AlterNet – by Vijay Prashad

A few years ago, I asked a retired Iraqi Air Force officer what it felt like to be bombed periodically by the United States in the 1990s. Whenever US President Bill Clinton felt irritated, I joked, he seemed to bomb Iraq. The officer, a distinguished man with a long career serving a military whose political leadership he despised, smiled. He said with great lightness – ‘When our leadership said something threatening those words itself were taken to be terrorism; when the United States bombs, the world does not even blush.’

To me this is an intuitive statement.   Continue reading “America Commits Acts of Terrorism—Why Is That So Hard to Understand?”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (April 20, 2017) – On Tuesday, the Alabama Senate passed a “Constitutional Carry” bill that would eliminate the requirement to obtain a permit in order to lawfully carry.  Passage into law would also foster an environment hostile to federal gun control.

Sen. Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa) introduced Senate Bill 24 (SB24) in February. The legislation would eliminated the permit requirement for carrying a concealed firearm in the state.   Continue reading “Alabama Senate Passes Constitutional Carry”

LIVE 5 News

The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office released dash cam video of a high-speed chase that ended with the death of a motorcyclist Wednesday night.

The motorcyclist, Robert Lee Clark, Jr., 30, of Goose Creek, was declared dead at the scene, authorities said.

A deputy on patrol on College Park Road at approximately 11:51 p.m. Wednesday spotted a motorcycle speeding toward Crowfield Boulevard from the direction of I-26, according to Chief Deputy Mike Cochran.   Continue reading “Berkeley Co. deputies release dash cam video in fatal motorcycle pursuit”

Press Democrat – by Paul Payne

Video released Wednesday provides the first public glimpse of a violent encounter last fall between a Boyes Hot Springs man and a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy, who was later charged with beating the man as he lay in his own bed.

The 68-second cellphone video was taken by Fernando Del Valle, 38, the night of Sept. 24 after neighbors summoned deputies to his Highland Boulevard home on reports the Marine Corps veteran was arguing with his wife.
Continue reading “Video released in Boyes Hot Springs police beating case”

MassPrivateI

A recent article in Motherboard reveals how sports stadiums are spying on everyone’s instant messages, Tweets and sentiments. (I couldn’t find any pictures of a U.S. sport stadium security room, so I posted one of a 2014 World Cup security room.)

Sports stadiums across the country are using ‘Babel Street’ and ‘Babel X’ to spy on fan’s sentiments and social media accounts.   Continue reading “Sports stadiums spy on everyone’s instant messages, Tweets and sentiments”

ProPublica – by Charles Ornstein

The public could soon get a look at confidential reports about errors, mishaps and mix-ups in the nation’s hospitals that put patients’ health and safety at risk, under a groundbreaking proposal from federal health officials.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to require that private health care accreditors publicly detail problems they find during inspections of hospitals and other medical facilities, as well as the steps being taken to fix them. Nearly nine in 10 hospitals are directly overseen by those accreditors, not the government.   Continue reading “Secret Hospital Inspections May Become Public at Last”

AP – by Paisley Dodds

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jetsetters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the U.N. peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away.

The men who came from a far-away place and spoke a strange language offered the Haitian children cookies and other snacks. Sometimes they gave them a few dollars. But the price was high: The Sri Lankan peacekeepers wanted sex from girls and boys as young as 12.   Continue reading “UN child sex ring left victims but no arrests”

Oregon Live – by Anna Marum

SALEM — Oregonians from across the political spectrum packed into the state Capitol Monday to testify on bills to limit some Oregonians’ access to guns, including people who show signs they’re suicidal or who don’t demonstrate they have the skills to shoot a gun.

Some gun owners worried that the bills would take away the constitutionally protected right to bear arms, while proponents of the bills insisted the proposals were necessary to prevent gun violence.   Continue reading “Oregon gun control bills get bipartisan support — and opposition”

IB Times – by AJ Dellinger

The Donald Trump administration is planning to expand the use of biometric facial recognition systems at airports around the United States.

News of the expansion comes from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Larry Panetta, who spoke about adoption of facial recognition technology at the Border Security Expo.   Continue reading “Facial Recognition Software Fast Tracked For U.S. Airports”

CBS Sacramento – by Drew Bollea

OROVILLE (CBS13) — The boos and shouts of displeasure started during the introduction of Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) at his town hall meeting in Oroville.

