Boosting the American military presence in Australia is to be discussed during the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry.RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, August 11 (RIA Novosti) – The United States plans to increase the number of warplanes and troops rotating through an Australian Air Force base near the city of Darwin, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

“The interest here is for tactical aircraft for closer cooperation between the Australian and US air forces,” an Australian defense official told the WSJ.   Continue reading “US to Boost Troops, Warplane Presence in Australia”

Wall Street Journal

FERGUSON, Mo.—A day of anger over a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in suburban St. Louis turned to mayhem as people looted businesses, vandalized vehicles and confronted police who sought to block off access to several areas of the city.

The tensions erupted after a candlelight vigil Sunday night for 18-year-old Michael Brown, who police said was shot multiple times the previous afternoon after a scuffle involving a police officer, Mr. Brown and another person in Ferguson, a predominantly black suburb of the city.   Continue reading “Anger Over Michael Brown Shooting Leads to Looting”

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CHICAGO—A former west suburban Lyons police officer was sentenced to five years in federal prison for illegally extorting more than $48,000 from targets of criminal investigations he was supposedly conducting during 2013. The defendant, JIMMY J. RODGERS, who was a 14-year veteran of the Lyons Police Department, was sentenced after pleading guilty in May to extortion.

Rodgers, 44, of Chicago, was assigned to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations, task force and his duties included investigating the sale of contraband and counterfeit cigarettes. In the course of his work, he set up six fake transactions with criminals, detained them, hand-cuffed them, stole their goods and funds for his own benefit, threatened them, and then lied and concealed the scam.

Continue reading “Former Lyons Police Officer Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Extorting $48,000 from Targets of Investigations”

NBC Miami – by Tony Pipitone and Robbi Peele

Miami-Dade County taxpayers will pay $600,000 to the families of three men who were shot to death in a botched police sting in the Redland three years ago, despite police claims that the shootings were justified.

Without admitting liability, the county has agreed to pay $240,000 each to representatives of Antonio Andrew and Roger Gonzalez Sr., and $120,000 to the survivors of Jorge Lemus, according to documents provided today by the county attorney’s office.   Continue reading “County Agrees to Pay $600k for Deaths in Botched Miami-Dade Police Sting”

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The following is excerpted from American Exceptionalism by Mark Elsis

“None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds
by masters who rule them with lies.

They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.”

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Continue reading “Fifty Ways The American Dream Has Become A Nightmare”

Marlene Pinnock, Caree HarperMail.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marlene Pinnock said she thought she was going to die as a California Highway Patrol officer straddled her, repeatedly punching her head on the side of a Los Angeles freeway.

During an hour-long interview with The Associated Press on Sunday — her first public comments since the July 1 beating was caught on video by a passing driver — Pinnock spoke haltingly or in a whisper, occasionally putting her hands to her temples and grimacing.   Continue reading “LA woman punched by patrolman speaks”

Concealed Nation – by Brandon

A man found four people breaking into his apartment, and that’s when he had no choice but to shoot. One of the intruders, 18-year-old Michael Paxton, was killed at the scene. He was found by police inside the home with gunshot wounds. Paramedics transferred him to an ambulance but he later died. The other three are still being sought by police.

Police say they believe Paxton and another suspect had handguns with them when they tried to burglarize the apartment. They don’t believe there’s a connection to the resident and the men involved.

Continue reading “Intruder Shot By Homeowner In Garland TX”

Shiite power base ... Iraqis chant pro-government slogans and wave national flags, to shoNews.com 

DEFENCE Minister David Johnston has not ruled out Australia backing up the US in Iraq, warning the situation with ISIL could turn “very nasty” quickly.

“We’re not ruling out providing some backup assistance to the Americans if they go in and deal kinetically with this terrorist organisation,” he told ABC Radio today.

“This ISIL Islamist state terrorist organisation is to be extremely feared and to be taken with great seriousness.

“Who knows what the future holds with these people.

“We are we are ready to assist in whatever way we can should we be asked to assist by the Americans and the Iraqi government.”    Continue reading “Troops surround Baghdad ‘Green Zone’ as embattled Prime Minister Maliki appears to cling to power”

Fortune – by Erin Griffith

Its name is Jibo, and it’s a sign of how emotion will play a key role in the integration of robots in our daily lives.

