Category: News

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Private elevators, personal shopping assistants, six-bedroom suites with their own postal codes. Even helipads. This is what the super-rich have come to expect from hotels.

For others, vacation now means renting someone’s apartment, a spare room, maybe just a couch — anything to save on the cost of a hotel. As the gap between the wealthiest travelers and everyone else has widened, so has the way people are experiencing vacations. The wealthy are looking for ever-more pampering. Many others are seeking new ways to economize.   Continue reading “Will that be a 6-bedroom suite or just a couch?”

Mail.com

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Neighbors of two Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a friend nearly to death say they’re struggling to reconcile the allegations with what they know about the 12-year-olds and their upbringings.

Waukesha County prosecutors have charged the two girls in adult court with attempted homicide for allegedly stabbing a girl the same age in the woods. The girls told detectives they conspired for months to kill the other girl in hopes of pleasing Slenderman, a fictional character they read about on a horror website.   Continue reading “Neighbors: Stabbing at odds with girls’ upbringing”

Reason – by J.D. Tuccille

Hours before a scheduled meeting to surrender records to the American Civil Liberties Union about the use of controversial “stingray” cellphone tracking devices, Sarasota, Florida, police canceled the meeting, saying the U.S. Marshals had seized the records and they were no longer in police possession. Calling the move “blatant violations of open government laws,” in the words of staff attorney Nathan Freed Wessler, the ACLU promptly sued, protesting the handoff of sensitive documents to the feds and seeking their return.   Continue reading “US Marshals Seize FL Cops’ Surveillance Records to Deny Them to ACLU”

TechDirt – by Tim Cushing

Maybe if schools stop handing misbehaving students over to police officers, aggrieved parents won’t be nearly as aggrieved… or so likely to sue. Schools are publicly funded already, but that’s no reason to keep dipping into homeowners’ wallets to pay out settlements for schools’ bad decisions.

The very short background on this particular lawsuit is this (via Courtroom News Service):    Continue reading “Father Sues School After It Brings In Cops To Question His Son About Drawing Of A Person Being Hanged”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas–Armed members of the activist group Open Carry Texas (OCT) were asked to leave Sonic and Chili’s restaurants last month after they entered with AK-47’s in full display. In response to footage of the events, which received national press coverage, the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) released a statement on May 30 calling the demonstrations “downright weird” and “counter productive for the gun owning community.” Now Texas gun group members are threatening to leave the NRA.

“I’m leaving the NRA,” C.J. Grisham, President of OCT, told Breitbart Texas. “I’m an Endowment Life Member which is two levels above Life Member–I’m tearing up the cards and certificates I’ve gotten from the NRA.”   Continue reading “Open Carry Texas’ President: ‘I’m Leaving The NRA’”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Last week, Kahr Firearms Group began their move out of New York and away from the SAFE Act by breaking ground for a new factory in Pike County, Pennsylvania.

Their plan to relocate includes “headquarters… research… and assembly,” and is expected to take five years.

According to The Washington Free Beacon, company founder and president Justin Moon made it clear Kahr wants to be somewhere that they can build guns without business-crippling regulation.    Continue reading “Kahr Firearms Joins Retreat From NY’s Safe Act, Breaks Ground For Factory In PA”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On May 30 the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) released a statement on the open carry demonstrations that have been recently carried out in Chipotle, Jack in the Box, Chili’s, and Sonic restaurants in Texas.

These are the demonstrations where members of Open Carry Texas (OCT) legally carry AR-15s and AK-47s into restaurants as part of their bid to see the open carry of handguns legalized in the Lone Star State. The NRA-ILA described the demonstrations as “downright weird” and “counter productive for the gun owning community.”    Continue reading “NRA Chides ‘Open Carry Texas’ Over Carrying Ak-47s Into Restaurants”

Natural News – by L.J. Devon

In the eyes of some professors and scientists, genetically modified foods can be an open door toward transhumanism — believing that mankind can break through current physical limitations by genetically altering food, offspring and the environment.

Could this really be an ulterior motive in the minds of professors who advocate genetically modified organisms?   

