Activist Post.com Tuesday, January 28, 2014 Today, an Indiana state house committee gave preliminary approval to a bill which would severely restrict the use of drones within the state. Introduced by Rep. Eric Allan Koch (R-65), House Bill 1009 (HB1009) “Prohibits the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and tracking devices to conduct warrantless searches,”... »
Archive for January 28th, 2014
As Congress Targets Food Stamps, Working Poor Get Whacked Again
Jon Queally RINF Alternative News Jan. 28, 2014 Both major political parties agree: What poor and working-class Americans need is to be kicked in the face A new compromised Farm Bill that passed the House of Representatives on Monday and has received backing from prominent senators of both parties will make deep cuts to... »
“Homegrown Terrorist” Most Likely Threat to Super Bowl, Says FBI
TheDailyHeap.com January 27, 2014 While the head of the FBI in New Jersey says he is confident in the two-plus years of preparation law enforcement agencies have put into securing this year’s super bowl, Homeland Security officials still worry most about a lone actor or “homegrown” extremist attempting a small scale attack. “... »
States Fight Back Against NSA Spying
by George Washington ZeroHedge.com 01/28/2014 The American people aren’t falling for NSA’s propaganda. They want the rogue agency reined in. But Obama refuses to rein in the NSA, Dianne Feinstein says that Congress “doesn’t have the votes” to do anything about mass surveillance, and at least some judges are supporting the NSA’s spying (and... »
Police State Gets Ready for Super Bowl XLVIII
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 28, 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII is a level one national security event declared by the Department of Homeland Security allowing Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 to kick in. The directive means the federal government considers the game to be a possible terrorist target and provides authority for the feds to... »
Reports from Alaska: Many salmon with strange growths inside, concerns about health and safety — “Skin illness on white fish raise concerns… Never caught any like this” — Gov’t predicts ‘catastrophic’ king salmon run (PHOTOS)
ENENews.com January 28th, 2014 Local Environmental Observers (LEO) Network, Updated Dec. 12, 2013 (emphasis added): Unusual growth observed in salmon tissue — Hydaburg, Alaska, August 12, 2013 (salmon) We have found strange growths in the flesh or meat of salmon. We were fishing for cohos (silver salmon) at the mouth of the Hydaburg River... »
Number of sick U.S. military first responders doubles — Around 250 victims of Fukushima radiation exposure contact attorney — Congress: Reports are ‘disconcerting’ (VIDEO)
ENENews.com January 28th, 2014 Stars & Stripes, Jan. 27, 2014: Congress has instructed the Defense Department to launch an inquiry into potential health impacts on Navy first-responders from Japan’s March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. While the instruction is not law, Defense Department officials said that they were taking the request seriously.... »
Stony Brook Univ. Scientist: Fukushima radioactivity “has absolute consequences in rest of world” — “It’s carried all over the place… incorporated into sea life… causes risks to human health” (AUDIO)
ENENews.com January 27th, 2014 Interview with Zofia Baumann, Postdoctoral Investigator at School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Stony Brook University, KALW’s ‘Your Call’, July 8, 2012: At 42:45 in Zofia Baumann, Stony Brook University: From my perspective, as a person, not even a scientist, I just find this astonishing how this is an example... »
How Economists and Policymakers Murdered Our Economy — Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org January 25, 2014 The economy has been debilitated by the offshoring of middle class jobs for the benefit of corporate profits and by the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing in order to support a few oversized banks that the government protects from market discipline. Not only does QE distort bond and stock... »
Conditions never seen before by scientists in Pacific seals and walrus — Thyroid cysts, lesions of reproductive system, retained placenta — Hunters concerned — Oceanographers to discuss radiation from Fukushima on Alaska radio tomorrow
ENENews.com January 27th, 2014 Alaska Marine Science Symposium (pdf), Jan. 20-24, 2014: Incidental Gross Necropsy Findings In Subsistence Harvested Ice Seals And Pacific Walrus Ice seals (ringed, bearded, spotted seals) and Pacific walrus are very important subsistence species for Arctic coastal communities. As part of the North Slope Borough (NSB) ongoing Marine Mammal... »