April 21, 2010 file photo of Deepwater Horizon oil rig burningThink Progress – by Josh Israel

Five years ago, BP’s historic 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill resulted in more than 210 million barrels of oil ending up in the Gulf of Mexico. But while scientists continue to observe ongoing problems, a BP spokesman appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday suggesting the remaining oil no longer poses a risk to humans or the aquatic ecosystem.

Alisha Renfro, the Mississippi River Delta Campaign staff scientist for the National Wildlife Federation told a This Week reporter that while you no longer see oil slicked islands today: “You see tar balls that are washing up. And what it points to is the fact that oil is still in the system and, just because we can’t always see it everywhere we go, it’s still out there.”   Continue reading “5 Years After Gulf Oil Spill, BP Spokesman Tells Public Not To Worry About Tar Balls In The Water”

Fortune – by Phil Wahba

McDonald’s MCD -0.58% shuttered 350 poorly performing stores in Japan, the United States, and China the first three months of 2015 as part of its plan to boost its sagging profits.

Those previously unannounced closings, disclosed on a conference call with Wall Street analysts on Wednesday, are on top of the 350 shutterings the world’s largest restaurant chain had already targeted for the year. While those 700 store closings this year represent a fraction of the 32,500 or so restaurants worldwide, they show how aggressive McDonald’s is getting in pruning poorly attended locations that are dragging down its results.   Continue reading “McDonald’s is closing hundreds of stores this year”

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Natural News – by Jennifer Lilley

While the debate rages on about whether or not vaccines cause autism, a confidential document has surfaced that makes clear what science has led Natural News readers to believe: Yes, vaccines are linked to autism.

The document,[PDF] which runs over 1,000 pages, is from the fraudulent and corrupt GlaxoSmithKline. Several hundred pages in, it’s revealed that vaccines are tied to autism. It’s blatantly outlined in a chart, along with a long list of other conditions caused by vaccines, including “motor development delay,” “tremor” and “altered state of consciousness.” Autism is listed in this chart as a nervous system and mental impairment disorder associated with receiving GSK’s Infanrix hexa vaccine.(1)  

Signed by Dr. Felix Arellano, the Vice President and Head of Biological Safety and Pharmacovigilance of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, the document’s introduction states:

This summary bridging report integrates the information presented in the two Combined Diphtheria, Tetanus and Acellular Pertussis, Hepatitis B enhanced Inactivated Poliomyelitis and
Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine (Infanrix™ hexa) periodic safety update reports (PSURs) covering the two year period from 23 October 2009 to 22 October 2011.(1)

Continue reading “Vaccines cause autism, says confidential document from corrupt drug company”

New York Times – by JO BECKER and MIKE McINTIRE

The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.   Continue reading “Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company”

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USA Today – by Nanci Hellmich

Most people have very little tucked away for retirement, and many aren’t even trying to figure out how much they’ll need later in life, a new national survey reveals.

About 36% of workers have less than $1,000 in savings and investments that could be used for retirement, not counting their primary residence or defined benefits plans such as traditional pensions, and 60% of workers have less than $25,000, according to a telephone survey of 1,000 workers and 501 retirees from the non-profit Employee Benefit Research Institute and Greenwald and Associates.   Continue reading “Retirement: A third have less than $1,000 put away”

The Organic Prepper

In the past couple of years, it seems that one American city after another has faced a water disaster when municipal supplies have become tainted. West Virginia and Ohio both faced water emergencies in 2014.

Now, the city of Nibley, Utah has issued an order to residents not to use the water from their taps due to a foul odor caused by contamination.   Continue reading “Another American Water Emergency: Utah Municipal Water Supply Tainted by Chemical Spill”

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Apparently shooting a Texas motorcyclist in the thigh during a high-speed chase wasn’t enough for one state trooper, who ended up performing a leaping kick into the man’s lower body after eventually pulling him over.

The incident began after then-25-year-old Steven Gaydos ran a stop sign in Texas’ Chambers County. The case actually occurred back in December 2012, but only surfaced recently after the Austin American-Statesman newspaper conducted an investigation into how cops deal with fleeing suspects.   Continue reading “Texas trooper jumpkicks motorcyclist after shooting him in high-speed chase”

S1110142Tices Shoal – by OceanCountyJournal.com

For 30+ years Tices Shoal has been the Boaters Summer Party Hot Spot, located on the bayside of Island Beach State Park, Tices Shoal has been visited by thousands of boaters and there has never been a fee to cross from Tices Shoal to the Oceanside of Island Beach State Park.

This summer, starting mid June 2015 access to the Oceanside of Island Beach State Park from Tices Shoal will now cost $3 per person, and boaters are angry and feeling targeted because you can walk or ride a bike at the main entrance of Island Beach State Park and not be charged an entrance fee, many people park their vehicles outside the park and enter by foot to avoid paying for vehicle parking, a car load of people driving in at the main entrance will cost about $10 whereas a family of four walking in from the Tices Shoal entrance will cost $12, boaters feel that they should not be charged since they are not arriving at the park inside a vehicle.   Continue reading “Tices Shoal Boaters Angry Over Island Beach State Parks $3 beach access charge.”

Mail.com

GARNER, Iowa (AP) — A jury in Iowa has acquitted a longtime state lawmaker accused of sexually abusing his wife, an Alzheimer’s patient, bringing to a close a trial that raised questions about the capacity of people with dementia to consent to sex.

