Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

This presidential election cycle has been nothing, if not a controversy-laden shit show of the bizarre — and a monumentally pricey one, at that. It’s now estimated the stupefying cost for the duopoly to provide us with two altogether unappealing candidates — possibly the least liked in American electoral history — as well as congressional minions, totals no less than $6.6 billion.   Continue reading “There Has To Be a Cheaper Way To Find The Worst People — 2016 Elections Will Cost Over $6 Billion”

Reuters

U.S. prosecutors on Friday regrouped to strategize for their next trial of armed militants who occupied a wildlife center in Oregon the day after seven others at a related trial were surprisingly acquitted of all charges.

The group’s leader, Ammon Bundy, and six others were declared not guilty on Thursday of conspiracy charges stemming from their role in the armed takeover and 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.   Continue reading “U.S. prosecutors regroup for second trial in Oregon occupation”

Yahoo News

An Oklahoma man on the run for the past week after a shooting spree that left two dead and four others wounded has been killed in a shootout with police in western Oklahoma. One deputy sheriff was shot, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Oklahoma County sheriff John Whetsel told ABC News that the deputy shot in the incident is expected to survive. The officer is a Dewey County sheriff’s deputy. He was transported to Elk City Hospital.   Continue reading “Oklahoma Murder Suspect Dead After Shootout With Police, Deputy Sheriff Shot”

Daily Mail

A slain Alaska police officer told his children that he feared he would get shot, just hours before he was hit during a gun battle with a career criminal.

Fairbanks police Sgt. Allen Brandt died on Friday, two weeks after he was shot five times in the legs while responding to reports of gunfire.   Continue reading “Alaska police officer and father of four dies in the hospital”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Cannon Ball, N.D. — On Thursday, police from no less than five states sporting full riot gear and armed with heavy lethal and nonlethal weaponry, pepper spray, mace, a number of ATVs, five tanks, two helicopters, and military-equipped humvees showed up to tear down an encampment of Standing Rock Sioux water protectors and supporters armed with … nothing.

Under orders from the now-notorious Morton County Sheriff’s Office, this ridiculously heavy-handed standing army came better prepared to do battle than some actual military units fighting overseas.   Continue reading “Like a ‘Concentration Camp’ Police Mark DAPL Protesters with Numbers & Lock Them in Dog Kennels”

Western Livestock Journal – by Jason Campbell

—Affected stakeholders not informed of public hearing

A public meeting was held recently in southwest Oregon to discuss a proposal from the state’s two U.S. senators asking that President Barack Obama double the size of the existing Cascade Siskiyou National Monument.

Both the proposal and the meeting came as a shock to area ranchers and government officials, most of whom were unaware that such a request had been made on their behalf. Held at the request of Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley (D), the Oct. 14 meeting also included Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor, and was intended to allow the federal official to hear comments and gauge public support for the proposed expansion.    Continue reading “Monument enlargement proposal takes Oregon cattlemen by surprise”

The Daily Sheeple – by Ryan Banister

An award-winning California state trooper was caught on camera fleeing the scene after crashing his patrol car into a parked vehicle and a utility pole, snapping it in half, on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.

When other officers approached and asked him to explain what happened, officer Daniel Kenney refused to get out of the vehicle. With at least three officers surrounding the front end of the car, Kenney reverses and then speeds away past a cameraman across the street.  Continue reading “Cop Crashes Car And Runs Away When More Cops Arrive”

New York Post – by Michael Gartland

The de Blasio administration is trying to limit the number of food trucks in the city by claiming that each hot-dog and kabob cart causes more pollution than a truck ride to Los Angeles.

Deputy Health Commissioner Corinne Schiff made the claim at a City Council hearing Wednesday, in an apparent effort to sink a bill that would nearly double the number of food-vendor permits in the city by 2023.   Continue reading “De Blasio administration finds a way to ruin food trucks”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

A public school official in Florida has urged citizens to fight truancy by reporting any children they suspect might not be in school or being educated — including homeschool families.

It is all part of an “anti-truancy” initiative called Operation Round Up, in which residents of Jackson County, Florida, are urged to be on the lookout for children not in school and to report them to school officials or to police.   Continue reading “Homeschool Families Targeted In District’s ‘Operation Round Up’”

Reuters

Police arrested 141 Native Americans and other protesters in North Dakota in a tense standoff that spilled into Friday morning between law enforcement and demonstrators seeking to halt construction of a disputed oil pipeline.

