CNBC – by Patti Domm

With oil at a six-year low and much of the U.S. enjoying cheaper gas prices this summer, drivers in Chicago and the Midwest are in for some real pain at the pump.

Gasoline prices across the Midwest spiked an average of 20 cents or more per gallon overnight, after the outage at BP‘s Whiting refinery in Indiana sent prices in the wholesale spot market skyrocketing this week. More of that price shock should filter through to gas stations in states from Ohio and Kentucky to Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan.   Continue reading “Ouch! Gasoline prices are spiking in these states while oil is at a six-year low”

National Review – by Jim Geraghty, May 5, 2015

One week after 9/11, Michael Hayden, the director of the National Security Agency, the electronic surveillance arm of the U.S. government, had a long list of problems. High on the list was the fact that the NSA needed a ton of new high-tech equipment, particularly servers, right away, to handle a vastly expanded, critically important workload.

Hayden called up the CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina. “HP made precisely the equipment we needed, and we needed in bulk,” says Robert Deitz, who was general counsel at the NSA from 1998 to 2006. Deitz recalls that a tractor-trailer full of HP servers and other equipment was on the Washington, D.C. Beltway, en route to retailers, at the very moment Hayden called. Fiorina instructed her team to postpone the retailer delivery and have the driver stop. An NSA police car met up with the tractor-trailer and the truck proceeded, with an armed escort, to NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.   Continue reading “How Carly Fiorina managed and advised the ‘poobahs’ at Langley.”

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Free-Man’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenberg

Another American election cycle is upon us, and large numbers of people are lining up to pour their time and money into the sewer of politics, to be lost forever.

This system will not be fixed. Period. This is Rome in 460 AD. The rulers, as in Rome, are liars, mad, or drunk (these days, drugged)… or all three.   Continue reading “It’s 460 AD in Rome: This Won’t Be Fixed”

Infowars

The corporate media insists Oath Keepers were hired by Alex Jones and Infowars to protect journalists in Ferguson, Missouri.

Newsweek reported this morning:

Led by a man who gave his name only as John, the group, whose members wore bulletproof vests and carried sidearms in addition to combat-style rifles, said they had come to protect a journalist from the conservative “Infowars.com” Web site.

Continue reading “Infowars did not hire Oath Keepers”

Oil and Gas Journal – by Nick Snow

The US Department of Energy ruled that American LNG Marketing LLC’s proposal to export LNG in International Standards Organization certified containers from South Florida to countries not having a free trade agreement with the US is consistent with the national interest.

DOE authorized American LNG to export the equivalent of up to 8 MMcfd of gas, or 3.02 bcf/year, for 20 years to customers in non-FTA countries according to an Aug. 7 final order and decision. It said that ALNG is controlled by Fortress Equity Partners LP and sponsored by entities related to Fortress Investment Group LLC in New York.   Continue reading “Department of Energy allows LNG exports in containers from Florida to non-FTA nations”

Fox 2 Now

CLAYTON, MO – Several people were shot in Ferguson Sunday night after a peaceful march to mark the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death. Two people were shot in a drive-by shooting and one opened fire on police officers. Police returned fire, critically injuring the suspect.  Now, St. Louis County officials are declaring a State of Emergency.

Organizers are calling today “Moral Monday.”  It is a day of planned civil disobedience.  They have more events planned for the remainder of the day. In the past the day of civil disobedience has included blocking highways and shutting down big businesses across St. Louis County.   Continue reading “St. Louis County issues State of Emergency”

The Daily Caller – by Chuck Ross

A 29-year-old illegal alien who is accused of rape and murder in a July 24 hammer attack avoided deportation twice in the past 15 months.

First, in May 2014, because a local sheriff’s department declined to honor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detainer request and again July 16 after ICE determined that the Mexican national was no longer a priority for deportation under the Obama administration’s new immigration policies.   Continue reading “Feds Declined To Detain Illegal Alien Charged In Hammer Attack And Rape Of California Woman”

USA Today – by Steve Garrison and Joshua Kellogg

FARMINGTON, N.M. — Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday that the Gold King Mine discharged an estimated 3 million gallons of contaminated water, three times the amount previously believed.

The mine continues to discharge 500 gallons per minute, EPA Region 8 administrator Shaun McGrath said in a teleconference call Sunday afternoon, but the polluted water is being contained and treated in two ponds by the site of the spill near Silverton, Colo.   Continue reading “EPA: Pollution from mine spill much worse than feared”

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PanAm Post – by Maria Marty

Liberty allows an individual to live according to his nature, and to act in his own interests. It’s what sets independent human beings apart from sacrificial animals or slaves.

