Month: May 2015

The New American – by Alex Newman

Public resistance to Common Core is exploding across America, and officials are not happy about it. The Obama administration’s Department of Education, along with pro-Common Core government officials across the country under pressure from the feds, appear to be in panic mode. Facing a growing nationwide “opt out” movement to refuse participation in the unconstitutional federally funded testing regime aligned with the Obama-backed national school standards, senior bureaucrats, including Education Secretary Arne Duncan, have actually started resorting to lawless threats against parents, teachers, students, and entire state governments. Some parents were threatened by officials with jail time. Even small children are being punished by the state for “opting out” of the deeply controversial tests, with one California mother telling The New American that her daughter was publicly denied ice cream in retaliation.   Continue reading “Feds Panic on Mass Common Core Test Refusals, Threaten Reprisals”

Courthouse News – by ELIZABETH WARMERDAM

FRESNO, Calif. (CN) – A first-grade teacher locked a special-education student in a makeshift cage where she sat in a soiled diaper with dried feces on her body, her mother says in Federal Court.

Ledelldra Brooks filed suit against Fresno Unified School District, teacher Theresa MonPere, and administrators Christie Yang and Ron Bohigian on behalf of her daughter, A.J., who was 7 years old at the time of the alleged mistreatment.   Continue reading “School Caged Special-Needs Girl, Mom Says”

Business Wire

PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IntegenX announced today that the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) Crime Laboratory is using Rapid DNA technology to test DNA from qualifying arrestees for upload to the national DNA database. This capability streamlines the current process of DNA profile hit-matching against crime scene evidence, to keep communities safer and exonerate innocent suspects. Samples taken from the arrestees were analyzed using the RapidHIT system, which generated a full DNA profile in under two hours that was subsequently uploaded to the National DNA Index System (NDIS). NDIS is the highest level of the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), which is managed by the FBI and enables the exchange and comparison of forensic DNA evidence from violent crime investigations across the US.   Continue reading “Arizona Department of Public Safety is First NDIS Lab to Upload DNA Profiles to National Database Utilizing Rapid DNA”

Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

Are you ready for rioting, looting and mindless violence in major U.S. cities all summer long?  According to a brand new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 96 percent of all Americans believe that there will be more civil unrest in America this summer.  That leaves only 4 percent of people that believe that everything will be just fine.  In this day and age, it is virtually impossible to get 96 percent of Americans to agree on anything.  So the fact that just about everyone agrees that we are going to see more civil unrest should really tell you something.  The anger that has been building under the surface for so many years in this country has finally started to erupt.  If you have been following my website for a while, you know that this is something that I have been warning about for a very long time.  Many people may have thought that I was exaggerating when I talked about the civil unrest that was coming to American cities.  But I was not exaggerating at all.  In fact, if anything I was downplaying it.  In the years to come, we are going to see things happen in our cities that are going to absolutely shock the world.   Continue reading “96 Percent Of Americans Expect More Civil Unrest In U.S. Cities This Summer”

RT

Drilling chemicals were found in the drinking water of three Pennsylvania households, according to a newly released study. The industry has criticized the research, saying it does not prove the contaminants came from a nearby gas well.

The three homes, located in Bradford County, Pa., revealed traces of a compound commonly found in Marcellus Shale drilling fluids.   Continue reading “Tainted by fracking? Drilling chemicals found in Pennsylvania drinking water”

Jacksonville IL. 10:30 a.m. prox.

3 empty military sand camo flat bed tractor trailer units, and a van full of military personnel in sand camo uniforms at a truck stop.

Unusual for that truck stop.

Common Dreams – by Sarah Lazare

More than 25 farmworker, environmental, and food safety organizations sent an open letter on Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Agriculture demanding that the agency investigate reports that its scientists are facing retaliation and suppression of their research on controversial neonicotinoid insecticides that pose a danger to pollinator and human health.

“It is imperative that the USDA maintains scientific integrity and does not allow for harassment, censorship or suppression of findings that counter the interests of industry,” states the letter, whose signatories include Farmworker Justice, Food & Water Watch, and Center for Biological Diversity.   Continue reading “Suppressing Science For Monsanto? Groups Demand Investigation of USDA”

WND – by Bob Unruh

The urban legends about black helicopters, clandestine military camps, tunnels underneath major airports, secret cabals, hidden detention camps, trains loaded with caskets and body bags and the like were around long before the Internet. The Web just made them easier and quicker to reproduce.

One of the tea-party organizations even has reported an anonymous claim there were train cars moving around the country with prison-like shackles installed.

Most people dismiss such reports as hyperbole. Fiction. The fretting of nutcases.   Continue reading “Republican Areas Designated “Hostel” For Military Training”

Sent to us by the author, J.G.

Twenty-two years ago, three eight year old boys, Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Chris Byers, were brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas.  The crimes were almost immediately pinned on three delinquent teenagers, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin, soon after dubbed the “West Memphis 3.”  Two were convicted to life in prison and one to death row.  In 2011, all three were released after accepting a deal allowing them to plea quilty of lesser charges while at the same time maintaining their innocence.  This was done instead of a retrial based on new DNA evidence…leaving these horrific murders still unsolved.  Why would any state not want to find the real murderers and solve a case such as this?  And, why do so many people believe in the innocence of these three teens, including two of the victims’ parents?   Continue reading “The West Memphis 3 and the Unsolved Murders of 3 Eight Year Old Boys…Revisited.”

Sent to us by a reader.

Livestrong – by Chance Woods

Chicory is a root vegetable not unlike the beet. It became popular as a coffee substitute as early as the 18th century when coffee was scarce during the Napoleonic wars. The root of the chicory plant when roasted, dried and ground, can be blended with coffee or substitute for it entirely.   Continue reading “Caffeine in Chicory Coffee”