RT

Opium poppy cultivation levels in Afghanistan this year are the highest on record, said the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, adding that efforts to eradicate the crop have fallen flat.

“Unfortunately, preliminary results suggest that illicit cultivation has increased well above 200,000 hectares (494,000 acres),” UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said on Wednesday., according to the text of a speech prepared for an international conference on Afghanistan in Brussels, Reuters reported.   Continue reading “Opium growth in Afghanistan soars, eradication close to zero – UN”

Capital Research – by Matthew Vadum

Just days ago California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed into law a measure that  effective next year reinstates the voting eligibility of felons on probation or under community supervision. Inmates in state and federal prisons are not covered by the new law.

Apparently “community supervision” means “incarcerated in a county jail.”   Continue reading “California jailbirds get to vote starting next year”

Press TV

In a rare move on Wednesday, US State Department spokesman Mark Toner reacted to construction of 300 illegal housing units not long after the US agreed to give the regime a record-breaking military aid.

The new plan would “distance” Israel from its allies while it hampers efforts for the so-called two-state solution, said the spokesman.   Continue reading “US condemns Israel’s plan for new settlement”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

And all of a sudden it’s almost as if we’ve time traveled back to the Cold War.

It is trickling out today that Russian newspapers are warning a direct conflict with the United States is now possible over America’s obsessive regime change mission in Syria, which is being compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis in Russia.   Continue reading “Russian Newspapers Warn “Full-Scale War With U.S. Possible” Now Over Syria”

Activist Post – by Janet Phelan

Without a lot of fanfare or explanation, new psychiatric hospitals are being built in droves across the United States. Facilities are springing up in Indiana, in Delaware, in Missouri, in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in Colorado, in Washington, and in North Carolina, to name just a few.

This reverses the trend and policy of the last seventy years, which promoted de-institutionalization and community based care.   Continue reading “Still Crazy After All These Years: Psychiatric Lock-Down Returns To The US”

Reuters

Russia further curtailed its cooperation with the United States in nuclear energy on Wednesday, suspending a research agreement and terminating one on uranium conversion, two days after the Kremlin shelved a plutonium pact with Washington.

The Russian government said that as counter-measures to the U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine, it was putting aside a nuclear and energy-related research pact with the United States.   Continue reading “Russia suspends nuclear agreement, ends uranium research pact with United States”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

By now it is well-known that as we profiled previously, one of the most ravenous buyers of US stocks in recent years, has been a central bank: the Swiss National Bank…   Continue reading “Something Strange Is Going On In Switzerland: “Is Someone Trying To Buy The Swiss National Bank””

Breitbart – by Chriss W Street

When Hurricane Matthew strikes Florida, it is expected to boost the volume of Zika-infected mosquitos in the U.S., wipe out the effectiveness of anti-Zika pesticide spraying, and potentially spread the so-called Zika “danger zone” up the East Coast.

The monster Category-4 Atlantic hurricane, packing winds of 140 miles per hour, is on a path to strike Southern Florida on Friday morning, then drive up the center of the state. The storm appears to have more than enough power to veer right to hammer Georgia and the Carolinas, then move north, bringing torrential rain and flooding to the East Coast.   Continue reading “Hurricane Matthew to Spread Zika ‘Danger Zone’ up East Coast”

Jon Rappoport

After 30 years as an independent reporter, I understand the machinations of the CDC.

As a result, I’ve been able to read their intentions for the future. I’ve been able to see where they’re heading.

Two parallel ops are going to intersect, unless they are stopped. And if they aren’t stopped, there is going to be BIG trouble.   Continue reading “CDC police will eventually arrest the unvaccinated as “diseased criminals””

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

California — In a refreshing and unfortunately rare instance of reasonableness in policy, California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law a piece of legislation requiring police to secure an actual conviction before stealing people’s stuff in drug-related offenses.

