Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Cutting through the haze of humanitarian bullshit and liberation,  West Point graduate and author Major Danny Sjursen told ‘Watching The Hawks’ that the War on Terror is a “battle for basic hegemony in the Middle East”, warning that it may go on indefinitely.

In the brief but eye-opening interview, Sjursen calls the US’ now 17-year War on Terror “unprecedented in American history,” noting that soon kids who were born after 9/11 will be joining the military.   Continue reading ““There Is No End In Sight” Army Major Warns Of “Perpetual War” On Terror”

Reason – by Scott Shackford

Close to 1,000 people in Michigan had their property seized by police or government officials last year even though they were neither convicted nor sometimes even charged with committing a crime.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that we have this information at all. In 2015 Michigan passed legislation that mandated local law enforcement agencies report more information to the state about the extent of their seizures. The Department of State Police just released its first report that encompassed all agencies for a full calendar year.  Continue reading “Police Seized Property of Close to 1,000 People in Michigan—Without Ever Convicting Them of Crimes”

Hawaii Tribune

HONOLULU — Gov. David Ige is signing into law two bills that would tighten the state’s already strict gun regulations.

One bill Ige signed Monday bans bump stocks, which are devices that allow guns to be fired like assault weapons. The gunman in the Las Vegas shooting that killed 58 people in October used a bump stock.   Continue reading “Ige signs bills tightening gun laws”

Bloomberg Quint

The U.S. government sees oil production further climbing next year even amid transportation logjams in the country’s most prolific shale play.

The Energy Information Administration sees U.S. crude output averaging 11.8 million barrels a day in 2019, up from its 11.76 million barrel a day estimate in the June outlook.

Continue reading “U.S. Is Set to Become World’s Top Oil Producer, Government Says”

RT

South Africa’s 140-year-old gold industry – which was once the world’s largest – is now facing a major crisis. The country’s mineral council says 75 percent of gold mines are unprofitable or barely making money.

The announcement comes as the sector enters wage talks with its employees. Around 200 employer and employee representatives are set to start the negotiations on Wednesday. The number of work stoppages in South Africa increased by eight percent over the past two years to 132.   Continue reading “75% of South African gold mines unprofitable – mineral council”

RT

John Mark Dougan resigned from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and started a one-man crusade against what he saw as pervasive corruption there. Years later his home was raided by the FBI and he made an escape to Russia.

Dougan is former Marine, who turned to police work after resigning from the military. What he found, he says, was a corrupt system which operated to protect the interests of the rich people of Palm Beach County, Florida, the home of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and cover up the misdeeds of the police itself. Continue reading “Facing the FBI & fleeing to Russia: US ex-cop reveals epic struggle to expose corruption”

Mail.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Trump administration’s failed attempt to detain migrant families together indefinitely ran into a formidable obstacle in a judge whose upbringing was shaped as the daughter of immigrants and who previously rejected requests to allow the government to lock up children with their parents.

Judge Dolly Gee, the first Chinese-American woman appointed to the U.S. District Court, has joked that her mother was her first pro bono client because she had to translate for her at medical appointments and help her apply for jobs as a seamstress when she was just a girl.   Continue reading “Judge puts blame on Trump, Congress for immigration crisis”

Mail.com

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) — A firefighter was killed and at least a dozen other people were injured when a natural gas explosion leveled at least two buildings in a Wisconsin community, authorities said Wednesday.

Firefighters arrived to investigate a gas leak in the Madison suburb of Sun Prairie when the explosion happened Tuesday evening, destroying several buildings and igniting a fire that sent billowing smoke that could be seen for miles around.   Continue reading “Firefighter killed in gas explosion, fire near Madison”

Homeland Security News Wire – by Ann Givens and Andrew Knapp

The bureau is getting ready to tap National Data Exchange and its 400 million records to help screen gun buyers. Expert say it would have blocked the Charleston church shooter from obtaining his murder weapon.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning a major addition to the gun background check system, years after examiners’ failure to locate critical information allowed a white supremacist to buy the gun he used to murder nine people in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.   Continue reading “FBI to add major law enforcement database to gun background check system”

Independent – by Kim Sengupta

Donald Trump is expected to ask European countries at this week’s Nato summit, one of the most crucial and contentious in the history of the alliance, to step up and contribute more troops for the war in Afghanistan.

Other member states, already facing an onslaught from the US president over their shortfalls in defence spending, and facing the threat of funding cuts, are likely to acquiesce. Britain, for example, is expected to double the size of its force to just over 1,200.  Continue reading “Blackwater founder’s plan to privatise America’s $76bn, 17-year war in Afghanistan”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

The “Report It, Don’t Ignore It” application released by Henderson County Public Schools is encouraging students to spy on each other and report suspicious activity within the app, Blue Ridge Now reported.

Henderson County students in the upcoming school year will be able to report their peers to administrators using their smartphones.   Continue reading “New App “Report It, Don’t Ignore It” Encourages Students To Spy On Each Other”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The energy community was looking with particular interest to the latest, just released July OPEC monthly report, for signs of the promised – if only by Saudi Arabia – boost in oil output, and it got what it was looking for, if to a lesser extent than some had expected: in June, OPEC’s collective oil production rose by 173Kb/d to 32.327MM, according to secondary sources.   Continue reading “Saudi Oil Production Surges By Over 400,000 Barrels In June: OPEC”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

A writer for the world’s richest man at The Washington Post celebrated July 4th by highlighting a town in Texas which is a model city for open borders advocates.

From The Washington Post, ‘An all-American city that speaks Spanish’: Immigration isn’t a problem for this Texas town — it’s a way of life:   Continue reading “WashPo Hails ‘All-American City That Speaks Spanish’ As Victory For Immigration. Residents Say It’s The Most ‘Unsafe’ City In America”