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The Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”
― Walter Scott
The death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore resident who died after sustaining a spinal cord injury while in police custody, has been ruled a homicide. State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby has charged all six officers involved in the incident and said Gray’s arrest was illegal. Continue reading “Two Tales of a City: Something is Rotten in Baltimore”
The information necessary to hack a military drone is freely available to the public, in academic publications and online documents, according to an Israeli defense manufacturer.
One such paper was published just a month before Iran claimed it downed a CIA stealth drone in 2011, Esti Peshin said Monday at the Defensive Cyberspace Operations and Intelligence conference in Washington DC. Peshin is the director of cyber programs for Israel Aerospace Industries. Continue reading “Just Google It: Info On How To Hack A Military Drone Is Already Online”
It hasn’t been a good day for the Baltimore Fraternity Order of Police Lodge 3 (FOP). The police union published a public letter this morning that asked State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to assign a special prosecutor to investigate Freddie Gray’s death and included a subtle threat to the political career of her husband, City Councilman Nick Mosby, only to have Marilyn Mosby announce charges against six officers a few minutes later. Baltimore citizens celebrated in the streets when the charges were announced, and Mosby got a flood of press coverage, with a New York Times headline announce she is “Seen as Tough on Police Misconduct” and a New York magazine post calling her a “certified bad ass.” Continue reading “Union for Baltimore police attempts to raise funds for arrested officers, gets fundraiser almost immediately shut down”
Conservative commentators are up in arms over the State Department’s decision to deny a visa to a Catholic nun who was part of an Iraqi delegation supposed to testify before Congress about Islamic State (ISIS) atrocities.
The US consulate in Erbil rejected the visitor visa application of Sister Diana Momeka earlier this week, saying she was “not able to demonstrate that [her] intended activities in the United States would be consistent with the classification of the visa.” Continue reading “US denies visa to nun set to testify about ISIS atrocities”
A man in Florida is suing a local hospital for emotional distress after his amputated leg ended up in a dumpster with his nametag still attached to it.
The lawsuit comes after the family of 56-year-old John Timiriasieff was contacted by detectives to tell them his leg, removed in October at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, had been found. They were investigating whether he had been the victim of foul play. Continue reading “Florida man sues hospital after it threw away his leg in trash”
More than one in four U.S. renters have to use at least half their family income to pay for housing and utilities.
That’s the finding of an analysis of Census data by Enterprise Community Partners, a nonprofit that helps finance affordable housing. The number of such households has jumped 26 percent to 11.25 million since 2007. Continue reading “1 in 4 U.S. renters must use half their pay for housing costs”
Following shocking revelations of child sexual abuse by French peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic, the UN has warned that it is “horribly possible” that information about more such cases may emerge.
As the investigation continues into the alleged French crimes and troop misconduct, UN human rights spokesman, Rupert Colville admitted that “it is possible, it’s horribly possible,” that further inquiries will reveal more unreported instances. Continue reading “‘Horribly possible’: More child-rape cases by peacekeepers could emerge – UN”
With the right expertise in molecular biology, one could start a basic laboratory to modify human embryos using a genome-editing computer technique all for a couple thousand dollars, according to a new report.
Genetic modification has received heightened scrutiny recently following last week’s announcement that Chinese researchers had, for the first time, successfully edited human embryos’ genomes. The team at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China, used CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats), a technique that relies on “cellular machinery” used by bacteria in defense against viruses. Continue reading “Lab for genetic modification of human embryos just $2,000 away – report”
I’d like to share with you a life-changing experience that happened to me when I was in the worst shape physically (and psychologically) that I had ever been in.
My troubles began on Christmas morning in ’95, as I was driving a friend to her son’s house in San Pedro. We were sitting at a red light behind a Toyota Forerunner for at least a half a minute, when a car (a Cadillac with a drunk driver, no less) hit us from behind. Unfortunately, I happened to be talking to Lee at that moment, and I was facing her. I never saw it coming. We were slammed into the truck in front of us, and my head was snapped sideways. The impact tore the custom bumper most of the way off the truck, but didn’t do much damage to my car. Continue reading “The ‘other’ MSM”
Natural Society – by Robert Harrington
Survivalist communities and preppers all over America have learned that properly tilled land can produce tremendous amounts of food. Well-balanced soil is quite generous and will give back much more than it receives. A few organic seeds, adequate watering, and some rich compost can provide even a novice farmer with a bountiful harvest.
