Huffington Post – by JANET McCONNAUGHEY

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 65-mile stretch of the Mississippi River, including the Port of New Orleans, was closed to all water traffic Sunday as crews cleaned up oil that spilled from a barge after it ran into a towboat between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Coast Guard said.

Officials don’t know how much oil spilled, but only a sheen was reported on the river following the collision, which happened Saturday afternoon near Vacherie, 47 miles west of New Orleans by land, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough.   Continue reading “Mississippi Oil Spill Closes Part Of River, Including New Orleans Port”

Pat Dollard

DENVER (CBS4) – Customers of some marijuana shops are finding they don’t have to go far if they have a case of the munchies since Girl Scouts are selling cookies right outside the front door.

A Girl Scout in San Francisco sold about 117 boxes in just two hours outside a medical marijuana shop.

But those in Colorado will have to go a lot further for cookies because Girl Scouts here are keeping their distance.   Continue reading “Colorado Girl Scouts Not Allowed To Sell Cookies To Hungry Stoners”

Before It’s News – by Jay Will

Ukraine Arrest warrant issued for Viktor Yanukovych over killings of civilians

The turmoil in Ukraine has swept aside its president, brought about the release a prominent opposition leader and raised fears the country could break apart.

After the bloodshed in the streets of Kiev last week — the deadliest violence Ukraine has suffered since its independence 22 years ago — the political twists and turns came thick and fast over the weekend.   Continue reading “Ukraine Arrest Warrant Issued For Viktor Yanukovych Over Killings Of Civilians”

Before It’s News – by N. Morgan

This is one of those stories that I don’t often get to write about. An Oregon trash collector was on his route, when he saw an American flag had blown off its pole and was scattered across the trash can. While he could have just ignored it, he instead stopped what he was doing, properly folded the flag like he’d learned to do in Boy Scouts, and returned it to its owner. A neighbor caught the admirable act and notified the trash company. The company happily released the camera footage, which has since gone viral.   Continue reading “Oregon Garbage Collector Goes Out of His Way To Respect The American Flag”

Blacklisted News

PAM MARTENS AND RUSS MARTENS OF WALL STREET ON PARADE REPORTS:

On the evening of Sunday, December 15 of last year, six weeks before the onset of the latest rash of tragic deaths of young men in their 30s employed at JPMorgan, the Pearland, Texas police received a call of a person in distress outside a Walgreens pharmacy at 6122 Broadway in Pearland. The individual in distress was Jason Alan Salais, a 34-year old Information Technology specialist who had worked at JPMorgan Chase since May 2008.   Continue reading “Another Sudden Death of JP Morgan Worker: 34-Year Old Jason Alan Salais”

Milton Wolf in 2013 (John Hanna/AP)Yahoo News – by Dylan Stableford

Dr. Milton Wolf, a U.S. Republican Senate candidate from Kansas, is under fire for posting to his Facebook page a collection of grisly “X-ray images of gunshot fatalities and medical injuries” he acquired as a radiologist and making “macabre jokes” about them online, the Topeka Capital Journal reports.

Wolf, a tea party activist and distant cousin to President Barack Obama, declined “to clearly answer questions about whether he continued to place images of deceased people on the Internet,” and walked out of an interview with the newspaper.   Continue reading “Senate candidate under fire for posting grisly images to Facebook”

Washington’s Blog

The Fed Is Very Political … And Serves the Big Banks and the Powers-That-Be

The Federal Reserve likes to pretend that it is “independent” and “apolitical”.

The facts are different:   Continue reading “The Federal Reserve Is Not “Independent” Or “Apolitical””

Lew Rockwell – by Butler Shaffer

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

–   Emile Zola

February 22nd was the 71st anniversary of the murder of Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christopher Probst. They were young people, in their early twenties, who lived in Munich, Germany. They, along with other members of a peaceful, anti-war group known as White Rose, published leaflets informing fellow-Germans of the wrongs being engaged in by the Nazi regime. The three were caught with such leaflets, quickly tried for the crime of “high-treason” and immediately executed by guillotine.   Continue reading “To Control or Destroy the Human Mind – The War Against Truth”

Science Daily

Researchers have identified a polio-like syndrome in a cluster of children from California over a one-year period, according to a case report released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014.   Continue reading “Mysterious polio-like illness found in five California children”

Reuters / Erik De Castro RT News

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s reported plan to scale back the US Army to its smallest numbers since World War II, as well as slashing pay and perks for service personnel, promises to be an uphill battle in Congress.

