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Archive: TWFTT 4-17-17
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped a turbulent debate over illegal immigration on Monday, turning away an appeal by a group of asylum-seeking Central American women and their children who aimed to clarify the constitutional rights of people who the government has prioritized for deportation.
The families, 28 women and 33 children ages 2 to 17 from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, had hoped the justices would overturn a lower court’s ruling preventing them from having their expedited removal orders reviewed by a federal judge. Continue reading “U.S. top court leaves intact ruling against Central America asylum seekers”
Mint Press News – by Whitney Webb
MINNEAPOLIS – Early Friday morning, Wikileaks released its fifth batch of Vault 7 documents exposing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s hacking techniques. The latest release, titled “Hive,” exposes the agency’s multi-platform malware suite that allows the CIA to monitor targets via malware as well as the ability to realize specific tasks on compromised machines. Continue reading “Wikileaks Reveals Hive: The CIA’s Top Secret Virus Control System”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
CALIFORNIA — There used to be a time when a solid glass Coca-Cola bottle, if returned, would put a dime in a man’s pocket. And while reusing glass bottles was much more sanitary and helpful for the environment, the bottling industry offered plastics to the world in place of glass. Recycling, however, continued with used plastics being able to be transformed into a myriad of useful things. But for the subjects in our next story, apparently, the temptation to make a quick buck by recycling plastics, has gotten them in trouble with the police state, who is apparently picky about from where their recycled materials originate. Continue reading “Recycling Can Land You in Prison if You’re From Out of Town”
WEST MONROE, La. – An 18-year-old man was reportedly arrested for cursing near a 75-year-old woman in Louisiana.
Jared Dylan Smith was booked into jail on a disturbing the peace through language and disorderly conduct charge on April 8, according to the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office. His bond was set at $200. Continue reading “Louisiana teen arrested for cursing in front of elderly woman”
Malicious computer malware that caused substantial damage to Iran’s nuclear program may be the work of the NSA, researchers burrowing into the latest leak from hacking group Shadow Brokers have discovered within the computer data.
A tool found in Friday’s leak matched one used by the notorious Stuxnet malware.
First detected in 2010, Stuxnet is believed to be the joint work of the US and Israel; a claim that Edward Snowden backed up in a 2013 interview but which has never been acknowledged by either government. Continue reading “Shadow Brokers leak links NSA to alleged US-Israeli Stuxnet malware that targeted Iran”
Breitbart – by Kathrine Rodriguez
Americans owe a whopping $1 trillion in credit card debt thanks to rising interest rates, according to data from the Federal Reserve.
Federal Reserve data released April 7 shows that U.S. consumers owe $1.0004 trillion on credit cards, up 6.2 percent from a year ago and 0.3 percent from January, according to Dow Jones newswires. Continue reading “Americans Owe $1 Trillion in Credit Card Debt Due to Rising Interest Rates”
Bryant Rylee lives a seemingly simple life. Before the state intervened in his life, his Facebook page—which has a modest 591 friends—was relatively quiet. However, that was before a sandcastle built by his son caused the city of Panama, Florida, to threaten him with a $500 fine and up to 60 days in jail, a threat that caused his Facebook page to get its “fifteen minutes of fame.”
Sandcastles are the epitome of childhood innocence and the manifestation of youthful creativity and wonder. As adults embarking on a day at the beach, we see only grains of sand that serve as nothing more but an uneven cushion beneath our feet. For children, the sand is a blank slate upon which they can build anything they want—kingdoms included. Continue reading “Build A Sandcastle, Get Fined $500, And Maybe Go To Jail”
North Korea will continue to test missiles, a senior official has told the BBC in Pyongyang, despite international condemnation and growing military tensions with the US.
“We’ll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis,” Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-Ryol told the BBC’s John Sudworth.
He said that an “all-out war” would result if the US took military action. Continue reading “North Korea ‘will test missiles weekly’, senior official tells BBC”
Boeing Co. plans to lay off hundreds of engineers in Washington state and other locations — and may eliminate more jobs later this year as the planemaker contends with slowing aircraft sales.
