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Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel
The cities of San Francisco and Seattle are testing a new way to report homeless encampments or “tent cities” via dialing 311 or using an app. Meanwhile, LA lawmakers are pushing to ban homeless people from parks, schools, and other designated areas, LA Times reported. Continue reading “Cities Unveil Unethical Homeless Reporting, While LA Pushes Anti-Homeless Law”
Up to twenty employees at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Facility (MMC) where Jeffrey Epstein died have been subpoenaed in connection with the wealthy pedophile’s unbelievable suicide.
Federal investigators obtained the grand jury subpoenaes while trying to understand what exactly happened leading up to Epstein’s suicide in what CNN reports to be “a new and significant phase in what appears to be a criminal investigation into the workers responsible for Epstein’s detention.” Continue reading “Grand Jury Subpoenas Issued For Up To 20 Officers At NYC Prison Where Epstein Died”
The Oregonian – by Gordon R. Friedman
In its inaugural year, Portland’s free legal assistance program for immigrants provided at least 341 people with lawyers to represent them in deportation hearings according to the initiative’s manager, Stephen Manning.
The program, called Universal Representation, also helped at least 105 would-be refugees apply for asylum. And of the people served, 23 were unaccompanied immigrant children, Manning, the founder and director of the Immigration Law Lab, said in an interview Tuesday. Continue reading “Roughly 450 migrants received free legal help from Portland to fight deportation, seek asylum”
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported child sex offender who illegally re-entered the U.S. with a group of migrants that included a juvenile.
Agents patrolling eastern Arizona received a call for assistance from the Greenlee County Sheriff’s Office near Clifton on the morning of August 19. When the agents arrived, they observed a group of two men, one woman, and a juvenile, according to Tucson Sector officials. Continue reading “Previously Deported Child Sex Offender Arrested with Migrant Group in Arizona”
Left-wing and establishment conservative billionaires are teaming up to censor the Internet.
Organizations established by left-winger George Soros and libertarian Charles Koch have been working together on a key priority of globalist neoliberals and neoconservatives: censorship of the Internet. Continue reading “Bokhari: The Koch-Soros Alliance to Censor the Internet”
Wikipedia, the online Encyclopedia, which has been routinely accused of left wing bias, has a list of ICE facilities under a section titled “concentration and internment camps,” and is keeping it there despite critics requesting it be removed.
The list of ICE facilities reappeared on the concentration camps page after Democrats, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, used the rhetoric to describe US holding centers on the border with Mexico. Continue reading “Wikipedia Has ICE Facilities Listed Under ‘Concentration And Internment Camps’ Section”
Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos
A new analysis reveals that the United States is expected to be the main contributor to a “looming carbon time bomb.”
Released Tuesday by human and environmental rights group Global Witness, the report (pdf) shows how the U.S. is on track to dwarf other nations’ shares of new oil and gas production over the next decade. In fact, says the analysis, 61 percent of all new global production is likely to come from the United States. Continue reading “US Set to Blow Other Countries Away With ‘Staggering’ Scale of New Oil and Gas Production”
In the wake of last week’s Philadelphia shootout between alleged gunman Maurice Hill and police, US Attorney William McSwain was quick to blame Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner – who McSwain said promoted “a new culture of disrespect for law enforcement in this City.”
“It started with chants at the DA’s victory party – chants of “F*** the police” and “No good cops in a racist system,” wrote McSwain. Continue reading “Philly Cop-Shooter Was Federal Informant”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his administration would seek to close background check loopholes for gun purchases after Democrats accused him of reversing course on gun control measures.
Trump spoke with the leader of the National Rifle Association lobbying group, Wayne LaPierre, on Tuesday, a White House official said. Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump said he did not tell LaPierre, whose group strongly opposes increased gun restrictions, that he would avoid pursuing measures on background checks. Continue reading “Trump says he will push to close background check loopholes for gun buys”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration was seriously looking at ending the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of noncitizens and people who immigrated to the United States illegally.
“We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land, you walk over the border, have a baby – congratulations, the baby is now a U.S. citizen. … It’s frankly ridiculous,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. Continue reading “Trump says he is seriously looking at ending birthright citizenship”
President Donald Trump claimed to laughter on Wednesday that he sought to give himself a Medal of Honor, but decided not to after being counseled against the move by aides.
