Fuel Fix – by James MacPherson

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota officials are trying to determine if Tesoro Corp. knew about potential problems — including one deemed “serious” in documents obtained by The Associated Press — with a pipeline that leaked more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil in a wheat field in the northwestern part of the state.

Dave Glatt, chief of the state Department of Health’s environmental health section, said Wednesday that regulators want to know more about inspections conducted before the spill reported by a farmer harvesting wheat on his farm near Tioga on Sept. 29.   Continue reading “N.D. officials want answers on ruptured oil pipeline inspections after Tesoro leak”

Ventism – by Doug Bandow

Attention in Washington remains focused on the government shutdown.  But a far more important issue confronts America: rising chocolate prices. When will the government address this terrifying global crisis?

Cocoa trees have been cultivated for thousands of years. The early Mesoamericans, including the Aztecs and Mayans, turned the beans into cocoa solids, liquid, and butter. These peoples offered cocoa beans as gifts for the gods and using cocoa drinks in sacred ceremonies.   Continue reading “The World Is Entering a Devastating Chocolate Crisis: The Government Must Act to Save Us”

ICE tactics photo reutersPat Dollard

Excerpted from FOX NEWS LATINO: The frustration, say immigration advocates, is reaching a fever pitch.

That is why, many say, recent weeks have seen activists use chains and pipes to tie themselves to the tires of buses that carry immigrants slated for deportation to court, block traffic on Capitol Hill and get arrested, surround Tucson police when they targeted two immigrants during a traffic stop, and chain themselves and block the entrance of a federal detention center.   Continue reading “Report: Illegal Mexicans ‘Not Going To Take It Anymore’, Promise Violent Approach”

As government springs back to life, so do private industries that rely on feds to do businessVancouver Sun – by RACHEL LA CORTE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The end of the federal shutdown means boats will be back out on the Bering Sea to fish for king crab. Loggers are being allowed back into national forests in Oregon. And barriers keeping nature lovers out of national parks across the country have been removed.

Crews on about 80 boats have been sitting out the multimillion-dollar harvest of red king crab because federal managers who assign fishing quotas were among workers furloughed during the government’s partial shutdown. They’re relieved that they’ll soon be able to start their harvest, bringing back an industry that was one of many private sectors of the economy stalled around the country by the bickering in Washington.   Continue reading “As government springs back to life, so do private industries that rely on feds to do business”

ENE News

Alexandra Morton’s Blog, Oct. 11, 2013: […] The sockeye returns to the Skeena watershed in northern British Columbia crashed this year. This was completely unexpected. Sockeye salmon returns have plunged to historic lows in the Skeena River system of northwestern British Columbia, forcing drastic, never-before-imposed fishing closures. […] massive numbers were dying before spawning. This is a Fraser sockeye problem.   Continue reading “Biologist finds pink salmon that are canary yellow on Canada’s Pacific coast”

whiteprivelagelessonEAG News – by Kyle Olson

MUSKEGON, Mich. – We at EAGnews recently purchased a series of teaching guides that an untold number of American schools are using – or will soon begin using – to teach the new Common Core national standards in math and English.

The guides were produced by the Zaner-Bloser company. We wanted to examine these teaching materials to get a better idea about the values and ideological perspectives that school children will be influenced by.   Continue reading “Fourth graders learn to own their ‘white privilege’ – thanks to Common Core-aligned lesson”

UN Demands Obama “Nullify” Stand Your Ground LawsThe New American – by Alex Newman

Wildly overstepping its bounds while revealing a profound ignorance or disdain for America’s constitutional system of government, the United Nations demanded on September 3 that the Obama administration “nullify” Florida’s popular “stand your ground” law. Of course, the president cannot “nullify” anything, let alone state law — and especially not on meaningless orders from the UN.   Continue reading “UN Demands Obama “Nullify” Stand Your Ground Laws”

The U.S. DollarThe Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

On the global financial stage, China is playing chess while the U.S. is playing checkers, and the Chinese are now accelerating their long-term plan to dethrone the U.S. dollar.  You see, the truth is that China does not plan to allow the U.S. financial system to dominate the world indefinitely.  Right now, China is the number one exporter on the globe and China will have the largest economy on the planet at some point in the coming years.  The Chinese would like to see global currency usage reflect this shift in global economic power.    Continue reading “9 Signs That China Is Making A Move Against The U.S. Dollar”

Negotiations Continue On Capitol Hill One Day Before Debt Limit DeadlinePat Dollard

Excerpted from THE HILL: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he will not allow another government shutdown as part of a strategy to repeal ObamaCare.

McConnell (Ky.) told The Hill in an interview Thursday afternoon that his party learned a painful political lesson over the past 16 days, as its approval rating dropped while the government was shuttered.     Continue reading “Scmbag Mitch McConnell Promises No More Shutdowns Over ObamaCare”

Washington’s Blog

Key Architect of Counter-Terrorism Policies to Become Homeland Chief

USA Today reports:

President Obama plans to nominate former Pentagon attorney Jeh Johnson as the next secretary of homeland security, officials said Thursday.   Continue reading “Apologist for Assassination of Americans to Be Named as New Homeland Security Chief”

James MadisonVeteran Today – by Jonas E. Alexis

James Madison, back in 1795, prophetically underscored a central point that must be echoed here at this critical time in our history, when the debt ceiling crisis has already reached a point of no return.[2]

Madison declared that “the testimony of all the ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous of all enemies of liberty.”[3]   Continue reading “Perpetual Wars and the Dreadful Few–”The Jews” (Part I)”

Someya's latest materialIEEE Spectrum – by Takao Someya

One decade ago, my research group at the University of Tokyo created a flexible electronic mesh and wrapped it around the mechanical bones of a robotic hand. We had dreamed of making an electronic skin, embedded with temperature and pressure sensors, that could be worn by a robot. If a robotic health aide shook hands with a human patient, we thought, this sensor-clad e-skin would be able to measure some of the person’s vital signs at the same time.

Today we’re still working intensively on e-skin, but our focus is now on applying it directly to the human body. Such a bionic skin could be used to monitor medical conditions or to provide more sensitive and lifelike prosthetics.   Continue reading “Bionic Skin for a Cyborg You”

Washington Post – by Eric Yoder

The budget measure that ended the partial government shutdown allows for a 1 percent raise for federal employees in January in addition to providing back pay for those furloughed, according to two Democratic Maryland senators.

“The promise of a modest pay raise and back pay for furloughed government employees are good first steps in recognizing the value of federal workers,” said Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee in a joint statement with Sen. Ben Cardin.   Continue reading “Budget deal allows for January federal pay raise”

JUDICIAL REFORM:  All valid evidence stands.  To convict the innocent is a crime in itself and the worst of all possible situations involving order within the society, but is a crime against only the person or persons involved.  However, to allow the guilty to go free to continue their crimes, is a gross absurdity, and in fact is a crime against the whole of society.  If evidence is obtained unethically or illegally, that is dealt with as a separate issue.

ELECTION REFORM:  The first three things that must be acted on in campaigns-
a.    All money for any campaign must come from the district of that campaign, and very definitely no money can cross state lines.
b.    Shorten the election cycle.  For elections in November all primaries begin in   June.
c.    Limits on campaign spending,(overall election reform was discussed in a 2 part series 1/24/92 & 2/7/92 in the North Chicago Tribune).   Continue reading “Ideas for Problem Resolution”