Year: 2015

The New American – by Warren Mass

During a rare after-midnight session on October 30, the Republican–controlled Senate voted 64 to 35 to pass the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which began its life in the Republican-controlled House as H.R. 1314. The account of how outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) put together the budget by striking deals with members of the White House staff, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was documented in an article posted by The New American on October 27.   Continue reading “Neocon Senate Republicans Join Democrats to Pass Mammoth Budget”

Huffington Post – by Elise Foley, Philip Lewis

Anna from “Frozen” and Captain Phasma from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” are now U.S. citizens. So are a hot dog, a butterfly, a SWAT team officer and a mini-Donald Trump.

Or, at least, their likenesses are. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services hosted a special naturalization ceremony on Friday for children whose parents recently became U.S. citizens. Since it was the day before Halloween, the kids were invited to wear costumes and go trick-or-treating around the offices afterward.   Continue reading “Cinderella, A Hot Dog And A Mini-Donald Trump Just Became U.S. Citizens”

New York Times – by Christina Hauser

Cases of one variety of Skippy peanut butter have been recalled in seven states for fear that metal shavings could have contaminated some of the spread, the Food and Drug Administration said.

The agency released a statement from Hormel Foods,which makes the peanut butter, saying the recall covers 153 cases of Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread. The products were sent to distribution centers that serve Publix, Target and Walmart stores in Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware and Arkansas.   Continue reading “Limited Skippy Peanut Butter Recall in 7 States”

Paul Craig Roberts

On January 6, 2004, Senator Charles Schumer and I challenged the erroneous idea that jobs offshoring was free trade in a New York Times op-ed. Our article so astounded economists that within a few days Schumer and I were summoned to a Brookings Institution conference in Washington, DC, to explain our heresy. In the nationally televised conference, I declared that the consequence of jobs offshoring would be that the US would be a Third World country in 20 years.   Continue reading “US On Road To Third World”

The Anti-Media – by Sarah Lazare, Common Dreams

Elders were dragged away by riot police on Thursday after linking arms, lying on the ground, and blocking vehicles in a bid to physically prevent the construction of a widely-opposed U.S. military base in the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan.   Continue reading “Riot Police Attack Senior Citizens Protesting US Military Base Construction”

Truthdig – by Roisin Davis

Even though it has one of the highest murder tolls on the planet, Brazil is eyeing a law under which anyone over 21, including people accused of crimes or convicted of less serious crimes, would be allowed to purchase up to nine firearms a year and 50 rounds of ammunition a month. One critic has described the move as risking a “Wild West” scenario.   Continue reading “Brazil May Soon End Most Gun Ownership Restrictions, Risking a ‘Wild West’ Scenario”

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Indiana Freedom Talk Radio

John Killen, a long time patriot. And his family are being attacked by the Kentucky CPS via Florida CPS. Florida has asked Kentucky to look into the matter. In other words, a fishing expedition involving 3 children, ages 3.5, and who are Mr. Killen’s grandchildren.

An anonymous call to CPS stating the children were playing in the yard and one was dirty is what started this situation. (Did you get dirty as a child playing??? Of course you did.)   Continue reading “Alert Alert Alert”

Bloomberg – by Jeff Green

The weeks before Halloween are a busy season for Wal-Mart’s little-known trust and safety compliance team. Their job is to come between the 40,000 costumes sold on the retail giant’s sprawling website and the 140 million shoppers who might be offended by those costumes.

In a win for the team, Wal-Mart customers haven’t been able to purchase the white hotpants and wig marketed as a Caitlyn Jenner transgender parody costume. A decapitated Cecil the Lion head sold with a dentist’s smock? Banned on Walmart.com. Don’t expect to see the gratuitously distasteful costume meant to invoke the dispute between Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump. Nor a sex-themed vampire suit sold under the name Down for the Count. Those were low-hanging fruit.   Continue reading “How Wal-Mart’s Halloween Swat Team Stops Offensive Costumes”

RT

Nearly 30 women at an immigration detention facility in Texas have begun a hunger strike. In their letters, made public by a civil rights group, they highlight “grave injustices,” detentions of up to 18 months, inedible food, and “little or no security.”

“There are grave injustices being committed, detentions spanning eight months, 10 months, a year, a year and a half, so in the end we are being told we have no rights and will be deported, with offensive words and gestures that make us feel worthless,” Magdrola, from Guatemala, wrote in her letter, published by Grassroots Leadership along with 16 letters from other detainees.   Continue reading “‘They treat us like dogs’: 27 women detained in Texas immigration center begin hunger strike”

RT

A 16-year-old girl has been diagnosed with bubonic plague in Crook County, Oregon, the local health authority confirmed.

“The girl is believed to have acquired the disease from a flea bite during a hunting trip near Heppner in Morrow County that started on October16. She reportedly fell ill on October 21 and was hospitalized in Bend on October 24. She is recovering in the hospital’s intensive care unit,” the official press release says.   Continue reading “Teenage girl diagnosed with bubonic plague in Oregon”

ARS Technica – by David Kravets

You gotta love this twisted logic.

In May, a federal appeals court declared the National Security Agency’s bulk telephone metadata collection program illegal because it wasn’t authorized under the Patriot Act, as the Obama administration and its predecessor administration had maintained.   Continue reading “Court says it’s legal for NSA to spy on you because Congress says it’s OK”