Political Blindspot – by M.B. David, June 29, 2013

A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (later called Xe Services and more recently “Academi“) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State “security services,” that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it.   Continue reading “Yes, Monsanto Actually DID Buy the BLACKWATER Mercenary Group”

BBC News

Iran has detained 10 US sailors after their vessels were stopped in the Gulf, a US official told the BBC.

“We lost contact with two small US naval craft en route from Kuwait to Bahrain,” the official said.   Continue reading “Iran detains 10 US sailors after vessels stopped in the Gulf”

Post Technology

International accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens has said that it expects the shipping industry to remain volatile in 2016.

Moore Stephens Shipping artner Richard Greiner said: “The ultimate definition of an optimist has been characterised as an accordion player with an answerphone. Such extreme optimism might be difficult to find in shipping today, but the portents for 2016 are not all bad.   Continue reading “Shipping Outlook ‘Volatile’ in 2016”

Sea News

TOKYO-based research firm Teikoku Databank Ltd is predicting that the number of Japan’s shipping industry companies exiting the market may start rising again going into 2016 given that “cargo movements are expected to remain sluggish amid a slowdown in the China economy and a global ship oversupply is still continuing,” it said.

The number of shipping industry players withdrawing from the market, including as a result of voluntary closures and bankruptcies, has been declining since fiscal 2011, standing at 28 in fiscal 2014, which ended in March.   Continue reading “Gloomy outlook for Japan’s shipping industry, says Tokyo research house”

USA Today

An advisory committee will vote Tuesday on whether to recommend the Food and Drug Administration approve an implant designed to reduce addicts’ cravings for heroin or prescription painkillers.

The implant, probuphine, provides a steady dose of a medication called buprenorphine, which has been shown to ease withdrawal symptoms, decrease cravings and cut the risk of relapse. Probuphine’s manufacturer, New Jersey-based BraeburnPharmaceuticals, says it has the potential to eliminate risks associated with pills or dissolvable strips.   Continue reading “FDA considers new, implantable treatment for heroin, painkiller addiction”

Raw Story – by Travis Gettys

An Oregon judge says he will bill Ammon Bundy up to $70,000 a day to reimburse Harney County for security costs related to the ongoing occupation of a wildlife refuge.

Local schools reopened Monday for the first time since Bundy and other militants seized a visitors center Jan. 2 at the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve and demanded the transfer of federally owned land to the county, reported KTVZ-TV.   Continue reading “Oregon judge plans to bill Ammon Bundy up to $70,000 a day for security costs to county”

Yahoo News

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has bought U.S. film studio Legendary Entertainment for about $3.5 billion, turning its chairman into a Hollywood movie mogul as China’s richest man steps up a drive to diversify his business empire overseas.

At a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday, Wanda Chairman Wang Jianlin said he plans to package Legendary, behind hits like “Jurassic World”, with existing movie production assets in China and sell shares in the merged operation in an initial public offering (IPO).   Continue reading “Wanda goes to Hollywood: China tycoon’s firm buys film studio Legendary for $3.5 billion”

CNN

Sen. Ted Cruz’s citizenship status could end up before the Supreme Court, Sen. Rand Paul said Monday, because it’s still undecided if he qualifies as a “natural-born” American.

The Kentucky Republican hit his colleague and fellow presidential candidate on Fox News on Monday for being born in Canada and perhaps not fitting the constitutional requirement that a President be a natural-born citizen.   Continue reading “Rand Paul: Ted Cruz ‘natural-born Canadian’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Even as Obama takes his anti-gun crusade to new highs with every passing week, having recently started dispensing executive orders, the president conveniently continues to ignore the state of affairs in his native Chicago – a city in which guns are banned – yet where the shooting epidemic has never been worse, and is truly emblematic of the “gun problem” America has.

Judging by the most recent developments, Obama will have nothing to say about Chicago gun violence either during tonight’s state of the union address, or ever for that matter, because recent developments are downright disastrous.   Continue reading “Meanwhile In Chicago, 120 People Shot In First 10 Days Of 2016”

Planet Free Will – by Joseph Jankowski

Someone give Vice President Joe Biden a pocket constitution because he is in desperate need of a review.

In an interview with CNN’s Gloria Borger on Monday, Joe Biden made the ridiculous claim that “the Second Amendment says you can limit who can own a gun.”   Continue reading “Vice President Biden: ‘The Second Amendment Says You Can Limit Who Can Own A Gun’”

Reuters

The Cook County Jail in Chicago – the biggest single-site jail in the United States – was placed on lockdown on Tuesday after staffing dropped below normal levels, said Cook County Sheriff’s spokesman Ben Breit.

Eighteen percent of day shift workers – 142 correctional officers – said they could not come for the 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift for various reasons, including illness, family issues and the cold weather, he said.   Continue reading “Cook County jail in Chicago on lockdown after staff no-show”

Moon Battery

Making movies for kids is great fun because the leftist ideologues running Hollyweird don’t have to tone down their message. They can vomit their viewpoint all over the screen, secure in the knowledge that small children don’t know enough to reject it. Introducing Norm of the North:   Continue reading “Cartoon Envirocommunism: Norm of the North”

Before It’s News – by Politically Incorrect Australian

A subject that has attracted my interest for a while now is the cause (or causes) of the failings of modern Christianity. Tonight a couple of recent comments on other people’s blogs have brought the subject back into my mind.

In a comment to a post on his blog Bruce Charlton says that “what was good about Franco’s regime were factors absent from today’s scene – Christian piety, and the military virtues such as courage and discipline.” And another comment on another blog (which I can’t find at the moment) made the claim that Christianity was a positive force when it was allied to an aristocratic warrior ethos. I tend to agree quite strongly with both these comments.    Continue reading “Whatever happened to Christian warriors?”

Mail.com

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Seabird biologist David Irons drove recently to the Prince William Sound community of Whittier to check on a friend’s boat and spotted white blobs along the tide line of the rocky Alaska beach. He thought they were patches of snow.

A closer look revealed that the white patches were emaciated common murres, one of North America’s most abundant seabirds, washed ashore after apparently starving to death. “It was pretty horrifying,” Irons said. “The live ones standing along the dead ones were even worse.”   Continue reading “Starvation suspected in massive die-off of Alaska seabirds”

Mail.com

ISTANBUL (AP) — A suicide bomber affiliated with the Islamic State group detonated a bomb in a historic district of Istanbul popular with tourists Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people — nine of them German tourists — and wounding 15 others, Turkish officials said.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the bomber who carried out the attack in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet district was a member of IS and pledged to battle the militant group until it no longer “remains a threat” to Turkey or the world.   Continue reading “Suicide bomber kills 10, wounds 15 in Istanbul tourist area”

The Last Refuge – by Sundance

We’ve been following the story of the persecution of the Hammond family in Oregon from a position of trying to identify the real motive and real agenda behind the MSM headlines.

Previously we outlined the full back story to the origin of the Hammond family problems –HERE – Later we shared how the motive of the Oregon U.S. Attorney, Amanda Marshall (Obama appointee) was brutally obvious – HERE –   Continue reading “Why Does Harney County Sheriff David Ward Want Hammond Family Story Hidden?”