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Consumerist – by Mary Beth Quirk

Gather close, you young folk, and listen to a tale of times past, when everyone had phones that connected them to the rest of the world through wires. In days gone by, people relied on these so-called landlines especially in times of natural disasters or power outages. As such, one New Jersey island’s residents are none too pleased that Verizon won’t reinstall its landlines after Hurricane Sandy destroyed the original lines.   Continue reading “New Jersey Island Won’t Get Its Landlines Back After Sandy Because Copper Is Too Expensive”

Monday Morning

It’s the biggest find in 50 years and the media is completely ignoring it…

It is 6 times larger than the Bakken, 17 times the size of the Marcellus formation, and 80 times larger than the Eagle Ford shale.

All told what was recently discovered outside a sleepy Australian town contains more black gold more than in all of Iran, Iraq, Canada, or Venezuela.     Continue reading “This Massive Discovery Has Put the Saudi’s Into a Panic”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

Immigrant-rights protesters have chained themselves in front of an detention facility in Eloy, Ariz., and planned to blockade the main federal immigration office in Phoenix later Monday, hoping to stop anyone from being deported.

The moves are the latest act of civil disobedience from activists who are demanding the Obama administration halt all deportations. Among the protesters were illegal immigrants.   Continue reading “Protesters chain themselves to stop deportations in Arizona”

Continue reading “Obama’s Columbia University ID?”

The Trumpet – by RICHARD PALMER

Rather than create a European army all at once, Germany should focus on building it bit by bit, according to a paper published this month by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF). Germany should develop “islands of cooperation”—small groups of countries whose militaries work together—that can be used as “building blocks” of a pan-European military power, it wrote.   Continue reading “Germany Outlines New Strategy for a European Army”

Washington’s Blog

It’s a Myth that the U.S. Has Never Defaulted On Its Debt

Some people argue that countries can’t default.  But that’s false.

It is widely stated that the U.S. government has never defaulted.  However, that is also a myth.   Continue reading “The U.S. Has REPEATEDLY Defaulted”

Reuters – by John Irish and Paul-Marin Ngoupana

France will boost its troop presence in the Central African Republic by the end of the year under a forthcoming U.N. resolution to help prevent the country from spiralling out of control, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday.

Fabius and the European Union aid chief, Kristalina Georgieva, are in the country to drum up support and international interest for a largely forgotten crisis.   Continue reading “France to increase troops in Central African Republic”

Breitbart – by WYNTON HALL

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had three-and-a-half years to build the Obamacare exchanges. Now, GOP House members in charge of oversight want answers as to how the online system that cost taxpayers over half-a-billion dollars has failed on such a grand scale.

On Thursday, House GOP members of the Committee on Energy and Commerce sent aletter to Sebelius requesting an oversight briefing to occur no later than October 16th. The letter says Sebelius’s staff told lawmakers that the Obamacare exchanges were “proceeding on schedule and did not identify any problems like the ones now being experienced on HealthCare.gov.”    Continue reading “Experts: Obamacare Tech Failures only Beginning”

Yahoo News – by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect historically small increases in their benefits come January.

Preliminary figures suggest a benefit increase of roughly 1.5 percent, which would be among the smallest since automatic increases were adopted in 1975, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.   Continue reading “Social Security raise to be among lowest in years”

21st Century Wire

Remember this next time the corporate media are trying to sell the next war…

Before the White House’s Syrian War flop, networks like CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and Bloomberg TV wheeled out at least 22 different men who they claimed were “pundits” and “commentators”, but in actuality were merely bomb and missile salesmen – who held director, board and shareholding positions with military giants like Raytheon, DC Capital Partners and BAE Systems.   Continue reading “At Least 22 Defense Industry Stakeholders Used as ‘Pundits’ by US Media to Sell Syria War”

Manufacturing.net

DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler Group says it’s investing more than $1.2 billion in two Mexican plants to build commercial vans and engines.

Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne confirmed the amount Thursday at the dedication of Chrysler’s new Van Assembly Plant in Saltillo.   Continue reading “Chrysler Spends $1.2B To Expand In Mexico”

Yahoo News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles have closed, and the city attorney says more will be shutting their doors soon, following a voter-approved crackdown.

Thirty-eight pot shops that do not comply with a municipal ballot measure approved earlier this year are in the process of being shuttered, City Attorney Mike Feuer said. Another 42 shops have decided on their own to close since July, when the new law took effect, he said.   Continue reading “LA cracking down on pot dispensaries under new law”

All Gov – by Danny Biederman, Noel Brinkerhoff

From major metropolises to small towns, America’s police forces increasingly resemble military units, thanks in part to billions of dollars in free equipment from the Pentagon.

The giveaways to date are valued at $4.2 billion, which the Department of Defense began distributing after Congress adopted legislation in 1997 authorizing the little-known 1033 Program. It appeared in fine print buried inside the National Defense Authorization Act (pdf).   Continue reading “$4.2 Billion in Military Hardware Donations Fuels Militarization of U.S. Police Forces”

While in Vietnam from ’71’ to ’72 there was an Easter Offensive.  Biggest one since Tet ’68.  My job  was to take requests from the field and alert airbases around Vietnam for specific information on tactical air strikes.  Our information was usually classified Secret for specific targets.  Strangely, a document with no cover sheet landed on my desk.  I looked at it and it was a Top Secret CIA document which predicted that Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam would all fall.  They all did 3 years and how many hundreds of thousands of deaths later.

Activated during the LA Riots in ’92 I was surprised to see that our activation orders read OPERATION GARDEN PLOT.  Not many people know this but active duty USMC from Camp Pendleton were put on the streets of Long Beach (there was major rioting there as well as other cities.  The orders were made a week before the Marines set foot in Long Beach.    Continue reading “A Veteran’s Report From the Trenches”