Category: News

Govtslaves – by Abbie Napier

A North Canterbury school’s plan to fit students with microchip bracelets to track their behaviour has prompted concern among parents.

Swannanoa School wants to use silicon bracelets as part of a scheme to reward good behaviour, minutes from a Parent Teacher Association meeting show.

Teachers would use portable scanners to add points to a student’s online good behaviour chart with a reward when a certain amount of points was accumulated.

The school says the scheme would cost $7000 to set up. The proposal has been opposed by some parents.    Continue reading “School Plans Microchip Bracelets To Track Behavior”

Alert Net – by  Lynn Stuart Parramore

A new study by the Urban Institute says that over 35 percent of Americans have debts and unpaid bills that have been reported to collection agencies. This means the bill is so overdue (generally at least 180 days) that the account has been closed and placed in collections.

That comes to 77 million souls who face the sleepless nights and anxiety that comes from an inability to meet debt obligations. These citizens owe an average of $5,178 each (median $1,349).

It’s happening to us in all walks of life.   Continue reading “Debtor Nation: 35 Percent of Americans Owe Bills to Collection Agencies”

The Daily Caller – by Joseph Miller

The report is in, and the review of the president’s foreign policy is clear: If there is not an immediate course-reversal, the United States is in serious danger.

In 2013, the United States Institute for Peace, “a congressionally-created, independent, nonpartisan institution whose mission is to prevent, mitigate, and resolve violent conflicts around the world,” was asked to assist the National Defense Panel with reviewing the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). The National Defense Panel is a congressional-mandated bipartisan commission that’s co-chairs were appointed by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.    Continue reading “Pentagon Official: The Facts Are In, And Obama’s Policy Is A Direct Danger To The United States”

Yahoo News – by Steve Norder

ATLANTA (Reuters) – An American aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia arrived in the United States from West Africa on Saturday and walked into an Atlanta hospital, wearing a bio-hazard suit, for treatment in a special isolation unit.

A chartered medical aircraft carrying Dr. Kent Brantly touched down at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, shortly before noon. Brantly was driven by ambulance, with police escort, to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment in a specially equipped room.   Continue reading “American aid worker stricken with Ebola arrives in U.S. for treatment”

Mail.com

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie fouled the water supply of the state’s fourth-largest city Saturday, forcing officials to issue warnings not to drink the water and the governor to declare a state of emergency as worried residents descended on stores, quickly clearing shelves of bottled water.

“It looked like Black Friday,” said Aundrea Simmons, who stood in a line of about 50 people at a pharmacy before buying four cases of water. “I have children and elderly parents. They take their medication with water.”   Continue reading “Ohio’s 4th-largest city: Don’t drink the water”

RT

A lawsuit is challenging a little-known program that allows the Department of Homeland Security to block citizenship and green card applications for security reasons. The plaintiffs say they fell victim to profiling against Muslims.

The five long-time US residents are all either practicing Muslims or come from Muslim-majority countries. Two of them are Iranians, two others are Palestinian nationals and one is a refugee from Somalia.   Continue reading “Muslims sue federal govt for stonewalling citizenship requests”

RT

President Barack Obama made a rare acknowledgment during a Friday press briefing concerning the United States’ past use of enhanced interrogation tactics in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

“In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did things that were contrary to our values,” Pres. Obama said near the end of a nearly hour-long press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC.   Continue reading “Obama on CIA’s post-9/11 tactics: ‘We tortured some folks’”

RT

The European Union has “quietly” agreed to lift restrictions supplying Kiev with military technology and equipment which can be used for the “repression” in the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

“During a recent meeting of the Council of Europe in Brussels, leaders of EU member states agreed ‘on the quiet’ to remove restrictions on exports to Kiev of equipment that could be used for internal repression,” the ministry said in a statement on its website. “Exports of military technologies and equipment were also allowed.”   Continue reading “EU ‘quietly’ lifts ban on supplying Kiev with weapons and technology – Russia”

Conservative Tribune

By now it should be obvious that liberal Democrats simply hate guns, and will do anything they can to push for a complete ban, even if it’s done one piece at a time.

