Now, apparently, the outrage by both left and right against the police militarization is being spun by the Washington Post as a way to unite behind Rand Paul.

Washington Post – by Dan Balz

The killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., has produced a rare and surprisingly unified response across the ideological spectrum, with Republicans and Democrats joining to decry the tactics of the city’s police force in the face of escalating protests. Continue reading “Libertarians make their voices heard on police in Ferguson, Mo.”

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Thousands of people in New York rallied in solidarity with residents of Ferguson on Thursday, showing support to people across the US who have been victims of police brutality. The NYPD threatened mass arrests if people did not stop blocking traffic.

The New York City Police Department has arrested at least four people during a peaceful rally intended to pay tribute to Michael Brown and others who have suffered from police brutality.   Continue reading “NYPD threatens mass arrests at Ferguson solidarity rally”

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Police Violence In Ferguson, Missouri:  The Big Picture

As you may have heard, police and Swat teams in Ferguson, Missouri have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, and outlawed peaceful assembly.

Police are also using stun grenades and ear-damaging military sound cannons against peaceful protesters.   Continue reading “U.S. and Israeli Military Tactics Used Against American Citizens … Gazans Tweet Tips to Help AMERICANS On How to Handle Tear Gas”

Breitbart – by JON FLEISCHMAN

If you like Obamacare, you’re going to love Proposition 45, the ballot initiative that would give one politician– liberal Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones–complete authority over health care costs and benefits for individuals and small businesses in California.

Worse, the trial lawyers who fund Jones’s campaigns wrote Prop 45 to help them make more money from frivolous lawsuits. When liberal politicians and trial lawyers conspire to change laws to benefit themselves, you can bet that taxpayers will get the short end of the stick.   Continue reading “Prop 45: CA Doubles Down On Obamacare With New ‘Health Care Czar’”

Notice how Perry in his speech never mentions anything about the National Guard arresting or fighting the invaders coming across the border. All that’s stated is to have them assist the Border Patrol and police and to protect them from the drug cartels. So in other words, assist in babysitting and expediting the processing and transfer of the illegal invaders.

Breitbart – by Bob Price

HOUSTON, Texas — Texas Governor Rick Perry addressed a small group of about 100 soldiers of the Texas National Guard who are undergoing training at Camp Swift prior to being deployed to the Texas/Mexico Border. Gov. Perry had asked for 1,000 troops to volunteer for the deployment to defend a portion of the Texas border but was happy to announce that 2,200 Guardsmen had volunteered to serve the Lone Star State.   Continue reading “Governor Perry’s Address to the Deploying National Guardsmen”

AOL

When Dan Marino was 14, his family drove through Jackson, Wyoming on a summer road trip. “We came in through Togwotee Pass in the north,” he remembers. “I saw the Snow King ski resort, and I tapped my mom on the shoulder and said, ‘I’m moving here.’ ”

He never said another word about that daydream until he graduated from high school. That’s when he loaded up his 1966 Mustang with everything he owned. “My mom said, ‘Where on earth are you going?’ I said, ‘Jackson Hole,’ and I never looked back,” says Marino, now 53.   Continue reading “Jackson Hole Buffalo Meat Co.: From Daydream to Dream Job”

tiffHuffington Post – by Paige Lavender

Tiffany Mitchell, a woman who says she witnessed a police officer shoot and killMichael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, shared her story during an appearance on CNN with her attorney Wednesday night.

Mitchell said she was driving when she saw Brown trying to pull away from an officer as the two were “tussling through a window.” She said she had hoped to get a video because the incident “just didn’t look right,” but failed to get her camera out in time.   Continue reading “Tiffany Mitchell On Witnessing Michael Brown Shooting: Police ‘Showed No Kind Of Remorse’”

(File Photo/Daily Press)Huffington Post – by Simon McCormack

A father of five died after he was involved in an altercation with deputies who suspected him of burglary.

The Victorville Daily Press reports that Dante Parker, 36, was suspected of attempting to burglarize a Victorville home on Tuesday afternoon.

The person who reported the burglary said the suspect fled on a bicycle and, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s office, Parker was seen riding his bike near the scene.   Continue reading “Dad Dies After Deputies Hit Him With Taser”

Cop and K9Lew Rockwell – by William Norman Grigg

During a less-than-demanding interview with Fox News coiffure model Sean Hannity, Chief Thomas Jackson of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department blamed “a lot of outside agitators” for the looting and other violence that has spun off from protests over the killing of Michael Brown. Neither Hannity nor Ferguson mentioned the role of influences outside of Ferguson or the State of Missouri in facilitating the hyper-aggressive violence of the town’s police department.   Continue reading ““Outside Agitators” in Ferguson”

Yahoo News – by Liz Goodwin

Police officers responding to protests in a St. Louis suburb Wednesday night were outfitted in fatigues, wore gas masks and body armor, carried military-style rifles, and were backed by tanklike armored vehicles as they sought to clear the streets.

