Washington Times

The Pentagon says the country should stick with mandatory registration for a military draft, and it advocates a requirement for women to sign up for the first time in the nation’s history.

The recommendations are contained in a Defense Department report to Congress that serves as a starting point for a commission examining military, national and public service.

Congress ordered the Pentagon report, and the office of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness completed it in the early months of the Trump administration.   Continue reading “Pentagon advocates requiring women to sign up for military draft”

The New American – by Warren Mass

During an address to the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Philadelphia on October 23, Attorney General Jeff Sessions (shown) said he has designated the brutal MS-13 gang as a priority for the Justice Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. While conservatives will applaud that effort, a second proposal included in Sessions’ speech will infuriate constitutionalists.

Sessions observed that our state and local partners in law enforcement are our strongest allies, our greatest resources, and that they deserve his department’s support.  Continue reading “Sessions Sees Civil-asset Forfeiture as “Key Tool” for Law Enforcement”

Baltimore Post Examiner – by Doug Poppa, October 8, 2017

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department borrowed armored vehicles from a Las Vegas based company, Battlefield Las Vegas, during last Sunday’s massacre of innocent concert-goers.

According to LVMPD radio traffic that night the police dispatcher stated, “Units be advised there is going to be three armored cars enroute to South Central Area Command followed by a silver Dodge Ram, okay per SWAT.” Minutes later; “3Ocean55, we have three armored cars that are at Russell and Las Vegas Boulevard, they’re not affiliated with law enforcement but the sergeant called them from Battlefield Las Vegas and they’re waiting for orders.” [Police dispatcher] They’re going to be going to South Central Area Command we’ve been advised.” “3Ocean55 copy.”   Continue reading “Las Vegas Police borrowed armored vehicles from private company”

Intellihub

LAS VEGAS (INTELLIHUB) — According to actual law enforcement communications from the night of the Oct 1 massacre, a private company named Battlefield Vegas worked hand-in-hand with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department after receiving orders to deliver three armored vehicles to South Central Aera Command as strike teams were being dispatched to numerous casinos along the strip.  Continue reading “Private paramilitary firm worked hand-in-hand with LVMPD on the night of the Las Vegas massacre”

RT

One of the world’s top energy importers, China, is set to roll out a yuan-denominated oil contract as early as this year. Analysts call the plan, announced by Beijing in September, a huge move against the dollar’s global dominance.

The so-called petro-yuan is a “wake up call” for investors who haven’t paid attention to the Chinese plans, according to the head of Graticule Asset Management Asia Adam Levinson, as quoted by Bloomberg.   Continue reading “China’s launch of ‘petro-yuan’ in two months sounds death knell for dollar’s dominance”

Mail.com

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three tourists visiting San Francisco two years ago testified Tuesday that they saw a man — now charged with murder — on a popular pier moments after hearing a gunshot that killed a woman and reignited the national debate over illegal immigration.

All three witnesses were called to testify on the second day of the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a Mexican national who was arrested an hour after 32-year-old Kate Steinle was shot and killed on July 1, 2015, while walking with her father and a family friend.  Continue reading “Witnesses say they saw suspect leave pier after shooting”

Mail.com

GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — A student and his friend were fatally shot at a university in Louisiana after an altercation that began in a dorm room and ended in a courtyard, authorities said Wednesday. The shooter remained at large. Authorities didn’t immediately release a suspect’s description or identify a possible motive for the shooting.

Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s spokesman Stephen Williams said detectives joined campus police investigating the double homicide at Grambling State University after getting 911 calls starting at 12:04 a.m. The historically black university in northern Louisiana has an enrollment of nearly 5,000 students.   Continue reading “2 killed on Grambling State campus; shooter at large”

Muck Rock – by Emma Best

Declassified documents in the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) archives show that while the CIA was looking to include the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) in its war on leaks, the National Security Agency (NSA) was seriously considering using the Espionage Act to target target Puzzle Palace author James Bamford for using FOIA.

While Bamford has briefly discussed this on a handful of occasions, the declassified memos and briefings from NSA confirm that this was more than just an intimidation tactic or a passing thought – the NSA had truly wanted to jail a journalist for his use of public records. When the Agency determined that this was unlikely to happen, they moved on to exploring other legal avenues which could be used to punish Bamford for his FOIA work.  Continue reading “NSA wanted to use the Espionage Act to prosecute a journalist for using FOIA”

List Verse – by Shelley Kuziak

Three types of militias were formed at the beginning of the Civil War—partisan rangers, guerrillas, and bushwhackers. Partisan rangers were legitimate groups that were authorized by the government to work with the army. Guerrillas provided local defense of family and community. Bushwhackers were extremists who viewed violence as a sport or who saw an opportunity for profit or vengeance. By the end of the “brother against brother” war, with emotions running high, most militias were bushwhackers, even those that began with noble intentions. The following militias were effective and well organized.  Continue reading “10 Militias That Waged Guerrilla Warfare In The Civil War”

Encyclopedia.com

Guerrilla warfare (the word guerrilla comes from the Spanish meaning “little war”) is often the means used by weaker nations or military organizations against a larger, stronger foe. Fought largely by independent, irregular bands, sometimes linked to regular forces, it is a warfare of harassment through surprise. It features the use of ambushes, hit‐and‐run raids, sabotage, and, on occasion, terrorism to wear down the enemy. Typically, a small guerrilla force seeks to concentrate its strength against the weaker portions of the enemy’s forces, such as outposts or lines of communication and logistics, to strike suddenly, and then to disappear into the surrounding countryside. Continue reading “Guerrilla Warfare”

Yahoo News

Newtown school shooter Adam Lanza was a pedophile who thought he was saving children by killing them and was in such denial that he suffered from Asperger’s syndrome that he refused medication for the disease.

