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John Bachtell (born March 26, 1956) is an American activist, trade unionist, and community organizer who has served as the Chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA since its 30th National Convention in 2014.
We Are Change – by Danny F. Quest
PARMA Residents wanting to install a rain barrel in their yards will have to pay a steeper fee than what was originally believed.
The fee is $31 for one barrel, $32 for two, $33 for three and so on.
Last week, the Sun Post reported that it would cost just $1 to install a rain barrel. Continue reading “Cleveland Permit fees for rain barrels start at $31”
The AlterNet – by Max Blumenthal
Last week, just a few minutes before the House Foreign Affairs Committee met for a hearing, one of the Israel lobby’s most dependable members of Congress, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen huddled with twenty supporters of AIPAC, the lobby’s front line organization in Washington. It was a routine affair for the Florida Republican and her pro-Israel allies, whom she addressed by their first names. But a member of the public who witnessed the meeting noticed a startling new agenda was on the table. Continue reading “The Israel Lobby’s Dangerous Agenda for the U.S.: Attack Free Speech and Criminalize Resistance”
Vac Truth – by Michelle Goldstein
The chicken pox vaccine, formally known as the varicella vaccination, was added to the recommended childhood vaccination schedule in 1995. Prior to this vaccine’s creation, it was a common practice for families to expose children to others who had the chicken pox. The disease was considered a normal part of childhood and it was widely known that chicken pox in childhood posed little to no risk of serious harm. Risks associated with chicken pox are more common in adults and those with compromised immune systems. Continue reading “Why the Chicken Pox Vaccine Makes NO Sense”
Three-quarters of federal agencies’ IT budgets go on operation and maintenance rather than upgrades, and some legacy technologies, such as floppy disks used by the Pentagon for nuclear missiles, are over 50 years old.
The overview of how the US government continues to use archaic technologies in some vital areas was given in a report released on Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report said that the budget for IT modernization has fallen by $7.3 billion since 2010 while operations costs continued to grow. Of approximately 7,000 IT investments reviewed, the majority (5,223) do not spend a penny on upgrading their systems. Continue reading “US still uses floppy disks to control nuclear bombers & ballistic missiles”
Divers off the coast of the Italian island of Sardinia have located the sunken wreck of a British World War II submarine more than 70 years after it disappeared without a trace with 71 crew on board.
The Royal Navy T-class submarine – the legendary, HMS P 311 – was discovered by Genoa-based wreck hunter Massimo Domenico Bordone and his team in 100 meters of water off the northeast coast of Sardinia. Continue reading “WWII ‘ghost’ submarine with crew on board discovered off Italian coast”
BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai man is recovering from a bloody encounter with a 3-meter (10-foot) python that slithered through the plumbing of his home and latched its jaws onto his penis as he was using a squat toilet.
Attaporn Boonmakchuay was smiling as Thai television stations interviewed him in his hospital bed about the intimate intrusion, and doctors said he would recover. But photos of his blood-splattered bathroom in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok, were testimony to his ordeal. Continue reading “Thai man bloodied but unbowed after intimate attack by snake”
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Michelle Obama plans to address 105 Native American high school graduates Thursday during a commencement speech that comes as she tries to spotlight the plight of tribal youth in the final months of her husband’s presidency.
The first lady’s commencement address at Santa Fe Indian School is being delivered as part of an Obama initiative that aims to remove “barriers to success” for Native American youth — a group the White House says make up the nation’s “most vulnerable population.”
Continue reading “Michelle Obama set to speak at Native American commencement”
“And it is equally true, that a considerable part of those who voted for it in the convention, wish to see it altered. In both these states the body of the common people, who always do the fighting of a country, would be more likely to fight against than for it.”
