Author: Greg Bacon

RT News

Internal documents from “war room” meetings convened on the roll-out of the new health insurance website indicate that early enrollment figures were significantly low, with unofficial figures noting just six enrollments on the first day.

The notes, released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, indicate that six enrollments were completed in the morning following the website’s Tuesday launch. The documents state that approximately 100 had occurred by the afternoon, and that 248 enrollments nationwide had taken place by the end of Wednesday.   Continue reading “Just six enrollments occurred on HealthCare.gov’s first day according to meeting notes”

Counter Currents – by Dr Gideon Polya

The horrendous financial cost of Israel to Americans has now reached a gigantic $40 trillion in today’s dollars. However the human cost involves the preventable deaths of millions of Americans – passive mass murder of Americans  in an American Holocaust inflicted by the fiscal perversion of traitorous Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters committing $8-10 trillion to ethnic cleansing and active and passive mass murder of Muslims abroad in support of Apartheid Israel instead of keeping Americans  alive at home.    Zionist-subverted American Government support for Apartheid Israel in circa 2008 dollars totals about $40 trillion, the breakdown being  (1) $3 trillion (1948-2003), (2) $4-6 trillion (Zionist-promoted Iraq and Afghan Wars), (3) $0.7 trillion (Value of a Statistical Life- or VSL-based cost of  88,000 US veteran suicides since September 2001) and (4) about $30 trillion (one quarter of the VSL-based cost of 15.6 million preventable American deaths since September 2001). This is an under-estimate because it does not consider the millions of preventable American deaths before 9-11 linked to Zionist subversion and perversion of America .   Continue reading “American Holocaust, Millions Of Untimely American Deaths And $40 Trillion Cost Of Israel To Americans”

Wired – by Damon Lavrinc

And so it begins… California-based Glass Explorer Cecilia Adabie is the first person to get a ticket while wearing Google’s head-mounted computer. And she won’t be the last.

Abadie was driving in San Diego when an officer pulled her over for speeding. The primary infraction was for going 15 mph over the speed limit, but there was a secondary offense scrawled on the ticket: “driving w/ monitor visible to driver (Google Glass).”   Continue reading “In a First, Police Ticket a Driver Wearing Google Glass”

RT

US President Barack Obama has “recently ordered” the National Security Agency to stop tapping the UN headquarters in New York amid the review of electronic surveillance programs, Reuters reported, citing official sources.

“The United States is not conducting electronic surveillance targeting the United Nations headquarters in New York,” a senior Obama administration official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Another official told the news agency that the decision was made within the last few weeks after the president’s aides said in briefings that the White House no longer wanted to conduct certain monitoring of UN targets.    Continue reading “NSA ‘no longer spying’ on UN headquarters in New York – report”

Probably an unregistered meat cleaver.

Yahoo News

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York woman and her four young children were hacked to death with a meat cleaver in their Brooklyn home, and the father’s cousin was charged with their murders on Sunday, the New York Police Department said.

Responding to an emergency call on Saturday night, police found two boys, two girls and their mother with multiple wounds at their home in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood.   Continue reading “Mother, four children killed with meat cleaver in New York”

dot Tech – by Vamien McKalin

From time to time, we tend to release flatulence in public (aka fart), which can be embarrassing if people realize you’re the one who released the stink bomb. These bombs have many names such as the silent but deadly, and loud but calm. Anyway, what if you could free up your flatulence in public without the smell causing mass hysteria? That’s where Shreddies comes into play, a new type of underwear that has the power to neutralize odor released from your buttocks.   Continue reading “Meet Shreddies, the underwear that neutralizes your farts”

Information Clearinghouse – by Dave Johnson

Republicans are demanding cuts in Social Security and Medicare if Democrats want to change the terms of the “sequester.” I’m sure their Tea Party “base” would be shocked if they understood this. So would most Americans. So is the media giving Americans the information they need in order to make informed decisions?

Yesterday The Hill reported, in House GOP says sequester is leverage in next budget battle, that Rep. Paul Ryan is pushing for cuts in Social Security and Medicare:   Continue reading “Republicans Demand Social Security And Medicare Cuts, Is It Reported?”

East Bay Express – by Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston

Hundreds of police and sheriffs’ officers — about half of them donning military battle fatigues — converged on downtown Oakland’s Marriott Hotel today for the first day of Urban Shield, one of the nation’s largest security conferences and weapons shows. Outside the Marriott, dozens of community members representing churches and racial and economic justice organizations, rallied against the event. United under the name Facing Urban Shield, the coalition said the militarized tone of the event reflects the worsening human rights records of police forces around America, and the waste of billions on jails and state prisons. They also said the presence of arms dealers in the city undercuts Oakland’s efforts to stem gun violence.   Continue reading “Drones and Automatic Weapons on Display in Downtown Oakland for Urban Shield”

National Geographic News – by Patrick J. Kiger

Back in the early 1970s, U.S. utility companies, frustrated with growing public unease about nuclear power that made it difficult for them to find sites for new plants, came up with a wild brainstorm. Why not put full-sized nuclear power plants on barges and position them offshore, where they wouldn’t be in anyone’s backyard, unless you counted fish?

The scheme never took off, according to a recent article by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission historian Thomas Wellock. Financing proved to be as challenging at sea as on land. Coastal communities were just as strongly opposed to neighboring nuclear plants as their inland counterparts. A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which was then known as the General Accounting Office, raised worries about what would happen to the ocean ecosystem in the event of a meltdown. Continue reading “Russia Floats Plan for Nuclear Power Plants at Sea”