Police in riot gear used pepper spray and armored vehicles in an effort to disperse an estimated 330 protesters and clear a camp on private property in the path of the proposed $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, according to photos and statements released by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department.   Continue reading “Police arrest 141 in crackdown on North Dakota pipeline protesters”

Waking Times – by Nathaniel Mauka

Congress overwhelmingly voted for the Patriot Act nearly 16 years ago, and our civil liberties have never been the same since. As if this singular bill, passed by George W. Bush, wasn’t invasive enough, allowing big banks to demand our internet data, and more — the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) makes cyber-spying by the shadow government and the financial entities controlling it, a forgone conclusion.

As with most shadow government legislation, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is packed with hidden surveillance allowances. CISA was quietly passed to allow government to demand that private companies hand over personal information to them at will. It also allows companies to mine data, under the auspices of government-created urgency.   Continue reading “Distracted by Election 2016, No-one Resisted the Deep State’s Patriot Act 2”

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

Cannon Ball, ND – Pipeline opponents attempting to protect their water supply from the Dakota Access oil pipeline (DAPL), as well as prevent the continued destruction of burial grounds and cultural sites, are anticipating a confrontation with police today. This news come after “water protectors” refused law enforcement requests to vacate reoccupied land in the pipeline’s path, owned by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners.   Continue reading “No-Fly Zone Declared as Militarized Police Prep for Assault on ‘Front-Line Camp’ at Standing Rock”

The Daily Sheeple – by Ryan Bannister

A prankster in Stockton, California is not laughing after an attempt to scare people in a creepy clown costume ended with a man pulling out his pistol and striking him on the side of his head.

Sadiq Mohammad, 20, decided that clowning around in Stockton attempting to scare unsuspecting people was a good idea, and he assuredly reaped the consequences of this brilliant plan.   Continue reading “Creepy Clown Gets Pistol-Whipped!”

Jon Rappoport

If you wanted to buy a product, and the main source of research on the product was the company selling it, would you automatically assume the product was safe and effective?

But you see, that’s the just the beginning of the problem. Suppose the company’s research was cited thousands of times in the press, as the authoritative standard of proof—and anyone who disputed that research was labeled a conspiracy theorist and a quack and a danger to the community and an anti-science lunatic.   Continue reading “CDC vaccine science covers up giant conflict of interest”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Tony Podesta — brother of the now-disgraced Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, whose files Wikileaks has been publishing — is not only a powerful Democratic Party lobbyist, but a registered foreign agent receiving a hefty monthly paycheck from the nefarious government of Saudi Arabia.

No — as tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist as it might sound — that scenario is the absolute truth.   Continue reading “Brother of Clinton’s Campaign Chair is an Active Foreign Agent on the Saudi Arabian Payroll”

Reuters

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Wednesday suspended a Pentagon order that California National Guardsmen repay thousands of dollars in enlistment bonuses and tuition assistance they had received by mistake more than a decade ago.

“While some soldiers knew or should have known they were ineligible for benefits they were claiming, many others did not,” Carter, who is in Europe meeting with U.S. allies, said in a statement.   Continue reading “Pentagon halts effort to recover Guard enlistment bonuses”

Reuters

On a rooftop overlooking the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, around 200 American-Israeli fans of Donald Trump gathered to proclaim their support for the Republican candidate, convinced he will be Israel’s best friend if elected.

Wearing “Make America Great Again” baseball caps, the small crowd, ranging from Holocaust survivors in their 80s to grinning teenagers in Trump t-shirts, said they didn’t care about the sexual assault allegations against the candidate or the online anti-Semitism of some of his supporters.   Continue reading “In hats and t-shirts, Trump fans rally in Jerusalem’s Old City”

RT

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), facing criticism over its classification of carcinogens, has reportedly been advising its scientific experts not to publish internal research data on its 2015 report on “probably carcinogenic” glyphosate.

The IARC urged its scientists not to publish research documents on its 2015 weedkiller glyphosate review, according to Reuters. The agency told Reuters on Tuesday that it tried to protect the study from “external interference,” as well as protect its intellectual rights, since it was “the sole owner of such materials.”   Continue reading “WHO cancer agency under fire for withholding ‘carcinogenic glyphosate’ documents”