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Yahoo News

Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico’s foreign ministry late Friday protested Texas Governor Rick Perry’s deployment of National Guard troops to the southern US border to halt the surge of child migrants.

Mexico “reiterates, in a firm and categorical way, its rejection of this measure,” read a statement from the foreign ministry.

“No circumstance at all or change in border security exists that justifies this measure taken by the state.”   Continue reading “Mexico protests Texas National Guard troops on US border”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

A Texas rancher who spends $20,000 a year repairing damage that illegal immigrants do to his land says his biggest fear is getting sued by illegal immigrants who may get hurt or killed trespassing on his private ranch.

Presnall Cage, a Brooks County rancher who has found numerous dead illegal immigrants on his ranch, told the Guardian that he and other landowners were angered by “a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a neighbor” in 2007 by the family of illegal immigrants.    Continue reading “TX Rancher: Biggest Fear Is Getting Sued By Illegals Trespassing on Land”

Yahoo News – by Jason Sickles

FERGUSON, Mo. — Six months before he shot and killed an unarmed teenager, police Officer Darren Wilson earned a commendation for his “extraordinary effort in the line of duty.”

Yahoo News confirmed the award through the February 11 Ferguson City Council meeting minutes and photos Wilson’s father posted to his Facebook page.

“Very proud of my son, Darren Wilson on his receiving a Commendation from his Police Department,” John Wilson wrote on February 11. “Congratulations Son.”   Continue reading “Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before fatal shooting”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

HOUSTON, Texas—Breitbart Texas has learned that a story released yesterday by the Associated Press (AP), and subsequently picked up by other news outlets across Texas, is not correct. While there are Texas National Guardsmen on the border, they are not part of the Texas controlled deployment of 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard (TNG).

Yesterday, the AP reported that the deployment of TNG forces had begun as part of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s deployment of 1,000 soldiers to a portion of the Rio Grande Sector of the Texas-Mexico Border.  Subsequent to the AP’s report, several media outlets across Texas picked up the story. The outlets quoted TNG Master Sergeant Ken Walker as saying that several dozen soldiers deployed in the Rio Grande Valley are part of the up to 1,000 troops called up by Perry last month.    Continue reading “AP, Most Media Wrong on Texas Guard Border Deployment”

Your typical “Problem-Reaction-Solution” story here:

Yahoo News – by Michael Isikoff

U.S. counterterrorism officials have dramatically ramped up their warnings about the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), concluding that the well-armed group is expanding its ambitions outside the Middle East and may be planning terror attacks against western Europe — and even the U.S. homeland.   Continue reading “ISIL could pose threat to US, Europe, officials say”

Breitbart – by Merrill Hope

DALLAS, Texas — Room 1060 at the Earl Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas was the most compassionate place on earth, Monday, August 11, for minors who were in the various stages of the legal process for “Hearings on Removal Procedures” because they entered the United States through Texas illegally. This was the big rescheduled immigration court date, the result of the August 4 “no-show Monday.”   Continue reading “Illegal Minors Have A Field Day in Dallas Immigration Court”

Breitbart – by Caroline May

In response to an inquiry about unaccompanied minors from one of its school divisions, Virginia’s Department of Education issued a memo this month reminding its 132 divisions about their obligation to educate all children.

“In light of the heightened media coverage of the issue of undocumented immigrant children, VDOE provides the following updated information for your use in responding to community questions or issues,” says the memo distributed to the commonwealth’s 132 school divisions and obtained by Breitbart News.   Continue reading “Immigrant Children to Be Classified as ‘Homeless’ to Avoid School Enrollment Documentation Requirements”

The Telegraph – by Donna Bowater

Continue reading “‘Water war’ in Brazil as Rio’s supply threatened”

Yahoo News – by Saliou Samb

CONAKRY (Reuters) – Staff with the World Health Organisation battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africa see evidence the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak, the U.N. agency said on its website on Thursday.

The death toll from the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola stood on Wednesday at 1,069 from 1,975 confirmed, probable and suspected cases, the agency said. The majority were in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, while four people have died in Nigeria.   Continue reading “Evidence suggests Ebola toll vastly underestimated: WHO”

ABC News – by Chris Good

The Secret Service said it is “aware” of a photo that appeared to show an image of an ISIS flag in front of the White House.

If authentic, the photo showed a hand holding up an image of a flag for ISIS (also known as ISIL or Islamic State), displayed on a smartphone, on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House fence. That area, closed off to street traffic, is frequented by thousands of tourists every day.   Continue reading “Secret Service ‘Aware’ of Apparent ISIS Flag Photo in Front of the White House”

Breitbart – by JON FLEISCHMAN

If you like Obamacare, you’re going to love Proposition 45, the ballot initiative that would give one politician– liberal Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones–complete authority over health care costs and benefits for individuals and small businesses in California.

Worse, the trial lawyers who fund Jones’s campaigns wrote Prop 45 to help them make more money from frivolous lawsuits. When liberal politicians and trial lawyers conspire to change laws to benefit themselves, you can bet that taxpayers will get the short end of the stick.   Continue reading “Prop 45: CA Doubles Down On Obamacare With New ‘Health Care Czar’”

Fukushima Inform

In addition to the citizen scientist sampling network that is under construction the other pillar of the InFORM project is the collection of samples in the open North Pacific and Arctic Oceans.  The first samples for radionuclide analyses were collected by University of Victoria undergraduate student Kathryn Purdon on the first leg of the icebreaker CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s annual operations in Canada’s far North.   Continue reading “First InFORM Samples Collected to Track Fukushima Radionuclides”

RT

The number of killed and wounded in eastern Ukraine has doubled to 2,086 over the last two weeks, according to the UN’s “very conservative estimates”.

“This corresponds to a clear escalating trend,” UN human rights spokeswoman Cecile Pouilly told Reuters in response to a query.

Over 60 people have been killed or wounded every day, Pouilly added.   Continue reading “Death toll in Ukraine conflict doubles in 2 weeks, reaches 2,086 – UN”

Page Six – by Mara Siegler

Regulars at the Vineyard Golf Club in Martha’s Vineyard were gob-smacked when President Obama unexpectedly strolled onto a nearby green and they were immediately frisked. “There was no warning he was coming,” sniffed a guest.

“There was security on the way in, but no word as to why they were there.” The member added, “While eating, overlooking the golf course, guests had to stand up and be wanded.” One asked if he could finish his hot soup first, and an Obama security man cracked, ominously, “So, you’re not cooperating?”   Continue reading “Golfers frisked as Obama unexpectedly arrives at Martha’s Vineyard club”

Bloomberg – by Filipe Pacheco, Julia Leite and Ney Hayashi

Brazilian stocks and the real whipsawed higher and lower after a plane used by opposition presidential candidate Eduardo Campos crashed in Sao Paulo state.

Campos’s campaign confirmed it couldn’t reach him after a small plane went down in the port city of Santos, while Globo News and Folha de S. Paulo reported that the candidate had died. Campos, who was polling in third place ahead of the October elections, was flying to an event in the city of Guaruja at the time, according to O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper.   Continue reading “Brazil Markets Whipsawed After Candidate’s Plane Crash”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas — Tens of thousands of Central Americans have entered the country illegally since October 2013; most of them will be likely considered “refugees” and ultimately be allowed to remain in the U.S. Consequently, many of the migrants will receive welfare from the federal government, funded by taxpayers. Health and Human Services (HHS) documents, obtained by Breitbart Texas, show that significant federal funds go towards encouraging refugees to enroll in long term welfare programs, and towards administering such benefits directly.    Continue reading “HHS Promotes Cash Assistance and Obamacare for Foreign Refugees”