BURIED STORY EXPOSED: Dead Children Have Been Washing Up On Shores Of Rio Grande

BURIED STORY EXPOSED: Dead Children Have Been Washing Up On Shores Of Rio Grande

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This is why Obama wouldn’t go to the border. He knew this was going on and knew this would come out and didn’t want pictures of himself at the border later associated with this story once it came out. And did Fox “bury the lede” because notorious amnesty shills Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes actually support this invasion?


Excerpted from The Gateway Pundit: A Fox News exclusive report this morning by Jana Winter inexplicably buried the lede.
Winter reports that several dead children have been discovered “washed up along the riverbank” of the Rio Grande, but fails to note that there have been no reports by the Obama administration on this.
This indicates a pattern of covering up dead illegal alien kids by the Obama administration.
From Jana Winter’s report:
“The life jackets helped many make it across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, the Mexican city across the water from Mission, just west of McAllen. Sources say they come over on rafts ferried by the so-called “coyotes,” the human smugglers whose means of transport are rendered useless whenever discovered by the Border Patrol. Many don’t make it across the river; multiple sources became emotional when recounting their discoveries of small, lifeless bodies washed up along the riverbank.” Read the whole thing

BIS chief warns debt mountain puts global economy into worse state than before 2008 crash

Published time: July 14, 2014 15:21

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Jaime Caruana.(Reuters / Ruben Sprich)

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​The global economy is more vulnerable than it was just before Lehman Brothers collapsed says the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the international finance watchdog, citing even higher debt ratios and emerging market involvement.
Jaime Caruana, head of the BIS, warned that nobody invested in stocks seems prepared for the idea that at some point central banks will begin raising interest rates again, in an interview with the DailyTelegraph.
As most major central banks including the UK, US and Japan are holding rates at around zero percent, banks get accustomed to ‘easy money’ and ignore the risk of monetary tightening. That is boosting stocks, because there is no point in investors keeping their money in savings accounts at such low returns.
“Markets seem to be considering only a very narrow spectrum of potential outcomes. They have become convinced that monetary conditions will remain easy for a very long time, and may be taking more assurance than central banks wish to give,” Caruana said.
As most major central banks including the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve are holding rates at around zero percent investors leave savings accounts due to insignificant returns. That boosts a looming "irrational" stock bubble Caruana said, without specifying when the bubble will burst.
Since 2008 the emerging markets have gained around $2 trillion in foreign currency debt, becoming a way bigger player than they were during the East Asia crisis of the late 1990s.
“The ramifications would be particularly serious if China, home to an outsize financial boom, were to falter," the BIS said.

Rep. Bridenstine finally gets tour of Ft Sill and says what he learned is horrific

Posted on Jul 14, 2014 at 11:38 AM in Politics | Leave a Comment

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Rep. Bridenstine finally got a tour of Ft Sill over the weekend where many unaccompanied minors are being held and the stories he heard from the people working there as well as the children were horrific.
He said the children that actually make it across the border are the lucky ones. There are some that start the journey but never make it.
Bridenstine pointed out that the illegals within the US are in many cases the ones paying coyotes to bring these unaccompanied minors across the border. But in some cases where the coyotes aren’t paid or the wrong one is paid, these children can be subject to forced labor, prostitution, or even sold into the slave trade.
He also mentioned mass graves in northern Mexico where some have been killed.
Bridenstine said he learned that many of these minors are being released in the US to other illegals and not to American citizens.
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Thousands have fled northern Gaza after Israel warned residents to leave the area to avoid airstrikes

Thousands have fled northern Gaza after Israel warned residents to leave the area to avoid airstrikes. At least 167 people, mostly civilians, have already died as a result of Operation Protective Edge, which entered its sixth day on Sunday.
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Israel dropped leaflets in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, located near the border with Israel, urging residents to leave the region by midday Sunday and warning of airstrikes on Hamas sites.
 Residents of the town, which has a population of 70,000, were told via the leaflets and telephone calls that “those who fail to comply with the instructions to leave immediately will endanger their lives and the lives of their families.”
At least 167 Palestinians – most of them civilians, including about 30 children – have died as a result of airstrikes since Israel's Operation Protective Edge began on Tuesday, Gaza's Health Ministry reported. More than 1,100 others have been injured.

