Bloomberg – by Shruti Singh

Workers in plants run by the largest U.S. poultry producers are regularly being denied bathroom breaks and as a result some are reduced to wearing diapers while working on the processing line, Oxfam America said in a report Wednesday.

“It’s not just their dignity that suffers: they are in danger of serious health problems,” said Oxfam America, the U.S. arm of the U.K.-based global development group. The group works for a “just world without poverty” and focuses on topics ranging from refugees in Greece to malnutrition.   Continue reading “Denied Breaks, U.S. Poultry Workers Wear Diapers on the Job”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

If you can believe it, there are still Americans who actually believe this country is a Democratic Republic and their vote matters.

Well according to a new book coming out in a couple weeks called The Confessions of Congressman X, our votes don’t mean jack.

The book, published by Mill City Press, claims to have been written by an anonymous Democratic Congressman as a dark and devastating tell-all of what’s really going on behind the scenes at America’s capitol.   Continue reading “Congressman: “It’s Far Easier Than You Think To Manipulate A Nation Of Naive, Self-Absorbed Sheep””

Silver Doctors

President Andrew Jackson gave the following speech regarding why he was closing the United States Bank.

President Andrew Jackson
July 10, 1832

A BANK of the United States is in many respects convenient for the Government and useful to the people. Entertaining this opinion, and deeply impressed with the belief that some of the powers and privileges possessed by the existing Bank are unauthorized by the Constitution, subversive of the rights of the States, and dangerous to the liberties of the people, I felt it my duty, at an early period of my administration, to call the attention of Congress to the practicability of organizing an institution combining all its advantages, and obviating these objections. I sincerely regret that, in the act before me, I can perceive none of those modifications of the Bank charter which are necessary, in my opinion, to make it compatible with justice, with sound policy, or with the Constitution of our country.  

Continue reading “Andrew Jackson’s Speech Against Central Banksters as True Today as in 1832”

RT

In what could at best be described as a risky PR move, and at worst just asking for trouble, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened himself up to the world of Twitter with an “Ask Netanyahu” social media campaign, yielding predictably funny results.   Continue reading “Risky move: #AskNetanyahu quickly backfires for Israeli PM”

RT

Civil rights attorney Michael Ratner, defender of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Guantánamo Bay detainees, died Wednesday in New York at the age of 72.

The Columbia Law School graduate practiced in the spirit of William Kunstler, who represented Martin Luther King Jr, the Chicago 7, Black Panthers, and Weather Underground, and founded the legal advocacy organization Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR).   Continue reading “Michael Ratner, Wikileaks lawyer & civil liberties legend, dies at age 72”

Mail.com

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — It’s become a common scene at the Oklahoma Capitol: While construction workers, employees and visiting schoolchildren wait patiently to walk through the metal detectors guarding the entrances, a man with a briefcase arrives and breezes straight through the checkpoint without stopping, setting off the alarms. The security officers on duty flinch but look away.

Just a lawmaker in a hurry? That’s all it is, some members say. But security officials are grumbling about a trend among some conservative legislators who are now declining to submit to the weapons screening that has been required at government buildings for years. And suspicions are growing about a likely reason: they’re armed.   Continue reading “Guns are banned, but are Oklahoma lawmakers packing?”

Mail.com

BALTIMORE (AP) — The second trial in the Freddie Gray case gets underway Thursday, and it will be different than the one that ended last year with a hung jury. This trial is before a judge, and it has a better chance of ending with a verdict. It is also likely to signal what may happen with the officers who face similar charges.

Officer Edward Nero, one of six Baltimore officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, faces assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment charges. Nero and two other officers arrested Gray after making eye contact with him and chasing him in West Baltimore last year. Prosecutors say the officers detained him illegally.   Continue reading “Trial begins for officer charged in Freddie Gray case”

Mail.com

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Senate voted Thursday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff after a months-long fight that laid bare the country’s fury over corruption and economic decay, hurling Latin America’s largest country into political turmoil just months before it hosts the Summer Olympics.

Rousseff’s enraged backers called the move a coup d’etat and threatened wide-scale protests and strikes. Her foes, meanwhile, insisted that she had broken the law, and that the country’s deep political, social and economic woes could only be tackled without her.   Continue reading “Brazil’s Senate impeaches president Rousseff; trial ahead”

EAG News – by Victor Skinner

ATLANTA – Parents of two Atlanta Public Schools students are fuming after their daughters were accosted by local transit police and forced into a “truancy van” on their way to school.

Twins Carrie and Colleen Miller attend Grady High School, about 2.5 miles from their house, and the girls and a friend decided to walk to school last Wednesday when a substitute bus driver failed to pick them up, WXIA reports.
Continue reading “Students walking to school ordered into ‘truancy van’ 50 yards from campus”

9News – by Kyle Clark

BRIGHTON, COLO. – We have never been happier to report on a mistake than we were Wednesday.

Because if this mistake was real, it would have been terrible.

