Month: October 2016

Activist Post – by Bernie Suarez

We have all been watching as the US election campaign chaos has escalated to historic insults, accusations and war of words between the two major parties (Clinton-mainstream media vs Trump).The Jerry Springer Show has metastasized into the 2016 US presidential elections. By design of course.

Hidden in all the daily drama, chaos and propaganda being put out by the now entirely discredited and irrelevant “mainstream media” are the revelations of outright corruption and criminality exposed in the Clintons and DNC email hacks of the past few months.   Continue reading ““Political Terrorism” – New Term Rolled Out By Mass Media In Context Of Firebombing Story”

Reuters

Louisiana’s attorney general said he got legal clearance on Monday to keep blocking a measure protecting gay and transgender workers in the state, one of a growing list of disputes over LGBT rights heating up across the south.

Jeff Landry, a Republican, has been caught in a confrontation with the state’s Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards, who brought in measures in April banning state agencies from discriminating against gay and transgender people.   Continue reading “Louisiana attorney general wins court victory in fight against gay rights order”

Reuters

U.S. retirees will receive a 0.3 percent increase in their Social Security checks in 2017, the Social Security Administration said on Tuesday.

The cost-of-living adjustment, also known as COLA, is tied to inflation moves. There was no increase for 2015-2016 due to the dampening effects on inflation from falling oil prices.

The rate is determined by averaging together third-quarter inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).   Continue reading “U.S. social security benefits to rise 0.3 percent in 2017”

Oil Price – by Irina Slav

Exxon has turned into a collateral victim of the U.S. economic sanctions against Russia. So while supermajor BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley said earlier this week that he was “a little saddened” with the way the Deepwater Horizon movie has painted his company, Exxon’s Rex Tillerson has perhaps an even greater reason to be a little saddened.

Exxon, the world’s biggest oil and gas company by value, entered Russia in the 1990s and has enjoyed a long and fruitful presence there. This presence was set to expand further with Exxon’s plans to take part in the exploration and exploitation of the country’s Arctic shelf. Unfortunately for Exxon, the U.S. and the EU hit Russia with sanctions over the annexation of Crimea and its support for Eastern Ukrainian rebels.   Continue reading “Exxon has lost over $1 billion from Russian sanctions”

RT

A formal apology from the International Association of Chiefs of Police to “communities of color” for “darker periods” in law enforcement is garnering a mixed reaction. Some are calling it appeasement, while others see it as paying phony lip service.

“Clearly, this is a challenging time for policing,” Chief Terrence M. Cunningham of the Wellesley Police Department in Massachusetts told a massive convention audience in San Diego on Monday.   Continue reading “Top police organization apologizes for ‘historical mistreatment’ of minorities”

The Hill – by Devin Henry

Federal officials updated three rules dealing with oil and gas royalty payments on Monday, a move they say will allow a more thorough accounting of fuel produced on federal land.

The rules rewritten on Monday aim to update 25-year-old accounting practices governing royalty rates for oil and gas drillers on federal and Indian land. The rules establish minimum standards for the measurement of oil and gas and deal with how companies report production to the federal government in order to account for theft and loss.   Continue reading “Feds update oil, gas royalty system for federal land”

Reuters

Oct 17 – Dakota Access LLC, operator of the controversial pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast, said on Monday that construction equipment burned by unknown individuals over the weekend cost millions of dollars.

Authorities suspect arson in the fire, which took place in Reasnor, Iowa, along the construction of the pipeline route, according to an AP report.   Continue reading “Arson suspected in Dakota Access construction equipment fire”

The Organic Prepper

As preppers, we have all sorts of lists to help us remain organized and better prepared.

We have lists of food supplies, lists of off-grid supplies,lists of non-food supplies, lists of medical supplies, and lists of books. We have first aid lists, water purifications lists, and personal hygiene lists.   Continue reading “Moisturizer: A Lifesaving (Yes, Really!) Stockpile Item That Most Preppers Forget”

Ascension with Earth

Attention: By special request, this Internet community has been sent a global status report now that certain diplomatic assets can no longer engage in such matters due to NDA contracts signed years earlier.  Once the global financial re-calibration began, all diplomatic operatives were advised to cease communications.  And now that “The Event” process has begun in earnest, said information patterns and flow had to end.  Below are a few topics that were asked to be explained in greater detail for this Internet community–a final “TETELESTAI” SITREP will be released with toll free 800# contact information and sovereign rate updates via these websites:
Continue reading “Global Status Report – (Behind The Scenes Look Into The Geopolitical Landscape)”

RT

Whistleblowing site WikiLeaks has confirmed it was Ecuador that cut off Julian Assange’s internet access on Saturday after another batch of leaked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair was released.

WikiLeaks did not elaborate on the grounds for Ecuador’s London embassy, where Assange has spent more than four years after being granted asylum over fears of persecution over his publications, to restrict the whistleblower’s web access.   Continue reading “WikiLeaks says Ecuador cut off Assange’s internet after new Clinton emails published”

Forbes – by Thomas Fox-Brewster

In what’s believed to be an unprecedented attempt to bypass the security of Apple iPhones, or any smartphone that uses fingerprints to unlock, California’s top cops asked to enter a residence and force anyone inside to use their biometric information to open their mobile devices.

FORBES found a court filing, dated May 9 2016, in which the Department of Justice sought to search a Lancaster, California, property. But there was a more remarkable aspect of the search, as pointed out in the memorandum: “authorization to depress the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person who is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES during the execution of the search and who is reasonably believed by law enforcement to be the user of a fingerprint sensor-enabled device that is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES and falls within the scope of the warrant.” The warrant was not available to the public, nor were other documents related to the case.   Continue reading “Feds Walk Into A Building, Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones”

The Washington Post – by Matt Zapotosky

The private prison industry is lobbying against a Justice Department directive to end the use of their facilities, encouraging legislators to question the policy change and legally protesting one significant contract reduction.

The moves by the GEO Group and others demonstrate the practical and political hurdles that stand in the way of the Bureau of Prisons actually ending its use of for-profit facilities to manage federal inmates. The private prison industry claims that the decision to do so was based on faulty research and that officials need contractors because of overcrowding in the federal prison system.   Continue reading “Private prison industry fights Justice Department directive to end the use of contract facilities”

The Daily Signal – by Melissa Quinn

For the past 15 years, Warren Jones has had the same health insurance plan with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City.

But over the years, Jones, of Kansas City, Missouri, has watched the coverage offered in his policy “erode” over time.   Continue reading “In 3 Years, His Insurance Premiums Double as Options Decline Under Obamacare”

Natural Society – by Anthony Gucciardi

Yet another disturbing reason has emerged as to why you should be avoiding health-devastating genetically modified organisms, and it may be one of the most concerning yet. We know that GMO consumption has been linked to a host of serious conditions, but one thing we are not so sure about is the recent discovery of a hidden viral gene deep within genetically modified crops.   Continue reading “Safety Group Blows Lid On ‘Secret Virus’ Hidden In GMO Crops”

Watchdog Texas Bureau – by Kenric Ward

A plan to abolish Texas’ property tax system – the longest of political long shots – is getting slightly better odds with a push from the top Democrat in San Antonio.

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff says he could support replacing property taxes with a consumption-based sales tax.   Continue reading “Top Democrat supports scrapping property tax for sales tax”