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US retail giant Walmart has got into hot water for selling a Halloween costume of an Israeli soldier and a fake “Arab sheikh” nose, sparking a wave of widespread indignation.
The store’s website offers sells a soldier’s uniform, including a shirt, trousers, belt and hat, bearing Hebrew writing, at the price of $27.44, reduced from $57.62. Continue reading “Customers outraged by Walmart’s Israeli soldier Halloween costume”
Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause
We all know that in most public schools in America, talking about religion is now strictly verboten. Those who pushed for this policy have always argued that it would be a violation of the separation of church and state. However, the argument goes both ways. If it’s going to be inappropriate for a teacher to push his or her religion on students in a public school, it should also be wrong for a teacher advocate atheism in the same forum. Continue reading “Teacher Tells Students to Deny God Is Real or Receive Failing Grade”
Two people died in an explosion inside a World War Two era tank at a public gun range in Oregon on Tuesday, authorities said.
Officials were investigating the cause of the afternoon explosion at the COSSA firing range, east of Bend, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Nathan Garibay said. It was not clear why the tank was at the gun range, he said. Continue reading “Two people dead after explosion at Oregon gun range”
The Bureau of Land Management broke the law when it sold wild horses to a rancher who profited from their slaughter, an Inspector General report has stated. No charges will be filed, despite allegations that BLM ignored clear signs of what was happening.
Tom Davis, a Colorado rancher, purchased 1,794 wild horses from the BLM from 2009 to 2012 at a cost of $10 each, though they came in truckloads. The federally-protected animals were then sold for 10 times as much to a Mexican slaughterhouse, reaping Davis a profit of about $154,000. The butchery violated both the BLM contract as well as the law, according to the IG report. Continue reading “No charges filed after gov watchdog finds BLM illegally sold wild horses to slaughter”
A student slammed to the ground by a South Carolina school resource officer “bears some responsibility,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday.
The student’s violent arrest was captured in videos that went viral and sparked widespread outrage.
“If she had not disrupted the school and disrupted that class, we would not be standing here today. So it started with her and it ended with my officer. What I’m going to deal with is what my deputy did,” Lott said. Continue reading “Spring Valley High School officer suspended after violent classroom arrest”
A hospital in north Yemen run by the medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was destroyed late on Monday by a missile strike, MSF said, but the Saudi-led coalition denied that its planes had hit the hospital.
A Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened in Yemen’s civil war in March to try to restore the government after it was toppled by Iran-allied Houthi forces, but a mounting civilian death toll has alarmed human rights groups. Continue reading “Yemeni MSF hospital bombed, Saudi-led coalition denies responsibility”
The Senate on Tuesday passed CISA, a controversial bill encouraging companies to share private user data with the government that is worrying to civil liberties advocates. Four amendments were proposed to address privacy concerns, but they all died on the floor.
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act was introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) in June 2014 following several high-profile cyber-attacks targeting major US corporations. It would purportedly protect user data from falling into the wrong hands. After debating the merits of the bill, it passed the Senate in a 74 to 21 vote. Continue reading “Senate passes CISA, strikes down four pro-privacy amendments”
Iran is planning to give up cash and replace it with an electronic means of payment. The project is to be tested for the first time in a free trade zone in the south of the country.
Iranian Central Bank President Walliollah Sejf told Tasnim news agency on Monday that the plan should be tested first on the island of Kish in southern Iran.
Kish is a free trade zone in the Persian Gulf. It is a paradise for consumers, with numerous shopping malls, modern hotels and tourist attractions. Continue reading “Iran Planning to Abolish Cash, Introduce Electronic Payment Systems”
What are the consequences for Social Security in an economy where fewer and fewer workers have a job? Add in the tax burdens that come to comply for Obamacare coverage and it is difficult to see where all the needed new employment will come from to keep funding the government Ponzi scheme? Government apologists will just compose a new “Washington Two Step” routine to dance around empirical facts, but just maybe part of their next choreography will be to allow even more illegal’s pay into Social Security so that the transfer system can continue. Continue reading “Undeniable Social Security Demographics”
House Republicans on Tuesday introduced a resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, accusing him of making “false statements” under oath and failing to comply with a subpoena for evidence.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and 18 other committee members introduced the resolution to begin impeachment proceedings. In doing so, they followed through on a threat first made over the summer, when Republicans accused the IRS leader of making inaccurate statements to Congress regarding the Tea Party targeting scandal and its aftermath. Continue reading “House Republicans introduce measure to impeach IRS Commissioner Koskinen”
Value Walk – by Polina Tikhonova
Russia has just unveiled its cutting-edge weapon that emits light so powerful it can literally blind enemies. The new weapon is expected to be used in Russia’s ongoing military operation against ISIS militants in Syria.
The new dazzling weapon, a ‘visual optical jammer’ called Grach, was unveiled at a military expo in Russia last week. Continue reading “Russia’s New Ray Gun To Blind Enemies In Syria”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Earlier this month, it was reported that less than two weeks before the economic collapse of 2008, several members of Congress took their money out of the stock market. Many high ranking government employees were given a heads-up about the impending market crash in secret meetings with the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department. Then they used that information to engage in insider trading. Continue reading “12 Days Before ’08 Crash, Congress was Secretly Told to Sell Off Their Stocks”
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that the U.S. will begin “direct action on the ground” against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, aiming to intensify pressure on the militants as progress against them remains elusive.
“We won’t hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against ISIL, or conducting such missions directly whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground,” Carter said in testimony before the Senate Armed Services committee, using an alternative name for the militant group. Continue reading “Ashton Carter: U.S. to Begin ‘Direct Action on the Ground’ in Iraq, Syria”
The organized Jewish community, led by the Anti-Defamation League, has condemned a billboard in Detroit, Michigan which simply reads, “America First, Not Israel,” denouncing the advertisement as “anti-Semitic.”
Considering the dominating and tyrannical influence of organized Jewry in America, where any criticism of Jews or the Jewish state of Israel is strictly forbidden and hysterically decried as “anti-Semitic,” it’s amazing a billboard of this nature would even be allowed to go up in the first place. The Jerusalem Post reports: Continue reading “Detroit Billboard Denounced As “Anti-Semitic” For Putting America First”
Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, pledging to go “beyond President Obama” in embracing illegal immigrants, said that she will use executive powers as president to go around Congress to end deportations.
At Saturday’s Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, she also called illegals “law abiding.”
During a period of her 25 minute address when she was listing her political promises, she turned to immigration to say that she would go farther than Obama to protect the 12 million illegal immigrants in America, especially families. Continue reading “Clinton: ‘I will go as far as I can, even beyond Obama’ to welcome illegal immigrants”
White House press secretary Josh Earnest conceded Monday that Chicago is a city with a high rate of gun crimes and murder despite having very strict gun control laws. But he said that’s even more of an argument for stricter national laws.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to head to Chicago Tuesday to speak to the International Association of the Chiefs of Police. Continue reading “White House: Chicago’s Gun Control Laws Are ‘Good Illustration’ of the Need for National Gun Control”