Month: July 2016

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

Illegal immigrant households tapping into the federal food stamp program are receiving $1.4 billion to $2.1 billion a year despite their ineligibility, according to a new analysis of the Agriculture Department program.

And rules guiding who can get food stamps favor households with illegal immigrants over all-U.S. citizen homes, according to the detailed report from the Center for Immigration Studies released Monday morning.   Continue reading “Poor illegal immigrants get food stamps denied to poor U.S. citizens”

Breitbart

(AP) JERUSALEM, Israel – An Israeli rights group says it’s suing Facebook for $1 billion on behalf of families of victims of Palestinian attacks.

The Shurat Hadin group is claiming the social network provides militant groups with a platform for spreading violence. It says it’s filing the suit in a New York court on Monday.   Continue reading “Israeli Group Sues Facebook For $1 Billion Over Palestinian Violence”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In the U.S. a total of 509 citizens have been killed this year alone by police. The body count for the previous year stands at a grand total of 990 people shot dead, according to the Washington Post. As the below infographic from Statista shows, most of those killed by police are male and white. 123 of those shot were Black Americans. This is a relatively high share, keeping in mind that close to 13 percent of Americans belong to that ethnic group.   Continue reading “Breakdown Of US Citizens Killed By Cops In 2016”

Red State

You always wonder when the other shoe is going to fall, and in the case of the recent sexual harassment suit against Fox News bigwig, Roger Ailes, brought by former Fox News host, Gretchen Carlson, that shoe just dropped.

In the days after Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit against her former boss, Roger Ailes, her attorneys said at least 10 women had come out of the woodwork and contacted the firm about being harassed by the long-serving Fox News head.
Continue reading “Six More Women Emerge To Accuse Fox News President Roger Ailes Of Harassment”

CBC News

Increasingly used to elbowing its maritime neighbours aside with the swagger of a local bully, China is unhappy about the prospect of being told what to do by an obscure court in the Netherlands.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration, set up in The Hague over a century ago to handle disputes between member countries, will issue a decision on Tuesday on a complaint brought three years ago by the Philippines about China’s behaviour in the South China Sea.    Continue reading “China prepares to ignore a binding decision on territorial dispute”

RT

American aeronautics giant Boeing has voiced concern over a US legislative move passed earlier in the week that would block its $25 billion deal with Iran, saying that all other companies that have deals with Tehran should be scrapped of their contracts as well.

Last month Boeing signed a tentative agreement to sell jetliners to Iran after trade sanctions on Tehran were eased following a nuclear deal last year. According to Iranian Transport Minister Abbas Akhoundi, the country plans to introduce 737 and Boeing’s newest 777-9 long-haul planes, worth $25 billion.   Continue reading “‘Sure as heck’ no one can deal with Iran, Boeing says after Hill blocks deal”

NJ.com

PENNS GROVE — As Yasime Taylor rushed to aid her dying boyfriend, the man who just shot him jumped into the distraught woman’s car and took off with her one-year-old son in the back seat.

For Taylor, the news about her son would be good — he was found safe and unharmed. But for her boyfriend, Jakaye Ingram, his wounds were fatal, authorities said.   Continue reading “Suspect who allegedly murdered man, stole car with toddler inside, surrenders”

Mail.com

BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to help establish a newly retaken air base as a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday on an unannounced visit to the country.

Most of the new troops will be devoted to the build-up of the Qayara air base, about 40 miles south of Mosul, and include engineers, logistics personnel and other forces, Carter said. They will help Iraqi security forces planning to encircle and eventually retake the key city.   Continue reading “Carter announces 560 more US troops to Iraq”

Mail.com

PARIS, Texas (AP) — Gun-rights activists, some of them wearing camouflage and military-style gear and openly toting rifles and handguns, marched alongside the hundreds of people who flocked to downtown Dallas last week to protest police shootings of blacks.

Their presence was part of the new legal landscape in Texas, which earlier this year allowed people to openly carry firearms in public. Moments later, when a sniper gunned down officers patrolling the peaceful march, killing five, the attack ignited panic and confusion. Who was shooting? Were the people with weapons friend or foe?   Continue reading “Friend or foe? Open-carry law poses challenge to police”

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television personality, author, and politician. He is chairman of The Trump Organization, which is the principal holding company for his real estate ventures and other business interests. He is also the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

For jerkin’ around the American people.

The hot foot is a prank where the prankster sets the victim’s shoe laces or shoe on fire with a match or lighter

Vox – by Abe Marshal

After recent mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, and Orlando, Florida, members of both parties in Congress have called for “no fly, no buy” — a bill that would allow the federal government to bar people on the Transportation Security Administration’s no-fly list from purchasing guns.

To supporters, the proposal seems straightforward: If you’re a “known or suspected terrorist” who’s too dangerous to board a plane, you’re too dangerous to buy a gun. Tocritics, it’s a reminder of the problems with the no-fly list itself.   Continue reading “I’m a former Marine who was on the no-fly list for 4 years — and I still don’t know why”

Vac Truth

The father of the child in our published photo was jailed for life for child abuse. Many of you looking at the terrible injuries on this small child will immediately assume, as did the doctors who examined him, that he was viciously attacked and it was right to jail his father.

However, what if I told you that it was later proven that this child had in fact been suffering from Kawasaki disease, otherwise known as tissue scurvy, and that his father was innocent?   Continue reading “Vaccine-Induced Tissue Scurvy Globally Misdiagnosed as Child Abuse”

Common Dreams – by Nadia Prupis

As news emerges that police officers in Dallas, Texas used an armed robot to kill the suspected shooter in Thursday night’s ambush, experts are warning that it represents a sea change in police militarization that only heightens risks to human and constitutional rights.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Friday morning during a press conference that police “saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate” where the suspect had taken refuge in a parking garage as police tried to negotiate with him, adding that he was “deceased as a result of detonating the bomb.”   Continue reading “Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of ‘Killer Robot’ in Dallas”

Fortune – by David Z Morris

Court upholds conviction of ex-employee who shared database access.

On July 5^th , the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion which found, in part, that sharing passwords is a crime prosecutable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The decision, according to a dissenting opinion on the case, makes millions of people who share passwords for services like Netflix and HBOGo into “unwitting federal criminals.”   Continue reading “Sharing Your Netflix Password Is Now a Federal Crime”

Conservative Revival

Hillary Clinton has lied repeatedly about Benghazi.

She lied about the attacks being caused by a YouTube video.

And she lied about the “stand down” order which prevented our military assets from rescuing our consulate personnel.   Continue reading “A Benghazi Survivor Delivered This Powerful Message To Hillary Clinton”

Las Vegas Sun – by Chris Kudialis, Ricardo Torres

It began as a vigil to honor black people killed by police officers nationwide and ended peacefully, but a tense standoff involving Las Vegas-area police and residents Saturday night reflected racial tensions simmering nationwide.

Hundreds of people gathered at 7 p.m. at the Pearson Community Center in North Las Vegas near the Martin Luther King statue, a symbol for racial justice and peaceful demonstration. Organizers and children lit candles arranged in the form of 138, the number of black people reportedly killed by U.S. police officers this year.   Continue reading “Peaceful vigil in North Las Vegas turns tense; 3 arrested”