Year: 2014

Reason – by Ed Krayewski

Aaron Huntsman, a former* Connecticut state trooper plead guilty to charges of larceny related to getting caught on his own dash cam video stealing cash and a gold crucifix from a motorcyclist involved in a fatal accident. Via the Connecticut Post:

Huntsman, who was the first trooper at the crash scene, walked over to where [John] Scalesse lay, bent down and picked up Scalesse’s gold chain from a pool of blood, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. He then took a roll of bills – $3,700 – that had been in Scalesse’s pocket. Later, Huntsman told Scalesse’s grieving father that he didn’t see any money on the victim, the affidavit states. Continue reading “Former State Trooper Maintains Innocence While Pleading Guilty to Stealing Cash, Jewelry From Dying Motorist”

Mondoweiss – by Lenny Lapon

On October 19, 2010 my plane landed in Israel and instantaneously I was awarded Israeli citizenship with identification card # 012706735, solely because I am Jewish. Through reflection and study I have come to realize that this act was a travesty of justice. There are several million Palestinians and their descendants who cannot enter and/or live and move freely in their native historical homeland.   Continue reading “Renouncing my Israeli citizenship”

Newser – by Rob Quinn

(NEWSER) – An Illinois woman who shared photos of her eye-catching new dress on Facebook was arrested after the pics caught the eye of people who knew the boutique she had allegedly stolen it from. Police say Amanda Saxton, 27, shared the photos just a few hours after stealing a distinctive leopard-pattern dress and other items and still had stolen clothes in her hand when officers arrived at her home.   Continue reading “Woman Busted After Posting Selfie in Stolen Dress”

SHTF Plan – by Selco

The following article has been generously contributed by Selco of the SHTF School web site. For those who have never seen Selco’s work, he’s the real deal. He was there in the 1990′s when his city in the Balkans was surrounded by a hostile army. From one day to the next life as he and those around him knew it had changed drastically. The media, of course, told people that everything would be fine. But As Selco highlighted in a previous article, the reality of collapse was brutal. Peace and stability very quickly turned to war and madness. He details his experience in his One Year in Hell survival course. In the article below, Selco shares his views on what it means to survive when your entire way of life has been cut off from the rest of the world.    Continue reading “The Reality of Survival: “Forget Good Guys and Bad Guys… The Prepared Guys Win””

The Fiscal Times – by Brianna Ehley

Serious tech troubles at the Treasury Department are so severe that they could disrupt accounting practices within a system that manages about $16.7 billion of federal debt.

The Government Accountability Office flagged at least 20 problems within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s tech system—all of which involve security management issues. Of the deficiencies GAO identified, 14 are brand new and six are problems that were detected in 2012 and were never corrected.   Continue reading “Treasury Dept IT System Flagged for Security Issues”

RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, July 19 (RIA Novosti) – The world’s top five emerging economies, BRICS, will participate in the elimination of Afghani drug production together with the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), Russia’s anti-narcotics chief Viktor Ivanov told RIA Novosti Saturday.

“I’m satisfied with the decision taken by the heads of the BRICS countries, to establish a working group … to fight against drugs. I think this is a milestone event that will allow to utilize the enormous political and economic potential of the BRICS countries,” Ivanov said.   Continue reading “BRICS to Help Russia Eliminate Drug Production in Afghanistan”

ITAR-TASS

SAMARA, July 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia will continue to supply rocket engines to the United States despite Western sanctions, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.

“We are not going to shoot ourselves in the leg. They are organising sanctions in such a way that they will boomerang on their head. But we will continue to do (with the US) what benefits us and we will suspend what does not. Presently, the sale of engines benefits our engine-making enterprises in that they use the money for their own modernisation,” Rogozin said.   Continue reading “Russia to continue to supply rocket engines to US despite sanctions”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas–The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee approved a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 that includes $5.508 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Included in that amount is more than $87 million for the transportation of illegal immigrants–most often via plane–from the U.S.-Mexico border to federal facilities around the nation.

