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New York Times – by Andy Newman and James Estrin
Some of the most curious costumes worn along the parade route belonged to protesters.
Behind a barricade, a group of men wore the fringed Jewish prayer garment known as the tzitzit and held up anti-gay signs bearing the logo of a group calling itself the Jewish Political Action Committee. Continue reading “Orthodox Jews Hired Mexican Workers To Protest Gay Rights”
Facing a crisis of monumental proportions at home, tens of thousands of people are fleeing a Caribbean island in search of a better life in the United States only to find hardship and struggle on American shores. Their stories sound like those of millions of migrants – poverty at home, where the economy lies in tatters – but they differ from millions of others: they’re already American.
Unable to pay its $73bn debt, Puerto Rico has begun rationing water, closing schools and watching its healthcare system collapse and 45% of its people living in poverty. Emigration to the mainland has accelerated in recent years, activists say, and data shows that from 2003 to 2013 there was a population swing of more than 1.5 million people. Continue reading “Economic exodus means two-thirds of Puerto Ricans may soon live in US”
All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff, Steve Straehley
Police in the United States have fatally shot 124 mentally ill people so far this year, according toThe Washington Post.
The Post found that the vast majority of the 124 were armed, but in most cases, the officers weren’t responding to reports of a crime, but to calls from relatives, neighbors or others who said a mentally fragile person was behaving erratically, including 50 victims who said they wanted to kill themselves. And many of those who were armed didn’t have firearms, but toy guns, knives or other implements that are less lethal than a gun. Continue reading “Mentally Ill Shot to Death in U.S. in 2015: 124 and Counting”
I am writing from a War Zone in southern Oregon which very few of you will ever experience. In my 18 + seasons working on a daily basis in the woods, I am here sadly recording the end of our great northern temperate forests.
Not only does this photo show the increasing death of trees under the Bush/Obama manufactured drought, it also shows a sky covered with the reason our forests are dying.
We should be having thunderstorms and we have not had appreciable regional precipitation since the end of May.
They spray over every developing cumulus cloud until they kill it or they set a wall of aerosoling stability off the coasts of Oregon and California, diverting Pacific storms from reaching our dying land. Continue reading “Manufactured Drought”
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane– The End, The Doors
It goes without saying that we rarely get an accurate representation of reality in the corporate media, which is, after all, what independent media exists for. Last Sunday Joe Quinn and I interviewed a very ordinary couple with a very extraordinary tale: businesspeople James and Joanne Moriarty and how they escaped from capture by Al Qaeda terrorists during the 2011 ‘Libyan revolution’. Listening to James and Joanne tell their story, it was impossible not to be struck by the significance, for every human being on this planet, of the problem of psychopaths in positions of power. Continue reading “NATO Slaughter: James and Joanne Moriarty expose the truth about what happened in Libya”
(CNN) — Here’s an in-depth look at the life of Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Personal:
Birth date: July 9, 1932
Birth place: Chicago, Illinois
Birth name: Donald Harold Rumsfeld Continue reading “Donald Rumsfeld Fast Facts”
MONTPELIER, Vt. — A woman brought a hammer to a firearms lesson and then tried to kill her instructor by shooting him in the face with a revolver, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Veronica Lewis, 31, of Worcester, pleaded not guilty to attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of 48-year-old Darryl Montague at his home in Westford in northern Vermont, where he runs a licensed firearms business. Continue reading “Prosecutor: Vermont woman shot firearms instructor in face”
Linda Barnette has issued marriage licenses in Grenada County, Mississippi for 24 years. On Tuesday, she resigned.
“I choose to obey God rather than man,” Mrs. Barnette wrote in her one paragraph resignation letter to the Grenada County Board of Supervisors. Continue reading “County clerk resigns instead of issuing gay marriage licenses”
Why is it that no one is talking about the huge gorilla in the living room? Four Jews and one Roman Catholic with no stones between his legs are now enacting national laws which carry severe penalties if not followed. The Supreme Court has become the new Politburo and is staffed as it was in Soviet Russia disproportionately by Jews whose numbers and ideologies are not representative of the wider demographics of the United States. We are doomed if we do not recall these traitorous individuals and make the Supreme Court judges elected positions with term limits.
This seems to be the week for old government corruption to be cleaned up. First we heard about Leland Yee packing his bags for the crowbar motel and now we see that Jeffrey Neely will be doing three months (?) in prison. This is a name that you’re probably familiar with if you’ve been following government waste, fraud and abuse stories for the past few years. (From the WaPo)
Jeffrey Neely, the senior executive whose appearance in a video drinking wine in a hot tub at a Las Vegas hotel became the public face of a conference where hundreds of federal employees partied at taxpayer expense, was sentenced Tuesday to three months in prison. Continue reading “Jeffrey Neely, the GSA “hot tub” exec to spend three months in prison”
US negotiators in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks fought on behalf of big drug-making companies, championing intellectual property laws that would protect their profits from competition by generic medications, leaked documents have revealed.
The protections proposed by US trade representatives may even transcend US patent laws, according to a draft copy of TPP’s intellectual property chapter leaked to Politico this week. The 90-page document, leaked to the paper by a critic of the trade deal, contains the draft proposal as it stood on May 11, before the latest TPP talks in Guam. Continue reading “Leaked TPP document shows US favoring Big Pharma”
As the Fourth of July weekend looms and Americans prep their grills and ready their fireworks, some citizens are packing their bags.
A recent online poll of more than 2,000 adults by TransferWise, a peer-to-peer money transfer service based in the United Kingdom, revealed that 35 percent of American-born residents and emigrants would consider leaving the United States to live in another country. Continue reading “Survey says: 35 percent of Americans would expatriate”
Allen B. West – by Ashley Edwardson
I am not adding much commentary to this, because I really think little is necessary. I am busy trying to find a hand hold on our slippery slope, because I fear my nation is falling into an abyss.
Excerpted from the Northern Colorado Gazette:
Using the same tactics used by “gay” rights activists, pedophiles have begun to seek similar status arguing their desire for children is a sexual orientation no different than heterosexual or homosexuals. Continue reading “That was FAST: Yesterday it was gay marriage; Now look who wants “equal rights””
Everyone knows where the debate over gay marriage is going next.
Now that the Supreme Court has imposed its edict on the land, the question is whether religious institutions and people of faith will still be permitted to act on moral beliefs that the court has portrayed as bigoted and deeply wounding.
In his long prose-poem about love masquerading as a judicial opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy made a bow to these concerns. Continue reading “Churches are the left’s next target in the gay-marriage war”
Under the agreement reached by BP and five US states along the Gulf of Mexico, the British oil major will pay out $18.7 billion over 18 years. The deal resolves the firm of remaining liabilities from the biggest oil spill in US history.
A record $5.5 billion will cover federal penalties under the Clean Water Act. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas will receive payouts for harm done in the oil spill. Continue reading “BP to pay record $18.7bn over 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A shark bit a 68-year-old man several times Wednesday in waist-deep water off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, officials said, the seventh in a record-breaking year of shark attacks for the state’s coastal waters.
A spokeswoman at the Greenville, North Carolina, hospital where he was taken said Wednesday night that the man, Andrew Costello, was in fair condition. He suffered wounds to his ribcage, lower leg, hip and both hands as he tried to fight off the animal, said Justin Gibbs, the director of emergency services in Hyde County. The attack happened around noon on a beach on Ocracoke Island, right in front of a lifeguard tower, he said. Continue reading “Man bitten by shark on NC Outer Banks is 7th this summer”
