Year: 2014

Reuters – by EMILY STEPHENSON

Police arrested hundreds of young people protesting the Keystone XL project on Sunday, as demonstrators fastened themselves with plastic ties to the White House fences and called for U.S. President Barack Obama to reject the controversial oil pipeline.

Participants, who mostly appeared to be college-aged, held signs reading: “There is no planet B” and “Columbia says no to fossil fuels,” referring to the university in New York City.   Continue reading “Hundreds of Keystone protesters arrested at White House”

Dissident Voice – by Brian J. Trautman

The Pentagon’s budget proposal for next year was announced last week by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. In an interview with the New York Times, Hagel argued that to meet today’s national security needs, the Department of Defense (DoD) must shift its focus and capabilities away from “fighting grinding ground conflicts” and towards “new arenas of combat.” To achieve these ends, the budget calls for a realignment of the military that would reduce the total number of ground troops to its lowest level since 1940 and discontinue some military equipment deemed obsolete or unnecessary. According to Hagel, current levels of both assets are “larger than we can afford to modernize and keep ready.” The proposed budget also includes reductions in personnel benefits and base services, as well as base closings. The targeted cuts, however, are only one aspect of the budget. The other involves the new sources of priority spending.   Continue reading “Budget Realignment Reflects Pentagon’s Vision of Covert and Endless War”

Cryptogon

Via: BBC:

Muslim children who risk radicalisation by their parents should be taken into care, Boris Johnson has said.

Writing in his weekly Daily Telegraph column, the London mayor said such children were victims of child abuse.   Continue reading “Mayor of London: The State Should Abduct Children of Thought Criminals”

The Daily Caller – by Betsy Rothstein

Flip-flopping isn’t just for politicians any more. Consider the case of Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon.

Bannon runs a website that loudly and adamantly opposes immigration reform. Rarely a day passes without Breitbart News editorializing against the Washington establishment’s plans to allow illegal aliens to remain in this country. It is the site’s signature issue.   Continue reading “Breitbart News chief ‘absolutely’ said he supports amnesty”

SOTT – by Jeff Jamison, CBS DFW

If there was ever any doubt Texas weather can turn on a dime, it was crushed under the weight of thundersleet today.

After two balmy days in the 80s, temperatures crashed Sunday into the 20s. A precipitous drop with, yes, precipitation to go with it.     Continue reading “Texas weather turns on a dime: Spring one day, thundersleet the next”

CenturyLink – by KIM CHANDLER

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Like most preschoolers, the 3-year-old girl who lives in Montgomery is a whirl of energy. She sings and dances through the house and loves the cartoons “Sofia the First” and “Doc McStuffins.” She parrots back letters as her caretaker spells her name.

About once a month a relative takes her to visit at Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women where her mother, Monica Washington, is serving a 20-year sentence for robbery. Her father was an officer at the prison and pleaded guilty in 2011 to custodial sexual misconduct after a DNA test showed he had gotten Washington pregnant, said Charlotte Morrison, a senior attorney with the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative.   Continue reading “Former Ala. prison inmates describe abuse”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff

The American toll from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can be contemplated in many different ways, thanks to the Congressional Research Service (CRS).

A new CRS report (pdf) has provided a human accounting not only of how many service personnel died in the two conflicts, but of the many kinds of serious, life-long injuries with which thousands returned home.    Continue reading “Leftovers from Afghanistan and Iraq Wars: 1,558 Amputations; 7,224 Severe Brain Injuries; 118,829 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders”

Before It’s News

Are indoctrinated Americans finally beginning to wake up and realize the system is broken?

Any that spend 30 minutes researching online any serious topic reported on by the main stream news, learns quickly just how bad things have become. Their lies, ARE STAGGERING!   Continue reading “Are Americans FINALLY Starting to Stand Up to Those Who Are Trying to Take Away Our Liberties?”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

We’ve covered for a while now how Uber — the mobile phone-enabled car/taxi ordering service — has run up against a bunch of obsolete laws in various cities, often leading to bizarre rebuttals from municipal officials. Uber quickly realized that each ridiculous response from a city government was something of a marketing opportunity to introduce itself to new cities. You would think, by now, city officials would learn that the proper thing to do is figure out how to work with Uber to provide better transportation for their citizenry, rather than immediately bowing to demands from taxi/limo companies who fear potential competition.    Continue reading “Houston Issues ‘Cease-And-Desist’ To Uber To Stop Houston Residents From Communicating With Their Government”

The Newspaper

The Tennessee General Assembly is taking steps to rein in roadblocks and the use of license plate scanners by police. On Wednesday, the state House Criminal Justice Committee will consider a Senate-passed legislation prohibiting police from participating in roadblocks designed to collect DNA from motorists. On the same day, the House Transportation Subcommittee will take up another Senate-passed bill to limit the use of automated license plate readers (ALPR, also known as ANPR in Europe).   Continue reading “Tennessee Lawmakers Take On Roadblocks, License Scanners”

MassPrivateI

Article first appeared in PrivacySOS.org:

MA – The Commonwealth Fusion Center (CFC) under the auspices of the Massachusetts State Police and the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC), run by the Boston Police Department.

1. The CFC safeguards the exercise of First Amendment-protected political activity.   Continue reading “How Fusion Centers are violating our rights”

Obama headed to Connecticut to encourage his Chekist gun grabbers.  Or is this preparation for a false flag?

Fox CT – by Steven Goode, Hartford Courant

HARTFORD — President Barack Obama will speak at Central Connecticut State University on Wednesday in an effort to garner support for increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.   Continue reading “President Obama To Speak At Central Connecticut State University Wednesday”

Ars Technica – by Cyrus Farivar

A small company in Texas has produced the TraqCloud, a new, significantly cheaper way to track anyone or anything using GPS. TraqCloud, in its promotional materials, is marketed for luggage or kid tracking, but using such a tracker against a suspected cheating love interest, a sneaky business partner, or local law enforcement is now simple and inexpensive.   Continue reading “Spy tech goes cheap: Track your car, kid, or enemy for $10 a month”

Information Clearinghouse – by Pawel Kuczyński

Once upon a time I had an excellent history teacher, who has made a lasting impact on how I view the world. “It’s about the dates,” he taught us; “Be sure to remember the dates, and you’ll have the key to history.” You see, dates are important because most of the important historical events are, in fact, anniversaries. There is a hackneyed phrase that history does not repeat—it rhymes; but it would be a lot closer to truth to say that history has a rhythm—a rhythm based largely on multiples of the annual cycle.    Continue reading “Reichstag Fire in Kiev”