Absolute Proof the Santa Barbara Convenience Store Shooting is a HoaxSent to us by a reader who said: This was a staged event imo. I watched that childs’ video and thought to myself this can’t be real. Yesterday. There was one picture that I didn’t save in an article and it was pic of a spent casing next to a puddle of pink blood(fake.) It’s been scrubbed. It would be nice if someone saved it. Ironic that big sis’s new venture is the director of all the uc’s? I think not. Adventures in hoaxland continues…

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This entire claim of a wild, roaming shooter on the loose in Santa Barabara, who gunned down and killed 6 people, is mere dramatics. As grandiose as it is it would appear as if it was written for a Hollywood plot.   Continue reading “Absolute Proof the Santa Barbara Convenience Store Shooting is a Hoax”

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There is no bigger misconception held among the financial press and within academia than that of consumer spending. A typical example of this comes from a recent Reuters release entitled: “Strong Consumer Spending, Factory Data Buoy U.S. Growth Outlook.” The first sentence of the article reads, “U.S. consumer spending recorded its largest gain in more than 4½ years in March . . . reinforcing views the economy was regaining steam.”   Continue reading “The Consumer Spending Myth”

TSA to Purchase 24 Million Rounds of "Duty" AmmunitionInfowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

The TSA has issued a solicitation requesting 24 million rounds of .357 SIG “duty ammunition” over a five year period, prompting fresh questions as to whether the federal agency is planning to arm its workers.

“Estimated quantity is approximately 4,800,000 rounds of .357 Sig duty ammunition per year, totaling 24,000,000 over the life of the contract,” states the solicitation, posted on FedBizOpps, which adds that the ammo is for use at “DHS component locations nationwide.”    Continue reading “TSA to Purchase 24 Million Rounds of “Duty” Ammunition”

Breitbart – by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor faced a raucous crowd Saturday, including loud boos and heckles from Tea Party activists presumably supporting his long-shot primary opponent, professor Dave Brat.

Cantor’s speech occurred while the votes were being counted in Tea Party-backed Fred Gruber’s  685 to 636 vote victory over Linwood Cobb for the important job of district chairman of the 7th Congressional District Republican Committee.   Continue reading “Eric Cantor Booed By Tea Party Activists”

Camp Delta prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base (Reuters / Brennan Linsley)RT News

The US House of Representatives approved an annual defense spending bill early Thursday after rejecting a proposed amendment that would have prevented the United States government from indefinitely detaining American citizens.

An amendment introduced in the House on Wednesday this week asked that Congress repeal a controversial provision placed in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 that has ever since provided the executive branch with the power to arrest and detain indefinitely any US citizen thought to be affiliated with Al-Qaeda or associated organizations.   Continue reading “Congress reaffirms indefinite detention of Americans under NDAA”

Charlie BirnbaumForbes – by Nick Sibilla

New Jersey is doubling down on a bad bet: It wants to take a man’s family home to try to boost a once-bankrupt casino.

A quaint brick walk-up near the Atlantic City boardwalk has been with Charlie Birnbaum and his parents for more than four decades. But the state Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) is trying to seize this house using the power of eminent domain, the government’s ability to take private property for a “public use.” Condemnation should not be used lightly and only as a last resort. Neither is true for Charlie’s case (as seen in the video below).   Continue reading “Elderly Atlantic City Icon Could Lose His Family Home Of 45 Years To Benefit A Bankrupt Casino”

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ABSTRACT

This paper advances a hypothesis of the end of the third industrial revolution and the beginning of a new transition. Every production phase or civilization or human invention goes through a so- called transformation process. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation. In this paper I will use one such transition to demonstrate the position of our present civilization. When we consider the characteristics of the phases of a social transformation we may find ourselves at the end of what might be called the third industrial revolution. The paper describes the four most radical transitions for mankind and the effects for mankind of these transitions: the Neolithic transition, the first industrial revolution, the second industrial revolution and the third industrial revolution.   Continue reading “Current problems associated with the end of the third industrial revolution”

WBEZ 91.5 – by Chip Mitchell

President Barack Obama’s administration may allow military enlistment by thousands of immigrants living in the country illegally, a top U.S. Department of Defense official said Monday.

