Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, the federal government is increasingly garnishing Social Security benefits to help cover student loans payments owed by baby boomers.  According the Wall Street Journal, a total of $1.1 billion has been garnished since 2001 with $171 million being collected in 2015 alone.    Continue reading “Baby Boomers Increasingly Having Social Security Checks Garnished To Cover Student Loan Payments”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In response to the latest imposition of US sanctions on Russia, the Kremlin said on Wednesday that the new sanctions would further damage relations between the two countries and that Moscow would respond with its own measures. “We regret that Washington is continuing on this destructive path,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.   Continue reading “Kremlin Warns Of Response To Latest US Sanctions, Says “Almost All Communication With US Is Frozen””

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

Having spent a number of months on the ground in Syria, traveling all across the country and, specifically, Aleppo, journalist Eva Bartlett has finally returned to the Western world with yet another round of firsthand knowledge of the Syrian Crisis. Bartlett has traveled to Syria a number of times, each time carrying back a story widely different from that peddled on the mainstream corporate press of NATO countries.   Continue reading “Journalist Eva Bartlett DESTROYS Mainstream Journalist Over Syria, Aleppo”

Daisy Luther

The easiest propaganda to sell is the kind that shows people exactly what they want to see and supports the emotions that people want to feel.

A while back I wrote an article about the power of subliminal messaging. Most of the folks who read it agreed that it goes on, but felt like they were immune to its effects. With all the “fake news” that has been in the media of late, I thought you might find this little social observation about subliminal messaging, propaganda, and cognitive dissonance to be interesting.   Continue reading “Propaganda: Staged Photos from Aleppo Show People Exactly What They Want to See”

Merry Christmas!

A Christmas miracle has come to our family.   My daughter Laura found her mother, Judy.  She is 71 years old, a very loving woman who lives in New York State.  She also found a sister and a brother and their children.  Wait that is not all….. She found her first, second and third cousins and their families. Her family grew to about 20 new relatives.  Her mom is so excited, she said there was not a day she didn’t think of her and wonder where she was and was her family a good one.   Continue reading “Fifty Years of Waiting, Hoping, and Pain”

RT

The US Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer is yet another military project suffering from cost ballooning and performance issues created by a flawed procurement system that encourages such creations, the conservative National Review magazine wrote.

The Zumwalt project, or DDG-1000, was touted as an advanced stealth warship for the 21st century, capable of dominating the world’s maritime zones for decades to come. Of the planned 32 ships, 29 have been canceled due to ever-increasing cost blowouts.  Continue reading “‘Unmitigated disaster’: US Navy’s Zumwalt destroyer project blasted as wasteful & incapable”

Mail.com

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco named a new police chief, an African-American police veteran who officials and community activists hope can reform a troubled department marred by fatal police shootings of minorities.

The 27-year police veteran’s appointment comes at a critical time for the San Francisco Police Department, which faces a daunting list of reforms recommended by the Department of Justice. Like other law enforcement agencies around the country, the department has poor relations with minority communities.   Continue reading “San Francisco names LAPD veteran as new police chief”

Mail.com

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Security forces in Congo have killed at least 26 demonstrators and arrested scores more amid protests against President Joseph Kabila’s hold on power, Human Rights Watch said, as talks on the political crisis caused by delayed elections were resuming Wednesday.

A heavy military and police presence remained in the capital, Kinshasa, and across the country. The remains of barricades littered the streets after protesters burned the headquarters of the ruling party on Tuesday, the first day after Kabila’s mandate expired.  Continue reading “At least 26 killed in Congo protests, rights group says”

Daily Mail

This is the Tunisian asylum seeker who has become Europe’s most wanted man after his ID was found under the seat in the lorry used to massacre 12 people at a Berlin Christmas market.

Police today revealed they are hunting Anis Amri, 23, a refugee who came to Germany earlier this year. His paperwork was found in truck’s footwell.

