Universe Today – by Nancy Atkinson

One more thing amateur astronomers might need to worry about besides clouds, bugs, and trying to fix equipment malfunctions in the dark – and this one’s a little more serious.

Earlier this week, two students at North Dakota State University (NDSU) in Fargo, North Dakota were setting up a telescope and camera system to take pictures of the Moon when armed police approached them. The police officers had mistaken the telescope for a rifle.   Continue reading “Watch Where You Point That ‘Scope: Police Mistake Telescope for a Gun”

Cop Block – by Kelly W. Patterson

It’s getting a little better because they’ve been so blatant about it that it’s drawn the world’s attention, but it’s still rare when cops get charged with the crimes they commit, up to and including murder or attempts to murder others. Even on those rare occasions when their crimes are outrageous and the evidence is so undeniable that they get charged, it’s still almost unheard of for them to get convicted, since the district attorney and judge are generally playing for the same team as them. What’s more, on those minuscule times when the prosecutor doesn’t throw the game and they actually get convicted, they usually end up with a slap on the wrist.   Continue reading “Ex-Police Officer Given Maximum Sentence – Because He Shot Two Cops”

Military Times – by Leo Shane III

Democrats’ election outreach efforts to veterans may need to start with a refresher course on what U.S. troops look like.

For starters, they don’t wear Polish military uniforms.

Until Thursday, the Democratic National Committee’s “Veterans and Military Families” website had as its only picture a shot from White House photographers during President Obama’s visit to Warsaw in 2011.   Continue reading “DNC site mistakes foreign vets for former U.S. troops”

Memory Hole Blog – by James Tracy

Video and photographic evidence suggests assailant in video iswhite, yet so-called shooter Vester Flanagan is black.

There appears to be a major contradiction in what has been presented as the official storyline of what has come to be known as the “TV Reporter, Cameraman Murdered Live on Air” story being pushed by mainstream and even some “alternative” news outlets.   Continue reading “VA Reporter and Cameraman Shooting Discrepancy”

Preparing for SHTF

It’s not as easy as it may sound either. Water weighs approximately 8.5 pounds per gallon, which means that you have to choose where you store your water carefully. It would not be hard to imagine a shelf collapsing under the weight. Five one gallon jugs of water would weigh slightly over 40 pounds, and a shelf already loaded down with canned goods would be under considerable strain.   Continue reading “Where Should You Store Your Emergency Water If You Live in an Apartment”

Natural Society – by Julie Fidler

Antipsychotic drugs are being prescribed to an ever-increasing number of adolescents and young adults, and many of them are being prescribed for off-label purposes. But these over-prescriptions are putting youngsters at risk, though we’re slow as a society to change our med-heavy ways.

These powerful medications are being prescribed to young people with attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a condition the drugs are not approved to treat.   Continue reading “Widespread Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs Sparks Serious Health Problems”

RT

The Pentagon has spent nearly $4 billion fighting Islamic State across Syria and Iraq since operations began a year ago, according to statistics released this week. The average daily cost of the campaign is $9.9 million, or $6,785 a minute.

A colossal $3.7 billion in expenses have been racked up since the campaign began on August 8, 2014 up to August 15 of this year.   Continue reading “American taxpayers spend nearly $10 million a day fighting ISIS”

Western Journalism

Authorities in Boston, Mass., continue to tout a program offering gift cards worth up to $200 in exchange for residents’ firearms – despite the fact that this year’s participation rate is thus far limited to one individual.

During 2014, the buyback program succeeded in convincing the owners of 410 guns to take the city up on its offer.

With two-thirds of 2015 in the past, the program has led to just one recovered firearm so far this year. As the Boston Herald noted, violent crime has increased during the same period.   Continue reading “Boston Renews Gun Buyback Program – Here’s How Many Guns Were Bought”

Marketing Gum

China has arrested 23 people under criminal charges tied to the Tianjin blasts, state media said.

Among the arrested are the the chairman, vice-chairman and three deputy managers of the warehouse that exploded, as well as officials from various state departments and customs officers, said Xinhua.   Continue reading “China starts cleanup after Tianjin blasts, arrests officials and warehouse managers”

RT

Hundreds of police in Los Angeles, California will begin wearing body cameras Monday, after a year of preparations. Once fully operational, the LAPD body cam program will be the most extensive in the US, but recordings will be kept from the public.

