The Mind Unleashed – by Elias Marat

As the country increasingly sheds its prohibitionist stereotypes and misconceptions about psychedelic drugs, scientists and psychiatrists are increasingly embracing their potent qualities as “game-changers” in the fight to treat mental health disorders.

The new trend unfolding across the U.S. has converted drugs like ketamine—once known primarily as a recreational drug used at raves and underground concerts—into a powerful tool for mental health professionals in the Midwest, according to the Times of Northwest Indiana.   Continue reading “Psychedelic Drugs Are Finally Being Used to Treat Depression in US Hospitals”

Breitbart – by John Binder

North Carolina’s largest sanctuary county released a previously deported illegal alien accused of rape and child sex crimes, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency reveals.

Oscar Pacheco-Leonardo, a 33-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, was arrested almost two months ago by the Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Office for first-degree rape and child sex crimes. After his arrest, ICE officials said they placed a detainer on Pacheco-Leonardo, requesting that he be turned over to the agency before being released from local custody.  Continue reading “Illegal Alien Accused of Rape, Child Sex Crimes Released by Sanctuary County”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

Secret talks have been ongoing between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, focused on sharing intelligence against Iran and possibly military cooperation. The talks have progressed to the point that the US is now joining the talks too.

Israel and the UAE have some security ties, but don’t have public relations. That they’re discussing Iran reflects Israel’s long-standing hostility toward Iran, and the UAE’s close proximity to Iran.  Continue reading “US Joins Secret Talks Between Israel and UAE Targeting Iran”

USA Today – by Jessica Prol Smith

I’ll never forget the moment I learned we were on lockdown. It was Aug.15, 2012. My frustration mingled with fear. Trapped on the sixth floor, we knew someone had been shot. We knew we couldn’t leave yet. We knew little else.

While I was missing lunch, a crime scene played out in the office lobby below me. My coworker and friend Leo wasn’t armed, but he had played the quick-thinking and inadvertent hero, disarming a young man on a mission to kill me and as many of my colleagues as possible. T Continue reading “The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Employees at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center where convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reportedly took his own life last week are not cooperating with the Justice Department investigators according to Fox News.

Two senior DOJ officials sent by Attorney General William Barr have been on-site at MCC while the agency’s Inspector General investigates the situation. According to a senior DOJ official, Barr said that “serious irregularities” had been uncovered at the jail.  Continue reading “Epstein Prison Guards “Not Cooperating” With DOJ Probe”

Eco Watch – by Olivia Rosane

Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reversed a decision made last week to reauthorize the use of deadly cyanide traps used to kill wild animals that threaten agriculture, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

The traps, officially called M-44s but nicknamed “cyanide bombs,” are spring-loaded devices that kill their targets with a discharge of sodium cyanide, according to The Guardian. They are used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services to kill animals like foxes and coyotes that farmers and ranchers consider pests. But critics say that they cause long-term pollution and harm more than their intended targets, even killing pets and injuring humans, HuffPost explained. Continue reading “EPA Reverses Approval of Deadly ‘Cyanide Bombs’ After Public Outcry”

C-Net – by Leslie Katz

A new clothing line lets you camouflage yourself as a car to mess with surveillance cameras. The garments in the Adversarial Fashion collection are covered with license plate images that trigger automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, to inject junk data into systems used to monitor and track civilians.  Continue reading “Antisurveillance clothes foil cameras by making you look like a car”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) responded to a serial criminal’s attack on police officers Wednesday by calling for more gun control.

Breitbart News reported that the gunman was 36-year-old Maurice Hill.  Continue reading “Philadelphia Mayor Pushes Gun Control After Serial Criminal Shoots Officers”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The Coroner who examined the body of Connor Betts, the 24-year-old man who shot and killed his sister, her boyfriend and seven others, before he himself was shot and killed by police in downtown Dayton earlier this month,was found to have cocaine, Xanax, alcohol and anti-depressants in his system, raising more questions about the role that mental health – and specifically, substance abuse – played in one of the latest high-profile mass shootings, according to the Washington Post. Continue reading “Dayton Shooter Had Cocaine, Alcohol & Antidepressents In His System During Attack”

