Month: January 2015

Military

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has sustained another data breach, putting more than 7,000 veterans at risk of identity theft. A potential flaw in one of VA’s patient databases managed by a vendor to provide home telehealth services may have exposed personal information of veterans. The security flaw could have exposed veterans’ data, including name, address, date of birth, phone number and VA patient identification number, via the Internet. VA has notified and offered credit protection to all 7,054 veterans in the database.   Continue reading “Security Breach at VA”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

Dozens of people in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County brought work towards a natural gas pipeline to a halt on Monday, charging that the project threatens a Native American cultural site and their rural way of life.

The protesters, who include area residents and a local chapter of the American Indian Movement, gathered along the Conestoga River and encircled a rig which was drilling for core samples at the site of a proposed pipeline, according to a statement from the group.   Continue reading “Enforcing the ‘Will of the People,’ Dozens of Pipeline Protesters Halt Operations in Pennsylvania”

Independent

Lesbian and gay couples were married in Miami on Monday by the same judge who said she saw no reason why they could not immediately get their licenses ahead of Florida’s coming-out party as the 36th US state where same-sex marriages are legal statewide.

The courtroom erupted in cheers when Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel cleared the way for the licenses issued to Cathy Pareto and Karla Arguello, and Jeff and Todd Delmay. Then she presided over their weddings in a dual ceremony.   Continue reading “Gay and Lesbian couples in Florida celebrate as judge says they can marry”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

LITTLE ST. JAMES, U.S. Virgin Islands (INTELLIHUB.COM) — If you can name it — it has likely taken place on the lavish private island off the coast of Florida which boasts a beautifully landscaped plush luxury estate complete with its own helipad, privy only to certain members of the global elite.

Owned by Jeffery Epstein, a wealthy American financier and convicted sex offender, Little St. James Island appears to be somewhat of a gathering place and is a well desired hangout among key figureheads, actors, and royalty to the likes of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and even Prince Andrew.   Continue reading “St. James Island exposed: The elites best kept secret, until now”

Who Rules America – by G. William Domhoff

The story of the Social Security Act of 1935 is an enjoyable one to tell — and hopefully to read, despite all the details — because it is so counterintuitive to what all of us believe. Who’d have thought that leaders from some of the biggest corporations of the 1930s — companies such as Standard Oil of New Jersey (now known as ExxonMobil) and General Electric — were strong supporters of the Social Security Act? Or guessed that several of the key experts who worked on the details of the act were employed by the richest person in the United States at the time, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.?   Continue reading “How Corporate Moderates Created the Social Security Act”

Candidate for Weasel Wednesday

Patriot or Traitor

Michael J. “Mike” Rogers, a Republican Congressman from Michigan, is a traitor and outright liar. One of many examples of this is his claim the NSA is not listening to phone calls.

On Sunday’s (June 16, 2013) “State of the Union” on CNN, Mike Rogers as head of the House Intelligence Committee, insisted that although there have been allegations made to contrary, the National Security Agency isn’t listening in on Americans’ personal communications.   Continue reading “Michael J. “Mike” Rogers is a Traitor”

Yahoo News – by Liz Goodwin

In the wake of the murder of two New York City police officers and a national debate about policing, the National Fraternal Order of Police is asking for the Congressional hate crimes statute to be expanded to include crimes against police officers. The union has more than 300,000 members.

Violence against police officers that is motivated by anti-police bias should be prosecuted as a hate crime, the nation’s largest police union is arguing in a letter to President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders this week.   Continue reading “Police union pushes for cop killings to be included in federal hate crimes law”

I witnessed two of these when I was in Riyadh. They raise a black flag at the court house to let the town folk that there will be a beheading that day.It is witnessed by hundreds (or was back then) and after they go nuts, kind of like being at a WWF match.

Fox News

Islamic State’s penchant for beheading its enemies has earned the jihadist army international condemnation, but Saudi Arabia quietly decapitated scores of people last year, often in public.   Continue reading “Saudi beheadings spiked in 2014 amid Kingdom’s fears of dissent”

I’m just wondering if it’s racial discrimination or the dissemination of information that they want to stop.

X Republic 

12 August 2013 – The United Nations committee tasked with combating racial discrimination today opened its latest round of work in Geneva with a focus on stopping the spread of racist hate speech on the Internet and social media networks, as well as the need to use education to prevent racism and xenophobia.   Continue reading “United Nations says regulating the Internet to stop the spread of “hate speech” is one of their top priorities”

Fox News

U.S. Senator Tom Coburn released his final oversight report on the Department of Homeland Security, which has found major problems in the branch.

