insect bee dandelion 263x164 List of Foods We Will Lose if We Don’t Save the BeesNatural Society – by Christina Sarich 

Many pesticides have been found to cause grave danger to our bees, and with the recent colony collapses in Oregon, it’s time to take a hard look at what we would be missing without bee pollination.

In just the last ten years, over 40% of the bee colonies in the US have suffered Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Bees either become so disoriented they can’t find their way back to their hives and die away from home, or fly back poison-drunk and die at the foot of their queen. There are many arguments as to what is causing CCD, but the most logical and likely culprit is the increased usage of pesticides by the likes of Monsanto and others.   Continue reading “List of Foods We Will Lose if We Don’t Save the Bees”

Unbelievable: 4.3 Part-Time Jobs Created for Every Full-Time Job in 2013!Independent Journal – by Kyle Becker

In a rebuttal to gainsaying that there is no connection between ObamaCare’s employer mandate and part-time job creation, Duke University researcher Chris Conover has discovered an astounding statistic.

Thus far in 2013, part-time job creation is more than quadrupling full-time job creation (defined by BLS data as 35 or more hours per week, even higher than the 30 hours or more per week that the PPACA stipulates). How extraordinary is that?   Continue reading “Unbelievable: 4.3 Part-Time Jobs Created for Every Full-Time Job in 2013!”

Florida resident Ibragim Todashev via AFPRaw Story

State investigators in Florida have rejected a request for an independent investigation of the fatal shooting of a Chechen man while he was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Florida’s department of law enforcement declined the request by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida to look into the death of Ibragim Todashev.   Continue reading “Florida won’t investigate police shooting of Chechen man”

CIA running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate attack: The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group in this file photo taken September 11, 2012.The Telegraph – by Damien McElroy

The CIA has been subjecting operatives to monthly polygraph tests in an attempt to suppress details of a US arms smuggling operation in Benghazi that was ongoing when its ambassador was killed by a mob in the city last year, according to reports.

Up to 35 CIA operatives were working in the city during the attack last September on the US consulate that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, according to CNN.   Continue reading “CIA ‘running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked’”

Oregon Live – by Lynne Terry

Lightning pummeled parts of Oregon since Wednesday, igniting dozens of new wildfires as smoke from existing blazes continued to hang in the air.

Central Oregon was hit with 1,800 strikes in the last 24 hours, Kate Goossens,  a spokeswoman for the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center, said Thursday.   Continue reading “New front in wildfire battle opens in central Oregon”

Common Dreams – by Sarah Lazare

Debate and positions on controversial military aid shrouded in secrecy, conjuring memories of Iraq War buildup.

After the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week passed the Obama administration’s controversial plan to funnel arms to Syrian rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the vote and debate remain hidden from the public under the label of “classified” information.   Continue reading “Classified: Senators Hide Their Votes on Arming Syrian Fighters from Public”

Common Dreams – by Chris Woods with additional reporting by Mushtaq Yusufzai

A field investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in Pakistan’s tribal areas appears to confirm that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) last year briefly revived the controversial tactic of deliberately targeting rescuers at the scene of a previous drone strike. The tactic has previously been labelled a possible war crime by two UN investigators.   Continue reading “Bureau Investigation Finds Fresh Evidence of CIA Drone Strikes on Rescuers”

Gun RightsFreedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

I have been writing for Freedom Outpost for nearly a year and then at the former Front Porch Politics for six months before that. There was a commenter who would always come on and say that no one is coming for our guns, and yet, here we are. The evidence abounds that gun confiscation is the goal and is currently taking place. We first saw it in New York under the NY SAFE Act and then in California. Now we’re seeing it in Cook County, Illinois, former home to Barack Obama. This is why American patriots have warned against gun registration, because it inevitably leads to gun confiscation.   Continue reading “Illinois’ Cook County Begins Gun Confiscation”

photo courtesy of Joe Brusky, Overpass Light BrigadeWisconsin Citizen Media – by wcmcoop

A Lutheran pastor from Madison suffered cardiac symptoms while in police custody on Friday, July 26, after being arrested in the Wisconsin Capitol during what Capitol Police deemed an “unlawful assembly” of the Solidarity Sing Along.

