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TORNADO SLAMS OKLAHOMA: Hundreds Of Houses And Two Schools Leveled, At Least 51 Dead
A huge tornado hit areas near Oklahoma City Monday afternoon, marking the second time a tornado hit the state in recent days. Local news affiliate KFOR reports that the twister appeared have touched down in Newcastle, just south of Oklahoma City, before heading through the suburb of Moore. KFOR estimates that the damage affected around 30 square [...]
Read More →REPORT: DOJ LEAKED DOCS TO SMEAR FAST & FURIOUS WHISTLEBLOWER, SAYS IG
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson. The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to be inappropriate for a Department employee and wholly [...]
Read More →Vast Oklahoma Tornado Kills at Least 91
MOORE, Okla. — A giant tornado, a mile wide or more, killed at least 91 people, 20 of them children, as it tore across parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon, flattening homes, flinging cars through the air and crushing at least two schools. The injured flooded into hospitals, and the authorities said [...]
Read More →Obama DOJ accuses journalist of committing crimes – Obama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen: Report
It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined - in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions. But as last week’s controversy over the DOJ’s pursuit of the phone records of AP reporters illustrated, this obsessive fixation in defense of secrecy also targets, and [...]
Read More →Obama’s Counsel Was Told of IRS Audit Findings Weeks Ago
The White House’s chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday. That disclosure has prompted a debate over whether the president should have been notified at that time. In the week of April [...]
Read More →Carney: WH officials knew of IRS targeting but didn’t tell Obama
White House officials were notified of a Treasury Department inspector general report on the IRS but elected not to tell President Obama about it. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough and other senior officials knew of the general nature of the report but decided to keep the [...]
Read More →A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material. They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court [...]
Read More →Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?
President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party. “For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal? Is the White House Visitors Log [...]
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This was the week that was in the death of the Constitution
Summary: What a wonderful week, bringing to even the most obtuse of Americans unmistakable evidence of our government’s growing power. These incidents are insignificant in themselves, more of the endless scandals that titillated members of America’s outer party (the proles don’t care about such things; the inner party knows their irrelevance). But they might give [...]
Read More →ATTN: IRS TEA PARTY PROTEST: NOON 5-21–2013
SPRINGFIELD RALLY LOCATION 2937 S CLAREMONT AVENUE SPRINGFIELD, MO 65804 LOCATION On behalf of Tea Party, Patriot groups, 9/12, liberty activists, and the American people, we are calling for anyone and everyone to protest the IRS’ complete abuse of power on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at noon local time. STORY HERE
Read More →On The IRS Protests Tomorrow
I get that there are some of my conservative brethren don’t agree that the tea party should protest tomorrow. They’re afraid that it will disrupt a winning narrative: the IRS targeting a vast array of American citizens based on political beliefs and religion. They’re afraid that the sight of tea partiers shouting slogans and waving Gadsden [...]
Read More →VIDEO: Researcher: Owning a gun for safety like hiding from lightning under a tree
In video uploaded to YouTube on Saturday, Arthur Kellermann of the RAND Corporation said that keeping a gun in your home was a bad way to protect your family. “It’s natural to want to do everything you can to keep you family safe, especially if you live in a dangerous neighborhood,” he told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal [...]
Read More →Homeowners beat, kick, taze home invasion suspect
A 19-year-old suspected burglar continues to recover after Palm Bay police said he was beaten, kicked and shot with a stun gun by victims defending their residence as he and at least three other companions attempted to carry out a home invasion. Michael Maxwell of Palm Bay was charged with one count of home invasion [...]
Read More →Obama at Morehouse College: ‘Some things as black men we can only do for ourselves’
President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities. Delivering a commencement address at the all-male private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Obama [...]
Read More →Second ‘house of horrors’ abortion clinic
…where doctor ‘twisted heads off fetus’ necks with his bare hands’ is investigated in Texas… Houston doctor Douglas Karpen is accused by four former employees of delivering live babies during third-trimester abortions and killing them Witnesses said he would either snip their spinal cords, stab a surgical instrument into their heads or twist their [...]
Read More →Disney World vows action after report of wealthy hiring disabled to skip lines
Disney World is looking into reports that some wealthy visitors are hiring disabled people to pretend to be family members so that they can skip lines. “It is unacceptable to abuse accommodations that were designed for guests with disabilities,” spokesman Bryan Malenius told CNN Wednesday. “We are thoroughly reviewing the situation and will take appropriate [...]
