Oregon Live – by Les Zaitz

Update at 9:15 p.m.: Statement from Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward: “After the peaceful rally was completed today, a group of outside militants drove to the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, where they seized and occupied the refuge headquarters. A collective effort from multiple agencies is currently working on a solution. For the time being please stay away from that area. More information will be provided as it becomes available. Please maintain a peaceful and united front and allow us to work through this situation.”   Continue reading “Militia takes over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff, Steve Straehley

An Alabama governor’s mansion that has sat abandoned and boarded up for nearly 20 years is getting renovated thanks to money from the BP oil spill.

The mansion, built in the 1960s near the Gulf coast, was damaged in 1997 by Hurricane Danny. From that point it sat unused and vacant because succeeding gubernatorial administrations were reluctant to spend taxpayer money on repairing the two-story, 7,500-square-foot home.   Continue reading “Alabama Uses BP Oil Spill Money to Repair a Governor’s Mansion”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Arne Duncan gave his final speech as education secretary on December 30, expressing his “frustration” that Congress has not passed more gun control and his hope that more such control will be secured to keep school children safe.

Duncan gave the speech in the basement of Father Michael Pfleger’s Saint Sabina Church on Chicago’s South Side.   Continue reading “Outgoing Education Secretary Arne Duncan Dedicates Final Speech to Gun Control”

Haaretz

A New York-based ultra-Orthodox rabbi who has posted thousands of popular outreach lectures online said in a lecture on Tuesday only about 1 million halachic Jews, meaning people born of a Jewish mother, perished in the Holocaust.

In a video on his YouTube channel filmed at a lecture in Queens, New York, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi cited high assimilation rates in Europe before World War II to make his claim that 80 percent of those identified as Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust were not Jewish according to halakha, or Jewish law.   Continue reading “‘Fewer Than 1 Million Jews Killed in Holocaust,’ ultra-Orthodox Outreach Rabbi Says”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Las Vegas, NV — The mother of a police officer is recovering from her injuries after being shot by her own child and in-law with whom she lives.

North Las Vegas police announced last week that no charges will be filed against the officer and her husband who fired more than two dozen rounds at their mother as she returned home around 11:30 pm.   Continue reading “Police Couple Wakes Up and “Accidentally” Fires 27 Rounds at Own Mom – Who Lives with Them”

Reuters

Las Vegas police are investigating the killing of a wanted man who was shot dead earlier this week by two officers who mistook his cellphone for a gun, authorities said on Saturday.

Keith Childress Jr., 23, died from multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said.   Continue reading “Las Vegas police say suspect killed as phone mistaken for gun”

The Guardian

Residents of southern states along the Mississippi river are braced for the flooding that has swamped communities in Illinois and Missouri over the last week, causing thousands of evacuations and killing at least 29 people.   Continue reading “Southern US states braced for floods as Mississippi nears record crest”

The Wealth Watchman

As we head into 2016, the global financial system continues to teeter all around us. Years of virtually zero-percent interest rates in the US, along with stagnant rates the world over(accompanied by chronic unemployment), have made many do a complete rethink of what money and currency is, what it should be, and how it should be created.

These questions must be considered by any populace longing to be free, and who wish to determine their own destiny. For too long, the oligarchs in our world have called the shots, and determined those things for us, without ever asking us if that’s what we wanted. That’s why when I recently read this headline about how a European country is attempting some very serious banking & monetary reforms, I was very encouraged.   Continue reading “Will The New Swiss Referendum Reign in the Banking Beast, or Create a New Monster?”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts urged trial judges on Thursday to manage cases more efficiently and advised lawyers to avoid “antagonistic tactics,” as he focused his annual year-end report on federal rules intended to speed up litigation.

In an otherwise dry recounting of new pre-trial procedures, Roberts cited the country’s history of settling disputes with dueling pistols, including Alexander Hamilton’s 1804 death at the hand of Aaron Burr.   Continue reading “U.S. chief justice urges judges, lawyers to cooperate for speedier litigation”

Patch – by Sherri Lonon

SPRING HILL, FL — The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is warning people about a man who has scammed at least one victim in the Spring Hill area.

According to the agency, a man pulled over a victim around 8 p.m. on Tuesday on U.S. 41 at Bowman Road. The suspect was driving a midsize sedan with flashing red and blue lights. Once out of the vehicle, the suspect approached the victim and told him he was being stopped for speeding. The suspect identified himself as a Homeland Security officer and then asked for the man’s driver’s license and registration.   Continue reading “Fake Homeland Security Officer Raising Concerns”

Global Research – by Anthony Bellchambers

The power-brokers who influenced congress to support nuclear Israel’s illegal settlements in 2015 and war with non-nuclear Iran in 2016

In 1933, a baby was born into a low-income family and grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. His family was of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry whose father drove a taxi, and his mother ran a knitting shop. Currently he is the owner of an Israeli daily newspaper as well as being boss of an LA gambling casino group and is the major founder of the Republican Party.   Continue reading “Money is the Driving Force: Politicians in America are Not Elected on the Basis of Acumen, Education or Intelligence…”

WSWS – by Berry Grey

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde offered a bleak economic forecast for 2016 and beyond in a guest column published Wednesday in the German financial newspaper Handelsblatt .

The IMF head wrote that global economic growth next year would be “disappointing” and the outlook for the medium term had also deteriorated. Lagarde pointed to the continuing slowdown in China and the prospect of rising interest rates in the US as major factors leading to a continued slowdown in world growth rates and the potential for financial shocks.   Continue reading “IMF head warns of slow growth and economic “shocks” in 2016”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It would appear the people of Switzerland have been listening to their military leaders. Having recently been warned by the Swiss army chief of growing social unrest, SwissInfo reports applications for gun permits in Switzerland increased by 20% between 2014 and 2015, according to a survey conducted in 12 cantons. But while the army proposes “arm yourselves,” Swiss crime prevention officials warn against the false sense of security that guns bring.   Continue reading “Gun Sales Surge In Switzerland As Army Chief Warns “Arm Yourselves””