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Oregon lawmakers say the Confederate emblem on the Mississippi state flag must go and are pushing to have the flag removed from a park near the state Capitol in Salem.
The flag’s “symbol of racist intolerance” is in “direct conflict with Oregon values of fairness and equality,” Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, told The Oregonian. Continue reading “Oregon to Mississippi: Change the state flag”
Mercola – by Barbara Loe Fisher
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) recently reported that the federal government has directed all public and private schools to publish vaccination and personal belief vaccine exemption rates, even though less than 1.7 percent of kindergarten children have any vaccine exemptions and less than 1 percent of children under 36 months old are unvaccinated.1,2,3
This Centers for Disease Control (CDC) directive comes at a time when nationwide, 94 percent of kindergarten students have gotten multiple doses of federally recommended vaccines for the past three decades,4 including five doses of pertussis and two doses of measles containing vaccines. Continue reading “School vaccination rates: What the CDC is not telling parents”
“Americans motivated by anti-government views and racist ideologies” will be the focus of a new Department of Justice position, John Carlin told a George Washington University crowd today.
The Associated Press reports: Continue reading “DOJ Creates New Position To Target “Anti-Government Views””
The Ron Paul Institute – by Daniel McAdams
Last year’s National Defense Authorization Act allocated half a billion dollars to train “vetted,” “moderate” rebels to attack ISIS in Syria and also to overthrow the country’s sovereign government. This schizophrenic policy goal not surprisingly produced a total (after the others were killed, captured, or willingly gave their weapons to ISIS) of four or five fighters. Even this micro force of five ultimately found itself in the depths of embarrassment as it was carjacked by al-Qaeda. Half a billion dollars to have five guys carjacked! Put ten plumbers in a room and they could craft a more workable foreign policy than the entirety of the US foreign policy establishment. Continue reading “Defense Spending Bill: $600 Million More to Train “Moderates” in Syria”
KYLE, Texas – Emotions are on a hair trigger in schools these days.
So much so, just hearing the word “gum” can cause a school-wide freak-out, as evidenced by an episode Wednesday.
A student at Lehman High School student reportedly asked for some chewing gum, but another student thought the student said “gun,” KCEN reports. Continue reading “Panic strikes school after student says ‘gum’”
Illegal alien Crescencio Heredia raped a sleeping Chicago woman last week, police say, while she was groggy with prescribed pain medications.
Heredia had been at the victim’s residence drinking beer when she went to sleep, she told police. She woke to to find him raping her. She told him to stop, but he began attacking her shortly later. Continue reading “Chicago Police: Illegal Alien Rapes Sleeping Woman”
Shark Tank – by Javier Manjarres
Months after President Obama agreed to “normalize” relations between the U.S. and Cuba, and after opening an American embassy on the island, Raul Castro, in an obvious move to embarrass Obama, has agreed to send Cuban military troops to Syria at Putin’s behest.
Putin has dropped 300 Cuban troops into Syria to help his ally President Bashar al-Assad, beat back ISIS and those CIA-backed rebels that are combating the terrorist group, as well as trying to topple him. Continue reading “Cuban Troops Land In Syria, U.S. Dragged Into Proxy War With Russia”
SHTF Plan – by Jeremiah Johnson
The new script being played out by the administration is truly beautiful to watch in its detail and complexity. There are so many characters in this screenplay, and here they are, listed as their performance in the playbill: Continue reading “A Carefully-Designed Script: Gun Violence and Obama to the Rescue!”
Refugee Resettlement Watch – by Ann Corcoran
Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, is also a contender for the Republican nomination for President. He joins Far Left Senator Patrick Leahy in his efforts to get the Syrians in here faster.
Every time I see Graham, a proud member of the Gang of Eight on amnesty two years ago, I wonder whether Graham influences Rep. Trey Gowdy. Does Gowdy share Graham’s position on immigration? Continue reading “SC Senator Lindsey Graham advances bill to bring in MORE Syrian refugees, more quickly”
Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill
A 26 year old man from New York Jumped off a Marriott high rise hotel building in San Francisco Sunday. Alexander Damhuis from Brooklyn, who was staying at the hotel for a medical conference, committed suicide on Sunday Morning at 10:30 a.m. Damhuis died immediately after landing on a 5th floor deck. A hotel housekeeper was later reported missing by coworkers, but was later found in the room where Damhuis stayed – nearly strangled nearly to death, raped and brutalized. She is in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital.
