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Speculation was growing last night that American mercenaries had been deployed to Donetsk after videos emerged of unidentified armed men in the streets of the eastern Ukrainian city.
At least two videos published on YouTube earlier this week show burly, heavily armed soldiers with no insignia in the city, which has been gripped by pro-Moscow protests. Continue reading “Has Blackwater been deployed to Ukraine?”
Peter Maass, who I’ve been fortunate to meet and has had a pretty amazing career as an embedded war journalist, has penned a pretty fantastic read over at Glenn Greenwald’s new The Intercept venture. In it, Maass points out that among the ocean of compelling bits buried in the Snowden documents is this strange little fact: the NSA has an advice columnist who routinely provides NSA employees with office politics and interpersonal advice under the pen name “Zelda.” Her column, titled “Ask Zelda!,” routinely appears for employees with adequate security clearance via the agency’s intranet. Continue reading “The NSA Has An Internal Office Advice Columnist And Yes, She’s An Inconsistent Hypocrite Too”
(USA Today) – Very low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster likely will reach ocean waters along the U.S. West Coast next month, scientists are reporting.
Current models predict that the radiation will be at extremely low levels that won’t harm humans or the environment, said Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who presented research on the issue last week. Continue reading “Scientists: Test West Coast for Fukushima radiation”
(Guardian) – Europe would face the “great danger of a real shooting conflict” if Russian forces moved beyond Crimea to enter the main part of eastern Ukraine, William Hague has said as he accused Vladimir Putin of a major miscalculation.
As the foreign secretary warned of another “frozen conflict” in Europe, the energy secretary, Ed Davey, said gas prices could increase if the Ukraine crisis escalated into a military conflict. Continue reading “Europe faces ‘shooting conflict’ if Russia enters east Ukraine, says Hague”
Are drones not scary enough for you yet? How about this? A drone helicopter that spots you and identifies you as an intruder. It tells you to stop and put your hands behind your head. Instead, you keep coming. The drone then shoots you with barbed Taser darts that pump 80,000 volts into you. If you try to get up, it will continue pumping voltage into you until you submit and the authorities arrive. Continue reading “Meet CUPID: The Drone That Will Shoot You With an 80,000 Volt Taser”
How to Vanish – by Bill Rounds
The NSA can read your emails, listen to your phone calls, see all of your purchases, and look at your library records without a warrant. They so extensively monitor so much electronic activity that there is hardly any aspect of your life that is not databased, archived, and searchable. The continuing release of information about what the NSA is doing and how they do it is making everyday people aware of how their peaceful and lawful activity is being monitored by default. Continue reading “Keep The NSA Out Of Your Internet – Avoid Unwarranted NSA Surveillance”
BOSTON (AP) — The ladies of Wellesley College will still be allowed to plant kisses on passing runners and crowds will still flock to the finish line at the 118th Boston Marathon.
But a year after deadly twin explosions turned the race’s festive final dash into a scene of devastation, police and organizers of the world’s oldest annual marathon find themselves balancing security with its traditionally festive atmosphere. Continue reading “Police seek security balance for Boston Marathon”
LAWNDALE – March 8, 2014 (WPVI) — A Philadelphia police officer shot another man during a struggle that escalated from an argument over dog waste.
Police tell Action News that this morning just before noon, the off-duty officer was outside his home when a man stopped with his dog along the 6400 block of Oakley Street. The dog went to the bathroom on the officer’s lawn. The officer asked the man to clean it up, which prompted an argument and the man left. Continue reading “Off-duty Philadelphia cop shoots man during fight over dog waste”
This Ain’t Hell – by John Lilyea
The first story to kick off your week comes from Houston where a man and his wife out for the evening was confronted by an enterprising youth seeking to raise his minimum wage;
When the couple got out of their car, a man approached them, pulled out a gun and demanded their belongings and cash, officers say. The husband turned the tables on the crook and pulled out his own weapon. Continue reading “Monday morning feel good stories”
Back in the day, leaders of the Mafia were known for invoking their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination before congressional hearings.
But now it’s gangsters of a different kind who are doing it – top officials of the Internal Revenue Service.
Pleading the Fifth means one thing. You can only do it for one reason – to avoid making criminal admissions that can come back to haunt you in the courts. Continue reading “When the IRS Pleads the Fifth”
EUREKA, CALIF. (KABC) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck off the coast of Northern California Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The temblor struck about 50 miles west of Eureka in Humboldt County at 10:18 p.m. It had a depth of 4.3 miles. Continue reading “6.9-magnitude earthquake hits Northern California coast”
Today RT America anchor Liz Wahl resigned on air, claiming she disagrees with the channel’s editorial stance. And here’s what I have to say about it.
