Year: 2015

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton

The smart grid isn’t coming. It’s already here.

Everywhere people’s houses are being fitted if they already haven’t with smart electric meters and smart water meters. These meters communicate real-time usage data via radio frequency (which comes with its own set of health problems).

Essentially, consumption of utilities in your home is being big brother tracked and traced at all times on the smart grid.   Continue reading “California Water Authorities Using Smart Meter Data as Evidence to Impose Fines”

SOTT – by Heather Nolan, The Times-Picayune

About 420 gallons of oil spilled into the Mississippi River near Convent after a multi-ship collision around 4 p.m. Monday (April 6), according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Coast Guard officials said the Privocean, a 751-foot bulk carrier, broke free from its mooring, drifted downriver and struck the Texas, a 98-foot towing vessel. The Texas was moored at the time.   Continue reading “Three ship collision causes oil spill and closes Mississippi river”

Yahoo News

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Rioting youths have clashed with Greek police in central Athens, damaging vehicles and property, following a demonstration by hundreds of anarchists seeking the abolition of a maximum security prison.

Dozens of rioters threw petrol bombs and stones at police, who responded with tear gas. Four people were detained in Tuesday’s clashes, while no injuries were immediately reported.   Continue reading “Anarchists attack police with petrol bombs after Athens demo”

The Tennessean – by Dave Boucher

The Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill Monday night that makes it illegal to take a squirt gun — but not a real gun — within 150 feet of a school.

The new ban was included in a larger bill that would nix any local laws prohibiting people with gun permits from taking guns to parks.

The federal “Guns Free School Zones” act makes it illegal for anyone who doesn’t have a permit from taking a gun within 1,000 feet of a school. If that person has a permit from the state in which the school is located, though, they can take the gun near school property, the law states.   Continue reading “House bill bans fake guns — not real guns — near schools”

Yahoo News

Police in a northern Indian city said Tuesday they have a new weapon for controlling unruly protesters in the world’s largest democracy: pepper-spraying drones.

Yashasvi Yadav, police chief of Lucknow, said his officers have successfully test-flown the newly purchased drones with a view to better crowd control.   Continue reading “Indian police to use pepper-spraying drones on unruly protesters”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to act quickly once he receives a State Department recommendation on whether to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of terrorism-sponsoring countries, a remaining obstacle to the restoration of relations between Washington and Havana.

With just days to go before a hemispheric summit in Panama where Obama will come face-to-face with Cuban President Raul Castro, he offered no clear sign of how he was leaning or the timeframe for his decision. He ordered the review immediately after announcing a diplomatic breakthrough with Havana on Dec. 17.   Continue reading “Obama says would move fast to take Cuba off terrorism sponsor list”

USA Today – by Brad Heath

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans’ international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harvesting billions of calls in a program that provided a blueprint for the far broader National Security Agency surveillance that followed.

For more than two decades, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls from the USA to as many as 116 countries linked to drug trafficking, current and former officials involved with the operation said. The targeted countries changed over time but included Canada, Mexico and most of Central and South America. Continue reading “U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades”

Breitbart – by Lana Shadwick

DREAMers and their supporters were on the Texas Capitol steps early this morning in preparation for lobbying legislators on S.B. 1819. They are in Austin to speak to the Texas Senate’s Sub-Committee on Border Security. The sub-committee is part of the Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs and Military Installations. The bill would remove in-state tuition eligibility for certain children who came to America illegally.   Continue reading “Texas: DREAMers And Supporters Descend On Austin To Lobby Legislators”

Breitbart – by Brandon Darby

U.S. law enforcement discovered a two million dollar marijuana field in Texas linked the Mexican Los Zetas cartel. The field was discovered in Webb County, near the border city of Laredo, Texas. The cartel link was confirmed by Border Patrol agent Hector Garza, speaking to Breitbart Texas in his role as president of National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) Local 2455. Agent Garza declined to name the specific Mexican transnational criminal organization involved in this case, though he did acknowledge that both the Nuevo Laredo, Mexico and the Laredo, Texas regions are controlled by the Los Zetas cartel and that they ruthlessly deny competition in their territory.   Continue reading “Mexican Los Zetas Cartel Grew $2 Million Drug Field on Texas Soil”

Adask’s Law

The Washington Times reports(“Dennis Ross pushes zero-based budgeting for federal government”) that Congress may impose much stricter financial controls on government agencies and bureaucracies.

