Month: June 2015

Penn Live – by Barbara Miller

A Hummelstown tavern is coming under fire for agreeing to host a fundraising pig roast to benefitLisa Mearkle, the police officer charged in the Feb. 2 shooting death of a South Hanover Township man.

“It’s ridiculous. It’s a slap in the family’s face,” said Connie Condran of Hummelstown, one of the commenters on Chick’s Hummelstown Tavern’s Facebook page regarding the Aug. 2 benefit planned by Hunt for Justice.   Continue reading “Hummelstown tavern to hold pig roast to benefit Officer Lisa Mearkle, charged in fatal shooting”

Sputnik

Think that since you “aren’t breaking any laws,” police brutality doesn’t affect you? Well, that’s certainly not the case in one Michigan city. Instead of violent cops paying for their own wrong-doings, the legal expenses associated with police brutality will come directly from taxpayer pockets.

The city of Inkster is giving residents a one-time tax hike to pay for the massive settlement for Floyd Dent, a man brutally beaten during a traffic stop.   Continue reading “Michigan City Raises Taxes to Pay for Police Brutality”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Just days after George Soros warned that World War 3 was imminent unless Washington backed down to China on IMF currency basket inclusion, the hacker collective CyberBerkut has exposed the billionaire as the real puppet-master behind the scenes in Ukraine. In 3 stunning documents, allegedly hacked from email correspondence between the hedge fund manager and Ukraine President Poroshenko, Soros lays out “A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine,” expresses his confidence that the US should provide Ukraine with lethal military assistance, “with same level of sophistication in defense weapons to match the level of opposing force,” and finally explained Poroshenko’s “first priority must be to regain control of financial markets,” which he assures the President could be helped by The Fed adding “I am ready to call Jack Lew of the US Treasury to sound him out about the swap agreement.”   Continue reading “Hacked Emails Expose George Soros As Ukraine Puppet-Master”

Prisoners into Profit

The two largest private prison companies alone have spent $35 million on lobbying and campaign contributions to state and local officials since 1989. Evidently, it was money well spent:

The number of prisoners housed in private facilities has jumped 1600% since 1990.

Continue reading “Private prison companies are exploiting our corrupt political system to lock people up… for profit.”

New York Daily News – by EDGAR SANDOVAL, LARRY MCSHANE

A Bronx politician wants the sins of New York’s children visited upon their parents.

City Council member Andy King plans to ask state legislators to hold mom and dad liable if their law-breaking kids aged 17 and under are caught carrying guns.   Continue reading “Bronx City Councilman wants parents held liable for gun-toting kids’ actions: ‘You brought them into this world’”

NPR – by Bill Campbell

The Senate has approved the USA Freedom Act, which will alter the way U.S. agencies conduct surveillance and gather data. A final vote on the bill came late Tuesday afternoon, after amendments to the bill failed.

Update at 9:30 p.m. ET: Obama’s Signature

Following an expedited enrollment process, President Obama signed the bill into law late Tuesday.

Continue reading “Senate Approves USA Freedom Act, Obama Signs It, After Amendments Fail”

Don’t know if this has been discussed, so I thought I’d offer what I’m doing for the 3 AM visit. I’m installing these brackets on the inside of all my house doors.

When the jack boots try to ram any of my house doors, their rams will bounce back, giving me time to respond and blow their asses away.

I’m using 3 1/2 inch screws with washers on the heads, and 3 sets per door.

 

Counter Current News

Much to the surprise of the general public, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of expanded the ability of law enforcement to search without warrants.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority of the court which ruled 6 to 3 that “when occupants of a residents disagree on whether they will admit police without a warrant, the objecting occupant must be physically present,” the Washington Post reported. “That doesn’t change if police have removed the objector,” the court added.   Continue reading “Supreme Court Rules Police DO NOT Need A Warrant To Search Your Home”

LA Times – by PATRICK MCGREEVY

The state Senate on Tuesday approved a hotly debated measure that would allow many immigrants in the country illegally to sign up for special healthcare programs that would offer the same benefits as Medi-Cal.

The action comes just days after lawmakers significantly scaled back the plan, which originally would have offered state-subsidized Medi-Cal to people in the country without authorization.   Continue reading “California Senate OKs health coverage for many immigrants here illegally”

The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

Robin Speronis had been living in an off-grid home for many years without incident, until she was interviewed by a local FOX affiliate in November of 2013. Shortly thereafter, the city of Cape Coral tagged a “notice to vacate” on her property, due to multiple code violations, all of which stem from the fact that her home isn’t connected to water, sewage, or the electrical grid. The city has tried to argue that she is in violation of the International Property Maintenance Code for relying on rainwater and solar panels, instead of utilities.   Continue reading “Florida Court Rules “Off Grid” Living Illegal”

Breitbart – by Pam Key

Monday while President Barack Obama was answering questions at a town hall with YSEALI Fellows, an exchange program for community leaders from ASEAN, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, he said his administration has restored the Untied States as the “the most respected country on earth.”   Continue reading “Obama: I’ve Restored the US as the ‘Most Respected Country in the World’”

The Daily Beast – by Shane Harris

President Obama and his top national security officials spent the past few days warning that once intelligence-gathering authorities in the Patriot Act expired just after midnight Sunday, the United States would face a greater risk of a terrorist attack.

That argument is highly debatable—at least, in the short term. Not only does the U.S. government have all sorts of other ways to collect the same kind of intelligence outlined in the Patriot Act, but there’s also a little-noticed back door in the act that allows U.S. spy agencies to gather information in pretty much the same ways they did before.   Continue reading “Zombie Patriot Act Will Keep U.S. Spying—Even if the Original Dies”

Daily Kos – by Shawn King

On July 31, 2013, Jermaine McBean, a 33-year-old computer engineer with no criminal record, paid $100 for a camouflage BB gun at his local pawn shop. As he walked to his home with his headphones on, listening to music, he was shot and killed by police in Oakland Park, Florida. Police claimed that he ignored their requests to put down his weapon and then aimed the gun, which was empty, at them in an aggressive manner.

Now, nearly two year later, it turns out the police told multiple lies in attempt to cover up their killing of McBean. Below we will expose each of the lies they told.

Continue reading “Florida police murder computer engineer as he listens to music; attempted cover-up exposed”

Continue reading “Supplemental To Waco Biker Story”

Sharyl Attkisson

Recent Rise in Vaccine Victims’ Court Decisions and Concessions Not Reflected in Revised Government Chart

In March, the federal government removed the latest vaccine injury court statistics—more than a year’s worth of data—from one of its publicly reported charts. It was an abrupt departure from the normal practice of updating the figures monthly.   Continue reading “Government Wipes Recent Vaccine Injury Data from Website”

RT

Oklahoma’s Republican governor recently signed a bill that stops local lawmakers from banning hydraulic fracturing or other oil and gas drilling operations.

Governor Mary Fallin said the legislation affirms the three-person Oklahoma Corporation Commission as the primary regulator of oil and gas drilling, adding the agency allows for “reasonable” restrictions regarding setback, noise, traffic issues and fencing. She said the bill was needed to prevent a patchwork of municipal regulations across the state.   Continue reading “Oklahoma lawmakers officially prohibit local fracking bans”