ABC 15 News

PHOENIX – The bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives came forward Thursday, admitting that a box spotted and removed from an SRP power pole on 21st and Glendale avenues belonged to them and was part of an ongoing investigation.

ATF officials would not elaborate on the investigation and would not say if they were conducting surveillance in the area.   Continue reading “Mystery solved! Box on Phoenix utility pole belongs to ATF”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

A Bedford County, Virginia, high school sparked a student rally in support of the Confederate flag after administrators enforced a ban of the historic banner.

After school administrators at Staunton River High School in Montea, Virginia, enforced its policy, telling students that the Confederate flag was banned from vehicles in the school’s parking lot, a group of students said they organized to sponsor a parade of cars festooned with the rebel flag to express their First Amendment rights.   Continue reading “Virginia High School’s Confederate Flag Ban Sparks Flag Rally in Protest”

Intellihub

Carol Bundy, the wife of rancher Cliven Bundy, released a video on Facebook Friday explaining how Harry Reid recently put out a propaganda video, posturing in an attempt to take away the Bundy Ranch now that her husband and other members of her family have been jailed.   Continue reading “Sen. Harry Reid posturing to make move, take, Bundy Ranch, says Carol Bundy”

Yahoo News

A US federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered Apple to help the FBI unlock an iPhone in a gang case, court documents unsealed Friday revealed — opening a new front in the government’s battle with the high-tech giant over encryption.

The Justice Department is also pressing Apple to help crack a phone in a New York drug case, in more evidence that the showdown is far from over, despite the abrupt end to another challenge linked to the San Bernardino mass shooting.   Continue reading “US pushes Apple on iPhone access in two more cases”

Organic Prepper

It’s Survival Saturday! Welcome to America, where the government gets more of your money than you do and technology has invaded our brains to the point that they are physically changing.  But there’s also some good news this week – Monsanto is losing money hand over greedy fist and Vermont has stubbornly forced some of the biggest players in the food industry to label GMOs.   Continue reading “Survival Saturday: Income Tax Is Our Biggest Expense, Tech Addiction Soars, and Monsanto May Be Collapsing”

ABC 13 News

BAYTOWN, TX (KTRK) –A lockdown is in effect at the ExxonMobile refinery in Baytown after a security breach.

Company officials say around 7:30am, a person went inside the plant without permission.

“We take matters of this nature very seriously and are working closely with Baytown Police Department,” says Todd Spitler, spokesman for Exxon Mobil.   Continue reading “Lockdown At Exxonmobil Refinery In Baytown After Security Breach”

Fox News – by George Russell

The United Nations has launched a far-reaching initiative that could give U.N.-sponsored authorities sway over the biological resources of the high seas—all the waters that lie outside national territories and economic zones.

The potential shift in power involves multi-trillion-dollar issues, such as whether large areas—conceivably, as much as 30 percent– of the world’s international waters should be designated as no-go areas to protect biological diversity; whether and how to require elaborate “environmental impact assessments” for future ocean development projects; and how to divide up the economic benefits from the future development of “marine genetic resources.”   Continue reading “The UN starts toward new control over the world’s oceans”

Huffington Post – by Priscilla Frank

When photographers Shaughn Crawford and John DuBois heard about two feminist nuns growing cannabis, they knew they wanted to get it on camera. The photographers tracked down Sister Kate and Sister Darcy, who graciously invited them to their central California “abbey” to watch the magic in action.

Before we say anything else, Sister Kate and Sister Darcy are self-ordained nuns who created their own order. So, although they wear white robes and call themselves highly spiritual, they are not Catholic, nor are they abstinent or subordinate to any priest. Rather, they are vegan, feminist Bernie Sanders supporters who believe in every human’s god-given right to cannabis.    Continue reading “These Cannabis Growing Nuns Answer To A Higher Power”

Reuters

A homeless teenager was arrested in the murder of a dance student at the University of Texas at Austin, police said on Friday.

Meechaiel Criner, 17, was taken into custody on Thursday and held on $1 million bond, online records showed. Haruka Weiser, 18, of Portland, Oregon, was reported missing on Monday. Her body was found on Tuesday behind the university’s alumni center.   Continue reading “Homeless Teen Arrested in Killing of University of Texas Student Haruka Weiser”

CBC News

Why did so many ancient societies around the world make human sacrifices to appease the gods? A new study supports the theory that the practice may have played a key role in keeping the poor downtrodden and the elites in power.

And barbaric as it sounds, human sacrifice may have created one path for more advanced civilizations, according to the study.   Continue reading “Human sacrifice helped ancient societies entrench class divide, study suggests”

The Ugly Truth

“BILLBOARD COMPANY REFUSES TO HONOR NAVY VETS – We placed this billboard in New Bedford, MA, to honor USS Liberty veterans and to help them and their families get the respect and help they deserve.

But Israel partisans complained, one threatening to take his business elsewhere, so the billboard company reneged on their contract and took the billboard down two weeks early.   Continue reading “USS Liberty Vets Call For Help As Billboard Company Bows Down To Isreal”