According to said Congressman Dennis A. Ross, Florida Republican and a member of the House Committee on Financial Services.   Continue reading “Growing Government Insolvency”

Free Beacon – by Elizabeth Harrington

The Social Security Administration (SSA) approved disability benefits for hundreds of Puerto Ricans because they do not speak English, despite the fact that Puerto Rico is a predominantly Spanish-speaking territory.

According to a new audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the agency is misapplying rules that are intended to provide financial assistance to individuals who are illiterate or cannot speak English in the United States. Under the rules, Puerto Ricans are allowed to receive disability benefits for their inability to speak English as well.   Continue reading “Feds Consider Puerto Ricans Disabled Because They Speak Spanish”

Thanks to Kevin.

This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent

From a California school teacher – – –

“As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:   Continue reading “Cheap Tomatoes”

Veterans Today – by Kevin Barrett

Israel’s friends in the United States, such as Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, are trying to prevent dangerous Benjamin Netanyahu from mounting a 9/11 style false flag operation against Iran, an American scholar and journalist in Wisconsin says.

Dr. Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today editor and founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV while commenting on Feinstein’s warning to the Israeli prime minister on Iran.   Continue reading ““9/11 on Iran to backfire” – Sen. Feinstein”

Washington Post – by Aaron C. Davis and Julie Zauzmer

A power surge temporarily knocked out power to the White House, State Department and wide swaths of the nation’s capital and its Maryland suburbs early Tuesday afternoon.

D.C. homeland security officials, utility providers and law enforcement officers in Charles County, Md., said a fire or explosion at a electrical facility in Southern Maryland appeared to be the source of the surge.   Continue reading “Power surge knocks out electrical service across parts of D.C.”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

California, especially California cities, have had a bad reputation for decades, of legally stealing firearms.  This was primarily done with police officers confiscating firearms that they came across, without any crime being committed.  Department policy was then to refuse to return the firearm unless a court ordered them to do so.  As the process of obtaining a court order would ordinarily be much more costly than the price of a firearm, most people who had their firearms stolen by police simply did not bother in attempting to obtain a court order.   Continue reading “Torrance Police Settle for Illegally Destroyed Guns”

Western Journalism – by Norvell Rose

The inspiration behind the picture the White House posted on Facebook appears to have been the fat-burning, sweat-provoking physical activities the president and first lady were encouraging at the annual Easter Egg roll.

But the blue boxing gloves on a rather puny-looking president provided the kind of inspiration to Twitter users that Obama’s handlers certainly didn’t anticipate, especially when you consider the photos available of a battered Harry Reid.   Continue reading “The Original Pic Is Crazy Enough, But Look How Social Media Just Bombed It”

RT

New York City Parks workers have covered up a statue of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden that was secretly installed overnight. The 100-lb bust was erected in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park, atop the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument.

The 4-foot tall Snowden bust was fused to the monument overnight on Monday by a trio of anonymous artists and a few helpers, Animal New York reported. They renamed the tribute ‘Prison Ship Martyrs Monument 2.0’.   Continue reading “Snowden cover-up: Unauthorized bust in Brooklyn becomes martyr to cause”

The Guardian – by Oliver Laughland

Nearly 800 plaintiffs have launched a billion-dollar lawsuit against Johns Hopkins University over its alleged role in the deliberate infection of hundreds of vulnerable Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis and gonorrhoea, during a medical experiment programme in the 1940s and 1950s.

The lawsuit, which also names the philanthropic Rockefeller Foundation, alleges that both institutions helped “design, support, encourage and finance” the experiments by employing scientists and physicians involved in the tests, which were designed to ascertain if penicillin could prevent the diseases.   Continue reading “Guatemalans deliberately infected with STDs sue Johns Hopkins University for $1bn”