Category: News

Activist Post – by Michael T. Winter

What is truth? Not a simple question. Is it as you feel it to be? (Subjective truth). Is it based on what you perceive to be facts, uninfluenced by your feelings? (Objective truth). Is it only what your five senses confirm to be real? (Empirical truth). Even within these three very basic concepts of truth, there rests a plethora of subtleties upon the definition of truth – correspondence, coherence, constructivist, consensus, and many more. It is within these subtleties we find a foundational dichotomy between the ‘truth’ of MSM and the ‘truth’ of the alternative press (Alt. P).    Continue reading “The Dichotomy of Mainstream Media vs. the Alternative Media”

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An Arizona Highway Patrol officer stops a Harley for traveling faster than the posted speed limit, so he asks the biker his name. ‘Fred,’ he replies.

‘Fr…ed what?’ the officer asks.

‘Just Fred,’ the man responds.

The officer is in a good mood, thinks he might just give the biker a break, and write him out a warning instead of a ticket. The officer then presses him for the last name.   Continue reading “I am just Fred”

Huffington Post

One British man recently learned a hard life lesson while drooling over photos of a model in lingerie online: fantasize all you want, but never comment about how you’d totally leave your wife for a one-night stand with the woman in the photos.

That’s what happened Tuesday, when a Manchester man named Tom got all hot and bothered over photographs showing model and TV presenter Kelly Brook in sexy lingerie on the Daily Mail’s website, including this photo:   Continue reading “Lingerie Photos Land Drooling Husband In Hot Water”

St. Louis Today – by Robert Patrick & Jennifer S. Mann

Shannon Renee McNeal was torn from her screaming children by police who were seeking a woman with a similar name — a woman who they should have known had been murdered seven months before.  A clerical mistake set up the arrest, sloppy attention to fingerprints put her behind bars and months of indifference to the error cost McNeal her home, $15,000 and, for a while, her job driving a Metro bus.

Yet she may be luckier than scores of others who have been wrongfully arrested and spent weeks, even months, trapped behind bars in a broken St. Louis city justice system.   Continue reading “Jailed By Mistake – Wrongful arrests jail 100 people for over 2,000 days”

Huffington Post

A school in Brooklyn was shut down this week following reports of a noxious odor, which turned out to be Axe body spray.

In a statement, the Department of Education said eight students were taken to the hospital Wednesday for reactions to a hazardous substance at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, according to the Smoking Gun. Two other students of the Crown Heights school were also evaluated by private doctors.   Continue reading “Axe Body Spray Shuts Down School, Sends 8 Students To Hospital”

Occupy Corporatism – by Susan Posel

The new Personal Belief Exemption (PBE) form is available for Californians who want to opt out of vaccinations for their children.

Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) explains that the new rule will make parents “take a careful look” before they opt out of vaccinating their child.   Continue reading “California Parents Incriminated For Not Vaccinating Children”

Huffington Post

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — A Chicago lawyer and certified public accountant was convicted Friday for his role in a 10-year tax fraud that generated $7 billion in phony tax losses, a scheme authorities have called the largest tax fraud in history.

Paul Daugerdas, the 63-year-old former head of the Chicago office of the now defunct Texas-based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist, was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, evade taxes, commit mail and wire fraud and other crimes after a seven-week jury trial in federal court in Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.   Continue reading “Paul Daugerdas, Chicago Lawyer, Convicted In ‘Largest Tax Fraud In History’”

Boiling Frogs – by Sibel Edmonds

Have you ever come across an imperialist who was keen on activists challenging the establishment?