After about 13 hours of deliberation over three days, jurors on Wednesday found Henry Rayhons, 78, not guilty of third-degree sexual abuse of his wife, Donna Lou Rayhons, who died in August. He was accused of having sex with her at a nursing home in May after being told by staff that she was no longer capable of consenting due to dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease.   Continue reading “Former Iowa lawmaker acquitted in spousal sex abuse trial”

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GUANAJUATO, Mexico (AP) — When a woman in Texas claimed that Alondra Luna Nunez was her long-lost daughter, the girl’s real parents in Mexico say they presented more than a dozen documents from baptismal records and a copy of her birth certificate to family photographs. They were sure it was enough to demonstrate her true origins.

In the end, they say, Alondra was sent screaming to the U.S. based on a scar on the bridge of her nose resulting from a remote-control car mishap as a young girl. And they blame their traumatic weeklong separation squarely on the judge who made the final call.   Continue reading “Officials seized wrong girl, DNA tests reveal”

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Check your medicine cabinets, some bottles of Mucinex have been recalled because they may have incorrect information on the label.

Manufacturer RB says certain lots of the following medicines may not have the correct drug facts label on the back. The product is correctly labeled on the front of the bottle.   Continue reading “Mucinex recalled over labeling concerns”

National Journal – by Dustin Volz

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill Tuesday night that would reauthorize a controversial surveillance authority of the Patriot Act until 2020, a push that comes just as a group of bipartisan lawmakers is preparing a last-minute push to rein in the government’s mass-spying powers.

A McConnell aide said the majority leader is beginning a process to put the bill on the Senate calendar but said that the chamber will not take the measure up this week. That process, known as Rule 14, would bypass the traditional committee process. Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr is a cosponsor.   Continue reading “McConnell Introduces Bill to Reauthorize Patriot Act Until 2020”

Seized cashLA Times – by Victoria Kim

A handful of small Los Angeles County cities seize large amounts of cash and cars using a controversial federal law that allows them to confiscate property even when owners aren’t charged with a crime, according to a report published by an advocacy group that promotes decriminalization of drugs.

The seizures by police in South Gate, Beverly Hills, Baldwin Park and other relatively small cities dwarf those made by much larger police departments in California from 2006 through 2013, according to the Drug Policy Alliance. Pomona reaped more than $14 million, exceeding assets collected in the considerably larger cities of Oakland, Long Beach, Fresno and Bakersfield combined, said the report, which is expected to be published Tuesday morning.   Continue reading “Report: Small L.A. County cities seize large amounts in civil forfeitures”

NBC Bay Area – by Jodi Hernandez

The parents of a Fairfield boy abducted while sleeping in his family’s car are blasting police a day after their son was found safe and are planning to file a complaint against the department.

A thief drove away with Broc Guzman Monday and even though the case had a happy ending, the boy’s parents are angry at police.

Cell phone video shows Broc’s mother Suzanne Guzman being held on the ground by officers after refusing to allow them to search the family home for her year eight-old-son.   Continue reading ““We Were Treated Like Criminals”: Parents of Fairfield Boy Abducted While Sleeping in Car Blast Police”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

West Baton Rouge, LA — Ervin Leon Edwards, 38, died face down in a jail cell after a half-dozen officers held him down and tasered him, then left him for dead.

His crime? Police were questioning him about an argument with his girlfriend and then began harassing him over his “sagging pants,” according to the lawsuit. He was arrested moments later and brought to the West Baton Rouge jail.   Continue reading “Cops Arrest Man for “Sagging Pants” Tase Him, Leave Him Face Down in Cell Until He Died”

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Governor Jay Inslee’s desk is the next and final stop for the Washington state bill taking on “Stingray” technology. Stingrays are used in fake cell phone towers that trick mobile devices to connecting with them, revealing personal and tracking information to law enforcement. Police have argued no warrant is necessary.

House Bill 1440 would draw clear distinctions on how and when stingrays can be used. HB1440 also addresses their role in federal mass surveillance. If it becomes law, stingrays won’t be allowed unless certain conditions are met. From the bill’s text:   Continue reading “Will Washington State End ‘Stingray’ Warrantless Surveillance?”

The Anti-Media – by Carey Wedler

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Privacy advocates are urging the House of Representatives and Senate to vote against bills that further increase the government’s widespread surveillance of citizens. The bills, called the “Protecting Cyber Networks Act” (H.R. 1560) and the “Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act” (S. 754) are the latest move by lawmakers to bolster the strength of the domestic spying apparatus.

One of the main objectives of the new laws is to eliminate consequences for companies that share their users’ private information with the government. The bills refer to this as “liability protection.”   Continue reading “Congress Moves to Grant Even More Power to the NSA”

Man pulled from vehicle, beaten in South SideFree North Carolina

A white man was pulled out of his car by six black men and beaten unconscious in Pittsburgh. Police say the victim nearly died. The car is currently missing. The media absolutely doesn’t want you to know that it was a black on white crime.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette initially reported the race of the victim and the race of perpetrators on it’s website. Then the paper went back and scrubbed all references to race.  

Continue reading “Pittsburgh man pulled from car in near fatal racial hate crime mob attack”

Image Credit: Twitter/@TelemundoAustinWestern Journalism – by B. Christopher Agee

The same Texas police chief who encouraged his constituents last year to alert authorities of any “gun enthusiasts” they might know is back in the news this week with another anti-gun rant.

After Texas legislators passed a new provision allowing citizens to openly carry firearms, Austin Sheriff Art Acevedo responded by posting a rambling, error-filled screed against the amendment. He titled his post, published Tuesday on Twitter, Open Season For Armed Criminals and Extremists.   Continue reading “‘Open Season For Gang Members’: Texas Police Chief Blasts New Open Carry Law”