He is probably armed, ‘highly dangerous’ and a member of a ‘large’ Islamic organisation and has weapons training abroad, security sources say.   Continue reading “Police hunt ‘armed and dangerous’ Tunisian asylum seeker, 23, after his ID is found under lorry driver’s seat at scene of Christmas market massacre”

Politico – by Louis Nelson

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington of corruption, but now that he’s preparing to move into the White House, Newt Gingrich said the Manhattan billionaire is looking to distance himself from that message.

“I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore,” the former House Speaker and close Trump adviser said of the “drain the swamp” message in an NPR interview published Wednesday morning. “I’ve noticed on a couple of fronts, like people chanting ‘lock her up,’ that he’s in a different role now and maybe he feels that as president, as the next president of the United States, that he should be marginally more dignified than talking about alligators in swamps.”   Continue reading “Gingrich: Trump backing away from ‘drain the swamp’”

Yahoo News

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Search warrant documents released on Tuesday related to the probe of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private email setup stirred fresh controversy about the FBI’s decision to revive the investigation days before the Nov. 8 election.

The materials, which related to a search warrant issued after Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey on Oct. 28 informed Congress of the emails, were ordered released on Monday by U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan.   Continue reading “FBI search warrant stirs renewed focus on revived Clinton probe”

SOTT – by Kerry Egan, CNN

As a divinity school student, I had just started working as a student chaplain at a cancer hospital when my professor asked me about my work. I was 26 years old and still learning what a chaplain did.

“I talk to the patients,” I told him.

“You talk to patients? And tell me, what do people who are sick and dying talk to the student chaplain about?” he asked.    Continue reading “What do people talk about before they die?”

Fully Informed Jury Association

In our discussions of juries, it’s important to remember the Founding Father’s gave us the common law “people’s” Grand Juries, which many people are now actively reinstating, one county at a time. The common law Grand Jury is the fourth and highest branch of government that’s superior to the other three, which the corporate government has been usurping and using against the people, until now. Please read the information below and consider your part in such a powerful GRASS ROOTS endeavor as a support to the work of the FIJA.   Continue reading “Common Law Grand Juries”

Liberty Fight

Six years ago, two Texas Troopers threatened to arrest me and impound my vehicle if I did not show them my ID, even though they had no legal basis to ask for it. When I asked him why, one of the troopers replied “I’m the one with the badge and the gun.” That same week, I flied state and federal civil rights complaints, and to my shock, the cop’s employer actually admitted wrongdoing, in writing no less! The admission letter, dated December 20, 2010, stated that “corrective action was needed” against both officers and that “additional training has been taken.” Even better, the agency was then forced to admit in federal court that “The passenger is under no obligation to comply with request” for ID. I actually recorded both these idiots with my cellphone at the very moment they illegally demanded my ID. They were very dumb. 🙂   Continue reading “NO, You Don’t Have To Show Your ID To Cops Without Cause”

VPR – by Nina Keck

Next month, a mix of Syrian and Iraqi refugees will begin arriving in Rutland, Vermont. They’ll be the first of 100 that will be resettled there over the next year. Though there’s been some opposition to the plan in the aging, blue-collar city of 16,000, proponents remain optimistic — and many have been volunteering long hours to ensure the plan succeeds.

For example, on a recent Thursday night, Rutland’s Unitarian Universalist church was filled with the sound of Arabic.   Continue reading “In Vermont, A New Resettlement Community Prepares For The Arrival Of Refugees”

Bee Culture

Scientists at the Polytechnic University of Warsaw have created the first robotic bee designed to pollinate artificially; a miniaturized drone that is able to find a flower, collect its pollen, and transfer it carefully from the male to the female flower to fertilize it.

This robotic insect has already been successfully tested in the field and its ability to pollinate is offered as a “hopeful alternative” to address the steady decline in the world bee population, as stated by its creator, engineer Rafal Dalewski.   Continue reading “Catch The Buzz – Creation Of Robot Bee To Pollinate Crops”