Month: November 2015

The Daily Beast – by David Axe

The Pentagon is sending F-15Cs—supposedly to fight the ISIS war. But the jets only have air-to-air weapons, and ISIS has no planes. Which means the real adversary is Russia.

The U.S. Air Force is deploying to Turkey up to a dozen jet fighters specializing in air-to-air combat—apparently to help protect other U.S. and allied jets from Russia’s own warplanes flying over Syria. Continue reading “U.S. Brings Dogfighters to Counter Russians Over Syria”

The Free Thought Project – by William N. Grigg

Two short-tempered men run into each other in a bar in Enid, Oklahoma. The combustible mixture of alcohol and ego produces the predictable reaction – a brief, stupid, and inconclusive fight in which neither side is seriously injured. When police officers arrive on the scene, onlookers expect that both parties to the altercation will be hauled away in handcuffs.

However, after one of them produces a police credential, he is allowed to handcuff the other and place him under arrest for a felonious assault on an off-duty law enforcement officer. It doesn’t matter that the individual making the arrest might have been the same one who started the fight.   Continue reading “State Law Makes it a Felony to Touch a Police Officer Even Off-Duty and Out of Uniform”

Intellihub

VAN WERT, Ohio (INTELLIHUB) — A strange fibrous material was once again spotted falling out of the sky.

This marks the third documented incident in the past 12 months involving a fibrous material of an unknown origin to have been dropped from the sky inside the Continental United States. But what makes government’s latest drop-spot for these ominous fibers particularly interesting, and even more concerning, is that for the first time it’s now happening outside of Arizona.   Continue reading “Chem-webs spotted falling from sky, this time in Ohio”

Whale.to – by Alan R Cantwell Jr., M.D.

New Dawn No. 68 (September-October 2001)

Disinformation and Nuclear Fallout
Secret Radiation Experiments
The Atomic Energy Commission
Uranium Mine Workers
Medical Ethics of the Cold War
The President’s Advisory Committee
Keeping Government Secrets
Current Secret Biomedical Experimentation
Does Secret Medical Experimentation Continue?   Continue reading “How scientists secretly used US citizens as guinea pigs during the Cold War”

The Free Thought Project – by Andrew Emett

Monday night marked the passing of 1,000 people killed by police in the U.S. this year. Although officers claim these killings were justified, video evidence and witness statements often contradict the official narrative.

In contrast, 105 law enforcement officers have died since the beginning of the year. Last year, the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund reported 117 officer fatalities. Instead of waging a fictitious war on cops, officer fatalities have actually been declining since 2007 and 2001, which reported 192 and 241 deaths respectively.   Continue reading “1,000 – The Number of Lives Taken in 2015 by those Sworn to Protect”

The New American – by Alex Newman

Quick, do something! There are John Birch Society types ready to spread “conspiracy theories” from the “margins” into the “mainstream,” and they seem to be hiding under practically every bed in America! At least that’s the impression given in a new “intelligence report” by the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization whose slanderous vitriol against conservatives and Christians was recently implicated in federal court in a recentterrorism case. In its report the SPLC reputedly aims to expose false conspiracy theories that are being churned out by right-wing radicals. But, ironically, while expressing outrage over “conspiracy theories” on the “right,” the SPLC report sounded like an expanded version of Hillary Clinton’s bizarre conspiracy theory about a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” To hear the SPLC tell it, practically everyone in America to the right of Obama is participating in a giant conspiracy to spread conspiracy theories. For what purpose is never explained, although apparently it is all very bad for “democracy.”   Continue reading “SPLC Unhinged: Almost Everyone Is a “Conspiracy Theorist””

Natural Society – by Mike Barrett

Numerous industries would benefit from the industrialization of hemp as they once did in America. But thanks to the federal government, this widely-diverse crop has been highly underutilized, even despite the fact that it is entirely different than psychoactive marijuana. But now in a huge game-changing move for the US, North Carolina has recently legalized the cultivation and manufacturing of industrial hemp.

Spring Hope, North Carolina has one of the only large hemp decortication plants in the US. Decortication is the process of stripping the bark (long fiber) from the stalks, allowing the crop to be better utilized for production. Say hello to more clothing, jewelry, rope, fuel, and much more derived from hemp.   Continue reading “Win! Industrial Hemp Now Legal in North Carolina”

CBC News

Two kinds of genetically modified pigs are on their way to becoming pork on our dinner plates. If they do, they’ll be some of the very first genetically modified animals to enter our food system, along with genetically modified salmon that is also trying to gain regulatory approval.

But consumers are wary and lack confidence in governments’ readiness to regulate this new class of food product, researchers and activists say.   Continue reading “Genetically modified pigs raise concerns about food regulation”

People – by Steve Helling

Authorities have released the identities of the people killed in Saturday morning’s shooting spree in Colorado Springs, in which the shooter killed three people before he died during a shootout with police.

The first person shot was Andrew Alan Myers, 35, who was riding a bicycle. Witnesses said that he begged for his life before being killed.    Continue reading “Colorado Springs Massacre: Cops Identify Victims and Shooter”

Huffington Post – by Zach Carter

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are angling to slip two pieces of bank deregulation into a major highway funding bill that is expected to pass with broad bipartisan support.

According to a source familiar with discussions, Republicans are trying to remove tighter regulations that were imposed on banks with at least $50 billion in assets after the 2008 financial crisis. They also are aiming to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), which has worked to prevent big banks, payday lenders and other financial firms from ripping off households.   Continue reading “House Republicans Are Trying To Slip Bank Deregulation Into Highway Bill”

MassPrivateI

USA Today’s Brad Heath shows an out of control American Police State claiming traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles is SUSPICIOUS!   Continue reading “Police State America claims traveling from one city to another city is SUSPICIOUS”

Reuters – by David Dekok

Opening arguments are expected to begin on Tuesday in the murder trial of a Pennsylvania police officer who shot and killed a suspect last February as he lay face down in the snow, immobilized by a Taser charge.

The shooting death of David Kassick, 59, by Officer Lisa Mearkle, 37, was captured on the video camera in her Taser, police say. Her lawyers successfully fought release of the video prior to her trial, saying it could taint potential jurors.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania officer who shot, killed prone suspect heads to trial”

Washington Post – by Michael E. Miller

Across the country, high schools are increasingly confronting a thorny issue: Should transgender students be allowed into the locker room?

And increasingly, the federal government is stepping in to provide an answer: Schools must give trans students full locker room access.

Or else.   Continue reading “Feds say Illinois school district broke law by banning transgender student from girls’ locker room”