Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that the body of Mohammad Hassin Hashemi, a 30-year-old employee of local radio Nadjhrab in the northeastern Kapisa Valley, was found near his home yesterday, 18 days after he disappeared. Hashemi was apparently shot in the head the day after he went missing. His body also bore the marks of blows. “We offer our condolences to his family and fellow workers, and we urge the authorities to establish the circumstances of his murder,” Reporters (…) … Read More
Fifth Grader Claiming to be in the Illuminati Threatened to Stab Students As Sacrifice to Satan
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Religious Cleansing In The Armed Forces?
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Rand Paul slams Rubio’s immigration plan
When Sen. Rubio (R-Florida) first endorsed the bipartisan immigration reform bill being touted by the so-called congressional “Gang of Eight,” the up-and-coming lawmaker’s approval was signaled as a sign that conservative colleagues on Capitol Hill would soon follow suit. Rubio has since warned that the bill isn’t guaranteed to get all the way to US President Barack Obama’s desk, though, and the immigration act has found an opponent in Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky).Speaking before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Hearing on Tuesday this week, Sen. Paul said that not only does he have his doubts the bill will pass but that he’s concerned over with what the act would actually do.“It may pass the Senate [but] may not pass the House,” said the senator. “I want to be constructive in making the bill strong enough that conservatives, myself included, conservative Republicans in the House will vote for this because I think immigration reform is something we should do.”“In this bill I am worried, though, and this is similar to what Senator [Ron] Johnson (R-Wisconin) said, that it says, well, you have to have a plan to build a fence, but you don’t have to build a fence,” he continued. “And if you don’t have a plan to build a fence, then you get a commission. I don’t know what happens if the commission doesn’t do anything. That’s the story of Washington around here.”Sen. Paul previously lashed out at fellow lawmakers for failing to read the bills they’re elected to vote on, insisting “Congress has a 10 percent approval rating and one of the reasons is that we don’t even obey our own rules.” On Tuesday, though, he condemned the latest efforts at immigration reform as being all too like another controversial bill that was disputed in Congress.“To me, it’s a little bit like Obamacare,” Paul said at this week’s hearing. “I hate to bring that up, but 1,800 references to the secretary shall at a later date decide things. We don’t write bills around here. We should write the bill. We should write the plan. We should do these things to secure the border whether it be fence, entry, exit, we should write it, not delegate it. What’s going to happen in five years if they don’t do their job — maybe not even them, maybe somebody else who doesn’t do their job in five years, and the border is not secured? We will be blamed for the next 10 million that come here illegally.”Just days before those remarks, the immigration effort came under fire over other concerns. A Heritage Foundation study released on Monday accused the Gang of Eight’s efforts as costing a minimum of $6.3 trillion over the lifetime of the estimated 11 million aliens currently residing in the US illegally.According to the New York Times, Heritage alleged that the bill, if enacted, would not consider the comparably meager $3.1 trillion in taxes those immigrants would pay under a path-to-citizenship plan, all the while receiving an estimated $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services.“Heritage, I think, is the king of dynamic scoring, and in many respects we’ve advocated for dynamic scoring here because of the positions that they’ve taken,” Rubio, a chief author of the legislation, told the Times. “They are the only group that’s looked at this issue and reached the conclusion they’ve reached. Everybody else who has analyzed immigration reform understands that if you do it, and we do it right, it will be a net positive for our economy.”One week earlier, Sen. Rubio told radio host Mike Gallagher, “The bill that’s in place right now probably can’t pass the House.” Foreshadowing Sen. Paul’s warning this week, Rubio said at the time of the bill he co-wrote that “It will have to be adjusted because people are very suspicious about the willingness of the government to enforce the laws now.”Both Rubio and Paul were at one time considered likely running mates for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney during his unsuccessful bid for president in 2012. Both lawmakers were also elected to respond to Pres. Obama’s 2013 State of the Union: Rubio on behalf of the GOP, and Paul as a representative of the Tea Party faction. They have since each been rumored to be potential Republican Party nominee for a White House run in the next presidential election. … Read More
Seattle police fire pepper spray and ‘flash bang’ grenades at protesters (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
