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Are the Feds Taking Over Policing in Baltimore?
When the city of Baltimore broke out in violence in April following the death of Freddie Gray, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake issued orders that essentially handcuffed the police. “[W]hile we tried to make sure that [police officers] were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that,” she told reporters.Those criminals are now causing so much havoc that city and law enforcement officials are asking for help from the feds.“Ten federal agents will join the Baltimore police homicide unit, commanders announced Sunday, after the city followed its deadliest month in decades,” wrote the Baltimore Sun.Editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes in “Police Under Attack”: “America’s law enforcement is under attack. … Police are pulling back from doing their jobs …. On the other, the federal government is undermining local law enforcement and stripping it of power in an effort to centralize policing power on the federal level.”
If Congress kills nuclear deal, Iran will unleash terror on Israel, Obama warns
President Obama’s attempt to persuade U.S. Jewish leaders to support the deal turned into threats of precisely what the Jews have long been warning the president about.Greg Rosenbaum, the chair of the National Jewish Democratic Council, quoted the president as saying that if the deal is killed, Iran would race toward nuclear weapons, force the United States to preemptively strike Iran’s nuclear sites, and incite Iranian retaliation, which would be concentrated on Israel—not the United States.Iran already sanitizing Parchin nuclear site, intel informs Congress
“I am familiar with it,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr told Bloomberg View on Tuesday. “I think it’s up to the administration to draw their conclusions. Hopefully this is something they will speak on, since it is in many ways verified by commercial imagery. And their actions seem to be against the grain of the agreement.”“You have to worry that this could be an attempt by Iran to defeat the sampling, that it’s Iran’s last-ditch effort to eradicate evidence there,” David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, said. “The day is coming when they are going to have to let the iaea into Parchin, so they may be desperate to finish sanitizing the site.”“For a long time, they have been altering sites,” said Ed Royce, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.Breaking a taboo: Plans for eurozone tax take shape
Tuning a government’s subjects into taxpayers is a time-proven method of solidifying power, wrote Spiegel Online.The Roman Empire did it. The United States did it. And now, “the eurozone must start thinking about its own tax,” as Elmar Brok, a cdu member of the European Parliament, said.Russia is trying to take over the Arctic
This week, the Russian Federation resubmitted a bid to the United Nations that would place 460,000 square miles of the Arctic under Moscow’s control.This region is believed to contain one quarter of Earth’s undiscovered oil and gas. It’s also believed to be rich in gems and precious metals.By claiming this territory, Russia is competing with other claimants: the United States, Canada, Denmark and Norway.This is Russia’s latest push, under President Vladimir Putin, to rise up again from the ashes of the Soviet Union.Other News:
Two illegal immigrants in Huntington Park, California, were appointed leadership roles as city commissioners. The two should have been deported for not meeting the Obama administration’s reprieve program for illegal aliens, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
nasa told U.S. lawmakers that it will sign a $490 million deal with Russia to extend a contract that allows it to send Americans to space with Russia’s help. nasa needs Russia because Congress has not fully funded its Commercial Crew Program for the last five years.
The United States was caught spying on its staunchest Asian ally, Japan. The U.S. has apologized to Japan, but the Japanese are not happy about this violation of their privacy. If the spy scandal creates a rift between Washington and Tokyo, it could lead to great shifts in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region.
The gates to the biblical city of Gath were discovered in Israel. Gath is the city of Goliath, the giant slain by the boy who would become King David
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