Author: Wade

Daily Mail

Disgraced former Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. is claiming $138,400 a year from the federal government in benefit checks, it has emerged.

The former Democrat politician and son of Reverend Jesse Jackson, 51, was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2013 for taking $750,000 from his own campaign funds.

Now, details of his benefits package – which he gets for bipolar disorder and depression – have emerged, leaving critics questioning how he is eligible for the money, the Chicago Tribune has reported.   Continue reading “Jesse Jackson Jr. collects $138,400 a year in federal government benefits after serving 2.5 years in prison for looting his own campaign”

Four Winds 10 – by Arthur Cristian

Did you know that prisoners are bonded and given a cusip number, which is pooled with all the other bonds and traded on the stock market under the name of the bonding warehouse (prison) where they keep the surety (person)?

The cusip number is supposedly made up of the persons government created ID number, either Social Security Number or TFN or whatever.   Continue reading “Did You Know That Prisoners Are Bonded & Given A Cusip Number, Which Is Pooled With All The Other Bonds & Traded?”

Common Dreams – by Paul Bucheit

Yes, inequality is getting worse every year. In early 2016 Oxfam reported that just 62 individuals had the same wealth as the bottom half of humanity. About a year later Oxfam reported that just 8 men had the same wealth as the world’s bottom half. Based on the same methodology and data sources used by Oxfam, that number is now down to 6.

How to account for the dramatic increase in the most flagrant and perverse of extreme inequalities? Two well-documented reasons: (1) The poorest half (and more) of the world has continued to lose wealth; and (2) The VERY richest individuals — especially the top thousand or so — continue to add billions of dollars to their massive fortunes.    Continue reading “Morbid Inequality: Now Just SIX Men Have as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population”

Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill

Just nineteen days before LaVoy Finicum was killed in cold blood by the FBI on a snowy Oregon roadside as he attempted to surrender, candidate Donald Trump criticized the “near-dictatorial power” of the President and the executive branch and the “draconian rule of the Bureau of Land Management.”

Nevada ranchers Ryan and Ammon Bunday, along with an assortment of supporters, decided to take a stand and in a peaceful act of civil disobedience, occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Their protest gained international and nearly 24-7 media coverage.   Continue reading “Five Days After Protesters Occupied Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Candidate Trump Condemned The Bureau of Land Management & ‘Near-Dictatorial Executive Power.’ Now He Is Prosecuting Those Very Patriots”

The Guardian – by Robin McKie

Physicist Steven Desch has come up with a novel solution to the problems that now beset the Arctic. He and a team of colleagues from Arizona State University want to replenish the region’s shrinking sea ice – by building 10 million wind-powered pumps over the Arctic ice cap. In winter, these would be used to pump water to the surface of the ice where it would freeze, thickening the cap.

The pumps could add an extra metre of sea ice to the Arctic’s current layer, Desch argues. The current cap rarely exceeds 2-3 metres in thickness and is being eroded constantly as the planet succumbs to climate change.   Continue reading “Could a £400bn plan to refreeze the Arctic before the ice melts really work?”

RT

Moscow will pay off the balance of the debt inherited from the Soviet Union this year, Izvestia daily reports, quoting sources in the Russian Ministry of Finance.

Last week, the Finance Ministry said it had cleared the $60.6 million debt to Macedonia. This means that the last debt of the Soviet Union is $125.2 million to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Both countries were formed after the breakup of Yugoslavia and won the right to reclaim part of the Soviet debt.   Continue reading “Russia to clear entire Soviet debt by year-end”

LA Times – by Joseph Serna

Spillway repairs at the troubled Oroville Dam will get their first major test this weekend, as meteorologists have revised their forecast and are now predicting a much wetter and warmer storm outlook.

Light to moderate rain began falling across Northern California early Thursday and will likely continue for several days, according to the National Weather Service.

However, the situation will change substantially Sunday when a larger storm arrives at Oroville and the Feather River basin.   Continue reading “10 Inches of Rain Headed for Oroville Dam Area, Revised Storm Forecast Warns”