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RT

Air travel in the US is set to become more expensive beginning next week – but airline profits and jet fuel costs aren’t to blame this time. Instead, the price hike will come as a result of a TSA fee increase.

The Transportation Security Administration’s fee – known as the ‘Civil Aviation Security’ or the ‘9/11 Security’ fee – helps fund the agency. But according to the budget agreement that reopened the federal government after its October shutdown, the fee will increase to as much as $22.40 per trip. That money will go to the US Treasury to help pay the federal deficit, which is estimated to be $649 billion in 2014. That bipartisan deal also eliminated a separate TSA fee that generated $420 million a year for the agency.   Continue reading “Air travel prices in US to climb as TSA fees increase”

Survivopedia – by Bill White

It’s been clear that the executive branch of the federal government is working overtime to extend their authority. This started long before Obama became president, but it has accelerated at an alarming rate since he took office. Obama’s administration has put out more regulations per week than any before, each of which extends their authority to reach into people’s lives and control them and their businesses.

While the IRS has the reputation of being the most insidious of all government agencies, I’d have to say that the EPA is working hard to stay a close second. What started as a government agency to protect our corner of the world has become the political arm of the environmental movement.   Continue reading “The EPA’s Latest Land Grab”

Natural News – by Jonathan Benson

Breakfast cereals that are “fortified” with synthetic imitations of vitamins like zinc, niacin, and vitamin A could be harming children, says a new report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). Researchers from the consumer advocacy organization maintain that many cereals, breakfast bars and other breakfast products marketed to children contain excess levels of synthetic vitamins that may harm vital organs and immune function in the longer term.

The investigative report looked specifically at the three aforementioned additives, all of which are synthetically derived when added to breakfast cereals, to see how manufacturers use them. The team looked at nutrition labels for 1,556 breakfast cereals and 1,025 snack and energy bars to analyze their contents of vitamin A, zinc and niacin, and compare these levels to recommended daily values.   Continue reading “Study shows synthetic vitamins in ‘fortified’ breakfast cereals harming children”

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A Chicago company is under fire from a local union after employees complained they are being monitored and disciplined for using the bathroom more than just a few minutes a day.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Teamsters Local 743 union has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board regarding the situation, claiming that workers are being penalized if their time in the bathroom exceeds 30 minutes a week, or six minutes a day.   Continue reading “Chicago company penalized employees for excessive bathroom use, says union”

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California is facing one of its most severe droughts on record, which is hurting farmers and recreation alike. But despite water restrictions, Nestle is bottling spring water from the state and selling it, creating controversy alongside profits.

Nestle owns Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water, which has been bottling water from a spring in Millard Canyon, Calif. for more than a decade. The company’s 383,000-square-foot bottling plant, which also packages purified water under the Nestle Pure Life brand, is located on the Morongo Band of Mission Indians reservation.    Continue reading “Nestle continues to sell bottled water sourced from California despite record drought”

AmmoLand

Charlotte, NC –-(Ammoland.com)- Firearm-related deaths have decreased in California since the early 1990s, but the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence (LCPGV) and the state’s Department of Justice don’t agree about the reasons why.

The LCPGV is an anti-gun activist group, so as reflexively as a squirrel burying nuts, it claims California’s firearm-related deaths have decreased because of gun control.   Continue reading “California Gun Banners Continue to Twist the Facts About Gun Controls Failing Results”

Desert Sun – by Colin Atagi

CALEXICO – A border agent prevented a man from committing suicide along the California-Mexico border Sunday, according to officials.

At about 7:05 p.m., the agent spotted the man using a rope to climb the border fence near First Street, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.

As the agent approached, the man — a 27-year-old Mexican citizen — dropped from the fence with the rope tied around his neck.   Continue reading “Mexican citizen tries to hang himself on border fence”

RT

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have resumed airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in retaliation to rocket fire from the Palestinian side after Hamas’ armed wing rejected the peace plan proposed by Egypt on Monday.

“Hamas has fired 47 rockets since we suspended our strikes in Gaza at 9am [local time]. As a result, we have resumed our operation against Hamas,” the IDF said in a statement. “Israeli forces are attacking again.”   Continue reading “Israel resumes Gaza attacks after Hamas rejects ceasefire”

Mail.com

ABINGDON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man says he has claimed a kingdom in Africa so his daughter can be a princess.

Jeremiah Heaton told the Bristol Herald Courier (http://bit.ly/1rcQHtp) that he recently trekked to a small, mountainous region between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil. No country claims the land. Heaton says he planted a flag designed by his children there so that he could become a king — and more importantly, so his 7-year-old daughter Emily could be a princess. They named the area the Kingdom of North Sudan.   Continue reading “Man claims kingdom so daughter can be princess”

Reuters – by David Dekok

Jane Huey was surprised, to say the least, when a letter arrived at her Kingston, Pennsylvania, home urging Bert Huey to register to be drafted into the U.S. military.

