police body camOff the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Wearable video cameras, or body cams, might soon become standard equipment for police on the beat – a possibility that has led to both praise and concern from civil liberties groups.

Some local governments are encouraging the use of “on-officer recording systems” because they limit complaints and the potential of costly lawsuits against municipalities.   Continue reading “Police Nationwide Considering Body Video Cameras”

natural homemade healthy coconut shampoo kid approved How to Make Natural Shampoo [Easy Recipe]Wellness Mama – by Katie

I’ve made natural alternatives to most of our household products and toiletry product, but shampoo was by far the toughest.

I tried the “no-poo” method, which has great results for some, but did not work on me at all (and I have some terrible Christmas pictures to prove it!). If you have coarse hair that isn’t naturally oily, this method may be great for you! I have baby-fine hair and it didn’t work for me.   Continue reading “How to Make Natural Shampoo [Easy Recipe]”

131019-abbas-cartoons-embed3The Daily Beast – by Patrick Hilsman

Arab cartoonists have always frightened authority and often paid a high price for doing so. When the famous Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali was gunned down in 1987, suspicion was raised against everyone he had satirized, from Israeli political figures to the PLO leadership. Syrian satirist Ali Farzat had his fingers broken by pro-Assad gunmen who kidnapped him in 2011 in retaliation for his caricatures lampooning Bashar al Assad.   Continue reading “Hani Abbas Extends the Vital Tradition of Political Cartooning in the Mideast”

Col. Daren Margolin has been relieved as head of Security Battalion at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va.Probably another patriot purge. Ya think?

Marine Corps Times – by Hope Hodge Seck

The two-star head of Marine Corps Installations Command has relieved the commanding officer of Quantico’s Security Battalion following an incident involving a personal weapon, Marine Corps officials said.

Col. Daren Margolin, a 24-year officer was removed from his post Oct. 18 by Maj. Gen. Juan Ayala due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command, said Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine Corps spokeswoman.   Continue reading “Colonel in charge of Quantico’s Security Battalion relieved”

Wall Street Journal – by By Drew FitzGerald

Internet users from Brooklyn to Philadelphia suffered slow to nonexistent service Saturday after equipment at a New York-area network hub broke down, disrupting service for several hours.

A spokesman for the Internet service provider Level 3 Communications Inc. said technicians were working quickly to fix the outage, which cascaded down to customers using Cablevision Systems Corp.’s Optimum service and Time Warner Cable Inc., among others.   Continue reading “Level 3 Outage Disrupts East Coast Internet Traffic”

Video Rebel’s Blog – by Dr. Lasha Darkmoon

“We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” — Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001

“I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government,” Jewish columnist Joel Stein wrote in the Los Angeles Times in December 2008.  “I just care that we get to keep running them.”   Continue reading “America Vanquished, Part 1: America as an Israeli Colony”

World Events and the Bible

(RT) – Violence broke out between police and demonstrators in Rome on Saturday as tens of thousands took to the streets to protest Italy’s new budget.

Fifteen protesters were arrested and at least 20 police officers were injured, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper.    Continue reading “Italian Protesters Take on Police During Mass March Against Austerity Budget, Portugal Stage Anti-Austerity Protests”

The “Water Body Connectivity Report” would remove the limiting word “navigable” from “navigable waters of the United States” and replace it with “connectivity of streams and wetlands to downstream waters” as the test for Clean Water Act regulatory authority. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)Washington Examiner – by RON ARNOLD

What happens when Washington’s top environmental policymaker packs a government advisory board with federal grant recipients so she can regulate virtually every acre in the United States of America?

For one thing, two powerful members of Congress angrily take notice and demand in a news release to know why “EPA Skirts the Law to Expand Regulatory Authority.”   Continue reading “Proposed giant EPA land-grab is rigged, conflicted and corrupted”

cap_dome_101413.jpgFox News – by Judson Berger

The stopgap bill to fund the government was only supposed to end the partial shutdown for a few months, no strings attached — right?

Nope.

Despite the bill being tiny by Washington standards — just 35 pages — lawmakers still managed to tuck in billions of dollars in additional spending.    Continue reading “Growing the Debt: Stopgap funding bill sprinkled with $$ for local projects”

The aftermath of the 9/11 attackPress TV

Several leading American mainstream journalists say that the US government is lying about 9/11 and the so-called war on terror. Unfortunately, media owners and editors won’t let them report their findings.

Recently, Seymour Hersh, America’s top mainstream investigative reporter, broke the news that the US government’s claim to have killed Osama Bin Laden on May 2nd, 2011 is “a big lie. There is not one word of truth in it.”

Hersh went on to harshly criticize his long-time employer, the New York Times, and other big media outlets: “We lie about everything, lying has become the staple.” He said all big US media outlets should be shut down for lying to the American people.    Continue reading “Mainstream journalists expose 9/11 hoax”

Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith

The public sphere has been effectively stripped of everything but corny, irritatingly hammy political theater.

All we have left in the U.S. is a deeply impoverishing Political Theater of the Absurd. Policy, theory and governance have all been reduced to competing stage performances in the Theater of the Absurd. The actors are transparently given to farcical overacting in exaggerated dramas drained of meaning; they proceed through the cliched motions as if the audience hadn’t seen the same charades overplayed dozens of times before.    Continue reading “The Poverty of our Political Theater of the Absurd”

Muammar Gaddafi in 2010The Guardian – by Chris Stephen

Libya marks the second anniversary of the death of Muammar Gaddafiwith the country on the brink of a new civil war and fighting raging in the eastern city of Benghazi, birthplace of its Arab spring revolution.

Violence between radical militias and regular forces broke out on Friday night and continued yesterday, while the capital Tripoli is braced for fallout from the kidnapping earlier this month of prime minister Ali Zaidan. Federalists in Cyrenaica, home to most of Libya’s oil, open their own independent parliament in Benghazi this week, in a step that may herald the breakup of the country.    Continue reading “Assassination pushes Libya towards civil war two years after Gaddafi death”

The Associated Press – by Jae C. Hong

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles has been home for thousands of homeless people, a tenuous comfort zone for many who hit the rock bottom of their lives in America.

The area, originally agricultural until the 1870s when railroads first entered Los Angeles, has maintained a transient nature through the years from the influxes of short-term workers, migrants fleeing economic hardship during the Great Depression, military personnel shipping out during World War II and the Vietnam War and low-skilled workers with limited transportation options who need to remain close to the city’s core, according to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.    Continue reading “Skid Row, a battle of misery and hope”

Activist Post – by Catherine J. Frompovich

Vaccines are supposed to be safe according to the U.S. CDC/FDA, so how come the HRSA division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publishedStatistics Reports [1] for the period ending September 3, 2013 providing data verifying that vaccines cause damage and even kill?

The period covers fiscal years (FY) 1989 to FY 2013. There were 3,387 compensable claims—meaning those claims that received compensation or money, and 9,651 claims that were dismissed, an awful miscarriage of the original intent of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program created by Congress and Public Law 99-660, in this writer’s opinion.     Continue reading “The Costs of Vaccine Damage: The Payout Figures”