The bombshell revelations were the first details from the FBI’s secret trove of documents, which detail the bureau’s investigation after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December, 14, 2012. About 1,500 pages of documents released Tuesday show Lanza didn’t snap but rather planned his attack for more than a year, researching other mass shooting and smashing his computer’s hard drive before he killed his mother and then left the gun-filled home he shared with her to kill 20 children and six teachers.   Continue reading “Sandy Hook Gunman Chose School Because He Was Pedophile”

NJ.com – by S.P. Sullivan

TRENTON — Prosecutors in New Jersey are notifying more than 20,000 people charged with drunken driving that their cases are under review after a State Police sergeant who oversaw breath-testing devices was accused of falsifying records, NJ Advance Media has learned.

County prosecutors have been sending letters to people charged with driving while intoxicated between 2008 and 2016 informing them a specially appointed judge would weigh “whether you are entitled to relief” based on the accusations against the sergeant.   Continue reading “20K drivers busted for DWIs could have their cases appealed in N.J.”

Illinois Policy – by Austin Berg

The Metropolitan Planning Council, or MPC, unveiled a 10-year, $43 billion plan April 4 to fund state and local roads, public transportation, railways and “new and large-scale projects of all types” across Illinois.

How will the MPC fund such a plan in a state that can’t pay its bills? Easy: Massive tax and fee hikes. Illinois state Sen. Heather Steans, D-Chicago, has filed a bill to this effect.  Continue reading “New Bill Would Make Illinois Gas Taxes Highest In The Nation”

Mother Jones – by Russ Choma, Nick Schwellenbach

In recent months, a political bribery scandal has gripped Alabama involving the state’s largest coal company and the powerful, politically connected law firm it retained to fend off a federal effort to clean up a badly polluted North Birmingham neighborhood—an undertaking that could result in major financial liability for the company. The controversy has already ensnared one state lawmaker, and it has cast attention on the actions of other Alabama politicians, including the one ultimately responsible for overseeing the bribery case and potential environmental litigation: Attorney General Jeff Sessions.   Continue reading “Jeff Sessions Is in Charge of a Bribery Prosecution Involving Two of His Top Donors”

CNN

The National Park Service proposes more than doubling the entrance fees at 17 popular national parks, including Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone, to help pay for infrastructure improvements.

Under the agency’s proposal, the entrance fee for a private vehicle would jump to $70 during peak season, from its current rate of $25 to $30.

The cost for a motorcycle entering the park could increase to $50, from the current fee of $15 to $25. The cost for people entering the park on foot or on bike could go to $30, up from the current rate of $10 to $15.   Continue reading “National Park Service proposes $70 entrance fee for 17 popular parks”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress from both parties on Tuesday called for an investigation into a $300 million contract awarded to a small company based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s hometown of Whitefish, Montana.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority awarded the contract to Whitefish Energy Holdings to help crews restore transmission and distribution lines damaged or destroyed during Hurricane Maria. The two-year-old company had just two full-time employees when the storm hit last month, but says it is contracting with hundreds of workers for the Puerto Rico project.   Continue reading “Lawmakers seek probe of power contract to Zinke neighbor”

Health Impact News – by Caitlin Dewey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Excerpts:

Clay Mayes slams on the brakes of his Chevy Silverado and jumps out with the engine running, yelling at a dogwood by the side of the dirt road as if it said something insulting.

Its leaves curl downward and in on themselves like tiny, broken umbrellas. It’s the telltale mark of inadvertent exposure to a controversial herbicide called dicamba.   Continue reading ““Miracle” Weed Killer Dicamba was Supposed to Save Farms – Instead it’s Devastating Them”

The Algemeiner – by Shiri Moshe

A Rutgers University professor has published multiple social media posts containing antisemitic canards and caricatures, including blaming the Armenian genocide on Jews, describing Judaism as “the most racist religion in the world,” and calling Israel a “terrorist country.”

As first reported by the Israellycool blog, Michael Chikindas — a microbiology professor at Rutgers’ department of food science and director of the school’s Center for Digestive Health — promoted dozens of anti-Jewish conspiracies and comments on his Facebook page this past May, among them references to “international fat Jewish pockets,” and descriptions of “orthodox Judaism” and Zionism as “the best of two forms of racism.”  Continue reading “Rutgers Professor Calls Judaism ‘Most Racist Religion,’ Blames Jews for Armenian Genocide, in Flurry of Antisemitic, Homophobic and Sexist Posts”