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Guatemalan Girl, 7, Dies of Dehydration, Shock in US Custody
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LAS CRUCES, NM – December 14, 2018 A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died in Border Patrol custody last week after she was detained for illegally crossing into the US with her father, federal officials said on Thursday. The young unidentified girl was taken into custody with her father around 10pm on December 6 near Lordsburg, New Mexico, the US Customs and Border Protection agency said in a statement. The Washington Post reports the girl died of dehydration and shock more than eight hours after she was arrested. She was from Guatemala and was traveling with a group of 1...
December 14: Battle of Lake Borgne, Battle of Kinston, US Military Defeats, and Other Events of the Date
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Today we'll talk about some battles that didn’t bring us anything good. We'll focus on battles where the United States lost not only people but also its influence on the global level. Battle of Lake Borgne and British victory over the United States Lake Borgne appeared an eligible route for the British to head to New Orleans. There were several routes from it towards the city. The British strategists soon ruled out the one which ran through waterways to the English Turn, 14 miles below New Orleans, because the waterways were not navigable for anything but small boats, an...
Americans Everywhere Should Support the Gilets Jaunes
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American media seems to have taken painstaking effort to give the massive protests in Paris as little coverage as possible, but by now most people are aware of the facts. A protest over a hike in fuel prices by the exceedingly smarmy president Emmanuel Macron, has exploded into full scale civil disobedience relating to a number of grievances including mass migration and membership in NATO. This protest of men and women in yellow high visibility vests (leading to the name Gilets Jaunes) has gripped the country and brought its capital to a standstill as the president has du...
A Feather in USA Really’s Cap, and Taking the Gov’t for All Their Worth!
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Hello, hello, and welcome to our USA Really daily podcast for December 13. Only 12 days until Christmas! I’ve said it before, but man! Time really is just flying. And as time flies, so does the news, so we’ve got a number of fun pieces for you today, and even some major news for our USA Really agency that you’ll definitely be interested in! And for all our regular listeners, you know the deal with our daily announcements: Don’t forget to check out our Global Democracy Award contest, on the theme of the US government’s interference in other states, and our Zuckerberg Wante...
Langley Air Force Base Employee Cheated the Department for 17 Years Until Trump's Audit
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VIRGINIA - December 13, 2018 A former employee at Langley Air Force Base admitted Wednesday that she bilked the federal government out of $1.46 million — mainly by faking the amount of overtime she worked over 17 years — 42,847 hours between December 2001 and July 2018. She came up with a way to bypass any checks that would refute her words. Michelle M. Holt, 52, was a civilian secretary at the base, where she worked in the communications support squadron of Air Combat Command. According to court records, in 2001 the woman used a co-worker's login information without th...
Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Gets 3-year Prison Sentence
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WASHINGTON, DC – December 13, 2018 Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations involving hush payments to two women and for lying to Congress. He said Donald Trump "led me to take a path of darkness instead of light." US District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan sentenced Cohen to three years for the payments, which violated campaign finance law, and to two months for the false statements to Congress. The two terms will run concurrently. The judge set March 6 for Cohen’s voluntary surrender. Cohen pleaded guil...
December 13: The First US Military Units, U.S. and Mexico Settle Border Dispute, and Other Events of the Date
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The first US military units On December 13, 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony organized three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard. The Army National Guard predates the founding of the nation and a standing military by almost a century and a half, and is, therefore, the oldest component of the United States armed forces. Since that time, the Guard has participated in every U.S. conflict from the Pequot War of 1637 to our current deployments in support...
The Catch-All Word in American Policy Discussions Is Now “Hate”
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In recent years the American media’s “buzzword” in political discourse is “hatred.” This word, presented in its various forms, serves as an effective show-stopper in some people’s minds, easily drawn out and used, not to win a debate, but to prevent one. At first it seemed that this term was used almost exclusively by the Left against conservatives, most notably Christians who adhered to traditional values-based Christianity rather than the “new” expressions that espouse everything from legalized narcotics to homosexuality and everything in between. Such people were term...
The True Face of Facebook and Quakers Arrested
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Hello again and welcome back to our USA Really daily podcast for December 12. This is your one-stop place to get all the freshest and hottest news, straight off the presses, from an unbiased point of view—which you rarely if ever get from the mainstream media. We also bring you original analytical opinion pieces from real Americans who speak to your real concerns. But before we get into all that, first some announcements: Don’t forget that our Global Democracy Award contest has been EXTENDED until December 31, giving you another month to get us your original works about...