Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

Global Internet traffic plunged by approximately 40 percent after Google services suffered a complete black-out Friday night, showing clearly just how much of grip Google holds on the internet worldwide.

According to Sky News Online, Google has refused to provide additional information on why their services, from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube, went dark, but web analytics firm GoSquared, confirms that the one-to-five minute outage occurred and caused the 40 percent plunge in worldwide Internet traffic.   Continue reading “Internet Traffic Plunges 40% After 5 Minute Google Outage (Video)- UPDATE- Microsoft Outage- Kill Switch Test?”

flock_sheep_ma264Farm to Consumer – by Pete Kennedy

Swarms Post: Sheep herder jailed for contempt faces second contempt charge.

Archuleta County, Colorado rancher Stephen (Steve) Keno, who has already served one week in jail and been fined $1,000 on a contempt of court charge related to allegedly grazing his sheep illegally, is now facing a second contempt of court action which could result in a 30-day sentence along with a $5,000 fine for the same offense. A hearing has been set for August 23 at the Archuleta County District Court in Pagosa Springs. FTCLDF General Counsel Gary Cox is now representing Keno.   Continue reading “Rancher Threatened with Second Jail Sentence”

use_your_milkman_Reitzig-HartkeIsOnlineFarm to Consumer – by Liz Reitzig

Swarms Post: Two farmers, Mike Hartmann and Alvin Schlangen, head to court this week. Just last Thursday, Hartman was stopped and his truck impounded.

The plight of two Minnesota raw milk providers and those families who depend on them seems to get worse by the minute. As the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) continues to prosecute the two main providers of raw milk in the state, the real story becomes clear: the state wants to completely shut down raw milk, criminalize those who provide it, and make a living hell for the two peaceful men who serve their community so lovingly and consistently.   Continue reading “Milkman Delivery Service Under Seige in Minnesota”

obama72Ventura County Tea Party – by George Miller

The world turned upside down. USA supporting Jihadists, Russia and Saudi Arabai trying to stop them. Dump Obama before he destroys us.

In case you don’t remember, the Saudi King refused to even talk to Obama for a long time after the overthrow of his friend Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, supported and funded in part by Obama. Now, not only are the King and the Russian President vowing to back General Sisi against the Brotherhood, they are putting their money where their mouths are, more than making up for Obama’s threat to cut off $1.3 billion.   Continue reading “First, Vladimir Putin of Russia, now, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, both offer support for the Egyptian Army against the Muslim Brotherhood…and against Barack Hussein Obama”

Screenshot from pirateproxy.seRT News

The Pirate Bay has released a self-configured browser package, which allows users to skate around the anti-piracy censorship of certain governments. Now one can access TPB and other file-sharing websites blocked by internet providers in ‘one click’.

The team running the Pirate Bay (TPB) – one of the web’s largest file-sharing sites – has launched a special PirateBrowser that allows users “to circumvent censorship that certain countries impose onto their citizens.”    Continue reading “Pirate Bay launches easy anti-censorship browser”

Xinhua News

WELLINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — Dozens of aftershocks have rattled central New Zealand overnight following Saturday’s 6.6 magnitude quake, as the capital of Wellington got back to business and South Island town of Seddon, where most of the quakes were centered, started its clean up.

There have been 44 quakes over magnitude 4.0 since Friday’s 6.6- magnitude quake, New Zealand government geological website GeoNet said.   Continue reading “Aftershocks continue to rattle central New Zealand”

Photo - Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said the latest revelations in the NSA controversy came because "this is what happens when you have secret laws." (AP/Carlos Osorio)Washington Examiner – by ASHE SCHOW 

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., an ardent opponent of the National Security Agency’s bulk private-data collection program, said the latest revelations in the controversy came because “this is what happens when you have secret laws.”

Amash’s comment appeared on his Facebook page and Twitter, condemning the NSA for, as reported by the Washington Post, violating privacy rules thousands of times and “accidentally” targeted Americans, something supporters of the program claim didn’t happen.   Continue reading “Justin Amash on latest NSA scandal: ‘This is what happens when you have secret laws’”

meth lab cleanupMother Jones – by Jonah Engle

With big profits on the line, the drug industry is pulling out campaign-style dirty tricks to keep selling the meds that cooks turn into crank.

