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Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and provided to The Daily Caller.

Lois Lerner, then head of the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations division, also received an email alongside White House officials that contained confidential information.   Continue reading “The White House & IRS exchanged confidential taxpayer information”

drugNatural News – by Lance Johnson

If you are a drug-free, healthy person applying for a job that requires a drug test, you may still fail the drug test – honest and outright. Sounds insane, but it’s all very real for some Americans. Some Americans are being denied jobs altogether or fired, because they have healthy, clean urine that contains no drugs whatsoever. What is going on here?

According to hospitals and employers, clean urine is too dilute. They think healthy urine is always the result of a person trying to flush drugs out of their system. This means that you can pass a drug test with flying colors and then be practically accused of trying to hide something.   Continue reading “Drug-free job applicants denied positions over urine that is too healthy”

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China and the European Union have signed a 350 billion yuan (45 billion Euro) currency swap agreement, a major step in pushing international use of the yuan.

The deal, signed between the People’s Bank of China and the European Central Bank (ECB) on Wednesday, aims to support bilateral trade and protect financial stability, according to a statement on the PBOC website.   Continue reading “China, EU Agree to 45 Bln Euro Currency Swap”

Troutman_Liberty_or_Death__stickerWestern Rifle Shooters

Article I: I am an American, fighting in the armed forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.

Article II: I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist.

Article III: If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.   Continue reading “For The Record”

Max Velocity Tactical

Following all the recent bogging about fitness and rucking, here is a video of the ‘Paras 10 Challenge’. This is an event that is open to civilians where they tab (ruck) or run  the route of the 10-miler around Catterick Garrison.

The actual 10-miler is the first event of test week on Pre-Parachute Selection (Pegasus Company) and is completed as a squad with a 35lb. ruck, rifle plus water in 1 hour 50 minutes.   Continue reading “VIDEO: Paras 10 Challenge”

World Events and the Bible

(Bloomberg) – Protests against a plan to split a southern Indian state entered a fourth day, leaving about 21 million people without electricity as outages threatened to affect technology companies like Google Inc. (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.

Striking workers shuttered power plants and impeded distribution, extending blackouts that started Oct. 6 in six districts of Andhra Pradesh. The protesters oppose Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s move last week to divide the state before national elections due by May.   Continue reading “India Unrest Puts 21 Million in Dark as Google Threatened”

Image: On Anniversary of Che Killing, CIA's Felix Rodriguez RemembersNewsmax – by Andrea Billups and Kathleen Walter

Former CIA operative Felix Rodriguez, who participated in the historic manhunt to capture Ernesto “Che” Guevara, says the Marxist revolutionary was little more than a criminal and devoted killer who deserves to be demystified.

“I believe that eventually people will see what he really was. He was an assassin,” said Rodriguez, who spoke to Newsmax about Guevara in advance of the 46th anniversary of his death on Oct. 9, 1967, at age 39. “He was an individual with very little regard for life. He enjoyed killing people.”   Continue reading “On Anniversary of Che Killing, CIA’s Felix Rodriguez Remembers”

Deer TrailDenver Post – by Yesenia Robles

The town of Deer Trail has rescheduled the special election during which voters will decide whether the town should sell licenses to hunt drones.

The town board of six was evenly split on the ordinance when it took up the issue in August, so it forwarded the decision to voters.   Continue reading “Deer Trail vote on drone hunting licenses rescheduled for Dec. 10”

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan speaks at the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 25, 2013. REUTERS-Andrew Burton-PoolReuters – by Ghaith Shennib and Ulf Laessing

Former rebel gunmen freed Libya’s prime minister on Thursday after holding him for several hours in reprisal for the capture by U.S. forces at the weekend of a Libyan al Qaeda suspect in Tripoli.

“I am fine, thank God,” Ali Zeidan tweeted after his release. “If the aim of the kidnapping operation was for me to present my resignation, then I won’t resign.   Continue reading “Libyan PM freed after being seized over US raid”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The deputy commander of U.S. nuclear forces, Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, was notified Wednesday that he has been relieved of duty amid a military investigation of allegations that he used counterfeit chips at an Iowa casino, the Navy said.

The move is exceedingly rare and perhaps unprecedented in the history of U.S. Strategic Command, which is responsible for all American nuclear warfighting forces, including nuclear-armed submarines, bombers and land-based missiles.   Continue reading “3-star admiral fired as No. 2 nuclear commander”

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Panama and the United States are locked in a dispute over unexploded chemical weapons US soldiers left on an island of the Central American country over 60 years ago, now in the way of a major canal expansion project.

Panamanian officials say they are growing more optimistic that its campaign to compel the US to retrieve its own weapons will be recognized by the Barack Obama administration despite disagreements in the past, McClatchy reported.    Continue reading “Panama hopeful US will finally clean up chemical weapons left from WWII”

AFP Photo / Joe RaedleRT News

A Chicago woman was arrested late last week after confronting the president of her long-time employer McDonald’s over the low wages she earns as she struggles to raise two young children.

Nancy Salgado, 26, interrupted a speech by McDonald’s Corporation President Jeff Stratton at the Union League Club of Chicago on Friday, saying her wages weren’t enough for her to supply her kids with basic necessities like shoes.    Continue reading “McDonald’s employee arrested for confronting CEO on low wages”

Still image of PM Zeidan apparently being taken from his hotel (10 Oct 2013)BBC News

Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has been seized from his hotel in the capital, Tripoli by a former rebel militia loosely allied to the government.

The group said it arrested Mr Zeidan following a prosecutor’s warrant, but the government has denied this.

An official said he was being held at an interior ministry anti-crime department and being “treated well”.   Continue reading “Libyan PM Ali Zeidan detained by militia”

One World Chronicle – by Tom Joad

Aircrap.org – Today’s big acquisition is a huge agritech exit: Biotech company Monsanto has bought Climate Corporation for approximately $1.1 billion. While the Monsanto press release says $930 million, we’re hearing from investors that the actual price is past the $1 billion mark, because part of the all-cash deal will be paid out over time as an employee retention plan.

Climate Corporation is backed by Founders Fund, Khosla, Google Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures and Atomico. The company uses machine learning to predict the weather and other essential elements for agribusiness.   Continue reading “Monsanto Buys Weather Company Climate Corporation For $1.1B”

qoVGUtUIsrael’s Homeland Security

Different cultures, different customs, or so the saying goes. The saying also apparently applies to rifle preferences for the world’s militaries, as the map illustrates.

According to Gizmodo the map seems to group weapons that are of a similar family together by color. Obviously, there are many, many more types of rifles than the ones shown on the map, but as Gizmodo notes, the “map gives a general gist of each military’s standardization.”   Continue reading “A Map of the World’s Weapons”