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Western Journalism – by Charles Campbell
Republican lawmakers have been pushing for the FBI to release any documents from the three-and-a-half-hour interview it held last month with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
On Tuesday, the documents were finally released to Congress but they came with quite a surprise: Much of the information was redacted, or “blacked out.” Continue reading “Clinton’s Interview Documents Heavily Redacted By The FBI”
Priceonomics – by Alex Mayyasi
As George W. Bush accepted the republican nomination for the presidency in 2000, he made an appeal for bipartisanship by honoring the former democratic Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Bob Bullock, who had recently passed away. “I know he is with me in spirit,” Bush told the crowd, “in saying to those who would malign our state for political gain: Don’t mess with Texas.” Continue reading “The Surprising Origins of “Don’t Mess With Texas””
JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 (UPI) — Israel has ordered the demolition of a Palestinian school in a Bedouin village east of Jerusalem, claiming it had not been licensed by Israeli authorities.
A protest took place Wednesday at the al-Khan al-Ahmar primary school, which serves 170 Palestinian boys and girls from first to ninth grade and was built in 2009 with funds from the Italian government. The protest was organized by the Palestinian Ministry of Education. Continue reading “Israel to demolish Palestinian school in West Bank”
Washington Free Beacon – by Mary Lou Lang-Byrd
Gun rights advocates in Massachusetts are turning up the heat against the state’s attorney general, who they say potentially made thousands of citizens “felons in waiting” with her recent enforcement notice that changed the legal definition of assault weapons.
The latest rally by gun rights advocates against state Attorney General Maura Healey’s change attracted hundreds of people on Monday. Continue reading “Gun Rights Fight Heats Up in Massachusetts”
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) – The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday announced it is assisting the Division of Public Health in investigating the theft of two nuclear density gauges.
Police said the theft occurred on Aug. 11 in the 4000 block of Meadow Valley Lane. Continue reading “Metro searching for stolen nuclear density gauges”
Months after the U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult for prosecutors to prove bribery by a public official, a longtime Pennsylvania congressman, a former Virginia lawmaker and others are relying on the decision to challenge their convictions.
Former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah and former lawmaker Phil Hamilton may be among the first but are likely not the last defendants to invoke the Supreme Court’s decision in June that overturned the bribery conviction of former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell. Continue reading “Ex-Officials Use Court Ruling to Attack Bribery Convictions”
There have been many stories from around the globe of people who have protested the slaughter of innocent children and civilians in Gaza because of the “collective punishment” inflicted upon the Palestinians by the Israelis. Perhaps, hopefully, you are a moral person also and object to this.
While you may think that it is enough to voice your disapproval of these horrific acts in news threads or on blogs, you probably do not know that you have be forced to pay for the bullets, phosphorous bombs and mortar rounds that have be targeted on UN refuges, hospitals and schools in Gaza. NO? Actually, YES! Continue reading “YOU are supporting the killing in Gaza, like it or not!”
The long-awaited revision of FDA guidance rules for new supplements is finally here. It is very bad news.Highest-level Action Alert!
We normally publish our newsletter on Tuesday, but are sending out this issue today because of its urgency. Continue reading “FDA: Massive Attack on Supplements”
Carl Dix is a founding member, and a representative, of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP).[1] He is a regular contributor to Revolution newspaper.
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CounterPunch – by Bill Blunden
An army of networked kiosks is invading New York City. Hundreds of them. They’re large vertical slabs, practically ten feet tall and chock full of sensors. Reminiscent of the mysterious black monoliths from Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001. These kiosks are replacing the city’s aging public telephone booths and after this initial wave of monoliths hits Gotham there will be thousands more installed throughout the city. John Young, the architect who runs the web site Cryptome, has called this forest of kiosks “the largest urban spying system in the United States.” Continue reading “Facing Down the Panopticon”
A group of Upstate New York fire officials on Monday ordered a department to stop flying American flags from its trucks, calling the patriotic display a “liability” and a possible “distraction.”
Firefighters from the Arlington Fire District in the town of Poughkeepsie removed the flags from three trucks during a ceremony Tuesday, The Poughkeepsie Journal reported. Continue reading “US flags called ‘liability,’ ordered removed from New York fire trucks”
If anyone needs proof that the presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton truly is dividing the country, they should look to Texas.
According to poll results from Public Policy Polling released Tuesday, three out of five Texans who support Donald Trump said they would support seceding from America if Hillary Clinton becomes president. Continue reading “Poll: Three out of five Texans support secession if Hillary becomes president”
The Washington Examiner – by Rudy Takala
The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months, officials have confirmed.
The department will finalize the transition effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling wrote on Tuesday, barring what he called “any significant impediment.” Continue reading “America to hand off Internet in under two months”
In his On The Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849), Henry David Thoreau asked:
How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. … What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. Continue reading “Non-Voting”
A judge in Brazil has issued an order to prevent U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen from leaving the country on the grounds they gave conflicting accounts of their robbery outside the Rio Games on Sunday, a Brazilian daily said on Wednesday.
Lochte, one of swimming’s most decorated Olympians, had already returned to the United States ahead of the court ruling, the newspaper quoted Brazilian police as saying. It was unclear if Feigen had also left the country. Continue reading “Judge orders Lochte and teammate not to leave Brazil”
A statement by the ‘Shadow Brokers’ hacking collective, claiming they have hacked an NSA affiliate and obtained a set of US government spying and surveillance tools, coincided with the NSA official website going offline for many hours.
The website of the US National Security Agency (NSA) went offline at about 10:54pm Monday and remained inaccessible for almost a full day, until about 5pm Tuesday, reports Politico. Continue reading “NSA website down for 1 day after hackers take out its affiliate – media”
A man has been reportedly detained by German police over plans to carry out a terrorist attack at a festival in the town of Eisenhuttenstadt. Explosives have been found in the suspect’s apartment, local media say, citing police.
Police have also found materials linked to Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) as the search of the suspect’s apartment continues, German media report. According to news agency DPA, the suspect had a Salafist background and was under police supervision. Continue reading “German police seize explosives, detain suspected Islamist for plotting attack on festival – reports”
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Wednesday.
The three-member western New York-based team said it discovered the shipwreck earlier this summer in deep water off Oswego, in central New York. Images captured by a remotely operated vehicle confirmed it is the Washington, which sank during a storm in 1803, team member Jim Kennard said. Continue reading “Explorers find 2nd-oldest confirmed shipwreck in Great Lakes”
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The man killed in a police shooting that sparked two nights of violence in Milwaukee suffered from cognitive and mental health issues, and he carried a gun because he had been shot more than once in the past, his grandfather said.
Sylville K. Smith had a lengthy criminal past, but was just trying to survive in the inner city, William Brookins told The Associated Press. “In this city, there’s a lot of killings going on in the street,” said Brookins, who detailed Smith’s problems in a letter to a judge last year seeking mercy for his grandson. “He was afraid for his life. He was concerned about his safety and surviving.” Continue reading “Grandfather: Man killed by police was just trying to survive”