THE FIRST TIME she saw her mother passed out on the living room floor, Amanda thought she was dead. There were muddy tracks on the carpet and the room looked like it had been ransacked. Mary wouldn’t wake up. When she finally came to, she insisted nothing was wrong. But as the weeks passed, her 15-year-old daughter’s sense of foreboding grew. Amanda’s parents stopped sleeping and eating. Her once heavy mother turned gaunt and her father, Barry, stopped going to work. She was embarrassed to go into town with him; he was covered in open sores. A musty stink gripped their increasingly chaotic trailer. The driveway filled up with cars as strangers came to the house and partied all night.   Continue reading “Merchants of Meth: How Big Pharma Keeps the Cooks in Business”

Dan from Squirrel Hill’s Blog

I ask you to please show this list to as many people as possible – and especially, to please show it to as many Obama supporters as possible. Sunshine really is the best disinfectant. I can’t stop Obama from doing any of these horrible things, but I can tell people about what he is doing. So please share this list with others on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thank you. The short link for this is http://tinyurl.com/ku9vxug     Continue reading “Obama supporters will go hysterical over this well sourced list of 252 examples of his lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, etc.”

A legislative change taking effect in Germany this November allows parents to opt out of determining their baby's gender. The law is the first of its kind in Europe.Spiegel Online – by Friederike Heine

Germany is set to become the first country in Europe to introduce a third, “indeterminate” gender designation on birth certificates. The European Union, which is attempting to coordinate anti-discrimination efforts across member states, is lagging behind on the issue.

The option of selecting “blank”, in addition to the standard choices of “male” or female” on birth certificates will become available in Germany from November 1. The legislative change allows parents to opt out of determining their baby’s gender, thereby allowing those born with characteristics of both sexes to choose whether to become male or female in later life. Under the new law, individuals can also opt to remain outside the gender binary altogether.   Continue reading “M, F or Blank: ‘Third Gender’ Official in Germany from November”

thinkdifferentCryptogon

Via: United States Patent 8,254,902:

As wireless devices such as cellular telephones, pagers, personal media devices and smartphones become ubiquitous, more and more people are carrying these devices in various social and professional settings. The result is that these wireless devices can often annoy, frustrate, and even threaten people in sensitive venues.   Continue reading “Apple Patents Kill Switch for Mobile Devices Because: “Covert Police or Government Operations May Require Complete ‘Blackout’ Conditions.””

Photo - Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, invited a rodeo clown who performed in a President Obama mask to come to Texas. (AP File)Washington Examiner – by JOEL GEHRKE

Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, invited a rodeo clown banned from the Missouri State Fair for a performance featuring an Obama mask to take the show to the Lone Star State.

“I’m sure any rodeo in Texas would be proud to have performers,” Stockman said in a statement today. “Disagreeing with speech is one thing. Banning it and ordering citizens into reeducation classes for mocking a liberal leader is another.”   Continue reading “Congressman invites rodeo clown to perform Obama act in Texas”

Washington Examiner – by CHARLIE SPIERING

In the wake of ‘Clown-gate’ at the Missouri State Fair, it appears that professional rodeo clowns will think twice before mocking the president.

But in 1994, Douglas A. Campbell, a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer chronicled a rodeo clown even featuring George H.W. Bush.   Continue reading “In 1994, there was a ‘George Bush’ rodeo clown dummy”

Tech Dirt -by Mike Masnick

from the either-you-help-us-spy-on-people-or-you’re-a-criminal dept

The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more ridiculous, as he explains that the government has threatened him with criminal charges for his decision to shut down the business, rather than agree to some mysterious court order. The feds are apparently arguing that the act of shutting down the business, itself, was a violation of the order:   Continue reading “Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service”

Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside (ABC News)Yahoo News – by Kami Dimitrova | ABC News Blogs

An Ohio man expected the gun safe he ordered online to be empty, police said.

But instead, he found $425,000-worth of tightly wrapped marijuana bricks inside.

“I’ve been in law enforcement for 47 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Shelby County, Ohio, Sheriff John L. Lenhartsaid. “It’s quite effective if you think about it: wrapped airtight to withstand high temperatures. Drug-sniffing dogs probably couldn’t smell it.”   Continue reading “Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside”

lightworkersxm    Continue reading “Egypt Protests : Boston and Woolwich style : Pallywood comes to Egypt : Crisis Actors Caught faking Injury : Morsi is a gonner: Message from Egypt : This is the real news:”

Defence One – by Aliya Sternstein 

He works at one of the three-letter intelligence agencies and oversees construction of a $1.2 billion surveillance data center in Utah that is 15 times the size of MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and Jets. Long Island native Harvey Davis, a top National Security Agency official, needs that commanding presence. His role is to supervise infrastructure construction worldwide for NSA, which is part of the Defense Department. That involves tending to logistics, military installations, as well as power, space and cooling for all NSA data centers.     Continue reading “The NSA’s New Spy Facilities are 7 Times Bigger Than the Pentagon”

Damaged Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) number 1 daiichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture (AFP Photo)RT News

Even the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT.

Fukushima operator TEPCO wants to extract 400 tons worth of spent fuel rods stored in a pool at the plant’s damaged Reactor No. 4. The removal would have to be done manually from the top store of the damaged building in the radiation-contaminated environment.   Continue reading “Fukushima apocalypse: Years of ‘duct tape fixes’ could result in ‘millions of deaths’”