Year: 2015

Continue reading “Clean Water Act “Waters of the United States” signs seen in Indiana”

Jon Rappoport

“Anybody can fake scientific results. But to be believed, you want a prestigious organization behind you with a billion-dollar budget and access to compliant reporters. You want to manipulate technical language. You want to keep saying how much you care about people. And then you also want to get down and dirty when you have to, and threaten and coerce your in-house scientific dissenters who won’t go along with the fakery. Cut their pay, demote them, fire them, ruin their careers and lives. This is all standard procedure in the major leagues of science. I’ve watched it happen.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)   Continue reading “Government witch hunt to eliminate Monsanto critics”

My Budget 360

It should come as no surprise that the US is a net immigration country while China and Mexico are both net emigration countries.  What may be a surprise is that now China has overtaken Mexico as the top importer of immigrants.  The flood of money from China into key cities has been nothing short of breathtaking.  China is undergoing a massive expansion in their country and all of the challenges that come with exponential growth.  For most in the public, they simply have no idea that China is now the biggest importer or immigrants to the US now overtaking Mexico.  This is a fascinating trend and something that is largely ignored in the media.  The US has recently seen a very strong dollar and this has taken an impact on our own domestic manufacturing sector.  A stronger dollar makes our goods less competitive in the global stage.  As the low wage race to the bottom continues, many are leaving economies where the booms are uneven.   Continue reading “China has overtaken Mexico as the source of the largest number of immigrants to the U.S. – the Far East is the new Southwest.”

RT

Saudi Arabia, which executes more criminals than any nation except China and Iran, wants to hire eight new executioners. A surge in executions has been witnessed under new King Salman’s rule.

The job description published online on Monday says no special training is required from applicants. The executioners would be required to behead condemned criminals in public as well as carry out amputations on those convicted of lesser offenses, Reuters reported.   Continue reading “Headhunting: Saudi Arabia hiring 8 new executioners after 2015 beheadings hit 85”

Accuweather – by Kevin Byrne

With the state of California mired in its fourth year of drought and a mandatory 25 percent reduction in water usage in place, reports of water theft have become common.

In April, The Associated Press reported that huge amounts of water went missing from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and a state investigation was launched. The delta is a vital body of water, serving 23 million Californians as well as millions of farm acres, according to the Association for California Water Agencies.   Continue reading “Water Theft Becomes Common Consequence of Ongoing California Drought”

New York Times – by MANNY FERNANDEZ, SERGE F. KOVALESKI and DAVID MONTGOMERY

WACO, Tex. — The deadly shootout here on Sunday between rival motorcycle gangs has led to what appears to be the largest roundup and mass arrest of bikers in recent American history, experts said. As the roughly 170 people facing organized-crime charges in the case continued to clog up the local court system on Tuesday, new details emerged about the disputes that led to the violence.

“Out of 32 years working biker cases, this is the biggest one I have seen in the United States,” said Steve Trethewy, who works in the intelligence unit of the Arizona Department of Public Safety. “The case will be a challenge for law enforcement. I am glad I am not the investigator. It is huge.”   Continue reading “Mass Roundup of Bikers in Waco Shootout Tests Limits of Court System”

WND

The Department of Justice announced it will send millions of dollars to various community-activist groups to combat urban crime and reduce tensions between racial minorities and the police.

But critics believe such policies will only fuel further unrest by funding many of the so-called “community organizers” responsible for creating anti-police sentiment in American cities.   Continue reading “Obama to Unleash ‘Community Organizers’ on Crime-Filled Cities”

Global Research – by Garikai Chengu

Originally published by GR in September 2014

Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran’s growing influence in the region.

The fact that the United States has a long and torrid history of backing terrorist groups will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history.   Continue reading “America Created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS Terror Group”

I like the term “shamocracy” (a sham democracy).

Shamocracies can’t help but be full of contradictions.

One example of a shamocracy contradiction:  As Americans we have God-given, unalienable rights, well documented in state and federal constitutions, and our governments (state and federal) respect and protect these rights so judiciously that if my daughter answers questions incorrectly at border checkpoint, 100 miles inside the border, she is likely to be dragged out of her car through a broken window, electroshocked, and beat bloody by government officials who swore an oath to support and defend the constitution, and my daughter’s God-given, unalienable rights.

RT

The world’s five biggest banks have been fined a total of $5.7 billion for manipulating foreign exchange markets. It’s the biggest combined bank settlement in history.

Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMorgan, UBS and Citigroup were hit with penalties from UK and US authorities Wednesday.

Four of them agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for rigging benchmark interest rates, the US Department of Justice said.   Continue reading “Five banks to pay record $5.7bn fines over key rates manipulation – US regulator”

RT

Ricky Jackson, who spent 39 years in jail for a murder he did not commit, is suing the police officers who allegedly helped frame him. Jackson was convicted on the testimony of a 12-year-old boy who didn’t see the crime and later retracted his statement.

The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday against the city of Cleveland, alleges that eight officers, including detectives and their superiors, were involved in framing Jackson and brothers Wiley and Ronnie Bridgeman for the killing of salesman Harold Franks, which occurred in the Cleveland area in 1975. Three of the officers involved in the case have since passed away.   Continue reading “Innocent Ohio man sues Cleveland cops after 40yrs in jail”

Mail.com

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — Cleanup crews are preparing to fan out along a stretch of California coastline stained by crude oil that spilled from broken pipe and flowed into the ocean.

Crew members from an environmental cleanup company were briefed early Wednesday and given boots, gloves, shovels and rakes. An estimated 21,000 gallons of crude flowed Tuesday from an onshore pipeline in southern Santa Barbara County, forming a slick that left gobs of goo along sand and rocks at Refugio State Beach.   Continue reading “Efforts underway to scrub spilled oil from California coast”

Mail.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is about to embark on a first-in-the-nation program that aims to charge car owners not for the fuel they use, but for the miles they drive.

The program is meant to help the state raise more revenue to pay for road and bridge projects at a time when money generated from gasoline taxes are declining across the country, in part, because of greater fuel efficiency and the increasing popularity of fuel-efficient, hybrid and electric cars.   Continue reading “Oregon to test pay-per-mile idea as replacement for gas tax”

Heartland – by H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.

Switzerland joins a growing list of countries whose temperature measurements have been adjusted to show greater warming than actually measured by its temperature instruments. In previous editions of Climate Change Weekly(CCW), I reported weather bureaus in Australia (CCW #139) and Paraguay (CCW #158) were caught adjusting datasets from their temperature gauges. After the adjustment, the temperatures reported were consistently higher than those actually recorded. Science journalist Markus Schär of the Swiss news weekly Weltwoche discovered the Swiss Meteorological Service (SMS) tampered with its datasets as well.   Continue reading “Temperature Fibbers Being Investigated”