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Why O'Reilly was really wrong about Ellen

Bill O'Reilly was really off point in his recent article, "A Gay Time at JCPenney," claiming that the conservative group called OneMillionMoms was guilty of "witch-hunting against certain people" when they opposed JC Penney's hiring of Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokesperson.

 

The OneMillionMoms website urged JC Penney to "replace Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokesperson immediately and remain neutral in the culture war," saying, "Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families." (See related article)

O'Reilly begged to differ, writing, "While I sympathize with folks not wanting to deal with homosexuality, I think the Moms are wrong." He argued that "Kim Kardashian is a far worse role model than Ellen," adding that "there are scores of media people who are celebrated for bad behavior. If the Moms want to be consistent in their outrage about dubious behavior, they are going to be very busy."   Read the rest>>>>>>>>>>

Unseen Footage: Costa Concordia During Capsize

February 12, 2012 at 1:33 pm - EuroNews
Dateline: Italy

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Newly released footage captured during the capsizing of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, including reactions among the crew and Captain Francesco Schettino being pressurized to evacuate.

Walk Among the Shipwrecks on the Bottom of the Aral Sea

Haunting 911 Tapes: Social Worker Could Not Have Saved Powell Children

February 8, 2012 at 3:15 pm - RadarOnline.com
Dateline: America

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The horrifying 911 call from the social worker outside of Josh Powell's house as he killed his two sons inside reveals that Elizabeth Griffin-Hall, a contracted care worker for the Foster Care Resource Network could not have done anything else to save them. Josh Powell slammed the door in Griffin-Hall's face seconds after 5-year-old Braden and 7-year-old Charles entered the home. She immediately made the 911 call.

Current Events & Trends: The fading American dream

article by John Ross Schroeder, Tom Robinson

The United States certainly appears to be undergoing a terminal decline that could possibly lead to the biblically prophesied time of Jacob's (or Israel's) trouble (Jeremiah 30:7).

Many of those with northwest European ancestry (large portions of the populations of America, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, Northern France, and the Benelux and Nordic countries) are, along with the Jewish people, descendants of the patriarch Jacob and his 12 sons—the 12 tribes of Israel. (To obtain the essential historic and prophetic evidence, request or download our free booklet The United States and Britain in Bible Prophecy . ) The English-speaking nations in particular have dominated the world, as prophesied, for the past two centuries.

"Hidden" mortgage fee paying for payroll tax cut

You read this 6 months ago on The Plain Truth! Even before Drudge!

Just before Christmas, American workers got a rare gift from Washington politicians - the current payroll tax cut would be extended for two more months.

At the time, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner lauded the move to avoid a tax increase for millions of working Americans.

But there's something the politicians weren't bragging about - the fact that they're paying for the two-month tax cut with what has turned into a brand new fee on home buyers.

The new fee is a minimum of one-tenth of 1 percent on Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-backed loans, and is likely to go much higher.

It will be imposed for the next 10 years on most mortgages and refinancings and it lasts for the life of the loan. For every $200,000, it amounts to an extra $15 dollars a month.  MORE>>>>>>>>>>

PayPal, American Express implicated in bank fraud

by Jerome R. CorsiEmail | Archive

NEW YORK – A former employee of one of the world’s largest international banks who has provided WND with more than 1,000 pages of evidence alleges the Internet giant PayPal and American Express are implicated in an international money-laundering scheme involving hundreds of billions of dollars. More>>>

Sister Wives family given go-ahead to sue Utah over bigamy law

A federal judge has ruled there's sufficient evidence to allow a polygamous family made famous by a reality TV show to pursue a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Utah's bigamy law.

U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups on Friday dismissed Utah's governor and attorney general from the case, but allowed the suit to proceed against Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Buhman, the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune report.

Mr Buhman threatened to prosecute Kody Brown and his four wives - Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn - after the TLC show ‘Sister Wives’ debuted in September 2010, but his office has not filed charges.

Legal challenge: 'Sister Wives' husband Kody Brown is going to court to contend the ban on polygamy in Utah

The family sued Mr Buhman, Governor Gary Herbert and Attorney General Mark Shurtleff in July 2011, claiming Utah's bigamy statute violates its constitutional rights to due process, equal protection, free exercise of religion, free speech and freedom of association.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096822/TLCs-Sister-Wives-family-given-ahead-sue-Utah-bigamy-law.html#ixzz1lYxxmFGa

Banking giant accused of laundering billions

by Jerome R. CorsiEmail | Archive

NEW YORK – A former employee of HSBC in New York has 1,000 pages of customer account records he claims are evidence of an international money-laundering scheme involving hundreds of billions of dollars by the global banking giant, which reportedly is under investigation by a U.S. Senate committee.

