Month: February 2015

Dr. Mercola

New York’s Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has ordered GNC, Target, Walgreens, and Wal-Mart to immediately stop selling certain herbal supplements. The products include up to seven varieties — ginkgo biloba, St. John’s wort, ginseng, garlic, echinacea, saw palmetto, and valerian root – that reportedly were mislabeled or contained adulterated content.

While the products have already been pulled from shelves amidst what the Attorney General’s (AG) office called an “outrageous degree of adulteration,” there is a problem.   Continue reading “NY Attorney General to Wipe Herbal Supplements from Shelves”

Business Insider – by Rob Price

Mark Zuckerberg has taken a shot at anti-vaccination activists, the Verge reports, picking vaccination science book “On Immunity” as the latest text for his online book club.

As his new year’s resolution, the Facebook founder has opted to read and discuss a new book every two weeks with his online following of millions.

Written by Eula Bliss, “On Immunity” discusses the science behind vaccines and why people oppose them. It’s an Amazon bestseller, and was praised by Slate as “elegant and bracing.”   Continue reading “Mark Zuckerberg just slammed the anti-vaccination movement”

Fox News

A U.S. military official on Thursday outlined plans to retake the vital Iraq city of Mosul from Islamic State terrorists as early as April — an unusual move that swiftly drew criticism that the Pentagon was revealing too much information to the enemy.

A senior U.S. Central Command official said the “shaping” for the battle is currently underway, and the Iraqi military hopes to begin operations in the “April, May timeframe.” The goal is to retake the city before Ramadan begins on June 17.   Continue reading “Showing our hand? US military official outlines plan to retake Iraqi city of Mosul”

CNN – by Evan Perez and Wes Bruer

The New American – by William F. Jasper

Just in case you missed it, the kleptocrats who populate the United Nations have big “climate justice” plans for you. On February 13, as you were preparing for a Valentine’s Day date with your sweetheart or getting ready for the Presidents’ Day weekend, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Geneva, Switzerland, released its long-awaited “negotiation text.” That is the agreement that will take center stage in Paris at the UN’s global climate summit of world leaders during November and December.   Continue reading “From 1750 AD? UN Calculates 300-year “Climate Debt” for United States”

Speisa

Several birds with racist and offensive names are being replaced in an effort by the Swedish Ornithological Society.

The Swedish Ornithological Society has produced a list of Swedish names of all the world’s birds and found the names of several species racist and offensive, TV 4 reports.    Continue reading “Sweden: Several birds found to have racist names – now they are being replaced”

The Real Revo

I guess not all Marines favor the 1911 platform.

From Military.com:

The Marine Corps has authorized MARSOC operators to carry Glock pistols, since most of the elite outfit’s members prefer the popular 9mm over the custom .45 pistols the service bought them in 2012.   Continue reading “Marines Allow Operators to Choose Glocks over MARSOC .45s”

Gunwatch – by Dean Weingarten

A Wisconsin woman who works for the Oconomowoc School District is being harassed over the possession of an electrical stun gun in her vehicle’s glove box.  She may be criminally charged.  In most of the country, this would not be an issue.  But Wisconsin is a swing state.   In the 90’s, Democrats dominated, and passed a law that seemed designed to snare legal gun owners, modeled after the Federal gun free school zone act.   The act has been an abysmal failure nationally.   School shooting shot up after the act passed.    The federal law was ruled unconstitutional in 1995, and under heavy lobbying from President Clinton, was passed again, with slight modification, in 1996.   One of those modifications was to put an exemption in the law for people with concealed carry weapons permits.   Continue reading “WI: Woman School Worker, with Permit, Placed on Leave for Stun Gun in Glove Box”

The Moscow Times

More than two-thirds of Russians believe other countries pose a military threat to their nation’s security and more Russians now believe in the likelihood of war than at any time this century, a research group said Friday.

The Russian Public Opinion Research Centre said 68 percent of respondents to an opinion poll believed other countries pose a threat to Russia’s security. The centre also said an index measuring how much people believe in the possibility of the threat of war stood at its highest level since 1999.   Continue reading “Most Russsians See Other Countries as a Threat, Poll Shows”

CNS News – by Patrick Goodenough

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has gently pushed back at the inference that his government does not know the details of a proposed agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, after the State Department confirmed that it is not sharing everything about the negotiations with the Israelis.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran is relentlessly pursuing nuclear weapons with the express purpose of destroying the state of Israel,” Netanyahu told visiting U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-Ga.).   Continue reading “Propaganda Alert: Netanyahu: We Do Know What’s in the Proposed Iran Nuclear Deal – And It’s Bad”

The Moscow Times

Prisoners in Siberia have been given a novel alternative to breaking rocks: They are whiling away their time in jail by creating life-size replicas of tanks and other Russian military equipment out of snow and ice.

A correctional institute in the Omsk region decided to hold a military-themed snow sculpture contest for the prisoners in honor of the Defenders of the Fatherland public holiday celebrated on Feb. 23, the regional branch of the Federal Penitentiary Service said on its website.   Continue reading “Siberian Convicts Make Life-Size Tank, Missile Launcher Out of Snow”

Reuters – by ANN SAPHIR AND STEVE GORMAN

Shipping executives and union leaders for dock workers at 29 U.S. West Coast ports remained locked in a dispute on Friday as talks, brokered by the U.S. labor secretary, headed into a fourth straight day.

Negotiations ended late Thursday with no deal, two sources close to the talks told Reuters Friday, adding that there is more work to do in discussions set to resume in the morning.   Continue reading “No deal yet in U.S. West Coast port dispute; talks to continue”

The Vineyard of the Saker – by Observer

Seven countries in five years and the US dollar is raising from the dead. Ukraine fulfilled its purpose, ISIL conquering Iraq and Syria, just conquering strategic Koban. Turkey does possum, Kurdistan rejoices. Asad has yet to fall, then comes the Iran and the “New Middle East” will be finished and dollar saved. Or – weaned Russia, China and dependent dollar still petrodollar. So simple!

But first about how the stones fit into a mosaic.   Continue reading “Seven countries in five years”