Hillary Clinton is on course to receive more votes than any other US presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama – despite losing Tuesday’s election to Donald Trump. LINK
Monday was a beautiful morning in Spokane, Washington, for the annual Unity March that occurs on Martin Luther King Day. According to local news station KXLY, there were 3000 people who marched from the INB Performing Arts Center to River Park Square. If you can make it out in that screenshot up there, there's people in wheelchairs and children out to celebrate King's life. In case that's not clear, there's always this: (see pic at link)Sounds like a domestic case of terror again but the press is hardly reporting it...which disturbs me. When we had a close bombing call in Portland by a student from Corvallis' OSU it was reported daily for a couple of weeks. This incident had a fully functionable (sp?) bomb able to kill several to many and we hear zilch. Do the press practice caution about alarming the public?.... I doubt it. Do they under report cases of right wing terrorism? Hmmm....
These are the people who would have been killed or maimed if a remote-detonation bomb, an IED, if you will, had gone off where it had been planted along the march route, just outside Auntie's Bookstore.
This should be a major news story -- deserving of signifcant coverage on cable TV and on leading mainstream media news sites:And the NW Progressive Institute Advocate reminds us of a bomb in Spokane last year.
This is actually the second bomb that has been found in downtown Spokane in the last year. A previous explosive device was found last March outside Spokane's U.S. Federal Courthouse, named for former Speaker Tom Foley. It was also disarmed and removed from the scene before anyone was hurt.and there was a bank bombing in Salem last year by some anti govt murderers that should be called domestic terrorism: CBS News Link
According to testimony, father and son exulted in the Oklahoma City bombing, and Bruce Turnidge viewed Timothy McVeigh as a hero.
Anger on Sunday over a Somali-born teen's failed plan to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony apparently erupted in arson on Sunday when a fire damaged an Islamic center that the suspect occasionally attended, authorities said.
Police don't know who started the blaze or exactly why, but they believe the mosque was targeted because terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, occasionally worshipped there.
The fire at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center was reported at 2:15 a.m., and "quite a bit of evidence" at the scene led authorities believe it was set intentionally, said Carla Pusateri, a fire prevention officer for the Corvallis Fire Department. No one was injured in the blaze, which did not damage any worship areas and was contained to one room, said Yosof Wanly, imam at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center. Corvallis Gazette Times Link
A Somali-born Oregon State University student plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland on Friday, but the bomb turned out to be a dud supplied by undercover agents as part of a sting, federal prosecutors said. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody Corvallis Gazette Times LinkGood job Corvallis (and Portland) Police Department and the FBI.
And.......Supplemental Medicare Drug Plans will see increases in premiums.Regence BlueCross BlueShield has dropped its child-only coverage just in time for a new federal law to take effect.
The new federal law forbids health insurance companies from denying coverage to kids because they are sick.
So more and more big insurance companies like Regence BlueCross BlueShield are getting rid of child-only plans.
Local health care centers say Regence BlueCross BlueShield isn't the only company to drop child-only coverage.
Several others like Cigna and Anthem Blue Cross have as well. KEZI News Link
Millions of seniors face double-digit hikes in their Medicare prescription premiums next year unless they shop for cheaper coverage, a new analysis of government data finds.Premiums will go up an average of 10 percent among the top 10 drug plans that have signed up about 70 percent of seniors, according to an analysis of Medicare data by Avalere Health, a private research firm. Yahoo News Link
