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(Hollywood Reporter) — President Barack Obama is set to deliver remarks and receive an honor presented by Steven Spielberg at a USC Shoah Foundation event, the organization said Friday.

The event, the 20th Anniversary Ambassadors for Humanity Gala, will be held May 7 in Los Angeles. The president is also expected to attend at least one fundraiser for the Democratic party while he is in town, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.    Continue reading “Spielberg to Honor OBAMA at Holocaust Survivor Gala…”

Breitbart – by AWR HAWKINS

Virginia Beach Middle School sixth-grader Adrionna Harris “has been suspended for taking a razor from a student who was cutting himself.”

Her suspension is 10 days in length and carries a recommendation for expulsion.   Continue reading “Sixth Grader Suspended For Taking Razor Blade From Boy Who Was Cutting Himself”

CenturyLink

Washington (AFP) – A university student in the United States has been charged with possessing a potentially lethal amount of the powerful toxin ricin, court documents showed.

Daniel Harry Milzman, from Georgetown University in Washington, told the FBI earlier this week that he produced the ricin himself in his dormitory room about a month ago, having bought the precursor materials in local stores.   Continue reading “US student ‘produced ricin in dorm’”

The Guardian

Russian troops forced their way into a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea with armoured vehicles, automatic fire and stun grenades, injuring a Ukrainian serviceman and detaining the base’s commander for talks.

A Reuters reporter said armoured vehicles smashed through a wall of the compound and he heard bursts of gunfire and grenades.   Continue reading “Russian troops overrun Ukrainian air base in Crimea”

Abroad: Obama’s Cost Taxpayers $1.4B, British Royal Family $58MRed Flag News

(Maggie’s Notebook) — Other than Michelle Obama’s trips to Kenya with her husband before he ascended to the Oval Office, I wonder how many opportunities she had to travel outside the U.S. I doubt there were many until she was graced with taxpayer funding. By mid 2013, Michelle had visited 14 foreign countries. In 2013, American taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on “perks” for the Obamas — “biggest staff in history at highest wages ever.” The British taxpayers were hit with only a mere $57.8 million to entertain their royal family. Don’t miss the Daily Caller info below. Remember who Michelle Obama was just before coming to Washington D.C. to received her taxpayer-paid make-over?   Continue reading “Michelle Obama in China: “Rare I have the chance to travel””

Washington’s Blog – by Eric Zuesse

While all polls show that as a likely Presidential contender in 2016, Hillary Clinton’s support is wider than anyone else’s, the latest poll from Gallup shows that this extraordinarily wide support is also remarkably shallow, which means that if she were to become the Democratic nominee, the Republican who runs against her in the general election might easily drown her in a pit of negatives that the public doesn’t yet know about. Those negatives exist.   Continue reading “Gallup Finds that Hillary Clinton’s Wide Political Support Is Stunningly Shallow”

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Sent to us by a reader who said, “Will the 21st century echo the 19th?”

Southern Arizona Guide

If we think of them at all, we tend to think fondly of our Arizona Territory pioneers. In the shallow backwaters of our imagination, we apply common descriptive terms to their exploits as they settled the West. They were rugged, determined, courageous. But what does that mean in reality?

Most of what we know about their ruggedness, determination, and courage comes from Hollywood movies. We are so often exposed only to general, sanitized, sensationalized, or romanticized versions of pioneering. Think of the 1940 Western, Arizona, starring Jean Arthur and William Holden. Old Tucson was created to make this popular movie and the set played the part of the real Tucson ca. 1860.   Continue reading “A Fate Worse Than Death: How Pennington Street Got Its Name”

-voterrightsdrive 6.jpg_20140321.jpgCincinnati – by Sharon Coolidge

A Hamilton County poll worker who has been held up nationally as an example of voter fraud took the stage at a local voting rights rally – outraging Republicans and dismaying even top local Democrats.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, keynote speaker at Thursday’s rally to kick-off the campaign for an Ohio Voters’ Bill of Rights Ohio Constitutional amendment, even hugged Melowese Richardson.   Continue reading “Both parties jeer embrace of fraudulent voter”

Red Ice Creations

We recently highlighted the article, “Forget RFID: Check Out Our Super Trendy Tracked and Traced Future” which examines the ’creepiness’ factor of new wearable technology.

This disturbing trend of the personal use of artificial-so-called-’intelligence’ technology is becoming ubiquitous to modern life, and the auto industry is no exception.   Continue reading “Car camera system detects when you have “road rage”, may intervene”

Free-range-hensCollective Evolution – by Alanna Ketler

After hearing these facts about the conditions that animals are forced to endure on factory farms you might be displeased to learn that 99% of all of the meat that is sold in the U.S. comes from factory farms (1), something to keep in mind.

*Warning: Some of the images used are graphic*  Continue reading “10 Alarming Facts About Factory Farms That Will Break Your Heart”

Boulder Weekly – by Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer

The oil and gas industry has a dirty little secret, make that a dirty big secret … no, make that one of the biggest, dirtiest secrets in U.S. history.

What is no secret these days is that the potential for negative environmental and health impacts as a result of oil and gas exploration and production activity is very real.   Continue reading “America’s dirtiest secret”

The troops in the base have been waiting for orders as thousands of other troops are withdrawn from the region as tensions with Russia heightenDaily Mail – by Will Robinson

Russian soldiers have stormed through the walls of an airforce base in Crimea after a Ukrainian commander ignored demands to leave ordered his troops to ‘stand their ground’.

At least one Ukrainian soldier is reported to have been shot and explosions have been heard at the Belbek base near Sevastapol after a tank broke through the gates.    Continue reading “Russian troops open fire on Ukraine troops after they refuse to vacate Crimea base on orders of defiant commander”

AFP Photo RT News

A rarely reported but highly extensive database managed by a Pentagon law enforcement agency that contains millions of details including criminal records and minor infractions alike is being called into question.

Although the Law Enforcement Information Exchange, or LInX, contains police records pertaining to run-of-the-mill 911 calls and even mere traffic citations, millions of these records concerning harmless civilian activity are stored in a system run by the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the primary law enforcement agency of the US Navy that’s headquartered at the Quantico, Virginia military base.   Continue reading “Pentagon database amasses millions of non-military police records”

Marine veteran Scott Olsen (Reuters/Stephen Lam)RT News

A United States military veteran who was critically injured by the police during an Occupy Wall Street protest in October 2011 will be awarded $4.5 million by the city of Oakland, California.

Attorneys for the man, 26-year-old Scott Olsen, said on Friday this week that city officials have agreed on a multi-million dollar settlement that will resolve a federal lawsuit filed after the Oct. 25, 2011 incident.   Continue reading “Oakland will pay $4.5 million to injured Occupy activist Scott Olsen”

Low Track #3: Low ImpactThe Weather Channel 

The feel of winter is going to carry over into the first week of spring if you live east of the Rockies. Not only are temperatures going to plunge below average, but we are also watching for the potential of an East Coast winter storm.

Here’s what we know right now regarding this potential storm and the uncertainties.    Continue reading “East Coast Winter Storm Next Week?”

AFP Photo / Barbara Sax RT News

The cause of the radiation leaks at the United States’ first nuclear waste repository are still under investigation, but in the meantime government officials have decided to move a stalled shipment of waste to a private dump in Texas.

According to Reuters, the shipment of approximately 1,000 barrels of radioactive leftovers to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, was put on hold when the facility began leaking radioactive material in February. On Thursday, the Department of Energy announced it would temporarily relocate those barrels to a rural site in western Texas.   Continue reading “Radiation leaks force transfer of nuclear waste from New Mexico to Texas”