Showdown looms as federal court freezes Obama’s executive orders on immigration and House threatens Homeland Security shutdown at month’s end….
--in response to beheadings in Libya by fighters sporting Daesh flag, Egypt bombs Libya and urges the West to join the fun
--America’s intel spin machine hypes the threat posed by IS, even as media note that Libyan fighters use “opportunistic rebranding” under IS umbrella
--GOP still stoking embers of Benghazi investigation, a blatant effort aimed at hurting Hillary and raising money
--cartoonist was target in Copenhagen attack, Ecuador sanctions political cartoonist; Prof. Bart Beaty, expert on Charlie Hebdo and cartoons, will join us soon
--desperate young Gazans jump fence into Israeli prisons, seeking any way out of their open air lockup
--one cause may be water supply is scarce, tainted following Israeli attacks on pipeline
--more details emerge about CIA’s destruction of Saddam’s expired chemical weapons and failure to protect troops involved
--NSA reportedly is bracing for new round of leaks
--bomb train derails in W. Virginia, at least 7 tankers catch fire
--after surprising drop, gas prices rocket upward by 50 cents per gallon in California
--Obama sends Labor Secretary to try to end West Coast dock slowdown
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