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Just 12 hours after the Santa Fe High School shooting in Houston, Texas, with 10 dead and 10 wounded, there was another school shooting at 8:45 p.m.
This time it was at the graduation ceremony of Mount Zion High School in Atlanta, Georgia. Continue reading “Yet another school shooting: Atlanta Mt. Zion High School; 1 dead”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Cincinnati, OH — A Cincinnati cop is actually being held accountable this week after a disturbing video showed him shove an elderly man so hard that he smashed his face on a concrete bench and broke his hip.
On Thursday, former Hamilton County sheriff’s deputy Jason Mize was arrested after he was federally indicted on a charge of deprivation of rights under the color of law. The now-former deputy was seen on video attacking 61-year-old Mark Myers, who was only in jail after being falsely accused of a crime. Continue reading “Cop Arrested for Shoving Innocent Elderly Man into Concrete Wall, Breaking His Face and Hip”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Last month, The Free Thought Project reported that thousands of Google employees were speaking out about the company’s close relationship with the Pentagon, and their involvement in the business of war.
Initially, 3,100 Google employees signed a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, demanding that the company cancel an ongoing contract with the Pentagon that supported a drone program called “Project Maven.” As expected, Google has not backed down, and at least a dozen of the employees who signed the letter are now resigning from the company in protest. Continue reading “Google Employees Now Quitting As Company Joins Pentagon, Becomes Part of the War Machine”
The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) just issued a stunning rebuke to Israel, voting through a resolution calling on the council to “urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry… to investigate all alleged violations and abuses… in the context of the military assaults on large scale civilian protests that began on 30 March 2018,” while the UN human rights chief slammed Israel’s “wholly disproportionate response.”
The UN’s top human rights body passed the resolution with 29 votes in favor, two opposed and 14 abstentions. Continue reading “In Stunning Rebuke, UN Votes To Investigate Israel For Gaza Mass Shootings”
Lebanon High School was put under lockdown Friday, and all other schools in the small Linn County city were on lockout, according to the local school district.
Police said in a brief statement that no shooting had been reported. The school district said there was “a reported threat,” and police said the suspect was found outside of the school. Continue reading “Lebanon High put on lockdown, other schools put on lockout after ‘reported threat’”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Las Vegas, NV — In their sixth citizen shooting of 2018, Las Vegas police have shot a young woman for holding a shovel. LVMPD officer Ondre Wills is now on paid administrative leave after dumping seven rounds into Sommer Richards, 34, as she turned to walk away from him.
According to police, they were called to the area because the tiny 120 lb woman was either intoxicated or mentally ill and threatening neighbors with a broom and a skillet. When police arrived, they saw her holding a shovel. Continue reading “Cop Dumps 7 Rounds into Tiny Woman As She Walked Away from Him Holding a Shovel”
Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville
Ever since the Israeli-Syrian skirmish (falsely reported as an Israeli-Iranian clash in Syria by the mainstream press), questions have been circulating about what this means for Syria, Israel, Iran and the region, even the rest of the world. Was the retaliation by Syria all that was needed to finally make Israel understand that there might be consequences for its actions? Is this the beginning of a wider war between the two? What will be the response of the United States? The response of Russia? Continue reading “Russia’s Relationship With Israel And The S-300 Controversy”
San Antonio Police officers may have averted a mass-shooting at a state mental health hospital after an employee allegedly entered the facility while armed. The employee also reportedly had a “hit list” in his possession, along with a journal.
Officials with the San Antonio State Hospital called police after an employee reported seeing a weapon in another employee’s bag. The employees also said the man made what they interpreted as threatening comments, Fox29 San Antonio reported. Continue reading “Police Avert Possible Mass-Shooting at Texas Mental Hospital”
The CIA has a new boss, and for the first time, it’s a woman.
On Thursday afternoon, despite vocal opposition from many senators over her involvement in the Bush-era “enhanced interrogation”, i.e. torture, programs, the Senate confirmed Gina Haspel in a 54-45 vote as the next head of the CIA. Continue reading “Senate Confirms Gina Haspel To Head CIA”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a meeting with the Syrian leader Bashar Assad in Sochi, the acting presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. The two leaders conducted “extensive” negotiations, he added.
As the two presidents talked about the conditions that would facilitate the peace process development, the Syrian leader said that he had decided to send a delegation to a committee tasked to rewrite Syria’s constitution, which was championed by the UN. Continue reading “Putin & Assad hold ‘extensive’ talks in Sochi, discuss political settlement – Kremlin”
Apple CEO Tim Cook used part of his commencement speech at Duke University to praise student gun control activists from Parkland while deriding what he called an “epidemic of gun violence.”
