Month: June 2016

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place gun control laws in New York and Connecticut that ban military-style assault weapons like the one used in last week’s massacre at an Orlando nightclub, rejecting a legal challenge by gun rights advocates.

The court’s action underlined its reluctance to insert itself into the simmering national debate on gun control. The Supreme Court issued important rulings in gun cases in 2008 and 2010 but has not taken up a major firearms case since.   Continue reading “Supreme Court rejects challenge to state assault weapon bans”

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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
— Unknown

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Washington D.C. — In another devastating blow to the 4th Amendment, on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that evidence of an alleged crime can be used against a defendant even if police did something inappropriate or even illegal to obtain it.

In a split 5-3 decision, the justices voted to reinstate the drug-related convictions of Joseph Edward Strieff. In the case of Strieff, he was illegally detained during a “concededly unconstitutional detention,” which eventually led to the discovery of drugs inside his vehicle.   Continue reading “Supreme Court Rules Cops Can Break the Law to Enforce the Law”

Reuters

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether immigrants detained for more than six months by the U.S. government while deportation proceedings take place are eligible for a hearing in which they can argue for their release.

The decision by the justices to hear a case focusing on the rights of people flagged for deportation comes during a presidential election campaign in which immigration has been a hot topic.   Continue reading “Supreme Court agrees to hear immigrant detention dispute”

Ammoland – by Justin Stakes

Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- In the wake of the depraved terrorist attack on the innocent in Orlando last Saturday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is using the nation’s shock and horror to push for gun control in the U.S. Senate.

Feinstein, the author of the failed Clinton “assault weapons” ban and one of the more vehemently anti-gun Senators in history, is pushing an amendment to give the Attorney General (AG) broad new authority to deny gun sales to individuals without any due process protections in place.   Continue reading “Dianne Feinstein Presses for Gun Control in the Wake of Orlando Terrorist Attack”

Breitbart – by Michael Patrick Leahy

Six diseases that were recently near eradication are making a comeback in the United States, as the taxpayer funded refugee resettlement industry launches a propaganda blitz about the so-called World Refugee Day this Monday.

The returning diseases are;  Continue reading “Six Diseases Return To US as Migration Advocates Celebrate ‘World Refugee Day’”

Rense.com – by Stephen Lendman

Israel automatically calls violent incidents it provokes involving Palestinians terrorism, state-sponsored terror, the real thing, considered self-defense.

Following early June Tel Aviv shootings, involving armed men reportedly disguised as orthodox Jews killing four Israelis and wounding 16 others, Netanyahu vowed harsh recrimination.   Continue reading “Sweeping New Israeli Police State Legislation”

Red State – by Susan Wright

Prepare to kneel before Zod.

The thrice-married Donald Trump, while facing a lawsuit for scamming single parents and working class citizens with his fraudulent Trump University, feels now is the time to put together a religious advisory board.

Trump surrogate, Dr. Ben Carson, will be putting together the group of 20 to 30 faith leaders for a private meeting, designed to hash out ways to make divorce, misogyny, racism, and fraud more palatable to people of faith.   Continue reading “Trump’s Next Con: Religious Advisory Board To Be Announced Soon”

Truth and Shadows – by Craig McKee

This “terror” event has everything.

Religious fanaticism, homophobia, domestic violence and male rage, mental illness and self-hatred, impassioned demands for gun control, dire warnings about the Internet’s role in creating terrorists, alarms raised about immigrants, and questions about how law enforcement could have let a future killer they were watching slip through their fingers. How many of these elements are real and how many implanted in a contrived official version of events is the big question.   Continue reading “Orlando Suspicions: Multiple Shooters, Multiple ‘Motives’ And A Siege That Just Doesn’t Add Up”

Seattle Times – by Bob Young and Vernal Coleman

The Jungle seemed sleepier on a recent Friday night than some Seattle neighborhoods. Most of the homeless encampment’s residents were tucked into their tents or gathered in small groups.

But for the cars punishing Interstate 5 above, the loudest sound you might have heard was a video-game explosion from the tent of Cheryl Oliver and family.   Continue reading “Inside the grim world of The Jungle: The Caves, sleeping in shifts and eyeball-eating rats”

Regardless of the Wiki description, the NAACP is a Jewish creation designed to remove the white mans power over his own life, liberty, and destiny, using the black man as a pawn, thus teaching black children to become communists.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois.^[3] Its mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”. The group enlarged its mission in the late 20th century by considering such as police misconduct, the status of black foreign refugees, and questions of economic development.^[4] Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people.

RT

The UN has released alarming displacement statistics claiming 65 million people are now displaced worldwide. Syria and Afghanistan have raised the bar to set the new world record. And progress in the work being done is slow, the agency head says.

According to UNHCR the current figure stands at 65.3 million, up from 2014’s record of 60 million displaced since World War II. The refugee influx into Europe last year has contributed by 10 percent, the agency said on Monday.   Continue reading “65 million people displaced worldwide, breaking all records – UNHCR”

RT

The death of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin in a freak car accident has provoked an outpouring of grief from his friends, fans, and colleagues across the movie industry.

The 27-year-old, who played Chekov in the recent Star Trek reboots, died on Sunday morning when he was crushed by his own car in Los Angeles.

Yelchin was pinned between his driveway wall and car in a single vehicle accident, report TMZ.    Continue reading “Russian-born ‘Star Trek’ actor Anton Yelchin killed in freak driveway accident”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but election-year politics and the powerful National Rifle Association dim any prospects for changes in the nation’s laws.

The Senate will vote Monday night on four measures — two sponsored by Republicans, two by Democrats. All are expected to fail in a bitterly divided Congress. Gun control remains at a stalemate as few lawmakers are willing to challenge the NRA and no mass shooting the past five years — from Phoenix; to Aurora, Colorado; to Newtown, Connecticut; to Charleston, South Carolina; to San Bernardino, California — has led to new laws. Polls show large numbers of Americans agree with the need for at least some limited gun measures such as background checks. But Democrats have been unable to translate that into legislation because the NRA is able to mobilize and energize voters who will threaten to vote lawmakers out on the gun issue alone.   Continue reading “Senate to vote on gun control, prospects dim for change”