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VIDEO: Gun control advocates now admit: IRS intimidation scandal proves Second Amendment needed to stop government tyranny
In the face of the outrageous IRS intimidation scandal now sweeping across America, gun control advocates are changing their tune. All of a sudden, the idea that the federal government could engage in tyranny against the People of America is no longer a “conspiracy theory.” It’s historical fact right in your face thanks to all the recent [...]
Read More →Home Invader Gets A Gun Shoved In His Face By Toledo Woman
Tense moments in the early morning hours, as a woman carrying a gun confronts a man trying to get into her home. The attempted home invasion happened on the 1900 block of Loxley near Upton, just before 5 a.m. Thursday. It proved Betty Collins is a woman who stands her ground – with a gun [...]
Read More →VIDEO: Scarborough Highlights Gun-Control Risks Following IRS Scandal
Scarborough Says IRS Scandal Makes Gun Background Checks A Little Less Appealing Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough pointed out that the case for background checks is more problematic in light of the IRS scandals. The host had been, in recent months, an ardent supporter of expanded background checks for firearms purchases, but says that some concerns about increased gun-control measures are more justified after [...]
Read More →THE LOGIC OF GUN CONTROL
Guns as any dictionary will show are designed to launch a projectile. Like a bow, sling-shot, cannon or blowpipe is. What screams at anyone who reads gun control articles is the unjustified fear inflicted on all. That is irresponsible of anyone who should be trying to educate or help people by at least conveying facts rather than regurgitating [...]
Read More →[Video] – Entire Audience at NJ Gun Hearing Disobeys Senators Orders, Recites Pledge
If you’ve seen the video we posted earlier today, then you definitely want to check this one out. There was some question that when Second Amendment activist, James Kaleda, was removed from the hearing if the audience was clapping for him or for his removal. I think this video, which took place immediately following that, should [...]
Read More →Gun Ban by Default
As of today, May 17, 2013, no new semi-auto handguns will be added, or renewed, to the California Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale unless they incorporate microstamping technology. Just what is that you ask? Here is what that means according to the California Department of Justice: “Therefore, to be listed on the Roster of [...]
Read More →Maryland Gov. O’Malley may be smiling over gun-control law, but last laugh is on him
Maryland citizens had their Second Amendments rights infringed on Thursday when Gov. Martin O’Malley signed more gun control into law. Mr. O’Malley became the third liberal governor this year — after New York and Connecticut — to ram through pointless laws that will do nothing to reduce crime by exploiting the Newtown tragedy. However, Mr. [...]
Read More →D.C. Considers Mandatory $250K Insurance Policy for Gun Buyers
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Two D.C. councilmembers said Thursday that they support some form of mandate that gun owners carry liability insurance, but they would have to overcome the objections of Mayor Vincent Gray for the District of Columbia to become the nation’s first jurisdiction to require such coverage. Councilmembers Vincent Orange and Mary Cheh said after [...]
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Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul Push For Hemp Legalization In Senate Fight
WASHINGTON — Kentucky’s two senators, Republicans Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, have been working to include a provision that would legalize industrial hemp into the farm bill, according to Senate and Kentucky sources, an effort that is likely to result in a floor vote on the issue this week. Paul and McConnell had hoped to [...]
Read More →Extraordinary measures become standard as US hits debt limit again
The United States bumped up against its borrowing limit Sunday, forcing the Treasury Department to employ “extraordinary measures” to make sure the government keeps paying its bills. After a brief hiatus, the nation’s debt limit has returned as a major hurdle for Washington to overcome, and one that will play a central role in fiscal [...]
Read More →Bankers warn of unsustainable farmland prices, student-loan debt
WASHINGTON • A group of bankers that advises the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors has warned that farmland prices are inflating “a bubble” and growth in student-loan debt has “parallels to the housing crisis.” The concerns of the Federal Advisory Council, made up of 12 bankers who meet quarterly to advise the Fed, are outlined in meeting [...]
Read More →CBO: Obama budget for fiscal 2014 adds $5.2 trillion in deficits over 10 years
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office on Friday said President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal would add $5.2 trillion in deficits over 10 years. The agency said that compared to its baseline scenario, the Obama budget would reduce projected deficits by $1.1 trillion over 10 years. The White House had claimed $1.8 trillion in savings using its [...]
