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21st Century Wire – by Patrick Henningsen

In the wake of a Bundy Ranch crisis sparked by a militarized federal land-grab effort in Nevada, it seems that the Department of Interior has set its sights on a new prize – this time targeting once protected Indian reservation land on Pine Ridge in South Dakota.

The Oglala Sioux and Lakota Sioux of the reservation have been told by the Federal Government that the National Parks Service will be taking land that comprises the South Unit of the Badlands National Park as a new ‘Tribal National Park’, only the wording in the bill clearly indicates that it will be a federally managed national park under the Department of Interior, giving mere lip service to its tribal title. The Congressional bill has already been written, and if passed through Congress, both tribal members and non tribal members will be stripped of their deeded land – at a price set by the federal government. If owners do not accept Washington’s offer (expected to be a meager one), the land can be acquired at no cost because the measure has waived all appraisal rights and stipulates that Washington can simply take Indian land by force under ‘eminent domain’.   Continue reading “Feds Threatening ‘Third Wounded Knee’ with Eminent Domain Land Grab on Sioux Indian Reservation”

Outside the Beltway – by Doug Mataconis

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Staff wants to make it clear that we don’t have plans to invade our neighbors to the north:

Wednesday’s hearing of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee was informative on a great many serious subjects. It also revealed that the United States isn’t prepared to take aggressive action against its looming menace to the north, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Continue reading “Joint Chiefs Chairman Says There Is No Plan For Invading Canada”

CBC News

Prince William received an $11-million helicopter from his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, for his 32nd birthday today.

William, heir to the throne behind his father Prince Charles, received a 2008 Agusta A109S Grand helicopter from the British monarch. Local media identified the helicopter model.   Continue reading “Prince William gets $11M helicopter from Queen on his birthday”

WTVM 9 News – by Brittany Dionne

TALBOT COUNTY, GA (WTVM) –A Talbot County man faces felony charges of destruction of aircraft after he reportedly tried to shoot down a state chopper, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

Chron – by Bobby Blanchard

A 23-year-old mother was killed and her two young children suffered injuries in a wreck Wednesday, Houston police said.

The woman’s sons, ages 4 and 6, were in the backseat and were transferred to a hospital with broken bones but no life-threatening injuries, said HPD spokesman Victor Senties.

The mother failed to yield when she was leaving a private drive around 5 p.m., Senties said.   Continue reading “Onlookers allegedly steal groceries from woman killed in crash”

CBC News

As police hunted for Justin Bourque in a wooded area in suburban Moncton, N.B., this week, one of the primary concerns officers dealt with was determining exactly what weapons he was carrying with him,

Based on a widely circulated image of the suspect, B.C.-based firearms instructor Rod Giltaca identified the two long guns Bourque was carrying as a semi-automatic centre-fire rifle — possibly an M14 or a cheaper knockoff version — and a pump-action shotgun. Both guns can be obtained legally and are commonly used by hunters, he said.   Continue reading “Moncton shooting: Justin Bourque was armed with rifle, shotgun”

CBC News – by Emily Chung

The main cause of the monarch butterfly’s decline is the loss of milkweed — its food — in its U.S. breeding grounds, a new study has found. That all but confirms that the spread of genetically modified crops is indirectly killing the monarch.

This past winter, the number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico fell to its lowest since 1993, when records first started being kept, the World Wildlife Fund and Mexico’s Environment Department reported in January. That report blamed the loss of milkweed owing to genetically modified crops and urban sprawl in the U.S. and illegal logging in the butterflies’ Mexican wintering ground.   Continue reading “Monarch butterfly decline linked to spread of GM crops”

CBC News

Homegrown extremism abroad has a new face, and CBC News has learned it belongs to yet another Calgary man, a development that points to the West as a hotbed for exporting jihadis.

His name is Salman Ashrafi, and when the Al-Qaeda splinter group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) released images of him last month following a double suicide bombing in Iraq in November that killed 46 people, he was celebrated in a martryrdom notice.   Continue reading “Suicide bomber killed in Iraq part of wider jihadi base in Calgary”

Yeah – I trust and believe these two.

CBC – by Trinh Theresa Do

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he doesn’t understand why people in the developed world don’t get vaccinated.

Harper, speaking alongside Melinda Gates in an exclusive TV interview with the CBC’s Hannah Thibedeau, said vaccinations have been “lifesavers” in our society and elsewhere.   Continue reading “Vaccinations are ‘proven to work’: Melinda Gates, Stephen Harper”

Yahoo Mail – by Juliet Williams

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Residents of California’s largely rural, agrarian and politically conservative far northern counties long ago got used to feeling ignored in the state Capitol and out of sync with major urban areas.

The idea of forming their own state has been a topic among local secession dreamers for more than a century. Residents in two counties will have a chance to voice that sentiment next week.

Voters in Del Norte and Tehama, with a combined population of about 91,000, will decide June 3 on an advisory measure that asks each county’s board of supervisors to join a wider effort to form a 51st state named Jefferson.   Continue reading “Voters in California contemplate forming new state”

Did you get your invitation?

Inclusive Capitalism

Welcome to the Initiative for Inclusive Capitalism’s website – the home of The Conference on Inclusive Capitalism.

On 27 May 2014 at the Mansion House and Guildhall in London, the Lord Mayor of the City of London and E.L. Rothschild will host The Conference on Inclusive Capitalism: Building Value, Renewing Trust. The Conference has been organised by The Initiative for Inclusive Capitalism and the Financial Times.   Continue reading “Conference on Inclusive Capitalism: Building Value, Renewing Trust”

TIP

Salinas, California:  Local police officers claim they had to use lethal force on a man when he didn’t obey their direct orders and then tried to attack them.

However this video, filmed by an eyewitness, shows that the man tried to back away from officers when he was fatally shot to death.

According to the paper, though, witnesses — including the 19-year-old college student who captured the video footage of the shooting — disagree. The source of the Herald clip, Yoanna Prieto, said the man appeared to be backing away from police the entire time she was filming.   Continue reading “Salinas California Police Caught Red Handed On Camera Executing A Man”

Daily Mail – by Matt Chorley

Nigel Farage today declared that his ‘dream has become a reality’ after UKIP stormed to victory in the European elections.

With 10 regions declared, UKIP has won more than 27 per cent of the vote, securing 23 MEPs, leaving Labour and the Tories to battle it out for second for the first time in 100 years.

Mr Farage said he was ‘over the moon’ and predicted that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg could be forced to quit after losing 11 of his 12 MEPs, despite pitching the Lib Dems as a the ‘party of in’.    Continue reading “‘The people’s army are on the march’: ‘Over the moon’ Nigel Farage hails biggest ‘political earthquake’ in a century as UKIP humiliate every other party and plunge Lib Dems into leadership crisis”

CBC News

The head of a Canadian Jewish advocacy group is slamming the United Nations over its “knee-jerk” reaction to a video that human rights groups claim shows two unarmed Palestinian teenagers being shot by Israeli soldiers.

“Frankly, Israel really doesn’t need to take instructions from the UN about the proper followup to incidents involving fatalities,” Shimon Fogel, head of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, told CBC News. “There’s a long established process by which every such incident is thoroughly investigated by an arm’s length body within the national policing structure.”   Continue reading “UN accused of ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to Israel over video of Palestinian deaths”