For nearly two hours, the crowd at the State Theater shouted down responses by the congressman.

“I’m appalled,” said Linda Agee, a LaMalfa supporter.   Continue reading “Congressman Walks Off Stage During Oroville Town Hall”

The Daily Coin

“The astonishing reinvention of Donald Trump:”  Washingtonians are still puzzling at the speed with which the man who promised to “drain the swamp” has come to bask in its approval. In the past 10 days, Mr Trump has belied many of the city’s worst fears. Having promised to launch a trade war with China, Mr Trump is rapidly abandoning his protectionist rhetoric. Likewise, having vowed to avoid foreign wars, he has acquired a sudden taste for Levantine missile launches. And having dismissed Nato as obsolete, Mr Trump is now singing the alliance’s praises. – Financial Times, April 13, 2017   Continue reading “The Military Complex Has Taken Control Of The White House”

Economic Collapse News – by Andrew Moran

You won’t just be receiving a call from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) moving forward, but also from debt collectors. The tax collection agency has contracted out the task of pursuing unpaid taxes.

The IRS announced earlier this month that it has hired four debt collection agencies to get their hands on outstanding payments from taxpayers. With the increasing backlog of unpaid taxes, the IRS employed private debt collection firms to contact taxpayers who still haven’t paid previous years’ taxes.   Continue reading “IRS Hires Private Debt Collection Agencies to Collect Unpaid Taxes”

Fox 59

WEST MONROE, La. – An 18-year-old man was reportedly arrested for cursing near a 75-year-old woman in Louisiana.

Jared Dylan Smith was booked into jail on a disturbing the peace through language and disorderly conduct charge on April 8, according to the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office. His bond was set at $200.   Continue reading “Louisiana teen arrested for cursing in front of elderly woman”

Courthouse News – by Matthew Renda

SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) – A student filed a federal lawsuit against campus police at California State University, San Jose, claiming officers roughed him up and then yelled at him to “stop bleeding all over” the squad car.

Alen Chen was slammed to the ground face first by San Jose State University police officers, violently handcuffed, repeatedly punched in the face and the body and then had a bag placed over his head in the back of police cruiser after he was asked to leave a concert in April 2015, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday.   Continue reading “Student Says Campus Police Roughed Him Up”

The Newspaper

A three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals decided Tuesday to expand the ability of police to stop and search motorists by declaring it unlawful to have a “dim” tail light.

The decision was made in the context of a January 5, 2014 traffic stop in East Grand Rapids. On that day, Officer Daniel Lobbezoo was looking for someone to ticket. He claims that he saw the tail light of the car being driven by Trevor Allen Vanderhart was dim on one side, even though he was in the opposite lane of traffic and only saw Vanderhart’s vehicle through a rear-view mirror. The officer was getting ready to write the ticket when he found he could elevate the stop into an arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI).   Continue reading “Michigan Appeals Court Turns Dim Tail Lights Into A Crime”

Eric Peters Autos – by Eric

When the state and its media bullhorns refer to armed government workers – law enforcers – as “heroes,” it’s a sign the hour is getting late.

When most people don’t draw back and spit coffee all over the keyboard at the idea, it’s minutes to midnight.

How did it become “heroic” to enforce laws?   Continue reading “The “Hero” Problem”

RT

A closer look at photos from the town of Khan Shaykhun shows that the chemical attack site was tampered with and that the US report blaming the Syrian government can’t be true, says the MIT professor skeptical of the White House narrative.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Theodore Postol, who wrote a preliminary review of the US government claims earlier this week and shared his findings with RT, examined photographs of the attack site and concluded that the report endorsed by the White House “could not be true.”   Continue reading “MIT professor exposes ‘egregious error’ & evidence tampering in US report on Syria sarin incident”

MassPrivateI

According to ‘DartDrones’, Police departments should make it their priority to lie convince the public to accept UAV’s or surveillance drones.

“Many people see stories about drone surveillance and become nervous about being spied on. Your [police departments] goal is to reduce these fears by showing what a drone can and can’t do. The public’s opinion can make or break the police unmanned aerial vehicle unit.”   Continue reading “Police UAV supplier reveals how police lie to politicians and the public”