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Curry Pilot – by Jane Stebbins
Oregon salmon fishermen might face a second consecutive dismal season, after forecasts call for diminished numbers of fish due to drought in California and its subsequent political battles and water diversions to protect agricultural interests.
The Pacific Fisheries Management Council has outlined three season alternatives for commercial troll fishermen, all of which portend heavy restrictions to come. Continue reading “2016 salmon season looks grim”
Rogue Money – by Ken Schortgen, Jr.
Over the past four months, several Western nations have toyed with the idea of giving monthly stipends directly to their peoples whether they were working or not. And primarily, these ‘helicopter money’ programs were being formulated in energy based countries where the lower prices have nearly devastated their economies.
Going back to December, when Finland began proposing an 800 euro monthly payment to every citizen, and forward to earlier this month where the province of Ontario, Canada is in serious discussion to give out their own flat-rate stipend to their citizens, the trend of ultimate quantitative easing is now not simply a fringe desperate measure for governments and central banks, but it is becoming the next step in the Keynesian model for supporting an economy.
Continue reading “New Zealand looks to join Canada as newest country to give money directly to the people”
About the Rural Organizing Project
The Rural Organizing Project (ROP) is a statewide organization of locally-based groups that work to create communities accountable to a standard of human dignity: the belief in the equal worth of all people, the need for equal access to justice and the right to self-determination. Starting in 1992, ROP’s challenges to the anti-democratic right have earned ROP a national reputation for being an effective grassroots organization that takes on the hard issues. Continue reading “Commie Alert: Rural Organizing Project”
Montana v. Kennedy – No. 198
Argued March 22, 1961 – Decided May 22, 1961 – 366 U.S. 308 Continue reading “Supreme Court Case on Citizenship: Montana v. Kennedy (1961)”
A homeless man from San Francisco who pointed police toward two Orange County inmates who had escaped from jail will get the lion’s share of a $150,000 reward set up for their successful capture, the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors awarded Matthew Hay-Chapman $100,000, said Jean Pasco, a county spokeswoman. Continue reading “Homeless Man Who Spotted California Fugitives Gets $100K”
FORT WORTH A police officer was critically wounded, one suspect killed and another suspect was in custody after “all hell broke loose” in west Fort Worth Tuesday afternoon.
The officer, who has been with the department since 2009, was shot multiple times during a gunfight in a wooded area and was transported by helicopter ambulance to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.
Continue reading “Fort Worth police officer wounded; one suspect dead, another in custody”
A Pretoria pastor has claimed he wants to be crucified on the cross and be buried so that he can resurrect on the third day, just like Jesus.
Pastor Daniel Malatji of Revival Ministries in Soshanguve Block C shocked congregants last on Sunday when he instructed his followers to come to easter Friday service (25 March) with nails and hammers as he wanted to be nailed on the cross just like Jesus. Continue reading “Pretoria pastor to crucify himself on Good Friday”
No better example on how the actually world operates can be found than the Corporatist argument that all the opposition to TPP is just wrong. Really ??? Understand that the record of trade agreements have been greatly beneficial to Transnational Corporations. So it is natural that enterprises that seek to crush competition, favor the term FREE, when in reality the practice of conducting commerce on highly structured agreements, eliminates upstarts and squeeze out weak rivals. TPP has finally taken off the mask for all to see.
Still, the sway of the corporatocracy influence is so powerful that establishment economists, main stream business media, and election money dependent politicians are beating the drums in spite of the growing public opposition to the disastrous consequences in TPP. Continue reading “Corporatists Mobilize to Prevent TPP Opposition”
Last week, the Department of Justice filed its response to Apple’s appeal in the ongoing San Bernardino case. The government is attempting to force Apple to create a method of bypassing the security that would unlock an iPhone 5C that belonged to the shooter, Apple is fighting this demand by arguing against the 1789 All Writs Act that the DOJ has used against it. The Department of Justice’s latest filing ups the ante on this topic by claiming it could compel Apple to give up the source code for iOS itself, so the government could make the appropriate modifications. Continue reading “The gloves are off: FBI argues it can force Apple to turn over iPhone source code”
Measles, a disease that was considered eliminated 16 years ago in the U.S., has made a comeback in which a “substantial proportion” of the cases are associated with vaccine refusal, a study suggests.
