Author: Paul

Anti-War – by Ray McGovern

How best to show respect for the U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and for their families on Memorial Day? Simple: Avoid euphemisms like “the fallen” and expose the lies about what a great idea it was to start those wars and then to “surge” tens of thousands of more troops into those fools’ errands.

First, let’s be clear on at least this much: the 4,500 U.S. troops killed in Iraq – so far – and the 2,350 killed in Afghanistan – so far – did not “fall.” They were wasted on no-win battlefields by politicians and generals – cheered on by neocon pundits and mainstream “journalists” – almost none of whom gave a rat’s patootie about the real-life-and-death troops. They were throwaway soldiers.   Continue reading “How To Honor Memorial Day”

The Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Washington D.C. – With states all across the country lowering their penalties in marijuana cases, the incoming DEA chief says that the agency will no longer focus on marijuana. Chuck Rosenberg, a former administrator at the FBI, claimed that instead of attacking marijuana users and sellers, that he wants to “improve the DEA’s procedures on classifying, declassifying and reclassifying drugs,” as the new chief of the DEA.

Rosenberg “has proven himself as an exceptional leader, a skilled problem-solver, and a consummate public servant of unshakable integrity,” Att. Gen. Loretta Lynch said in a statement.   Continue reading “New DEA Chief Retreats On War Against Weed, Says DEA Will No Longer Focus On Marijuana”

The Daily Dot – by Patrick Howell O’Neill

Anonymity’s toughest adversaries are hackers with the full-force and backing of Beijing, London, and Washington, D.C.

With the threat of powerful intelligence agencies, like the NSA, looming large, researchers have built a new Tor client called Astoria designed specifically to make eavesdropping harder for the world’s richest, most aggressive, and most capable spies.   Continue reading “Hackers build a new Tor client designed to beat the NSA”

Digital Trends – by Mike Flacy

In an attempt to sell advertising space in a user’s new tab page within the Firefox browser, Mozilla is launching a new platform called “Suggested Tiles” specifically for advertisers. Similar to Google using your Web search history to load related advertisements within Google Adsense placements, Mozilla will look through your visited sites within Firefox to suggest an advertiser site to visit and display it on the new tab page.   Continue reading “Firefox will scan your browsing history to suggest advertiser sites”

During  a visit to my doctor, I asked him, “How do you determine whether  or not an older person should be put in an old age  home?”

“Well,” he said, “we fill up a bathtub, then we  offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person to empty the  bathtub.”   Continue reading “When it’s time for an old age home”

Continue reading “They were busy yesterday”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is located in Tucson, Arizona. It occupies an area of over 10 square kilometers, equal to roughly 1,870 football fields. The base is the location of the Air Force Materiel Command’s 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, or AMARG in short. It is also known as the “boneyard.” 

With the area’s low humidity in the 10%-20% range, meager rainfall of 11″ annually, hard alkaline soil, and high altitude of 2,550 feet, it has the “just right” conditions to avoid corrosion and not to need paving when moving massive objects. It has emerged as the perfect venue for one thing: the largest aircraft boneyard in the world, with a typical inventory of more than 4,400 aircraft.   Continue reading “Where America’s Airplanes Go To Die”

CNBC – by Jeff Cox

At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don’t have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking.

The revelation, contained in a new survey Wednesday showing how much work needs to be done yet in the U.S. labor market, comes as the labor force participation rate remains mired near 37-year lows.   Continue reading “40 percent of unemployed have quit looking for jobs”

The Intercept – by Lee Fang

Dacheng, one of the biggest law firms in the People’s Republic of China, is set to merge with two major American law firms, Dentons and McKenna Long & Aldridge, making it the largest law firm in the world.

The merger will reportedly give Chinese companies that Dacheng represents — including major Chinese state-owned firms — access to advice from attorneys and policy professionals in the United States employed by Dentons and McKenna Long — and vice versa. Continue reading “Chinese Law Firm to Merge With American Firms, Employ Howard Dean, Newt Gingrich”

Resettlement Watch – by Ann Corcoran

We have written a little bit over the years about the truly outrageous ‘Diversity Visa Lottery,’ sometimes referred to as the ‘Green card lottery.’

I’m writing about it now so that our many new readers understand that it isn’t just the Refugee Admissions Program that is allowing immigrants into the US who could potentially threaten our security in addition to competing with Americans for limited job opportunities.   Continue reading “Diversity Visa Lottery: LEGAL immigration program allows 50,000 into US each year because we don’t have enough diversity!”

Defense News – by Joe Gould

TAMPA, Fla. — US special operations forces are using forward-deployed rapid DNA scanners on a limited basis to confirm targets. Troops have used DNA from improvised bomb components to capture “some very bad people,” according to an official with US Special Operations Command (SOCOM).

SOCOM is evaluating the devices for wider fielding. If successful, they have the potential to cut the time used to process DNA evidence from weeks to 90 minutes and replace fingerprint analysis downrange, according to Michael Fitz, SOCOM’s program manager for sensitive site exploitation.   Continue reading “US Special Operations Tests DNA Scanners”

Natural Society – by Robert Harrington

Major oat buyer Grain Millers, based in Western Canada, announced that it will no longer source oats that have been coated with glyphosate.

“In an April 20 memo to Prairie oat growers, Grain Millers said the new policy was ‘driven by functional performance attributes of finished products manufactured from oats known to have been treated with glyphosate and by customer demand.’ [1]

Continue reading “Major Oat Buyer Now Rejects Oats With Monsanto’s Glyphosate”

SOTT – by Adam Johnson

As the nation turns its attention to the biker gang attacks in Waco, another violent biker gang episode from 2013, this one in New York, is making headlines again as the trial of two of its assailants, former undercover NYPD police officer Wojciech Braszczok and Robert Sims, gets underway in Manhattan.    Continue reading “Undercover cops on trial shown on video terrorizing couple in SUV attack”

Common Dreams – by Nadia Prupis

The intelligence alliance known as Five Eyes—comprising the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Australia—exploited security weaknesses in one of the world’s most popular browsers to obtain data about users and planned to use links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top secret National Security Agency (NSA) document published Wednesday has revealed.   Continue reading “‘Weaponizing Vulnerabilities’: New Snowden Doc Reveals Spy Agencies Targeted Smartphones”

Sent to me from my brother in law who lives in Buckhorn Az.

Dr. Mercola

Hypertension is dangerous if uncontrolled, increasing your risk for heart attack and stroke. But using drugs to lower your blood pressure may shorten your lifespan instead of extending it, according to the results of a University of Florida study.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,¹suggests that when it comes to blood pressure medication, less is more.   Continue reading “Lowering Your Blood Pressure Using Drugs May Increase Your Risk of Death, Study Shows”