ABC News

An explosion caused by a gas leak in the central Illinois city of Canton killed one person, and injured another 11 people on Wednesday, Illinois State Police has confirmed.

“The gas explosion took place in the 10 block of North 1st Avenue, Canton,” Illinois State Police said in a statement. “Several surrounding buildings were affected by the blast. Search crews have completed a primary search and are in process of conduction secondary searches to the affected areas. At this time, there is 1 confirmed fatality and 11 additional persons injured. Those individuals were transported to local hospitals.”   Continue reading “1 Dead, 11 Injured, in Gas Explosion in Central Illinois City”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

A disabled vet with PTSD accidentally called a suicide prevention hotline when intending to dial the Veterans Crisis Line. Within hours, he was dealing with DC Metro’s finest, dispatched to handle an attempted suicide. This brief quote from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals opinion [PDF] — part of veteran Matthew Corrigan’s first conversation with responding officers — sets the tone for the next several hours of Constitutional violations.   Continue reading “Appeals Court To Cops: If You ‘Don’t Have Time’ For ‘Constitutional Bullshit,’ You Don’t Get Immunity”

Anti-Media – by Jake Anderson

An alarming new report from the United Nations is the latest in a litany of studies suggesting that the coming age of automation and workforces dominated by robots will be upon us much faster than previously thought. The U.N. now claims two-thirds of the human labor force in developing nations will be replaced by automation.

The U.N. says a Universal Basic Income will be necessary as a stop-gap for the 75% of humans left without work.   Continue reading “Report: Two-Thirds of Workers in Developing Nations to Be Replaced by Robots”

Mish Talk – by Mike Shedlock

President Obama made a foolish decision to not welcome China in the formation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

It was ludicrous for Obama to leave China out of things. China is the second biggest economy in the world, third if you treat the EU as a block.  Continue reading “Australia Snubs Obama, Dumps TPP, Opts for China-Sponsored Trade Deal”

York Daily Record – by Ted Czech, Teresa Boeckel, and Gordon Rago

York County Coroner Pam Gay has conducted an autopsy of the driver who attempted to crush a Pennsylvania State Trooper on I-83 on Tuesday.

Rasheem Singletary, a 25-year-old male from Petersburg, Virginia, was killed after he fled from the trooper, who stopped him on I-38 South near mile marker 24, the Emigsville exit, for a traffic violation around 1:15 p.m.   Continue reading “Trooper dragged, kills suspect on I-83”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — A California school district recently sent a letter to homeschooling parents implying that they must use the controversial Common Core curriculum in order to comply with state law.

The letter originated from the Morongo Unified School District’s child welfare and attendance coordinator.   Continue reading “School District Pressures Homeschoolers To Teach Common Core”

Fitzpatrick Informer – by Timothy Fitzpatrick

Trump’s 9/11 lie about dancing Muslims helps Mossad coverup

Late last year, Donald Trump re-affirmed the official 9/11 story, carefully designed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak[i] and Israel’s Mossad, perpetuated by the Jewish-dominated American media. He lied about a very important event in the 9/11 story, what has come to be known as the “Dancing Israelis”.   Continue reading “Trump controlled by the Mossad – Part II”

Fitzpatrick Informer – by Anno Domini, October 7, 2015

Most of the major Zionist spooks posing as journalists have been outed in the alternative and mainstream media in the last ten years. But still chipping away and maintaining his popularity is a lesser-known shill named Matthew Drudge of the Drudge Report news and gossip aggregator[1], a popular reference site for neoconservatives and their libertarian brothers as well as evangelical “Christians”.   Continue reading “Matt Drudge undoubtedly a Zionist agent”

Washington Post – by Thomas Gibbons-Neff

Over the weekend images surfaced online of a Hezbollah parade in Qusair, Syria, featuring U.S. armored personnel carriers affixed with antiaircraft guns. The images prompted a flurry of speculation about the vehicles’ origin and whether the group had pilfered the stocks of the U.S.-supplied Lebanese military.

The armored personnel carrier, known as the M113, is one of the United States’ most ubiquitous armored vehicles and has been in service since the 1960s. The tracked semi-rhombus-shape vehicle comes in numerous variants and can be outfitted to carry troops and artillery; its chassis was even used as the basis for a nuclear-missile carrier. It has appeared in every major U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War and is used by U.S. police departments and dozens of others countries’ militaries around the world.   Continue reading “Hezbollah has U.S. armored personnel carriers. But how did they get them?”

The Hill – by Megan R. Wilson

Three GOP congressmen have issued an amendment to the House Republican Conference rules that would overturn the ban on earmarks.

The amendment is drawing swift opposition from conservative groups like Heritage Action for America, which called pet project spending “the lubricant that empowers politicians to cut bad deals.”   Continue reading “House GOP to vote on bringing back earmarks”

[The Chinese brag that they take our gold for nothing.]

Washington Post – by Juliet Eilperin, December 11, 2012

The federal government has no idea how much gold, copper and other hard-rock minerals are being extracted from public lands each year — nor how much the minerals are worth — because the companies licensed to operate the mines pay no royalties, according to a report the Government Accountability Office will make public Wednesday.    Continue reading “Flashback: Mining firm profits from public lands remain a mystery, new GAO study shows”