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Number of fires rapidly increasing across the US, Canada, and Mexico.This is no accident, 95 fires now burning in the US, distributed across the country and the count is increasing. Unvetted foreign operatives, directed energy, or careless international smokers club meets gone bad? This isn't being reported for the scale and apparently coordinated execution plan in play. Is there enough firefighting capability to counter the situation as it now, or a couple of days from now?To call these wildfires would be naive.

Should fans be allowed to bring guns into stadiums? Dec. 14, 2016 - 2:34 - Three Republican Washington state representatives introduce bill that would permit licensed firearms inside sports stadiums.See the Rob Demetrious Foxnews Video.

A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy.. . . It’s unclear how or when the provision was added, although Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., — the committee’s chairman — and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., have both offered bills in the past that would address what the FBI calls a gap and privacy advocates consider a serious threat to civil liberties.

A sometimes lethal parasitic disease that can leave its victims with crater-like ulcers and grayish skin tones has never much bothered those within the confines of the US-until now. Between 2000 and 2007, 13 autochthonous cases-meaning victims contracted it here, as opposed to while traveling elsewhere-of leishmaniasis cropped up in Texas and Oklahoma, compared to just 29 cases spanning almost the entire 20th century,... In South Sudan, visceral leishmaniasis killed 10 times as many people as died in the Ebola outbreak of 2014-15

State Rep. Becky Corbin (R., Chester) knows about the ravages of contagious disease. ... Corbin, who said she still bears the physical scars from measles, went on to become a pharmaceutical chemist. ... Corbin and other lawmakers say they want to close what they call a "loophole" that has allowed parents to opt out of vaccinations based on philosophical objections, which along with medical and religious, are the three allowable exemptions. Pennsylvania is one of roughly 20 states that has a philosophical exemption, while New Jersey does not.

The key weapon in their arsenal of obedience is technology and the mega-corporations that control the flow of information disseminated to the hypnotized mindless masses. The United States has devolved into a society where a few powerful unelected unaccountable men, controlling the levers of government, education, finance, and media are able to formulate the opinions, tastes, beliefs, and fears of the masses through the effective and subtle use of technology. They have tenaciously and unflinchingly fashioned a technology addiction among the masses in order to keep them distracted, entertained and uninterested in thinking, gaining knowledge, or comprehending their roles and...

"We're beginning to see some move from the dollar to the euro, both from the private sector ... but also from monetary authorities and central banks," Greenspan told a conference [...]

NEW YORK - A public school is requiring detention for parents who get their kids to school late. Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who don’t drop off their children by 8:25 a.m. have to pick up late slips from the principal’s office and go to the auditorium to serve 20 minutes of detention with them.Read more...

Defeat CAFTA and save your supplements. You must ACT NOW! ACT NOW to preserve your access to nutrients, effective vitamins and minerals, and nutritional medicine! We have leverage - it's very close, perhaps within 1 vote! Listen to Len & Joe (Ask the Pharmacist Group) discuss why this is an important issue for all of us! CAFTA - BAD for jobs, small businesses, health stores, health freedom In the fine print the US is being signed up to global regulations that override US supplement laws. The outcome for CAFTA is up for grabs, as the vote is very close in...

Women sent back to the kitchen 22/07/2004 10:23 - (SA) Sarel van der Walt London - Proponents of women's rights in Europe are up in arms after a European parliamentarian of the Independent Party of the United Kingdom (Ipuk) said women belong in the kitchen where they "ought to clean behind the fridge properly". Godfrey Bloom, 54, also said: "No self respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place will ever appoint a woman while she is still of child bearing age". Bloom, who made himself available as a member of the parliament's committee for women's rights, said...

Man distributing home made John Kerry bumper stickers asks if woman is voting for Kerry as he sticks them on her breasts while coping a feel. See Poughkeepsie police on lookout for 'Kerry bumpersticker groper'...

LONDON (Reuters) - A woman in Mexico gave birth to a healthy baby boy after performing a Caesarian section on herself with a kitchen knife, doctors said Tuesday. The unidentified 40-year-old woman, who lived in a rural area without electricity, running water or sanitation and was an eight-hour drive from the nearest hospital, performed the operation when she could not deliver the baby naturally. She had lost a previous baby due to labor complications. "She took three small glasses of hard liquor and, using a kitchen knife, sliced her abdomen in three attempts ... and delivered a male infant that...

Are you sometimes a conniving weasel at work? Do you notice yourself stepping on other people's fingers as you scamper up the corporate ladder? Have you rudely ignored colleagues who can't help you advance? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you probably aren't the biggest jerk in your office. That's because the really big jerks almost never acknowledge their devious behavior. In many ways, that's the secret to their success. "Jerks are just normal folks carried to extremes," says Gloria Elliott, an organizational development consultant in Roanoke, Va. Having helped over 100 companies deal with obnoxious...

POLL: Do you think background checks of gun buyers should be kept on record? Yes or No VoteTake the poll here: http://www.newscentral.tv CURRENT RESULTS WEB POLL QUESTION:Do you think background checks of gun buyers should be kept on record? 53% Yes <--- ARE YOU GOING TO LET THIS STAND?? 47% No

NEW YORK — Between Madonna and Britney's kiss, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer's" lesbian sex scene and newspaper headlines about American high school girls experimenting with same-sex relationships, 2003 seemed like the year of girl-on-girl action. Now, Showtime will bring the lives and loves of a whole cast of lesbian characters to the small screen in its new drama "The L Word." The show hasn't even aired yet — it debuts Sunday night — but the recent display of lesbian activity in mainstream media is already the center of a moral and cultural firestorm. Supporters of "The L Word" call the...

HELENA - Allison Chapman was fed up that night, fed up with teenagers routinely driving the streets of Geraldine playing loud music on their car stereos into the late hours. But his attempt to discourage the practice was disorderly conduct, for which he was rightly convicted, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled. A five-judge panel said Tuesday that Chapman's effort to disperse a carful of teens from a public road in front of his house by shouting at them to get out of his town was a crime. Chapman was wrong in arguing that no one's peace was disturbed by...

CHICAGO, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- For the first time since tracking began 20 years ago, U.S. women outnumber men in higher paying, white collar managerial and professional occupations. The gap will continue because of a self-perpetuating cycle of workplace gains for women, according to international outplacment firm Chicago-based Challenger, Gray & Christmas. "As a growing number [of women] move into upper management roles, those [women] further down the ladder will reap the benefits by increasingly being targeted for advancement," said John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.Read more...

Federal Reserve Taking Your Buying Power Away Congratulations to all of you who bought stock, you’ll see that you’re making money today as I write this –it’s just a co-incidence that the Federal Reserve just happened to add $8.75 Billion dollars to Open Market Operations at the same time the market rallied today. Is this the “unconventional means” Greenspan has spoken of using in his attempt to prop up our economy? You bet it is. Welcome to the Third Way – the mix of capitalism and state enterprise. Say good-bye to free markets, not that we ever really had such...

Shackles plan for brutal men By LEELA de KRETSER 18apr03 BRUTES could be fitted with ankle tags and tracked by satellites under an anti-domestic violence strategy floated by the Federal Government. Electronic fields would be thrown around the victims' homes, schools and offices and sound an alarm with the police if the abuser steps into the exclusion zones. Victims' homes would also be fitted with duress alarms linked direct to police and have access to mobile phones with a red alert button. The electronic anklets and duress alarms are part of recommendations made in a report commissioned by the Office...

East Chicago Amoco refinery on fire; need confirmation