Year: 2015

Continue reading “Multiple Native American tribes held United States nationals as slaves; held, bought, and sold. Do these flags have to come down or is this not where the divide in our people is being sought?”

Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday handed President Barack Obama the biggest legislative victory of his second term, with a dramatic vote clearing the way for major trade agreements with Pacific Rim nations and the European Union.

The vote all but ensures the passage of legislation that will allow Obama to “fast-track” the trade pacts he negotiates through Congress, preventing filibusters or amendments. Liberals have long assailed Obama’s trade agenda, but Republicans successfully wooed a bloc of Democrats led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to secure enough votes to overcome a filibuster.   Continue reading “Senate Gives Obama Huge Win On Trade”

RT

The WHO cancer research unit has deemed 2,4-D, the active ingredient of Dow’s herbicide – once used in infamous Agent Orange – as ‘possibly’ causing cancer. The chemical ranked one behind the ‘probably carcinogenic’ glyphosate in Monsanto’s Roundup.

Upon careful review of scientific data regarding 2,4-D, a chemical used for a Dow AgroSciences product, WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) unit has determined that the weed killer be classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”   Continue reading “WHO labels 2,4-D herbicide as ‘possibly’ causing cancer”

RT

Calais is witnessing travel chaos after striking French workers blocked the port. They have cut access to the Channel Tunnel rail link and disrupted maritime traffic. Amid the confusion, migrants are trying to stowaway on UK bound lorries.

The industrial action is being taken by MyFerryLink workers, who are protesting against internal restructuring within the company, which could lead to job cuts. Around 100 employees have blocked the route towards the port by setting fire to barricades made from tires.   Continue reading “Calais chaos: Strike shuts down French port, migrants target UK-bound lorries”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidates, GOP lawmakers and the lone black Republican in the House are returning donations from the leader of a white supremacist group cited by Charleston church murder suspect Dylann Roof or giving the money to charity.

Rep. Mia Love of Utah, an African-American Republican woman who was elected to the House last year, said through a spokesman that she had returned $1,000 in donations from Earl Holt, leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens.   Continue reading “Republicans return donations from white supremacist”

Global Research – by Prof. James F. Tracy

Crisisactors.org, the website established to represent the collaboration between the Visionboxprofessional actors studio and FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute has been dormant since August 2014. This is according to information obtained from Internet Archive on June 15, 2015.

On July 29, 2014 a notice retrieved from Internet Archive for crisisactors.org announces:   Continue reading “Where Have All the “Crisis Actors” Gone?”

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Guns America – by Paul Helinski

Adaptive Tactical Sidewinder Venom Kit
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I have come to realize that some products are worth figuring out. That was the case on my newest trunk gun project, adding an Adaptive Tactical Sidewinder Venom kit to one of my Mossberg 500 shotguns. The kit did not go on easy, which I’ll explain, and I even had to send my gun into the company. But it turned out that the issue was my misunderstanding of the directions, and a miscue of information on the phone. If you have considered buying a KSG, or some other high cap shotgun, yet you have an otherwise unused Mossberg 500 in the safe, I would seriously consider this kit, which starts at $199 and goes to fully decked out at $399.   Continue reading “Build An 11 Shot Mossberg 500 – Detachable Mags, No Gunsmith Required!”

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Yahoo News

Majdal Shams (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to track down Druze rioters in the occupied Golan Heights responsible for the “lynching” of a wounded Syrian being transported to a hospital.

The Monday attack, roundly condemned by local Druze religious and secular leadership, comes as Druze are increasingly concerned over the fate of their brethren in Syria after attacks by rebels there.   Continue reading “Israel vows crackdown after ‘lynching’ of wounded Syrian”

CNN – by Ben Brumfield

Niagara Bottling LLC said the recall is purely out of an abundance of caution. There have been no signs of its product being contaminated or reports of consumers falling sick, it said.   Continue reading “14 brands of bottled water recalled due to possible E. coli”

Chron – by Katherine Driessen

A Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy fatally shot a man armed with a power drill who came toward the officer in an apartment at 910 Cypress Station Drive on Sunday, according to an agency spokesman.

Deputy Thomas Gilliland, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said deputies responded to a call in north Harris County about a disturbance Sunday afternoon. When they entered the residence, deputies found a suicidal 49-year-old man who was acting belligerent and continuing to threaten to kill himself, Gilliland said.   Continue reading “Authorities: Deputy fatally shot belligerent man in N. Harris County”

RT

The six Baltimore, Maryland police officers charged in the in-custody death of Freddie Gray pleaded not guilty and received their trial date. They will be tried separately, but are all assigned the same judge and trial date.

Two months after the officers involved in arresting the 25-year-old Gray were charged with counts ranging from misconduct in office to second-degree depraved heart murder, all six officers promised to enter written not-guilty pleas by Friday.   Continue reading “Baltimore PD officers plead not guilty in Freddie Gray’s death, trial date set”

The Daily Signal – by Alden Abbot and Elizabeth Slattery

Can the government force raisin farmers to hand over large portions of their crop without paying any compensation?

On Monday, eight members of the Supreme Court resoundingly said, “No!” in Horne v. Department of Agriculture.

Under a 1940s era marketing order intended to maintain profits for domestic raisin producers, farmers are required to sell their raisin crops to raisin handlers, who then remove a portion of the crop from the market for the federal government to destroy or sell overseas at bargain barrel prices. The government sets the compensation price that the producers are to be paid for the surrendered raisins.   Continue reading “Supreme Court Decision Makes It Harder for Government to Take Personal Property From Americans”

CBS Los Angeles

SANTA BARBARA (CBSLA.com) — The pilot of a small aircraft registered to famed film composer James Horner was killed when the plane crashed into a remote area about 60 miles north of Santa Barbara on Monday.

While it was not immediately confirmed whether the pilot was Horner himself, the legendary composer’s attorney suggests that he would have received word from Horner if he were OK.   Continue reading “Plane Registered To Film Composer James Horner Crashes North Of Santa Barbara”

WSOC TV – by Jim Bradley and Blake Hanson

Charlotte, NC – A Burke County man has been charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

A criminal complaint was filed Monday in federal court, charging Justin Nojan Sullivan, 19, of Morganton with one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIL, one count of transporting and receiving a silencer in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony and one count of receipt and possession of an unregistered silencer, unidentified by a serial number.   Continue reading “Morganton, NC teen accused of planning attacks to support ISIS, DOJ says”