The offhand remark from the president came during his address to the 75th annual national convention of American Veterans, a volunteer-led veterans service organization also known as AMVETS. Continue reading “Trump says he wanted to give himself Medal of Honor”
The Department of Homeland Security is issuing a Flores regulation which will allow border agencies to detain migrants and children for multiple weeks until their legal claims for asylum can be completed.
The regulation replaces the 2015 court-ordered Flores rule which said migrants with children must be released after 20 days, even if officials suspect the migrants are ineligible for asylum. Continue reading “DHS Issues Regulation Closing the Flores Catch-and-Release Loophole”
Survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre on Wednesday released a sweeping gun-control plan that would ban assault-style rifles and take other steps in hopes of halving U.S. firearms deaths and injuries within a decade.
The group’s leaders addressed the proposal, which includes a measure to register more young voters, to 2020 candidates seeking the presidential nomination, asking them to make gun control a top priority. Continue reading “Parkland massacre survivors post sweeping U.S. gun-control plan ahead of 2020 election”
U.S. federal authorities said they have arrested a Florida truck driver who “was thinking about shooting up a church” in Memphis this week, making him at least the fourth person this month charged with plotting a mass shooting.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Thomas McVicker, 38, in Indianapolis on Monday after a friend in Alabama alerted agents to text messages he sent in which he described his plans for a mass shooting and suicide, according to court papers. Continue reading “Florida trucker arrested, charged with plotting church shooting”
Another Shiite militia base near Baghdad has been attacked by airstrikes from an unknown source on Tuesday, one week after a huge blast ripped through a separate pro-Iran militia weapons storehouse near the Iraqi capital’s ‘Green Zone’.
Arabic media published images of a massive cloud of smoke coming from the Balad Air Base (also known as al-Bakr base) north of Baghdad, with Iraqi officials confirming the airstrikes. The attack is already being blamed on Israel, and comes following Iraq late last week shutting down its airspace to all ‘unauthorized’ flights not specifically approved at the top levels of the Iraqi government and military. Continue reading “Mystery Airstrike Rocks Baghdad Base With US Forces Present; Netanyahu Hints Israel Active Over Iraq”
In what could potentially become a monumental roadblock in US-North Korea nuclear talks, despite all recent good-will expressed between Kim and Trump through exchange of “beautiful” letters, a major annual Japanese defense review seen by Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper will say for the first time that Pyongyang likely already possesses warheads in the form of miniaturized nuclear weapons. Continue reading “North Korea Has Achieved Nuclear Warheads, Japan Claims”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Bridgeport, CT — A Connecticut cop has been suspended this week after video surfaced showing him bash a teen in the head with his pistol for seemingly no reason at all. At the time the officer struck the teen, the teen’s arms were in the air and he was listening to officer commands. Continue reading “Cop Suspended After Smashing Unarmed Teen’s Head In With His Pistol”
Nearly two weeks after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency raided five food processing plants in Mississippi for their hiring of hundreds of illegal aliens, no employers have yet been charged, federal records reveal.
This month, ICE agents conducted the largest workplace raid in more than a decade across five food processing plants in Mississippi, netting the arrests of 680 illegal aliens. That same day, however, ICE officials said they released about 300 of the illegal workers back into the U.S. on “humanitarian grounds.” More than 200 of the illegal workers had prior criminal records. The raids have already resulted in job fairs at some of the plants seeking to hire locals. Continue reading “Mississippi ICE Raids: No Employers Charged Yet for Hiring Illegal Aliens”
Two days before his untimely death in a Manhattan jail, Jeffrey Epstein signed a will listing over $577 million in assets – around $18 million more than stated weeks ago in court filings.
The assets were transferred to a trust as of August 8, ensuring that the details of how his fortune will be distributed are kept private. Continue reading “Epstein Created $577 Million Trust Days Before His Death”
Beijing has accused Twitter and Facebook of censoring mainland Chinese people’s views on the Hong Kong protests, after the social networks disabled accounts allegedly linked to a state-backed media campaign. Continue reading “China accuses Twitter & Facebook of censorship over Hong Kong protest criticism”