AZ Central

For nearly two decades at the Grand Canyon, tourists, employees, and children on tours passed by three paint buckets stored in the National Park’s museum collection building, unaware that they were being exposed to radiation.

Although federal officials learned last year that the 5-gallon containers were brimming with uranium ore, then removed the radioactive specimens, the park’s safety director alleges nothing was done to warn park workers or the public that they might have been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation.   Continue reading “Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Cascade County, MT — Sexual misconduct among police officers is an unfortunately common crime. Multiple studies have shown that hundreds of cops a year are arrested or accused of sexual misconduct. In fact, the second largest complaint against officers — second only to excessive force — is that of sexual abuse. More startling is the fact that over half of the sexual abuse instances involve children. One particularly horrific example of this abuse is made by former Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy Virgil Wolfe who was arrested this month on dozens of charges of child sex abuse.   Continue reading “Serial Pedophile Cop Arrested on 80 Counts of Sexual Abuse of Children”

Reuters

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian police arrested a group of foreign nationals, including five Americans, armed with semi-automatic weapons, Haitian newspapers reported on Monday, adding to uncertainty in the impoverished Caribbean country after days of anti-government protests.

The U.S. State Department was aware that Haitian police arrested a group that included U.S. citizens, an official at the department said on Monday. Haitian police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.   Continue reading “Americans among group arrested in Haiti with arsenal of guns: media”

SP Global

Washington — With developers of about 10 projects racing to build deepwater crude export terminals off Texas and Louisiana, Enbridge only sees enough demand for one of them in the late 2021-early 2022 timeframe, the company said in its fourth-quarter 2018 earnings call.

Enbridge, Kinder Morgan and Oiltanking have proposed the Texas Colt Offshore Loading Terminal offshore Freeport, Texas. It would be capable of loading VLCCs directly, something only the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port can currently do.   Continue reading “Competition heats up in US oil exporting race”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

Officials at the Department of State are trying to decide whether to help Venezuela’s socialist regime by allowing opponents to get sanctuary in Florida’s real estate and job markets, according to an article in the Daily Beast.

“Team Trump moved to end “Temporary Protected Status” for people from half a dozen countries. Now there’s debate about extending it to Venezuelans—and the pushback has begun,” according to the article.   Continue reading “Report: State Department Debates Florida Sanctuary for Venezuelans”

MassPrivateI

Rand Corporation’s Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC) no longer uses the term “Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE) it has been replaced with “Terrorism Prevention.”

Let that sink in for a moment, a private company with strong ties to DHS and law enforcement is in charge of Terrorism Prevention!   Continue reading “Rand Corporation wants to bring our fear of extremists to every community”

WPTV News

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a South Florida police employee sold department-owned guns and other equipment to a pawn shop.

Broward County jail records show that 33-year-old Yan Kleyman was arrested Friday and charged with dealing in stolen property. Continue reading “Hallandale Beach police employee charged with selling department-owned guns”

Breitbart – by John Binder

The number of “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UACs) who have been resettled across the United States in the last half decade is nearly seven times the population of Beverly Hills, California — the state’s most elite zip code.

Since October 2013, the federal government has resettled about 224,000 UACs across the country — usually placing them in households with sponsors who are illegal aliens.   Continue reading “Feds Resettle 224K Border Crossers Across U.S. Every Half Decade”

The Organic Prepper – by Brandon Turbeville

For the better part of 2018, Venezuela had remained out of the headlines. At least in the mainstream Western press, they were more focused on scary Russian agents, keeping American forces in Syria, and promoting a war with Iran.

But a few weeks ago, the South American country found itself on the front page after the American-backed “opposition” leader, Juan Guaido,’ claimed that he was the legitimate President of Venezuela and was immediately recognized by the United States and a host of Central and South American neighbors.   Continue reading “Here’s Why the US Should NOT Intervene in Venezuela”

RT

Around 6,000 people have signed a petition to sell the “useless” state of Montana to Canada for a whopping $1 trillion to “eliminate the national debt” – which is actually well over $22 trillion.

“We have too much debt and Montana is useless. Just tell them it has beavers or something,” reads the Change.org petition. Additional reasons provided by supportive petitioners include the state’s “insignificant population” and their “aesthetic” which some claim isn’t in keeping with the rest of the US.   Continue reading “Thousands support petition to sell ‘useless’ state of Montana to Canada”

Sputnik

Earlier this year, the country’s space program already made space exploration history by achieving humanity’s first-ever successful soft landing on the far side of the Moon.

China has ambitious plans to construct a series of space-based solar farms, The Sydney Morning Herald has reported, citing China’s Science & Technology Daily newspaper. Continue reading “China Looks to Secure Space Superpower Status With Earth-Orbiting Power Plants”

RT

China’s Ministry of Agriculture has announced plans to create 53.3 million hectares of connected farmland to ensure the country’s food security. More than five million hectares of farmland will be developed this year.

The country which has to feed nearly 1.4 billion people has been building drought and flood resistant farmland since 2011. By the end of 2018, China had developed 42.6 million hectares of such land.   Continue reading “China to develop drought & flood resistant farmland in area bigger than Spain”

New York Times

WASHINGTON — A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, on Monday challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars on his border wall.

The lawsuit is part of a constitutional confrontation that Mr. Trump set off on Friday when he declared that he would spend billions of dollars more on border barriers than Congress had granted him. The clash raises questions over congressional control of spending, the scope of emergency powers granted to the president, and how far the courts are willing to go to settle such a dispute.   Continue reading “16 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall”

The Washington Post – by Danielle Paquette

DUETTE, Fla. – Both human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic clamshell. Repeat, repeat, repeat, before the fruit spoils.

One February afternoon, they work about an acre apart on a farm the size of 454 football fields: dozens of pickers collecting produce the way people have for centuries — and a robot that engineers say could replace most of them as soon as next year. Continue reading “Farmworker vs Robot”

The Eagle – by Mike Copeland

At least 11,000 Texas farmers believe they have suffered because of tariffs and trade disputes erupting amid President Donald Trump’s get-tough stance with China, which buys about half the cotton grown statewide, according to the Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Thursday, Valentine’s Day, was the deadline for agricultural producers to sign up for the USDA’s Market Facilitation Program, launched in September to help producers “suffering from damages due to unjustified trade retaliation,” according to a USDA press release.

Continue reading “11,000 Texas farmers sign up for tariff relief”

Wood TV

SOLON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Four people, including children, were found shot to death in northern Kent County Monday afternoon.

Speaking to reporters at the scene, Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young would not say how many of the victims are children, nor would she provide any information about the victims’ genders. She said authorities were still working on confirming their identities.  Continue reading “Sheriff: 4 dead, including children, in northern Kent Co., Michigan”

WFAA

ONALASKA, Texas — Onalaska, Texas, has a secret.

Nestled along the piney shores of an East Texas lake, Onalaska lacks an airport.

A WFAA review, however, has found more than 1,000 registered aircraft claiming an Onalaska address. That’s equivalent to one plane for every three Onalaska residents, which is more per capita than anywhere else in the country.   Continue reading “Foreign ownership of thousands of U.S. aircraft cloaked in secrecy”