Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Ecuadorean plaintiffs cannot collect a $9 billion judgment in the U.S. against energy company Chevron for rainforest damage, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, upholding a judge’s finding that the judgment was obtained through bribery, coercion and fraud.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had the authority after a trial to rule in March 2014 as he did. It noted, however, that Kaplan’s decision doesn’t invalidate the Ecuadorean judgment and doesn’t stop the enforcement of the judgment outside the U.S.   Continue reading “US court rules for Chevron in Ecuador rainforest damage case”

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ABC News 7

SINKING SPRING, Pa. — A Berks County couple, who were featured in news stories about their difficulties getting medication for their youngest daughter who had a heart transplant, were found shot to death in their home along with their three children in “an apparent tragic domestic incident,” authorities said.

Berks County District Attorney John Adams has identified them as 33-year-old Megan Short, her husband 40-year-old Mark Short, and their three children, Liana, 8, Mark, 5, and Willow, 2.   Continue reading “Family of 5 Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide”

Sent to us by a reader: This finance/government collaboration explains the American elites’ love affair with international socialism. They don’t know how to make money any other way. Competition is a sin. Government organized monopolies are profitable when you control the government. If there are no national restrictions on moving profits around, they can hide their loot offshore. The perfect crime.

The Occidental Observer – by Carolina Hartley

We’re never far from money. We spend most of our time and energy in quest of money.

But how did this thing become an intermediary between us and the world around us? Before money, we bartered. Why did money supplant barter and who is custodian of the money system?    Continue reading “Ezra Pound on Money”

Bloomberg – by David Gauvey Herbert

Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America’s 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services. For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records—known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car—and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. Now they can combine that information with the kinds of things marketers know about you, such as which politicians you donate to, what you spend on groceries, and whether it’s weird that you ate in last night, to create a portrait of your life and predict your behavior.   Continue reading “This Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult”

Yahoo News – Country Living

Back to school season is upon us, which means it’s time for new school supplies, first day of school pictures, and that dreaded four-letter word: lice. But this year, it’s not just exposure to regular lice that parents have to worry about: There’s now a treatment resistant “super lice” that’s spreading across the United States.

A whopping 42 out of 48 states tested are overrun by this so-called super lice, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology. In these 42 states, according to NBC’s Today show, 100 percent of the lice tested were resistant to over-the-counter treatments.   Continue reading “Mutant ‘Super Lice’ Outbreak Has Now Spread to Nearly Every State”

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The Marshall Report

Proof Hillary lied and gun running was taking place!  READ WIKILEAKS DETAILS HERE   Continue reading “WIKILEAKS – Hillary Supplied Cash, Weapons & Tanks to Al-Qaeda to Kill Gaddafi & Ship Weapons for Terror”

Underground Reporter – by James Holbrooks

New England — On Friday, the United States District Court in New Hampshire dismissed a lawsuit filed by New England fishermen accusing the federal government of overreach. The suit pertains to recent rules set by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which force fisherman to absorb the cost of on-board, at-sea monitors whose job is to ensure compliance with federal regulations.

Previously, the government has paid for these third party observers, who accompany fishermen on trips and — in addition to making certain vessels adhere to catch quotas — are there as part of a NOAA program to monitor the overall health of fish populations.    Continue reading “Small-Time Fishermen May Soon Be History Thanks To Nanny State Government”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

The exiting Obama administration gave animal rights groups a major victory Wednesday, ending predator hunts over 76 million acres of Alaska wildlife refuges and handing hunters, the National Rifle Association and the state’s own Board of Game a huge defeat.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled an end to aggressive hunts of predators like bears and wolves, nixing hunting by plane and helicopter, baiting, killing mother bears with their cubs and wolves and wolf pups in their dens.   Continue reading “Feds reclaim control of Alaska gamelands, ban bear, wolf hunts by air”

Brietbart – by Caroline May

A previously deported illegal immigrant from Mexico — who was released from local custody last year after officials ignored a federal immigration request to hold him — has been charged with raping a child under the age of 13.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has filed a detainer with Philadelphia authorities against 45-year-old Ramon Aguirre-Ochoa, a Mexican national who was previously deported in May 2009 and is now is charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, indecent assault on person less than 13, indecent exposure, and simple assault.   Continue reading “Previously Deported Illegal Immigrant Charged with Raping Child Under 13”

New York Post

The controversial professor at ultra-liberal Oberlin College who sparked a national outcry after posting anti-Semitic rants and bizarre 9/11 conspiracy theories has been booted from the classroom, the school said Wednesday.

