Author: Mark W

CBS New York

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again!

Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.

Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels — fresh nutritious bagels — to donate to the poor. However, under a new edict from Bloomberg’s food police he can no longer donate the food to city homeless shelters.   Continue reading “Bloomberg Strikes Again: NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless”

Space.com – by Mike Wall

The United States Navy successfully launched a huge communications satellite today (July 19), adding the second piece to a constellation that should provide a big boost to American troops.

The Mobile User Objective System-2 (MUOS-2) satellite blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 9:00 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) today, riding to geostationay orbit atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.   Continue reading “US Navy Launches Next-Generation Tactical Satellite”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

Anyone that thinks that the U.S. economy can keep going along like this is absolutely crazy.  We are in the terminal phase of an unprecedented debt spiral which has allowed us to live far, far beyond our means for the last several decades.  Unfortunately, all debt spirals eventually end, and they usually do so in a very disorderly manner.    Continue reading “Share This Chart With Anyone That Believes The U.S. Economy Is Not Going To Crash”

Washington’s Blog

NSA Spying:  A Matter of Degree

We have long noted that the government is spying on just about everything we do.

The NSA has pretended that it only spies on a small number of potential terrorists.  But NSA Deputy Director John C. Inglis inadvertently admitted that the NSA could spy on just about all Americans.   Continue reading “NSA Spokesman Accidentally Admits that the Government Is Spying On Virtually All Americans”

Washington’s Blog

Interest Rates Are Manipulated

Interest rates are rigged:

• The big banks have conspired for years to rig interest rates … upon which $800 trillion in assets are pegged

• This was the largest insider trading scandal ever … and the largest financial scam in world history   Continue reading “If We Don’t Break Up the Big Banks, They Will Manipulate More and More of the Economy … Making Us Poorer and Poorer”

Washington Post – by Craig Whitlock

The steel-gray U.S. Air Force Predator drone plunged from the sky, shattering on mountainous terrain near the Iraq-Turkey border. For Kurdish guerrillas hiding nearby, it was an unexpected gift from the propaganda gods.

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, filmed the charred wreckage on Sept. 18 and posted a video on YouTube. A narrator bragged unconvincingly that the group had shot down the drone. But for anyone who might doubt that the flying robot was really American, the video zoomed in on mangled parts stamped in English and bearing the label of the manufacturer, San Diego-based General Atomics.   Continue reading “U.S. military drone surveillance is expanding to hot spots beyond declared combat zones”

Washington Times – by Emily Miller

Attorney General Eric Holder has confiscated George Zimmerman’s gun. Even though Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury in the death of Trayvon Martin, the Justice Department on Thursday ordered the Sanford police to put a hold on the evidence from the trial, which includes the Kel Tek 9mm handgun.

It is not clear what federal law or legal procedure allows Mr. Holder to stop a police chief in Florida from returning a firearm to an innocent man.   Continue reading “MILLER: Eric Holder steals George Zimmerman’s gun”

AlterNet – by Bonnie Baron

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CN) – A police officer for a Texas school district may have used excessive force in fatally shooting a teenager who fled the scene of a fistfight, a federal judge ruled.

Denys Lopez Moreno sued Officer Daniel Alvarado, Police Chief John Page and the Northside Independent School District in September 2011 for the death of her 14-year-old son, Derek Lopez.   Continue reading “Judge Rules Cop Who Shot and Killed Unarmed 14-year-old Hiding in a Woodshed After a Fistfight May Have Used Excessive Force”

RT News

A 50-year-old man died of a heart attack at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday because emergency responders were stuck behind secure doors and unable to open them with their ID cards.

Gunseye Adekunle, a New Jersey resident, died of cardiac arrest shortly after two separate teams of paramedics struggled with the locked airport doors, the New York Post writes in an exclusive report. Their ID cards failed at the Delta terminal, even though the $1.4 billion terminal had been newly renovated.   Continue reading “Man dies of heart attack in JFK airport after security doors delay responders”

Carbonated TV – by Fatimah

Former United States President Jimmy Carter has reportedly come out in support of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.

According to German news source Spiegel Online, Jimmy Carter has not only defended the NSA leaker but has also condemned U.S. global ‘spying’ efforts.

Carter  said, “America has no functioning democracy,” while speaking at a meeting of the “Atlantic Bridge” in Atlanta. Ex-US President also added, “I think the invasion of privacy has gone too far,” Carter reportedly told CNN. “And I think that is why the secrecy was excessive.” Praising Snowden’s effort to help bring out the classified information through the leaks could be useful (and not treacherous) because they inform the public.”   Continue reading “Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Says America Has No Functioning Democracy, Supports Edward Snowden”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

The “coming economic collapse” has already been happening.  You see, the truth is that the economic collapse is not a single event.  It has already started, it is happening right now, and it will accelerate during the years ahead.  The statistics in this article show very clearly that the U.S. economy has fallen dramatically over the past ten years or so.  Unfortunately, there are lots of mockers out there that love to mock the idea of an economic collapse even though one is happening right in front of our eyes.    Continue reading “40 Stats That Prove The U.S. Economy Has Already Been Collapsing Over The Past Decade”

RT News

Attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Obama administration and are demanding the White House stop the dragnet surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency.

Both the White House and Congress have weighed in on the case of Edward Snowden and the revelations he’s made by leaking National Security Agency documents. Now the courts are having their turn to opine, and with opportunities aplenty.   Continue reading “Obama administration drowning in lawsuits filed over NSA surveillance”

Washington’s Blog

Everyone Knows that the Federal Reserve Banks Are PRIVATE … Except the American People

The country’s most powerful “agency” – the Federal Reserve – is actually no more federal than Federal Express.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1928:   Continue reading “Most Americans Don’t Know that the Federal Reserve Banks Are Private Corporations”