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Reuters – by LUCIA MUTIKANI

U.S. consumer prices rose marginally in September, painting a weak inflation picture that should give the Federal Reserve ample room to keep interest rates low for a while.

The Labor Department said on Wednesday its Consumer Price Index edged up 0.1 percent last month as a rise in food and shelter costs offset a broad decline in energy prices.

The CPI had dropped 0.2 percent in August and economists had expected a flat reading in September.   Continue reading “U.S. consumer prices rise on shelter costs, but inflation muted”

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NBC News

Opium poppy cultivation has hit an all-time high in Afghanistan despite a 10-year, $7.6 billion effort by the U.S. government to fight it, according to a new report.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, who authored the report, warned Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Eric Holder and other top U.S. officials that the gap between expenditures and results should make them rethink their approach.   Continue reading “Afghan Opium Poppies Hit Record High Despite $7 Billion US Campaign”

Fox News – by Joe Rao, Space.com

Mark Thursday (Oct. 23) on your calendar as “Solar Eclipse Day,” for if the weather cooperates, you should have no difficulty observing a partial eclipse of the sun.

Nearly all of North America, except for a portion of eastern Canada and a slice of eastern New England, will experience the partial solar eclipse this week. People who live east of a line running from roughly Quebec City to Montauk Point, New York, will miss out on the solar show, since the sun will set before the dark disc of the moon begins to encroach upon it.   Continue reading “Partial solar eclipse to darken US skies Thursday”

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Laughter and gladness spill forth
A good day in the good, dazzling sunshine
Some clouds and a rich blue sky above
A few birds here and there
Fresh breeze to soothe the heat,
People you love at your side
The simple, sublime pleasures of trusted family;   Continue reading “Laughter”

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Press Release – October 20, 2014

Windsor, CO-Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO) filed a lawsuit Monday against the Colorado Secretary of State and Colorado Ethics Watch for their unconstitutional demand for RMGO donor records.   Continue reading “RMGO sues the Colorado Secretary of State and Colorado Ethics Watch”

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I’m just writing to pass on some information that came to me last week nobody seems to be covering about this Dallas Ebola issue.

I have full confidence in this because of the close personal ties I have with the source.

1. Every nurse/staff that treated Duncan at Presby was made to sign a paper stating they would self quarantine due to the obvious facts. Obviously Amber Vinson did not.   Continue reading “Misinfo”

ABC News – by Maria Versa

Federal police have taken control of 13 municipalities in southern Mexico where local police are suspected of links to organized crime and possibly to the case of 43 missing students, a top official said.

The municipalities are all within a roughly 125-mile (200-kilometer) radius of Iguala, the town where the students from a rural teachers’ college disappeared more than three weeks ago after a confrontation with police. Twelve of the municipalities are in Guerrero state and one is in Mexico state. Among them are the tourist destinations of Taxco and Ixtapan de la Sal.   Continue reading “Federal Police Take Control of 13 Towns in Mexico”

Fox Radio – by Todd Starnes

Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform same-sex weddings or face jail time and up to $1,000 in daily fines, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court.

Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp, two ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d’Alene.

“Right now they are at risk of being prosecuted,” attorney Jeremy Tedesco told me. “The threat of enforcement is more than just credible.”   Continue reading “City Threatens to Arrest Ministers Who Refuse to Perform Same-Sex Weddings”

Police State USA

MERIDIAN, ID — A SWAT team swarmed into a charity-based community yard sale pointing weapons and “scaring the heck out of” bystanders.

The raid took place at the “Neighborhood Angel” yard sale in Meridian, Idaho, which annually sells donated items to benefit a young girl suffering from cancer.  When a 39-year-old man arrived on a motorcycle to browse the tables on September 22, 2014, the event organizer described him as an “Every day kind of a guy, [an] all-American boy.”   Continue reading “Idaho SWAT team storms community yard sale in front of customers, children”

Boston Globe – by Melissa Hanson and Alyssa Edes

Multiple ambulances have been sent to a disturbance Saturday afternoon at the Pumpkin Festival near Keene State College in New Hampshire, and one incident drew “multiple responses” from Keene Police, officials said.

The Keene police and fire departments would not say if people were injured or provide details of what was happening. A police dispatcher did say the response was to an incident at the Pumpkin Festival.

According to a witness, police responded in riot gear early Saturday afternoon and used tear gas to break up the crowd.   Continue reading “Police, ambulances respond to chaotic scene near Keene State College”

Reuters – by Joe McDonald

The survivalist charged with murdering a Pennsylvania trooper and wounding another was spotted near his old high school carrying a rifle and with mud smeared on his face, police said on Saturday, five weeks after a manhunt for the suspect began.

Eric Frein, 31, who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, was spotted by a woman in a “surprise encounter” while she was taking a walk, said Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police.

The woman said she came as close as 15 or 20 feet away from a man who police believe was Frein as he was standing on the side of the road at about 9 p.m. on Friday.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania ambush suspect spotted carrying gun, police say”

Seattle PI – by Sadie Gennis, TV Guide

The family of late actress Misty Upham, whose body was found in a ravine in Auburn, Wash. on Thursday, has already stated their unhappiness with the way local law enforcement handled Upham’s disappearance. But now they’re voicing even more displeasure, claiming theAugust: Osage County actress was killed when she accidentally slipped off an embankment while hiding from the police.   Continue reading “Misty Upham’s Family Insists She Died Fleeing From Police”

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On the cusp of the historical GOLD REPATRIATION REFERENDUM in Switzerland, I thought it fitting to remind the Swiss people of the vital importance of this votation.

VOTE YES to Gold Repatriation on November 30th 2014 or say goodbye to the Swiss way of life and hello to inflation, rising prices, unemployment, higher taxes, foreclosures, austerity, loss of sovereignty, social decay and unrest and all the other good stuff that comes with Central Bank money printing!   Continue reading “To The Good People of Switzerland…Your Gold is All Gone!”

Dallas News – by Matthew Watkins

The Dallas County Commissioners Court is planning to call a special meeting for Thursday to discuss whether to request that Gov. Rick Perry declare a local emergency because of the Ebola crisis.

The meeting will be at 2 p.m. at the County Administration Building, 411 Elm Street in Dallas.   Continue reading “Dallas County to discuss requesting an emergency declaration from the state because of Ebola”

Fox News

Police in Washington state say a man opened fire on police stations and police cars in three separate towns Wednesday evening before being shot and arrested.

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s office said the first in the series of attacks took place at approximately 9:30 p.m. local time, when an unmanned patrol car was shot at from a white pickup truck in the town of Great Falls.    Continue reading “Man opens fire on police stations, patrol cars in Washington state”

Reuters – by SHARON BERNSTEIN

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to hear a case challenging California’s controversial high-speed rail project, clearing the way for the state to sell up to $9 billion in bonds to start building tracks and stations.

The refusal to revisit an appeals court decision favoring the project comes as the state is beginning demolition work on the first phase of the project, which is meant to eventually connect far-flung parts of the state from San Diego to San Francisco and Sacramento.   Continue reading “California high court refuses to hear high-speed rail case, clears way for bonds”