Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Hollywood magic doesn’t percolate only in the minds of legendary producers and acclaimed directors to be brought to life on the big and television screens where actors’ adept performances capture our imaginations; rather, if the plot pertains to the military, it’s more than likely the Department of Defense had a hand in the script.

From Meet the Parents and America’s Got Talent, to Cupcake Wars and Zero Dark Thirty — even Iron ManOprahPatriot Games, and the James Bond thriller, Tomorrow Never Dies — if the production pertains to the War Machine or Surveillance State, it’s a veritable guarantee government significantly influenced the final product.   Continue reading “FOIA Docs Show CIA/Pentagon Made 1,800 Movies, TV Shows To Make America Love War”

RT

Warsaw and Washington have signed an agreement on delivering of American Patriot missile defense systems to Poland by 2022, according to the Polish Defense Ministry. The agreement was signed during US President Donald Trump’s visit to Poland.

“A memorandum was signed tonight that the US government has agreed to sell [to] Poland Patriot missiles in the most modern configuration,” Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz stated, as cited by Reuters. The statement came on Thursday morning while Trump was in Warsaw with a short visit before departing to the G20 summit, which will start in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.   Continue reading “US, Poland agree to strike deal on Patriot missile defense systems”

Ammoland – by David Codrea

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “A Central Florida tax collector says a new policy will allow his employees to openly carry firearms while they work,” The Associated Press reports. “Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg told the Orlando Sentinel that according to Florida law, he and his employees are considered ‘revenue officers’ and are exempt from the state’s ban on the open carrying of firearms while performing their duties.”

The rationale behind the move is to save taxpayers money by eliminating the need to hire private security.   Continue reading “Florida Tax Collectors to Openly Carry While State Forbids the Right to Citizens”

AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington hospital where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is recuperating from a gunshot wound says he has been readmitted to the intensive care unit.

MedStar Washington Hospital Center says the Louisiana congressman is back in intensive care because of new concerns for infection. Scalise was in serious condition Wednesday night.   Continue reading “Wounded Rep. Scalise readmitted to intensive care”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

President Donald Trump’s penchant for occasionally saying things that are demonstrably untrue has eroded trust in the president, according to a poll conducted by Marist College for National Public Radio, which showed that only 37% of Americans trust the Trump administration.

But here’s the thing: Americans trust Congress and the news media even less than they trust Trump. According to the polls, only 30% of adults said they trust the media either “a good amount” or “a great deal.”
Continue reading “In America, Nobody Trusts Anything Anymore”

Yahoo News

For months, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have privately counseled their more militant members to forswear talk of impeaching President Trump, telling them the political support for such a step simply doesn’t exist in the GOP-controlled Congress.

But 25 House Democrats, including the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, are now pushing an equally radical alternative: They are backing a bill that would create a congressional “oversight” commission that could declare the president incapacitated, leading to his removal from office under the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.   Continue reading “Bill to create panel that could remove Trump from office quietly picks up Democratic support”

RT

Israel’s air force has targeted a Syrian military position with an airstrike, after a projectile launched towards Israel landed in the Golan Heights, the Israel Defense Forces announced.

The announcement of the Israeli strike came just 45 minutes after the IDF said that an “errant projectile from internal fighting in Syria” had hit an open area in the Golan Heights, and that no injuries had been reported.   Continue reading “Israeli Air Force targets Syrian military positions in response to ‘errant projectile’”

Sacramento Sheriff’s Department

On June 28, 2017, Sheriff’s homicide detectives arrested Nicory Marquis Spann, 27, of Sacramento for the shooting of a Sheriff’s Deputy that occurred yesterday evening.

A little before 6:00 p.m. on June 27, 2017, a Sheriff’s deputy voiced over the radio that a suspect was fighting with him on the lower platform of Regional Transit located at Watt Avenue and Interstate 80 in North Highlands.  Shortly after the initial radio transmission, the officer updated that he had been shot.
Continue reading “Suspect Arrested in Deputy Shooting”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Versailles, MO — Nearly two years after Trooper Anthony Piercy was charged in the death of Brandon Ellingson, who drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks with his hands cuffed behind his back, the case has been closed. Predictably, the offending officer is getting off with less than a slap on the wrist.

For handcuffing a college student, negligently casting him into a lake, and watching as he drowned, Trooper Piercy pleaded guilty to a simple boating violation.   Continue reading “Cop Gets Off With Boating Violation for Handcuffing College Kid and Watching Him Drown”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Yesterday, I reported on the fact that an indictment had been handed down against an FBI agent who took a shot at Lavoy Finicum on January 26, 2016 as he exited his truck before being gunned down by Oregon State Police.  On Wednesday, that agent entered a plea of not guilty to five counts of lying and obstruction.  Furthermore, he is not even being held on bail.

