Category: News

Yahoo News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles have closed, and the city attorney says more will be shutting their doors soon, following a voter-approved crackdown.

Thirty-eight pot shops that do not comply with a municipal ballot measure approved earlier this year are in the process of being shuttered, City Attorney Mike Feuer said. Another 42 shops have decided on their own to close since July, when the new law took effect, he said.   Continue reading “LA cracking down on pot dispensaries under new law”

RT News

An internal memo from the union that represents pilots for US Airways claims there have been “several cases recently” throughout the airline industry of what the union believes are “dry-runs” for potential attacks with or on an aircraft.

The memo – released sometime just before September 11, 2013 – from the US Airline Pilots Association states “there have been several cases recently throughout the (airline) industry of what appear to be probes, or dry-runs, to test our procedures and reaction to an in-flight threat.”    Continue reading “Internal pilot-union memo claims terrorism ‘dry-runs’ happening on US flights”

Knoxville News Sentinel – by Ben Fox

MIAMI (AP) — Tarek El-Sawah is in terrible shape after 11 years as a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, a fact even the U.S. military does not dispute.

During his time in captivity, the weight of the 55-year-old Egyptian has nearly doubled, reaching more than 420 pounds at one point, and his health has deteriorated as a result, both his lawyers and government officials concede.   Continue reading “Some at Guantanamo jail too sick to keep locked up”

Pirate Morgan’s Innermost Thoughts

The federal government, who shut the national parks after claiming they didn’t have the money to keep them open, is now sending in Park Rangers to patrol the parks 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sadly, the Rangers are not being sent in so visitors can enjoy these parks, there being sent in to arrest anyone who tries to enter them.

Earlier this week we reported on the Vietnam Vets who were arrested for visiting a war memorial in New York City; now we’ve learned that 21 tourists were just arrested for hiking in the Grand Canyon National Park.    Continue reading “National Parks Overthrown by Tyranical Obama, What’s Next? Is This What The Ammo Is For?”

The Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

These observations by Andrew Tuohy have been floating across the gun web for a couple of days.  I have to quote at length, although the entire post is worth reading, as are the comments.

Last year, I was sitting at home when my doorbell rang. Two polite and professional ATF agents informed me that the number of firearms I had purchased from 2007 to 2010 did not match my income. I was disappointed to learn that this fact did not come with some sort of prize or award, but suddenly wondered how they knew what I had purchased. Continue reading “Does De Facto Gun Registration Exist In The U.S.?”

Washington’s Blog – by Carl Herman

As we documented here, Congressman Alan Grayson is correct that the Fed could cancel its own US national debt holdings of ~$2 trillion. This could begin public justice from how our current system transfers public assets into 1% private profits: currently conservatively estimated at $30 trillion held in tax-free offshore accounts, and satirized in South Park’s Emmy Award-winning episode on our bailing out the big banks with the catchline, “And it’s gone.”   Continue reading “And… it’s gone! The Fed and US could simply CANCEL all $5 trillion of intragovernmental debt”

The Organic Prepper

Abandoned carts full of food were a frequent sight in grocery stores Saturday morning, as the EBT food assistance debit system stopped working without warning.

According to a Xerox spokesperson, a routine system check by the vendor resulted in system failure, leaving assistance recipients across the country with no way to buy food.   Continue reading “72 Hour Warning: Grocery Stores Across the Country Turn Away Hungry Shoppers as EBT System Crashes”

Huffington Post – by MICHAEL GORMLEY

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, is set to tour a New York gun show, the first such visit since she was shot.

Giffords and husband Mark Kelly, a former combat pilot and astronaut, are scheduled to be with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the Saratoga Springs Arms Fair on Sunday to highlight a voluntary agreement and stricter state gun control law.   Continue reading “Gabrielle Giffords To Attend New York Gun Show”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly want to challenge the NRA in Congressional races in 2014.

Ten months after the heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary and six and a half months since a Tucson gun store owner refused to sell Kelly an assault weapon–believing he could not pass question 11a of the NICS background check–Giffords and Kelly are readying themselves to go after the NRA for opposing expanded background checks.    Continue reading “Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly to Challenge NRA in 2014”

AmmoLand

Amarillo, Texas –-(Ammoland.com)-  The Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association (CMSA) Tony Lama World Championship returns to the Tri-State Expo in Amarillo, Texas October 16-19, 2013.

The four-day event pits the world’s best mounted shooting competitors against each other to vie for the World Championship title.   Continue reading “Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association Tony Lama World Championship Returns To Amarillo Tx”

Wired – by DUNCAN GEERE

All of the major internet organisations have pledged, at a summit in Uruguay, to free themselves of the influence of the US government.

