Month: February 2015

Daily Mail – by Mia de Graaf

More than 4,700 square miles of ice formed over the Great Lakes in just one night on Tuesday.

The Arctic blast that swept the Midwest and Northeast saw a near-record amount of Lake Ontario was iced over, with just 20 per cent of open water left.

Overall 82 percent of the five water bodies sealed up.

Temperatures are expected to drop again on Thursday night, leading forecasters to predict that figure to climb significantly by Friday morning.   Continue reading “Record freeze on Lake Ontario as 4,700 square miles of ice forms on Great Lakes IN ONE NIGHT”

This ruling stated that the federal government has more power than any individual state.

HERE is a fine example of a criminal group posing as a government giving themselves power that they are unable to have as per the charter authorizing the court.

Justia – US Supreme Court

United States v. Peters, 9 U.S. 5 Cranch 115 115 (1809)

Syllabus

The legislature of a State cannot annul the judgments, nor determine the jurisdiction, of the courts of the United States.   Continue reading “Today is the anniversary of the 1809 Supreme Court ruling in US v. Peters”

The New American – by Jack Kenny

Appearing before the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Wednesday, undeclared presidential candidate Jeb Bush (shown) acknowledged “there were mistakes made in Iraq” and insisted he is his “own man,” but otherwise gave no indication he would depart from the practice of intervening militarily around the globe to “enforce peaceful stability” in far-off lands.

“I love my father and my brother,” the former Florida governor said of Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush during the question and answer session that followed his prepared remarks. “I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make. But I am my own man — and my views are shaped by my own thinking and own experiences.”   Continue reading “Jeb Offers More Bush World Chaos”

Fox News

It was surely a wedding that both families will never forget.

A bride in India decided to marry a guest on her big day after the groom had a seizure during the ceremony. The decision sparked a brawl after the husband-to-be regained consciousness and realized his would-be wife was with someone else, The Times of India reported Thursday.

The incidents unfolded when Jugal Kishore, 25, of Moradabad, was preparing to garland his 23-year-old bride, Indira, from Rampur.   Continue reading “Wedding ends in brawl after bride marries guest instead of groom”

Market Watch – by Myra P. Saefong

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The oil market got a bit of a shock late Wednesday, when the American Petroleum Institute’s supply data were released.

U.S. crude-oil supplies as of the week ended Feb. 13 saw a whopping 14.3 million-barrel jump from a week earlier, the trade group reported, according to news reports and various sources.   Continue reading “Crude-oil shocker: API data show supply surging”

RT

The US Navy has awarded Boeing a $29.5 million contract to design and develop a “beam control system” to increase the accuracy of high-power laser weapons to be installed aboard American military vessels.

“Boeing innovations in beam control and directed energy technologies are keys to understanding laser weapon system configurations that could yield a capability for the Navy in their maritime environment,”Peggy Morse, Boeing Directed Energy & Strategic Systems (DESS) vice president, said in an official statement.   Continue reading “Boeing ‘beam control system’ to boost US navy laser accuracy”

Mail.com

The bitter cold that has gripped the eastern U.S. is showing no sign of letting up before the weekend as low temperatures broke records Friday.

The newest band of Arctic air could plunge parts of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic into deep freezes that haven’t been felt since the mid-1990s, according to the National Weather Service. The cold snap followed snow and ice storms earlier in the week. The low temperatures caused much freezing and refreezing of snow, ice and roads. Weather forecasters warn that more sleet and freezing rain will be possible in the coming days.   Continue reading “Winter keeping its icy grip around the Eastern US”

Mail.com

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Investigators asked the public Thursday to provide more social media images and eyewitness accounts of a fatal police shooting that has sparked a series of protests in an agricultural community in Washington state.

They also asked for patience as they seek more information about the victim, an unarmed Mexican man who ran from officers after reportedly throwing rocks at them. Sgt. Ken Lattin of the nearby Kennewick Police Department said videos continue to arrive, and he asked for more contributions from people who saw the Feb. 10 shooting at a busy Pasco intersection.   Continue reading “Video from police, public examined in Washington shooting”

ABC News – by BLAKE NICHOLSON and JAMES MacPHERSON

The Canadian company behind the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline will seek U.S. government approval for another pipeline — this one going north.

