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Bloomberg – by Josh Rogin

President Barack Obama’s administration has been working behind the scenes for months to forge a new working relationship with Russia, despite the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown little interest in repairing relations with Washington or halting his aggression in neighboring Ukraine.

This month, Obama’s National Security Council finished an extensive and comprehensive review of U.S policy toward Russia that included dozens of meetings and input from the State Department, Defense Department and several other agencies, according to three senior administration officials. At the end of the sometimes-contentious process, Obama made a decision to continue to look for ways to work with Russia on a host of bilateral and international issues while also offering Putin a way out of the stalemate over the crisis in Ukraine.   Continue reading “Inside Obama’s Secret Outreach to Russia”

The Intercept – by Jana Winter

The hackers who infiltrated Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer servers have threatened to attack an American news media organization,according to an FBI bulletin obtained by The Intercept.

The threat against the unnamed news organization by the Guardians of Peace, the hacker group that has claimed credit for the Sony attack, “may extend to other such organizations in the near future,” according to a Joint Intelligence Bulletin of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security obtained by The Intercept.   Continue reading “Sony Hackers Threaten U.S. News Media Organization”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Mexican investigators beat and tortured a prostitute in order to get her to confirm their version of events regarding the alleged execution of a group of cartel members in the town of Tlataya. The version that the Mexican government wanted was that the soldiers fought off an attack and killed the 22 gunmen.

The other version of the June 30 shooting, as told by a self-admitted prostitute and the mother of a female teenage gang member in the group, was that the cartel gunmen had surrendered and the military had executed 12 to 15 of them, the Associated Press reported.   Continue reading “Mexican Investigators Covered Up Execution of Cartel Gunmen by Soldiers”

Breitbart – by ADELLE NAZARIAN

For the first time in 12 years, violent crime in Los Angeles has climbed to a stunningly high rate, driven by an increase in reported aggravated assaults.

Crimes in the four categories that account for Los Angeles’s violence are robberies, homicides, rapes, and aggravated assaults.

According to the Los Angeles Times, while the percentage of robberies and homicides saw a slight increase, rape saw a 12.4 percent spike. Aggravated assaults shot up by 24.2 percent, compared with the rate of assaults in 2013. The Times posits that the increase correlates with a gross understatement of the city’s true level of crime. Continue reading “LAPD: Violent Crime at Highest Rates in 12 Years”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

MCALLEN, Texas – A Mexican man who is in the U.S. illegally remains behind bars and stands accused of assaulting his girlfriend and kidnapping her baby.

Edinburg Police arrested  23-year-old Victor Soriano on the charge of kidnapping, and assault/family violence, information released by Edinburg Police to Breitbart Texasshows.

While a municipal judge set bond for Soriano, he remains behind bars on an immigration detainer.   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrant Accused of Choking Woman, Tying Her Up with Extension Cord and Kidnapping Baby”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit 48 percent as 2014 came to a close.

In fact, the Obama’s 23 quarter approval fell even below his late December rating, ending in the middle of October at 41.5 percent, among the lowest quarterly averages of his entire presidency thus far.

Just after the November election, where the Democrat Party suffered a historic defeat, Obama’s approval rating began to surge. Many of his signature polices were funded in the “CRomnibus”–including executive amnesty and Obamacare–which was passed with bipartisan support. The president also announced landmark changes to U.S./Cuba relations before heading to Hawaii for vacation.   Continue reading “As Year Ends, Obama Approval Rating Approaches 50%”

Yahoo News

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a New Year’s speech Thursday that he is open to more talks or even a summit with his South Korean counterpart, a statement welcomed by Seoul, which in turn urged the North to take concrete steps toward normalization of relations.

Kim’s call for improving inter-Korea relations comes as Pyongyang is facing heightened criticism over its human rights record and souring ties with Washington over allegations it was involved in the massive hacking attack on Sony Pictures linked to “The Interview,” a dark comedy that portrayed an assassination attempt on Kim.   Continue reading “North Korean leader open to summit with South”

Washington Post – by Hamil Harris and Spencer S. Hsu

Five people were stabbed early Saturday inside a popular Northwest Washington restaurant and bar near George Washington University, and a man wearing a tan trench coat was being sought, police said.

At least two of the victims were seriously injured, but all are expected to survive the attack, which took place about 12:30 a.m. inside McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon at 2401 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, said Officer Hugh Carew, a D.C. police spokesman.   Continue reading “Man in trenchcoat stabs 5 at McFadden’s restaurant in Northwest D.C.”

Yahoo News – by Scott Smith

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Farmers already scrambling to find workers in California — the nation’s leading grower of fruits, vegetables and nuts — fear an even greater labor shortage under President Barack Obama’s executive action to block some 5 million people from deportation.

Thousands of the state’s farmworkers, who make up a significant portion of those who will benefit, may choose to leave the uncertainty of their seasonal jobs for steady, year-around work building homes, cooking in restaurants and cleaning hotel rooms.   Continue reading “Farmers brace for labor shortage under new policy”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

During the immigration crisis of 2014, Mexico, a country known as an illegal immigration corridor used by human and drug smugglers, increased its deportation efforts and ended up surpassing the number of Central Americans that the United States deported during the year.