British establishment mouthpiece BBC leads the way again. This time it is about the biggest threat to democracy today. No, it is not terrorists. No, it is not Islamism. And, no, it is not the Western-Installed Dictator Regimes around the world. No, no, no, no, no. The new enemy is the conspiracy theorists. It is those who question their governments. It is those who find facts and confront the mainstream lies and liars such as BBC. Basically, it is you … and me.   Continue reading “Conspiracy Theorists Are the Greatest Challenge to Democracy … According to … Here’s who …”

The Steady Drip – by Sam Sewell

Former basketball player describes visit to his friend’s private island: ‘Just normal people, drinking cocktails and laughing’

theguardian.com, Saturday 2 November 2013 09.08 EDT

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, is a “good guy”, a “good-hearted kid” who offers the best tequila to his guests on his private island, according to the former basketball player Dennis Rodman.   Continue reading “Dennis Rodman: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a ‘good-hearted kid’”

Daily Mail – by SIMON TOMLINSON

Russian investigators claim to have found household appliances imported from China which contain hidden microchips that pump spam data and malware into wi-fi networks.

Authorities in St Petersburg allegedly discovered 20 to 30 kettles and irons with ‘spy microchips that send some data to the foreign server’, according to Russian media.   Continue reading “China is spying on you through your KETTLE: Bugs that scan wi-fi devices found in imported kitchen gadgets”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Connecticut Police raided the home of Joseph Callahan, 69, confiscated more than 270 guns and he was charged with several felonies, including 11 counts of illegal possession of explosives and six counts of first-degree reckless endangerment. Was Callahan really endangering anyone or planning some sort of terrorist attack? No, he was not.

According to Callahan’s attorney, Richard Meehan, he is just a collector, a gun aficionado, and a hoarder. Meehan also claims that Callahan is a retired chemist and collector who had no “nefarious intent” when items were discovered at his upscale Fairfield home.   Continue reading “Connecticut Man Joseph Callahan Arrested for Having ‘Too Many’ Guns & Model Rockets”

Washington Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

Russian strategic forces carried out a large-scale surprise military drill on Wednesday, launching four nuclear missiles that were closely monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies, U.S. officials said.

The drill began around 9:00 am ET and included the test launch of two land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and two submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).   Continue reading “Moscow Conducts Large-Scale Nuclear Attack Drill”

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ABC News – by MARK GREENBLATT, September 30, 2012

After reports of two loaded guns making it past airport screeners and on to passenger flights this week, one congressman says “hundreds” of prohibited items get past screeners every day, a situation he calls “intolerable.”

In one of the incidents last week, Transportation Security Administration screeners allowed a New Orleans Hornets executive to board a plane from New Orleans to Newark, N.J., with a loaded handgun in his baggage.   Continue reading “Flashback: TSA Lets Loaded Guns Past Security, on to Planes”

Dan from Squirrel Hill

I ask you to please show this list to as many people as possible. Sunshine really is the best disinfectant. I can’t stop Obama from doing any of these horrible things to our health care system, but I can tell people about what he is doing. So please share this list with others on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thank you. The short link for this is http://tinyurl.com/m8tfd7q

And now, on with the list:   Continue reading “Here are 152 reasons why hypocrite politicians and unions that support Obamacare want exemptions for themselves”

New York Post – by Michael Benjamin

In his last months in office, Mayor Bloomberg is moving at the speed of Banksy to leave his indelible marks on the city.

In another of his trademark “nanny” policies, Bloomberg is championing legislation to raise the smoking age to 21, ban merchants from displaying legal tobacco products behind the counter and end discount coupons.   Continue reading “Nanny Bloomberg’s last months”

The Guardian – by Ewen MacAskill and James Ball

Barack Obama hailed United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon as a “good friend” after the two had sat down in the White House in April to discuss the issues of the day: Syria and alleged chemical weapons attacks, North Korea, Israel-Palestine, and climate change.

But long before Ban’s limousine had even passed through the White House gates for the meeting, the US government knew what the secretary general was going to talk about, courtesy of the world’s biggest eavesdropping organisation, the National Security Agency.   Continue reading “Portrait of the NSA: no detail too small in quest for total surveillance”

Good thing the House cut the food stamp budget to the poor so some of that money could go to Israel.

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The US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee has proposed a nearly half a billion dollar increase in military aid to Israel even as the United States is struggling with domestic economic issues.   Continue reading “House committee endorses extra $500 million aid to Israel”