Yahoo News – by SEANNA ADCOX, JEFFREY COLLINS and MEG KINNARD

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Monday the Confederate flag should be removed from the grounds of the state capitol, reversing her position on the divisive symbol amid growing calls for it to be removed.

The Republican’s about-face comes after nine black church members were gunned down, allegedly by a young white man who embraced the flag as a symbol of white supremacy.   Continue reading “SC governor calls for Confederate flag to come down”

Richard Matt, David SweatUSA Today – by Matthew Diebel

A surge of activity in the search for escaped New York state killers Richard Matt and David Sweat was ongoing Monday after their DNA reportedly was found in a burglarized cabin.

The attention on the cabin, about 20 miles west of the prison they escaped from, came after a witness saw someone running into the woods on Saturday, WPTZ in Burlington, Vt., reported.. Officers subsequently flooded tiny Owls Head in Franklin County, where a command post was established and police arrived with ATVs, CNN reported.   Continue reading “Reports: DNA of escapees found in burglarized cabin”

Russia Insider

In Riyadh, there’s a new king in town, and he is a very different man than his brother before him. After shaking up the government and replacing the chief executives of Saudi Arabia’s two biggest corporate behemoths (SABIC & Saudi Aramco), his new majesty seems to have the right people in place to carry out what appears to be an entirely new set of policies.

Case in point was this past Thursday’s meeting in St. Petersburg where President Putin received the Deputy Crown Prince and Saudi Defense Minister Muhammad bin Salman (a son of the current King Salman), along with Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and the all-powerful Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi. The two sides signed a total of six new cooperation agreements that included the nuclear and military spheres.     Continue reading “Saudi Arabia and Russia Ink Six New Deals, Embark on New ‘Petroleum Alliance’”

Political Vel Craft

China‘s Executions procedure:

The execution protocol is defined on the criminal procedure law, under article 212:[6]

Before a people’s court executes a death sentence, it shall notify the people’s procuratorate at the same level to send personnel to supervise the execution.
Death sentences shall be executed by means of shooting or injection.  

Continue reading “China Sentences 6 Bankers To Death For Looting.”

Person in a wheelchairThe Daily Sheeple

Did we just cross over into the Twilight Zone?

This is what our politically correct society has wrought.

Now we don’t just have men or women who want to be respected as the opposite sex, or white girls who want to be thought of as black girls because they feel they were born the wrong race, but we now have otherwise completely healthy people who feel inside as if they are really disabled people. Some have gone as far as to cut off their own limbs to really be the disabled person they feel they are inside (and get that handicapped parking tag).   Continue reading “Transgendered? Transracial? Now It’s the ‘Transabled’: Able-Bodied, Healthy People Who “Identify” as Disabled People”

Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York (Reuters / Chris Wattie)RT

A New York prison has prevented an escape involving 64 bed sheets in the course of conducting a lengthy investigation into contraband smuggling. Police also uncovered a corrupt “shopping network” deeply embedded in the facility.

The convict suspected of planning the escape, Ernest Murphy, fell victim to a cell inspection that took place after prison authorities dismantled a drug ring being run inside. He was awaiting trial at the Clinton maximum-security prison in Dannemora on a charge of attempted murder, but it looks like the wait was too long for him – enough to want to climb down 11 stories to make it to freedom, according to the AP.   Continue reading “64 tied bed sheets: NY jail uncovers daring escape plot”

EbolaThe Daily Sheeple

Just FYI, health officials in Virginia are currently monitoring 123 people for Ebola, up from 103 people earlier in the week.

ABC8 News is reporting that the majority of those being monitored reside in Northern Virginia; seven cases are in central Virginia.

This is 123 people in just one state.   Continue reading “Remember Ebola? The Virginia Department of Health Is Currently Monitoring 123 People for It”

Kris JacksonSacramento Bee – by Bill Lindelof

The man killed by a South Lake Tahoe police officer was not armed when shot at a motel earlier this week, according to a press release from the department.

Kris Jackson, 22, of Sacramento died Monday at a hospital following the shooting at the Tahoe Hacienda Inn, 3820 Lake Tahoe Blvd. The officer has told investigators that he “perceived a deadly threat from Kris Jackson” before firing a fatal shot, according to a press release.

Police provided a timeline summarizing dispatch records:   Continue reading “Timeline of police shooting of unarmed man in South Lake Tahoe”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

“I’m an amateur student of history and I’m reminded of … how Germany was testing the waters and what the response was by various other European powers… But unfortunately, up to the annexation of the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, the annexation of the entire country of Czechoslovakia, nobody said stop. If somebody said stop to Hitler at that point in time, or to Germany at that time, would we have avoided World War II.”

That piece of revisionist history is brought to you by Benigno Aquino and is excerpted from a speech the Philippine President gave to the Japanese parliament earlier this month.    Continue reading “China Completes Island Construction, Will Now Build Military Facilities”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a conference north of Tel Aviv, on June 9, 2015 (AFP photo).Press TV

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the international boycott campaign against the regime equals the sufferings imposed on the Jews during the Nazi rule in Germany.

