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A truck rammed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice on Thursday night, killing at least 70 people in an apparent attack, French officials said.
The truck struck the crowd on the Promenade des Anglais, a seaside walk in center of the city in southern France, according to Nice Matin, a regional newspaper. About 100 people were reported injured. Continue reading “Truck rams Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France; at least 70 reported killed”
The uncle of one of the two police shooting victims whose story caused tensions between Black Lives Matter protesters and police to boil over in recent days made some very interesting comments during his recent CNN appearance: Continue reading “Police Shooting Victim Philandro Castille’s Freemason Uncle Recites Master Mason Degree On CNN”
The chief of the Fresno Police Department took the rare step Wednesday of publicly releasing the body-camera video footage of officers fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old man last month — a shooting that has generated fierce protests amid a roiling national debate over police brutality.
Chief Jerry Dyer said at a news conference that he decided to release the graphic videos of officers firing four gunshots into Dylan Noble, a white man, because of the intense public interest in the shooting. Continue reading “Body Camera Footage Shows Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Man, 19, by Fresno Police”
Rolling Stone, December 13, 2012
If you’ve ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you’ve ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or “drug paraphernalia” in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a message for you: Bite me. Continue reading “Flashback: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke”
On Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders gave up his presidential campaign and endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “She must become our next president,” Sanders declared – a direct contradiction with what he has spent the past six months saying.
“There is no doubt in my mind that, as we head into November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that,” Sanders announced to a cheering audience in New Hampshire – the first state the senator won in the primary process. Since that fateful February day, Sanders has spent a lot of time and energy convincing voters that Clinton had no place in the Oval Office. Continue reading “Sanders endorses Clinton, reversing everything he’s said about ‘Wall Street candidate’”
Just when it seemed former President George W. Bush was at a safe enough distance from the public eye, he sparked another media storm by swaying side to side to organ music at a memorial service for slain Dallas police officers, as the nation watched on.
Enjoying himself a little too much, Bush threatened to spoil the entire somber mood of the occasion as he held hands with Michelle Obama, who in turn held the hand of her husband, the incumbent president, forming a chain of hands that included other senior White House officials. To his right, Bush held hands with his wife Laura, followed by Joe Biden and his spouse. Continue reading “Party time: George Bush shocks America with little dance at Dallas police memorial service”
During her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch at one point declined to say whether it was legal or illegal to lie under oath.
Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz quizzed Lynch on the legality of a series of acts that former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been accused of doing. But each time, Lynch stonewalled and refused to weigh in on whether the given act was legal or illegal. Continue reading “Loretta Lynch Refuses to Say Whether It’s Illegal to Lie Under Oath”
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Tax Revolution – by Alejandro Vidal
Washington, DC — The Tax Revolution Institute (TRI) — a Washington-based nonprofit group that promotes “justice and integrity in the tax system” — is taking a whole new approach to shedding light on the Internal Revenue Service: Today, it is announcing the launch of the first-ever independent audit of the IRS. Continue reading “National Tax Watchdog Launches AuditIRS.com: The First Independent Audit of the Internal Revenue Service”
A top staffer at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was fatally shot in Washington, D.C. on Sunday. Seth Conrad Rich was shot several times a block from his home in D.C.’s neighborhood of Bloomingdale.
It happened at 4:20 a.m. on a residential street near a convenience store. He died a few hours later at the local hospital. He was 27 years old: Continue reading “Top Democrat Official SHOT TO DEATH In Washington, D.C.”
Big Brother and auto insurance companies have devised a devious new way to encourage Americans to spy on each other. They’re offering motorists an insurance discount, if they purchase and install dashcams in their own vehicles!
New York Assembly member Alicia Hyndman and NY Senator Jose Peralta have introduced a bill, that would give New York drivers a 5% auto insurance discount for having a dash camera installed in their car. Fyi, insurance companies are also secretly identifying motorists and passengers using facial biometrics. Continue reading “Big Brother wants to create 17.5 million spying motorists”
Extraordinary and chilling video captured key moments in the Dallas shooting spree which left five police officers dead and 12 others injured.
Hundreds were marching in protest at the recent deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling at the hands of police, when the Dallas shooting began. Continue reading “‘I didn’t see anybody else get shot, just cops’: Witness videos capture Dallas terror”
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