Former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman speaks at a news conference in New York September 9, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/FilesReuters – by JAMES PEARSON

Retired basketball star Dennis Rodman will return to North Korea for a third time on Thursday, despite political tension surrounding the execution of leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, trip organizers said.

“It’s certainly safe, even when there is a bit of disruption like there is now – a bit of trouble or chaos – there’s even more need for cultural or sporting exchanges,” said Rory Scott, a spokesman for Irish bookmakers Paddy Power (PAP.I), which has arranged the trip.   Continue reading “Dennis Rodman back to N.Korea despite political tension”

CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce findsThe Guardian – by Sarah Boseley

Doctors and psychologists working for the US military violated the ethical codes of their profession under instruction from the defence department and the CIA to become involved in the torture and degrading treatment of suspected terrorists, an investigation has concluded.

The report of the Taskforce on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centres concludes that after 9/11, health professionals working with the military and intelligence services “designed and participated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of detainees”.  Continue reading “CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds”

Mujica's courage should not be underratedMerco Press – by Simon Jenkins

The war on the war on drugs is the only war that matters. Uruguay’s stance puts the UN and the US to shame.

I used to think the United Nations was a harmless talking shop, with tax-free jobs for otherwise unemployed bureaucrats. I now realize it is a force for evil. Its response to a truly significant attempt to combat a global menace – Uruguay’s new drug regime – has been to declare that it “violates international law”.   Continue reading “A Nobel peace prize for Uruguay for legalizing cannabis”

Rehmat’s World

Abraham Foxman, head of the so-called Anti-Defamtion League, has blasted Scott L. Bach, a member of the US National Rifle Association (NRA) board and executive director of the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs for criticizing Jewish Mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, who wants to make it hard for the city people to own guns.

“No matter how strong one’s objections are to a policy, or how committed an organization is to its mission, invoking the Holocaust to score political points is offensive and has no place in civil discourse,” said Abbe Foxman.   Continue reading “ADL: ‘NRA hates Jews’!”

Activist Post – by James White

Most of us realize that the Federal Government has claimed ownership of large portions of real estate across this land.  However, few of us probably realize what a stranglehold the Feds have on many states west of the Mississippi River.  The map below will quickly illustrate my point.  Continue reading “Own the Land-Control the Resources-Enslave the Population”

Activist Post – by Ron Paul

A week from now, the Federal Reserve System will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. Resulting from secret negotiations between bankers and politicians at Jekyll Island, the Fed’s creation established a banking cartel and a board of government overseers that has grown ever stronger through the years.   Continue reading “After 100 Years Of Failure, It’s Time To End The Fed!”

Activist Post – by Joe Wright

Even though climate change has taken center stage in the nation’s environmental debate, the well-documented and persistent threats of factory farming continue to accumulate across the country.

Whether it’s the health effects of production and run-off from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (as well as associated conditions of animal cruelty), the deadly introduction of GMOs and associated toxins, harassment of family farms, or Big Ag’s undeniable control over regulatory agencies like the EPA, FDA and USDA, there might be no greater threat than that of poisoning our dwindling fresh water supply.   Continue reading “Big Ag Mega Farm Threatens Pristine South Carolina River”

New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

Sheriffs’ refusal to enforce unconstitutional federal gun control measures has garnered national media attention.

An article published Sunday, December 15 in the New York Times, reported declarations made by Sheriff John Cooke of Weld County, Colorado. The story reported that in speeches, Sheriff Cooke holds up two 30-round magazines, one he purchased before enforcement of federal restrictions on magazine size and one “maybe” purchased after the regulation.   Continue reading “Sheriffs’ Resistance to Federal Gun Control Acts Makes Major Media”

ABC News – by CHRIS TALBOTT and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press

Good friends like Willie Nelson and Merle haggard got more credit for their contrary ways and trend-setting ideas, but it was Ray Price who set the precedent for change in country music more than a decade earlier.

Price passed away Monday at his Texas home, having long outlasted most of his country music contemporaries and the prognosis doctors gave him when they discovered his pancreatic cancer in 2011. He was 87.   Continue reading “Influential Country Singer Ray Price Dead at 87”

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.   Continue reading “A Different Christmas Poem”

Library supporters protest a plan to renovate the New York Public Library's main branch to sell the Mid-Manhattan branch. (credit: Monica Miller/WCBS 880)CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Library supporters dressed in cardboard costumes of their favorite books Monday to protest plans to renovate the New York Public Library’s main branch and sell the popular Mid-Manhattan branch.

As WCBS 880′s Monica Miller reported, members of the Library Lovers League, who demonstrated on the steps of the main branch, wanted to remind Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio about his campaign promise to scrap the projects.   Continue reading “Protesters: Close The Book On Plans To Renovate, Sell Library Branches”

The Wall Street Journal – by LISA FLEISHER

A group of New York City parents are trying to prevent public schools from sending children who have severe temper tantrums to the emergency room against their parents’ wishes.

The hospital trips can leave parents with costly medical bills, and parents often have to leave work early to pick up their children. Advocates for children with special needs say a solution would be for schools have better trained therapists and educators.   Continue reading “Parents Protest Emergency Calls”

Pew States – by Daniel C. Vock

Researchers say they have found a way to get trucks off clogged New York City streets during the busiest parts of the day, and they are hoping to use the same approach soon in other U.S. cities.

A two-year experiment that paid customers, such as shops and restaurants, to receive their supplies at night worked better at changing truck delivery times than previous attempts to discourage daytime deliveries by raising tolls during peak hours, said lead researcher, Jose Holguin-Veras, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.   Continue reading “Nighttime Delivery Offers Promise to Truckers in New York—and Elsewhere”

Consumer Reports

The number of children taking powerful antipsychotic drugs has nearly tripled over the last 10 to 15 years, according to recent research. The increase comes not because of an epidemic of schizophrenia or other forms of serious mental illness in children, but because doctors are increasingly prescribing the drugs to treat behavior problems, a use not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). And a disproportionate number of those prescriptions are written for poor and minority children, some as young as age 2.   Continue reading “Are too many kids taking antipsychotic drugs?”

towers-collapseSHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

If you have ever questioned the official narrative for the September 11th attacks then you have, without a doubt, been dubbed a conspiracy nut by the establishment media and those who hang on their every word.

Like the Warren Commission report on the JFK assassination, the 9/11 Report assembled by a Congressional investigation is unraveling and being revealed for what it really is – nothing more than a cover story.   Continue reading “An Act of War: CIA Leak Gives “Incontrovertible Evidence” That 9/11 Was State Sponsored”

Photo from Wikimedia Commons.Capitol City Project – by Joe Schoffstall

“INFORMATION NOT RELEASABLE TO THE PUBLIC UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY LAW: This information has not been publicly disclosed and may be privileged and confidential. It is for internal government use only and must not be disseminated, distributed, or copied to persons not authorized to receive the information. Unauthorized disclosure may result in prosecution to the full extent of the law.”

That is the warning at the bottom of every page of the 217-page confidential Obamacare Navigator training manual sitting online for anyone to come across –and as Watchdog.org reports, that’s exactly what someone did.   Continue reading “Confidential Obamacare Navigator training manual uploaded online”