LA Tmes – by Jenny Jarvie

Slowly, the Border Patrol truck cut through the darkness, its headlights illuminating a deserted, sandy road framed by long grass and yellow mesquite trees.

“This area used to be really hot,” said Marlene Castro, a supervisory Border Patrol agent, as she scanned the path ahead for immigrants who had crossed the Rio Grande illegally into the United States. “You couldn’t move. Every time you turned a corner, you’d run into group after group.”
Continue reading “Rio Grande Valley is unusually quiet as Southwest border crossings drop to lowest point in at least 17 years”

Chicago Tribune – by Elvia Malagon, Jeremy Gorner and Megan Crepeau

Cook County judge was killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting outside the judge’s South Side home Monday morning, a police source said.

Associate Judge Raymond Myles, 66, and a 52-year-old woman were found outside the home in the 9400 block of South Forest Avenue around 4:50 a.m., police said.

Myles suffered several gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.  The woman was hit in the leg and was taken to Christ in serious condition.
Continue reading “Cook County judge shot dead, woman wounded outside South Side home”

Yahoo News

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s capital is stepping up a campaign against foreign espionage from Monday, offering rewards ranging from $1,500 to $73,000 to citizens who blow the whistle on suspected spies, state media said.

Since taking office in 2013, President Xi Jinping has overseen a raft of laws and campaigns to secure China’s national security against both domestic and foreign threats.  Continue reading “Beijing offers cash rewards to unearth foreign spies”

Ministry Watch

“In the same way, deacons are to be worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain.” 1 Timothy 3:8

Many have no doubt seen the rather frequent and emotion-laden advertisements on Fox News asking for your donations to help struggling Jewish people around the world. The ads come from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) founded and run by Rabbi Yeckiel Eckstein. Recent ads have featured what the ministry claimed were elderly holocaust survivors in the former Soviet Union and poor Jewish people in Israel. Continue reading “Outrageously High Fundraising and Compensation Costs – What You Need Know About Those Emotional TV Commercials Asking You to Help Impoverished Jews”

NZ Herald

US officials are keeping a keen eye on a Russian complex nestled on the edge of a volcanic crater in Nicaragua.

The center, which is believed to be a satellite station, has been built near the Laguna de Nejapa in Managua – the capital of the Central American nation, according to Daily Mail.

The Washington Post reports the local government described the complex as, “simply a tracking site of the Russian version of a GPS satellite system”, but not everyone is convinced it isn’t something more sinister.   Continue reading “Fears grow over mystery Russian compound in Nicaragua”

Yahoo News

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel closed its Taba border crossing to the Sinai peninsula on Monday following warnings by its anti-terrorism office of an “imminent” militant attack there and urged its citizens to leave Egypt hours before the start of the Passover holiday, when Sinai is a popular destination for many secular Israelis.

Soon after the announcement, sirens wailed in parts of southern Israel alerting residents to a rocket attack. The military said a rocket fired from Sinai exploded in southern Israel, hitting a greenhouse but causing no injuries. The Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for the attack.   Continue reading “Israel shuts Egypt border after terror warning Passover eve”

The Courier-Journal – by Lucas Aulbach

A video posted on Facebook late Sunday evening shows a passenger on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville being forcibly removed from the plane before takeoff at O’Hare International Airport.

The video, posted by Audra D. Bridges at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, is taken from an aisle seat on a commercial airplane that appears to be preparing to take flight. The 31-second clip shows three men wearing radio equipment and security jackets speaking with a man seated on the plane. After a few seconds, one of the men grabs the passenger, who screams, and drags him by his arms toward the front of the plane. The video ends before anything else is shown.   Continue reading “Video shows man forcibly removed from United flight from Chicago to Louisville”

All News Pipeline – by Susan Duclos

During the election campaign season, Donald Trump gathered a team from a variety of backgrounds and different political factions,  bringing together a team to push his anti-globalist message, his America First policy. That team included Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon and others. We are specifically referencing Kushner and Bannon because they represent the complete opposite sides of the political spectrum of people that helped Trump win the 2016 presidential election.   Continue reading “Trump Supporters Go After Jared Kushner – Americans Didn’t Vote To Put Hillary In The White House”

Governing – by Daniel C Vock

As attorney general of Texas, Greg Abbott made a name for himself by fighting the federal government and suing the Obama administration 31 times. As governor, Abbott has found a new enemy — local governments — and, in recent days, he’s raised the stakes in that war.

Texas has a reputation for blocking local laws that contradict its hands-off approach to regulation. In 2014, for example, the oil-friendly state sued a town that voted to ban fracking and then later passed a law preventing other cities from doing the same.   Continue reading “The End of Local Laws? War on Cities Intensifies in Texas”

Bloomberg – by Noah Feldman

The “extreme vetting” proposals floated this week by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly include the idea of making visitors to the U.S. open their phones and disclose their contacts, passwords and social media handles to immigration authorities. This might potentially be constitutional, because visitors outside the U.S. don’t necessarily have privacy protection. But it’s a serious threat to Americans’ constitutional rights anyway. The intrusion into core privacy of visa applicants through the fiction of consent can easily be extended to U.S. citizens in a wide range of situations.   Continue reading “‘Extreme Vetting’ Also Threatens Privacy of Americans”

RT

“A victory of neo-conservatives” – that’s how Ron Paul, a former member of the US House of Representatives and three-time presidential candidate, described the US strike on Syria, adding that he does not expect peace talks to resume any time soon.

Speaking to RT, Ron Paul said that there is no proof of Damascus’ guilt that could trigger such a rash and violent response from the US.   Continue reading “‘They’re terrified that peace was going to break out’ – Ron Paul on US Syria strike”

Rense.com – by Jim Kirwan

In his biography The Art of the Deal, Trump lied about his grandfather’s country of origin, stating it was Sweden instead of Germany. So if you think these people wouldn’t lie about their ancestry, you need to explain that whopper.

Trump was brought up in Jamaica Estates, Queens, which has a large Jewish population. He went to Kew-Forest School, ditto. Its other notable alumni include Katherine Weber, Jewish, Gideon Yago, Jewish, and Hank Azaria, Jewish. Googling on “attended Kew-Forest” brings up mostly Jewish names. Trump’s father was on the Board of Trustees at Kew-Forest. By the way, it is very expensive.   Continue reading “Looks Like Donald Trump May Well Be Jewish That Would Explain A Great Deal…”

NBC News

WASHINGTON – South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s decision to launch warplanes from Shayrat Airfield just hours after it was bombed by U.S. cruise missiles was a “huge mistake.”

“Here’s what I think Assad’s telling Trump by flying from this base: ‘F you,'” Graham said on “Meet The Press.” “And I think he’s making a huge mistake. Because if you’re an adversary of the United States and you don’t worry about what Trump may do on any given day, then you’re crazy.”   Continue reading “Sen. Graham: Assad Saying ‘F You’ to Trump By Flying From Bombed Airfield”

Washington Post – by Avi Selk

A volley of U.S. cruise missiles had barely been launched into Syria before the Internet filled up with fact-free theories about the real reason for an international crisis.

A popular one on the right-most fringes: The U.S. government actually carried out the chemical weapons massacre in Syria last week — a “false flag” to trick President Trump into retaliating, thus entangling himself in a foreign war.   Continue reading “MSNBC host’s conspiracy theory: What if Putin planned the Syrian chemical attack to help Trump?”