Category: News

Mint Press News – by Jon Queally

New documents obtained by the Associated Press under a Feedom of Infomation Act request appear to reveal that high-level officials knew in advance that British agents were attempting to destroy documents leaked by Edward Snowden that were contained on computers owned by the Guardian newspaper.

Though the the “White House had publicly distanced itself on whether it would do the same to an American news organization,” reports the AP, the internal NSA emails show “senior intelligence officials were notified of Britain’s intent to retrieve the Snowden documents and that one senior U.S. official appeared to praise the effort.”   Continue reading “US Officials Conversed About UK Attempt to Destroy Guardian Files”

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Raw Story – by David Edwards

Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol may have thrust Sarah Palin into the national spotlight by being one of the first to push for her to be vice president in 2008, but he has now decided that she “makes Republicans look extreme” because she called to impeach President Barack Obama.

In a column on the conservative website Breitbart last week, the former Alaska governor argued that it was “time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.”   Continue reading “Even Bill Kristol wants Palin to STFU about impeachment: She ‘makes Republicans look extreme’”

Reuters – by FERAS BOSALUM AND ULF LAESSING

Heavy fighting broke out between rival militias vying for control of Libya’s main airport on Sunday, killing at least seven people and forcing a halt of all flights in the worst fighting in the capital for six months.

Explosions and anti-aircraft gunfire were heard from early morning on the airport road and other parts of Tripoli until the situation seemed to calm down in the late afternoon.

Residents said that militiamen from the northwestern region of Zintan who had controlled the airport came under fire, and local TV footage suggested that the attacking rebels were from the western city of Misrata.   Continue reading “Heavy fighting breaks out near Libya’s Tripoli airport, seven dead”

American Everyman – by Scott Creighton

New York Times mission statement:

If you can’t find anything good to say about Israel, don’t say anything at all.

I went looking this morning for all the news that’s fit to print about Israel bombing the crap out of civilians in Gaza supposedly for the alleged murder of three young college students in the occupied West Bank and guess what I found out?    Continue reading “NYT: “If you can’t find anything good to say about Israel, don’t say anything at all””

American Everyman – by Scott Creighton

plural noun: apologists a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial. “an enthusiastic apologist for fascism in the 1920s“

synonyms: defender, supporter, upholder, advocate, proponent,exponent, propagandist, championcampaigner;

There are tons of rabid apologists lurking all about the social media platforms ready to do Israel’s bidding while the IDF commits one crime against humanity after another in Gaza. Go ahead and Tweet something honest about what is going on and you’ll see what I mean.   Continue reading “Israel Paying Students (30 pieces of silver?) to be Apologists for Israel”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

As this Sunday comes and goes, I will not be attending church. With a scant few exceptions the church has been invaded in the same manner that our Constitution has been obliterated.

Refusing to Stand Up to Evil

As the country struggles to come to grip with the illegal alien invasion, which threatens our economy, our collective health and out national sovereignty, we are unable to look to our churches to provide the leadership needed in this time of crisis. Continue reading “Is Your Church Part Of The New World Order?”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

Yesterday afternoon, I happened to read a seemingly innocuous enough article in Time by Justin Lynch titled: Bloggers, Surveillance and Obama’s Orwellian State. The article covered the usual bases. Such as the fact the Obama Administration is the least transparent ever, how it has attacked whistleblowers and journalists more than all other Presidents combined, and how citizen journalists pose a threat to the corrupt and dying status quo. All things that we already know.   Continue reading “Pentagon Correspondent for the New York Times Refers to American Citizens as “Children””

My Budget 360

Over the last decade the U.S. has entered into a low wage economic trend impacting the overall economy. The result has been for many once middle class familiesto fall one or two rungs lower on the economic ladder. Many corporations have boosted their bottom line by using slack in the labor force to cut wages, slash benefits, and ultimately filter more profits away from workers. This is how you achieve a record level in the stock market yet wages have been stagnant for well over a generation adjusting for that pesky background “noise” of inflation.   Continue reading “How the US is Creating a Low Wage Workforce”

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RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — A Greyhound bus headed from St. Louis to New York City collided Sunday with a car on an eastern Indiana highway, killing one person and injuring at least 18 others, an official said.