From January to December, Mexico deported 107, 199 Central Americans immigrants by land, while the U.S. only deported 104, 688 illegal immigrants during that time period. Of those deported by land from Mexico, 43,456 are from Honduras, 41, 731 are from Guatemala, 20,988 are from El Salvador and 1,024 are from Nicaragua, information released by the Guatemalan Migration Office to Mexican news outlets reveals.   Continue reading “Mexico Deported More Central Americans Than US In 2014”

Bloomberg – by Michael C. Bender

Natalie Heimel and her fiancé, Edward Mallue Jr., a pair of captains in the Army, were walking from their wedding rehearsal on Saturday at the 16th tee box at Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course in Hawaii when they were informed they’d have to move their wedding, scheduled for the next day.

President Barack Obama wanted to play through.   Continue reading “Soldiers Relocate Wedding to Accommodate Obama’s Golf Game”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

A protest by family members of a police shooting victim in Texas City, Texas, erupted into a confrontation as a counter-protest from police supporters attempted to drown out the protest. The protest was organized by the family of Carlton Smith who was shot and killed after he allegedly pointed a firearm at a Texas City police officer. The protest was also attended by Houston racial activist Quannel X.

The confrontation occurred as the anti-police protesters were met by a group of pro-police demonstrators according to a report on KTRK-TV 13 in Houston. As Quannel X and Smith’s mother attempted to speak motorcycles were revved up loudly to drown them out. It was a scene reminiscent of when Quannel X attempted to speak in front of Joe Horn’s home in Pasadena in December, 2007. Joe Horn was no-billed by a Houston grand jury after shooting two black Columbian nationals who were burglarizing his neighbor’s home.   Continue reading “Confrontation Erupts at Texas City Police Shooting Protest”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

President Barack Obama claimed that illegal immigrants do not burden taxpayers and are not a drain on public resources.

In an interview with National Public Radio (NPR), Obama also slammed and dismissed those who are concerned about the negative impact that illegal immigration often has on American workers (U.S.-born and legal immigrants) as “nativists.”   Continue reading “Obama Claims Illegal Immigrants Don’t Burden Taxpayers”

Breitbart – by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.

Though the Chinese Communist Party is the largest explicitly atheist organization in the world, with 85 million official members, it is now overshadowed by an estimated 100 millionChristians in China. It is no wonder Beijing is nervous and authorities are cracking down on Christian groups.

Christianity is growing so fast in China that some predict that it will be the most Christian nation in the world in only another 15 years. By far, the greatest growth is coming outside the official state-sanctioned churches, which are rightly considered subservient to the Communist Party. Numbers are increasing, rather, in unofficial Protestant “house churches” and in the underground Catholic church.   Continue reading “Christians Now Outnumber Communists in China”

Yahoo News

HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a Houston hospital Tuesday evening after experiencing a shortness of breath, a family spokesman said.

Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital as a “precaution,” according to spokesman Jim McGrath. He “will be held for observation, again as a precaution,” McGrath said in a statement.   Continue reading “Ex-President George H.W. Bush taken to hospital”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as attorney general is supportive of Obama’s executive amnesty.

According to a Politico report, Loretta Lynch, who is a U.S. attorney in New York, told Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during a recent meeting that Obama’s executive amnesty was “well-reasoned,” agreeing with the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.   Continue reading “Obama Attorney General Nominee: Executive Amnesty ‘Well-Reasoned’”

MIT Technology Review – by Mark Orcutt

Along with vast troves of credit card information and celebrity snapshots, hackers stole a record number of medical records from U.S. health-care facilities this year. In 2015, attacks targeting health data will become even more common, according to security researchers.

Carl Leonard, principal security analyst for Websense, says hackers are breaking into the computer networks of health-care facilities with increasing frequency and taking valuable personal information that is often secured improperly. In August, Websense researchers reported that over the previous 10 months they had observed a 600 percent increase in attacks on hospitals (See “Hackers Are Homing In on Hospitals”). Leonard’s group now predicts that in 2015 the health-care industry will see a “substantial increase” in thefts of data.   Continue reading “2015 Could Be the Year of the Hospital Hack”

Jay’s Analysis – by Jay Dyer

From Chemtrails to Directed Energy Weapons, the System is Set on Total Control

There has been much speculation in the last few years as to the authenticity of the claims of “chemtrail” spraying of the ionosphere by secretive groups for unknown reasons, with such claims generally receiving the scorn of tinfoil hat insanity. Distinguished from “contrails,” the normal water and ice crystal formations that result from aircraft exhaust vapor, “chemtrails” is the popular name for aerosol spraying by planes in different layers of the atmosphere under the cover of numerous global geoengineering programs.   Continue reading ““Chemtrails” Exposed – Global Geoengineering PsyOps Documented”

Breitbart – by Joel B. Pollak

The Cuban dictatorship has long had its fans on the left—those who see in the Castro regime a plucky, multiracial workers’ utopia, whose advanced medical system is proof alone that it would thrive absent the bullying of the United States.

For them, the many horrors of totalitarian rule—the suppression of dissent, the torture of political prisoners, the arrests of journalists, the export of terror, and the persecution of gays—are either capitalist propaganda, or an acceptable price.   Continue reading “Meet the California Landlords Who Love the Castro Regime”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

MCALLEN, Texas – An illegal alien from Mexico who was working as a choir teacher for a Texas border church has been arrested for allegedly trying to seduce an 11-year-old girl. Authorities believe other girls may have been victimized.

Police in the rural border city of Palmview arrested Jesus Bustos earlier this week on the charge of indecency with a child, court documents obtained by Breitbart Texas show.   Continue reading “Illegal Alien Church Choir Leader Accused of Molesting Girl in Texas”