“Newly released body camera footage shows two Las Vegas police officers holding their position in a hallway one floor beneath the Oct. 1 gunman for nearly five minutes as rounds are continually fired into the Route 91 Harvest festival crowd below.”
“The policy offers, at most, the illusion of security, purchased at an exorbitant cost to America’s moral reputation.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/trump-travel-ban-terrorism.html
“ICE came into existence in the early 2000s, when the federal government was reorganized and the Department of Homeland Security was created — so it’s a relatively new branch of the federal government. Its creation led to more deportations, which escalated during the Obama administration, especially during his first term.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/28/17514806/abolish-ice-protest-democrats-immigration
“Political assassinations, murders, and violence continue to escalate as Mexico’s elections approach.”
Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/06/28/political-murders-push-120-in-mexican-elections/
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation opposes the bill, calling it ‘flawed’ and ‘misguided.’ The group argues the measure would make the government and advisory group responsible for deciding what is true or false. It also points out the First Amendment prevents content-based restrictions, even if the statements of ‘admittedly false.'”
Read more: http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/06/25/california-considers-fake-news-advisory-group/
“Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations, according to a Times review of federal lawsuits, internal ICE documents and interviews.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html
“The key issue here: pension plans are almost universally toast.”
Read more: https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-latest-casualty-in-the-global-pension-catastrophe-is-23795/
“A West Virginia Supreme Court justice faces up to 395 years in prison and $5.5 million in fines after being hit with a 22-count indictment on numerous charges of fraud and corruption.”
“Even in the Trump era — when the press is openly clashing with a president — bombing still provides push-button presidential redemption.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-pro-war-media-deserve-criticism-not-sainthood/
“The FDA has had trouble finding any food that does not carry traces of the pesticide.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails