American School and University – by Mike Kennedy

The Fairfax County (Va.) district has changed its policy regarding the naming of schools, which could lead to changes at schools named for Confederate generals.

The Washington Post reports that students, community members and alumni in Fairfax County have been urging the school system to change the names of two high schools named for Confederate generals — J.E.B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee — and a third named for a past superintendent, W.T. Woodson, who was an opponent of desegregation.   Continue reading “Policy change could alter Confederate-linked school names in Fairfax County, Va.”

Reuters

Kentucky’s new governor on Tuesday ordered county clerks’ names removed from state marriage license forms at the center of a controversy involving Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed after refusing to issue licenses to gay couples.

Governor Matt Bevin had said shortly after his election in November, as only the second Republican governor of Kentucky since 1971, that he would change the forms that had drawn objections from Davis and some other clerks.   Continue reading “Kentucky governor orders clerks’ names removed from marriage licenses”

BBC

In the Joux Valley, in the west of Switzerland, the traditional craft of watchmaking is flourishing. It’s not just leading companies that have workshops in the Jura Mountains but also highly skilled, independent craftsmen, as John Laurenson discovers.

The most complicated watch ever made was unveiled in Geneva in September before being whisked off to its mysterious buyer in New York.   Continue reading “A watchmaker’s paradise”

Reuters

An Oregon woman accused of plowing her car into a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip, killing one person and injuring dozens, was charged with murder on Tuesday as investigators sought clues to what motivated the rampage.

Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, who was arrested after the incident on Sunday, has been charged with one count of murder through use of a deadly weapon in the death of a 32-year-old Arizona woman who was in the crowd.   Continue reading “Driver who plowed into Las Vegas crowd charged with murder”

Free Thought Project – by Andrew Emett

San Diego, CA — A judge ordered the release on Tuesday of surveillance videos that captured San Diego Police Officer Neal Browder shooting a mentally ill homeless veteran to death. The unarmed man had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and PTSD after serving in the Afghan army and being held captive for two months by a Mujahideen group.

On April 30, Officer Browder responded to a call concerning a homeless man harassing people in a parking lot. Newly released surveillance videos show Browder pull up in his cruiser to confront 42-year-old Fridoon Rawshan Nehad. After failing to turn on his body camera before arriving, Browder can be seen exiting his vehicle before immediately firing at Nehad.   Continue reading “Shocking Video Shows Cop Execute US Combat Vet and Former POW, for Twirling an Ink Pen”

SuperStation 95

The southbound Palisades Parkway in Alpine, NJ  has reopened after a wild police chase, where shots were allegedly fired at police.

It began on Route 3 near MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, where police attempted to pull over a vehicle.  The vehicle fled, taking the New Jersey Turnpike northbound toward the George Washington Bridge, then taking the Palisades Interstate Parkway (PIP) northbound toward the New York State Line.    Continue reading “Palisades Interstate Parkway Re-Open After Wild Police Chase with Shots Fired”

Top Secret Writers – by Sally Painter

Social media is still exploding about the first reports describing the assailants in the December 2, 2015 San Bernardino shooting and the actual assailants killed in a shoot-out with police. What’s being discussed is how the two don’t match up and the identity and whereabouts of the mysterious third assailant (1).

The original reports coming out of the scene where 14 people were murdered and 21 injured described three tall, athletically built, white men dressed in military black. This description was given by Sally Abdelmageed who works at the Inland Regional Center. She spoke over the phone with CBS reporter Scott Pelley (2).   Continue reading “Countless Loose Ends in San Bernardino Shooting Raises Red Flags”

The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

People have this tendency to assume that their government is a united front. They think the courts, police departments, military command, political class, and god knows how many alphabet soup agencies, are all in it together. They’re all on “team government” so to speak.

In reality, that’s simply not the case, and it becomes less true as the government grows in size. If you examine any large, top-down organization, you will find that it is riddled with rivalries at every level. The DEA probably hates the ATF. The CIA hates the FBI, and the local police departments can’t stand the FBI.   Continue reading “Pentagon Has Been Secretly Helping Assad”

Fox News

RICHMOND, Va. –  Concealed handgun permits held by residents of 25 states will no longer be valid in Virginia, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday, drawing swift criticism from GOP lawmakers.

