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Efforts to renew emergency federal jobless benefits for 1.5 million Americans stalled in the Senate on Tuesday when Democrats and Republicans rejected each other’s proposals.
Both sides vowed to keep looking for a compromise, but it appeared unlikely they would find one before next week’s Senate recess. Continue reading “Effort to extend jobless benefits stalls in Senate”
Two Kentucky water systems temporarily shut down their intakes early Monday as a plume of the chemical spilled last week in West Virginia passed in the Ohio River.
The cities of Ashland and Russell stopped drawing water from the Ohio after the chemical — 4-methycyclohexane methanol, or MCHM — reached Ashland at 5:30 a.m., according to the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection. Continue reading “Two Kentucky water systems shut intakes as chemical plume passes in Ohio River”
New York Times – by EDWARD WYATT
WASHINGTON — Internet service providers are free to make deals with services like Netflix or Amazon allowing those companies to pay to stream their products to online viewers through a faster, express lane on the web, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
Federal regulators had tried to prevent those deals, saying they would give large, rich companies an unfair edge in reaching consumers. But since the Internet is not considered a utility under federal law, the court said, it is not subject to regulations banning the arrangements. Continue reading “Rebuffing F.C.C. in ‘Net Neutrality’ Case, Court Allows Streaming Deals”
WASHINGTON — President Obama has problems with credibility, as the world well knows after he disingenuously insisted, “If you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan” about two dozen times in public.
Now, it turns out, the Democrat most political observers believe will try to replace Obama as president apparently also has problems telling the truth. Continue reading “Congressman: Hillary Busted in Monster ‘Lie’”
Whether you think of it as an analogy or as an accurate portrayal of the human condition, Stefan Molyneux’s controversial essay about the rise and (hopefully) fall of the tax farmer will make you think. Early humans could only produce what they consumed. There was no excess for a slave master to steal, so there was no point owning slaves. However, when agricultural improvements allowed for excess crop production, human ownership became an advantage. History tells us that early governments were in fact a ruling class of slave hunters who believed that because humans could produce more than they consumed, they were worth capturing, breaking in and owning. Early Egyptian and Chinese empires were in reality human farms where captured humans were domesticated and owned like any other livestock. – KK Continue reading “Human Farm: The Story of Your Enslavement”
ABC News – by LARA JAKES AP National Security Writer
The United States pledged Wednesday to send an additional $380 million in aid this year to help victims of Syria’s brutal civil war, but warned that international efforts to ease their suffering will fail if Syrian President Bashar Assad refuses to let humanitarian assistance get to people who need it.
The U.S. is the largest single international donor to the Syrian crisis. But its new funding commitment, announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, is only a fraction of the $6.5 billion the United Nation hopes to raise for aid to Syria in 2014. Continue reading “US Pledges Additional $380m for Syria War Victims”
Stunning Hypocrisy
The big banks have laundered hundreds of billions of dollars for drug cartels. See this, this, this, this, this and this (indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis). Continue reading “Big Banks Launder Hundreds of Billions of Illegal Drug Cartel Money … But Refuse to Provide Services for Legal Marijuana”
Israeli, American researchers publish work on new genetic risk factor for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. The grounds of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Israeli and American researchers investigating a healthy Ashkenazi Jewish population have identified a new genetic risk factor for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (manic-depression). Continue reading “Researchers find new risk factor for two mental illness disorders in Ashkenazi genes”
Yahoo News – by Leticia Pineda
Apatzingán (Mexico) (AFP) – Mexican federal forces launched an offensive to take over security in a violence-torn western state, seizing a drug cartel’s bastion and clashing with vigilantes who refused to disarm.
A convoy of 200 military and federal police forces rumbled into Apatzingan and disarmed municipal police officers in the city, which is known as a stronghold of the Knights Templar gang in Michoacan state. Continue reading “Mexican troops in deadly clash with vigilantes”
Pleadings in Federal Court Reveal ICE Undercover Operation Marked With CIA Fingerprints
Federal agents this past November raided the offices of an aircraft brokerage and leasing company called World Jet Inc., based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The raid, spearheaded by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, was launched on the heels of a DEA affidavit for a search warrant, which was filed in late October last year in federal court in Colorado as part of a case that is now sealed. The search-warrant affidavit was made available on the Internet after being obtained by a reporter for the Durango Herald newspaper. Continue reading “DEA Case Threatens to Expose US Government-Sanctioned Drug-Running”
NJ.com – by Amy Kuperinsky/The Star-Ledger
They took to the stage dressed in “Born in the U.S.A.” ensembles, wearing sleeveless denim button-downs, aviator sunglasses and red bandanas.
Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Fallon sang about none other than Gov. Chris Christie.
The song, called “Governor Chris Christie’s Fort Lee, New Jersey Traffic Jam,” riffed on the George Washington Bridge scandal involving Christie’s staff and lane closures to the bridge in Fort Lee. Continue reading “Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Fallon sing Chris Christie ‘New Jersey Traffic Jam’ song”
Sodium bicarbonate, better known as baking soda, has been used for decades as a first line of defense against every kind of ‘acidic’ health problem – including cancer. Naturally, the question remains – is there any proof that baking soda is a defense against cancer or any other chronic dis-ease?
History has much to teach us about natural healthcare. In a booklet titled, Arm & Hammer Baking Soda Medical Uses – published in 1924, Dr. Volney S. Cheney explains his clinical successes in using sodium bicarbonate to treat both the common cold and flu. His comments are actually quite remarkable. Continue reading “How baking soda helps cancer patients”
The Daily Sheeple- by Lily Dane
A Florida concealed carry permit holder had an unpleasant run-in with a Maryland police officer while traveling through the state.
John Filippidis and his family drove from Florida to New Jersey last December for Christmas and a wedding. He knew he’d be traveling through states that aren’t gun-friendly, so he left his gun at home. Continue reading “Gun Owners: Be Careful if You Pass Through Maryland”
The New York Times – by DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet, according to N.S.A. documents, computer experts and American officials. Continue reading “N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers”
Anger and frustration continued to build a day after an Orange County jury acquitted two former police officers of beating a homeless man to death in a case that generated national debate.
Overnight, protesters swarmed the streets of Fullerton, taunting passing patrol cars and waving signs saying “No More Killer Cops” and “Change 4 Justice.” Continue reading “Kelly Thomas verdicts: Police monitoring for death threats”
Kentucky.com – by BILL ESTEP
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