Steve Lendman

BDS activism has had remarkable successes since its July 2005 founding – coincidentally around the same time I began writing in retirement at age 70.

I’m a proud cultural BDS member. I urge everyone to get involved for justice. Its global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign is the most effective form of civil resistance against longstanding Israeli occupation harshness, colonialism, and apartheid – continuing without letup until Palestinian liberation is finally achieved.   Continue reading “Boycott Israel: Resistance Works”

Epoch Times – by Jack Philips

Several huge blasts were reported in Ukraine’s Lugansk, sometimes spelled as Luhansk, region on Thursday night, according to media reports. At least one person was killed.

Video footage of one of the explosions was recorded and uploaded to YouTube.   Continue reading “Huge Explosion in Ukraine’s Lugansk as Ammunition Warehouses Catch Fire”

CBS News – by Vinita Nair

ST. LOUIS— Thousands of gallons of tainted water spilled last night at the Bridgeton landfill near St. Louis where an underground fire has been burning next to an old nuclear waste dump.

Mothers from North Saint Louis County are convinced their local landfill is on the brink of a nuclear emergency putting their families at risk.   Continue reading “St. Louis moms up in arms over nuclear waste fears”

Rense by Wolfgang Halbig

From: Wolfgang Halbig <wolfgang.halbig@comcast.net>
Subject: Please explain to this 70 year old man how the FBI on their own Washington DC website show that the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Massacre took place on Dec 13, 2012. Then read the Chapter 1 I have attached of all the lies before the First Shot was even fired.   Continue reading “FBI, Sandy Hook – An Explanation & Truth Long Overdue”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Starting next fall it will be illegal to install wood-burning heaters and stoves in new homes in at least one major American city: San Francisco.

Even wood stoves certified as low emission by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be banned.   Continue reading “A Ban On Heating Your Home With Wood? It’s Happening”

Anti -Media- by Claire Bernish

First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki.

If Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has his way — and he likely will — Icelanders will be paid kr 30,000 after the government takes over ownership of the bank. Íslandsbanki would be second of the three largest banks under State proprietorship.   Continue reading “First They Jailed The Bankers, Now Every Icelander To Get Paid In Bank Sale”

ABC News

A somber Albuquerque police chief stood surrounded by dozens of law enforcement officials Thursday as he described a well-liked, highly decorated officer who was gunned down outside a pharmacy last week.

Officer Daniel Webster died early Thursday at University of New Mexico Hospital, a little more than a week after he was shot by an ex-convict, Chief Gorden Eden said. Webster’s death followed an especially violent week in New Mexico’s largest city in which police say another gunman shot and killed a 4-year-old girl amid a road rage dispute.   Continue reading “New Mexico Police Officer Dies After Being Shot on Duty”

CNN – by Ann O’Neill, Ed Lavandera and Jason Morris

Waco, Texas (CNN)After the guns fell silent on May 17 — one of the bloodiest afternoons in the history of American motorcycle clubs — nine bikers lay dead in a strip mall parking lot littered with weapons.

Many more were injured, bleeding from gunshots and knife wounds. A police officer asked what every other cop there must have wondered at that moment: How many of you are armed?   Continue reading “Knives, guns, blood and fear: Inside the Texas biker shootout”

True Activist – by John Vibes

A young boy named Landon Riddle was diagnosed with Leukemia, and was told by his doctors that he only had an 8-10% chance of living for more than a day or two.

“His whole chest was full of leukemia tumors, which is why he couldn’t breathe. They started him on chemo, but told us that he probably wasn’t going to make it,” his mother, Sierra Riddle said.   Continue reading “Cannabis Oil Cures 3 Year Old Boy Of Cancer After Doctors Gave Him 48 Hours To Live”

RT

Hand guns and rifle sales are spiking in Austria, with some shops reporting they are running out of stocks of shotguns, since no license is needed to buy them.

“Yes, I can confirm, the demand in Austria for weapons is growing. My revenue doubled in September. And in October it has doubled again, and we are still in October,” a gun shop owner told RT.   Continue reading “Austrians snapping up shotguns as thousands of Mideast refugees enter country”

Mail.com

TOKYO (AP) — The film set in Japan after a nuclear catastrophe depicts greed, discrimination, loyalty, beauty — traits made more heartbreakingly human by the cast’s inhuman star — a robot.

In this eerie film, aptly called “Sayonara,” people fearfully wait to be picked for evacuation abroad to flee radiation. Politics is involved. The sick, people with criminal records and foreigners are doomed.   Continue reading “Robot star illuminates human themes in nuclear disaster film”

Mail.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two men killed by an explosion inside a World War II-era tank at an Oregon firing range were participating in a video shoot in a military vehicle owned by one of the victims, a collector who had been filmed for shows on the Discovery Channel, the Smithsonian Channel and a video game commercial.

A crew was filming the tank firing rounds when the blast occurred Tuesday east of the city of Bend, killing vehicle owner Steven Todd Preston, 51, and Austin Tyler Lee, 22, Deschutes County Sheriff L. Shane Nelson said.   Continue reading “Victim of blast in vintage tank appeared in TV shows, ads”

Mail.com

DALLAS (AP) — Four people kidnapped a woman and held her captive for three days in a San Antonio-area home, forcing her to ingest drugs and at one point conducting a “blood ritual,” a sheriff’s spokesman said Wednesday.

Authorities believe Mercedes Salazar, 32, was the ringleader who orchestrated the woman’s captivity, according to James Keith, spokesman for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. Salazar is being held on charges that include aggravated kidnapping, he said.   Continue reading “Texas woman used in ‘blood ritual’ while being held captive”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

A school district north of San Francisco has decided to implement a new “grading system” that almost entirely negates the point of, well, grading systems.

Via The Daily Caller:

Under a new policy, students will be able to earn passing grades with scores of just 20 percent — and a solid C for doing absolutely nothing at all… Continue reading “Dumbing Down of America? California School District’s New Grading Scale Gives out Cs for “Doing Absolutely Nothing at All””

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Back in 1978, the Chinese politburo enacted the “one-child policy”, whose main purpose was to “alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems” in China as a result of the soaring population. According to estimates, the policy prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011. And while not applicable to everyone, in 2007 approximately 35.9% of China’s population was subject to a one-child restriction.   Continue reading “China Abandons 37-Year-Old “One-Child Policy” – Here Are The Implications”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

Would you pay $400,000 for a single helmet?  Of course you wouldn’t – but that is precisely what the U.S. government is doing.  Just the helmet for the pilot of the new F-35 Lightning II is going to cost taxpayers nearly half a million dollars.  And since we are going to need 2,400 of those helmets, the total bill is going to end up approaching a billion dollars.  But what is a billion dollars between friends, eh?   Continue reading “The U.S. Government Is Spending 400,000 Dollars On A Single Helmet”