Trump Nominee for Homeland Security John Kelley Favors Draconian Immigration Policy — Sharmini Peries interviews Dahr Jamail

SHARMINI PERIES: Dahr, this is the third General that Trump has chosen to join his cabinet -- James Mattis and Michael Flynn for Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor. Now how should we interpret this? The previous interview I had done with Vijay Pershad, he says this is shaping up to look like the junta rather than the cabinet -- your thoughts on that?

DAHR JAMAIL: I would agree with that statement.

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Trump Nominee for Homeland Security John Kelley Favors Draconian Immigration Policy

Sharmini Peries interviews Dahr Jamail,  Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism

Nafeez Ahmed — Pentagon Allowed to Supply Military Gear Directly to Homeland Security Dept. for ‘War on Immigrants’

Amendments to a controversial Pentagon program to sell military gear to domestic police forces have quietly extended the scheme to provide war on terror weaponry directly to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The amendments for FY2016, passed by Congress in late 2015, were highlighted in a briefing note published by the Congressional Research Service in February 2016. Under the controversial “1033” program, the Department of Defense (DoD) is able to provide “surplus” military-grade equipment to law-enforcement agencies.

The program, legislated for in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), provided local police forces access to billions of dollars worth of high-tech military equipment, including armoured tanks, rocket launchers, automatic weapons, night-vision goggles, and other supplies traditionally used by the U.S. Army in foreign war theaters.

The DHS often provided multimillion-dollar grants to law-enforcement agencies to purchase the military equipment.

To let you feel safer.

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Pentagon Allowed to Supply Military Gear Directly to Homeland Security Dept. for ‘War on Immigrants’
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Ukraine blowing up

Riots in Kiev have become violent. Department of Homeland Security must be watching this very closely.

Read about it here.

Ellen Brown — Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?

The fact that we are actually talking about this, with links to the establishment media, is pretty shocking. The global financial crisis is not over, and the capitalist system is teetering.

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Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
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DHS has already purchased over 1 BILLION rounds of ammo!

The Department of Homeland Security has made another HUGE ammo buy, putting it over 1 BILLION rounds. This is the Department of HOMELAND security. Who are they protecting us against? Ourselves?