Month: January 2015

Motortrend – by Karla Sanchez

GM has announced a new driver assessment program through its subscription-based OnStar service that can offer feedback on how you drive. Think you don’t need someone watching over your shoulder and critiquing your every move behind the wheel? Then maybe the program’s potential insurance discount through Progressive will persuade you.

OnStar customers will soon be able to enroll in the new driver assessment program, which is exactly what it sounds like. Those who partake in the service will have their driving performance evaluated for a total of 90 days, and after completing the evaluation period, they’ll receive a detailed driving assessment.   Continue reading “GM OnStar to Monitor Driving Habits for Possible Insurance Discounts”

UPI – by Fred Lambert

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UPI) — Over half of America’s richest citizens feel poor people have easy lives due to government benefits, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center.

The poll showed 54 percent of America’s most financially secure agreeing with the statement, “Poor people have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return.”     Continue reading “Poll: Over half of America’s wealthiest say poor have it easy”

UPI – by Karen Butler

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 (UPI) — Second-generation Hollywood film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. has died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his family said. He was 88.

The Samuel Goldwyn Films founder is credited with putting Julia Roberts on the map with 1988’s Mystic Pizza. He also was an early supporter of celebrated arthouse directors Ang Lee, Anthony Minghella and Kenneth Branagh.   Continue reading “Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. dead at 88”

The Motley Fool

Marijuana’s momentum is undeniable. Over the past two decades, 23 states have legalized medical marijuana and four states have legalized its use for recreational purposes. Furthermore, public perception on whether or not to legalize the still illicit drug has turned majority positive for the first time in history.

Yet one of the most intriguing aspects of marijuana is its potential medical benefits. With this in mind, we asked three of our top health care analysts if there was a particular disease they believed marijuana had a shot at successfully fighting or even curing. Here’s what they had to say.    Continue reading “Marijuana could be the answer to fighting these 3 diseases”

KSDK – by Brandie Piper

WASHINGTON, Mo. – A man and a woman were taken into custody Thursday night and charged Friday after a Washington, Missouri video game store was robbed at gunpoint. Police say they were able to apprehend them quickly because the male has an ankle monitoring device equipped with GPS.

Chief Kenneth Hahn says around 2 p.m. Thursday a woman entered Game Depot in the 500 block of East 5th Street wearing a hat and covering her face. She looked around, and left the store. Police think she may have left because there was a customer inside the store. A few minutes later a man walked in and sold two video games to the store. No customers were in the store, and the man left.     Continue reading “Police: GPS bracelet led to robbery suspect”

IJ Review – by MICHAEL HAUSAM

Outside of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office in Washington, a woman was in the process of being robbed by two thugs in a parking lot when she repeatedly honked her truck’s horn. They’d threatened her and she said they had a firearm.

Three Marines came running from the office, saw the woman who was yelling for help, intervened, and instantly put an end to the altercation.    Continue reading “Elderly Woman Yells for ‘Help!’ After She is Threatened by Armed Thugs. Then 3 Marines Showed Up.”

SF Gaten- by Henry K. Lee, Vivian Ho and Hamed Aleaziz

Four men were shot and killed Friday night in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley, police said.

The victims were found shot in a black 2005 Honda near the corner of Laguna and Page streets about 10 p.m., police said. The car had been reported stolen, authorities said.

All four men died at the scene, said Officer Albie Esparza, a San Francisco police spokesman. Their names were not immediately released.    Continue reading “4 shot dead in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley”

Natural Society – by Alexandra Preston

Recently, the results of a study claiming that most cancers are caused by “bad luck” have been floating around in the mainstream media. This sounds like we should all just give up and accept our likely fates of cancer, chemo, and death, right? However, there is a mountain of evidence showing that cancer is in fact preventable, partly because tumor development is a bit too complex to be bad luck.   Continue reading “No, Cancer is Not the Result of “Bad Luck””

The Watchers

Duke University researchers have found hazardous levels of mercury hundreds of miles downstream from Peruvian gold mines.

Researchers have determined that the health risks taken on by artisanal, small-scale gold miners extend far beyond the miners themselves.   Continue reading “Mercury from gold mines accumulates hundreds of miles downstream”

The Daily Bell – by Anthony Wiles

As we predicted long ago, cannabis is rapidly emerging as an industry. Those of us who saw the opportunity knew the large money would be made as the market gradually developed venture-capital and IPO participation. That’s what is occurring now.

Ultimately, this is going to be a worldwide industry, one of our largest and most popular. The promise is immense and the possibilities are still not fully understood by most. But the starter’s gun has sounded. Venture capitalist extraordinaire Peter Thiel has now taken his first big cannabis position.   Continue reading “Top Speculator Peter Thiel Makes a Big Bet on the Cannabis Industry”

Information Liberation – by Chris

The New York Post is reporting the NYPD’s slowdown in issuing parking tickets is “costing the city $10m a week in revenue.”

From the perspective of the state’s tax-victims, that means taxpayers are saving $10m a week.   Continue reading “NYPD ‘Slowdown’ Saves Taxpayers $10M A Week In Parking Ticket Fines”

The New American – by Alex Newman

With terrorists rampaging through Paris for a second time this week after gunmen massacred 12 victims in the Charlie Hebdo attack, at least four more victims are dead as panic grows across the city and even the nation of France. And thanks to draconian gun-control laws severely infringing on the French people’s right to keep and bear arms, actual and potential victims of the ongoing slaughter have been left largely defenseless, to cower in the face of Islamists armed with Kalashnikovs and other weaponry. Despite all of that, rather than discussing more respect for gun-rights and liberty, experts say it is unlikely that the people of France under Socialist Party rule will be able to even have a real debate any time soon — much less lawfully protect themselves from terrorists and criminals.           Continue reading “Amid Terror in Paris, Gun Control Leaves French Defenseless”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff, Steve Straehley

Claiming to be on the side of the working poor, House Republicans, along with a dozen Democrats, this week adopted a bill that would redefine the full-time work week under Obamacare from 30 hours to 40 hours.

GOP lawmakers say the rule established under the Affordable Care Act that mandates that employers with 50 or more workers offer insurance to those working at least 30 hours a week caused employers to cut workers’ hours to avoid paying for healthcare. Under the Republican bill, these workers would now have to work 40 hours a week to be assured of coverage.   Continue reading “House Republicans Pass Employer-Supported Bill Changing Definition of “Full-Time Worker” from 30 Hours to 40 Hours”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

COLORADO (INTELLIHUB) — “Recent calls for attacks against law enforcement officers by foreign terrorist organizations and recent reports released by the U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s Detention Interrogation Program may exacerbate tensions or even spark violence against officers, intelligence personnel, government officials, and their families.”, says a recent bulletin issued by the Colorado Information Awareness Center (CIAC).   Continue reading “Terror scare: Law enforcement and military urged to deactivate all personal social media accounts”