A serene daytime immigration reform protest took place on Wednesday daytime, during which hordes of people, ranging between ‘hundreds’ and ‘thousands’ took to the streets. Demonstrators waved banners stating “we are America,” and “there are no illegal humans,” according to local newspaper the Seattle Times.The evening later saw a rise in anti-capitalism Labor Day protests, involving reported numbers ranging from ‘dozens’ to ‘hundreds.’ They were accompanied by police as the later demonstrators lacked a permit to march. As night fell, rocks and bottles were thrown by anarchic individuals wearing bandanas, lobbing rocks and bottles at officers, overturning bins, and leaving the streets scattered with debris.The protests were indiscriminately suppressed by police.Police originally reported 18 arrests, but later reduced this number to 17. The first 13 arrests, made at approximately 9pm local time included two ‘juveniles,’ amid accusations that some anarchists had hijacked an otherwise-mild protest.Numerous protesters and observers complained about the way crowds were treated by the police. “They don’t have any manners. They don’t say please or give you time to get out of the way,” Olivia One Feather, an observer from Covington, told local news station King5.com. She added that she was pepper-sprayed when she tried to record the actions of officers.At least two local reporters received faces full of pepper spray from the police officers while documenting the event. A photographer named Erica C. Barnett said that a “full canister” was used on her as she attempted to take a photograph of Seattle Police knocking a woman to the floor.Barnett later sent a text to a fellow reporter stating that she “literally did nothing to provoke that cop” adding that “he had to advance on me to get in range to hit me in the eyes and mouth,” according to their local news website, Seattle Met.Photojournalist Joshua Trujillo also alleged that he’d been sprayed by the police.Initially more spectators than participants turned up for the rally, and at first it seemed to be more of a party, according to an Eyewitness News reporter. However, the situation escalated amid reports that police were clashing with some individuals throwing various items, including bottles, at police officers.Seattle Police Department (SPD) reported that eight officers had been injured, mostly suffering from minor injuries such as scrapes and bruises. The SPD tweeted updates throughout, confirming the usage of pepper spray against protesters, who they reported to be throwing water bottles, using silly string and posting photographs of blocks of asphalt they alleged protesters threw.The flash bang grenades used by the police against protesters emit a loud noise and a burst of light. The Seattle Police Department described them as “blast balls,” tweeting that the explosive is a “small firework-like device which gives off a loud bang, a flash & a modest dose of pepper.”The unrest marks the second year in a row that violence has erupted on during Labor Day protests on the streets of Seattle, after a shop window was smashed to pieces by a demonstrator in 2012.Participants and supporters have aired disappointment on social media that the point of the earlier protests would be subsumed by news of the clashes.“This is the only opportunity that poor people, that working people have to voice their opinion,” Juan Bocanegra, organizer of the Workers’ Rights March, told regional channel, Komo News, on Monday. However, there were fears even then that the goals of protesters would be lost amid some anarchist activity and brutal police retaliation.“If there’s people that want to disrupt that opportunity from poor and working people, then their goals and their objectives are totally misplaced,” said Bocanegra. … Read More
GOP official’s Facebook status: She’s “hot enough to almost make me register Democrat”
His Facebook friends call him “an honorable man” who was just “being funny.” They say that “People are way to [sic] sensitive in this day and age.” But when Steve Kush, the executive director of Bernalillo County’s (New Mexico) Republican Party, went on a social media rampage during a local commissioners’ meeting about the minimum wage earlier this week, his party chairman, Frank Ruvelo, saw things differently.Seems his fellow Republicans did not appreciate what Kush said on Twitter and Facebook regarding a 19-year-old female at the meeting, “Nice hat Working America chick but damn you are a radical bitch.” Nor did it enjoy his remarks depicting the organization’s state director Chelsey Evans as “Uh oh another Working America chick,” or his observation that she had “nice boots…I know she makes more than min wage.” And they definitely didn’t find it too amusing when he declared that she “was hot enough to almost make me register democrat.”He’s currently suspended, indefinitely, without pay.”It was an ill-fated attempt at humor,” Kush told Watchdog.org Wednesday. “Do I regret it? Yes … I absolutely crossed the line.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Nancy Pelosi: No Matter What Congress Says, Gun Control Is “Inevitable”
After President Obama’s aggressive push for gun control went down in flames on Wednesday, Pelosi immediately promised the American people that she would continue to ignore her oath of office and, instead, attack the Constitution. … Read More
