Author: Joe from MassPrivateI

CNS News – by Patrick Goodenough

A U.S. Special Operations service member was killed and two others were injured after coming under enemy fire in Afghanistan’s Helmand province Tuesday, but asked whether this meant U.S. troops were engaged in combat, a Pentagon spokesman said repeatedly that they were there in their mandated mission to “train, advise, assist” Afghan forces.

Defense officials said two HH-60 Pavehawk medevac helicopters were sent in to provide help, but one was “waved off” after coming under fire and returned safely to base. The other landed, but sustained rotor blade damage after apparently striking a wall.   Continue reading “Pentagon Avoids the Word ‘Combat’ After Another U.S. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan”

Papers, Please!

In response to a flurry of publicity kicked off by a story last week in the New York Times in which we were quoted, the DHS has posted several new or updated pages about the REAL-ID Act on its website, including a new page headed, “REAL ID and You: Rumor Control“.   Continue reading “DHS posts new lies about the REAL-ID Act”

Cincinnati – by Amber Hunt and Bowdeya Tweh

The police department in Arlington Heights – a village that area motorists for years had branded a speed trap before two of its officials were convicted with pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers’ fines – has disbanded, tapping the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office with patrolling the tiny village.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, who called for the village’s dissolution in 2012, on Friday applauded the move, saying it was long overdue.   Continue reading “Arlington Heights disbands its PD; Hamilton County Sheriff will patrol instead”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

“We will be looking for those individuals who seek to avoid registering,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch told reporters following a Jan. 4 meeting with President Obama regarding executive gun control.

Lynch was referencing the portion of Obama’s pending executive-action gun-control measure that will require gun-sellers to register as federally licensed gun dealers if they meet criteria demonstrating they are “engaged in the business of dealing in firearms.”   Continue reading “AG Lynch Explains Obama’s Gun-Control: Gov’t Looking For ‘Individuals Who Seek To Avoid Registering’”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

No surprises here, although the contempt for government authorities that aren’t the NYPD is a bit audacious.

Most of former NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s emails on his desktop computer were deleted at the end of his tenure despite an order they be preserved for a high-stakes class-action suit alleging a summons quota system within the department.  

Continue reading “Former NYPD Boss Ray Kelly’s Emails ‘Inadvertently’ Wiped Despite Court Order To Preserve Them”

Politico – by David Pittman

Delivering on its promise to deliver “common sense” gun control, the Obama administration on Monday finalized a rule that enables health care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system.

The action was one of a series of steps that President Barack Obama had called for in January 2013 in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings to curb gun violence, but the rule was not published until today.   Continue reading “Doctors can report some mentally ill patients to FBI under new gun control rule”

AL.com – by Conner Sheets

Every week, several members of the University of Alabama’s Sigma Nu fraternity chapter are randomly chosen to report to a cluster of dingy offices on the bottom floor of the school’s Russell Hall and urinate in a cup.

Though the compulsory exercise sounds like a rush-season hazing ritual, it is in fact a central component of a strict new anti-drug effort launched at the start of the fall semester.   Continue reading “University of Alabama quietly testing fraternity brothers for drugs”

Washington’s Blog

In 2015, there were 385 terrorist incidents around the world according to Wikipedia. Of these, 94% were attributed to Muslim perpetrators or occurred in Muslim countries surrounding the world’s most resource-rich region. The geographic pattern behind these and previous attacks suggests that terrorism is more a function of the need to seize resources than it is about religious or political beliefs. The terrorist events of 2015 continue to fuel speculation that most terrorism is government-sponsored and focuses on achieving political objectives.   Continue reading “Terrorism in 2015: Following a False Flag Formula”

New York Times – by SHAILA DEWAN and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

What was once a rarity has now become increasingly common: police officers facing criminal charges in the deaths of civilians. In Albuquerque, two officers will stand trial in the death of a homeless man. In Cincinnati, a campus police officer has been charged in the fatal shooting of a man during a traffic stop. In Chicago, where a video captured the death of Laquan McDonald at the hands of the police, an officer was charged with murder.

