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PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia police are confirming that two students have been shot at a charter school in the city’s Logan section.
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The shooting is being reported at Delaware Valley Charter High School, located at 5201 Old York Road. Continue reading “2 Kids Shot Inside Philadelphia High School”
New York Times – by MARK LANDLER and PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON — President Obama, responding to a clamorous debate over the government’s broad surveillance practices, announced on Friday that he will require intelligence agencies to obtain permission from a secret court before tapping into a vast storehouse of telephone data, and will ultimately move that data out of the hands of the government. Continue reading “Obama Calls for Overhaul of N.S.A.’s Phone Data Collection Program”
Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson
Writing for the Atlantic Council, a prominent think tank based in Washington DC, Harlan K. Ullman warns that an “extraordinary crisis” is needed to preserve the “new world order,” which is under threat of being derailed by non-state actors like Edward Snowden.
The Atlantic Council is considered to be a highly influential organization with close ties to major policy makers across the world. It’s headed up by Gen. Brent Scowcroft, former United States National Security Advisor under U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. Snowcroft has also advised President Barack Obama. Continue reading “Think Tank: “Extraordinary Crisis” Needed to Preserve “New World Order””
End of American Dream – by Michael Snyder
Since Barack Obama has been in the White House, high ranking military officers have been removed from their positions at a rate that is absolutely unprecedented. Things have gotten so bad that a number of retired generals are publicly speaking out about the “purge” of the U.S. military that they believe is taking place. As you will see below, dozens of highly decorated military leaders have been dismissed from their positions over the past few years. Continue reading “Why Are Dozens Of High Ranking Officers Being Purged From The U.S. Military?”
But U.S. Is Still Calling for Regime Change
The head of the UN weapons inspectors said that the American case for Syrian government firing chemical weapons was weak, because the rockets can only go 2 miles … but government-held territory is much further away.
Similarly, McClatchy reported yesterday: Continue reading “Weapons Inspectors: Syrian Chemical Weapons Fired from REBEL-HELD Territory”
A North Texas man is trying to clear his name after he was arrested and cited for allegedly violating a city ordinance for holding a homemade sign warning drivers about speed traps.
Ron Martin, 33, was arrested last October after an officer saw him standing in the median on the Eldorado Parkway in Frisco holding a sign that read “Police ahead,” letting drivers know an officer was waiting at the opposite side of a nearby bridge, MyFoxDFW.com reported. Continue reading “Texas man fights citation after warning drivers of nearby speed trap”
NBC News – by Kasie Hunt and Carrie Dann
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday that would restore protections in the Voting Rights Act that were struck down by the Supreme Court last year.
A Bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., announce a new bill aimed at restoring portions of the Voting Rights Act that were struck down by the Supreme Court. Continue reading “‘Almost unreal’ : Bipartisan lawmakers unveil new Voting Rights Act fix”
National Review – by Jillian Kay Melchior
One in seven of New Mexico’s certified Obamacare navigators had a match in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, according to public records obtained by National Review Online.
In total, 38 health-care guides or certified application counselors received their certification despite a match, according to records from the New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance (OSI), which certifies navigators working with the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange. Continue reading “Obamacare’s Fishy Navigators”
Business Insider – by DINA SPECTOR
While everyone in the United States was moaning and groaning last week about the insufferably cold temperatures, other parts of the world were intensely frigid too.
Take the small Norwegian island of Lovund, for instance, where thousands of fish were essentially flash-frozen in a bay as the air temperature dipped to -7.8 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit), according to a report from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). Continue reading “A Norwegian Bay Was So Cold That Thousands Of Fish Were Flash-Frozen”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A judge on Wednesday upheld subsidies at the heart of President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul, rejecting one of the main legal challenges to the policy by conservatives opposed to an expansion of the federal government.
A ruling in favor of a lawsuit brought by individuals and businesses in Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia would have crippled the implementation of the law by making health insurance unaffordable for many people. Continue reading “U.S. judge upholds subsidies pivotal to Obamacare”
Here are some pictures of the Federal Gov’t helicopter that’s flying over Baltimore today and tomorrow doing research on “background radiation”. You can see the detection pods on the side of the chopper.
From the Baltimore Sun: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-helicopter-flyovers-20140114,0,4711846.story Continue reading “Helicopter Flying Over Baltimore for “Background Radiation Research””
ELKHART, Ind. (January 16th, 2014) – Three people are dead after a supermarket shooting in Elkhart.
The shooting occurred just after 10 p.m. Wednesday night at the Martin’s Supermarket on East Bristol St.
Police responded to a call regarding a man with a gun in the store. Continue reading “3 dead in Elkhart supermarket shooting”
NORFOLK, VA. – A Navy fighter jet crashed Wednesday in Atlantic waters off Virginia’s coast and the pilot has been rescued, a Navy official said. The crash comes a week after a Navy helicopter plunged into the ocean in the region, leaving three dead.
Cmdr. Mike Kafka, a spokesman for Naval Air Forces Atlantic, said the F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed about 2:35 p.m. about 50 miles off Virginia Beach. He said the pilot ejected and was recovered by a fisherman, and then picked up by a Navy helicopter. Kafka said the pilot was conscious, but he gave no other immediate details about the crash or the pilot’s health. Continue reading “Navy: Fighter jet crashes off Virginia in Atlantic Ocean, pilot rescued and is conscious”
China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries increased $12.2 billion to a record$1.317 trillion in November, data released on the Treasury Department’s website showed.
The figures, scheduled for release at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Washington, were inadvertently posted on the Treasury’s website. Japan’s holdings rose $12 billion to $1.186 trillion, the figures showed. Continue reading “China’s Treasury Holdings Climb to Record in Government Data”
Israel bombed two targets in the Gaza Strip as a response to earlier fire from across the border, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Palestinians had fired at Israel after an IDF incursion reportedly took place on the Strip’s eastern border.
Israeli “aircraft targeted two concealed rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip,” the IDF stated. Continue reading “Israel returns fire on Gaza following reports of IDF intrusion”
New York Daily News – by Matthew Lysiak , Joe Kemp AND Corky Siemaszko
In audiotape of a call Lanza made to an Oregon college radio station obtained by the Daily News that was verified as authentic by an old friend, the madman waves a giant red flag that he is about to explode almost exactly a year before the Sandy Hook massacre.
BUCKLEY, Wash. — A local man featured on a reality show about preparing for the end of the world as we know it is now in a local jail.
Tyler Smith of Buckley has been featured on the National Geographic Channel show Doomsday Preppers.
Smith was arrested on charges of illegal firearms possession. He was picked up on a warrant Wednesday morning and booked into the Pierce County Jail. Continue reading “Washington man on ‘Doomsday Preppers’ arrested on illegal firearms warrant”
The state level campaign to turn off power and electricity to the NSA got a big boost Wednesday.
In a bipartisan effort, Washington became first state with a physical NSA location to consider the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, designed to make life extremely difficult for the massive spy agency. Continue reading “Washington First State With NSA Facility to Consider Prohibiting Cooperation with the Agency”
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