Mail.com

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 50 people were arrested during the second day of protests in Minneapolis over the shooting of a black man by a police officer during an apparent struggle.

Hundreds of people protesting 24-year-old Jamar Clark’s shooting blocked Interstate 94 on Monday night, shutting down the northbound lanes for about two and a half hours. Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Tiffani Schweigart said 43 adults and 8 juveniles who refused multiple orders to disperse were arrested.   Continue reading “51 arrested in Minnesota during 2nd day of shooting protests”

Mail.com

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — With a towering warship behind him, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that the U.S. will hand over two ships to the Philippine Navy to boost its maritime security capabilities, in a bid to show the U.S. and its allies won’t be cowed by China in disputed waters far off its coast.

Obama said the pair of ships — one U.S. Coast Guard cutter, one research vessel — were part of a broader American plan to scale up assistance to naval forces in Southeast Asia, where coastal nations feel threatened by China’s aggressive moves to assert control over the South China Sea. Obama said the U.S. had an “ironclad commitment” to the Philippines — a U.S. treaty ally — and a mutual commitment to free and safe navigation at sea.   Continue reading “In signal to China, Obama to give 2 ships to Philippines”

MassPrivateI

According to the FCC’s “Open Internet Order” commissioner Ajit Pai, admits broadband providers may soon ban free speech or block speech they don’t approve of! There are currently 34 broadband providers in the U.S.

“The commission ominously warned that ‘threats to Internet openness remain today,’ thatbroadband providers ‘hold all the tools necessary to deceive consumers, degrade content or disfavor the content that they don’t like,’ and that the FCC continues ‘to hear concerns about other broadband provider practices involving blocking or degrading third-party applications,’” FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said.  

Continue reading “Cablevision, AT&T, Verizon etc., can block content they don’t like”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Marksville, LA — More information is coming to light about the two Marksville City Marshals, who ruthlessly shot to death a 6-year-old boy as he was buckled into the back seat of a vehicle.

Officers Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse, Jr. are currently being held, each with a $1 million bail for the murder of Jeremy Mardis and the attempted murder of his father, Chris Few.   Continue reading “Cop Had Been Stalking Man’s Fiancée Before Murdering His 6-year old Son”

Reuters – by Paul Taylor

France and Russia both staged air strikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday as Paris formally requested European Union assistance in its fight against the group behind last Friday’s bloody attacks on the French capital.

French warplanes targeted a command post and a recruitment center for jihadists in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in the second consecutive night of strikes ordered by President Francois Hollande, a military command spokesman told Reuters.   Continue reading “France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked”

Reuters

Six people were killed over the weekend at an east Texas campsite and a suspect has been taken into custody for suspected murder, the Anderson County Sheriff’s office said on Monday.

A man and a woman were found dead in a travel trailer at the crime scene near Palestine, about 170 miles northeast of Austin.   Continue reading “Six killed in Texas campsite incident, suspect in custody”

RT

The Russian plane crash in Sinai, Egypt, was caused by a terrorist attack as traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of the plane, Federal Security Service director Aleksandr Bortnikov told President Vladimir Putin.

“We can say that that [Sinai plane crash] was a terror act,” Bortnikov told Putin. According to the FSB chief, experts analyzed passengers’ belongings as well as the parts of the plane. “After the examination on all these objects, we have found traces of a foreign-made explosive substance,” Bortnikov said.   Continue reading “Russian plane crash in Sinai a terrorist attack – Russian Security Service”

Fox News

The FBI was assisting authorities in Massachusetts in searching for weapons that were stolen from an Army Reserve training and recruitment facility this weekend.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker confirmed the burglary at a State House press conference Sunday afternoon. State officials have ordered security stepped up at sites around the state after Friday’s terror attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people and injured more than 250 others.   Continue reading “Weapons stolen from Massachusetts Army Reserve building”

Middle East Eye – by Mary Atkinson

Syrian passports found near the bodies of two of the suspected Paris attackers were fakes that were likely made in Turkey, police sources in France told Channel 4 News on Sunday.

Greek officials had said on Saturday that one of the two passports was held by someone who had registered as a refugee on the Greek island of Leros on 3 October.   Continue reading “Syrian passports found at Paris attacks scene were fakes made in Turkey”

Rense.com – by Wolfgang Halbig

CT FOIA REQUEST – ALLOWING PRE-K, KINDERGARTEN AND 1ST GRADE BATHROOMS INSIDE THE SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAVE KEY LOCKS SUCH AS KAITLIN ROIGS CLASSROOM 12. DID YOU AUTHORIZE THAT?

To: <bill.halstead@newtown-ct.gov>,

Bill:

You are the Fire Marshal and Certified Fire Inspector therefore I am assuming that you conducted the annual fire inspections at the Sandy hook Elementary School on 12 Dickenson Drive, Sandy Hook, CT.   Continue reading “Halbig’s FOIA Letter To The Fire Marshal For Sandy Hook”

RT

Whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks has published a trove of classified audio files indicating that the Bush and Obama appointees engaged in misappropriation of funds in a program intended to help disabled people find jobs.

WikiLeaks had 30 hours of audio recordings related to a billion-dollar corruption scandal “with links to the White House,”the organization said in a tweet on Monday.   Continue reading “WikiLeaks releases audio accusing Obama & Bush administrations of corruption”

BATR

Academia has reached a new low. The fabric of scholarship has been attacked from within and defenders of Free Speech are nowhere to be found from the University hierarchy. Has anything been learned since the heady days of 1960’s campus confrontations? It seems that the only learning process that has survived is that the caliber of intellectual acumen has sunk into the thrones of totalitarian hysteria. A refresher course is needed for all those too young to recall the Origin of Free Speech Movement at Berkeley celebrated 50 years later.   Continue reading “Campus Book Burning Nazis”

Independent – by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seven other former and current government officials are at risk of arrest if they set foot in Spain, after a Spanish judge effectively issued an arrest warrant for the group, it has been reported.

According to the Latin American Herald Tribune, Spanish national court judge Jose de la Mata ordered the police and civil guard to notify him if Mr Netanyahu and the six other individuals enter the country, as their actions could see a case against them regarding the Freedom Flotilla attack of 2010 reopened.   Continue reading “Spain ‘issues arrest warrant’ for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over 2010 Gaza flotilla attack”

Pro Liberate

The first rule of bureaucratic crisis management is: “Find someone else to blame.” This is true even in agencies as small as the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff Ryan Zollman would have an insuperable conflict of interest were he to conduct the official inquiry into the November 1st killing of Jack Yantis. He could have avoided that conflict by firing the deputies, charging them as private citizens, and then turning the evidence over to a special prosecutor.    Continue reading “Justice for Jack Yantis: Don’t Leave the Investigation to the “Professionals””