NBC New York

Hundreds of people are searching for a missing 55-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who left his New Jersey home for a walk on Saturday and never came back.

Sources close to the family told NBC News Thursday that the missing man’s credit card was used in Mexico Wednesday night. The family believes that his coverage of OPEC may be related to his disappearance.

The Journal said 55-year-old David Bird covers energy markets for the paper. He has also worked for The Associated Press and the Trenton Times.   Continue reading “Wall Street Journal Reporter Goes Missing in New Jersey, Credit Card Mysteriously Used in Mexico”

The Obama administration was forced to pull a warning about racism in Spain - just as the First Lady arrived in the country for a summer holidayDaily Mail

The Obamas’ summer break on Martha’s Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets.

But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances.

White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers’ money on vacations alone in the past year.   Continue reading “First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on her vacations”

Congress-bin-ladenTalking Points Memo – by CAITLIN MACNEAL

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, on Sunday said thatPresident Obama’s Friday speech on National Security Agency reforms left Congress with some uncertainty about U.S. surveillance programs.

Rogers said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the U.S. needed Obama to make a decision about the NSA’s data collection programs, but instead “what we got was lots of uncertainty.”   Continue reading “Rogers: Obama NSA Speech Left Us With More Uncertainty”

Breitbart

DEMING, N.M., Jan. 17 (UPI) —  Authorities in Hidalgo County, N.M., have settled a lawsuit for $1.6 million with a man who claims they illegally made him undergo colonoscopies and enemas.

David Eckert, 54, filed a lawsuit against the county and its police department in 2013, for allegedly violating his constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures during a 12-hour ordeal early in January 2013, CNN reported.   Continue reading “Man forced by police to have enemas, colonoscopy settles lawsuit”

Voice of America -by Daniel Schearf

SEOUL — A recent geological study indicates North Korea could hold some 216 million tons of rare earths, minerals used in electronics such as smartphones and high definition televisions.

If verified, the discovery would more than double global known sources and be six times the reserves in China, the market leader.

British Islands-based private equity firm SRE Minerals Limited announced the study results in December, along with a 25-year deal to develop the deposits in Jongju, northwest of the capital, Pyongyang.   Continue reading “North Korea’s Rare Earths Could be Game Changer”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As we previously explained numerous times (here originally and here most recently) Africa is a crucial region in the world…

As Western economies start to regress in earnest following decades of failed and destructive monetary inflation and debt accumulation, as we warned previously, yield-starved investors are allocating real capital to the one industrially untapped continent in the world: Africa. However, we’re not seeing industry moving to Africa to set up shop. Rather, politically-directed capital flowing into the African resources sector is fueling and financing the strongest consumer boom in the world. It’s a vendor financing model for Asia, and it portends a major boom and bust cycle for the African continental economy.   Continue reading “How Erik Prince, Founder Of Blackwater, Will Help China Subjugate Africa”

Leaked TPP Environment Chapter Shows Obama Betrayal of GreensThe New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

Anyone who still believes that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is about “fair trade” should head over to WikiLeaks and read the latest draft chapter of the agreement obtained by the whistleblowing organization.

In a press release issued on January 15, WikiLeaks announced that they had obtained the “complete environment chapter” of the secret sovereignty-surrender documents masquerading as a multinational trade agreement.     Continue reading “Leaked TPP Environment Chapter Shows Obama Betrayal of Greens”

hagmann011714Northeast Intelligence Network – by Douglas J. Hagmann

A few days ago, I was given a gift of sorts. It arrived in a plain  manila envelope with no return address. Inside was a note that stated that I would know precisely what to do with the information this anonymous source provided. That source was indeed correct.

According to this benefactor of inside information, the electric bills  of certain companies for the next billing cycle and employee overtime costs for the next pay schedule will be particularly high due to the cost of operating shredders and paying people to use them. Continue reading “Shredding the layers of the ObamaCare onion”

Best Description Of Barack ObamaMilitia News – by Jack Wheeler

The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract, empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.   Continue reading “The Best Description Of Barack Obama”

My Budget 360

There is always a trade-off in economics.  The adage about a free lunch comes to mind to the rise of low wage capitalism in America.  It is a complicated web driven by financial cronyism and a system largely driven by ignoring the plight of the working class.  The story of US manufacturing is probably one tiny example of how we exported our middle class in exchange for cheaper goods and a massive amount of income inequality at the top.  Yet there is a winner here as well.  Continue reading “The biggest export from America? The middle class. The trade-off for cheap goods and financial cronyism is coming back in a big way.”

Century Link – by DAN GELSTON

Dennis Rodman has checked into an undisclosed alcohol rehabilitation center to treat his long-time struggle with alcoholism, his agent says.

Darren Prince declined on Saturday to say which facility will treat Rodman and how long he will be there. Rodman recently returned to the United States from his latest trip to North Korea.   Continue reading “Rodman checks into rehab center”

NBC News

Three people were injured, including a pregnant woman, early Saturday morning after a gunman opened fire into an SUV that broke down along a Chicago expressway, officials said.

Illinois State Police said a 2008 Buick SUV broke down just before 1:30 a.m. on a southbound ramp to 71st Street off of Interstate 94.   Continue reading “Pregnant woman among 3 shot on Chicago expressway after SUV breaks down”

A Sheep No More – by Josey Wales

There is nothing that is taking place in America today that can’t be understood by examining the 100-year history of the efforts to destroy America from within.

This is a documentary that takes an in-depth look at the root of our decline in America; socialism with the ultimate goal of global communism. This documentary also lays out names and dates and groups that have an active and growing agenda to bring America down to a third-world country, from Karl Marx to the Fabian Socialists to the Weather Underground to the chosen U.S. puppet president, Barack Obama.   Continue reading “The Most Important Documentary On America Ever; Destroying America From Within”

Breitbart

On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), who has been widely discussed as a possible 2016 presidential candidate, toldSusan Arbetter of The Capitol Pressroom that “extreme conservatives” should leave the state. He said that “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay” have “no place in the state of New York.”

He began by ripping into the Tea Party without naming it:   Continue reading “NY Gov. Cuomo: Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-Marriage Conservatives ‘Have No Place In The State’”

Tech Crunch – by Josh Constine

Nothing is truly NSA-proof or hacker-proof, but WireOver wants to offer you more security than Dropbox, Google Drive, or Skydrive. The Y Combinator startup just emerged from stealth with a desktop app that lets you send files of any size for free. And for $10 a month, your transfers get end-to-end encryption so only the recipient can open them. WireOver can’t even look at what you’re sending.   Continue reading “Protect Yourself From The NSA With WireOver’s Encrypted File Sharing”