Year: 2015
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”
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”
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”
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”
DHS/Coast Guard are spying on American boaters and they’re forcing them to send their location to the Coast Guard every 15-30 seconds!
DHS is forcing boaters to purchase their own transponders which can go from $500 dollars to thousands of dollars! These transponders will ping their speed and location to DHS/Coast Guard, FOREIGN governments and the UN! Continue reading ““Boaters have “no expectation of privacy” according to DHS’s new boater surveillance program”
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.
These new photos taken Oct. 23 by the California Department of Water Resources show frighteningly low water levels at Folsom Lake and Lake Oroville. Continue reading “New photos of NorCal lakes paint eerie picture of drought”
More than 400,000 people are boycotting goods produced by Israeli-linked companies using a barcode scanning app.
Buycott allows users to identify the source of products instantly so that purchases do not conflict with their beliefs.
People can set up banned product lists to support their own particular interests or causes, but it is the anti-Israeli lists which have boosted the app’s popularity. Continue reading “Barcode Scanning App Used To Boycott Israel”
Nearly 1 million illegal aliens have been ordered deported but still roam free in the U.S., including nearly 180,000 who have been convicted of crimes here, the Homeland Security Department said in information released Friday by the Senate immigration subcommittee.
The release came the same day that two top lawmakers, the chairman of the House and Senate judiciary committees, demanded answers on how a man who’d been deported twice before snuck back into the U.S. and, according to a criminal complaint, then kidnapped and raped his estranged girlfriend. Continue reading “Feds Say 179,027 Criminal Illegals Are Loose On U.S. Streets”
COUNCIL, Idaho — Idaho State Police are investigating after a Council rancher was shot and killed Sunday by deputies with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident began when a Subaru station wagon crashed into a bull on US 95 north of Council at about 6:45 p.m. Emergency responders and Adams County deputies responded and were working to extricate the two people inside the car. Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman said the bull, which was injured in the collision, started charging at emergency responders and other vehicles. Continue reading “Adams County rancher shot and killed by deputies”
Addressing the crucial, lesser-known factors of climate change and geoengineering
This document is a concise, independent presentation of the crucial, lesser-known factors that must be embraced before contemplating geoengineering and other climate change action. Continue reading “Climate Change Sense”