Jessica L. Wright, the department’s acting undersecretary for personnel and readiness, described the immigrants, known as DREAMers, as “some of the best and brightest in America that we could capitalize on.”   Continue reading “U.S. mulls letting young illegal immigrants enlist”

The Weekly Standard – by MARK HEMINGWAY

A new poll suggests that finding employment, particularly for the long-term unemployed, continues to be a struggle for Americans. The poll, conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Express Employment Professionals, asked questions of 1,500 unemployed adult Americans last month.

“This survey shows that millions of Americans are at risk of falling into the trap of prolonged unemployment, and it should give policymakers a greater sense of urgency to focus on the singular goal of creating jobs,” said Bob Funk, CEO of Express and a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, in a release. “We can take heart that in these difficult times the American spirit of confident hopefulness endures, but we can’t accept this status quo—not for our country, not for our unemployed neighbors.” Continue reading “Poll: 47% of Unemployed Have ‘Completely Given Up’ Looking for a Job”

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Be Your Own Leader – by Dana Gabriel

As an extension of the North American Leaders Summit which was held in February, the defense ministers from the U.S., Canada and Mexico quietly met last month to discuss continental security issues. During the conference, they addressed shared defense and security challenges. This includes threats posed by cyber attacks and transnational criminal organizations. The North American security relationship has evolved with Mexico being increasingly viewed as a valued part of the continental defense team. The U.S., Canada and Mexico are building the framework for greater cooperation on common security issues. They are expanding security arrangements and are further establishing new institutions at a continental level. The trilateral defense ministers meeting, which received very little media attention is part of the process of integrating military planning and coordination into a North American security perimeter.
Continue reading “Trilateral Defense Ministers Meeting Continues to Build North American Security Framework”

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An advanced group of hackers recently attacked a US public utility, compromising its control system network without affecting the utility’s operations, according to the US Department of Homeland Security.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not name the utility in a report released this week by the agency’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).   Continue reading “US utility’s control systems hit by advanced cyber attack – DHS”

Why is ATF looking to expand reporting requirements now, before the elections? And why has everyone been so quiet about it?Examiner – by David Codrea

A little noticed and virtually unreported April 15 notice posted in the Federal Register suggests the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives intends expanding the multiple rifle sale requirement currently imposed on four border states (Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas) to all states.

Titled “Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; Report of Multiple Sale or Other Disposition of Certain Rifles,” and assigned OMB Number 1140–0100, the 60-day notice abstract declares “The purpose of this information collection is to require Federal Firearms Licensees to report multiple sales or other dispositions whenever the licensee sells or otherwise disposes of two or more rifles within any five consecutive business days with the following characteristics: (a) Semi automatic; (b) a caliber greater than .22; and (c) the ability to accept a detachable magazine.   Continue reading “ATF quietly laying groundwork to expand multiple rifle sales reporting”

Water well unit haul from subsurface water is seen near No.3 (L) and No.4 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO)'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, in this photo released by Kyodo April 15, 2014. REUTERS/Kyodo/FilesReuters

The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant began releasing groundwater that it said is within legal radiation safety limits into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, in a bid to manage huge amounts of radioactive water built up at the site.

Tokyo Electric Power, or Tepco, has been fighting a daily battle against contaminated water since the Fukushima nuclear station was wrecked by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.   Continue reading “Japan’s Fukushima operator begins groundwater release to ocean”

Joshuaa Brubaker's flag.  (Source: WJACTV)Police State USA

ALLEGHENY TOWNSHIP, PA — Police arrested and charged a man with a crime because he hung an American flag upside down on his own property.

Joshuaa Brubaker, of Duncansville, says he is passionate about his Native American heritage and the American Indian Movement (AIM).   He grew upset when the site of one of the most infamous massacres in U.S. history has been put up for commercial sale.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania man arrested for hanging flag upside down”