Category: News

RT

The American fast-food giant witnessed a sharp decline in global profits in August, hit by the closure of its restaurants across Russia and a “rotten meat” scandal in China.

McDonald’s earnings slid with stores open at least 13 months taking a worse-than-expected hit in August, falling 3.7 percent, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based hamburger chain said in a statement on Wednesday. This is the biggest monthly drop since 2003, according to Bloomberg. Market analysts had expected a 3.1 percent drop in earnings.   Continue reading “​McDonald’s suffers worst monthly decline in more than a decade”

National Park Service

Giant Living Flag Created to Honor Bicentennial of The Star-Spangled Banner

BALTIMORE – In a spectacular show of red, white and blue today at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, more than 6,600 Maryland students, teachers and chaperons created the largest 15 stars and 15 stripes Star-Spangled Banner Living Flag ever assembled.    Continue reading “Living Flag Makes History at Fort McHenry National Monument”

Mail.com

Thirteen years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, this was supposed to be a season of relief, with Iraq managing on its own and most U.S. troops finally ending their combat duty in Afghanistan. Instead, Americans are bracing for another upsurge of military engagement in a region where one war blurs into another. Across the world, a generation has now grown up amid this continuous conflict, and there’s no end in sight.

“The Cold War took 45 years,” said Elliott Abrams, a longtime diplomat who was top Middle East adviser to President George W. Bush. “It’s certainly plausible that this could be the same. … It’s harder to see how this ends.”   Continue reading “No end in sight for America’s Mideast war duties”

Mail.com

CAMDEN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities expect to charge a South Carolina man in connection with the deaths of his five children after he led them to a secluded dirt road in Alabama where their bodies lay wrapped in individual garbage bags.

Timothy Ray Jones Jr. has been charged with child neglect and police expect to lodge additional charges against him, the Lexington County, South Carolina, Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. Jones, 32, is awaiting extradition to South Carolina from Mississippi, where he has been jailed since his arrest Saturday on a drunken-driving charge, Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpton said in a statement.   Continue reading “Charges expected against father of 5 dead children”

National Journal – by Brendan Sasso

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants to give federal regulators sweeping new powers over Internet access.

The move is necessary, she said Monday, to save net neutrality and protect Internet users. But Republicans and business groups warn that applying utility-style regulations to the Internet would strangle economic growth and ultimately mean worse Internet service.   Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi Backs Controversial Internet Powers to Save Net Neutrality”

Video Rebel’s Blog – by Lasha Darkmoon

WHO DID 9/11?

1. Introduction

LASHA DARKMOON: I’d like to start by saying that every statement you read here is a 100 percent authentic quote. Nothing has been fabricated. You can check out every word and phrase on the internet. The only bits you won’t find already published are my own interconnecting comments. As the editor of the article, I have allowed myself the privilege of taking part in this imaginary “debate”.   Continue reading “Lasha Darkmoon 9/11: The Shocking Truth Laid Bare”

RINF

If you don’t want to get probed, poked, pinched, tasered, tackled, searched, seized, stripped, manhandled, arrested, shot, or killed, don’t say, do or even suggest anything that even hints of noncompliance. This is the new “thin blue line” over which you must not cross in interactions with police if you want to walk away with your life and freedoms intact.

The following incidents and many more like them serve as chilling reminders that in the American police state, “we the people” are at the mercy of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.”    Continue reading “The Violent Cost of Challenging the American Police State”

Fox News

The company that runs the conservative Breitbart.com news site says the IRS has selected the network for an audit, in a move company executives suggest is politically motivated.

Breitbart News Network, a California-based company which runs several conservative websites, says the IRS recently audited its 2012 financial information.

“The Obama administration’s timing on this is exquisite, but try as they might through various methods to silence us, we will only get more emboldened,” Stephen K. Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News Network, said in a written statement.

The audit comes as the agency faces sustained complaints that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny as they sought nonprofit status, before the agency ended the practice last year.    Continue reading “Breitbart News says IRS targeted company for audit”

Breibart 

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today sent the following letter to the Internal Revenue Service regarding its decision to audit Breitbart News Network, LLC.

The full text of the letter is available here.

Dear Commissioner Koskinen:

I write to express deep concern over the recent announcement by Breitbart News that the Internal Revenue Service recently notified the Breitbart News Network, LLC that it would be subject to a far-reaching, burdensome, and open-ended audit.    Continue reading “Cruz Letter: Why Is The IRS Auditing Breitbart News?”

Buckhead Patch – by Justin Ove

Atlanta-based The Home Depot has confirmed earlier reports that the company suffered a data breach which saw customers’ credit card information stolen by hackers and sold on the internet black market.

