Author: Paul

ABC 11 – by Dina Cappiello

The Obama administration floated a plan Tuesday that for the first time would open up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drilling, even as it moved to restrict drilling indefinitely in environmentally-sensitive areas off Alaska.

The proposal envisions auctioning areas located more than 50 miles off Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia to oil companies no earlier than 2021, long after President Barack Obama leaves office. For decades, oil companies have been barred from drilling in the Atlantic Ocean, where a moratorium was in place up until 2008.   Continue reading “Obama Administration Proposes Oil Drilling Off North Carolina Coast”

Mint Press News – by  Moreh B.D.K.

The small town of Yellow Springs, Ohio is known as a haven for artists and activists. The legendary comedian Dave Chappelle calls the village home, as does Antioch College and University, the institution from which Martin Luther King, Jr’s wife Coretta graduated.

One such activist who has been involved in the protests demanding justice for John Crawford is Minerva Barker.

Barker is a person with disabilities, but in spite of those disabilities, she was assaulted by overzealous and violent members of the Yellow Springs Police Department. She describes the incident as follows:   Continue reading “Cop Who Assaulted and Took Phone From Woman With Disabilities Will Now Face Criminal Charges”

The New York Times

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia on Monday executed a man convicted of raping several girls in a case that has captured the kingdom’s attention and marks the first beheading carried out under the newly enthroned King Salman.

The Interior Ministry said Moussa al-Zahrani was executed in the city of Jiddah. The ministry statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, said al-Zahrani was convicted of luring underage girls, intoxicating them, forcing them to watch pornographic videos and then physically and sexually assaulting them.   Continue reading “First Beheading Under New Saudi King Stirs Attention”

NO Cheating – don’t look at the answers until you take the test!!!!

Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If you are under 40 you can claim a handicap.

This is a History Exam for those who don’t mind seeing how much they really remember about what went on in their life.   Continue reading “History Test – I’m Older Than Dirt”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

GLENDALE, Ariz. (INTELLIHUB) — A $2.5 million portable x-ray machine, called the Eagle 60, was deployed at the Phoenix Stadium Monday in advance of Super Bowl XLIX.

The multimillion dollar piece of equipment will scan all truck deliveries for any potential threats.   Continue reading “$2.5M x-ray machine and Black Hawks deployed to Super Bowl XLIX stadium”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Democratic members of Congress apparently aren’t going to be satisfied until American citizens are completely and utterly defenseless.

Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) has introduced a bill for consideration of the new Congress which would prohibit the ownership of certain types of body armor for civilians.

H.R. 378 would make it a crime to own Type III body armor which would be punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Yeah, 10 years in prison.   Continue reading “Federal Bill Would Make Owning Body Armor a Crime Punishable by 10 Years in Prison”

Guns Save Lives

After a victory in Washington State with I594, gun control groups are now setting their sights on Oregon with for a similar bill.

Many people around the country have seen just how poorly written I594 was, and how no one in the state seems to interpret the law in the same way.  There is so much confusion here in the state that dealers refuse to do transfers because they are not sure how to proceed in certain situations   Continue reading “Gun Control Group Sets Sights On Oregon After Washington State Win”

Raw Story – Reuters

A young woman suspected of driving a stolen car filled with teenage passengers was shot dead by Denver police on Monday after she struck an officer with the vehicle as he approached on foot, authorities said.

Denver Police Chief Robert White told reporters that there were five very young people inside the car when the shooting occurred, and the person who was fatally shot “appeared to be a teenager.”   Continue reading “Denver police shoot and kill underage girl driving stolen car full of teenagers”

911 Newsroom – by Grant

NASHVILLE, Tenn. –At least one person is dead, according to WKRN-TV.

The first reported shooting occurred at 2027 Ed Temple Blvd near the TSU campus.

Police are also responding to another shooting call 28th Ave North and Jefferson Street.

Police are searching for the suspects at this time.   Continue reading “Multiple People Shot On & Around TSU Campus In Nashville”

National Geographic – by Craig Welch

In the storm debris littering a Washington State shoreline, Bonnie Wood saw something grisly: the mangled bodies of dozens of scraggly young seabirds.

