Los Angeles Times – by Howard Blume, Paige St. John and Chris Megerian

ORLAND, Calif. — Los Angeles Unified officials said Friday that 19 of its students were aboard the bus that collided with a FedEx freight truck in Northern California. At least 10 people were killed in the fiery crash.

Officials have not released the identities of those killed in the crash, which occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. Thursday when the FedEx truck crossed a grassy median on Interstate 5 and slammed into the bus packed with students en route to Humboldt State University.   Continue reading “California bus crash: 5 students among 10 killed; at least 30 injured”

The Dana Show

By now you’re familiar with the standoff between the federal government, i.e. the Bureau of Land Management, and 67 year-old rancher Cliven Bundy. (If not, check the backstory and my radio interview with him here.) The BLM asserts their power through the expressed desire to protect the endangered desert tortoise, a tortoise so “endangered” that their population can no longer be contained by the refuge constructed for them so the government is closing it and euthanizing over a thousand tortoises. The tortoises, the excuse that BLM has given for violating claims to easements and running all but one lone rancher out of southern Nevada, is doing fine. In fact, the tortoise has lived in harmony with cattle in the Gold Butte, Clark County Nevada for over a hundred years, or as long as Cliven Bundy’s family has lived on the land as ranchers. In fact, the real threat to it is urbanization, not cattle.   Continue reading “The Real Story Behind The Bundy Ranch Harassment”

3-D Printing-Human He_Cham.jpgFox News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. –  It may sound far-fetched, but scientists are attempting to build a human heart with a 3D printer.

Ultimately, the goal is to create a new heart for a patient with their own cells that could be transplanted. It is an ambitious project to first, make a heart and then get it to work in a patient, and it could be years — perhaps decades — before a 3D printed heart would ever be put in a person.   Continue reading “Scientists trying to create human heart with 3D printer”

Storage Tanks Sit at an Oil Refinery in HoustonBloomberg Businessweek – by Naomi Christie and Dan Murtaugh 

Houston and the rest of the U.S. Gulf Coast have more crude oil than the region can handle.

Stockpiles in the region centered on Houston and stretching to New Mexico in the west and Alabama in the east rose to 202 million barrels in the week ended April 4, the most on record, Energy Information Administration data released yesterday show.   Continue reading “Houston Fills With Crude Oil That Can’t Be Shipped Out”

Reuters – by Chen Aizhu

BEIJING, April 10 (Reuters) – A deal between China’s top refiner Sinopec Corp and Phillips 66 could be a game changer that signals the United States is on track to become one of the top suppliers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to the world’s second-biggest economy.

China is the biggest consumer of LPG, a compressed mix of propane and butane, used for heating and transport, and now increasingly being considered for making petrochemicals.   Continue reading “Riding shale boom, U.S to become major LPG supplier to China”

youtube_bundy_040914_p_0.jpgLas Vegas Review Journal – by BEN BOTKIN and HENRY BREAN

BUNKERVILLE — From near and wide, armed men are trickling toward Cliven Bundy’s ranch, where the rancher’s fight with the federal government has become a rallying cry for militia groups across the United States.

On Wednesday, that dispute teetered at the edge of deadly conflict, when Cliven Bundy’s family members and supporters scuffled with rangers from the Bureau of Land Management sent to protect the federal roundup of Bundy’s cattle on public land.   Continue reading “Militias ‘mobilizing’ to support embattled Clark County rancher in clash with federal rangers”

1-Bundy-Ranch-Fed-Cattle-Rustling21 Century Wire

A convoy of US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) vehicles with armed federal agents faced-off with the public at their protest camp near Exit 112, off of Riverside Road in Bunkerville, Nevada.

The scene which took place this afternoon at 2pm PST, went violent after a detachment of federal agents pulled over and began threatening protesters and residents, before assaulting at least one woman and panicking and tasering protesters (see video below).    Continue reading “Federal Agents Tasering Protesters, Reports of Killing Cattle in Bunkerville, NV”

Sent to us by Dorothy.

To all the Militia I am praying for your safety, strength and courage to do what needs to be done.  To restore this nation back to a righteous moral Country in harmony with God our Creator.  Take the Lord with you in all your works and great will be HIS reward.

In Christ’s Love, Dorothy

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the almighty.   Continue reading “Prayers from AZ”

Thanks to uninformedLuddite.

Kingsnake – August 25, 2013

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced it will kill hundreds of threatened desert tortoises it’s been caring for at a Nevada conservation facility. The slaughter is being blamed on a lack of funds by the agency.

Real estate developers in southern Nevada who wanted to disrupt the habitat of threatened desert tortoises to build their little enclaves of air conditioning and irrigation in the arid suburbs of Las Vegas have been able to do so — for a fee. And while at the height of the real estate boom those fees went a long way toward providing refuge for displaced tortoises, the real estate bust has seen the program implode.   Continue reading “BLM killed hundreds of desert tortoises in 2013 as its conservation center ran out of money”

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Why is this impotent, useless piece of GOP trash smiling?

The Washington Free Beacon reports on the “Last Man Standing.”

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R.) voiced his concern about so-called “First Amendment Areas,” designated locations set up by the BLM where citizens can protest the removal.   Continue reading “The Bundys vs. the BLM Nazis. It’s past time for the governor of Navada to intervene with a little adult supervision.”