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Preserving Freedom – by Jim Rongstad
Of all the stupidity of the war on marijuana, the most asinine is the is the banning of hemp growing in the US. Hemp is not marijuana, yet the idiotic drug warriors have had it banned.
From http://www.hemphistoryweek.com/: Continue reading “It’s Time to Grow Hemp”
Germany plans to sell two battleship destroyers to the Israeli regime for one billion euros ($1.3 billion), a German-based daily reports.
The torpedo-carrying warships are to be used to “to protect Israeli pipelines,” major German newspaper, the Bild, reported Saturday but did not mention a source.
According to the report, the Tel Aviv regime’s national security adviser Yossi Cohen visited Berlin last week. Continue reading “Germany to sell 2 destroyer warships to Israel”
Business Insider – by Michael Kelley
Protesters in Ukraine have reportedly toppled a statue of former Russian leader Vladimir Lenin as demonstrations against President Viktor Yanukovich’s turn toward the Kremlin continue.
The monument was erected in the 1950s when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.
This video shows the statue falling and the subsequent celebration: Continue reading “Protesters Just Toppled The Lenin Statue In Kiev — This Video Captures The Historic Moment”
The Daily Caller – by Eric Owens
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has promised to improve education quality vastly by pushing for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
This year, 45 states and the District of Columbia have implemented the Common Core standards and curricula based on those standards. Continue reading “Is this Common Core math question the worst math question in human history?”
Before It’s News – by Monica Davis
People are under the delusion that if guns and weapons are banned, or when buyers have to go through background checks and licensing, that all the evil people will be without guns and life in the United States will return to the peaceful days of a century ago.
Not..
Thieves steal guns. They steal them from pawnshops. They steal them from homeowners. They steal them from national guard armories. They buy and sell them through crooked soldiers. And–drum roll, please: they steal them from SWAT. Continue reading “Gun Control? Gangs And Thieves Target Law Enforcement To Steal Weapons”
BizPac Review – by Janeen Capizola
For one South Carolina sheriff, defying President Obama’s order to lower the American flag to half-staff in honor of former South African PresidentNelson Mandela is simple: Mandela “was not an American.”
Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark took toFacebook Friday to explain to seemingly supportive residents why he will not lower the flag at the Sheriff’s Office for Mandela, despite Obama’s Dec. 5 Presidential Proclamation: Continue reading “‘He was not an AMERICAN!’: Sheriff defies Obama’s order to lower flag for Mandela”
The “Inequality Boom” is what social scientist Sheldon Danziger, President of the Russell Sage Foundation here in New York, uses to describe the current condition of 100 million Americans – if the cost of housing, transportation and healthcare were subtracted from the median income of full-time workers. It’s a boom because under Danziger’s hypothesis, 100 million Americans is a whopping 33 percent of the total population; the Census Bureau figures only 15 percent of Americans, or 45 million, are below the $24,000 annual income level for poverty in a family of four. Continue reading “100 million Americans below poverty line”
Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die
Has telling the truth via newspaper publishing TRUTH rather than LIES now become ‘terrorism’? In Japan we’ve learned that journalists will now face terror charges for telling the truth about Fukushima. Now we learn from TheLipTV that in Great Britain, ‘The Guardian’ may now face terror charges for publishing NSA leaks as well. Is this how dictatorships begin? The Guardian EXPOSED CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE US GOVT AND THE NSA AGAINST PEOPLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE WORLD and now they may be brought up on terror charges? Terror has OBVIOUSLY been committed, by the NSA and the US govt AGAINST the PEOPLE of the world. Has our world gone insane? We are quite well on our way towards achieving Orwell’s nightmare… Continue reading “The Guardian Faces Terror Charges Over Snowden Leaks”
Activist Post – by Catherine J. Frompovich
What kind of hornet’s nest was opened up for the GM industry in view of the retraction of the two year “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize”, by G E Séralini et al, published in Food and Chemical Toxicology 2012, 50(11), 4221-31?
According to the article published December 5, 2013 in the Ecologist, Continue reading “105 Scientists Slam GMO-Rat-Study Retraction”
Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan in a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked him to help Riyadh construct a nuclear power plant, the Arab-language al-Qods al-Arabi newspaper quoted informed diplomatic sources in the Persian Gulf Arab littoral states as saying.
According to the report, Prince Bandar has told Putin that if Russia declares readiness in this regard, Saudi Arabia can provide Moscow with preliminary studies that it has conducted since six years ago. Continue reading “Report: Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Asks for Moscow’s Nuclear Aid”
Officer Frankie Salazar of Texas’ Olmos Park Police Department is charged with aggravated assault after a plan to spice up his sex life went horribly, horribly wrong, News 4 San Antonio reports.
Salazar, 29, and his 33-year-old friend, Jesus Edward Guitron, hatched a “wife swap” plan months ago to switch sexual partners, according to the San Antonio Express News. On Saturday evening, Guitron and his wife went over to Salazar’s place, and after some drinks, Salazar started kissing the woman. Continue reading “Officer Frankie Salazar Allegedly Shoots Friend, Jesus Guitron, After ‘Wife Swap’ Goes Horribly Wrong”
Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die
A 14-year old boy has been tasered in the face by police while handcuffed as shared in this shocking video. The family of 14-year old Joey Williams has turned to social media to get justice for this shocking act of cowardice displayed by these PUNK cops who should obviously be in prison themselves. Contact information is below video; please call these thugs and express your outrage. Continue reading “Child Tortured By Cops While Handcuffed; Cops Taser 14-Year Old Boy In Face In Pennsylvania To ‘Protect’ Him”
The simple and honest question posed in Cool Top 10 List’s latest article entitled “Top 10 Reasons Why Paul Walker Was Assassinated” has sparked an international outrage over the inexplicable and suspicious death of one Paul Walker. Regardless of how Walker was killed, the facts surrounding his death do not add up on any level and deserve further investigation, at the very least. Although cliché, the cover-up is always worse than the crime. Continue reading “Top 10 Reasons Paul Walker was Assassinated”
Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel
Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now. What in the hell is going on? What kind of world do we live in? Continue reading “FBI Can Secretly Turn On Laptop Cameras Without The Indicator Light”
It was inevitable that a few short days after Wall Street lovingly embraced Bitcoin as their own, with analysts from Bank of America, Citigroup and others, not to mention the clueless momentum-chasing, peanut gallery vocally flip-flopping on the “currency” after hating it at $200 only to love it at $1200 that Bitcoin… would promptly crash. And crash it did: overnight, following previously reported news that China’s Baidu would follow the PBOC in halting acceptance of Bitcoin payment, Bitcoin tumbled from a recent high of $1155 to an almost electronically destined “half-off” touching $576 hours ago, exactly 50% lower, on very heave volume, before a dead cat bounce levitated the currency back to the $800 range, where it may or may not stay much longer, especially if all those who jumped on the bandwagon at over $1000 on “get rich quick” hopes and dreams, only to see massive losses in their P&Ls decide they have had enough. Continue reading “Bitcoin Crashes, Loses Half Of Its Value In Two Days”
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