WSB-TV’s Jim Strickland reports via Twitter that the breach happened months ago, but officials only became aware of the situation earlier this month, when Krebs on Security announced batches of customers’ credit card information were released on an underground website that specializes in the buying and selling of personal information.   Continue reading “Home Depot Confirms Security Breach; Credit Card Information “Dating Back Months” Stolen and Sold Online”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

Are you ready to have your veins scanned every time you use your bank account?  Are you ready to use a “digital tattoo” or a microchip implant to unlock your telephone?  Once upon a time we read about such technologies in science fiction novels, but now they are here.  The era of widespread biometric identification and microchip implants is upon us, and it is going to change the way that we live.  Proponents of these new technologies say that they will make our private information and our bank accounts much more secure.  But there are others that warn that these kinds of “Big Brother technologies” will set the stage for even more government intrusion into our lives.  In the wrong hands, such technologies could prove to be an absolute nightmare.   Continue reading “The Era Of Widespread Biometric Indentification And Microchip Implants Is Here”

UIANFO

6 September, China began to pull its troops to the border with Russia, according to sources in the FSB Border Service of Russia.

For example, concentrations of troops was seen in the Chinese city bordering Mayatun (Majiatun).    Continue reading “China pulls its troops to the border with Russia”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton

Leading into another 9/11 anniversary, the normal al Qaeda scarefest is nowhere to be found. This year’s fearmongering is all about ISIS, and September started by taking the rhetoric up a notch.

Back in August, it was all about how ISIS is tremendously well-funded and like nothing the Pentagon had ever seen and another 9/11 was on the way. Then we were told an ISIS terror attack on American streets is highly likely; so likely, in fact, that an Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning By Feds on US Border alert was released featuring the possibility that ISIS groups operating out of the Mexican border city of Juarez might attack the U.S. with car bombs, although no specific threats had been received.   Continue reading “They Just Keep Saying ISIS Is Going to Attack America’s Electric Grid”

The Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane

Anyone who has been paying attention is aware that we have a growing domestic terrorism problem here in America.

And by domestic terrorism, I mean our militarized police departments.

Here’s how the FBI defines domestic terrorism, from their website:   Continue reading “Serve and Protect is Now “Search and Destroy””

Activist Post – by Bernie Suarez

Has the ISIS psyop calmed down a bit? Before it dies out let’s examine some incredible ironies and oddities surrounding CIA’s ISIS. After all, the ISIS psyop deserves a thorough analysis from every angle, so I thought it appropriate to outline for the sake of humanity. Hopefully, humanity can use the ISIS psyop as a tool for the final or further awakening. It may be wishful thinking, but it is worth exposing every crack and corner of this psyop and let government know that we are not going for it this time.   Continue reading “10 Signs That ISIS is a Scripted Psyop”

Activist Post

You’ve just finished your trip to the grocery store with your debit card, making sure to hide your pin number. But before you get home, the funds in your account are wiped clear. How did this happen?

Thanks to an inexpensive and ingenious device that attaches to an iPhone, a new wave of cyber theft allows the holder to commit silent robbery by reading your thermal imprint. There are a variety of ways they can obtain your card number right there or later, but what they really need is your PIN.   Continue reading “How to Prevent a Thermal Hack on Your ATM PIN”

Santa Fe New Mexican – by Patrick Malone

New Mexico’s top environmental regulator lashed out at the U.S. Department of Energy this week, accusing it of impeding the state’s investigation into the circumstances that led to a radiation leak earlier this year at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad.

During his keynote speech to an audience representing federal agencies, industry, academia, national labs and all levels of government at the annual Radwaste Summit in Summerlin, Nev., New Mexico Environment Department Secretary Ryan Flynn warned that Los Alamos National Laboratory and WIPP could face steeper sanctions from the state because of what he characterized as Energy Department roadblocks that have protracted the probe.   Continue reading “Flynn accuses feds of blocking WIPP probe”

Publius Forum – by Warner Todd Huston

As millions of illegal aliens stream across our southern border bringing poverty, disease, and the destruction of our country, President Obama has finally decided to launch a program to lock down a border… but it isn’t ours. His billion-dollar plan is to help the Nigerians shut down their borders.

After all this time of Americans pleading for the government to lock our border down, apparently Obama suddenly thinks that border security is important, only not for us and in this case to stop terrorism.   Continue reading “Obama Admin FINALLY Has A Major Border Security Plan… But For Nigeria?”

The Telegraph – by Matthew Holehouse, and Steven Swinford

Continue reading “Officials have lost track of 50,000 illegal immigrants”

Muckrock – by Shawn Musgrave

There is a city in east Texas called Cut and Shoot. About 40 miles from Houston in Montgomery County, Cut and Shoot has a population of just over 1,000 residents, but voted to formally declare itself a city in 2006.

The Cut and Shoot Police Department employs a total of three full-time police officers. While Cut and Shoot has not reported crime figures to the Justice Department in recent years, its officers made only 225 total motor vehicle stops in 2013 – fewer than one a day.   Continue reading “We have over half the country’s agency-by-agency 1033 data”