Year: 2015

Retail Industry – by Barbara Farfan

Radio Shack, Sears, Target, Wet Seal, Office Depot, and Barnes & Nobleare just some of the largest U.S. retail chains that have announced store closings and downsizing plans for the calendar year of 2015.  In fact, even before the end of 2014, U.S. retail industry companies had already announced store closing and downsizing plans that would be taking place in 2015 and beyond.     Continue reading “2015 Store Closing Roundup: Radio Shack, Wet Seal, Sears, Target, etc.”

The Realist Report

Earlier this year, at the behest of the Jewish state of Israel, the organized international Jewish community, and traitorous politicians working for the Jews in the West, the United Nations held an informal plenary session on the alleged “rising tide of anti-Semitism” around the world.

Of course, all respectable mainstream politicians, journalists, and public policy makers agreed that “anti-Semitism” must not be tolerated anywhere in the world, that it should be immediately condemned, and that “anti-Semites” should be ostracized, shunned, and even criminally prosecuted for “hate crimes” and “anti-Semitic speech.”   Continue reading “Israel pushes to have “anti-Semitism” recognized as international crime”

Gold Core – by Mark O’Byrne

Bank deposits in Austria will no longer enjoy state protection and a state guarantee in the event of bank runs and a bank collapse when legislation is enacted in July. The plan to ensure that the state is no longer responsible for insuring deposits has been readied by the Austrian government in conjunction with the EU two years ago according to Die Presse.

Currently, Austrians have their bank deposits guaranteed to a value of €100,000 – the first half to be provided by the failing bank and the other by the state. From July, however, the state will be removed from the process and a special bank deposit insurance fund is to be set up and paid into by banks to meet potential shortfalls.   Continue reading “Bank Deposits No Longer Guaranteed By Austrian Government”

Opposing Views – by Jared Keever

Police in Melbourne, Florida, are saying they believe the use of a powerful new street drug might have been at play in a bizarre attack on an officer in the Brevard County city last week.

WKMG News reports 41-year-old Kenneth Crowder was arrested Friday by Melbourne police and is now facing charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting with violence, and assault with a deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer.   Continue reading “Florida Man Who Called Himself ‘God,’ Attacked Officer Was Possibly High On ‘Flakka’”

Vision – by Troy Oakes

GitHub was the target of a malicious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack a few weeks ago. The attack focused on pages owned by pro-Chinese free speech websites to stop Chinese citizens from accessing outside information.

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab have released a report about a Chinese cyber-weapon they call the “Great Cannon,” which seems to be the source of the attacks.   Continue reading “China Has a New Internet Weapon Against Freedom of Speech”

World News Daily Report – by Bob Flanagan, April 9, 2015

St-Louis, MO | Monsanto, the multi-billion agribusiness giant, has announced today it has patented the first genetically modified strain of marijuana.

The news that has been welcomed by scientists and leaders of the agriculture business alike as a move forward towards the industrial use of marijuana and hemp products could bring a major shift towards marijuana policies in the U.S.A. and ultimately, to the world.   Continue reading “Monsanto Creates First Genetically Modified Strain of Marijuana”

The Guardian – by Sam Thielman

Touchscreen voting machines used in numerous elections between 2002 and 2014 used “abcde” and “admin” as passwords and could easily have been hacked from the parking lot outside the polling place, according to a state report.

The AVS WinVote machines, used in three presidential elections in Virginia, “would get an F-minus” in security, according to a computer scientist at tech research group SRI International who had pushed for a formal inquiry by the state of Virginia for close to a decade.   Continue reading “Voting machine password hacks as easy as ‘abcde’, details Virginia state report”

Armstrong Economics – by Martin Armstrong

Hello Martin-

Great work and I wish you the best.

One question regarding your recent email alerts from your blog in regards to the “money out of thin air” discussion that was/is going on.

What is your opinion on how G. Edward Griffen’s book, “The Creature From Jekyll Island”, relates to the discussion on the above topic. Do you think he is wrong on his analysis of the Federal Reserve?   Continue reading “The Creature from Jekyll Island”

Wolf Street – by Wolf Richter

“Come down to Houston,” William Snyder, leader of the Deloitte Corporate Restructuring Group, told Reuters. “You’ll see there is just a stream of consultants and bankruptcy attorneys running around this town.”

But it’s not just in Houston or in the oil patch. It’s in retail, healthcare, mining, finance…. Bankruptcies are suddenly booming, after years of drought.   Continue reading “Bankruptcies Suddenly Soar Across Corporate America, Worst First Quarter Since 2009”

Yahoo News – by Laurent Thomet

Mexico City (AFP) – Authorities issued an alert for several Mexican states after thieves snatched potentially deadly radioactive material used for industrial radiography.

The iridium-192 source, marked X-571, was inside a container when it was stolen on Monday from a truck in Cardenas, a town in southern Tabasco state, the interior ministry said in a statement.   Continue reading “Mexico issues alert over stolen radioactive material”

ABC 6 Action News – by Kenneth Moton

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — If you saw a large police presence on Independence Mall on Wednesday evening, don’t be alarmed: it was only a drill.

Philadelphia Police, US Park Rangers and paramedics took over the Independence Visitor Center from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

The test drill – taking out an active shooter and helping the injured.    Continue reading “Police Hold Training Drill Near Independence Mall”

Continue reading “More Strange stuff going on at Walmart”

Sipsey Street Irregulars

The Armenian Genocide . . . was the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland which lies within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.   Continue reading “The predictable fruits of citizen disarmament. 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.”

RT

Beachgoers in a northern suburb of San Diego received a surprise visit by a US Marine helicopter, which made an emergency landing on Wednesday morning.

According to local media, a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter landed at Solana Beach, about 24 miles north of downtown San Diego. The emergency landing was reportedly due to a fuel leak.   Continue reading “Marine chopper lands at San Diego beach”

Mail.com

DETROIT (AP) — An imprisoned hit man has signed a chilling affidavit taking responsibility for four murders at a Detroit drug house in a renewed effort to free a young man who pleaded guilty to the same killings at age 15, attorneys said Wednesday.

Davontae Sanford was just 14, illiterate and blind in one eye when he walked up to police at the murder scene in 2007 and immediately became a suspect. He eventually pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sent to prison, but a new legal team from two law schools wants the conviction thrown out.   Continue reading “Detroit hit man says he, not teen, responsible for 4 deaths”

Mail.com

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas law tells poor families that they can’t use cash assistance from the state to attend concerts, get tattoos, see a psychic or buy lingerie. The list of don’ts runs to several dozen items.

More than 20 other states have such lists. But, the one included by the Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature in a bill that GOP Gov. Sam Brownback planned to sign Thursday appears to be the most exhaustive, according to state Department for Children and Families officials.   Continue reading “New Kansas rules would limit spending of welfare benefits”

Mail.com

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island cardiologist had the office of another doctor torched, then hired someone who turned out to be an undercover police officer in a failed attempt to have the doctor hurt or killed, authorities said.

Dr. Anthony J. Moschetto allegedly used drugs, guns and blank prescriptions as currency while trying to have the other doctor harmed amid a professional dispute, investigators said Wednesday. Moschetto first allegedly hired two men to set fire to the man’s office; it happened beneath a sprinkler and damage was minimal, prosecutors said.   Continue reading “Authorities: Cardiologist tried to have rival doctor killed”