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My Fox 8 – by Michael Hennessey
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Every year, thousands of people flock to the Dixie Classic Fair. Whether it is the rides, the food or the history, it continues to be an annual favorite.
However, Winston-Salem Councilman James Taylor told FOX8 that some of the people he represents find the “Dixie Classic Fair” name to be “offensive.” Continue reading “‘Dixie Classic Fair’ name in question, council member says some find it ‘offensive’”
A petition calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for ‘war crimes’ when he arrives in London next month has been signed by over 45,000 people.
Netanyahu will arrive in London on a state visit in September and meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
According to Jewish News, the Iranian nuclear deal and the impasse in the Israel-Palestine peace process will be key issues on the agenda during the visit. Continue reading “45,000 demand Israel PM Netanyahu’s arrest for ‘war crimes’ during UK state visit”
Reuters – by SUI-LEE WEE AND ADAM ROSE
Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 50 people, including at least a dozen fire fighters, officials and state media said on Thursday.
At least 700 people were injured, more than 71 seriously, the Tianjin government said on its Weibo microblog, and the official Xinhua news agency said two fires were still burning. Continue reading “Huge blasts at Chinese port kill 50, injure more than 700”
Navajo Times – by Donovan Quintero
As Navajo Nation police and tribal officials went up and down the San Juan River shore Saturday warning community members of contaminated water from the Gold King Mine, Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye was making plans for a clean-up as well as possible lawsuits against the mine and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
“We are going to be suing for millions- billions of dollars,” Begaye said. Continue reading “Begaye to sue Gold King Mine and EPA”
WALLER COUNTY, Texas — A group of armed members of the New Black Panther Party marched on the Waller County Jail Wednesday afternoon chanting “The revolution is on… Off the pigs,” and “Oink Oink… Bang Bang!” The group of about fifteen Black Panthers exercised their First and Second Amendment rights. The group was met in Waller County by a large contingent of Harris County (Houston) Sheriff’s Office deputies. Continue reading “Armed Black Panthers March in Texas: ‘Off the Pigs’”
The governor of Illinois signed a sweeping police reform law which establishes wide-ranging rules for body cameras, largely prohibits chokeholds, introduces bias-free policing, and demands more data collection on arrests.
The measure, dubbed the Police and Community Improvement Act, is a compilation of 200 separate pieces of legislation intended to reform policing practices. It passed by a wide margin in the House and Senate and was signed into law on Wednesday by Governor Bruce Rauner. Continue reading “Illinois passes sweeping police reform bill with rules on chokeholds and body cameras”
Five immigrant mothers held in facilities with their children are seeking millions of dollars in damages from the U.S. government for what they contend is psychological and physical harm as a result of being detained, according to court papers filed Monday.
Andrew Free, a Nashville immigration lawyer representing the women, filed tort claims against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging the detained women and their children received inadequate medical care, suffered psychological trauma and in some cases were wrongfully imprisoned. Continue reading “Illegal Aliens File Lawsuit for Millions in Damages”
Back in 2011, the Ron Paul campaign received a lot of attention when the chairman of Michele Bachmann’s Iowa campaign, state senator Kent Sorenson, defected to Ron Paul:
Talk about fairweather friends. Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson (R), who was Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s state campaign chairman, endorsed Texas Rep. Ron Paul Wednesday night. Continue reading “Two Rand Paul aides are under federal indictment”
St. Louis County police have released surveillance footage allegedly showing Tyrone Harris, a black teen, with a gun. Police said Harris fired the weapon at plainclothes officers before they shot back, leaving him critically wounded in Ferguson on Sunday.
The 13-second video comes from a surveillance camera owned by Solo Insurance Services. It opens with people casually walking past a row of shops and parked cars. Continue reading “New surveillance footage shows Ferguson protester shot by cops had pistol – police”
Authorities in Texas have fired a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black college student.
Christian Taylor broke into a car dealership on Friday, prompting police to respond.
Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson called Officer Brad Miller’s pursuit of the 19-year-old “questionable”. Continue reading “Texas police officer fired after fatal shooting of teen”
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Monday that bans the word “alien” from the state’s labor laws.
SB 432, introduced by State Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), removes the term “alien,” previously defined as “any person who is not a born or fully naturalized citizen of the United States.” It also removed the state’s preference for hiring U.S. citizens on public works projects during periods of unemployment. Continue reading “Jerry Brown Bans the Word ‘Alien’ from California Labor Law”
The Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
New York, NY — NYPD police have recently been showing how compassionate they are by taking photos of homeless people and publicly shaming them online. The activity is not only condoned by the department, but it is being sanctioned and encouraged by high-ranking officials at the NYPD.
