Planes at Kennedy Airport. (credit: Getty Images)Fox News – Associated Press

NEW YORK –  Police say a Tennessee man has checked luggage containing a loaded, defaced rifle at New York’s Kennedy International Airport.

Keenan Draughon (DRAW’-guhn) was arrested Saturday morning trying to board a flight to Charlotte, N.C., after Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police found the weapons. Police spokesman Joseph Pentangelo says Draughon also had high-capacity magazines, which are illegal in New York.   Continue reading “Police: Tenn. man arrested at JFK airport after loaded, defaced rifle was found in his luggage”

hunter shoots man toiletHuffington Post

A moose hunter in Norway found himself inadvertently pursuing a different type of game this week when an errant bullet missed its mark and broke through the wall of a nearby cabin.

According to local reports, the hunter accidentally shot a man who was on the toilet Thursday. The bullet darted straight through the wooden wall of the Vesteroy cabin and pierced the man in his abdomen.   Continue reading “Hunter Accidentally Shoots Man On Toilet While Aiming For Moose”

Kate Sessions Eklementary School Cell tower "tree"l Educate Yourself

Ken,

I forgot about this but Laura just reminded me. She wanted you to see the flyer we are handing out to parents across the street from Kate Sessions Elementary School a few blocks from our house (the same elementary school I attended as a child). We found an enormous cell phone tower disguised as a tree located at the edge of the school property.   Continue reading “San Diego Parents Upset with Unified School District for Allowing Microwave Cell Towers Close to Elementary Schools”

Walter Serpit (pictured) said he went back into the burning home to save his beer.New York Daily News – by Joe Kemp

This Bud’s for him!

A Georgia man said he braved a raging house fire to save his stash of Bud Light.

Walter Serpit, who walks with a cane, was watching television in his Columbus home with five other adults and two children when the room began to fill with smoke on Thursday afternoon, he told WTVM.   Continue reading “Georgia man saves family from burning house, but turns back to save his beer”

New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — The F.B.I. is investigating the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy by a sheriff’s deputy in Northern California.

Sheriff Steve Freitas of Sonoma County said in a statement Friday afternoon that he would cooperate fully with federal investigators and that he welcomed their participation. The shooting of the boy, Andy Lopez, in Santa Rosa on Tuesday has generated numerous protests and marches, with many residents questioning the deputy’s decision to fire on the boy.  Continue reading “F.B.I. Begins Inquiry in Deputy’s Killing of 13-Year-Old Boy”

Agenda 21 CourseAgenda 21 Course

If you are reading this, you must want to know more about Agenda 21. Well, good news-you have arrived at the right place!

This is the site of possibly the only Agenda 21 Course on the Internet. When you are done with the ten topical lessons and the accompanying materials, you will  understand what Agenda 21 is and its full impact on you, your family, and your country. Further, you will have enough knowledge to go out into your community and begin to change the course of America-for the better!  Do not hesitate. Dive right into Lesson 1-Introduction to Agenda 21.    Continue reading “Welcome to the Agenda 21 Course”

Political Outcast – by Mark Horne

Some blog called “Armed With Science” decided to be a propaganda mouthpiece for the NSA for at least one post (perhaps that’s the blogs regular shtick; with a .mil domain, that wouldn’t surprise me). They interviewed General Keith Alexander and let him tell us whatever least untruthful statements he could devise.

“We [the NSA] collect foreign intelligence for our country, and we provide information assurance for national security systems,” Gen. Alexander says.  “We have two great missions, and those missions provide us with some tremendous capabilities.”   Continue reading “NSA Sypymaster: We Need a Way to Violate First Amendment”

My daughter got a letter in the mail (Killeen, Texas) saying food stamps for October were paid then skipped November and no issuance of food stamps until December 1st. She is a disabled woman.

It looks like no one is going to get a check for November.

She also said she has talked to others and they got the same letter. Even some elderly people that she knows got the same letter.   Continue reading “Letters being received in Texas: No Food Stamps at all for November”

NBC Bay Area – by George Kiriyama

You see officers giving breathalyzer tests for alcohol at DUI checkpoints all the time. How about roadside breath testing for marijuana for those who are “DWS” (Driving While Stoned)?

It could happen if California legalizes cannabis.   Continue reading “Pot Breathalyzers May Come if California Legalizes Marijuana”

RT News

By 2030, more than half of Americans could be obese, taxing the nation’s health while costing the country $500 billion in lost economic productivity. The food industry, however, is doing its best to keep the public hooked – no matter what the price.

