Month: January 2015

Alter-Net – by Todd Miller, Gabriel Schivone

It was October 2012. Roei Elkabetz, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was explaining his country’s border policing strategies. In his PowerPoint presentation, a photo of the enclosure wall that isolates the Gaza Strip from Israel clicked onscreen. “We have learned lots from Gaza,” he told the audience. “It’s a great laboratory.”

Elkabetz was speaking at a border technology conference and fair surrounded by a dazzling display of technology — the components of his boundary-building lab. There were surveillance balloons with high-powered cameras floating over a desert-camouflaged armored vehicle made by Lockheed Martin. There were seismic sensor systems used to detect the movement of people and other wonders of the modern border-policing world. Around Elkabetz, you could see vivid examples of where the future of such policing was heading, as imagined not by a dystopian science fiction writer but by some of the top corporate techno-innovators on the planet.   Continue reading “How Israeli High-Tech Firms Are Turning the U.S.-Mexico Border into a New Kind of Hell”

RT

Google says that, with some 300 hours of videos uploaded to YouTube each minute, it is impossible to block all terrorist-related material from the platform.

Google public policy manager Verity Harding said that “to pre-screen those videos before they are uploaded would be like screening a phone call before it’s made,” AP reported.

She also said that “there are community groups and others who do this on a larger scale and they’re incredibly helpful to us.”   Continue reading “Bulk of YouTube videos so huge, it is hard to filter out all terror-related content – Google”

ABC News

Confronting skeptical Republicans, attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch pledged a new start with Congress and independence from President Barack Obama Wednesday, even as she defended the president’s unilateral protections for millions of immigrants in the country illegally.

“If confirmed as attorney general, I would be myself. I would be Loretta Lynch,” the nominee told her Senate confirmation hearing as Republicans showered criticism on the current occupant of the job, Eric Holder. They said Holder was contemptuous of Congress and too politically close to Obama, and repeatedly demanded assurances that Lynch would do things differently.   Continue reading “Attorney General Nominee Defends Obama Immigration Changes”

Yahoo News

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s envoy to the European security watchdog OSCE urged the United States and Europe on Thursday to stop supporting the “party of war” in Ukraine and warned “catastrophe” could result, Interfax news agency reported.

“I would like to appeal to the states that have influence on Kiev’s leadership, most of all to Washington. It’s time to stop indulging Ukraine’s party of war,” said Russia’s OSCE envoy, Andrei Kelin.   Continue reading “Russia warns West support for Kiev could lead to ‘catastrophe’”

Breitbart – by Michelle Moons

Convicted child sex offender, drug trafficker and prior deportee Eloy Chavez-Loviano was arrested near Calexico, California on Monday when Border Patrol agents caught Chavez attempting to cross back into the United States from Mexico.

Mexican citizen Chavez-Loviano, 41, was found guilty of criminal offenses against a child aged three years or younger for which he was sentenced to a mere one year in prison on October 10, 2001 in Fresno, according to a a U.S. Customs and Border Protection release. Chavez’s criminal record was discovered after his apprehension and in the process of criminal records checks.   Continue reading “Illegal Alien Child Sex Offender Caught Crossing into U.S.”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick referred the Campus Carry Bill to the Senate State Affairs Committee on Wednesday. The move comes one day following what has been seen by some as a contradictory statement about open carry legislation.

Lt. Gov. Patrick said Senate Bill 11 (SB11) already has enough votes for passage. “The bill author already has 19 Senate co-authors which, because of last week’s rule changes, is enough to bring it to the floor for passage,” Governor Patrick said in a press release obtained by Breitbart Texas. “Once passed we will forward the bill to the Texas House as quickly as constitutionally allowed.” The bill was authored by Sen. Brian Birdwell (R-Grandbury).   Continue reading “Texas Lt. Governor Moving Gun Legislation Forward”

Breitbart – by Caroline May

A majority of Americans are dissatisfied with immigration levels to the United States, according to a new Gallup poll.

