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KING CITY, Calif. (AP) — One-third of a central California town’s police force was taken off duty after several officers were arrested in a scheme to take for themselves the impounded cars of some poor Hispanic residents, authorities said.

In the scheme, vehicles were impounded and towed, and when the car owners couldn’t pay the fees, the vehicles were sold or given away for free to some officers, Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo said Tuesday.   Continue reading “Third Of California Town’s Officers Tied To Scheme”

Reuters – by STEVE GUTTERMAN

President Vladimir Putin ordered an urgent drill to test the combat readiness of his armed forces across western Russia on Wednesday, flexing Moscow’s military muscle amid tension with the West over Ukraine.

Russia said the exercises were not linked to events in Ukraine, where the ouster of a president who turned his back on the European Union and sought closer ties with Moscow has raised worries in the West over possibility of military intervention.   Continue reading “Putin puts troops in western Russia on alert in drill”

RNIF – by Keyan Bliss 

In January, the Boeing Corporation bullied the members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to accept a new contract forcing them to give up hard-won pensions, dismantle their health care, and reduce their wages. The effort to take away essential benefits from Washington workers was a well-calculated scheme by the world’s largest airplane manufacturer. By exploiting bad economic conditions, it manipulated opportunistic politicians and even the union’s own leadership in order to pressure workers to accept these concessions.   Continue reading “Boeing Forces Union Workers to Sacrifice Pensions for Profit’s Sake”

RINF – by Harvey Wasserman

A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and explosions nearly three years ago.

If true, the revelations cast new light on the $1 billion lawsuit filed by the sailors against Tokyo Electric Power.  Many of the sailors are already suffering devastating health impacts, but are being stonewalled by Tepco and the Navy.   Continue reading “Documents Say Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated the USS Reagan”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

A new study reveals that members of the Air Force Reserve were exposed to significant levels of Agent Orange long after planes were dumping the toxic cocktail on Vietnam.

C-123 aircraft spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam. (Photo: US Air Force)The findings, published online Friday in the journal Environmental Research, stand in contrast to claims by the U.S. Air Force and the VA.   Continue reading “New Study Confirms One of Agent Orange’s Toxic Legacies”

Food Freedom USA – by Andrew Mastrocola

“If we win this war a lot of things will change.” from the movie ‘The Patriot’

We would not even have the chance to be fighting for farmers, consumers, and food freedom if the pacifist non-aggression policy had held front and center stage during the Revolutionary War for Independence from England.    Continue reading “Pacifists Detest Patriots in the War Being Waged for Your Food”

Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die

Due to a massive radiological event in New Mexico and the release of airborne plutonium, Kirkland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico has ordered 1,200 radiation suits and our videographer POTRBlog has put out this prepare to evacuate notice in the video below.

The obvious purpose for this order is to prepare for another massive Plutonium release from DOE’s WIPP plant outside Carlsbad New Mexico.   Continue reading “USAF Base Orders 1,200 Radiation Suits In New Mexico”

The Hill – by Justin Sink

Vice President Biden said new voter ID laws in North Carolina, Alabama and Texas were evidence of “hatred” and “zealotry” during a Black History Month event at the Naval Observatory on Tuesday.

The vice president said his votes to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act were among his proudest as a senator, and expressed frustration with a recent Supreme Court ruling striking down a crucial provision of the law.   Continue reading “Biden: New voter ID laws tied to ‘hatred’”

New York Daily Mail – by MARIANNE GARVEY, BRIAN NIEMIETZ AND LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT

His own co-workers are glad he’s getting the boot. Staffers at “Piers Morgan Live” are actually relieved that CNN has canceled the show, sources tell Confidenti@l.

“He was always such an a—— to people working for him,” one insider says of the bombastic Brit. Morgan’s last show is likely to be this week, but no specific date has been set. We hear it was low ratings and a bad attitude that killed it, and the decision was made by network boss Jeff Zucker. “The makeup girls suffered the worst — he was rude and belligerent,” says our source. “The general feeling is Morgan didn’t show any respect to anyone working under him — the people who were trying to make him look good.”   Continue reading “‘Piers Morgan Live’ staffers actually happy CNN canceled show: sources”

Southern California Weather Authority

A weaker system on Wednesday into Wednesday night will make way for the strongest system in three years to hit Southern California on Friday and this storm system will bring a lot of flooding, being the region has been so dry and thus people in the flood prone zones need to start preparing sandbags and doing flood preparations along the hillsides.

The system, currently out in the Pacific, has a strong southerly jet influence to it.  The storm is set to hit on Friday.  Upper divergence and jet dynamics suggest that heavy rain is likely south and west of the mountains, bringing in over two inches of rain in a short period of time, with higher amounts in the foothills.  The system will be the strongest in three years.   Continue reading “Southern California Major Storm Coming, Flood Preparations Underway”

Canada Free Press – by Judi McLeod

It’s time for both Democrat and Republican U.S. governors to call Barack Obama’s bluff.

Unanswered Barack braggadocio that is the trademark of his presidency is reaching all time highs.

On Monday,  it was revealed that the Obama regime plans on gutting the U.S. military to pre-World War II levels.  On Tuesday, it became clear that the National Guard is next on his hit list.   Continue reading “Obama direct threats call for governor gonads”

The Organic Prepper

Well, thank goodness we have First Lady Michelle Obama looking after our school-age children. Even though her last round of rules for school lunches collapsed (thankfully before the hungry kids did), the FLOTUS isn’t done yet with her meddling.

In a world where a place that sells sandwiches topped with crumbled up GMO Fritos is touted as healthy, it only makes sense that the woman promoting this restaurant to help fight childhood obesity is in charge of making up rules that are geared to keep kids in line.   Continue reading “FLOTUS and the USDA Ban Junk Food Ads from Schools, but Promote Neurotoxins as Healthy Choices”

Mail.com

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate was executed early Wednesday for abducting, raping and killing a Kansas City teenager as she waited for her school bus in 1989, marking the state’s fourth lethal injection in as many months.

Michael Taylor, 47, was pronounced dead at 12:10 a.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre. Federal courts and the governor had refused last-minute appeals from his attorneys, who argued that the execution drug purchased from a compounding pharmacy could have caused Taylor inhuman pain and suffering.   Continue reading “Missouri executes man in ’89 rape, killing of teen”

Mail.com

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego family is suing Petco after the death of their 10-year-old son from a bacterial infection they say he contracted from his pet rat.

Attorney John Gomez told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his firm filed the lawsuit Monday in San Diego County seeking an unspecified amount for the suffering endured by the Pankey family, whose son, Aidan, died June 12, 2013, hours after he was rushed to the hospital with severe stomach pains.   Continue reading “Child dies from infected rat; family sues Petco”