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Two juveniles have been arrested and charged with arson for allegedly starting the fire that killed at least 14 people in east Tennessee last month. They might be tried as adults, and authorities say there might be more arrests.

Prosecutors say the two minors started a fire on Nov. 23, according to a statement from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Feeding off a drought-stricken forest, the Chimney Tops 2 fire grew inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. On Nov. 28, it swept into Gatlinburg, a popular tourist destination.   Continue reading “2 Juveniles Charged With Arson, Suspected Of Starting Deadly Tennessee Wildfire”

Reuters – by Florence Tan

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil major BP BP.L is shipping almost three million barrels of U.S. crude to customers across Asia, pioneering a lengthy and complex operation likely to become more popular after OPEC last week announced deep production cuts.

BP’s efforts, involving one of the world’s longest sea routes, seven tankers and a series of ship-to-ship transfers, underscore a desire among oil traders to develop new routes to sell swelling supplies of cheap U.S. shale oil to Asia, the world’s biggest consumer region.   Continue reading “In mammoth task, BP sends almost three million barrels of U.S. oil to Asia”

EcoWatch – by Dan Zukowski

A six-inch crude oil pipeline operated by Belle Fourche Pipeline Company in western North Dakota was shut down following discovery of a leak on Monday. The amount of the spill was not immediately known, but oil has leaked into the Ash Coulee Creek in Billings County.

The site of the spill is about 200 miles from the camp where members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters have been protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.   Continue reading “Oil Pipeline Shut Down After Spill, Just 200 Miles From Standing Rock”

Waking Times – by Makia Freeman

The Pearl Harbor false flag operation of December 7th, 1941 which provided the excuse for the US to enter World War 2 is to be celebrated once again. This Wednesday (December 7th, 2016) will be the Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary event. The horrific event was yet another in a long long line of false flag operations that have been carried out by unscrupulous criminals (our misleaders) over the years. Just as with the 9/11 false flag attack, around 3000 American lives were sacrificed so that the US Government had the pretext they needed to go to war. As the 75th anniversary approaches, it is appropriate to cast our gaze back in time and set the record straight on the Pearl Harbor false flag op in the hope that this information will spread far and wide, and prevent future leaders from using this hackneyed tactic to trick people into submission and achieve their dark political and geopolitical goals.   Continue reading “Pearl Harbor False Flag 75th Anniversary: Time to Admit the Deception”

Bloomberg

President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Twitter that SoftBank Group Corp. founder and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son will invest $50 billion in the U.S., creating 50,000 new jobs.

Son told reporters the funding would go to “new companies, startup companies in the United States.” The Japanese billionaire is developing a $100 billion technology fund with the government of Saudi Arabia, though it’s unclear whether that would be part of the U.S. investment.   Continue reading “Japan’s SoftBank to Invest $50 Billion in U.S., Trump Says”

Mediate – by Alex Griswold

After police arrested a man with a firearm in a Washington D.C. pizzeria Sunday night, the son of Donald Trump‘s incoming national security advisor General Michael Flynn tweeted out his continued support for the conspiracy that spawned the attack.

“Pizzagate” is the name for the bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that associates of Hillary Clinton ran a child sex-trafficking ring out of D.C.’s Comet Ping Pong. Those claims are entirely without basis, but that didn’t stop a North Carolina man from walking into Comet Ping Ping with a weapon demanding answers.   Continue reading “Gen. Michael Flynn’s Son Continues to Push #Pizzagate Conspiracy After Attempted Assault”

Fox News

An Ohio firefighter was shot and wounded while on the scene of a house fire late Monday night.

Authorities told WDTN-TV that the firefighter was responding to a house fire in Youngstown at around 11:30 p.m. during the time of the shooting. The unidentified firefighter was expected to recover.   Continue reading “Ohio firefighter shot and wounded at scene of house fire”

Northern Star

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the U.S. will give back to the Japanese government nearly 10,000 acres of land on Okinawa that U.S. Marines use for jungle warfare training.

