The Hill – by Mike Lillis

House Democrats fighting for leverage in the GOP Congress are hoping they can empower an unlikely ally: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Democrats are outnumbered by more than 50 members – and have almost no power to bring bills to the floor.

But they see Boehner as a willing compromiser on must-pass legislation like funding the government and raising the debt ceiling – once the Speaker can convince his troops that the partisan route endorsed by his conservative wing has been denied.   Continue reading “Dems want to empower Boehner”

Washington’s Blog

Rampant Disinformation

NATO has announced that it is launching an “information war” against Russia.

The UK publicly announced a battalion of keyboard warriors to spread disinformation.

It’s well-documented that the West has long used false propaganda to sway public opinion.

Western military and intelligence services manipulate social media to counter criticism of Western policies.   Continue reading “That Moron Who Spews Garbage and Doesn’t Listen to Reason May Be a Bot”

comaCounter-Current News

A Florida police officer, 267-pound Trooper Daniel Cole, may have been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, but he is not off the hook with angry citizens.

Trooper Cole made headlines when he tasered a 20 year old handcuffed girl in the back as she fled. The tasering incident was caught on video showing officer Cole firing the taser at the handcuffed Danielle Maudsley, who was a mere 100 pounds.   Continue reading “Florida Cop Tasered Cuffed Girl Who Became Braindead As A Result, Now He’s Receiving Death Threats”

Hot Air – by Jazz Shaw

There really are no words.

Newly introduced legislation in the Ohio House would prohibit the manufacture, sale, or public display of toy guns designed to look like the real thing.

Under House Bill 119, authored by Democratic state Rep. Bill Patmon of Cleveland, the ban would apply to any BB gun or gun replica that a “reasonable person” would confuse with a real firearm. Continue reading “Ohio lawmaker seeks to ban fake guns”

Dianne Feinstein’s husband gets billion dollar government rail contractFire Andrea Mitchell

Richard Blum, the man who actually married the hag Diane Feinstein is getting a billion dollar government contract for the California ‘high-speed rail.’ I’m such it’s purely a coincidence that Blum is getting the government contract for his own company, over someone say, independent. I wouldn’t want to be seen with Diane Feinstein for all the money in the world, let alone sleep with her. Richard Blum must be a desperate, greedy ‘man.’

What a remarkable coincidence. A guy who was just handed $1 billion of other people’s money in the latest rail boondoggle happens to be married to someone we know:   Continue reading “Dianne Feinstein’s husband gets billion dollar government rail contract”

Channel News Asia – by Isil Sariyuce

ISTANBUL: Besides his flowers in Istanbul, Ahmed Al Shehabi also owns pistachio trees in Aleppo, 1,000km away in Northern Syria.

But his trees are dying. His fields, once abundant, are barren. Unfortunately, that is not all he has left behind. His mother, brother, nephews and nieces all remain in Syria too.   Continue reading “Drought is behind conflict in Syria, say researchers”

https://i0.wp.com/cdnph.upi.com/sv/em/i/UPI-5761426983095/2015/1/14269857693480/Fort-Lauderdale-police-officers-fired-for-racist-texts-video.jpg?resize=194%2C161UPI – by Fred Lambert

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 21 (UPI) — Three South Florida police officers were fired and a fourth resigned over the exchange of a “racially biased” video and messages, according to officials.

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department announced Friday the termination of Chris Sousa, James Wells and Jason Holding, as well as the resignation of Alex Alvarez.   Continue reading “Fort Lauderdale police officers fired for racist texts, video”

yemen-USAGlobal Research – by Joachim Hagopian

Oops! There goes another half billion dollars’ worth of war material lost to another enemy. This time in Yemen where until a few weeks ago President Obama could readily tout Yemen as the one foreign policy success story he could always hang his hat on. Yemen was the one place on this planet where Obama could avoid having to admit his foreign policy is not a total and abject failure. Yemen was where he could rationalize that his killer drone policy was actually working at keeping the enemy at bay. So what if most of the people killed by drones are innocent (over 96% by one recent analysis), many children and women that happened to get in the way. A little so called collateral damage never hurt the mighty US Empire’s warring ways.   Continue reading “Yemen: American Weapons Once More “Landed Up in the Wrong Hands”. Mistakenly in the Hands of Al Qaeda”

Fox News

The machete-wielding man who attacked two Transportation Security Agency workers at a New Orleans airport and was carrying a bag holding six Molotov cocktails has died, officials said.

Richard White, 63, was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon, according to officials.He was shot multiple times by an officer, police said.   Continue reading “Suspect in New Orleans airport machete attack dies; explosives found in bag”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

A family of three were coming through a Border Patrol station that was more than 50 miles inside the US border. Upon pulling up to a Border Patrol agent, the man was asked where he was going and in response the man said he didn’t have to answer the question, which is true under the law. Agents then pulled him from the vehicle and arrested him.

Understand that Border Patrol is an unconstitutional agency under the Executive Branch of the federal government. Our Constitution does not provide for a Border Patrol agency at all, much less one that is located away from the border.   Continue reading “Fourth Amendment Violated: US Citizen Detained & Arrested Over 50 Miles Inside Border by Border Patrol”

CoExist – by Adele Peters

Four years ago, Ron Finley was given an arrest warrant for planting carrots. Finley, who lives in South Central L.A., was tired of driving miles to find healthy food, so he’d planted a vegetable garden in the small strip of city-owned land between the sidewalk in front of his house and the street, an area he was required to maintain. The problem? The city required a $400 permit to use it as a garden, which Finley didn’t pay.

After some media coverage of the garden and a petition from community activists, the warrant was later revoked, and the project started to inspire more guerrilla gardening throughout the city. Now, L.A. has finally changed its policy: Under a new law, the city will allow free gardens next to sidewalks.   Continue reading “In L.A., Now You Can Use City Land For A Free Vegetable Garden”

Rick Perry speaking at the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)Raw Story – by Tom Dart, Guardian

The state bar of Texas has filed a formal misconduct accusation against the prosecutor who secured a conviction in one of the country’s most dubious and disputed death penalty cases.

Earlier this month the bar lodged a petition in Navarro County, near Dallas, alleging that John Jackson withheld evidence that pointed to the innocence of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in 2004 for the murder of his three young daughters, who died in a house fire in 1991.   Continue reading “Rick Perry executed an innocent dad after prosecutor hid evidence in kids’ arson deaths: Texas bar”

dcfailThe Daily Sheeple

This week, while testifying before a House panel about the Secret Service budget, the director of the Secret Service Joseph Clancy asked Congress to give his agency $8 MILLION DOLLARS to build a replica of the White House so the agents can have a “more realistic training experience.”

Via CBS:

Currently, Clancy told lawmakers their training is hampered by the lack of a good reproduction of the White House. He says training is now done in a parking lot but the parking lot doesn’t have the bushes and fountains as the White House grounds do.

Continue reading “The Secret Service Wants $8 Million to Build a Fake White House So They Can Protect the White House”

Yahoo News – by Ulises Zamarroni

Guadalajara (Mexico) (AFP) – A gang ambushed a federal police convoy in western Mexico, sparking a shootout that killed five officers, three suspects and two bystanders, authorities said Friday.

The attack took place late Thursday as the seven vehicles carrying paramilitary gendarmerie officers were on patrol in Ocotlan, Jalisco state, the federal police said in a statement.   Continue reading “Mexico ambush leaves 10 dead, including 5 federal police”