US Secretary of State John Kerry.(Reuters / Carolyn Kaster)RT News

House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa released the Secretary of State from a subpoena to testify before a committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, alleging Kerry was attempting to “distract” from the panel’s work.

Rep. Issa, (R-Calif.), said Kerry agreed to appear before the Oversight and Government Reform panel on June 12 as a means to avoid testifying before a later scheduled Select Committee panel.    Continue reading “‘Squirming’ John Kerry excused from testifying on Benghazi terror attacks”

The Andromeda spiral galaxy. (Reuters/NASA)RT News

A short time ago, in a galaxy very, very close by, a NASA satellite thought it detected a gamma ray burst in Andromeda. It was a false alarm, but astronomers used the opportunity as a reminder that our galaxy and Andromeda are set for a head-on collision.

NASA’s Swift satellite discovers and measures gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, and their afterglow in X-ray, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths of light. The space agency says the spacecraft is designed “with powerful telescopes and quick reflexes to capture gamma-ray bursts as they flash and leave a lingering afterglow.”   Continue reading “Milky Way, Andromeda galaxies set to collide in giant game of space bumper cars”

-ASBBrd_03-06-2014_PressMon_1_A004~~2014~03~05~IMG_-ASBBrd_01-11-2014_P_1_1_.jpgSo let’s get this straight, all these homeless people (most of whom were previously middle class people) are going to be thrown out of this tent city and given one year in a paid apartment or other housing.  Then what?  They went to this tent city because they lost everything and had no where else to go.  There has been no recovery since the economic collapse of 2007/2008, so what makes them think these people are going to magically find jobs within a year when no jobs exist?!?  It’s crystal clear people, the criminal organization posing as the United States Govenment wants us all dead.  This is just the first of the many objectives of the New World Order.  If anyone reading this does not yet understand that, there is no hope left for such people.   Continue reading “Tent City in Lakewood to close”

Barack ObamaMail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — As governors, businesses and environmentalists brace for new limits on power plant pollution, President Barack Obama is casting his unprecedented effort to curb greenhouse gases as essential to protect the health and wellbeing of children.

“I refuse to condemn our children to a planet that’s beyond fixing,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address released Saturday. His administration is bringing forward the first carbon pollution limits on existing U.S. power plants on Monday, the centerpiece of his campaign against climate change. Critics say the plan will drive up costs, kill jobs and damage a fragile economy.   Continue reading “Obama makes public health pitch for carbon rules”

(AFP Photo)RT News

The US has pledged to help the EU cut down its gas imports from Russia and diversify its energy supply during President Barack Obama’s visit to Europe next week, National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said.

The topics up for discussion during Obama’s visit – which is scheduled to take place June 2-6 – include US natural gas exports and the prospect of increasing US sales to the EU, according to the advisor.   Continue reading “US to work closely with EU to cut its Russian gas imports”

A New Jersey woman is suing her neighbors over their son's drumming (Credit: CBS 2)CBS New York

BOONTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – A woman in Boonton, N.J. is suing her neighbors over their son’s drumming.

Danny Palazzo’s neighbor claims he’s ruining her quality of life by playing the drums at all hours.

An appellate court is letting her lawsuit move forward, but Palazzo’s parents claim he never played late into the night.   Continue reading “Woman Sues Neighbors Over Their Son’s Drumming”

Alecia Phonesavanh covers her face on Thursday, May 30, 2014 in Atlanta as she talks about an incident in which Phonesavanh's 19-month-old son was critically injured when a police device was tossed into his bed Wednesday morning in Habersham County by a SWAT team in search of a drug suspect. Phonesavanh said there is no way officers should not have known they were children in the house. Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell said the officers were looking for a suspect who may have been armed and followed proper procedure by using the device. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Spink)Washington Post – by Radley Balko

After Georgia’s Mountain Judicial Circuit Narcotics Criminal Investigation and Suppression Team burned a toddler with a flashbang grenade during a drug raid on Wednesday, Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell told Access North Georgia:

“The person I blame in this whole thing is the person selling the drugs,” Terrell said. “Wanis Thonetheva, that’s the person I blame in all this. They are no better than a domestic terrorist, because they don’t care about families – they didn’t care about the family, the children living in that household – to be selling dope out of it, to be selling methamphetamine out of it. All they care about is making money.

Continue reading “Drug task force that burned a toddler this week also killed an innocent pastor in 2009”

A farmer drives his combine harvester on a wheat field, Aug. 11, 2012, in Cassel, northern, France. File photo via AFP.Raw Story – by John Vidal, The Guardian

The world’s food supplies are at risk because farmland is becoming rapidly concentrated in the hands of wealthy elites and corporations, a study has found.

Small farmers, the UN says, grow 70% of the world’s food but a new analysis of government data suggests the land which they control is shrinking every year as mega-farms and plantations squeeze them onto less than 25% of the world’s available farmland, says international land-use group Grain. These mega-farms are less productive in terms of amount of food they produce per area of land, the report argues.   Continue reading “Corporations and wealthy elites now control more than 75 percent of the world’s farmland”

Blacklisted News – by Kelly Riddell, The Washington Times

A Massachusetts gun seller says it’s the latest victim of a federal multiagency task force that is squeezing financing sources for industries deemed “high-risk” by the Obama administration, such as porn stores, drug paraphernalia shops and gun merchants.

