Mail.com

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Just when flowering bulbs were poking out their heads and snow shovels were getting a well-deserved rest, winter weather has come back. And on the first day of spring no less.

Forecasters say a storm will dump up to 6 inches of snow on the Northeast and mid-Atlantic on Friday. New England will be on the lower end of the snow totals but even Boston, which has seen a record 108.6 inches of snow, could get an inch or 2 more.   Continue reading “Northeast gets another blast of winter on 1st day of spring”

Mail.com

In a survival story his doctors call extraordinary, a 22-month-old Pennsylvania boy whose lifeless body was pulled from an icy creek was revived after an hour and 41 minutes of CPR and has suffered virtually no lingering effects.

Gardell Martin came home from the hospital on Sunday, and his doctors said Thursday he has made a full recovery. “It’s not only extraordinarily rare that we got the kid back, but what’s even more extraordinary is the rate at which he recovered and the completeness of his recovery,” said Dr. Frank Maffei, director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Geisinger’s Janet Weis Children’s Hospital in Danville. “The stars and moon aligned, and he had an angel on his shoulder.”   Continue reading “Toddler survives near-drowning after 101 minutes of CPR”

The Organic Prepper

Do you enjoy saving a buck more than most people?  Do you have a black belt in frugality? Here are 20 surefire signs that you are embracing your cheap side.  How many things on this list apply to you?

  1. You take it as a personal challenge to see how long you can go without spending money. The game is even better if you have a spouse or friend with whom you can compete.
  2. You don’t let food go to waste. You have an ice cream tub in your freezer nearly full of odd bits of leftovers, awaiting their reincarnation into “leftover casserole” or “leftover soup”.

Continue reading “20 Signs That You Might Be A Cheapskate”

Forbes – by Nick Sibilla

Federal drug agents may be racially profiling and unjustly seizing cash from travelers in the nation’s airports, bus stations and train stations. A new report released by the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice examined the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s controversial use of “cold consent.”

In a cold consent encounter, a person is stopped if an agent thinks that person’s behavior fits a drug courier profile. Or an agent can stop a person cold “based on no particular behavior,” according to the Inspector General report. The agent then asks people they have stopped for consent to question them and sometimes to search their possessions as well. By gaining consent, law enforcement officers can bypass the need for a warrant.   Continue reading “The DEA Is Seizing Cash Without Warrants In Its Version Of Stop-and-Frisk”

A sad student sits in a school hallway (Shutterstock)Raw Story – The Guardian

Adult interrogation methods do not belong in the classroom, so why are school administrators throughout the United States being trained to use them on their students in order to extract confessions?

John E. Reid & Associates is the largest interrogation trainer in the world and teaches such methods to hundreds of school administrators each year . Last month, members of the Illinois Principals Association, for instance, could register for a “professional development” event on “Investigative Interviewing and Active Persuasion”. The School Administrators Association of New York State recently offered a workshop for administrators on this same topic, titled “Are you Sure They Are Telling the Truth”?   Continue reading “School officials learning coercive interrogations tactics to extract confessions from kids”

A homeless man uses an umbrella to hold off the water. (CBS SF)CBS San Franscisco – by Doug Sovern

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — KCBS has learned that Saint Mary’s Cathedral, the principal church of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, has installed a watering system to keep the homeless from sleeping in the cathedral’s doorways.

The cathedral, at Geary and Gough, is the home church of the Archbishop. There are four tall side doors, with sheltered alcoves, that attract homeless people at night.   Continue reading “San Francisco Saint Mary’s Cathedral Drenches Homeless With Water To Keep Them Away”

Obama_Cham(8)640.jpgFox News

WASHINGTON –  They say the only two things that are certain in life are death and taxes. President Barack Obama wants to add one more: voting.

Obama floated the idea of mandatory voting in the U.S. while speaking to a civic group in Cleveland on Wednesday. Asked about the influence of money in U.S. elections, Obama digressed into the topic of voting rights and said the U.S. should be making it easier for people to vote.   Continue reading “Obama floats making voting mandatory, calling it ‘potentially transformative’”

Sent to us by Harold.

Did some quick research on my computer about one of the persons behind this Jade Helm operation (articles here, here and here) and it looks like this may involve people who are experts in counterinsurgency and military occupation.  There might even be a chance some Latin American forces could be involved unofficially..

I looked at the contacts on the last slide of the presentation on your website and decided to check into Francisco Oquendo, the Jade Helm Operations planner.  I went with him because the name was unique enough to get a solid lead.  He is a former 7th SF soldier.   Continue reading “Info on a Jade Helm Operations Planner”

Jon Rappoport

“Give up your dreams, if you must. Cease dreaming altogether. Call those dreams and ambitions and visions…delusions. Then you will be ready. Then you can truly serve humanity. You can fall back into the arms of the many who will receive you with love. You’ll become an empty vessel through which miracles are channeled. One day Oprah will interview you.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

In a BBC documentary, “Google and the World Brain,” the question of author-copyright is explored. Google has scanned and published out-of-print books that are still covered by copyright.   Continue reading “The extinct dinosaur called The Individual”

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reacts during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri GripasReuters

Republican John Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. Congress and an ardent backer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will visit Israel at the end of this month, diplomatic sources said on Friday.

The visit will follow Netanyahu’s surprise election victory this week and his speech to Congress earlier this month on Boehner’s invitation, an event that aggravated the White House and drew sharp criticism.   Continue reading “U.S. Congress speaker Boehner to visit Israel this month”

NBC News

A body pulled from a New Jersey river late Wednesday afternoon has been identified as the 55-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who disappeared more than a year ago while out on a walk, authorities say.

Prosecutors said the medical examiner’s office was able to confirm the body as David Bird, an energy markets reporter who vanished in January 2014, using dental records.   Continue reading “Body Pulled From NJ River Identified as Wall Street Journal Reporter Who Vanished on Walk in 2014”

The Daily Signal – by Kelsey Harkness

After serving multiple deployments overseas with the U.S. Army Special Forces, Josh Burns began building his own rifles at home.

In Sept. 2013, he and his wife Felicia, who also served in the military, decided they would make a business out of selling guns.

“This is his hobby that [Josh] masks as a business so he can play with guns,” Felicia told The Daily Signal recently while setting up their stand at the New Orleans Area Gun and Knife Show.   Continue reading “Access, Denied: More Gun Sellers Blocked From Financial Sector”

Image source: SilencerCo/Fight the NoiseThe Blaze – by Liz Klimas

A firearm suppressor company has begun a movement for gun owners to “Fight the Noise.” That is, advocate for the right to protect their hearing with firearm silencers without them being subject to extra taxes and paperwork.

“The Suppressed are changing the perception of an industry and leading the revolution with a clear message: Guns don’t have to be loud,” SilencerCo’s Fight the Noise website stated.   Continue reading “Gun Business Has a Simple Message for Gov’t: ‘Get Their Grubby Hands Off Our Industry’”