An insight into the shadowy, yet powerful companies who have a big influence on the way the World Wide Web works. Continue reading “Six Shadowy Companies that Secretly Run the Internet”
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — One paratrooper was killed and seven others were injured Friday morning in a training accident at Fort Bragg, officials said.
“While conducting artillery live-fire training, the 18th Fires Brigade experienced an incident with a M777 light, towed howitzer,” officials said in a statement late Friday. Continue reading “Paratrooper killed in howitzer accident during Bragg training”
Any American flag purchased by the US Defense Department from now on will be legally required to have been made in the United States.
The new law, which goes into effect on Friday, is an apparent attempt to curtail flag purchases from China, which spiked following the demand generated by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York. Continue reading “American military banned from purchasing flags made in China”
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Taking Care of Your Kidneys and Combating High Blood Pressure Naturally. Continue reading “Taking Care of Your Kidneys and Combating High Blood Pressure Naturally”
February 19, 2014 — (TRN) — Some worrying developments are taking place at the Super Volcano located beneath Yellowstone National Park; the kind of developments that were seen shortly before other volcanoes erupted. Not only was there a sudden rise in the elevation of the ground, and development of new cracks, but a gas called Helium-4, a very rare type of Helium, has begun coming out of the surface. It is the presence of this gas that has scientists quite concerned. Continue reading “More Unusual “Activity” at Yellowstone Super Volcano”
Caracas Chronicles – by Juan Cristobal Nagel
As the protests gripping Venezuela enter their 19th day (get the basics here), it’s time to take stock of what’s happened. What are the stories? What are the non-stories? What matters?
The stories
- The Media Blackout – From yanking a Colombian cable news channel off the air to taking an entire city offline, the government has made controlling the flow of information about the crisis a priority. This comes on the heels of the looming threat to newspapers all over the country, which we have documented extensively. President Maduro has already announced they will pull the plug on CNN En Español, an important source of independent information. Now their journos’ official credentials have been revoked. All told, the past two weeks have been dreadful for the right of Venezuelans to be informed. The result? Tons of rumors, tons of disinformation, tons of uncertainty. Continue reading “Media, paramilitaries, abuses, and some blood”
Freedom Outpost – by Bradlee Dean
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”
– President George Washington
America knows that one great obstacle this criminal administration is trying to get over is the disarming of the American people. If it is not President Barack Hussein Obama blaming the American people for the crimes he and his administration are responsible for committing in Mexico, then it is his sidekick, Attorney General Eric Holder, trying to teach the media to brainwash America’s young. Continue reading “We Will Not Be Disarmed – We the People are the Militia”
Severe storms have lumbered through Illinois and the South – damaging homes, sparking floods and knocking out power to thousands as the nation braces for yet another Arctic blast.
Hail the size of golf balls fell in Illinois overnight, while possible tornadoes left 24,000 people without power and flash floods swept through towns as snow began to melt. Continue reading “Tornadoes rattle Midwest and South leaving thousands without power as nation braces for ANOTHER Arctic blast”
On Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC show earlier this week, “The O’Reilly Factor” anchor Bill O’Reilly called President Barack Obama a “patriot.” On his show on Thursday night, O’Reilly reiterated that sentiment, calling “almost every president” in the country’s history “a patriot.”
“I said on Kimmel that both President Bush the younger and Barack Obama are patriots because they served their country,” O’Reilly said. “You may not agree with them, alright? But I don’t think you say they’re not patriots unless you have, you know, evidence that is just through the roof. I think almost every president that’s ever served this nation has been a patriot, including Richard Nixon.” Continue reading “O’Reilly Doubles Down on Obama Is a ‘Patriot’ Claim, Says Nixon a Patriot as Well”
The Arizona Senate this week passed a Republican-backed bill that would allow people and businesses to refuse to serve homosexuals, for religious reasons.
Democrats and civil rights groups, including the ACLU, said Senate Bill 1062 would hurt Arizona’s economy by, for instance, causing groups to cancel conventions and hold them elsewhere. Continue reading “Arizona Senate Approves Bill to Allow Businesses to Refuse to Serve Gays and Lesbians”
Detroit officials are trying hard to restructure the city’s $18-billion debt by significantly cutting local workers’ pensions and payments to bondholders, US media reports.
Officials filed the city’s bankruptcy plan on Friday. Continue reading “Detroit bankruptcy plan cuts pension benefits”
Weekly World News – by Frank Lake
CAMBRIDGE, MA – A groundbreaking study has determined that 83% of the members of Congress are certified morons!
The Kennedy School of Government did a longitudinal study over the last 30 years that looked at the average IQ of members of Congress – the Senate & House of Representatives. Continue reading “Study: Congress Filled with Morons”
Bakersfield, Ca –-(Ammoland.com)- The EP-80 Polymer 80% lower receiver is a fiber reinforced composite polymer rifle lower available in several colors from www.eparmory.com.
Our 80% lowers can be ordered online and shipped direct to your home, without the hassle of serial numbers, registration or background checks, then finished with common hand tools. Continue reading “Building Your EP-80 Ar15 Rifle Lower at Home With Common Hand Tools”
Huffington Post – by Paige Lavender
Rocker Ted Nugent has reportedly apologized for calling President Barack Obama a “subhuman mongrel,” according to the Ben Ferguson Show and CNN.
During an interview on the Ben Ferguson Show Friday, Nugent apologized for the comments, which he made in January 2014. A post on the show’s Facebook page announced the apology: Continue reading “Ted Nugent Apologizes For Calling Obama A ‘Subhuman Mongrel’”
Huffington Post – by Kim Bellware
Hurling snowballs is a winter pastime for some kids, but for a 13-year-old Chicago boy it’s become a felony offense.
Chicago police say a 13-year-old boy was arrested and charged with a felony for throwing a snowball at a police officer after a West Side elementary school let out Wednesday afternoon. Continue reading “Residents Say Police Went ‘Overboard’ After 13-Year-Old Charged With Felony Over Snowball”
Global Research – by Jeffrey T. Richelson
A major controversy during the administration of President George W. Bush concerned the use or misuse of intelligence with regard to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs and possible links between Iraq and al-Qaida. The best known elements of that controversy were Iraqi motivations behind the procurement of aluminum tubes, whether Iraq had sought to acquire uranium from Niger, if Iraq was seeking to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program, and whether it was producing and stockpiling chemical or biological weapons. Continue reading “U.S. “Special Plans”: A History of Deception and Perception Management”

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