By Adam Kredo. Obama administration officials only began notifying local law enforcement officials of the release of violent criminal illegal immigrants within the last two weeks, according to Arizona law enforcement officials, who say they have for years been kept in the dark about the release of illegal immigrants back into local towns.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had been keeping secret its release of illegal immigrants with violent criminal records from local law enforcement for at least two years, denying for a time that this was taking place, law enforcement officials disclosed to the Washington Free Beacon.
The public disclosure of this practice, in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) frees criminal illegal immigrants back into U.S. communities, came to light earlier this week, when Arizona law enforcement was made aware that three illegal aliens with violent criminal records had been released back onto the streets . . .
At least three illegal aliens released by DHS in recent weeks have been charged with serious crimes, including the beating of a 7-week-old baby and immolation of a person, according to local law enforcement officials and Rep Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.).
Other Arizona law enforcement officials in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office further disclosed to the Free Beacon that they still are being kept in the dark about such releases and questioned whether DHS has implemented a standard nationwide practice to alert local officials. (Read more from “DHS Kept Secret the Release of Violent Criminal Illegal Aliens” HERE)
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Immigration Is the Public’s Biggest Concern, Poll Says
By David Barrett. Immigration is the biggest worry among British voters, overtaking the NHS and the economy as their main concern, according to a new poll.
Fifty per cent of the public said immigration was among the most important issues facing the country, the highest level ever recorded by the monthly Economist Ipsos Mori poll.
Since the Calais crisis erupted, immigration has overtaken the NHS as the most commonly mentioned concern, with the health service now mentioned by 37 per cent of those polled.
Bobby Duffy, the managing director of the Ipsos Mori Social Research Institute, said: “We have never seen concern about immigration this high, and when one single issue reaches 50 per cent it tends to signify that the public perceive it is something which needs to be addressed urgently. (Read more from this story HERE)
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By Jonathan Allen. For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.
While the department is now stamping a few dozen of the publicly released emails as “Classified,” it stresses this is not evidence of rule-breaking. Those stamps are new, it says, and do not mean the information was classified when Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election, first sent or received it.
But the details included in those “Classified” stamps — which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification — appear to undermine this account, a Reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found.
The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton’s emails from her time as the nation’s most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department’s own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go — regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.
In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department’s own “Classified” stamps now identify as so-called ‘foreign government information.’ The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts. (Read more from “Dozens of Clinton Emails Were Classified From the Start, U.S. Rules Suggest” HERE)
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Clinton Campaign on Alert for Undercover Conservative Sting
By Zeke J. Miller. Hillary Clinton’s campaign offices around the country have been put on alert after at least two women approached Iowa staff under the guise of being supporters in an apparent effort to catch the campaign engaging in improper or illegal activity, a Clinton campaign official said.
The motivations of the women is not known, but their alleged techniques match those of Project Veritas, the conservative group run by James O’Keefe, which specializes in undercover stings meant to embarrass liberal groups and politicians. The group declined to comment on the Clinton campaign’s allegations. “Project Veritas does not comment on investigations, real or imagined,” said Daniel Pollack, the director of communications for the group.
A Clinton campaign official alleges that the women engaged in several efforts to entrap supporters. In one scheme, described by Clinton staff, a woman attempted to pass a cash donation to Clinton volunteers and interns. In another, a woman approached the campaign on Aug. 19 and said both her parents had donated to Clinton the legal maximum of $2700 each and wanted to funnel an additional donation through their daughter, a violation of federal law. On Aug. 13, a woman claiming to be Canadian approached another Clinton fellow to ask how to falsify an address for a campaign donation.
In another instance, a woman volunteering with the Clinton campaign on voter registration efforts in Iowa City returned to the campaign’s office in Des Moines and asked whether it was okay that she refuse to register people who don’t support Clinton, the campaign official said. The Clinton campaign maintains that its policy is to register all voters, regardless of their preference in candidates. (Read more from this story HERE)
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It’s not surprising for anyone that possesses even half a brain that allowing illegal immigration to run wild in this country has had a severely detrimental effect on the safety and sovereignty of the United States. What is surprising, though, is that there are parts of the country that the United States does not have operational control over.
