Category: News

Natural Society – by Paul Fassa

A study published by Mayo Clinic found that almost 70% of Americans are on at least one pharmaceutical; antibiotics top the list, followed by antidepressants, and opioid pain killers. This is a problem in of itself, as it the United States has transformed into a pill-popping, medication-dependent nation. What’s worse is that antibiotics in particular are doled out in copious, unnecessary amounts, so much so that bacteria are developing major resistance to this conventional treatment. This is now a potential danger of antibiotics, and a serious grand-scale side effect of antibiotic use.   Continue reading “Read This before You Pop Another Big Pharma Antibiotic”

The Weekly Standard – by Jeryl Bier

Clothes may not make the woman, but according to First Lady Michelle Obama, they don’t hurt. Mrs. Obama hosted a “Fashion Workshop” for students and fashion industry representatives at the White House Wednesday, something she said had been a “dream” of hers:

But I want to thank everyone here for making this dream — this was really a dream of mine in so many ways, to have this industry and all those who have supported me, who do so much for people to make us feel beautiful and ready to get out there.

Continue reading “Michelle Obama: ‘Fashion Plays an Important Role in my Confidence’”

RT

A US watchdog is asking why 16 planes bought for the Afghan Air Force, costing almost $500 million, were turned into scrap metal valued at just $32,000. The government wants to know why hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money were wasted on the project.

The military transport planes had been sitting at Kabul International Airport for years, before they were sent for scrap. John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), wants to know why the money was wasted. According to Reuters, he had asked Air Force Secretary Deborah James to keep a record of all decisions concerning the destruction of the 16 C-27J planes.   Continue reading “US planes worth $500mn sold for scrap in Afghanistan – for just $32,000”

RT

In what could be a major breakthrough for diabetes treatment, scientists have discovered a way to drastically alter human embryonic stem cells, transforming them into cells that produce and release insulin.

Developed by researchers at Harvard University, the innovative new technique involves essentially recreating the formation process of beta cells, which are located in the pancreas and secrete insulin. By stimulating certain genes in a certain order, the Boston Globe reports that scientists were able to charm embryonic stem cells – and even altered skin cells – into becoming beta cells.   Continue reading “Diabetes breakthrough: Human stem cells altered to make insulin”

NJ.com – by Matthew Stanmyre

It came without warning.

It would start with a howling noise from a senior football player at Sayreville War Memorial High School, and then the locker room lights were abruptly shut off.

In the darkness, a freshman football player would be pinned to the locker room floor, his arms and feet held down by multiple upperclassmen. Then, the victim would be lifted to his feet while a finger was forced into his rectum. Sometimes, the same finger was then shoved into the freshman player’s mouth.   Continue reading “Sayreville football parent reveals sexual nature of alleged locker room hazing ritual”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella apologized Thursday night and said he was wrong for saying that women don’t need to ask for a raise and should just trust the system to pay them well.

Nadella was blasted on Twitter and in blog posts for his comments, which were made earlier Thursday at an event for women in computing. Tech companies hire many more men than women. And beyond the tech industry, women are typically paid less than men.   Continue reading “Microsoft CEO apologizes for comments on women”

LA Times – by David D. Savage

The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday blocked Wisconsin from enforcing its strict voter identification law in November’s election.

By a 6-3 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal from civil rights lawyers, who argued it was too late to put the rule into effect this year.

Lawyers for the ACLU noted that the state had already sent out thousands of absentee ballots without mentioning the need for voters to return a copy of their photo identification.   Continue reading “Wisconsin and Texas voter ID laws blocked by courts”

Married an Illegal for money. Class Act !!

CBC News

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber’s fiancée admitted Thursday that she violated the law when she married an immigrant seeking to retain residency in the United States.

Cylvia Hayes said in a tearful news conference that she believes she was paid around $5,000 US for the 1997 marriage. She said she was “associating with the wrong people” while struggling to put herself through college.   Continue reading “Cylvia Hayes, fiancée of Oregon Gov., admits to secret marriage”

KTLA 5 – by MELISSA PAMER, TRACY BLOOM AND CHIP YOST

A mixed-martial artist nicknamed “Mayhem” was arrested at his home  Thursday after apparently live-tweeted an hourslong standoff with the Sheriff’s Department that ended after a SWAT team, a bomb squad and crisis negotiators came to his Mission Viejo home on Thursday.

Deputies were serving an arrest warrant for alleged stalking and domestic violence in the 26000 block of Avenida Calidad (map) about 10 a.m. when a man barricaded himself inside the home, Lt. Jeff Hallock with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.   Continue reading “MMA Fighter Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller Surrenders After Live-Tweeting Standoff With OCSD”

EuroNews

Mexican authorities have found four more mass graves containing charred bodies in the south west of the country where 43 students went missing two weeks ago.

The search for the fugitive mayor of Iguala and his wife is now formally underway, and new arrests were made in the investigation.   Continue reading “Four new mass graves unearthed in Mexico”

Reuters – by Sharon Bernstein

President Barack Obama will declare a swath of the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles as a national monument on Friday, the White House said, following an 11-year effort that got caught up in partisan politics.

Along with the designation, the U.S. Forest Service will dedicate $1 million in educational staff, graffiti removal and other long-deferred maintenance work, and non-profit foundations have committed an additional $3.5 million for restoration and stewardship of mountain areas.   Continue reading “Obama to declare Los Angeles-area mountains national monument”

The Liberty Beacon – by Sherwood Ross

Is the Obama regime preparing for mass arrests of Americans? Some indicators suggest this is a real possibility.

It has all the laws it needs to imprison anyone should it plan to make mass arrests (thanks, Congress, for the unconstitutional Patriot Act and National Defense Authorization Act).

It has illegally compiled lists of some 8 million names, (thank you, FBI and NSA).   Continue reading “Police State: Obama Planning Mass Arrests?”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) recently claimed that a high-level Department of Homeland Security official informed him of the capture of at least ten Islamic State terrorists on the Texas-Mexico border. A DHS spokesperson speaking with the New Republic unequivocally denied the Congressman’s claims:

“The suggestion that individuals who have ties to ISIL have been apprehended at the Southwest border is categorically false, and not supported by any credible intelligence or the facts on the ground,” said DHS spokesperson Marsha Catron. Continue reading “Border Patrol Agent Slams Feds: “We All Know Who We’ve Captured… You Can’t Keep This Kind Of Information A Secret””

Last Resistance – by Dave Jolly

According to a report from Examiner.com, the Department of Homeland Security, which is taking on an eerie similarity to Hitler’s Gestapo, will begin to target and intensify attacks against Americans who are freedom oriented. In their report, they write:

“Within the last two weeks several tips came into the Examiner indicating pending dangers to certain groups of citizens. These tips led to a source who, speaking on condition of anonymity, alleges that just after the election a major initiative will be launched against citizens whose values are diametrically opposite to that of Barack Obama and the current Washington elitist leadership in Congress. According to the source, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will greatly intensify its attacks on freedom oriented citizens.”   Continue reading “Government to Attack Americans Who Value Freedoms”