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The Wrap – by Tony Maglio and Sharon Waxman
An individual with knowledge of the network’s plans tell TheWrap a large portion are expected at the two cable channels
Some 550 buyouts are to be offered at Time Warner’s Turner network this week, including a large number of those at CNN and HLN, which will lead to layoffs if they are not taken voluntarily, according to an individual with knowledge of the network’s plans. Continue reading “550 Buyouts, Layoffs Imminent at Turner; HLN, CNN Among Cuts”
Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ
MCALLEN, Texas — Sheriff’s deputies, in the Texas border county of Starr, are looking for a prison gang member who allegedly shot at them over the weekend striking one of their patrol vehicles.
Information released from Starr County Sheriff’s Office shows the alleged shooting took place Saturday, just after 1:30 a.m., in a residential area just west of Rio Grande City. Officials responded to a call of a man, identified as Juan Antonio Perez, shooting off a gun. Continue reading “Prison Gang Member Allegedly Shoots at Texas Border Sheriff’s Deputies”
Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder
If you thought that the earthquake that struck northern California on Sunday was something, just wait until you see what is coming in the years ahead. As you will read about below, we live at a time when earthquake activity is dramatically increasing. This is especially true of the “Ring of Fire” which runs roughly along the outer perimeter of the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 81 percent of all big earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, and the entire west coast of the United States falls within the danger zone. Over the past few years, we have seen huge earthquake after huge earthquake strike various areas along the Ring of Fire, but up until now the California coastline has mostly been spared. However, there are indications that this may be about to change in a big way. Continue reading “Why The Earthquake Near San Francisco Is Just The Start Of The Shaking In California”
In an unexpected and interesting move, Burger King is in talks to buy Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Horton’s Inc., a merger that would be structured as a “tax inversion” which would effectively move Burger King’s headquarters to Canada (more specifically, my hometown of Oakville, Ontario). For those who are unfamiliar with Tim Horton’s, the brand is tantamount to Canada’s version of Dunkin Donuts that could just as easily adopt its own version of the tagline “America Runs on Dunkin” (think “Canada Runs on Tim Horton’s”). Tim Horton’s is no small coffee-shop chain. Tim Horton’s, Canada’s largest coffee-shop chain, has a market capitalization of about $8.4 billion, while Burger King’s market capitalization is about $9.6 billion; the proposed merger would form a new entity worth about $18 billion. Continue reading “Burger King’s Tax Inversion and Canada’s Favorable Corporate Tax Rates”
EL PASO, Texas — A Mexican national who was deported seven times from the U.S. after incarceration for crimes vows to illegally re-enter during an interview with Breitbart Texas. The discussion occurred across the U.S.-Mexico border at the point where Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico meet near El Paso, Texas. The only indications of the international boundary in the area were a sign and a few small steel posts driven in the ground. Continue reading “Seven-Time Deported Criminal Alien Vows Return to US in Cross-Border Interview”
China’s Inner Mongolia is hosting the biggest military drill ever held by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The training of 7,000 servicemen from five SCO member states is set to test troops’ effectiveness in fighting terrorism.
The Peace Mission-2014 drill, being conducted from August 24 to 29 in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was declared open by Deputy Chief of Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s General Staff Wang Ning, who is supervising the military training. Continue reading “China hosts largest ever military drill with Russia, other SCO nations”
In an unexpected discovery, hundreds of gas plumes bubbling up from the seafloor were spotted during a sweeping survey of the U.S. Atlantic Coast.
Even though ocean explorers have yet to test the gas, the bubbles are almost certainly methane, researchers report today (Aug. 24) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
“We don’t know of any explanation that fits as well as methane,” said lead study author Adam Skarke, a geologist at Mississippi State University in Mississippi State. Continue reading “Hundreds of Methane Plumes Erupting Along East Coast”
Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ
MCALLEN, Texas — Border Patrol agents seized more than $650,000 in cash that had been left behind near the Rio Grande River that separates Texas from Mexico.
The seizure was made Thursday night when U.S. Border Patrol Agents following a set of footprints near Sullivan City ended up coming across four backpacks filled with bulk cash and a little more than a kilo of cocaine, an agency news release shows. Continue reading “Texas Border Bust: Cash, Weapons and Grenades Seized”
Budget pressures at the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division are cutting the number of investigators there to the lowest level in four decades, and officials say the changes are forcing the division to scale back its fight of financial crime.
It will also hurt government coffers, they add, since IRS probes can bring in hefty fines.
The division investigates a variety of financial misconduct, from tax fraud and money laundering to identity theft, narcotics and counter-terrorism. Federal prosecutors around the country often seek help for cases involving money issues. Continue reading “Exclusive: IRS enforcement agent numbers could drop to lowest levels since 1970s”
Robo Brain – a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources – is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals. The information is being translated and stored in a robot-friendly format that robots will be able to draw on when they need it.
