Month: March 2015

Natural News – by JD Heyes

Author and former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson recently told senators considering confirmation of President Obama’s next attorney general pick, Loretta Lynch, that the nominee would need to “chart a new path” from the White House’s abysmal record of essentially treating some reporters like “enemies of the state.”

Attkisson’s accusations before the Senate Judiciary Committee were akin to those made in her 2014 book Stonewalled, in which she detailed how the Obama Administration — and officials in her own network — worked to prevent the public from learning more about several scandals, including Operation Fast and Furious, Benghazi and the green energy debacle.   Continue reading “Obama Administration considers independent journalists to be ‘enemies of the state,’ warn reporters”

Yahoo News – by Charles Babington

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress can get so busy that senators and their staffs don’t always have time to scrutinize bills they pass and letters they sign — or so it seemed this week, anyway.

Two episodes left Democrats blushing, some Republicans muttering under their breath, and taxpayers perhaps wondering what those well-educated people do on Capitol Hill.

First, Republicans ridiculed Democrats for claiming they somehow missed a key provision in a bill filed two months ago. The bill, unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, would combat human sex trafficking.   Continue reading “Capitol Hill Buzz: Who has time to read these bills we pass?”

Politichicks – by Macy Chance

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

This could be Oregon’s motto this week. Either that or, “Are you kidding me?!”

Seriously, Oregon’s officials could not be more embarrassing if they tried. Well, maybe if they put on an adult sized Tigger Costume and paraded around for no apparent reason.   Continue reading “What Do the ‘Princess of Darkness’ & Dumpster Diving Have in Common? Oregon Politics!”

Oregon Live – by Rob Davis

Ellen Rosenblum, Oregon’s attorney general, wanted to team up with the federal agencies investigating the influence-peddling scandal involving then-Gov. John Kitzhaber and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes.

Rosenblum thought for a time she was part of a joint state-federal investigation. But federal authorities wanted her out. They got their way.   Continue reading “Why did feds push out attorney general on Kitzhaber? It’s a secret”

Forbes – by Geoffrey Smith

IEA warns that the U.S. is going to run out of storage soon, at which point somebody, somewhere, is going to have to stop pumping.

Oil prices are tumbling back towards the six-year lows that they hit in January after more signs of the U.S. economy weakening and a new report suggesting that the rout at the end of last year still hasn’t had a meaningful impact on U.S. shale oil output.   Continue reading “Oil is back in the doldrums as the IEA warns of glut”

KHOU 11 News

BRENHAM, Texas — The FDA has issued an advisory after five cases of listeriosis were linked to Blue Bell ice cream products from the production facility in Brenham.

All five patients ate the ice cream while being treated at a single hospital in Kansas between January 2014 and January 2015. Three of them died.

No one suspected the infection came from ice cream until four strains of Listeria monocytogenes were found in Blue Bell products last month by the South Carolina Health Department.   Continue reading “Deadly listeria outbreak linked to Blue Bell ice cream products”

Ammoland – by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- The West Virginia Constitutional Carry bill,  SB 347, has now passed the House.  The vote was 71 to 29.  This is a very comfortable, veto proof margin.  The bill was amended in the House to raise the age for concealed, permit-less carry from 18 to 21, on the 11th of March.  On the third read today, the 12th of March, it passed 71 to 29.  The vote was both bi-partisan and sufficient to override a veto.  51 Republicans and 20 Democrats voted for the bill.   13 Republicans and 16 Democrats voted against it.

One of the Republicans  who voted against it was Daryl Cowles, the House majority leader, from Berkeley Springs, District 58.  Note that he is not the Speaker of the House, but the majority leader.   Continue reading “WV House passes Constitutional Carry with Bi-Partisan Support”

Capital New York – by Kelly Weill

Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed.

“The matter is under internal review,” an NYPD spokeswoman, Det. Cheryl Crispin, wrote in an email to Capital after examples of the changes were presented to the NYPD.   Continue reading “Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza”

CBC News

A pig’s head was found outside the front entrance of the Montreal Police Brotherhood headquarters on Friday morning, along with a human form made out of tree branches set against the front door.

Montreal police are investigating it as a case of vandalism. The union office is located on Gilford Street in the city’s Plateau neighbourhood.   Continue reading “Pig’s head found outside Montreal Police Brotherhood office”

Business Insider – by Mike Bird

The dollar is set for its strongest quarterly strengthening since 1992, according to Bank of America, a good sign that a rate hike is around the corner.

When markets expect that US interest rates will be hiked, it typically strengthens the dollar. That’s because people rush to change other currencies into dollars — they can make more money in dollar-denominated investments. The higher demand for the US currency drives its value up.   Continue reading “The surging dollar is a signal that a colossal financial event is just around the corner”

KRMG – by Don Bishop and April Hill

Police are investigating a double shooting during a home invasion.

We’re told the door had been kicked in at the Suzanne Apartments near 11^th and Mingo about 12:35 a.m. Thursday.

“We did find two males that were deceased apparently shot inside the apartment,” Tulsa Police Sergeant Gillian Phippen said.   Continue reading “Resident shoots, kills two men during home invasion”

Jon Rappoport

Last Election Day, the voters on Maui passed a resolution to temporarily stop Monsanto and Dow from continuing their toxic GMO and pesticide experiments in the “open-air laboratory” of Maui.

Monsanto and Dow sued immediately to nullify the will of the people. Since then, the case has been hung up in the courts.

A few months ago, I exposed the fact that the federal judge handling the case, Barry Kurren, was compromised, because his wife, Faye, was involved with an environmental group that had accepted huge money from Dow.   Continue reading “Yet another corrupt judge in the Maui vs. Monsanto case?”

American Freedom by Barbara

Friday the 13th, is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday. The superstition surrounding this day may have arisen in the Middle Ages, “originating from the story of Jesus’ last supper and crucifixion” in which there were 13 individuals present in the Upper Room on Maundy Thursday, the night before His death on Good Friday.^[1][2] Other scholars claim that there is no written evidence for a “Friday the 13th” superstition before the 19th century, and the superstition only gained widespread distribution in the 20th century. The fear of the number 13 has been given a scientific name: “triskaidekaphobia“; and on analogy to this the fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia, from the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή, meaning “Friday”), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς, meaning “thirteen”).   Continue reading “Friday the 13th, also known as Black Friday”

Tabu Blog – by Jamie Lee

Drought-stricken California, which just had its driest January ever recorded, smashed another dismal record last month: the hottest February. This will be the 5th year in a row of historic drought in California, breaking a 120 year old record.

California is the largest populated state in the country. One out of eight Americans reside in sunny, warming, no rain, CA. Our economy is recognized as the 8th largest in the world with Central Valley farmers producing some 42% of the nations food supplies for decades.   Continue reading “California’s Big Water Plans; The End of Private Water Rights?”

Activist Post

Bills that would block federal gun control passed in two states this week.

Today, the Montana Senate gave final approval to a bill seeking to block enforcement of future federal gun control measures. The vote was 27-22.

Introduced by Rep. Art Wittich, House Bill 203 (HB203) prohibits the state “from enforcing, assisting in the enforcement of or otherwise cooperating in the enforcement of” a federal act enacted on or after Jan. 1, 2015 that “prohibits, restricts, or requires individual licensure for ownership, possession, transfer, or use of any firearm or any magazine or other ammunition feeding device.”   Continue reading “Bills to Block Federal Gun Control Pass in Two States This Week”