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on May 14, 2015 in World News

Rand Paul Visits Secret Room To Read TPP, Calls For Public Release Of Deal Text

Rand Paul Visits Secret Room To Read TPP, Calls For Public Release Of Deal Text Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) 93% —an opponent of the secretive Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track the Pacific Rim trade deal Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)—went inside the secret room inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning to read the TPP text and told Breitbart News exclusively afterwards that he believes President Barack Obama should make it public now. The deal’s text is kept in a room behind double doors that each have signs: “No Public Or Media Beyond This Point.” “It’s done like you’re… View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

The secret corporate takeover hidden in the TPP

The secret corporate takeover hidden in the TPP Joseph E. Stiglitz Corporations would be able to overturn laws and regulations that protect us NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) — The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in fact, they were managed trade agreements, tailored to corporate interests, largely in the U.S. and the European Union. Today, such deals are more often referred to as “partnerships,” as in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). But they are not partnerships of equals: the U.S. effectively dictates the terms…. View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

Texas Senate Passes Bill Protecting Pastors from Performing Gay Marriages

Texas Senate Passes Bill Protecting Pastors from Performing Gay Marriages The Texas Senate passed a bill on Tuesday which would protect the rights of certain religious organizations and pastors to refuse participation in marriage ceremonies which violate their sincerely-held religious beliefs. The Governor said he will sign a bill that offers such protection to pastors and ministers. Senator Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls) authored Senate Bill 2065, entitled “Freedom of Religion with Respect to Recognizing or Performing Certain Marriages.” “Pastors’ First Amendment rights are very important, and they should not be caused to do something that violates their sincerely held beliefs,”… View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

15 Gunmen Invade Texas Border Home, Shoot Mother and Child

15 Gunmen Invade Texas Border Home, Shoot Mother and Child A group of 15 heavily-armed masked gunmen kicked down the door of a Texas border home and opened fire without warning, in a home invasion that injured a 9-year-old boy and his 33-year-old mother. The assault took place in the morning hours, in a rural home near the border city of Harlingen. The gunmen kicked the door down and began shooting at random as soon as they arrived on the scene, Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said in an interview with Breitbart Texas. The spray of bullets injured the woman… View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

“I Can’t Be Racist Because I’m Not White”

Student Who Banned White Men From Diversity Event Insists: “I Can’t Be Racist Because I’m Not White” A student who banned white people and men from a students’ union equality event has insisted that she can’t be racist because she is an “ethnic minority woman”. Publicity for event claimed that it aimed to be all about “challenge the white-centric culture of occupations”, “diversifying our curriculum” and building a “cross-campus campaign that puts liberation at the heart of the movement”. But when Bahar Mustafa, Goldsmith University’s Students Union Welfare and Diversity officer, took to Facebook to invite people to the event,… View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

Jihadi Terror Twins ‘Trying to Return to UK’

Jihadi Terror Twins ‘Trying to Return to UK’ British twins who fled to Syria to join Islamic State are now believed to be on the run from the terror group and may be trying to return home. The Sun reports that Somali-born Zahra and Salma Halane, both 17, told their father “everything has changed” after their jihadist husbands were killed in December. The twins disappeared from their family home in Chorlton, Manchester last July. They had achieved high grades at school and were hoping to become doctors before fleeing. Police believe they were radicalised by their brother Ahmed. A source… View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

What The BBC Doesn’t Want You To Know About Polar Ice

What The BBC Doesn’t Want You To Know About Polar Ice The BBC’s Science Editor David Shukman recently got back from an expedition to the high Arctic. Amazingly, despite having gone all that way, he seems completely to have missed the big story: that contrary to the doomsday predictions we’ve been hearing from all the experts over the last few years the ice up there seems to be getting thicker and thicker. Here, courtesy of Paul Homewood at Notalotofpeopleknowthat is the evidence. Multi-year ice in the Arctic Ocean is now at its highest levels since the winter of 2007. But… View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

Giffords/Kelly: Background Checks Not Enough, Oregon Needs More Gun Control

Giffords/Kelly: Background Checks Not Enough, Oregon Needs More Gun Control Just two days after Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) signed expanded background checks into law via Senate Bill 941, Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly are pressing Democrats in Oregon’s legislators to go even further–to pass more gun control while they have the chance. Giffords and Kelly held a press conference in Salem in which they expressed their desire for more gun control. Specifically, they want Democrat lawmakers to expand domestic violence provisions in that state “to include all intimate partners, not just those who are or were married or living… View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

Woman Shoots Alleged Home Invader Twice to Save Sleeping Children

Woman Shoots Alleged Home Invader Twice to Save Sleeping Children On May 13, a woman shot an alleged home invader twice to save children who were sleeping in the apartment when the suspect forced his way inside. The incident occurred just after midnight. According to WKYT, the suspect allegedly forced his way through the apartment’s back door and was shot by one of two women who were awake at the time. Lexington Police Lieutenant Chris Young said the man “made entry into the apartment against the wishes of the occupants. One of those occupants was able to fire a couple… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

Americans Totally Oblivious to US Government Practicing Human Roundup Exercises Around Them

Americans Totally Oblivious to US Government Practicing Human Roundup Exercises Around Them “Mock invasions, mock terrorist manhunts, shootouts, and roundups are not jokes…the last shreds of democracy are at stake” This article originally appeared at Couterpunch Anti-militarism activists are shaking their heads in amazement. We have been working for years to push back against the massive military expansion underway both in the US and around the world, fighting back one threatened community at a time. The national media has barely mentioned these efforts and local media chooses to mostly ignore the work. Militarized violence has become the new normal in… View Article

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