The progressive playbook calls for disarming the general public as a means to help curb any dissent from the “elite” in the government.2

Opposition to those in power is a threat to the “Utopia” being created and maintained, so weapons must be eliminated, along with free speech and other liberties.   Continue reading “ALERT: Senate Democrats Introduce Gun Confiscation Bill”

RIA

MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) -China acknowledged its development of a next-generation ballistic missile, the Dongfeng-41 (DF-41), Xinhua reported Friday.

According to Xinhua, a government environment monitoring station in Shaanxi Province published a document, saying that one of the province’s facilities is developing a ballistic rocket with a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV).

Xinhua quoted a Chinese military analyst as saying in an interview with local media that, “as the US continues to strengthen its missile defense system, developing third generation nuclear weapons capable of carrying multiple warheads is the trend.”    Continue reading “China Confirms Development of Next-Generation Intercontinental Ballistic Missile”

RT

Deadly, nearly untreatable superbugs known as CRE, dubbed “nightmare bacteria,” have spread at an alarming rate throughout the southeastern region of the US in recent years, new research indicates.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found cases of antibiotic-resistant CRE – or carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae – increased by at least a factor of five in community hospitals across the region from 2008 to 2012.

“We’re trying to sound the alarm. This is a problem for all of us in health care,” said Deverick J. Anderson, lead author of the study and an associate professor of medicine at Duke, according to USA Today.“These (bacteria) are just about as bad as it gets.”   Continue reading “‘Nightmare bacteria’ spreading rapidly in Southeastern US”

Twin Cities – by Marino Eccher and Richard Chin

As Mendota Heights police veteran Scott Patrick lay dying Wednesday on a West St. Paul street, passers-by and witnesses to his shooting rushed to his side. Some tried to administer first aid. One picked up his radio and called: “Officer down.”

A manhunt followed, ending in a shootout and an arrest in a St. Paul parking lot eight hours later.

Hospitalized with gunshot wounds suffered in his arrest, Patrick’s accused killer made no secret about what had happened, prosecutors said Friday.    Continue reading “Suspected killer of Mendota Heights cop said ‘I hate cops and I’m guilty,’ murder charges say”

Daily News

A Brooklyn grandmother who had just taken a shower was dragged from her apartment by about 12 cops who then stood by for more than two minutes while she was naked in the hallway, according to video that emerged Friday.

Denise Stewart was in her Brownsville apartment on July 13 when police — responding to a domestic disturbance call at the building — pounded on her door at 11:45 p.m. and demanded entry.

Stewart, 48, cracked the door wearing only a towel wrapped around her body and underpants — and was yanked into the hallway by cops over the screams of her family and neighbors.   Continue reading “Naked Brooklyn woman dragged from apartment, left topless in hallway for minutes by NYPD officers who say she beat 12-year-old daughter”

Vanguard – by Chioma Obinna & Gabriel Olawale & Bosede Oyelohunnu

THE Lagos state government has however allayed fears that some of the contacts may have been manifesting symptoms of the virus. Already, medical personnel from Canada are already in Nigeria working with their counterparts at the hospital where the victims died on how to control the spread of the virus. Hotlines have also been provided to enable members of the public pass information on any suspected case of the virus.   Continue reading “Ebola: 1 out of 15 airport contacts down with Ebola Virus Disease”

Before it’s News – by Michael T. Snyder

The Organic Prepper – by Daisy Luther

Disasters and personal SHTFs come in all shapes and sizes.

Clearly, I am concerned about things like an Ebola pandemic, war, martial law, and economic collapse.  I’m a news junkie and am gifted (or cursed) with a vivid imagination.  But personal things can cause a lot of upheaval when you are on a tight budget.  And if Murphy’s Law holds true (and it often does) whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, generally at the worst possible time.

Take my SUV, for example. (Please, take it and give me a different one!)  I was driving down the road on Monday when I noticed that it was beginning to overheat. I pulled over, let it cool down, and limped in at 20 miles an hour to a nearby shop, hoping it was something little like a leaky radiator cap.    Continue reading “The Austerity Diaries: Everything That Can Go Wrong, Will”