RTR40GLI-2IB Times – by David Sirota

Microsoft Corp. is currently sitting on almost $29.6 billion it would owe in U.S. taxes if it repatriated the $92.9 billion of earnings it is keeping offshore, according to disclosures in the company’s most recent annual filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The amount of money that Microsoft is keeping offshore represents a significant spike from prior years, and the levies the company would owe amount to almost the entire two-year operating budgetof the company’s home state of Washington.   Continue reading “Microsoft Admits Keeping $92 Billion Offshore to Avoid Paying $29 Billion in U.S. Taxes”

Breitbart – by Andre Walker

America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is to send 13 counter-terrorism officers to the UK to help identify “terror hot-spots” within the UK. The first three will arrive on Tuesday with ten more expected within the week, according to the Express.

The move is a response to the growing threat from British jihadis, and come in the light of the execution of James Foley by a man suspected of being a UK national. The team will liaise with the Metropolitan Police’s secretive SO15 counter-terrorism command and MI5. They have already been monitoring terrorist activity since the 9/11 attacks.    Continue reading “FBI Counter-Terrorism Team To Patrol British Airports”

L.A. Police Chief Beck won't comment on deathLA Times – by Joel Rubin

From the moment Los Angeles police handcuffed him, Jorge Azucena told officers he needed help.

“I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,” he pleaded. “I have asthma, I have asthma.”

In the half-hour or so after his arrest late one night last September, Azucena said over and over that he was struggling for breath. Numerous LAPD officers and sergeants heard his pleas for medical attention but ignored them even as his condition visibly worsened.

Continue reading “Pleading suspect dies in police custody: ‘You can breathe just fine’”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Are police officers getting worse or is this apparent increase in excessive force nothing more than a reflection of the increase in unofficial documentation (read: cameras) and public scrutiny? What we do know is that as crime has gone down, police forces have escalated their acquisitions of military gear and weapons. With options for lethal and less-lethal force continually expanding, it seems that deployment of force in excess of what the situation requires has become the new normal, but it’s tough to find hard data that backs up these impressions.     Continue reading “Federal Law Ordering US Attorney General To Gather Data On Police Excessive Force Has Been Ignored For 20 Years”

Jon Rappoport

I have been writing about the CDC research scientist who may be about to step out of the shadows and reveal himself—

He was, a decade ago, part of the CDC team who suppressed data showing a clear connection between the MMR vaccine and autism.

If he comes clean now, he will expose deep crimes of the CDC. He will torpedo the ship.

To succeed, he has to be strong. He has had ten years to consider how to go public.

Continue reading “Advice for the secret CDC vaccine whistleblower”

Activist Post

Sergeant Dan Page of the St. Louis County Police Department was caught earlier this week participating in what seemed like a staged CNN broadcast in Ferguson where he shoved reporter Don Lemon while standing with peaceful protesters.

YouTube activist The Black Child noticed the encounter on CNN and quickly identified Page and exposed his radical views in the video below. The Black Child pulled clips from a 2012 lecture given by Sergeant Page where he gives detailed plans of a military police state takeover of America.

Continue reading “St. Louis Cop Suspended After Radical Views Are Exposed by YouTuber”

KLFY 10 News – by Devin Bayliss

NEW INFORMATION: State Police say the gun used in the death of Victor White III is NOT a weapon carried by the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Officer.
“My son didn’t shoot himself. I never believed it. I won’t believe it,” said Victor White, Sr., the father of 22-year-old Victor White, III, who back in March, died from a gunshot wound.

It happened while handcuffed in the backseat of an Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office patrol car, during a drug arrest. According to State Police, who are handling the investigation, once at the jail, White refused to exit the vehicle. As the arresting deputy requested assistance, they say white produced a handgun he had been hiding in his pants, and shot himself in the back.   Continue reading “Man shot in chest with hands handcuffed behind his back in a police car, coroner rules it a suicide”

Huffington Post – by Saki Knafo

It’s been nearly two weeks since a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed an unarmed teenager, but the police department has yet to offer a full account of the hazy circumstances surrounding Michael Brown’s death.

An official incident report, which the American Civil Liberties Union obtained from police and released on Friday, answers none of the pressing questions that hang over the killing. If anything, it raises new ones.   Continue reading “Ferguson Police Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers”

Yahoo Finance

WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – Aug 21, 2014) –Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking “Incident Reports” of alleged sexual misconduct throughout 2013 by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Dulles, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Los Angeles airports (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:14-cv-01179)). The lawsuit was filed on July 11, 2014.

The Judicial Watch lawsuit was filed pursuant to a March 5, 2014, FOIA request seeking the following:   Continue reading “Judicial Watch Sues TSA Over Cover-Up: Passenger Complaints “Assaults Relating to Sexual Misconduct””

Orlando Sentinel

A Palatka police detective who ran for Putnam County sheriff was arrested during a St. Johns County weekend prostitution sting and has resigned, authorities said.

