PHOTO: Peshmargas of Iraq Kurdistan Regional Government patrol on the region to prevent infiltration of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant militants who seized Mosul, in Iraq on June 12, 2014. ABC News – by Lara Jakes

President Barack Obama said Thursday Iraq will need more help from the United States as it seeks to push back a violent Islamic insurgency that has captured two key cities and is vowing to press toward Bagdad.

Obama did not specify what type of assistance the U.S. would be willing to provide, but said he had not ruled out any options.   Continue reading “Iraq Will Need Additional US Assistance, Obama Says”

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Recently, when I went to McDonald’s I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. ‘We don’t have half dozen nuggets,’ said the teenager at the counter. ‘You don’t?’ I replied. ‘We only have six, nine, or twelve,’… was the reply. ‘So I can’t order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?’ ‘That’s right.’ So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets (Unbelievable but sadly true…) (must have been the same one I asked for sweetener and she said they didn’t have any, only splenda and sugar.)   Continue reading “Are we the ones who are aging?”

Albuquerque policeThe Guardian

The city of Albuquerque must pay more than $6m in connection with the wrongful death of a man with schizophrenia killed by Albuquerque police, a New Mexico judge ruled Tuesday.

In her detailed findings of fact, district court judge Shannon Bacon said officers were not acting in self-defense when they punched and shot Christopher Torres, 27, in his backyard in 2011.   Continue reading “Albuquerque ordered to pay $6m over man’s wrongful killing by police”

National Hunting & Fishing DayAmmoLand

Kingman, AZ -(Ammoland.com)- You can fish Arizona waters for free this Saturday, making this an ideal time to take the family out for some fun and relaxing outdoor recreation.

Arizona’s Free Fishing Day will be celebrated on June 7 this year as part of National Fishing and Boating Week. This Saturday, no fishing licenses are required for persons fishing any public waters in Arizona.   Continue reading “Take Your Family Fishing on Arizona’s Free Fishing Day”

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Hillary Clinton is many things (some of which can be safely described in a family publication). She is a former first lady, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and future (she appears to hope) President. She is also — according to a new tell-all book by a Secret Service member — foul-mouthed and ill-tempered.

The book, the Daily Mail notes (h/t Weasel Zippers), is titled “Within Arm’s Length: A Secret Service Agent’s Inside Account of Protecting the President.” Its author, Dan Emmett, worked in the Presidential Protective Division, the plum job for a Secret Serviceman, during Bill Clinton’s two terms in the White House. Emmett also served that detail for George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, which provides a point of comparison for Bill’s and Hillary’s behavior.   Continue reading “Bombshell Book: Hillary Clinton told Secret Service Agent to ‘Get the F**k Away From Me’”

At the request of Canada, Interpol issued an international alert for the three men who escaped the Quebec detention centre Saturday. CBC News

Interpol has issued an Orange Notice, or an international alert, to all of its 190 member countries to help track down the three fugitives who escaped from a jail near Quebec City over the weekend via helicopter.

The agency says the escapees — Yves Denis, 35, Denis Lefebvre, 53, and Serge Pomerleau, 49 — should be considered dangerous, and members of the public are advised to contact police immediately and not to approach the men if they’re spotted.   Continue reading “Interpol issues global alert for 3 Quebec jail escapees”

biden-bunker-gaffeMinutemen News

Vice President Joseph R. Biden told a National Association of Manufacturers’ crowd this week that what the United States needed was more, not fewer, immigrants.

Specifically, he called for a “constant, unrelenting stream” of new immigrants — “not dribbling [but] significant flows,” to bolster the national economy, The Hill reported.   Continue reading “Joe Biden: U.S. Needs ‘Constant, Unrelenting Stream’ of Immigrants”

Eric Cantor, shown in Washington in 2013, stunned observers by losing his seat to a Tea Party challeHaaretz

U.S. politicians and political commentators were reeling Wednesday after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the most senior Jewish official in government, stunned observers by losing his seat to Tea Party challenger Dave Brat, an economics professor at a military academy, in Tuesday’s Republican primary to represent Virginia’s 7th Congressional District.

“The dream of a Jewish Republican speaker of the House is no more,” wrote Politico’s Alexander Burns. “[F]or Jewish Republicans, Cantor is a singular figure, the only Jewish member of the House majority and the lone Jewish leader in a party that has strenuously courted the community in recent presidential elections, to little avail.”   Continue reading “‘Tea Party has taken control of the Republican Party’”

Now the End Begins

Google has purchased satellite start-up Skybox Imaging in it’s quest to extend their all-seeing eye into every aspect of our lives. On the surface, Google says that they plan on using the new technology as a way to keep their Google Maps up to date, but those who are aware of their military-industrial complex ties think otherwise.

Over the past few years, Google has quietly entered into a relationship with the Pentagon and DARPA to become one of their biggest contract suppliers of technology and information. Google acquired robot maker Boston Dynamics last year, and is fully invested in creating battlefield cyborgs to supply to the government. They also spent 3.2 billion to get NEST, a company that makes a Smart Thermostat and can also track your every movement inside your home. These are only but of few of their recent purchases, click above image to see more.   Continue reading “Google Buys SkyBox Satellite Company To Become All Seeing Eye in the Sky”

Comcast Xfinity engineer, in a ninja maskExtreme Tech – by Sebastian Anthony

Two days ago, Comcast did something that would be inconceivable if it was any other company than Comcast: It turned 50,000 residential Xfinity modems into public WiFi hotspots. There are 50,000 paying Xfinity customers in Houston, Texas who are now broadcasting free WiFi that anyone can use. As far as Comcast is concerned, of course, this is a genius move to blanket the country in high-speed WiFi (and there are plans to hijack millions more modems by the end of 2014) — for Comcast’s customers, though, this is egregious monopolistic overreach taken to the next level… and it’s possibly illegal as well.   Continue reading “Comcast turns 50,000 paying customer homes into public hotspots, millions more by the end of the year”

Prevent Disease – by April McCarthy

The most common recommendation made by health experts in the area of produce selection is to choose “organic” varieties for maximum health benefits. We trust organic label certifications because they are supposed to comply with organic standards set by national governments and international organizations. Synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers are not allowed in organic practices, but that’s not always the case. Research by a Food Inspection Agency in Canada has found that nearly half the organic fresh fruits and vegetables tested in the past two years contained pesticide residue, violating maximum allowable limits for the presence of pesticides, the data shows.   Continue reading “Organic Trade Groups Finding Pesticides On Over 45 Percent of Organic Produce – 77 Percent of Organic Grapes Test Positive”