At first glance, Jibo looks a bit like Wall-E’s robot girlfriend. Both Jibo, a real robot, and Wall-E’s girlfriend, the fictional Pixar character, have the look of a futuristic Apple product: reflective white plastic, round curves, a black screen for a “face,” and smooth swiveling movements.   Continue reading “He laughs, learns, and has impeccable manners. Oh, and he’s a robot”

AOL – by MESFIN FEKADU

NEW YORK (AP) – There’s an upcoming concert at Baruch College, but it has nothing to do with students. The performers are in their 90s, and one is even older than the Manhattan school founded in 1919.

Pianist and composer Irving Fields, who turned 99 last week, will perform a show Monday night dubbed “90 and Going Strong” at the college along with Emmy-winning entertainer Fyvush Finkel and clarinetist Sol Yaged, both 91. The concert celebrates their passion and commitment to music and live performance despite their age.   Continue reading “Age is not a cage: 90-year-old musicians go strong”

Rebecca ScottThe Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

She is an author, an activist and a music performer. She is articulate and intelligent. However, she puts forth a conspiracy theory that is largely unsubstantiated and mostly unbelievable.

The woman pictured here has been on a crusade against the New Wold Order and has produced many telling videos and documentaries on the subject. Her name is Rebecca Scott and she claims that she is being used by elements of the U.S. government to infect as many people as possible with a virulent strain of TB that has infected her. On the surface, her claims seem outrageous and unsupported until one considers the conditions of her discharge from the hospital.   Continue reading “The Obama Administration Is Forcibly Discharging from Hospitals People with Pandemic-Causing Diseases”

Wall Street Journal – by Erica Orden

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a delegation of state legislative leaders are scheduled to fly to Israel this week in the governor’s first international trip since taking office in 2011, officials said Sunday.

Mr. Cuomo and leaders including state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Coalition co-leaders Dean Skelos and Jeffrey D. Klein are set to leave Tuesday night on a commercial flight to Tel Aviv as a “demonstration of solidarity” with Israelis during the continuing conflict between the nation and Palestinians, according to the governor’s office.   Continue reading “New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Leads Delegation on Israel Trip”

A Palestinian man stands next to the remains of a house, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 10, 2014 (Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)RT

An agreement on a new Egypt-proposed 72-hour Gaza ceasefire was reached on Sunday, Reuters reported, citing Israeli and Palestinian officials.

Izzat al-Reshiq, a Hamas negotiator in Cairo, told Reuters that Palestinian factions will formally accept the new ceasefire in Gaza, following Israel’s agreement to resume talks without pre-conditions.    Continue reading “Israel, Palestinians Agree To New 72-Hour Gaza Ceasefire”

railwaychildrenThe Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton

Chemtrails have been popping up all over TV shows, movies and commercials for a while now. Even video games and cartoons are adding these trails to what would otherwise be clear blue skies — why do that if not for propaganda purposes to normalize everyone to what’s going on in the skies above our heads?

One episode of CSI NY even featured a conspiracy theorist professor as a victim, someone who actor Gary Sinise’s investigator character on the show called “totally anti-American” because the professor believed in chemtrails and water fluoridation. (They don’t elucidate either that he believed water fluoridation is poison purposefully added to the water to, say, dumb people down or anything, they just say the professor believed in water fluoridation — I guess believing in water fluoridation at all period is anti-American? Way to go writers.)   Continue reading “Why Are Chemtrails Being Digitally Added to Old Movies?”

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Penn Live – by John Luciew

Government corruption is a given in states like New York and New Jersey, right? But where does the Keystone State rank. And which is the most corrupt state in the Union?

According to Yahoo.com, a recent report provides an answer:

An academic study by Professors Cheol Liu and John L. Mikesell, from the University of Hong Kong and Indiana University, respectively, set out to rank states by their level of corruption, drawing upon arrest and conviction records for public officials.   Continue reading “Where does Pennsylvania rank on new list of most corrupt states? It’s shocking!”