But even as high-profile police shootings have attracted more scrutiny over the past year, one thing remains clear: The law gives the police the benefit of the doubt.   Continue reading “More Police Officers Facing Charges, but Few See Jail”

Free Thought Project – by William N. Grigg

It isn’t clear what use ISIS or the Pakistani Taliban would have for an 18-year-old American student with an estimated IQ of 51, is marginally verbal, and has little ability to perform routine tasks like tying his shoelaces. Peyton Pruitt, described by family and school officials as a developmentally stunted child, displays little understanding of terrorism and has no skills a terrorist group would covet. However, he is able to participate in online chats, which made him an irresistible target for FBI agents trolling the web in search of patsies to cast in Homeland Security Theater productions.   Continue reading “Immoral Patsy – How the FBI Groomed Mentally Disabled Teen With a 51 IQ into an “ISIS Terrorist””

Courthouse News Service – by Mike Heuer

LOS ANGELES (CN) – A witness who saw a Los Angeles police officer shoot a black man to death was shot to death himself days before he was to give evidence against the officer, despite promises from the highest-ranking officials in Los Angeles that they would protect him, the man’s widow claims in court.

Alice Hill, the widow of Leroy Hill, sued the City and County of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti, District Attorney Jackie Lacey, Police Chief Charlie Beck, City Councilman Curren Price and two other high-ranking police officers, on Monday in Superior Court.   Continue reading “LAPD Killing’s Witness Shot Before Deposition”

MassPrivateI

Galido.net shows everyone how to opt out of 30 top people search databases:

Intelius – https://www.intelius.com/optout.php

Intelius requires you to scan valid gov’t identification to prove your identity. Intelius claims, they won’t publish your driver’s license but they’ll remove your listing if you submit an ID. Don’t forget to cross out your photo and driver’s license number.
Continue reading “How to delete your personal info. from the internet”

Huffington Post – by Nick Wing and Matt Ferner

he fatal shooting of two NYPD officers late last December capped a series of events that had put policing into the national spotlight and sparked heated debate about what happens when the public starts viewing law enforcement with a more skeptical eye.

Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were parked in their squad car when a gunman with a long criminal record and history of mental problems ambushed them. Earlier in the day, the shooter had killed his girlfriend. He’d ultimately end his murder spree by taking his own life in a New York subway station.
Continue reading “This Was One Of The Safest Years Ever For Police, So Let’s Put That ‘War On Cops’ Thing To Rest”

Fox 5 NY

A prominent lottery official who has run the Powerball game since its inception was quietly removed from his 28-year post leading the Multi-State Lottery Association after a jackpot-fixing scandal inside his organization had spread, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.

Charles Strutt, executive director of the association since its 1987 founding, was stripped of his duties in October by the group’s board, which includes directors of lotteries in 37 states and U.S. territories. The move came days after prosecutors said their investigation of jackpot-fixing by the association’s former security director, Eddie Tipton, had expanded nationwide.   Continue reading “Powerball official quits as jackpot fixing investigation spreads to more states”

Natural News – by JD Heyes

For those who are not familiar with the taxpayer-funded network Voice of America, it is essentially a government propaganda instrument whose mission, as The New York Times has noted in its politically correct manner, “is charged with presenting America’s viewpoint to the world.”

Established during World War II as a propaganda instrument similar to those begun by the Axis powers, VOA began broadcasting to the communist Soviet Union in 1947 as “an important part of America’s propaganda campaign … during the Cold War.” Radio transmissions, you see, are difficult to intercept, especially when they emanating from inside the borders of another superpower with as much nuclear capability as you have.   Continue reading “EPA uses ‘covert propaganda’ to trick Americans into accepting totalitarian policies, auditor finds”