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DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — For years scientists have theorized about how large rocks — some weighing hundreds of pounds — zigzag across Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, leaving long trails etched in the earth.

Now two researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have photographed these “sailing rocks” being blown by light winds across the former lake bed.

Cousins Richard Norris and James Norris said the movement is made possible when ice sheets that form after rare overnight rains melt in the rising sun, making the hard ground muddy and slick. On Dec. 20, 2013, the cousins catalogued 60 rocks moving across the playa’s pancake-flat surface.   Continue reading “Mystery of Death Valley’s moving rocks solved”

President Obama appears to bow to Saudi King Abdullah, on April 1, 2009, in London WND – by Garth Kant

WASHINGTON – It’s an explosive charge, one that practically accuses the president of treason.

A former CIA agent bluntly told WND, America has switched sides in the war on terror under President Obama.

Clare Lopez was willing to say what a few members of Congress have confided to WND in private, but declined to say on-the-record.    Continue reading “CIA expert: Obama switched sides in war on terror”

Washington Post – by Brady Dennis

The Ebola virus sweeping through West Africa has mutated repeatedly during the current outbreak, a fact that could hinder diagnosis and treatment of the devastating disease, according to scientists who have genetically sequenced the virus in scores of victims.

The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, also offer new insights into the origins of the largest and most deadly Ebola outbreak in history, which has killed more than 1,500 people in four countries and shows few signs of slowing. It also provided another reminder of the deep toll the outbreak has taken on health workers and others in the affected areas, as five of the paper’s more than 50 co-authors died from Ebola before publication.   Continue reading “Ebola virus has mutated during course of outbreak”

CHSCHART22222.jpgBATR – by James Hall

Learning is a noble pursuit, but the ancient Greek text is one of the few places where the Socratic Method survives. Sanctioned political doctrine of required thinking is the mainstay in today’s august temples of purification. Forget about a classroom, the curriculum core of New Age studies has no room for the classics, much less instructions into the process of thinking itself. Except, of course for the need to electronically check off the loan applications and assign grants to the business office. In the end, university is big business and developing intelligent graduates happens as an afterthought, if at all.   Continue reading “The Monopoly of the Government Education Cartel”

future-tech1Truthstream Media – by Aaron Dykes 

What happened when we went from nearly everyone producing food to only a few mega-corporations?

That’s just part of the problem in the wake of self-driving autos, software replacements to human jobs, robotic factory workers and beyond. It is the road to a future where human labor is not needed – just as transhumanist Ray Kurzweil and others predicted (or planned for).   Continue reading “Why Humans ‘Need Not Apply’ For the Future…”

Breitbart – by Sarah Rumpf

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Public Policy Foundation organized a panel discussion at the Texas Capitol to address the crisis along the Texas border. The speakers painted a picture far different from how the situation is portrayed by most of the media and government officials. The panel was presented to a standing-room-only crowd and moderated by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples. Participants included Rancher and Chairman of the Texas Border Volunteers Dr. Mike Vickers, Border Patrol agent and Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) Shawn Moran, and Breitbart Texas Managing Director Brandon Darby.   Continue reading “Border Security Panel at Texas Capitol Shows Reality of Crisis”

Breitbart – by Dr. Susan Berry

The U.S. Department of Education (USED) has punished the state of Oklahoma for repealing the Common Core standards and reverting to its previous academic standards by rescinding the state’s waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), making it the second state ever to lose its waiver from the law.

As Caitlin Emma of Politico reports, Indiana, on the contrary, was granted a one-year extension of its waiver from NCLB because, though Gov. Mike Pence (R) declared he was the first governor to repeal the Common Core standards, his state’s replacement standards are remarkably similar to the Common Core and, as such, still met the requirements for the waiver.   Continue reading “Obama Administration Punishes Oklahoma for Repealing Common Core Standards”

Yahoo News – by Carey Gillam

A group of people caught up in unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after a white officer killed a black teenager, sued local officials on Thursday, alleging civil rights violations through arrests and police assaults with rubber bullets and tear gas.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, says law enforcement met a broad public outcry over the Aug. 9 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown with “militaristic displays of force and weaponry,” (and) engaged U.S. citizens “as if they were war combatants.”   Continue reading “Missouri police sued for $40 million over actions in Ferguson protests”

AOL – by Ryan Gorman

The National Rifle Association remarkably promoted a blog post about how children can have fun at the gun range only two days after a nine-year-old girl shot her shooting instructor dead.

