Rep. Byran Holloway supports NC H.R. 982 to Oppose NDAA thanks to Nullify-NDAA

Author: Brian D. Hill Source: USWGO Alternative News Note: To read to the written response (Email Record) visit the USWGO Public Records Archive or go to it directly here (154KB). Petitions do indeed work and proves that Nullify-NDAA was the most successful thing to try using real petitions with real peoples signatures. North Carolina Legislature [...]

U.S. Approves New Nuclear Reactors in South Carolina

ShareThis U.S. Approves New Nuclear Reactors in South Carolina 30 Mar 2012 Federal regulators Wall Street wh*res approved power company Scana Corp.’s proposal to build two nuclear reactors with a partner in South Carolina at a cost of some $ 11 billion, the second such approval in two months after a drought that lasted more [...]

Gingrich Wins South Carolina Primary, Upending G.O.P. Race

ShareThis Gingrich Wins South Carolina Primary, Upending G.O.P. Race 22 Jan 2012 Surprising his rivals and upending the Republican race for the presidency, Newt Gingrich won the pivotal South Carolina primary Saturday, 10 days after a fourth-place finish in New Hampshire left the impression his candidacy was all but dead. Mr. Gingrich rode to victory [...]

N.C. air transport company Aero has role in extraordinary rendition, report says

ShareThis N.C. air transport company Aero has role in extraordinary rendition, report says 19 Jan 2012 With fresh ammunition from a University of North Carolina law school report, activists renewed their call Thursday for state officials to take legal action against Aero Contractors Ltd. For years the Johnston County, N.C., air transport company, which has [...]

Outrageous North Carolina sterilization program targeted women, young girls, and blacks

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Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes. “I have to carry these scars with me. I have to live with this [...]

NLRB documents shed light on Boeing fight in South Carolina

BY JAMES ROSEN, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPER -The Miami Herald WASHINGTON — Lawyers for the federal labor agency fighting Boeing’s new factory in North Charleston, N.C., repeatedly joked among themselves about the dispute and exchanged a political cartoon portraying S.C. Sen. Glenn McConnell as a crass-speaking confederate soldier, according to internal documents released Wednesday. The emails, memos [...]

Carolina cops threaten to ignore crime due to budget cuts

(RT)   Cops in Smithfield aren’t going to answer 911 calls from hotels; they say those are usually hang-ups. And robbery reports? False alarms, mostly. Actually, misdemeanors altogether are going to be ignored — all until the city gives gas money to the PD. The Smithfield, North Carolina town council nixed funding for patrol car fuel [...]

South Carolina mine sparks mini-gold rush

By Harriet McLeod | Reuters A Canadian mining company and a tiny South Carolina town are leading what could be a modern gold rush to the southeastern United States. Romarco Minerals Inc. reopened the historic Haile Gold Mine near Kershaw, S.C., this year and expects to pour its first gold bar there in early 2014, [...]

South Carolina Governor Rejects NAACP Push to Remove Confederate Flag

By Mary Quinn O’Connor, FOXNews.com South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley isn’t retreating from her decision to keep the Confederate flag atop the north end of the Statehouse in Columbia despite complaints from the NAACP, whose president this week said the ethnic minority governor is a “contradiction” for allowing the flag to fly. Speaking to a [...]