The Hill – by Max Greenwood

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been diagnosed with brain cancer, the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix said Wednesday.

The tumor was discovered after the senior Arizona senator underwent a minor procedure last week to remove a blood clot from above his left eye.    Continue reading “John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer”

The Daily Caller – by Ryan Pickrell

The second highest-ranking U.S. military official said Tuesday that the U.S. should consider the use of military force against North Korea.

North Korea successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that can range certain parts of the U.S. earlier this month, although it could not do so with “any degree of accuracy,” Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Paul Selva told the Senate Arms Services Committee Tuesday, adding that the missile — the Hwasong-14 — appears to lack the necessary guidance capabilities.   Continue reading “Top US General: ‘We Have To Entertain’ The Possibility Of Military Action In North Korea”

Waking Times – by Isaac Davis, September 13, 2016

There is a well-documented history of the U.S. government supplying weapons and arms to both friends and foe for political purposes and for profit. In addition to publicly known global arms deals to U.S. political allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia, revelations about the rise of ISIS indicate that U.S. arms and military trainees have been a critical factor in the rise of the terror group.

From 2006 to 2011 the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ran a gun smuggling operation into Mexico to ostensibly dismantle Mexican drug gangs, accomplishing the precise opposite however, in what has affectionately become known as Fast and Furious. Further back in time we have covert operations like Oliver North’s Iran Contra scandal of the mid 1980’s, and America’s involvement in arming rebels in Central America to destabilize uncooperative governments. The list goes on.   Continue reading “Flashback: Gang Members Implicate U.S. Gov’t In Dumping Crates Of Guns In Chicago”

Fox News – by Travis Fedschun

The four young men who were hacked to death in a New York park in April were lured there by two women associated with the vicious MS-13 street gang, and ambushed by more than a dozen gang members armed with wooden clubs and machetes who engaged in “a horrific frenzy of violence,” according to court documents obtained Wednesday by Fox News.

The new details were released Monday as part of an indictment charging three of the street gang’s alleged members — Alexis Hernandez, Santis Leonel Ortiz-Flores and Omar Antonio Villata — with the April 11 deaths of the four men.   Continue reading “MS-13 ‘initiation killings’: Lured to a park by girls and hacked to death with machetes”

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NPR

There’s a good chance you’re hungry for information you didn’t even know you wanted, but Google knows — and the tech giant is going to spoon-feed it to you.

Google is following in Facebook’s footsteps, with plans to redesign its popular search page on mobile phones so that you’ll get something similar to the social media site’s News Feed. Only Google’s will just be called “feed.”   Continue reading “With Entry Into Interest Curation, Google Goes Head-To-Head With Facebook”

Daily Mail

It’s a song with several curse worse and references to prostitution.

But for some reason an Arizona teacher felt it relevant to hand an Ice Cube rap song to 8th-grade students as part of a poetry lesson.

The song, Who’s the Mack?, was released in 1990 and features such lyrics as: ‘This n—- thinks every girl’s inferior, To his tongue, get a dumb b—- sprung.’   Continue reading “Teacher removed from class after assigning Ice Cube rap song about prostitution to 8th-grade students for a ‘poetry assignment’”

NPR

The Hamptons condo and apartment complex in Tampa is quintessential Florida. Lush and modern, the stucco homes are painted in a soft rainbow of pastels. All around are palm trees, Spanish moss and lily pads.

“It is a very quiet place. You have a lot of children that live here. A lot of professionals live here, retirees,” said resident Michael Colon, 66.

But on May 19, that tranquility was shattered in an improbable case that involves four young roommates at the complex.   Continue reading “Florida Killings: Radical Islam And The Far Right, Under One Roof”

NPR – by Tori Whitley

We’ve all heard of ways to reduce our carbon footprint: biking to work, eating less meat, recycling.

But there’s another way to help the climate. A recent study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the biggest way to reduce climate change is by having fewer children.

“I knew this was a sensitive topic to bring up,” says study co-author Kimberly Nicholas on NPR’s Morning Edition. “Certainly it’s not my place as a scientist to dictate choices for other people. But I do think it is my place to do the analysis and report it fairly.”   Continue reading “Want To Slow Global Warming? Researchers Look To Family Planning”

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The American Conservative – by Sydney Schanberg

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.   Continue reading “McCain and the POW Cover-Up”

Well, I’ll sit here and admit that I fell for the circus barker con at first. Chalk it up to stupidity, chalk it up to whatever the hell you want, I again, made a damn fool out of myself for entertaining the belief this professional con man could make a difference. I even wrote articles about this bafoon cutting him to shreds, but changing my mind because I was praying for a big change. I disappointed a lot of my friends for believing in this grifter.

Things started to turn when it was obvious he was being controlled by Russian and Chinese big money. You see, he’s borrowed big from these people, he was given favorable terms and he needed the money, without it, his so called empire would be in ruins. The money was transferred into various dummy accounts to protect the con. This is what this conman lives on, borrowed money, as his so called empire is actually heavy in debt. We are talking billions in debt.   Continue reading “The Good the Bad the Donald Trump”

Sac Bee

Explicit anti-cop graffiti was found Wednesday painted across the midtown Sacramento office of a law firm that represents police officers in use-of-force cases, including last year’s controversial shooting of a man on Del Paso Boulevard.

The message was scrawled across the front of the Mastagni Holstedt law firm in red paint, visible to drivers and pedestrians walking in the 1900 block of I Street, where the office is located. By 3 p.m., the first letter of the message had been scrubbed off, though the rest of the message remained until employees and volunteers cleaned it later in the afternoon.   Continue reading “Anti-cop graffiti found at Sacramento law firm that defends police officers”

Sierra News Online

MARIPOSA COUNTY — As firefighters prepare for another hard day on the firelines, the residents of Mariposa are holding their breath.

Overnight, the fire nearly doubled in size to 45,724 acres with just 7 percent containment, and continues its relentless advance on the historic town.

More than 1,500 homes are threatened, 8 have been destroyed and 1 damaged.   Continue reading “California’s Detwiler Fire Continues To Threaten Mariposa, Pushes Toward Coulterville”

AP – by Blake Nicholson

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Additional environmental review of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline is likely to take the rest of the year to complete, U.S. officials said in court documents in which they also advocate for keeping the line operating during the study.

Developer Energy Transfer Partners also is asking U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to keep the line open, saying a shutdown would cost the Texas-based company $90 million each month.   Continue reading “Months needed for additional study of Dakota Access pipeline”

The Salt Lake Tribune

Las Vegas • Armed assault and lawful protest were the opposing scenarios presented to a federal jury hearing the retrial in Las Vegas of four men who bore assault-style weapons during a standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle in April 2014.

Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre displayed photos and told jurors during opening statements on Monday that evidence will show the defendants used what he called “the working end of a rifle barrel” to bend the law to their will, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported (http://bit.ly/2tmyc09 ).   Continue reading “Retrial begins for 4 defendants in Nevada Bundy standoff”