Common Dreams – by Jake Johnson

Civil liberties groups and privacy advocates raised alarm Thursday after the Trump administration called on Congress to reauthorize an NSA mass surveillance program that was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The New York Times, which obtained the Trump administration’s request to Congress, reported that “the administration urged lawmakers to make permanent the legal authority for the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans’ domestic communications, the USA Freedom Act.”  Continue reading “Alarm as Trump Requests Permanent Reauthorization of NSA Mass Spying Program Exposed by Snowden”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Tinton Falls, NJ — Roberton Fullerton and his daughter Bobbi Rene Fullerton had committed no crime, had harmed no one, and were in their own home when police officers came to the door, ordered them to their knees at gunpoint and shot their two dogs. While apologists continue to claim “if you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about,” this case — like so many others before it — proves them entirely wrong. Now the taxpayers of Tinton Falls will be held liable for the officers’ actions in the form of a lawsuit.  Continue reading “Innocent Father and Daughter Held at Gunpoint on Knees as Cops Shot Their Dogs—Lawsuit”

Jon Rappoport

This is a big one. It’s so big, in fact, that many people will want to turn their backs on it and pretend it doesn’t and couldn’t exist. But it’s real. It does exist.

No killing of innocent people can be called a “negligible statistic.” But what label do you apply when an entire government stands by and does nothing, while millions of people die?  Continue reading “Lone shooters, terrorism, and semantics”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On Thursday Democrat presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren tweeted a video clip in which she pledged “executive action in every corner” for gun control.

Warren said, “40,000 Americans died last year from gun violence.” Warren’s claim is actually a loose reference to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers for 2017–the most recent numbers–which show 39,773 people died in a firearm-related death.  Continue reading “Elizabeth Warren Pledges ‘Executive Action in Every Corner’ for Gun Control”

Reuters

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Friday rejected an offer by Israel to let her travel to the West Bank, saying she would not visit her family there because the Israeli government had imposed “oppressive conditions” to humiliate her.

Tlaib, a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives who has been critical of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, had planned to make an official visit to Israel along with fellow Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.  Continue reading “U.S. Rep. Tlaib refuses Israel’s ‘oppressive conditions’ for West Bank visit”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Lansing, MI — For those who doubt the existence of blue privilege and the ability of cops to escape accountability for unspeakable crimes, the following case should serve as proof it is real. When an officer of the law is caught exploiting and abusing society’s most vulnerable — children — and they can escape any significant jail time, this is definitive proof of blue privilege. Disgraced Lansing police officer Matthew Priebe is all the proof you need.  Continue reading “School Cop Pleads Guilty to Sexually Assaulting 3 Children—Will Not Even Do 1 Year in Jail”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Two illegal aliens living in the sanctuary jurisdiction of Montgomery County, Maryland, have been arrested and accused of raping an 11-year-old girl.

According to WJLA 7, 29-year-old Mauricio Barrera-Navidad, an illegal alien from El Salvador, and 28-year-old illegal alien Carlos Palacios-Amaya were arrested this week by Montgomery County law enforcement officials after the victim told a social worker of the rapes.  Continue reading “Sanctuary County: Two Illegal Aliens Accused of Raping 11-Year-Old Girl”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As we shared yesterday, satellite images confirmed President Trump’s warning that Chinese troops were massing on the Hong Kong border.

Now, the AFP has published photos showing more military buildup unfolding in Shenzen. Continue reading “Chinese Paramilitary Troops, Tanks Hold Threatening Exercises At Shenzen Sports Stadium”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update (1020ET): As expected a Gibraltar judge has agreed to release the seized Iranian oil tanker, Grace 1 (which was allegedly shipping 2.1m barrels of crude to Syria, breaching EU sanctions).

As Gibraltar Chronicle reports, the decision to release the ship was taken hours after the US reportedly launched a separate last-minute legal move to detain the vessel.   Continue reading “Gibraltar Judge Rules To Release Seized Iranian Tanker”

Reuters

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel will bar a visit by two of its sharpest critics in the U.S. Congress, Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who planned to tour the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the country’s deputy foreign minister said on Thursday.

“The decision has been made, the decision is not to allow them to enter,” Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely told Israel’s Reshet Bet Radio.  Continue reading “Israel bars visit by U.S. Democratic lawmakers”

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday that he will ask President Donald Trump to use his $5 billion set aside for border wall construction to combat gun violence and white supremacy.

Schumer’s office said he would formally petition Trump to put the money towards the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct research into gun violence extremism, FBI domestic terrorism programs, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programs to fight counter-violent extremism.  Continue reading “Chuck Schumer to Ask Trump to Use $5 Billion Border Wall Funding to Combat Gun Violence”