Not really Osama: James O'Keefe donned a Halloween mask to show that U.S. Border Patrol is stretch too thin to arrest terrorists coming across the border from MexicoDaily Mail – by David Martosko

A flamethrowing American conservative activist raised eyebrows in the U.S. on Monday by releasing a video of himself crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Texas, dressed as the late al-Qaeda terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Guerrilla documentarian James O’Keefe’s footage comes at a time when Americans are engaged in a national debate about border security. Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America have entered the U.S. illegally in recent months, drawn by a confusing White House policy that appears to offer amnesty for those who make it safely.  Continue reading “‘The border fence is a joke’: Filmmaker crosses from US to Mexico dressed as Osama bin Laden as Border Patrol says ‘we can’t be everywhere at once’”

Benjamin CrumpWTSP – by Tammie Fields

St. Petersburg, Florida – Michael Brown’s family has hired the same Florida civil rights attorney who currently represents Trayvon Martin’s family.

Brown,18, died Saturday after being shot multiple times by a suburban St. Louis police officer. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar says it all began when Brown physically assaulted the police officer, pushing him into the officer’s vehicle. He said there was a struggle inside the car, and at some point Brown reached for the officer’s weapon. One shot was fired inside the vehicle.   Continue reading “Trayvon Martin family attorney to represent slain Missouri teen”

Farmer Nikos Mitrou, 80, poses next to a mechanical grape crusher at Mylonas' winery in the city of Keratea, east of Athens (Reuters/John Kolesidis)RT

There is growing dissent in the EU over policies that led to a de fact trade war with Russia. Meanwhile the countries not toeing the line are reaping the benefits, irritating those who jumped on the sanctions bandwagon.

Greek members of the European Parliament demanded Sunday that the EU cancel sanctions against Russia. MEPs Kostantinos Papadakis and Sotiris Zarianopoulos said in a letter to some senior EU officials that Russia’s ban on food import from the EU, which was Moscow’s response to anti-Russian sanctions, was ruinous to Greek agriculture.   Continue reading “Sanctions bite-back: Bickering, EU infighting over Russia retaliation”

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)RT

Hillary Clinton criticized her former boss President Barack Obama in a new interview, citing the “failure” of his administration to contain the spread of Islamic jihadists in Syria who are now marching through Iraq.

Clinton told the Atlantic in an interview published Sunday that the administration – of which she was a part of as secretary of state during Obama’s first term – faltered when it did not do enough to actively lead in coordinating insurgent factions fighting Bashar Assad’s government in Syria. This power “vacuum,” she said, led to the rise of the extremist group Islamic State that has since splintered away from Al-Qaeda and is violently gaining territory in northern Iraq.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton bashes Obama’s foreign policy for giving rise to Islamic State in Iraq”

Reuters/StringerRT

A grisly photograph showing a young boy, said to be the son of an ISIS rebel, holding the severed head of a slain Syrian soldier, proves the ‘hideous atrocities’ the terrorist group is capable of, said Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

The picture, taken in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, was posted on the Twitter account of Khaled Sharrouf, an Australian citizen who traveled to Syria last year and is now an Islamic State fighter.    Continue reading “Photo of boy holding decapitated Syrian soldier’s head ‘barbaric’ – Australia PM”

Mail.com

SYDNEY (AP) — The Obama administration has begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in northern Iraq, senior U.S. officials said Monday.

Previously, the U.S. had insisted on only selling arms to the Iraqi government in Baghdad, but the Kurdish peshmerga fighters had been losing ground to Islamic State militants in recent weeks. The officials wouldn’t say which U.S. agency is providing the arms or what weapons are being sent, but one official said it isn’t the Pentagon. The CIA has historically done similar quiet arming operations.   Continue reading “US sending arms to Kurds in Iraq”

A mother is suing the city of Pierre, it's former police chief and members of its police department (not pictured), saying an officer used excessive force and violated her 8-year-old daughter's rights when he shot her in the chest with a stun gunDaily Mail

A mother is suing the city of Pierre, it’s former police chief and members of its police department, saying an officer used excessive force and violated her 8-year-old daughter’s rights when he shot her in the chest with a stun gun.

Dawn Stenstrom is seeking unspecified damages in the suit filed in federal court in late July.

Authorities say the officer shot the girl with the stun gun from 5 to 6 feet away because she was suicidal and brandished a knife.   Continue reading “Mother suing Baltimore police for using a Taser on her EIGHT-YEAR-OLD daughter but officers claim it saved the girl’s life”

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Daily Mail: A bridal shop in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania is causing outrage in their local community and online after they refused to sell wedding dresses to a lesbian homosexual couple.

One of the disturbed brides to be, who didn’t want to be identified, wrote a Facebook post about W-W Bridal’s unfair treatment toward them based solely on their sexual orientation.   Continue reading “Christian bridal shop under fire after refusing to help lesbian couple find dresses”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

A Yahoo News tweet went out at 4:41 p.m. Eastern) Sunday and it stated that 145 people in the Atlanta area have contracted Ebola. The Yahoo News tweet disappeared about 20 minutes later, only to be replaced by a tweet stating that the first tweet was a mistake . However, the Yahoo News Twitter release was retweeted hundreds of times in that 20 minutes.

The tweet was captured and was replayed on Before Its News.   Continue reading “Yahoo’s Ebola Tweet Is a Lie Designed to Promote Fear-Based Acceptance of the Ebola Vaccine”

Crisis Survivor Tips

I’ve shared an article before about how to make a fishing hook using thorns.

In this post, I’m sharing another tutorial, this one via hedgehogleatherworks.com. It shows a different way to fashion a fishing hook in the style of the primitive people.   Continue reading “How To Make A Fishing Hook The Old Fashioned Way”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

The Sandy Hook massacre hoax of December 14, 2012, unleashed a paroxysm of gun control legislation across the United States. (See here, here, and here.)

One response that received relatively scant notice was what a suburban New York City newspaper, The Journal News, did.   Continue reading “Texas just published a map of gunowners’ location!”

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”

FBI

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”

Video Rebel’s Blog

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”