RT

Ten crude refineries around Houston and Corpus Christi in Texas are closed in the wake of torrential rains, and devastating flooding brought about by Hurricane Harvey during the weekend.

The shut refineries normally have a daily capacity of nearly two million barrels of crude, according to a report by S&P Global Platts.

There are dozens of refineries along the US Gulf Coast as well as other plants turning oil into gas, diesel, and other petrochemicals. Nearly one-third of the nation’s energy capacity is centralized in the region.   Continue reading “Hurricane damage shuts down major US oil refineries”

Mail.com

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s dormant congressional campaign committee recently sold a 2004 motor home at a steep discount to an old friend in the Montana Legislature. But a seemingly ordinary transaction between friends, when seen through the optics of stringent campaign finance laws, can raise a bevy of questions – especially when those friends are politically high-powered and well-connected.

After learning about the transaction, campaign finance watchdogs are raising a $25,000 question: Why would Zinke’s campaign committee sell the Kountry Star Freightliner for half the price of its apparent $50,000 market value?   Continue reading “Sale of Interior secretary’s motor home raises $25K question”

Mail.com

BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb ripped through a busy market area in eastern Baghdad on Monday morning, killing at least 12 people, Iraqi officials said. The explosives-laden car went off at the wholesale Jamila market in Baghdad’s Shiite district of Sadr City, a police officer said. The explosion also wounded 28 other people, he added, saying the death toll was expected to rise further.

A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists. A plume of thick black smoke billowed from the area and people were running away in panic. At the site, twisted metal and shards of glass littered the pavement, along with vegetables and other goods sold at the market.   Continue reading “Iraq: Car bombing at busy Baghdad market kills 12 people”

Mail.com

ROHTAK, India (AP) — A judge on Monday sentenced a popular and flamboyant Indian spiritual guru to 10 years in prison on charges of raping two female followers. The sentence was pronounced amid intense security at a prison in the northern town of Rohtak where the guru, who calls himself Dr. Saint Gurmeet Singh Ram Rahim Insan, has been held since his conviction Friday.

The conviction sparked violent protests by the guru’s followers that left at least 38 people dead and hundreds injured. Ahead of the sentencing announcement, train and bus services to Rohtak were suspended to prevent the guru’s supporters from gathering in the town, located in Haryana state. A curfew was also imposed in Rohtak.   Continue reading “Judge sends Indian guru to jail for 10 years for rape”

EWAO

In 2015, a whole new slew of flu vaccines found themselves getting approved by the Federal Drug Administration.  This isn’t an uncommon practice; most flu vaccines pass inspection every year.  It’s well known advice that has been passed down from doctor to patient that the flu vaccine is something that we all should get, but it has been quickly surfacing that what’s in the vaccines–especially those from 2015 and after–might actually be more damaging then simply rolling the dice on getting the flu.

The ingredient that is getting the most flack is called an adjuvant.  The particular one involved is called Squalene, and it has been linked to auto-immune disease side effects.  In fact, it may have been used during chemical attacks in the Gulf War.  Symptoms include chronic fatigue, muscle aches, and neurologic damage.   Continue reading “Johns Hopkins Researcher Releases Shocking Report On Flu Vaccines”

NPR – by Johnny Kauffman

On Monday, 54 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech and less than a month after a counterprotester was killed following a demonstration by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., a statue of the legendary civil rights leader will be unveiled outside the Georgia State Capitol in King’s hometown of Atlanta.

The state Capitol grounds are dominated by the figures from Georgia’s Confederate and segregationist past, including Confederate general and alleged Ku Klux Klan leader John Brown Gordon and U.S. Sen. Richard Russell, one of the staunchest opponents to the civil rights legislation King advocated for.   Continue reading “Martin Luther King Jr. Statue To Join Confederates At Georgia’s Capitol”

NOAA News, November 2, 2005

Although it probably never occurs to the average person gazing up into a clear blue sky on a tranquil day, the atmosphere can be riven by enormous channels, hundreds of miles wide that are very similar to the rivers that course through the landscape. Even less likely are they to imagine that these so-called “atmospheric rivers” play a critical role in the global water cycle and are a key source of the moisture that falls as rain and snow in the Western states, ultimately providing fresh water through snowmelt in the dry season and during droughts to a huge swath of this semi-arid region.    Continue reading “NOAA Researchers Study Rivers of the Sky”

WREG 3 News – by Luke Jones

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — People living in a South Memphis neighborhood are raising questions after their 91-year-old neighbor was handcuffed and cited while walking down the street.

