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RT News

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Detroit, Michigan is indeed eligible for bankruptcy protection, giving the go-ahead to the once booming Motor City to move forward with plans to restructure more than $18 billion in debt.

Amid reading excerpts from a lengthy decision of more than 140 pages, United States Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes announced during Tuesday morning’s historic hearing that he approved of Detroit’s Chapter 9 filing, in turn authorizing the largest municipal bankruptcy ever in the US to proceed.   Continue reading “Federal judge lets Detroit move forward with largest bankruptcy in US history”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff, Danny Biederman

Among the thousands of patents reviewed and approved each year by the federal government, a select group is kept secret from the public—a group that has grown in number lately.

During the previous fiscal year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) approved 139 new “secrecy orders” on patent applications, according to data obtained by Secrecy News.   Continue reading “Secret Patent Applications on the Rise”

BBC News

Hong Kong has confirmed its first case of the new strain of the H7N9 bird flu in a domestic worker from Indonesia.

The worker, 36, recently travelled to Shenzhen in the mainland and came into contact with live poultry. She is in critical condition, officials say.

H7N9 has infected more than 100 people since it emerged earlier this year.   Continue reading “Hong Kong confirms first case of H7N9 bird flu”

The Lone Star Watchdog

When will these local Police Chiefs and Elected County Sheriffs better count the cost before they sign an agreement with Homeland security. When there is money from DHS or some other Federal agency. There are strings attached that violate state and Federal laws they are asked to do. This federal grant money serves to federalize local law enforcement as a force multiplier. Our local law enforcement in many areas in America is now paid mercenaries as independent contractors. Continue reading “I Can See it Coming When the People Disarm the Lawless Police Who Abuse Their Authority”

Wasn’t the economy supposed to be struggling? Then why are companies in the U.S. and all around the world raking in cash? Let’s look at which companies are most profitable — and how some of them stay that way.

Who Makes the Most Money?

Of the 25 companies with the largest corporate profits in the world, banking, energy and technology firms are absolutely ranking it in.   Continue reading “Green Giants”

The Toledo Blade

Police negotiators have been sent to Scott High School today on reports of a standoff involving a student with a gun.

A Toledo Public Schools spokesman says one student contained in a classroom alone with a gun.

Police say the gunman is 15 years old.   Continue reading “Toledo police say suspect in Scott High School standoff in custody”

AmmoLand

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- With 80,000,000 Americans poised to lose their employer-provided insurance plans, what would you think the Senate’s number three Democrat, Chuck Schumer, is now poised to cram down Republicans’ quivering throats?

ANSWER:  More gun control.

Senator Schumer already tried to sneak a gun control bill through the Senate on November 21 — right before Thanksgiving — and according to one congressman, the House could use a parliamentary procedure to pass it as early as today (Monday).   Continue reading “Faced with a Collapse of America’s Health System, Schumer Pushes … More Gun Control”

Star Tribune – by NICOLE NORFLEET 

Rayan Dhamuke, 12, doesn’t get to swim a lot, unlike her brothers. During the past summer, she had to visit the pool at 5 a.m. so that she would have the privacy she needed to enjoy the water while still adhering to her family’s cultural and religious beliefs.

To better accommodate girls like Dhamuke, the downtown St. Paul YMCA, in partnership with the St. Paul Police Department, has started a swim group for Somali-American girls. The group, which began in October, is serving as an outlet for girls ages 5 to 17 to learn the basics of swimming.   Continue reading “St. Paul YMCA and police start Somali girls swim group”

Mint Press – by Jo Erickson

Selling weapons used to be a cut-throat business. With a no-questions-asked policy, it has led in the past, to the selling of weapons to support African conflicts, leaving Angola, Somalia, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic Congo awash with AK-47 semi-automatic rifles and very little else.

Today’s high-tech weapons manufacturers are enjoying record sales. The State Department’s Military Assistance Report stated that it approved $44.28 billion in arms shipments to 173 nations in the last fiscal year. One of the more controversial is the Defense Department’s plans to sell Saudi Arabia $6.8 billion and the United Arab Emirates $4 billion in advanced weaponry, including air-launched cruise missiles and precision munitions. The trouble is – has anyone asked where these weapons will ultimately end up?   Continue reading “Pentagon Approves Record Sale Of Advanced Arms To Countries At War”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

One of the men that won the Nobel Prize for economics this year says that “bubbles look like this” and that he is “most worried about the boom in the U.S. stock market.”  But you don’t have to be a Nobel Prize winner to see what is happening.  It should be glaringly apparent to anyone with half a brain.  The financial markets have been soaring while the overall economy has been stagnating.  Reckless injections of liquidity into the financial system by the Federal Reserve have pumped up stock prices to ridiculous extremes, and people are becoming concerned.    Continue reading “15 Signs That We Are Near The Peak Of An Absolutely Massive Stock Market Bubble”

RT News

Iceland’s government has announced that it will be writing off up to 24,000 euros ($32,600) of every household’s mortgage, fulfilling its election promise, despite overwhelming criticism from international financial institutions.

The measure was introduced by the country’s prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, the leader of the Progressive Party which won the late-April elections on a promise of household debt relief.   Continue reading “Iceland thumbs nose at international opposition to advance $1.2 billion debt relief plan”

New York Times – by SUSAN STELLIN

GOVERNMENTS wade into treacherous waters when they compile lists of people who might cause their countries harm. As fears about Japanese-Americans and Communists have demonstrated in the past, predictions about individual behavior are often inaccurate, the motivations for list-making aren’t always noble and concerns about threats are frequently overblown.   Continue reading “Who Is Watching the Watch Lists?”