Category: News

LA Times – by James Queally

CBS – by Jessica Berardino

PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – Border Patrol Agents are the men on the front lines having to deal with the children coming across our southern border.

One of their biggest concerns is the diseases that kids could bring with them. The agents have to check the immigrants for diseases, and if they have them, they could potentially get sick and bring the illness home to their families.

According to Shawn Moran, the vice president and spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council, scabies and lice are the two main infestations that his agents come across. He adds that chicken pox, measles, H1N1 and tuberculosis are also pretty common. Really, he says they see a whole gamete of diseases and that’s what his men are most concerned with.   Continue reading “National Border Patrol Council VP: Border Agents Need More Staffing To Help With Crisis”

CNS News – by Ali Meyer

11.4 million Americans age 16 and over have left the workforce since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

In July 2014, there were 92,001,000 Americans, 16 and over, who were classified as “not in the labor force,” meaning they not only did not have a job, but they didn’t actively seek one in the last four weeks. 

This number has increased by 11,472,000 since January 2009, when the number of Americans not in the labor force was 80,529,000.

Continue reading “11,472,000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office”

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”