Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Epstein’s own defense team doesn’t buy the suicide narrative, apparently, as one of his lawyers on Tuesday voiced deep skepticism that he hanged himself while addressing a final hearing in a Manhattan US District Court on Tuesday, which was held to formally dismiss the charges as is typical when the accused is deceased, but also to still allow testimony of some of the victims.  Continue reading “Epstein’s Own Lawyers Tell Court He Likely Died By “Assault” As Federal Case Dropped”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

A while back, an MPAA whistleblower sent me a big file of internal MPAA documents. I spent many months going through them and trying to track down any actual story in them, but there really wasn’t much there. Most of the documents were quite old and not all that revealing beyond what was already known (or widely assumed) about how the MPAA acted. The only thing that struck me as interesting, was a very old memo, written by lawyer Steven Fabrizio, before he became the MPAA’s General Counsel, when he was still at the MPAA’s favorite law firm, Jenner & Block. Continue reading “Top MPAA Lawyer, Mastermind Behind Its Plan To Attack The Internet, Arrested On Blackmail And Sexual Assault Charges”

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

An argument over a beach towel started a 40-person brawl at a Sacramento, California, area water park on Sunday afternoon. One man was nearly killed in the wild fracas that followed, causing the Raging Waters theme park to shut down.

The brawl began around 3:30 p.m. at the Lazy River picnic area within Raging Waters water park in Sacramento after two women disagreed over who should have taken whose beach towel, Everest Robillard, the Cal Expo police chief, told KCRA.  Continue reading “Beach Towel Argument Leads to 40-Person Brawl at Water Park”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is shifting $271 million earmarked for disaster aid and cyber security to pay for immigration-related facilities, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a leading congressional Democrat said on Tuesday.

The money, which was also set aside for the U.S. Coast Guard, will be used to pay for detention facilities and courts for migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. DHS officials say they have been overwhelmed by a surge of asylum-seeking migrants fleeing violence and poverty in Central America.  Continue reading “Trump administration taps disaster, cyber funds to cover immigration”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Marlin, TX — As Texas Rangers arrived at the home of Marlin police Chief Nathan Sodek to arrest him on Friday, the 30-year-old top cop allegedly pulled his gun and took his own life. The warrant being served by the Rangers for Sodek’s arrest was for the alleged sexual assault of a suspect the chief forced to have sex with him for her freedom.  Continue reading “Police Chief Commits Suicide As He’s Being Arrested for Forcing Woman to Have Sex for Her Freedom”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Los Angeles, CA — As TFTP reported in June, panic erupted inside a Corona, California Costco as multiple people were injured and one man was killed. Dozens of  shoppers immediately dropped to the ground as fears of the next mass shooting filled their thoughts. However, it turns out the “mass shooter” was an LAPD cop and his unarmed victims were a mentally disabled non-verbal man and his parents. Now, for the first time since the shooting, the parents, who have been recovering since the shooting are speaking out about the death of their son.  Continue reading “Judge Blocking Video Reportedly Showing LAPD Cop Shoot a Family in Their Backs, Killing the Son”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It appears that Jeffrey Epstein had really good timing when he, according to New York Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson, decided to hang himself in his Manhattan jail cell the morning of August 10th – crushing bones in his neck which can fracture during hangings, but are typically broken during homicide by strangulation.  Continue reading “Surveillance Video Outside Epstein’s Cell Deemed ‘Unusable’”

Breitbart – by Kyle Morris

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has shut down a national hotline used by detained immigrants after it was featured in a storyline in the Netflix prison drama Orange is the New Black.

The National Immigration Detention Hotline, which was created in 2013 and was shut down on August 7, was a free and confidential resource that offered legal assistance to detained immigrants and connected them to advocates at Freedom for Immigrants.  Continue reading “Immigration Detention Hotline Shut Down After Netflix Prison Drama Causes Chaos”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

One of the most unusual stories to start the week is coming from VladTime, a Russian news agency, who reported Russian Special Forces have been exercising with American M4 carbines this month, with additional reports of how some of these soldiers are currently buying western weapons.

Military officers of the 45th Spetsnaz Airborne Brigade, a special reconnaissance and special operations military unit of the Russian Airborne Troops, said soldiers practiced shooting targets, reloading, and assembly and disassembly of the M4 last week.  Continue reading “Why Are Russian Special Forces Training With American Assault Rifles?”

