Year: 2014

Fox News – by Joshua Rhett Miller

Dozens of Veterans Affairs workers who have come forward with stories of mismanagement and patient abuse say they have faced retaliation within the scandal-scarred agency, according to federal investigators.

In one case, a VA employee with a spotless record over two decades was suspended after reporting patients had been inappropriately restrained, according to one of 37 such complaints filed with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC). In another case, an employee claimed to have been demoted after disclosing alleged mishandling of patient care funds. The employee was temporarily reassigned and an investigation is still ongoing, OSC officials said.   Continue reading “Price of coming forward: 37 VA whistle-blowers claim retaliation”

CNS News – by Ali Meyer

The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, April, and now May, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent. That means that 37.2 percent were not participating in the labor force during those months.   Continue reading “37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High”

The following is a response to a great guy lamenting the cost of, and the searching for supplies and gear.

“…..Quality gear is expensive, and yet, to duplicate it is even more of a challenge…….”

Not if you know where to look! “grasshopper” …… And knowing what you need, and how to buy it, is an art. Besides, what do you think I’ve been doing all these 25 plus years? Building reports with venders and power buying, when I could. Why do you think I go to all the gun shows that I can? One NEVER knows what will turn up at one, and the potential.   Continue reading “On Finding Supplies and Gear”

RT News

As President Obama inches closer to entering the final half of his second term, speculation is emerging that the current first lady may pull a Hillary Clinton and run for a Senate seat.

In a Thursday column for Reuters, Keith Koffler writes that it shouldn’t be a surprise if Michelle Obama decides she wants to take a run at incumbent Illinois Republican Mark Kirk in 2016. Not only would she immediately deliver the kind of star power that would elevate her above her opponent, he writes, but her increasingly “bold profile” suggests she is placing herself in a position to at least seriously consider a Senate campaign.   Continue reading “Hillary 2.0? Rumors build on Michelle Obama’s Senate run”

RT News

For the first time, scientists have discovered evidence backing up the theory that the moon was created when a separate planet crashed into the Earth.

Published in the journal Science, the study states that researchers found the evidence by analyzing lunar rocks brought back to Earth during the Apollo mission more than 40 years ago. Scientists said they identified small chemical differences between some moon rocks and the rocks found on the Earth, suggesting that another world must have contributed to the lunar body’s creation.   Continue reading “Moon formed after Earth collided with another world, study says”

WMUR

ALSTEAD, N.H. —An 84-year-old New Hampshire woman on Friday will be out of the modest mobile home where she’s lived in for the past 27 years after the state’s highest court upheld her eviction.

“I haven’t done anything wrong,” Leona Berger said Thursday. “I’ve redone this house inside from paint, paper to floors, and I don’t know what I’ve done. I bother nobody. My house is probably the neatest one.”   Continue reading “Court upholds eviction, 84-year-old woman forced out of home”

The Guardian – by Jon Swaine

A major new shopping mall and housing development in New Jersey, which is controlled by the biggest corporate funders of Chris Christie’s official mansion, has been awarded a $223m public subsidy by the governor’s administration.

Luxury Point, a vast retail, residential and entertainment complex to be built in Sayreville, was last month given one of the biggest corporate tax breaks handed out so far by the Republican governor’s state authorities, which are facing a $2.7bn budget shortfall over the next year.   Continue reading “Chris Christie backers awarded $223m tax break to build New Jersey mall”

American Everyman – by Brian Becker

Twenty-five years ago today, every U.S. media outlet, along with then President Bush and the U.S. Congress were whipping up a full scale frenzied hysteria and attack against the Chinese government for what was described as the cold-blooded massacre of many thousands of non-violent “pro-democracy” students who had occupied Tiananmen Square for seven weeks.

The hysteria generated about the Tiananmen Square “massacre” was based on a fictitious narrative about what actually happened when the Chinese government finally cleared the square of protestors on June 4, 1989.   Continue reading “What Really Happened in Tiananmen Square 25 Years Ago – The massacre that wasn’t”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

Truvia sweetener is made from about 99.5% erythritol (a sugar alcohol), and 0.5% rebiana, an extract from the stevia plant (but not at all the same thing as stevia). A shocking new study published in the journal PLOS ONE (1) has found that Truvia, an alternative sweetener manufactured by food giant Cargill, is a potent insecticide that kills fruit flies which consume it.

The study is titled, Erythritol, a Non-Nutritive Sugar Alcohol Sweetener and the Main Component of Truvia, Is a Palatable Ingested Insecticide.   Continue reading “Truvia sweetener a powerful pesticide; scientists shocked as fruit flies die in less than a week from eating GMO-derived erythritol”

Chron – by Bobby Blanchard

A 23-year-old mother was killed and her two young children suffered injuries in a wreck Wednesday, Houston police said.

The woman’s sons, ages 4 and 6, were in the backseat and were transferred to a hospital with broken bones but no life-threatening injuries, said HPD spokesman Victor Senties.

The mother failed to yield when she was leaving a private drive around 5 p.m., Senties said.   Continue reading “Onlookers allegedly steal groceries from woman killed in crash”

NBC News – by Elizabeth Chuck

A Virginia naval base is on lockdown after a stabbing, and security forces are hunting for the suspect.

It was not immediately clear how many people were injured in the stabbing at the Navy exchange near the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia.   Continue reading “Virginia Navy Base on Lockdown After Stabbing”

11 Alive

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A police officer was shot outside the Forsyth County Courthouse Friday morning.

Cumming Police Sgt. Bryan Zimbardi confirmed the shooting to 11Alive News. It happened at around 9:30 a.m.

The extent of the officer’s injuries are not immediately known.   Continue reading “Officer shot outside Forsyth Co., GA Courthouse”

Washington’s Blog

Tyrants Have Always Spied On Their Own People

Spying has been around since the dawn of civilization.

Keith Laidler – a PhD anthropologist, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a past member of the Scientific Exploration Society – explains:

Spying and surveillance are at least as old as civilization itself.

Continue reading “5,000 Years of History Shows that Mass Spying Is Always Aimed at Crushing Dissent”