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US President Barack Obama said he is mulling steps to put pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to kickstart the stalled Geneva peace conference. But Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov says every attempt is being made to derail the peace process.
Obama’s comments were delivered while meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah in California on Friday to discuss a range of issues, including the current Syrian stalemate. Continue reading “Obama considers new steps against Syria ‘to pressure’ Assad”
NBC News – by NONA WILLIS ARONOWITZ
Troy, Mo.—In a cramped, carpeted amphitheater in the basement of Troy Buchanan High School, 69 students are waiting to die.
“You’ll know when it pops off,” says Robert Bowen, the school’s campus police officer. “If you get engaged with one of the shooters, you’ll know it.” Continue reading “Fake Blood and Blanks: Schools Stage Active Shooter Drills”
Fast Company – by CHRIS GAYOMALI
We haven’t heard much from Amazon since CEO Jeff Bezos announced back in December that the retailer had ambitious plans to eventually roll out a fleet of drones to deliver your packages. But if the idea of having whirly-bladed quad-copters bringing you that Doctor Who box set you ordered in a haze at 4 a.m. last Friday night sounds a little farfetched, there’s at least one place drone delivery could soon become a reality: the United Arab Emirates. Continue reading “Coming soon to the UAE: Delivery drones that scan your eyeballs”
Google Chrome is not the only web browser plagued by rogue or malicious browser extensions.
I noticed that companies were buying popular extensions for marketing and monetization purposes back in January 2013 when several popular Firefox add-ons were purchased by Wisp.com. Continue reading “Extension Defender for Firefox makes sure you don’t install rogue add-ons”
Google implemented the company’s own Google Translate service into its Chrome browser. It is a handy feature at times, as you will get a translate notification prompt whenever you visit a foreign language website.
To make things more comfortable, it enables you to configure the service to translate specific languages all the time or not at all. Continue reading “Mozilla’s Intellego to power machine translation in Firefox”
Natural Society – by Elizabeth Renter
Fast food giant Chick-fil-A, whose restaurants gross well over $3 million each year, announced this week that it would be working towards an antibiotic-free food supply in coming years. The announcement comes as the public and government regulators alike have become concerned about the overuse of antibiotics in meat production, potentially leading to the development and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Continue reading “Chick-Fil-A Vows to Phase out Antibiotics in Chicken by 2019”
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule on February 12 creating an exemption for residue tolerance levels in soy foods and feed for the biological pesticide Bt used in GMO crops. Similar exemptions have already been approved for corn and cotton food and products.
The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, commonly known as Bt, has been widely used in organic agriculture for decades as a natural pesticide, because it produces a toxin that kills certain insects. In recent years, the DNA from the Bt bacterium has been incorporated into genetically modified corn, cotton and soybean crops to protect the plants from insects like the corn borer and cotton bollworm. Continue reading “EPA Approves Exemption for Bt Residues in Soy Foods From GMO Crops”
It’s not that the US has a scarcity of bizarre everyday stories – it does not. It is just that sometimes you encounter something so surreal, warped and ridiculous, that even the stock “market” makes sense by comparison. Such as this.
From WNEP of Scranton. Continue reading “Man Breaks Into Police Station, Beats Up, Hospitalizes Cops”
Hell-bent on arming opposition forces in Syria—despite strong evidence that they’re run by Islamic terrorists—John McCain displayed behavior unbecoming of a United States Senator during a recent meeting with Syrian Christian leaders touring Capitol Hill.
The delegation of Syrian clergy came to Washington to raise awareness among lawmakers of the growing crisis among the region’s minority Christian community. Christians make up about 10% of the Syrian population and they are being targeted and ruthlessly murdered by radical elements of the rebel forces, according to the visiting church officials. They say the media and human rights groups in the west have been largely silent on the ordeal of the Christians in Syria. Continue reading “GOP Senator Apologizes for McCain Tantrum at Syrian Christian Leader Meeting”
We reckon that anti-gunners will do just about anything to try to trick people into thinking that gun sales are tanking and that Americans therefore are ready to support the full array of restrictions envisioned by our “transform the United States of America” president, Barack Obama.
Yesterday, Bloomberg Businessweek featured an article by Kyle Stock that juggled monthly numbers of firearm-related checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) to make it appear that, as Stock put it, “Americans, apparently, may finally have enough guns and ammunition.” Stock explained, “FBI background checks, a leading indicator of firearm demand, have also been dropping. Federal applications to make a gun purchase last month were one-third fewer (sic) than a year ago.” Continue reading “Bloomberg and CNN pretend Americans don’t want guns”
“Edward Snowden sacrificed his livelihood, citizenship and freedom by exposing the disturbing scope of the NSA’s worldwide spying program,” said former Rep. Ron Paul in a video released on his website Thursday.
“Thanks to one man’s courageous actions, Americans know about the truly egregious ways their government is spying on them,” Paul said, which is why the former lawmaker has started a petition demanding the National Security Agency whistleblower be granted clemency. Continue reading “Ron Paul Launches Petition To Bring Snowden Safely Back To US”
Real Currencies – by Anthony Migchels
Who in his right mind wants more State? More politicians? More bribes for politicians? More fines, more law, more prison? More Bush, more Hillary, more lies, more war?
Time to wake up people! Regulation is what Big Business lobbies for all the time: it’s killing small and medium business, who don’t have the resources to comply. Continue reading “Hate The State! (But The Banks Even More!)”
Real Currencies – by Anthony Migchels
We need credit and that’s why a credit based money supply is so attractive. It catches two birds with one stone. It’s probably its simplicity that makes it so hard to digest. It solves money scarcity, the boom/bust cycle, Usury and decentralizes credit allocation as much as is humanly possible. In short: it meets all requirements of comprehensive monetary reform. Continue reading “More on Mutual Credit”
The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges
As a trained researcher, I appreciate the virtue of simplicity. You’ve probably heard this admonition before: The simplest explanation is usually the right one. Even police detectives use it to deduce who’s the likeliest suspect in a murder case. Physicians often use the principle to determine the illness behind a set of symptoms. This line of reasoning is called Occam’s razor. Continue reading “Why the Church Must Be Abandoned”
BizPac Review – by Michael Dorstewitz
A top aide to strict gun-grabbing New York Gov.Andrew Cuomo has been granted a waiver forcarrying a firearm at government offices in violation of state law.
Cuomo appointed Jerome Hauer to take over the state’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services in 2011, according to the Albany Times Union. Continue reading “Top Cuomo aide granted waiver after repeatedly breaking NY gun law”
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ghacks – by Martin Brinkmann
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Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden
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