The report finds that Homeland Security is not successfully executing any of its five main missions.

“Ten years of oversight of the Department of Homeland Security finds that the Department still has a lot of work to do to strengthen our nation’s security,” Coburn explained.  “Congress needs to review the Department’s mission and programs and refocus DHS on national priorities where DHS has a lead responsibility.”   Continue reading “Oversight report finds major problems with DHS”

Fox News

DES MOINES, Iowa –  As anyone who has grown up around snow knows, part of the fun of sledding is the risk of soaring off a jump or careening around a tree.

But faced with the potential bill from sledding injuries, some cities have opted to close hills rather than risk large liability claims.

No one tracks how many cities have banned or limited sledding, but the list grows every year. One of the latest is in Dubuque, Iowa, where the City Council is moving ahead with a plan to ban sledding in all but two of its 50 parks.   Continue reading “Liability concerns prompt some cities to ban sledding”

Notice no mention of RADIATION POISONING in this entire article. How stupid does the MSM think we are? This is literally the canary in the coal mine dropping dead in its cage.

CBC

Scientists are trying to figure out what’s behind the deaths of seabirds that have been found by the hundreds along the Pacific Coast since October.

Mass die-offs of the small, white-bellied grey birds known as Cassin’s aucklets have been reported from British Columbia to San Luis Obispo, Calif.   Continue reading “Cassin’s aucklets seem to be starving to death on Pacific Coast”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Earlier today, when we were conducting a routine check with the Office of the Currency Comptroller’s on the total notional amount of derivatives held at the Big 4 banks in the context of the “JPMorgan break up” story, we found something stunning: using the latest, just released Q3 OCC data, JPMorgan is no longer America’s undisputed derivatives king. Well, it still is at the HoldCo level, where it is number one in terms of notional derivatives with $65.5 trillion, but when one steps a level lower, namely the FDIC-insured commercial bank (the National Association or N.A.) level, something quite disturbing emerges. This:   Continue reading “Is Citi The Next AIG: 70 Trillion Reasons Why Citigroup And Congress Scrambled To Pass The Swaps “Push-Out” Rule”

RT

A man in San Francisco was shot dead by police after he confronted officers in a police parking lot and reached out for what later turned out to be a fake gun.

The 32-year-old white man walked into the parking lot of the Mission District police station on Sunday evening, police say.    Continue reading “San Francisco police shoot dead man who challenged officers with fake gun”

RT

Based on high-tech military wearables, a California-based company is unveiling consumer-oriented state-of-the-art augmented reality glasses – a competitor to Google Glass. They are expected to be released in 2015 at prices below $1000.

The new Smart Glasses system by Osterhout Design Group (ODG) is similar to the heavy duty glasses it has been supplying the US Department of Defense for more than a year, according to the ODG press-release.   Continue reading “Military company to release affordable augmented reality glasses for consumers”

Mail.com

CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen is surging in strength, finding new support and recruits among the country’s Sunni tribesmen, in a backlash to drone strikes and the rise to power of Shiite rebels who have taken over the capital and other parts of the country, tribal leaders and Yemeni officials warn.

The militants’ rise comes after months of being squeezed by multiple challenges. Early last year, U.S. drone strikes followed by Yemeni ground troops helped Yemen destroy a key al-Qaida base in the remote mountains of the impoverished, unstable nation. The past year, al-Qaida has also faced fierce competition from the Middle East’s new militant powerhouse, the Islamic State group, which has sought to make inroads into Yemen.   Continue reading “Yemen’s al-Qaida thrives on Sunni backlash to Shiite rebels”

Mail.com

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A 3-week-old baby abducted by a gunman who shot and wounded her parents and an uncle at a Southern California residence has been found dead, and authorities are searching for the assailant.

The identification of Eliza Delacruz came after detectives from Long Beach traveled to San Diego County to help authorities investigate the discovery of remains in a dumpster Sunday behind an Imperial Beach strip mall.   Continue reading “Baby snatched by gunman who wounded parents is found dead”

Mail.com

BOSTON (AP) — Potential jurors stared intently at Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as jury selection in his federal death penalty trial began Monday under tight security.

Tsarnaev, flanked by his attorneys, sat at a table in the front of the jury assembly room. Wearing a dark sweater and khaki trousers, he looked down much of the time but occasionally glanced at the potential jurors and looked at the judge. He also picked at his shaggy beard.   Continue reading “Jury selection gets underway in marathon bombing trial”