Year: 2015

Washington Post – by Laura Vozella

RICHMOND — Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control group will bankroll a $1.5 million advertising campaign for a Northern Virginia state Senate candidate, in its second big ad buy in the commonwealth in as many days.

Less than two weeks before Election Day, Everytown for Gun Safety announced Thursday that it would spend $1.5 million in TV and online ads for Democrat Jeremy McPike. He is running against Manassas Mayor Harry J. “Hal” Parrish II (R) to succeed retiring Sen. Charles J. Colgan (D-Prince William).   Continue reading “Bloomberg’s gun-control group bankrolls $1.5 million ad buy in second Va. race”

Hollywood Reporter – by Mike Barnes, Duane Byrge

Maureen O’Hara, the Irish beauty whose striking red hair, crystal-green eyes and porcelain skin was so dazzling on the silver screen that she was dubbed “The Queen of Technicolor,” has died. She was 95.

O’Hara, who played the feisty wife to onscreen husband John Wayne in five films — three of them directed by John Ford — died Saturday at her home in Boise, Idaho, Johnny Nicoletti, her longtime manager, told the Associated Press.   Continue reading “Maureen O’Hara, ‘The Queen of Technicolor,’ Dies at 95”

KELO

GARRETSON, SD – On Saturday, the world celebrates the United Nations’ 70th anniversary as an organization that promotes peace and cooperation among nations.   The old League of Nations morphed into the U.N. in the months following World War II as part of an effort to prevent global conflicts in the future.  Unknown to many people, a South Dakota agency has a scientific stake in the U.N.’s longevity.

For 70 years, the United Nations in New York has served as a platform for world leaders, from popes to presidents, to address some of the most pressing issues facing the world.
Continue reading “EROS: U.N.’s Satellite Office”

Yahoo News – by Amy Forliti

The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin said agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration entered their sovereign lands on Friday and improperly destroyed a crop of industrial hemp — but federal authorities said the crop was actually an illegal marijuana growing operation and some of the participants were not tribal members.

There were no arrests, and the investigation is ongoing, the DEA said.   Continue reading “DEA raids tribal land to destroy pot; tribe says it was hemp”

Fox News

States and industry groups dependent on fossil fuels began filing court challenges Friday to President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Opponents of the plan were expected to file a flurry of lawsuits at the U.S. Court of Appeals as the Environmental Protection Agency published its final version of the new regulations. All but two of the 24 states filing challenges are led by Republicans. They deride the plan as an “unlawful power grab by Washington bureaucrats” that will kill coal mining jobs and drive up electricity costs.    Continue reading “States sue over new EPA air regulations”

ENE News

CBS Las Vegas, Oct 22, 2015 (emphasis added): Government officials are still looking into what may have caused a low-level radiological storage facility [~100 miles outside Las Vegas] to go up in flames… “We didn’t even hear about it when it happened, according to Cindy Craig, a resident.  “We weren’t even get told about it until the next day.”

Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct 21, 2015: Carol Johnston, owner of KC’s Outpost [in Beatty, Nevada]… said she was serving customers on a patio Sunday when she “heard a big boom” then looked up and saw a big puff of smoke. “Why didn’t they evacuate the town then?” she asked in a telephone interview Wednesday.   Continue reading “Fire erupts at nuclear storage facility near Las Vegas”

Yahoo News – by Katie Reilly

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New Jersey Senate voted to override Governor Chris Christie’s veto of a gun control bill on Thursday, marking the first time either chamber of the legislature has overturned one of his vetoes since he took office in 2010.

Christie, who is running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, rejected the bill in August after it passed unanimously in both the state Senate and General Assembly. The governor has a mixed record on gun control, a hot-button issue in the 2016 presidential race.   Continue reading “New Jersey Senate overrides Christie veto of gun control bill”

Red Alert Politics – by Ryan Girdusky

President Obama campaigned on the idea that there was not two Americas, but apparently there are–one for law abiding American citizens and another for illegal immigrants.

