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Examiner – by Sean Higgins

Does the federal government have any systems at all to back its email archives? Maybe not, because the Environmental Protection Agency is now using the same excuse as the IRS is using in response to a Congressional subpoena: the computer ate our homework.

In a hearing Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said the agency was still trying to recover the emails from a now-retired employee who was involved in a controversial EPA evaluation of a proposed mine project in Alaska‘s Bristol Bay.   Continue reading “Now EPA says it can’t find emails requested by Congress because of hard drive crash”

Sharyl Attkisson

At least five children infected with the respiratory illness known enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) have died in the U.S. in the past month.

The lastest confirmed victim was a four-year-old New Jersey boy, Eli Waller. He died at home on September 25. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed the cause of death Friday night. But health officials say they have no idea how he contracted the virus. A health official says Eli was “asymptomatic and fine” when he went to bed but died overnight. He had no known preexisting immune weakness.   Continue reading “Polio-like illness claims fifth life in U.S.”

McClatchy DC – by FRANCO ORDONEZ

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is trying to shoot down reports that terrorist fighters are operating in Mexico and that some already have been caught attempting to cross the United States’ southern border.

Homeland Security officials said Wednesday that there was no truth to reports that fighters affiliated with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, have been apprehended on the border.   Continue reading “No Islamic State fighters coming from Mexico, Homeland Security says”

Breitbart – by Michelle Moons

A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officer has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for taking bribes–including thousands of dollars and hundreds of egg rolls–in exchange for providing legal status or U.S. citizenship to foreign nationals.

The FBI, which worked with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General to crack the case, notes that Mai Nhu Nguyen, 48, had been entrusted with “the power to approve or deny applications for immigration benefits that are submitted by immigrants.”   Continue reading “Immigration Officer Sold U.S. Citizenship for Egg Rolls; Sentenced to 30 Months”

Truth Revolt

Vice President Joe Biden held up traffic around Los Angeles for a second day on Tuesday, but it was President Obama himself on the minds of many Southern California drivers as bumper stickers began appearing on area cars featuring the word Ebola with the Obama logo replacing the letter “o.”

The scathing stickers come on the eve of President Obama’s Thursday trip to LA for a fundraiser at the home of Gwyneth Paltrow and on the same day that the LATimes reports that it may be premature for Mr. Obama’s government to declare that the deadly Ebola virus is not transmitted by air.    Continue reading “Obama Ebola Bumper Stickers Appear Around Los Angeles”

New Eastern Outlook – by Yuriy Zinin

The speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives Akila Saleh Issa at the UN General Assembly demanded the international community to provide assistance in enhancing security in this troubled country. He stated that the rebuilding of a combat capable army in Libya is a matter of utmost importance, otherwise people will be left to face terrorists on their own.

The alarming statements made by Libyan authorities coincided with the ongoing missiles strikes of the US against ISIL militants.   Continue reading “US Air Raids: The Unlearned Lesson of Libya”

Activist Post – by Brandon Smith

I remember years back when I was still writing for my original website, Neithercorp.us, we came across a then little known video of airtight “coffin liners”, hundreds of thousands, stacked in a field in the middle of Madison, Georgia in close proximity to Atlanta and the home of the CDC. We helped break that story which immediately swept through independent media circles.

Owners of the property leased to store the hermetically sealing plastic coffins stated that it was the CDC that had rented the land for storage of the coffins.  Confirmation from the CDC has not been forthcoming.   Continue reading “CDC Suggests “Hermetically Sealed Caskets” For Ebola Victims – AKA “Fema Coffins””

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

MCALLEN, Texas — A raid of two ranches in the state of Jalisco turned into a first for Mexican authorities when they uncovered a drug cartel’s underground weapons factory.

The Attorney General’s Office in the state of Jalisco along with their federal counterparts raided two ranches in the state’s rural area, and announced that they had seized 18 assembled rifles, Jalisco prosecutor Luis Carlos Najera said in prepared statement.   Continue reading “Mexican Authorities Find First Ever Cartel Weapons Factory”

The Brownsville Herald – by LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO

LA JOYA — Federal agents arrested four people in connection with a rollover crash that killed a Guatemalan woman and injured several other immigrants.

