Month: November 2014

Health Impact News – by Terri LaPoint

All three of their babies have been taken away from them and placed in the care of strangers. Levi was 10 months old when his mother, local singer and songwriter Erica May Rengo, gave birth to his twin brother and sister, at their home in Bellingham, Washington.

“Our birth was glorious,” she said, and the twins were reportedly healthy, full-term babies, who had no problem quickly figuring out how to breastfeed. The little family was overjoyed until CPS stepped in to “help.”     Continue reading “Breastfed, Homebirthed Babies Taken Away From Parents For Not Using Hospital”

ABC News

Two New York boys are recovering after they were inadvertently trapped for about eight hours in a snowbank when a plow operator pushed snow over them, not realizing they were there.

But the boys – ages 11 and 9 – are OK, after police officers, relatives and neighbors frantically dug through the snow to pull them to safety.   Continue reading “New York Boys Recovering After 8 Hours Trapped in Snowbank”

USA Today – by Amber Downing

AUSTIN, Texas — A gunman targeted three downtown public buildings — the Mexican consulate, federal courthouse and police headquarters — before police shot and killed him, according to local media reports.

Police said the unidentified man was suspected of opening fire on buildings at around 2:30 a.m. local time.

The Austin American-Statesman reported that the Mexican consulate and federal courthouse were among the target locations, as well as the police building.   Continue reading “Gunman killed after targeting Austin police headquarters”

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Constitution Society – by Brian T. Halonen

The following are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, and bracket in time the writing of the 2nd amendment:

1709: “If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations.”

1714: “The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world.”

Continue reading “The meaning of the phrase “well-regulated” in the 2nd amendment”

Viral Nova – by Michael Cahill

In these pre-apocalyptic times that we live in, you might be thinking about the best ways to protect you and your family in the event of a disaster, man-made or otherwise. Sadly, there’s not really an easy, catch-all answer.

That is unless, of course, you’re rich and powerful. If you have an extra million or two to spend, you have options. People will cash can choose to ride out any impending apocalypse in style in their very own luxury, underground, disaster-proof condo.   Continue reading “Ride Out The Apocalypse In Style With These Luxury, Disaster-Proof Condos.”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s no free lunch — or breakfast or dinner — for President Barack Obama on Thanksgiving Day. Or any other day for that matter.

He has to dig into his pocket to pay for his holiday feast of turkey, ham, two kinds of stuffing, sweet and regular potatoes and six different kinds of pie. It’s a longstanding practice that a president pays for meals for himself, his family and personal guests.   Continue reading “Presidents pick up the check for their meals”

ABC News – by David Reiter

Why is Black Friday called “Black Friday”?

Seems pretty simple – it’s the day retailers go “into the black,” or turn a profit for the year.  But it turns out the term has a darker, less happy origin.

In 1966, Black Friday was the name the Philadelphia Police Department gave to the Friday after Thanksgiving.  The police hated the day — massive traffic jams, overcrowded sidewalks, lots of shoplifters — all because downtown Philly stores were filled with shoppers taking advantage of the first holiday sales.   Continue reading “Black Friday’s Dark Origins”

RT

A ‘unilateral decision’ was taken by OPEC not to cut production and to leave the daily output ceiling unchanged at 30 million barrels, despite a major oversupply that has caused oil prices to fall more than 30%.

“We are not sending any signal to anyone, we are just trying to have a fair price,” OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri told reporters in Vienna on Thursday.

World oil demand is expected to increase in 2015, Salem El-Badri said.   Continue reading “Oil slumps 4% as OPEC leaves output unchanged”

RT

A Reddit user from the UK has made an imagined image of a Walmart parking lot on Black Friday go viral by attracting hundreds of thousands of hits to their computer-crafted critique of the major American shopping day.

“As a Brit, this is how I imagine [B]lack Friday in America,” an individual with the Reddit handle ‘_theseacucumber’ wrote on the popular web forum on Tuesday.   Continue reading “Brit’s vision of Black Friday in America goes viral”

NEO – by Steven MacMillan

Is the Western elite’s brainchild – the European Union – disintegrating? Due to persistent economic problems, the rise of “popular resentment” across the continent, the political fallout after the illegal coup in Ukraine and the subsequent unpopular economic war on Russia, the EU is on the verge of crumbling.

In an interview with France 24, the hedge fund manager, billionaire and founder of the Open Society Foundation, George Soros, reveals that the European Union has failed to achieve the desires of the elite and many within Europe now see “Russia as a role model”:   Continue reading “Soros: The European Union is a “Failed” Experiment In “International Governance””