obeyThe Anti-Media – by Carey Wedler

In the midst of outrage against police brutality, cop apologists argue that to avoid police brutality, people should simply be obeying the law. This justification however, reveals itself as unwise at best (and flat out stupid at worst) when applied to previous laws in American history.

1. The Fugitive Slave Act- In times of slavery, the federal government attempted to pacify slave owners by passing the Fugitive Slave Act. The 1850 law mandated that even though slavery was banned in the North, if a Northern citizen (or government employee) happened upon escaped slaves from the South, they had to help return them to their owners. Escaped slaves were also denied a jury trial.   Continue reading “5 Times “Obeying the Law” in America was a Terrible Idea”

Vocativ – by Abigail Tracy

Hundreds of schools throughout Minnesota canceled classes on Wednesday for dangerously low temperatures. Yet a mighty, blistering windchill of more than 30 degrees below zero did not impress all districts. The superintendent of one such district who kept the doors to his schools open got himself well and truly trolled for his bold executive decision.

Superintendent Jay Haugen of the Farmington school district called the weather on Wednesday morning “cold but not unusual,” reported local media outlet the Farmington Independent (keep in mind that experts say it takes only 10 to 20 minutes for skin exposed to those temperatures to develop frostbite).   Continue reading “Negative 30 Degrees? Sorry, You’re Still Going To School”

Cops handcuff and interrogate boy, 7, for hours over missing $5: familyNew York Post – by Douglas Montero

This kid was no killer — but some callous Bronx cops sure treated him like one.

Instead of earning himself a simple trip to the principal’s office, a terrified 7-year-old boy was hauled out of class, handcuffed like a hardened criminal and “interrogated” by police for a grueling 10 hours — all over a playground dispute involving $5, his family is charging.   Continue reading “Cops handcuff and interrogate boy, 7, for hours over missing $5: family”

abc_paris_gunmen_lf_150107_16x9_992RINF – by Tony Gosling

Also of course on the question of free speech vs. hate crimes – would we be happy for Charlie Hebdo to lampoon Jewish people and gypsies as the Nazis did?

The whole point of satire it sees to me is to ring down the powerful – not the product of NATO’s Operation Cyclone and those Syrian and Libyan ‘rebels’ indoctrinated by Saudi Arabian Wahabi cash and trained by NATO special forces.   Continue reading “Paris Charlie Hebdo attack has at least 3 NATO Operation Gladio signatures”

Cuban students march in a Havana street after Washington released three Cuban spies (file photo)Press TV

The US State Department has announced that Cuban authorities have released some of nearly 53 political prisoners on Washington’s list.

The department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said on Tuesday that the US government wanted to see the release of all those on its list of political activists held by Havana but refused to elaborate on the identity of those freed so far.   Continue reading “Cuba releases political inmates on US list: Psaki”

Fox_News_ChannelRINF – by Eric Zeusse

Because of the ample video and other evidence that the Ukrainian Government is pursuing an ethnic-cleansing policy to get rid of the residents in the area of Ukraine that had voted 90% for the Democratically elected Ukrainian President that Obama’s State Department and CIA overthrew on 22 February 2014, Western ‘news’ media have had difficulty fooling their audiences into the idea that the regime that Obama installed in late February to take over the country is not racist-fascist, otherwise known as nazi, in its character and policies. Continue reading “Tricks Western ‘News’ Media Use to Deceive about Ukraine’s War”

Screenshot 2015-01-06 12.47.19The Federalist Papers – by Deborah Bell

It’s not enough that 1.4 million California illegal immigrants can get a legitimate driver’s license there. Now the state’s taxpayers are going to subsidize their car insurance at $38 a month – rates far lower than what an American citizen could find from a private insurer.

The California Department of Insurance (CDI) is trying to entice illegals, who just received their state-issued licenses under the AB 60 law that granted them that right, to take advantage of the cheap California-backed auto insurance policies, according to a South California Public Radio (SCPR.org) article.   Continue reading “California Taxpayers will be Subsidizing Cheap Auto Insurance for Illegals”

Buzz Feed – by Sheera Frenkel

TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicked off his re-election campaign Monday night with all the fanfare expected of the second longest serving PM in the country’s history.

The darkened room with flashing lights and pumping techno music looked more like a club than a political event, and Likud Party activists danced with the assurance that their party leader would, once again, be prime minister.   Continue reading “These Three American Families Are Funding Half Of Netanyahu’s Re-Election Bid”

Aljazeera – by Ned Resnikoff

As the U.S. Senate convened Tuesday for the first time since November’s election, its new Republican majority lost no time in making another bid to approve construction of the disputed Keystone XL pipeline project. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D. proposed legislation that would authorize the project which has become the focus of a major political showdown, while President Barack Obama reiterated his intention to veto such a bill should it reach his desk.   Continue reading “Keystone battle looms as GOP pushes bill, Obama responds with veto threat”

Fox News – by Serafin Gómez

Jeb Bush plans to file paperwork on Tuesday to launch a new organization allowing him to raise and spend money for political activities, in the former Florida governor’s most direct step yet toward a 2016 presidential bid.

The new leadership political action committee will be called the Right to Rise PAC.    Continue reading “Jeb Bush filing paperwork Tuesday for new PAC, in big step toward 2016 bid”

CNN – by Jeremy Diamond

Washington (CNN)Sen. Harry Reid didn’t head to work for his first day back as Senate minority leader, days after he suffered a bone-breaking fall.

Reid was working from home on Tuesday per doctors’ orders, and a picture from his Twitter account showed him meeting with his leadership team at his home in Washington on Tuesday morning. The No. 2 Senate Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois will assume Reid’s duties as minority leader on the Senate floor until he can return to the halls of Congress, Reid and Durbin’s spokesmen confirmed.   Continue reading “With horrible black eye, Harry Reid working from home”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

It only took two days before the anti-gun American bureaucracy began chipping away at the Second Amendment in areas where Congress and the President, despite being backed by billion dollar NGOs and Foundations, have so far been unsuccessful.

On January 2, 2015, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) issued its ruling regarding “whether Federal Firearms Licensees (FFL), or unlicensed machine shops, may engage in the business of completing, or assisting in the completion of, the manufacture of firearm frames or receivers for unlicensed individuals without being licensed as a manufacturer of firearms.”   Continue reading “BATFE Ruling Creates New Hurdle To Private Gun Manufacture”

debt-slaveryShare Everything – by RASHA B. FODA

Everybody, especially our [s]elected officials, talk about how freedom isn’t free.

The desired implication, of course, is that ‘we [working] people’ must sacrifice our lives to maintain it. But, did you ever ask yourself why?

If people are ‘born free’, then why must we fight to remain free? More importantly, exactly WHO or WHAT are we supposed to be fighting?   Continue reading “Why “Freedom” Isn’t ‘Free’”

21st Century Wire

Critically acclaimed director Oliver Stone made headlines this past week by characterizing the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 as a “surreal perversion of history.” The well-known director took to his facebook page following a 4-hour interview with deposed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, for an upcoming documentary…

Over the years, Stone has become a critical voice and has become very outspoken about US foreign policy objectives. Stone asserted as much during his recent interview with with former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich: Continue reading “DIRTY PLOT: Ukrainian Crisis Had ‘Outside Agitators’ Says Oliver Stone – As Czech Returns NATO Medals”