Powderhorn Outfitters, which sells firearms, archery gear and fishing equipment in Hyannis, Massachusetts, posted in an online forum this week that its longtime bank – TD Bank – had suddenly dropped its account.   Continue reading “Operation Choke Point Forces Bank To Dump Gun Store”

Common Dreams

FINLAND, Minn. – May 30 – The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today asked its million-plus members to call on Congress to reject efforts by the meat industry to weaken protections for farmers.

Tyson Foods, the nation’s largest factory farm producer of chicken, beef and pork is behind a proposed policy rider to the House Appropriations Committee’s 2015 spending bill. The rider would weaken rules, written by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (GIPSA). The rules are intended to protect contract farmers who raise animals for the four companies that control nearly all the meat eaten in the U.S. GIPSA is an agency of the USDA that writes the rules intended to promote “fair and competitive trading practices for the overall benefit of consumers and American agriculture.” Continue reading “Organic Consumers Association Calls on Congress to Oppose the Tyson Foods Anti-Farmer Act”

sceneBearing Arms – by Bob Owens

Two armed robbers in attempted to hold up the wrong Gamestop video game store in Harris County, Texas:

It all happened shortly after noon on Wallisville Road near Beltway 8. According to investigators, the two men attempted to rob a Game Stop store when they were stopped by the 28-year-old U.S. Marine.

Continue reading ““Ooh-rah!” U. S. Marine Veteran With Carry Permit Drops Armed Robber”

MH370 searchIndependent – by Adam Withnall

Officials today confirmed what we have feared for some time – that a relatively tiny search zone in the southern Indian Ocean is not the final resting place of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

From an underwater mission covering 850 sq km (320 sq mile) where acoustic “pings” were heard, the area being searched has now been extended to around a 60,000 sq km (23,100 sq mile) zone based on satellite data which remains disputed in some quarters.

The Australia-led search control team estimate it could be August – next year – before this region has been covered, and hopes of finding the Boeing 777’s flight recorders are becoming increasingly dim. Continue reading “Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: The 13 theories that could explain where the plane is – and what happened to it”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

Now that gay marriage seems to be a foregone conclusion in the United States, Time magazine is predicting the next “social movement” to overtake America. The magazine is promoting “The Transgender Tipping Point” on its June 9th cover.

As part of its cover story, the June issue features a full-standing cover shot of Laverne Cox, the star of the Netflix drama Orange Is the New Black. Cox is a transgendered male who identifies as a female.   Continue reading “Time Magazine: Attacking Transgender Bias is the Next ‘Social Movement’”

Citizen’s Journal

The California Air Resources Board, despite comments that it should reconsider amendments to its AB32 Scoping Plan on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, has gone ahead and approved them unanimously. What that means is CARB has rubber-stamped a plan to place the state on a path to cut carbon dioxide emissions in the state to 80 percent below 1990 levels, by mid-century.

Pacific Legal Foundation senior staff attorney, Ted Hadzi-Antich, said the comments submitted by PLF were totally ignored by the board. Ted says virtually every economic sector of the Golden State will be regulated by California’s Cap and Trade Regulation – energy, agriculture, water, waste generation and disposal, natural and working lands, buildings and construction, and transportation.   Continue reading “California set to regulate everything–through Cap and Trade”

Col. Danny StebbinsCourant – by DAVE ALTIMARI

State Police Col. Danny Stebbins, who oversaw the department’s investigation into the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, has told his top officers that he will be retiring at the end of June.

Stebbins has been the top state police officer since Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appointed him in January 2010, but he has come under criticism from the union for pushing for the consolidation of dispatch services. He also drew the ire of many legislators when, at a conference in New Orleans, he revealed some details of the Sandy Hook shootings that the victims’ families had not yet been told. Continue reading “Top State Police Officer, Who Oversaw Sandy Hook Investigation, Resigns”

CBS Sacremento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — New regulations passed by the Sacramento City Council will require taxi drivers in Sacramento to speak English.

Raheem doesn’t speak much English, but he says he’s good at his job driving a cab in Sacramento for years. He fears he may soon be out of a job.   Continue reading “New Regulations Bring English-Only Requirement To Sacramento Taxicabs”

Yahoo News

Hermosillo (México) (AFP) – An American singer of narco-corridos — a musical genre extolling the glories of the drug trade — has been fatally shot in a northern Mexican town, officials said Friday.

Tomas Eduardo Tovar, 33, was gunned down late Thursday while dining at a restaurant in Ciudad Obregon, in Sonora state, according to law enforcement officials.

Tovar, who performed under the stage name Tito Torbellino, was killed by two gunmen who stormed into the establishment firing multiple rounds.    Continue reading “US singer of narco-corrido drug ballads killed in Mexico”