John Cruz has delivered to WND customer account records he says he pulled from the HSBC computer system before he was fired. Cruz was terminated Feb. 17, 2010, after two years at HSBC for “poor performance,” but he contends he was let go because senior management didn’t want to him to pursue his personal investigation.

“I was shocked to find accounts through which millions of dollars were being deposited and withdrawn without any apparent business activity being conducted,” he said. “Then when I went to visit the business, I found nothing – shell companies, vacant offices with no furniture, or no such business whatsoever at the address listed on the account records.”  MORE>>>>>>>>>>

40 years on, woman who survived 33,000 foot fall still faces questions

On January 26, 1972 Vesna Vulovic, then a flight attendant, was on board a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 bound for Copenhagen when an explosion ripped apart the aircraft over Czechoslovakia.

Rescue workers found Ms Vulovic in a mangled segment of the aircrafts tail, alive despite suffering from serious injuries that initially left her paralysed from the waist down.

None of 22 other passengers and crew survived An investigation concluded that flight JAT 367 had been destroyed while cruising at 33,000 feet by a bomb planted by Croatian separatists.   Read More>>>>>>

40 years on, woman who survived 33,000 foot fall still faces questions

On January 26, 1972 Vesna Vulovic, then a flight attendant, was on board a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 bound for Copenhagen when an explosion ripped apart the aircraft over Czechoslovakia.

Rescue workers found Ms Vulovic in a mangled segment of the aircrafts tail, alive despite suffering from serious injuries that initially left her paralysed from the waist down.

None of 22 other passengers and crew survived An investigation concluded that flight JAT 367 had been destroyed while cruising at 33,000 feet by a bomb planted by Croatian separatists. For her remarkable survival Ms Vulovic won a mention in the Guinness Book of Records.

But mystery surrounds the crash.   Read More Here>>>>>>>

Petition Seeks WH Probe of Chris Dodd for Bribery

A petition has been launched on Whitehouse.gov that seeks an investigation of Chris Dodd and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for “blatant bribery.”   Dodd recently threatened politicians who opposed or withdrew their support for proposed anti-piracy legislation with a Hollywood boycott of campaign dollars.

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Man lies under speeding train in reckless stunt

A video has emerged on the Internet, apparently shot in India, showing a man risking his life as he lies under a moving train. The footage shows a man walking down the rail tracks as an oncoming train speeds toward him.  Just seconds before he is about to be hit by the train he throws himself face down onto the ground between the tracks.   Read the full story ›

CBS’s Lara Logan Reveals She Still Struggles With Egyptian Sexual Assault: ‘It Doesn’t Go Away’

It was a story that finally revealed to the world that the “Arab Spring” might not have been as peaceful as some would have liked to think. CBS journalist Lara Logan was viciously sexually assaulted while in a crowd of male protesters in Egypt. They screwed “Jew” as they ran their hands over and through her body and tried to rip off her scalp. She detailed the incident back then, and now, she reveals she still struggles with it.   Read More>>>>>>>>>

Man Contracts ‘Rat Lungworm’ by eating raw 'Organic' Veggies!

It’s extremely rare and it’s as nasty as it sounds. The lungworm parasite lives in rats and comes out in their droppings. A slug in Hawaii eats the parasite and that same slug lays its eggs on fruits and vegetables. Eating some produce that wasn’t washed is likely how he got the parasite.  Read the story>>>>>>>

Shocking moment a 66-year-old-dementia sufferer is kicked to the ground and beaten by police officer who tried to delete video

This is the shocking moment a police officer launches a vicious assault on a 66-year-old-dementia sufferer.

Officer Derek Middendorf then tried to cover his tracks by deleting the recording from his dashcam.

But it has been recovered by technicians in Florida, in the US, and now the attorney for victim Albert Flowers told Florida Today that his client was prepared to sue the city of Melbourne.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089868/Dementia-sufferer-66-beaten-police-officer-Melbourne-Florida.html#ixzz1kCXQp9zb

'I'll be the last to leave': How Captain Coward lied to bosses

Tape recording reveals captain promised coastguards he would be last off the ship before he fled leaving hundreds of passengers onboard

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090052/Costa-Concordia-captain-Francesco-Schettinos-dramatic-cruise-ship-struck-rocks.html#ixzz1kCV9d7iN

Thyroid cancer, fracking and nuclear power

An Activist Post Special Report

Rady Ananda
Activist Post

Thyroid cancer cases have more than doubled since 1997 in the United States, while deadly industrial practices that contaminate groundwater with radiation and other carcinogens are also rising.

New information released by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that 56,460 people will develop thyroid cancer in 2012 and 1,780 will die from it.

That’s up from 16,000 thyroid cancer cases in 1997 – a whopping 253% increase in fifteen years, while the US population went up only 18%.