Boing Boing

The Supreme Court of California decided unanimously on Monday the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and other law enforcement agencies within in the state must disclose to prosecutors a deputy’s history of misconduct if and when the deputy plans to testify in a criminal case.  Continue reading “California Supreme Court backs expanding access to police misconduct cases”

Breitbart – by Amy Furr

Video of onlookers taunting New York Police Department (NYPD) officers as they tried to place a suspect inside a police cruiser has surfaced online.

The footage, retweeted by Mike Reilly, a Republican and New York assemblyman, shows the four officers struggling to place the man inside the police vehicle while one of them calls for backup on his radio.  Continue reading “NYPD Officers Taunted by Public as Suspect Resists Arrest”

Reuters

U.S. prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Pennsylvania man accused of bursting into a Pittsburgh synagogue last year with a semi-automatic rifle and shooting 11 people to death, according to court papers filed on Monday.

Robert Bowers, 46, shouted “all Jews must die” as he fired on congregants gathered for Sabbath services at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, authorities said. Continue reading “U.S. to seek death penalty for accused Pittsburgh synagogue shooter”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

“A deep and boiling anger” is the sentiment behind a recent poll conducted this month, showing just how utterly pissed off Americans are with their government. Despite Americans being pitted against each other with divisive partisan tactics rammed down their throats on a daily basis by the political establishment and the media, this recent poll shows they agree on one thing—the government serves the connected elite and no one else.  Continue reading “Poll: 70% of Americans ‘Angry’ at Political System for Only Serving Insiders With Money and Power”

Breitbart – by John Binder

About 109 counties across the United States have become majority-minority in less than 20 years, new demographic data reveals.

The latest Pew Research Center study finds that between 2000 and 2018, 109 U.S. counties across 22 states have had their non-Hispanic white populations drop below 50 percent, while the Hispanic, Asian, and black American populations have all grown.  Continue reading “Pew Research: 109 U.S. Counties Become Majority-Minority Since 2000”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

After pro-Iran allies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq were all hit in suspected Israeli strikes in the space of less than 24 hours, signalling a new aggression out of Tel Aviv and willingness to risk yet another major Middle East war, Arab capitals are now alerting their armed forces to be on a war footingContinue reading “Lebanon’s President Announces Israeli Attacks Are “Declaration Of War””

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The violence between Hong Kong riot police and anti-government protesters escalated on Sunday – one of the most violent nights of pro-democracy demonstrations which began three months ago.

While largely peaceful, a group of more violent protesters broke away from the day’s march – pelting police with bricks and fire bombs. In response, police deployed tear gas and two Mercedes-Benz crowd control water cannons for the first time in 12 weeksContinue reading “Hong Kong Police Use Water Cannons For The First Time, Fire Live Warning Shots After Protesters Hurl Bricks And Fire Bombs”

Breitbart – by Amy Furr

New Jersey police shot and killed an emotionally disturbed man who allegedly charged at them with a pair of scissors on July 23.

Dramatic bodycam footage shows the moment James P. Manzo, 27, was shot by officers responding to a call about a man behaving erratically at the Asbury Inn.  Continue reading “NJ Police Shoot, Kill Man Who Lunged at Them with Scissors”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Two Arizona cops, who in 2008 found themselves at the center of a near fatal police contact with a mentally ill man, have found themselves all the way to the top of their career ladders. After shooting a mentally ill man in the back — paralyzing him and causing him to drop his baby and fracture her skull — the two sergeants were not removed from duty, but instead they climbed all the way through the ranks to the top.  Continue reading “Cop Promoted to Asst. Chief After Shooting Unarmed Man in the Back, Causing Him to Drop His Baby”

Reuters

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it had identified 193 potential cases of severe lung illness tied to vaping in 22 states as of Aug. 22, including one adult in Illinois who died after being hospitalized.

The CDC has been investigating a “cluster” of lung illnesses that it believes may be linked to e-cigarette use, although it has not yet been able to establish whether they were in fact caused by vaping.  Continue reading “CDC flags one death and nearly 200 cases of lung illnesses in U.S, possibly tied to vaping”

NBC News

LOS ANGELES — U.S. officials have intercepted and seized almost 53,000 illegal Chinese gun parts in three separate shipments at the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach.

The seized items included gun sights, stocks, muzzles and other parts worth a total of more than $378,000. The parts were intercepted in recent weeks, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter, and were packed in their own cargo containers on three separate ships that were also carrying household items, apparel, toys, industrial machinery and other imports.  Continue reading “Feds intercept nearly 53,000 illegal Chinese gun parts in Los Angeles”