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VIDEO: White Nationalists Invite McKinney Cop To Build Whites-Only Enclave In North Dakota

Craig Cobb, screen grab. A White supremacist by the name of Craig Cobb is trying to raise money in another attempt to fulfill his dream of establishing a white European enclave in a remote North Dakota town. Cobb’s last attempt ended horribly after residents of Leith, where he had bought 12 lots in 2012, chased him and his […]

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A White supremacist by the name of Craig Cobb is trying to raise money in another attempt to fulfill his dream of establishing a white European enclave in a remote North Dakota town. Cobb’s last attempt ended horribly after residents of Leith, where he had bought 12 lots in 2012, chased him and his followers out of the town. The 63-year-old

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CIA’s Largest Covert Operation In Syria Could Face Large Funding Cuts

The vote could end up cutting as much as 20 percent of the classified funds flowing into a CIA program that U.S. officials said has become one the agency’s largest covert operations, with a budget approaching $1 billion a year.

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Washington Post-- Key lawmakers have moved to slash funding of a secret CIA operation to train and arm rebels in Syria, a move that U.S. officials said reflects rising skepticism of the effectiveness of the agency program and the Obama administration’s strategy in the Middle East. The House Intelligence Committee recently voted unanimously to

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500th Person Killed By Police In 2015 Was A 69-Year-Old Suicidal Man

Police have killed thousands of people over the past decade with no official database having tracked them. Meanwhile, only 54 officers had been charged relating to fatal shootings while on duty as of April, the Washington Post reported.

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As of Sunday afternoon, there have been at least 515 people killed by police in 2015. The 500th person to be killed by law enforcement officers took place Monday in Arizona after the wife of 69-year-old Richard Warolf called the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to report that her husband was armed, drinking, depressed and wanted to die by

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VIDEO: Michigan Cops Raid Medical Marijuana Patient, Legally Rob Entire Family Belongings In Front Of Children

“They have had my stuff for 10 months, my ladder, my iPad, my children’s iPads, my children’s phones, my medicine for my patients,” Hency noted. “Why a ladder? Why my vibrator, I don’t know either. Why TVs?”

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Raw Story reports -- Medical marijuana user Ginnifer Hency told a group of Michigan lawmakers last week that a drug task force raided her home and kept ‘every belonging’ she owned — including her vibrator — even after a judge dismissed the charges against her. Forbes contributor Jacob Sullum reported last week that Hency testified before the

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Leaked Video: Turkish Daily Accuses Government Of Sending Arms To Jihadist Syrian Rebels

The daily claimed the trucks in the leaked video were carrying a total of 1,000 mortar shells, 80,000 rounds of ammunition for light and heavy weapons as well as hundreds of grenade launchers being sent to Syrian rebels associated with al-Nusra.

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Istanbul (AFP) - Images and video footage allegedly showing trucks belonging to Turkey's state intelligence service carrying weapons to rebels in Syria were published Friday in a Turkish daily. The Turkish government has vehemently denied claims that it is arming rebels fighting in Syria and accused dozens of prosecutors, soldiers and security

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Anti-Islam Rally In Phoenix Inspires Good

Come Friday night, there was Ritzheimer with approximately 200 supporters, many armed, screaming vile and vicious comments about Muslims. The protesters included skinheads and a man wearing a white-power T-shirt bearing Nazi imagery. It was an alarmingly ugly display of hate. But then the « good people » stepped forward.

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CNN commentary by Dean Obeidallah:  "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." I first became aware of these powerful words by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., about 20 years ago. They had a profound

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Idaho Ag-gag Bill Bans Filming Inside Farms After Abuse Video Surfaces

The bill’s sponsor, Idaho state Sen. Jim Patrick, a Republican from Twin Falls, claimed the bill was crafted in response to a video showing animal rights abuses at a Bettencourt, Idaho, farm that supplies Burger King meat.

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BOISE, Idaho --- According to emails obtained through an open records request, a dairy industry lobbyist was allowed to directly craft what would ultimately become Idaho’s “ag-gag” bill -- the latest in a series of state laws that seek to prevent animal rights activists from exposing the abuses of industrial agriculture. The bill’s sponsor,

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