The first wave of cameras was funded by $1.5 million from private donors, such as Steven Spielberg and the Los Angeles Dodgers. They will go to 860 officers in LAPD’s Mission division, covering the northwestern suburbs in the San Fernando Valley. LAPD plans to outfit more than 7,000 officers with body cameras over the coming months. By contrast, New York is currently using 60 cameras in a pilot program, and wants to buy 5,000 more.   Continue reading “7,000 police body cams to go to LA cops”

Global Research – by David Swanson

If someone has had the good fortune not to encounter the world of U.S. police and prisons, and the misfortune to learn about the world from U.S. schools, entertainment, and “news” media, a great place to start understanding one of the worst self-inflicted tragedies of our era would be with James Kilgore’s short new book, Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time, followed up by Radley Balko’s longer Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces.   Continue reading “The Rise of the “Permanent Prisoners of War” in America”

State of the Nation

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is well known for working directly with industry lawyers and lobbyists to ensure that corporate interests are served first, second and third.  Whether it’s rule-making or regulation-changing at the federal or state level, the high-paid corporate lobbyists are always the first through the EPA door. Who has not heard or read on the internet about the “Environmental Protection Racket”?   Continue reading “EPA Permits Unlimited Use of Toxic Coal Fly Ash in Chemical Geoengineering Operations”

Reuters

The suspect in the on-air shooting of two Virginia television journalists was pronounced dead at a hospital on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported, citing state police.

The suspect Vester Flanagan, 41, shot and wounded himself after police pursuit following the shooting of the journalists from CBS affiliate WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia.   Continue reading “Virginia TV shooting suspect pronounced dead”

CNN

Who would media mogul Rupert Murdoch like to see on the ballot in 2016? Apparently Michael Bloomberg.

On Sunday night Murdoch put out word, through his personal Twitter account, that “it’s time” for Bloomberg, a fellow mogul who completed a third term as New York City mayor in 2013 and now runs Bloomberg LP, the financial data and media firm he founded decades ago.   Continue reading “Rupert Murdoch wants Michael Bloomberg to run for president”

EAG News – by Kyle Olson

NEW ALBANY, Ind. – The grumbling in New Albany cafeterias isn’t coming from students’ stomachs. It’s from parents.

The southern Indiana school district is one of the latest to deploy technology which “biometric identification to match a finger scan with a personal identification number,” WAVE reports.   Continue reading “School fingerprints elementary students for lunch program”

Shark Tank – by Nicole Sanders

Red light camera’s in Florida have been a hot topic for years. That might end soon if new legislation is passed.

This week the Senate Transportation Chairman Jeff Brandes filed legislation that would take down red-light cameras across the state as reported by News4Jax.   Continue reading “Red Light Camera’s May Be Coming Down”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Money plays such an important role in our lives that most of us could not imagine surviving without it. Yet that is exactly what you need to do if you want to prepare for an economic condition called deflation.

Deflation is the term economists use to describe a “general decline in prices, often caused by a reduction in the supply of money or credit.”[1]A good way to think of deflation is as the opposite of inflation. Inflation occurs when there is too much money in circulation, which destroys its value and raises prices. When deflation occurs, there is too little money available, which often causes prices to collapse and the economy to shut down.   Continue reading “The Day All The ATMs Ran Out Of Cash”

Judicial Watch

A surge in serious crimes by illegal immigrants—many repeat offenders—who have been shielded by sanctuary laws isn’t stopping legislators in Massachusetts from quietly pushing for a measure that would protect undocumented aliens statewide.

The move could not have come at a worse time, as the nation reels from a series of atrocious crimes committed by illegal aliens who long ago should have been deported. Instead, they were protected by sanctuary laws despite their criminal histories and illegal status in the U.S. A recent example is the gruesome July 4 San Francisco murder of a young woman by an illegal immigrant thug with seven felony convictions. The Mexican national had been deported five times.   Continue reading “Amid Surge in Illegal Alien Crimes State Pushes for Broad Sanctuary Law”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

As if the bread and circuses which are our 2016 presidential elections didn’t already come complete with enough sideshow freaks, now Obama has officially given creepy uncle Joe his “blessing” to run.

CNN is reporting that Biden is definitely considering a run. Why not. We need more crazy in this fake political comedy show.   Continue reading “Great: President Obama Gives Creepy Uncle Joe Biden “Blessing” to Run for POTUS”