The accident happened Sunday morning on Interstate 70 near Richmond, which is about 70 miles east of Indianapolis and 35 miles west of Dayton, Ohio, where it planned to make a stop. Authorities temporarily closed all lanes of the highway before reopening them about three hours later.   Continue reading “Bus, car collide in Indiana, 1 dead, 18 hurt”

RT News

Prototypes of the US Navy’s much vaunted electromagnetic railguns were unveiled this week. The new technology, capable of firing projectiles at up to 5,600 miles per hour, is set to revolutionize naval warfare.

The Navy demonstrated two working railgun prototypes aboard the USS Millinocket in San Diego, developed by the Office of Naval Research. The high-tech weapons function by using an electrical pulse which creates an electromagnetic force to propel a projectile   Continue reading “US Navy unveils electromagnetic railgun prototypes”

Opposing Views – by Sarah Fruchtnicht

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman and Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk say the White House is sending undocumented immigrant children to their states without any notice.

Kirk, a Republican, told Fox News that 748 unaccompanied minors were transferred from areas bordering Chicago. He said the exact locations of the facilities housing the children are unknown and speculates that the White House did not want the children’s living conditions made public.   Continue reading “Nebraska, Illinois Claim Undocumented Children Being Sent There Without Notice”

The Free Thought Project – by Cassandra Rules

Jason Shuck, a Springfield, Missouri, police officer is being charged with only a misdemeanor after shooting a fleeing pan handler in the back on May 9th, which means he may be eligible to return to the force after his paid leave.

His victim, Eric Butts, has been diagnosed with mental illnesses including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and was unarmed and fleeing when the officer shot him.

Butts was seriously injured and kept in the hospital for a week.  He now has 31 staples in his stomach and must use a colostomy bag.    Continue reading “Cop Mistakes GUN for TASER; Shoots Unarmed Man and May Keep Job”

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VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Germany put a brave face on an escalating espionage dispute, stressing on Sunday the importance of their cooperation to solving several global crises but offering little indication they’ve fully mended ties.

After a meeting on the sidelines of nuclear talks in Vienna, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry each extolled the value of the two NATO allies’ work together on issues such as Iran and Israeli-Palestinian violence.   Continue reading “US, Germany vow cooperation despite espionage spat”

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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York-bound Delta Air Lines flight from Israel declared an emergency and returned to Tel Aviv early Sunday after developing a mechanical problem, vexing passengers already on edge as Palestinian militants launched rocket attacks on the city.

Flight 469 — a Boeing 747 with 370 passengers and 17 crew members aboard — landed safely back at Ben Gurion Airport around 2:30 a.m. local time after flaps on the jumbo jet failed to retract properly on takeoff about two hours earlier, the airline said.   Continue reading “Israel-NYC flight makes safe emergency landing”

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VIENNA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and fellow foreign ministers are adding their diplomatic muscle to try and advance troubled nuclear talks with Iran, with a target date only a week away for a pact meant to curb programs Tehran could turn to making atomic arms.

Deep differences separate the two sides and six world powers and Iran appear set to extend their talks past July 20. That would give more time to negotiate a deal that would limit the scope of such programs in exchange for a full lifting of nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Tehran.   Continue reading “Kerry in Vienna; extension of nuclear talks likely”

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A rookie police officer responding to an armed robbery call at a 24-hour drugstore was fatally shot early Sunday by a suspect who had snatched a gun from an armed security guard inside, officials said.

Jersey City Officer Melvin Santiago, 23, was shot in the head while still in his police vehicle as he and his partner responded to a call at a Walgreens at about 4.a.m., Mayor Steven Fulop said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.   Continue reading “Jersey City officer killed during armed robbery”

International Solidarity Movement

Israeli airstrikes bombed a major water line and sewage plant west of Gaza City, last Wednesday afternoon, which provides water to tens of thousands of citizens and is regarded as the main water line for al-Shati refugee camp west of the city.

The director of the Water Department in the Municipality of Gaza, Saad Eddin Al-Atbash stated, “Israeli aircraft targeted a sewage plant west of the city, which serves the areas of al-Shati Camp, Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, Sheikh Ajlin, and the western areas of Gaza City, which pumps 25,000 cubic meters of waste water daily to the public treatment plant.” He continued, “While the city is working on improving the water supply systems for the citizens in Gaza, Israeli forces are working on the destruction of water wells in order to increase the suffering of the citizens during the summer.”   Continue reading “Israel airstrike bombs major water line, sewage station and water wells in Gaza”