RT

Armed officers were deployed to London’s Wembley Stadium during the England v France match in the wake of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, suggesting a new norm in overt, militarized policing.

The presence of armed police signals a sharp rise in the number of officers carrying firearms throughout London as senior officers have expressed concern there are not enough guns in the country to counter a similar terror threat.   Continue reading “UK: ‘Police need more guns,’ say chief officers amid Paris attack security crackdown”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Trenton, NJ — Last month, 51-year-old police officer Michael Roadside was suspended without pay after he crashed into a woman’s car while he was drunk and offered to bribe her so she wouldn’t report the accident.

The driver of the car, Kimberly Wilson, was horrified by her encounter with Roadside and declined the offer and called 911 instead. According to a statement that Wilson made to police, Roadside hit her vehicle while she was stopped at a stop sign. She said that he emerged from his car “disheveled,” asking her not to call 911 and saying that he would give her $1,000 if she did not report the incident.   Continue reading “Vomit Covered, Drunken On-Duty Cop, Rams Woman’s Car, Tries to Bribe Her Not to Tell”

RT

The US Air Force has scrapped a brand new Lockheed Martin AC-130J Ghostrider Gunship after a flight-test crew lost control of the aircraft, resulting in more than $115 million in damages.

The expensive mishap occurred during a test mission by personnel from the 413th Flight Test Squadron based out of Eglin Air Force Base. The flight took place over the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, approximately 40 miles south of Pensacola.   Continue reading “US Air Force scraps new Ghostrider Gunship after test flight damages total $115mn”

Mail.com

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban officials blamed the United States late Tuesday for instigating a surge in the number of Cuban migrants attempting to reach the U.S. through Central America amid ongoing efforts to normalize relations between the former Cold War foes.

In a statement aired on the government’s nightly broadcast, Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Relations said U.S. policy allowing nearly all Cuban migrants who reach U.S. soil to stay contradicts ongoing efforts to renew relations between the countries.   Continue reading “Cuba blames US for instigating surge of migrants from island”

Mail.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — On the same downtown block where Nashville police officers carried a young John Lewis by his hands and feet to a paddy wagon for daring to take a seat at a whites-only lunch counter decades ago, today’s fresh-faced police recruits are learning lessons about the fraught history between law enforcement and black Americans.

About 60 police hopefuls, many around the same age Lewis was when he emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement, gathered recently in the “Civil Rights Room” at Nashville’s main library. Dressed in plain blue uniforms, they listened to stories about Lewis and other college students who helped make Nashville the first Southern city to desegregate its lunch counters. Words Lewis uttered back then to urge his fellow students not to falter in the face of violence — “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?” — were inscribed on the wall above the recruits.   Continue reading “Nashville program teaches law enforcement about civil rights”

Mail.com

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities cleared both Air France flights bound for Paris from the U.S. that had to be diverted Tuesday night because of anonymous threats received after they had taken off.

Air France Flight 65 from Los Angeles International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport, Air France said in a statement. At about the same time a second flight, Air France 55, took off from Dulles International Airport outside Washington and was diverted to Halifax on Canada’s East Coast, officials said.   Continue reading “No threat found on both diverted flights from US to Paris”

TeleSur – by Andre Vltchek

Our Planet Earth is heading straight towards the most dangerous collision in its history. It is not a collision with some foreign body, with an asteroid or a comet, but with the most brutal and selfish chunk of its own inhabitants: with people who proudly call themselves “members of the Western civilization.”

Again and again it is clearly demonstrated that Western culture, which the paramount psychologist Carl Jung used to call “pathology”, couldn’t be trusted.   Continue reading “Ignorance and Indoctrination of Westerners Kills Millions”

CBC News

North Vancouver, B.C. is believed to be the first city in the world to make climate change warning labels mandatory on gas pumps.

The city council passed the bylaw unanimously in a vote on Monday night.

Rob Shirkey, the founder of the Our Horizons not-for-profit group championing this cause, called the vote a “historic global first.” He said other Canadian and American cities have come close by supporting similar initiatives, but the City of North Vancouver is the first to make it mandatory.   Continue reading “Climate change stickers mandatory on North Vancouver gas pumps”

Free Thought Project – by William Grigg

Insisting that President Obama is wrong to claim that ISIS is “contained,” Texas Republican Congressman Ted Poe wants to globalize the conflict by invoking Article Five of the NATO treaty. That provision describes an attack on one member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as an attack upon all members of the alliance.