“Nobody does,” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told Breitbart News when asked who has operational control of this region of the United States of America.
Babeu was on a helicopter tour of Mexican drug cartel scout locations in caves in the side of mountains throughout the desert about 70 miles inside the U.S. border. Essentially, that means U.S. sovereignty is gone for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of square miles throughout the American southwest . . .
“If they can operate up to this degree, 70 miles north of the border, in law enforcement we call that a clue,” Babeu said in a brief exclusive interview outside the helicopter after landing back at the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office. The lack of United States sovereignty this deep into the country is highly concerning to Carson, who told Breitbart News that this shouldn’t be happening.
There is no reason that cartels should be allowed to basically take over. And as long as the Obama administration continues to look the other way, American citizens will be at risk. (Read more from “Shocking: Our Government No Longer Has Operational Control Over Parts of This State” HERE)
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We witnessed something truly historic happen on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 530 points, and that followed a 358 point crash on Thursday. When you add those two days together, the total two day stock market crash that we just witnessed comes to a grand total of 888 points, which is larger than any one day stock market crash in U.S. history. It is also interesting to note that this 888 point crash comes in the 8th month of our calendar. Perhaps that is just a coincidence, and perhaps it is not. It just struck me as being noteworthy. This is the first time that the Dow has dropped by more than 300 points on two consecutive days since November 2008, and we all remember what was happening back then. Overall, this was the worst week for the Dow in four years, and there have only been five other months throughout history when the Dow has fallen by more than a thousand points (the most recent being October 2008). Of course we still have six more trading days left in August, so there is plenty of time remaining for even more carnage.
By itself, the 530 point plunge on Friday was the ninth worst stock market crash in all of U.S. history. The following list of the top eight comes from Wikipedia…
#1 2008-09-29 −777.68
#2 2008-10-15 −733.08
#3 2001-09-17 −684.81
#4 2008-12-01 −679.95
#5 2008-10-09 −678.91
#6 2011-08-08 −634.76
#7 2000-04-14 −617.77
#8 1997-10-27 −554.26
Another very interesting thing to note is that the largest stock market crash in U.S. history took place on the very last day of the Shemitah year of 2008, and now we are less than a month away from the end of this current Shemitah year.
It is funny how these strange “coincidences” keep happening.
The financial carnage that we witnessed on Friday was truly global in scope. On a percentage basis, Chinese stocks crashed even more than U.S. stocks did. Japanese stocks also crashed, so did stock markets all over Europe, and emerging market currencies all over the planet got absolutely destroyed.
The following is how Zero Hedge summarized what went down…
China’s worst week since July – closes at 5 month lows
Global Stocks’ worst week since May 2012
US Stocks’ worst week in 4 years
VIX’s biggest weekly rise ever
Crude’s longest losing streak in 29 years
Gold’s best week since January
5Y TSY Yield’s biggest absolute drop in 2 years
Even though I specifically warned that this would happen, and have been explaining why it would happen on my website in excruciating detail for months, the truth is that I didn’t expect stocks to start crashing this quickly or this ferociously.
Normally, August is a fairly slow month in the financial world. As I have discussed previously, most of the really noteworthy stock market crashes throughout history have taken place during the months of September and October. So I thought that things wouldn’t start getting really crazy for another few weeks at least.
Financial markets tend to fall much faster than they go up, and I believe that we are moving into a time of extraordinary volatility. There will be huge down days, and there will also be huge up days. In fact, the three largest single day rallies in Dow history happened right in the middle of the financial crisis of 2008. So don’t let what happens on any one particular day fool you.
An absolutely gigantic global financial bubble is beginning to burst, and stocks could potentially fall a very, very long way. For instance, just consider what MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends has just written…
I don’t mean to be alarmist or to induce panic, but someone needs to tell the public that there is a plausible scenario in which the U.S. stock market now collapses by another 70% until the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls to about 5,000.
