Year: 2015

Weather Underground

Winter Storm Neptune thrashed Northeast on Sunday with heavy snow, high winds and dangerously cold temperatures. At least six deaths have been blamed on the storm. Here’s the latest:

• Ohio: Three people were killed in accidents. A pregnant woman and her unborn child died in a multivehicle pileup that closed the westbound lanes of the Ohio Turnpike just east of Sandusky, authorities said. A 24-year-old Buffalo, New York, man was killed when the car he was riding in on I-71 in Morrow County hit a tractor-trailer and went off the road.

Continue reading “Winter Storm Neptune Update: 6 Dead in Icy Crashes”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Perhaps you remember a time not too far in our collective grocery-shopping past when regular grocery stores chains and places like Walmart had no idea what organic food was. Organic milk? Bread? Produce? They didn’t carry it. You had to find an obscure health food store or a farmer’s market if you didn’t live near a Whole Foods to find non-GMO, healthful food that wasn’t full of pesticides. But thankfully, consumers are demanding different products now. Demand for organic food has busted through its glass ceiling.   Continue reading “Sorry Monsanto: Organic Food Demand is Absolutely Exploding”

Top Secret Writers – by Sally Painter

The US Department of Defense (DoD) received accolades from World-Leading Surgeons, Scientists and the Organ Preservation Alliance for initiating the “First-Ever Government Grant Programs Targeting Organ Cryobanking for Transplants”.

In a December 2014 press release, DoD announced the “multi-million dollar grant funding pools” that are dedicated to the research of technologies for organ and tissue banking (1).   Continue reading “U.S. Military Looking to Create Organ Banks”

KFVS 12 News

UNION COUNTY, IL (KFVS) – A Union County family got the scare of their lives on Wednesday morning as drug agents swarmed onto their property.

“I heard the dogs barking. And I knew that meant somebody was outside the house,” said Laura Benson. “And I looked out the windows and I seen a truck coming up the driveway fairly fast. And an Anna police car right behind it.”

At first, Laura says she thought her son had done something wrong. Then she says she couldn’t believe her ears when she heard the drug agents say this.   Continue reading “Suspected meth lab turns out to be sweet maple syrup”

Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) — The promise of plentiful jobs and salaries as high as a quarter-million dollars a year lured Colombia native Clara Correa Zappa and her British husband to Perth, Australia, at the height of the continent’s oil and gas frenzy.

Engineers were in high demand in 2012, when oil prices exceeded $100 a barrel, making the move across the world a no-brainer. Within two years, though, oil plunged to less than half the 2012 price and Zappa lost her job as a safety analyst. Now she’s worried her husband, who also works in the commodities industry, could also lose his job.   Continue reading “Global Oil Layoffs Exceed 100,000”

RT

Park operators in the City of Salem, Oregon are posting unique signs alerting people that an owl could swoop down and ruin their day. A barred owl has attacked four people in the park in recent months.

The park had previously posted flyers about the owl attacks, but in a segment on wacky politics in Oregon, the owl attacks became a segment on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show on February 5. Maddow suggested the city should post a vivid yellow warning sign using the iconic pedestrian stick figure bent forward at a run. Hovering above – and in fast pursuit – with claws extended like a bird of prey.   Continue reading “Warning signs for attacking, angry owls posted in Oregon”

Mail.com

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish police shot and killed a man early Sunday suspected of carrying out shooting attacks at a free speech event and then at a Copenhagen synagogue, killing a Danish documentary filmmaker and a member of the Scandinavian country’s Jewish community. Five police officers were also wounded in the attacks.

“Denmark has been hit by terror,” Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said. “We do not know the motive for the alleged perpetrator’s actions, but we know that there are forces that want to hurt Denmark. They want to rebuke our freedom of speech.”   Continue reading “First Copenhagen shooting victim identified as film maker”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Times media columnist David Carr died of complications from metastatic lung cancer, according to autopsy results released Saturday.

