RT

One teenager and two off-duty IDF soldiers were attacked by a group of Israeli youths, who allegedly shouted “you are Arabs” while hitting them with a hookah pipe in a public park in a northern Israeli town.

Police arrested a 16-year-old Israeli, suspected of taking part in an assault that took place on Friday in Pardes Hanna, south of Haifa, the Jerusalem Post reported.

According to police, the soldiers were sitting in a park with a young woman and a 17-year-old male when they were attacked by a group of men.  Continue reading “‘Almost lynched’: IDF soldiers attacked by Israeli youths who ‘mistook them for Arabs’”

AOL

James Joseph Dresnok, the only known U.S. soldier to be still living in North Korea after he defected more than five decades ago, died last year, his two sons confirmed.

Dresnok pledged his loyalty to the “great leader Kim Jong-un,” his sons Ted and James Dresnok said in a video interview posted on the state-run Uriminzokkiri website. They confirmed their father had a stroke last November.  Continue reading “North Korean-born sons of last American soldier to defect confirm their father’s death and threaten a frightening end to the US”

KTVU

LIVERMORE, Calif. (KTVU) – Livermore police shot and killed a an armed man who they say was acting bizarrely and whose home lit up into flames while he was barricaded inside.

The officer-involved shooting occurred just before 9 p.m. in  a mobile home park in the 1300 block of Via Desta, according to Lt. John Hurd.

Police say that he challenged his neighbors to a fight. When officers arrived after the first 911 call, he retreated inside, made suicidal statements and fired his gun several times.  Continue reading “Livermore, California police shoot and kill armed suspect whose home lit up in flames”

MassPrivateI

Americans brace for major police presence during eclipse. Police across America are afraid terrorists might attack Americans distracted by the eclipse.

Police told to issue tickets to people who are distracted by the sun and not paying attention to their surroundings.

You never know, the person standing next to you wearing eclipse glasses could be a terrorist.   Continue reading “Americans brace for major police presence during eclipse”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Randall and Vicki Weaver and their children wanted nothing more than to be left to live an isolated life in peace in their cabin enclave on a northern Idaho mountaintop called Ruby Ridge. Untrusting of the federal government and of the belief society had taken an insurmountable turn for the worse, the Weavers — as many residents in the remote and breathtaking area — taught their children to be self-sufficient and defend themselves with firearms from unwanted intrusions onto the family’s property.

But the Weaver’s seemingly idyllic life came to an appallingly violent end over several hours from August 21 to 22, 1992, in a horrendously botched federal raid that would also profoundly alter perceptions about the U.S. government in the minds of even ordinary Americans.   Continue reading “25 Years Ago Today the Federal Govt Changed its Rules to Launch a Sniper Attack on Off-Grid Family”

The Daily Caller – by Eric Owens

Vermont’s Attorney General has settled the state’s claims of fraud against Jonathan Gruber, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who served as a technical consultant for President Barack Obama and as one of the chief architects of Obamacare.

Under the terms of the settlement, Gruber will no longer work as a taxpayer-funded economic consultant for the state’s health care system and he won’t seek to be paid any money he might be owed, reports the Rutland Herald, a Vermont newspaper.   Continue reading “Chief Obamacare Architect Sacked After Fraudulent Billing Investigation”

On August 18, during a regular briefing, the Spokesperson for the U.S. State Department Heather Nauert stated that the United States doesn’t intend to extend its stay in Syria after the Islamic State is defeated.

“That is our intent, to defeat ISIS and not do anything more than that. Syria must be governed by its own people and not by the United States or other forces,” Nauert added.   Continue reading “Should Anyone Believe U.S. State Department Promises on Syria?”

I grew up around boats; I’ve had about 5 or 6 of them. I know what the deal is around heavy boating lanes and for the most part, understand right of way rules in shipping lanes. My dad and I regularly navigated in them while fishing marlin, albacore, swordfish you name it. It took us out into big deep water, hundreds of miles offshore.

When you have these big cruisers crashing into huge freighters on a regular basis, there is something seriously wrong with either the competency of the commanders of these ships, or something entirely different is going on here. My first question is why is it only the Americans who are involved in these huge collisions between merchant vessels and our warships?   Continue reading “Unqualified Commanders? Battle Ships Running into Merchant Ships – Why?”

LA Times

Oregon has long been predicted to be a scene of major eclipse traffic jams, and even by Sunday, that was proving to be true: The Oregon National Guard was called in to Madras, a small agricultural city in the sunny part of the state, east of the Cascades.

