The Free Thought Project – by Mike Sawyer

Indianapolis, IN — On Wednesday, the Indiana State Police announced that they have raided 146 marijuana grow plots throughout the southern region of the state.

In an unprecedented show of force, officers from the Indiana State Police, the Indiana National Guard Counter Drug Task Force, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Forest Service, Civil Air Patrol, Indiana Department of Natural Resources and local agencies, authorities seized thousands of marijuana plants.   Continue reading “Indiana Police Call in the US Military and Raid 146 “Dangerous” Marijuana Plots”

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Free-Man’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenburg

Warnings about Peak Oil have circulated widely in recent years, and if accurate, they are important. Peak oil, however, pales in comparison to something that’s happening right in front of us… and something that is a good deal more dangerous: Peak Obedience.

If that concept strikes you as odd, I can understand why: We’ve all been living inside of an obedience cult. (And I choose these words carefully.)   Continue reading “Peak Obedience”

Boston Globe – by Andy Rosen

A gunman shot at a Millis police cruiser on Wednesday afternoon, causing the vehicle to crash and catch fire, according to State Police.

State Police sent patrols and helicopters to the scene, officials said, adding that they were not aware of any injuries from the incident.   Continue reading “Cruiser crashes, catches fire after being shot at in Millis, Massachusetts”

The Telegraph – by Rob Crilly

Anywhere else and the sprinklers would have been a good idea, cooling off overheated visitors with a fine spray of water at the entrance to one of Poland’s busiest historical attractions.

But not at Auschwitz.

To the visiting Israeli tourists, the new showers outside the entrance to the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp brought images of Nazi gas chambers flooding back through their collective memories.

Continue reading “Tourists horrified by showers at Auschwitz entrance”

ABC News

The parents of a San Francisco woman who was fatally shot by a man in the country illegally said Tuesday that federal and local authorities contributed to the death of their daughter through negligence and bureaucratic bungling.

The family alleges in legal claims that a Bureau of Land Management ranger left his loaded service weapon in a backpack in plain view in his car before the gun was stolen in June.   Continue reading “Parents of Women Killed on San Francisco Pier by Illegal File Claims”

Chicago Tribune – by Dan Hinkel

A Fox Lake police officer was shot and killed Tuesday morning, and a massive manhunt with dogs and helicopters was underway along Rollins Road in Lake County.

The officer was pursuing people described as suspicious around 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to Lake County Undersheriff Raymond Rose.

Officers responding to the scene to help the officer found him in a marshy area, stripped of his gun and other gear, Rose said. He died at the scene, the undersheriff said.   Continue reading “Illinois police officer shot and killed; 3 suspects at large”

Yahoo News 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military has deployed two MQ-1 Predator reconnaissance drones and 70 airmen to Latvia on a training mission as part of U.S. efforts to reassure European allies the United States is committed to their security, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The deployment of the MQ-1 Predators to Lielvarde Air Base in Latvia over the weekend was the first time the U.S. military has sent a detachment of drones to Latvia to participate in partner training, said Navy Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman.   Continue reading “U.S. military deploys drones to Latvia on training mission”

Seattle PI – by Ray Henry, AP

ATLANTA (AP) — Police officers who arrived at the wrong Atlanta home after a report of suspicious activity shot the man who lives there, killed his dog and “likely” shot a fellow officer, leaving him seriously wounded, authorities said Tuesday.

The bloody misunderstanding began Monday night when DeKalb County police received a report of a possible burglary at a one-story residence near an intersection in southeast Atlanta. Lacking an exact address, the officers were sent in the dark to a neighborhood where many of the single-story homes look similar.   Continue reading “Investigators: Georgia officer likely shot by other officers”

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The Last Bastille – by Kyle Reardon

Individual cognitive traits possess a high degree of variety amongst humans. Institutions, such as organized religion and corporate media, take advantage of the predilection some folks have for immersing themselves in speculative fantasy; consider the popularity of television shows like Jeremiah, Jericho, and even The Walking Dead franchise. The problem here, though, is that hypothetical lifeboat scenarios encourage people to reorient their entire lives around waiting (or “preparing”) for their calamity to occur, usually at the expense of everything and everyone else in their lives.   Continue reading “Modeling Threats & Analyzing Risk: A Rebuttal Against “Doom Porn””

CNN – by Ralph Ellis

Somebody has shot four moving vehicles on I-10 in Phoenix in the last three days, Arizona Department of Public Safety Director Frank Milstead said Monday.

