Common Dreams

FINLAND, Minn. – May 30 – The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today asked its million-plus members to call on Congress to reject efforts by the meat industry to weaken protections for farmers.

Tyson Foods, the nation’s largest factory farm producer of chicken, beef and pork is behind a proposed policy rider to the House Appropriations Committee’s 2015 spending bill. The rider would weaken rules, written by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (GIPSA). The rules are intended to protect contract farmers who raise animals for the four companies that control nearly all the meat eaten in the U.S. GIPSA is an agency of the USDA that writes the rules intended to promote “fair and competitive trading practices for the overall benefit of consumers and American agriculture.” Continue reading “Organic Consumers Association Calls on Congress to Oppose the Tyson Foods Anti-Farmer Act”

sceneBearing Arms – by Bob Owens

Two armed robbers in attempted to hold up the wrong Gamestop video game store in Harris County, Texas:

It all happened shortly after noon on Wallisville Road near Beltway 8. According to investigators, the two men attempted to rob a Game Stop store when they were stopped by the 28-year-old U.S. Marine.

Continue reading ““Ooh-rah!” U. S. Marine Veteran With Carry Permit Drops Armed Robber”

MH370 searchIndependent – by Adam Withnall

Officials today confirmed what we have feared for some time – that a relatively tiny search zone in the southern Indian Ocean is not the final resting place of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

From an underwater mission covering 850 sq km (320 sq mile) where acoustic “pings” were heard, the area being searched has now been extended to around a 60,000 sq km (23,100 sq mile) zone based on satellite data which remains disputed in some quarters.

The Australia-led search control team estimate it could be August – next year – before this region has been covered, and hopes of finding the Boeing 777’s flight recorders are becoming increasingly dim. Continue reading “Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: The 13 theories that could explain where the plane is – and what happened to it”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

Now that gay marriage seems to be a foregone conclusion in the United States, Time magazine is predicting the next “social movement” to overtake America. The magazine is promoting “The Transgender Tipping Point” on its June 9th cover.

As part of its cover story, the June issue features a full-standing cover shot of Laverne Cox, the star of the Netflix drama Orange Is the New Black. Cox is a transgendered male who identifies as a female.   Continue reading “Time Magazine: Attacking Transgender Bias is the Next ‘Social Movement’”

Citizen’s Journal

The California Air Resources Board, despite comments that it should reconsider amendments to its AB32 Scoping Plan on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, has gone ahead and approved them unanimously. What that means is CARB has rubber-stamped a plan to place the state on a path to cut carbon dioxide emissions in the state to 80 percent below 1990 levels, by mid-century.

Pacific Legal Foundation senior staff attorney, Ted Hadzi-Antich, said the comments submitted by PLF were totally ignored by the board. Ted says virtually every economic sector of the Golden State will be regulated by California’s Cap and Trade Regulation – energy, agriculture, water, waste generation and disposal, natural and working lands, buildings and construction, and transportation.   Continue reading “California set to regulate everything–through Cap and Trade”

Col. Danny StebbinsCourant – by DAVE ALTIMARI

State Police Col. Danny Stebbins, who oversaw the department’s investigation into the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, has told his top officers that he will be retiring at the end of June.

Stebbins has been the top state police officer since Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appointed him in January 2010, but he has come under criticism from the union for pushing for the consolidation of dispatch services. He also drew the ire of many legislators when, at a conference in New Orleans, he revealed some details of the Sandy Hook shootings that the victims’ families had not yet been told. Continue reading “Top State Police Officer, Who Oversaw Sandy Hook Investigation, Resigns”

CBS Sacremento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — New regulations passed by the Sacramento City Council will require taxi drivers in Sacramento to speak English.

Raheem doesn’t speak much English, but he says he’s good at his job driving a cab in Sacramento for years. He fears he may soon be out of a job.   Continue reading “New Regulations Bring English-Only Requirement To Sacramento Taxicabs”

Yahoo News

Hermosillo (México) (AFP) – An American singer of narco-corridos — a musical genre extolling the glories of the drug trade — has been fatally shot in a northern Mexican town, officials said Friday.

Tomas Eduardo Tovar, 33, was gunned down late Thursday while dining at a restaurant in Ciudad Obregon, in Sonora state, according to law enforcement officials.

