Thursday Show 05-05-16
Seattle May Day protests marred by Molotov cocktails, violence
May Day protests in Seattle turned violent on Sunday, as protesters lit fireworks and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, Seattle Police said.
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Green Beret who tackled Afghan child rapist won't have to leave the Army
The U.S. Army has reversed a decision to expel a decorated Green Beret for beating up an Afghan military officer who repeatedly raped a boy he kept chained to his bed.
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Armed Services Committee Rejects Amendment to Allow Abortions at Military Facilities
The House Armed Services Committee voted down an amendment Wednesday evening that would have allowed “service members and their dependents to receive abortion services at defense medical facilities (MTFs) if they personally provide funding.”
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Five years after Usama bin Laden's death, new info -- and a new nemesis
Five years ago, Rob O’Neill chomped on a sandwich watching television at Bagram Airfield. Usama bin Laden’s dead body lay on a table next to him.
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NC Gov. on DOJ Claim That Bathroom Law Violates Civil Rights Act: Privacy Around the Nation ‘Now in Jeopardy’
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory issued a statement on Wednesday after receiving a letter from the Department of Justice (DOJ) informing him that HB2, the law he signed requiring state employees to use bathrooms and other public facilities according to their biological sex, violates the Civil Rights Act.
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USDA And EPA To Help Communities Use Internet to ‘Improve Walkability’
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced five communities that will participate in their Cool And Connected broadband internet program to "revitalize downtowns, diversify local economies, and improve walkability."
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Gov't Buys $4K Inflatable Smokey Bear Costume
The Department of the Interior has awarded a contract for a 10-foot inflatable WalkAround ‘Smokey Bear’ costume for $4,999.
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FDA Launches $35.7 Million LGBT Anti-Smoking Campaign
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have just launched an anti-tobacco campaign focused on young adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
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Stiff Fines Proposed For EU Members That Refuse to Admit Asylum Seekers
Under a new proposal by the European Commission (EC), members of the European Union (EU) would be fined 250,000 euros ($285,000 USD) for every asylum seeker from the Middle East and North Africa they refuse to accept from a fellow EU country.
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Londoners Look Set to Elect a First-Ever Muslim Mayor Despite 'Extremism' Controversy
As a tumultuous, often sharp-edged campaign comes to a close, polls predict that residents of the British capital will elect human-rights lawyer Sadiq Khan as their first Muslim mayor on Thursday.
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DOD: 'Largest Group' of U.S. Forces in Iraq There as 'Security Protection for Advisers and Assisters'
President Obama has sent a growing number of troops to Iraq to protect the relatively small number of American advisers and assisters he deployed in the first place to help the Iraqis fight Islamic State terrorists.
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Showing posts with label May Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label May Day. Show all posts
Friday, May 06, 2016
Friday, May 01, 2015
Show Notes 04-30-2015
Thursday show 04-30-15
May Day
May 1st, often called May Day, just might have more holidays than any other day of the year. It's a celebration of Spring. It's a day of political protests. It's a neopagan festival, a saint's feast day, and a day for organized labor. In many countries, it is a national holiday.
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Texas Governor orders troops to monitor Operation Jade Helm
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered members of the Texas Military to monitor federal troops in an upcoming two-month training exercise planned for the Lone Star State.
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UN cultural agency slams Israel's claim to religious sites
The U.N. Education Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) executive board has adopted two resolutions condemning Israel for activities at locations whose religious significance for Jews goes back thousands of years.
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Fury rises at Disney over the use of foreign workers
At the end of October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs. Multiple conference rooms had been set aside for this purpose, and in each room an executive read from a script informing the worker that their last day would be Jan. 30, 2015.
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Tiny fish becoming big issue in California water shortage
Endangered since 1993, the plankton-eating silver minnow is blamed by farmers, lawmakers and water officials up and down the Golden State for locking down billions of gallons of water that otherwise would go to them. That's because, since the smelt's listing as a protected species, biologists have tried saving the fish, in part, by withholding fresh river runoff annually to maintain smelt-friendly temperature and salinity levels.
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May Day
May 1st, often called May Day, just might have more holidays than any other day of the year. It's a celebration of Spring. It's a day of political protests. It's a neopagan festival, a saint's feast day, and a day for organized labor. In many countries, it is a national holiday.
Read More
Texas Governor orders troops to monitor Operation Jade Helm
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered members of the Texas Military to monitor federal troops in an upcoming two-month training exercise planned for the Lone Star State.
Read More
UN cultural agency slams Israel's claim to religious sites
The U.N. Education Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) executive board has adopted two resolutions condemning Israel for activities at locations whose religious significance for Jews goes back thousands of years.
Read More
Fury rises at Disney over the use of foreign workers
At the end of October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs. Multiple conference rooms had been set aside for this purpose, and in each room an executive read from a script informing the worker that their last day would be Jan. 30, 2015.
Read More
Tiny fish becoming big issue in California water shortage
Endangered since 1993, the plankton-eating silver minnow is blamed by farmers, lawmakers and water officials up and down the Golden State for locking down billions of gallons of water that otherwise would go to them. That's because, since the smelt's listing as a protected species, biologists have tried saving the fish, in part, by withholding fresh river runoff annually to maintain smelt-friendly temperature and salinity levels.
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Saturday, May 03, 2014
Show Notes 05/01/2014
Thursday Show 5/1/14
National Day of Prayer
In 1775 the Continental Congress allocated a time
for prayer in forming a new nation. Over the years, there have been
calls for a day of prayer, including from President Abraham Lincoln
in 1863.
What is May Day all about?
In the late 1800s, workers in different parts of
the world were fighting for the right to work no more than eight
hours a day. At the time, it was common for them to have to work 11
hours or more each day. They chose May 1 as a time to protest in
favor of a shorter
workday.
DOJ now pressuring banks to refuse service to gun
stores
For the past several months, the U.S. Department
of Justice has been pressuring banks to refuse service to businesses
the DOJ is targeting politically, such as gun stores, in a program
entitled Operation Choke
Point.
Iraq War Veteran reunited with bomb sniffing
Military dog in Chicago
April 30, 2014: Sgt. Jason Bos was reunited with
MWD Cila M389, a Labrador Retriever, at Chicago O'Hare International
Airport.MyFoxChicago.com
Ranchers and Empire in the American West Mises
Daily: by Ryan McMaken Part One
The militarized siege of a cattle ranch near
Bunkerville, Nevada has drawn national attention as dozens of federal
agents, armed with machine guns, sniper rifles, helicopters, and
more, have descended on the ranch to seize cattle, people, and
generally show everyone who’s
boss.
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