Year: 2015

RT

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”

CNBC – by Sarah Whitten

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””

New York Post – by Rich Lowry

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”

RT

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”

Mail.com

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”

Mail.com

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A cross-country road trip got derailed for a former CNN anchor and her husband after a would-be robber forced his way into their motel room and a shootout ensued.

Lynne Russell told reporters Wednesday that her husband, Chuck de Caro, decided to stop at a Motel 6 on Albuquerque’s western edge because they were tired after a long day of traveling. When she went out to the car to get something and returned to the room, a man was at the door with a handgun.   Continue reading “Robber killed in shootout with ex-anchor’s husband at motel”

Mail.com

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 7:30 a.m.

A fire official says about 5,000 people and several businesses are being evacuated in a 2-mile radius around a train derailment and fire in eastern Tennessee. Blount County Fire Department Lt. Johnny Leatherwood says a call came in about the derailment at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday. At least one CSX train car carrying a flammable and toxic gas derailed and caught fire. Leatherwood says the fire was still burning at 6:05 a.m. Thursday.   Continue reading “Tennessee toxic train fire: 5000 residents evacuated”

The Organic Prepper

Sometimes people think that a sumer power outage is easier to deal with than a winter one. After all, in the summer, you don’t have to worry about freezing to death, which is a very real threat during a long-lasting winter outage.

However, a summer power outage carries its own set of problems. Foremost are heat-related illnesses and the higher potential of spoilage for your food.   Continue reading “How to Prep for a Summer Power Outage”

CNBC – by Richard Waters

A technician was killed by a robot at a Volkswagen plant near Kassel, Germany on Wednesday, in a rare accident that touches on concerns about the spread of automation and its impact on jobs.

The 21-year-old contractor was working with a colleague to install the machine when he was struck in the chest by the equipment and pressed against a metal plate. He later died of his injuries.   Continue reading “Worker at Volkswagen plant killed in robot accident”

Most seniors never get enough exercise. In His wisdom God decreed that seniors become forgetful so they would have to search for their glasses, keys and other things thus doing more walking.

And God looked down and saw that it was good.

Then God saw there was another need.  In His wisdom He made seniors lose coordination so they would drop things requiring them to bend, reach & stretch.   Continue reading “The grand plan of life”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Police and FBI officials gave the “all clear” signal at the Washington Navy Yard on Thursday, two hours after reports raised fears of an active shooter at the facility, media reported.

Police said streets have re-opened, according to CNN. FBI officials said they have given the “all clear” at the yard, the local CBS affiliate said.   Continue reading “Authorities report ‘all clear’ at Washington Navy Yard: media”

Yahoo News

DC police are responding to reports of an active shooter at the Washington Navy Yard Thursday morning. Few details about the ongoing incident have been confirmed, including whether there are any victims, but the U.S. Navy tweeted just before 8 a.m. that the facility was on lockdown.   Continue reading “Washington Navy Yard on lockdown as police respond to reports of active shooter”

Warden: do you have a permit for all these fish?

Man: no sir. These are all my pet fish.

Warden: your pet fish? How’s that?

Man: well, every night I take all my pet fish for a walk to the lake, I let them swim for about half hour and then I whistle and they all come back and jump in my basket and we go home. We do this every night.   Continue reading “A man get stopped by a game warden with his basket full of fish.”