It is important to keep in mind that Arends is not a “bear” at all. He is a very level-headed analyst that tries to objectively look at all sides of things.
I sincerely hope that global financial markets will stabilize for at least a couple of weeks. But there is absolutely no guarantee that will happen.
So many of the things that I have been warning about on this website and on End of the American Dream are starting to unfold right in front of our eyes. If I am right, this is just the beginning. I believe that we are moving into a time of unprecedented chaos, and our nation is about to be shaken to the core.
Hopefully you have been preparing for the storm that is coming for quite a while and you will not be surprised by what is about to happen.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the vast majority of Americans. Most of them are totally unprepared for what is coming, and they are going to be completely blindsided by the events that will unfold in the months ahead.
The relative calm of the past few years has lulled millions into a false sense of complacency.
If you are one of those that have dozed off, I have a word of warning for you…
Wake up and get ready.
It’s starting. (Re-posted with permission, “This 2 Day Stock Market Crash Was Larger Than Any 1 Day Stock Market Crash in U.S. History” originally appeared HERE)
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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday signed legislation banning therapists from trying to change a young person’s sexuality.
Under the new law, those under 18 years old can get counseling to discuss concerns or thoughts about their sexuality, but professionals licenses by the state may not try to change the minor’s orientation.
“These so-called ‘therapies’ treat homosexuality as a disease,” Evanston Democratic Sen. Daniel Biss said in a statement after Rauner signed the bill Biss sponsored with state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, a Chicago Democrat. “They’re out of date and can be deeply destructive to youth. Outlawing these practices is a small step in our pursuit for LGBT rights, but it’s an extremely important step in protecting young people in Illinois.”
Backers of the measure were unsure how Rauner, a first-term Republican who has kept his stance on several social issues private, would act. Rauner has refused to discuss his views on same-sex marriage.
After announcing the bill’s signing, spokeswoman Catherine Kelly said Rauner has no social agenda and believes the measure protects the children’s interests. (Read more from “This State Enacted a Gay Conversion Therapy Ban for Young People” HERE)
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Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweetcakes by Melissa, were ordered by Oregon state officials last month to pay $135,000 in damages after they declined to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. Now, the bakers are sending a powerful message to gay rights groups.
The Kleins, who continue to defy a July 13 order from Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries, decided this week that they wanted to let gays and lesbians know that, despite ideological and theological differences, they love and care about them.
The husband and wife duo baked 10 cakes, packaged them up and drove to California, where they collaborated with Ray Comfort — the Christian leader who recently released “Audacity,” a movie about homosexuality — and mailed them out to gay rights groups on Wednesday . . .
The Kleins drove down to meet Comfort in California, where they shipped the cakes along with a letter, a $25 gift card and a copy of “Audacity” with each package . . .
“We wanted to have the cake represent freedom — that we all should have freedom and to live our lives the way we want to,” she said, noting that she believes gays and lesbians should be free to live as they choose. “But I also feel like I should have the right to live the way I want to, and that should be my choice.” (Read more from “Bakers Who Were Fined $135,000 for Gay Wedding Cake Refusal Deliver a Major Surprise — and a Powerful Message — to 10 Gay Rights Groups” HERE)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would like everyone to know that Obama’s Iran deal has “a great likelihood of success” in Congress.
“He can win by getting one-third plus one of either house. So he’s still got a great likelihood of success.” […]
“I hope we can defeat it, but the procedure is obviously stacked in the president’s favor.”
And one more doozey from the AP report of McConnell’s speech:
McConnell said he hoped to have a “respectful, uplifting debate” when the deal reaches the Senate floor.
“What I’ve asked my colleagues to do is to sit at their desks, listen to each other and treat the consideration of this agreement with the respect that it deserves,” he said. “This is a major, major foreign policy decision.”
Them fightin’ words, Mitch!
Anyone who has followed Mitch McConnell’s career, especially as the sitting GOP leader in the Senate, will notice that instead of sounding like a confident and defiant leader fighting the existential threats of our time, he often sounds like a Fox News commentator prognosticating and pontificating about the political dynamic and the likely outcome of a vote. So Mitch, tell us how you really feel.
