Month: June 2014

RT News

As President Obama inches closer to entering the final half of his second term, speculation is emerging that the current first lady may pull a Hillary Clinton and run for a Senate seat.

In a Thursday column for Reuters, Keith Koffler writes that it shouldn’t be a surprise if Michelle Obama decides she wants to take a run at incumbent Illinois Republican Mark Kirk in 2016. Not only would she immediately deliver the kind of star power that would elevate her above her opponent, he writes, but her increasingly “bold profile” suggests she is placing herself in a position to at least seriously consider a Senate campaign.   Continue reading “Hillary 2.0? Rumors build on Michelle Obama’s Senate run”

RT News

For the first time, scientists have discovered evidence backing up the theory that the moon was created when a separate planet crashed into the Earth.

Published in the journal Science, the study states that researchers found the evidence by analyzing lunar rocks brought back to Earth during the Apollo mission more than 40 years ago. Scientists said they identified small chemical differences between some moon rocks and the rocks found on the Earth, suggesting that another world must have contributed to the lunar body’s creation.   Continue reading “Moon formed after Earth collided with another world, study says”

WMUR

ALSTEAD, N.H. —An 84-year-old New Hampshire woman on Friday will be out of the modest mobile home where she’s lived in for the past 27 years after the state’s highest court upheld her eviction.

“I haven’t done anything wrong,” Leona Berger said Thursday. “I’ve redone this house inside from paint, paper to floors, and I don’t know what I’ve done. I bother nobody. My house is probably the neatest one.”   Continue reading “Court upholds eviction, 84-year-old woman forced out of home”

The Guardian – by Jon Swaine

A major new shopping mall and housing development in New Jersey, which is controlled by the biggest corporate funders of Chris Christie’s official mansion, has been awarded a $223m public subsidy by the governor’s administration.

Luxury Point, a vast retail, residential and entertainment complex to be built in Sayreville, was last month given one of the biggest corporate tax breaks handed out so far by the Republican governor’s state authorities, which are facing a $2.7bn budget shortfall over the next year.   Continue reading “Chris Christie backers awarded $223m tax break to build New Jersey mall”

American Everyman – by Brian Becker

Twenty-five years ago today, every U.S. media outlet, along with then President Bush and the U.S. Congress were whipping up a full scale frenzied hysteria and attack against the Chinese government for what was described as the cold-blooded massacre of many thousands of non-violent “pro-democracy” students who had occupied Tiananmen Square for seven weeks.

The hysteria generated about the Tiananmen Square “massacre” was based on a fictitious narrative about what actually happened when the Chinese government finally cleared the square of protestors on June 4, 1989.   Continue reading “What Really Happened in Tiananmen Square 25 Years Ago – The massacre that wasn’t”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

Truvia sweetener is made from about 99.5% erythritol (a sugar alcohol), and 0.5% rebiana, an extract from the stevia plant (but not at all the same thing as stevia). A shocking new study published in the journal PLOS ONE (1) has found that Truvia, an alternative sweetener manufactured by food giant Cargill, is a potent insecticide that kills fruit flies which consume it.

The study is titled, Erythritol, a Non-Nutritive Sugar Alcohol Sweetener and the Main Component of Truvia, Is a Palatable Ingested Insecticide.   Continue reading “Truvia sweetener a powerful pesticide; scientists shocked as fruit flies die in less than a week from eating GMO-derived erythritol”

Chron – by Bobby Blanchard

A 23-year-old mother was killed and her two young children suffered injuries in a wreck Wednesday, Houston police said.

The woman’s sons, ages 4 and 6, were in the backseat and were transferred to a hospital with broken bones but no life-threatening injuries, said HPD spokesman Victor Senties.

The mother failed to yield when she was leaving a private drive around 5 p.m., Senties said.   Continue reading “Onlookers allegedly steal groceries from woman killed in crash”

NBC News – by Elizabeth Chuck

A Virginia naval base is on lockdown after a stabbing, and security forces are hunting for the suspect.

It was not immediately clear how many people were injured in the stabbing at the Navy exchange near the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia.   Continue reading “Virginia Navy Base on Lockdown After Stabbing”

11 Alive

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A police officer was shot outside the Forsyth County Courthouse Friday morning.

Cumming Police Sgt. Bryan Zimbardi confirmed the shooting to 11Alive News. It happened at around 9:30 a.m.

The extent of the officer’s injuries are not immediately known.   Continue reading “Officer shot outside Forsyth Co., GA Courthouse”

Washington’s Blog

Tyrants Have Always Spied On Their Own People

Spying has been around since the dawn of civilization.

Keith Laidler – a PhD anthropologist, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a past member of the Scientific Exploration Society – explains:

Spying and surveillance are at least as old as civilization itself.

Continue reading “5,000 Years of History Shows that Mass Spying Is Always Aimed at Crushing Dissent”

This is B/S!!!!!!!!!!!!

It will soon become a national law, we’ve already see it happening in numerous states (MA) etc.

If one state can get away with it every other state will follow!

Where I Am

I. Am. The. Mom.

Let’s get one thing straight: no doctor or nurse is going to sequester my children in an exam room and talk to them privately. Period. This public service announcement made necessary because of this sign, posted at the check-in counter of my doctor’s office:   Continue reading “Michigan law requires doctors to have a private conversation with minors, parents banned”

Huffington Post – by Elizabeth Daley

PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 6 (Reuters) – A federal agent shot and killed himself inside a U.S. Department of Homeland Security building in Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon, county officials said.

James McConaughy, 43, of Beaver Falls, was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:19 p.m. (2019 GMT) from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said. An autopsy is scheduled to take place on Friday. Continue reading “Federal Agent Commits Suicide In Pittsburgh Homeland Security Office”

LA Weekly – by Dennis Romero

You’re in the heat of the moment, rounding third, but then you must stop and ask, Can I have your verbal or written consent to have sex with you?

Sounds quite unspontaneous. But a law co-authored by L.A. state Sen. Kevin de Leon would have state-run college campuses establish an “affirmative consent” standard for its students.

According to the language of the bill, SB 967, students who want to have sex must essentially establish that there has been “an affirmative, unambiguous, and conscious decision by each participant to engage in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity.” In fact, the legislation says, …   
Continue reading “Verbal or Written Permission Could be Required For College Sex”

The Buffalo News – by Phil Fairbanks

In the end, it wasn’t just the videotaped beating of a handcuffed suspect on a sidewalk that got Buffalo Police Officer John A. Cirulli in trouble.

Cirulli also found himself in hot water for what he did later while the suspect sat inside a police cruiser. He hit him again.

Cirulli’s admission that he struck John T. Willet, 22, in the face a second time is part of a plea deal that could send the former officer – he resigned Friday – to federal prison for up to two years.   Continue reading “Buffalo police officer admits hitting suspect – twice”