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Continue reading “20 Dead After Israeli Warplanes Reportedly Attack Iranian Military Base In Syria”
The substance used on Sergei Skripal was an agent called BZ, according to Swiss state Spiez lab, the Russian foreign minister said. The toxin was never produced in Russia, but was in service in the US, UK, and other NATO states.
Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with an incapacitating toxin known as 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate or BZ, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, citing the results of the examination conducted by a Swiss chemical lab that worked with the samples that London handed over to the Organisation for the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Continue reading “Lavrov: Swiss lab says ‘BZ toxin’ used in Salisbury, not produced in Russia, was in US & UK service”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
Lakeland, FL – Cellphone footage has been released from bystanders who witnessed police officers repeatedly punching and hitting a homeless man while holding him down on the ground under a bridge.
The resulting outrage on social media has forced the Lakeland Police Department to respond to allegations that its officers beat up a homeless man in an epic display of excessive force. Continue reading “Residents Outraged As Video Shows Cops Hold Homeless Man Down, Savagely Beat Him”
A federal judge sentenced a Jamaican man with a lengthy history of criminal convictions and deportations to more than 12 years in prison following his conviction for aggravated illegal re-entry. The sentence follows the man’s conviction in a New York court for attempted murder of a police officer.
A federal court judge in New York sentenced Ronald Greenland, 55, to 151 months in federal custody. Of that, 100 months of the sentence is ordered to be served consecutively to his recent sentence from a New York state court. The state court sentenced Greenland to 40 years to life following his conviction for attempting to kill a police officer, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Continue reading “Jamaican Gets 12 Years for Illegal Re-Entry and 40-to-Life for Attempted Cop Killing”
To protect their students from mass-shooters, a Pennsylvania school district spent $1,800 to arm all 500 of its teachers with a tiny, 16-inch baseball bat.
“It is the last resort,” Millcreek Schools Superintendent William Hall told CBS, “but it is an option and something we want people to be aware of.”
Hall admits the bats are primarily “symbolic,” but that they were handed out in reaction to the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting. Continue reading “School Arms Teachers with Tiny Baseball Bats to Defend Against Mass Shooters”
Just days after the US deployed its Truman Carrier Strike Group (and 7 warships) to The Mediterranean, The Pentagon reports that
the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston Churchill entered the Navy’s area of operations that includes the Mediterranean as tensions remains high over a possible military strike against Syria.
The Winston S. Churchill departed Naval Station Norfolk April 5, 2018, for what The Pentagon stresses was “a routine deployment.” Continue reading “A Second US Tomahawk-Capable Destroyer Enters The Mediterranean”
As the blame game over the alleged chemical attack in Syria escalates ahead of what is expected to be an imminent, if contained, air strike campaign by the US, UK and/or France against Syria, on Friday morning, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow had “irrefutable evidence” that the attack – which allegedly killed more than 40 people in an April 7 chemical weapons strike on the former rebel outpost of Douma -was staged with the help of a foreign secret service. Continue reading “Russia Has “Irrefutable Evidence” UK Staged Syrian Chemical Attack”
A Palestinian is dead and more than 150, including a Red Crescent volunteer, have been injured at protests at the Gaza border. The Great Return March has now seen 35 Palestinians killed and more than 1,000 wounded by Israeli fire.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society reports that 153 people have been injured, with 63 of those hit by live ammunition. Fifty-nine have been treated for tear gas inhalation, and 24 hit directly by tear gas canisters. Seven people have also been wounded by shrapnel. A Red Crescent volunteer was shot in the knee in Rafah. Continue reading “1 dead, more than 150 injured as IDF fires on Palestinians at #GreatReturnMarch”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Laredo, TX — A decorated 9-year veteran of the US border Patrol—who’d recently been promoted—was arrested on two counts of capital murder this week after a woman and her one-year-old son were found dead.
