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Breitbart – by William Bigelow

On Wednesday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, informed the Silicon Valley Leadership Group in Santa Clara that the U.S. must fight ISIS, which she called “totally evil.”

Feinstein intoned, “I have no doubt that we either fight them now or fight them later, because they are not going to stop.”    Continue reading “Feinstein Warns Silicon Valley that ISIS Is Coming to U.S.”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton

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The supposed differences between the Syrian rebels (which our government says are the “good guys”) and ISIS (the “bad guys”) are becoming so hard to differentiate these days, that apparently even our government’s most stalwart supporters of war can’t keep their lies straight when the cameras are rolling.

I’ve written multiple articles (here, here, and here) on the fact that good ‘ol Uncle Sam in the form of the Obama Administration has sent hundreds of millions of dollars to ISIS, the terrorist enemy in Iraq and Syria that our government also helped train which has apparently gotten so bad now, the government just has to start airstriking Syria (in addition to the strikes already taking place in Iraq) to stop them.   Continue reading “Even Senator McCain ‘Accidentally’ Refers to the Syrian Rebels as ‘ISIS’”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

MCALLEN, Texas – Authorities are warning about a new scam that has begun to take root in this border county where callers dupe victims into paying hundreds or thousands of dollars in false fines to avoid getting arrested for missing jury duty.

Hidalgo County District Clerk Laura Hinojosa spoke with Breitbart Texas warning individuals that neither her staff nor any local law enforcement agency would be calling to collect fines or threatened with arrest.    Continue reading “Scammers Impersonating Court Officials and Police in Border City”

Breitbart – by Sarah Rumpf

AUSTIN, Texas — Thursday at the Texas Capitol, a group of grassroots tea party activists gathered for a press conference to share the “Texas Border Crisis Action Plan” they had created after years of frustration with a government that they characterized as “criminally negligent in their duties.”

Speakers included JoAnn Fleming, the Executive Director of Grassroots America, Dale Huls, a board member of the Clear Lake TEA Party and Texas Border Volunteer, Mary Huls, the President of the Clear Lake TEA Party and Texas Border Volunteer, George Rodriguez, the South Texas coordinator for TEA Party Patriots and the President of the South Texas Political Alliance, Dwayne Stovall, the Director of Keep Texas Free, LLC and School Board Trustee for the Tarkington Independent School District, and Heidi Theiss, Vice President of the Clear Lake TEA Party and League City Council Member.   Continue reading “Texas Tea Party Leaders Release Plan to Secure Border, Criticize Perry”

Market Watch – by Danny Yadron

A hacker broke into part of the HealthCare.gov insurance enrollment website in July and uploaded malicious software, according to federal officials.

Investigators found no evidence that consumers’ personal data was taken in the breach, federal officials said. The hacker appears only to have accessed a server used to test code for HealthCare.gov. The Department of Health and Human Services discovered the attack last week.   Continue reading “Hacker breached HealthCare.gov insurance site”

CBS Tampa Bay

TAMPA, Fla. (CBS Tampa) — NASA announced that a small asteroid will safely pass “very close” to Earth on Sept. 7.

The asteroid, designated 2014 RC, will be roughly over New Zealand at the time of closest approach, which will be about 2:18 pm EDT based on current calculations. Astronomers estimate that the asteroid is about 60 feet in size.   Continue reading “NASA: Asteroid Will Pass ‘Very Close’ To Earth On Sunday”

We all know the number is a lot higher than this.

CNS News – by Ali Meyer

A record 92,269,000 Americans 16 and older did not participate in the labor force in August, as the labor force participation rate matched a 36-year low of 62.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The labor force participation rate has been as low as 62.8 percent in six of the last twelve months, but prior to last October had not fallen that low since 1978.   Continue reading “Record 92,269,000 Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Matches 36-Year Low”

The Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

Former top government officials who have been warning Washington about the vulnerability of the nation’s largely unprotected electric grid are raising new fears that troops from the jihadist Islamic State are poised to attack the system, leading to a power crisis that could kill millions.

“Inadequate grid security, a porous U.S.-Mexico border, and fragile transmission systems make the electric grid a target for ISIS,” said Peter Pry, one of the nation’s leading experts on the grid.