“The best we know right now it’s random,” Milstead said, asking members of the public to call if they have information.

Two shootings occurred about 11 a.m. Saturday, one about 10:15 p.m. Saturday and one about 4:25 a.m. Monday, he said.   Continue reading “4 vehicles shot on I-10 in Phoenix”

Fox News

Authorities say an Atlanta-area police officer was shot and critically injured Monday night after officers responding to a call about a suspicious person showed up at the wrong house.

DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric Alexander said the officer was shot in the thigh after he and two colleagues entered a home through the back door and identified themselves. Alexander said the officer, whom he did not identify, had lost a lot of blood and was in surgery at a local hospital.   Continue reading “Atlanta-area police officer shot after responding to wrong home”

USA Today – by John Bacon and Peter Eisler

The man accused of fatally shooting a Texas deputy sheriff execution-style at a Houston-area gas station was arraigned Monday on a capital murder charge that could bring the death penalty.

Also Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas flags be flown at half staff who honor Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, who was shot in the back while filling his cruiser Friday night.   Continue reading “Prosecutors: Killer fired 15 shots at Texas deputy”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Much as Brazil is the poster child for the great EM unwind unfolding across emerging economies from LatAm to AsiaPac, Illinois is in many ways the mascot for America’s state and local government fiscal crisis.

Although well documented before, the state’s financial troubles were thrown into sharp relief in May when, on the heels of a state Supreme Court ruling that struck down a pension reform bid, Moody’s downgraded the city of Chicago to junk.    Continue reading “Illinois Pays Lottery Winners In IOUs After $30K/Month Budget “Guru” Fails To Produce Deal”

The Anti-Media – by Carey Wedler

Portsmouth, VA – A 24-year-old mentally ill black man died in a Virginia jail last Wednesday. He had spent four months at a regional facility for allegedly stealing $5 worth of snacks from a convenience store. While jail officials say his body had “no obvious signs of injury,” according to his family he had refused food and medication due to his mental state. His body “deteriorated” until he died, though the jail where he died claims to specialize in mentally ill inmates.   Continue reading “Mentally Ill Man Dies in Police Custody After Stealing $5 Worth of Food”

The Washington Post – by Elahe Izadi

A man arrested Saturday in the shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy at a Houston gas station Friday has been charged with capital murder, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman told reporters at a news conference Saturday evening.

Shannon J. Miles, 30, was picked up for questioning early Saturday, Hickman said, according to a Reuters report. The sheriff said the suspect apparently targeted sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth only because of his uniform.   Continue reading “Texas sheriff’s office identifies defendant in deputy’s ‘execution-style killing’”

ABC 7 – AP

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday ruled in favor of the Obama administration in a dispute over the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone data on hundreds of millions of Americans.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a lower court ruling that said the program likely violates the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches.   Continue reading “Ruling that Found NSA Program Illegal Reversed by Appeals Court”

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Doug Ross@Journal – by David Mills

In 2013, in a little-heralded case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected the Obama Labor Department’s attempt to punish voluntary retirement plan service providers. The DOL, under the direction of the controversial, radical leftist Tom Perez, had tried to force providers of 401(k), 403(b), IRA, and related services to adopt a massive new set of regulations known as “fiduciary” responsibilities.   Continue reading “Obama Labor Dept. Sets Stage for Nationalizing Retirement Accounts”

Reuters

A police officer shooting at a fleeing suspect during an undercover gun buy that went wrong killed a 61-year-old bystander in the New York City suburb of Mount Vernon, police said on Saturday.

Two suspects were taken into custody during the investigation into the sale of illegal guns, the New York Police Department said in a statement. The undercover officer in the Bronx on Friday met a suspect who said he had guns for sale and directed the officer to drive to Mount Vernon. A second suspect got into the back seat of the officer’s car, pointed a gun at his head and demanded money, the NYPD said.   Continue reading “Police kill bystander when New York undercover gun buy goes bad”

Fox News

New Mexico Republican Secretary of State Dianna Duran was charged on Friday with embezzlement, fraud, money laundering and campaign finance violations by the state’s attorney general Democrat Hector Balderas.

Balderas’ officer filed the 64-count complaint in state district court in Santa Fe. Balderas didn’t make a statement of hold a news conference to announce the complaint against Duran, one of the high-ranking GOP lawmakers in the state.   Continue reading “New Mexico secretary of state charged with theft, money laundering”