These days it takes a lot of courage to work for RT. Never before have I seen RT and its journalists bullied like this. See for yourselves what they did to poor Abby. First, she openly voiced disagreement with Russia’s stance on air – and was virtually made an American hero. But then Abby reminded everyone how much she disagrees with America’s stance as well, adding she takes pride in working at RT, where she is free to express her views. Continue reading “About Abby Martin, Liz Wahl and media wars”
Daily Record – by Kathleen Hopkins
FREEHOLD — Little Silver police officer Steven Solari was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison with no chance for release on parole for failing to take an injured man for medical treatment, repeatedly punching him in the head while handcuffed, lying in a police report to justify his actions and trying to get a first-aid responder to back up his lie.
Solari, 40, a member of the Little Silver police force since July 1999, also was ordered to forfeit his $91,000-a-year job and any future prospect for public employment, under the sentence handed down by Superior Court Judge Francis J. Vernoia. Continue reading “Little Silver cop Steven Solari gets five years for punching handcuffed man in the head, lying about it”
A powerful new study on the failure of mammograms to protect women against breast cancer, curiously absent from mainstream news health reporting, was published this month in The European Journal of Public Health, and is forcing the scientific and medical community, policy makers and the public at large to ask the question: can the now worldwide practice of mass breast screenings in healthy (asymptomatic) populations be justified when they increase the incidence of localized stage ‘cancers’ without reducing the incidence of advanced cancers? Continue reading “Study of 1.8 Million: Breast Screening Increases ‘Lethal’ Breast Cancer Incidence”
Hi everyone! I received this “senior discount” list from a friend and thought that it might be of some $$$ value. Keep this list – – – and send a copy to your senior friends and relatives. She sent me an email saying:
“As I was waiting in line behind an older gentleman at Wendy’s recently, I heard him ask for his senior discount. The girl at the register apologized and charged him less. When I asked the man what the discount was, he told me that seniors (people) over age 55 gets 10% off everything on the menu, every day. This incident prompted me to do some research, and I came across a list of restaurants, supermarkets, department stores, travel deals and other types of offers giving various discounts with different age requirements. I was actually surprised to see how many there are and how some of them start at the young age of 50.” Continue reading “Awesome Discounts for 50+ Customers”
The images of these companies couldn’t be connected in your wildest dreams.
One, a natural foods outfit. The other a shadowy elite with big front men like George HW Bush and James Baker and John Major.
One company started in a garden and a home kitchen. The other started behind the curtain of global economics. Continue reading “Annie’s natural foods, Carlyle Group: same top shareholders”
The Daily Sheeple – by Mac Slavo
With so many news stories circulating about brutality and injustice at the hands of the militarized police state, it’s often difficult to discern between the good cops and the bad cops.
In Connecticut, where lawmakers recently passed legislation that requires the confiscation of firearms from citizens of the State, the legislature assumed that police officers would simply follow the letter of the law, even if that law is an affront to the founding principles of the United States and has not yet been reviewed by the Supreme Court. Continue reading “Breaking: Conn. Police Officers Refuse to Confiscate: Will Not “Be Party to the Oppression of the People””
Prepper Podcast – by James Smith
Put this in the “What in the hell are they thinking?” category, but the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) protectors of the friendly skies, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) has submitted another requestfor high explosives via the Federal Business Online website today, and has issued a Limited Source Justification for three businesses to provide the material: Hallowell Manufacturing LLC, Omni Explosives Inc, and Tripwire Operations Group. Continue reading “TSA Orders Over Half-Ton Of High Powered Explosive”
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
Last weekend, I reported on Connecticut John Cinque’s 2013 warning to lawmakers that he would not comply with their attempts to force the citizens of Connecticut to register their semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines. Since that time, the video, though a year old, has gone viral. However, in a recent video between Mr. Cinque and Connecticut gubernatorial candidate Joe Visconti, Cinque reveals that a Branford, Connecticut police officer told him, “I Cannot Wait to Get the Order to Kick Your Door In.” Continue reading “CT Cop to Gun Owning Patriot John Cinque: “I Cannot Wait to Get the Order to Kick Your Door In””
Daily Mail – by DAMIEN GAYLE 
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