After more than a decade of fighting two protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US military is showing some wear and tear, at least on the budgetary front. In an effort to adhere to President Obama’s pledge of scaling back military operations abroad, compounded by the grim reality of austerity measures following years of prodigious spending, the epoch of expensive US overseas military occupations appears to have waned, according to the New York Times.    Continue reading “US military plans steep cutbacks, roils ranks”

AFP Photo / Justin SullivanRT News

Gun makers in the United States produced a record number of weapons in 2012, as new government data suggests Democratic presidents may actually be a boon to firearms manufacturers.

According to numbers released by US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, more than 8.5 million guns were produced in 2012, compared to about 6.5 million in 2011. That’s a 31 percent increase, and the highest number recorded since the agency began tracking gun production in 1986.   Continue reading “Gun production in US sets new record with 30 percent increase”

WND

Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa was the highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West. He exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceauescu, giving the dictator a nervous breakdown and prompting him to post two different million-dollar bounties on Pacepa’s head and send assassination squads to the U.S. to find his former spy chief and kill him. Pacepa, at 85, today lives in the U.S. as a “proud American citizen.”   Continue reading “Ex-commie spymaster warns of rapid ‘American descent’”

Before It’s News – by Josey Wales

Americans have been conditioned to accept the loss of life in distant lands, news of drone strikes killing wedding parties and innocent civilians, are spread all over the media. This is a form of conditioning.

In the video below from StormCloudsGathering, you will see just how we as Americans are conditioned to accept the killing of innocent men, women and children, while we sit in our warm homes watching Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus on TV.    Continue reading “Obama’s NDAA 2014: ‘Conflict Records Research Center’ Bolstering National Security Surveillance State”

Pope Francis - Photo by Christoph WagenerThe Truth Wins – by Michael Snyder

Is Pope Francis taking steps that are laying the groundwork for the emergence of a one world religion?  If that question sounds quite bizarre to you, I urge you to read the rest of this article.  We live at a time when globalization is advancing rapidly.  The global economy is more integrated than it has ever been before, and with each passing year new economic treaties tie us even more closely together.  And “global governance” (as the elite like to call it) is also steadily gaining ground.  Through a whole host of global institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF and the Bank for International Settlements, global governments are working together to a degree that is unprecedented.  Well, what about religion?  Is there evidence that we are also witnessing the globalization of religion?  Well, yes there is.  In fact, it appears that Pope Francis intends to lead the way.   Continue reading “Pope Francis And The Emerging One World Religion”

Truth Dig

Lest we forget that religion can provide a powerful cover for those looking to abuse the trust of believers, The New Jersey Star-Ledger reports that a local archdiocese built a lavish addition to an archbishop’s retirement home two years after closing a school for alleged lack of funds.   Continue reading “Newark Archbishop Gets $500K Home Upgrade After Parish School Closure”

IPS – by Carey L. Biron

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 2014 (IPS) – An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors.

Mirroring a trend being experienced across the globe, this strengthening focus on agriculture-related investment by the private sector is already leading to a spike in U.S. farmland prices. Coupled with relatively weak federal policies, these rising prices are barring many young farmers from continuing or starting up small-scale agricultural operations of their own.   Continue reading “Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity”

Reuters UK

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s 340,000 barrels-per-day El Sharara oilfield has been completely shut down since Thursday night due to violent clashes with protesters, the state-run National Oil Corporation said on Saturday.

The key El Sharara field located in the remote south has been repeatedly closed by armed groups and protesters as a way to pressure Libya’s weak central government into political and financial demands.   Continue reading “Protesters shut Libya’s El Sharara oilfield in setback for government”