The latest workforce reduction, which should take effect June 23, follows a separate exodus of 1,500 mechanics and 305 engineers and technical workers who agreed to leave voluntarily earlier this year. Both union and non-union workers will be affected, Doug Alder, a Boeing spokesman, said Monday. Continue reading “Boeing to Dismiss Hundreds of Engineers Amid Sales Slowdown”
According to a report by South Korea’s primary news outlet, Yonhap, the Pentagon has directed a total of three US aircraft carriers toward the Korean Peninsula, citing a South Korean government source.
Yonhap reports that in addition to the CVN-70 Carl Vinson, which is expected to arrive off the South Korean coast on April 25, the CVN-76 Ronald Reagan – currently in home port in Yokosuka, Japan – and the CVN-68 Nimitz carrier group – currently undergoing final pre-deployment assessment, Composite Training Unit Exercise off Oregon – will enter the Sea of Japan next week. According to the senior government official. the US and South Korea are discussing joint drills, which will include the three aircraft carriers and other ships. Continue reading “US Deploys Two More Aircraft Carriers Toward Korean Peninsula: Yonhap”
The US army has deployed dozens of troops to Somalia to train forces fighting Al-Shabab Islamist militant group in the largest deployment of troops to the country since 1993, when 18 US soldiers died in a battle dramatized in the movie Black Hawk Down.
A US military official told Voice of America that the team will train-and-equip Somali and AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) forces, with the mission expected to last until the end of September. Continue reading “US army makes largest deployment of troops to Somalia since ‘Black Hawk Down’”
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) — Viewing his adversaries in the distance, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the U.S. and South Korea with its nuclear ambitions, “the era of strategic patience is over.”
Pence made an unannounced visit to the Demilitarized Zone at the start of his 10-day trip to Asia in a U.S. show of force that allowed the vice president to gaze at North Korean soldiers from afar and stare directly across a border marked by razor wire. As the brown bomber jacket-clad vice president was briefed near the military demarcation line, two North Korean soldiers watched from a short distance away, one taking multiple photographs of the American visitor. Continue reading “Pence calls US commitment to South Korea ‘iron-clad’”
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The journalist arrested at a Tax Day protest at President Donald Trump’s signature Las Vegas hotel has been released from jail. KLAS Vice President and General Manager Lisa Howfield said photojournalist Neb Solomon was freed Saturday night, hours after he was arrested while covering the off-Strip protest.
Las Vegas police said Solomon was uncooperative and refused to provide his personal identification information at the scene. He was then booked into Clark County jail on two misdemeanors, including trespassing and obstructing an officer. Continue reading “Vegas journalist arrested at Trump rally released from jail”
CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities in several states were on the lookout Monday for a man police say shot a Cleveland retiree collecting aluminum cans and then posted video of the apparently random killing on Facebook.
“He could be nearby. He could be far away or anywhere in between,” FBI agent Stephen Anthony said on Day 2 of the manhunt for Steve Stephens, a 37-year-old job counselor for teens and young adults. Police said Stephens killed Robert Godwin Sr., a 74-year-old former foundry worker, on Sunday. Continue reading “Manhunt expanded for suspect in Facebook video killing”
Huffington Post – by Christina Wilke
Late Monday night, when many Americans were in bed, President Donald Trump quietly announced his intention to nominate former Washington state senator Don Benton (R) to be director of the Selective Service System, which operates the nation’s military draft.
This was when the problems first came to light.
Continue reading “Trump Taps Salesman To Run Military Draft”
ELVERUM, Norway — An explosion just a few feet away rocks the unmarked station wagon as it travels along a dirt road in the Norwegian woodland.
Immediately, two soldiers jump from their front seats and run for cover behind the carcass of an old, rusty tank. Firing their weapons at targets along the snow-covered hillside, they call for support from the rest of their unit. Continue reading “Inside the World’s First All-Female Special Forces Unit: Norway’s Jegertroppen”