President Barack Obama during his Friday interview with the Associated Press. (Charles Dharapak/AP)Sports Illustrated

President Barack Obama is the latest to weigh in on the subject of the Washington Redskins’ name. In an interview with the Associated Press on Friday, the President said that if he owned the team, a change in nickname would be considered.

“I don’t know whether our attachment to a particular name should override the real legitimate concerns that people have about these things,” Obama said, adding that team names like “Redskins” offend “a sizeable group of people.”   Continue reading “Obama suggests Redskins name change; team’s lawyer responds defiantly”

KFDI News

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) Newtown voters have accepted a $50 million grant from the state of Connecticut to build a new Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of last year’s school massacre.

The unofficial results Saturday were 4,504 for the grant offer and 558 against. The vote was essentially a formality since a task force of Newtown officials decided in May in favor of a plan to tear down the school and build a new one. Sandy Hook students have been attending classes at a school in neighboring Monroe.   Continue reading “Newtown voters accept grant to rebuild Sandy Hook”

FBI detonates 'potentially volatile substance' near Houston homeKVUE News

HOUSTON – The FBI confirmed that they detonated a “potentially volatile substance” Saturday in the backyard of a home in the Tanglewood area in Houston.

Nearby neighbors were notified before it took place.   Continue reading “FBI detonates ‘potentially volatile substance’ near Houston home”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff

Japan’s government has agreed to give Washington $3 billion to facilitate the downsizing of the U.S. Marine force on Okinawa.

The longstanding American military presence on Okinawa has been a sore point for many Japanese living on the strategic island, which has been under U.S. control since World War II.

Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera to sign an amendment to the 2009 Guam International Agreement (pdf), which calls for removing 4,000 Marines from the island.   Continue reading “Japanese Government Agrees to Spend $3 Billion to Boot U.S. Marines out of Okinawa”

Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, Brunei Aug. 2013CTV News

BALI, Indonesia — Talks on a trans-Pacific trade pact are forging ahead with hopes of meeting a year-end deadline, officials said Saturday, despite U.S. President Barack Obama’s absence due to the government shutdown.

Obama had intended to thrash out issues with leaders of the 11 other trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, member countries on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific regional summit in Bali on Monday and Tuesday.   Continue reading “U.S. pushing Trans-Pacific Partnership agenda despite government shutdown”

01-phishingPatriot Net Daily – by Adam Levin

Here’s a scary scenario. You’re innocently surfing the Web, maybe on an unfamiliar site, not paying close attention. Suddenly your computer screen fills with illegal pornographic images of minors. You try to navigate away, but a warning screen branded by the National Security Administration’s Internet Surveillance Program pops up with the message: “Your computer has been locked due to suspicion of illegal content downloading and distribution.”   Continue reading “The 5 Deadly Clicks: The Links You Should Never Touch”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

We’ve heard quite a bit about the national park closures and veterans being locked away from their memorials, both the national memorial for WW II vets and now the Vietnam veterans physically removed from the Vietnam memorial.

What we haven’t heard much about is how offgriders, people that live on campgrounds, in rvs in the backcountry, or on houseboats in the marinas, some of which pay very good money to live there, are being made homeless, kicked out of their very homes.   Continue reading “Offgriders Kicked Out Of Homes On Lake Mead By Obama Administration”

playing tagThe Daily Sheeple – by Kimberly Paxton

As you know, having children “running in packs” just won’t do, so a school system in Grand Rapids, Michigan is determined to put a stop to such unruly behavior.

“Tag” will no longer be allowed for the young students of the Zeeland Public School system.   Continue reading “Tag Banned!!!! Kindergarten Playground Now Safe from Children “running in packs””

An image grab taken from a video on September 22, 2012, shows the so-called Free Syrian Army’s Riad al-Asaad (C) reading a statement from an undisclosed location in Syria.Press TV

Conflicting reports coming out of Syria suggest that the man who established the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) has been probably killed in a military operation in Syria’s western province of Latakia.

According to Lebanon’s al-Akhbar newspaper, Riad al-Asaad was killed at a village in Latakia during the government forces’ military operations against foreign-backed militants.    Continue reading “Free Syria Army founder probably killed in military operation”

40-False_Flag_ExposedAmerican Free Press – by Victor Thorn

Once restricted merely to conspiracy circles, the term “false flag attack” became part of the popular lexicon during the recent Syrian chemical weapons debacle. Former Representative Ron Paul (R-Tex) referred to allegations that the Syrian government had used sarin gas as a false flag before adding, “The group most likely to benefit from it is al Qaeda.” But even though Muslim revolutionaries were most likely involved in the use of chemical weapons, the source of these heinous attacks can be traced to familiar players.   Continue reading “U.S. False Flag Exposed; World Isn’t Buying Syria Story; ‘Peace President’ Fomenting War; ‘Kerry a Liar,’ Says Russia”

People look at laptop computers in a cafe in Beijing on May 29, 2013France 24

AFP – China is employing two million people to keep tabs on people’s Internet use, according to state media, in a rare glimpse into the secret world of Beijing’s vast online surveillance operation.

Many of the employees are simply performing keyword searches to monitor the tens of millions of messages being posted daily on popular social media and microblogging sites, the Beijing News said.   Continue reading “China pays 2 million people to monitor Internet”

CNBC – by Dan Mangan

It’s a batting average that won’t land the federal marketplace for Obamacare into the Healthcare Hall of Fame.

As few as 1 in 100 applications on the federal exchange contains enough information to enroll the applicant in a plan, several insurance industry sources told CNBC on Friday. Some of the problems involve how the exchange’s software collects and verifies an applicant’s data.   Continue reading “99% of Obamacare applications hit a wall”

Investment Watch

As the government shutdown moves into its fifth day, both houses of congress meet in unusual weekend sessions. The House returns at 10am ET to continue work on several mini-funding measures. The Senate returns at noon ET for additional debate.

The House is working on a series of small funding bills for specific parts of the government, including veterans’ benefits, nutrition assistance for low-income women and children and emergency and disaster recovery funding.   Continue reading “Something Fishy: Emergency Funding For FEMA: Government Shutdown”

Trust Act signedHuffington Post

WASHINGTON — California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill on Saturday limiting the state’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities, a rebuke of a major Obama administration enforcement policy that has led to record deportations from the state.

As the Congress stalls on immigration reform, action continues in the states, and advocates and politicians in California hope they can serve as an example of how to do it right.

“While Washington waffles on immigration, California’s forging ahead,” Brown said in a press release after signing the legislation into law. “I’m not waiting.”   Continue reading “Trust Act Signed In California To Limit Deportation Program”