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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”
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”
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”
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”
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’”
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”
The Wilson Times – by Lisa Boykin
Marcos Santiaga Bautista of Sims, who was charged Thursday with felony hit-and-run, is a fugitive with an outstanding deportation warrant, according the N.C. Highway Patrol.
Bautista, a native of Mexico, failed to attend a non-detention immigration hearing in South Carolina.
At his first court appearance Friday morning in Wilson County, Bautista’s bond was increased to $1,002,000.
Vicent Picard, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Southern Region, said a detainer has been placed on Bautista with the Wilson County Jail. Continue reading “Hit and run suspect had deportation warrant; bond raised to $1 million”
The Department of Homeland Security has spelled out its intentions to proactively monitor civilian agency networks for signs of threats, after agencies arguably dropped the ball this spring in detecting federal websites potentially harboring the Heartbleed superbug.
Annual rules for complying with the 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act released Friday require agencies to agree to proactive scanning. The regulations also contain new requirements for notifying DHS when a cyber event occurs. Continue reading “DHS No Longer Needs Permission Slips to Monitor Other Agencies’ Networks for Vulnerabilities”
Horizon Science Academy in Bond Hill has the usual classrooms, books and lessons to teach kids seeking an alternative to regular public and private schools.
The charter school also employs seven foreign teachers, mostly from Turkey, brought to the U.S. on H-1B visas for jobs it says Ohio teachers are unqualified to fill.
Concept Schools, founded by followers of a Turkish Islamic cleric secluded in the Poconos, already is under federal and state scrutiny for possible irregularities in teacher licensing, testing and technology contracts. Continue reading “Charter schools use Turkish ties, visas to get teachers”
Computer World – by Patrick Thibodeau
ORLANDO – Gartner sees things like robots and drones replacing a third of all workers by 2025, and whether you want to believe it or not, is entirely your business.
Take drones, for instance.
“One day, a drone may be your eyes and ears,” said Peter Sondergaard, Gartner’s research director. In five years, drones will be a standard part of operations in many industries, used in agriculture, geographical surveys and oil and gas pipeline inspections. Continue reading “One in three jobs will be taken by software or robots by 2025”
LUBBOCK, Texas — Seven Mexican cartels are operating command and control networks in Texas, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). A recent data release by the DPS reports:
Mexican cartels are the most significant organized crime threat to Texas, with seven of the eight cartels operating command and control networks in the state, moving drugs and people into the United States, and transporting cash, weapons and stolen vehicles back to Mexico. In short, an unsecure U.S.-Mexico border is a state and national security problem.
Continue reading “Seven Mexican Cartels Operate Command and Control Networks in Texas”
WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson vowed Friday to “transform and reform” the Secret Service in the wake of high-profile security failures that led this week to the resignation of the agency’s director, telling Fox News that an independent board will soon be asking the “hard questions.”
In an interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Johnson said he plans to name members of that board “in the next couple of days.”
He declined to offer details about “who knew what, when” regarding recent security incidents but said: “I’m more focused on what we need to do to ask the hard questions.” Continue reading “DHS chief Johnson vows to ‘transform and reform’ Secret Service, ask ‘hard questions’”
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Ten thousand mosquitos immunized against dengue fever have been released in Brazil as part of an innovative attempt to curb the spread of the tropical viral sickness, biologists said Thursday.
Gabriel Sylvestre Ribeiro told AFP that the Aedes aegypti mosquitos were released in Tubiacanga neighborhood in northern Rio state.
“We inoculated them in the lab with the Wolbachia bacteria, which block the development of the dengue virus,” he said. Continue reading “‘Vaccinated’ mosquitos released in Rio to combat dengue”
The New York Times – by MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN, NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGER
The huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase that touched more than 83 million households and businesses was one of the most serious computer intrusions into an American corporation. But it could have been much worse.
Questions over who the hackers are and the approach of their attack concern government and industry officials. Also troubling is that about nine other financial institutions — a number that has not been previously reported — were also infiltrated by the same group of overseas hackers, according to people briefed on the matter. The hackers are thought to be operating from Russia and appear to have at least loose connections with officials of the Russian government, the people briefed on the matter said. Continue reading “Hackers’ Attack Cracked 10 Financial Firms in Major Assault”
Breitbart – by Merrill Hope
Yahoo News
The Hill – by Cameron Joseph
WND – by F. MICHAEL MALOOF
RT
NextGov – by Aliya Sternstein
Cincinnati – by James Pilcher
Breitbart – by Brandon Darby
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