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Law enforcement is spying on thousands of Americans’ mail, records show

The Postal Service approves thousands of requests every year from police officers and federal agents seeking information from Americans’ letters and packages.

The U.S. Postal Service has shared information from thousands of Americans’ letters and packages with law enforcement every year for the past decade, conveying the names, addresses and other details from the outside of boxes and envelopes without requiring a court order.

Postal inspectors say they fulfill such requests only when mail monitoring can help find a fugitive or investigate a crime. But a decade’s worth of records, provided exclusively to The Washington Post in response to a congressional probe, show Postal Service officials have received more than 60,000 requests from federal agents and police officers since 2015, and that they rarely say no.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", USA

Criminal charges recommended against Boeing

US prosecutors have recommended that the Department of Justice (DoJ) brings criminal charges against Boeing.

It follows a claim by the DoJ that the plane maker had violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft which killed 346 people.

Boeing declined to comment when contacted by the BBC but previously it has denied violating the deferred prosecution agreement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

The Venezuelafication of American streets

Moped crime in the Land of the Free

My grandma loves to joke about how she got a tooth knocked out by a motorizado (biker) in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. “¡Dame el aro!” (Gimme the hoop!) exclaimed what looked like an off-duty bodyguard. “My hoop? What the hell?” Grandma thought to herself, before realizing the man was talking about her wedding ring.

“I never wear it when we go to church; I must’ve forgotten that day,” she tells us, in what feels like a skit. “I don’t know what got into me, but after the man pointed at his pocket and said he had a revolver, I said, ‘I have one too!’”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

Report: DHS Group Called Being ‘Religious’ An ‘Indicator’ Of Domestic Terrorism

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) brainstormed about infiltrating local communities to spy on Americans, and suggested being “religious” or “in the military” was an “indicator of extremists and terrorism,” excerpts of documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) purportedly show.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Christian Persecution, USA

AOC, Bernie Sanders dubbed ‘sellouts’ by far-left group at NYC Jamaal Bowman rally for not being pro-Palestinian enough

Red alert!

Socialists were eating their own at a rally for Rep. Jamaal Bowman in the Bronx Saturday as even more extreme leftists held a counter-event to rip “sellouts” Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for not backing Palestine enough to their liking.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez joined 300 comrades at St. Mary’s Park for a “get out and vote” rally in to support “Squad” member Bowman, who is badly behind in polls in his June 25 primary against Westchester County Executive George Latimer, a moderate Democrat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA, WTF?

Will Debt Sink the American Empire?

America is cruising into an uncharted sea of federal debt, with a public seemingly untroubled by the stark numbers and a government seemingly incapable of turning them around.

In the presidential race, there’s not much partisan difference or advantage on this subject. Donald Trump and President Biden have overseen similar additions to the nation’s accumulated debt—in the range of $7 trillion in each case—during their terms. The national response to both has been, by and large, to look the other way.

History, however, offers some cautionary notes about the consequences of swimming in debt. Over the centuries and across the globe, nations and empires that blithely piled up debt have, sooner or later, met unhappy ends.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

There’s an old problem Canada’s new foreign-interference law won’t fix

When it comes to using intelligence to prosecute crimes, U.S. and Canada are a world apart

To understand Canada’s failure to criminally prosecute foreign collusion, an old news report from Washington offers a useful starting point.

In 1981, a Canadian correspondent made an observation: when it came to using security intelligence in policing, Canada and the U.S. were diverging onto opposite paths.

The Americans were ramping up, while Canadians were dialling down. The legacy of that era lingers to this day in an ongoing Ottawa scandal. And it’s unclear how much will change under a soon-to-be-enacted law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Espionage, USA

Expect A Juiced Up Biden At Next Week’s Debate

CBS reporter warns Americans to expect ‘surprises’ from Biden at presidential debate: ‘His physical performance’

CBS News reported on Wednesday that Americans should expect “surprises” from President Joe Biden at next week’s presidential debate.

Before heading to CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta for the June 27 debate, Biden will spend the next week at Camp David with his closest and most-trusted political advisers, who are planning a “robust preparation,” according to CBS News senior correspondent Weijia Jiang.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", USA

Arkansas: 10 injured 3 killed in shooting at Fordyce Mad Butcher

Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a shooting on Friday morning at a grocery store in Fordyce, Ark., the police said.

A shooter opened fire at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce in Central Arkansas about 11:30 a.m., the Arkansas State Police said in a statement.

The shooter, whose name was not released, was shot by the police and injured before being taken into custody, the police said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", USA

Why Democrats are ‘not enthusiastic’ about Biden’s re-election: strategist

Democrats are “not enthusiastic” about the possibility of President Biden’s White House reelection as it becomes clearer that the gaffe-prone commander-in-chief is his own biggest problem, a party political strategist has suggested.

The 81-year-old president’s own vulnerabilities — including his age — are likely to blame for recent polling that shows Biden trailing his GOP rival, former President Donald Trump, or holding on by a razor-thin margin, Politico reported, citing interviews with a slew of Democrats.

“Democrats are enthusiastic about trying to win the Senate and trying to win the House,” party faithful strategist, Neil Oxman, said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Trump’s VP pick will have little impact on voters’ choice for president, despite fevered speculation: Post poll

Donald Trump’s upcoming vice-presidential pick attracts attention and speculation daily. If a new poll for The Post is any indication, it’s likely to be much ado about nothing.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Hundreds of Muslims from ISIS hotbed country have crossed US border under Biden

The number of migrants flocking to the US-Mexico border from a country known as a hotbed of ISIS recruitment has skyrocketed under President Biden.

More than 1,500 migrants from Tajikistan are known to have crossed the border between October 2020 and May 2024, according to leaked border dated obtained by The Post.

At least 500 Tajiks have been caught so far this year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Human smuggling attempts aimed at U.S. entry spiking along Quebec-N.Y. border

Sgt. Daniel Dubois pulled his unmarked SUV in behind a black Kia hatchback as it began to pick up speed down a two-lane country highway through Quebec’s borderlands with New York State.

Dubois, who leads the RCMP’s Champlain border patrol unit, has a honed eye for the small details that separate local traffic from suspected vehicles on human smuggling border runs through this region of forests, fields and farms about 70 kilometres south of Montreal.

His first sign there’s something off with the Kia was the speed: rising over 100 km/h in an 80 km/h zone on a June evening when most local traffic was heading into driveways, coming back home.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, USA