Month: May 2017

CBC News

TransCanada is reassessing whether oil producers in North Dakota and Montana are still interested in shipping crude through its long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline now that they have other new options to ship their product, including the Dakota Access pipeline.

The Calgary-based company’s announcement this month comes with the Keystone XL still needing approval of its proposed route through Nebraska and with the Dakota Access, which was designed to transport about half of North Dakota’s oil production, expected to be fully operational by June.   Continue reading “TransCanada looking at whether U.S. producers still interested in Keystone XL”

Fuel Fix – by Ryan Handy

The Texas Supreme Court ruled late last month that the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s oil and gas regulator, does not have exclusive jurisdiction over environmental contamination cases, which can be settled in court.

The decision came from a years’ long dispute between a rancher, Jimmy McAllen, and the Denver-based Forest Oil, which McAllen accused of polluting his property and exposing him to radiation. Forest Oil, now a part of the Houston-based Sabine Oil and Gas Corp., argued that McAllen couldn’t sue the company and seek millions in damages through the court system because only the Railroad Commission has jurisdiction over contamination cases. Forest Oil objected to paying damages in addition to being forced to clean up McAllen’s property.   Continue reading “Texas Supreme Court says landowners can sue over oil and gas contamination”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The US just “executed” 30 Syrian civilians. So what Mr. Israeli should happen to the US? Nothing of course, they are a part of the plan just as Israel is. Globalism my friends, it is alive and well and marching forward rapidly.

An Israeli minister called for the assassination of Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday, saying he “does not have a place in this world.”  Continue reading “Israeli Minister: ‘The Time Has Come’ To Kill Bashar Assad”

Capital Research Center – by Matthew Vadum

With all this talk of Russians allegedly interfering in U.S. elections, it is worth recalling that it wasn’t too long ago that the previous Democrat in the White House betrayed America by working hand in hand with our Communist enemies in mainland China.

As president, Bill Clinton essentially wiped out any strategic advantage the U.S. had by selling advanced U.S. missile technology to our enemy, the People’s Republic of China.  Continue reading “Flashback: Bill Clinton gave China missile technology”

Moon of Alabama

Max Abrams, a professor who works about terrorism, came up with this new definition of “terrorism”:

Nonstate actors who use violence against civilians for a political goal and haven’t been supported by the US.

The highlighted part is “new” to those who have not learned from history and the many occasions of U.S. support for (typically extremely right-wing) terrorist organizations like the “contras” in Nicaragua, OUN fascists in Ukraine or Jihadi Mujahedin in Afghanistan. It can indeed be argued that the U.S. created al-Qaeda as well as the Islamic State (ISIS).  Continue reading “State Department: Renamed Al-Qaeda Not A Terrorist Organization – Can Receive CIA Supplies”

Reuters

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against a New Mexico police officer for arresting a 13-year-old boy who burped repeatedly and disrupted his class, a case that raised questions about police conduct in school settings.

The justices refused to hear an appeal by the boy’s mother of a lower court’s ruling in favor of Albuquerque officer Arthur Acosta that granted him qualified immunity, a legal defense that protects certain public officials from suits as long as they did not violate a clearly established law or constitutional right.   Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court rejects case involving burping teen”

Fox News

White House officials Monday denounced a Washington Post report that President Trump revealed classified information about ISIS to Russia’s foreign minister and Moscow’s ambassador to the United States during a White House meeting last week.

In a brief statement in front of the White House, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster described the Post’s story as “false.”   Continue reading “White House denies report Trump revealed classified info about ISIS to Russians”

Fox News

There is tangible evidence on the laptop of a former DNC staffer that confirms he was talking to WikiLeaks prior to his murder, a private investigator suggested Monday.

Seth Rich was killed last July in what authorities have called a robbery gone awry.

But Rod Wheeler, a former D.C. homicide detective and Fox News contributor, is leading a parallel investigation into Rich’s murder.   Continue reading “Slain DNC staffer had contact with WikiLeaks, investigator says”

RT

An Ohio police officer is recovering from an accidental overdose after making a drug stop where he accidentally brushed a small amount of powder off his shirt without realizing it was the highly potent opioid synthetic drug, fentanyl.

East Liverpool patrolman Chris Green responded to a traffic stop Friday after two suspected drug dealers were seen performing a drug transaction in a car, according to a police report obtained by WKBN.    Continue reading “Ohio cop overdoses on high-risk painkiller fentanyl after contact during stop”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s refusal to breathe new life into North Carolina’s sweeping voter identification law might be just a temporary victory for civil rights groups. Republican-led states are continuing to enact new voter ID measures and other voting restrictions, and the Supreme Court’s newly reconstituted conservative majority, with the addition of Justice Neil Gorsuch, could make the court less likely to invalidate the laws based on claims under the federal Voting Rights Act or the Constitution.   Continue reading “Supreme Court order unlikely to deter voting restrictions”

Mail.com

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — New South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit the White House next month for a summit with President Donald Trump amid worries over North Korea’s progress in building a nuclear and missile arsenal, Seoul’s presidential office said Tuesday.

The agreement for the leaders to meet in late June followed a meeting in Seoul between Chung Eui-yong, Moon’s foreign policy adviser, and Matt Pottinger, the Asia director on Trump’s National Security Council, Moon’s spokesman Yoon Young-chan said.   Continue reading “New South Korean leader to go to White House summit in June”

Cincinnati.com – by Sharon Coolidge

Rachel Dovel didn’t mean to become a crusader for transgender rights. But the library employee found herself cast in that role last year when the library’s health insurance refused to pay for her gender confirmation surgery – and the library’s board wouldn’t budge.

She underwent surgery in December – and Monday she and her legal team announced she settled a lawsuit against the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.   Continue reading “Library settles transgender lawsuit, now covers transgender surgery”

KRTV 3 News – by David Sherman

GREAT FALLS – A group of self-proclaimed “water protesters” have set up camp in Glacier County.

The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council issued a press release on Thursday about the situation.   Continue reading ““Water protesters” set up camp in Glacier County, Montana”

Reuters

A white Tulsa police officer charged with killing an unarmed black motorist took the stand in her own defense on Monday, saying she fired because training taught her to act quickly against a perceived deadly threat, according to local news reports.

Betty Shelby, 43, could face between four years and life in prison if convicted of manslaughter in the September 2016 killing of Terence Crutcher.   Continue reading “‘If you delay, you die’ Tulsa officer charged with manslaughter testifies”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Remember when North Korea “hackers” breached several firewall layers at Sony, exposing gigabytes of confidential data, only for it to eventually emerge that it was all the work of a disgruntled Sony employee?

Apparently not, because the same plot line is being re-run all over again.   Continue reading “North Korean Hackers Emerge As “Culprits” Behind Global Malware Cyberattack”

Breitbart – by Ryan Saavedra

A Mexican National with a long criminal rap sheet was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Michigan.

Federal prosecutors charged Rafael Munoz-Molina on May 10 with illegal reentry into the United States after seven prior deportations, MLive reported.   Continue reading “Seven-time Deported Criminal Illegal Alien Arrested Again”