Year: 2016

Refugee Resettlement Watch – by Ann Corcoran

Knowledge is power!

We’ve been talking about those pesky R & P Abstracts for more than a year now and some of you are starting to get-it and get them!

By ‘get-it’ I mean that these documents, prepared at the level of your local resettlement contractor with the help and guidance of one of the major nine federal contractors, are the blueprints for what is being planned for your town for the upcoming fiscal year.   Continue reading “Reception and Placement Abstracts: get them and use them!”

The Indian Express

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit Myanmar on Wednesday afternoon with tremors felt across east India. Reports of strong tremors have been felt across West Bengal and Assam. There are not reports of casualties yet.

According to National Centre for Seismology, a unit of Ministry of Earth Sciences, the epicenter of the quake was in Myanmar and it occurred at 4:04 PM at a depth of 58 kms. People panicked and fled out of buildings in Kolkata, Patna and Guwahati. Metro services have been temporarily suspended in Kolkata after earthquake tremors were felt in the region.   Continue reading “Powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits Myanmar; tremors in Bengal, Assam”

NBC News

Police were responding Wednesday night to reports of an attack at the American University of Afghanistan, possibly involving gunfire and an explosion.

“We have been notified of a complex attack on the American University on Darul-Aman Road,” the commander of Kabul police’s quick reaction force told NBC News, adding, “We still don’t know the exact nature of the attack.”   Continue reading “Police Respond to Reports of Gunfire, Blast at American University of Afghanistan”

Would you like to know more about the new gun laws that were signed by Governor Jerry Brown earlier this year? Join us on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 12:00 pm (PT) for a live webinar to learn about what these new laws do, how they will affect you, when they will go into effect, and what you need to do to comply with these laws.

In this webinar, you will learn about:   Continue reading “New California gun laws webinar”

History Channel

Congress passes the Communist Control Act in response to the growing anticommunist hysteria in the United States. Though full of ominous language, many found the purpose of the act unclear.

In 1954, the Red Scare still raged in the United States. Although Senator Joseph McCarthy, the most famous of the “red hunters” in America, had been disgraced earlier in the summer of 1954 when he tried to prove that communists were in the U.S. Army, most Americans still believed that communists were at work in their country. Continue reading “This Day in History 1954 Congress passes Communist Control Act”

New York Post – by David Harsanyi

The Democratic Party often warns us that mixing big money and politics will corrupt democracy. They must have nominated Hillary Clinton to prove it.

The Clinton Foundation was ostensibly set up to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Though it’s done some fine work, its most fruitful program has been leveraging Clinton’s position in the State Department to enrich her family, friends and cronies.   Continue reading “New revelations show a nation for sale under Hillary Clinton”

Zero Hedge – by 4closure Fraud

What is a robo-testifier or robo-witness?

A person with little or no prior banking experience hired by the banks (servicers) for the job of testifying at hundreds of often back-to-back foreclosure trials who are specially trained by the servicers to give hearsay testimony on the banks’ behalf.   Continue reading “Robo-Testifying In a Nutshell: The Triumph of Expediency Over Due Process in Foreclosure Cases”

Bloomberg – by Paul Barrett

The U.S. Department of Justice made headlines on Thursday by announcing it’s phasing out contracts with private prison companies. Shares of publicly traded incarceration firms Corrections Corp. of America and GEO Group plunged. Liberal prison-reform advocates applauded.   Continue reading “The Justice Department Used Shaky Statistics to Drop Private Prisons”

MuckRock – by Beryl Lipton

The private-public “partnership” is a fact of life in our country.

For over half of the United States and its federal government this has translated into the systematic incorporation of privately-operated prisons; throughout corrections, contracting has facilitated whole industries unto themselves, from video visitation to drone detection to food services, helping drive the direction of prison policy much more quickly through new technology, marketing, and the power of the commission than through data and debate.   Continue reading “All prisons are private prisons”

Jon Rappoport

“Let’s see, Mr. Reporter. You received an undercover recording of a medical researcher confessing his crimes. You posted the recording and wrote about it. You’re the one who is guilty of a crime. Next case!”

“Wait, Your Honor! That recording is vital information for the public. It shows that a vaccine considered to be safe actually causes brain damage in children.”   Continue reading “The film Vaxxed could be outlawed in California, if this bill passes”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

A new sign posted outside the school building in Claude, Texas, gives criminals advance warning that the staff is armed and “may use whatever force necessary to protect… students.”

The sign is positioned so that anyone entering the school has to pass it, thereby getting a clear message that the teachers inside are not trapped in a gun-free environment like we tragically witnessed at Virginia Tech University, Sandy Hook Elementary, and Umpqua Community College.   Continue reading “Texas School Sign: Armed Staff ‘May Use Whatever Force Necessary’ to Protect Students”

ABC News

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck central Italy early Wednesday, with reports of fatalities and significant damage surfacing quickly in its aftermath.

Officials say the towns of Accumoli and Amatrice appear to be the hardest hit by the quake, which struck at 3:36 a.m. local time as most residents slept inside their homes.   Continue reading “Dozens Killed, Widespread Damage After Strong Quake in Central Italy”

Counter Current News – by Jeremiah Jones

Edward Adkins is a wanted man for breaking a law that doesn’t exists.

According to Tristal Hallman of Dallas News, A Dallas officer wrote the 46 year old Adkins a ticket for riding a bicycle without a helmet in September 2014. But months earlier, the City Council removed the bicycle helmet ordinance for adults.  Adkins didn’t know the law had changed until a reporter told him recently. At the time, he assumed he was indeed guilty. But he said he couldn’t come up with the money for the $10 fine. Now he has a warrant out for his arrest, which he can pay off for $259.30.   Continue reading “Man Forced To Pay City of Dallas $259 For Not Wearing Bicycle Helmet — Even Though That Law Doesn’t Exist”

The Anti-Media- by Carey Wedler

The Federal Reserve bank is well-known for its secrecy. But in an attempt to reach out to the people it claims to serve, the monolithic bank just created a Facebook page . . . and it’s probably really regretting that decision.

Unlike Twitter, where the Fed decides which comments to reply to — and therefore which show up publicly on its page — its public Facebook page, launched Thursday morning, is not as restrictive. In fact, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System page has been relentlessly trolled since it went up.   Continue reading “The Federal Reserve Just Made a Facebook Page… And It’s Getting Destroyed by Trolls”