A man willing to live by his own means — not at the expense of others — must exercise his freedom to think, to choose, to express himself, to join in partnerships, and to produce. He must be free from any physical or psychological coercion that may restrict his capacity to execute actions that guarantee his survival.   Continue reading “In Times of Tyranny, Outlaws Are Heroes”

The Daily Caller – Derek Hunter

A traffic stop turned violent in Alabama when it is alleged Janard Shamar Cunningham attacked the officer who pulled him over, pistol-whipping him unconscious before fleeing the scene.

Cunningham, who has a long rap sheet with six convictions dating back to 1999, was later arrested and charged in the crime. But the real story here is the social media reaction.   Continue reading “Cop Pistol Whipped Unconscious, People Post Photos On Facebook And Mock”

Reuters – by Carey Gillam

A man was gravely wounded in a gun battle with police in Ferguson, Missouri on Sunday night after a day of peaceful rallies to mark the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer one year ago.

Several volleys of gunshots rang out as police in riot gear tried to disperse demonstrators blocking traffic and smashing storefront windows along a street that was a flashpoint of last year’s unrest in the St. Louis suburb after Michael Brown, 18, was slain.   Continue reading “Peaceful rallies in Ferguson give way to violence, gunfire”

Anti-Media – by Justin King

(TFC) Washington, DC – Recently, the discussion of people being more hostile to law enforcement has arisen. The overriding question for those in the law enforcement community is: why? Why have people become more hostile and more willing to use violence against law enforcement? It’s a question that has a clear answer, but sometimes when a person is inside of a system, they fail to see what is happening outside of that system. Law enforcement officers exist inside an insulated culture. They don’t typically have the opportunity to openly discuss why a trend is occurring with the average citizen. No, the people who show up to the citizen’s meet and greet are not average citizens.   Continue reading “9 Reasons Why People Kill Cops”

Benchmark Reporter – by Steve Smith

The Bureau of Land Management in the US has rescinded a request it had earlier made for VIP accommodations during the Burning Man festival & has granted the permit required to hold this event in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada on the 30th of August.

The agency announced on Friday that it had scrapped this request for organizers of the festival to build a Blue Pit Compound which costs $ 1 million. The living quarters on-site for BLM law enforcement as well as officials from Washington D.C. may have included hot water, flushing toilets, vanity mirrors, couches, refrigerators, laundry washers & dryers, air conditioning, etc.   Continue reading “BLM gets rid of their lavish requests and grants permit to Burning Man”

Fox News

The Navy is preparing to arm sailors at its reserve centers across the country in the aftermath of the attack last month at a Navy Reserve Center in Chattanooga that resulted in the deaths of 4 Marines and 1 sailor, officials said late Friday.

The Navy has authorized arming personnel at reserve centers that are not on military installations, such as the Chattanooga center, a Navy spokesman told Fox News.

Cmdr. William Marks said armed guards will be posted at the centers as “a matter of prudent and necessary action toward protecting our personnel.”   Continue reading “Navy to arm sailors at reserve centers after Chattanooga shootings”

Fox News

Virginia is targeting 1,691 license plates bearing the Confederate battle flag in a statewide recall that will replace the existing tags with new ones without the controversial image.

The Virginian-Pilot reported that it’s unclear how quickly the flag tags will disappear from state highways now that the plates are being recalled and replaced following a federal judge’s ruling Thursday lifting a 2001 injunction that allowed the image.

“We’re working as quickly as possible to get this done,” Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles spokeswoman Brandy Brubaker told the paper.  Continue reading “Rebel recall: Virginians told to turn in Confederate-themed license plates”

The Dallas Morning News – by Elise Schmelzer

A 49-year-old police trainee killed an unarmed teen burglary suspect who drove an SUV into the showroom of an Arlington car dealership early Friday.

Officer Brad Miller shot 19-year-old Christian Taylor about 1 a.m. after officers responded to a burglar alarm at Classic Buick GMC near Interstate 20 and Collins Street, police said.

Taylor, a football star and 2014 graduate of Mansfield Summit, was unarmed, police said.   Continue reading “Arlington police officer in training fatally shoots unarmed teen at car dealership”

Israel National News

The Obama administration decision to release over $100 billion in sanctions relief as part of the Iran nuclear deal is being challenged by a group of American victims of Iranian terror, who have more than a billion dollars in court judgments against the Islamic regime.

The US has promised to unfreeze funds largely held in overseas bank accounts back to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI). However, the families are enjoining against the sanctions relief, arguing that unfreezing the funds will prevent them from ever being able to collect on the judgments in their cases against Iran.   Continue reading “Terror Victims Sue to Block Iran Sanction Lifting”