Cellphone footage shows Otha Thurmond being led away in handcuffs on the 2100 block of Swift Street Thursday afternoon, but it doesn’t show what happened before.

In the misdemeanor citation for disorderly conduct Thurmond received, police write Thurmond waved and pointed a stick at them and interfered in their ability to keep the peace. WREG later learned the officers were on scene investigating an unrelated assault case.   Continue reading “91-year-old detained after allegedly pointing stick at officers”

Huffington Post – by By Nina Golgowski

More than a dozen senior citizens are reportedly back on dry land after a plea for help showed them sitting in waist-deep floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

The residents of La Vita Bella, an assisted living home in Dickinson, Texas, were trapped this weekend when water poured inside, Kim McIntosh, whose mother owns the facility, told the New York Daily News.
Continue reading “Nursing Home Residents Seen Sitting In Waist-High Water Before Rescue”

Yahoo News

Emergency workers begin releasing water into the Buffalo Bayou from two flood-control dams in Houston on Monday, a move that could impact thousands of residents, officials said.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it began to release water from the Addicks and Barker dams early Monday morning to prevent uncontrollable flooding of the Houston-metropolitan area as water levels continued to rise rapidly beneath torrential rains being released by Tropical Storm Harvey.   Continue reading “Army Corps releases water from 2 Houston dams; thousands of homes to be impacted”

ADL, March 3, 2014

California Investigative Researcher Joanna Mendelson provided a briefing on Sovereign Citizen ideology and criminal activities at the Riverside Federal Courthouse on February 21. The sovereign citizen movement is an extreme anti-government movement whose members believe the government has no authority over them.

Attending the briefing were Federal Bankruptcy Court judges and court staff from throughout the Central District of California.  The Central District serves seven California counties.   Continue reading “ADL Trains Federal Judges about Sovereign Citizen Movement”

American Free Press – by James Spounias

“Poison Papers” is the sadly appropriate name for an online compilation of documents that reveal decades of government cover-ups on the use of toxic chemicals, collusion between the chemical industry and regulatory agencies, deceit, incompetence, fraud, and ultimately an utter lack of concern for life itself. 

Carol Van Strum desired a simple life when she and her family moved to Oregon’s idyllic Siuslaw National Forest in 1974. Little did she know that she would become a curator of information indicting powerful chemical companies and government agencies, which resulted in the creation of an online library known as the “Poison Papers,” or that she would suffer personal tragedy as well.   Continue reading “Inside the Poison Papers”

CBC News

About 40 self-proclaimed “Alberta patriots” protesting a “tyrannical” Canadian government were met by hundreds of counter-protesters on the steps of Calgary City Hall on Sunday.

The rally, called both “Deployment Day” and “Deplorable Day” by organizers on Facebook, was spearheaded by the North American Freedom Fighters (NAFF), formerly known as the Canadian Combat Coalition.

The event was billed as an anti-government rally and also a “tribute” to Canadian veterans and those fighting to “protect our freedoms as Canadians.”   Continue reading “Anti-government protesters at Calgary rally outnumbered by anti-racist activists”

AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies under a program that had been sharply curtailed amid an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press indicate President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order undoing an Obama administration directive that restricted police agencies’ access to the gear that includes grenade launchers, bullet-proof vests, riot shields, firearms and ammunition.   Continue reading “Trump prepares to lift limits on military gear for police”

When you have greed on a scale of the ridiculous, you do things like steer a hurricane into an area that deals with oil, big oil. There is no bigger state than Texas when it comes to big oil. Texas has refineries that feed a huge percentage of America, thus feeding the Godzilla trough of huge cash.

I don’t give a damn what people think happened here, HAARP technology steered Harvey for nothing more than greed for the mammon that is going to affect us all, big time, probably for many years to come. As we have been hearing on Henry’s show now for months, there is a huge glut of oil, this oil is now a sea of black gold thanks to Harvey’s destruction.   Continue reading “Harvey – Steered into Texas Coast by Microwave Burst? -HAARP”

am New York – by  Ivan Pereira

The people of Texas will get a helping hand from New York as Hurricane Harvey continues to devistate the southeastern part of the state.

New York City on Sunday deployed to Houston the Office of Emergency Management’s Urban Search & Rescue New York Task Force One, an 80-member unit including representatives of the NYPD and FDNY, as well as EMS responders.   Continue reading “Hurricane Harvey relief efforts getting assist from NYPD, FDNY”