Year: 2015

Resettlement Watch – by Ann Corcoran

The Washington Post is reporting the story here.  The letter was gotten together by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (one of nine federal contractors which benefit financially from the resettlement of refugees to your towns and cities).   We told you here and here that HIAS is pulling out all the stops to pressure Congress right now.   Continue reading “1,000 US Rabbis sign letter to “welcome” Syrian Muslims to America”

BATR – by James Hall

Espionage is about gathering information. When foreign interests conduct such operations it is usually called spying. When corporations seek to acquire trade secrets from a competitor, it often becomes a case for legal litigation. In business terms, just what is the best way to view stealing secrets? Investopedia defines ‘Economic Espionage’ accordingly.

“The unlawful targeting and theft of a nation’s critical economic intelligence. Economic espionage may include the clandestine acquisition or outright theft of invaluable proprietary information in a number of areas including technology, finance and government policy. Economic espionage differs from corporate or industrial espionage in a number of ways – it is likely to be state-sponsored, have motives other than profit or gain (such as closing a technology gap) and be much larger in scale and scope. Recognizing the threat from such activity, the U.S. signed the Economic Espionage Act into law in October 1996.”   Continue reading “Corporatist Economic Espionage”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

The scientific truth about flu shots and the human immune response is that flu shots only work for people who don’t need them.

People who are immunocompromised — who might actually benefit from viral exposure rehearsal — have no ability to build antibodies in response to the vaccine. Thus, the flu shot is wasted on them.   Continue reading “Why you’d have to be a complete idiot to take a flu shot”

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Two months ago, the State of New York began to enforce, in little baby steps, the SAFE Act.

Today, we have this announcement posted on AR15dotCoam:   Continue reading “And so it begins. Governor Cuomo feels froggy, SAFE Act enforcement thugs rounding up “assault weapons.” Someone is going to get shot and the civil war will commence.”

A monastery is in financial trouble, so it goes into the fish-and-chips business to raise money.

One night a customer knocks on its door. A monk answers. The customer asks, “Are you the fish friar?”

“No,” he replies. “I’m the chip monk.”

Daily Mail

Under cover of darkness, an Israeli armoured car advances down the potholed road that leads to Syria.

As it crests a small hill, the driver picks up the radio handset and tells his commanding officer that the border is in sight.

He kills the engine. Ten heavily-armed commandos jump out and take cover, watching for signs of ambush. Then five of them move up to the 12ft chainlink fence that marks the limit of Israeli-held territory.   Continue reading “Israeli commandos rescue wounded men from Syrian warzone”

Natural Society – by Julie Fidler

A rare disease known as rabbit fever (also called tularemia) that was thought to have been largely conquered decades ago has made a resurgence in the U.S.

Health officials have only seen a yearly average of about 125 cases of rabbit fever, or tularemia, in the past 2 decades, but there have been 235 cases this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report published Thursday. That’s the most cases reported in a year since 1984.   Continue reading “Potentially Deadly “Rabbit Fever” On The Rise”

Yahoo News

Washington (AFP) – The US Supreme Court appeared on Monday to back lawmakers who want to restrict the type of guns such as semi-automatic assault weapons used in recent mass shootings.

In a 7-2 vote, the high court’s justices refused to take up a challenge to a Chicago suburb’s ban on the sale or possession of semi-automatic weapons or high-capacity magazines with more than 10 rounds of ammunition.   Continue reading “US Supreme Court gives nod to assault weapons ban”

USA Today – by Alison Young

The Centers for Disease Control and Preventionhas replaced its longtime director of national lab regulation in the wake of several high-profile incidents involving bioterror pathogens and an internal review that identified areas of improvement for the oversight program, USA TODAY has learned.

The CDC, in a statement Tuesday, declined to say why it replaced Robbin Weyant on Nov. 9 as director of the agency’s Division of Select Agents and Toxins, which regulates hundreds of U.S. labs working with the organisms that cause anthrax, plague, Ebola and other deadly diseases that are deemed to pose bioterror risks.   Continue reading “Top U.S. lab regulator replaced in wake of incidents with bioterror pathogens”

The Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

A report has just been published which exposes perhaps the most depraved use of state power in the immoral War on Drugs.

60 Minutes aired the program on Dec. 7, describing how law enforcement across the country coerces young people, just starting their adult lives, into becoming confidential informants in the drug war. This sickening practice, largely kept secret, turns good people into liars and puts them in deadly danger.   Continue reading “Kids Busted for Pot, Forced to be Snitches by Cops – Sent to their Deaths in the War on Drugs”

Reuters

As negotiations over a $1 trillion U.S. spending bill dragged on, Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday they would seek to pass a stop-gap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown early on Saturday.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said the extension would likely last a “handful of days” to allow work on the spending bill to be completed, potentially over the weekend. Current government agency spending authority expires at midnight on Friday.   Continue reading “Republicans seek to avert U.S. government shutdown as spending talks drag on”

Fox News – by Catherine Herridge

A $28,500 deposit was made to Syed Farook’s bank account from WebBank.com on or about Nov.18, some two weeks before he and his wife Tashfeen Malik carried out the San Bernardino massacre, a source close to the investigation told Fox News Monday.

Investigators are exploring whether the transaction was a loan taken out by Farook, who with his wife killed 14 and wounded 21 when they opened fire at a holiday lunch.  He earned $53,000 a year with the county as an environmental health inspector. Investigators are also exploring the possibility that a subsequent cash withdrawal was used to reimburse Enrique Marquez, the man who bought the two AR-15 semiautomatic rifles used in the San Bernardino shootings. Marquez, who could be charged, especially if it is determined that he illegally modified the weapons, is now reportedly answering investigators’ questions.   Continue reading “Bank records show $28,500 deposit to Syed Farook’s account two weeks before the shooting, source says”