Category: The Fifth Column

With the job market increasing on a global scale, more and more people are looking to move abroad. Whether the motivation stems from escaping the United States or the attraction of a foreign land, there are some tasks that need to be taken care of during the move. Here are a few things you need to know about moving outside of the US. 1. Visas Visas are the permission granted by a sovereign nations to a traveler permitting entry for a specific purpose (Travisa). Visas range in focus from work-permits,…

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Guns require a regular maintenance schedule just like a vehicle does. Cleaning and part replacement should be a part of this regular schedule to keep your gun in top performance condition. Here are some of the things you should keep on hand to protect your gun. Cleaning Kits Guns need to be scrubbed free of corrosion and lubricated regularly. Commercial cleaning kits consisting of several brushes and files are available wherever guns are sold. Gun lubricator may be sold as part of the cleaning kit or separately. When lubricating, make…

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My video is about sex trafficking in Southeast Asia. In these areas, young women and girls are forced to sell their bodies either for food, money, and/or to pay off their family debts. For them, this is the only way to survive, yet, it is at the expense of their own humanity and freedom. I am passionate about this because I feel that it’s unfair that people are forced to go through this because others are unwilling. The serious injustice done is that the government knows about the issue, however,…

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(FPIF) – Political reporters have a saying: There’s always a tweet. That is, for nearly every political moment or presidential decree, there’s an uncannily on-point comment buried somewhere in the presidential Twitter feed. Often it features the president expressing a past view that’s diametrically opposed to whatever he’s doing now. Here’s an example from 2013: “All former Bush administration officials should have zero standing on Syria,” Donald J. Trump tweeted. “Iraq was a waste of blood & treasure.” I agree. According to Brown University and the Institute for Policy Studies, Americans spend $32…

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  (HRW) – The US Senate should oppose the nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Senate leadership and Select Committee on Intelligence. She was closely involved in the torture of detainees under the CIA’s Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation (RDI) program, and the destruction of related evidence. The government should disclose more information about Haspel’s role in the RDI program, but what is already known should disqualify her from serving as CIA director and other…

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(Sputnik) – Earlier on Sunday, Turkish media cited President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying that that the operation against the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Ankara, had started in Iraq’s Sinjar. “At the moment, there is no movement of Turkish [forces] in the town of Sinjar, Nineveh Governorate. If this happens, we will respond with force to protect the Yazidis [a Kurdish religious minority],” the party’s member said, noting that Erdogan frequently makes wrongful statements. Tensions between Ankara and the Kurds escalated in July 2015 when a ceasefire between Turkey and the PKK collapsed over a series of terror attacks allegedly…

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Moving a retail business online may seem formidable at first. But with the help of experts and a willingness to adapt, your business can soon be thriving on an online platform. Initial setup costs should be factored into the budget and plan, but these can be managed in ways to reduce the outlay, so your company begins to quickly generate profit on the web. Here are some other things you can do to mitigate costs and get your online business up and running. Establish a Web Presence Begin by designing…

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It’s a modern world, and self-driving cars are finally hitting the roads. Although self-driving cars aren’t commonly used by the general public yet, they could be a normal form of transportation in the not-so-distant future. If autonomous cars no longer use humans behind the wheel, it can raise some serious questions about driving laws and traffic-related offenses. Would an individual inside of a self-driving car still be held responsible if that car were to crash? In addition, would current DUI laws still apply to a situation involving a driverless car?…

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(Garrison) – In his first 2020 re-election campaign appearance in New Hampshire, US president Donald Trump addressed some of his typical bombast to the so-called “opioid crisis.” “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers,” said Trump, “we’re wasting our time. That toughness includes the death penalty.” An odd take, considering that one of Trump’s few worthwhile campaign promises was to leave the legal status of marijuana up to the states. That promise should have been kept, and extended to other drugs as well. Instead, he turned Jeff “good…

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(HRW) – Yesterday, while the world watched as US President Donald Trump fired his Secretary of State and reshuffled people in two top posts, 28 US senators made an important move that might not make headlines: They protested US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposals to weaken pesticide protections for children. The lawmakers wrote to Scott Pruitt, the EPA administrator, after the EPA announced it was considering rolling back two Obama-era safeguards that prohibit children under 18 from handling pesticides on farms and in other workplaces. The Senators, led by Tom…

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