Reuters

After a brutal week for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton maintained a substantial projected advantage in the race to win the Electoral College and claim the U.S. presidency, according to the latest results from the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project released on Saturday.

If the election were held this week, the project estimates that Clinton’s odds of securing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency at more than 95 percent, and by a margin of 118 Electoral College votes. It is the second week in a row that the project has estimated her odds so high.   Continue reading “Clinton heavily favored to win Electoral College: poll”

Waking Times – by Nathaniel Mauka

We’ve come a long way in education since the 1960s, but not necessarily in a positive direction. The psychologist J.P. Guilford once drew a distinction between two forms of thinking: convergent and divergent. One produces alternative theories, creative ideas, and useful solutions, the other, the dogmatization of information and a ‘single’ correct answer which can be force-fed to students on standardized tests and in common core classrooms.   Continue reading “Common Core – Standardized Reality and the Slow Kill of Divergent Thinking”

Reuters

A woman arrested in Phoenix for domestic violence and assaulting a police officer slipped out of her handcuffs and hung herself with a shoelace from a vent in the back of a police van, authorities said on Thursday.

The woman was rushed to hospital unconscious after the officers driving the van tried to revive her, but she was not expected to survive, a Phoenix police statement said.   Continue reading “Phoenix woman removes handcuffs, hangs herself in police van: police”

RT

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to sign an agreement regarding the shipment of Russia’s most advanced anti-aircraft defense system, the S-400 Triumph, to India.

As a result of [Putin’s] meeting with Narendra Modi the agreement for supplying India with S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems will be signed along with a number of other documents,” Yury Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide, said on Friday, as cited by TASS.   Continue reading “Russia to sign deal on S-400 shipment to India – Putin aide”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Well over a half billion dollars is shelled out annually by the Pentagon to propagandize and galvanize public support of its wars based nearly entirely on lies — because, after all, war crafted to prop up the military-industrial machine’s profiteering can indeed be a tough sell.

In the latest report on Public Relations Spending from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the United States’ government PR apparatus has been revealed to spend over $1 billion annually$626 million of which the Department of Defense allots to employ a massive propaganda army constituting roughly 40 percent of the more than 5,000-strong federal public relations workforce.   Continue reading “60% of the US Govt’s Billion Dollar PR Budget Goes to the Pentagon to Sell You War — And It’s Working”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

The man accused of critically wounding two Boston police officers and injuring several others served as a constable in that city for nearly six months.

Boston Police towed a Ford Crown Victoria from the home of accused shooter Kirk Figueroa, 33, on Thursday morning. A photo of Figueroa wearing a military-style red beret was found on the ElitePolicing.org website, according to the Boston Globe. The Crown Victoria bore the Elite Policing’s web address.   Continue reading “Report: Accused Boston Cop-Shooter Served as a Local Constable”

Fox News

The University of Florida is offering counseling to anyone who gets offended by any costumes worn this coming Halloween.

The school wrote in a blog post Monday urging students to “think about your choices of costumes and themes.”   Continue reading “University of Florida offers counseling for students ‘troubled’ by Halloween costumes”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Dayton, OH — “I thought I might die,” said Amber Swink of her harrowing experience being pepper-sprayed while in a seven-point restraint chair in the Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio, on November 15, 2015.

Video footage of the torturous incident shows Swink so tightly restrained in the chair, she is hardly able to move her head; but that didn’t stop Sgt. Judith L. Sealey from entering the isolation cell and unleashing pepper-spray in the 25-year-old’s face — at near point-blank range — for seemingly no reason but sadistic pleasure.   Continue reading “Horrifying Video Shows Cop Torturing Restrained Woman With Mace Until She Falls Unconscious”

The Daily Sheeple – by Ryan Bannister

Tulsa police officers who gunned down an unarmed man are now attempting to justify this cold-blooded murder by drawing attention to an “acute phencyclidine (PCP) intoxication,” found in the man’s system. Attorneys are saying that this is immaterial to the actions taken by Tulsa officers.

Terence Crutcher died on September 16. The medical examiner found the cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the chest. The death was ruled a homicide, and Officer Betty Jo Shelby was charged with first-degree murder.   Continue reading “Attorney Calls PCP In Unarmed Man’s System Immaterial To Police-Involved Murder”

Oregon Live – by Brad Schmidt

Tumult ensued on the steps of Portland City Hall as police pepper-sprayed and arrested protesters in the aftermath of an unruly demonstration Wednesday over a newly approved contract for rank-and-file officers.