A wounded Palestinian, who hospital officials said was injured in an Israeli air strike, is wheeled into a hospital in Gaza City July 12, 2014. (Reuters / Mohammed Salem)
A wounded Palestinian, who hospital officials said was injured in an Israeli air strike, is wheeled into a hospital in Gaza City July 12, 2014. (Reuters / Mohammed Salem)

 Israel will "strike with might" in the Beit Lahiya area late on Sunday, a senior Israeli military officer told reporters earlier on Sunday, Reuters reported. The officer did not specify whether the offensive will expand from airstrikes to the ground.
“The enemy [Hamas] has built rocket infrastructure in-between the houses [in Beit Lahiya]," the Israeli officer said. "[Hamas] wants to trap me into an attack and into hurting civilians."
 The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) issued an emergency warning in all five areas of the Gaza Strip on Sunday due to the “dramatic escalation in violence over the past few days and the massive assault on Gaza.”
Over the past 24 hours, UNRWA has opened a number of its schools as emergency shelters for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), the organization said on its website. Five shelters have been open in Gaza since 8 a.m. local time, and 2,000 people have already sought refuge.
 According to the organization, 45 Palestinians have been killed and 131 others injured over the past 24 hours.

A Palestinian woman gestures as she stands behind a missile which witnesses said was fired by Israeli aircraft, at a shack belonging to Bedouins in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip July 13, 2014. (Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
A Palestinian woman gestures as she stands behind a missile which witnesses said was fired by Israeli aircraft, at a shack belonging to Bedouins in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip July 13, 2014. (Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
 Meanwhile, Gaza's Interior Ministry dismissed Israel's warnings on Hamas radio, calling them “psychological warfare” and urging people to stay in their homes. This is the first time that Israel has dropped leaflets warming residents of upcoming airstrikes. Previously, the IDF used a “knock on the roof” technique – a warning shot fired at a house so that occupants could leave the premises before the building was destroyed.
Read more: Israeli 'knock on the roof' bombing technique caught on film (VIDEO)
According to Israel, more than 800 rockets have been fired by Hamas since the offensive began on Tuesday. Most of them have been intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system. No Israeli deaths have been reported.
 On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed international calls for a ceasefire while defending his country's offensive in Gaza during appearances on US television.
 He urged Americans to imagine that their cities from the East Coast to Colorado were under the threat of rocket attack, with only 60 to 90 seconds to reach a bomb shelter. “That's what we're experiencing right now, as we speak,” he told CBS' 'Face the Nation' program.
 Netanyahu refused to discuss a ceasefire or give a timeline for Israel's operation in Gaza. When asked if a ground invasion was imminent, he said his country would use any means necessary to accomplish its goal of degrading Hamas' rocket-launching capability in order to restore security for Israeli civilians.
"Whether we're at the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning I'm not going to tell you that right now - because we face a very, very brutal terrorist enemy," he said on 'Fox News Sunday.' "

Source: http://rt.com/news/172484-civilians-flee-gaza-israel/

German probe turns to typewriters to avoid NSA

By Julian Hattem - 07/14/14 05:33 PM EDT

Germany's parliamentary committee investigating the National Security Agency is mulling using manual typewriters to make sure American agents don’t snoop on its work.
Patrick Sensburg, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party who is leading the panel, told a German broadcaster on Monday that the committee needed to do all it can to secure its work from spies’ prying eyes.
"In fact, we already have [a typewriter], and it’s even a non-electronic typewriter," he said, according to a translation from Ars Technica.

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“Unlike other inquiry committees, we are investigating an ongoing situation. Intelligence activities are still going on, they are happening,” he added, according to the English-language outlet The Local.“And of course we have to keep our internal communication secure, send encrypted emails, use encrypted telephones and other things, which I'm not going to say here of course."
U.S. surveillance of German government agencies and top officials has created a rift between the two countries since last year's revelations that the NSA had been listening in on Merkel’s cellphone conversations.
More recently, one German agent was arrested for handing information to the CIA about the parliament’s inquiry into the NSA. That action caused the government to ask the CIA station chief to leave the country last week.
Over the weekend, German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that two members of parliament had also had their phones compromised.
In an interview this weekend, Merkel said it was “not that easy to convince the Americans” to change the way their intelligence operations work.
If German officials do decide to use typewriters for their work, they would not be the only ones.
Russian agents reportedly spent thousands on old-fashioned typewriters in recent months to avoid leaks. 

