Month: July 2015

Daily Caller – by Rachel Stoltzfoos

Another tech giant that says it must import foreign workers because there aren’t enough skilled American workers in the industry is laying off thousands of workers.

Qualcomm — a major producer of smartphone chips – announced last week it’s eliminating 15 percent of its workforce or about 4,500 employees, just weeks after fellow tech giant Microsoft announced a massive round of layoffs.   Continue reading “Another Tech Giant Lays off Thousands, Wants Access to More Foreign Workers”

Levant – by Brandon Martinez

We’ve all heard about Western citizens who have joined ISIS’s campaign of terror in Syria and Iraq. Authorities are nabbing dozens of ISIS-sympathizing radicals who have yet to make the journey overseas, but who have merely made pro-ISIS statements online. This phenomenon has been the mainstay of media headlines in the West for months.

Yet hidden beneath the fog of hysteria surrounding ISIS is a similar phenomenon involving another more privileged group of radicalized Westerners. Few are aware of the significant numbers of Jews who have left their countries of birth to enlist in the Israeli military. The mass media has for the most part ignored or downplayed this very real occurrence.   Continue reading “Israel’s foreign fighters”

Yahoo News – by Maxwell Tani, Business Insider

In an impassioned handwritten letter to a constituent, Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) rejected a request to resign and insulted about half of his state in the process.

According to the Maine Beacon, after resident Louise Sullivan sent a letter to LePage asking him to resign, she received a personal reply back from the governor that dismissed southern Maine residents and called them corrupt.   Continue reading “GOP governor sends bizarre, aggressive hand-written letter to constituent”

The New American – by Alex Newman

In a radical attack on the due-process rights of Americans that received virtually no media attention, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to give the Obama administration the unilateral power to strip you of your passport and right to travel without a trial or even criminal charges. The scheme does not even include a way to challenge your status as a non-person involuntarily trapped inside U.S. borders on orders from the secretary of state. Lawmakers, some of whom could themselves be caught in the dragnet along with myriad administration officials, praised the effort as a way to stop alleged terrorists from travelling. But critics said it was yet another attack on the fundamental rights of Americans, such as due-process protections, and that it must be resisted.   Continue reading “Lawmakers Vote to Let Obama Take Your Passport Without Trial”

Washington Post – by Alex Horton

I got home from the bar and fell into bed soon after Saturday night bled into Sunday morning. I didn’t wake up until three police officers barged into my apartment, barking their presence at my door. They sped down the hallway to my bedroom, their service pistols drawn and leveled at me.   Continue reading “In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me.”

Anti-Media – by Jake Anderson

Escondido, CA — It should come as no surprise that with an annual military budget of over $610 billion, the United States invests in some gargantuan black ops and top secret facilities. These include warfare testing, nuclear bunkers, chemical experimentation, Continuance of Government (COG) command centers, and a wide variety of both known and unknown contingency preparation. Some of the facilities, like the infamous Area 51, are well-branded into our collective imagination; other are less known and considerably more vexing. It stirs and scares the mind to think about an entire underground network of tunnels connecting giant government facilities. Yet they are out there, down there, controlling this nation’s future military responses and engaging in technological and weapons testing that most of us cannot even begin to fathom.   Continue reading “10 Top Secret Military Bases the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Months ago, when Alexis Tsipras, Yanis Varoufakis, and their Syriza compatriots had just swept to power behind an ambitious anti-austerity platform and bold promises about a brighter future for the beleaguered Greek state, we warned that Greece was one or two vacuous threats away from being “digitally bombed back to barter status.”

Subsequently, the Greek economy began to deteriorate in the face of increasingly fraught negotiations between Athens and creditors, with Brussels blaming the economic slide on Syriza’s unwillingness to implement reforms, while analysts and commentators noted that relentless deposit flight and the weakened state of the Greek banking sector was contributing to a liquidity crisis and severe credit contraction.    Continue reading “Total Collapse: Greece Reverts To Barter Economy For First Time Since Nazi Occupation”

Pontiac Tribune – by James Carey

Last year nearly 40% of the roads in Michigan were found to be in poor shape.