Civil asset forfeiture has been rightly likened to state-sanctioned armed robbery, as it allows police to commandeer cash, vehicles, homes, or any property of value — even if the person is never charged with a crime — and then use or sell the items for profit for their departments.   Continue reading “Police Theft So Out of Hand, State Just Passed a Law Banning Cops from Robbing Innocent People”

Constitution – by Michael Ware

There is a clear divide among the states. Some are very welcoming and eager to take in Syrian refugees. While others are resistant and seek to opt out of the program design to resettle the refugees. So a judge has decided which states are right and which are wrong.

The Washington Times reports

States that refuse to help resettle Syrian refugees are guilty of illegal discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, delivering a judicial rebuke to GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, who as Indiana’s governor had tried to halt Syrian resettlement.
Continue reading “Judge Tells States They Must Take Syrian Refugees”

Reuters

A freight train derailed on Wednesday morning in New York City’s Bronx borough, suspending northbound Amtrak service from the city but causing no injuries.

Video footage from an NBC affiliate’s helicopter showed several cars sitting across the tracks, with at least one on its side.   Continue reading “Freight train derailment in New York disrupts Amtrak service”

Boing Boing – by ROB BESCHIZZA

Take care when asking provocative questions at Kansas City’s library events:you might end up in jail.

The executive director of Kansas City Libraries says he’s outraged by the charges against Jeremy Rothe-Kushel, a Jewish man grabbed by private security after asking the event’s speaker, former diplomat Dennis Ross, uninvited follow-up questions. Off-duty cops moved in to arrest Rothe-Kushel when he objected to the hands-on treatment—as well as a library staffer who had moved to intervene.   Continue reading “Jewish man arrested at Kansas City library speech after asking “provocative” questions”

Jon Rappoport

It turns out that unvaccinated children aren’t little time bombs walking around ready to blow and spread devastating disease in their wake.

That’s a myth. It’s told by the medical cartel, for their own obvious reasons.

And it turns out that children raised in a healthy way are strong, and have strong immune systems.   Continue reading “Natural health is a silver bullet to medical vampires”

ABC News 7

New Haven Public School officials said Monday principals and building leaders have been requested to ban the costumes until additional information is available.   Continue reading “New Haven Schools Ban Clown Costumes Amid Investigation”

Collective Evolution – by Alexa Erickson

Food goes bad. Milk spoils, bread molds, avocados rot, and apples brown. Throughout the years, this has become a nuisance for big food corporations. Food is now scientifically-altered to grow bigger and ‘better,’ look prettier, last longer, taste a certain way, etc.

But should we care if our food is changing? The short answer is YES.   Continue reading “Government Says Yes To Non-Browning Gmo Apples That Are About To Hit The Market”

Truthstream Media

Something is up… on at least three difference occasions in September, the emergency alert system in New York had unfortunate “accidents” that look remarkably similar to hacking. The first time, a “truncated” message almost caused the whole of Long Island to be evacuated. The second time, an eerie message about Donald Trump at the first debate played on repeat over an over via an emergency broadcast station in New Jersey just days before the debate which had been moved to Hofsta University on Long Island. The third time, a “Hazardous Materials Warning” for the entire country was broadcast on television not once but twice in upstate New York with the Dr. Seuss line, “Would you could you on a train?” casually tossed in the alert message… a message that we’re all to believe appeared “by accident” (twice) the night before a very bizarre train wreck in Hoboken, New Jersey that killed one and injured 114 others. Continue reading “Who Has Been Hacking the Emergency Alert System?”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In what would under other circumstances likely be a major media spectacle, Politico reported that the Obama administration is moving to dismiss charges against an arms dealer whom it had accused of selling weapons destined for Libyan rebels and who had threatened to expose Hillary Clinton’s talks about arming anti-Qaddafi rebels.

According to a motion filed in federal court in Phoenix, the DOJ on Monday filed a motion to drop the case against the arms dealer, an American named Marc Turi. One potential reason for the surprising move is that as Politico writes, the deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton’s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi.   Continue reading “DOJ Drops Charges Against Arms Dealer Who “Threatened To Expose” Hillary Arming Islamic Extremists”