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The Asahi Shimbun – by YOSHIHIRO MAKINO, February 15, 2013

Senior U.S. administration officials held secret talks in North Korea on at least three occasions in 2011 and 2012, The Asahi Shimbun has learned.

Although the visits had potential implications for Japan, Washington did not inform its security partner at the time and only informally confirmed one of them when the Japanese side pressed, government and other sources in Japan, South Korea and the United States said.   Continue reading “LEFT IN THE DARK: Secret U.S. military flights carried officials, equipment to N. Korea”

Examiner – by Gregory Patin

It has been widely reported since at least 2010 that U.S. corporations and the wealthiest Americans have taken advantage of tax loopholes by hiding their assets in offshore subsidiaries (a.k.a. tax havens) in order to avoid paying U.S. income taxes. The amount of money hidden in these tax havens and what the lost revenue means to the American people has not been so widely reported.

According to several sources, including the BBC, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) and James Henry, former Chief Economist at McKinsey & Company, the top 1% of wealthiest Americans and corporations have deposited between $21 and $32 trillion in tax havens in order to evade U.S. taxes. The top seven U.S. banks, furthermore, account for over $10 trillion in assets in more than 10,000 overseas subsidiaries.   Continue reading “Closing corporate tax havens: The solution to the sequester (and world poverty)”

Fox News

DENVER –  With President Obama’s visit to Colorado to rally support for gun control measures, some of the state’s sheriffs are speaking out against more restrictions.

More than a dozen sheriffs held a press conference Wednesday in a Denver park near where the president met with law enforcement and community leaders to discuss the gun control package recently signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.   Continue reading “Colorado sheriffs push back against calls for more gun control”

The Daily Caller – by Eric Owens

The controversial portrait of Jesus Christ at the center of a federal lawsuit pitting the American Liberties Union against a rural southern Ohio school district was taken down on Wednesday.

The portrait had hung in the entryway of Jackson Middle School since the Truman administration.   Continue reading “Rural Ohio school district surrenders to ACLU over Jesus portrait”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

Tens of thousands of health care professionals, union workers and community activists hired as “navigators” to help Americans choose Obamacare options starting Oct. 1 could earn $20 an hour or more, according to new regulations issued Wednesday.

The 63-page rule covering navigators, drawn up by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, also said the government will provide free translators for those not fluent in English — no matter what their native language is.   Continue reading “Tens of thousands Obamacare ‘navigators’ to be hired”

SF Gate – by BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s House of Delegates approved a major gun control measure Wednesday to ban assault weapons, require people who buy handguns to provide their fingerprints and limit gun magazines to 10 bullets.

The House voted 78-61 for the bill, one of Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley‘s priorities for the legislative session scheduled to end at midnight Monday. All 78 votes in support of the bill came from Democrats, while 18 Democrats joined all 43 Republicans in the chamber to vote against it.   Continue reading “Maryland House passes gun-control measure”

CBS DFW

KAUFMAN COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – During a Wednesday press conference officials with the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a North Texas man was arrested for making a terroristic threat against a judge in Kaufman County.

“We want to confirm the arrest of Nick Morale, 56 years of age, of Terrell, Texas,” Kaufman Co. Sheriffs Lieutenant Justin Lewis announced.   Continue reading “Texas Man Arrested For Making Threat Against County Official”

Political Fail Blog – by Courtney Harrop

***This is an in-depth piece, that was a collaborative effort between myself, Ted Cronie, and others. It is meant to bring awareness to the youth in the community (any community), to be on the look- out for sneaky cops, and to know their rights.***

Through the grapevine circuit in the small, west coast town of Powell River, it was brought to my attention that the local RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) were out trying to recruit youth informants, to crack down on the “graffiti problem” sweeping through like the plague, apparently.  Continue reading “You are Under Arrest! (So..do you want to be a Snitch?)”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

Whenever discussion over North Korea arises in Western circles, it always seems to be accompanied by a strange mixture of sensationalism and indifference. The mainstream media consistently presents the communist nation as an immediate threat to U.S. national security, conjuring an endless number of hypothetical scenarios as to how they could join forces with Al-Qaeda and attack with a terroristic strategy. At the same time, the chest puffing of the late Kim Jong-iL and the standard fare of hyper-militant rhetoric on the part of the North Korean government in general seem to have lulled the American public into a trance of non-concern.   Continue reading “Will Globalists Use North Korea To Trigger Catastrophe?”

RT News

The central Arkansas spill caused by Exxon’s aging Pegasus pipeline has reportedly unleashed 10,000 barrels of Canadian heavy crude – but a technicality says it’s not oil, letting the energy giant off the hook from paying into a national cleanup fund.

Legally speaking, diluted bitumen like the heavy crude that’s overrun Mayflower, Arkansas, is not classified as ‘oil’. And it’s that very distinction that exempts Exxon from contributing to the government’s oil spillage cleanup fund.   Continue reading “US law says no ‘oil’ spilled in Arkansas, exempting Exxon from cleanup dues”

The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

President Obama announced Tuesday his plan to spend $100 million to “revolutionize our understanding of the human mind.”

Dubbed the BRAIN Initiative — short for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies — the program calls on the National Institutes of Health, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Science Foundation to kickstart the research.   Continue reading “President Obama Wants to Get Inside Your BRAIN”

Reuters – by Nidal al-Mughrabi

(Reuters) – Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attacks since an eight-day war in November, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that controls the territory, and Israel’s military said.

“Occupation planes bombarded an open area in northern Gaza, there were no wounded,” a statement from the Hamas Interior Ministry said.   Continue reading “Israel launches air strikes on Gaza; first since truce”

New York Times – by ALAN SCHWARZ and SARAH COHEN

Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.