The poll, released Thursday, reveals that 60 percent of Americas say they are dissatisfied with the current level of immigration into the United States. Just 33 percent said they were satisfied.

In a follow up question probing whether that dissatisfaction was because the level of immigration was too high or too low, just 7 percent said they wanted to see more immigration, while 39 percent said they wanted the level of immigration to decrease.   Continue reading “Majority Of Americans Dissatisfied With Immigration Levels, Just 7 Percent Want More”

The New Yorker – by Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a historic Oval Office ceremony on Thursday morning, President Barack Obama signed an executive order closing Congress, effective immediately.

The President said that the move would dramatically increase the efficiency of the federal government, noting how much he had accomplished since he stopped working with Congress in November.   Continue reading “Satire: Obama Signs Executive Order Closing Congress”

AmmoLand – by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Thomas Greer gained fame in July of this year by making some imprudent statements to reporters.

He had shot one of a pair of burglars that had assaulted him in his home. He said that the woman that he killed, Andrea Miller, had told him that she was pregnant as a ruse to gain advantage and prevent him from shooting her. Greer is 80 years old, and had his collar bone broken in the assault.   Continue reading “Do not talk to Reporters after a Shooting”

The Real Revo – by Jim22

Funny thing about the image of the men who are making this change. Not one of them is wearing a uniform. That indicates that they are all civilians.

They want to do away with the twenty year retirement option. That will make it even less attractive to join up. Military people work long hours, get mediocre pay and their benefits are being constantly cut, many serve in really hazardous duty, and now there’s this… another progressive attack on our military.   Continue reading “Military Pay And Benefits Panel To Recommend Killing 20-Year Retirement”

Yahoo News – by Stephanie Armour

WASHINGTON—The U.S. government estimates as many as six million households may have to pay a penalty for not having had health-insurance coverage last year as required under the Affordable Care Act, officials said Wednesday.

About 150 million taxpayers are expected to file returns during the coming tax season, said Mark Mazur, assistant secretary for tax policy at the Treasury Department. The tax-filing process this year is expected to be trickier because Americans will, in some cases, have to pay a penalty or get smaller refunds because credits they received to offset insurance premiums were too large.   Continue reading “Up to six million households facing penalty for skipping health insurance”

WND – by Jerome R. Corsi

NEW YORK – A Soros-funded group arguing to replace the U.S. passport with a North American passport appears ready to take up the mantle of championing the concept of a European Union-style regional government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, Mexico and Canada, fulfilling the dream of the late American University professor Robert Pastor.

The future of the U.S. lies in North America, not in the United States as a sovereign nation, contends the New America Foundation, a Washington-based leftist think-tank with ties to Jonathan Soros, son of famed leftist billionaire George Soros.   Continue reading “U.S. Passports on Verge of Elimination?”

Hang the Bankers

Billionaire Bill Gates called for “a kind of global government” this week, arguing that the creation of such a system would be needed to combat major issues such as “climate change.”

Speaking with Germany’s “Süddeutsche Zeitung” newspaper Tuesday, Gates decried the fact that a proper United Nations system has failed to materialize as planned.   Continue reading “Bill Gates calls for a world government”

Reuters – by Ernest Scheyder

WILLISTON, N.D. Jan 28 (Reuters) – North Dakota’s oil industry is pushing to change the state’s radioactive waste disposal laws as part of a broad effort to conserve cash as oil prices tumble.

The waste, which becomes slightly radioactive as part of the hydraulic fracturing process that churns up isotopes locked underground, must be trucked out of state. That’s because rules prohibit North Dakota landfills from accepting anything but miniscule amounts of radiation.   Continue reading “North Dakota oil producers seek changes in radioactive waste disposal laws”

Fuel Fix – by Jennifer A. Dlouhy

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation to accelerate natural gas exports, despite muted opposition from the Obama administration and even as the Senate rejected a more aggressive plan.

The bill, passed 277-133, would force the Energy Department to decide whether to grant licenses to broadly export liquefied natural gas to pending projects within 30 days after they clear an environmental review.   Continue reading “House votes to speed up LNG exports”

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