Author: Charles Walker

Personal Liberty Digest – by Bob Livingston

Diets rich in canola oil, one of the most widely consumed vegetable oils in the world due to its low cost and supposed heart health reputation, have been linked to memory problems.

Is it a coincidence that canola — real name rapeseed — is genetically modified to withstand weed killers sprayed on them as they grow, and that these weed killers are accumulating in humans and other animals and creating neurotoxicity and memory problems?    Continue reading “The oil that makes you fat and forgetful”

Talk Poverty – by Hannah Leibson & Rebecca Cokley

Right now, Congress is in a deadlock over Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court. Senators are reviewing more than 1 million pages of his legal writing—which have laid out his stance on women’s reproductive rights (opposed), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (opposed), and the Affordable Care Act (opposed)—and members are battling over access to additional documentation that could reveal past experience with torture and wiretapping. While many of Kavanaugh’s opinions have been controversial—in particular his dissent from a decision that allowed an immigrant woman to have an abortion—one of his most problematic rulings has gone unreported.   As a Judge in D.C. Circuit Court, Kavanaugh argued that people with disabilities could be forced to undergo elective surgeries, including abortion, without their consent.   Continue reading “Kavanaugh Thinks It’s OK to Perform Elective Surgery on People Without Consent”

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rett Kavanaugh, the federal judge who is the president’s nominee for Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, played a key role in the Vince Foster investigation.

The death of Hillary and Bill Clinton’s White House lawyer has spawned legions of conspiracy theories. Kavanaugh, who served in the George W. Bush administration and who helped Ken Starr write the Starr Report into Bill Clinton, was in the middle of some of the 1990s’ most dramatic controversies involving the Clintons. Among them: The death of Vince Foster, which was ruled a suicide.   Continue reading “Brett Kavanaugh & Vince Foster: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know”

MSN

A British woman and her four-year-old daughter were locked up in a jail in Dubai for three days, after it was found the former had consumed a glass of complimentary red wine on an Emirates flight from the United Kingdom.

Dr. Ellie Holman, 44, who is a mother of three and a dentist, from Sevenoaks, Kent, said as soon as she and her daughter, Bibi, got off the flight on July 13 at Dubai International Airport, the pair were taken aside and questioned by immigration officials.   Continue reading “Drinking A Glass Of Wine On Flight Lands Dentist, Daughter In Jail”

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AMALIA, N.M. – Tiny pairs of pants, broken-down bikes with training wheels and discarded children’s shoes haphazardly scattered among the homemade-brick walls and a half-buried RV hint at the tragedy and mystery unfolding in this remote community.

Here, down a dirt road scratched through the sagebrush, investigators are trying to piece together why a group of heavily armed Muslims took up residence on property they didn’t own and built a compound from wooden pallets, clear plastic tarps and dirt-filled tires. Investigators also are trying to understand the death of a 3-year-old child, whose body was found buried on the site about four hours south of Denver.   Continue reading “Gruesome discovery follows SWAT raid on New Mexico compound where 16 people lived in buried RV, truck”

Schiff Gold

OK, I’m not endorsing crime here. But I have to admit, I admire the creativity and work ethic some criminals put into their craft.  I always wonder what some of these people could make out of themselves if they would channel their talent into more socially constructive channels.

Take these guys from Australia. They pulled off one heck of a gold heist using a stolen sewage truck.    Continue reading “This Gold Heist Reads Like a Plot from a Comic Book”

Press TV

Israel says it is surprised by Colombia’s decision to recognize the Palestinian state, demanding explanation from Bogota.

A day after President Ivan Duque was inaugurated in Bogota, it was revealed that the outgoing government of Juan Manuel Santos had recognized a Palestinian state last week.

“I would like to inform you that in the name of the government of Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos has decided to recognize Palestine as a free, independent and sovereign state,” Colombia’s Foreign Ministry said.   Continue reading “Israel says ‘surprised’ by Colombia’s recognition of Palestine”

MSN

A months-long search for a 3-year-old led police to a compound buried under New Mexico scrubland. After authorities raided the compound on Friday, they did not recover the toddler but found his alleged abductor and 11 other children — all of whom had been living in what the Taos County sheriff described as “the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen.”

The search began nine months earlier and nearly 1,500 miles east — in Jonesboro, Ga., where a mother told police that her husband had taken little Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj to a park and never returned.   Continue reading “11 kids rescued from armed ‘extremists’ at buried compound, New Mexico sheriff says”

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US senators are quietly paving the way for a military aid to Israel that that exceeds $3.8 billion.

The number would amount to $23,000 per year for every family in Israel, according to a Friday report by Minnesota-based news website MintPress News, released amid a media blackout.   Continue reading “Senators pass bill to increase US aid to Israel to $3.8 billion”