Month: June 2014

Lew Rockwell – by William Norman Grigg

Although government-aligned media outlets generally are faithful stenographers for the coercive caste, the same is not true of social media. YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have fatally undermined the official narrative that law enforcement is a noble calling by offering critics the means to document and publicize the criminal violence and pervasive corruption that characterize the profession. Thus it’s not surprising that police are seeking to ban Facebook pages that document police misconduct and demand accountability.

“There are anti-anti-police pages starting whose main purpose isn’t to engage the anti-police pages intellectually, but just to report and get them banned,” warns LRC reader Buddhadev Chakraborty. “Examples of these pages are Stop the Cop Haters, and Night of Blue Lights.”   Continue reading “Privileged Purveyors of State Violence Seek to Ban — Or Cage — Their Critics”

Houston Chronicle – by Brian Rogers

Scores of pending criminal cases and past convictions could be in jeopardy in the wake of revelations that a former Houston Police crime lab technician resigned after an internal investigation found evidence of lying, improper procedure and tampering with an official record.

Former DNA lab technician Peter Lentz worked on 185 criminal cases, including 51 murders or capital murders, according to letters sent out by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office and obtained by the Houston Chronicle through an open records request.   Continue reading “Scores of cases affected after HPD crime lab analyst ousted”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has asked the government to distribute potassium iodide pills to Canadians living within 10 kilometers of nuclear power plants, highlighting lingering concerns over the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Tasked with studying how Canada should respond to the Fukushima meltdown, the nuclear watchdog wants authorities to ensure that residents have on hand an adequate stock of the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents.   Continue reading “Watchdog Asks Government To Distribute Emergency Nuke Pills To Canadians”

Turn It Off

SACRAMENTO, June 24, 2014 – In the face of opposition lobbying from the California Sheriffs Association and two former NSA analysts, the California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to approve a bipartisan bill which creates a mechanism to turn off all material support and assistance, including water and electricity resources, from California to federal mass surveillance programs. The vote was 7-0.

Dubbed the 4th Amendment Protection Act, Senate Bill 828 (SB828) passed the State Senate last month by a vote of 29-1, and is just two votes away from reaching Gov. Brown’s desk.  If signed into law, it would ban the state from participating in, or providing material support or resources to any federal agency engaged in the “illegal and unconstitutional collection of electronic data or metadata, without consent, of any person not based on a warrant that particularly describes the person, place, and thing to be searched or seized.”    Continue reading “California Assembly Panel Votes Unanimously to Turn off Resources to the NSA”

ProPublica – by Minhee Cho

Continue reading “Restraints and Seclusion in Public Schools”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

University of California Professor Darrell Y. Hamamoto warns that the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States is part of a plan to create a new underclass of people who can be re-educated in order to create a subservient underclass.

Hamamoto, a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis, exclusively contacted Infowars to express his shock at what he sees as a clear “plan to destroy national sovereignty” through mass uncontrolled illegal immigration.   Continue reading “UC Professor: Immigration Influx Is About ‘Re-Education’ Of Society”

Newsmax – by Elliot Jager

A U.S. Border Patrol academy in New Mexico will be used to house up to 700 adults with children who have crossed illegally into the United States, Fox News reported.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made the announcement before the House Committee on Homeland Security on June 24. He said the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center at Artesia would serve as a temporary holding facility where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can house illegals “in a humane manner” pending their expedited deportation. Continue reading “Border Agent Academy to House Illegals”

Grist – by John Upton

In the heavily fracked Keystone State, the economic interests of frackers trump the health concerns of residents.

That much is abundantly clear in the wake of an extraordinary story by StateImpact Pennsylvania, which interviewed two retired state health department workers. The former workers say they were ordered to not return the phone calls of residents who complained that nearby fracking was harming their health. Instead, they were told to pass messages on to their superiors, who apparently never returned the calls either. The health workers were also given a list of fracking-related “buzzwords” to watch out for:

Continue reading “Pennsylvania ordered its health workers to never discuss fracking”

The Guardian – by Nate Berg

The Los Angeles Police Department, like many urban police forces today, is both heavily armed and thoroughly computerised. The Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division in downtown LA is its central processor. Rows of crime analysts and technologists sit before a wall covered in video screens stretching more than 10 metres wide. Multiple news broadcasts are playing simultaneously, and a real-time earthquake map is tracking the region’s seismic activity. Half-a-dozen security cameras are focused on the Hollywood sign, the city’s icon. In the centre of this video menagerie is an oversized satellite map showing some of the most recent arrests made across the city – a couple of burglaries, a few assaults, a shooting.   Continue reading “Predicting crime, LAPD-style”

Video Rebel’s Blog

The government originally said that the US economy as measured by the GDP shrank at 0.1% in the first quarter of 2014. And that was due to abnormally cold weather probably because Global Warming had been hiding at the bottom of the oceans. Now we are told the US economy actually contracted at 2.9%. This is starting to sound serious. Maybe we can coax that Global Warming to rise up out of the oceans. But Dr John Williams at Shadow Stats keeps much more reliable statistics on the cost of living and inflation. He says that prices are going up at 8.9% which makes sense because food prices alone are soaring upwards at 22%. If we used his figure of an 8.9% increase in the cost of living, then the real GDP after being deflated for inflation is contracting at 9.8%.   Continue reading “Would You Believe The US Economy Is Contracting at 0.1%, 2.9%, 9.8%, 10.5%, 11%?”