Read More →Supreme Court sides with Monsanto, backs patents on ‘self-replicating technology’
The Supreme Court unanimously backed patents on “self-replicating technology” like Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybeans on Monday and along with it, backed the controversial licensing agreement preventing farmers from using seeds more than once. This comes not even two months after Congress passed the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act,” which was later signed into law by Obama. One senator even apologized for the [...]
Read More →CHART: What $11.23 Trillion Worth Of Household Debt Looks Like
The New York Fed just published its latest Quarterly Report On Household Debt And Credit. “In Q1 2013 total household indebtedness fell to $11.23 trillion; 1.0% lower than the previous quarter and considerably below the peak of $12.68 trillion in Q3 2008,” said the New York Fed in a statement. This suggests the deleveraging process that [...]
Read More →CBO sees brighter economy with budget deficit to plunge to $642 billion this year
[Ed. NOTE: Many Americans will purchase this information without asking why it is a major change in the deficit has suddenly appeared. Certainly, the argument that an improved economy is responsible for enhancing the Federal coffers is ludicrous. In fact, each and every month - EACH AND EVERY MONTH - The Federal Reserve is pumping [...]
Read More →DoD to furlough civilian workforce for 11 days, Hagel says
The Defense Department will furlough its civilian employees for 11 days due to sequestration cuts, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a prepared statement May 14. Furloughs will begin July 8 at a rate of one day per week. The DoD will continue those furloughs through the end of the current fiscal year, unless the budget situation [...]
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The Most Chilling Details From The Kafkaesque Search Warrant That Went After A Fox News Reporter
Journalists are understandably alarmed by the revelation that President Barack Obama’s Justice Department targeted Fox News reporter James Rosen during a leak investigation of a State Department employee. The news, reported by the Washington Post late Sunday night, reveals that the Obama administration will apparently stop at nothing to track down whistle-blowers who leak classified information. In Rosen’s case, that [...]
Read More →VIDEO: Gun control advocates now admit: IRS intimidation scandal proves Second Amendment needed to stop government tyranny
In the face of the outrageous IRS intimidation scandal now sweeping across America, gun control advocates are changing their tune. All of a sudden, the idea that the federal government could engage in tyranny against the People of America is no longer a “conspiracy theory.” It’s historical fact right in your face thanks to all the recent [...]
Read More →Military Says No Presidential Authorization Needed To Quell “Civil Disturbances”
On page 16 of the document, we find the following amendment (emphasis mine); (3) When permitted under emergency authority in accordance with Reference (c), Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary [...]
Read More →Brooklyn police bust rooftop grow operation … of heirloom tomatoes
Brooklyn Police descended upon a Lefferts Avenue apartment building this Wednesday, responding to a report that there were marijuana plants on the building’s roof. The report came from the building’s superintendent, but the cops didn’t check it out first. They should’ve, because the plants in question were not pot plants but tomato plants. For the curious: Here [...]
Read More →GOP lawmakers liken EPA info tactics to IRS targeting of Tea Party
Congressional Republicans have accused the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of giving unfair preference to environmental groups when it comes to information requests. The lawmakers compared the agency’s behavior to the recent revelation that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) gave additional scrutiny to Tea Party organizations. In a letter to Acting EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe on Friday, four [...]
Read More →Supersecret IRS Obamacare Qualification Form Revealed!!
From deep within the bowels of America’s most beloved bureaucracy: STORY HERE
Read More →Obama Administration Knew of IRS Probe During 2012 Campaign
WASHINGTON — Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the presidential campaign. J. Russell [...]
Read More →EPA to review claims of bias against conservatives amid fight over IRS
The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general will review claims the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refuses to waive public records fees for conservative groups while granting the waivers for environmental organizations. Acting Administrator Robert Perciasepe asked the agency’s inspector general to review claims after GOP lawmaker accusations of a double standard. The charges came up Thursday during a House [...]
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STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES: Russia building up missile defenses while seeking to limit U.S. defenses
Russia is engaged in a major buildup of both nuclear and conventional missile defense systems at the same time Moscow is seeking legal limits on U.S. missile defenses, according to U.S. officials. The Russian military is developing and deploying an array of new and modernized anti-missile interceptors that are part of a strategic doctrine that [...]
