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JERUSALEM (AP) — If Islamic militants in Gaza or Lebanon go to war with Israel, they could find their usual targets empty.
Israel is drawing up contingency plans to evacuate up to a quarter-million civilians from border communities to protect them from attacks from Hamas, Hezbollah or other Islamic militant groups. Continue reading “Israel plans mass evacuation if war erupts again”
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Australian couple with roots in Alaska has bought more than two dozen radio stations in three states, marking the first time federal regulators have allowed full foreign ownership of U.S. radio stations.
The Federal Communications Commission recently approved a request by Richard and Sharon Burns through their company Frontier Media to increase their interest in 29 radio stations in Alaska, Texas and Arkansas from 20 percent to 100 percent. Continue reading “Australia couple are 1st foreigners to own US radio stations”
WEB Notes: The Federal Reserve told us a week ago the markets have improved so much they are going to continue to raise interest rates. Of course it is these no to low rates that keep the economy going to begin with. Without those, interest on loans will increase for many people and businesses. So within that week we have Sears telling us they have doubt about the economic viability of their operations and Payless is going to file for bankruptcy closing anywhere from 500 to 1000 stores. So much for the “health” of the economy.
Continue reading “Payless To File Bankruptcy As They Plan To Close 500-1000 Stores”
USA Today – by Melanie Eversley
A federal grand jury indicted the Philadelphia district attorney Tuesday on charges related to what officials described as a five-year corruption spree that included accepting tens of thousands of dollars in concealed bribes, a trip to the Dominican Republic and a 1997 Jaguar from business owners.
The charges against Seth Williams, 50, a Democrat, also included confiscating money intended for a relative’s nursing home care and using the funds for his own personal use. Continue reading “Philadelphia district attorney indicted on bribery, corruption charges”
In a March 21 Vanity Faircolumn, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes suggests Second Amendment defenders have contributed to an “arms race” because of citizens and law enforcement.
He suggests this has happened as a result of the contention that private gun ownership is the “ultimate check against tyranny.” Continue reading “Chris Hayes: 2nd Amendment Defenders Spurred ‘Arms Race’ Between Citizens and Cops”
The Kol Nidre is the holiest Jewish prayer and is recited several times on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It means “all vows” and is a flat statement that no promise of any kind will be kept for the coming year. It is also sung by the cantor in synagogue, accompanied on the violin and goes like this:
“All vows, obligations, oaths or anathemas, pledges of all names, which we have vowed, sworn, devoted, or bound ourselves to, from this day of atonement, until the next day of atonement (whose arrival we hope for in happiness) we repent, aforehand, of them all, they shall all be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, void and made of no effect; they shall not be binding, nor have any power; the vows shall not be reckoned as vows, the obligations shall not be obligatory, nor the oaths considered as oaths.” Continue reading “The Kol Nidre”
The organization is North Carolinians For Immigration Reform and Enforcement (NCFIRE) (ncfire.info, facebook, twitter, gab).
For several years, James Johnson, its head, has been researching very serious crimes committed by illegal immigrants in North Carolina.
Some people will view his effort as partisan and political from the get-go, and therefore they will automatically reject what Johnson has discovered. Continue reading “Interview: documenting illegal-immigrant pedophile crimes”
South Dakota — The battle was lost, but apparently the war continues on for water protectors who are still trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
The Associated Press is reporting that suspected vandals, possibly individuals from the #NoDAPL campaign, have burned a hole in the side of the pipeline with what appears to have been a blowtorch. Continue reading ““Vandals” Take Blowtorch to DAPL Just Days Before It Goes Operational”
Time for talk running out, President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned wavering House Republicans that their jobs were on the line in next year’s elections if they failed to back a GOP bill that would upend Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
The countdown quickened toward an expected vote Thursday on legislation undoing much of the law that has provided coverage to some 20 million Americans. Trump huddled behind closed doors with rank-and-file Republicans just hours after GOP leaders unveiled changes intended to pick up votes by doling out concessions to centrists and hardliners alike. Continue reading “Trump to GOP: Pass health care bill or seal your fate”
All News Pipeline – by Susan Duclos
On January 25, 2017 President Trump issued an executive order titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” where in Section 9 deals with Sanctuary Jurisdictions, which states “It is the policy of the executive branch to ensure, to the fullest extent of the law, that a State, or a political subdivision of a State, shall comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373.” Continue reading “Citizens Rise Up Against City Officials As ICE Releases List Of 118 Sanctuary Cities That Are Not Complying With The Law”
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday put new restrictions on presidential powers, limiting a president’s authority to staff certain top government posts in a case involving an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board.
The court decided 6-2 to uphold a lower court’s ruling that then-President Barack Obama exceeded his legal authority with his temporary appointment of an NLRB general counsel in 2011. Continue reading “Supreme Court reins in president’s appointment powers”
Lending in the U.S. by foreign banks has started to contract.
Total loans and leases by foreign-related banks fell at an annual pace of about 0.75% in the first week of March, according to the most recent data from the Federal Reserve. It was the third week in a row in which loans contracted — and the first contraction since 2013. Continue reading “Foreign Banks Retreat from Lending to U.S.”
Some conservatives in Washington were fuming on Tuesday after an Obamacare rollback bill was tweaked by Republican leaders to delete a provision meant to crack down on illegal immigrants getting federal healthcare insurance coverage.
The development posed another problem for Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and President Donald Trump, who are trying to win congressional approval of the wider bill, the first big legislative test for Trump since taking office. Continue reading “Immigration provision cut from Obamacare rollback, angering conservatives”
There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches today, we are having Skype issues.
We will continue to work the problem and will hopefully be up tomorrow.
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Tax Revolution Institute by Philip Schlosser
US House Republicans have proposed a tax reform plan as part of their Better Way Forward initiative called “The Blueprint,” which, for one, modifies the corporate income tax into what is called a “destination-based cash-flow tax,” or DBCFT. In a nutshell, this means both domestic and foreign firms alike will be subject to a tax on all sales made within the United States, while US exports are exempted. Continue reading “The Border Adjustment Tax: Why This Trillion Dollar BAT Shouldn’t Fly”
The European Union’s commissioner for migration says there are ways to make all EU members states comply with the program of relocation of migrants among them.
Dimitris Avramopoulos made the statement Tuesday in Warsaw, where he is visiting the growing European border guard agency, Frontex. Continue reading “EU official: we can make members accept refugees”
With the fighting against ISIS increasingly confined to densely populated cities like Mosul and Raqqa, the US air war against them continues to escalate precipitously, with record numbers of airstrikes in recent months, and the coalition dropping over 7,000 munitions on Iraq and Syria in just the last two months.
Air Force Central Command spokeswoman Capt. Kathleen Atanasoff attributed to the continued increase in strikes to the effort to support Iraq’s invasion of Mosul, a city of well over a million people. With the fighting there heavily confined to residential neighborhoods, however, the heavy use of airstrikes must raise concern of large civilian tolls. Continue reading “U.S. Launches Over 7,000 Airstrikes In Iraq, Syria In Past Two Months”