Industry officials in North Dakota say the proposed Upland Pipeline could reduce reliance on the railroads to ship crude following recent concerns about safety.

TransCanada Corp.’s proposed $600 million Upland Pipeline would begin near the northwestern North Dakota oil hub of Williston and go north into Canada about 200 miles. At peak operation it would transport up to 300,000 barrels of oil daily, connecting with other pipelines including the Energy East pipeline across Canada.   Continue reading “TransCanada to Seek US Approval for $600M Upland Pipeline”

The Crime Report – by Graham Kates and Cara Tabachnick

Did the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) approve and possibly help design Afghanistan’s notorious “Salt Pit,” which was used by U.S. intelligence operatives to detain and torture suspected terrorists?

A small section of a 500-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s “detention and interrogation program” — a declassified version of which was released in December — prodded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the BOP for more information about its role in the war on terror.     Continue reading “What Was The Federal Bureau Of Prisons Doing In Afghanistan?”

WBEZ – by Patrick Smith

There’s a kid in the Cook County juvenile jail right now who isn’t supposed to be there. A judge ordered his release on January 29.

Because he is a juvenile, WBEZ isn’t using his name, but his problem is not unique. Even after a judge has ordered their release, lots of kids wait weeks, even months to be picked up.

Their deadbeat guardian is the State of Illinois, and these kids are stuck in juvenile jail because the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) can’t find a place to put them.   Continue reading “Illinois’ child welfare system leaves kids stuck in jail”

The Intercept – by JEREMY SCAHILL AND JOSH BEGLEY

AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The hack was perpetrated by a joint unit consisting of operatives from the NSA and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. The breach, detailed in a secret 2010 GCHQ document, gave the surveillance agencies the potential to secretly monitor a large portion of the world’s cellular communications, including both voice and data.   Continue reading “The Great Sim Heist – How Spies Stole The Keys To The Encryption Castle”

NBC San Diego – AP

California issued 59,000 driver’s licenses to immigrants who are in the country illegally during the first month their applications were accepted, state officials said Wednesday.

Overall, a total of about 236,000 immigrants in the country illegally began the application process during January, the state Department of Motor Vehicles said in a statement.   Continue reading “California Provides 59000 Illegals With Driver’s Licenses in First Month of 2015”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The totalitarian arm of the ever-growing government appears to know no limit. In today’s “oh no they didn’t” moment, the US Government’s diet panel has dictated proposed one more oppression of American’s freedom to choose:

• *GOV’T PANEL PROPOSES SUGARY-FOOD TAX TO FUND NUTRITION PROGRAMS, CURB OBESITY

On the bright side, the government approves of “lean meat” as compatible with healthy eating. The bill, introduced by Rep. Juan Candelaria, D-New Haven, would impose a tax of 1 cent per ounce on soft drinks – including sweetened teas, energy drinks and soda – and candies that are high in sugar and calories.   Continue reading “US Government Proposes “Sugary-Food Tax” To Curb Obesity”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On February 17 Florida State University criminology professor Gary Kleck responded to recent criticism of his past studies on defensive gun uses (DGUs) by showing why the criticism is wrong and why a minimum of 760,000 DGUs each year is still a viable claim.

For any uninitiated readers, Kleck’s work on DGUs entered into the public dialogue in 1993 with the publication of the National Self-Defense Survey (NSDS). He conducted this survey with his colleague Marc Gertz, finding a minimum of 760,000 DGUs annually.   Continue reading “Researcher Reaffirms: At Least 760,000 Defensive Gun Uses A Year”

ABC News

Las Vegas police identified the suspect who was arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged road rage incident that took the life of a woman, and the victim’s husband told reporters the family knew the suspect and had tried to help him.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested Erich Nowsch, 19, at a house only a block away from where the slain woman, Tammy Meyers, had lived with her family. Meyers’ visibly upset husband, Robert Meyers, was standing nearby when the arrest was made after a two-hour standoff and was asked by police to back away from the area.   Continue reading “Las Vegas ‘Road Rage’ Shooting Arrest: Family Knew Suspect”