Year: 2016

Washington Post – by Spencer S. Hsu

District and U.S. authorities have quietly settled the final lawsuit spawned by the mass arrest of almost 400 protesters and bystanders at a September 2002 demonstration against the World Bank, agreeing to pay $2.8 million to four former George Washington University students without admitting wrongdoing.

The settlement brings to $13.25­ million the total paid to resolve litigation over protests at Pershing Park. The District paid $11 million of that amount.   Continue reading “U.S., District settle in last mass-arrest lawsuit in 2002 World Bank protests”

Mail.com

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Monday it has discovered and destroyed a tunnel burrowing from Gaza into Israel — the first tunnel to be discovered since Israel’s 2014 war with the militant Hamas movement that runs the coastal strip.

Israeli troops detected the tunnel’s exit, still underground, several days ago, according to military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, who added he believes the tunnel was built after the summer war. It extended several hundred meters (yards) from Gaza into Israel and was lined with cement and outfitted with electricity, ventilation and rail tracks to cart away dirt from digging, Lerner said.   Continue reading “Israeli army says it discovered tunnel from Gaza into Israel”

Mail.com

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — For the second time in under a quarter century, Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies voted to open impeachment proceedings against a democratically elected leader, dealing a devastating blow to President Dilma Rousseff, whose left-leaning Workers’ Party came to power 13 year ago on the promise of improving the lot of the poor.

The 367-137 vote late Sunday in favor of impeachment was well over the 342 votes needed for the proceedings to move ahead to the Senate, where a majority vote will determine whether Rousseff is put on trial and suspended while Vice President Michel Temer temporarily takes over. The exact date of the Senate vote is not known, but it’s widely expected by the middle of next month.   Continue reading “Fights loom after Brazil’s lower chamber OKs impeachment”

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Antonius Aquinas

The Oppressed U.S. Taxpayer

This year, Americans’ day of tribute to their federal overlords falls on April 18.  As calculated by the Tax Foundation, the average American will work from January 1 to April 24 (Tax Freedom Day) to pay his share of taxes to all levels of government with some $3.3 trillion to be forked over to the federal government and $1.6 trillion to state and local jurisdictions.*   Continue reading “A Morally Sound Tax Reform Proposal”

The Organic Prepper

Tick. Tock.

Do you hear that? It’s the clock on the time bomb, and it appears to be ticking relentlessly toward our economic collapse.

It seems like every day, there is a new threat to the financial well-being of the disappearing middle class in America. Of course, less affected are the members of Congress and their buddies on Wall Street. You know, the ones that put the politicians in office to get favorable decisions made on their behalf in Washington.   Continue reading “Economic Collapse? Fed Issues an Ominous Warning to JPMorgan Chase and Leaders Flock to Secret Meetings”

Independent

An unexplained carpet of foamy bubbles filled streets in the centre of the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka in the early hours of Saturday morning – shortly after tremors from a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.3 shook the town.

Twitter users posted pictures of the mysterious foam, with one calling it “disgusting”.

“I saw it just after the earthquake,” said Kazuki Nabeta, who lives in the busy central district of Tenjin, where the bubbles were found.    Continue reading “Japanese city covered in mysterious foam after earthquake”

Natural News – by LJDevon

In medical systems around the world, the hunt for viable, transplantable organs is on. The knowledgeable Jan Bollen of the Maastricht University Medical Centre points this out in two separate papers published this year in the American Journal of Transplantation and in the Journal of Medical Ethics. He suggested that the more “normalized” euthanasia becomes, the more the boundaries will be pushed for expediting organ harvesting.   Continue reading “Mandatory euthanasia coming soon to California so that medical industry can harvest organs from everyone right before killing them”

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The first two are pictures taken in upstate JooYork on Friday at a job site, not a damn cloud in the sky, seriously nothing no planes dropping Chem no natural clouds. Then on Saturday Erving further upstate it seriously looked like missile launches across the sky. 30 years ago I’d have to imagine people would think we were under attack. Most didn’t even bat an eye when I pointed this out. Heavy heavy heavy metals, our creeks are mostly dead save the Chem trout “the state” stocks.   Continue reading “Upstate Spray”

Yahoo News – by Elena Holodny, Business Insider

Saudi Arabia threatened to sell up to $750 billion worth of US assets held by the Kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be sued over 9/11, reports The New York Times’ Mark Mazzetti.

Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel al-Jubeir, personally passed on the message last month during a trip to Washington, according to The Times.   Continue reading “Saudis threaten to sell $750 billion US assets if Congress passes bill that would let 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia”

Fox News

The impassioned election-year debate over President Obama’s immigration executive actions lands Monday before a short-handed Supreme Court, where justices will consider a fundamental question: how much power does the president truly have?

The justices plan to hold 90 minutes of oral arguments dealing with Obama’s bid to spare millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.   Continue reading “Battle over Obama immigration actions lands before Supreme Court”

Reuters

Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) admitted to deceiving the U.S. government into insuring thousands of risky mortgages, as it formally reached a record $1.2 billion settlement of a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit.

The settlement with Wells Fargo, the largest U.S. mortgage lender and third-largest U.S. bank by assets, was filed on Friday in Manhattan federal court. It also resolves claims against Kurt Lofrano, a former Wells Fargo vice president.   Continue reading “Wells Fargo admits deception in $1.2 billion U.S. mortgage accord”

Reuters

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off the coast of Ecuador late on Saturday, sending confused residents streaming into the streets of the capital Quito and spurring warnings of strong waves on the Andean nation’s coast.

“I was in my house watching a movie and everything started to shake. I ran out into the street and now I don’t know what’s going to happen,” said Lorena Cazares, 36, a telecommunications worker in Quito.   Continue reading “Strong 7.8 earthquake hits off coast of Ecuador”

Daily Mail

A high-profile Donald Trump supporter has claimed he has evidence that Bill and Hillary Clinton ‘murdered’ John F Kennedy Jnr because he had planned to run for the same senate seat in New York as the former First Lady.

Roger Stone, who has written books attacking the Clintons in the past, said his next piece of work will prove the involvement of Bill and Hillary in the demise of JFK jnr.    Continue reading “Roger Stone claims Hillary Clinton ‘murdered’ John F Kennedy Jr”

Continue reading “Special Prosecutor”

UPI

LAS VEGAS, April 16 (UPI) — Brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy and three other defendants refused to enter pleas during an arraignment Friday in connection to a 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement at their father’s ranch.

Pleas of “not guilty” were entered by U.S. Magistrate Judge George Foley Jr., on behalf of Ammon, 40, and Ryan, 43, as well as Ryan Payne, 32, Brian Cavalier, 44, and Blaine Cooper, 36.   Continue reading “Ammon Bundy, others refuse to enter pleas in 2014 Nevada standoff”