1poffPopular Resistance – by Andy Piascik

Perhaps you’ve noticed there are fewer post offices around. In the past decade, the United States Postal Service has closed almost 200 facilities nationwide in an aggressive effort to do away with and eventually privatize an institution that is older than the country itself. Included in that number are post offices that used to be on Main Street near St. Vincent’s Hospital and on Stratford Avenue. Like so many, they were closed and not replaced. Those closings have left Bridgeport, a city of 150,000 people, with exactly four post offices.   Continue reading “Save The Post Office Before It’s Too Late”

CBS Los Angeles

HUNTINGTON PARK (CBSLA.com) — Police officers in Huntington Park and South Gate faced allegations Wednesday from the families of seven children who claim they were physically and verbally abused while attending a San Luis Obispo boot camp.

The children were among 36 kids between the ages of 12 through 16 who participated in the Leadership Empowerment and Discipline (LEAD) program between May 17-24 at Camp San Luis Obispo, a California Army National Guard Military Base in San Luis Obispo.   Continue reading “Parents Allege Kids Physically, Verbally Abused By SoCal Police Officers At Boot Camp”

Featured photo - For Terrorist Fearmongers, It’s Always the Scariest Time EverThe Intercept – by Glenn Greenwald

Two weeks ago, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham was widely mocked for this breathless, fearmongering tweet:

Continue reading “For Terrorist Fearmongers, it’s Always the Scariest Time Ever”

Photo Credit: Operation Jade Helm and Beyond Facebook PageIntellihub

In the last two months we have documented over a dozen suspicious military movements throughout the country as well as numerous training exercises with a strong domestic focus.

From training for house to house raids on American homes to simulated explosions rocking neighborhoods, there has been an undeniable buildup and preparation for martial law.   Continue reading “Photo: Mass casualty units seen on Chester County, South Carolina highway”

KSLA

GARLAND CITY, AR (KSLA) –Miller County emergency management officials ordered a mandatory evacuation around midnight Thursday for Garland City.

The announcement came just hours after officials told KSLA News 12 there was no evacuation.

Office of Emergency Management Director Larry Pritchett says, “We have a problem with the levee, it’s leaking and we’re on top of it. We’re going to manage it the best we can.”   Continue reading “Mandatory evacuation ordered for Garland City, AR”

Screen Shot 2015-06-04 at 10.24.11 AMLiberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

Efforts to limit seizures of money, homes and other property from people who may never be convicted of a crime are stalling out amid a wave of pressure from prosecutors and police.

Their effort, at least at the state level, appears to be working. At least a dozen states considered bills restricting or even abolishing forfeiture that isn’t accompanied by a conviction or gives law enforcement less control over forfeited proceeds. But most measures failed to pass.   Continue reading “Land of the Unfree – Police and Prosecutors Fight Aggressively to Retain Barbaric Right of “Civil Asset Forfeiture””

Filming Cops

Americans today suffer from Crab Bucket Syndrome.

When any one of us takes a stand and does something that takes balls — or ovaries — the timid and the brain-dead try to claw at us until we’re back down at the bottom.

Such is the case with Douglas Hughes, a man who decided to use a gyrocopter to protest the government. He is now facing nine and a half years in prison, with obedient police apologists calling him “crazy.”   Continue reading “Brave Man Stops Criminal, While Cops Cower and Hide With Guns Drawn”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

Tyranny is not a wholly definable condition. There are many forms of tyranny and many levels of control that exist in any one society at any given time. In fact, the most despicable forms of tyranny are often the most subtle; the kinds of tyranny in which the oppressed are deluded into thinking that because they have “choices”, that necessarily makes them “free”. Tyranny at its very core is not always the removal of choice, but the filtering of choice – the erasure of options leaving only choices most beneficial to the system and its controllers.   Continue reading “Tyranny: It Pisses Me Off”

north korea space programStars and Stripes – by ERIC TALMADGE

TOKYO — North Korean space agency officials say the country is developing a more advanced Earth observation satellite and are defending their right to conduct rocket launches whenever they see fit, despite protests by the United States and others that the launches are aimed primarily at honing military-use technologies.

The North launched its first and only satellite in 2012. The claim that it is working on another, made in an interview last week with an AP Television crew in Pyongyang, comes amid a flurry of attention to the country’s fledgling space agency, including a visit by leader Kim Jong Un to a new satellite control center that was repeatedly broadcast on North Korean TV early last month.   Continue reading “North Korea developing new satellite, defends space program”

A blanket of northern snow and lake-effect snow from the Great Lakes and clouds behind an Arctic cold front are seen in an image from NOAAThe Daily Caller – by Michael Bastasch

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have found a solution to the 15-year “pause” in global warming: They “adjusted” the hiatus in warming out of the temperature record.

New climate data by NOAA scientists doubles the warming trend since the late 1990s by adjusting pre-hiatus temperatures downward and inflating temperatures in more recent years.   Continue reading “NOAA Fiddles With Climate Data To Erase The 15-Year Global Warming ‘Hiatus’”

CNBC – by Everett Rosenfeld

The federal government is notifying millions of employees as it works to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records.

Federal officials suspect that Chinese hackers are behind the data breach, Dow Jones reported, citing sources.

“The FBI is working with our interagency partners to investigate this matter. We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously, and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace,” an FBI spokesman told CNBC.   Continue reading “US officials report massive breach of federal personnel data”

Washington Post – by Amber Phillips

Rick Perry isn’t just a longshot running for president four years after a disastrous 2012 bid. He’s also running for president with the dubious — and rare — distinction of being under indictment.

The former Texas governor, who announced his candidacy for president Thursday, is facing two felony charges that he abused his power to cut off funding for the state’s ethics agency and tried to coerce a public servant.   Continue reading “The indictment hanging over Rick Perry’s 2016 presidential bid, explained”

Reuters – by Courtney Sherwood

Gun-control advocates on Wednesday decried as a misguided political maneuver a vote by Oregon county commissioners against enforcement of new statewide gun background check requirements.

Lane County’s commissioners in a 4-1 vote on Tuesday decreed that local government could not afford to investigate violations of the new law, and affirmed the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.

Proponents of the stricter gun-sale rules, which go into effect in August, questioned whether the Lane County resolution would have any practical effect.   Continue reading “Oregon county votes against enforcing state gun law sparks outcry”

Residents are evacuated on farm vehicles at a village in the district of Karo near Mount Sinabung volcano, seen in the background, partly covered by clouds on June 3, 2015Sputnik

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Thousands of people have been evacuated on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island as the alert level over the eruption of the Sinabung volcano was raised to the highest level four, Indonesia’s Jakarta Post reports.

“Until this afternoon the evacuation is still going on,” Commander of the Mount Sinabung Disaster Mitigation Agency task force, Lt. Col. Asep Sukarna told the newspaper on Wednesday, adding that the pile of lava at the peak of Sunabung’s crater amounts to three million cubic meters and could slide down covering an area within a seven-kilometre (4-mile) radius around the volcano.   Continue reading “Mass Evacuation Underway on Indonesian Island as Sinabung Volcano Erupts”