Tear gas, smoke bomb explosions and the pop-pop-pop of nonlethal projectiles added to the picture, as photographs and video from Ferguson, Missouri, depicted a scene more reminiscent of a war zone than a civil rights protest against the police shooting Saturday of an unarmed teen in the largely low-income Midwestern town of about 20,000 people.    Continue reading “Why do Ferguson’s police officers look like soldiers?”

Reminder: You Have a Right to Record the PoliceYahoo News – by T.C. Sottek, The Verge

A suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, has been under a dramatic siege since Saturday, when a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. In the wake of the killing, protests have engulfed the community — drawing a heavy-handed police crackdown with St. Louis County police officers armed with assault weapons andoutfitted with military equipment. Many of the striking images have come from reporters on the front lines, but also from citizens and their smartphones.

Continue reading “Reminder: You Have a Right to Record the Police”

View image on TwitterTech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

We’ve been debating internally whether or not to cover the mess that is currently going on in Ferguson, Missouri. There has been plenty of attention paid to the protests and the failures by police there — and we frequently cover problems with police, as well as the militarization of police, which was absolutely on display in Ferguson (if you’ve been under a rock, police killed an unarmed teenager there last week, leading to protests over the past few days — and the police have been handling the situation… poorly, to say the least). Continue reading “SWAT Team Shows Up In Ferguson, Detains Reporters Live Tweeting Their Actions”

hawaiiteen.jpgYou know it just leaves me with a deer in the headlights look on my face when I see ignorance of this magnitude. All I could think of to say was uh really.

Fox News

Probably the first rule of committing armed robbery, don’t post yourself with the cash you stole on your social media account.

But that’s exactly what Marcus Kalani Watson and Rogussia Eddie Allen Danielson did, according to an Aug. 11 FBI affidavit made public Aug. 12.   Continue reading “Alleged Hawaii bank robbers post pictures of themselves with cash on Facebook”

Breitbart – by Noah Dulis

In the upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield Hardline, players will shoot and kill racist anti-government Tea Party types, Gadsden flag and all.

Gamers got their first look at Battlefield Hardline’s singleplayer campaign, from developer Visceral Games and publisher Electronic Arts, at the Gamescom gaming convention in Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday, but the reveal included an unexpected partisan shot across the bow of conservative gamers. The Battlefield series, created by Swedish development studio DICE, has been largely apolitical since its first installment was released in 2002, but that appears to have changed with Visceral Games taking the lead on the latest release.   Continue reading “Gamescom: Shoot Racist Tea Partiers in ‘Battlefield Hardline’”

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Reuters / Jason Reed)RT

Israel derailed the Obama administration’s attempts to mediate the Gaza crisis by striking an arms deal with the Pentagon and using leverage on the Congress, the WSJ reported. The relations are now at a low and the quarrel is personal.

The strain between the White House and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet has left the US in a position of an observer rather than active mediator, as Egypt leads the effort brokering ceasefire deals between Israel and Hamas, reports the Wall Street Journal.   Continue reading “‘Blindsided’: Israel uses US DoD, Congress ties to sideline White House on Gaza – report”

Mail.com

PLACITAS, N.M. (AP) — For decades, free-ranging horses have roamed this mountain village in New Mexico, galloping on residents’ property, dashing along roads and attracting tourists and wildlife fans hoping to catch a glimpse.

Their presence has long defined Placitas. But the horses are now drawing the ire of some residents who say their growing numbers are hurting the delicate desert landscape because they eat what little vegetation there is amid an ongoing drought.    Continue reading “Feral horse fight brewing in New Mexico village”

Mail.com

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — One of the main reservoirs in the vast Colorado River water system that is struggling to serve the booming Southwest will get more water this year, but that won’t be enough to pull Lake Mead back from near-record lows.

Water managers, farmers and cities throughout the region have been closely watching the elevation at the reservoir behind Hoover Dam. It is at its lowest level since the dam was complete and the lake first was filled in the 1930s.   Continue reading “More water headed to struggling Lake Mead”

Featured photo - The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of FergusonThe Intercept – by Glenn Greenwald

The intensive militarization of America’s police forces is a serious menace about which a small number of people have been loudly warning for years, with little attention or traction. In a 2007 paper on “the blurring distinctions between the police and military institutions and between war and law enforcement,” the criminal justice professor Peter Kraska defined “police militarization” as “the process whereby civilian police increasingly draw from, and pattern themselves around, the tenets of militarism and the military model.”

The harrowing events of the last week in Ferguson, Missouri – the fatal police shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager, Mike Brown, and the blatantly excessive and thuggish response to ensuing community protests from a police force that resembles an occupying army – have shocked the U.S. media class and millions of Americans. But none of this is aberrational.   Continue reading “The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson”