Reblogged from Citizen Journalist: Stevie Bates Via the New York Daily News New Yorker Stevie Bates, 19, who had been traveling cross country with Occupy Wall Street friends to an Occupy event, stopped at a layover in Pittsburgh on April 27th on the way home to New York. She hasn’t been seen since. Bates was [...]
Reward for killer of rare white buffalo From Crime Time: The reward has increased ninefold to $45,000 in last week’s deaths of a rare white buffalo, considered sacred by its Lakota Sioux owner, and its mother on a ranch near Greenville. Lightning Medicine Cloud and his mother, Buffalo Woman, were killed just shy of the [...]
Vandals cause widespread damage to historic church in Santa Cruz, California From Catholic Culture: Shattering windows and spray-painting statues and other areas of the church, vandals have caused extensive damage to Holy Cross Parish in Santa Cruz. Founded in 1791, Mission Santa Cruz was one of the 21 Franciscan missions founded by Blessed Junipero Serra [...]
China’s brutal governmental policies against life. Last year, we wrote about a South Korean team that was investigating the production and sale of capsules filled with powdered human baby flesh in China. When the team investigated, they reportedly found a hospital that sold the dead babies, with the dead babies mostly being abortions and stillbirths, [...]
Reblogged from Watts Up With That?: MSNBC reports that the lack of temperature rise in the last 12 years has convinced environmentalist James Lovelock ( The Gaia Hypothesis) that the climate alarmism wasn’t warranted. From his Wikipedia entry: Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argues that, as a result of [...]
Cha. Cha. Charity! In recognition of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Catholic Charities Project UNICA visited area nightclubs, including Andrea’s Cha Cha Club, in Portland to host “Nights of Consent” on April 19 and 20. Project UNICA staff greeted patrons at club entry points and used a hand-stamp reading, “Consent is Sexy” to promote and [...]
Jumping the shark: Climate change a national security threat
Reblogged from Watts Up With That?: Wow, this is thick. What next? Climate research becoming classified? Panetta: Climate change a national security threat by Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer for the Washington Examiner – Beltway Confidential Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat yesterday during a speech before an environmentalist group [...]