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Against Crony Capitalism

First the kerfuffle at UNLV over Ms. Clinton’s $225k 1 hour speech, and now this from the student body at UCLA. Looks like at least the students are waking up to the scam.

It’s pretty hard to stomach such a ridiculous fee when your tuition keeps jumping in cost each year.   Continue reading “Poll: UCLA Students View $300,000 For Hillary Speech A Waste Of Money”

The Real Revo – by R.D. Walker

Holder’s Justice Department isn’t really all that interested in prosecuting violations of gun laws.

While President Obama decries gun violence and presses for more laws to restrict ownership, his Justice Department has prosecuted 25 percent fewer cases referred by the main law enforcement agency charged with reducing firearms violence across the country, a computer analysis of U.S. prosecution data shows. Continue reading “Gun violation prosecutions plummet under Obama”

RT

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Poland violated an international treaty to protect human rights by hosting secret CIA prisons on its territory.

The Strasbourg-based court ruled that Poland had contravened articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) that cover torture, the right to liberty, and the right to an effective remedy for victims of crime.   Continue reading “European rights court condemns Poland for hosting secret CIA prisons”

Global Research – by Felicity Arbuthnot          

The “most moral army in the world” from “the only democracy in the Middle East” has attacked hospitals, a home for the disabled, a geriatric hospice, demolished five mosques, razed entire neighbourhoods, erased entire families – the youngest – so far – just three days old if you do not count the unborn, as in the case of twenty nine year old Samar Al Hallaq (1) killed with her two sons, aged four and five, other members of her family and carrying her third child. Her husband was critically injured.   Continue reading “Israel: International Anger Mounts”

Examiner – by Roz Zurko

A four-year-old Connecticut boy and his mother were met at the door of the local doughnut shop by the owner and were told to leave. The little boy is “banned” from the Monroe Doughnut Inn, the owner conveyed to a very confused and upset mom, Rebecca Denham, according to Huffington Post on July 24.

Kids don’t have the same perception of life at four-years-old as adults do and for that reason they sometimes come out with some strange questions. This is what happened to Justin Otero on his previous visit to this doughnut shop, reports My Fox News 8.   Continue reading “4-year-old banned from doughnut shop: Innocent question deemed ‘rude’ by owner”

Weaponsman

Now taking place somewhere in the world: a couple squads of infantry in ninja suits, an armored truck with a gun turret.

But where?   Continue reading “Quick, Where’s this Combat Operation?”

Bloomberg

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has announced his resignation following turmoil in government.

Yatsenyuk made the announcement from the dais of the parliament after two parties said they would pull out of the governing coalition. “I am announcing my resignation in connect with the collapse of the coalition,” Yatsenyuk said.   Continue reading “Ukrainian prime minister announces resignation”

Yahoo News

Cairo (AFP) – An Egyptian court that jailed three Al-Jazeera journalists for alleged ties with Islamists said on Tuesday that “the devil guided” the group to spread false news defaming the country.

Australian journalist Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed were convicted in June of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false news that portrayed Egypt as being in a state of “civil war.”   Continue reading “Egypt court says ‘devil guided’ jailed Jazeera journalists”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

ROCKPORT, Texas—Deployment of the Texas National Guard may take up to 45 days before any impact will be visible to the general public. Leaders of the Texas Military Forces (TMF) under the command of the Texas Adjutant General, Air National Guard Major General John Nichols, are now developing plans based upon the directives issued to them by Texas Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).   Continue reading “Texas Nation Guard: Deployment Not to Begin for 30 – 45 Days”

Business Insider – by PAUL SZOLDRA

The Federal Aviation Administration lifted its ban on U.S. flights going in or out of Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport late Wednesday evening.

“Before making this decision, the FAA worked with its U.S. government counterparts to assess the security situation in Israel and carefully reviewed both significant new information and measures the Government of Israel is taking to mitigate potential risks to civil aviation,” the FAA said in a press release.   Continue reading “FAA Lifts Ban on Flights to Israel”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

Eddie Overholt was attending his second county board meeting last Friday when he was arrested by police for interfering with a public meeting and resisting arrest for the dastardly act of asking county officials to speak up so that the audience could hear the proceedings.

According to 76-year old Overholt and others present at the meeting, the board had assembled around a table at the front of the room. Some city officials were turned with their backs facing the crowd making it difficult to hear what was being said.   Continue reading “Cops Arrest 76-Year Old Veteran For Town Meeting ‘Outburst’: “I Asked Them To Speak Louder So We Could Hear””

ABC News – by Yazhou Sun

A Minneapolis man said he and his two children were kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight after the father tweeted about a “rude” gate agent who refused to give his kids priority boarding.

The incident happened on Sunday afternoon when Duff Watson was traveling with his two daughters, ages 9 and 6, from Denver to Minneapolis.

“I have been traveling with Southwest for a few years now, and I’m an A-list member,” Watson told ABC News today. “You can board the plane early.”   Continue reading “Family Booted Off Southwest Airlines After Dad Tweeted About ‘Rude’ Gate Agent”

USA Today – by Doug Stanglin

An Air Algerie flight en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso with 116 people aboard — including 50 French citizens — crashed Thursday in northeastern Mali, the airlines said.

The airlines said on its Twitter account that the plane went down about 40 miles from the Malian city of Gao. It did not give any additional details.

“The plane disappeared at Gao (in Mali), (300 miles) from the Algerian border. Several nationalities are among the victims,” Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal was cited as saying by Algerian radio, the French news agency AFP reports.   Continue reading “Air Algerie plane with 116 aboard crashes in Mali”

Laughing Squid

On a rural stretch of County Road 400 in Amity, Indiana, the road splits around a small mound of earth located in the center of the roadway. That mound is the grave of Nancy Kerlin Barnett (1793-1831) and it is in the middle of the road for a most unusual reason. As the 1912 historical marker at the site explains, when the county planned to run a road through the cemetery in which Barnett was laid to rest, her grandson Daniel Doty guarded the plot with a gun until the county relented and built the road around the grave.   Continue reading “The Grave in the Middle of a Rural Indiana Road”