Juan Manuel Garcia, 18, Eloy Mendoza, 26, Jose Manuel Lovato-Balleza, 23, and Julia Resendez, 32, were caught by Homeland Security Investigations Sunday on charges of bringing in and harboring aliens, according to court records.   Continue reading “Four smugglers arrested after fatal rollover”

Business Insider – by Mike Bird

Sorry, America. China just overtook the US to become the world’s largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Chris Giles at the Financial Times flagged up the change. He also alerted us in April that it was all about to happen.

Basically, the method used by the IMF adjusts for purchasing power parity, explained here.   Continue reading “China Just Overtook The US As The World’s Largest Economy”

Activist Post – by Stephen Lendman

Washington Post editors want America’s bloated defense budget increased. So do some of its contributors. More on this below.

America’s business is war. Without end. Ravaging, destroying and pillaging one nation after another.

Doing it for wealth, power and dominance. While vital homeland needs go begging. At a time America’s only enemies are ones it invents.    Continue reading “Washington’s Bloated Defense Budget”

ABC News – by ANNE D’INNOCENZIO

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation’s largest private employer.

Wal-Mart told The Associated Press that starting Jan. 1, it will no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week. The move affects 30,000 employees, or about 5 percent of Wal-Mart’s total part-time workforce, but comes after the company already had scaled back the number of part-time workers who were eligible for health insurance coverage since 2011.   Continue reading “Wal-Mart cuts health benefits for some part-timers”

Breitbart – by Merrill Hope

DALLAS, Texas — Students in the five Dallas ISD schools under Ebola watch started the new school week learning that electronic scanners were being installed to monitor for any fevers, often the first symptom of the Ebola virus.

Breitbart Texas learned from district spokesman Andre Riley that scanners were already tested at Lowe Elementary, the connecting Tasby Middle School, and Conrad High on Monday, October 6th. Rogers and Hotchkiss elementary schools will be installed on Tuesday, October 7th.   Continue reading “Ebola Fever Scanners Installed in Five Texas Schools”

Yahoo News

Washington (AFP) – The White House delivered an extraordinary public rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, after he said US criticism of Israeli settlement building ran counter to “American values.”

It was another turn for the worse in the tense relationship between President Barack Obama’s administration and Netanyahu, amid deepening fallout from a meeting between the two leaders last week.   Continue reading “White House jabs Netanyahu over ‘American values’ critique”

The Hill – by Cameron Joseph

A travel ban to the countries facing an Ebola outbreak could paradoxically make the problem worse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said during a Saturday press conference.

Frieden said the CDC would consider any and all precautions, but warned that a travel ban could make it harder to get medical care and aid workers to regions dealing with the outbreak.   Continue reading “CDC director: Travel ban could make Ebola outbreak worse”

WND – by F. MICHAEL MALOOF

WASHINGTON – Two retired U.S. Army generals have blasted President Barack Obama’s decision to send U.S. troops to West Africa to battle the Ebola virus epidemic, saying the military is to fight wars, not disease.

In exclusive interviews with WND, retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin and retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely condemned Obama’s decision, as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel approved up to 4,000 boots on the ground from a previous ceiling of 3,000.   Continue reading “Generals blast Obama’s order of troops to fight Ebola”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

Nearly two years ago, in November, 2012, Barack Obama made his now infamous remarks that “there’s no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.”

Obama’s statements, of course, were designed to act as cover and protection for the Zionist settler state of Israel as it launched and continues to launch violent campaigns of slaughter and extermination against the Palestinians. Obama reiterated his position by stating that the United States supported Israel in its “right to defend itself” against “missiles landing on people’s homes and potentially killing civilians.”    Continue reading “Obama Accuses Himself Of Terrorism”

Daily Mail – by David Martosko and Michael Zennie

President Barack Obama announced on Monday that the United States will soon implement a new set of protocols to screen suspected Ebola patients so they can’t get off airplanes and enter American airports.

The same Customs and Border Patrol Agents who sift through cargo and luggage for contraband will be the first line of defense, inspecting passengers who arrive from Ebola-ravaged countries and identifying some for further screening.   Continue reading “Obama’s new airport screening plan uses CUSTOMS AGENTS to spot Ebola as president concedes ‘we don’t have a lot of margin for error’”

RT

Islamic State militants are planning to insert operatives into Western Europe disguised as refugees, claim US intelligence sources, who unencrypted locked communications of the caliphate’s leadership.

The militant organization is afraid of using aircraft due to strict security rules, so they use land as an alternative, the US sources told Bild Am Sonntag, a German national Sunday newspaper.   Continue reading “Trojan horse: ISIS militants come to Europe disguised as refugees, US intel sources claim”