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on June 1, 2015 in World News

USA Freedom Act vs expired Patriot Act provisions

USA Freedom Act vs expired Patriot Act provisions: How do the spy laws differ? he US Senate is poised to pass the USA Freedom Act now that major surveillance powers vested in the USA Patriot Act have expired. The House-passed bill, representing a slightly less intrusive spying law, will come to a vote on Tuesday. READ MORE: Goodbye Section 215: Patriot Act key surveillance provisions expire The Senate let certain parts of the USA Patriot Act lapse, failing to extend then by the June 1 deadline. Among them is the notorious Section 215, authorizing bulk collection of Americans’ telephone data,… View Article

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on June 1, 2015 in World News

Justice Department Studying ‘Far-Right’ Social Media Use

Justice Department Studying ‘Far-Right’ Social Media Use $585,719 study to combat violent extremism BY: Elizabeth Harrington The Department of Justice is concentrating on “far-right” groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting violent extremism. The Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded Michigan State University $585,719 for the study, which was praised by Eric Holder, the former attorney general, earlier this year. “There is currently limited knowledge of the role of technology and computer mediated communications (CMCs), such as Facebook and Twitter, in the dissemination of messages that promote extremist agendas and radicalize individuals to… View Article

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on June 1, 2015 in World News

Native American Tribes Declare Sovereignty, Break Away from State of Maine

Native American Tribes Declare Sovereignty, Break Away from State of Maine Source: Alex Freeman (TFC) Augusta, ME — Due to Governor Paul LePage launching direct political and environmental attacks against the Penobscot, Micmac and Passamaquoddy tribes of Maine, leaders of those tribes have recalled their representatives from the state legislature and are asserting their sovereignty from the State of Maine. “The Maine Indian Land claims Settlement act has failed and we cannot allow ourselves to continue down the path,” Chief Francis said. “We’re saying it’s a failed social experiment.” In August of 2011, Governor LePage signed an Executive Order recognizing a “special relationship” between the sovereign State of… View Article

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on June 1, 2015 in World News

Donald Trump Calls Rubio, Jeb Failures

Donald Trump Calls Rubio, Jeb Failures Who Won’t Be Able To Make America Great Again Real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump, who’s presumably getting ready to announce a run for the presidency on June 16, hammered Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News. “Rubio is weak on immigration and he’s weak on jobs,” Trump said, recalling how Rubio still stands by every last thing that was in the “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill passed last Congress. Rubio is actually the only Republican running for president—other than Sen…. View Article

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on June 1, 2015 in World News

Two Dozen Shot, Six Killed in Chicago over Weekend

by Warner Todd Huston Two Dozen Shot, Six Killed in Chicago over Weekend Six were killed and another two dozen shot, including a 13-year-old boy, over the chilly weekend in Chicago, police report. Often when temperatures drop, so do the shootings, but while this weekend wasn’t as bloody as the recent Memorial Day weekend, two and one half dozen people were shot during the unseasonably chilly temperatures in the Windy City. The youngest victim was a 13-year-old boy who was critically injured on Saturday afternoon on the city’s West Side. The child was a victim of a random shot from… View Article

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on June 1, 2015 in World News

Alberta MLAs to be sworn-in today after historic election

Alberta MLAs to be sworn-in today after historic election Alberta’s new MLAs will be sworn-in at the legislature this morning nearly one month after the election that ended the Progressive Conservatives’ 44-year hold on power. Eighty-five of 87 MLAs will take the oath of office. One Calgary riding is under a judicial recount and the riding of Calgary-Foothills is vacant after former premier Jim Prentice resigned on election night. Nearly 70 of these members are new to the legislature, including two party leaders: Brian Jean of the Wildrose and Greg Clark from the Alberta Party. Deborah Drever, the 26-year-old student… View Article

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on June 1, 2015 in World News

BDS movement threatening Israel’s existence, Bibi says

BDS movement threatening Israel’s existence, Bibi says sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Tel Aviv is being endangered by an international campaign to boycott the regime. Netanyahu said at a meeting of his new cabinet on Sunday that the international campaign seeks to deny what he referred to as Israelis’ right to live in the territories they have occupied. He further said that the international campaign to boycott Israel and Israeli-made products is aimed at blackening the regime’s name and delegitimizing its existence. Bibi said Israel is being vastly singled out by the international community as world rights bodies continue… View Article

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on June 1, 2015 in World News

Reporter Arrested After Police Said His Camera Put “Their Lives in Danger

ABC News Reporter Arrested After Police Said His Camera Put “Their Lives in Danger” By John Vibes Baton Rouge, LA – WBRZ-TV reporter Brett Buffington was arrested on Thursday morning for attempting to take photos of a crime scene, and then later “mouthing off” to officer on the scene. Buffington was charged with interfering with an officer and intimidating a public official. The police claim that Buffington “interfered” with a burglary investigation around 2:30 in the early morning on Thursday. However, according to the police department’s version of events, Buffington was simply doing his job as a journalist and attempting… View Article

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on June 1, 2015 in World News

TPP death pool: more pharmaceutical destruction is coming

by Jon Rappoport TPP death pool: more pharmaceutical destruction is coming US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada. More pharmaceutical destruction is coming to your door “After any agreement is achieved between high-level criminals, there are two basic phases. First, conflicts arise, and the settlements are crude and sometimes painful. Second, the criminal parties realize, like the ‘gentlemen’ they are, that the jackpot they are sharing is big enough for everyone. So they unify their stance. They focus in on their real target: the public.” —The Underground, Jon Rappoport Question: “Who said that drug was safe? Where did that assessment come from?… View Article

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on June 1, 2015 in World News

White Racism All The Time And Everywhere Is the Biggest Lie Of Our Lifetimes

by Mac Slavo Controversial Journalist: “Relentless White Racism All The Time And Everywhere Is the Biggest Lie Of Our Lifetimes” There is no doubt that we are living in the most racially divisive environment in American history If you tuned your television exclusively to mainstream media broadcasts you’d probably think that racial violence and black victimization in America have reached a tipping point; that white-on-black crime was so out of control we were living under slavery or Jim Crow segregation again. But according to the controversial author of Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry and White Girl Bleed a Lot Colin Flaherty, this is… View Article

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