Yahoo News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – A former Sacramento police officer convicted of raping a 75-year-old stroke victim in her senior living apartment has been sentenced to life in prison, court records show.

Prosecutors said Gary Dale Baker, 52, entered the woman’s apartment at least three times from 2010 to 2012, raping her twice as she suffered from a stroke-related inability to speak.   Continue reading “Ex-California cop sentenced to life for raping stroke victim”

The Organic Prepper

When you first start prepping you want everything RIGHT NOW. You look around your home and see nothing but shortcomings. You don’t have enough food, you don’t have a woodstove, you have no secondary water source…that’s it. You and your family are doomed.

You feel a panicked urgency because you’ve learned just enough to know that you are NOT prepared.You know that there are all sorts of supplies that you need, but if you’re like most of us, you’re on a budget. Very few of us can afford to buy everything we need all at once.   Continue reading “A Quick-Start Guide for New Preppers Who Want to be Ready RIGHT NOW”

RT

The Senate has passed a defense spending bill that bans moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States. This throws a wrench in President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise of closing the camp.

The $607-billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed the Senate with a veto-proof 91-3, with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) notably casting a “no” vote.   Continue reading “Senate passes defense bill that halts Gitmo closure, gives military aid to Kiev & Syrian rebels”

The Daily Sheeple

“Apparently the quiet streets of Bastrop County worked so well for the U.S. military and their Jade Helm exercise this summer that they’re coming back. This time Special Forces has an unconventional warfare exercise with a catchy acronym,” KEYE TV reports.

A new military exercise has just been approved in Bastrop County, Texas. It’s known as “Unconventional Warfare Exercise 2016″ or UWEX16 for short.   Continue reading “The Next Jade Helm? “Unconventional Warfare Exercise 2016″ Coming Soon”

Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill

Sarah Yantis, the daughter of Idaho rancher Jack Yantis, stood with her husband and children on the spot where her father was, as she put it, “brutally gunned down and murdered by the Adams County deputies.”   Continue reading “Jack Yantis’ Daughter Video Statement: “My Dad Was Brutally Gunned Down & Murdered By The Deputies, Left For Dead Like Commom Roadkill””

RT

A video from a residential area in Vladivostok, Far-Eastern Russia, posted online this Tuesday shows every single car skid and crash on a slippery road as they try to take a sharp turn.   Continue reading “Hitting the skids: Watch all these drivers fail to take turn on icy road in Russia”

RT

A number of students aged between 11 and 16 have been rushed to hospital after collapsing at a school in North Yorkshire. Fire crews believe a “ripple effect” caused the incident.

Emergency services were called to Outwood Academy School on Clotherholme Road at around 12:30pm GMT on Wednesday after staff members witnessed a group of children lose consciousness.   Continue reading “UK: Yorkshire school evacuated after 40 students, 1 staff member fall ill”

Sputnik

While key Western banks are artificially restraining gold prices to breathe life into the diluted and devalued dollar system, Russia, China and other emerging economies are involved in “the genial move” to establish an entirely different gold market, F. William Engdahl underscores.

Key central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve and Bank of England, and Western market players have long been accused of clandestine gold price manipulating aimed at preserving the dollar’s role “as world reserve currency primus,” American-German economic researcher and historian F. William Engdahl writes.   Continue reading “Away From Dollar: Russia, China to Create Entirely Different Gold Market”

San Jose Mercury News – by Tracy Seipel

Half of California’s undocumented immigrants — about 1.4 million — have incomes low enough to qualify for full Medi-Cal benefits should California legislative proposals to offer coverage to the undocumented ever be enacted.

That is among the key findings of a Public Policy Institute of California report released Monday night which examines current policy options to provide health coverage to the state’s undocumented immigrants.   Continue reading “Half of California’s illegals could qualify for Medi-Cal”

ProPublica – by Derek Willis and Cecilia Reyes

On a Monday afternoon in October 2011, West Virginia Democrat Nick J. Rahall II waited at the Charleston airport for a 4:50 p.m. U.S. Airways Express flight to Washington. If the plane left on schedule, the roughly 80-minute flight would allow him to get to the Capitol in time for votes in the House of Representatives that evening.   Continue reading “The Dog Ate My Vote: How Congress Explains Its Absences”

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Yahoo News

NORTH SALEM, N.Y. (AP) — The 83-year-old wife of a millionaire McDonald’s franchisee found dead in the couple’s New York hilltop estate died of blunt force trauma, police said Tuesday.

A caretaker at the 300-acre manor found Lois Colley’s body in the laundry room of the couple’s home in North Salem, authorities said. The Journal News reported that investigators believe Colley, a socialite know to mingle among New York’s most powerful families, died sometime between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Monday.   Continue reading “Police: Millionaire’s wife, 83, died of blunt force trauma”

AOL

On par with past storms, known locally as the “witches of November” and virtually on the exact date of the storm that sunk the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald 40 years ago, a powerful low-pressure system is intensifying and will spread a swath of high winds through the Plains, Upper Midwest, Great Lakes and Ohio Valley through Friday.

Computer models show that the low may have a barometric pressure reading of around 984 millibars, or 29.06 inches of mercury, Thursday morning.   Continue reading “‘November Witch’ storm to bring high winds to Great Lakes, Plains, Midwest”

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Veterans Today – by Preston James

Note: This is a long article and bold print can be read to give a quick summary. Anyone interested in more can read more.

Slowly but surely more and more Pentagon officials and their subordinates are beginning to wake up and understand that they have been seduced to fight foreign wars of aggression for the World’s largest Organized Crime Syndicate.  Continue reading “Divided Loyalties inside the Pentagon”

World Beyond War – by David Swanson

November 11 is Armistice Day / Remembrance Day. Events are being organized everywhere byVeterans For Peace, World Beyond War,Campaign Nonviolence,Stop the War Coalition, and others.

Ninety-seven years ago, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, fighting ceased in the “war to end all wars.” People went on killing and dying right up until the pre-designated moment, impacting nothing other than our understanding of the stupidity of war.   Continue reading “Armistice Day 97 Years On”

TeleSur TV – by David Swanson

When the U.S. changed Armistice Day into Veterans Day, the holiday morphed from a day to encourage the end of war into a day to glorify war participation.

John Ketwig was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1966 and sent to Vietnam for a year. I sat down with him this week to talk about it.   Continue reading “Veterans Day Is Not for Veterans”

Breitbart – by Daniel Nussbaum

President Obama has made history by becoming the first sitting U.S. president to pose for the cover of an LGBT magazine.

Obama is on the cover of Out magazine’s latest Out 100 issue as the publication’s “Ally of the Year.”   Continue reading “Obama Becomes First Sitting President to Pose for Cover of LGBT Magazine”