On Monday, Officer Ronald Anthony Burgos Aviles, who is now in custody, called 911 claiming to have found the bodies of 27-year-old Grizelda Hernandez and Dominick Alexander Hernandez near a park along the border with Mexico. Continue reading “Border Patrol Supervisor Arrested for Allegedly Beating a Mom and Her Infant Son to Death”
Russia-24 (Россия-24), a state-owned Russian-language news channel from Moscow, spent five minutes on Tuesday advising its viewers how to prepare for a nuclear war amid the increasing tensions with the United States over Syria. The television anchor urged the country’s citizens to purchase essential items and emergency supplies to stock their bomb shelters. Continue reading “Russian TV Instructs Citizens How To Prepare Bomb Shelters For Nuclear War”
Echoing findings by UK government scientist Gary Aitkenhead, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Thursday that its investigators had “confirmed the findings of the UK relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in Salisbury”
Effectively the lab confirmed that the military grade nerve agent used to poison Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal during an attack which reportedly took place at a public shopping center was, in fact, Novichok – a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union, even if the OPCW did not explicitly name it. But crucially, like the scientists at Porton Down, the OPCW was unable to identify the origins of the nerve agent, per the Associated Press. Continue reading “Chemical Weapons Watchdog Can’t Identify Source Of Nerve Agent Used In Skripal Attack”
Common Dreams – by Jake Johnson
With America’s major corporate cable outlets—particularly so-called liberal networks like MSNBC—continuing to uncritically provide generals and lawmakers a massive platform to beat the drums of war as President Donald Trump inches closer to launching a military attack on Syria, critics have concluded that the U.S. media has clearly learned nothing from the crucial role it played in cheerleading for the Bush administration’s catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003. Continue reading “Showing They ‘Learned Nothing’ From Iraq, Corporate Media Help Beat War Drums for Trump Attack on Syria”
Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos
Washington, D.C. – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looked uneasy as he gave testimony for five hours on Tuesday before 44 U.S. Senators. Wednesday, he appeared before before 55 members of the House of Representative regarding the role of Facebook and to how the company can address consumer data-privacy concerns in the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal. Continue reading “9 Questions Mark Zuckerberg Strangely Couldn’t Answer During His Senate Hearing”
Update: The Russian warships leaving port has been reported as a drill, as InterFax reports:
Russian Navy ships, starting from April 11, will conduct exercises near the coast of Syria, follow from the international notification for aviation personnel (NOTAM) and navigational warning for seafarers.
Continue reading “11 Russian Warships Leave Syrian Port To Conduct Exercises”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is temporarily shutting down a taxpayer-funded advice service for the huge numbers of illegal migrants who drive down blue-collar wages throughout the United States, according to the Washington Post.
The program, dubbed the Legal Orientation Program, paid various left-wing groups to provide immigration-court advice to migrants, according to the Washington Post. The program helped roughly 53,000 migrants during 2017, the Post said. Continue reading “Report: AG Sessions Freezes Aid Program for Illegal Migrants”
After they launched a lethal strike (from Lebanese airspace, no less) against the T-4 airforce base in Syria in retaliation for the a chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held Syrian village – killing several Iranians in the process – senior Israeli officials have finally confirmed what many have long assumed since the country started escalating its military operations within the borders of its crumbling Levantine neighbor. Continue reading “Israel Vows To “Wipe Assad Off The Map” If Iran Launches An Attack From Syrian Territory”
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood worked an area of California with a higher-than-average number of police killings. Youngblood has said that that’s because “financially” it’s better to kill a suspect than it is to wound them and pay for their medical care for life.
Officers have said before that the county force, labeled “America’s deadliest police,” was “in desperate need of positive changes.” Continue reading “Sheriff: It’s ‘Better Financially’ To Kill Suspects Than It Is To Wound Them”
Truth in Media – by Jay Syrmopoulos
Washington, D.C. – West Virginia Congressman Alex Mooney recently proposed legislation “to define the dollar as a fixed weight of gold.” Mooney harshly criticized U.S. monetary policy, citing the 96 percent loss since “the end of the gold standard in 1913,” which in real life terms means that means a dollar in 1913 would now be only be worth .04 cents.
“The United States dollar has lost 30 percent of its purchasing power since 2000, and 96 percent of its purchasing power since the end of the gold standard in 1913. Under the Federal Reserve’s two percent inflation objective, the dollar loses half of its purchasing power every generation, or 35 years,” the bill stated. Continue reading “Congressman Proposes Bill to Return to Pre-1913 Gold-Backed US Dollar”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Gloucester Township, PA — Body camera footage of a Gloucester Township police officer was recently released which captured the disturbing assault of a small 13-year-old girl by a massive cop. The attack was so deeply troubling that the officer has actually been suspended and subsequently charged—after his own cops turned on him.
The incident began on March 8 and was captured on another officer’s body camera. It shows Gloucester Township police officer John Flinn repeatedly punching and attempting to choke a small 13-year-old girl as he places her in handcuffs. Continue reading “Video of Cop Beating 13-Year-Old Girl So Horrific, His Own Cops Turned Him In”
BEIRUT/NEW YORK (Reuters) – International chemical weapons experts will go to the Syrian town of Douma to investigate an alleged poison gas attack, their organisation said on Tuesday, as the United States and other Western powers consider taking military action over the incident.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday warned of a quick, forceful response once responsibility for the attack was established. The White House said Trump now will not travel on Friday to the Summit of the Americas in Peru so that he can focus on the crisis. Continue reading “International experts to inspect attack site in Syria as U.S. ponders response”