These timid statements from McConnell are undoubtedly resonating in the halls of the White House at the same time the AP has publicly confirmed the UN will allow Iran to inspect its nuclear sites with its own nuclear scientists! It is now clear that one of the side agreements Obama cut with Ayatollah Khamenei was to allow their foxes to guard their own nuclear hen house. This comes on the heels of the revelation that the Obama administration promised Iran, as early as 2011, they could continue enriching uranium while enjoying relief from sanctions.
Instead of sounding like a confident and defiant leader fighting the existential threats of our time, he often sounds like a Fox News commentator prognosticating and pontificating about the political dynamic and the likely outcome of a vote.
Couple these acts of treachery with Obama preempting the congressional review period by consummating the deal at the UN Security Council, and it is clear Obama has reneged on every facet of the unconstitutional Corker-Cardin review process. Yet, McConnell is still legitimizing the process that is designed to fail until the bitter end. Why is he not working on defunding implementation of the deal and promising to block State Department nominees until Obama comes clean on his multiple lies and acts of treachery – assuming he really does think the Iran deal is such a calamity? Why is he not bringing the Iran deal up for a vote of approval – now that Obama has nullified Corker-Cardin – and voting it down to help delegitimize the deal?
Instead, McConnell is openly legitimizing the deal by admitting that as long as one-third of one house of Congress supports it, the deal is a success.
And speaking of this absurdly new low threshold of congressional support that can now bestow validity on a deal of such magnitude, why didn’t McConnell divulge this to the American people during the debate over Corker-Cardin? At the time, he offered the vague promise that the Senate would “take a vote to approve or disprove of the agreement before congressional sanctions could be lifted.” Clearly, anyone who doesn’t understand McConnell’s modus operandi would have concluded that Congress must affirmatively approve the deal before sanctions are lifted. Now he lets us know it’s just a show vote.
This show vote in many ways emblematizes Mitch McConnell and the GOP establishment. Far from being disgruntled about the high vote-threshold he accepted as part of this deal, McConnell embraces every opportunity to protest a Democrat policy without using live ammo that will actually hit the target down range.
In 2011, McConnell concocted his infamous debt ceiling plan, which would have allowed Obama to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling but afford Congress the opportunity to overturn it…if they mustered two-thirds support in both houses for the resolution of disapproval. This plan was formally incorporated into the debt ceiling suspension bill (section 1002 (b)) on October 16, 2013. On that day, all but 18 Republicans voted to waive the debt limit, but 13 days later the entire GOP conference, led by McConnell, lodged their show vote of disapproval to the very process they had set into motion.
On that very day, McConnell issued a press release titled,” McConnell Rejects Schumer-Obama Plan for Permanent Debt Ceiling Extension.” He acted as if he had just successfully blocked the permanent debt ceiling increase he just consummated with the October 16 vote and knowingly failed to block during the October 29 vote. He even had the nerve to repudiate his own plan by calling it the “Schumer plan,” even though Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) previously tweaked McConnell by introducing his debt ceiling plan as permanent law.
This duplicitous form of ‘press release conservatism’ is exactly what McConnell has in store for the Iran resolution of disapproval in September. McConnell wants all of the senators to sit at their desks during the debate with the full display of theatrics feigning outrage over the Iran deal that McConnell did nothing to stop over the past two years. Each senator will then issue a press release and breathe a sigh of relief that they can oppose this deal without actually taking the ownership for blowing it up.
Sadly, this insidious display of cowardice and showmanship is not unique to the debt ceiling or Iran alliance. Yesterday, yet another Planned Parenthood video was released – this time showing an organization official discussing harvesting the brains of babies with beating hearts.
I’ve seen many conservative pundits, even those who weren’t with the grassroots on previous budget fights, openly predicting there is no way GOP leadership can shirk their responsibility to defund Planned Parenthood in the September budget bill. One would also think there is no way they can continue funding the DHS without defunding Obama’s amnesty, which has directly led to a trail of blood through releasing violent criminal aliens into the population.
