Month: May 2015

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff, Steve Straehley

A bill introduced by Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona that would allow Customs and Border Protection “access to federal lands for security activities” was passed out of committee this week.

McCain and his cosponsor, Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Arizona), said in a March news release that “laws put in place to protect these lands also prevent Border Patrol agents from doing their jobs,” and the legislation, the Arizona Borderland Protection and Preservation Act (SB 750) (pdf), would “cut unnecessary red tape and enable Border Patrol agents to have access to all federally managed land in Southwest Arizona so they can perform their jobs effectively, keep our communities safe, and secure the border once and for all.”   Continue reading “John McCain Says Laws Protecting National Parks and Monuments Threaten National Security”

The Guardian – by Dan Roberts

Barack Obama will seek to rally Democratic support for free trade on Friday with a visit to Nike headquarters designed to allay fears of further offshoring of US jobs.

Amid fierce opposition from the president’s own party in Congress, White House officials are aiming to flip perceptions by staging the speech at a shoe giant notorious for its use of low-cost Asian labour but which claims the proposed transpacific partnership (TPP) trade agreement will allow it to create 10,000 new US jobs.   Continue reading “Obama to visit Nike HQ to rally Democratic support for free trade”

ABC 11 News – by Luis Martinez

Military bases and installations in the United States have been ordered to raise their force protection condition status to Bravo (FPCON Bravo), due to general concerns about ISIS related threats, but not because of any specific threat or plot.

U.S. Northern Command’s Admiral William Gortney ordered the increase in the force protection condition from FPCON Alpha Plus, which is the standard for U.S. military bases.   Continue reading “US Military Bases Raise Security Status due to ISIS Threat”

The Intercept – by Lee Fang

In a little-noticed brief filed last summer, lawyers for the House of Representatives claimed that an SEC investigation of congressional insider trading should be blocked on principle, because lawmakers and their staff are constitutionally protected from such inquiries given the nature of their work.

The legal team led by Kerry W. Kircher, who was appointed House General Counsel by Speaker John Boehner in 2011, claimed that the insider trading probe violated the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branch.   Continue reading “Congress Tells Court That Congress Can’t Be Investigated For Insider Trading”

The Intercept – by Juan Thompson

North St. Louis is grappling with many problems: underperforming schools, a stubbornly high murder rate, lack of good jobs, dirty vacant lots and now the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

The NGA, a lesser-known cousin of the National Security Agency, has long had facilities in South St. Louis located a short walk from the historic Anheuser-Busch Brewery. But the NGA is now looking to move and has narrowed its list of possible new locations to four, including one in North St. Louis that would require the demolition of 47 homes.   Continue reading “St. Louis Residents Fight to Keep Spy Agency from Taking Their Homes”

Against Crony Capitalism

Umm…What?

Ok, ok. This is for real. Reading to your child “unfairly” advantages your child over children who don’t get read to. You see, your child should be a blithering automaton like the rest of the kids out there.

What’s fair? What’s unfair? Who defines what is fair? This professor who thinks that maybe abolishing the family (I’m not joking) is a keen idea? I don’t think so.   Continue reading “Professor: If You Read To Your Kids, You’re ‘Unfairly Disadvantaging’ Others”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

Shocking revelations show that at least four Clinton Foundation board of directors have either been charged or convicted of financial crimes, including bribery and fraud.

This newest, startling revelation is just one more of many in Peter Schweizer’s bombshell book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, the book that has sent the Hillary Clinton campaign and the media scrambling.   Continue reading “Revealed: Four Clinton Foundation Trustees Charged or Convicted of Financial Crimes”

The Guardian – by Jon Boone

Two ambassadors are among seven people killed when a military helicopter crashed into a school in Pakistan’s mountainous north and burst into flames.

The envoys were part of a large group of foreign dignitaries being ferried to the inauguration of a ski resort chairlift in the town of Naltar on Friday. It was due to be attended by the Pakistani prime minister.   Continue reading “Pakistan helicopter crash kills foreign ambassadors”

The Organic Prepper

One day, you’re just moving through life with everyone else in your office or at your church, and then, for whatever reason, the reality of how tenuous our current lifestyle is, hits you squarely between the eyes.  You realize that electricity and grocery stores and transportation are all things that you’ve been taking for granted and that these things could actually disappear. Maybe you’re concerned about a natural disaster. Perhaps you saw something on the evening news. It could even be a job loss that puts these things out of reach.   Continue reading “How to Start Prepping in 3 Easy Steps”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In what was an “unambiguously” unpleasant April jobs payrolls report, with a March revision dragging that month’s job gain to the lowest level since June of 2012, the fact that the number of Americans not in the labor force rose once again, this time to 93,194K from 93,175K, with the result being a participation rate of 69.45 or just above the lowest percentage since 1977, will merely catalyze even more upside to the so called “market” which continues to reflect nothing but central bank liquidity, and thus – the accelerating deterioration of the broader economy.   Continue reading “Americans Not In The Labor Force Rise To Record 93,194,000”

BBC News

A top Australian government business adviser has said climate change is a hoax by the United Nations.

Most climate models were wrong and there was little evidence of climate change, said Maurice Newman.

He said the UN had used climate change as a “hook” to establish and control a new world order.   Continue reading “Australia PM’s adviser says climate change a UN hoax”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Blue Bell Creameries knew there was listeria in one of the company’s plants as far back as March 2013, according to a government investigation. But the company didn’t issue any recalls or shut down its production until after the products were linked to listeria illnesses this year — including three deaths in Kansas.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday released results of its investigations into Blue Bell’s plants in Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama after a Freedom of Information request by The Associated Press. The most extensive violations were found in Oklahoma, where the FDA listed 17 positive tests for listeria on equipment and around its plant there from March 2013 through February 2015.   Continue reading “Listeria contamination in Blue Bell plants goes back 2 years”

Mail.com

APOLLO, Pa. (AP) — A man used his 9-year-old daughter as a ploy to collect money for Girl Scout cookies he never ordered or delivered, police said.

Thirty-three-year-old Cody Patrick Wylie was arraigned Tuesday on charges of theft and receiving stolen property. He lives in Westmoreland County, northeast of Pittsburgh. He and his daughter took door-to-door cookie orders from as many as 100 people, police said, and eight people filed a criminal complaint.   Continue reading “Cops: Man used daughter, 9, to scam Girl Scout cookie buyers”

Mail.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After Elvis Summers built a tiny house on wheels for a woman who had been sleeping on the streets, he launched a crowdfunding campaign to construct similar shelters for other homeless people in his South Los Angeles neighborhood.

He had no grand ambitions beyond lending a helping hand in a city with thousands of residents without roofs over their heads. “Honestly I thought I’d raise enough money to help a dozen people, call it a day, and then go back to stressing about my job,” said the 38-year-old, who runs an online apparel store.   Continue reading “Man on mission to build tiny houses for Los Angeles homeless”