Attorney General Mark Herring, a Democrat, said the state will revoke its reciprocity agreement with the states because their concealed weapon laws don’t meet Virginia’s standards. Those states hand out permits to people who are barred under the Virginia law, like fugitives, convicted stalkers and drug dealers, which undermines the state’s law and puts residents at risk, he said.   Continue reading “Virginia revokes handgun permit agreement with 25 states”

Yahoo News

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli anti-racism activists have called for an investigation after a Jewish extremist leader urged a ban on Christmas celebrations in the country and called Christians “vampires”.

Benzi Gopstein, who heads the far-right Lehava organisation and has been arrested a number of times, made the comments in an article on the ultra-Orthodox Jewish website Kooker.   Continue reading “Jewish extremist leader wants ban on ‘vampire’ Christmas in Holy Land”

Q13 Fox

SEATTLE — King County Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson on Tuesday upheld Seattle’s new law to impose a special tax on the sale of guns and ammo within the city limits.

One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit opposing the tax, the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation, promised an immediate appeal, the Associated Press reported.   Continue reading “King County judge upholds Seattle’s new tax on gun, ammo sales; opponents vow appeal”

The Daily Sheeple

Just in time for Christmas, The Satanic Temple of Detroit held a Satanic ceremony on the steps of the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan on December 19, 2015. Members dressed in black held black and white American flags. The group has posted a video of the event on YouTube, and a transcript can be found here.

The speech began with, “Hail comrades. Hail sisters and brothers. Hail Satan.”   Continue reading “Satanic Temple Holds First State-Sanctioned Ceremony at Michigan State Capitol”

BATR – by James Hall

If you want to know how the “so called” Free Trade exponents think about exports, just analyze the impact and actual beneficiaries of the US House passes bill to lift 40-year ban on oil exports.

“The crude export restrictions were introduced in the US in 1975 in the middle of the energy crisis. They followed OPEC’s oil embargo of the US and other countries backing Israel during the Arab–Israeli war of 1973. In the face of embargo-related high oil prices, Washington eased the limits on oil imports and ordered an export ban.”   Continue reading “Congress Eliminates Export Oil Ban”

Washington’s Blog

The highest-level NSA whistleblower in history – William Binney – the high-level NSA executive whocreated the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, and managed thousands of NSA employees – has a great suggestion for motivating U.S. intelligence agencies to prevent terrorism.   Continue reading “Top NSA Whistleblower: “Every Time There Is a Terrorist Attack, What We Really Need to Do Is Demand that They CUT the Budgets of All the Intelligence Agencies””

The New American – by Selwyn Duke

They used to call it “cultural imperialism.” Now they call it tolerance. The Barack Obama administration has spent $700 million since 2012 promoting the homosexuality agenda overseas — with more than half of that sum being spent in sub-Saharan Africa — and has nothing to show for it except more anti-homosexuality laws and ill will. Ah, tax money at work. Writes the New York Times:   Continue reading “Obama Spent $700 Million Promoting Homosexuality Overseas — and Bought Ill Will”

Yahoo News

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — The families of more than a dozen victims of the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, will split $1.5 million under recently finalized settlements of lawsuits against the gunman’s mother’s estate.

A lawyer for several victims’ families says the settlements were finalized Dec. 17. Details of the agreements were first announced in August.   Continue reading “Newtown families split $1.5M from estate of gunman’s mother”

The Anti-Media – by Claire Bernish

Oceania, China — As if further proof were needed Orwell’s dystopia is now upon us, China has now gamified obedience to the State. Though that is every bit as creepily terrifying as it sounds, citizens may still choose whether or not they wish to opt-in — that is, until the program becomes compulsory in 2020. “Going under the innocuous name of ‘Sesame Credit,’ China has created a score for how good a citizen you are,” explains Extra Credits’ video about the program. “The owners of China’s largest social networks have partnered with the government to create something akin to the U.S. credit score — but, instead of measuring how regularly you pay your bills, it measures how obediently you follow the party line.”   Continue reading “China Just Launched the Most Frightening Game Ever — and Soon It Will Be Mandatory”

New York Times

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — A Georgia sheriff says a deputy shot and killed a man in a mobile home park in Douglasville, about 20 miles west of Atlanta.

Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://on-ajc.com/1NJew5x) that a security guard told officers he’d been kidnapped and held hostage for 45 minutes.   Continue reading “Sheriff: Deputy Shoots, Kills Man After Report of Kidnapping”

ABC News

A mall employee was shot at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York, during an alleged robbery attempt, sources said.

A suspect is in custody, a source with the Nassau County Executive Office told ABC News. One victim was hospitalized, the source said.   Continue reading “Employee Shot at Roosevelt Field Mall on Long Island, Source Says”