Think again. McConnell would like you to know: “there will be no government shutdown” and they don’t have a “great likelihood of success.”
That September budget bill is one vote you can rest assured will not be cast with all of the senators present at their desks. (Re-posted with permission, “McConnell Declares Iran Failure a Success”, originally appeared HERE)
During the past 20 years, the U.S. has invested $4.5 billion in promoting democracy among the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and boosting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
This is what Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah revealed during a meeting in Ramallah this week with Congressman Kevin McCarthy, Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives . . .
The $4.5 billion that Hamdallah talked about does not include the billions of dollars poured on the Palestinian Authority (PA) since its creation in 1994. Palestinian economic analysts estimate that the PA has received a total of $25 billion in financial aid from the U.S. and other countries during the past two decades.
One does not have to be an expert on Palestinian affairs to see that the billions of dollars have neither created democracy for the Palestinians nor boosted the Israeli-Palestinian peace process . . .
To begin with, the Palestinian Authority, which was born out of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO, was never a democratic regime. On the contrary; what the Palestinians got from the start was a mini-dictatorship run by Yasser Arafat and his PLO and Fatah cronies. It was a corrupt regime, was directly funded and armed by the U.S., Europe and several other countries. (Read more from “What Are Palestinians Doing With U.S. Money?” HERE)
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By Elliot Spagat. Walking into Mexico at the nation’s busiest border crossing with the United States is no longer an uninterrupted stroll for foreigners.
Pedestrians and motorists have generally entered Mexico unencumbered along the 1,954-mile border with the United States.
Now, pedestrians going to Tijuana from San Diego at the San Ysidro crossing must choose between a line for Mexicans who walk through unchecked, and a line for foreigners who must show a passport, fill out a form and – if staying more than a week – pay 322 pesos, or roughly $20, for a six-month permit. (Read more from “Pedestrians Now Need Passports to Enter Mexico” HERE)
By Matthew Boyle. “Nobody does,” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told Breitbart News when asked who has operational control of this region of the United States of America.
Babeu was on a helicopter tour of Mexican drug cartel scout locations in caves in the side of mountains throughout the desert about 70 miles inside the U.S. border. Essentially, that means U.S. sovereignty is gone for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of square miles throughout the American southwest.
Babeu was leading the helicopter tour with Dr. Ben Carson, a GOP presidential candidate, after briefing Carson on everything happening at the border.
Among other things that Babeu showed Carson and Breitbart News on this helicopter tour were how this far inside the border on high ground there are scores of scout sites where cartel operatives serve as lookouts for smugglers bringing drugs, people and other contraband into the country. (Read more from this story HERE)
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Victims of President Obama’s bird genocide won a crucial victory earlier this month when a federal judge struck down an Obama administration rule that would allow certain green energy producers to murder bald eagles with impunity for up to 30 years:
The express purpose of the 30-Year Rule was to facilitate the development of renewable wind energy, since renewable developers had voiced a need for longer-term permits to provide more certainty for project financing.
The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued the 30-Year Rule without preparing either an Environmental Assessment (EA) or an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); instead, the FWS determined that the 30-Year Rule was categorically exempt. In overturning the rule, the court found that the FWS had not shown an adequate basis in the administrative record for its decision not to prepare an EIS or EA and therefore failed to comply with NEPA’s procedural requirements.
In other words, the administration was trying to save the environment by letting approved energy producers murder birds, but didn’t bother studying whether avian genocide was good for the environment. Like Hillary with her private email server, the agency “didn’t really think it through.” Of course, this shouldn’t take away from the fact that the EPA is valuable federal agency that does a lot of great things. (Read more from “Genocide on Hold: Victims of the Obama Bird Slaughter Score Key Victory in Court” HERE)
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By Adam Kredo. Obama administration officials only began notifying local law enforcement officials of the release of violent criminal illegal immigrants within the last two weeks, according to Arizona law enforcement officials, who say they have for years been kept in the dark about the release of illegal immigrants back into local towns.