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Get back on the ship... That is an order! Coastguard's furious call to 'Captain Coward'

Francesco Schettino claims he 'saved thousands of lives'

Appears in court after being arrested on suspicion of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship

Repeatedly ignored orders from desperate coastguard to return to ship as he was sat in lifeboat

Junior officers led a 'mutiny' after he dithered in giving orders

Five more bodies found by divers bringing to 11 the number of confirmed dead

24 still missing as fears grow over 500,000 gallons of leaking fuel

Divers scouring boat blow holes in it with explosives as escape route if it should sink

The startling exchange was revealed as:

• Schettino appeared in court in Grosseto, Tuscany, for the first time and was told he faces up to 15 years in jail but insisted: ‘I did not abandon my ship. I saved thousands of lives.’
• Twenty-four people remained missing, including a honeymooning bride.
• A ‘race against time’ began to stop 500,000 gallons of fuel leaking.
• Divers used explosive charges to blow holes in the Concordia to create quicker entry routes for search teams.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087704/Costa-Concordia-captain-Francesco-Schettino-ordered-cruise-ship-coastguard.html#ixzz1jmHM1POL

My husband gave up his life for me: Costa cruise widow

The widow of a Frenchman who died on the Costa Concordia luxury liner gave a chilling account Monday of how her husband sacrificed his life by giving her the only life jacket they had. Read the story>>>>>>>

Experts: Italian Cruise Ship Victims Can't Use US Courts to Sue

NEW YORK — Victims of the Italian cruise ship disaster who might seek to sue in the United States, where damages lawsuits are a virtual industry, may be barred from doing so.

The primary reason, legal experts said, is that contracts written into the tickets state that lawsuits must be brought in the courts of Genoa, Italy.

Read more on Newsmax.com: Experts: Italian Cruise Ship Victims Can't Use US Courts to Sue
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Cashless Society: India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all of its 1.2 Billion Residents

Recently, India has launched a nationwide program involving the allocation of a Unique Identification Number (UID) to every single one of its 1.2 billion residents. Each of the numbers will be tied to the biometric data of the recipient using three different forms of information – fingerprints, iris scans, and pictures of the face. All ten digits of the hand will be recorded, and both eyes will be scanned. MORE>>

Amateur Video: Panicked Passengers During Evacuation

Dateline: Italy

Amateur video emerged on Sunday which showed panic-stricken passengers on the deck of the Costa Concordia waiting for lifeboats to be lowered after the cruise ship ran aground.

Man, wife married 61 years, die hours apart

Local couple raised six children over the years in York and Adams counties.

By TIM STONESIFER The Evening Sun

Posted: 01/10/2012 02:22:16 PM EST

 

Richard and Nancy Trimmer are shown here at the wedding of their eldest son, Richard Jr., in 1972. The two were married for 61 years and raised six children locally, and died on Sunday within 12 hours of each other. (THE EVENING SUN SUBMITTED)

That first chapter always starts simply, innocently enough.

This one begins near East Berlin, more than 60 years ago, with a young man whose buddy had a girlfriend over in West York. And wouldn't you know she's got this cute friend - Nancy. There's a whirling, spinning summer then, 15 miles across the countryside and over the county line again and again, a 20-year-old pedaling hard all the way - Richard.

There are breathless dates at the bowling alley, and a ring, and six children, and squirming grandkids and a life together, married and happy here for 61 sometimes-sparkling years.

Quickly enough there are memories, though, and all too soon a black-and-white picture of the couple, holding one another and smiling at his 80th birthday party last year. A picture shown one day this week on the newspaper's obituary page. Twice.

Richard C. Trimmer Sr., 81, died on Sunday, Jan. 8, at York Hospital after a brief bout with lung cancer.

He was the loving husband of Nancy A.(Hoke) Trimmer, who died on the same day as her husband - just 12 hours earlier.

"She didn't want to be in the house without him," the couple's daughter-in-law, Sue Trimmer, said on Tuesday. "It was all just getting too hard, so God took care of it."

Just before Thanksgiving, the family found out Richard Trimmer had lung cancer. It was in the late stages, and doctors said there was little to be done. They gave the retired trucker six months, at the most.

He had battled chronic  More>>>>>>>>>>>

American Manufacturers Home Depot (HD), Target (TGT), Wal-Mart (WMT) Leaving China

China may not be the destination of choice for American manufacturers looking to locate factories oversees for much longer as foreign investment is dropping off due to rising labor costs, a shrinking labor force, and overly bureaucratic investment rules.M

Several major U.S. retailers, including Home Depot (HD), Target (TGT), and Wal-Mart (WMT), are moving their factories to countries like India and Vietnam, and others are likely to follow.

Click HERE to see how these hurdles have affected several major U.S. retailers including Home Depot, Target, and Wal-Mart read the full analysis from our experts at LIGNET.com.

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