigrant Families, Won’t Say How Many”

Infowars – by Kurt Nimmo

Judge Beryl Howell, appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Obama in 2010, agreed with Denise Gilman, a clinical professor at the of Texas-Austin. Gilman, who is researching the “human rights impact” of border enforcement, sued in federal court to force the Department of Homeland Security to reveal through a FOIA request the names of property owners along the border to determine if fence construction will be disadvantageous to “minority property owners,” Judicial Watch reported last week.   Continue reading “Obama Judge Rules Border Fence Racist”

New York Daily News – by Leslie Larson

Hillary Clinton insists she isn’t “well-off” and now daughter Chelsea, according to a recent interview, claims she couldn’t care less about money.

“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told Fast Company in an interview that ran in the magazine’s May edition, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.   Continue reading “Chelsea Clinton: I tried to care about money but couldn’t”

Washington’s Blog – by David Swanson

Now that the U.S. government has released parts of its We-Can-Kill-People-With-Drones memo, it’s hard to miss why it was kept secret until now.

Liberal professors and human rights groups and the United Nations were claiming an inability to know whether drone murders were legal or not because they hadn’t seen the memo that the White House said legalized them. Some may continue to claim that the redactions in the memo make judgment impossible.   Continue reading “So That’s Why They Kept the Drone Kill Memo Secret”