Month: June 2015

Mail.com

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Despite a fatal lion attack the previous day, business ran pretty much as usual on Tuesday at the Lion Park north of Johannesburg, and visitors were driving through with all their windows rolled up.

An American woman — still unidentified — was killed by a lioness Monday when the animal attacked her through a car window. The car’s windows were open, contrary to park rules, park management said. Scott Simpson, assistant operations manager at the Lion Park, said Tuesday that it is “operating as usual” except the area where the attack occurred has been closed off. At the entrance, tour guides and private operators shepherded dozens of visitors into the park, driving minibus taxis and safari vans covered in wire mesh.   Continue reading “Business as usual at SAfrican lion park after fatal attack”

Mail.com

JIANLI, China (AP) — Divers on Tuesday pulled three people alive from inside a capsized cruise ship and searched for other survivors, state media said, giving some small hope to an apparently massive tragedy with well over 400 people still missing on the Yangtze River.

The tally of those brought to safety stood at 15 and at least five people were confirmed dead after the ship capsized during a storm Monday night with 458 people aboard, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The cruise was from Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing, and many of those aboard were elderly.   Continue reading “Survivors pulled from China boat capsizing; hundreds missing”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Not mowing the lawn regularly, having a missing shingle, and even failing to put curtains or screens on windows can lead to thousands of dollars in fines in some communities – and even jail if fines aren’t paid.

Pagedale, Missouri, residents Valarie and Vincent Blount face $1,810 in fines for such offenses as having peeling paint, having an overgrown tree and also not recycling, The St. Louis Post-Dispatchreported. Other residents have been fined for having barbecue pits and toys in the front yard, for having basketball hoops in the street, for not making their children wear bicycle helmets, and for walking in the street.   Continue reading “Get Jailed For Toys In Yard, Missing Shingles In This American Town”

Jon Rappoport

“Break down an event into fine enough particles, and you begin to see new things. You see the event is staged, of course, but you also find new key players, and they’re sometimes the ones you least expect to have an influence. When I say ‘influence’, I mean mind control, projected out like a great wave, rumbling over the populace, taking them to media heaven.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

This article is an example of what you can do when you watch a single television broadcast over and over, a dozen times, and analyze the effects blow by blow.   Continue reading “Media mind-control: case study: Arnold Schwarzenegger”

RT

While companies are pushing for the passage of the US Freedom Act, ordinary people don’t have any rights or civil liberties protection in cyberspace – something that is desperately needed, says Sascha Meinrath, director and co-founder of Thexlab.org.

RT: As we know, the US Senate failed to vote for an extension of certain provisions of the Patriot Act. However some are joking that although the Patriot Act has expired, the NSA still has Facebook. Are social networks really that susceptible to snooping?   Continue reading “Encrypted email: ‘Indicator for NSA to collect that information’”

Target Liberty

As I have reported, Rand Paul, on Sunday in Senate floor comments during his blockage of the bill that would allow NSA bulk data collection to go on, called for an increase in the number of FBI agents by 1,000.

According to the latest data from the FBI, there are currently 13,455 FBI special agents. Thus, Rand is calling for an increase in the number of agents by 7.4%.

For those who have been cheering on Rand’s so-called battle against Big Government, this is a stunning move by the Senator. It will be very difficult for true libertarians to defend. And, as I have said, it strongly suggests that Rand has no true libertarian instincts.   Continue reading “On Rand Paul’s Call to Increase the Number of FBI Agents by 7.4%”

Fox News

The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned.

The planes’ surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge’s approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. In a recent 30-day period, the agency flew above more than 30 cities in 11 states across the country, an AP review found.    Continue reading “FBI flying surveillance aircraft over US cities; planes traced to fake companies”

ABC News – by MIKE LEVINE and AARON KATERSKY

A Boston police officer has shot and killed a man who had been under surveillance by the FBI‘s Joint Terrorism Task Force, ABC News has learned.

