Month: November 2014

The Boston Globe – by Beth Teitell

When Sheryl Thorp and her family decided to adopt a dog, the Concord mother figured it would be “pretty straightforward, easy.”

That was before they lost out to one of the other four families competing for the young golden retriever her sons had fallen in love with. Before Thorp was asked to fill out a rescue agency questionnaire that asked about child-bearing plans. And before a high-stakes home visit that had her scrubbing her floors to impress the inspector.   Continue reading “Would-be pet adopters competing for companions”

KVUE

BUDA, Texas — A Hays County teacher is out of the classroom and facing criminal charges after allegedly telling his students that classmates threatening to shoot up the high school remained at large, and the gunmen would target bullies first.

According to arrest documents, around 1 p.m. Thursday afternoon a Hays County investigator arrived at Hays High School to find a string of students lined up out the office door waiting on their parents to pick them up early.   Continue reading “Hays teacher charged after comments panic students, parents”

EAG News – by Victor Skinner

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Charlie Brown, security director for West Michigan’s Rockford school district, believes “every school had drugs in it.”

That’s why Rockford schools and numerous others in the area employ the services of Interquest Detection Canines of Michigan, Inc. – to search out illegal substances in school, such as drugs, weapons and other prohibited items, Mlive.com reports.

And the dogs are quite effective.   Continue reading “Defending searches, security director says ‘every school has drugs in it’”

RT

Republicans have gained control of the United States Senate for the first time since 2006, wresting victories from Democrats as midterm voters expressed frustration with President Barack Obama and the White House.

The GOP victory comes after conservative candidates emerged victorious in Arkansas, Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, North Carolina and Iowa, where Republicans were able to unseat incumbent Democratic lawmakers. Republicans also fended off an Independent challenger in Kansas, while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – and likely the new Majority Leader – safely escaped a Democratic challenger to hold onto his seat in Kentucky.   Continue reading “Republicans take control of US Senate, ousting Democrats in midterms”

BATR – by James Hall

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.” From The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes

Much of the centralized planning and rationalization for the Fascist alliance between the State and Corporatism is rooted in the erroneous Keynesian fiscal tenets, which plague Western economies.  Without a widespread acceptance of an alternative economic model, the political despotism will continue to ruin the financial futures of generations to come. The ruling political class is so enamored with the free spending debt dogma that prospects for abandoning such deviate and suicidal policies will meet with ardent resistance from the establishment. Need proof, just look at the historic disparity in income and net worth that has doubled the paper wealth of the top elites as the general population languishes.   Continue reading “What is the Alternative to Keynesian Corporatism?”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

We all know we should get enough dietary fiber in a healthy eating regime, but what if I told you that some of that fiber (found in processed foods) comes in the form of wood pulp? Burger King, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and other popular fast food joints have found a way to beat inflation, and keep the poor, the hungry, the fast-fed nation fattened up. Wood pulp in burgers.

Sure, they list the ingredient for all to see, but most wouldn’t know that microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) or “powdered cellulose” in plain English is wood pulp.   Continue reading “The Bizarre Ingredient Found in Many Fast Food Items”

New York Times – by Marc Santora

A tower rising 50 stories. A one-pound tape measure attached to the waist of a construction worker. An unsuspecting man stepping from a vehicle at the foot of the building.

The three elements converged on Monday morning in a freakish accident, when a 58-year-old man died in Jersey City after being struck in the head by the tape measure after it fell some 400 feet.

The accident led to the suspension of work on one of the largest development projects in the city.   Continue reading “Falling Tape Measure Kills Man at Jersey City Construction Site”

Fox Latino – by Andrew O’Reilly

His grandfather wasn’t able to do it. Neither were his uncle or his father. In fact, George P. Bush became the first person in his family’s political dynasty to win an election the first time around when he defeated his little-known Democratic opponent, former El Paso Mayor John Cook for Texas’ land commissioner.

