Ars Technica – by David Kravets

A federal judge on Monday unsealed disturbing dashcam footage of a suburban Kansas City, Missouri, police officer tasering a 17-year-old motorist who became brain damaged after what was billed as a routine traffic stop. That stop subsequently turned into an event of excessive force—resulting in a four-year prison sentence for Officer Timothy Runnels of the Independence Police Department.   Continue reading “Dashcam footage of cop tasing, dragging, and dropping teen is unsealed”

BBC News

Google has banned an extension of its Chrome browser which was being used to identify Jewish names on the internet by surrounding them with three sets of brackets, or parentheses.

Those identified were then subjected to anti-semitic abuse via social media.

The symbol has been described as a secret signal because punctuation does not show up in ordinary web searches.   Continue reading “Google bans plug-in that picks out Jews”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Garfield County Sheriff James “Danny” Perkins has issued threats in Utah against the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service if they sought to close access by Americans to public lands.

NPR reports:

Federal land makes up 94 percent of this county, so you’d think that Perkins would welcome the help of federal authorities. Think again. In the sage brush hills outside the one-stoplight town of Panguitch, he pulls off the highway and points to a dirt track. Continue reading “Utah Sheriff Issues Threats of Arrest for US Rangers & BLM if They Attempt to Close Public Lands”

Planet Free Will – by Joseph Jankowski

There will be no more discussion as to whether or not humans are contributing to climate change in the Portland, Oregan public school system, as the school board plans to ban all material that denies the existence of man-made climate change.

Although the topic is still being heavily debated within the scientific community, young and impressionable students will now only receive the politically correct side of the issue.

‘Man is causing climate change, no questions asked.’   Continue reading “Portland School Board Bans Literature Denying Climate Change”

CTV News – by Ian Deitch

JERUSALEM — Israel’s defence minister announced his resignation Friday, saying the governing party had been taken over by “extremist and dangerous elements” and that he no longer trusts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The departure of Moshe Yaalon — one of the last moderate voices in the Likud Party — deepens the rift in the Cabinet between the security establishment and the hard-line politicians.   Continue reading “Israel defence minister quits, warns of ‘extremist’ takeover”

CBC News – by Dave Domer

Have you ever wanted to take a holiday from being human?

Thomas Thwaites did just that, spending a week living as a goat foraging in the Swiss Alps.

The 35-year-old researcher from London, England, spent three days living among a herd before wandering off on his own for another three days.   Continue reading “‘Goatman’ inspired by shaman joins herd, eats grass in week-long experiment”

CBC News- by Laura Chapman

The first genetically modified food animal has been approved for sale in Canada.

At a news conference in Ottawa on Thursday, Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced AquaBounty’s genetically modified salmon has been approved for sale as food in Canada. AquaBounty said it will be at least a year before the salmon will be available in stores.   Continue reading “Genetically modified salmon approved for sale as food in Canada”

The Washington Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

China’s military underwent a major restructuring last year in a bid to prepare its military for conflict, the Pentagon said in its latest annual assessment of the Communist Party-controlled People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

The armed forces were reformed with new military regions, a new command structure, and updated strategies to better fight regional, high-technology warfare, the 145-page report to Congress says.   Continue reading “Pentagon: China is restructuring itself for war”

Business Insider – by Eric Beech, Reuters

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is scheduled to meet on Wednesday with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing three people close to Trump.

The meeting in New York comes after weeks of telephone conversations between Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, and Kissinger, who was a top adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, the Post said.   Continue reading “Donald Trump is going to meet with Henry Kissinger”

BBC – by Megha Mohan

We’ve had the Iron Lady, Slick Willie and The Governator. Political monikers are not a new thing. But a new and controversial one has emerged as a result of Republican divisions over the prospect of Donald Trump becoming the party’s candidate for the US presidency.

The term “renegade Jew” is trending after one right-wing news organisation Breitbart News used it as part of a headline attacking William Kristol, the editor of another conservative journal the Weekly Standard.   Continue reading “‘Renegade Jew’ reveals bitterness of Republican rift”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Suicide, birth defects, heart problems, hostility, violence, aggression, hallucinations, self-harm, delusional thinking, homicidal ideation, and death are just a few of the side effects caused by psychiatric medication.

There have been 150 studies in seventeen countries on antidepressant-induced side effects. There have been 134 drug regulatory agency warnings from eleven countries and the EU warning about the dangerous side effects of antidepressants.   Continue reading “Mom Faces Down SWAT Team & MRAP for Refusing to Give Daughter Deadly Antipsychotic Drug”

CBC News

Ontarians seeking vaccine exemptions for their children would be required to attend an education session, according to legislation introduced by the provincial Liberal government.

If passed, the legislation would require parents to complete an education session offered by their local public health unit before children are exempted from getting vaccinated.   Continue reading “Vaccine exemptions for kids would require Ontario parents to first take education session”

Fox News

The King of Beers wants to solidify its status as a true U.S. icon by changing its name to “America” this summer.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the parent company of Budweiser, has asked the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for permission to use labeling that replaces the beer’s name with the word America and boasts patriotic phrases  like“Land of the Free,” “Liberty and Justice for All,” “Home of the Brave” and “From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters this land was made for you and me,” reports AdAge.   Continue reading “Budweiser wants to call itself ‘America’ this summer”

Publius Forum – by Warner Todd Huston

A California high school has agreed to allow Hispanic students to wear their “Dump Trump” T-Shirts on campus despite a dress code that seems to prohibit them. The controversy is set against a backdrop of a federal court ruling banning U.S. flag shirts in California schools.

Sean Boulton, the principal of Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, a town south of Los Angeles, decided to acquiesce to the request of a group of Hispanic students who wanted to wear their shirts denigrating GOP front runner Donald Trump even as the school’s dress code could be read as prohibiting them.   Continue reading “CA School OKays Hispanic Students Wearing ‘Dump Trump’ Shirts Even as U.S. Flag Shirts Banned”

BBC

A massive wildfire that has forced the evacuation of all 88,000 people from Fort McMurray could destroy much of the Canadian city, local officials warn.

The officials in Alberta province say the blaze that has gutted some 1,600 structures is expected to rage out of control through the rest of Wednesday.

A state of emergency has now been declared in the province.   Continue reading “Canada wildfire: Much of Fort McMurray ‘could be destroyed’”

Reuters

Puerto Rico’s governor on Sunday declared a moratorium on a $422 million debt payment due Monday by the island’s Government Development Bank, the most significant default yet for the U.S. territory facing a massive economic crisis.

Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla said in a televised speech that he signed the moratorium on Saturday in what he characterized as a “painful decision” based on inaction from the U.S. Congress, which continues to debate a legislative fix for Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt load.  Continue reading “Puerto Rico declares moratorium on Government Development Bank’s debt”