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(Reuters) – The police chief of a small south Texas town was shot dead during a traffic stop on Saturday, a county sheriff said.
Michael Pimentel died of multiple gunshot wounds suffered in a confrontation with a motorist shortly before noon in Elmendorf, a rural community of about 1,500 people just southeast of San Antonio, said Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau. Continue reading “Texas police chief shot dead during traffic stop”
August 22, 2014. Oak Park, IL. (ONN) Illinois Republicans went way too far in their desperate attempt to keep the Illinois Libertarian Party off the November ballot. Imagine your doorbell rings and two giant, threatening thugs with guns tell you you’ve committed a crime by signing the Libertarian Party’s ballot access petition. They then force you against your will to sign a document recanting your original petition signature. It happened across Illinois and it’s a Class 4 felony. Illinois Republicans may go to prison. And they may just lose what was going to be a landslide General Election over it.
Continue reading “Illinois GOP sends Armed Thugs to Libertarians Homes”
LA Times – by LEE ROMNEY, RYAN PARKER
Long rolling temblor pegged at 6.0 by the U.S. Geological Survey shook a wide swath of the Bay Area awake early Sunday.
Centered about nine miles south of wine country’s Napa at 3:20 a.m., the quake was felt as far south as Santa Cruz and into Sonoma County. It was the largest earthquake to strike the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta temblor of 1989, the USGS said. Continue reading “6.0 quake jolts Bay Area; outages, injuries reported”
AOL – by Steve Holland abd Andrea Shalal
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the distribution of military hardware to state and local police out of concern at how such equipment has been used during racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
The president ordered the examination of federal programs and funding that enable state and local law enforcement to purchase such equipment, a senior Obama administration official said on Saturday.
Images of police wielding military-style guns and armor have shocked many Americans following clashes that were triggered by the fatal shooting of a black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson two weeks ago. Continue reading “Obama orders review of U.S. police use of military hardware”
CARACAS, VENEZUELA – Venezuela’s food shortage is so bad the country is mandating that people scan their fingerprints at grocery stores in order to keep people from buying too much of a single item.
President Nicolas Maduro says a mandatory fingerprinting system is being implemented at grocery stores to combat food shortages. He calls it an “anti-fraud system” like the fingerprint scan the country uses for voting. Continue reading “Venezuela Will Begin Fingerprinting Grocery Shoppers To Control How Much Food They Buy”
– The U.S. and Brazilian governments are moving into the final stages of weighing approval for the commercialisation of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees, moves that would mark the first such permits anywhere in the world.
The Brazilian government is slated to start taking public comments on such a proposal during the first week of September. Similarly, U.S. regulators have been working on an environmental impact assessment since early last year, a highly anticipated draft of which is expected to be released any day. Continue reading “U.S., Brazil Nearing Approval of Genetically Engineered Trees”
Recent studies have shown that police are held almost completely unaccountable by the current systems of governmental oversight. Perhaps this is the reason why you are 9 times more likely to be killed by a law enforcement officer than a terrorist. Rather than wait for bloated bureaucracy or corrupt government to save the day, we as activists have to find our own solutions. Technology is one of these solutions.
As we have seen, the violent crackdown on independent journalism in Ferguson is a sign of a worsening situation in much of America. More than ever, each citizen needs to become a member of the media and record everything that they see during encounters with the police. Continue reading “New Anti Police State App Helps You “See Something, Say Something” in Real-Time”
“The suffering of people is all too real, but predators lay a grid of fake reality over it, and make billions of dollars—while they simultaneously avoid paying out billions of dollars as a result of law suits.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
“Muhammad Ali has ‘Parkinsonism?’ Nonsense. He has ‘Hit Too Many Times by Joe Frazier Damage.’ This isn’t a disease or a disorder.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
Let’s say there are a lot of people who take hammers and hit children over the head with them.
The connection between the hammer blows and the damage couldn’t be more obvious. Hammer-blow; skull; damage. Continue reading “Staged reality of the medical cartel”
At least 34 sailors are being kicked out of the Navy for their roles in a cheating ring that operated undetected for at least seven years at a nuclear power training site, and 10 others are under criminal investigation, the admiral in charge of the Navy’s nuclear reactors program told The Associated Press.
The number of accused and the duration of cheating are greater than was known when the Navy announced in February that it had discovered cheating on qualification exams by an estimated 20 to 30 sailors seeking to be certified as instructors at the nuclear training unit at Charleston, South Carolina. Students there are trained in nuclear reactor operations to prepare for service on any of the Navy’s 83 nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers. Continue reading “AP NewsBreak: Navy Kicks out 34 for Nuke Cheating”
We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
President Barack Obama.
Check this out from TheState.com Continue reading “The real militarization of police comes in joint exercises, not in gear.”