9NEWS and other media outlets usually take tweets from official law enforcement Twitter accounts pretty seriously. So imagine what happened when we saw tweets popping up around 9 a.m. about an elementary school in Brighton being evacuated for a huge explosion, a chemical leak and a train crashing into a building. They branded the situation #BrightonChaos.   Continue reading “‘Brighton chaos’ was a false alarm”

“Who is it that does not know, that by treaties in Europe the succession and constitution of many sovereign states, has been regulated.”

The following essay was penned anonymously by “HAMPDEN,” and it appeared in The Pittsburgh Gazette on February 16, 1788.

…. It may be freely granted, that from a mistaken zeal in favor of that political liberty which was so recently purchased at so costly a rate, even good men may give it [the constitution] unreasonable opposition; but such men cannot be reasonably charged with sordid personal interest as their motive – because it is great and sudden changes which produces opportunities of preferment. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 75 – A Note Protesting The Treaty-Making Provisions Of The Constitution”

WFAA – by Charlotte Huffman

NEWS 8 INVESTIGATES

More of us than ever have health insurance. So why do we seem to be paying more than ever for treatment?

News 8 Investigates uncovered a growing problem with medical billing.

It involves patients charged hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars, in surprise fees after going to an in-network hospital.   Continue reading “Surprise medical bills a burden for patients”

Geoengineering Watch – by Dane Wigington

The United States military has become a runaway juggernaut of environmental devastation and destruction. From the global climate engineering assault (that is poisoning the entire planet and ripping Earth’s climate and life support systems apart), to the insane, blatant, and willful slaughter of ocean life, the actions of our military are truly beyond rational comprehension. Though many have chosen to primarily blame Fukushima fallout for the shocking North American west coast marine life collapse, there is much more to the story. How bad is the die-off?    Continue reading “The US Military’s Willful Slaughter Of Life In The Pacific Ocean”

Reuters

A group of North Carolina public school students and their parents is asking a U.S. court to block two federal agencies from withholding education funding in a dispute over a state law mandating bathroom access according to birth sex.

The conservative Alliance Defending Freedom filed the complaint on Tuesday on behalf of a group called “North Carolinians for Privacy.” It is the fifth lawsuit to seek judicial input on the law enacted in March.   Continue reading “North Carolina students sue U.S. over stance on bathroom access”

Reuters

A former police officer caught on video as he shot dead a man fleeing a traffic stop in South Carolina last year has been charged with a federal civil rights offense that could send him to prison for life, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Ex-North Charleston patrolman Michael Slager, 34, used excessive force and had no legal justification when he fired eight times at Walter Scott’s back on April 4, 2015, a federal grand jury found.   Continue reading “Former South Carolina officer used excessive force in fatal shooting: indictment”

Breitbart

JERUSALEM (AFP) –  US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will visit Israel “soon”, he told an Israeli newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday.

“Yes, I will be coming soon,” Trump said without giving further details in response to a question from the Israel Hayom newspaper, a freesheet considered close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.   Continue reading “Report: Trump Says To Visit Israel ‘Soon’”

Huffington Post – by Michael McLaughlin

Police officers beat a suspect on television following a car chase through Massachusetts and New Hampshire on Wednesday.

As news helicopters circled overhead, the driver of the pickup truck involved in the pursuit opened the driver’s door and crawled on his hands and knees in Hudson, New Hampshire. About eight officers closed in on him, some with their guns drawn, and at least two officers struck the man. One of the officers pummeled the man with repeated blows.   Continue reading “Televised Police Chase Ends With Officers Beating Suspect”

Ammoland

Behold this leading-bleeding scream piece from BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal and formerly a respected source of scientific information for your doctor.

The journal has a history of free-wheeling condemnation of American gun owners, going so far as to advocate attacking their very culture.  Throwing fuel on their own fire, BMJ editors evidently have now resorted to an old if not exactly honorable practice of hack journalism—printing the shocking and the scandalous, even if the truth gets roughed up in the process.   Continue reading “Doctors Kill 23 Times More People Than Guns Kill”

Infowars – by Mikael Thalen

Police in Pennsylvania were accused Wednesday of disguising a license plate reading vehicle as a Google Street View car.

Noticed at around 10 am EST by security and cryptography researcher Matt Blaze, the white SUV was seen with a large Google Maps sticker on one of its rear windows.   Continue reading “Police Accused Of Disguising License Plate Reading Vehicle As Google Car”

Global Research – by Dr. Gary G. Kohls

Conspiracy theory’ is a term that strikes fear and anxiety in the hearts of most every public figure, particularly journalists and academics. Since the 1960s the label has become a disciplinary device that has been overwhelmingly effective in defining certain events as off limits to inquiry or debate. Especially in the United States, raising legitimate questions about dubious official narratives destined to inform public opinion (and thereby public policy) is a major thought crime that must be cauterized from the public psyche at all costs… CIA Document 1035-960 played a definitive role in making the ‘conspiracy theory’ term a weapon to be wielded against almost any individual or group calling the government’s increasingly clandestine programs and activities into question. – From CIA Document 1035-960     Continue reading “Weaponizing the Term “Conspiracy Theory”: Disinformation Agents and the CIA”