Others joining Pry at a press conference later Wednesday to draw attention to the potential threat said that if just a handful of the nation’s high voltage transformers were knocked out, blackouts would occur across the country.   Continue reading “New ISIS threat: America’s electric grid; blackout could kill 9 of 10”

Wolf Street – by Wolf Richter

The four largest banks in China, the banks that have to officially show big profits and profit growth no matter what because they’re an integral part not only of the government but also of China’s miraculous debt-driven expansion, are showing officially tolerated signs of increasing stress. For perspective, in 2009, following the Lehman moment, as other banks were collapsing and were bailed out, the profits of these four banks grew even then, if only by a combined 2.9%.   Continue reading “The Sky Is Falling on Chinese Corporations”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Alarmed at the anti-Russian hysteria sweeping Washington, and the specter of a new Cold War, U.S. intelligence veterans one of whom is none other than William Binney, the former senior NSA crypto-mathematician who back in March 2012 blew the whistle on the NSA’s spying programs more than a year before Edward Snowden, took the unusual step of sending the following memo dated August 30 to German Chancellor Merkel challenging the reliability of Ukrainian and U.S. media claims about a Russian “invasion.”   Continue reading “Ex-NSA Director, US Intelligence Veterans Write Open Letter To Merkel To Avoid All-Out Ukraine War”

Zero Hedge – by Phoenix Capital Research

The Central Bank policies of the last five years have damaged the capital markets to the point that the single most important item is no longer developments in the real world, but how Central banks will respond to said developments.

Let us take a moment to digest that. Before 2008, for the most part, when something happened in the world, an investor would think about how that issue would affect the markets.    Continue reading “Central Bank Have Set the Stage For a Disaster That Will Make 2008 Look Like a Joke”

Wolf Street – by Wolf Richter

Consumer spending, the key to the American economy, and by extension the global economy, is one of the most watched activities in the world, but results may vary, as they say, depending on who is doing the counting and what they’re counting.

The Gallup Daily tracking survey is one of those measures. The poll, based on telephone interviews of over 15,000 adults aged 18 and older each month, asks consumers the total amount they spent “yesterday,” not counting normal monthly bills and the purchase of a home or a vehicle. It’s Gallup’s measure of discretionary spending. And the results for August weren’t exactly what everyone had hoped for.   Continue reading “Consumer Spending in August Drops below a Year Ago – Gallup”

The Daily Star – by Joe Mahoney

COOPERSTOWN — When police are called out to deal with shootings, hostage incidents or other emergencies, they rarely know what’s on the other side of the door separating them from the possible mayhem inside.

Entering a barricaded home can pose especially grave dangers, according to law enforcement officials. But to spare officers from having to jeopardize their lives in such situations, police agencies across the country are turning to high-tech equipment such as tactical robots.   Continue reading “Sheriff asks county to approve police robot”

Yahoo News

NEWPORT Rhode Island (Reuters) – Russia and China are trying to close the technology gap with the U.S. military and developing weapons systems that appear designed to counter traditional U.S. advantages, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday.

Hagel was speaking before a NATO summit expected to bring Russia’s souring relations with the West into sharp focus and the goals of NATO allies to strengthen defense spending.   Continue reading “Russia, China aim to close military technology gap with U.S.: Hagel”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas — More than 6,000 immigrants, who came to the U.S. using student visas, are nowhere to be found on their school campuses. They have vanished.

According to ABC News, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that the missing 6,000 students are of “heightened concern.” Officials have not been able to successfully track down these individuals. Peter Edge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told ABC that some of the foreigners “could be here to do us harm. … My greatest concern is that they could be doing anything.”   Continue reading “Thousands of Immigrants ‘Disappear’ After Being Let into US With Student Visas”

RT

Abdirahmaan Muhumed, the second known American to die while fighting alongside Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants, was formerly an employee with a Delta Airlines subsidiary at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Muhumed had a security clearance at the airport, access to the tarmac, and access to planes, as his job was to clean aircraft, Fox 9 in Minneapolis reported. It is yet unknown what level of security clearance he had.   Continue reading “ISIS fighter killed in Syria worked at Minneapolis International Airport”