Sen. Boxer wants us to prove we 'need' a gun; her power as a U.S. senator is need enoughExaminer – by Kurt Hoffman

Exploitation of the mass stabbing/shooting in Santa Barbara, California continues apace, with the gun ban zealots evidently untroubled by the fact that even compliance with California’s most restrictive in the nation gun laws (according to the Brady Campaign and Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence) proved no obstacle to the demented killer. No, the fact that oppressive “gun control” did not stop him is presented as proof that the laws are still not oppressive enough–in a jurisdiction running out of room for more restrictions short of an outright ban.   Continue reading “Sen. Boxer threatens Americans with ‘Pause for Safety Act’”

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“What is wrong with the people here in this country?” asked anti-gun Senator Barbara Boxer on the floor of the Senate Monday.

Boxer was questioning why even the anti-gun Senate had not heeded her call for more gun bans, and concluded that something was wrong with America.

Well, here’s an idea, Senator Boxer:  Nothing’s wrong with America. But something is wrong with you.   Continue reading “Boxer moves legislation to let the government take guns away from virtually anyone”

    I’m not a soldier, and nor am I a proponent of violent solutions to any problem when violence can be avoided. I don’t like the idea of combat, and nor am I looking forward to it, but I consider myself a member of the militia because once you grasp the big picture of our precarious reality, you’ll realize that there’s no place else to go. My joining the militia movement began with the realization that it’s all we have left, and knowing that in times like this, being a member of the militia also happens to be the civic duty of all Americans. 

    Demonstrators are beaten and gassed, the elections process is a farce, the courts will only run you in circles or imprison you, and any cop you meet might easily kill you on a whim, and get away with it. We have absolutely no effective way of petitioning our government for a redress of grievances, and “our government” happens to be doing all they can to destroy our nation. Continue reading “Who’s in “The Militia”?”

In These Times- by George Joseph

Between 2007 and 2009, 350 Filipino teachers arrived in Louisiana, excited for the opportunity to teach math and science in public schools throughout the state. They’d been recruited through a company called Universal Placement International Inc., which professes on its website to “successfully place teachers in different schools thru out [sic] the United States.” As a lawsuit later revealed, however, their journey through the American public school system was fraught with abuse.

Continue reading “Trafficked Teachers: Neoliberalism’s Latest Labor Source”

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C) and his wife Asma al-Assad (R) casting their votes at a polling station in Maliki, a residential area in the centre of the capital Damascus, in the country's presidential elections on June 3, 2014.(AFP Photo / HO)RT News

Bashar Assad has won a landslide victory in the Syrian presidential poll with 88.7 percent of the vote, according to the parliament speaker. It will secure him a third term in office amidst a bloody civil war, which stemmed from protests against his rule.

“I declare the victory of Dr Bashar Hafez Assad as president of the Syrian Arab Republic with an absolute majority of the votes cast in the election,” parliament speaker Mohammad Laham said in a televised address from his office in the Syrian parliament.   Continue reading “Bashar Assad wins Syria presidential election with 88.7% of vote”

KRQE News 13 – by Katherine Mozzone

TAOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Teachers are fired up over their new evaluations. The scores were released earlier this month, but many teachers say their grades don’t hold any water. It’s why a group of teachers in Taos are striking a match in protest.

Some Taos teachers say their profession is being stomped on, citing a laundry list of issues surrounding teacher evaluations. They argue the scores should factor in growth, they say they’re not even testing students on the curriculum they’re teaching and the test scores they’re basing much of the evaluations on are from last year. It’s why they decided to take a stand.    Continue reading “Taos teachers burn their evaluations”

bribery-handsFree-Man’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenberg

I know something about bribery. When I was a teenager, my dad was in the construction business in Chicago. So, as soon as I got my driver’s license (at 16), I was sent out delivering bribes. That’s just the way     things were done, and my dad let me drive a fancy car (with an FM radio!) to make the deliveries.