The scene devolved into a lengthy standoff,with dozens of protesters swarming Southwest Fifth Avenue and blocking traffic and light-rail trains until an estimated 75 officers in riot gear intervened.   Continue reading “Portland City Council approves police contract amid unruly protest”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

If anyone ever asks you how much debt there is in the world, now you will know the answer.  According to the IMF, the total amount of debt around the globe has now hit a staggering 152 trillion dollars.  That is an amount of money that is almost unimaginable, and the IMF says that it is equivalent to 225 percent of global GDP.  It is the biggest debt bubble in the history of the planet, and it is rising at an extremely alarming pace.  Experts all over the world agree that when this debt bubble finally bursts, it is going to create an economic crisis on a scale that humanity has never seen before.   Continue reading “The Total Amount Of Debt In The World Just Hit A Record $152,000,000,000,000 (152 Trillion)”

Reuters

Two Boston police officers were wounded in a shooting on Wednesday on the city’s East Side and a suspect was dead, police said.

The officers were shot when they responded to a report of a person with a gun in the Orient Heights neighborhood at about 11 p.m. local time, the Boston Police Department tweeted.   Continue reading “Two Boston police officers wounded, suspect dead in shooting: police”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On Tuesday the Los Angeles Police Commission passed a proposal to give LAPD officers more training before deploying lethal force.

The commission also said there needs to be an “increase [in] the number of staff who review how officers use less serious force, such as less-lethal weapons or punches, to take someone into custody.” The argument behind new requirements for less-lethal force is that such force is used more often than lethal.   Continue reading “LA Police Commission: Officers Need More Training Before Using Lethal Force”

Washington Examiner – by GABBY MORRONGIELLO

Donald Trump’s campaign was drafting a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times late Wednesday night, hours after the news organization published a story in which two women accused the Republican presidential nominee of sexual assault, sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

Within hours of threatening to take legal action against the major publication for launching a “completely false, coordinated character assassination against” him, Trump had requested that his attorneys draft a major lawsuit against the Times.   Continue reading “‘This is war’: Trump drafting lawsuit against NY Times”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Months of disquieting and needless escalation between the United States and Russia over Syria and the Asia-Pacific theater quickened feverishly to near outright hostility over the past 48 hours, and — considering semantics from both ends suggestive of antebellum blame-casting — it’s past time to pay attention.

Indeed, though a few analysts still dismissively liken the tensions to so much blustery rhetoric, a growing number contend obstinate U.S. posturing about Russian aggression hasn’t been taken so lightly by President Vladimir Putin and his rapidly amassing allies.   Continue reading “Time to Pay Attention — In the Last 48 Hours, Humanity Just Moved to the Brink of World War”

Anti-Media – by Dan Sanchez

Colin Kaepernick has been abstaining from standing for the national anthem. Self-styled patriots have been losing their minds over it. That is because they are true believers in a cult. The cult is the State.

All states are cults: religions. And like all religions, states have sacraments, including holy rituals. The national anthem is one of the holy ritual sacraments of the cult of the American State. Those fully initiated and indoctrinated in that cult have been programmed to go into attack mode when divergent cult members (heretics) fail to observe such sacraments, like the national anthem or the pledge of allegiance to the holy pole cloth. Such peer pressure is how cults maintain their numbers.   Continue reading “Thinking About Voting? Read This First”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Homicides in gun-controlled Chicago so far this year are approaching 600 following another weekend of firearm-related death and mayhem.

The Chicago Tribune reports that “at least 35” people were shot and wounded and another five were shot and killed between 6 pm Friday, October 7, and the morning of October 10. “Four people were shot within six blocks of each other over one hour Sunday night.”   Continue reading “2016 Homicides Approaching 600 in Gun-Controlled Chicago”

Natural Society – by Julie Fidler

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued new warnings recently aimed at both men and women for avoiding transmission of the Zika virus. [1]

On September 30 the CDC said, among other things, that pregnant women should consider postponing travel to 11 Southeast Asian countries where Zika is spreading, and shored up its warnings for men who are considering having children.   Continue reading “CDC Issues 2 Major Zika Advisories For Men And Women”

Reuters

Jurors failed to reach a verdict on Tuesday in the trial of two former Albuquerque police officers charged with murdering a homeless man in 2014, prompting the judge to call a mistrial, local media reported.

After more than 17 hours of discussions, the jury said it was still split on whether to find Dominique Perez and Keith Sandy guilty of the second degree murder of James Boyd, with nine of the 12 members favoring acquittal, the Albuquerque Journal reported.   Continue reading “Mistrial for New Mexico police charged with murdering homeless man”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In Europe, when it gets serious, you have to lie… at least if you are an unelected bureaucrat like Jean-Claude Juncker. In Russia, however, when it gets serious, attention immediately turns to the children.

Which is why we read a report in Russian website Znak published Tuesday, according to which Russian state officials and government workers were told to bring back their children studying abroad immediately, even if means cutting their education short and not waiting until the end of the school year, and re-enroll them in Russian schools, with some concern. The article adds that if the parents of these same officials also live abroad “for some reason”, and have not lost their Russian citizenship, should also be returned to the motherland. Znak cited five administration officials as the source of the report.   Continue reading “Russian Government Officials Told To Immediately Bring Back Children Studying Abroad”