Robert Wenzel of EconomicPolicyJournal.com broke the story linking Damhuis to DHS: Continue reading “DHS ‘Terrorism Expert’ Jumps Off High-Rise Hotel in San Francisco, Hotel Maid Found Brutally Raped In His Room, Near Death”
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – by Crofton Black and Sam Raphael
In spring 2003 an unnamed official at CIA headquarters in Langley sat down to compose a memo. It was 18 months after George W Bush had declared war on terror. “We cannot have enough blacksite hosts,” the official wrote. The reference was to one of the most closely guarded secrets of that war – the countries that had agreed to host the CIA’s covert prison sites.
Between 2002 and 2008, at least 119 people disappeared into a worldwide detention network run by the CIA and facilitated by its foreign partners. Continue reading “REVEALED: The boom and bust of the CIA’s secret torture sites”
You know what group of the public just hasn’t been given enough protections? Law enforcement officers.
To date, all they have is: Continue reading “NJ Legislator Wants State’s Cops To Be The New Beneficiaries Of Hate Crime/Bias Laws”
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government and eight smaller ethnic rebel armies signed a cease-fire agreement to end more than six decades of fighting, but other more powerful groups refused to come on board, signaling that peace will remain elusive for some time to come.
The pact was signed at a ceremony in Myanmar’s administrative capital, Naypyitaw, by President Thein Sein and representatives of the groups. The refusal by the larger armies, such as those of the Kachin and Wa ethnic groups, to sign it robs Thein Sein of what he had hoped would be the crowning achievement of his five-year term. Continue reading “8 ethnic rebel armies sign cease-fire pact with Myanmar govt”
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — The fatal beating of a young man and the savage attack on his younger brother by relatives and fellow members of an upstate New York church was intended to get them to confess their sins, investigators said, but they still haven’t determined what those supposed sins were.
Police said spiritual “counseling” at the Word of Life church turned into an hours-long attack Sunday night in which Lucas Leonard, 19, and his 17-year-old brother, Christopher, were pummeled with fists and kicked. They suffered injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. Continue reading “Police unsure what ‘sins’ provoked attack on brothers”
BALTIMORE (AP) — Activists opposed to the permanent appointment of Baltimore’s interim police commissioner occupied City Hall on Wednesday night and told police they wouldn’t leave until the commissioner and mayor agreed to a list of their demands, including changes to police tactics and significant investment in education and social services.
Members of the Baltimore Bloc had begun shouting from the upper gallery of a conference room as a city council subcommittee prepared to vote for Kevin Davis as permanent commissioner. The full council will vote on the appointment Monday. Continue reading “Activists occupy Baltimore City Hall; oppose commissioner”
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Even as stewards of a historic cruise ship that carried princes and presidents frantically pursue deals to preserve the vessel, they fear rescue efforts will sink without a large infusion of cash by month’s end.
The SS United States has issued many mayday calls over the past few years, but its overseers recently retained a broker to explore selling the defunct luxury liner for scrap. “She’s faced peril before, but this feels different,” said Susan Gibbs, executive director of the SS United States Conservancy. “And what is so excruciating about it is that we have made so much progress during the past year on redevelopment.” Continue reading “Historic cruise ship sends out mayday call for funding”
The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause
For the past 4 months, Illinois has been embroiled in a budget impasse between the state’s Republican governor, and the Democratic legislature. They’ve gone so long without a budget, that they have to pay their lottery winners in IOUs and may have to shorten the length of their school year. Continue reading “Illinois to Postpone Pension Payments “We Are out of Money Now””
Tesla’s latest software update may bring us one step closer to having self-driving cars on the road. While cars with the new software are not autonomous, they undoubtedly impress with their ability to change lanes and park themselves.
The software is going to be publicly available for Tesla Model S and Model X owners on Thursday. However, it has been available since mid-August for a select few early-access testers scattered around the US and parts of Europe. Continue reading “Watch Tesla cars steer and park themselves with new software update”
Natural Gas Intelligence – by Richard Nemec
Following last month’s milestone decision to keep the beleaguered greater sage grouse off the endangered species listing, federal agencies in Utah have temporarily closed more than 233,000 acres of public and national forest lands for up to two years while they determine if the lands’ importance to the ground-based bird habitat is such that they should be made off limits for a longer period.
The temporary closure would not affect existing permitted activities on the lands with the shutdown only applying prospectively, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said. The federal agencies are taking comments on the proposal through Dec. 23. Continue reading “BLM Puts ‘Off Limits’ Sign on 233,000 Acres in Utah”