Archive for December 15th, 2013

By Mark Steyn NationalReview.com December 15, 2013 Looks like the government may have found a way to pay down all that debt: Shannon Bruner of Indianola logged on to her checking account Monday morning, and found she was almost 800 dollars in the negative. “The first thing I thought was, ‘I got screwed,’” she... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 12/15/2013 Representing numbers that would put the adoption curve of Obamacare to shame, the Bitcoin equivalents of Paypal, BitPay, announced last week that it has now processed over $100 million in BTC transactions in 2013, has increased its merchant base to over 15,500 approved merchants in over 200 countries, but... »

WashingtonsBlog.com December 13, 2013 Member of Oversight Committee Calls It “Shameful” In August, we noted that Obama’s promises to rein in NSA spying weren’t credible: President Obama just announced that he’s making “reforms” to the NSA spying program. Should we believe him? Obama’s claim this week that the government doesn’t spy on Americans is... »

Investmentwatchblog.com December 15th, 2013 Homelessness and hunger are spreading across America…. »

Activist Post.com Sunday, December 15, 2013 The ACLU’s holiday parody video is making the rounds. Though it’s lighthearted, it concludes with a definitive call to action to end the NSA’s illegal spying activities. Every week brings new revelations about the depth of the dragnet digital surveillance under which most of the planet currently lives.... »

ELISA HAHN KING 5 News December 15, 2013 For the second week in a row, the Washington Healthplanfinder website is down, and it’s causing problems for people who are dealing with billing issues. Some of them say the website is mistakenly debiting their accounts. Shannon Bruner of Indianola logged on to her checking account... »

By Kristen Rodman AccuWeather.com December 13, 2013 While the official start to winter is still days away, Dec. 21, 2013, the cold, icy and snowy weather across most of the United States would indicate otherwise. A series of storms this fall blanketed parts of the Northeast and Midwest in snow, ice-covered areas and knocked... »

By Susan Duclos BeforeItsNews.com Saturday, December 14, 2013 Fabian4Liberty aka Fabian Calvo gives us the upcoming global economic rest update and explains how US and China are preparing for war, after giving a very brief description of his creds, as he says, not to impress us, but to impress upon us how he knows... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 12/15/2013 Overnight rhetoric in Asia became increasingly heated when China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed “strong dissastisfaction” at the slanderous actions of Abe’s Japanese government over the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) and the “theft and embezzlement” of the Diaoyu Islands. “Japan’s attempt is doomed to failure,” China warned ominously... »

Twitchy.com December 14, 2013 Ace over at Ace of Spades HQ alerts us to an interesting development from the Denver Post. As Twitchy noted, the newspaper quietly edited its profile of Arapahoe school shooter Karl Pierson, changing a student’s description of Pierson as “a very opinionated Socialist” to simply “very opinionated.” Lee Ann Colacioppo,... »