Read More →Putin’s power play: Russia builds up missile systems, seeks to limit U.S. defenses
Russia is engaged in a major buildup of both nuclear and conventional missile defense systems at the same time Moscow is seeking legal limits on U.S. missile defenses, according to U.S. officials. The Russian military is developing and deploying an array of new and modernized anti-missile interceptors that are part of a strategic doctrine that calls for defending [...]
Read More →VIDEO: N. Korea slams US aircraft carrier’s arrival
SEOUL — North Korea has criticised the arrival of the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South for a joint drill as an “extremely reckless” provocation and a rehearsal for war against the communist state. A US naval strike group led by the nuclear-powered Nimitz arrived off the South’s southern port of Busan Saturday [...]
Read More →Navy Ship Can’t Meet Mission, Internal U.S. Report Finds
U.S. Navy leaders were warned last year that a $37 billion program to build Littoral Combat Ships can’t meet its promised mission because the vessels are too lightly manned and armed, according to a confidential report. “This review highlights the gap between ship capabilities and the missions the Navy will need LCS to execute,” said [...]
Read More →C-5M undergoes ‘super’ upgrade at Edwards
5/8/2013 - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In 2006, the C-5 Galaxy underwent a “super” upgrade to further strengthen the airframe’s worldwide airlift capabilities. Now known as the C-5M Super Galaxy, test teams at Edwards and Dover Air Force Base, Del., are showing why the recent software upgrade to the largest aircraft in the Air Force inventory is [...]
Read More →PA Official: ‘If We Had Nuke, We’d Have Used It This Morning’
A senior Palestinian Authority has praised the use of violence against Israel, asserting that if the PA had the military wherewithal to rise up against the Jewish state, it would not hesitate to do so. “I swear that if we had a nuke, we’d have used it this very morning,” vowed Jibril Rajoub during an interview with [...]
Read More →Air Force sidelines 17 nuclear missile officers; commander cites ‘rot’ in system – 2 STORIES
The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control — and, if necessary, launch — nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings, including a remarkably dim review of their unit’s launch skills. The group’s deputy commander said it is suffering “rot” within its ranks. “We are, in fact, in a [...]
Read More →Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Data From ‘Almost Every Major US Defense Contractor’
For the first time the Obama administration has explicitly accused China’s military of hacking into computer systems of the U.S. government and its defense contractors. “The accusations relayed in the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on Chinese military capabilities were remarkable in their directness,” writes David Sanger of The New York Times. That may be because the extent of the theft is remarkable in [...]
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Brazil probes rumor that set off panic run on state bank
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she ordered the Federal Police to investigate the source of a rumor that sent thousands of poor Brazilians running to state bank branches seeking payment of a monthly family stipend. A rumor that payments of the Bolsa Familia program would be ended led crowds to line up over [...]
Read More →FBI agents killed in accident in Virginia Beach area
Two FBI agents from an elite counterterrorism unit based in Northern Virginia were killed Friday during a training exercise in the Virginia Beach area, the FBI said Sunday. The agents were part of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, which is part of the Critical Incident Response Group, and is based at Quantico. The agents were [...]
Read More →Fact Sheet: Survey of Bee Losses During Winter of 2012/2013
Total losses of managed honey bee colonies nationwide were 31.1 percent from all causes for the 2012/2013 winter, according to the annual survey conducted by the Bee Informed Partnership and the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Bee losses for the 2011/2012 winter were 22 percent. This past winter’s losses are [...]
Read More →France’s Hollande Signs Gay Marriage Law
PARIS — French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalize gay weddings. France’s official journal announced on Saturday the bill had become law after the Constitutional Council gave it the go-ahead on Friday. The bill, a campaign pledge by the Socialist president, has [...]
Read More →North Korea may have up to 200 mobile missile launchers: Report
SEOUL: North Korea is now thought to have around twice as many mobile missile launchers as previously estimated by Seoul, a report said Friday, quoting a state-run military analysis unit. Yonhap news agency said the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) had revised its figures after seeing a related Pentagon document. It now estimated that Pyongyang had [...]
Read More →North Korea launches three short range missiles
A carefully calibrated action designed to keep “the minds that matter” focused on North Korea? LONDON – North Korea has launched three short range missiles from its East Coast, South Korea’s Ministry of Defense reported this afternoon. Two missiles were launched this morning with a further launch taking place this afternoon. “A more detailed analysis [...]
