Year: 2015

The Daily Caller – by Conner D. Wolf

With Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and public sector unions unable to come to a labor agreement, some fear the National Guard might be deployed if state workers strike.

“It’s a terribly impractical and, in my opinion, inadvisable idea,” Republican state Rep. David Harris told The Southern Illinoisan. “You’re going to replace paper-pushers — with all due respect to bureaucrats — with people who carry M-16s and .45 pistols?”   Continue reading “Illinois On The Edge: Rauner Might Use National Guard If State Workers Strike”

ABC News – by Keith Ridler

More than a quarter million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either dead or dying in the Columbia River and its tributaries due to warming water temperatures.

Federal and state fisheries biologists say the warm water is lethal for the cold-water species and is wiping out at least half of this year’s return of 500,000 fish.   Continue reading “Half of Columbia River Sockeye Salmon Dying Due to Hot Water”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a stunning ruling, US safety regulators have mandated that Fiat Chrysler must offer to buy back from customers more than 500,000 Ram pickup trucks and other vehicles as part of a costly deal with safety regulators to settle legal problems in about two dozen recalls. As WTOP reports, this is the biggest such action in US history, and is in addition to a $105 million civil fine and owners of more than a million older Jeeps with vulnerable rear-mounted gas tanks will be able to trade them in or be paid by Chrysler to have the vehicles repaired. Think the punishment is harsh, consider that at least 75 people have died in crash-related fires, although Fiat Chrysler maintains they are as safe as comparable vehicles from the same era.   Continue reading “Fiat Chrysler Forced To Buy Back 500,000 Pickup Trucks From Customers In Historic Settlement”

NBC News – by JACQUELLENA CARRERO

A Texas prosecutor on Monday announced a committee of outside attorneys who will investigate the death of Sandra Bland, who allegedly committed suicide in a jail cell following a traffic stop.

The group will “review evidence as it comes in” on both Bland’s initial arrest and her untimely death, Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis said at an afternoon news conference.   Continue reading “Texas Prosecutor Announces Committee of Outside Lawyers to Review Sandra Bland Case”

KGTV 10 News – by Michael Chen

LA JOLLA, Calif. – The pain of a man’s rattlesnake bite in San Diego is now being felt across the country, and it’s not the physical pain.

10News was the first to bring you the story of Todd Fassler, who was bitten by a rattlesnake at the Barona Speedway on July 4.   Continue reading “Man’s ordeal stirs debate on cost of treating rattlesnake bites”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

What a sad, sad gimmick.

As you know, the man-made global warming hoax, er, climate change, is one of Hillary Clinton’s top priorities (as is selling America out to big business like Monsanto, Walmart and Wall Street).

Now, like it’s a cheap contest or something (*wink wink*), Hillary has pledged to install 500 million solar panels if she is voted president. So there. Eat your heart out, Jeb!   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton Promises 500 Million Solar Panels If America Pretends to Vote for Her for President”

CNS News – by Patrick Goodenough

President Obama on Thursday pledged to use his last 18 months in office to work on gun control, calling it “the one area where I feel that I’ve been most frustrated and most stymied.”

“If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I’ve been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient, common-sense gun safety laws – even in the face of repeated mass killings,” he told the BBC in an interview.   Continue reading “Obama Pledges to Use Last 18 Months in Office Pushing Gun Control”

Fox News

A federal judge in California has ruled that hundreds of illegal immigrant women and children in U.S. holding facilities should be released, another apparent setback for President Obama’s immigration policy, according to The Los Angeles Times.

U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said Friday that the conditions in which the detainees are being held are “deplorable” and violate parts of an 18-year-old court settlement that put restrictions on the detention of migrant children.    Continue reading “Judge orders Obama administration to release illegal immigrants from ‘deplorable’ facilities”

CNBC – by Kate Rogers

After the Senate voted to revive the federal Export-Import Bank, a key source of loans for smaller U.S. companies that do business abroad, the fate of the agency now moves to a potential House showdown.

The bank’s authorization expired June 30, halting all new loan guarantees and other assistance to foreign customers seeking to purchase goods from American companies. The agency continues to service existing loans.   Continue reading “Battle lines drawn over Export-Import Bank renewal”

Daily Mail – by Mark Prigg

Google has come under fire for a controversial new service that reveals just how much it knows about you.

Call Timeline, it is designed to allow users of the firm’s online maps to see the places they frequent most often.

Google says it will help people remember restaurants and other places they visited easily.     Continue reading “Google reveals ‘terrifyingly scary’ timeline feature that can show users their location history”

Before It’s News – by Jeffrey Daugherty

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced during a New York Times interview that the Holy Bible is the book that made her who she is today.

“If you had to name one book that made you who you are today, what would it be?” asked The New York Times, in a book review questionnaire.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton: The Bible Is My ‘Biggest Influence’”

KTVU 2

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake Sunday night in the central Aleutian Islands in Alaska is definitely not strong enough to send a tsunami to the Bay Area, a tsunami program manager with the National Tsunami Warning Center said.

Tsunami program manager Cindi Preller said the threshold for the occurrence of a tsunami is a 7.0-magnitude earthquake, which might be enough to generate a tsunami near the quake’s origin.   Continue reading “6.9 quake in Alaska poses no Tsunami threat”

Top Info Post

Has anybody heard of “The Cancer Act” that was introduced in 1939?

It does appear that not many people know anything about it, yet many thousands of people have, and will continue to suffer from it’s effects.

Basically, it is a particularly restrictive and pernicious piece of legislation which prevents people from writing or speaking about the FACT that it is indeed possible to cure cancer using alternative methods.   Continue reading “Did you know about the CANCER ACT 1939?”

Mail.com

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — The military and a private organization have brought home the remains of 36 Marines killed in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles.

A group called History Flight recovered the remains from the remote Pacific atoll of Tarawa, the U.S. Marine Corps said. A ceremony was held Sunday in Pearl Harbor to mark their return. History Flight has started identifying the remains, and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency will complete the effort, the Marines said. The Marines plan to return the remains to their families after they’ve been identified.   Continue reading “Remains of 36 unidentified Marines from WWII battle return”

MassPrivateI

Currently there are 150 universities in the U.S. using “Skyfactor” which monitors and assesses a students tests scores. Schools are also assessing how “COOPERATIVE” your parents are!

“Skyfactor advertises itself as a risk management service, promising to help academics “quickly see which students need attention and resources now — before it’s too late”. Course tutors are given access to a dashboard that documents each student’s class attendances, assessment grades, participation in sports practices, and visits to the campus financial aid officer. “ Continue reading “Universities are using data analytics to assess a students mental health and much more”