Julie Bolcer (BOHL-suhr), a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner’s office, said the autopsy shows heart disease also contributed to his death. Carr, 58, collapsed at the newspaper’s headquarters and died on Thursday.   Continue reading “Autopsy shows New York Times writer Carr died of lung cancer”

Natural Society – by Mike Barrett

Marijuana is known as a Schedule I substance in the United States. That means that it is completely worthless, harnesses ‘no medicinal value,’ and is evidently on the same level of heroin, LSD, and ecstasy. But marijuana can actually help treat numerous ailments, which is why the U.S. government has been juggling with its reclassification for decades.

Now, a legal dispute in California is shedding even more light on the issue in Washington, D.C., and could expedite its the plant’s impending reclassification.   Continue reading “Key Marijuana Case may Lead to Nationwide Reclassification”

Alternative Media Syndicate

A lawmaker in Helena, Montana is trying to make the state’s “indecent exposure law” include yoga pants.

Representative David Moore said introduced House Bill 365 on Tuesday in the House Judiciary Committee. He said the bill is in response to a group of nude bicyclists who participated in a group bicycle ride through the city of Missoula back in August.   Continue reading “Bill Proposes Sentencing Women To Five Years In Prison If They Wear Yoga Pants In Public Three Times”

Daily Caller – by Eric Owens

By now, you may know that disgraced Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, was brought low this week by a scandal concerning his fiancée’s dealings with green energy groups.

You may not be aware, however, of exactly the extent to which Kitzhaber’s fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, is a corrupt, serial-marrying tree-hugger with a background of scandals galore.   Continue reading “Meet The Corrupt, Serial-Marrying, Tree-Hugging Femme Fatale Who Brought Down Oregon’s Governor”

Reuters

Canadian Pacific Railway’s train engineers and conductors walked off the job on Sunday as a midnight deadline to reach agreement on a new contract passed, setting the stage for back-to-work legislation to be enacted by the government.

Canada’s No. 2 railway had reached a last-minute deal with another union, Unifor, which represents safety and maintenance workers minutes before the deadline.   Continue reading “CP Rail’s train engineers, conductors go on strike in Canada: union”

Voice of America

Danish police said a man they shot dead early Sunday was likely behind the two shooting attacks Saturday in Copenhagen that killed two civilians and wounded five police officers.

Officials said no evidence suggests other gunmen were involved in the shootings, one of which took place at a free-speech event at a cafe and the other outside Copenhagen’s main synagogue.   Continue reading “Danish Police Kill Suspect Believed Responsible for Deadly Attacks”

WeaponsMan

In 1959, a General Motors executive boasted that there were so many options available to buyers of the 1959 Chevrolet, that it was theoretically possible for no two of the hundreds of thousands of Chevies delivered that year to be alike. (In fact, many popular configurations were made in vast quantity, and many theoretical combinations of options made no practical sense and were never built). It’s quite a difference from today, when you have red, white, black, silver, and Option Package A or Option Package B. The new way of doing things substitutes soulless modern efficiency for funky 20th-Century soul.   Continue reading “Customizing your Carbine: Pro and Con”

And so the valor and righteousness of the South’s cause will once again rise to the occasion. Liberty, Freedom, and Rebellion against the Tyranny of our oppressors will be ushered forth by men and women with the very same qualities of those who came before us. Although the South with drew in defeat, it wasn’t due to the aggressors values or positions held. The South’s defeat was due to overwhelming numbers, and that only.

In the coming days, weeks and months, the entire Republic will rise to the very same occasion as did the Southern states, so long ago. The cause for Freedom, the right to live and conduct one’s affairs as our founders intended, will be the unifying cry that will heard throughout our land.   Continue reading “The Greatness of North Carolina’s General Robert F. Hoke”

Market Ticker – by Karl Denninger

Hoh hoh hoh, look what the cat dragged in…

Among the 110 California patients, 49 (45%) were unvaccinated; five (5%) had 1 dose of measles-containing vaccine, seven (6%) had 2 doses, one (1%) had 3 doses, 47 (43%) had unknown or undocumented vaccination status, and one (1%) had immunoglobulin G seropositivity documented, which indicates prior vaccination or measles infection at an undetermined time. Twelve of the unvaccinated patients were infants too young to be vaccinated. Among the 37 remaining vaccine-eligible patients, 28 (67%) were intentionally unvaccinated because of personal beliefs, and one was on an alternative plan for vaccination.

Continue reading “And Now, The Truth (Measles Outbreak)”