As the Rev. Carter Dary, 67, was being taken to the basement of the Capitol for processing, he began experiencing chest pain. Capitol Police placed a nitroglycerin capsule from Dary’s keychain in his hand without removing his handcuffs. (His hands were cuffed in front of him instead of behind him after he told officers he was having chest pain.)  Patrick Knowles, who was also arrested, was with Dary at the time and said later, “I was told by someone released after me that they had to try three times to get his blood pressure. It is not known to me what his current condition is, but would characterize it by what I saw as grave. My prayers are with him.”  Knowles provided this eyewitness account:   Continue reading “Exercising Rights in Capitol May Be Harmful to Your Health”

Combat Studies Group

Between the rifle and the pistol, I will generally spend more training time on the pistol. There are a couple reasons for this…

1) All things being equal, it takes more skill to be consistently accurate with a pistol than with a rifle – the rifle having the benefit of a longer sight radius (or optics) and the inherent stability that comes with a stocked firearm. (Not to mention the weight-to-trigger pull ratio disparity with a pistol).   Continue reading “Improve Your Pistolcraft…”

Sh.jpegAll Alabama -by Cassie Fambro

Washington state legislator Rep. Matt Shea (R) says preparation is crucial to get ready for what he calls “the inevitable collapse” of the US economy.

The Self-Reliance Rally event at an Idaho State Park had several speakers encouraging attendees to prepare by gathering arms and ammunition and considering forming militias.

“When it happens, we need to look at this as a opportunity, not a crisis,” Shea said. “Who’s job is liberty? That’s our job.”  Continue reading “Legislator to tea party: Get your guns ready for economic collapse”

armyhitmen.jpgFox News

Mexican cartels are recruiting hit men from the U.S. military, offering big money to highly-trained soldiers to carry out contract killings and potentially share their skills with gangsters south of the border, according to law enforcement experts.

The involvement of three American soldiers in separate incidents, including a 2009 murder that led to last week’s life sentence for a former Army private, underscore a problem the U.S. military has fought hard to address.   Continue reading “Mexican cartels hiring US soldiers as hit men”

Texas Death ChamberMail.com

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The nation’s most active death penalty state is running out of its execution drug.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Thursday that its remaining supply of pentobarbital expires in September and that no alternatives have been found. It wasn’t immediately clear whether two executions scheduled for next month would be delayed. The state has already executed 11 death-row inmates this year, and at least seven more have execution dates in coming months.   Continue reading “Texas prison system running out of execution drug”

Mail.com

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Old Faithful it’s not.

Yellowstone National Park’s Steamboat Geyser — the world’s tallest — has erupted for the first time in more than eight years. The nine-minute blast sent steaming hot water an estimated 200 to 300 feet in the air, park geologist Hank Heasler said Thursday.

Unlike the park’s popular and famous Old Faithful geyser, which spews water like clockwork every hour-and-a-half, no one knows when Steamboat will erupt next. In the past, it’s gone as long as 50 years without a major event. In 1964, it erupted a record 29 times. The last blast came in 2005.   Continue reading “Rare eruption at Yellowstone geyser”

Lei YixinMail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chinese sculptor has removed a disputed inscription from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial statue that he designed on the National Mall and said Thursday that he is working on a new finish for the side of the artwork.

Plans call for sculptor Lei Yixin to carve grooves over the former words to match existing horizontal “striation” marks in the memorial. Lei said he is working to deepen all the memorial’s grooves so that they will match.   Continue reading “Disputed inscription removed from MLK Memorial”

CyclosporaMail.com

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Food safety advocates say they are alarmed by a lack of information being disseminated about the spread of a nasty intestinal illness that has sickened nearly 400 people nationwide, including cases in two states that have been linked to prepackaged salad.

The outbreak of the rare parasite cyclospora has been reported in at least 15 states, and federal officials warned Wednesday it was too early to say that the threat was over. But if you’re looking to find out exactly where it came from, you may be out of luck.   Continue reading “Critics: Consumers should know more about outbreak”

Yahoo News Canada – by Steve Mertl | Daily Brew

We’ve all heard of diplomatic immunity, the international convention that exempts select representatives of foreign countries from arrest and prosecution unless that protection is specifically waived by their government.

The privilege has been occasionally abused, but it’s a vital element in allowing diplomats to operate in sometimes hostile environments without fear of being detained.   Continue reading “U.S. expects immunity for its cops working in new cross-border policing program”