Read More →Sun unleashes four massive solar flares in two days (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
These images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory show four X-class flares emitted on May 12-14, 2013 – the first four X-class flares of 2013.Photo from nasa.gov The Sun has unleashed four massive solar flares in two days, each emitting energy equivalent to a billion hydrogen bombs. The latest flare on Wednesday might cause geomagnetic storms on Earth affecting satellites and communications systems. [...]
Read More →13 tornadoes wallop North Texas, 6 dead; Habitat homes among many devastated in 1 subdivision
GRANBURY, Texas — Habitat for Humanity spent years in a North Texas subdivision, helping build many of the 110 homes in the low-income area. But its work was largely undone during an outbreak of 13 tornadoes Wednesday night that killed six people and injured dozens. On Thursday, authorities combed through debris in Granbury, while residents [...]
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Democratic Lawmakers Stand Up for IRS Workers
Several Democratic lawmakers expressed sympathy for Internal Revenue Service employees Friday who must now carry the “stigma of corruption” in light of the agency’s recent scandal. While lawmakers from both sides of the aisle spent most of the time at the Ways and Means Committee hearing probing and criticizing IRS officials, some Democrats took part [...]
Read More →Susan Rice, likely NSC head, had string of failures in Africa before Benghazi
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, reportedly the leading contender to be President Barack Obama’s next national security adviser, failed during the 1990s to prevent unnecessary deaths in Rwanda, provide adequate security prior to the bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, or deal effectively with the Robert Mugabe’s dictatorship in Zimbabwe. A former State Department military adviser to Africa [...]
Read More →PAUL: A staggering abuse of power
When I filibustered over domestic drone use, critics said that I was being ridiculous. They said that no American had been killed by a drone on American soil and that no one was likely to be anytime soon. President Obama responded that he hadn’t killed anyone yet and didn’t intend to — but he might. [...]
Read More →Kansas Elected Official Stands By Using Racial Slur ’100 Percent’
Kansas Board of Education member Steve Roberts (R), an elected official representing one-tenth of the state, defended on Tuesday his use of a racial epithet at a previous board meeting to “push the frontiers of political correctness.” After a former Topeka NAACP president advocated for more African American history in state curriculum standards, Roberts had brought up [...]
Read More →Benghazi auditors Mullen, Pickering refuse meeting with Issa
The co-leaders of the independent audit into the Benghazi attack have categorically refused to meet with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) for a private interview. Thomas Pickering and Michael Mullen called the proposed closed-door proceeding an “inappropriate precondition” to their testifying before the committee in a letter sent Thursday to Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight panel. [...]
Read More →Holder’s recusal and the leak investigation are unprecedented
Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee he recused himself from the leak investigation involving sweeping surveillance of the Associated Press because he was a “fact witness,” meaning he had access to the classified data at issue and was questioned about it. But he can’t recall when he recused himself. And it wasn’t in writing. In one [...]
Read More →RNC chairman demands Holder resign over DOJ seizure of phone records
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus on Tuesday demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder resign after the Justice Department’s seizure of phone records for reporters working for The Associated Press. “Attorney General Eric Holder, in permitting the Justice Department to issue secret subpoenas to spy on Associated Press reporters, has trampled on the First [...]
Read More →Obama: IRS Acting Commissioner Has Resigned
President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the acting commissioner of the IRS has been asked to resign and has done so over the tax-collecting agency’s recent admission that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. After reviewing the inspector general’s report on Tuesday, Obama called the actions by Internal Revenue Service agents “inexcusable.” “The good [...]
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New oil gusher reported in Eastern Colorado
Colorado may have a new oil play on the Eastern Plains, given talk of a gusher in Cheyenne County. The Denver-based Rocky Mountain Oil Journal quotes sources saying that a horizontal well, the Pronghorn State #16-15-48-1H, owned by Chama Oil & Minerals LLC of Midland, Texas, “has reportedly tested up to 2,000 bopd” (barrels of oil per [...]
Read More →A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
WINDSOR, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they’ve been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the Detroit River. Detroit’s ever-growing black mountain is the unloved, unwanted and [...]
