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Minutemen News

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told a cheering crowd of conservatives Saturday night that the next U.S. president should shutter the much-maligned Internal Revenue Service and turn the agency’s 110,000 employees loose to police the U.S.-Mexico border.

‘That’s slightly tongue-in-cheek,’ he said in Denver at the Western Conservative Summit.   Continue reading “Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’ and Station All 110,000 Agents ‘On the Southern Border’”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Bankers make Debts just as bakers make cakes. That is what they do. Debts are the products of banks just as cars are the products of automakers.

Imagine yourself in a classic movie as one of the bad guys, a counterfeiter. You have no criminal record but the others do. They talk about prison. The first thing you learn is never commit a crime that gets you into a state prison. Only do business with the federal government. They have much nicer prisons. The next thing you learn is the rules for jail time. Never carry a gun. Never defraud a bank in bankruptcy court by hiding cash. People who hide $100,000 in bankruptcy proceedings get 2 1/2 times as long a sentence as someone who counterfeits 20 times that much money. It is who you offend and not the amount of the offense that counts.   Continue reading “Bakers Make Cakes. Bankers Make Debts, Depressions, Hyperinflation and Wars”

RT

Four Palestinian’s have been killed and dozens wounded after an Israeli tank shell hit the third floor of Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza, according to a Health Ministry spokesman.

Ashraf Al-Qidra said that the third floor housed an intensive care unit and operating theaters. Other shells had fallen around the hospital, he added, with officials calling on the Red Cross to help evacuate patients.   Continue reading “Israeli tank strikes on Gaza hospital kill 4, scores injured – medics”

RT

A spate of gun violence in Chicago over the weekend left at least 40 people shot and four dead, including an 11-year-old girl struck in the head by a stray bullet during a slumber party.

The weekend shootings occurred between 18:00 CDT Friday and early Monday, according to NBC Chicago. As of Sunday, the Chicago Police Department had not released an official tally of the violence.   Continue reading “40 shot, 4 dead from gun violence in Chicago over weekend”

RT

China has sent an electronic surveillance vessel to international waters off Hawaii to keep an eye on a US-led Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) involving 22 countries, despite Beijing being one of the countries invited to participate in the drills.

The Chinese Dongdiao-class auxiliary general intelligence (AGI) surveillance ship is stationed outside US territorial seas but within the 200-nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone, according to Captain Darryn James, chief spokesman for the US Pacific Fleet.   Continue reading “Chinese spy ship surveys US-led drills off Hawaii”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Four emergency workers involved in the medical response for a New York City man who died in police custody after being put in an apparent chokehold have been barred from responding to 911 calls, the Fire Department of New York said.

The two EMTs and two paramedics removed from the city’s emergency response system are the latest public safety workers to face reassignment as questions mount about Thursday’s death of Eric Garner. Two police officers — including the one who put his arm around Garner’s neck — have been put on desk duty.   Continue reading “‘Modified duty’ for medics after fatal NYC arrest”

Mail.com

DETROIT (AP) — Roused from sleep by the sound of pounding in the wee hours, a suburban Detroit man grabbed his shotgun, opened the front door and blasted a young woman in the face.

Is Theodore Wafer guilty of murder? Or did the 55-year-old use deadly force based on a reasonable fear that he was at risk? Jury selection starts Monday in a trial that will put Wafer’s self-defense claim to a tough test. The 19-year-old woman, Renisha McBride, was drunk but unarmed when she climbed the steps of his Dearborn Heights porch, 3 ½ hours after crashing her car a few blocks away.   Continue reading “Trial to start in death of unarmed woman on porch”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

Our children will be going back to school anywhere from 3-6 weeks. Over that time span, I plan on publishing some helpful tips on protecting your child while in the care of others, namely the schools. Most schools do an excellent job watching out for the children under their care. However, there are some who have an agenda, and that agenda is not always in the best interest, safety and welfare of our children. Therefore, I am going to take these opportunities and share my concerns with you in the hope that you can benefit from what I have managed to learn.   Continue reading “Parents, Have You Drugged Your Child Today?”

Press TV

The lethal bombs violate all international conventions and are considered as banned weapons in civilian areas.

This comes as a Norwegian doctor in the besieged coastal enclave has recently criticized Israel for using cancer-inducing bombs against Palestinian civilians.   Continue reading “Israel drops white phosphorus bombs on Gazans”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Who could have seen this coming? Following the US imposition of further sanctions on Russia last week, specifically the import of Kalashnikov firearms, CNN reports gun stores across the US are experiencing a run on AK-47s.

As CNN reports,

Here’s a surprising effect of the latest U.S. sanctions against Russia: a run on AK-47s. Continue reading “AK-47 Sales Soar After US Sanctions Kalashnikov Imports”

The Daily Bell

Yahoo News

Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) – For Iraqi Christian Fadi and his young family, it is a lonely wait to see whether they will be executed soon.

Their Christian neighbours and friends have already fled the city of Mosul in Iraq’s north, which last month fell into the hands of Sunni jihadists led by the Islamic State group, which espouses an extreme form of Islam.   Continue reading “Execution or exodus, Iraqi Christians face grim choice”

Yahoo News – by Laura Mills

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out Monday against those who he said were exploiting the downing of a passenger jet in eastern Ukraine for “mercenary objectives.”

Putin said Russia was doing everything possible to allow a team of experts from the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency, to investigate the scene. He also again criticized the Ukraine authorities in Kiev for reigniting the fighting with the pro-Russian rebels who control the crash site.   Continue reading “Putin blames others for exploiting Ukraine crash”

Yahoo News – by Matthew Lee

WASHINGTON (AP) — Video of a rocket launcher, one surface-to-air missile missing, leaving the likely launch site. Imagery showing the firing. Calls claiming credit for the strike. Recordings said to reveal a cover-up at the crash site.

“A buildup of extraordinary circumstantial evidence … it’s powerful here,” said Secretary of State John Kerry, a former prosecutor, and it holds Russian-supported rebels in eastern Ukraine responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, with the Kremlin complicit in the deaths of nearly 300 passengers and crew members.   Continue reading “US working on case against Russia on downed plane”