Year: 2015

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Border Community Action

Residents of Arivaca, Arizona and supporters are shutting down the US Border Patrol checkpoint on Arivaca Road, calling on US Congressman Grijalva to deliver on his promise to hold a federal hearing on the issue before DHS officials. Community members are demanding the removal of all internal Border Patrol checkpoints, starting with the one on Arivaca Road, and are calling for an end to the militarization of their community. Today’s protest is part of a day of action being organized by communities throughout the Arizona-Mexico borderlands and on the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The Guardian – by C Robert Gibson and Taylor Channing

A decade in the making, the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is reaching its climax and as Congress hotly debates the biggest trade deal in a generation, its backers have turned on the cash spigot in the hopes of getting it passed.

“We’re very much in the endgame,” US trade representative Michael Froman told reporters over the weekend at a meeting of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on the resort island of Boracay. His comments came days after TPP passed another crucial vote in the Senate.   Continue reading “Here’s how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill”

The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

President Obama is surreptitiously using federalism to kill federalism. He will not sit idly by waiting for Congress to act, rather he will actively exert immense influence on state and local governments to carry out his commitment to top-down control of every aspect of human existence.

An article published in USA Today on May 26 highlights the president’s use of the phone portion of his infamous “pen and phone” arsenal to convince local and state governments to bypass congressional inaction by passing ordinances and statutes that implement his policies, obviating the constitutional obstacle of separation of powers.   Continue reading “Obama Leans on Cities, States to Bypass Constitution”

The Hill – by Julian Hattem

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is running out of time to save sections of the Patriot Act that the White House deems crucial to national security.

Top lawmakers and their aides are scrambling to find a last-minute deal to save the law, which is speeding toward expiration — at midnight Sunday — after a series of Senate votes failed to resolve an impasse over the National Security Agency (NSA).   Continue reading “Scramble begins as Patriot Act teeters”

The Real Revo – by Jim22

Really? Really. It took action from the Department of Justice to make this happen.

It’s stories like this that show us why respect for police is as low as it is.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland police will stop hitting people on the head with their guns and document any time they unholster them, according to a consent decree between the U.S. Justice Department and Cleveland police released today. Continue reading ““Cleveland Police Agree To Stop Hitting People On The Head With Guns””

Global Research – by Stephen Lendman

Israel already gets at least $3 billion annually from Washington – plus a whole lot more. US taxpayers fund its killing machine.

It wants a 50% increase for more wars and ruthless daily persecution of millions of Palestinians – plus terror-bombing Syria, Yemen and southern Lebanon at its discretion as well as regional destabilizing activities.   Continue reading “Israel Wants 50% Increase in US Provided Military Aid. “U.S. Tax Payers Fund Netanyahu’s Killing Machine””

News Voice

The present Swedish debate about war refugees from the Middle East is an example of peer restricted expression. In the name of political correctness or perceived decency, any questioning of maximum generosity in opening Swedish borders for the refugees is indignantly rejected by the official mainstream. We have a humanitarian duty towards those who are forced to flee from areas ravaged by war, and there is no excuse for not opening our borders to them. – Sure.   Continue reading “Swedish politician: US is the true cause of the masses of refugees from the Middle East”

RT

A Texas dam on Padera Lake has fractured as a result of unprecedented flooding, local media report. Authorities are issuing warnings, as the dam may break in the coming hours, placing anyone in its path in peril.

Local media has been sounding the alarm, with CBS affiliate KRLD reporting the dam had been breached at around 12pm GMT. However, no immediate danger was reported.   Continue reading “Texas dam on Padera Lake ‘breaches’ following massive floods”

Mail.com

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An autopsy will determine if a man had drugs or alcohol in his system when he fatally shot one worker and injured a second before killing himself at a North Dakota Wal-Mart store, police said Wednesday.

“It’s probably the next significant development in this case,” Grand Forks Police Lt. Derik Zimmel said. He did not know when autopsy results would be available. Police said the shooting at the store in Grand Forks a few minutes after 1 a.m. Tuesday may have been random. Investigators have found no link between the gunman, 21-year-old Marcell Willis, and the store or the employees whom he shot.   Continue reading “Police search for motive in deadly Wal-Mart shooting”

Examiner – by Jim Kouri

U.S. intelligence documents released to a government watchdog confirms the suspicions that the United States and some of its so-called coalition partners had actually facilitated the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as an effective adversary against the government of the Syrian dictator President Bashar al-Assad. In addition, ISIS members were initially trained by members and contractors of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at facilities in Jordan in 2012. The original goal was to weaken the Syrian government which had engaged in war crimes against their own people, according to a number of reports on Sunday.   Continue reading “Obama ordered CIA to train ISIS jihadists: Declassified documents”

The Sleuth Journal – by Stephen Lendman

Saudi Arabia is a radicalized Islamist police state threatening the entire region with terrorism and belligerence.

Reports indicate Riyadh wants or intends becoming nuclear armed – on the bogus pretext of countering Iran’s known peaceful nuclear program.   Continue reading “Saudi Arabia: Headed Toward Becoming Nuclear Armed And Dangerous?”

Fox News

Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration badges have gone missing, sparking fears that the lost or stolen badges can be used to gain access to secure areas at airports.

Doug McKelway reported on “On The Record” tonight that Congress has known for more than two months about the missing Secured Identification Display Area (SIDA) badges.   Continue reading “Hundreds of TSA Badges Missing From Airports”

MassPrivateI

“Some of them are a little unreasonable, I believe, and don’t quite fall in line with things I think are in the best interest of the police department,” said Capt. Jim Steffen.

Not surprisingly DHS run ‘Community Oriented Policing Services’ (COPS) and the ‘Police Executive Research Forum’ (PERF) have come out in opposition of police camera regulations. Click here to read their report. PERF is an organization composed of police chiefs of the nation’s law enforcement departments. Click here & here to find out about PERF’s close relationship with DHS.   Continue reading “Police agencies and politicians fight body camera recommendations”

11 Alive – by Brendan Keefe and Michael King

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WXIA) – The Georgia Legislature has a message for voters: don’t ask us about our meetings with corporate lobbyists behind closed doors.

The 11Alive Investigators tracked lawmakers to a resort hotel in Savannah last week, where we observed state legislators and lobbyists mingling in the hotel bar the night before they gathered in private rooms to decide what new laws would best serve the corporations.   Continue reading “Legislators and corporate lobbyists meet in secret at Georgia resort”

Refugee Resettlement Watch – by Ann Corcoran

What do I mean by that?

I mean that because federal resettlement contractor, World Relief (National Association of Evangelicals), decided to target that town, of all places, we have made an enormous leap in our understanding of how the secretive UN/US State Department Refugee Admissions and Resettlement program operates.

Additionally we are gaining a model for citizen involvement and a blueprint for what needs to happen going forward.   Continue reading “Planned refugee resettlement in Spartanburg, SC presents watershed moment”