KCRG 9 News

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal authorities rounded up 12 people in five states on Thursday, bringing to 19 the number of defendants facing conspiracy, assault and threats charges in a 2014 armed standoff over grazing cattle on U.S. land near renegade cattleman Cliven Bundy’s ranch in southern Nevada.

Arrests of alleged co-conspirators in Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma and New Hampshire came after a federal grand jury in Las Vegas expanded an indictment already filed against Bundy. It also names two adult Bundy sons and five other men already in federal custody following the end of a nearly six-week armed occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon.   Continue reading “Bundy, 18 Others Indicited in 2014 Ranch Standoff”

Yahoo News

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and to turn its military posture to “pre-emptive attack” mode in the face of growing threats from its enemies, official media said on Friday.

The comments carried by official KCNA news agency marked a further escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula after the U.N. Security Council imposed harsh new sanctions against the isolated state for its nuclear program.   Continue reading “North Korea leader orders military to be ready to use nuclear weapons at any time”

21st Century Wire

In one of his most candid and detailed interviews to date, decorated national school safety executive Wolfgang Halbig raises serious concerns and identifies a long list of anomalies and unanswered questions surrounded the Sandy Hook ‘event’ that took place in December 2012.

In addition to being one of the country’s foremost experts on school safety and emergency management, Halbig was also a veteran response worker assigned to the tragic Columbine Shooting in Colorado in 1999.   Continue reading “‘Sandy Hook Was Not Like Columbine’: Expert Whistleblower Tears Apart Gov’t Story”

Mother Earth News – by Mike and Nancy Bubel

Root cellars are as useful today as ever. In fact, root cellars in all forms are very up-to-date, what with the costs of food and its processing getting higher every year. As we see it, root cellars are right up there with wood heat, bicycles and backyard gardens as a simple, low-technology way of living well — independently.

The term “root cellars,” as used here, includes the whole range of ingenious vegetable-saving techniques, from hillside caves to garden trenches. The traditional root cellar is an underground storage space for vegetables and fruits. Where space and lay of the land permit, these cellars are dug into a hill and then lined with brick, stone or concrete block. Dirt-floored or insulated basement rooms — less picturesque but probably more numerous — are also traditional.   Continue reading “The Fundamentals of Root Cellaring”

McClatchy DC

Donald Trump released a seven-point health care policy paper this week, boasting that his plank would reduce health care costs and dubbing his plan “healthcare reform to make America great again.”

The release comes one day before Thursday’s Republican debate. Trump was needled during last week’s debate, for being vague about his plans to reform health care. The policy paper released Wednesday is Trump’s sixth. In comparison, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has released two dozen.   Continue reading “Donald Trump has a 7-point healthcare plan”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Baltimore, MD — An extremely disturbing video was posted to social media this week showing a Baltimore school cop, whose identity is being protected, treating a student like a punching bag.

In the brief video, the officer is seen throwing punches and kicking the student.   Continue reading “Disturbing Video Shows What Public School Looks Like in a Police State as a Cop Beats a Student”

Anti-Media – by Claire Bernish

Washington, D.C. —Monsanto has essentially been gifted a free pass with legislation intended to protect people and the environment. Monsanto will enjoy immunity from responsibility for one of the most noxious of all its toxic creations: PCBs.

Slipped into already-contentious reform measures of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act by the House of Representatives, the provision concerns now-banned polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which, in the United States, were manufactured nearly exclusively by Monsanto. Though the Environmental Protection Agency banned the substances in the 1979, from the early 1930s through 1977, the agrichemical goliath produced around 1.25 billion pounds — of which an estimated 10 percent continues to wreak havoc on human health and the environment.   Continue reading “Congress Sneaks New “Monsanto Protection Act” Into Sweeping Environmental Bill”

Reuters

New York State’s attorney general has determined that the Mount Vernon police were not criminally culpable for the death in jail of an African-American mother of eight who had been arrested on shoplifting charges, a source familiar with the investigation said on Thursday.

A seven-month investigation into the death of Raynette Turner, 42, found that she died of natural causes at the Mount Vernon police headquarters, the source said. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was expected to release a comprehensive report at a 1 p.m. news conference.   Continue reading “Police cleared in death of New York woman in jail: source”

Cleveland.com – by Olivia Perkins

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ohio lost 112,500 jobs in 2015 resulting from the United States’ trade deficit with countries that are part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.

That places Ohio sixth, in terms of the percentage of jobs lost to trade with TPP countries, among the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked in the report released Thursday by the liberal Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The lost jobs represent nearly 2.2 percent of employment in Ohio, according to the analysis.   Continue reading “Ohio lost 112,500 jobs due to trade with TPP countries”

Press TV

Syria has plunged into dark as the country’s electricity network is down for unknown reasons, state media reports say.

“The electricity network has been cut in all governorates,” official news agency SANA said on Thursday, quoting a source in the Ministry for Electricity.   Continue reading “Syria plunges into dark as nationwide blackout strikes”

Green Med Info – by Sayer Ji

Turmeric is hands down one of the, if not the, most versatile healing spice in the world with over 600 experimentally confirmed health benefits, and an ancient history filled with deep reverence for its seemingly compassionate power to alleviate human suffering.   Continue reading “How WHOLE Turmeric Heals The Damaged Brain”

True Activist – by Amanda Froelich

You have one life to live. So why sacrifice the sweetness of your later years when there’s still so much to explore and enjoy?

Such must have been the rationale of 90-year-old Norma, who learned while her husband was dying in hospice that she had cancer of the uterus.    Continue reading “90-Year-Old Woman Passes On Cancer Treatment To Explore The USA”

Yahoo News

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, will head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.

Carter unveiled the new Defense Innovation Advisory Board with Schmidt during the annual RSA cyber security conference in San Francisco, saying it would give the Pentagon access to “the brightest technical minds focused on innovation.”   Continue reading “Former Google CEO Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board”