Aljazeera

A UN inquiry has blamed Israeli security forces for seven deadly attacks on UN schools in Gaza that were used as shelters for safety during last year’s offensive.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement on Monday that he deplored the attacks that killed at least 44 Palestinians and injured at least 227 others at the UN sites.

“It is a matter of the utmost gravity that those who looked to them for protection and who sought and were granted shelter there had their hopes and trust denied,” Ban added.   Continue reading “UN blames Israel for school attacks during Gaza war”

homeschool-michigan-billCounter Current News – by M. David, April 18, 2015

A new bill in Michigan would require homeschoolers to be monitored by the State with two annual visits from social workers.

The bill was introduced this week, after two children were found dead in a freezer by officers serving an eviction. The children had been dead for two years, but their mother had told everyone who asked about them that they were being homeschooled.   Continue reading “Bill Would Force Homeschoolers To Have Home Inspections by Social Workers”

Activist Post – by Heather Callaghan

Why are extreme and sadistic incidents increasingly taking place in public schools? Let’s say 90-plus percent of school faculty and staff are looking out for the well-being of students. Unfortunately there are predatory characters in various school settings who are punishing students forsharing, checking into underwear for poop, making them kneel before administration, forcing one to clean out a poop-clogged toilet with bare hands…

And now, a nearly complete strip search on middle-school girls, complete with ogling, bra unhooking and an order to “shake.” Parents say there was a rub-down which constitutes sexual assault (contact) and abuse. What if this had been your daughter?   Continue reading “Middle School Teens Were Sexually Violated to Search for Marijuana”

Straight Forward in a Crooked World

I get inundated with “security advice” questions all the time in life. Riot breaks out somewhere, the emails and phone calls come in. Spree shooter sets about murdering as many people as he possibly can, the emails and phone calls come in. A bad guy goes an…well you get the picture.

There’s always this string of questions. What caliber? What plan? What tactic? What bag should I EDC (every day carry) and what gear should I EDC in my EDC bag?   Continue reading “If I may offer some advice….”

Photo - Rockie Yardley, Edmond Police crime lab technician, looks at the freezer for storing biological evidence at the new Edmond Police Department state-of-the-art crime lab. PHOTO BY STEVE GOUCH, THE OKLAHOMAN <strong>Steve Gooch - The Oklahoman </strong>News OK – by Diana Baldwin

EDMOND — Edmond’s crime lab technicians can’t wait to move into their state-of-the-art police crime lab being built near 33rd Street and Broadway.

The 15,000-square-foot building, which includes vehicle and evidence storage, is expected to be finished by August.

“It will be one of the finest in the central part of the country,” said Rockie Yardley, a crime lab technician. “Agencies twice our size wish they had a lab this size.”

Yardley, who has worked with the Edmond Police Department for 35 years, admits he is excited about the new crime lab.   Continue reading “$29 Million Police Crime Lab or ‘Public Safety Center Complex’ Has A ‘SAFE ROOM’”

brackenWestern Rifle Shooters – by Matt Bracken

I saw a fascinating covert DHS convoy Sunday in South Carolina on I-95.

On Sunday, April 27th at 3:30 pm I was driving by myself southbound on I-95 in the middle of South Carolina. The speed limit was 70 so I was going 80. I passed a convoy of DHS vehicles traveling in tight formation in the slow lane moving at about 75. None of the vehicles was marked in any way with any government or law enforcement decals or insignia. However, they all had black and white U.S. government tags on their rear bumpers.   Continue reading “.Gov OpTempo Increase?”

Liberty’s Torch – by Francis W. Porretto

Rahm Emanuel laid down the maxim “You never let a crisis go to waste,” and come Hell or high water, Barack Hussein Obama will abide by it:

     During a joint press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister Tuesday, Barack Obama used a question about Baltimore to further his views on federalizing local police forces without calling it federalization.     The Obama task force on policing is in Baltimore along with the attorney from the Civil Rights Division to push his agenda, he told the assembled…. Continue reading “Quickies: Crisis-Unwasted Dept.”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

While Baltimore burns, the city has proven itself to be yet another staging ground in a long line of scenes involving “violent protests,” riots, and racial violence following an incident concerning police brutality, real or otherwise.

Although the issues that have set off the spark in most of these protests were entirely legitimate, government agencies, foundations, organizations, and NGOs immediately swooped in to divert the protests into racially charged fit throwing and often violent riots.   Continue reading “Baltimore Riots: A Product Of The Soros Machine”

emotionNatural News – by David Gutierrez

The active ingredient in Tylenol might numb people’s emotional reactions, according to a study conducted by researchers from Ohio State University and published in the journal Psychological Science.

“People who took acetaminophen didn’t feel the same highs or lows as did the people who took placebos,” researcher Baldwin Way said.   Continue reading “Painkillers kill your emotions and numb your mind, study suggests”

Stop the Drug War – by P Smith

A California game warden shot and killed a suspected marijuana grower during a raid early this morning at a federal wildlife refuge near Elk Grove. The as-yet-unidentified man becomes the 22nd person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.

According to the Sacramento Bee, citing law enforcement sources, a team composed of agents from the state Department of Justice Mountain and Valley Marijuana Investigation team, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife game warden hit a suspected marijuana grow just after sunrise.   Continue reading “California Game Warden Kills Armed Pot Grower”

Gov. Jerry Brown speaks with mayors of California cities after a news conference in Sacramento on Tuesday, April 28, 2015.Sac Bee – by David Siders

Gov. Jerry Brown, touting what he called a “high bar” on climate change, on Wednesday issued an ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction target for the state.

The target, contained in an executive order and expected to be folded into pending legislation, seeks to reduce emissions in California 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.

The goal is in line with one adopted by the European Union last year, and proponents characterized it as the most aggressive in North America.   Continue reading “Jerry Brown issues a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target”

The Saker

Ladies and Gents, true democracy is patented by the U.S. Every nation has to buy this patented democracy from the U.S. Your country has to have a PCD (politically correct democracy) issued by the US State Department. If your country refuses to pay for the patent and attempts to use a pirated copy of homegrown democracy, your people will be punished. You are being informed that, judging by your browser’s IP address, your country’s democracy is not the right type, that your country’s leader is a Herr Hitler, and everything has to be replaced via bloody government coups, bombing of the civilian population, looting of treasures and museums and murders and tortures of members of the national elite. Unless your country pays, of course, and agrees to become a passive recipient of forcible intercourse. A U.S. government website legal disclaimer.   Continue reading “Ukraine SITREP April 29. 2015 by Scott”

A 2012 photo inside the NSA security operations center (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)Mint Press News – by Jon Queally, Common Dreams

A bipartisan bill, designed to rein in the bulk collection of the private communications of American citizens, was introduced Tuesday by members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, ahead of an upcoming expiration date for key Patriot Act provisions that have given legal authority to some of the most controversial domestic surveillance practices revealed over the last two years.

With a June 1 expiration for Sections 206 and 215 of the USA Patriot Act, initially rammed through Congress in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the revisions contained in the new reform bill—submitted as the USA Freedom Act of 2015 (pdf)—would reauthorize certain aspects of that law while seeking to reform ways the government uses its spying capabilities. A similar reform bill was introduced last year in Congress, but ultimately did not gain enough support to pass.   Continue reading “Patriot Act Re-authorization Debate Heats Up In Congress With ‘USA Freedom Act’”