The directors of ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society and all five of the regional Internet address registries have vowed to break their associations with the US government.    Continue reading “The US is losing control of the internet”

Huffington Post

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles police officer was charged with assault Thursday for allegedly kicking a woman seven times in the groin, abdomen and upper thigh during an arrest in which the woman ultimately died, her attorney said.

Officer Mary O’Callaghan, an 18-year veteran, was charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors with felony assault under color of authority, lawyer Robert Rico said.   Continue reading “LAPD Officer Mary O’Callaghan Charged In Arrest That Turned Fatal”

ABC News

People in Ohio, Michigan and several other states found themselves unable to use their food stamp debit cards on Saturday, after a routine check by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure. Shoppers from Maine to Oklahoma had to abandon baskets of groceries because they couldn’t access their benefits.

Ohio’s cash and food assistance card payment systems went down at 11 a.m., said Benjamin Johnson, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Ohio’s cash system has been fixed, however its electronic benefits transfer card system is still down. All states that use Xerox systems are affected by the outage.   Continue reading “Food Stamp Debit Cards Not Working in Many States”

The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

A Spanish vote-tabulation firm with ties to billionaire globalist George Soros is purchasing software to give it greater power over the voting in U.S. elections.

In a press release under a Barcelona and Tampa, Florida dateline, Scytl announced:

Scytl’s end-to-end election modernization solution covers the full election cycle (Pre-election, Election Day and Post-election), providing electoral bodies the most secure, transparent, auditable and accessible solution in the marketplace and allows Scytl to offer personalized election modernization roadmaps to their customers combining both traditional and online voting solutions as needed.   Continue reading “Soros-connected Vote-counting Firm Expands in U.S.”

Breitbart – by JON DAVID KAHN

KERSHAW COUNTY, SC (WIS) – Investigators say a 15-year-old boy was arrested after allegedly impersonating a Kershaw County Sheriff’s deputy, entering a woman’s home and demanding she strip down.

Sheriff Jim Matthews says the unidentified teen has been charged with impersonating a police officer, kidnapping, and third degree attempted criminal sexual conduct. He is currently in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.    Continue reading “Cops: 15-Year-Old Charged with Kidnapping After Impersonating Deputy and Attempting to Strip Search a Woman”

Monday Morning

When asked, “Are you in favor of scrapping [Obamacare] and going back to start over?”, famed investor Warren Buffett said on CNBC March 1, 2010, “I would be — if I were President Obama.”

Buffett insisted that without changes to America’s health system average citizens will suffer.

“We have a health system that, in terms of costs, is really out of control,” he added. “And if you take this line and you project what has been happening into the future, we will get less and less competitive. So we need something else.”   Continue reading “Buffett: Scrap Obamacare and Start All Over”

Tech Dirt- by Mike Masnick

At a recent event held by the Cato Institute concerning the NSA’s surveillance overreach, Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, who broke the PRISM story and (of course) has been one of the three key reporters on all of the Snowden docs, noted that the feds begged him not to reveal the nine companies listed as participants in the PRISM program. Gellman and the Post refused, noting that the government’s reasons for wanting to keep the names out didn’t raise any legitimate security concerns, but rather had to do with making life easier for the NSA:   Continue reading “Feds Begged Washington Post Reporter Not To Name Companies In PRISM, Because It Worried They’d Stop Cooperating”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

Way back in 2005, we wrote a story about a ridiculous situation in which a group of students were suspended after filming an angry teacher go on a bit of a tirade, screaming at students and yanking the chair out from under one of them. Rather than discipline the teacher, the school suspended the students. This was way back before it was that common for everyone to have phones with cameras in them (back when people still called them “cameraphones” and mocked them) and before social media made it so easy to widely distribute such images and videos. You’d think, given nearly a decade of time to get used to the concept that we wouldn’t see a similar story pop up… but that’s not the case apparently.   Continue reading “School Suspends 10 Students For Commenting On Image That Appears To Show Principal Choking Student”

Christian News – by Heather Clark

WASHINGTON – The dean of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. claimed during his weekly address this past  Sunday that it is a sin to oppose homosexuality.

The message was part of a weekend tribute to the homosexual youth at the National Cathedral, and a commemoration of the death of Matthew Shepherd, whose slaying sparked the passage of the federal “hate crimes” bill signed into law by Barack Obama in 2009. During his speech, Gary Hall blamed churches across the country for influencing American beliefs about homosexuality.   Continue reading “Dean of Washington’s National Cathedral: It’s a Sin to Oppose Homosexuality”