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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, former POW in Afghanistan, takes new Army post

By Nancy A. Youssef

McClatchy Washington BureauJuly 14, 2014 

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In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. UNCREDITED — AP

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WASHINGTON — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive for five years in Afghanistan until he was traded May 31 for five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo, has completed his U.S. military-led reintegration treatment and has been assigned to an Army unit in Texas to continue his military service.
Senior Pentagon officials told McClatchy that Bergdahl, who was promoted from private first class to sergeant during his captivity, took up his new military job Monday at U.S. Army North headquarters at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Houston. The posting will allow him to remain near the military doctors who’ve treated him through his reintegration process at San Antonio Military Medical Center.
He is likely to receive some leave time during his new posting, the officials said.
Bergdahl’s new assignment _ a desk job with the military command responsible for activities in the United States _ will be his first opportunity to work alongside his fellow soldiers, some of whom have accused him of desertion, claiming that he left his post in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009 and that troops died searching for him after he was taken prisoner. His trade for the five Taliban, who had been in Guantanamo for more than a decade, also brought angry denunciations from some members of Congress who opposed their release.
By now, Bergdahl likely is aware of the controversy that swirled around his release, though details of how he was introduced to events that took place during his captivity have not yet emerged. He has been in an outpatient program at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Houston since June 22 and has been seen at restaurants and shops around San Antonio, often accompanied by members of his medical team, who specialize in helping prisoners of war reintegrate into society.
Doctors treating him have said they allowed him to pick where to go on such trips to help him regain confidence in making his own decisions after years of life as a Taliban hostage.
As part of his reintegration, Bergdahl has spoken to other soldiers about his experiences while a Taliban prisoner, but the U.S. military has not provided any details of the circumstances behind his capture, citing an ongoing investigation led by Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl.
Bergdahl has not yet been interviewed by Dahl. Doctors who treated Bergdahl, citing patient confidentiality, have not shared with Dahl the contents of their conversations with Bergdahl.
The military has not said what role Bergdahl’s parents, who led the public campaign for his release, have played in his treatment. In the early weeks after his release, the military said he had not spoken to his parents. It was unclear if that was because he was not ready to speak to them or had chosen not to.
According to a 2012 Rolling Stone piece, Berghdal sent an email to his parents in the days before his capture expressing his disdain and disillusionment with his military commanders, saying he longer believed in the U.S. effort in Afghanistan.
“The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting,” the Hailey, Idaho, native wrote his family, according to the Rolling Stone piece.

BI investigated Reid along with Whittemore in 2008

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Nevada power broker Harvey Whittemore, left, and longtime friend Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, right, were investigated by the FBI in 2008.

