The Hill – by Bernie Becker

The Senate’s top tax writers have promised their colleagues 50 years worth of secrecy in exchange for suggestions on what deductions and credits to preserve in tax reform.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and the panel’s top Republican, Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah), assured lawmakers that any submission they receive will be kept under lock and key by the committee and the National Archives until the end of 2064.   Continue reading “Tax writers promise 50 years of secrecy for senators’ suggestions”

Robert Small deserves an apology Baltimore Sun -by Liz Bowie

The Howard County father whose arrest became a viral web video and a cause celebre of conservative talk radio won’t be prosecuted for disrupting a meeting on state education standards.

The Baltimore County state’s attorney’s office dropped assault charges Monday against Robert Small, who had been led out of the Thursday night meeting in Towson by an off-duty police officer. Small interrupted education officials, complaining that new standards were aimed at sending children to community colleges.   Continue reading “Charges dropped against Maryland parent who spoke against Common Core standards”

Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die

Another top microbiologist has been killed, this time in Kenya during the recent massacre. Coincidentally, or not, Elif Yavuz also worked for Bill Clinton at the Clinton Foundation. For those who have been paying attention, the the list of scientists who have met their untimely demise is astounding. Was Elif Yavuz merely in the wrong place at the wrong time or is there more to her death? Did she know something about the more than 50 African children who had recently been paralyzed due to the Bill Gates backed meningitis vaccines? Conspiracy theory forums are going crazy about this one. At the bottom of this story are two videos, the first one a Steve Quayle video detailing the ‘dead scientists conspiracy theory’ with the 2nd one a video report about her death.   Continue reading “Top Microbiologist Killed In Kenya; Worked For Clinton Foundation”

The New Boston Tea Party

For ease of navigating the Executive Orders, the most recent and most searched for Executive Orders are listed below here on the main Executive Order page. The full list is to large to keep it all on one page. To make it easier to view and faster to load the list has been broken out by year. Click on the following links to view that years Executive Orders.   Continue reading “Obama’s Executive Orders”

Hey Lyndsey, I have something here that might interest you!Veterans Today

Hey Lyndsey, I have something here that might interest you!  – ” Oh my!”

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson voices a common opinion for the military and intelligence communities, who generally despise both of them as political and personal low lifes

[ Editors Note:  McCain has long been regard as a security risk, and Graham, although for different reasons. People who have gotten close to McCain’s hidden story of his Hanoi Hotel days have ended up dead. As for Graham, his being the Air Force reserve colonel who can collect a pension, but never showed up for work, does not go down well.   Continue reading “McCain, Graham ‘bordering on being traitors’”

Turmeric Extract Kills Highly Lethal Pancreatic Tumors, Preclinical Study RevealsGreen Med Info – by Sayer Ji

Considering that the conventional treatment of advanced stage pancreatic cancer can result in as little as a 1% 5-year survival rate, new preclinical research on a liposomal turmeric extract that inhibits pancreatic tumor growth by 42% is all the more amazing.

A promising new study published in the journal Anticancer Research, a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the International Institute of Anticancer Research, reveals a unique turmeric extract known as liposomal curcumin may provide an ideal chemotherapy alternative in the treatment of highly lethal pancreatic cancers.[1]   Continue reading “Turmeric Extract Kills Highly Lethal Pancreatic Tumors, Preclinical Study Reveals”

ICT CoverGreen Med Info – by Glenn Sabin

A new paper titled Integrating Dietary Supplements Into Cancer Care, authored by the Clinical Practice Committee of the Society for Integrative Oncology, will be published in the October/November 2013 edition of SAGE’s Integrative Cancer Therapies, edited by Keith I Block, MD.

SAGE has graciously made the article available, accessible here for 30 days, starting September 1, 2013.   Continue reading “Free Access: Seminal Paper on Integrating Top 10 Dietary Supplements Into Cancer Care”

Flickr - Flu Vaccine - Daniel PaquetWaking Times – by Heidi Stevenson

As documented by a new study, getting a flu vaccination can result in coming down with a more virulent influenza. This phenomenon was noted during the swine flu pandemic-that-wasn’t a couple of years ago, but pooh-poohed by skeptics.

In the study[1] published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, pigs were given a universal flu vaccine of the type currently under development. They developed a more virulent form of influenza that readily turned into pneumonia when exposed to a strain similar to the variety used in the vaccine.   Continue reading “Flu Vaccines Can Make Influenza Worse: Study”

RT News

An Egyptian court has banned all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country. Its assets will also be confiscated according to the court ruling.

“The court bans the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental organization and all the activities that it participates in and any organization derived from it,” said the presiding judge Mohammed Sayed.    Continue reading “Egypt court bans all Muslim Brotherhood activities nationwide”

An Iranian couple hold a model of the captured US RQ-170 drone during the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran on February 11, 2012. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)RT News

Iranian officials say they have completed decoding the surveillance data and software extracted from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone that the United States lost possession of nearly two years ago near the city of Kashmar.