Sent Wednesday from the @NRAWomen Twitter account, the tweet was a link to a piece titled “7 Ways Children Can Have Fun at the Shooting Range.” The tweet was first noticed by Huffington Post.    Continue reading “Outrage at NRA tweet just days after instructor shot dead by nine-year-old girl”

Wall Street Journal – by Yoni Bashan

High above the grassy parkland on Randall’s Island—site of this weekend’s Electric Zoo music festival—hangs a robotic camera so powerful it can read text on a note pad 80 feet below.

Security officials will monitor the video feed from the camera and 11 more like it from a command center nearby, part of a new strategy during the three-day music fair to keep drugs off the island.   Continue reading “Electric Zoo to Clamp Down on Drugs This Year”

This is Harry Reid’s very own bill from 1993. We need to share it everywhere. Shock the Democrats! Send the Bill to all your local Legislators and Congressional representatives. Remember we are coming up on a holiday weekend.

August 4 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993

Mr. REID introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.   Continue reading “Harry Reid’s Own Bill from 1993 – Immigration Stabilization Act”

Yahoo News

The legendary comedienne remains hospitalized following routine procedure.

Joan Rivers continues to remain hospitalized in New York City.

Sources close to Joan tell ET that the legendary comedienne is in a medically induced coma following a routine endoscopy. Not long after the procedure started, she stopped breathing and was then rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital.   Continue reading “Joan Rivers Placed in Medically Induced Coma Following Routine Surgery”

Meta Tech

The Schumann Resonance is the frequency of the electromagnetic field of the earth. It is supposed to be steady at 7.83 Hz, but it can vary slightly.

From Wikipedia:

“The Schumann resonances are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth‘s electromagnetic field spectrum. Schumann resonances are global electromagnetic resonances, excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth’s surface and the ionosphere…   Continue reading “Schumann Resonance going Crazy”

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Charles C. Johnson, the Editor-in-Chief of Got News and the investigator who debunked the Everytown shootings map, is suing the St. Louis County Court to release Ferguson shooting victim Michael Brown’s juvenile arrest records.

As relayed by the website YoungCons.com, Johnson claims that he has “confirmed” Michael Brown was arrested in a case involving second-degree murder:   Continue reading “Michael Brown Allegedly Involved in Second Degree Murder Case”

Troy KastigarMail.com

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The two high school buddies loved to shoot hoops and crack jokes with their friends. They both converted to Islam in early adulthood. And both were recruited by terror groups to leave the United States and die for jihadist causes.

It wasn’t immediately clear how Douglas McAuthur McCain and Troy Kastigar were drawn into radicalism after their initial conversion to the Muslim faith or whether they might have influenced one another along the way. But the two best friends went down similar paths and met the same end.   Continue reading “High school buddies followed similar path to jihad”

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DEERFIELD, Va. (AP) — The pilot of an F-15 jet that crashed earlier this week in remote Virginia mountains was killed, military officials now say, bringing a sad end to an exhaustive two-day search involving more than 100 local, state and federal officials as well as volunteers.

Col. James Keefe announced the news Thursday at the Massachusetts Air National Guard in Westfield, Massachusetts, home of the 104th Fighter Wing, where the pilot and jet were based. Keefe said his “thoughts and prayers are with the family” of the pilot, whose identity wasn’t disclosed.   Continue reading “Military: Pilot was killed in Virginia F-15 crash”

The oil tanker United Kalavyrta approaches Galveston, TexasYahoo News – by Terry Wade and Anna Louie Sussman

A tanker near Texas loaded with $100 million of disputed Iraqi Kurdish crude has disappeared from satellite tracking, the latest development in a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse between Baghdad and the Kurds.

The AIS ship tracking system used by the U.S. Coast Guard and Reuters on Thursday showed no known position for the United Kalavrvta, which was carrying 1 million barrels of crude and 95 percent full when it went dark.

Several other tankers carrying disputed crude from Iran or Iraqi Kurdistan have unloaded cargoes after switching off their transponders, which makes their movements hard to track.   Continue reading “Disputed Kurdish oil tanker mysteriously goes dark off Texas coast”

Yahoo News

Guatemala City (AFP) – A community of 230 Orthodox Jews from several countries Thursday began leaving the Guatemalan Indian village where they have lived for six years after claims and counterclaims of discrimination and threats.

Their exit from San Juan La Laguna, on the banks of Lake Atitlan and 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the capital Guatemala City, follows a meeting Wednesday in which Jewish and indigenous representatives failed to reach an agreement.

“We are a people of peace and in order to avoid an incident we’ve already begun to leave the village,” Misael Santos, a representative from the Jewish community, told AFP.    Continue reading “Jewish community ‘forced out’ of Guatemalan village”