Bush, a 38-year-old Fort Worth attorney and energy consultant, raised more than $3 million in his campaign in a state where Republicans haven’t lost a statewide race since 1994.   Continue reading “George P. Bush becomes first in family to win first race, wins Texas land commissioner post”

Now the End Begins

With nothing left to lose, and as a Republican blowout in both houses looms mightily this evening, Obama is throwing caution to the wind and preparing to give legal status to nearly 11 million illegals by this Christmas. He may about to become a “lame duck” president, but his Marxist bag of tricks doesn’t seem to be quite empty yet.

Obama will make his move without Congress. Aides said Tuesday that he’d sign an executive order by the end of December giving temporary legal status to many of the 11 million immigrants who are in the country illegally stay and work in the U.S. He’d delayed the order earlier this fall, when endangered Democrats feared that a backlash would cost them their jobs.   Continue reading “Election Night Bombshell: Obama Executive Order Amnesty by Christmas”

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Part One

I wont go into how the gold and silver markets are manipulated or why it is wise decision to invest in gold and silver, what I will do is demonstrate how worthless “money” is in 2014. I will be discussing the US financial system, US markets, and the Federal Reserve. In order to put a monetary value on gold and silver we have to understand what money is, There are two types of money in 2014. Many financial experts, when referring to the government funding its debt or “quantitative easing”-(QE) speak of “printing money”. Continue reading “It has been said “In the age of information, ignorance is no longer an excuse.”.”

Bloomberg – by Hugh Son and Michael J. Moore

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) said it faces a U.S. criminal probe into foreign-exchange dealings and boosted its maximum estimate for “reasonably possible” losses on legal cases to the highest in more than a year. The shares fell in New York.

The firm is cooperating with the criminal investigation by the Department of Justice as well as inquiries by regulators in the U.K. and elsewhere, it said yesterday in a quarterly report. The largest U.S. bank said it might need as much as $5.9 billion to cover losses beyond reserves for legal matters, up $1.3 billion from the end of June, and the most since since mid-2013.   Continue reading “JPMorgan Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Into Currency Trading”

WND

A Washington news site is reporting the Obama administration has put a “gag order” on the insurance industry, preventing it from releasing health insurance rates until after Tuesday’s midterm elections in an effort to shield Democrats from voter backlash.

The rates were released by mid-October in past years but will be delayed by a month in 2014, the Gateway Pundit reports, citing a report by Warner Todd Huston, a Chicago-based freelance writer who writes a blog at PubliusForum.com.   Continue reading “Obama ‘Intentionally Delays’ Health-Insurance Rates”

KENS 5 – by Jason Whitely

AUSTIN — The Bexar County Elections Department administrator said her office is dismantling an electronic voting machine to determine whether it malfunctioned and omitted Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott’s name, or if someone altered an image to make it appear that way.

Elections administrator Jacquelyn Callanen told WFAA that the problem is either due to a corrupt flash card in the electronic voting device… or the image going viral on social media is a hoax.   Continue reading “Ballot problem in San Antonio believed to be hoax”

National Review – by Joel Gehrke

Justice Department officials provided House investigators with thousands of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that President Obama had previously claimed were exempt from congressional review.

In an “election eve dump,” as House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) put it, DOJ handed over 64,280 pages of documents, a release that is still only a partial fulfillment of the committee’s request.   Continue reading “‘Election Eve Dump:’ Eric Holder Releases Fast and Furious Documents That Got Him Cited for Contempt”

BBC News – by Nate Cochrane

Hundreds of thousands of objects are orbiting in high-velocity swarms around the Earth. Many of these, in the event of a collision, could ignite catastrophic accidents junking the world’s orbital telecommunications networks.

Australian company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) is leading efforts to track this potentially killer debris 38,000km (24,000 miles) above our heads, and is at the forefront of a boom in Australian space research.   Continue reading “Australians lead efforts to move space junk with lasers”