Read More →Shell and BP raided in price fixing probe: Oil firms investigated over claims they manipulated cost
European Commission launched inquiry into price manipulation Fear prices have been driven up at the pumps for millions of motorists Commission suspects firms ‘had colluded in reporting distorted prices’ Tory MP Robert Halfon called for ‘urgent action’ in the UK The AA said it had repeatedly warned about the issue since 2005 STORY HERE
Read More →IEA: GLOBAL OIL SUPPLY SHOCK
The supply shock created by a surge in North American oil production will be as transformative to the market over the next five years as was the rise of Chinese demand over the last 15, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its annual Medium-Term Oil Market Report (MTOMR) released today. The shift will not only cause oil companies [...]
Read More →Plans to export US natural gas stir debate
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Expanded drilling is unlocking enormous reserves of crude [...]
Read More →VIDEO: Students receive anti-frack rap at Evergreen Middle school
Some students at Evergreen Middle School got a very one-sided presentation (according to multiple reports from parents) on energy on Friday, May 3, watching a live “What the Frack” rap that told students natural gas and coal “poisoned the water, poisoned the air, poisoned the people, do you think that’s fair?” The rap was delivered [...]
Read More →Israel, once energy-dependent, is new big gas producer
NETANYA, Israel — The huge reservoirs of natural gas discovered off the coast of Israel now flowing toward shore have the potential to transform the once energy-strapped country into a lean, green manufacturing machine — capable of supplying cheap, clean energy to its citizens, factories and vehicles for a generation. Until now bereft of the [...]
Read More →Iraq’s Descent Back into Civil War Makes the Case for American Energy Independence
America now faces a typical conundrum that has plagued all of our recent Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower all the way forward to President Barack Obama. We depend upon the Middle East for much of the energy that provides our motive power. As a result of this debilitating dependence upon people who hate us and [...]
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Man pleads guilty to raiding nephew’s piggy bank
CLAYTON, Mo. —A north St. Louis County man admitted that he stole money from his 4-year-old nephew’s piggy bank to use for drugs and prostitutes. KSDK reported Baron Calmese, 31, pleaded guilty Friday to a felony stealing charge. He will be sentenced next month. Calmese was arrested last July after he took more than $500 [...]
Read More →Republicans hail ‘historic’ reform
The final day of the 2013 legislative session saw the demise of tax credit reform, a dramatic Senate vote in favor of homosexual rights and Republican leaders declaring victory on a number of long-standing priorities for their party. Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, wasn’t so sure about the accomplishments, and although he said he was [...]
Read More →MISSOURI LEGISLATURE BILLS – MULTIPLE STORIES
Missouri Legislature Passes “Right to Farm” Bill Missouri Legislature Passes Vital Life-Protecting Legislation Missouri Passes Legislation to Reform Concealed Carry Process Missouri House Approves Revamp of Second Injury Fund STORIES HERE
Read More →State Legislature Passes Comprehensive Tax Cut
For the first time in nearly a century, the Missouri State House and Senate passed an income tax cut being popularly referred to as the Broad-Based Tax Relief Act of 2013. The bill passed through the Missouri House by a vote of 103 to 51 and by the Missouri Senate 24 to 9. “The ultimate [...]
Read More →Kansas Elected Official Stands By Using Racial Slur ’100 Percent’
Kansas Board of Education member Steve Roberts (R), an elected official representing one-tenth of the state, defended on Tuesday his use of a racial epithet at a previous board meeting to “push the frontiers of political correctness.” After a former Topeka NAACP president advocated for more African American history in state curriculum standards, Roberts had brought up [...]
Read More →St. Louis Is Burning
There’s a fire burning in Bridgeton, Missouri. It’s invisible to area residents, buried deep beneath the ground in a North St. Louis County landfill. But the smoldering waste is an unavoidable presence in town, giving off a putrid odor that clouds the air miles away – an overwhelming stench described by one area woman as [...]
Read More →Ozarks generosity gives renewed sense of hope to those in need
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – It is the time of year when donations are low heading into the summer months for food pantries. People in Ozarks did their part today to help keep those shelves full. A woman who will benefit from the drive, says taking from the generosity of others isn’t easy. Around the time Caitlyn [...]
Read More →Arkansas Teachers Could See Insurance Rates Rise
LITTLE ROCK, AR — The Department of Finance and Administration’s Employee Benefits Division insures roughly 150,000 Arkansans. It’s facing a shortfall in the Public School Employee sector for 2014 to the tune of $60 million. Number-crunchers say it’s likely that rates will have to increase to make up for it. “You’ve got to budget for [...]
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