Year: 2014

Yahoo News – by Jason Sickles

FERGUSON, Mo. — Six months before he shot and killed an unarmed teenager, police Officer Darren Wilson earned a commendation for his “extraordinary effort in the line of duty.”

Yahoo News confirmed the award through the February 11 Ferguson City Council meeting minutes and photos Wilson’s father posted to his Facebook page.

“Very proud of my son, Darren Wilson on his receiving a Commendation from his Police Department,” John Wilson wrote on February 11. “Congratulations Son.”   Continue reading “Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before fatal shooting”

IJReview – by Justen Charters

 April, U.S. policymakers authorized a Crisis Support Package for Ukraine. While the White House had previously released information on what the package would cover, it wasn’t until Thursday that the government published a report detailing how the U.S. would help fund a project for a border fence to help separate Ukraine and Crimea.

From Fedbizopps.gov, here is a screenshot of the contract awarded:   Continue reading “The Federal Government Bought A Border Fence…For A Country Nearly 6,000 Miles Away”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Based on reports, police officers in Ferguson, Missouri have drastically scaled back their response to violent protests, rioting and looting.

Likely, criticism from the media and the public about the military gear and tactics being used by officers has forced them to scale back their level of force.

This lack of police presence and response created one of the worst nights of looting in Ferguson last night. Even the convenience store Michael Brown is accused of robbing was looted.   Continue reading “Last Night in Ferguson: Lack of Police Response Forces Business Owners to Arm Themselves”

RT

A scientist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declined to tell superiors that a worker had mixed a lethal strain of bird flu with a more benign one, even though that mixed strain was shipped out to another laboratory.

According an internal investigation into the matter, the dangerous bird flu cocktail was then administered to chickens as part of a US Department of Agriculture (USDA), in which all of the chickens ended up dying. As a result, USDA officials took another look at the bird flu samples in May and notified the CDC that a deadly strain of the virus was detected inside.   Continue reading “Lethal bird flu cocktail sent out of lab accidentally, went unreported – CDC”

RT

Pop-up advertisements seem to have been irritating users online since the dawn of the World Wide Web. Now the man responsible for creating the code that ushered in an age of internet whack-a-mole is apologizing for the lack of privacy he brought about.

“I wrote the code to launch the window and run an ad in it. I’m sorry. Our intentions were good,” Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT and principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab, wrote in an essay for The Atlantic.   Continue reading “Creator of pop-up ads apologizes for inventing ‘internet’s original sin’”

RT

RT

Germany’s foreign intelligence agency intercepted at least one phone call made by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to German media reports. Her phone was tapped “accidentally” while she was on a US government plane.

Daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and regional public broadcasters NDR and WDR said they learned of the hacking from documents that were passed to the CIA by one of its moles inside the German intelligence network. It is unclear when Clinton’s phone call was intercepted, as no date was given.   Continue reading “Turnabout’s fair play? Germany intercepts Hillary Clinton phone call”

Mail.com

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Islamic extremists in Iraq killed 80 Yazidi men and abducted their wives and children, officials and eyewitnesses said Saturday, insisting the religious community is still at risk after a week of U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes on the militants.

Airstrikes meanwhile targeted insurgents around Iraq’s largest dam, which was captured by the Islamic State extremist group earlier this month, according to nearby residents. It was not immediately clear who carried out the strikes.   Continue reading “Strikes on militants at Iraq dam after ‘massacre’”

Mail.com

CANTON, N.Y. (AP) — A couple accused of kidnapping two young Amish sisters were prowling for easy targets and may have also planned to abduct other children, a sheriff said Saturday.

Stephen Howells Jr. and Nicole Vaisey, both of Hermon, were arrested Friday on charges they snatched the 7-year-old and 12-year-old girls from a roadside farm stand in front of their home near the Canadian border.   Continue reading “Charges: Couple took, intended to hurt Amish girls”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Maybe brand recognition isn’t always such a good thing – especially when you are one of the most hated companies on the planet. Monsanto has a new marketing plan, though. The company’s latest GMO cotton seed will be sold in India under the brand name Deltapine.

This isn’t the first time that Monsanto has hidden the extent of its seed monopoly by hiding behind other company names. Monsanto currently owns 100% of the Indian subsidiary operating under the ‘Paras Brahma.’ The GMO cotton seeds sold under this front were once delivered to struggling farmers under Emergent Genetics India Ltd, a firm Monsanto acquired more than a decade ago.   Continue reading “Monsanto To Sell GMO Cotton Seed Under Brand Name ‘Deltapine’”

The Hollywood Reporter – by Eriq Gardner

Current TV co-founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt have launched a fraud and breach-of-contract lawsuit claiming that Al Jazeera is withholding money from its $500 million purchase of the cable news network.

The complaint was filed under seal in the Delaware Court of Chancery, but information provided reveals that the plaintiffs are seeking $65 million held in escrow.   Continue reading “Al Gore Sues Al Jazeera for Withholding Money from Sale of Current TV”

The Organic Prepper

You may have enough weapons and ammo stashed away to fight the next World War all by yourself…

You may have fortified your home and have 3 different routes mapped out to get to your bug-out retreat…

You may have a food stockpile that will see you, your family, heck, the whole darned neighborhood, through until the Second Coming…

You may tirelessly watch militant YouTube videos that show you how to take down your opponent in 3 easy maneuvers…    Continue reading “It’s Time for a Prepper Reality Check”

English Defense League- by Paul Austin Murphy

Nouri Maliki has officially resigned his post as Iraq Prime Minister on Iraqi state television. Haider al-Abadi was then asked, by Iraq’s president, to form the next government.

Mr. Maliki said:

I announce before you today, to ease the movement of the political process and the formation of the new government, the withdrawal of my candidacy in favour of brother Doctor Haider al-Abadi.

Continue reading “Meet Iraq’s New Prime Minister: the Islamic Dawa Party’s Haider al-Abadi”

Press TV

Bashar Ja’afari told Press TV on Friday that the ISIL Takfiri terrorists have an undeclared alliance with Israel and are engaged in a secret agreement with the  regime.

The Israelis help the Takfiris infiltrate into the separation line on the Golan Heights from Jordan, where their training camps are located, the Syrian diplomat said.   Continue reading “Israel and ISIL are allies: Syrian envoy”

Jon Rappoport

“In acting, sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” (George Burns)

Reality is a psychological operation.

Socio-political reality basically means some group has force, money, and access to fawning media. They can define what exists.    Continue reading “The elite television anchor: center of the psyop”

Jon Rappoport

When researchers and doctors are talking about a germ-caused disease, everything depends on the accuracy of the diagnosis. That’s where it all starts.

So here is a blockbuster.

The US diagnostic test for Ebola is utterly unreliable.    Continue reading “Ebola: The US diagnostic test is utterly unreliable”

Liberty Unyielding- by Howard Portnoy

If a tree falls in the forest, does it utter a profanity? Better still, if a mother utters an f-bomb in front of her kids in public, is she under arrest?

You better believe it. From South Carolina NBC affiliate WJBF:

A loaf of bread and a few choice words on Sunday evening now have Danielle Wolf in hot water. Continue reading “Woman arrested for swearing in front of her kids”