Month: May 2015

Information Liberation – by M. David and Jackson Marciana

The police simply weren’t moving fast enough for a man looking for his abducted cousin. In spite of the fact that officers had been called, they were not taking the kidnapping seriously.

That’s why the victim’s cousin kicked in the back door of an abandoned house where his kidnapped relative had been taken and shot and killed her kidnapper, according to law enforcement representatives in Louisiana.   Continue reading “Police Wouldn’t Do It, So Kidnap Victim’s Family Kicked Down Door and Killed Abductor”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In early March, we discussed the rather deplorable state of Illinois’ public pension plans which, we noted, are underfunded by some 60%. On a statewide basis, making up the deficit would cost around $22,000 per household, which gives you an idea of the cost to taxpayers of the grossly underfunded pension liabilities.   Continue reading “Chicago “Junking” Triggers $2.2 Billion Payment, Deepening Financial Crisis”

Global Research – by Charlotte Silver

In October 2014, the Israeli firm International Security and Defence Systems (ISDS) announced it had won a $2.2 billion contract with the Brazilian government to coordinate security at the huge sports event. The Times of Israel described the deal as “an unprecedented achievement for Israel,” while senior figures from the company stated it had already begun work.

But on 8 April a division dealing with large events at Brazil’s justice ministry denied that ISDS had been awarded any contract.   Continue reading “Brazil Cancels $2 Billion Contract with Israeli Security Firm for 2016 Olympics”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- On May 4 2015, Sandy Hook Promise, the beneficiary of Tim McGraw and Chase Bryant’s upcoming gun control fundraiser, praised the passage of Senate Bill 941, which heaves new gun control requirements on the backs of law-abiding Oregonians.

On April 14, Breitbart News reported that Tim McGraw had announced the gun control fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise. Two days later McGraw’s representative sent Breitbart News a statement, explaining that McGraw was playing the gun control fundraiser for “community,” not gun control.   Continue reading “Oregon Gun Control Law Supported by Sandy Hook Promise Funded by Tim McGraw Concert”

RT

What some may regard as a noble or even heroic action landed an Iraq war veteran in jail. Michael Hammons was arrested in Georgia and charged with criminal trespassing after breaking the glass of a hot car to free a panting pet.

Witnesses who saw the man save the dog say they had actually noticed the canine inside the hot Ford Mustang before Hammons ever came on the scene. But, whilst they were waiting for the police, the Desert Storm veteran decided to take action.   Continue reading “US Army veteran arrested after saving distressed dog from hot car”

Capital New York – by Jeremy Barr

Everytown for Gun Safety, the nonprofit advocacy organization co-chaired by Michael Bloomberg, is launching an adjacent news operation, scheduled to debut in June, Capital has learned.

James Burnett, who resigned from The New Republic in January as part of a larger staff exodus, has signed on as editorial director of the project. Burnett served as story editor for T.N.R., and also spent several years as news editor for New York magazine.   Continue reading “Bloomberg’s gun safety sets up an editorial operation”

Mail.com

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A jet-fighter from a Saudi-led coalition struck a military convoy belonging to Shiite rebels and their allies in southern Yemen on Wednesday, straining a humanitarian, five-day cease-fire that took hold the previous day.

Meanwhile, a senior Iranian military official warned the U.S.-backed coalition against blocking a Yemen-bound Iranian aid ship, saying that such a move would “spark a fire” in the region. Wednesday’s airstrike in Yemen’s Abyan province was in response to an attempt by the rebels known as Houthis to reinforce their forces in the nearby city of Aden, a port city on the Arabian Sea, said Yemeni security officials. The Houthis acknowledged the airstrike, but said nothing about the convoy. There were no immediate reports on casualties or damage resulting from the airstrike.   Continue reading “Saudi airstrike hits Yemen rebel convoy, strains cease-fire”

Consortium News – by John Chuckman

When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped by its own missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and re-establish its authority.

Any observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but certainly is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a considerable time.   Continue reading “America as Dangerous Flailing Beast”

Mail.com

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Five people were found shot to death Tuesday evening in a southern Arizona home in what police suspect was a murder-suicide.

Tucson police officers responding to a call found the bodies in the single-story home about 6 p.m., police Sgt. Pete Dugan said. All of the dead had “obvious signs of gunshot trauma,” he told The Associated Press.   Continue reading “Police: 5 found shot to death in Tucson home”

American Everyman – by Scott Creighton

To start off let’s make this very clear: President Peace Prize did not kill Osama bin Laden. I don’t care which version of the fairy tale you chose to “BELIEVE” in.

Sy Hersh’s painfully contrived new version of “The Death of bin Laden 2.0” is still being hotly debated across the interwebs. I picked his offering apart the other day and have very little interest in spending much time on his ridiculously cobbled together narrative that he clearly cooked up, by his own admission, like a stenographer recording the secret CIA “retired official’s” new version of events.   Continue reading “CIA Assets in Pakistan Back-up Seymour Hersh’s Propaganda “The Death of bin Laden 2.0″”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Americans harmed by vaccines often receive little or nothing after a long legal battle despite a $3.5 billion federal fund designed to help them.

“Nobody who develops the vaccine, who markets and profits from the vaccine, who regulates the vaccine, who makes policy for it, who promotes it, who gives it, is accountable in a civil court of law,” Barbara Loe Fisher, the President of the National Vaccine Information Center, told Cronkite News.   Continue reading “The Government Pays Out $3.5 Billion For Vaccine Injuries – And You Probably Didn’t Even Know It”

Old-Thinker News – by Daniel Taylor

Special Ops Command seeks to “Operationalize” the homeland; “…informationally aware, smartphone‐enabled urban populations and their satisfaction—or lack of satisfaction—with local, regional, and even global conditions…” presents challenge to military.

Is Jade Helm part of the plan to “Operationalize the CONUS base”?

Recent military exercises across the country have stirred concern among American citizens rightly concerned about expanding federal power.Rasmussen reports that 45% of voters are concerned that the government “…will use U.S. military training operations to impose greater control over some states…”   Continue reading “Document: Jade Helm Commander Plans to “Operationalize the CONUS Base””

American Digest

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, “My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.   Continue reading “Two Wolves”

NBC New York – by Marc Santia, Jonathan Dienst and Pei-Sze Cheng

The hammer-wielding stranger who attacked four people in separate ambushes within a span of six hours in Manhattan Monday has been fatally shot in a confrontation with police, authorities and law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation tell NBC 4 New York.

The suspect, an image of whom had been captured by surveillance cameras and released by police Tuesday, was killed at the scene near West 37th Street and Eighth Avenue around 10 a.m. Wednesday, sources said. Sources said he tried to attack a female officer and was shot.   Continue reading “Hammer-Wielding Suspect Linked to Monday’s Attacks Shot Dead After Trying to Hit Officer in Midtown: Police”

Jerusalem Post

In one of her most dramatic interviews to date, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the Associated Press that Israel must provide her information on alleged 2014 Gaza War crimes or she may be forced to decide whether to launch a full criminal investigation based solely on information likely provided to her by human rights critics of Israel.

In the interview, which broke early Wednesday Israel-time but took place in New York on Tuesday leading up to a major speech by Bensouda to the UN Security Council, the ICC Prosecutor said that neither Israel nor the Palestinians had provided any official information to date.   Continue reading “ICC prosecutor urges Israel to provide information for Gaza war crimes probe”