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The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has announced that wood burning will be banned in the region on Christmas Eve — and possibly on Christmas Day, too.
Tuesday will be the 17th Winter Spare the Air day of the season, and the air district will then decide whether wood burning will also be banned on Christmas. Continue reading “Bay Area wood burning banned Tuesday, possibly Christmas Day”
The Book of Calling – by Gary Bertnick
A walk through the many fields of this life
Beauty easily seen woven into such mystery
Flowers and butterflies
Men and women and children, ourselves,
A hummingbird sips on a backyard feeder one cold and frosty morning. Continue reading “Merry Christmas – A Gift”
“Every home in America can run on wind energy. In fact these units can be installed on existing power poles in rural areas, to catch the wind and send its energy back to the plant.”
– Raymond Green, Inventor
In 1913, Inventor Nikola Tesla patented a bladeless steam turbine that he claimed was the most efficient and the most simple rotary engine ever designed. Due to a lack of high-quality materials, Tesla was never able to properly build his engine. Continue reading “Tesla Technology: 5 Bladeless Turbines About To Revolutionize Energy Production”
Furious? Oh, really? You can be sure it’s feigned anger, and certainly no surprise to congressional oversight “watchdogs”. This transferring of US technology to foreigners has been going on unhindered for decades; certainly as far back at least from WWII Lend Lease. See: From Major Racey Jordan’s Diary (video). Apologies and resignations acceptable as restitution, and treason will go on unaffected or curtailed. American citizens lose on these two main theft counts – – economically and national security. Continue reading “U.S. Furious With Israel After Sale of Advanced Military Technology to China”
TOWERING grain silos overlook the main highway in Salt Lake City at the Mormon church’s Welfare Square.
At grocery stores, there’s a whole section with large plastic tubs with labels that read “Deluxe survivor 700.” Radio ads hawk long-term supplies of food with 25-year shelf lives. And houses are equipped with special shelving for cans of beans, rice and wheat. Continue reading “Mormon ‘survivalist’ food silos go mainstream”
As South Sudan’s army signaled Monday that it was poised for a major offensive against rebel forces, the leaders of both sides said they were ready to talk.
President Salva Kiir told US special envoy Donald Booth that he was ready for talks with rival Riek Machar “without preconditions.” Continue reading “South Sudan president and rebel leader signal willingness to talk”
(CNN) — A compounding pharmacy at the center of a fungal meningitis outbreak last year has agreed to a preliminary settlement that would create a $100 million fund for victims.
The fund will also be used to pay off creditors of the bankrupt New England Compounding Center, attorneys in the case said. A judge will have to approve the plan before it goes into effect. Continue reading “Pharmacy owners agree to $100 million settlement after meningitis outbreak”
The Motley Fool – by Bob Ciura
The United States becoming a net exporter of natural gas is an idea that seemed virtually impossible just a few years ago. The increase in domestic natural gas production has been dramatic, thanks to technological developments that have made previously untapped resources suddenly viable. Due to new ‘fracking’ technologies, the vast ocean of natural gas the United States is currently sitting on may hold the keys to our national energy independence. Continue reading “Natural Gas Storage Tanks are Drying Up With Exports on the Horizon”
Yahoo News – by JOSEF FEDERMAN
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s state archives has published a 50-year-old letter from the Mossad spy agency claiming it unknowingly offered paramilitary training to a young Nelson Mandela, along with documents illustrating the Jewish state’s sympathy for the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1960s.
The release of the documents on the archives’ website in the wake of Mandela’s death appear to be aimed at blunting criticism of the close alliance Israel later developed with South Africa’s apartheid rulers. Continue reading “Document: Israeli Mossad trained Mandela”
Last Friday, Mississippi joined forty other states and announced it would comply with the REAL ID Act, according to the U.S.Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Coalition For A Secure Driver License(CSDL). Forty-one states and territories are fully or partially compliant withREAL ID – of which twenty states are fully compliant.
The Examiner reports that the deadline for other states to adopt the measure has been postponed until 2016. Continue reading “Mississippi to comply with REAL ID”
President Obama wants you to know that he’s just like you! He signed up for health insurance, just like he’s forcing you to do. The only difference that while the little people are stuck getting error messages on the Obamacare website or getting the runaround by a navigator on the phone, Obama is on vacation while his staffers work to enroll him in a “symbolic” plan that he won’t even use. Continue reading “Privilege: Obama vacations as staffers bypass Obamacare site to enroll him in “symbolic” insurance”
CHANHASSEN, MINN. – A Chanhassen mother who has been baking cookies for the kids on her children’s bus for 15 years has been shut down by an anonymous complaint.
Every Friday, Anne Tabat has met the school bus in her subdivision with a basket of cookies. It began as a thank you to the bus driver. And, Tabat said, she couldn’t give the driver a cookie without giving one to every child on the bus. Continue reading “Mom who baked cookies for school bus riders for 15 years shut down by complaint”
On the day Anne Tabat was born, her grandmother gave her a cookie recipe book. She’s been “the cookie lady” ever since.
“Cookies are destiny,” she says.
Every Friday, she’s met the school bus in her Chanhassen subdivision, with the notion of thanking the bus driver for his efforts. She came bearing cookies because, she notes, you can’t just give a bus driver a cookie and ignore the kids. She’s been at the bus stop every Friday ever since — 15 school years. Continue reading “In suburban isolation, ‘cookie lady’ built community at the school bus stop”
President Barack Obama, as signaled earlier in the year, signed an executive order on Monday setting federal civilian and military pay rates for 2014, and including the first raise for civilian workers in four years.
Military and civilian employees will get a 1 percent raise in the new year, consistent with the level laid out in Obama’s earlier budget proposal.
The order had to be signed before January 1 to allow federal agencies to update their pay systems for the new year. Continue reading “Obama signs order for federal worker pay raises in 2014”
Shuuuuuurr they are.
On Dec. 19, the Obama administration made its 14th change to Obamacare without requesting congressional action to make the amendments. Such a move is precisely why an effort is underway in the House of Representatives to sue President Obama and force him to abide by constitutional restraints.
The measure is known as the Stop This Overreaching Presidency, or STOP, Act and is sponsored by freshman Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C. He told WND this is about abiding by the Constitution. Continue reading “At least 35 House members set to sue Obama”
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