The longtime Branson production 'Shepherd of the Hills' is based on a book set in the Ozarks by Harold Bell Wright.News-Leader

A longtime Ozarks tradition is taking a final bow.

The Shepherd of the Hills Outdoor Theatre in Branson announced it will close on Oct. 19.

For 54 years, Harold Bell Wright’s epic story “Shepherd of the Hills” was performed.

“Rising costs in insurance and production, the new health care mandate and declining crowds are to blame,” read a press release posted Wednesday on the company’s Facebook page. “It is with a very heavy heart that we make this difficult announcement,” said Gary and Pat Snadon, owners of the park, said in a press release. “We have had an incredible run.”   Continue reading “‘Shepherd of the Hills’ play to close”

Finally, one family that can afford ‘Obamacare!’

The Bilzerian Report

For more than 200 years the Rothschild family has kept their banks in family hands, out of the general view of the public, in an effort to conceal their vast wealth. The Rothschilds have taken advantage of tax-free jurisdictions and have purposefully established their banks in countries with strict banking secrecy laws like Monaco, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.   Continue reading “How Much Money Do The Rothschilds Have?”

Humewood castle PropertyLand Report

No. 1 John Malone, 2,200,000 acres

John Malone’s love of land may well be equaled by his wife Leslie’s love of horses. Fortunately for the two, the couple seems to have a knack for agreeing on properties where both features are a priority — wide-open spaces like New Mexico’s legendary Bell Ranch. This year the Denverites celebrated their shared passions with several acquisitions, including a historic Irish castle just outside Dublin and not one but two properties in Wellington, the epicenter of South Florida’s equestrian community.   Continue reading “America’s Top 100 Landowners 2013”

Chinese satellite launch in July / Space NewsThe Washington Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

China last week conducted a test of a maneuvering satellite that captured another satellite in space during what Pentagon officials say was a significant step forward for Beijing’s space warfare program.

The satellite capture took place last week and involved one of three small satellites fitted with a mechanical arm that were launched July 20 as part of a covert anti-satellite weapons development program, said U.S. officials familiar with reports of the test.   Continue reading “China Testing New Space Weapons”

Kenyan army soldiers light candles during a 24-hour prayer vigil for victims of the Westgate mall massacre near the Westgate Mall on September 28, 2013 in Nairobi. Photo/AFPEscaped to Tel Aviv and London.

Daily Nation – by FRED MUKINDA

Did the masterminds of the Westgate terror escape within an hour of launching the attack? Could the terrorists who remained behind to continue the senseless killing and repulse security forces also slip away unnoticed?   Continue reading “Hard questions emerge over handling of terror attack”

Violent: One police officer was filmed repeatedly striking Mr Castellani with a baton as his colleagues wrestle with himDaily Mail – by TED THORNHILL

A man was left needing hospital treatment after police punched and kneed him, struck him with batons – and set a police dog on him that bit his neck and head.

David Connor Castellani, 20, was charged with aggravated assault after the incident, but is suing Atlantic City police for using excessive force.   Continue reading “Security footage shows six police kicking and beating a man before setting a dog on him, despite not appearing to resist arrest”

Who says crime doesn’t pay?

The Telegraph – by Edward Malnick, and Robert Mendick

The former prime minister has taken to criss-crossing the globe in a bespoke aircraft that comes complete with state room, lounge, kitchen and crew.

Precisely how frequently he uses the Bombardier Global Express is hard to discern, since flight records are kept secret. But certainly for the past month it has been Mr Blair’s preferred mode of travel.   Continue reading “Former prime minister Tony gets a £30m Blair Force One”

Bond Bulding / Getty How many MOSSAD ‘janitors’ work there and how many bugging devices have been planted? Why don’t we just send the Congress home and ship ‘Barry Sotero’ back to Kenya, since Israel is running matters in DC?

Jewish Business News – by Clive Minchom and Cellia Shani

The Jordache Group, a holding company for the Israeli Nakash Brothers Joe, Rafi and Avi, signed a deal last week to buy the historic commercial property in Washington “The Bond Building”.  The building, which was put up in 1901, is only two blocks from the White House at 14 New York Avenue and they reportedly paid approximately $100 million to have the President as their neighbour.   Continue reading “Jordache Group – The Nakash Brothers Win One And Lose One…”

Terror at the mall: A gunman takes aim at the hostages as they lie face down inside a bank at the Westgate shopping centre during the terrorist attackAangirfan

This is the horrifying moment one of the terrorists in the Kenyan shopping centre attack levelled his gun at cowering hostages, ready to execute them.

The attacker, wearing a camouflage jacket and facemask, points a handgun at customers in a bank as they lie under a counter with their hands around their heads.    Continue reading “Fake Photo of Mall Shooting; Israelis in Mall”

Israeli helicopters firing illegal white phosphorus weapons at civilians, burning them alive.The Bilzerian Report

Between 2001 and 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council sanctioned Israel more than any other nation on the planet. According to the Israeli Newspaper Hareetz, Israel has broken more UN resolutions than any other country in history. A shocking statistic considering that the US vetoes most resolutions unfavorable to Israel. In 1975, the UN passed resolution 3379 (by a vote of 72-35 with 32 abstentions) which declared that the entire premise behind the foundation of Israel: Zionism, is actually racism and racial discrimination. Although this resolution was later repealed due to international pressure from the US, it has proven to be factually accurate as Israel has turned into what Nobel Peace Prize winners Jimmy Carter and Bishop Desmond Tutu deem an apartheid state.   Continue reading “The Worst Nation On The Planet”

obagy_screengrab2.jpgThis is rich. FOX is whining about McCain hiring a liar when FOX employs dozens of liars, like Willim Kristol, fired from the NYT for lying and Judith Miller, fired from the NYT for passing on lies about Iraq. And ‘Colonel’ North, who was convicted of committing perjury before a joint Congressional committee.

Fox News

Sen. John McCain has hired a controversial Syria analyst who recently was fired by one D.C. organization and resigned from another after it emerged that she inflated her academic credentials.   Continue reading “McCain hires controversial Syria analyst who inflated credentials”

Seymour Hersh by Marjorie Lipan via FlickrRaw Story – by Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardian

Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.

It doesn’t take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as “the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist”.   Continue reading “Seymour Hersh on Death of Osama bin Laden: ‘It’s One Big Lie, Not One Word Of It Is True’”

Information Clearinghouse – by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers.

In the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring bankruptcy in the face of what it claimed were insurmountable pension costs, the state of Rhode Island took bold action to avert what it called its own looming pension crisis. Led by its newly elected treasurer, Gina Raimondo – an ostentatiously ambitious 42-year-old Rhodes scholar and former venture capitalist – the state declared war on public pensions, ramming through an ingenious new law slashing benefits of state employees with a speed and ferocity seldom before seen by any local government.   Continue reading “Looting the Pension Funds”