Month: January 2015

Breitbart – by Bob Price

Fort Hood, Texas, has received its first eighty-seven Ebola warriors who have returned home after helping to fight the deadly disease in Liberia. Most of the soldiers are members who are permanently assigned to Fort Hood, but some are from Fort Carson, Colorado. The soldiers now begin a twenty-one day monitoring period to ensure none of them returned carrying the deadly virus.

The soldiers will be taken care of in Fort Hood’s Controlled Monitoring Area Site (CMAS). During this process the soldiers will be treated with dignity, respect and compassion, according to a press release from the Fort Hood Press Center obtained by Breitbart Texas. They will be afforded essential quality of life equipment and services as they transition through the twenty-one day monitoring program.   Continue reading “Fort Hood Soldiers Begin Ebola Screening Process After Liberia”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

Incoming Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (R) announced border security as his top agenda item for the 84^th Texas Legislature. Other priority items included reducing taxes, education, transportation, the Second Amendment, and family and life issues. The announcement came during a press conference held Thursday in Austin, Texas.

Patrick said he has listened to the voters who elected him with nearly sixty percent of the vote. He was elected after a very long primary and general election campaign where he made his agenda clear to the voters. “The point is the people of Texas are very clear on the major issues they care about – border security, reducing taxes on homes and businesses, education, transportation, family and life issues, and second amendment rights,” Patrick stated in a press release obtained by Breitbart Texas.   Continue reading “Border Security Tops Incoming Texas Lt. Governor’s Agenda”

Washington Post – by Philip Rucker,, Robert Costa and Matea Gold

Mitt Romney forcefully declared his interest in a third presidential run to a room full of powerful Republican donors Friday, disrupting the fluid 2016 GOP field as would-be rival Jeb Bush was moving swiftly to consolidate establishment support.

Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, has been mulling another campaign for several months, but his comments Friday marked a clear step forward in his thinking and come amid mounting tensions between the Romney and Bush camps.   Continue reading “Romney to GOP donors: ‘I want to be president.’”

Continue reading “Recent Central US Earthquakes”

Top Secret Writers – by Gabrielle Pickard

Pages of Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) papers were released by the National Security Agency (NSA) on Christmas Eve. These previously top secret documents show hundreds of instances of the NSA unlawfully spying on Americans and how the rights of citizens have been violated during the last decade.

While most of the documents are heavily redacted, the IOB reports shows how routinely and easily the NSA “unintentionally” collects data on citizens of the United States.   Continue reading “NSA Posted Large Amount of IOB Reports on Christmas Eve”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff, Danny Biederman

In an effort to reduce state and federal royalty payments and maximize subsidies from the U.S. government, coal companies have set up subsidiaries to essentially sell the coal they mine to themselves. In some states, nearly half of all coal produced is sold this way.

The fact that these companies are selling such a large percentage of coal back to themselves, rather than to a utility or power plant, constitutes “a fundamental shift in how the coal industry does business,” Claire Moser of the Center for American Progress (CAP) wrote at Climate Progress.   Continue reading “Coal Companies Gain Federal Subsidies by Selling Coal to Themselves”

Continue reading “Funny Signs”

Mail.com

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — A gun shop owner died from gunshot wounds Friday after a botched robbery that left three suspects wounded, police said.

Shawnee police said in a news release that John Bieker, 44, died after the shooting at the Shawnee store called She’s a Pistol, which caters to female gun owners. Police said gunfire erupted after four men tried to rob Bieker and his wife, Rebecca.   Continue reading “Owner dies after shootings at suburban Kansas City gun shop”

Breitbart – by Caroline May

A record 92,898,000 Americans 16 years and older did not participate in the labor force last month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The BLS defines people not in the work force as people 16 years and up who are not employed and haven’t “made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week.” The labor force participation rate — or the “The labor force as a percent of the civilian noninstitutional population” — also dipped back down to 62.7 percent, from 62.9 percent in November.   Continue reading “Record 92,898,000 Americans not in the workforce”

War is Boring – by Joseph Trevithick

The North Carolina Army National Guard has quietly stood up a new commando detachment for secretive missions around the world.

On Oct. 18th, federal and state officials held a ceremony marking the creation of Special Operations Detachment-X—a.k.a., SOD-X — in the capital Raleigh. The Guard already has 10 commando detachments spread across the country.   Continue reading “America Has a New Commando Unit”

TASS

MOSCOW, December 30. /TASS/. The US private military company Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) has confirmed its readiness to start training a Ukrainian battalion for street fighting, a military-diplomatic source told TASS on Tuesday.

“The private military company Academi has confirmed to the Kiev authorities its readiness to start training an experimental battalion of 550 men as of January at the request of Ukraine’s General Staff,” the source said.  Continue reading “Former US firm Blackwater to train Ukrainian military for street fighting”