Tovar, who performed under the stage name Tito Torbellino, was killed by two gunmen who stormed into the establishment firing multiple rounds.    Continue reading “US singer of narco-corrido drug ballads killed in Mexico”

Humanity Awakens

HUGE US SILVER EAGLE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

If you’ve followed my work for long enough you know that I have railed against the US Mint and the US Treasury for putting Silver Eagles on limited allocation. At first they did it illegally and then they changed the law to make it legal and subject to the whim of the US Treasury Secretary.

Today they just announced the END OF ALLOCATION!!!   Continue reading “Bix Weir Today”

purple plumesGeoEngineering Watch

The letter posted below just hit my desk. I have not yet had time to do any objective investigation but appears to be credible. Certainly it is a matter of time before more such fires begin to burn. As people from all professions realize they are going down with the ship and climate engineering is fueling the fire, they will join our critical cause. All of us need to make this fight our priority, every day matters.   Continue reading “Legal Wheels May Be Beginning To Turn In the FIght Against Geoengineering”

AFP Photo / Thomas SamsonRT News

Online computer hackers have infiltrated and exposed the personal information of 110 million Americans – nearly half of the US adult population – over the last year alone, according to an alarming new report.

The study – formulated by researchers at the Ponemon Institute, which measures data collection and information security in the public and private sectors – also determined that the number of hacked accounts belonging to those individuals numbered at or near 432 million.   Continue reading “Staggering figures: Half of all US adults hacked in last 12 months”

Yahoo News

ANNAPOLIS Md. (Reuters) – Maryland police early on Friday killed a 20-year-old man armed with a pellet gun that officers mistook for an assault rifle, a police spokeswoman said.

The officers had responded at about 2 a.m. EDT to a dispute between two men, one of them holding what officers thought was an assault rifle.   Continue reading “Maryland police mistake pellet gun for assault rifle, kill 20 year old man.”

File - In this April 12, 2005 file photo is the death chamber at the Missouri Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Mo. Missouri's attorney general said Thursday, May 29, 2014 the state should establish its own laboratory to produce chemicals for use in executions, rather than rely on an "uneasy cooperation" with medical professionals and pharmaceutical companies. Photo: JAMES A. FINLEY, AP / APChron – by Mike Ward

AUSTIN – In a surprise legal about-face, Attorney General Greg Abbott on Thursday ruled that state prison officials no longer have to tell the public where they obtain drugs used to execute condemned criminals.

Abbott’s decision falls in line with other states that have sought to keep secret the source of their lethal drugs, to keep death-penalty opponents from pressuring suppliers to quit selling to execution chambers. His decision reversed three rulings since 2010 that had mandated the information about the suppliers be made public.    Continue reading “Abbott switches mind on death drug secrecy”

Gun CollectionAmmoLand – by Mary “Dynk” McDonald

USA –-(Ammoland.com)- Returning to the justification for increased legislation based on comparing firearms to cars, the arguments stated are easily debunked.

Rationalizing the need to own a particular type or quantity of a firearm or ammunition is without merit, a prejudicial justification as a means of placing limits on ownership.

Each vehicle has a purpose, from a small electric car in a congested town to a large pickup used to move equipment on a job. The only limits involved in who may purchase one over the other, used or new, are financial in nature. A small caliber derringer is equivalent to the small electric car, a shotgun an equivalent to the pickup. Some vehicles will hold more people, some are better suited to driving in rough terrain, yet each has a need and purpose that is not questioned by the general public.

Continue reading “Limiting Firearms Ownership Is A Baseless Argument”

They Are Coming For All GunsAmmoLand

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- No one hates guns more than California.

They came close to banning most semi-autos and do register all guns.  They have moved to regulate ammunition.  They have just established a $24 million program to send SWAT teams to people’s homes to confiscate their guns.  They are using microstamping and pushing gun-insurance requirements as a mechanism for banning guns nationwide.

Continue reading “Obama-Bloomberg Minions Renew National Effort to Take Away Your Guns”

CNN – by Evan Perez, Hamdi Alkhshali and Salma Abdelaziz

Washington (CNN) — The truck was loaded with munitions, then driven up a hillside in northern Syria. Moments later, there was a massive blast followed by cries of “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great” in Arabic, and the rattling of gunfire.

The suicide attacker in the bombing depicted in this online video was an American jihadi, radical Islamists claiming responsibility for the blast have said.   Continue reading “U.S.: Jihadi featured in suicide bombing video in Syria grew up in Florida”