The Daily Signal – by Melissa Quinn

For the last few years, opponents of civil forfeiture have been calling on Congress to make it more difficult for law enforcement to take property, cash, and vehicles from innocent Americans through a process known as civil asset forfeiture.

Now, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers on Capitol Hill is taking action.   Continue reading “Lawmakers Introduce Bill Making it Harder for Police to Take Innocent Americans’ Property”

13 WMAZ – by Jobie Peeples

A neighborhood dispute over a dog ended up with a Jones County deputy tasing a man who was recording him on his cell phone.

It happened back in February, when Deputy Wesley Ransom responded to Shady Springs Drive due to a dog complaint. That’s according to an incident report from the Jones County Sheriff’s Office.   Continue reading “Jones County man Tased by deputy after dog dispute”

CBC News – by Dave Domer

Have you ever wanted to take a holiday from being human?

Thomas Thwaites did just that, spending a week living as a goat foraging in the Swiss Alps.

The 35-year-old researcher from London, England, spent three days living among a herd before wandering off on his own for another three days.   Continue reading “‘Goatman’ inspired by shaman joins herd, eats grass in week-long experiment”

Patrick Roddie, Speaking in Chiloquin, Oregon, May 9, 2016 at the Crater Lake Stratospheric Aerosols Geoengineering Conference from Max Guiley – VIDEO MAZAMA on Vimeo.

Continue reading “Patrick Roddie, Speaking in Chiloquin, Oregon, May 9, 2016 at the Crater Lake Stratospheric Aerosols Geoengineering Conference”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

Seattle and King County officials have stopped several migrants with suitcases full of American dollars leaving the United States.
Continue reading “Seattle Officers Stop Several East African Migrants with Suitcases of Cash Leaving US – And They’re ALL ON WELFARE”

Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill

Today, nearly forty years later, new truck drivers with no experience starting pay, if they work as an employee for a corporation, is around 23 cents per mile. Even many owner operators with experience do not get $1.50 per mile. I would be thrilled with $1.50 per mile on every load! Can I take a time machine and go back to 1978?

My friend Kenny Capell sends along this very interesting gem, about trucking and what trucker’s got paid almost 40 years ago!   Continue reading “Trucker Wages $1.50 Per Mile 40 years ago! BJ & The Bear Pilot Episode Contrasts American Wage Disparity”

The Village Voice – by RC Baker

The meticulous line work in Mark Lombardi’s huge, hand-drawn chart about the 1991 BCCI bank collapse is interrupted by a pattern of rusty drips: The sprinkler system in the artist’s studio went off a week before the 12-foot-wide piece was to be exhibited at P.S.1 in 2000. Although the reddish splatters add a vibrant expressionism to the surface, Lombardi couldn’t view this accident as a serendipitous enhancement the way Duchamp accepted the cracks that careless truckers left in The Large Glass. Lombardi worked feverishly on a pristine copy for the exhibition, replicating his signature lines, arrows, circles, and lettering, which graphically enmeshed Arab sheiks and U.S. officials in a web of fraud. Then, during the run of the show, he hanged himself.     Continue reading “Mark Lombardi’s World Conspiracy, Corruption, and Vatican Hit Men”

Terry Lawton Presenting 5-Years of His Research on Climate-Engineering, Chiloquin, Oregon, May 10, 2016 from Max Guiley – VIDEO MAZAMA on Vimeo.

Continue reading “Terry Lawton Presenting 5-Years of His Research on Climate-Engineering, Chiloquin, Oregon, May 10, 2016”

Salon – by INGRID LEE AND STEPHEN TALBOT

William “Dub” Lawrence was a former sheriff who established and trained one of Utah’s first SWAT teams, only to watch in horror as that same unit killed his son-in-law in a controversial standoff years later. In Peace Officer, Dub, driven by an obsessive sense of mission, uses his investigative skills to uncover the truth about that incident and other officer-involved shootings in his community, while tackling larger questions about the changing face of police investigations nationwide.   Continue reading ““I founded the SWAT team that killed my son-in-law”: A former Utah sheriff speaks out against police violence”

RT

A Portland police officer caught speeding of a different kind when a meteor flashed before his eyes during an early morning traffic patrol.

The meteor was captured on Sgt. Tim Farris’ dashcam just before 1 a.m. Tuesday and uploaded to Facebook by the Portland Police Department, who were evidently amazed by the celestial phenomenon.   Continue reading “Cop dashcam captures spectacular giant fireball flaring over Maine”