The ironically named “Sergeants Benevolent Association” sent out an email this week, ordering both police officers and their families to take photos of homeless people in embarrassing situations so they can later be posted publicly. Continue reading “NYPD Ordered to Publicly Shame the Homeless by Taking Photos and Posting Online”
Natural Health 365 – by Dena Schmidt
A number of reports are now showing that there is an alarming number of pharmaceuticals, including antidepressant drugs, in the water supply that we use daily. Drugs given to humans as well as animals are making their way into lakes and rivers and eventually our drinking water, with devastating effects to the food chain and the environment.
Our tap water has been shown to contain pharmaceuticals such as the antidepressant drugs Prozac and Effexor, sedatives, addictive psychoactive and anticonvulsant medications. In addition, anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics, oral contraceptives, antibiotics, hormone replacement therapies and beta-blockers have all been found. Continue reading “Over 600 pharmaceuticals polluting drinking water and environment”
The New York Police Department will spend some $4.5 million to buy a host of new Tasers for its officers, the New York Post reported.
Officials at NYPD said they want to give police officers more options in terms of non-lethal force, and so the move to significantly augment their stock of stun guns was portrayed as a way to make confrontations with residents less deadly. Continue reading “NYPD to spend $4.5 million on more Tasers”
The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause
Governments hate legal loopholes, unless of course, those loopholes benefit themselves and their monied interests. In either case, they can’t stand it when the plebes find a way around their draconian laws. This especially applies to ghost guns, which if you’re not familiar, are untraceable firearm receivers that are shipped to your home as an almostfinished product, thus skirting registration laws.
The control freaks in our society can’t stand the thought of any empowering object making it into the hands of an average citizen without it being tracked, stamped, and taxed. So when a young man in California murdered his college roommate with a ghost gun before turning the weapon on himself, it was no big surprise when the local media jumped on the case and focused in on the scary gun. Continue reading “Are ‘Ghost Guns’ Next on The Gun Grabber Agenda?”
Scotland is to ban the growing of genetically modified crops, the country’s rural affairs secretary has announced.
Richard Lochhead said the Scottish government was not prepared to “gamble” with the future of the country’s £14bn food and drink sector.
He is to request that Scotland be excluded from any European consents for the cultivation of GM crops. Continue reading “Scotland to ban GM crop growing”
Yahoo Finance – by Thomas C. Frohlich
The U.S. labor market has improved considerably since the depths of the recession in 2009. However, traditional measures of the labor market may not always tell the full story. Despite the recovery, for example, government efforts to strengthen the job market have remained in place. Last week, the Federal Reserve Board announced it would continue keeping interest rates near zero, citing improving, but still weak, labor underutilization.
The traditional unemployment rate does not include all jobless individuals, nor is it a percentage of all the people available for work. It is a measure of jobless working-age Americans actively seeking work as a percentage of the labor force, which is defined as the total number of employed and unemployed workers. To account for people left out of the calculation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provides alternative measures of labor underutilization. Continue reading “The hardest states to find full-time work”
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York – largest in the city’s history – has left at least 12 people dead and health officials scrambling to contain the deadly bacteria.
More than 100 cases have been reported in the South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest neighbourhoods.
Officials have traced the legionella bacteria to cooling towers in more than a dozen buildings. Continue reading “Legionnaires’ outbreak widens to 12 dead in New York”
One out of four Americans will develop cancer in their lifetime. More than 350,000 people die every year from cancer in this country. And the sad truth is, it is entirely preventable, due to one simple fact: GREED.
For hundreds of years, British sailors died by the thousands every year from scurvy. Physicians were completely baffled by this dread disease. They believed it was caused by a virus or bacteria of some type. It wasn’t until 1747 that John Lind, a surgeon’s mate in the British Navy found that citrus fruits (lemons, oranges) could counteract the effects of scurvy, but his recommendations would not be implemented for another forty eight years, thus finally ending the scourge of this disease. It was simply nothing more than the lack of vitamin C. Continue reading “Big Pharma’s Lies Exposed – Cancer IS Curable”
“Because, supposedly, one digital processing unit will eventually be able to manipulate zillions of pieces of information at a faster rate than all the human brains on the planet taken together…the result will be…what? And if that digital unit is sitting in The Cloud and every human’s brain is hooked up to it, the result will be…what? A person will be able to master French in five minutes? How does that work? Information can be injected like a drug and produce instant learning? Automatically? Perhaps this is a fantasy hatched at Disney World. Two machines can rapidly exchange data and programmed methods of analysis, but it so happens that humans are not machines, even if they believe they are.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
How do you think a super-brain would be constructed? I’m talking about the technocrats’ dream to build a computer that would rival and surpass the human brain, in terms of “reliable data.” And don’t forget, the plan is to somehow connect brains directly to the super-computer, so data can be downloaded into humans. Continue reading “Why do people think computers will be alive?”