Freedom Outpost – by Fred DeRuvo
The immediate problem in Ferguson, MO has to do with the potential of martial law being called there. A few days ago, I thought, “well, that’s obviously what they want!” However, since then, I’ve paid attention to what leaders in the UN are saying and, as it turns out, I’m thinking martial law is only a step on the ladder. The final step may well be giving the UN permission to insert itself into the situation in Ferguson so that they will be able to call the shots with the Obama administration. I wrote about that and the article – Ultimate Gameplan: Obama Defers to United Nations to Remove America’s Sovereignty – on another site.
Fourteen former federal police officers have gone on trial on charges of using excessive force in a 2012 shooting attack that wounded two CIA agents, Mexico’s national security commissioner said Wednesday.
Monte Alejandro Rubido said there was no evidence the police officers had acted on orders from an organized crime gang, saying the attack on the diplomatic vehicle was a case of mistaken identity. Continue reading “Mexico: 14 Police on Trial for US SUV Shooting”
Here’s the translation of another article from La Voz de Houston. The original article in Spanish is at the end of the attachment. The EFIO are really pushing the “for the children” meme again.
Few: A large number of the Central American children, who have crossed the border into the United States alone, come fleeing extreme violence and expecting refuge in this country. However, of the tens of thousands who have arrived since October last year, only two children have [attained asylum]. The reason is that the process is complicated and requires very specific tests and a legal representative who can handle it. Continue reading “Border Crisis – What are the chances of getting asylum in the US?”
With no Instagram #selfie image or YouTube clip as proof (yet), The White House issued a statement proclaiming that today, in violation of its previous commitments and international law, Russian military vehicles painted to look like civilian trucks forced their way into Ukraine…and that Russia has no right to send vehicles, persons, or cargo of any kind into Ukraine, whether under the guise of humanitarian convoys or any other pretext, without the express permission of the government of Ukraine. Furthermore, the actions “only amplifies international concerns about Russia’s true intentions…for which it will bear additional consequences.” If that sternly-worded email was not enough, President Obam took time away from the course on Martha’s Vineyard to chat with Angela Merkel and then issued a joint statement somewhat sheepishly noting that this is “further provocation” and represents a “dangerous escalation.” Continue reading “White House Accuses Russia Of Painting Military Vehicles White; Merkel Agrees “Actions Represent Dangerous Escalation””
Yahoo News – by Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal
EDGARTOWN Mass./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the distribution of military hardware to state and local police out of concern at how such equipment has been used during racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
The president ordered the examination of federal programs and funding that enable state and local law enforcement to purchase such equipment, a senior Obama administration official said on Saturday.
Images of police wielding military-style guns and armor have shocked many Americans following clashes that were triggered by the fatal shooting of a black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson two weeks ago. Continue reading “Obama orders review of U.S. police use of military hardware”
Sears is an icon of American retail. It’s been around since 1893 and served as a staple for many consumers for much of that time. But in recent years, under the stewardship of CEO Eddie Lampert, it’s turned into a money pit. Today, it announced a quarterly loss of more than $500 million. Last quarter, it lost more than $400 million. And the long-running decline is accelerating. Continue reading “Sears has lost nearly $1 billion so far this year and it’s just getting started”
The Intercept – by By Ryan Gallagher
The U.S. military is banning and blocking employees from visiting The Intercept in an apparent effort to censor news reports that contain leaked government secrets.
According to multiple military sources, a notice has been circulated to units within the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps warning staff that they are prohibited from reading stories published by The Intercept on the grounds that they may contain classified information. The ban appears to apply to all employees—including those with top-secret security clearance—and is aimed at preventing classified information from being viewed on unclassified computer networks, even if it is freely available on the internet. Similar military-wide bans have been directed against news outlets in the past after leaks of classified information. Continue reading “U.S. Military Bans The Intercept”
A news broadcast from 1985, regarding Directed Energy Weapons, weather warfare, and space based weapons.
Specifically covering the fact (at the time during the 1980′s) the Soviets were far ahead of the United States in this new technology. Continue reading “1985 CNN Report on Radio Frequency (RF) Weapons + Weather Warfare”
Breaking a gun law in New York City will now bring shame and embarrassment as part of the punishment, if lawmakers get their way. New York City Council introduced the bill that could get people on a public registry, just as sex offenders can be found. The Public Safety Committee, as it has been referred to as, is still currently in the works. A gun-offender registry does already exist, but it is only accessible to members of the police force. Continue reading “Public Shaming For Gun Offenders In NYC?”
Yahoo News – by Kevin Murphy
Illinois Herald
Independent – by Robert Fisk
Fox News Latino
IPS – by Carey L. Biron
Activist Post
Jon Rappoport’s Blog – by 
ABC News – by Robert Burns
SNAFU! – by Solomon
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Quartz – by Max Nisen
Daily Motion
Concealed Nation – by Brandon