The irony of what is taking place is absolutely amazing.  While men sit in a detention center in Nevada awaiting a trial and have been denied bail, even though they never engaged in any violence, a federal agent is allowed to walk the streets free for attempting to murder a man and then lie about it.   Continue reading “FBI Agent Who Shot At Lavoy Finicum Enters Not Guilty Plea – Not Held On Bail”

Reuters- by David Brunnstrom and Arshad Mohammed

The United States plans to sell Taiwan $1.42 billion in arms, the first such sale under the administration of Donald Trump and a move sure to anger China, whose help the president has been seeking to rein in North Korea.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters the administration had told Congress of the seven proposed sales on Thursday.

“It’s now valued about $1.42 billion,” she said.   Continue reading “U.S. plans to sell Taiwan about $1.42 billion in arms”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Trump effectively owes his election to the promise of bringing factories and manufacturing jobs back to the United States.  His relentless, targeted attacks against the ‘Big 3’ U.S. auto manufacturers for outsourcing jobs to Mexico was undoubtedly a key reason that he was able to shock the world and win Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania…an accomplishment which has eluded Republicans since Ronald Reagan.

Unfortunately, while factories may once again be making a comeback in the United States, after chasing low wages all around the globe for decades, they’re unlikely to bring the jobs with them.  As a new study from McKinsey highlights, if a new factory opens up in the United States you can bet it’s only because most of the jobs that used to be performed by humans have since been automated.  Per Bloomberg:   Continue reading “Factories May Be Coming Back To The U.S., But The Jobs Aren’t: McKinsey”

The Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane

While a police officer in Ohio was conducting a traffic stop, his own vehicle tried to flee the scene.

In what might be one of the strangest police pursuits ever caught on camera, an as-yet unnamed Miami County sheriff’s deputy had to chase down and stop his cruiser as it rolled backward into an intersection near Troy.   Continue reading “Cop Has to Chase His Own Car After Forgetting to Put It in Park”

The Daily Sheeple – by Dawn Luger

Instead of taking a paycheck to violate rights, some police officers in Louisiana had the dignity to quit. But most of the local media is saying that there will now be “turmoil” since there’s only a small weak crew left in the Town of Slaughter.

According to WBRZ, the Police Department in the Town of Slaughter in Louisiana is in “turmoil” after the Chief and the majority of his department called it quits. All of this follows stories by the Investigative Unit that showed Slaughter Mayor Robert Jackson had a quota system where he wanted police officers to write 40 tickets per month. Officers said they would not enforce it.   Continue reading “Police Department “In Turmoil” After Most Of The Department Quit”

Activist Post – by Derrick Broze

The federal government will soon begin searching through travelers’ books at the airport as airlines test out fingerprint scans.

Next time you choose to take a flight in the United States, you will not only be given the option of a free walk through the full body scanner or a complimentary rub down courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration. Your next flight might include a search of your laptop, books, and possibly a fingerprint scan. Since the launch of the Trump administration travelers have been subject to increasingly invasive measures in the form of laptop searches and discrimination against those traveling from majority Muslim countries.   Continue reading “TSA Wants To Know What Books You’re Reading Before Allowing You To Board Planes”

RT

A contract with Ankara to deliver cutting-edge Russian anti-aircraft S-400 missile systems has been “agreed upon,” but the consultations on financial aspects of the planned deal are still being discussed.

“The contract is agreed upon, everything is clear, the issue of a loan has not been resolved yet,” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aide on military-technical cooperation, Vladimir Kozhin, said at the 7th International Maritime Defense Show in St. Petersburg on Thursday.   Continue reading “Contract with Turkey on S-400 missile systems ‘agreed upon’ – Putin aide”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Foster children in Missouri have been dangerously over-medicated with antipsychotic drugs — intended to treat conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia — to manage behavioral disorders like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a new civil rights lawsuit, which instead effectively puts them in “a chemical straightjacket.”

“The sedative properties of the drugs are employed to sedate and control the difficult behaviors of children,” says attorney Bill Grimm of the National Center for Youth Law, which — together with the Saint Louis University School of Law Legal Clinic and the legal advocacy group Children’s Rights — brought the lawsuit June 12.   Continue reading “Lawsuit Exposes State in Taking Kids from Parents and Heavily Drugging them with Psychotropics”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

Late last week, Qatar received a list of 13 demands from Saudi Arabia and the other Arab nations involved in blockading them, and has been warned by the Saudi kingdom that they have just 10 days to unconditionally accept all of them, or face unspecified further action. Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement today insisting the list of demands is unreasonable.   Continue reading “Saudis Give Qatar 10 Days To Accept All Demands… Or Else”

The Daily Sheeple – by Dawn Luger

Geroge Orwell’s legendary book, “1984“, was not in any way meant to be a prediction of our future, yet that’s exactly what appears to have happened. And now that there’s a Broadway play which follows the events in the book closely, many are finding it difficult to stomach.

Since it’s become clear to most of us that we live in a society dominated by government interference in every aspect of our lives, the book is regaining popularity. Set in a dystopian future (kind of like now; the book was written in 1949) it is meant to warn and educate the reader on the dangers of government. Orwell creates a technologically advanced world in which fear is used as a tool for manipulating, controlling, and brainwashing individuals who do not conform to the prevailing political orthodoxy, and the Broadway play is no different.   Continue reading “Broadway Play “1984” Is Causing Audiences To Vomit And Faint”