How might GMO-influenced transhumanism destroy what is natural and eclectic, as manipulations of life and environment restrict the diversity of agriculture and people, eliminating the “flaws” of nature, while discarding the “unfit.” 
Continue reading “Scientist who advocates GMO golden rice also advocates infanticide”

Huffington Post

In a disturbing discovery revealed this week, nearly 800 children were found in a mass grave near a former home for unwed mothers and their children.

The children are believed to have been buried in a septic tank on the grounds of the home in Tuam, Ireland, between 1925 and 1961, BBC News reports. Many appear to have perished from infectious diseases or malnutrition.   Continue reading “Nearly 800 Children Found In Mass Grave Near Former Home For Unwed Mothers In Ireland”

Opposing Views – by Sarah Fruchtnicht

A Florida man was arrested for calling 911 seven times in four hours to complain that his wife had “thrown out his beer.”

Police went to Carlos Bueno Mir’s West Palm Beach home and explained that missing beer isn’t an emergency. According to a police report, the 49-year-old was intoxicated at the time.   Continue reading “Florida Man Arrested After Repeatedly Calling 911 To Report Missing Beer”

Militia News – by Calvin E. Johnson Jr.

“Never teach your children to admit that their fathers’ were wrong in their efforts to maintain the sovereignty, freedom and independence which was their birthright”—-Jefferson Davis.

June 3, 2014, is the 206th birthday of Jefferson Davis who was born in Christian County, Kentucky, on June 3, 1808.   Continue reading “Remembering Jefferson Davis: A True American Hero”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

As mainstream media outlets continue to support gun control by focusing on the three persons Elliot Rodgers shot to death, they have not bothered reporting that guns have been used to save at least seven lives since May 25.

According to KSL.com, on May 25 an armed father intervened to stop two armed invaders who kicked in the door of his house in an attempt to reach his daughter. The attackers had threatened the girl beforehand.   Continue reading “Media Silent As Guns Used To Save At Least Seven Lives Since May 25”

Jay’s Analysis

One of the evident patterns that emerges concerning the theater of operations known as “media” is the never-ending rabbit hole of trails and endless, conflicting details that don’t and won’t add up concerning a figure like Edward Snowden.  The application of the military term “theater of operations” is especially relevant here, since we swim in a sea of media theater and infotainment.  This is not by accident: The theater of infotainment itself is an important pillar of the Infowar.  With Edward Snowden, the recent star of the world media acting stage, the trails and legend(s) surrounding his back story are purposefully misleading.   Continue reading “The Theater of Media Operations: Snowden Analyzed”

Descrier

A Russian fighter jet intercepted a US surveillance plane in waters off Russia’s east coast in April, flying unusually close amid escalating tensions over Ukraine.

The Russian Su-27 Flanker flew within 30 metres of the US RC-135 as it was conducting a “routine mission” over the Sea of Okhotsk near Japan on 23 April, according to Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby.   Continue reading “Russian fighter jet intercepts and nearly hits US surveillance plane near Japan”

Market Watch – by Quentin Fottrell

As the housing market slowly recovers, a majority of homeowners and renters are finding it hard to meet rising rents and mortgage payments, new research finds.

Over half of Americans (52%) have had to make at least one major sacrifice in order to cover their rent or mortgage over the last three years, according to the “How Housing Matters Survey,” which was commissioned by the nonprofit John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and carried out by Hart Research Associates. These sacrifices include getting a second job, deferring saving for retirement, cutting back on health care, running up credit card debt, or even moving to a less safe neighborhood or one with worse schools.   Continue reading “Half of Americans can’t afford their house”

The Daily Caller – by Chuck Ross

The first name to emerge as the favored choice to head the Department of Veterans Affars previously predicted that Obamacare will eradicate employer-based insurance and push the U.S. towards a single-payer system “like they have in England”.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Dr. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, who heads the Cleveland Clinic, is being heavily sought by the Obama administration to replace Gen. Eric Shinseki, who was forced out last week amid the VA wait list scandal.   Continue reading “Front-Runner To Head VA Predicts Obamacare Will Lead To Single-Payer”

Press TV

The sophisticated computer-driven helmet will give US fighter pilots new capabilities when the aircraft enters the American fleet in the coming years, CBS News reports.

The helmet is run by a computer named ALIS which functions as the “brain” of the fighter jet.   Continue reading “US F-35 fighter jet susceptible to hacking: Report”