To serve as helpers in our homes, offices and factories, robots will need to understand how the world works and how the humans around them behave. Robotics researchers have been teaching them these things one at a time: How to find your keys, pour a drink, put away dishes, and when not to interrupt two people having a conversation. This will all come in one package with Robo Brain. Continue reading “‘Robo Brain’ will teach robots everything from the Internet”
Yahoo News – by Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal
EDGARTOWN Mass./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the distribution of military hardware to state and local police out of concern at how such equipment has been used during racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
The president ordered the examination of federal programs and funding that enable state and local law enforcement to purchase such equipment, a senior Obama administration official said on Saturday.
Images of police wielding military-style guns and armor have shocked many Americans following clashes that were triggered by the fatal shooting of a black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson two weeks ago. Continue reading “Obama orders review of U.S. police use of military hardware”
Sergeant Dan Page of the St. Louis County Police Department was caught earlier this week participating in what seemed like a staged CNN broadcast in Ferguson where he shoved reporter Don Lemon while standing with peaceful protesters.
YouTube activist The Black Child noticed the encounter on CNN and quickly identified Page and exposed his radical views in the video below. The Black Child pulled clips from a 2012 lecture given by Sergeant Page where he gives detailed plans of a military police state takeover of America. Continue reading “St. Louis Cop Suspended After Radical Views Are Exposed by YouTuber”
With their proposals defeated in Congress for now, pro-amnesty activists have dropped off the radar while President Obama considers a major executive action that Republicans have warned could precipitate a constitutional crisis.
August recess town halls have also been relatively quiet, devoid of reports of pro-amnesty demonstrations. The border crisis has dominated many such events, with lawmakers taking tough questions from constituents, but few have dealt with protests when they make themselves available to constituents. Continue reading “Crickets From Amnesty Activists In August”
DENVER (CBS4) – The conflict in Ferguson, Mo., where an unarmed teen was shot by police has raised the issue whether police agencies are becoming too militarized. And records show several Colorado law enforcement agencies have an array of equipment that the military no longer needs.
CBS4 Investigator Rick Sallinger looked at what local agencies have gotten and how they’re using it.
Rather than throw it away, the Department of Defense gives items they no longer need away to local police agencies. But the trouble in Missouri has raised questions whether militarization has gone too far. Continue reading “Colorado Law Enforcement Agencies Obtain Unwanted Military Equipment”
So are they going to drag this whole event out until October then? Pathetic.
The Missouri grand jury that began considering evidence today in the police killing of an unarmed man won’t decide whether to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson until October “at the earliest,” a spokesman for the local prosecutor said. Continue reading “Ferguson Prosecutor Says No Charge Decision Until October”
GENEVA (AP) — The death toll from three years of Syria’s civil war has risen to more than 191,000 people, the United Nations reported Friday.
The figure, covering the period from March 2011 to April 2014, is the first issued by the U.N.’s human rights office since July 2013, when it documented more than 100,000 killed. Continue reading “UN: death toll from Syrian civil war tops 191,000”
CHICAGO (CBS) — Is the same radical group that executed a U.S. journalist this week making threats in Chicago?
An ominous post on Twitter, purportedly from somebody connected with Islamic State, shows a photo of the Old Republic Building, 307 N. Michigan Ave. and the White House. Continue reading “Ominous Tweet Connects ISIS Threat In Chicago”
New York Times – by MICHAEL R. GORDON and HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON — The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday.
“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” said the chairman, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, in his most expansive public remarks on the crisis since American airstrikes began in Iraq. “Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no.” Continue reading “U.S. General Says Raiding Syria Is Key to Halting ISIS”
FALFURRIAS – Brooks County remains a busy human-smuggling corridor despite the reported drop in illegal crossings, area ranchers said.
The ranchers feel different groups along the border are sending mixed messages about the reality of the border crisis.
Recent remarks by McAllen Chamber of Commerce officials forced a group in Brooks County to draft a letter asking for the truth to be told about illegal immigration. Continue reading “Brooks County Landowners Want Unified Front against Illegal Immigration”
HIDALGO – Violence continues in the Mexican border city of Reynosa.
Reynosa officials confirmed a shooting happened Wednesday morning. The firefight spread panic among the residents, they said.
Reynosa residents said gun battles have become commonplace in the city. Wednesday’s shooting left one soldier dead, according to Tamaulipas state officials. Continue reading “Violence Rages on in border city Reynosa”
Forbes – by Jon Hartley
Breitbart – by Brandon Darby
RT
Yahoo News – by Becky Oskin
Phys Org
Activist Post
Breitbart – by Caroline May
CBS Denver
Yahoo News – by John Heilprin
CBS Chicago – by John Dodge
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