Ever since Big Agra took over the farming of America’s vast farmlands, most people are disconnected from the process of food production from seed to table. Agribusiness has so thoroughly monopolized farming and husbandry that many children in the cities think that the food comes from supermarkets and grocery stores, not grainfields and orchard groves. Continue reading “How to Produce 6,000 Pounds of Food in Small Spaces”
High Country News – by Sarah Gilman
In October of 2013, a helicopter sprayed a cocktail of herbicides over four clearcuts in a valley north of Gold Beach, Oregon, a coastal community at the mouth of the Rogue River. Logging companies rely on the practice to keep weeds and shrubs from outcompeting tree seedlings. The chemicals, though – including 2,4-D, an ingredient in Agent Orange – spread beyond their intended targets. As Rebecca Clarren reported in a cover story for High Country News last November, 35 nearby residents fell ill on the same day, reporting diarrhea, rashes, nosebleeds, bleeding lungs, and sickened animals. Continue reading “For rural Oregonians, protections from herbicides come up short”
Charlotte Observer – by Franco Ordoñez
North Carolina’s Republican senators have joined Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to file legislation prohibiting people with gang ties from gaining immigration benefits.
The bill comes after federal immigration officials admitted that, in 2013, they stopped the deportation of a gang member who is now the suspect in the February slayings of four people in Charlotte.
Emmanuel Jesus Rangel-Hernandez was granted special immigration status two years ago, despite being listed in a federal database as a gang member. Continue reading “NC Senators: Don’t let gang members get immigration benefits”
A medium-sized commercial weed grow with around 50 lights stands to save about $13,500 in electricity costs a year with the use of two Tesla Batteries. Those will also protect the plants in case of power outages while making the operation less visible to law enforcement. Elon Musk just made growing weed easier. Continue reading “How The Tesla Battery Will Benefit Marijuana Growers”
Blues legend B.B. King was in hospice care Friday at his home in Las Vegas, according to a longtime business associate with legal control over his affairs.
The 89-year-old musician posted thanks on his official website for fans’ well-wishes and prayers after he returned home from a brief hospitalization, said Laverne Toney, King’s longtime business manager and current power-of-attorney. Continue reading “Blues legend B.B. King tells fans he’s in hospice care”
KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KGPE) — A high-tech community called “Quay Valley” could be popping up in California soon. It would be a self-sustained, solar powered community with a unique high speed transportation system.
On the outskirts of Kings County, along the I-5, there is a field of dreams. 7,500 acres of farmland, destined for development, as far as Quay Hays is concerned. Continue reading “High-tech town with ‘Hyperloop’ proposed in California”
NEWPORT – Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and Washington, appears to be erupting.
Two scientists, including one from OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Center had forecast that such an event would take place there in 2015.
Geologists Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University and Scott Nooner of the University of North Carolina Wilmington made their forecast last September during a public lecture and followed it up with blog posts and a reiteration of their forecast just last week at a scientific workshop.
Continue reading “Undersea Volcano Appears to be Erupting off the Coast of Oregon and Washington”
NY Post – by Amanda Lozada, Leonica Valentine and Melkorka Licea
It was a May Day for Freddie Gray.
Over a thousand protesters marched from Union Square to Foley Square Friday, demanding “disarm the NYPD” just hours after Gray’s death was ruled a homicide at the hands of police.
Worker’s rights activists took to the streets alongside New Yorkers demonstrating against police brutality. Continue reading “‘Disarm the NYPD!’: Protesters respond to Gray homicide ruling”
Northville Patch – by Beth Dalbey
A Northville man may owe his life to New Hampshire rescue teams after he dislocated his hip while hiking in the White Mountain National Forest in 2012, but now he owes the state $9,300.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling that Edward Bacon was negligent when he set off on the five-day solo hike, the Associated Press reports. Continue reading “Court: Injured Michigan Hiker Must Pay $9,300 for Rescue”