I delivered leather coats to wives, envelopes to government offices, other envelopes to politicians at their fundraisers, booze to lots of people, and in one case, the answers to the state driver’s exam to a guy in… um… a different line of work.   Continue reading “Bribery in America”

Reuters/Francois LenoirMy answer to this question:  NO!

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Google has released code of its new open source End-to-End encryption extension to be tested for bugs and back doors by security experts. While it claims to be an effective privacy guard, it leaves the main question of whether it’s NSA-proof open.

The Google team believes that its new End-to-End tool will allow users to easily encrypt their emails on the go.   Continue reading “Will Google’s new email encryption tool save us from the NSA?”

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A 5.7 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Alaska, about 73km from Haines, near Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

The earthquake hit on Wednesday at 11:58 GMT southwest of Haines, which has a population of over 2,500 people. The epicenter was 10km deep, according to United States Geological Survey.   Continue reading “5.7 magnitude earthquake hits Alaska”

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Baseball-sized hail has pounded homes and cars across Nebraska, as powerful thunderstorms swept the Midwest, wreaking extensive damage, severe flooding and even reportedly tornado touchdowns in some areas.

Hailstones the size of baseballs pummeled the state with devastating effect Tuesday, producing a social media storm flooded with images of the aftermath of the freak hail, showing cracked windshields and houses riddled with holes. Continue reading “Nebraska storm: Here’s what happens when baseball-sized hail strikes”

gmo-2Wake-Up World – by Carolanne Wright

Looking around, it’s no secret that Americans are putting on the pounds unlike any other time in history. Sure, we can’t discount sedentary lifestyles, processed foods and outrageous sugar consumption as contributing factors. At the same time, an elephant in the room is often overlooked — one known as genetically modified food. Researches are beginning to connect the dots, realizing that the possibility of GMOs contributing to weight gain is not as far-fetched as once thought.   Continue reading “GMOs Encourage Weight Gain and Obesity, Researchers Discover”

MonsantoVT-smGlobal Research – by Sum of Us

Vermont is set to make history by becoming the first state in the country to require genetically modified (GMO) food to be labeled. But Monsanto, the world’s largest GMO producer, is gearing up to sue the state.

This is an important fight, not just for Vermont, but for everyone in the country: 25 other states are considering similar labeling laws, but are waiting for someone else to take the leap for their own laws to go into effect. If Vermont wins, it might not be long until the entire country mandates GMO labeling, giving consumers the information to make their own choices.   Continue reading “Monsanto is Threatening to Sue the State of Vermont over the Labelling of GMO Foods”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Private elevators, personal shopping assistants, six-bedroom suites with their own postal codes. Even helipads. This is what the super-rich have come to expect from hotels.

For others, vacation now means renting someone’s apartment, a spare room, maybe just a couch — anything to save on the cost of a hotel. As the gap between the wealthiest travelers and everyone else has widened, so has the way people are experiencing vacations. The wealthy are looking for ever-more pampering. Many others are seeking new ways to economize.   Continue reading “Will that be a 6-bedroom suite or just a couch?”

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WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Neighbors of two Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a friend nearly to death say they’re struggling to reconcile the allegations with what they know about the 12-year-olds and their upbringings.

Waukesha County prosecutors have charged the two girls in adult court with attempted homicide for allegedly stabbing a girl the same age in the woods. The girls told detectives they conspired for months to kill the other girl in hopes of pleasing Slenderman, a fictional character they read about on a horror website.   Continue reading “Neighbors: Stabbing at odds with girls’ upbringing”

StingrayReason – by J.D. Tuccille

Hours before a scheduled meeting to surrender records to the American Civil Liberties Union about the use of controversial “stingray” cellphone tracking devices, Sarasota, Florida, police canceled the meeting, saying the U.S. Marshals had seized the records and they were no longer in police possession. Calling the move “blatant violations of open government laws,” in the words of staff attorney Nathan Freed Wessler, the ACLU promptly sued, protesting the handoff of sensitive documents to the feds and seeking their return.   Continue reading “US Marshals Seize FL Cops’ Surveillance Records to Deny Them to ACLU”