Month: August 2014

Breitbart – by Dr. Susan Berry

The U.S. Department of Education (USED) has punished the state of Oklahoma for repealing the Common Core standards and reverting to its previous academic standards by rescinding the state’s waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), making it the second state ever to lose its waiver from the law.

As Caitlin Emma of Politico reports, Indiana, on the contrary, was granted a one-year extension of its waiver from NCLB because, though Gov. Mike Pence (R) declared he was the first governor to repeal the Common Core standards, his state’s replacement standards are remarkably similar to the Common Core and, as such, still met the requirements for the waiver.   Continue reading “Obama Administration Punishes Oklahoma for Repealing Common Core Standards”

Yahoo News – by Carey Gillam

A group of people caught up in unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after a white officer killed a black teenager, sued local officials on Thursday, alleging civil rights violations through arrests and police assaults with rubber bullets and tear gas.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, says law enforcement met a broad public outcry over the Aug. 9 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown with “militaristic displays of force and weaponry,” (and) engaged U.S. citizens “as if they were war combatants.”   Continue reading “Missouri police sued for $40 million over actions in Ferguson protests”

AOL – by Ryan Gorman

The National Rifle Association remarkably promoted a blog post about how children can have fun at the gun range only two days after a nine-year-old girl shot her shooting instructor dead.

Sent Wednesday from the @NRAWomen Twitter account, the tweet was a link to a piece titled “7 Ways Children Can Have Fun at the Shooting Range.” The tweet was first noticed by Huffington Post.    Continue reading “Outrage at NRA tweet just days after instructor shot dead by nine-year-old girl”

Wall Street Journal – by Yoni Bashan

High above the grassy parkland on Randall’s Island—site of this weekend’s Electric Zoo music festival—hangs a robotic camera so powerful it can read text on a note pad 80 feet below.

Security officials will monitor the video feed from the camera and 11 more like it from a command center nearby, part of a new strategy during the three-day music fair to keep drugs off the island.   Continue reading “Electric Zoo to Clamp Down on Drugs This Year”

This is Harry Reid’s very own bill from 1993. We need to share it everywhere. Shock the Democrats! Send the Bill to all your local Legislators and Congressional representatives. Remember we are coming up on a holiday weekend.

August 4 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993

Mr. REID introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.   Continue reading “Harry Reid’s Own Bill from 1993 – Immigration Stabilization Act”

Yahoo News

The legendary comedienne remains hospitalized following routine procedure.

Joan Rivers continues to remain hospitalized in New York City.

Sources close to Joan tell ET that the legendary comedienne is in a medically induced coma following a routine endoscopy. Not long after the procedure started, she stopped breathing and was then rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital.   Continue reading “Joan Rivers Placed in Medically Induced Coma Following Routine Surgery”

Meta Tech

The Schumann Resonance is the frequency of the electromagnetic field of the earth. It is supposed to be steady at 7.83 Hz, but it can vary slightly.

From Wikipedia:

“The Schumann resonances are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth‘s electromagnetic field spectrum. Schumann resonances are global electromagnetic resonances, excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth’s surface and the ionosphere…   Continue reading “Schumann Resonance going Crazy”

IJReview

Charles C. Johnson, the Editor-in-Chief of Got News and the investigator who debunked the Everytown shootings map, is suing the St. Louis County Court to release Ferguson shooting victim Michael Brown’s juvenile arrest records.

As relayed by the website YoungCons.com, Johnson claims that he has “confirmed” Michael Brown was arrested in a case involving second-degree murder:   Continue reading “Michael Brown Allegedly Involved in Second Degree Murder Case”

Mail.com

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The two high school buddies loved to shoot hoops and crack jokes with their friends. They both converted to Islam in early adulthood. And both were recruited by terror groups to leave the United States and die for jihadist causes.

It wasn’t immediately clear how Douglas McAuthur McCain and Troy Kastigar were drawn into radicalism after their initial conversion to the Muslim faith or whether they might have influenced one another along the way. But the two best friends went down similar paths and met the same end.   Continue reading “High school buddies followed similar path to jihad”

Mail.com

DEERFIELD, Va. (AP) — The pilot of an F-15 jet that crashed earlier this week in remote Virginia mountains was killed, military officials now say, bringing a sad end to an exhaustive two-day search involving more than 100 local, state and federal officials as well as volunteers.

