Month: November 2014

RT

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has signaled she would rather see the UK leave the EU than compromise the free movement of immigrants, German magazine Der Spiegel reported.

The UK is nearing a “point of no return,” as British Prime Minister David Cameron attempts to renegotiate the terms of the country’s EU membership targeting the freedom of movement, Merkel reportedly said.   Continue reading “‘Point of no return’: Merkel warns UK could exit EU over immigration policy – report”

Mail.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A space tourism rocket broke apart in flight over California’s Mojave Desert after a device to slow the experimental spaceship’s descent deployed too soon, federal investigators said.

The cause of Friday’s crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has not been determined, but investigators found the “feathering” system — which rotates the tail to create drag — was activated before the craft reached the appropriate speed, National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher Hart said.   Continue reading “Virgin spaceship’s descent system deployed early”

Mail.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Brittany Maynard stuck by her decision.

The woman with brain cancer who revived a national debate about physician-assisted suicide ended her life Saturday by swallowing lethal drugs made available under an Oregon law allowing terminally ill people to choose when to die. She would have been 30 on Nov. 19.   Continue reading “Terminally ill Brittany Maynard takes her own life”

Mail.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police in suburban Los Angeles say they have made multiple arrests in the hit-and-run deaths of three teenage girls who were trick-or-treating on Halloween, but few other details have been released.

Authorities in Santa Ana had been looking for the driver and another person who fled the scene of Friday evening’s crash, which claimed the lives of 13-year-old twins and their 13-year-old friend at a crosswalk. A damaged black Honda SUV was found a short distance from where the collision occurred.   Continue reading “Arrests in Halloween hit-and-run deaths of 3 girls”

RT

Government ministers in Israel have voted to increase penalties ten-fold on people convicted of throwing stones at vehicles from two to 20 years, in a move designed to deal with a wave of violence that has hit some of Jerusalem’s Arab districts.

If Israeli courts can prove that someone threw a stone with the intent of causing serious bodily harm, they may be able to impose a jail sentence of 20 years.   Continue reading “Israeli ministers pass bill jailing stone throwers for 20 years”

Mail.com

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police charged a British banker on Monday with killing two women, including an Indonesian whose body was found in a suitcase on the balcony of the man’s upscale apartment, authorities said.

The killings have shocked Hong Kong, an Asian financial hub with a reputation as a safe city with a low rate of violent crime. Rurik George Caton Jutting appeared briefly at a preliminary hearing at which he spoke only to confirm that he understood the two murder charges against him.   Continue reading “British banker charged in Hong Kong double killing”

Mail.com

PARIS (AP) — French security officials are investigating a spate of mysterious and illegal flights by drone aircraft over more than a dozen nuclear power stations in France, raising security concerns in a country that largely lives off atomic energy.

In what environmental activists call a worrisome development, authorities have tallied at least 15 overflights of nuclear sites since early October, culminating Friday with five at separate sites, government and utility officials said Monday.   Continue reading “Mystery drones fly over French nuclear sites”

Fellowship of the Minds

A cabbie picks up a nun.

She gets into the cab, and notices that the handsome cab driver won’t stop staring at her. She asks him why he is staring. He replies: “I have a question to ask you but I don’t want to offend you.”

She answers, “My son, you cannot offend me. When you’re as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get to see and hear just about everything. I’m sure that there’s nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive.”   Continue reading “The Nun and the Cabbie”

The Rich Ten

While this top ten list of beautiful waterfalls is subjective, there’s no arguing that all the waterfalls in this list are out-of-this-world.    Continue reading “Top 10 Most Beautiful Waterfalls in the World”

Cop Block

This content comes to us from our friends at CounterCurrentNews.com, and was originally posted October 24, 2014. It was authored by Jackson Marciana.

