Category: News

RT

The governor of Missouri will reportedly relieve St. Louis County law enforcement from policing the ongoing demonstrations in the town of Ferguson, paving the way for possible state or federal intervention.

Rep Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Missouri told Bloomberg News on Thursday morning that Gov. Jay Nixon, also a Democrat, had confirmed to him that county police will be pulled from their duties in Ferguson, where outrage continues to erupt following the officer-involved shooting and killing of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed teenager, on Saturday.   Continue reading “St. Louis County police will no longer be involved in policing Ferguson”

Crisis Survival Tips – by jeremym

Cigarettes are one of the main causes of death. More than 480, 000 people are dying because of cigarettes. They contribute to a lot of serious health problems and chronic illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, diminished immune function, emphysema, heart disease, and reproductive issues.

But cigarettes can be used in survival situations and they can be helpful for your survival.

Here are the 8 survival uses of cigarettes.   Continue reading “8 Survival Uses of Cigarettes”

Wonderful Engineering

Coca Cola is one of the most beloved and enjoyed soft drink that you’ll find on Earth. However, did you know that instead of just gulping it down you could use it to generate electricity too? Well here’s a DIY guide that will tell you how to do it. Make sure you perform the task in a well-ventilated area   Continue reading “Here’s How You Can Make A Battery Out Of A Coca Cola Can”

Off Now – by Lori Rardon

Whenever I explain the OffNow Project to someone, they initially respond enthusiastically.  Something to the effect of, “Wow!  That’s cool! The federal government shouldn’t be spying on us!”  But when I further explain that the idea behind OffNow includes shutting off state supplied resources to NSA facilities – like the water necessary to cool the super-computers at the Bluffdale, Utah spy facility – those same people get nervous. “Shutting off the water seems like an extreme move.  Can we even  do that?” they ask.     Continue reading “Nevada Beats Feds By Turning Off Their Water on Yucca Mountain”

Off the Grid News – by Kimberlee Hertzer

Remember when you were a kid and the only time that you could watch cartoons was on Saturday morning? Or if lucky enough, you got to stay up on the weekend to watch a new episode of your favorite television show.

But times have changed. And so has television.

Today it’s not uncommon for children and adults to watch anywhere from three to six hours of TV a day. Is it harmful to watch this much? Yes.   Continue reading “New Study: Watching TV Can Actually Kill You”

Reuters

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has signed into law a measure giving police chiefs authority to turn down a resident’s requests to buy a rifle or shotgun if they believe the person may be a danger.

The measure broadens the authority of police, who were already allowed to deny sales of handguns to people who failed background checks. The new measure gives a police chief 90 days to petition a court to deny a firearms identification card to someone the chief believes to be unfit.   Continue reading “Massachusetts governor signs law tightening state gun rules”

Madison St.Clair Record – by Nancy Thorner

As President Obama considers sidestepping Congress to loosen U.S. immigration policy, a Reuters poll shows that 70 percent of Americans are deeply worried that illegal immigration is threatening this nation’s culture and economy. Because Congress cannot agree on comprehensive immigration reform with amnesty as its goal, Obama is threatening to act alone in the next few weeks through an executive order to give work permits to up to five millions undocumented immigrants and delay some deportations.   Continue reading “Illinois taxpayers foot $4.7 billion cost of illegal immigration”

Huffington Post

The Huffington Post’s Ryan J. Reilly and the Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery were arrested Wednesday evening while covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, who was shot by a police officer last week. The journalists were released unharmed, but their detentions highlighted the town’s ramped up police presence, which has left numerous residents injured by rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas during protests held every night after Brown’s death.

SWAT officers roughed up the reporters inside a McDonald’s, where both journalists were working. Reilly snapped a photo, prompting cops to request his identification.   Continue reading “Huffington Post Reporter Arrested In Ferguson”

Atlanta Journal-Constitution – by Rhonda Cook

Ten former law enforcement officers from five agencies, in addition to two civilians, have been sentenced to from one to nine years in federal prison for selling their badges to protect drug dealers.