Hossein Salami, the lieutenant commander general of Iran’s Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, told the country’s Fars news agency that analysts have finally cracked the systems used within the RQ-170 Sentinel drone obtained in December 2011.   Continue reading “Iran says they’ve finished decoding downed CIA drone”

Mail.com

TORONTO (AP) — BlackBerry’s largest shareholder has reached a tentative agreement to pay $4.7 billion for the troubled smartphone maker, even as many investors fret about its potential demise.

BlackBerry Ltd. said Monday that Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. has signed a letter of intent to buy the company for $9 per share in cash and take it private. The tentative deal comes just days after the Canadian company announced plans to lay off 40 percent of its global workforce. The offer price is below what the company had been trading at before the layoff announcement.   Continue reading “Fairfax reaches tentative deal to buy BlackBerry”

Lois LernerMail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a possible firing, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the agency’s tea party scandal retired Monday, ending one chapter in a ruckus that has engulfed the tax-collection agency since spring.

Lois Lerner headed the IRS division that handles applications for tax-exempt status when she was placed on paid leave in May. While she was in charge, the agency acknowledged that agents improperly targeted tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections.   Continue reading “IRS official at heart of tea party scandal retires”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of immigrants crossing the border illegally into the U.S. appears to be on the rise again after dropping during the recession.

The total number of immigrants living in this country unlawfully edged up from 11.3 million in 2009 to 11.7 million last year, with those from countries other than Mexico at an apparent all-time high, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project.   Continue reading “New signs of rising illegal immigration into US”

Common Dreams – by Bill Quigley

While Colorado and Washington have de-criminalized recreational use of marijuana and twenty states allow use for medical purposes, a Louisiana man was sentenced to twenty years in prison in New Orleans criminal court for possessing 15 grams, .529 of an ounce, of marijuana.

Corey Ladd, 27, had prior drug convictions and was sentenced September 4, 2013 as a “multiple offender to 20 years hard labor at the Department of Corrections.”    Continue reading “Reefer Madness Continues: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison”

Are you ready for total grid failureThe Organic Prepper

If you haven’t been in a bubble cut off from all forms of media lately, it would be impossible to have missed all of the warnings being issued about the impending loss of our electrical grid.

This isn’t just coming from so-called “gloom and doom” sites or from alternative media.  Major mainstream media sources such as ABC News, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and CBS News have all issued the alerts. Unfortunately, the hordes seem to be brushing these warnings off as something that cannot happen, because the reality is too unpleasant to even contemplate.  Many seem to think that they are far better to stick their heads in the sand and be assured it can never happen than to prepare ahead of time.   Continue reading “You’ve Been Warned: Why You Need to Be Ready for Total Grid Failure”

ABC News – by RICARDO CHAVEZ Associated Press

A gunman burst into a home east of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez where people were celebrating a baseball victory and killed 10 people, authorities said Monday.

The killings occurred Sunday night in Loma Blanca, a town in the Juarez Valley. The dead included a 7-year-old girl, her mother, three teenage boys and five adult men, said Arturo Sandoval, spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors’ office.   Continue reading “10 Killed in Massacre Near Mexican Border City”

Max Velocity Tactical

What is my point?

It is this: ‘IT’ will never happen when you expect it to happen. Expect ‘dislocation of expectations’. Expect surprise. Be aware of the danger of denial. You may be taking a dump over a cat hole out in the woods with your pants down around your ankles, when ‘Contact!’ is shouted. Snap it off and get going!

I realize that I have run a couple of ‘reality call’ posts recently  (‘Reality Check: All the Gear No Idea‘ & ‘SHTF Combat Casualty – Considerations & Realities‘) and to a certain extent they can be a little depressing. This post is also about getting a grip with reality, but if you keep reading, I aim to end it on a lighter note, with a little bit of morale.   Continue reading “There will be no theme music”

Mail.com

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — They face parole hearings soon, but ex-Tyco executives Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz have already left a minimum-security prison in Harlem for steady clerical jobs and overnights in apartments following their headline-grabbing $134 million corporate fraud convictions.

Former CEO Kozlowski and ex-chief financial officer Swartz are among 304 inmates in the state’s work-release program, according to prison officials. After a period where they spent nights or weekends back at Lincoln Correctional Facility, they have only had to report in weekly since July.   Continue reading “Ex-Tyco execs out of prison, face parole hearings”

Mail.com

BERLIN (AP) — The fingerprint-based security system used to unlock Apple’s latest iPhone can be bypassed using a household printer and some wood glue, a German hacking group has claimed.

A spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said the group managed to fool the biometric sensor in the iPhone 5S over the weekend by creating an artificial copy of a genuine fingerprint. “It was surprisingly easy,” Dirk Engling told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday, a day after the group announced the exploit on its website.   Continue reading “German group claims iPhone fingerprint hack”