By Melancthon Smith (a “PLEBIAN”)
. . . . It is agreed, the plan is defective – that some of the powers granted are dangerous – others not well defined – and amendments are necessary – why then not amend it? Why not remove the cause of danger, and, if possible, even the apprehension of it? The instrument is yet in the hands of the people; it is not signed, sealed, and delivered, and they have power to give it any form they please. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 85 – Concluding Remarks: Evils Under Confederation Exaggerated; Constitution Must Be Drastically Revised Before Adoption”
Grumbling that the Obama administration has done all it can to restrict gun ownership at the federal level, Vice President Joe Biden recently urged state and local officials to pick up the task of subverting the Second Amendment.
Biden, who convened a conference of like-minded elected officials from the states Tuesday, griped about a “dysfunctional” Congress — a Congress he said will not accept the gun control agenda pushed by the administration — and said the most meaningful debate is outside of Washington. Continue reading “WH Makes Final Push to Take the Guns”
Yahoo News – by Daniel Trotta and Daniel Wiessner
(Reuters) – Officials from 11 U.S. states sued the Obama administration on Wednesday to overturn a directive telling schools to let transgender students use bathrooms matching their gender identity, decrying the policy as “a massive social experiment.”
Ramping up the simmering battles over contentious cultural issues in America, the states, led by Texas and most with Republican governors, accused the federal government of rewriting laws by “administrative fiat.” Continue reading “States ratchet up transgender battle with lawsuit against U.S.”
Professional Republicans in the #NeverTrump movement continue to oppose the presumptive nominee selected by the GOP electorate and are now floating strategies to throw the election to Hillary Clinton.
However, an examination of Clinton’s campaign promises reveals that Republicans who are willing to thwart Trump in favor of Clinton will be complicit in electing a President who would seek to bring about the complete and, possibly irreversible, dissolution of our nation’s borders. Continue reading “Clinton Releases Plan to Dissolve U.S. Border Within 100 Days”
Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
Donald Trump ripped into Bill Kristol today during his rally in Anaheim, saying “all the guy wants to do is kill people and go to war.”
Kristol has been trying to organize the launch of a third party to undermine Trump and help Hillary get elected, though he claims it’s because he wants a “real conservative” to be president. Continue reading “Trump Rips Bill Kristol: “All The Guy Wants to do is Kill People and Go to War””
Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, is asking a federal judge to order a conservative group not to release audio or video recordings of a deposition Mills is scheduled to give Friday about Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
Mills’ attorneys filed a motion Wednesday afternoon saying they fear that the group that sought Mills’ deposition in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Judicial Watch, will use any recording to distort Mills’ testimony and advance the group’s anti-Clinton agenda. Continue reading “Hillary Clinton aide moves to block release of deposition video”
LA Times – by Michael A. Memoli and Christi Parsons
President Obama is racing against the clock to cement a massive Pacific Rim trade deal that all of his potential successors oppose, with his administration eyeing a looming fight on Capitol Hill while starting to implement as much of the complicated pact as it can.
The effort begins in Vietnam, where Obama spent the last three days touting the merits of the 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership, which would link 40% of the global economy, and reassuring Vietnamese leaders key to the deal that Congress will ultimately overcome the thorny politics of trade and ratify the agreement. Continue reading “Obama races to cement the big Pacific Rim trade deal that all his potential successors oppose”
Sovereign Man – by Simon Black
Just days ago, in the midst of the Puerto Rico debt morass, 24 members of Congress introduced the “No Bailouts for State, Territory, and Local Governments Act.”
The title pretty much sums it up.
Congress knows there’s a massive wave of defaults looming at the city and state level. Continue reading “Wow. Congress wants to prohibit the Fed from bailing out bankrupt states.”
19 April is the 241sth anniversary of the “shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington and Concord. The British regulars who started the fracas were following an age-old government tradition of seizing powder, munitions and property for a pretentious King who had assumed such wide distribution of the tools of resistance should be available only to the government-approved groups such as soldiers despite the danger on the frontier. Continue reading “Freedom Betrayed: The Constitution is Lexington’s Tombstone”