From the Trenches World Report

North Jersey -by HANNAN ADELY

HACKENSACK — A new smoke shop on Main Street is stocked with bongs, bowls and blunts, but it’s what’s on the outside that is really getting people fired up.

The name — Fu King Smoke Shop — is plastered outside on the awning of the red-lit, bamboo-lined store at 689 Main St. in the city’s quiet Fairmount section. The store has not opened yet, but it’s already attracting attention from parents and on social media. Residents say it’s a thinly veiled profanity and that it doesn’t belong in their neighborhood, a block away from an elementary school.   Continue reading “Hackensack’s Fu King Smoke Shop sign has critics fuming”

Common Dreams – by Jon Queally

John Rizzo, the chief legal counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency during the Bush presidency in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 has been opening up about what he experienced during those years as the administration, the agency, and its operatives, in the words of former Vice President Dick Cheney, “took the gloves off” in their war against terrorism.   Continue reading “CIA Lawyer: Stopping Torture ‘Would Have Been Easy,’ But I Approved It Anyway”

RT News

The price of cryptocurrency bitcoin has gone over $1,000 benchmark again after Zynga, the provider of social network games such as FarmVille, said it would accept the digital money in some of its titles.

The online service company, responsible for millions of hours spent plowing virtual land and raising virtual cows, said Saturday it would sell virtual goods and premium currency in some of its titles for bitcoins.   Continue reading “Bitcoin back over $1,000 after endorsement by game giant Zynga”

RT News

The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant plans to start cleaning underground tunnels believed to be part of the sources of radioactive materials poisoning the groundwater in the area.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will first block the flow of tainted water between the damaged buildings and the tunnels. Workers will begin burying pipes in the ground to carry refrigerants in January, NHK TV network reported. In April, they are set to start draining the contaminated water from the tunnels.    Continue reading “TEPCO to siphon off radioactive water from tunnels under Fukushima plant”

RT News

New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo is to legalize the use of marijuana in the state, using a decades-old public health law provision, the New York Times reports. The drug – which remains banned federally – will be prescribed for diagnosed medical ailments.

The liberalization of the previously strict local laws will be announced during Wednesday’s State of the State address, according to unnamed officials who spoke with the newspaper.   Continue reading “New York to legalize use of medical marijuana – report”

Before It’s News – Deborah Dupre

New poisonous tar balls that washed ashore on New Year’s Eve along the Gulf have tested positive as being from BP’s wrecked Macondo Prospect, according to officials and an environmental attorney.

“Some 44 months after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, crude oil is still spoiling what had been finest white-sand beaches in this country,” stated New Orleans-based attorney Stuart Smith on Friday.   Continue reading “BP’s Oil Poisoned Gulf Shore New Year’s Eve”

The Verge – by Russell Brandom

The Federal Bureau of Investigation may have bigger things to worry about than law enforcement. Foreign Policy is reporting a change in the bureau’s latest fact sheet, in which the agency’s primary mission has changed from “law enforcement” to “national security.” It’s in keeping with the bureau’s post-9/11 duties as the nation’s primary domestic counterterrorism agency, but the timing has many FBI-watchers scratching their heads. What’s changed in the last year to make the bureau shift away from law enforcement?   Continue reading “The FBI drops ‘law enforcement’ from its mission statement”

WECT 6 News

BOILING SPRING LAKES, NC (WECT) – Emergency crews responded to the scene of an officer involved shooting at a home in Boiling Spring Lakes Sunday afternoon.

The State Bureau of Investigation has been called to the incident at the request of District Attorney Jon David, according to a spokesperson for the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office. She said sheriff’s deputies were assisting BSL police with the initial response to a home on President Drive.   Continue reading “Family says officers shot and killed son”

The Independent – by Ian Johnston

Saturday Evening Post – by Jeff Nilsson

The “five-and-ten store” officially departed the American landscape in 1997. That year, the F. W. Woolworth Company ended 118 years in the discount retail business.

In fact, the five-and-dime store had already passed away forty years earlier. As the Post reported it,   Continue reading “Woolworth: A Five and Dime Story”

Political Vel Craft

Obama’s Kaczynskis Influence at the White House.

Richard Holbrooke Afghanistan Czar

Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment

Ed Montgomery Auto recovery Czar

Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.   Continue reading “Obama’s SS Czars”

Washington’s Blog

The Media Needs to Point Out the Hypocrisy of These Blowhards

In response to the revelation that the NSA spies on Congress, Congressman Peter King says that the NSA should spy on Congress, to make sure congress members don’t call Al Qaeda.

King is a fine one to talk … he supported the Irish Republican Army for decades, even though the IRA was designated as a terrorist group.   Continue reading “The Biggest Terrorism Scaremongers Are THEMSELVES the Ones Promoting Terrorism”

Washington’s Blog

How Many Constitutional Freedoms Have We Lost?

This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on the extent of the loss of each right. (This is an updated version of an essay we wrote in February. Since then, it has become apparent that the few rights we thought we had left are largely illusory.)   Continue reading “Have Americans Lost ALL of Our Constitutional Rights?”