“What was done to the Jewish people then is being done to” Israel now, he said on Monday in a meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna.   Continue reading “Israel PM compares boycott campaign with Nazi brutality”

Activist Post – by Heather Callaghan

Huntsville, Alabama says couple can’t live “off the grid,” condemned their property and threatens arrest for trespassing

“I just don’t see how we’re hurting anyone by being here,” said Tyler Truitt when asked about having to defend his off-grid lifestyle to city hall.   Continue reading “Alabama City Suing Couple to Get Back On The Grid, Threatens Arrest”

The shooting death of Carlos Perez by a NV Prison Guard Has Raised many QuestionsCop Block – by Kelly W. Patterson

A lawsuit filed in April by the family of a man killed when a corrections officer opened fire on two prisoners as they fought in a hallway leading from the showers claims that fight was intentionally orchestrated by guards in order to justify murdering the inmates. A second lawsuit filed by the other prisoner, who survived the shooting, but was gravely injured, adds allegations of a coverup by prison officials.

At the time of the fight, both inmates had their hands cuffed behind their back and seemingly could have easily been controlled by the three guards present, without the need for the use of a firearm. Instead, they were shot four times in the head and upper body with a shotgun. Both lawsuits maintain that the inmates did not represent a threat to the guards sufficient to justify being repeatedly shot.   Continue reading “Nevada Lawsuits Claim Prison Guards Instigated a Fight, then Shot Inmates”

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, speaks at the opening of the International Military-Technical Forum ARMY-2015 in the military-patriotic recreation park Patriot in Kubinka, Moscow Region. (RIA Novosti/Alexander Vilf)RT

Over 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles will be delivered to Russia’s strategic forces in 2015, President Vladimir Putin announced at the opening ceremony of the Army-2015 Expo, an international military forum held near Moscow.

“This year, our nuclear forces are going to get more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of penetrating all existing, even the most advanced missile defenses,” the Russian president said, adding that the state would persist in paying specific attention to realization of a massive military rearmament program and modernization of the defense industry, Putin said.   Continue reading “Putin: 40+ ICBMs targeted for 2015 nuclear force boost”

ABC News – by Lisa Cornwell

Shots were fired Sunday at Cleveland police officers in a foot chase of a suspect near the site of a boy’s fatal encounter with officers last year, police said.

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams told reporters Sunday afternoon that officers responded that morning to a report of six men waving guns and a man at the scene fled police when they tried to question him. The chief said the man pointed a gun at police and an officer fired four rounds without hitting the man, who continued running.   Continue reading “Shots fired at Cleveland police in foot chase of suspect”

Father Michael Pfleger scheming with fellow gun banner Rahm EmanuelAmmoland – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- On June 11 2015, gun banner Father Michael Pfleger said it is time to “ban high capacity magazines” and to “title guns like cars.”

According to Fox 32, Pfleger was speaking at St. George Catholic Church when he said, “We should ban assault weapons in America. We should ban high capacity magazines in America. We should title guns like cars in America.”   Continue reading “Crazy Father Pfleger: Ban ‘High Capacity Magazines’ & ‘Title Guns Like Cars’”

Huffington Post – by Russ Belville

This last election, a group of activists calling themselves New Approach Oregon wrote an initiative called Measure 91. Following the dictates of the Oregon Constitution, they got state approval for their marijuana legalization language, collected enough signatures, placed it on the ballot, and won with 56 percent of the statewide vote. Oregon passed marijuana legalization with the greatest level of support of any of the four states that have legalized so far.

But this weekend it was announced that the legislature will radically alter that statewide legalization in such a way that half the state of Oregon will still prohibit marijuana.   Continue reading “Oregon Legislature Hates Potheads More Than It Respects Democracy”

On the training range in CastaicThe Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

LA Times:

One sheriff’s deputy shot himself in the leg while pulling out his gun to confront a suspect.

Another accidentally fired a bullet in a restroom stall. A third deputy stumbled over a stroller in a closet as he was searching for a suspect, squeezing off a round that went through a wall and lodged in a piece of furniture in the next room. Continue reading “Police Officer Negligent Discharges”

pentagonAnti-Media – by Claire Bernish

When government is completely dysfunctional and seems not to serve the people’s interests, we have to wonder where our tax dollars are going. Thanks to a Reuters investigation by Scot Paltrow, we have an answer—or, rather, a non-answer. Apparently, the Pentagon has made use of $8.5 trillion of our tax money handed over by Congress since 1996—but don’t ask what was done with the money. The Department of Defense doesn’t have a clue.   Continue reading “The Pentagon Doesn’t Know What It Spent 8.5 Trillion Dollars On”

killer doctorFellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

13 years ago, in 2002, Belgium passed a law making “physician-assisted suicide” lawful, that is, instead of saving lives, it is part of a medical doctor’s job to end a patient’s life.

Since then, the country has acquired the decidedly dubious reputation of having the most liberal euthanasia law in the world. And even though Belgians are predominantly Roman Catholic, surveys show overwhelming support for the right to die by euthanasia.   Continue reading “Belgium’s culture of death: Thousands are euthanized without their consent”