Bloomberg reported that Cook called on the Duke graduates to be “fearless.” He emphasized it by saying, “Fearless like the students of Parkland, Florida, who refuse to be silent about the epidemic of gun violence and have rallied millions to their cause.”
Continue reading “Apple CEO Uses Commencement Speech to Praise Student Gun Control Activists”
The US has demanded North Korea ship some of its nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles out of the country within half a year, according to Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper, citing sources familiar with the talks.
Over the course of behind-the-scenes negotiations between the US and North Korea, the American side has told Pyongyang it expects it to get rid of some of its nuclear arsenal within six months, according to a report that emerged on Thursday. Continue reading “US demanded N. Korea ship ‘some’ nukes & missiles abroad within 6 months – Asahi”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
Newark, Delaware – Police officers are being criticized for their response to a call about two stray dogs, and the concerned citizen who called animal control to ask for help is saying that the officers’ actions were actually what she hoped she could save the dogs from.
Leigh Spencer told Fox 29 that she was horrified when she witnessed the officers intentionally trying to run over over the dogs with their patrol cars. “I was the one that called Animal Control, and this was the outcome,” she said. Continue reading “Woman Calls for Help to Catch Two Dogs, Cops Respond by Running Over, Shooting Them”
Federal officials are closing a little-known loophole in immigration law which allows millions of foreigners to dodge penalties for overstaying their student or seasonal-work visas.
The prior 1997 rules did not start counting the length of a person’s overstay until a federal enforcement agency first formally recognized that the person had not gone home on time. Continue reading “DHS Shuts Big Loophole to Deter Illegal-Immigrant Students, Workers”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday unveiled a new national strategy for addressing the growing number of cyber security risks as it works to assess them and reduce vulnerabilities.
“The cyber threat landscape is shifting in real-time, and we have reached a historic turning point,” DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement. “It is clear that our cyber adversaries can now threaten the very fabric of our republic itself.” Continue reading “Homeland Security unveils new cyber security strategy amid threats”
Israel has told Turkey’s consul to leave the Jewish state, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. It comes after Ankara ordered Israel’s ambassador out of Turkey over the violence in Gaza.
A spokesman for the ministry said the consul had been summoned and was told to return to Turkey “for consultations for a period of time,” Reuters reported. Continue reading “Israel tells Turkish consul to leave country in tit-for-tat move”
Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr Eowyn
The New York Daily News reports that on April 18, 2018, New York governor Andrew Cuomo warned banks and insurers to stay away from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the gun industry because of the “reputational risk” they will incur if they do business with either.
NY Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo issued a press release with a direct quote from Cuomo: Continue reading “NY governor Cuomo goes after NRA; gun manufacturer Hornady fights back”
Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins
The death toll in Gaza increased dramatically on Monday as Israeli Defense Forces opened fire on thousands of Palestinian civilians, killing 41 and injuring at least 1,700, and the United States’ response served as a reminder that if the governments in Iran, Syria, North Korea or Russia had done the same thing, the U.S. would be calling for a full-scale invasion right now.
It is hypocrisy at its finest, especially considering the fact that the U.S. has a history of cheering on and aiding protests against foreign governments. In fact, when the mainstream media began sharing reports of protests in Iran in December 2017, President Trump took to Twitter to cheer on the dissidents. Continue reading “If Any Other Country Was Shooting Civilians Like Israel, The US Would’ve Invaded By Now”
(CD) — Further demonstrating the willingness of the U.S. to reward and perpetuate the war crimes of its allies, the Trump administration is reportedly moving ahead with a multi-billion-dollar sale of so-called “smart bombs” to Saudi Arabia just weeks after the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition bombed a wedding in Yemen, killing more than 20 people.
First reported by The Intercept‘s Alex Emmons on Friday, the precise details of the deal—which also includes weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates—are not entirely unclear as it is in the preliminary stages, “but it is said to include tens of thousands of precision-guided munitions from Raytheon,” the company that helped produce weaponry used in the deadly wedding airstrike last month. Continue reading “As Civilian Deaths in Yemen Mount, US to Sell Saudi Arabia Billions More in Bombs”
School officials at Jepsen Magnet School in New Haven, Connecticut, called police on a student who made a gun out of Legos, then pointed it at other students.
Fox 61 reports that Will Clark, COO of New Haven Public Schools, defended the school’s reaction to the construction of a Lego gun. He said: Continue reading “School Calls Police on Student Who Made Gun with Legos”