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DALLAS (AP) – A fired Dallas police officer has been indicted on a manslaughter count in the 2013 death of a bicyclist who was run over by a patrol car while being chased.
Bryan Burgess was indicted Thursday in the death of Fred Bradford Jr.
Burgess initially was charged with criminally negligence homicide. Continue reading “Police officer indicted for manslaughter of bicyclist who was run over”
Using the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre as its justification, the Obama administration has recently given the psychiatric business and pharmaceutical industry a major gift by quietly introducing a behavioral and mental health program in public schools throughout the United States.
Continue reading “America’s school kids now under psychiatric surveillance”
The Boston Globe – by Beth Teitell
When Sheryl Thorp and her family decided to adopt a dog, the Concord mother figured it would be “pretty straightforward, easy.”
That was before they lost out to one of the other four families competing for the young golden retriever her sons had fallen in love with. Before Thorp was asked to fill out a rescue agency questionnaire that asked about child-bearing plans. And before a high-stakes home visit that had her scrubbing her floors to impress the inspector. Continue reading “Would-be pet adopters competing for companions”
BUDA, Texas — A Hays County teacher is out of the classroom and facing criminal charges after allegedly telling his students that classmates threatening to shoot up the high school remained at large, and the gunmen would target bullies first.
According to arrest documents, around 1 p.m. Thursday afternoon a Hays County investigator arrived at Hays High School to find a string of students lined up out the office door waiting on their parents to pick them up early. Continue reading “Hays teacher charged after comments panic students, parents”
AltHealth Works – by Nick Meyer
Geoff Lawton has taught more than 6,000 students in over 30 countries on how to grow food in the most efficient and ecologically friendly way possible through permaculture design science, so he knows as well as anyone what a healthy ecosystem and healthy plants should look like.
And as you’ll see on Lawton’s recent clip of both a thriving natural prairie landscape and a GMO cornfield used for feeding animals in factory farms, the GMO cornfield simply doesn’t measure up. Continue reading “Permaculture Expert Takes Viewers on a GMO Cornfield Tour: “There’s No Life Here at All…This is Not Farming””
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Charlie Brown, security director for West Michigan’s Rockford school district, believes “every school had drugs in it.”
That’s why Rockford schools and numerous others in the area employ the services of Interquest Detection Canines of Michigan, Inc. – to search out illegal substances in school, such as drugs, weapons and other prohibited items, Mlive.com reports.
And the dogs are quite effective. Continue reading “Defending searches, security director says ‘every school has drugs in it’”
MINGO COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) — Recent surveillance video of a man shoved to the ground by a Mingo County Sheriff’s deputy after having a medical condition is going viral.
It was captured last Thursday in Mingo County, moments after Jerry Maynard called 911, saying he was having chest pains. It goes on to show a deputy walk over to Maynard and shove him to the ground and get into his face.
Maynard’ family claims he did nothing wrong, but police say that Maynard has a long history of run-ins with the law. Continue reading “West Virginia man calls 911 for chest pains, deputy shoves him to ground”
“It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.”
That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled “CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels.”
The article reports on a CIA review of recent U.S. covert operations to determine their effectiveness. The White House concluded that unfortunately successes were so rare that some rethinking of the policy was in order. Continue reading “America, the World’s Leading #1 Terrorist State”
Stunning Hypocrisy
The White House said today:
History shows that a free press remains a critical foundation for prosperous, open, and secure societies, allowing citizens to access information and hold their governments accountable. Continue reading “Obama Administration Praises Freedom of the Press … While GUTTING It in the U.S.”
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Conra Costa Times – by Julie Prodis Sulek
SANTA CRUZ — Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly should be outraged.
It appears that someone in the liberal bastion of Santa Cruz doesn’t like the overtly conservative Fox News — imagine that! — or anyone dressing up like a Fox News reporter on Halloween, for that matter.
At downtown Santa Cruz’s annual parade on Friday night, police said, 29-year-old Sean Kory said “I hate Fox News” before grabbing the victim’s microphone prop. The dreadlocked Kory then made an obscene gesture with it before attacking the victim with an aluminium tennis racket, police said. Continue reading “Santa Cruz man says “I hate Fox News,” then allegedly attacks victim wearing Fox reporter Halloween costume”
Washington, D.C. –The Central Intelligence Agency’s call to black out all pseudonyms from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture would be unprecedented – and represents an unacceptable effort to obscure key facts, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said.
