securityNatural News – by J. D. Heyes

No question, we live in a “wired” world, but increasingly, we also live in a world where, no matter where we go, we are tracked — either through our vehicle, our cell phone or by some form of direct surveillance. In addition, our personal privacy is at risk of becoming a quaint anachronism, thanks to the Technological Age, unless or until lawmakers and President Obama step up and begin enforcing the Fourth Amendment.

As reported by Gizmodo, there is a new website that makes it much easier to invade our privacy by collecting streaming footage from more than 73,000 IP (internet protocol) cameras whose owners have not changed their default passwords.   Continue reading “Is the whole world watching your private home security camera? 73,000 now online”

marionbarryWUSA 9 News – by Bruce Johnson

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) — Former DC Mayor Marion Barry has died on Sunday morning, according to his family.

Family and very close associates are gathered at United Medical Center in Southeast, DC as the word spread.

The 78-year-old Barry was just released from Howard University Hospital this evening where he had been admitted on Thursday.   Continue reading “Marion Barry dies at 78”

AFP Photo / Menahem KahanaRT

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian farmer near the Gaza border, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. This is the first fatality since the latest tentative ceasefire agreement in August, when the 50-day Gaza war ended.

The ministry has identified the man as Fadel Mohammed Halawa, 32. He was allegedly shot dead to the east of the Jabalya refugee camp. According to the man’s relatives, he was out in search of song birds, who inhabit trees located near the border. They are said to be quite expensive in Gaza’s markets.   Continue reading “Israeli troops kill Palestinian farmer along Gaza border”

Mail.com

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man who had made previous threats against police set his house on fire Saturday and ambushed the first sheriff’s deputy who responded, fatally shooting the deputy and wounding another before he was killed by a police officer who lives nearby, a law enforcement official said.

The man’s name and address had been entered into a law enforcement computer system because of previous threats, but the 911 dispatcher who entered the fire call put in the address of a neighbor who reported the blaze, so the alert wasn’t activated and the Leon County deputy who responded first had no warning, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information.   Continue reading “Official: Man who killed deputy had made threats”

Mail.com

TOKYO (AP) — The damage from an overnight earthquake in a mountainous area of central Japan that hosted the 1998 winter Olympics proved more extensive than initially thought.

A daylight assessment Sunday found at least 50 homes destroyed in two villages, and 41 people injured across the region, including seven seriously, mostly with broken bones, officials said. The magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday west of Nagano city at a depth of 5 kilometers (3 miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The agency revised the magnitude and depth from initial estimates. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude of 6.2. Since the quake occurred inland, there was no possibility of a tsunami.   Continue reading “Damage worse than thought in Japanese earthquake”

ABC News

Police say a 12-year-old boy brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun at a Cleveland recreation center was shot and wounded by a responding officer.

Cleveland’s Emergency Medical Service tells WOIO-TV ( http://bit.ly/1FefMZO ) that the boy is at a hospital with serious injuries. His mother says he’s in surgery for a stomach wound.   Continue reading “Officer Shoots Boy Holding Fake Gun at Rec Center”

Press TV

A Palestinian group says Palestinian minors have been subjected to sexual abuse by Israeli forces during detention or investigation.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) said some 40 percent of Palestinian children are reportedly subjected to sexual abuse during interrogation.

It said Israeli soldiers have arrested more than 600 Palestinian children in al-Quds (Jerusalem) since June 2013.   Continue reading “Israel continues to abuse, torture Palestinian minors”

660-Bible3-AP.jpgFox News – by Jason F. Wright

One of my favorite people on the planet suffers from a confidence deficit.

It’s heartbreaking.

We have many mutual friends, and everyone in her path finds her talented, articulate, dedicated, focused and faithful. This friend is lovely inside and out, and she seems to be the only person who disagrees.   Continue reading “Why you should ‘shrink the gap’ between your opinion and God’s”

State MilitiasUS Crow – by Ron Hardin

Leadership in vertical organizations is a merging of Leadership by influence, and compliance by choice. To work both the upper and lower echelons must be working towards the same goals, or at least compatible goals. The better leaders understand this and phrase their directions as such. In our Militias this is most important!

