Train derailment in SpainLA Times – by Henry Chu

LONDON — Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday promised two investigations of the deadly train derailment in northwestern Spain, with suspicion focusing on excessive speed as the cause of the disaster that has left at least 80 people dead, including an American, and scores more injured.

“We have lived through a terrible accident … which I fear will remain in our memory for a long time,” a somber Rajoy told reporters after visiting the site of Wednesday’s derailment near the Christian pilgrimage town of Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia region.   Continue reading “Spain train crash death toll rises to 80; high speed may be a factor”

Rodovan Krejcir stands in front of the stolen red VW Polo which had been modified with a dozen gun barrels to pepper him with bullets as he got into his car outside his gold and diamonds pawn shop in JohannesburgDaily Mail

A dramatic assassination attempt on a man sprayed with bullets by a machine gun hidden behind the rear license plate of a parked car yesterday was foiled by the target’s bulletproof Mercedes.

In scenes which could have been taken straight from James Bond, the vehicle where the weapon was hidden burst into flames straight after opening fire on Radovan Krejcir, a Czech fugitive living in Johannesburg.   Continue reading “Hitman tries to murder target using James Bond-style MACHINE GUN hidden behind his car’s number plates”

Boston Globe – by Carolyn Y. Johnson

The chamber illuminated with reddish light would have been familiar to the mouse — the laboratory animal had scurried before on its black cardboard floor and smelled the faint whiff of vinegar. The mouse froze. A series of electric foot shocks would be coming soon, as, the mouse remembered, had happened the last time.

But the shocks never came. The memory wasn’t real.   Continue reading “Mind-control study gives mouse false memory”

stock_shotgunGuns Save Lives

A 17 year old in Hominy, OK was forced to use a 12 gauge shotgun to defend himself, his home and his family when an intruder, suspected to have been high on drugs, tried to bust through the front door of the family home.

According to Newson6.com, a mother, whose identity has not been released, heard someone trying to gain access to her home. Her 10 year old daughter mistakenly opened the front door for the intruder, but the mother managed to force the door closed.   Continue reading “Oklahoma Teenager Shoots and Kills Intruder Using 12G Shotgun, Saves His Family”

FirefoxScreenSnapz073WNYT News – by Bill Lambdin

SCOTIA- Donald Andrews, Jr. operates a so-called smoke shop on Mohawk Avenue in Scotia.

It sells incense and other smoking paraphernalia, legal stuff but material that might also be re-purposed for other illicit activities.

Scotia and Schenectady County police became suspicious and targeted Andrews’s shop, sending an undercover informant in twice in March.   Continue reading “Undercover police agent appears to plant drugs on Scotia businessman”

Pete Carroll (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)CBS New York

Seattle head coach Pete Carroll hosted a retired four-star general at the Seahawks facility last spring and blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government, according to Deadspin.com.

Decorated general Peter Chiarelli, who had just called it a career, was discussing football and brain injuries with Carroll before the conversation took a turn, Deadspin reported.   Continue reading “Report: Seahawks Coach Peppered 4-Star General With 9/11 ‘Conspiracy’ Questions”

C Net- by Declan McCullagh

The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.

If the government is able to determine a person’s password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user. Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused.  Continue reading “Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

How does one destroy an idea? Further, how does one destroy the truth? Corrupt governments have been struggling with this dilemma since men wore loincloths and worshiped fire. Fortunately for those of us in the “lower strata” of social organization, honorable ideas and indelible truths have a life of their own. Even when a culture as a whole remains oblivious and unguarded, the facts tend to rise to the surface one way or another. The reality which elitists at least partly understand, is that the truth cannot be destroyed, but it can be forgotten, at least for a time.   Continue reading “How The Establishment Will Attempt To Bring Down The Liberty Movement”

The Daily Chronic – by Scott Gacek

OLYMPIA, WA — When Bayside Collective owner Casey Lee saw seven vehicles speed into the parking lot of his Olympia, Washington medical marijuana dispensary Wednesday morning, he thought he was being robbed, and told his employees to take cover.

“When I came outside, there were guns drawn on me,” Lee said Wednesday night. “And then I saw the badges.”   Continue reading “DEA Agent to Raided WA Dispensary Owner: “Things Are Going to be Hell For You””

flintstonesnewCollective Evolution – by Arjun Walia

How often are parents aware of the ingredients contained in the multivitamin that they feed their children? We often believe what we hear without ever questioning what mass marketing and media has to say about a product. In this case they have led thousands of parents to purchase multivitamins because they believe it has significant nutritional value. But do these vitamins truly provide nutritional benefit? If so, at what cost?   Continue reading “Top Children’s Vitamins Full of Aspartame, GMOs & Harmful Chemicals”

US Secretary of State John KerryPress TV

US Secretary of State John Kerry says the crisis in Syria cannot be resolved militarily but through negotiations between all the parties involved in the situation.