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Breitbart – by Caroline May

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tom Homan, the official overseeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s removal operations, said Wednesday it will take years for the unaccompanied minors streaming across the border to appear before an immigration judge.

In a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the tens of thousands of Central American unaccompanied minors Wednesday, committee chairman Bob Goodlatte pressed Homan on the idea that it will likely take years for the children and family unit members apprehended at the border to have their cases heard, noting that many likely will never be removed — even if they show up for their hearings — given the administration’s enforcement priorities.   Continue reading “ICE Removal Operations Director Confirms: Years Before Illegals Have Cases Heard”

World Events and the Bible – by Steve Barwik

According to this article by the Huffington Post, 7 out of every 10 Americans are now on prescription drugs, and more than half of the country are on at least two, mostly antidepressants and pain relievers.  Nearly one-quarter of women over the age of 50 take antidepressants.  4.02 BILLION prescriptions per year are written.  That’s 13 prescriptions per year for every man, woman and child.

In Revelation 18:23 the Scripture says, “And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.“ Continue reading “Drug Cartels? Amateurs! Here’s the Real Thing…”

WND – by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa

Virtually all of the 1,087 comments on a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “Immigration Reform Can’t Wait,” by Rupert Murdoch, who owns that prestigious newspaper, disagreed with the article’s call for an immediate “path to citizenship” for our millions of illegal immigrants.

This disagreement is historically significant: America is beginning to see through the thick veil of disinformation designed to conceal the secret intelligence weapon of mass immigration under a mask of humanitarianism.   Continue reading “Hidden Agenda Behind Border Crisis – Top Cold War defector explains devious reason for mass immigration”

AOL – by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigators say they uncovered emails Wednesday showing that a former Internal Revenue Service official at the heart of the tea party investigation sought an audit involving a Republican senator in 2012.

The emails show former IRS official Lois Lerner mistakenly received an invitation to an event that was meant to go to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.   Continue reading “Emails reveal IRS official Lois Lerner sought audit of GOP senator Charles Grassley”

Yahoo News – by  VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

MOSCOW (AP) — On Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand, the upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday canceled a resolution allowing the use of military in Ukraine, a move intended to show Moscow’s eagerness to de-escalate tensions and avoid a new round of Western sanctions.

Putin had said his request, made a day earlier, was intended to help support the peace process in Ukraine, which began Friday with a weeklong cease-fire. Putin needs to show his support for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s peace plan ahead of Friday’s European Union summit, which is set to discuss new sanctions against Russia.   Continue reading “Russia annuls sanction for use of force in Ukraine”

Yahoo News – by Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy contracted at a much steeper pace in the first quarter than previously estimated, turning in one of its worst-ever non-recession performances, but growth already appears to have rebounded strongly.

The Commerce Department said on Wednesday gross domestic product fell at a 2.9 percent annual rate, the sharpest decline in five years, instead of the 1.0 percent pace it had reported last month.   Continue reading “U.S. economy collapses in first quarter, but growing again”

Yahoo News – by Eli Lake

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham is threatening to take control of Balad Airbase, Iraq’s largest airfield and one of America’s most important military outposts during its occupation of the country.

Today, Balad still has plenty of vehicles and aircraft on the base that any terrorist group would covet, including Russian-made transport helicopters, surveillance planes, and a fleet of pickup trucks fitted with heavy machine guns.     Continue reading “ISIS Tries to Grab Its Own Air Force”

Yahoo News – by HAMZA HENDAWI and LARA JAKES

BAGHDAD (AP) — Syrian warplanes bombed Sunni militants’ positions inside Iraq, military officials confirmed Wednesday, deepening the concerns that the extremist insurgency that spans the two neighboring countries could morph into an even wider regional conflict. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned against the threat and said other nations should stay out.   Continue reading “Kerry issues warning after Syria bombs Iraq”

Chron – by Lauren McGaughy

AUSTIN – Land once considered part of Oklahoma that now is in Texas due to shifts along the Red River belongs to the federal government, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has told state officials.

In a letter sent June 20 to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, BLM Director Neil Kornze noted that the 2000 Red River Boundary Compact determined the border between Oklahoma and Texas lies at the “gradient line along the south bank of the Red River.” Previous court cases already determined any land between this line and the mid-point of the river was in the public domain and, therefore, belonged to the federal government, Kornze added.   Continue reading “Feds say new Texas land belongs in public domain”