Yakima Herald -by Nicholas Riccardi And Mead Gruver

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.

A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal efforts to remove the dead trees and flammable underbrush that clog Western forests. The U.S. Forest Service says that next year it expects to treat 1 million fewer acres than it did last year.   Continue reading “As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention”

The article below is very interesting and informative.  It undermines Common Core even more.  Everyone, in every state should be aware of what this merchandising stimulated program is doing to the education of our students today and tomorrow. Anyone connected with the approval of this program being used before it was ever vetted should be recalled, where this is legal to do; those who approved it should be brought out into the public eye, and made to justify their actions of implementing this program which is all about the merchandising of the program and removed from office or board by being forced to resign.    Continue reading “Don’t Take Your Child’s Education for Granted, What You Need to Know About Common Core”

IBRAGIM_TODASHEV_-_POSSIBLE_SHOOTING_SUSPECTB’Man’s Revolt – by David Martin

Sometime in the evening of May 21 a contingent of law enforcement officials arrived at the apartment of 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev (pronounced Ibrahim To-DAH-shev).  The FBI says that the group consisted of an FBI agent, two Massachusetts state troopers, and “other law enforcement personnel.”  So there were at least four of them, and we may presume that they were all armed.  Their interest in Todashev was occasioned by the fact that he was an acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder of the two Chechen-immigrant brothers accused in the Boston marathon bombing.  Todashev, like Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had been a mixed martial arts fighter and had lived for a time in the Boston area.  Their common professional interests and heritage had apparently brought them together, at least casually.   Continue reading “The Todashev Killing and the House of Cards”

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LONDON (AP) — British spies are running an online eavesdropping operation so vast that internal documents say it even outstrips the United States’ international Internet surveillance effort, the Guardian newspaper reported Friday.

The paper cited British intelligence memos leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to claim that U.K. spies were tapping into the world’s network of fiber optic cables to deliver the “biggest internet access” of any member of the Five Eyes — the name given to the espionage alliance composed of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.   Continue reading “Guardian: Documents expose massive UK spying op”

Washington’s Blog

Chomsky: “Obama Is Running The Biggest Terrorist Operation That Exists”

Leading liberal Noam Chomsky  said yesterday:

The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, it’s doing it all over the world.  Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history:  the drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it […] All of these operations, they are terror operations.   Continue reading “Experts on the Left and the Right Agree: America Is Running the World’s Largest Terrorist Operation”

Brad Stemple, Gary MarbutMissoulian

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested — charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws.

Farfetched? Not as much as you might think.   Continue reading “Gun laws: Federal nullification efforts mounting in states”

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STONEHENGE, England (AP) — Police say more than 20,000 celebrants have gathered at the famed Stonehenge monument to mark the summer solstice.

The cloud cover Friday morning prevented bright sunshine at dawn of the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere but a joyous spirit prevailed. Police say there were fewer arrests than usual with 22 people taken into custody, most for drug-related offenses.   Continue reading “Stonehenge gathering marks summer solstice”

Militants preparing to launch mortar rounds in Syria (file photo)Press TV

Foreign-backed militants fighting against the government of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad say they have received new weapons which they claim can change the course of the battle.

“We’ve received quantities of new types of weapons, including some that we asked for and that we believe will change the course of the battle on the ground,” a spokesman for the so-called the Free Syrian Army (FSA) Louay Muqdad said on Friday.   Continue reading “New weapons supplied to militants in Syria”

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We know that steaming the bud of an otherwise intimidating thistle flower yields a delicious cooked artichoke and that beyond the menacing claw of a lobster awaits yet another delicacy.

We can also thank our foodie forefathers for discovering the things that can kill us. To those who discovered that belladonna and hemlock should not be eaten: we salute you. But we’re a funny bunch. Although our most basic instinct is for survival, we continue to eat poisonous things, or parts of them at least. If you doubt it, consider the following foods.   Continue reading “Surprisingly Poisonous Foods We Eat”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

US Secretary of State John Kerry last week called for immediate US airstrikes against airfields under the control of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime – specifically, those fields it has used to launch chemical weapons raids against rebel forces, Bloomberg’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported.

Kerry presented his plan during a principals meeting in the White House situation room, but Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey “threw a series of brushback pitches at Kerry, demanding to know just exactly what the post-strike plan would be and pointing out that the State Department didn’t fully grasp the complexity of such an operation,” according to the report.   Continue reading “Secretary Of State John Kerry Should Resign Immediately”

The Ulsterman Report

Just days after CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson confirmed both her work and personal computers were hacked during her investigations into such anti-Obama stories as the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, the Green Energy stimulus scandal, and later, the Benghazi Massacre scandal, Obama Attorney General Eric Holder (who is deeply involved in all of those scandals) issued a letter to Congress indicating the spying tactics used against Fox investigative reporter James Rosen were “appropriate”.  Holder claims Congress may have “misinterpreted” his earlier under oath remarks when he testified that no journalists had been prosecuted by the Justice Department for publishing leaks.   Continue reading ““Appropriate” Eric Holder Doubles Down On Government Intimidation Of The Media”

Sovereign Man – by Simon Black

Years ago, it was virtually unheard of for someone to give up his/her US citizenship.

Then, one by one, a handful of famous cases surfaced… like Sir John Templeton, who renounced his US citizenship in 1964 and moved to the Bahamas. Continue reading “US Senate to retroactively punish runaway tax slaves”

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Obama Snoops Part 2: Infiltrate, Target, Harass Churches

“… the Obama administration implemented a covert program beginning in 2009 that was intended to spy on conservative, evangelical Christian churches. That program involved infiltration — sending in government operatives to join churches for the purpose of data collection.    Continue reading “Obama: Keeping An Eye On You … And You … And You …”