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on January 19, 2015 in World News

Agency will confiscate infant if entire family doesn’t get flu shots

Agency will confiscate infant if entire family doesn’t get flu shots state bureaucracy is threatening a mother with removal of an infant unless her entire family subjects themselves to flu shots. This is the dilemma that foster parent Jamie Smith is currently facing. The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is giving the Tacoma family until February to comply with the mandated regimen of influenza vaccines — imposed on every member of the family — or else they will lose their youngest child, a 2-week-old foster infant that was born on Christmas. Mrs. Smith is a dedicated foster… View Article

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on January 19, 2015 in World News

CIA and The Mafia: Old Business Pals

CIA and The Mafia: Old Business Pals The relationship between the CIA and organized crime is a well-established one. The overlap between Washington’s covert operations and the mafia’s black market business interests seems to be a fertile environment for trading and profiting off drugs, vice, arms, extortion, protection, contract killing, double-crossing and most importantly, avoiding any prying eyes. Before its revolution which ended in 1959, Cuba was the offshore playground for both the CIA and a number of organized crime families. That’s where the story begins… According to recently declassified documents: “The CIA conspired with a Chicago gangster described as… View Article

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on January 19, 2015 in World News

Germany continues to repatriate gold

Germany continues to repatriate gold The German central bank or Bundesbank said Monday that it stepped up the repatriation of its gold reserves from overseas storage last year. “The Bundesbank successfully continued and further stepped up its transfers of gold,” the central bank said in a statement. “In 2014, 120 tonnes of gold were transferred to Frankfurt from storage locations abroad: 35 tonnes from Paris and 85 tonnes from New York.” Germany’s gold reserves are the second-biggest in the world after those of the United States and totaled 3,384.2 tonnes this month, according to the latest data compiled by the… View Article

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on January 17, 2015 in World News

NYC hired Rikers officers with gang ties, psychological issues

NYC hired Rikers officers with gang ties, psychological issues A report into the recruiting and hiring practices of the New York Correction Department found that more than one-third of the people hired had problems – criminal histories, mental issues – that should have disqualified them from the job. Conducted by New York City’s Department of Investigation (DOI), the review is the latest in a number of critical revelations about city jails including death, brutality, and drug smuggling. The year-long review by city investigators evaluated department hiring and recruiting practices by looking at the applications of 153 people who were hired…. View Article

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on January 17, 2015 in World News

Senator’s husband stands to profit big from government deal

Senator’s husband stands to profit big from government deal Ever wonder how lowly paid lawmakers leave office filthy rich? Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing how it’s done. The US Postal Service plans to sell 56 buildings — so it can lease space more expensively — and the real estate company of the California senator’s husband, Richard Blum, is set to pocket about $1 billion in commissions. Blum’s company, CBRE, was selected in March 2011 as the sole real estate agent on sales expected to fetch $19 billion. Most voters didn’t notice that Blum is a member of CBRE’s board and… View Article

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on January 17, 2015 in World News

Politico Magazine: Idea of ‘Defensive Gun Ownership’ a ‘Tragic Myth’

Politico Magazine: Idea of ‘Defensive Gun Ownership’ a ‘Tragic Myth’ On January 14, Politico Magazine (PM) ran a story suggesting the claim that guns are used for defense purposes more often than ill-intent is wrong, and the whole idea behind “defensive gun ownership” is a “tragic myth.” PM defined the “tragic myth” as the belief “that millions of gun owners successfully use their firearms to defend themselves and their families from criminals.” They pointed to the dearth of academic support for defensive gun uses (DGUs) in “public health literature” and listed three instances in which a homeowner fired a gun… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

International court calls on Mexico to ban genetically modified corn

International court calls on Mexico to ban genetically modified corn Mexico is desperately trying to avoid a bioterrorism takeover by Big GMO, which is insistent upon ushering in genetically modified (GM) maize to replace the dozens of native corn varieties already grown throughout the country. The Mexican Chapter of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has issued an urgent plea to the Mexican government to once and for all ban all plantings of GM maize in order to avoid catastrophic losses to the “center of origin and diversity of this staple crop.” The ruling, which came after the Tribunal spent three years… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

Canada Admits Pesticides Are Killing Mass Amounts Of Bees

Ontario, Canada Admits Pesticides Are Killing Mass Amounts Of Bees. Here’s What They’re Doing About It Is it a little to late? It seems that we’ve known for years that pesticides are killing millions of bees, if not billions. More specifically, it’s neonicotinoid pesticides that have been targeted as the culprit, and the province of Ontario, Canada is doing something about it. Ontario’s government recently made the decision that neonicotinoid pesticide use will be reduced by 80 percent no later than 2017. Neonicotinoid insecticides persist in very high levels in planter exhaust material produced during the planting of crops treated… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

Pastors: Houston mayor deceived ‘every step of the way’

Pastors: Houston mayor deceived ‘every step of the way’ Now promising to do ‘whatever’ she needs to defend transgender ordinance The lesbian mayor of Houston, Annise Parker, is promising to do “whatever” is needed to defend a transgender ordinance in a court trial scheduled for Jan. 26. Her opponents say that’s not particularly surprising, since she has been deceptive “every step of the way” in the case brought by a coalition of local pastors. At issue in the “equal rights” ordinance granting transgenders additional rights adopted by the city council at the mayor’s urging last year. As a lesbian, she… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

One-third of Americans would give up sex for their mobile phones – survey

One-third of Americans would give up sex for their mobile phones – survey In a sign of a new type of connectedness, almost one-third of the American population would forgo sexual relations for a year than surrender their mobile phone for that long, according to a new survey. The survey of 1,003 Americans was conducted from September through November of last year by the Boston Consulting Group, and was commissioned and partly paid for by semiconductor maker Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), Bloomberg reported. America’s love affair with the communication devices was proven in a number of other scenarios as well: More… View Article

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