“This report is about mistakes, misdeeds and falsehoods that were repeated over a period of years. If you don’t know whether they were repeated by different officials each time, or by the same officials over and over, you really don’t know the full story,” Wyden said. “A lot of officials are intent on burying the full story, but getting the truth out is the only way to keep all of this from happening again.” Continue reading “Wyden: CIA Demand To Black Out Torture Report Details Would Be Unprecedented”
Motorists traveling through Ohio’s speed traps often have no opportunity for their case to be heard in front of a neutral judge. In 310 small towns statewide, the mayor or someone he designates decides guilt or innocence of the accused driver, collects the fine and decides how to spend the revenue.
Ohio and Louisiana are the only states that continue to allow “mayor’s courts” to hear minor cases in towns that do not have their own municipal court. A mayor with some legal training can preside over cases, otherwise he will hand the responsibility over to a lawyer of his choosing. About one out of every five traffic tickets issued in the state comes from towns with mayor’s courts. Continue reading “Ohio Speed Traps Continue To Thrive Under Mayors Courts”
New York Daily News – by JOHN MARZULLI
Federal prosecutors have indicted a Colorado woman on charges of conspiring with an NYPD sergeant on Skype to molest her 1-year-old, the Daily News has learned.
Keira Norton and Sgt. Alberto Randazzo each face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison if they are convicted of the sickening charges in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Randazzo, 38, was busted by the feds in February on charges of downloading kiddie porn while free on bail in connection with state charges that he had solicited women to sexually abuse their children. Continue reading “NYPD Sgt. Alberto Randazzo and Colo. woman accused of plotting on Skype to molest baby”
The Dissenter – by Kevin Gosztola
Former CIA analyst and activist Ray McGovern was arrested as he attempted to attend an event in New York City featuring former CIA director and retired military general, David Petraeus. He was charged with resisting arrest, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
At 92nd Street Y, which describes itself as a “world-class cultural and community center,” Petraeus was to appear with John Nagl, who recently wrote a book, Knife Fights. about being an army tank commander in the Gulf War of 1991. Neoconservative commentator Max Boot was to join them as well. Continue reading “Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Arrested While Trying to Attend David Petraeus Event in New York”
Lew Rockwell – by Andrew P. Napolitano
In the years following the adoption of the Constitution, before he was Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson and then president himself, James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, was a member of the House of Representatives. During that period of his life, he gave illuminating speeches and wrote elegant essays and letters about human freedom. Continue reading “The Presumption of Liberty”
Miami Herald – by Joey Flechas
As a video showing a Miami Beach police officer cursing out a young man during an apparent traffic stop makes the rounds on social media, the police department is saying it has opened an internal affairs investigation.
In the 1:02 clip posted Monday on YouTube, Officer Kenneth MacLeod and Albert Valdes appear to be at the end of a traffic stop. Valdes, who posted the video, says in the video’s summary that he’d been stopped and ticketed for having the license plate on his motorcycle folded up and flipped. Continue reading “Miami Beach police investigating cop after confrontation during traffic stop”
Holder noted that rate of violent crime reported to the FBI in 2012 was about half the rate reported in 1993. He said the rate of incarceration in the U.S. has dropped more than 8 percent since President Obama took office, “the very first time these two critical markers have declined together in more than 40 years.” (The U.S. prisoner total increased last year, but Holder cited the incarceration rate, relating prisoner numbers to the population.)
Remarks by Attorney General Holder at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference
Orlando, FL, Monday, October 27, 2014 Continue reading “Holder Defends Sentencing Reform In Talk To Police Chiefs Assoc.”
These are the prosecutors of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
The agency, the United States attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, was celebrating its 225th birthday, so naturally its alumni had decided to hold a party.
One thing soon became apparent: This was no ordinary reunion.
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EAG News – by Victor Skinner
WSAZ – by Dan Griffin
AlterNet – by Norm Chomsky
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Senator Ron Wyden
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