Col. James Keefe announced the news Thursday at the Massachusetts Air National Guard in Westfield, Massachusetts, home of the 104th Fighter Wing, where the pilot and jet were based. Keefe said his “thoughts and prayers are with the family” of the pilot, whose identity wasn’t disclosed.   Continue reading “Military: Pilot was killed in Virginia F-15 crash”

Yahoo News – by Terry Wade and Anna Louie Sussman

A tanker near Texas loaded with $100 million of disputed Iraqi Kurdish crude has disappeared from satellite tracking, the latest development in a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse between Baghdad and the Kurds.

The AIS ship tracking system used by the U.S. Coast Guard and Reuters on Thursday showed no known position for the United Kalavrvta, which was carrying 1 million barrels of crude and 95 percent full when it went dark.

Several other tankers carrying disputed crude from Iran or Iraqi Kurdistan have unloaded cargoes after switching off their transponders, which makes their movements hard to track.   Continue reading “Disputed Kurdish oil tanker mysteriously goes dark off Texas coast”

Yahoo News

Guatemala City (AFP) – A community of 230 Orthodox Jews from several countries Thursday began leaving the Guatemalan Indian village where they have lived for six years after claims and counterclaims of discrimination and threats.

Their exit from San Juan La Laguna, on the banks of Lake Atitlan and 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the capital Guatemala City, follows a meeting Wednesday in which Jewish and indigenous representatives failed to reach an agreement.

“We are a people of peace and in order to avoid an incident we’ve already begun to leave the village,” Misael Santos, a representative from the Jewish community, told AFP.    Continue reading “Jewish community ‘forced out’ of Guatemalan village”

CBC News 

Justice Minister Peter MacKay says he was showing support for an Afghan veteran when he posed for a photo at a Conservative Party fundraiser wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of the National Firearms Association, a pro-gun lobby group.

The photo shows MacKay standing with two people and wearing a black shirt with the image of a maple leaf attached to a military-style assault rifle. The NFA’s slogan — “No Compromise” — appears under the logo.    Continue reading “Peter MacKay poses in pro-gun ‘No Compromise’ T-shirt”

Tech Times – by Linda Nguyen

Traumatic events are known to be lasting. People wake up in the middle of the night from a nightmare or everyday things may remind them of the traumatic event. But soon, people may be able to take the negative emotions associated with a memory and change it into a positive emotion.

In a study published in Nature, researchers at MIT show that they are able to change the positive or negative emotions tied to memory in mice, and are optimistic that the findings can be translated to humans.   Continue reading “Scientists switch out bad memories for good in mice: Hope for PTSD?”

CNS News – by Brittany M. Hughes

On the morning of Sept. 22, 2013, Josael Guevara was a 16-year-old sophomore at Klein Forest High School in Houston, Texas. Before that day was over, he was dead, his body found brutally beaten and dismembered in the Sam Houston National Forest.

Cristian Zamora, 22, and Ricardo Campos-Lara, 19, both illegal aliens from El Salvador, were arrested in connection with Guevara’s murder. Both were indicted for the murder by a federal grand jury in June.   Continue reading “FBI Testimony: Illegal Alien Admitted Hitting 16-Year Old With Machete”

USA Today – by Oren Dorell

Israeli police say they have found the body of an American student who went missing last week while hiking and that they do not suspect a crime was involved, media reports say.

Reuters and Israeli media Haaeretz and Jerusalem Post reported that the body of Aaron Sofer, 23, a Jewish seminary student from New Jersey, had been positively identified after being found earlier in the day. He vanished last Friday while walking in woods not far from the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.   Continue reading “Reports: Body found in Israel is missing U.S. student”

RT

Forty-three United Nations peacekeepers have been captured by armed militant forces in Golan Heights, a UN spokesperson said on Thursday. Islamist militants have been engaged in clashes with the Syrian military.

“During a period of increased fighting beginning yesterday between armed elements and Syrian Arab Armed Forces within the area of separation in the Golan Heights, 43 peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) were detained early this morning by an armed group in the vicinity of Al Qunaytirah,” the U.N. press office said in a statement.   Continue reading “43 UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights seized by militants”

The Organic Prepper

Over the past couple of weeks, I haven’t been around my computer much.

That’s because we are working hard to live a more agrarian lifestyle. And to do that, you have to “make hay while the sun shines.”

That little proverb was first recorded in 1546, in John Heywood’s “A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue” (This is the updated version    Continue reading “The Austerity Diaries: Making Hay While the Sun Shines”