With Michigan Legislature sessions failing to fund road repairs in 2015, residents of Hamtramck are taking to the streets to fix potholes on their own– for just $120 per city block!

What makes this accomplishment so impressive is that potholes in Hamtramck, Michigan are known to be some of the worst in the state.   Continue reading “Citizens Fixing Potholes On Their Own, But State Leaders Want To Raise Taxes”

Huffington Post

BILLILNGS, Mont. (AP) — A man who was stopped along a road on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation gunned down a family who tried to help him Wednesday, killing the couple and wounding their daughter, a relative said.

The FBI confirmed that two people were killed and a third injured by gunfire in Pryor, a town of just over 600 people in southern Montana. A suspect was arrested hours later in Wyoming, FBI spokesman Todd Palmer said, later identified as Jesus Deniz.   Continue reading “Family Gunned Down By Stranded Driver They Were Trying To Help”

Investment Watchblog

haha.

yeah, after they cut and pasted them to disc, I’m sure.

from csmonitor:

Privacy advocates, rejoice.

In what has become an ongoing struggle to maintain Americans’ privacy rights in national security measures, the National Security Agency (NSA) has agreed to destroy millions of Americans’ phone records collected under its contentious surveillance program, the Associated Press reports.   Continue reading “NSA says it’s destroying all phone records of Americans.”

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Yahoo News – by JOAN LOWY and LORI HINNANT, AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that a photo of aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, a U.S. official said Wednesday.   Continue reading “US official: Debris in photo belongs to Boeing 777”

Breitbart – by Merrill Hope

 

The White House honors nine illegal immigrant school teachers today. Four of the recognized teachers hail from Texas.

The White House named them Champions of Change for acting as strong role models and “change agents” in their respective communities. The recognition comes as part of the Obama administration program called DACAmented Teachers.   Continue reading “White House Honors Nine Illegal Immigrant Teachers Including 4 Texans”

Bloomberg – by Michael Riley, Jordan Robertson

The hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees in recent months breached another big target at around the same time — United Airlines.

United, the world’s second-largest airline, detected an incursion into its computer systems in May or early June, said several people familiar with the probe. According to three of these people, investigators working with the carrier have linked the attack to a group of China-backed hackers they say are behind several other large heists — including the theft of security-clearance records from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and medical data from health insurer Anthem Inc.   Continue reading “China-Tied Hackers That Hit U.S. Said to Breach United Airlines”

Infowars – by Kit Daniels

MS-13 and other violent street gangs are aggressively recruiting illegal alien youth who recently arrived in America.

The gangs, which also include the Latin Kings and the Sureños, are targeting immigrant communities in New York and elsewhere across the country for recruits under the age of 18.   Continue reading “MS-13, Violent Street Gangs Recruiting Newly Arrived Illegal Youth”

Fox News

Syria’s bloody civil war has brought the country’s largest number of refugees and asylum-seekers to the United States in a decade, and thousands more are expected in 2016.

But with the influx comes mounting concerns over whether the Obama administration can properly vet them, and keep out those with terror ties seeking to exploit the system. Lawmakers are worried that not only is Syria the headquarters of the Islamic State, but that the country’s state of chaos makes screening refugees that much harder.    Continue reading “Surge of Syrian refugees into US stirs security concerns”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Coming to a theater near you: metal detectors — maybe.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Queens) has announced he’s developing legislation that would require theater, indoor mall and stadium owners to provide enhanced security, WCBS 880’s Alex Silverman reported.

“Either a metal detector and security or security officers with the wand that they can wave,” he said.   Continue reading “NY State Senator Working On Legislation For Metal Detectors At Theaters, Stadiums And Malls”

This is not a staged photograph.  I snapped this image 2 hours ago at the Assisted Living Facility in town.  I just about took a roll in the grass!   Caption contest? No!