Year: 2014

Mail.com

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware transportation department officials have examined aerial images as they investigate a mountain of dirt that grew to about two stories high and 100 yards long over the past few years, possibly causing an interstate bridge just a few yards away to tilt.

Engineers think that as a contractor dumped more and more dirt next to Interstate 495 bridge, the ground shifted under the weight and caused the bridge columns to start tilting. The bridge, a bypass that helps alleviate congestion on I-95 through Wilmington, Delaware, and normally carries about 90,000 vehicles daily, has been closed since Monday. It will be at least several weeks before it is reopened.   Continue reading “Questions grow about bridge closure, dirt mountain”

White House Dossier – by Keith Koffler

A defiant President Obama today said he is making no apologies for arranging the release of Sgt. Bowe Berdahl by freeing five bloodthirsty Taliban leaders who may soon be working on plans to attack American soldiers.

Speaking at a press conference in Brussels today with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Obama claimed he was right to act – and to act fast, without telling Congress.   Continue reading “Obama: “No Apologies” for Bergdahl Swap”

Mail.com

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Gray wolves roaming into California from Oregon will have added protections now that a state board has listed the species as endangered despite other parts of the country relaxing rules on hunting the iconic predator.

The California Fish and Game Commission’s vote Wednesday came as biologists announced that an Oregon wolf famous for hopscotching between the two states has fathered pups within about 50 miles of the border, making it a matter of time before more wolves make California home.   Continue reading “State board votes to protect California wolf”

BBC News – by Patrick Jackson

Russia is widely accused of orchestrating the separatist insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern provinces despite the Kremlin’s attempts to portray it as a home-grown movement and its repeated denials of involvement.

After two months of fighting and the loss of hundreds of lives, Moscow’s strong propaganda campaign against the new leadership in Kievnow comes with mounting evidence of Russian military engagement in the two provinces just across its border, Donetsk and Luhansk.   Continue reading “Is Russia orchestrating east Ukraine violence?”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The married couple with a taste for exotic travel set out for Central Asia in the summer of 2012, moving as tourists through a region not normally visited by Westerners.

It was a risky venture by any standards, not least because the young travelers were expecting their first child. They crossed into Afghanistan, and at one point, Joshua Boyle emailed relatives from a part of the country he said was unsafe.   Continue reading “Pair in Afghanistan video plea say they’re parents”

New York Times – by Elizabeth A. Harris

Thomas A. Mars, formerly the chief administrative officer for Walmart in the United States, stepped down. José Luis Rodríguezmacedo Rivera, once the general counsel at Walmart’s Mexican division, quietly left the company. And H. Lee Scott Jr., who was Walmart’s chief executive, will retire from the board this month.

These men belong to a list of executives from the uppermost reaches of Walmart’s management who held critical positions when corruption scandals engulfed the company’s international division. Come July, almost every person on that list will no longer be with the company — but no departure has been cited by Walmart as a way to clean house after those scandals.   Continue reading “After Bribery Scandal, High-Level Departures at Walmart”

Natural Society – by Paul Fassa

Very few know what has been hidden from public view regarding CDC lies, cover-ups, and congressional investigation. Probably those who don’t know don’t want to. Well, here are some examples of CDC corruption for those who do want to know.   Continue reading “Why Trust an Organization that Lies and Cheats: The Silly CDC”

Mint Press – by Katie Rucke

MINNEAPOLIS – On May 28, 126 police officers in Seattle filed a lawsuit in federal court, arguing that restrictions placed on the department by a federal court in 2012 regarding officers’ ability to use excessive force was a violation of their constitutional rights as officers.

Although the restrictions were put in place by the feds to curb the rampant unconstitutional policing the city was experiencing — especially when it came to the use of excessive and deadly force against mostly minority suspects — the officers argue that having to restrain themselves while on duty only leads to an increase in the number of citizens and officers killed.   Continue reading “Trained To Kill: The Policing Tactics The Public Isn’t Supposed To Know About”

CNN – by Laura Smith-Spark and Jim Acosta

Warsaw (CNN) — U.S. President Barack Obama voiced his support for Ukraine’s newly elected president and called for the international community to “stand solidly behind” him Wednesday, on a visit to Europe dominated by the crisis in Ukraine.

Obama’s meeting in Warsaw, Poland, with Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko can be seen as a sign of U.S. support for the government in Kiev as it battles to quell a pro-Russian separatist uprising in Ukraine’s East.   Continue reading “Obama vows to stand with Ukraine as he meets President-elect in Poland”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown, March 4, 2013

Freedom Outpost’s Constitutional scholar Publius Huldah recently explained why Federal gun laws are unlawful. She noted that the first gun control measures put in place in the United States did not take place until 1927, when Congress banned the mailing of certain weapons. We went from 1776 to 1927, 150 years after our founding, when Congress decided, “We better start disarming the American people.”

Huldah goes through the history of the Federal government’s unlawful actions to regulate firearms in America and she points out that when it started, the Progressives had already begun a takeover. I’ll also note the Federal Reserve had been established in 1913 as well.   Continue reading “All Federal Gun Laws Are Unconstitutional”

CBC News – by Emily Chung

The main cause of the monarch butterfly’s decline is the loss of milkweed — its food — in its U.S. breeding grounds, a new study has found. That all but confirms that the spread of genetically modified crops is indirectly killing the monarch.

This past winter, the number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico fell to its lowest since 1993, when records first started being kept, the World Wildlife Fund and Mexico’s Environment Department reported in January. That report blamed the loss of milkweed owing to genetically modified crops and urban sprawl in the U.S. and illegal logging in the butterflies’ Mexican wintering ground.   Continue reading “Monarch butterfly decline linked to spread of GM crops”

Idaho Statesman – by BRIAN SKOLOFF AND RAHIM FAIEZ

HAILEY, IDAHO — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s hometown abruptly canceled plans Wednesday for a welcome-home celebration, citing security concerns over the prospect of big crowds — both for and against the soldier.

The town of 8,000 has been swamped with hate mail and angry calls over Bergdahl, whose release after five years of Taliban captivity in Afghanistan has touched off a debate over whether the 28-year-old should be given a hero’s welcome or punished as a deserter.   Continue reading “Bergdahl’s hometown cancels celebration amid furor”

Press TV

The vote was “meaningless, because you can’t have an election where millions of your people don’t even have an ability to vote,” said Kerry, who landed in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Wednesday on an unannounced visit.   Continue reading “Kerry calls Syrian presidential election ‘meaningless’”