Month: January 2017

AOL – Reuters

Jan 14 (Reuters) – The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus said on Saturday it will cease performances after 146 years in business, owing to what it said were declining tickets sales and high operating costs.

“After much evaluation and deliberation, my family and I have made the difficult business decision that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will hold its final performances in May,” Kenneth Feld, chairman and CEO of Feld Entertainment, the Florida-based producer of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, said on the circus’ web site.   Continue reading “Ringling Bros. circus folding its tent after nearly 150 years”

AM New York – by Jamie Reysen

Police shot and killed a man armed with a screwdriver in Queens on Saturday morning, the NYPD said.

Police responded to a 911 call around 3 a.m. about a woman screaming on Westgate Street near Thurston Street; when cops arrived, they found a man with a screwdriver threatening his mother in a stairwell at 137-64 Westgate St., police said.   Continue reading “Police fatally shoot man with screwdriver in Queens, NYPD says”

Press TV

The Polish government has officially welcomed thousands of US soldiers who have recently arrived in the country as part of a NATO deployment.

The troops, along with a large amount of military equipment, are part of a planned NATO operation aimed at bolstering its Eastern European allies. The deployment is the largest movement of an armed US military brigade to Europe since the conclusion of the Cold War. Moscow has labeled the move as “truly aggressive” and says the soldiers’ presence is a direct threat to Russia.   Continue reading “Poland officially welcomes NATO deployment of US troops”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

If you are looking for corruption in your federal government, you need look no further than to the case of those tied up with trumped up charges against them from the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff with federal goons from the Bureau of Land Management. Now a magistrate judge is siding with the feds in denying these political prisoners a bill of particulars, demonstrating that she is just as corrupt as the central government.  Continue reading “Bundy Ranch Judge to Political Prisoners: No, You Can’t Have a Bill of Particulars”

Reuters

Hundreds of domestic cats have been quarantined in New York City after contracting a strain of highly contagious avian flu at shelters operated by a major animal rescue organization, and the virus also infected at least one veterinarian, officials said.

It is the first time the H7N2 strain of the virus, commonly found in birds, has infected domestic cats, according to the New York City Health Department.   Continue reading “Hundreds of cats quarantined in New York City bird flu outbreak”

The Daily Signal – by Phil Galewitz

About 6.5 million Americans paid an average penalty of $470 for not having health insurance in 2015—20 percent fewer than the year before, according to data released Tuesday by the IRS.

The IRS collected $3 billion, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in a letter to members of Congress.   Continue reading “How Many Americans Paid the Obamacare Tax Penalty in 2016”

World Events and the Bible

Earlier this month the U.S. Global Change Research Program quietly recommended new studies looking into two specific areas of research involving the controversial technology known as geoengineering. The GCRP involves thirteen different federal departments and agencies. The program was created by a presidential initiative in 1989 and became law as part of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The law called for new research to help “assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.”   Continue reading “U.S. Government Officially Calls For Research Into Geoengineering The Earth”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Let’s ask ourselves how are people traveling roughly 2,000 miles on foot through various nations to get to Europe for one? Second let’s ask ourselves why neighboring Arab nations who are less than 200 miles away are not talking in these people. These so called refuges are being assisted into the European lands on purpose to destroy the Christian nations. It is a two fold hit. The Global Powers of this world use the Christian nations to destroy the Arab (Islamic) nations and in return they used the destroyed people to destroy what is left of the Christian nations. Now ask yourself, who is not being affected?

Continue reading “UN Calls On European Countries To Protect Refugees From Freezing To Death & Abuse”

Salt Lake Tribune

Denver • The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday it will not repay claims totaling more than $1.2 billion for economic damages from a mine waste spill the agency accidentally triggered in Colorado, saying the law prohibits it.

The EPA said the claims could be refiled in federal court, or Congress could authorize payments.

But attorneys for the EPA and the Justice Department concluded the EPA is barred from paying the claims because of sovereign immunity, which prohibits most lawsuits against the government.   Continue reading “EPA says it can’t pay economic damages from massive mine spill that sent tainted water into Utah”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Thanks to CNN and BuzzFeed, a war now rages among corporate media outlets, a true study in irony, as the New York Times and Guardian hurl accusations the two outlets are guilty of publishing Fake News — the same Fake News all of the aforementioned have cited in unabashed attempts to discredit legitimate alternative media.

CNN first published an article citing without including information ostensively ruinous to President-elect Donald Trump’s political career — but BuzzFeed took that ball and ran — publishing documents believed to have originated from an unnamed British intelligence officer and admittedly unsubstantiated and unverified.   Continue reading “Death Rattle of Mainstream Media: Multiple Corporate Outlets Now Labeling Each Other “Fake News””

UPI

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) — House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said a deportation force to remove millions of undocumented immigrants under President-elect Donald Trump‘s administration is “not happening.”

Ryan made the comment during a CNN town hall event on Thursday after he was confronted by Angelica Villalobos, an undocumented woman from Oklahoma who is protected from deportation under President Barack Obama‘s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.   Continue reading “Paul Ryan: Trump mass deportations “not happening””

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

“It doesn’t make sense to can the general in the middle of an active deployment,” rages D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) after Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz, who heads the D.C. National Guard and is an integral part of overseeing the inauguration, has been ordered removed from command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president.   Continue reading “D.C. National Guard Chief Fired Days Before Trump Inauguration: “The Timing Is Extremely Unusual””

Press TV

Two US senators have introduced legislation to withdraw funding for the United Nations over last month’s resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction on the occupied Palestinian territories.

The bill, called the Safeguard Israel Act, was presented Thursday by Republican senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, and would cut off funding for the UN until the US president confirms the repeal of the Security Council Resolution 2334 that called Israel’s settlements a violation of international law.   Continue reading “Senate bill proposes to defund UN over Israel settlement vote”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

While most people are aware of Obama’s response to Russia and the “punishment” he doled out over the still-yet-unproven election hacking allegations, this part of it come as a bit of a surprise.

In order to do so, Obama used Executive Order (EO) 13964 titled “Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities” for the first time. He issued the original EO back in April 2015, which laid out 16 sectors that will now officially be considered “critical infrastructure”.   Continue reading “Obama Used His New Executive Order For The First Time, Officially Classified US Election System As “Critical Infrastructure””

The Anti-Media – by Josey Wales

Washington, D.C. – The Obama administration just handed even more power to the incoming Trump administration to invade the privacy of American citizens. The recent approval of new procedures for an existing executive order will allow the NSA to share the private data it collects with all 16 agencies of the United States intelligence community. The 23-page outline of the new procedures lifts previous limits placed on the way information was filtered before being disseminated to individual agencies.

“As he hands the White House to Trump, Obama just unchained NSA from basic limits on passing raw intercepts to others,” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted Thursday.   Continue reading “Going Away Gift: Obama Just Expanded Surveillance Powers For Donald Trump”