There is no military solution to Syria. There is only a political solution, and that will require leadership in order to bring people to the table,” he said at the UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday. The US is the persident of the UN Security Council for the month of July.    Continue reading “No military solution to Syria crisis: Kerry”

Reuters / Stephane MaheRT News

Honey bees are quickly disappearing from the US – a phenomenon that has left scientists baffled. But new research shows that bees exposed to common agricultural chemicals while pollinating US crops are less likely to resist a parasitic infection.

As a result of chemical exposure, honey bees are more likely to succumb to the lethal Nosema ceranae parasite and die from the resulting complications.   Continue reading “Scientists confirm: Pesticides kill America’s honey bees”

Gold Core – by Mark O’Byrne

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,312.00, EUR 994.92 and GBP 857.63 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,340.00, EUR 1,012.31 and GBP 872.40 per ounce.

Gold fell $22.50 or 1.68% yesterday and closed at $1,319.90/oz.   Continue reading “China’s Yuan Set To Become Global Reserve Currency With Gold Backing?”

Screenshot from YouTube user raytheoncompanyRT News

A pair of high-tech Army blimps is coming to the greater Washington, DC area, and soon they will be able to provide the military with surveillance powers that spans hundreds of millions of acres from North Carolina to Niagara Falls, Canada.

The airships are part of Raytheon’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS, and when all is said and done they’ll offer the United States military what the defense contractor calls “an affordable elevated, persistent over-the-horizon sensor system” that relies on “a powerful integrated radar system to detect, track and target a variety of threats.”   Continue reading “Pentagon to deploy huge blimps over Washington, DC for 360-degree surveillance”

HAARP operational site on the edge of Denali State Park northeast of Anchorage, Alaska (Ph...Gizmag- by Brian Dodson

Reports that the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) had been shut down permanently were apparently a bit premature. According to HAARP program manager James Keeney, the facility is only temporarily off the air while operating contractors are changed. So why does anyone care? Despite being associated with various natural disasters over the past two decades by the conspiracy fringe, HAARP is in reality a facility for studying the ionosphere. Let’s take a look at the goings on at HAARP – past, present, and future. Continue reading “HAARP ionospheric research program set to continue”

StratRisks – by QZ

Downtown Detroit has long been one of the nation’s worst housing markets. Home values have plummeted. Vacancies abound. And foreclosure numbers are through the roof. Not that that’s surprising; who’d want to live in a neighborhood with soaring unemployment and the highest rate of violent crime in the US?

The bad news for Detroiters is that the city’s bankruptcy will likely only deepen the decay of its downtown housing market.   Continue reading “Bottom Feeding: The latest Chinese investment craze, downtown Detroit housing”

Century Link

COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) — A small, home-built plane piloted by an 81-year-old man crashed into a house Thursday in central Indiana, injuring the pilot and his passenger while a woman inside the home escaped unscathed before the aircraft’s wreckage burst into flames, authorities said.

The plane, piloted by Gerald H. Clayton of Columbus, crashed shortly after takeoff and plowed into the back of a house in a subdivision just south of Columbus Municipal Airport, said Columbus police Lt. Matt Myers.  Continue reading “Small plane crashes into house in central Indiana”

Newsplex

Joe Draego refused to show police his drivers license at the checkpoint because he says he did nothing wrong and does not have to hand it over to them. Draego says it’s his way of standing up against what he calls an aggressive and entitled police force.

“I told him I wasn’t going to give him my ID, that it was unconstitutional,” said Draego, who was stopped at the checkpoint on Old Brooke Road on Thursday on his way home. “I asked him if I was being charged with a crime, he said ‘no’ so I said, I’m free to go.”   Continue reading “Alb. Co. Man Refuses To Show ID At Traffic Checkpoint”

Grand Junction, CO PoliceAmmoLand

Grand Junction, CO –(Ammoland.com)- Discharging a BB gun in the city limits of Grand Junction, Colorado (Pop. 50,000) is illegal.

In order to try to rid his area of an officially recognized invasive species, the Eurasian Dove which the State of Colorado allows to be hunted with no bag limit. James Shults requested a Discharge Permit to use a 30-year old Daisy BB gun to run the pest from his residence area and from neighbor’s areas with their permission.   Continue reading “CO Police Department Targets Local Resident After Applying for a BB Gun Permit”