Walking half a mile along the beach at Twin Harbors State Park on Wednesday, Wood spotted more than 130 carcasses of juvenile Cassin’s auklets—the blue-footed, palm-size victims of what is becoming one of the largest mass die-offs of seabirds ever recorded.

“It was so distressing,” recalled Wood, a volunteer who patrols Pacific Northwest beaches looking for dead or stranded birds. “They were just everywhere. Every ten yards we’d find another ten bodies of these sweet little things.”   Continue reading “Mass Death of Seabirds in Western U.S. Is ‘Unprecedented’”

Newsweek – by ZACH SCHONFELD

There aren’t any New Yorkers left who lived through the Great Blizzard of 1888, and maybe that’s a good thing: They’d never shut up about it, especially on a day like today, with an epic snowstorm called ‘Juno’ about to land in the city.

More than 125 years later, the blizzard remains among the most severe the New York area has experienced, producing as much as 60 inches of snowfall in some places and towering snowdrifts of up to 40 feet. With the railroad and roads shut down for days, thousands of New Yorkers were housebound, and hundreds died.   Continue reading “Forget Juno, Look at These Wild Images of the Blizzard of 1888”

UPI – by Thor Benson

KEY WEST, Fla., Jan. 25 (UPI) — Nearly 140,000 Floridians have signed a petition against a proposal to let a British company release genetically modified mosquitoes in their state.

The company, Oxitec, is hoping to release male mosquitoes that have been modified to produce offspring that won’t “survive to adulthood.” The genetically modified mosquitoes will instinctually seek out wild female mosquitoes, and their producing offspring that won’t survive will lower the total population. They want to do this in an effort to fight the extremely painful and often lethal dengue virus, which is spread by mosquitoes.   Continue reading “Nearly 140,000 Floridians have spoken out against genetically modified mosquito proposal”

RT

The whistleblowing website has learned that Google handed over to US authorities the digital correspondence and other data from three of its employees on suspected espionage-related charges related to the Chelsea Manning case.

Google informed WikiLeaks on December 24 that it had complied with a March 2012 order by the US Justice Department to hand over the emails and other information pertaining to Sarah Harrison, a British citizen who is Wikileaks’ investigations editor, the spokesperson for the organization, Kristinn Hrafnsson, and Joseph Farrell, a senior editor at the site.   Continue reading “WikiLeaks ‘astonished and disturbed’: Google gave its major staff data to US govt”

MuckRock – by Michael Morisy

Starting on April 19, 1956, the federal government practiced and planned for a near-doomsday scenario known as Plan C. When activated, Plan C would have brought the United States under martial law, rounded up over ten thousand individuals connected to “subversive” organizations, implemented a censorship board, and prepared the country for life after nuclear attack.

There was no Plan A or B.   Continue reading “Plan C: The top secret Cold War countermeasure which would have brought the United States under martial law”

Natural News – by JD Heyes

A number of experienced scientists have died, often under mysterious conditions, over the past couple of years, the latest being a NASA expert in robotics who worked on space missions.

As reported by Britain’s Daily Mail, the latest scientist casualty is Alberto Behar, 47, of Scottsdale, Arizona, who was killed instantly when the small plane he was piloting recently crashed into a Los Angeles intersection in a nosedive shortly after take-off.   Continue reading “Why have so many scientists been mysteriously killed over the last 24 months?”

Zero Hedge

For all those following the relentless rise in the USD and assuming this is a great thing for global markets, here is a must read take from SocGen’s Kit Juckes.

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GOOD DOLLAR, BAD DOLLAR

The ECB is buying more bonds than expected, and from longer maturities. ECB President Mario Draghi was almost scornful of concerns about the lack of burden-sharing in the event of losses. Equities rallied, credit spreads tightened, and both yields and spreads fell across European government bonds. The Euro has fallen against every major currency except for the Danish Krone today and every major currency except for the Canadian dollar and Czech Koruna this year. Continue reading “When A Soaring Dollar “Reflects Loss Of Investor Confidence And Is Potentially Devastating””