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Federal prosecutors have disclosed a 2008 FBI investigation of indicted Nevada power broker Harvey Whittemore and longtime friend Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The investigation, conducted by the FBI’s Washington field office, was sparked by media reports about Reid’s role in helping Whittemore’s Coyote Springs master- planned community north of Las Vegas clear government hurdles. It did not result in criminal charges against either man.
Whittemore’s defense lawyers want a federal judge to allow testimony about the investigation at his federal trial next month on charges of unlawfully funneling $138,000 in campaign contributions to Reid in 2007. Prosecutors have said the Nevada Democrat was unaware of the alleged scheme.
Defense lawyers, led by Dominic Gentile and Vincent Savarese, argued in court papers filed this week that the 2008 investigation shows Whittemore had no criminal intent to make illegal campaign contributions.
Whittemore, 59, was once a top Nevada legislative lobbyist. He was indicted last June on four felony charges, including making excessive contributions and lying to the FBI and the Federal Election Commission. His trial is set for May 14 before Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks in Reno.
The indictment alleges Whittemore met with Reid in February 2007 and agreed to raise $150,000 for him by a March 31 campaign finance deadline.
Whittemore unlawfully used family members and associates as conduits for contributions to the senator’s campaign and then reimbursed them, the indictment alleges.
Prosecutors originally disclosed the 2008 investigation in papers filed under seal in the current case and later provided a copy to Whittemore’s lawyers, who made them public in defense motions on Monday.
The Review-Journal obtained copies of the documents from the federal court’s electronic docket Tuesday morning, but later in the day, they were removed after prosecutors objected. The defense motions were later re-posted, without the government papers disclosing the 2008 investigation.
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Those papers, co-signed by First Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre and Eric Olshan, a trial attorney with the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section in Washington, now are sealed.
Late Tuesday, the prosecutors filed a motion seeking to seal the defense motions in their entirety, a move defense lawyers plan to oppose. Prosecutors contend the defense motions refer to “sensitive, nonpublic investigative information concerning a now-concluded matter.”
According to a copy of the sealed government papers obtained by the Review-Journal, FBI agents in 2008 reviewed media reports, searched public records for federal campaign contributions Whittemore made to Reid and checked bank records for Reid’s federal campaign committee obtained under subpoena. Agents also interviewed two Nevada officials.
Whittemore’s lawyers say it’s significant that the investigators failed to find any evidence that Whittemore had violated federal campaign finance law.
“Evidence that the government was aware of the campaign contributions at issue in this case, but still found no evidence of a crime, supports (Whittemore’s) defense that he had no criminal intent,” the lawyers wrote.
But prosecutors said in court papers that investigators in 2008 didn’t have crucial information that emerged several years later.
“The government was unaware of the existence of any evidence regarding the defendant’s alleged Federal Election Campaign Act violations until attorney Richard Wright provided such evidence to the FBI’s Las Vegas Division in November 2011,” prosecutors wrote.
Wright represented Whittemore’s former business partners in the Coyote Springs project.
The development was to feature 160,000 homes on 43,000 acres and a Jack Nicklaus Signature-designed golf course about 60 miles northeast of Las Vegas, straddling Clark and Lincoln counties on U.S. Highway 93.
The development had to overcome several obstacles, including county water issues and federal land issues.
In 2004, Reid and other members of Nevada’s congressional delegation pushed through a lands bill that moved a utility corridor away from Whittemore’s land, among other provisions favorable to the developer.
Reid’s son Leif, an attorney, represented Whittemore on the Coyote Springs project.
Coyote Springs’ development has since stalled because of the housing crash and economic recession.
Whittemore’s lawyers described media reports about Reid’s dealings with Whittemore related to Coyote Springs as “fallacious.”
A spokeswoman for Reid said the senator is not commenting.
Intimidation alleged
In a separate motion, Whittemore’s attorneys alleged that FBI agents intimidated witnesses in the case.
The lawyers asked Hicks to allow them to pursue those allegations at trial.
One witness, Michael Hillerby, an executive who worked under Whittemore and contributed to Reid in March 2007, was threatened by agents with criminal prosecution, the lawyers contend.
“Agents told him that what he had done with regard to the contribution (he had made) could open him up to legal culpability, including jail time,” the lawyers said.
They added that Hillerby’s testimony, and possibly the testimony of other witnesses, was “influenced or otherwise colored by the fear of personal criminal prosecution thereby engendered so as to conform to the perceived expectations of responsible government agents.”
Prosecutors will get a chance to respond in writing to the defense motions.
Natalie Collins, a spokeswoman for the Nevada U.S. Attorneys office, said she could not comment on matters still in litigation.
Earlier this year an ongoing civil lawsuit over Coyote Springs and other developments was settled between Whittemore and his former business partners, California construction moguls Thomas and Albert Seeno.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Last year the Seenos sued Whittemore, accusing him of embezzling and misappropriating more than $40 million from the business venture to support a lavish lifestyle, including spending millions on private jet flights, home improvement projects and entertainment.
Whittemore, who denied the allegations, once was considered the most powerful legislative lobbyist in Nevada and one of the nation’s top gaming attorneys. He represented the Nevada Resort Association, an organization of the state’s top casinos, individual casinos and 100 businesses. He also worked as managing partner for Lionel, Sawyer and Collins’ Reno office for many years.
Stephens Washington Bureau Chief Steve Tetreault contributed to this report. Contact reporter Jeff German at jgerman@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-8135. Follow@JGermanRJ. Contact Francis McCabe at fmccabe@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-1039.