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Kansas City Star – by Donald Bradley
Ted Porter slips on the ice, lands on his rear and goes flying across the high Montana glacier on his back.
That’s how his story begins. Or maybe it starts before, when he failed to put ice-digging crampons on his boots.
Or does it really begin years earlier when Ted, growing up a Kansas City kid, decided he would rather climb mountains than play tennis? Continue reading “KC native’s will to live defeats a Montana glacier”
Against Crony Capitalism – by Hunter Lewis
And it is not funny.
There are two sides of the coin of crony capitalism. One side is bad economic policies that enrich the few connected to government while leaving behind the general public, the middle class, and the poor. The other side of the same coin is a closely related collapse in morality throughout our society. Hard work and honesty are out; knowing the right people and lying are in. Continue reading “There Nancy Pelosi Goes Again”
Before It’s News – by Earthchanges and News Event
September 22, 2013 – OREGON – Sitting on a major fault line, Oregon is “like an eight-and-a-half-month pregnancy, due any time now” for a major earthquake, a geologist with the Oregon Office of Emergency Management told an overflow crowd Friday in Medford. “
We’re in the zone, and we’d darn well better get ourselves ready for it,” said Althea Rizzo, geology hazard coordinator for OEM. “A lot of you may have moved here from California to escape them, but the fact is, Oregon is earthquake country.” Continue reading “Oregonians Warned To Prepare For Big One – roads cut off for 5 years, no electricity for 3 months, no gas for 6 months”
The family of a Florida man run over by police has released the video of his death in an attempt to start an independent investigation.
Marlon Brown, 38, of DeLand, was killed when a patrol car ran him over on May 8. He was reportedly running from police after he was pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt, ABC News reports. In the video released this week, officer James Harris gets out of the patrol car and tells another responding officer, “I think he’s underneath the f–king car.” Continue reading “Marlon Brown’s Family Releases GRAPHIC VIDEO Of Florida Officer Running Him Over”
Obama Says America Is Not a Banana Republic and We Have to Pay Our Bills … What Do Experts Say?
America’s top liberal communications expert is George Lakoff. Professor Lakoff (who we’ve previously interviewed) points out that when a politician says “Not X”, people usually think of X: Continue reading “Obama’s “I Am Not a Crook” Moment”
White House Dossier – by Keith Koffler
I don’t know, mainly I’m putting this up because it was amusing and I thought you’d enjoy it. But there is a larger point.
The news business has sunk to an abysmal depth. Nobody has any money, competition is fierce, and corners are cut everywhere you can find them. “Reputable” news organizations take one source and run a major story on the information as if they were sure it was fact. The old news saying – If your mother says she loves you, check it out, is a quaint anachronism. Continue reading “Jon Stewart Roasts CNN’s Navy Yard Coverage”
Before It’s News – by Alton Parrish
The most powerful typhoon of 2013 was passing between northern Philippines and southern Taiwan on Sept. 19. When NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Usagi, infrared data showed a large area of powerful thunderstorms and heavy rain surrounding the center while NASA’s TRMM satellite measured that heavy rainfall from space.
Super-Typhoon Usagi is a monster storm that according the Joint Typhoon Warning Center is headed for a landfall near Hong Kong on Sept. 22 around 1200 UTC/8 a.m. EDT/8 p.m. local time Hong Kong. Continue reading “Category 5 Hurricane: Satellite Images Of Super-Typhoon Usagi Passing Philippines And Southern Taiwan”
