Month: December 2015

Thanks to Joe from the Carolinas.

The Washington Post – by Liz Sly

BAIJI, Iraq — On the front lines of the battle against the Islamic State, suspicion of the United States runs deep. Iraqi fighters say they have all seen the videos purportedly showing U.S. helicopters airdropping weapons to the militants, and many claim they have friends and relatives who have witnessed similar instances of collusion.   Continue reading “Iraqis think the U.S. is in cahoots with the Islamic State, and it is hurting the war”

Courthouse News Service – by Adam Klasfeld

MANHATTAN (CN) – Nearly a year after the release of the “torture report,” the vast majority of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s findings of the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation program remains classified.

On Thanksgiving eve, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal complaint to acquire details about the program that the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice and four of its component agencies continue to keep under wraps.   Continue reading “ACLU Sues for Info on CIA Rendition Program”

People – by Tiare Dunlap

A self-described “free-range” mom who allowed her 4-year-old son to play alone on a playground 120 feet from their front door within their gated apartment complex is fighting back after she was arrested for felony child endangerment and neglect.

“We have a CPS [Child Protective Service] case now and every time he’s not in my visual site we’re in violation,” mom Sonya Hendren told KTXL.    Continue reading “California Mom Fighting Back After She Was Arrested for Letting 4-Year-Old Son Play 120 Feet from Home Within Gated Community”

ZD-Net – by Zack Whittaker

The FBI can compel companies and individuals to turn over vast sums of personal data without a warrant, it has been revealed for the first time.

In a case that’s lasted more than a decade, a court filing released Monday showed how the FBI used secret interpretations to determine the scope of national security letters (NSLs). Continue reading “FBI can demand web history, phone location data without a warrant”

AOL

A college president in Oklahoma is defiantly standing by his controversial view that today’s students are too sensitive and too quick to play the victim card.

Dr. Everett Piper, the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, posted a blog post on the school’s website last week, saying college students expect too much coddling and declaring: “This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University!”   Continue reading “Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Dr. Everett Piper: ‘This is not a daycare’”

The Guardian – by Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland

Police in Kern County, California, have killed more people per capita than in any other American county in 2015. The Guardian examines how, with little oversight, officers here became the country’s most lethal.

Part one of a five-part series from The Counted

Seventy-five years after Kern County’s leaders banned The Grapes of Wrath from their schools and libraries, complaining that John Steinbeck’s new book portrayed their policemen as “divested of sympathy or human decency or understanding”, officer Aaron Stringer placed his hands on the body of James De La Rosa without permission.   Continue reading “The County: the story of America’s deadliest police”

The Guardian

The coast of southern Chile has become a grave for 337 sei whales that were found beached in what scientists say is one of the biggest whale strandings ever recorded.

Biologist Vreni Haussermann told the Associated Press Tuesday that she made the discovery along with other scientists in June during an observation flight over fjords in Chile’s southern Patagonia region.   Continue reading “337 whales dead in Chile in one of history’s biggest beachings”

BATR – by James Hall

With the approach of the much ballyhooed Paris Climate Summit, the world is being conditioned to accept the spread of the renewable energy gospel. As shams go this one is a doozy. Absent from the filtered media coverage is the actual record of failure and fraud that produces more bankruptcies than usable energy. Hold onto your socks, the waste of public money is about to accelerate. All these projects will enrich the few, while soaking the multitude. Aye, global warming is such a blessing . . .   Continue reading “Renewable Green Energy Bankruptcies”

Yahoo News

Jerusalem (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted for the first time Tuesday that Israeli forces have been operating in Syria, where the Iran-backed regime is battling rebels including the jihadist Islamic State.

“We occasionally carry out operations in Syria to prevent that country from becoming a front against us,” Netanyahu told reporters during a visit to northern Israel.   Continue reading “Israel PM admits forces operating in war-hit Syria”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

The National Gun Victims Action Council (NGVAC) is calling on President Barack Obama to declare a “state of emergency” over fictional events, and then use that fictitious excuse to scrap the Constitution and impose his will under martial law.

Gun control supporters really are apparently just this crazy (hat tip: AWR Hawkins):   Continue reading “Gun Control Group Calls For Obama To Declare “State of Emergency,” Ban Guns”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

When earlier today we read a report in the Greek Enikonomia, according to which Greek taxpayers would be forced to declare all cash “under the mattress” (including inside) or boxes that contain more than 15,000 euros as well as jewelry and precious stones (including gold) worth over 30,000 euros, starting in 2016, we assumed this has to be some early April fools joke or a mistake.   Continue reading “Greeks Told To Declare Cash “Under The Mattress”, Jewelry And Precious Stones”

Resettlement Watch – by Ann Corcoran

It had to happen.  You knew it would.

From Breitbart London:

Migrants and locals got into a fight in a restaurant in Bavaria on Sunday, resulting in a 50-year-old German man receiving serious head injuries.   Continue reading “Migrants v. Germans; migrants v. migrants as the joys of diversity arrive in Germany”

Breitbart – by Caroline May

Since the start of the Syria’s civil war in the spring of 2011, the U.S. has admitted 2,311 Syrian refugees and resettled them in 36 different states.

According to data from the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center the top three destinations for Syrian refugees since the beginning of the conflict are California, Texas, and Michigan.   Continue reading “Syrian Refugees Have Been Resettled In 36 States, Most In CA,TX, MI”

SOTT – The Jakarta Post

Following the finding of tens of thousands of dead fish, resulting in a pungent smell, along Ancol Beach in North Jakarta on Monday, environmental campaign group Greenpeace has cited three possible causes for the phenomenon.

The first possibility, Greenpeace campaigner Arifsyah Nasution said on Tuesday, related to the accumulation of water from contaminated rivers on the northern coast due to rain.    Continue reading “Tens of thousands of dead fish found on beach near Jakarta, Indonesia”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Bradford County, FL – 50 people were arrested this week, in connection with a drug smuggling operation, where prescription opiates were transported into a Florida state prison, with the help of prison employees. In total, nine corrections officers were arrested in the operation, which lasted over 11 months and included multiple other arrests along the way.   Continue reading “Isolated Incident? Nine Officers Arrested After They Were Caught Running a Massive Drug Ring”