Iraqi security forces take part in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in Adhaim, a village in Diyala province north of Baghdad November 13, 2014. REUTERS/StringerReuters

Iraq will need about 80,000 effective military troops to retake the terrain it lost to Islamic State militants and restore its border with Syria, the top U.S. general said on Thursday.

“We’re going to need about 80,000 competent Iraqi security forces to recapture territory lost, and eventually the city of Mosul, to restore the border,” Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, told a congressional hearing.   Continue reading “Iraq needs 80,000 good troops to retake lost territory: U.S. general”

Ebola in West AfricaCNS News – by Brittany M. Hughes

President Barack Obama issued a memorandum Thursday immunizing federal contractors hired to address the Ebola outbreak in West Africa against lawsuits for importing Ebola into the United States.

The president’s directive gives the administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) the authority to indemnify companies from lawsuits related to “contracts performed in Africa in support of USAID’s response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa where the contractor, its employees, or subcontractors will have significant exposure to Ebola.”   Continue reading “Obama Immunizes Gov’t Contractors From Being Sued for Importing Ebola to US”

Bill of RightsEAG News – by Brad McQueen

TUCSON, Ariz. – Studies Weekly touts itself as “America’s new textbook” and thinks it’s a good thing that it has teachers in at least 30% of public and private schools in all fifty states subscribing to its weekly Common Core-aligned publications.

Parents who want their kids to accurately learn their freedoms as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution may have a different opinion, however.

According to Ednet online, the Studies Weekly periodical was first published by Studies Weekly president and founder Ed Rickers when he was a fourth grade teacher who did not have a traditional history textbook for his classroom in 1984.   Continue reading “Bill of Rights gets disturbing makeover in major classroom publication”

The Hill

On the heels of announcing an unexpected, landmark deal with China to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Obama will commit $3 billion over the next four years to the United Nations Green Climate Fund, a White House official told The Hill on Friday.

“It is in our national interest to help vulnerable countries to build resilience to climate change,” the official said on Friday.   Continue reading “Obama to pledge $3B to UN fund aiding poor nations’ climate fight”

Veterans Today – by Jonas E. Alexis

“One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”[1]

In the Fellowship of the Ring, the Dark Lord Sauron tries mightily to rule Middle Earth with the One Ring which he forged in the fires of Mount Doom.

“He only needs the One; for he made that Ring himself, it is his, and he let a great part of his own former power pass into it, so that he could rule all the others.”[2]     Continue reading “One Zionist Ring to Rule Them All”

Russian News – by Zhanna Bezpyatchuk

This article originally appeared at Euromaidan Press, a leading Ukrainian, pro-Poroshenko news outlet

Kyiv – The families of the fallen servicemen, as well as wounded fighters, participants of the ATO, will be able to receive free land lots in Kyiv, stated city head Vitaly Klitschko on Tuesday. As such, the Kyiv City Council plans to create a special committee during the nearest session to accept applications and determine the queue for receiving land lots. However, the city officials are not ready to name exact terms in which according decisions will be made and the land lots allocated. So far Vitaly Klitschko has personally inspected 10 hectares of land in the village of Bykivnya, which is intended for 38 families of the fallen soldiers.

Continue reading “Out of Cash, Kiev Offers to Pay Soldiers with Land”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

Watchdog group Judicial Watch is filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The group is requesting “all records” related to an Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Field Office Juvenile Coordination meeting that took place in February — obtaining such records could shed light onto whether or not the federal government planned major border crisis that occurred this year.

ERO is a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that apprehends and removes illegal aliens who “present a danger to national security or are a risk to public safety, as well as those who enter the United States illegally.”   Continue reading “Judicial Watch Sues Feds to Obtain Border Crisis Records”

MassPrivateI

DHS must be pissing themselves laughing at their “See Something Everyone’s a Criminal” program, otherwise known as “See Something Say Something.

Univ. of Waterloo Police Services (UWPS) confirmed that the two incidents involving a tall, Asian, male suspect who approached two female students on campus were cases of an individual being “socially awkward.”

UW police received 20-30 tips in connection before they identified the suspect.

Continue reading ““Socially awkward” students now deemed suspicious by DHS/police”

CBS News

For the last year, the country’s largest police force has been increasingly concerned about a potential terror attack from the air by a drone armed with a deadly weapon.

Now, they are far along in planning a response to that possible security threat, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues.

“We look at it as something that could be a terrorist’s tool,” New York Police Department Deputy Chief Salvatore DiPace said.    Continue reading “NYPD scanning the sky for new terrorism threat”

The final moments before Deputy Tyler Brockman killed Samantha Ramsey while fleeing from a party. (Image: YouTube)Police State USA

HEBRON, KY — Police charged into a darkened field trying to arrest teenagers for consuming alcohol without government permission, and killed a young woman in the process.

The deadly raid occurred in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26th, 2014. After witnessing “cars full of juveniles” and “hear[ing] loud music and people screaming,” Boone County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Brockman radioed for “several patrol cars for assistance, as it seem[ed] like a large party with underage drinking was going on,” according to an official report.   Continue reading “No indictment: Kentucky cops raid teenagers’ field party, kill girl who tried to escape”

Reuters / Adrees Latif RT

Apple customers are being warned by computer security experts, including the United States government’s own cyber squad, to watch out for a new bug affecting iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.

The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, said Thursday that users of mobile phones and tablets running Apple’s latest iOS software should be careful of what they click. A so-called “masque attack” is taking users by storm, tricking iPhone and iPad owners into installing malicious software resembling legitimate applications but actually embedded with code that could compromise an entire device.   Continue reading “US government warns iOS users their devices may be in danger”

Chuck HagelMail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is ordering top-to-bottom changes in how the nation’s nuclear arsenal is managed, vowing to invest billions of dollars more to fix what ails a force beset by leadership lapses, security flaws and sagging morale.

Hagel is scheduled to announce Friday the results of two reviews — one by Pentagon officials and a second by outside experts — and to spell out actions he has ordered to improve nuclear force management. Two senior defense officials discussed the Hagel plan Thursday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be cited by name.   Continue reading “Hagel: Top-to-bottom changes needed in nuke force”

Mail.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are increasingly relying on technology that not only tells patrol officers where crime is most likely to occur but also identifies and keeps track of ex-cons and other bad guys they believe are most likely to commit them.

Police say the effort has already helped reduce crime in one of the city’s most notorious and historically gang-ridden neighborhoods. “This is a tremendous step forward. Without this, I couldn’t do my job,” said Capt. Ed Prokop, head of the Los Angeles Police Department division that watches over the grimly nicknamed “Shootin’ Newton” area.   Continue reading “Los Angeles police use data to target crime”

Mail.com

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. panel investigating war crimes in Syria says the Islamic State group has denied food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of people and hidden its fighters among civilians since a U.S.-led coalition began launching airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.

The panel says Syrians and Iraqis are subjected to an Islamic State “rule of terror” from its calculated use of public brutality and indoctrination to ensure the submission of communities under its control. That includes repeated violations against children and women.   Continue reading “UN: IS denies food aid to hundreds of thousands”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service officers chasing a Texas Army veteran across the White House lawn in September figured they had him cornered when he encountered the thick bushes on the property.

To their surprise the bushes were no match for the fence-jumper, who dashed into the executive mansion through a pair of unlocked doors, knocking aside an officer physically too small to tackle him. She would then fumble with her own equipment as the man carrying a knife ran deep inside the president’s home, according to a Homeland Security review of the Sept. 19 incident.   Continue reading “Officers surprised bushes didn’t stop WH intruder”