Americans are fat. And they’re getting fatter all the time.
It was just last month when we showed you a series of graphics that demonstrated how it came to this. In short, average calories available to Americans jumped 25 percent to 2500, between 1970 and 2010. And it wasn’t because the US added a fourth meal to the day.
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Officials from public schools in Los Angeles, where 50 percent of the students are Latino, are providing safeguards for their students and their families by restricting unauthorized access by immigration officials. There had been fears that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were about to raid schools in L.A. to crackdown on undocumented immigrants, mainly from central America, in lieu of recent policy changes and attitudes towards immigration into the United States.
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Julian Assange is one of the most wanted men in the world. After a recent tweet, however, he might also be at the top target of Hillary Clinton’s alleged “hit list.”
On Wednesday, the WikiLeaks founder took to Twitter to urge Americans not to waste their vote on President Barack Obama’s former Secretary of State — unless they want the country to be involved in yet another ongoing military entanglement.
In a post shared by the WIkiLeaks account, Assange began with the statement:
There was some hope in early Japanese trading that after a seemingly endless rout in the USDJPY, which has seen the Yen surge the most in the past two weeks since the 1998 Asian crisis, the BOJ would intervene, if not via policy where it has botched things up beyond repair then directly by selling Yen on the tape: the reason for this is not only yesterday's direct intervention that sent the USDJPY soaring by over 150 pips briefly, but also after a report that Finance Ministry’s FX chief Masatsugu Asakawa met deputy chief cabinet secretary to discuss market issues; this was followed by a mee