The FY 2015 bill summary states that the federal government will provide “$87.6 million above the request for the transportation of unaccompanied immigrant children– often via commercial or charter aircraft – from DHS custody to the legally required shelters operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement within Department of Health and Human Services.”    Continue reading “Budget to Transport Illegals Across USA Approaches $100M”

Breitbart TV

Monday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) announced he is deploying 1,000 Texas National Guard to the U.S. border with Mexico, saying he can not idly sit by while “our citizens are under siege.”

Pointing out the tens of thousands pf unaccompanied minors only make up roughly 20 percent of those being apprehended illegally crossing the border, Perry said he can no longer wait for the president to act as gang members and drug cartels flood into Texas, causing crime to skyrocket. Continue reading “‘Our Citizens are Under Siege’: Perry Sends National Guard to Border”

The Guardian – by Jessica Glenza

President Barack Obama on Monday signed an executive order that bars discrimination against transgender federal employees, and adds people who identify as LGBT to a list of those against whom federal contractors can not discriminate.

“We’re on the right side of history,” Obama said at a press conference. “America’s federal contractors should not subsidize discrimination against the American people.”   Continue reading “Obama signs executive order to protect LGBT federal employees”

Police One – by Jay Green, The Seattle Times

KENT, Wash. — A man was shot dead by Kent police early Sunday afternoon in a shootout near a hotel in the north end of the city.

During the gunfire, one shot hit a propane tank, causing it to explode and injure four of five officers involved in the incident.

Police were called to the hotel near 86th Avenue South and South 228th Street about 10:45 a.m. on a report that someone in the hotel had a firearm, according to Melanie Frazier with Kent police.   Continue reading “4 officers hurt, suspect killed in Wash. shootout, explosion”

Natural Society – by Elizabeth Renter

Is butter bad for you? Sweet, salty butter has become a decadent treat for many people, something that some have shunned for years for fear of the vilified “saturated fat”. But now that the hype of margarine has been sufficiently shattered, we can take a more honest look at butter. A look that isn’t colored by the companies making margarine, one that might reveal butter to actually be beneficial to our health. At least when it’s in the right form.   Continue reading “Why Butter Isn’t All that Bad”

Prevent Disease – by Marco Torres

General anesthesia works to knock you out and escape pain during oral surgery, elective surgery and other complicated surgical procedures. However, anesthetic agents can be toxic and bring about serious, even fatal complications. The most shocking thing is that doctors and scientists still don’t know exactly how these medicines work in the body.

The clinical state of anaesthesia consists of multiple components that are mediated via interaction of the anaesthetic drugs with different targets on the molecular, the cellular, the network and the structural-anatomical levels.   Continue reading “Why You Risk Your Life Every Time You Elect Surgery and Anesthesia”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Police are still investigating the tragic death of 39-year-old Goldman Sachs Managing Director Nicholas Valtz this weekend. As Bloomberg reports, Valtz, a “novice kiteboarder,” was found dead yesterday by family members who went searching for him after he didn’t return from a kiteboarding outing. While there is no accusation of suicide in this case, it sadly brings the number of young financial services executives deaths to 16 this year.   Continue reading “Goldman Managing Director Found Dead In Apparent Kite Surfing Accident”

Minutemen News

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told a cheering crowd of conservatives Saturday night that the next U.S. president should shutter the much-maligned Internal Revenue Service and turn the agency’s 110,000 employees loose to police the U.S.-Mexico border.

‘That’s slightly tongue-in-cheek,’ he said in Denver at the Western Conservative Summit.   Continue reading “Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’ and Station All 110,000 Agents ‘On the Southern Border’”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Bankers make Debts just as bakers make cakes. That is what they do. Debts are the products of banks just as cars are the products of automakers.

Imagine yourself in a classic movie as one of the bad guys, a counterfeiter. You have no criminal record but the others do. They talk about prison. The first thing you learn is never commit a crime that gets you into a state prison. Only do business with the federal government. They have much nicer prisons. The next thing you learn is the rules for jail time. Never carry a gun. Never defraud a bank in bankruptcy court by hiding cash. People who hide $100,000 in bankruptcy proceedings get 2 1/2 times as long a sentence as someone who counterfeits 20 times that much money. It is who you offend and not the amount of the offense that counts.   Continue reading “Bakers Make Cakes. Bankers Make Debts, Depressions, Hyperinflation and Wars”