The giveback, to be completed by the end of this month, has been in the works for 20 years and is the largest by U.S. forces in Japan since 1972.   Continue reading “Carter: US to return Okinawa land to Japanese government”

NBC News

A massive sinkhole in Texas swallowed two cars on Sunday night, injuring one person and killing a reserve deputy, officials said.

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office identified the dead officer on Monday as seven-year veteran Dora Linda (Solis) Nishihara.   Continue reading “Massive Texas Sinkhole Swallows Two Cars, Killing Sheriff’s Deputy”

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Excerpted from the book, A Masters Guide to the Way of the Warrior
By Stefan H. Verstappen

Long, continuous periods of peace and prosperity have always brought about the physical, mental, and moral deterioration of the individual.
Bradley A. Fiske, The Art of Fighting

The phrase, The Way of the Warrior, has its origins in ancient history and even pre-history and mythology. So what relevance does this school of thought have in modern society?   Continue reading “The Warrior in the Modern Age”

Washington Examiner – by Sean Higgins

President-elect Trump’s promise of vastly stepped-up immigration enforcement doesn’t have just foreign-born communities worried about what’s next. Many in business are apprehensive, too.

Any policy that promises to stop illegal immigration will have to also strictly police the people who are the main reason why immigrants come to the U.S.: employers.   Continue reading “Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration worries businesses”

Fox News

BEIJING –  Donald Trump’s unprecedented phone conversation with Taiwan’s president and tweets criticizing China point to the possibility of major friction between the world’s two largest economies.

Trump’s talk with Tsai Ing-wen diverged sharply from U.S. practice since Washington switched diplomatic relations from Taipei to Beijing in 1979. Especially noteworthy were his direct reference to Tsai as “president” and to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan — a practice that particularly infuriates Beijing.   Continue reading “Trump’s Taiwan call, tweets point to flashpoints with China”

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Jurist

California’s 5th District Court of Appeals[official website] on Thursday reversed and remanded [opinion, PDF] a lower court ruling which rejected a challenge to a state law requiring gun microstamping. In 2007 then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger [official profile] signed a bill[materials] intended to combat gun trafficking and ease crime investigations involving bullet casings. The bill required [AP report] gun manufacturers to double-mark semiautomatic pistols with “a microscopic array of characters” that would identify the weapon and imprint on inserted cartridges when fired. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI) [advocacy websites] later challenged the law, stating that microstamping guns on two different areas is technologically impossible. Continue reading “California appeals court remands challenge to gun microstamping law”

McClatchy DC – by Theresa Welsh

Nearly 600 veterans could have been infected with HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C at a Veterans Affairs facility in Tomah, Wis. because a dentist didn’t properly clean his instruments.

The Tomah VA is investigating the dentist, who has not been fired but was removed from patient care. According to acting Medical Center Director Victoria Brahm, the dentist was using his own equipment for routine dental exams, then cleaning it and using it again. This violates VA rules, which require use of disposable equipment to ensure sterility.   Continue reading “VA may have infected 600 veterans with HIV and Hepatitis”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

So much for that much anticipated rebound in the participation rate.

After it had managed to post a modest increase in the early part of the year, hitting the highest level in one year in March at 63%, the disenchantment with working has returned, and the labor force participation rate had flatlined for the next few month, ultimately dropping in November to 62.7%, just shy of its 35 year low of 62.4% hit last October. This can be seen in the surge of Americans who are no longer in the labor force, who spiked by 446,000 in November, hitting an all time high of 95.1 million.    Continue reading “Americans Not In The Labor Force Soar To Record 95.1 Million: Jump By 446,000 In One Month”

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WPXI 11 News – by Brianna Chambers

The decision to remove “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee came after a parent filed a complaint, WAVY reported. The parent cited excessive racial slurs as the reason for wanting the books banned, Superintendent Warren Holland told the news station.   Continue reading “Virginia schools ban ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ ‘Huckleberry Finn’ for racial slurs”