“President Obama is wrong – ISIS is not contained,” declared Rep. Poe, who on Monday introduced a resolution urging the administration to invoke Article Five. “This is our fight, but not our fight alone. American should take the lead and urge a joint response as a body of nations.”   Continue reading “Congressman Ready To Declare WWIII In Wake Of Paris – Innocent Civilians Be Damned”

Boing Boing

CIA Director John Brennan wants you to think the Paris attacks were Snowden’s fault — the “hand wringing” over mass surveillance has ended his agency’s ability to “thwart” terrorists attacks “before they’re carried out.” There’s only one problem with that: there’s no evidence that the US’s mass surveillance programs have ever prevented a major terrorist attack.

An internal, unclassified DHS document confirms this: “terror arrests between January 2014 and September 2015 linked to ISIS were largely of people trying to travel abroad, provide material support, or plan attacks that were essentially imaginary.”   Continue reading “There is no record of US mass surveillance ever preventing a large terror attack”

While Chinese troops are training in Washington State.

USA Today – by Thomas Maresca

MANILA — President Obama turned up the heat again on China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea on Wednesday as world leaders gathered here for the start of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit meeting.

Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, Obama said they discussed how to address China’s provocations in disputed areas of the sea, including its creation of new islands and construction of lighthouses, ports, military facilities and airstrips.   Continue reading “Obama turns up heat again on China’s assertiveness in South China Sea”

The Weather Channel – by Sean Breslin

At least three people are dead and more than 1 million lost power Tuesday as powerful winds raked the Pacific Northwest and parts of the interior Northwest.

Winds were clocked as high as 119 mph in the mountains of Washington state while urban centers were buffeted by winds strong enough to cause extensive damage to trees and buildings, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people in the Seattle and Spokane areas.   Continue reading “Three Dead, 1 Million Lose Power in Destructive Northwest Windstorm”

MassPrivateI

A recent CNN article about increased illegal government wiretaps reveals, police are arresting Americans based on their IDEOLOGY!

The FBI plans closer monitoring of suspected ISIS sympathizers, including more wiretaps, as a way to guard against potential threats in the U.S., after the Paris attacks, two U.S. law enforcement officials told CNN.   Continue reading “Law enforcement admits they’re arresting people based on ideology to ‘get them off the streets’”

ABC 7 – by David Kepler

ALBANY, N.Y. — Rejecting Syrian refugees would be akin to “conceding defeat of the American dream,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday in a sharply worded response to those urging him to keep the refugees out of the state.

Speaking at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, the Democratic governor said efforts to reduce the threat of terrorism must be balanced with America’s standing as a beacon for liberty and tolerance. He said the federal government has vowed to screen the refugees for links to terrorism.   Continue reading “Gov. Cuomo, Mayor De Blasio Declare Support for Accepting Syrian Refugees; De Blasio Slams Gov. Christie”

Courthouse News – by Jack Bouboushian

(CN) – The CIA and FBI properly searched for documents related to Sharif Mobley’s abduction and interrogation in Yemen, and found them classified, the D.C. Circuit ruled.

Sharif Mobley, a U.S. citizen abducted from the streets of Yemen’s capital Sana’a and imprisoned in 2010, sued the Department of Justice under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain records detailing his capture and detention on suspicion of murder.   Continue reading “CIA, FBI Need not Divulge More to Citizen Detainee”

ABC News

Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal has dropped out of the race for the White House, ending a campaign plagued by low polling numbers both nationally and in Iowa, where he had focused most of his 2016 bid.

“I am suspending my campaign for president of the United States,” the Louisiana Governor told Fox News’ Bret Baier. “The reality though is, they told me as a young child, Americans can do anything. I believed them then, I believe them now. But you know, this is not my time. I’ve come to the realization this is not my time.”   Continue reading “Bobby Jindal Drops Out of 2016 Republican Presidential Race”

ABC News

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed that two people died in early morning police raids today targeting Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind behind the Paris attacks.

Cellphone records and surveillance gathered since Friday’s attack led police to believe the alleged mastermind of the attacks may have been in an apartment in Saint-Denis, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said today. He was not there.   Continue reading “Paris Attacks: 7 Arrested, 2 Dead in Paris Raid Targeting Attack Mastermind”