Author: Mark W

EAG News – by Kyle Olson

WILLIAMSON, W.V. – Students and parents are rallying to the defense of a teacher who is accused of violating federal school snack rules.

The Williamson PreK-8 teacher, who was not identified, would give her students “wrapped candy” as a reward for their hard work and good behavior.   Continue reading “WV teacher threatened with fine for violating Michelle O’s school snack rules”

WND – by Joe Kovacs

A former high-ranking official at the U.S. National Security Agency said Sunday night the NSA will continue to spy on American citizens irrespective of any action taken by Congress on the Patriot Act.

William Binney, known to many as the architect of the NSA who became a whistleblower against the agency during the administration of George W. Bush, made the comment on Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.   Continue reading “NSA architect: Feds won’t stop spying on citizens”

The Hill – by Tim Devaney

The Justice Department plans to move forward this year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, according to list of rules the agency has proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration.

The regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements. Chief among them is a renewed effort to keep guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable or have been convicted of domestic abuse.   Continue reading “Administration preps new gun regulations”

NBC San Diego

A standoff between law enforcement and an armed suspect continued for hours Saturday morning at a bar and motorcycle club in San Diego’s Mt. Hope area, about five miles from downtown.

At around 2:40 a.m., the San Diego Police Department was called to the Chosen Few Motorcycle Club at 4280 Market St., near 43rd Street, to investigate reports of shots fired in the bar.   Continue reading “Standoff at Mt. Hope Motorcycle Club, 4 Shot”

BBC News

A powerful undersea earthquake south of Japan has shaken buildings in Tokyo.

The US Geological Survey said the 7.8-magnitude earthquake was centred 874km (543 miles) from the Japanese capital, at a depth of almost 700km.   Continue reading “Strong earthquake hits off Japan coast”

WND – by Jerome R. Corsi

NEW YORK – More than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defense and Department of State documents implicate the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role Hillary Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS.

The documents were obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch.   Continue reading “Declassified docs: Hillary aided rise of ISIS”

The Intercept – by JANA WINTER AND JORDAN SMITH

Nuclear power plant technicians, senior military officers, FBI contractors and an employee of “a highly-secretive Department of Defense agency” with a Top Secret clearance. Those are just a few of the more than 100 people with sensitive military and government connections that law enforcement is tracking because they are linked to “outlaw motorcycle gangs.”

A year before the deadly Texas shootout that killed nine people on May 17, a lengthy report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives detailed the involvement of U.S. military personnel and government employees in outlaw motorcycle gangs, or OMGs. A copy of the report was obtained by The Intercept.   Continue reading “Leaked Report Profiles Military, Police Members of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs”

USA Today – by Doug Stanglin and Rick Jervis

A Texas Department of Public Safety Bulletin warns that members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang may be plotting attacks on law enforcement officers, but former Bandidos members say the information is wrong and highly unlikely.

“Absolutely ludicrous,” said Edward Winterhalder, a former high-ranking Bandidos member who is still in contact with former and current members. “From a purely common sense and logical point of view, there’s no reason for them to do that.”   Continue reading “Police warning on biker retaliation questioned by former biker, experts”

Western Rifle Shooters

Will Grigg:

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…The bloody incident at Waco’s Twin Peaks restaurant was not a “biker shootout.” At present there is no evidence that any of the nine victims were killed by fellow bikers, rather than being “taken out” by the scores of police — including snipers — who had effectively turned the parking lot into a kill zone…
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Then from over the transom:   Continue reading “First They Came For The Bikers…”

WFAA 8

The City of Wichita Falls has made a “drastic” change to plans for Thursday’s scheduled mandatory evacuations, according to its Facebook page.

Residents in parts of the Tanglewood neighborhood and parts of the city’s east side will be evacuated at 8 a.m. Thursday due to flooding in the Wichita River.   Continue reading “Wichita Falls moves mandatory evacuations to Thursday morning”

KTLA 5 – by Melissa Pamer

A train has been stopped in Sylmar after a conductor found what he believed to be some kind of bomb, police said Wednesday.

The Union Pacific train was stopped at 2 p.m. at Roxford Street and San Fernando Road (map), according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Tony Im.   Continue reading “Train Stopped in Sylmar After Conductor Reports Finding ‘Improvised Explosive Device,’ LAPD Says”

Heartland – by H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.

Switzerland joins a growing list of countries whose temperature measurements have been adjusted to show greater warming than actually measured by its temperature instruments. In previous editions of Climate Change Weekly(CCW), I reported weather bureaus in Australia (CCW #139) and Paraguay (CCW #158) were caught adjusting datasets from their temperature gauges. After the adjustment, the temperatures reported were consistently higher than those actually recorded. Science journalist Markus Schär of the Swiss news weekly Weltwoche discovered the Swiss Meteorological Service (SMS) tampered with its datasets as well.   Continue reading “Temperature Fibbers Being Investigated”

Natural News – by Daniel Barker

Army Veteran Donald Siefkin wasn’t asking for much when he called the emergency room at the Seattle VA Hospital on February 27. The 64-year-old was parked just a few feet from the ER entrance and was in severe pain from a broken foot he had suffered earlier that day. The pain was getting worse, and his foot swelled to the “size of a football” on a 3.5-hour drive to the Seattle-Tacoma airport from his home in Kennewick, Washington.   Continue reading “Seattle VA hospital staff refused to walk 10 feet to help disabled vet into ER, demanded he call 911 instead”

The Weekly Standard – by Daniel Harper

New York City police chief Bill Bratton is worried about ISIS. So worried, in fact, that he’s going to assign 450 New York Police Department cops to fight terrororism that may come from the Islamic State.

“We need to be very concerned about terrorism … The significantly increased threat from ISIS using social media to recruit people not only to go to Syria to fight, but encouraging people … to attack police, to attack government officials, to basically brainwash them under their screwed-up ideology. That threat has expanded significantly in the now 16 months I’ve been police commissioner,” Bratton said on the John Catsimatidis radio show.   Continue reading “NYPD Chief Wants 450 Cops to Combat ISIS”

KXAN – by Patrick Tolbert and Jackie Vega

WACO, Texas (KXAN) — Some 192 people have been arrested and charged with engaging in organized crime in connection to the deadly shooting that broke out between five biker gangs at a Twin Peaks in Waco. Under a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission mandate, the restaurant is shut down for the next seven days as the investigation continues early Monday morning into the shooting that left nine people dead and at least 18 people injured — an investigation that has included biker gang death threats made against uniformed officers.   Continue reading “Deadly Waco biker gang shooting: 192 people booked into jail”