The man who coordinated the protection, a civilian, is to be sentenced in federal court on Wednesday.   Continue reading “Atlanta area officers get federal prison for helping drug dealers”

ABC News

Violence erupted in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. for a fourth straight night Wednesday, with police firing smoke bombs and tear gas at demonstrators and some people lobbing Molotov cocktails. Racial unrest lingers in the St. Louis suburb following a weekend police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

“What do we Want? Justice,” the protesters yelled.   Continue reading “Violence in Ferguson: Police Fire Tear Gas, Smoke Bombs at Demonstrators”

Controversial Times

Hmmm, does this make you want to own a MacBook Pro? It looks like Apple has installed a copy of both the Constitution of the United States as well as a copy of the Declaration of Independence on all of their machines.

According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog,

Sometimes when I see just how ignorant many American politicians are of the Constitution of the United States, I get the urge to send them a copy along with some annotations. Perhaps now that more of those in the federal government are using Macs, we might begin to see them paying more attention to this document that outlines the supreme law of the land.

Continue reading “Reason to Love Macs? Apple Has Installed a Copy of the Constitution on Every Macintosh”

The China Money Report

Oh man…if things were not tense enough before in Xinjiang, get ready.
China unveils a new innovatiave plan to fight Islamic extremism..limit
their birth rate. Next stop….primae noctis.

Bloomberg

Xinjiang Chief Signals New Curbs on Births for Minorities

China plans to adopt the same family planning policies for all ethnic groups
in Xinjiang, the western province’s Communist Party chief wrote in an essay,
signaling further curbs for the Uighur Muslim minority. Southern Xinjiang
will “implement family planning policy equally on all ethnic groups, to lower
and stabilize an appropriate birth rate,” Zhang Chunxian wrote in the August
edition of Qiushi, an official magazine of the party.    Continue reading “China unveils new plan to fight Islamic extremism: Limit their birth rate”

Before it’s News

Under the category of “I told you so”, a political contact, Jatto Abdulqudir, of who I dubbed Patient Zero, Patrick Sawyer, has died. I had previously expressed the fear that Sawyer’s boarding of two airplanes with multiple connecting flights raised the likelihood that hundreds of thousands would be exposed on the same day to the Ebola virus (www.twtitter.com/hniman).

This one fact represents an emerging picture which serves to demonstrate that the Ebola containment efforts are failing miserably and we are in the beginning of an emerging pandemic. Further, this article will make it clear that health officials ranging from the World Health Organization to the CDC are negligent in their duty to protect the public in the midst of this Ebola outbreak.    Continue reading “The Ebola Crisis Just Went From Bad to Worse”

UAS Vision

Brazilian company Flight Tech has sold Horus FT-100 mini-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to an African country, in a first for Brazil. The three UAVs will be delivered late this year to the undisclosed customer, with options for more sales in 2015. The deal includes logistical support.

The Horus FT-100 is designed for short range reconnaissance missions and can be used for target acquisition, perimeter security and supporting infiltration and exfiltration, its manufacturer said. In the private sector it can be used for aerial surveying. The aircraft has an endurance of 1-2 hours and an operational range of 10-15 km. It is battery powered, weights 6-7 kg and has a 2.7 metre wingspan. Cruise speed is 33 knots.    Continue reading “Brazil Sells UAS to Africa”

Prison Planet – by Steve Watson

Legislation introduced to the Californian Senate earlier this year mandating ‘kill switches’ on all smart phones has been passed and sent to the Governor’s desk for approval.

Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign bill CA SB 962 in the coming weeks, meaning that it will be against the law for any supplier or carrier in the State to sell a mobile phone that is not fitted with the technology.

Manufacturers will have until July 1, 2015 to ensure that all their phones are equipped with the means to “render the essential features of the smartphone inoperable when not in the possession of the authorized user.”   Continue reading “‘Kill Switch’ Smart Phone Bill Passes In California”

Mercola – by Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

If you’ve been diagnosed with prostate cancer, your doctor probably ran down a list of confusing treatment options and told you to pick your poison(make a choice among options).

The simplest option when you’ve been diagnosed with prostate cancer is known as watchful waiting, which means doing nothing unless later tests show the cancer is worsening.   Continue reading “Prostate Cancer Treatment Choices”

Breitbart – by David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.   Continue reading “A Second Declaration of Independence”