Traffic was at a standstill for hours Sunday afternoon, gridlocked as well more than 100,000 people flocked to this small, pleasant town of 7,000.

Madras, pronounced like glad or sad — not like the plaid fabric or the megalopolis in India — sits on the centerline of the eclipse’s path of totality.   Continue reading “Solar eclipse gridlock: It was so busy in Madras, Ore., they called in the National Guard”

CBC News

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for asylum seekers: crossing illegally into the country doesn’t offer an advantage when it comes to obtaining refugee status in Canada.

“If I could directly speak to people seeking asylum, I’d like to remind them there’s no advantage,” Trudeau said at a news conference Sunday in Montreal.

“Our rules, our principles and our laws apply to everyone.”   Continue reading “Trudeau to asylum seekers: Crossing border illegally won’t fast track immigration”

Fox 5 News

Border Patrol agents at a Texas checkpoint found 60 people hiding in a refrigerated tractor-trailer on Saturday.

Agents assigned to the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint sent a truck for secondary inspection that morning after a K-9 alerted officers to the trailer, according to to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Authorities said that upon searching the trailer, which had been set to 49 degrees, they found 60 people inside.   Continue reading “60 people found in refrigerated trailer at Texas border crossing”

The Guardian – by Mark Keierleber

It’s been an excruciating six months since 14-year-old Fatima Avelica watched, sobbing, as immigration agents picked up her father on their way to school.

Fatima’s father, Rómulo Avelica-González, who immigrated illegally from Mexico in the 1990s, had driven Fatima and her 12-year-old sister, Yuleni, to school in Los Angeles every morning for years, despite a deportation order hanging over his head. But a month after Donald Trump took office and promptly called for ramped-up immigration arrests, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled over the family’s car.   Continue reading “‘Sanctuary schools’ across America defy Trump’s immigration crackdown”

The Hill – by Niv Elis

Funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall is poised to be a central issue in this fall’s showdown over government funding.

Unless Congress approves a new funding bill, the government will shut down on Oct. 1.

Trump is demanding funds for the wall that was the centerpiece of his successful presidential campaign, but Democrats have warned they will vote en masse against any legislation that includes money for the wall.   Continue reading “Trump poised for a September fight over border wall”

New York Times – by Caitlin Dickerson

The Trump administration is working with like-minded sheriffs from around the country on a plan to channel undocumented immigrants from local jails into federal detention, according to several sheriffs involved in the discussions. If it succeeds, it could vastly expand the dragnet that has already begun to transform immigration enforcement in the United States.

The plan is intended to circumvent court decisions that have thus far limited the role of local law enforcement in immigration. It involves a legal move regarding detainers, which are requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to local sheriffs or police departments to hold people who are suspected of being in the country illegally, even after they have posted bail, finished their jail sentence or otherwise resolved their criminal cases.  Continue reading “Trump Administration Moves to Expand Deportation Dragnet to Jails”

The Organic Prepper

How often do you hear people talk about how they would live their dreams if they only had a bit more money? People always dream about…

  • quitting the jobs they hate
  • starting a business
  • moving to a remote cabin in the woods
  • staying home with the kids
  • being completely debt-free
  • having a little homestead and raising their own food
  • living in an RV and roaming the country

Continue reading “How to Radically Reduce Your Expenses So You Can Change Your Life”

Washington Post – by Chico Harlan

BRANDENBURG, Ky. — The leaders in this small town said they wanted history to be preserved, not erased, so they piled into a car last summer for what they considered an important mission: to save a Confederate monument from possible destruction. The monument had stood in Louisville for 121 years — 70 feet tall, more than 100 tons of granite. But Louisville wanted it removed and called a public meeting to help determine its relocation. One speaker said the structure should be “obliterated.” Another said he would gladly help drop it into the river. And then, one by one, up to the microphone came the people from Brandenburg.

“I think it would be well-received by the county and the residents,” the county judge executive said.   Continue reading “A 121-year-old Confederate monument was coming down. This Kentucky town put it back up.”

AP

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — The huge raised-relief images show a Confederate trinity sitting astride their horses, high above the ground. Hats held across their chests, President Jefferson Davis and Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson ride across the face of Stone Mountain into faded glory.

Part theme park and part shrine to Dixie’s Lost Cause, this granite outcrop east of Atlanta — sculpted like a Mount Rushmore of the Confederacy — is once again an ideological battlefield as a new fight rages over rebel symbolism across the South.  Continue reading “Stone Mountain another (huge) test for Confederate symbols”