Month: August 2015

The Daily Beast – by Kate Brannen

The war against ISIS isn’t going so great, with the self-appointed terror group standing up to a year of U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.

But that hasn’t kept defense contractors from doing rather well amidst the fighting. Lockheed Martin has received orders for thousands of more Hellfire missiles. AM General is busy supplying Iraq with 160 American-built Humvee vehicles, while General Dynamics is selling the country millions of dollars worth of tank ammunition.   Continue reading “The Company Getting Rich Off the ISIS War”

BBC News

In a world first, the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for a 3D-printed pill to be produced.

The FDA has previously approved medical devices – including prosthetics – that have been 3D printed.

The new drug, dubbed Spritam, was developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals to control seizures brought on by epilepsy.   Continue reading “First 3D-printed pill approved by US authorities”

Huffington Post – by Alice O’Leary Randall

For those hoping that Big Pharma could still be blocked from the medical cannabis scene there is bad news: the deal is done. Look for the first naturally-derived, Big Pharma-produced cannabis product to be on the market by the first half of 2016, perhaps even sooner.

Epidiolex is a liquid formulation of pure, plant-derived cannabidiol (CBD) manufactured by the British company, G.W. Pharmaceuticals. It is currently on the FDA Fast Track and has entered its final Phase 3 study for pediatric epilepsy disorders such as Dravet’s and Lennox-Gastaut’s syndromes with results scheduled for the first quarter of 2016.   Continue reading “Big Pharma-Produced Cannabis Is Likely Coming to the U.S.”

Continue reading “Helicopter right over my house this morning”

RT

Vocal Christians who oppose gay marriage could face charges for ‘hate speech’ under new banning orders introduced by the Conservatives to crackdown on propagandists and extremists, one MP has warned.

Conservative MP Mark Spencer said teachers with more traditional views on marriage voicing their opinions in classrooms could be prosecuted under new hate speech laws.   Continue reading “UK: Opposing gay marriage could be considered ‘hate speech’ under new laws – MP”

That’s my brother, Bill at a gig we did in Menomonie a couple weeks ago.  I had my Green one on.

RT

National anti-police brutality protests, following the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray, have propelled state lawmakers to pass dozens of police reform measures. However, activists want more concrete changes.

In 24 states, 40 new measures to change the way police interact with the public have been introduced since the Ferguson protests. The measures include body-worn cameras, limits on military equipment for use by law enforcement, racial bias awareness training and independent investigations, according to an analysis by the Associated Press.   Continue reading “Police brutality protests forced 24 states to pass 40 new police reform measures”

Mail.com

MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) — As firefighters battled a massive Northern California wild land blaze threatening numerous homes, some of the 13,000 people urged to flee their residences were spending what may be just one of many nights in evacuation shelters.

The blaze that has charred nearly 97 square miles of brush and timber, jumped a highway Monday that had served as a containment line. Its rapid growth caught firefighters off guard and shocked residents.   Continue reading “Massive California wildfire jumps containment line”

Mail.com

CANTON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man arrested for fatally shooting another man at a courthouse in a possible case of revenge was scheduled for a bail hearing Tuesday.

William A. Wells, 24, was a former firefighter who had never been in any more serious legal trouble than some traffic tickets — until his mother was shot. Kendrick Armond Brown was facing up to life in prison for felony drug charges under Mississippi’s habitual offender law.   Continue reading “Hearing set in courthouse shooting as revenge motive eyed”

Judicial Watch

The U.S. government paid a controversial civil rights activist/comedian to deliver an anti-white racist tirade at a major federal agency during Black History month and Judicial Watch has obtained the disturbing transcript of the offensive political rant.

It took place at the United States Census Bureau earlier this year and the paid speaker was Dick Gregory, a self-professed humanitarian and drum major for justice who claims that his social satire changed the way white Americans perceive African American comedians. But Gregory’s angry outburst at the Census Bureau was not funny to some employees and the agency was forced to explain that it will thoroughly review its procedures for selecting future speakers to “ensure their views are appropriate for the federal workplace.”   Continue reading “U.S. Pays Black Comedian to Deliver Anti-White Racist Tirade at Fed Agency”

Carolyn Yeager

On July 20, 2015, Abe Foxman ended his “50 years of service” to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), twenty-eight of them spent as National Director. The League itself was founded in October 1913 (an exact day is not given) as a direct reaction to the guilty verdict delivered on Leo M. Frank in Atlanta, Georgia two months earlier, on August 25, 1913.

Though it’s played down now, the fact that a prominent Jew was exposed as a pervert rapist-murderer, and that the entire nation had followed the sensational trial testimony, horrified the Jewish establishment. Leo Frank was President of the Atlanta chapter of B’nai B’rith*, and was the son-in-law of the wealthy Jewish Selig family of that city. And now thisprivileged Jew, one of their own, was scheduled to BE HANGED for the murder of a 13-year old Christian girl who worked at the National Pencil Factory of which he was supervisor.   Continue reading “For 100 years, ADL has worked to reverse justice in the murder of little Mary Phagan”

Denver Post – by Jesse Paul

Denver prosecutors have charged a man with seven counts of jury tampering after they say he tried to influence jurors by passing out literature on jury nullification on Monday.

Mark Iannicelli, 56, set up a small booth with a sign that said “Juror Info” in front of the city’s Lindsay-Flanigan Courthouse courthouse, prosecutors say.   Continue reading “Denver DA charges man with tampering for handing out jury nullification flyers”

WND – by Bob Unruh

The openly lesbian mayor of Houston who created a national furor by allowing subpoenas to be issued by the city for the sermons of several area Christian pastors has been named defendant in a lawsuit by some of those same pastors who are alleging civil-rights violations.

“Each plaintiff brings this civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. [Paragraph] 1983 for defendant [Mayor Annise] Parker’s wrongful actions under color of state law depriving each of them of procedural and substantive due process under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as to vindicate their liberty interests under the Bill of Rights and Amendments to the United States Constitution,” the complaint, filed Monday in Harris County District Court, says.   Continue reading “Lesbian mayor who demanded sermons now being sued”