Date of Incident: October 22, 2014
Location: Atlanta, GA

Why aren’t we hearing about all these acts of civil disobedience and protest on the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation?   Continue reading “Anti-Police Brutality Protesters Shut Down Highway To Highlight Broken System”

Forbes – by David Kroll

Update, 8:54 am EST, Monday, November 3: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is reporting this hour that tests conducted by the State Laboratory of Public Health returned a negative result for Ebola virus in a blood sample taken from a patient, described below, who was transported to Duke University Hospital on Sunday. The patient self-reported to the CDC that they developed a fever after traveling to the U.S. from Liberia on Friday and Saturday.   Continue reading “Preliminary Negative Result For Ebola; Liberian Traveler Still Isolated At Duke Hospital”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Bayer uses the same insecticide that has been banned throughout the EU in one of their best selling flea and tick products, Advantix. They have no problem selling imidacloprid-containing insecticides to U.S. dog and cat owners, even though it has been linked to seizures in anecdotal accounts, and is certainly a neurotoxin which is not entirely safe for your favorite furry friend.

This product is brought to you by the same company that is happy to poison the planet in other ways, too – namely through the creation of neonicotinoid pesticides which coat about 90% of U.S. corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy. These chemicals have emerged as a likely trigger for colony collapse disorder, as evidenced again here in this NBC News report.   Continue reading “Is Bayer Poisoning Your Pet While They Kill the Bees?”

Sipsey Street Irregulars – by Dutchman 6

Connecticut on the knife edge of civil war (and nobody has a clue). Dr. Bettelheim’s advice to Red Mike Lawlor’s intended victims.

I spent Friday largely in frustration, receiving advice about my trip to Connecticut that I did not want to hear, trying to get the attention of people who did not want to hear me and chasing down rumors I did not want to believe were true.

As for the advice, medical, political and otherwise, it can be summed up by this email I received from a long-time friend:   Continue reading “There will be raids. “Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves!””

News-Press – by Laura Ruane

Lanais, jalousie windows, terrazzo floors: Those were the common elements of a Southwest Florida home built in the 1960s.

A smattering of custom-designed local homes, however, had an amenity folks never wanted to use: a built-in family-size fallout shelter.

No one knows exactly how many there were — perhaps no more than a dozen in the 1960s, said Stanley Ink, a structural engineer who designed a shelter for his North Fort Myers home built in 1968.   Continue reading “Living in a Southwest Florida bomb shelter”

Conra Costa Times – by Julie Prodis Sulek

SANTA CRUZ — Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly should be outraged.

It appears that someone in the liberal bastion of Santa Cruz doesn’t like the overtly conservative Fox News — imagine that! — or anyone dressing up like a Fox News reporter on Halloween, for that matter.

At downtown Santa Cruz’s annual parade on Friday night, police said, 29-year-old Sean Kory said “I hate Fox News” before grabbing the victim’s microphone prop. The dreadlocked Kory then made an obscene gesture with it before attacking the victim with an aluminium tennis racket, police said.   Continue reading “Santa Cruz man says “I hate Fox News,” then allegedly attacks victim wearing Fox reporter Halloween costume”

My Budget 360

This week we will be getting the employment numbers.  The unemployment rate is expected to stay steady or even drop which is comical given that we have 92 million Americans not working today and another 19 million that are fully unemployed.  Those not in the labor force continues to grow beyond the basic changes in demographics.  This topic rarely receives any coverage since those not working largely have no funds to back lobbying groups or to put ads out in the media.  Yet we can see this dissatisfaction when Americans are asked about their views on the economy.  The majority think the economy is doing poorly and this is expected given the underlying numbers.  You have young Americans going to college and many are coming out to low wage jobs and hefty student loans.  In the last 4 years alone we have added 12 million Americans to the not in the labor force category.  This measure is used to calculate the unemployment rate and given this group is not factored in, the unemployment rate looks much better than it truly is.  The oxymoron that we have is we have a labor force that is largely not doing labor.   Continue reading “The oxymoron of the labor force when labor means not working”