Year: 2016

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

The rise of industrial agriculture — led by companies such as Monsanto that push monoculture, chemical-based farming and patented life forms — has brought a flood of pesticides that wreak havoc on natural ecosystems.

Insects and animals that eat insects fall victim to the millions of gallons of pesticides dumped on cropland, which run off into waterways, drift to nearby habitats and are picked up as residue by visiting pollinators.   Continue reading “First Long-term Study Confirms World’s Most Popular Pesticide is Wiping Bees Off the Planet”

Natural News – by Izabelle Z

The first day of school will be remembered for all the wrong reasons by 145 California children in the Folsom Cordova Unified School district, who arrived on the much-anticipated day only to be turned away because they lacked the proper immunization records.

The move is part of a new state law that went into effect last month, SB277, that removed vaccine exemptions based on personal and religious beliefs. Under the law, students who are entering “checkpoint years” – kindergarten and seventh grade – are required to provide their full vaccination records. Of the district’s 1,462 students in these grades, 157 had been singled out by the school as not having vaccine records.   Continue reading “MEDICAL TYRANNY: California children now being denied public education until their parents submit to forced vaccinations”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Just to prove the US isn’t the only place where governments seek to cure symptoms rather than diseases for political benefit, Venezuela’s Interior Minister, Nestor Reverol, launched a campaign in Caracas to “disarm” citizens in an effort to curb rampant violence.  Venezuela has the world’s second highest murder rate which Reverol attributes, at least in part, to heavily armed gangs roaming the streets with guns that they apparently acquire from “corrupt” police officers.  To address the violent crime issue, Venezueala has decided to chop up over 2,000 shotguns and pistols and laser tag ammunition as apparently the majority of ammunition used for violent crime in the country is manufactured by the state and “sold by corrupt police” as well.  We’re noticing a trend here.  Per Reuters:    Continue reading “Venezuela Confiscates Guns As Murder Rates Soar”

Washington Post – by Matt Zapotosky

The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.

Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope. The goal, Yates wrote, is “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.”   Continue reading “Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons”

Courier Express – by Katie Weidenboerner

ROSSITER – In July, police found a buggy driving carelessly through Rossiter with two men on the roof, leading to an underage driving under the influence arrest.

Punxsutawney state police report at 11:01 p.m. July 8, a buggy carrying five men was traveling near the intersection of Sunset and First streets in Indiana County when the buggy, which had two men on the roof, was stopped by police for a “safety issue.”   Continue reading “Buggy driver arrested for underage DUI, 4 passengers cited”

The College Fix – by Jeremy Beaman

The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary.

The relatively new policy in effect at the Ivy League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo that aims to make the department more gender inclusive.

Instead of using “man,” employees are told to use words such as human beings, individuals or people.   Continue reading “Princeton HR department: Don’t use word ‘man’”

Fox News

A federal program to work with local law enforcement to remove dangerous illegal immigrant criminals, implemented just weeks after Kate Steinle’s murder put the issue in the national spotlight, has resulted in fewer deportations, according to analysts.

The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) was introduced last summer as something of a compromise to get sanctuary cities to work with the federal government on deportations by only requesting that local authorities hand over the most dangerous criminals. Statistics show that fewer local law enforcement agencies are refusing to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, yet far fewer illegal immigrant criminals are being deported under the current scheme.   Continue reading “ICE program failing to rid US of dangerous illegal immigrants, analysts say”

A preacher was making his rounds on a bicycle when he came upon a little boy trying to sell a lawn mower. “How much do you want for the mower?” asked the preacher.

“I just want enough money to go out and buy me a bicycle” said the little boy.

After a moment of consideration, the preacher asked “Will you take my bike in trade for it?” The little boy asked if he could try it out first, and, after riding the bike around a little while, said “Mister, you’ve got yourself a deal”.   Continue reading “Just keep working at it Preacher…”

Omaha World Herald – by Kevin Cole

Continue reading “Omaha dad finds pot brownies, eats 4 of them, says mean things to cat”

9 News

Authorities believe a 19-year-old US college student who was found biting the flesh off a victim’s face could have been on the synthetic drug flakka, often called the zombie drug.

Austin Harrouff was arrested on Monday night after allegedly fatally stabbing Michelle and John Stevens inside their Florida home.   Continue reading “Authorities believe frat boy found eating victim’s face may have been on zombie drug”

Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein is an attorney, businessman, and former United States Air Force officer. He is the founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and author of With God on Our Side: One Man’s War Against an Evangelical Coup in America’s Military and No Snowflake in an Avalanche, both of which describe his fight against alleged coercive Christian Fundamentalist practices by some members of the military.   Continue reading “Tess’s Tortured Soul Target”

Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold the vegetables while you chop

For high blood pressure sufferers ~ simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure on your veins. Remember to use a timer.

A mouse trap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.   Continue reading “Amazing Home Remedies”

Mail.com

VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) — For the first time in three years, lava from a volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island has crept down miles of mountainside and is dripping into the Pacific Ocean — where it’s creating new land and a stunning show for visitors.   Continue reading “Lava from Hawaii volcano cascades into sea in vivid display”

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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from a partially destroyed building in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike in Aleppo. The image of the stunned and weary-looking boy, sitting in an orange chair inside an ambulance, covered in dust and with blood on his face, encapsulates the horrors inflicted on the war-ravaged northern city. Photographs of the boy were widely shared on social media.   Continue reading “Haunting image of Syrian boy rescued from Aleppo rubble”

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A ferocious wildfire had swallowed up many homes as it spread across more than 49 square miles of mountain and desert east of Los Angeles. Exactly how many, however, and to whom they belonged, remained uncertain.

Firefighters were faced with the difficult task of tallying that damage while still battling the huge, unruly blaze amid hot, dry and gusty weather that was expected through Thursday evening. That left evacuees in a cruel limbo, forced to spend another night wondering whether anything they owned was still intact.   Continue reading “California wildfire brings destruction and uncertainty”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, evidence that layoffs are scarce and employers are likely hiring at a solid clip. THE NUMBERS: Weekly applications for unemployment aid slipped 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 262,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The four-week average, typically a less volatile measure, rose 3,000 to 265,250.

The number of people receiving benefits ticked up 15,000 to 2.18 million. That’s nearly 4 percent lower than a year earlier. THE TAKEAWAY: Applications are a proxy for layoffs. They have remained below 300,000 for 76 straight weeks, the longest streak since 1970. The low readings are more impressive given the growth in the U.S. population since then.   Continue reading “Applications for US unemployment benefits fall to 262,000”