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A plane from the forces of renegade former Libyan general Khalifa Haftar crashed in the city of Tobruk on Tuesday, killing the pilot and a child, a security official said.
“The pilot was killed when his aircraft hit a building during a demonstration flight,” the official told AFP.
The co-pilot survived, but a child was killed and a number of civilians were injured, the official added. Continue reading “Libyan war plane crashes, killing the pilot and a child”
NEW YORK/SINGAPORE, Sept 2 (Reuters) – The third cargo of condensate, or ultra-light oil, since the U.S. eased its 40-year export ban has been loaded on a tanker and departed for Japan on Monday, according to shipping sources and data.
Japanese refiner Cosmo Oil chartered Panamax tanker Lian Ping Hu, which loaded the oil at the Teppco Seaways terminal in Texas City, Texas, during the weekend, according to the sources and Reuters AIS live shiptracking. Continue reading “Third U.S. condensate export cargo loads, heads for Japan – sources, data”
The Desert Sun – by Morris Beschloss
According to the BP 2014 statistical world energy review, the U.S. has achieved world-leading natural gas production, by reaching a new all-time high of 328 billion cubic feet per day (BCPD). World usage of natural gas is about 24% of all primary energy consumed, behind oil’s 33% and coal’s 30%. Over the past five years, U.S. natural gas production has grown over 20%.
This is obviously due to the capturing of natural gas as a by-product to the massive shale expansion, as the shale “fracking” revolution seems to continue its unprecedented growth. No other global energy-producing nation has come close to matching U.S. production gains, while leap-frogging Russia in 2009, along with Qatar and Iran, previous global natural gas leadership aspirants. Continue reading “U.S. Now World’s Leading Natural Gas Producer”
BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) – Authorities in northwestern Arizona are searching for an 8-year-old girl reported missing from her home.
Bullhead City police were called to the home of Isabella Grogan-Cannella about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Her family says “Bella” wasn’t in her bed or anywhere in the house. Continue reading “8-year-old girl reported missing in Bullhead City, Arizona”
Washington Post – by Fred Barbash
Former House majority leader Eric Cantor is joining a Wall Street investment bank as vice chairman and managing director, the firm announced this morning.
The firm, Moelis & Co., said Cantor will be based in the New York office of the global company and will soon open an office in Washington. Moelis, with 500 employees, is known as a fast-growing “boutique” firm that advises companies and investors on mergers, acquisitions and risk. Continue reading “Eric Cantor joins Wall Street investment firm, will open Washington office”
CNS News – by Melanie Hunter, June 6, 2014
The State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs has announced a $2.5 million grant for juvenile justice reform and pre-trial detention in Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama.
“Corrections systems in these countries suffer from acute overcrowding and inefficiencies which contribute to poor conditions and, at worst, active criminal recruiting and leadership of criminal activities from within prisons,” the grant announcement said. Continue reading “Flashback: Feds to Spend $2.5M for Juvenile Justice Reform — in Central America”
CNS News – by JOSH LEDERMAN AND ERICA WERNER
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s possible delay in taking action on immigration has thrown advocates and lawmakers from both parties a curveball, barely two months before the midterm elections.
Democrats who were bracing for the impact that Obama’s long-awaited announcement would have on their campaigns are now rethinking aspects of their strategy for the fall. Republicans who were considering legislative attempts to block Obama must reconsider whether that’s the best use of the few remaining work weeks before Election Day. Continue reading “Obama’s delay on immigration creates uncertainty”
CNS News – by Terence P. Jeffrey
For the first time in the nation’s history, foreign interests now own more than $6 trillion in U.S. government debt, according to the most recent Treasury Department report on major foreign holders of the debt, which includes the numbers through the end of June.
As of the end of June, foreign owners held $6,013,200,000,000 in U.S. Treasury securities, up from $5,976,500,000,000 as of the end of May. Continue reading “Foreign Ownership of U.S. Government Debt Passes $6 Trillion”
The terror group Islamic State has released a video apparently depicting the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff.
Sotloff, kneeling, says he is “paying the price” for the U.S. intervention in Iraq with his life.
“You’ve spent billions of U.S. tax payers dollars and we’ve lost thousands of our troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State,” Sotfloff says. “So where is the people’s interest in reigniting this war?” Continue reading “Islamic State releases video depicting another beheading”
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I see this crap all the time and it really bugs me. Too many people think they have the answer to what will happen after SHTF and that thinking makes their plans suck. Does your plan really make sense?
I write an article like 60 bug out bag gear items you probably don’t have orAlmost unlimited power for your camping or bug out bag electronics and inevitably, some idiot pipes up with, “That’s stupid. There won’t be any electricity after SHTF” or after Just what is the ultimate bug out vehicle?, I kept hearing, “You have to have a pre-XX car or it won’t work when SHTF.” Continue reading “You DON’T know what will happen after SHTF so stop acting like you do”
Hamden Police confirmed that a suspect was questioned in the case of a possible threat to President Barack Obama.
Lt. Kevin Samperi said that a car “believed to be involved in this case” was located sometime before midnight on Friday and that a suspect was questioned.
A Secret Service spokesperson said that no arrests or charges have been brought but that the investigation is still ongoing into a potentially suspicious person and vehicle. Continue reading “Suspect questioned in possible threat to President”
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Dutchsinse – by Michael Janitch
The drought in California carries on, however, the recent 6.0 magnitude earthquake near Napa, CA has caused water to well up in normally dry creeks in the surrounding area near Vallejo , in Solano county .
The flow of water began directly after the earthquake, currently still flowing.
At first, residents thought the water might be from a dam several miles up stream, but now it is confirmed to be an underground source. Continue reading “California earthquake causes water to well up from underground – fills dry creeks”
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Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat. Continue reading “Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning By Feds on US Border”
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Yahoo News – by Mark Stevenson
CHAHUITES, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s largest crackdown in decades on illegal migration has decreased the flow of Central Americans trying to reach the United States, and has dramatically cut the number of child migrants and families, according to officials and eyewitness accounts along the perilous route.
Convoys of Mexican federal police and immigration service employees in southern Mexico have begun scouring the tracks of the infamous freight train known as “La Bestia,” or The Beast, that has long carried crowds of migrants on its lumbering route north. They have also set up moving roadblocks, checking the documents of passengers on interstate buses. Continue reading “Mexico operations thwart child, family migrants”
As part of a legal settlement that will allow some illegal immigrants who deported themselves from Southern California to return to the United States, the federal government has agreed to advertise the settlement on various Mexican and Spanish-language media outlets.
The ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit last year on behalf of eleven illegal immigrants who deported themselves. The settlement reached on Wednesday will only cover “longtime California residents with relatives who are U.S. citizens and… young migrants whose parents brought them into the country illegally” who deported themselves between 2009 and 2013. An ACLU official has indicated that there were nearly 250,000 people who were “deported voluntarily from Southern California between 2009 and 2013” and estimated to the Los Angeles Times that the “number of repatriations could reach into the hundreds or thousands.” Continue reading “Feds to Advertise Settlement Allowing Deported Illegals to Return”
Legal pact likely to slow deportations
(Washington Times) – Federal agents will have to read a Miranda rights-style list of protections to immigrants before sticking them in fast-track deportation proceedings, according to the terms of a legal settlement announced Wednesday that will make it tougher for the Obama administration to quickly deport illegal immigrants.
Tens of thousands of immigrants previously already sent home could also apply to come back into the U.S. and plead with a judge to be allowed to stay — though immigration officials said the number that end up winning their cases will be small. Continue reading “Illegals to be Read ‘Miranda-Style’ List of Rights on Deportation”
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