Reno Chevelle Fells, 48, resigned from the department Sunday, said Assistant Chief James Griffith of the Palatka Police Department.

On Friday, Fells responded to an online posting that was part of the four-night Operation Summer Lovin’ that included investigators advertising sex for money, said Cmdr. Chuck Mulligan of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.   Continue reading “Sex sting snares Florida cop during Operation Summer Lovin’”

Fox 43 News

A South Carolina High School student says he was suspended and arrested after he turned in a school writing assignment.

Freshman Alex Stone says students were told to write a few sentences about themselves and a “status,” as if it were a Facebook page.

He says in his “status” he wrote a fictional story that involved the words “gun” and “take care of business.”   Continue reading “Student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in class assignment”

Yahoo News – by John Clarke

(Reuters) – A Maryland State Police trooper has been put on administrative suspension after sheriff’s deputies responded to a call reporting a naked man drinking at a bar in a barbecue restaurant, authorities said on Wednesday.

The incident is the most recent in a spate involving naked people around the country.

Harford County sheriff’s deputies arrived around 11 p.m. on Saturday at the bar in Jarrettsville, 32 miles north of Baltimore, and located two men who identified themselves as state troopers. The trooper in question appeared intoxicated and denied that he had been naked, sheriff’s deputy spokeswoman Christie Kahler said.   Continue reading “Maryland trooper suspended after accused of being naked in bar”

Gun Wars – by Sarah Ferris

While the National Instant Criminal Background Check System remains the only square inch of compromise between the nation’s divided gun camps, the costly federal program is failing to keep guns away from the dangerously mentally ill.

The White House describes the background check system, also known as NICS, as its “most important tool” to stopping gun crime. But more than a decade of data from the FBI and public health research reveals broad failings of the system, which has cost at least $650 million to maintain, a News21 investigation found.

Continue reading “Propaganda Alert: After hundreds of millions spent, NICS fails on dangerous mentally ill”

The Onion

The ongoing clashes between residents of Ferguson, MO and heavily armed police forces—which are equipped with M16 rifles and armored vehicles—have drawn attention to the increasing militarization of police in the United States. Here are the cases for and against outfitting local law enforcement with military-grade weapons:   Continue reading “The Pros And Cons Of Militarizing The Police”

d469e8de6ede5fd99fefa0596eb9c178_MThe New American – by Thomas R. Eddlem

Smart-gun inventor Bill Gentry of Kodiak Industries threatened in a closed 2013 meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder to “burn it down” if his new technology is mandated by gun control laws. Gentry’s “Intelligun” includes a patented trigger-lock device that can be unlocked only by a fingerprint, much like how iPhones are often locked or unlocked with fingerprints.

Gentry is a strong defender of the Second Amendment, but his product caught the eye of the gun-grabbers in Washington. “This interested Eric Holder,” Gentry told National Review of the April 2013 meeting with Holder. “He wondered how we might be able to control who was or wasn’t authorized. I stopped him right there. I looked right across a table at Eric Holder — yeah, the attorney general of the United States — and told him, ‘If you try to mandate my smart-gun technology, I’ll burn it down.’ The Intelligun is designed to save lives, not restrict freedom.”   Continue reading “Smart-gun Inventor Threatens AG Holder: “I’ll Burn It Down””

ADVANCE FOR JUNE 28-29 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2011 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu speaks during a California State Supreme Court hearing in San Francisco. Gov. Jerry Brown has made one appointment to the high court, nominating Liu after Senate Republicans blocked his nomination to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. At 43, Liu is the youngest member of the court and the only Democratic appointee. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)UT San Diego – by Steven Greenhut

SACRAMENTO — Those “Miranda” warnings that police read to suspects following an arrest are, as a California Supreme Court justice recently acknowledged in a dissenting opinion, a ubiquitous part of American culture thanks to TV crime dramas and cop shows.

“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.” But following the California high court’s 4-3 ruling in a vehicular manslaughter case last Thursday, perhaps the Miranda wording ought to change given that anything you previously “didn’t say” could be used against you, as well.   Continue reading “Your silence may be admission of guilt – State high court puts suspects in Catch-22 situation”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

With some of the proceedings unsealed in the EFF’s long-running Jewel vs. NSA lawsuit, more details can finally be exposed. Not that what’s already been exposed hasn’t been damning enough. Over the past several months, the DOJ has run interference for the NSA, traveling from courtroom to courtroom, destroying and saving (or at least pretending to…) collected data amongst a flurry of contradictory orders.      Continue reading “From The Unsealed ‘Jewel v. NSA’ Transcript: The DOJ Has Nothing But Contempt For American Citizens”