Joy Karega, an associate professor of rhetoric and composition, was put on paid leave while prestigious Oberlin College considers her future, according to a statement from university president Martin Krislov obtained by The Post.   Continue reading “Prof who blamed Jews for 9/11 suspended from job”

CBS News

A pipe bomb exploded on a police vehicle in suburban Maryland early Wednesday, the police said.

The vehicle was parked on the street outside an officer’s house in Thurmont, Maryland, Police Chief Greg Eyler told CBS Washington, D.C., affiliate WUSA-TV.   Continue reading “Pipe bomb explodes on police vehicle in Maryland”

Antonius Aquinas

Last week, an Irish court sentenced three prominent banksters for their roles in the 2008 financial crisis.  Judge Martin Nolan, who pronounced judgment, said that the bansksters had committed “a very serious crime.”  He continued, “The public is entitled to rely on the probity of blue chip firms. If we can’t rely on the probity of these banks we lose all hope or trust in institutions.”*   Continue reading “Jailing Banksters Will Not Resolve the Economic Crisis”

The Hill – by Ian M Smith

Illegal aliens have never had more incentives and ability to vote in our elections as they do this cycle. After being told by the globalist elite they’re illegal entry into the country is without consequence, helps rather than hinders American workers, and unites the national culture, any existing moral qualms of further violating the law, such as by voting, have been thoroughly scrubbed away. Former president Bill Clinton all but ensured this in his speech at the DNC Convention last week.   Continue reading “Bill Clinton’s call for mass voter fraud should be condemned”

Reuters

President Barack Obama welcomed Singapore’s prime minister for a state visit on Tuesday with a major trade deal and China’s development of islands in the South China Sea at the top of their agenda.

Both the United States and Singapore are signatories to the 12 nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which Obama hopes Congress will approve before he leaves office in January.   Continue reading “Obama, Singapore leader push Pacific trade deal in state visit”

Fox News – by Joseph J. Kolb

South of the border, Grupo Beta is seen as a humanitarian organization that steers north-bound migrants through the crossfire of warring drug cartels. But in Texas, many view it as part of a pipeline that sends humans and drugs pouring into the U.S., all with the funding and backing of the Mexican government.

Grupo Beta, supported by Mexico’s National Institute of Migration, may be the sole bastion of relief for migrants in Tamaulipas state, across the border from the southeast Texas region which includes such cities as Brownsville, Laredo and McAllen. The 25 year-old agency was created to help Tijuana deal with huge numbers of migrants passing through, but has since expanded its reach across both the northern and southern borders of Mexico. Critics say the agency, whose motto “vocation, humanitarianism and loyalty,” is complicit in breaking U.S. laws.    Continue reading “Mexican border agency seen as aiding illegal immigration”

TownHall – by Matt Vespa

The Department of Homeland Security is granting some 8,000 Syrian refugees temporary amnesty, according to The Washington Times. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said that if these refugees are in the country as of Monday—they’re eligible to permanent resident status, work permits, and other documents that would allow these migrants to remain without fear of deportation This amnesty also applies to Syrian refugees that may have entered the country illegally:   Continue reading “DHS Gives 8,000 Syrian Refugees Temporary Amnesty”

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Collective Evolution – by Arjun Walia

As you’ve probably already heard, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently made an announcement declaring the Zika virus to be a global health emergency. They did so without providing much detail about the disease, however, so here is some more information and answers to questions many people are asking, such as: Where did it come from? And do the millions of genetically modified mosquitoes that have been released in these areas have anything to do with it?   Continue reading “1947 Rockefeller Patent Shows Origins Of Zika Virus: And What About Those Genetically Modified Mosquitoes?”

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This is no essay nor carefully thought out extrapolation of how America is dying or to be truthful: is already dead and has been for a long time. It is not uncommon in this household to sit around the table at dinnertime and listen to music on the radio; today they played a Huey Lewis song: Power of Love. For those who do not remember this was the main theme song for a movie: Back to the Future. This movie is quite good in that we get to see the stark contrast of a post WW2 America and the “modern” America of the late 80’s. It was a very true depiction of the difference in how Americans acted and how they maintained their communities, in this case the town of “Hill Valley.”   Continue reading “Death is Knocking for America”

Go Healthy Next – by Eileen Durfee

I’d like to explain some differences between the different types of saunas that have evolved over the years, how ion therapy was originally in saunas, and how it has been transitioned out of most sauna designs in use today.

The baby was thrown out with the bathwater with the removal of ion therapy because when you take a sauna you need a way to introduce negative ions.  Otherwise, there becomes an accumulation of poisonous positive ions that can cause fatigue unless you have adequate ventilation provided for in your sauna design.   Continue reading “Sauna Information”