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Washington Post – by Greg Miller and Joby Warrick
The bases are expected to begin conveying limited shipments of weapons and ammunition within weeks, officials said, serving as critical nodes for an escalation of U.S. involvement in a civil war that has lately seen a shift in momentum toward the forces of President Bashar al-Assad. Continue reading “CIA preparing to deliver rebels arms through Turkey and Jordan”
BizPac Review – by Cheryl Carpenter Klimek
Last week, the Nevada legislature passed a radical gun bill which the governor pledged to veto. In spite of interference and threats from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group, Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed the bill as promised.
The main sticking point was that private citizens in Nevada selling firearms to each other would have to run background checks. Continue reading “NV governor snubs NYC mayor’s threats, vetoes anti-gun bill”
Huffington Post – by TAMI ABDOLLAH
LOS ANGELES — John Zawahri left a farewell note in which he expressed remorse for killing his father and brother but left no explanation for the rampage that left them and three others dead in Santa Monica, police said Thursday.
The three- to four-page handwritten note was found on Zawahri’s body after he was shot and killed June 7 by officers on the campus of Santa Monica College, Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said at a news conference. Continue reading “John Zawahri, Santa Monica Gunman, Penned Apology Note, Police Say”
Earlier today, a report was posted that Doug Hagmann, host of The Hagmann & Hagmann Report was involved in an altercation with armed authorities while driving on a city street early this morning. As reported, he suddenly and inexplicably found himself surrounded by police SUV vehicles and a cadre of police officers treating him as if he was a terrorist threat. Continue reading “Hagmann unhurt after law enforcement incident”
Politico – by ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN
Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.
The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive. Continue reading “Obamacare? We were just leaving …”
Mr. Conservative – by Warner Todd Huston
Jose Manuel Martinez claims to have been a hired gun for a Mexican drug cartel and recently confessed to having killed 30 Americans across the United States over the last 20 years.
The alleged killer was apprehended trying to cross the border into Mexico in Arizona and was extradited to Alabama where he faces charges. Continue reading “Hitman Admits To Killing 30 Americans, Paid For By Drug Cartels”
Electronic Frontier Foundation – by Dave Maas
The California legislature is considering suspending important provisions of the state’s public records act, giving local agencies the authority to unilaterally ignore procedures designed to ensure government transparency.
Senate Bill 71, which could come up for a vote Saturday, would allow government bodies on the local level—such as cities, counties, sheriff’s departments and education systems—to choose whether or not to follow certain requirements under the California Public Records Act. These provisions would be downgraded from law to mere “best practices.” Gone would be the deadlines for determining whether records are disclosable and notifying the member of the public who requested the records. Gone would be the requirement that agencies assist members of the public in identifying which records would answer their questions. Gone would be the mandate that agencies turn over documents in an electronic format if the records have already been digitized. Continue reading “Transparency in California Should Not Be Optional”
Northeast Intelligence Network – by Doug Hagmann
The question hit me like a lightning bolt as I looked in the mirror upon awaking this morning. Am I a traitor to my country, to my fellow citizens of the United States of America? Have I abandoned all sound reason and logic and lost my moral compass? Have I somehow sold out my ideals and thereby my family, friends and fellow reporters? Apparently someone in this administration must believe I am a traitor and lost my way, for I am the target of active telephone monitoring by the National Security Agency (NSA), a branch of the Department of Defense and an agency tasked with monitoring foreign intelligence and communications. Continue reading “Am I a traitor?”
A chemical plant has exploded in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, less than two days after a deadly blast in the nearby town of Geismar. At least one person was killed Friday evening, and some eight injured.
Sheriff Jeff Wiley told The Baton Rougue Advocate that an 18-wheeler truck was being loaded with product at CF industries when it exploded. CF Industries is the largest producer of nitrogen in North America, shipping out 5 million tons of the combustible chemical for agricultural and industrial use annually. Continue reading “Louisiana rocked by week’s second chemical plant blast”
The UN is about to go to war for the first time in its history after the Security Council voted unanimously to intervene to fight rebels in the Congo.
Around 3,000 UN troops wearing the blue insignia, are being deployed to the central African nation which has been wracked by years of civil war and lawlessness. Continue reading “The UN Prepares To Go To War For The First Time, with a 3,000-strong task force sent to fight rebels in the Congo”
An Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the agency’s political targeting scandal has reportedly been fired and has since “dropped off the edge of the world,” according to a new report from National Review Online.
Holly Paz, the director of the agency’s Rulings and Agreements office, was fired last Friday, according to the NRO report, and her agency-issued computer, phone, and Blackberry have shown no activity since.
“As of Thursday, the voice mail on Paz’s work phone remains active and callers are asked to leave a message for Paz, though nobody answered repeated calls placed to that number,” the report notes. Continue reading “First Head To Roll? New Report Claims Top IRS Official Fired, Has ‘Dropped Off The Edge Of The World’”
Warrior Talk News – by John Chambers
In the course of my military career, I was “blessed” with the opportunity to train with, and serve with, many of our international allies. Since I was part of a Long Range Surveillance Detachment, the units we trained and worked with tended to be very interesting, and very well equipped with a variety of weapons. Whether they were German Paras, British Ghurkas, or Japanese Intelligence troops, these soldiers were highly trained and I took every opportunity to become familiar with their weapons, and to learn from their experiences with those weapons. Continue reading “Advantages of the G3 and the HK System”
AlterNet – by Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins
If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be powerless to shut down imports of unsafe food or food ingredients. And if it tries, multinational corporations will be able to sue the U.S. government for the loss of anticipated future profits. Continue reading “Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety”
In November 2011, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told an audience at MIT, “I don’t listen to Washington very much, which is something they’re not thrilled about.” He didn’t listen because he didn’t have to. “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world,” Bloomberg bragged.
That boast–crude and alarming as it was–sort of just hung in the air, slowly losing its stench. Yesterday, Bloomberg revived it, this time while announcing that he didn’t want the Justice Department overseeing the NYPD in the event a federal judge deems stop-and-frisk unconstitutional. Continue reading “Constitutionally Illiterate Michael Bloomberg Doesn’t Want the DOJ Monitoring His Stop-and-Frisk “Military””
Marking “the sixth month anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary,” Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns launches a 25-state 100-day “No More Names: The National Drive to Reduce Gun Violence” bus tour today from Newtown, Conn., with the stated purpose of ginning up support for new federal “gun control” laws.
“All day, family members, faith leaders, elected officials and the Newtown community are coming together to read the names of those murdered by guns and call on Congress to act,” MAIG states on the project’s website. Continue reading “Bloomberg bus tour coy with locations and dates for a reason”
Washington Times – by Dave Boyer
The White House Friday defended the first family’s upcoming weeklong trip to Africa, which could cost taxpayers up to $100 million, as “great bang for our buck.”
“There will be a great bang for our buck for being in Africa because when you travel to regions like Africa that don’t get a lot of presidential attention, you tend to have very longstanding and long-running impact from the visit,” said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to President Obama. Continue reading “White House defends high bills for Africa trip”
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Daily Mail – by Daniel Miller
The Blaze – by Becket Adams
Reason – by Mike Riggs
Examiner – by David Codrea