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on June 21, 2013 in World News

Talk hosts recruited to push immigration reform?

America’s TV and radio talk hosts have been reportedly wooed behind the  scenes to get their more conservative audience to back immigration-reform  legislation. The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza stirred up a hornet’s nest earlier this week by  reporting that Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and John McCain, R-Ariz. – two of the  “Gang of Eight” behind the Senate’s comprehensive immigration-reform bill – and  others have talked privately to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and other “top hosts” to  get them on board. Then Thursday evening, after he admitted to speaking with Rubio on the phone  earlier in the day and getting certain… View Article

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on June 21, 2013 in World News

Obama called ‘hypocrite of the century’

A member of  the Irish parliament has sharply attacked U.S. President Barack Obama’s  policies, calling him a “war criminal” and “hypocrite of the  century.”  “Is this person  going for the hypocrite of the century award?” Left wing Member of Parliament  Clare Daly asked of Obama during a speech before parliament at the end of the G8  summit held in Northern Ireland.  “Because we have  to call things by their right names, and the reality is that by any serious  examination, this man is a war criminal,” she was quoted as saying by The  Huffington Post.  “This is the man  who… View Article

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on June 21, 2013 in World News

Corker Amendment Permanently Offers Citizenship to Those Overstaying Their Visa

Just as public anxiety about the weak border security provisions in the Senate immigration bill was building, GOP Sen. Bob Corker stepped forward with an amendment to “fix” the problem. The result of his efforts, however, has been a “christmas tree” measure, covering items far beyond border security. Breitbart News has learned exclusively that one provision of Corker’s amendment will allow workers who stay in the country past their visa will remain on the “path to citizenship.” Even in the future, breaking the law won’t stop progress on what VP Joe Biden calls the “unfettered path” to citizenship. The Corker… View Article

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on June 21, 2013 in World News

The Man who helped create the NSA spying program

William Binney is a former highly placed intelligence official turned whistleblower with the United States National Security Agency (NSA),[1] resigning on October 31, 2001 after over 30 years with the agency. In September 2002, he, along with J. Kirke Wiebe and Edward Loomis, asked the U.S. Defense Department to investigate the NSA for allegedly wasting “millions and millions of dollars” on Trailblazer, a system intended to analyze data carried on communications networks such as the Internet. Binney had been one of the inventors of an alternative system, ThinThread, which was shelved when Trailblazer was chosen instead. Binney has also been… View Article

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on June 21, 2013 in World News

Senators introduce bill to block US arming Syria militants

Four bipartisan US senators have introduced a bill aimed at prohibiting the administration of President Barack Obama from providing military assistance to militants in Syria. The legislation was introduced on June 20 by Democrats Tom Udall and Chris Murphy and Republicans Mike Lee and Rand Paul in an effort to bar the US Department of Defense and spy agencies from feeding anti-Syria Takfiri militants. On June 14, Obama ordered his administration to provide the militants with weapons, which include assault rifles, shoulder-fired rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles. Rand Paul said in a statement that the “president’s unilateral decision to arm… View Article

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on June 21, 2013 in World News

Whistleblower says NSA spying on Politicians and Judges

                  Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst and Bush-era NSA whistleblower, claimed Wednesday that the intelligence community has ordered surveillance on a wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military officials, lawmakers and diplomats. He also made another stunning allegation. He says the NSA had ordered wiretaps on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama back in 2004. “They went after–and I know this because I had my hands literally on the paperwork for these sort of things–they went after high-ranking military officers; they went after members of Congress, both Senate… View Article

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on June 21, 2013 in World News

Putin claims proof Syrian rebels used chemical weapons

WASHINGTON – Debate whether the Syrian government or the Syrian opposition  used chemical weapons on civilians has been dealt a twist with a  little-publicized revelation by Russian President Vladimir Putin his country has  evidence chemical laboratories in Iraq produced weapons for the Sunni  rebels. Putin’s revelation came at the end of last week’s G8 Summit of industrialized  nations and aligns with an earlier report out of the Middle East that former  Baath regime officials of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who are Sunnis, are  involved in the production and procurement of such weapons for those fighting  the government of President Bashar… View Article

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on June 21, 2013 in World News

Supreme Court’s authority faces stunning challenge

A coalition of Christian organizations is warning that the U.S. Supreme Court  does not have the power to redefine the institution of marriage, which predates  government, churches and even religion. The  statement comes just as the court is expected to release its ruling on the  Proposition 8 case in California and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. In the Proposition 8 case, a homosexual judge in California ruled that the  state’s voters did not have the right to limit marriage to one man and one  woman. Voters approved an amendment in 2008 defining marriage only months after  the state Supreme… View Article

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on June 21, 2013 in World News

FBI ‘justified’ in every shooting since 1993 – report

It’s standard operating procedure for the FBI to conduct an internal investigation when an agent shoots a suspect. Questions are being raised, though, after a report found that every single intentional shooting in the past 20 years was deemed ‘justified.’ Between 1993 and early 2011 FBI agents fatally shot 70 people and  wounded approximately 80 others. In no incident, including one  that led to a $1.3 million payout for a victim wrongfully  identified as a bank robber, was an agent wrong to fire their  weapon. The records were obtained by The New York Times through a  Freedom of Information Act… View Article

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on June 21, 2013 in World News

Gun Manufacturer Moving To SC Due To Conn. Gun Control Laws

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Less than a week after Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed gun restrictions into law in April, gun manufacturer PTR Industries said it intended to leave the state to avoid the damage it expected to be inflicted on its business. On Wednesday, the rifle manufacturer kept its promise, announcing it will move to Aynor, S.C. “One hundred percent of our product line is now illegal in Connecticut due to that law,” said John McNamara, the company’s vice president for sales. He offered few details of the relocation, saying that a formal announcement and ribbon-cutting are scheduled… View Article

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