An officer and an FBI agent approached the suspect at about 7 a.m. today in the parking lot of a CVS in Roslindale, Massachusetts, police said. The suspect pulled a “military-style knife,” prompting the officer to use lethal force, according to police.   Continue reading “Boston Police Officer Shoots and Kills Possible Terror Suspect”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

Yesterday morning, prior to the Senate debate that has resulted in the (brief) expiration of a few provisions in the PATRIOT Act, CIA director John Brennan went on one of those Sunday morning talk shows and made a complete fool of himself, pretending that merely debating things like the 4th Amendment was helping the terrorists. It started off with a claim that various bad people are “watching carefully” what happens, as if anyone honestly believes that terrorists are looking at last night’s vote and thinking, “Oh boy, now we can plan a new bombing campaign by calling America again!”   Continue reading “CIA Boss Claims That Merely Debating Surveillance Is Helping The Terrorists”

The Week

In a statement released Tuesday, WikiLeaks announced that it is offering a crowd-sourced $100,000 reward for the “missing chapters” of President Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal.

A video posted to WikiLeaks’ YouTube channel features top Democrats speaking out against the trade deal. According to its opponents, the deal would offer incentives for big businesses, while harming American workers.   Continue reading “WikiLeaks is crowd-sourcing $100,000 for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal”

WhoWhatWhy – by Ralph Lopez

Obscured by Jon Stewart’s well-publicized mockery of Texans’ reaction to Jade Helm 15—the US Army’s two-month-long exercise across nine states scheduled to begin in July—is the fact that the criticisms may not all be deranged droolings.

The Daily Show‘s Stewart made headlines earlier in May when he ridiculed Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s decision ordering the State Guard to “monitor” Jade Helm. The comedian-cum-newsman called Jade Helm critics “Lone Star lunatics.” But are they? Or is there more to the story? As always, WhoWhatWhy has remained agnostic while asking questions. Now, we provide a few initial answers. More will undoubtedly come.   Continue reading “Does Jade Helm Violate Posse Comitatus?”

WFAA

Whataburger announced Sunday that it will temporarily trim its breakfast hours due to a national egg shortage.

It’s a potentially earth-shattering decision for late-night and early-morning fast food lovers (read: college students) who are used to getting their breakfast food fix from 11 p.m. – 11 a.m.   Continue reading “Whataburger trims breakfast hours due to egg shortage”

Militia News – by Doug Hagmann

Most Americans obviously don’t know their history for if we did, we would be much more outraged and disturbed about the Jade Helm 15 military operation. Why? Because we’ve seen eerily similar situations play out in our nation before. In fact, this situation was a precursor to the first American Revolution.   Continue reading “Setting the Stage for the Second American Revolution”

Prolonged Field Care

I wanted to get this on the site as soon as I could after witnessing certain trends from participating in, and observing many training scenarios and AARs.  These principals glare at me each time I watch a medic go through a PFC scenario for the first time.  The light bulbs then start clicking on and they begin working toward these same solutions while in the middle of the scenario, when it is too late.  Learn from all of our hard-won lessons while you still have the luxury of doing so.   Continue reading “Principals for Practicing Effective Prolonged Field Care”

Star Tribune – by VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press

MOSCOW — The Russian maker of the Buk air defense missile system said Tuesday that it has concluded that Malaysian Airlines flight 17 was downed by an older version of the missile, which isn’t in service with the Russian military but is in Ukrainian arsenals.   Continue reading “Russian maker of the Buk missile says MH17 shot down by older missile, in Ukrainian service”

The Guardian – by Corrina Regnier

Ray Charles Staten Sr. should have celebrated his 60^th birthday this month. Instead, his family marked the fourth anniversary of his death. It all started, according to a lawsuit that settled in March 2015, when a small debt became a death sentence in the spring of 2011.

Unable to pay an outstanding debt of $409 in court fines, Mr Staten was arrested and sentenced to 16 days in Mississippi’s Harrison County Jail. Shortly after being booked at the jail, Mr Staten fell seriously ill. Despite his obvious symptoms and his cellmates’ cries for help, the jail’s privately-contracted medical staff allowed his condition to worsen until – on the fifth day of his sentence – he collapsed in his cell and, upon being transported to a medical center, could not be revived. He had suffered acute peritonitis, a life-threatening infection of the abdominal lining for which early treatment is essential.   Continue reading “America cannot lock its poor in debtor’s prisons to fund its police departments”

The Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane

An internal investigation of the Tyrannical Sexual Assaulters, er…I mean, the Transportation Security Administration, revealed some absolutely shocking information:

TSA agents are largely incompetent.

ABC News reported the exclusive story this morning. Here’s an excerpt from their coverage – emphasis mine.   Continue reading “Shocker: TSA Failed 95 Percent of Undercover Breach Tests”