Year: 2014

Raw Story – by Lisa O’Carroll

Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.

It doesn’t take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as “the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist”.   Continue reading “Seymour Hersh on death of Osama bin Laden: ‘It’s one big lie, not one word of it is true’”

Video Rebel’s Blog

The Petrodollar just died. Zero Hedge ran an obituary notice for the Petrodollar last week.

Reuters reports  energy-exporting countries are set to pull their “Petrodollars” out of world markets this year. This shift is likely to cause global market liquidity to fall: “this year the oil producers will effectively import capital amounting to $7.6 billion. By comparison, they exported $60 billion in 2013 and $248 billion in 2012. This is according to BNP Paribas calculations. Petrodollar recycling peaked at $511 billion in 2006.”   Continue reading “The Petrodollar Died. So what happens next?”

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Counter Current News – by Jackson Marciana

More police in the schools will make kids safer, right? That’s what a lot of people have been saying for years, but the evidence seems to tell a very different story.

Recently, several children as young as 4-years-old found themselves “accidentally” pepper sprayed by police officers from the Gwent Police Department during a visit to Gilfach Fargoed Elementary School, in Bargoed, Caerphilly county in Wales.   Continue reading “Cop ‘Accidentally’ Pepper Sprays 4-Year-Olds During Kindergarten Visit”

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Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

A seven-year-old girl was accidentally shot by a police officer in front of a group of children while she was on a school trip to the Nottinghamshire Police department in the UK. The incident occurred last week and is currently being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

However, according to Wikipedia, A parliamentary inquiry set up in the wake of the death of Ian Tomlinson, the girl who was shot, found that the Independent Police Complaints Commission “has neither the powers nor the resources that it needs to get to the truth when the integrity of the police is in doubt.”   Continue reading “Police Officer Accidentally Shoots 7-Year-Old Girl On School Trip to Police HQ”

TruNews – by Rick Wiles

You know what they say about real estate: Location, location, location!  Trunews is located next to the most popular vacant cul-de-sac in Florida!  Read on!  I’ll tell you why it’s so popular these days.

The Trunews headquarters is along I-95 on the western edge of Vero Beach, Florida.  There is a hotel next to us and more office condos behind us.     Continue reading “Is Trunews Headquarters under Surveillance?”

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Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Roseland, New Jersey – A group of police in Roseland, New Jersey recently filed a lawsuit against local Police Chief Richard McDonough.

In the lawsuit, the officers allege that the police chief is a  “megalomaniacal despot” who protected corrupt local government officials and fabricated false misconduct reports against officers who refused to participate in the corruption that exists in the department. The lawsuit also alleged that McDonough “used the department as his own personal playground.”   Continue reading “Police Chief in NJ Allegedly So Corrupt, Officers in the Dept are Suing Him for Being a “Despot””

Business Insider – by Shaun Tandon, AFP

How does one of rock history’s most influential acts sign off?

For Pink Floyd, it will be with a collection of outtakes bearing the band’s epic psychedelic roots — but whose theme this time is not alienation, but continuity.

Pink Floyd has declared that “The Endless River” — the band’s first album in 20 years — will be the finale for the Cambridge, England group whose dark, sonic landscapes transformed personal isolation into stadium-filling rock.   Continue reading “Pink Floyd’s First Album In 20 Years Will Be Their Last”

Cryptogon – via New York Times

A potato genetically engineered to reduce the amounts of a potentially harmful ingredient in French fries and potato chips has been approved for commercial planting, the Department of Agriculture announced on Friday.

The potato’s DNA has been altered so that less of a chemical called acrylamide, which is suspected of causing cancer in people, is produced when the potato is fried.

The new potato also resists bruising, a characteristic long sought by potato growers and processors for financial reasons. Potatoes bruised during harvesting, shipping or storage can lose value or become unusable.   Continue reading “U.S.D.A. Approves Genetically Modified Potato”

Air Force Times – by Leo Shane

When Congress passed new rules for firing Veterans Affairs executives in July, the goal was to get rid of problem employees faster and without bureaucratic confusion. So far, it’s done neither.

Now Justice Department officials are distancing themselves from the issue, even as both sides point to behind-the-scenes agency comments as proof that the other side is playing politics.   Continue reading “Justice Department’s influence in VA cases up for debate”

Yahoo News – by JACQUES BILLEAUD

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s frustrations over federal enforcement of the state’s border with Mexico spawned a movement nearly a decade ago to have local police confront illegal immigration. Now, the state’s experiment in immigration enforcement is falling apart in the courts.

A ruling Friday that struck down the state’s 2005 immigrant smuggling law marks the latest in a string of restrictions placed by the courts on Arizona’s effort to get local police to take action on people living in the U.S. illegally. The smuggling law, like similar state statutes, was tossed because a judge concluded it conflicted with the federal government’s immigration powers.   Continue reading “Another Arizona immigration law struck down”

Ann Barnhardt

So let me lay out some simple TRUE PREMISES, and then ask a follow-up question.

A.)  The constitutional republic referred to as the United States of America no longer exists.  TRUE.
B.)  The Rule of Law is no longer in force in the former United States.  TRUE.
C.) The Constitution of the United States and the system of government it defines is therefore no longer in force.  TRUE. Continue reading “This is what hope looks like.”