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HM Media

Continue reading “Appeals court removes nationwide injunction against Trump’s latest plan to limit asylum”

Living Lies – by Neil Garfield

Hat Tip Bill Paatalo

You are right, Bill. You can’t make this stuff up. But somehow judges still don’t want to believe it. How can you be attorney in fact for a nonexistent entity?  Continue reading “Law Firm Admits Absence of Creditor”

Daily Mail

The internet has been flooded with hilarious memes, after it was revealed President Donald Trump is eyeing up the island of Greenland.

Two sources told the Wall Street Journal that Trump has repeatedly asked his advisers with ‘varying degrees of seriousness’ if it would be possible for the U.S. to acquire the autonomous Danish territory for its resources and geopolitical significance.  Continue reading “‘Trump wants to buy Greenland? Let’s make him find it on a map first’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The Coroner who examined the body of Connor Betts, the 24-year-old man who shot and killed his sister, her boyfriend and seven others, before he himself was shot and killed by police in downtown Dayton earlier this month,was found to have cocaine, Xanax, alcohol and anti-depressants in his system, raising more questions about the role that mental health – and specifically, substance abuse – played in one of the latest high-profile mass shootings, according to the Washington Post. Continue reading “Dayton Shooter Had Cocaine, Alcohol & Antidepressents In His System During Attack”

Common Dreams – by Jake Johnson

Civil liberties groups and privacy advocates raised alarm Thursday after the Trump administration called on Congress to reauthorize an NSA mass surveillance program that was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The New York Times, which obtained the Trump administration’s request to Congress, reported that “the administration urged lawmakers to make permanent the legal authority for the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans’ domestic communications, the USA Freedom Act.”  Continue reading “Alarm as Trump Requests Permanent Reauthorization of NSA Mass Spying Program Exposed by Snowden”

Jon Rappoport

This is a big one. It’s so big, in fact, that many people will want to turn their backs on it and pretend it doesn’t and couldn’t exist. But it’s real. It does exist.

No killing of innocent people can be called a “negligible statistic.” But what label do you apply when an entire government stands by and does nothing, while millions of people die?  Continue reading “Lone shooters, terrorism, and semantics”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On Thursday Democrat presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren tweeted a video clip in which she pledged “executive action in every corner” for gun control.

Warren said, “40,000 Americans died last year from gun violence.” Warren’s claim is actually a loose reference to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers for 2017–the most recent numbers–which show 39,773 people died in a firearm-related death.  Continue reading “Elizabeth Warren Pledges ‘Executive Action in Every Corner’ for Gun Control”

Reuters

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Friday rejected an offer by Israel to let her travel to the West Bank, saying she would not visit her family there because the Israeli government had imposed “oppressive conditions” to humiliate her.

Tlaib, a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives who has been critical of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, had planned to make an official visit to Israel along with fellow Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.  Continue reading “U.S. Rep. Tlaib refuses Israel’s ‘oppressive conditions’ for West Bank visit”

NBC New York

Authorities are looking to question a tall, thin white man seen pushing a shopping cart near the Fulton Street subway station, where two rice cookers were found Friday morning.

A third rice cooker was found next to a trash can in Chelsea, though an investigation is ongoing as to whether all are connected. Authorities did say all three devices were the same make and model.  Continue reading “NYPD Seeks Man With Shopping Cart After 3 Rice Cookers in Manhattan Spark Rush-Hour Scare”

New York Post

A pair of suspicious pressure cookers shut down a subway station in lower Manhattan on Friday morning, according to sources and police.

Authorities urged straphangers to avoid the Fulton Street subway station because of  the suspicious packages, which were reported by a 911 caller.  Continue reading “Pair of pressure cookers shut down Lower Manhattan subway station”

Oath Keepers – by Stewart Rhodes

Public Notice:  Oath Keepers Will NOT be Participating in the August 17, 2019 “End Domestic Terrorism” Rally in Portland, OR

I wish I didn’t have to do this, but it must be done. I must make it clear that Oath Keepers will not be participating in the “End Domestic Terrorism” rally scheduled for this Saturday, August 17, 2019, which is being organized by Joe Biggs and the Proud Boys.  Continue reading “Oath Keepers Will NOT be Participating in the August 17 Rally in Portland, OR”