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USA Today – by Bobby Carmichael

A BP (BP) refinery in Indiana will be allowed to continue to dump mercury into Lake Michigan under a permit issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.

The permit exempts the BP plant at Whiting, Ind., 3 miles southeast of Chicago, from a 1995 federal regulation limiting mercury discharges into the Great Lakes to 1.3 ounces per year.

The BP plant reported releasing 3 pounds of mercury through surface water discharges each year from 2002 to 2005, according to the Toxics Release Inventory, a database on pollution emissions kept by the Environmental Protection Agency that is based on information reported by companies.   Continue reading “BP gets OK to dump mercury into Lake Michigan”

Journal Sentinel – by John Diedrich

The ATF has settled a claim from the landlord of the building where the agency ran a troubled undercover sting in Milwaukee last year, leaving behind broken doors and walls, unpaid utility bills and damaged carpeting from an overflowing toilet.

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives closed its phony store, called Fearless Distributing, in October after an agent’s guns, including an automatic machine gun, were stolen from his vehicle. Then, the storefront was burglarized of $40,000 in merchandise. The stolen machine gun remains missing.

The landlord, David Salkin, asked the ATF to pay to cover damage to the building and unpaid utility bills. ATF supervisors in Milwaukee and regional headquarters in St. Paul refused.   Continue reading “ATF settles with landlord after flawed sting”

Infowars – by Kurt Nimmo

So hasty were Florida lawmakers, they managed to outlaw all computers in the Sunshine State.

The absurd instance of mindless over reach by government appeared in a Florida Senate bill prohibiting electronic gambling devices and internet cafes.   Continue reading “Florida Outlaws All Computers”

Hey everyone, great news! The economy is back on track and unemployment is declining at a rapid rate. There are so many jobs available!

Just come in to one of our many stores and we’ll explain all the details and then you can apply online and submit your application to a person in another state who doesn’t even know what you look like, let alone that you even exist. It’s that easy!   Continue reading “Now Hiring! Apply Within….Online”

Continue reading “Our Boys In Blue”

Imagine the U.S. with so much crime and so much hatred that in order to reduce the crime rate to 1%, the government allowed the people one night every year to purge their anger and frustrations by making it legal to kill, massacre and torture anyone they want and get away with it.

Imagine during that time, no emergency services such as police, medical or fire departments would be running and basically your country is in a state of total anarchy and you are on your own, in hopes that anyone you had pissed off in the past year will not come and kill you.   Continue reading “Imagine the Purge”

Yahoo News

BEIJING (AP) — An American boss detained nearly a week by his company’s Chinese workers left the Beijing factory Thursday after he and a labor representative said the two sides reached agreement in a pay dispute.

Chip Starnes, who said he was “saddened” by the experience, told The Associated Press a deal was reached overnight to pay the scores of workers who had demanded severance packages similar to ones given to laid-off co-workers in a phased-out division, even though the company said the remaining workers weren’t being laid off.   Continue reading “US boss held in China leaves plant after payout”

Ice News

Iceland has withdrawn its bid to join the European Union, announced its foreign minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson.

Three weeks after being installed in his position by the newly elected Icelandic government, the foreign minister said that “this is how democracy works”. He explained that the new coalition government in Iceland was against the idea of joining the EU at present.   Continue reading “Iceland opts out of joining EU”

David Duke

The Israeli Air force will be one of the first in the world to be given the very latest Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth jet fighter—even before the aircraft becomes fully operational in the US Air Force.

In addition, the $2.75 billion price tag of the F35 shipment to Israel, is less than the annual aid subsidy of more than $3 billion, not including the recent special military budget allocated to the Zionist state.   Continue reading “Israel “First” to get New Generation F35 Jetfighter: Paid for by American Taxpayers”

Informed Comment – by Juan Cole

The US government charged Edward Snowden with theft of government property and espionage on Friday.

Snowden hasn’t to our knowledge committed treason in any ordinary sense of the term. He hasn’t handed over government secrets to a foreign government.

His leaks are being considered a form of domestic spying. He is the 7th leaker to be so charged by the Obama administration. All previous presidents together only used the charge 3 times.   Continue reading “So When will Dick Cheney be charged with Espionage? His Crime was the Same as Snowden’s”

War is a Crime – by Francis A. Boyle

I have now had the chance to read Obama’s Report on Nuclear Employment Strategy of the United States, that just came out on Friday, June 21, 2013.  The critical passage can be found on page 5:

“The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review established the Administration’s goal to set conditions that would allow the United States to safely adopt a policy of making deterrence of nuclear attack the sole purpose of U.S. nuclear weapons. Although we cannot  adopt such a policy today, the new guidance re-iterates the intention to work towards that goal over time.”   Continue reading “Obama Backs First-Strike Nuclear War as U.S. Policy”

Las Vegas Sun – by Alan Fram

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service’s screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency acknowledged Monday. Terms including “Israel,” ”Progressive” and “Occupy” were used by agency workers to help pick groups for closer examination, according to an internal IRS document obtained by the Associated Press.   Continue reading “Documents show IRS also screened liberal groups”

Sovereign Man – by Simon Black

On March 10, 1975, a group of US diplomatic and national security officials gathered at the office of the Turkish foreign minister’s office in Ankara. Henry Kissinger was among them.

The discussion turned to foreign aid and supply of parts for military equipment, at which point Kissinger (Secretary of State at the time) suggested something that violated the law.   Continue reading “How to give the NSA the finger”

RINF – WBTV

Police in northeast Charlotte say they were forced to shoot a teenager in a gang-related undercover drug operation. The teen has since died.

[…] Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Rodney Monroe says the shooting involved a marijuana drug deal between an undercover officer, informant and two teenage suspects.   Continue reading “Charlotte, NC police shoot, kill 17-year-old in botched marijuana sting”

Investment Watchblog

FBI Agents Have Fatally Shot 70 ‘Subjects’ In The Past 20 Years And Deemed Every Single Incident Justified

A month after the shooting death of Ibragim Todashev during an FBI interrogation about his connection to the Boston bombing suspects, we still don’t have a clear narrative of what happened.   Continue reading “FBI Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings and Justified Having Fatally Shot 70 ‘Subjects’ In The Past 20 Years”

News Forage

A frantic 911 call is shedding light on a police mistake that turned a lunch date into a showdown with officers.

A judge recently ruled that the ugly incident in March 2010 in City Heights was sparked by an illegal action by police.

In the 911 call, which is part of court filings, Shannon Robinson is heard talking to a 911 operator. She placed the call from inside a parked Pontiac Sunfire as she sat with her fiancé Dante Harrell and a friend.   Continue reading “911 Call Captures Escalation of Traffic Stop Based on Cop’s Mistake. Motorist Eventually Gets Pepper Sprayed and Repeatedly Tasered”