Bert Huey had already served in World War One, which began 100 years ago this summer, and died in 1995. He was her husband’s grandfather.

“It is funny and kind of pathetic,” she said. “And the other thing is, we couldn’t get a hold of the darn draft board. We were afraid we’d be fined or something.”   Continue reading “Draft notices sent to 14,000 dead men in Pennsylvania”

EnGadget – by Nicole Lee

A couple months ago, a New York judge ruled that US search warrants applied to digital information even if they were stored overseas. The decision came about as part of an effort to dig up a Microsoft user’s account information stored on a server in Dublin, Ireland. Microsoft responded to the ruling and challenged it, stating that the government’s longstanding views of digital content on foreign servers are wrong, and that the protections applied to physical materials should be extended to digital content. In briefs filed last week, however, the US government countered. It states that according to the Stored Communications Act (SCA), content stored online simply do not have the same Fourth Amendment protections as physical data:   Continue reading “US government says online storage isn’t protected by the Fourth Amendment”

21st Century Wire

The separation of church and state has been eliminated under the Obama White House. The realtionship between the federal government in Washington DC and church groups goes a lot deeper than just politicking and garnering votes – it’s financial.

Aside from the central role that large organisatons like Catholic Charities USA have played in endorsing the DREAM Act and backing the deferral of action against some younger immigrants, it’s also been found that billions of dollars have been paid out to hundreds of Catholic and Baptist “charities” in grant money in exchange for political support of these White House agenda items. Liberty News reports:    Continue reading “California Catholic Diocese Bypasses City, Purchases Building to House Obama Illegals”

SOTT – by ITAR-TASS

The militia fighters said that over the past day they have “destroyed about 100 personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces, five tanks, two infantry combat vehicles” 

People’s militia fighters in the southeast of Ukraine have armed themselves with tanks, warplanes, multiple rocket launcher systems and artillery. According to the self-defense forces of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, the armaments have been taken in combat with the Ukrainian security forces. People’s militia fighters previously said that they managed to start an exhibition sample of a WW2 tank that was removed from a military memorial pedestal. Continue reading “People’s militia fighters destroy 5 tanks,GRAD battery and kills 100 soldiers in the last 24 hours”

The Daily Caller – by Chuck Ross

The Federal Election Commission recycled the computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner’s — hindering an investigation into Sands’ partisan political activities, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Sands resigned from the Federal Election Commission in April after she admitted to violating the Hatch Act, which bars executive branch employees from engaging in partisan political activities on federal time and at federal facilities.   Continue reading “Lois Lerner’s Former FEC Colleague Has Emails Go Missing Too”

Think Progress – by Ari Phillips

On Tuesday the State Water Resources Control Board in California is expected to institute statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time. All of California is in some type of drought and reservoirs are precariously low in many places. The nation’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead in Nevada, recently reached an all-time low. So now the impact of the enduring drought has extended beyond warning.

“Many urban Californians don’t realize how bad a drought the state is in,” board chair Felicia Marcus said last week. “It is a mistake to think that they are not at risk. What these regulations propose is not that everyone kill off their lawns, but that at a minimum, people don’t over-water.”   Continue reading “For First Time, California Gets Ready For Mandatory Water Restrictions”

Daily Caller – by Ginni Thomas

Standing resolute against the forces transforming the nation he loves, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William G. “Jerry” Boykin thinks “the two most egregious violations of the trust of the American public” are the Veterans Affairs scandal and Benghazi — and in his opinion, these two cases rise to the level of impeachable offenses.

Speaking of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, General Boykin said, “If we will leave people behind on the battlefield and let them be overrun and killed by an enemy simply because it was politically inconvenient for us to respond to their calls for help, which is what I believe happened with all my heart. If we will do that, then the character of this nation is not the nation I grew up in and the nation I served for 36 ½ years. We have an obligation to people who serve this country, people serving our country.”   Continue reading “Lt. Gen Boykin: Veterans Scandal And Benghazi Are Grounds For Impeachment”

Sun Times – by Frank Main

Chicago – In a major policy turnabout, Mayor Rahm Emanuel will make citizen complaints against Chicago Police officers available for public scrutiny, according to city officials.

In March, a state appeals court ruled the city couldn’t keep the records secret, and the city vowed to appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court.

But on Friday, city officials said they won’t appeal after all.   Continue reading “City won’t fight to keep citizen complaints against cops secret”