Since their inception Militias have always been groups of people aligned for like, or at least, compatible goals. In 1776 it was not for freedom, but for protection. Most of the original militias were gathered not to defeat the British Crown, but to keep the British troops and mercenaries out of the peoples homes. The group at Bunker hill did not rise to defeat the British Garrison, but to prevent them from entering into the peoples homes and taking the weapons they needed to hunt, defend their families, and possess since they paid for them. Regardless why they came, the result was a mutual success of the people.   Continue reading “The State Militias”

The Daily Caller – by Michael Bastasch

Electricity prices are already increasing at record levels and Environmental Protection Agency rules will only force power prices up even higher as the agency finalizes a slew of regulations aimed at the power sector.

A report by Energy Ventures Analysis found that the EPA underestimates how much its power plant regulatory regime will raise electricity and natural gas prices by imposing new regulations on power plants, most recently being the agency’s rules to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants.   Continue reading “Report: EPA Regulations To Raise Power Costs 37 Percent By 2020”

epaThe Organic Prepper

The Environmental Protection Agency is a federal agency that is charged with the responsibility of writing and enforcing legislation to protect human health and the environment.  Established under Nixon in 1970, the EPA is another one of those agencies that sounds like a good idea, until you peel off the shiny friendly top layer to discover the stench of corruption underneath. Up until now, they at least pretended to be there to serve as watchdogs, but it seems like they’ve decided to give up on that silly illusion.

Since they are looking after all things environmental, they need unbiased specialists to advise them on policies and issues.   Continue reading “Bill Passed: EPA Must Only Take Advice from Industry Shills, NOT from Independent Scientists”

Gate to Liberty – by Frank Brady

America’s community hospitals, local physician-directed medical care, and the economies of thousands of cities and small towns are being systematically destroyed. It is being done in plain sight and almost no one knows about it.

The Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) is an elaborate scam, the most outrageous betrayal of public trust in history. It is a last ditch attempt to postpone the imminent collapse of Medicare, Medicaid, and the entire Third Party Payment system. It is designed to benefit insurance companies, the federal government, large corporate employers, cooperative professional and trade associations, and a bi-partisan gang of establishment politicians at the expense of everyone else.   Continue reading “The ObamaCare Ambush!”

A group of assistant district attorneys in the Bronx flashed gang signs in this year-old photo.NY Daily News – by ERIK BADIA , ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , LARRY MCSHANE

These Bronx prosecutors are going to be on Santa’s naughty list.

A group of assistant district attorneys landed in a holiday hullabaloo Thursday after a year-old photo surfaced with the gang of eight flashing hand signals from the Bloods, the Crips and the Trinitarios.

“We’re outraged because they think it’s a joke,” said one defense attorney after the photo, with a green and silver garland as its backdrop, reappeared this week. “You can’t have it both ways.”   Continue reading “Bronx prosecutors under fire for posing with gang signs in holiday photo”

Star Tribune – by Darlene Superville

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — President Barack Obama is playing golf at an exclusive Las Vegas-area course with a retired shortstop, a Democratic Party donor and a newspaper owner.

After Obama took about five hours to play the 18 holes at Shadow Creek in North Las Vegas on Saturday, the White House said that he had decided to play an additional nine holes.   Continue reading “Obama spending weekend in Las Vegas area, tees off on exclusive course with Derek Jeter”

AL SHABABThe Huffington Post – by Tom Odula

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — One gunman shot from the right, one from the left, each killing the non-Muslims lying in a line on the ground, growing closer and closer to Douglas Ochwodho, who was in the middle.

And then the shooting stopped. Apparently each gunman thought the other shot Ochwodho. He lay perfectly still until the 20 Islamic extremists left, and he appears to be the only survivor of those who had been selected for death.

Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, attacked a bus in northern Kenya at dawn Saturday, singling out and killing 28 passengers who could not recite an Islamic creed and were assumed to be non-Muslims, Kenyan police said.   Continue reading “Somalia’s Al-Shabab Says It Killed 28 In Kenya”