With one out of three adults clinically obese and 40 percent of children officially overweight, the US is the fattest country in the developed world. The burgeoning public health crisis will see instances of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer skyrocket over the next two decades, taking an already strained healthcare system to breaking point.    Continue reading “Battle of the bulge: US food corporations fueling obesity epidemic with addictive ingredients”

A TV grab from Russian television RTR Channel shows what it said was a transmitter in an imitation rock which British diplomats used for spying on a Moscow street and then downloading classified information from it. Russia's intelligence services accused British embassy officials on Monday, January 23, 2006, of spying in Moscow after state television said British diplomats had used a fake rock to try to secure state secrets. (Reuters)RT News

Hi-tech weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin presented its latest effort in surveillance technology this week – a web of self-organising sensors with the ability to trigger any kind of device from a distance and have it operating autonomously.

The presentation took place at the annual meeting of The Association of the United States Army (AUSA) that took place Monday through Wednesday.    Continue reading “Rock, paper, surveillance: US Army investing in smarter ‘spy rocks’”

Reuters/Jim UrquhartRT News

US authorities have reported their largest-ever Bitcoin bust amounting to $28 million of the digital currency. It was seized from the owner of the controversial Silk Road website, which was shut down three weeks ago.

A Friday statement by federal prosecutors in New York details the seizure of 144,336 bitcoins, which were discovered on the computer belonging to Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht, alias “Dread Pirate Roberts,” Reuters reports. Ulbricht was arrested Oct. 1 in San Francisco on several charges of conspiracy.    Continue reading “FBI makes record $28 million Bitcoin bust”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The $5.1 billion that JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay hardly ends its legal troubles over mortgage securities it sold.

It’s merely a down payment. JPMorgan still faces heavy financial burdens. The bank has set aside $23 billion to cover legal costs — and it may need it all. In a statement Friday night, JPMorgan called its latest settlement an “important step” toward resolving allegations over mortgage-backed securities it sold. The $5.1 billion would resolve federal claims that it misled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about risky home loans and securities they bought before the housing market collapsed.   Continue reading “JPMorgan’s $5B settlement doesn’t end its troubles”

Life News – by Wesley J. Smith

The first case of a child smuggled into the UK to be organ harvested has been uncovered. From the Telegraph story:

The first case of a child being trafficked to Britain in order to have their organs harvested has been uncovered. The unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on to those desperate for a transplant.   Continue reading “Officials Discover Child Trafficked From Somalia to UK to Harvest Her Organs”

Canada Free Press – by Institute for Energy Research

An August 20th blog post by Peter Miller of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) attempted to discredit California Assembly Bill 32 (AB32) opponents, but instead succeeded in displaying its disregard for facts and the reality of the electricity market in the state.   Continue reading “The Truth Behind “Affordable” Energy in California”

Canada Free Press – by Tom Harris & Dr. Jay Lehr

There’s an old saying that when presenting a legal case, if the facts are on your side, “pound the facts,” but if the facts are against you, “pound the table.” The report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on September 27th is an obvious example of pounding the table.

The facts, which the IPCC’s report admits to, albeit with obvious reluctance and a good deal of obfuscation, show that humanity’s impact on global climate is too small to justify concern and is certainly no reason for the costly programs governments are imposing. Yet the IPCC persists in asserting the opposite. Continue reading “New UN Climate Report Ignores Reality”

CNet News – by Daniel Terdiman

SAN FRANCISCO — Something big and mysterious is rising from a floating barge at the end of Treasure Island, a former Navy base in the middle of San Francisco Bay. And Google’s fingerprints are all over it.

It’s unclear what’s inside the structure, which stands about four stories high and was made with a series of modern cargo containers. The same goes for when it will be unveiled, but the big tease has already begun. Locals refer to it as the secret project.   Continue reading “Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?”

Stop Watching Us

The NSA is spying on everyone’s personal communications. It’s operating without any meaningful oversight.

On October 26th, the 12th anniversary of the signing of the USA Patriot Act, we’re holding the largest rally yet against NSA surveillance. We’ll be handing more than a half-million petitions to Congress to remind them that they work for us — and we won’t tolerate mass surveillance any longer.   Continue reading “A Rally against Mass Surveillance”

High-profile file-sharing site UploaderTalk found to be year-long piracy honeypot.The Guardian – by Samuel Gibbs

A high-profile file-sharing site has been revealed to be a year-long pirate “honeypot”, collecting data on users, file hosters and websites.

The revelation, which had users of the forum up in arms, accompanied the purchase of the UploaderTalk (UT) site by US-based anti-piracy company Nuke Piracy.

A honeypot is a facility, in this case a site, run under false pretences that encourages criminal behaviour in an effort to collect incriminating data.   Continue reading “Filesharing site revealed to be anti-piracy ‘honeypot’”