Month: February 2015

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

During the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2014, U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) deployed to 133 countries — roughly 70% of the nations on the planet — according to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bockholt, a public affairs officer with U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM).  This capped a three-year span in which the country’s most elite forces were active in more than 150 different countries around the world, conducting missions ranging from kill/capture night raids to training exercises.  And this year could be a record-breaker.  Only a day before the failed raid that ended Luke Somers life — just 66 days into fiscal 2015 — America’s most elite troops had already set foot in 105 nations, approximately 80% of 2014’s total. Continue reading “The Golden Age of Black Ops – In Fiscal 2015 U.S. Special Forces Have Already Deployed to 105 Nations”

Yahoo News

LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man charged in the deaths of his wife, three of her family members and a friend was arrested at a bus station in Tupelo, Mississippi, authorities said Monday.

Investigators suspect the victims had been dead for three days when deputies found them late Saturday, Troup County Sheriff James Woodruff said. A worried employer had called to report one of the victims missing from work.

The suspect, Thomas J. Lee, 26 was arrested after telling a Mississippi pastor that he was having car trouble and needed to get to Opelika, Alabama, Woodruff said. The pastor helped get Lee a bus ticket, but called police later when he realized authorities were searching for him.   Continue reading “Ga. man suspected of killing 5 arrested in Mississippi”

BATR

A half century ago the infamous and timeworn trope coming from the supporters of the Viet Nam War was all over the airwaves. “Love It or Leave It” was the standard retort from the gung-ho believers to the anti-war activists, who filled the streets with civil disobedience. An entire era of youth came under suspicion, from fathers of that “Greatest Generation” for questioning the purpose and wisdom of American leaders and the military policy that drafted dissenting objectors into coercive service.

Now with the undying “War on Terror” as the trumped up cornerstone of government survival, the same old party line of jingoism rises again to smear any opposition of the all mighty war machine.   Continue reading “Love It or Leave It”

Mail.com

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An assistant director at a child advocacy organization followed and shot his supervisor as she waited at a bus stop so she couldn’t report him for stealing about $40,000 from the organization, police said Monday.

After the slaying last month, Randolph Sanders told a television station that he was “stunned” by the death of 56-year-old Kim Jones, a mother of two. “She was incredibly happy,” Sanders said in the interview with WPVI-TV in Philadelphia. “So this is — this is just disturbing.”   Continue reading “Cops: Man killed supervisor so she couldn’t report his theft”

Mail.com

INDIO, Calif. (AP) — A big-rig hauling frozen chicken collided with a truck carrying bees in Southern California, igniting a fireball that quickly cooked the chicken.

The California Highway Patrol says the crash on Interstate 10 near Palm Springs occurred shortly after 7 a.m. Monday. The truck with the chickens burst into flames and was incinerated, but the driver escaped with minor injuries.   Continue reading “Trucks carrying frozen chicken, bees collide in fiery crash”

The Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

New York, NY — A common meme amongst those in the police accountability movement is that it is only a matter of time before an entirely innocent person crosses paths with the wrong cop and gets a hefty dose of police state USA.

All too often we hear the ridiculous statement from the apologist crowd saying, “If you don’t break the law, you have nothing to worry about.”

However, that statement couldn’t be further from the truth.   Continue reading “Devout Police Supporter has Change of Heart After Being Arrested by NYPD on Bogus Charge”

The Guardian

At their most self-indulgent, the theological scholars of the Renaissance were mocked for abandoning the debate over moral decisions to bicker about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. The scholars of personal finance seem on track for a similar level of disconnection from reality.

Take this new study, in the Financial Analysts Journal, that says “retirement is not hopeless.” Indeed, all you need to do is save 22 times the annual income you hope to have when you retire. That means if you make $150,000, and hope to retire on $100,000 a year, you only need to sock away $2.2m in a bank account to be able to retire comfortably.   Continue reading “Why the multimillion dollar retirement is not for the middle class”

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Yahoo News

Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebel chief on Monday branded the country’s leaders “miserable” Jews in an apparent anti-Semitic jibe.

Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, claimed that Kiev’s pro-Western leaders were “miserable representatives of the great Jewish people”.   Continue reading “Ukraine run by ‘miserable’ Jews: rebel chief”

The Burning Platform

Let the spin begin. The country has clearly entered recession, but the government bureaucrats, corrupt politicians, criminal Wall Street bankers, and their corporate media mouthpieces refuse to acknowledge the truth. They have too much wealth at stake to report the facts. They need to exit the markets before the muppets.

Consumer spending in December collapsed at the greatest rate in five years. Remember 2009? It wasn’t a great year for the economy.   Continue reading “Consumption Crashes In December”

CNBC – by Everett Rosenfeld

Continue reading “Apple announces $2B global command center in Arizona”

True Activist – by Amanda Froelich

Context is everything… especially when it drives an industry whose main objective is to benefit from increased profit.

While there is no arguing the world holds a bounty of beauty and mysteries to be explored, changing times have diminished some of the mysticism which is often displayed in photographs of ancient wonders.   Continue reading “16 Of Your Favorite Landmarks Photographed WITH Their True Surroundings!”

The Hill – by Kristina Wong

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who is considering a 2016 presidential bid, said on Sunday it would require 10,000 American “boots on the ground” to stop the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Syria.

Coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria won’t destroy the group, but do help in some regard, Graham said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”   Continue reading “Graham: 10K US boots on the ground needed to stop ISIS in Syria”

All Gov – by Ken Broder

A Mother Jones story by Jaeah Lee last August didn’t have an answer to the question posed in its headline: “Exactly How Often Do Police Shoot Unarmed Black Men?” So it painted a portrait using anecdotes and tangentially-related statistics.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged two weeks ago that there is no answer. “The troubling reality is that we lack the ability right now to comprehensively track the number of incidents of either uses of force directed at police officers or uses of force by police,” he said in a speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.   Continue reading “How Many People are Killed by Police? Crowdsourcing Identifies the Officer-Involved Killings Government Doesn’t Count”

Global Research – by Amy Worthington

Electric “smart” meters were installed in Cindy deBac’s Scottsdale, Arizona, neighborhood in 2012. She recalls the day a new meter was mounted on her home as a sort of digital Pearl Harbor attack. “I’ve never been so sick in my life,” she says. “Nausea, a crushing migraine headache, and painful heart palpitations laid me low right away.”

Healthy and exuberant before the installation, deBac became unable to sleep normally. She soon became exhausted and tearfully anxious as she struggled with rashes and a chronically racing heart. For respite she spent nights away in her car. One of her dogs died of cancer within six months of the meter’s installation and the other developed large tumors. Today Cindy leads a global educational crusade to warn others about the myriad devastating health effects that electromagnetic radiation can unleash.   Continue reading “Smart Meters—Not so Smart.“I’ve Never Been so Sick in my Life””

Yahoo News – by Mark Stevenson

SIERRA MADRE DEL SUR, Mexico (AP) — Red and purple blossoms with fat, opium-filled bulbs blanket the remote creek sides and gorges of the Filo Mayor mountains in the southern state of Guerrero.

The multibillion-dollar Mexican opium trade starts here, with poppy farmers so poor they live in wood-plank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing.   Continue reading “Mexican opium farmers expand plots to supply US heroin boom”

Counter Current News – by Jackson Marciana

The Cleveland Police Department has been accused of “rampant corruption” in a report issued by the Department of Justice.

Federal investigators concluded that police in Cleveland use unnecessary and unreasonable force at what they consider a “significant rate.” They also employ “dangerous tactics” that the Department of Justice says put the community at risk.   Continue reading “Cop Arrested, Charged With Kidnapping, Domestic Violence and Intimidation”