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Not Just Trump: List of Other Obama Bugging Victims #Obamagate

Fire Comey. Get someone to head up the FBI who actually enforces rule of law. Rudy Giuliani? Purge the Obama appointees. And prosecute the lawbreakers. Obama was surveilling Trump in the run up to the election. This is America, not some tin-pot dictatorship (despite Obama’s best efforts). Trump was bugged. Jeff Sessions, too. And more — (thanks to Jim Hoft):

Former Queen’s Guard officer shot dead on his ranch in Kenya as land invasions escalate

Tribal warriors shot dead a former Guards officer on his ranch in Kenya Sunday as a campaign of land invasions in the country’s white farming heartlands claimed its most prominent victim to date. Tristan Voorspuy, 60, was killed on Sosian, a 24,000 acre ranch in the Laikipia region, which was occupied by armed warriors last month. Voorspuy’s death, the first

It’s all in the tail: New theory for why some dinosaurs evolved to stand on two feet

Scott Persons / CPA skeleton of the proto-dinosaur Marasuchus, is shown in this undated handout photo. The proto-dinosaur Marasuchus is a squirrel-sized carnivore that likely walked on all fours but ran on two legs. Paleontologists at the University of Alberta have a new theory for why some dinosaurs stood on two feet instead of four. EDMONTON — Paleontologists at the

Marines investigated for sharing nude photos of women and posting obscene comments on Facebook

WASHINGTON — The Defence Department is investigating reports that some Marines shared naked photographs of female Marines, veterans and other women on a secret Facebook page, some of which were taken without their knowledge. The photographs were shared on the Facebook page “Marines United,” which had a membership of active-duty and retired male Marines, Navy Corpsman and British Royal Marines.

Muslim students trying to meet with a lawmaker were asked: ‘Do you beat your wife?’

Three Muslim students who tried to visit an Oklahoma lawmaker Thursday at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City were surprised when they were instead handed a questionnaire at his office. They would have to fill out the survey first, an office assistant told them, before they could make an appointment to see state Rep. John Bennett. Among the nine questions

North Korea fires four banned ballistic missiles 1,000 km into ocean off Japan

North Korea on Monday fired four banned ballistic missiles that flew about 1,000 kilometres, with three of them landing in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, South Korean and Japanese officials said, in an apparent reaction to huge military drills by Washington and Seoul that Pyongyang insists are an invasion rehearsal. It was not immediately clear the exact type of missile fired;

Tens of thousands of U.S. immigration detainees claim they were forced into labour for $1 a day

Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all – a violation of federal anti-slavery laws – a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit, filed in 2014 against one of the largest private prison companies in the country, reached class-action status this week after a federal judge’s

Trump accusation of a wiretap echoes a 1991 conspiracy theory that Nixon was victim of a ‘silent coup’

Wikipedia In 1991, a private investigator named Len Colodny published “Silent Coup,” a sprawling revisionist history of the Watergate affair. Subtitled “the removal of a president,” the book set out to prove that President Richard Nixon was forced out of office not because of his misdeeds but because a “formidable national security party” opposed his foreign policy. The coup was

Washington state man gets 20 years for killing man he mistakenly thought impregnated his 13-year-old relative

YAKIMA, Wash. — A Washington state man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing an Oregon man he mistakenly believed impregnated a 13-year-old girl. Yoset Dominguez-Serrano, 21, of Outlook, Washington, received the sentence Friday in Yakima County Superior Court, the Yakima Herald reported. Dominguez-Serrano in January pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the February 2015 killing of

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