The Associated Press reported that Ramon Perez-Riveria, an 82-year old illegal immigrant, who has been in the U.S. for decades, was spared from a federal prison sentence on Wednesday despite the severity of his crime.   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrant Commits ID Theft, Sentenced to 1 Day in Jail and Not Deported”

Natural News – by PF Louis

Naperville, Ill a suburb of Chicago with a separate political structure, is a hotbed of activists’ resistance to smart meters. A local grass roots group, Naperville Smart Meter Awareness (NSMA), was established by the two women arrested for resisting a smart meter installation and video taping it, Malia “Kim” Bendis and Jennifer Stahl.

The NSMA group was formed as an effort to educate locals on the reality of smart meters and foment resistance against Naperville’s Smart Meter Initiative mandate to convert all structures with smart meters.   Continue reading “Police arrest woman for filming forced installation of smart meter on neighbor’s home”

RT

Israel wanted to send commandos to break into the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran and sabotage it from the inside, WSJ reports. The US considered it a suicide mission and refused to sell Israel military hardware that could be used in such a raid.

The episode, dating back to 2012, is part of a developing crisis of confidence that Israel and the US plunged into under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama. The Wall Street Journal says relations started deteriorating in 2009, when Netanyahu met Obama in the White House and started briefing reporters immediately without coordinating with the Americans.   Continue reading “US rejected Israeli request for hardware to raid Iranian nuclear facility – report”

Fox News

When Francisco Javier Chavez posted bail on charges of beating a California toddler within an inch of her life in late July, there was little reason to expect the illegal immigrant, who has spent much of his adult life hopping back and forth across the Mexican border, would return to face justice.

Two weeks later, at his scheduled arraignment on Aug. 13, Chavez was a no-show. The 27-year-old career criminal had put up $10,000, or 10 percent of the amount set for his alleged crimes by California’s bail schedule. His disappearance is hardly a surprise to critics who believe violent illegal immigrants are, by definition, flight risks who should be denied bail in such serious cases. They say judges, especially in border states plagued by illegal immigrant crime, are naive or worse if they expect suspects who regularly cross in and out of Mexico to take the U.S. justice system seriously.   Continue reading “‘Obvious flight risk’: Toddler’s brutal beating prompts call to withhold bail from illegal immigrants”

NewsB2

A former NYPD officer has mislaid both of his legs after he he allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death, afterwards jumped in front of a transport train, according to reports.

Arthur J. Lomando, 44, is indicted of aggressive his former flame, 48-year-old Suzanne Bardzell, a special preparation clergyman and mom of two, with a machete as she pulled into a drive during her Midland Park, New Jersey, home on Thursday afternoon, PIX 11 reports.   Continue reading “Former Cop Loses Both Legs After Allegedly Stabbing Ex-Girlfriend to Death”

USA Today – by Bart Jansen

The Transportation Department threatened legal action Thursday against Kuwait Airways for refusing to sell tickets to Israelis.

The department ordered the airline to “cease and desist from refusing to transport Israeli citizens between the U.S. and any third country where they are allowed to disembark,” according to a letter from Blane Workie, the department’s assistant general counsel for enforcement.   Continue reading “DOT orders Kuwait Airways to stop discriminating against Israelis”

Fox 10 Arizona News – by Danielle Miller

PINAL COUNTY, Ariz. (KSAZ) – Officials are saying it is shaping up to be a disappointing end to the year that started with a major decline in illegal border crossings. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says they see an increase in drug and human smuggling daily.

“This is a promise to do what, a promise to disappear as it’s being joked about by our friends in ICE and Border Patrol,” said Sheriff Paul Babeu.   Continue reading “Officials watch as record numbers of illegal immigrants come into USA”

MassPrivateI

According to an article in Popular Mechanics dated November 2015 in a section called “Great Unknowns” a reader submitted this question…

“How many operating garbage trucks are there in the United States?”

“All things considered, we think a reasonable estimate would put the total number of garbage trucks somewhere within clattering-can-throwing distance of 2000,000. Sweet dreams.”
Continue reading “Police/DHS are using 200,000 garbage trucks and possibly 300K people to spy on Americans”