07_10718683.JPGOregon Live – by Stuart Tomlinson

As preparedness drills go, the 3-day PACE (Portland Area Capabilities Exercise) Setter bioterrorism exercise that starts Tuesday is big. The exercise–which simulates a terrorist attack involving a biological weapon–will unfold across 50 different venues and some 65 jurisdictions from Gresham to Tigard.

Officials say it’s the largest such exercise undertaken since 2007, when a drill known as TOPOFF tested a simulated response to a dirty bomb explosion in Portland.   Continue reading “Three day metro-wide disaster drill will simulate bioterrorism attack”

The Daily Caller – by Charles C. Johnson

The “charity” run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother that was fast-tracked for IRS tax-exempt status is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website.

The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.     Continue reading “Tax-exempt Obama Foundation doesn’t exist at listed addresses”

American Everyman – by Scott Creighton

A democratic senator from Rhode Island, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, had this to say  about the tornado that touched down in Oklahoma yesterday, at least partially blaming those who question man-made global warming, people he calls “extremists”, for the tornado and pretty much everything else bad that has (will) happen across the country:   Continue reading “Oklahoma Tornado: A Little Perspective – It’s Not the Worst In History and It’s Not the Fault of “Extremist” Global Warming Deniers”

SWAT team rammed wrong man’s car, lawsuit alleges photoCaptain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

In a slight twist of the SWAT team raids the wrong home theme, Austin American-Statesman has this report.

Driving in the early morning hours to his job at a metal shop in Buda, Miguel Montanez at first thought the approaching lights were a school bus or a tow truck.   Continue reading “SWAT Team Rams Wrong Man’s Car”

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More than 85,000 US veterans received medical treatment for sex abuse trauma in 2012, while only 4,000 applied for disability benefits. The numbers portray the shocking long-term consequences of sex abuse, days after the Pentagon acknowledged the problem.   Continue reading “Ongoing military rape epidemic: 85k vets treated for sex abuse in 2012”

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The biggest thing to come out of Texas may turn out to be a blow to Internet freedoms: legislators there are considering a bill that would compromise privacy on the Web for all residents of the Lone Star State.

Lawmakers in the State Senate are expected to vote Monday on a bill that, if passed, would compel Internet Service Providers (ISPs) anywhere in the world to fork over private Web records if that information could aid in a criminal investigation.   Continue reading “Texas votes on its own CISPA-like cyber bill”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A few days when reporting that the Russian Pacific fleet had crossed the Suez canal for the first time in decades in order to form a Mediterranean task force parked in Cyprus for obvious symbolic reasons (in close proximity to Syria and the Israel-parked Kearsarge), some observed that while the submarine support was adequate, the actual warship fleet designated to support any potential escalation in Syria would be largely insufficient.   Continue reading “Russia Adds Two More Warships To Mediterranean Task Force Near Syria”

record-police_phone (Copy)IntelliHub – by JG Vibes

It seems as if every day now there is a new story of someone catching extreme police brutality on camera.  The sad truth of the matter is that this happens a lot more than everyday, it probobly happens many times each hour all throughout the country.  Many times it takes months, possibly even years for the evidence to finally see the light of day.  In this case in Canada, it took about 2 years.   Continue reading “Cop on Video: “I Hurt People and Then I Make Their F#%*ing Cocaine Appear””

29-Jun-12Bel Marra Health – by Dr. Marchione

When you picture anger it is likely that you are picturing the emotion as a negative thing. And for the most part it is considered to have an association with an unstable state of mental health. Anger can be associated with feelings of stress, that are let to boil over and they can begin to affect many aspects of your life. Including your home life, social relationships, kids and grandkids, and your ability to be effective in the workplace.   Continue reading “Being Angry Can Make You Live Longer”

Mr. Conservative – by Warner Todd Huston

The left in America today has ginned up hatred for our Second Amendment so badly that even a gun salesman being dropped off at a major gun show is assumed to be a terrorist by authorities–and treated as such despite the facts.

Italian Daniele Perazzi, the grandson of the owner of the company that makes some of the most expensive shotguns in the world, was on his way to a major gun show in Denver, Colorado, when his taxi driver turned him in claiming he was a “terrorist.”   Continue reading “Shotgun Manufacturer Accused Of Terrorism For Transporting Firearms To Gun Show”

marijuana bud 263x164 Marijuana Helps 6 Year Old Beat Severe Seizures, Replaces PharmaceuticalsNatural Society – by Elizabeth Renter

As if the medical marijuana industry wasn’t controversial enough—with opponents arguing it encourages drug addiction and crime and supporters citing years of research to the contrary—there are now children benefiting from it. While there are several cases across the country of children being given various forms of cannabis to treat disease and illness, the case of 6-year old Jayden David is getting a particularly heavy dose of attention, where marijuana helped the boy beat severe epileptic seizures.   Continue reading “Marijuana Helps 6-Year Old Beat Severe Seizures, Replaces Pharmaceuticals”

Before It’s News – by Tom Dennen, the paranoid historian

US Department of Energy study projected that African oil production would rise 91 percent between 2002 and 2025. 

The United States is the largest consumer of oil in the world, China the second largest – is there going to be a fight over African oil?   Continue reading “Oprah Builds a School, Michelle, Hillary tour, Now Obama Plans June Visit to South Africa. Why? Because 25% of US Oil Imports Now Come from Africa?”

Veterans Today – by Dr. Kevin Barrett

Vernon Hershberger is Wisconsin’s best-known accused criminal. Like Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Pancho Villa, Billy the Kid, and plenty of others, Hershberger has developed an “outlaw mystique.” People are flocking to Baraboo, Wisconsin to witness his trial, which begins today.

But Hershberger hasn’t killed anyone. He hasn’t even robbed anyone. His alleged crime: Milking cows and selling the milk – without cooking it first.   Continue reading “Vernon Hershberger trial puts food freedom “on the table”!”

Prepper Podcast – by James Smith

“Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile’s Honor   Continue reading “Why men do evil (while wearing a badge)”

AgathaThe Real Agenda – by Be The Media

Operation Agatha 7 is being held all along the Brazilian border with ten South American countries. Altogether 25,000 military and Federal Police, Highway Patrol, Military and government agencies are involved. According to the Department of Defense,  this is the largest mobilization ever conducted by the Brazilian government in combating illicit trade.

Among the issues being tackled are drug trafficking, smuggling and embezzlement, arms trafficking and ammunition, environmental crimes, smuggling of vehicles, immigration and illegal mining. In less than two years there have been six editions of Operation Agatha in a boundary zone that comprises 27% of the country.   Continue reading “Massive Military Operation led by Socialist Regimes now Happening in South America”

Iron_CurtainReihl World News – by Dan

Senior Investigative Reporter at ABC News Josh Margolin tweets out a link to his latest:

Stonewalled in Cincinnati: Scenes from the front lines of the @irsnews scandal abcn.ws/10J9mkM.   Continue reading “IRS, Or Iron Curtain? Armed Security Follows ABC, Tells Employees – Don’t Talk To Media”