texas republican donorsHuffington Post – by CHRIS TOMLINSON

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The deaths this year of three major Texas Republican donors, including a billionaire who died over the weekend, could signal a generational change for party kingmakers in the nation’s largest GOP stronghold.

Harold Simmons, whose business interests ranged from energy to nuclear waste dumps, helped transform Texas from a Democrat-controlled state in the 1970s to a Republican stronghold by the turn of the century. Simmons’ death Saturday came after Republicans lost home builder Bob Perry in April and businessman Leo Linbeck Jr. in June. For decades, all three helped bankroll political campaigns both in Texas and nationwide.   Continue reading “Texas Republicans Lose Three Major Donors In 2013”

Before It’s News – by Susan Duclos

Starting with what we know as a fact, which isn’t much with how dishonest TEPCO and Japan have been to date and the amount of lies the have already been caught at and the fact that Japan passed a secrecy law which would imprison anyone from reporting any news they deem “inappropriate,” including ongoing events at the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant.

FACT: Steam is once again rising at the unit #3 reactor, registered on at least three to four days between December 19 and the 27th.   Continue reading “Did They Abandon Fukushima?”

Buck Sexton on What 2014 Holds for the American PeopleGlenn Beck

TheBlaze’s national security editor Buck Sexton opened Monday’s Glenn Beck Program with a simple question: Will 2014 be the year America says enough is enough? As Buck explained, the United States has been teetering on the edge of big government progressivism for quite some time now, and soon the weight of a bloated government and overregulation will prove to be too much for this country to bear. With the midterm elections just around the corner, 2014 provides the opportunity to take a step back and reevaluate the current state of this country. Will Americans finally be ready say enough is enough?   Continue reading “Will 2014 be the year America says enough is enough?”

Humanity Awakens – by Jim Costa

“If only you believe like I believe in miracles, we’d get by.”

One of my life defining moments occurred while driving from work back to my lonely apartment. I was working thirty miles west and had been dating my wife for three months, who lived thirty miles east. The radio played the Beach Boys’ song with the words. “Wouldn’t it be nice to say “good night” and stay together? Wouldn’t it be nice?” I realized at that moment that my life was all wrong. I was working hard to create exactly what I didn’t want – unhappiness. I drove straight to her house and announced that I was moving in. I have to admit that all I got back was a giant blank look, but we were married in another three months and every day since the Beach Boys, we have both known the true miracle of being a human and co-creating us; God, it’s nice.   Continue reading “Jefferson Starship & Global Solution”

obama-we-dont-negotiate-with-terrorists-we-finance-them-450x337Pat Dollard

Excerpted from Walid Shoebat – Egypt’s Attorney General Hisham Barakat is looking into evidence that arrested Muslim Brotherhood leaders accepted bribes from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, according to a report from Almesryoon, an Egyptian newspaper that cites a “judicial source”.

The trials that are scheduled to begin in Cairo on August 25th will feature a litany of charges against the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Included among them are murders, assassinations, prison escapes, sniping, indiscriminate killing of demonstrators, and collaborating with foreign governments, to include both the United States and Qatar.   Continue reading “Egypt Attorney General Says Muslim Brotherhood Leaders On Secret Salary From Obama”

Obama And The MilitaryEnd of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder, May 30, 2013

Why does the Obama administration treat our military veterans like human garbage?  Every year on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Barack Obama and our other politicians make very nice speeches, but the truth about how they feel about our veterans can be seen in how they are treated every single day.  In the United States today, there are well over half a million veterans that have been waiting for at least 125 days to have their benefit claims processed.  Many of them will ultimately have their claims sent back or denied just so a government employee somewhere can get a bigger bonus.    Continue reading “25 Signs That Military Veterans Are Being Treated Like Absolute Trash Under The Obama Administration”

Unmanned dronesYahoo News – by MICHELLE RINDELS

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six states were named Monday by federal officials to develop test sites for drones — a critical next step for the burgeoning industry that could one day produce thousands of unmanned aircraft for use by businesses, farmers and researchers.

Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia will host the research sites, providing diverse climates, geography and air traffic environments as the Federal Aviation Administration seeks to safely introduce commercial drones into U.S. airspace.   Continue reading “Feds announce test sites for drone aircraft”

Relatives gather around the coffin of a victim of an explosion at a funeral in VolgogradYahoo News – by Sergei Karpov, Reuters

VOLGOGRAD, Russia (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday vowed to annihilate “terrorists” following two deadly bomb attacks in less than 24 hours in the southern Russian city of Volgograd that raised security fears ahead of the Winter Olympics.

The uncompromising remarks in a New Year’s Eve address were Putin’s first public comments since suicide bombers killed at least 34 people in attacks on a railway station and a trolleybus on Sunday and Monday.   Continue reading “Putin vows to annihilate “terrorists” after suicide bombings”

Fewest police deaths by firearms in 2013 since 1887New York Post

WASHINGTON — The number of law-enforcement officers killed by firearms in 2013 fell to levels not seen since the days of the Wild West, according to a report released Monday.

The annual report from the nonprofit National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund also found that deaths in the line of duty generally fell by 8 percent and were the fewest since 1959.   Continue reading “Fewest police deaths by firearms in 2013 since 1887”

Still from a video uploaded on YouTube by user@Jacob haughneyRT News

A video made by a man from North Dakota shows him cautiously holding a lighter up against the stream of water coming out of his tap, prompting large flames to rise up into the faucet. North Dakota has been home to a fracking boom over the past few years.

“First time I did it, it was a huge fireball [that] took up the entire sink – so that’s why I’m a little jumpy doing it. I don’t want to blow up the bathroom here,” he laughed during the demonstration. A huge flame shot up as the running water appeared to catch alight.    Continue reading “Fracking hot: N. Dakota man ‘sets tap water on fire’”

north-dakota-train-explosion.jpgFox News

Health experts are testing the quality of the air in a North Dakota town after most residents evacuated Monday night following a fiery crude oil train derailment.

The fire had been so intense as darkness fell that investigators couldn’t even get close enough to count the number of burning cars. Some burned through the night.

“Is it highly hazardous or did most of it burn off in the fire?” Casselton Sheriff Paul Laney said of elements in burning crude that could be risky for health. “We just don’t know.”   Continue reading “Health experts testing air quality after ND town evacuates over fiery oil train derailment”

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NY – The department’s prototype “smart car,” outfitted with the latest gadgets in public safety. It has two infrared monitors mounted on the trunk that record any numbers it sees—such as license plates and addresses. It has surveillance cameras and air sensors capable of sending real-time information to police headquarters. The NYPD says it is the cruiser of the very near future.    Continue reading “Police “smart cars” to be equipped with fingerprint scanners and facial recognition sensors”

Monsanto's scary new scheme: Why does it <em>really</em> want all this data?Salon – by LINA KHAN

Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about where to plant seeds, spray fertilizer and steer tractors are made by software on servers on the other side of the sea.

This is what more and more of our agriculture may come to look like in the years ahead, as farming meets Big Data. There’s no shortage of farmers and industry gurus who think this kind of “smart” farming could bring many benefits. Pushing these tools onto fields, the idea goes, will boost our ability to control this fiendishly unpredictable activity and help farmers increase yields even while using fewer resources.   Continue reading “Monsanto’s scary new scheme: Why does it really want all this data?”

Breaking PointThe Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month.  As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented levels.

Even though the stock market has been setting record high after record high, the amount of anger and frustration boiling just under the surface in our nation grows with each passing day.  And now extended unemployment benefits have been cut off for 1.3 million unemployed Americans, and it is being projected that a total of 5 million unemployed Americans will lose their benefits by the end of 2014.   Continue reading “Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? Anger Grows As Unemployment Benefits Get Cut”

World Events and the Bible

(Daily Mail) – The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting New Year’s Day, marking a historic shift that spells major changes to policies on tentmates and showers.

Yet despite their be-prepared approach, BSA leaders are rooting for the change to be a non-event, comparable to another New Year’s Day in 2000 when widespread fears of digital-clock chaos to start the new millennium proved unfounded.   Continue reading “Boy Scouts of America will officially welcome gay members on New Year’s Day as they grapple with questions about group showers and tentmates”