The study, recently published in the March 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, says “the phenomenon of vaccine refusal” increases the risk for measles among individuals who are not vaccinated or refuse to get vaccinated, and also among those who are already fully vaccinated. Continue reading “Vaccine refusal linked to recent U.S. measles outbreak, study suggests”
In the previous essay, The CIA’s Presidents, the influence of the intelligence community in directing and controlling the office of the presidency is presented. But before the clandestine spooks developed their sway on policy and intrigue, the absolute power behind the throne, crowned their lineage selection with the full mashaḥ anointing from the Bankster tribe. The masses are not part of this universe. Their role is to bow down to the chief executive that has been picked for them to obey. The actual person is less important than keeping the line of authority in the family. Continue reading “Presidents are selected by Blood and Banksters”
> Closings: 400 (2013-2016)
> Annual net income: $8 million
> 1-year share price % chg.: -42%
> Industry: Office supply Continue reading “11 retailers closing the most stores”
A Mexican national living illegally in the United States has pleaded guilty to murdering and raping a woman during a July crime spree in order to avoid a possible death sentence, Ohio prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Juan Razo, 36, pleaded guilty on Monday to 16 criminal counts connected to a July 27 rampage that began when he attempted to rape his 14-year-old niece, who fought him off, and went on to rape and murder 60-year-old Margaret Kostelnik, who lived nearby, after breaking into her home, police said. Continue reading “Mexican man pleads guilty to rape, murder in Ohio rampage”
Fellowship of the Minds – by DCG
California sheriffs announced Monday that they are opposing Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gun-control measure aimed for the fall ballot, arguing it would not prevent criminals from obtaining guns and ammunition via the black market or theft, according to the Sacramento Bee.
Instead, the proposal would place additional restrictions on law-abiding people who want to buy ammunition for recreational use, retain guns and magazines that are currently legal or pass down historical or family heirlooms, the California State Sheriffs’ Association wrote in a letter to Newsom’s campaign. Continue reading “California sheriffs oppose Gavin Newsom’s gun control initiative”
In its liquid form, tritium looks just like water: clear and odorless.
Yet it’s radioactive, and in the past two months, two nuclear power plants outside New York City and Miami were found to be leaking tritium: the former into groundwater within the facility’s confines, the second straight into Biscayne Bay. Continue reading “Nuclear Plants Leak Radiation, and Regulator Faces Scrutiny”
Dallas Morning News – by Bobby Blanchard
AUSTIN — A U.S. District Court approved a motion Monday for Texas to intervene and join a lawsuit involving 90,000 acres of land along the Texas-Oklahoma border.
Last year, a group of landowners sued the Bureau of Land Management in a land dispute along the border. The seven families behind the lawsuit were suing for thousands of acres of land that the Bureau of Land Management claims belongs to the government. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — and several other Texas politicians — praised the landowners for suing. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton even filed a motion to join the suit, which the court approved Monday. Continue reading “Texas allowed in on Red River land grab lawsuit”
A sixteen-year-old boy is dead following an officer-involved shooting in Addison, Texas. Police said an off-duty officer attempted to intervene during a “crime in progress,” but the situation escalated to a car chase and gunfire.
“If he did something he shouldn’t be doing, then he should be arrested – not shot,” said the teen’s cousin, Nora Rubi, who gathered with the teen’s family to demand answers at Addison police station on Monday night, according to The Dallas Morning News. Continue reading “16yo boy shot dead by off-duty Texas police officer”
DETROIT (AP) — A man charged with fatally shooting six people in southwestern Michigan interspersed with his stints as an Uber driver told investigators he was being controlled by the ride-hailing app through his cellphone, police said Monday.
According to a police report, Jason Dalton told authorities after the Feb. 20 shootings in and around Kalamazoo that “it feels like it is coming from the phone itself” and told of something “like an artificial presence,” the report said. Continue reading “Man charged in Michigan shootings: Uber app took him over”
