ZeroGov

Publisher’s Note: I want everyone to play close attention to revelations surrounding Comrade Comey and his Stasi antics in protecting the Clinton crime family and by extension the entire sordid structure of the American political class. The FBI has always been a state security service for protecting the expansion of power of the government much like the NKVD and KGB. Some may scoff at such a comparison and point to the “political” nature of the Russian security apparatuses but a reflective human would adduce that all malum prohibitum crimes are by their nature and implementation political transgressions.   Continue reading “Communication Breakdown by Bill Buppert”

Free Thought Project – by Andrew Emett

Houston, TX – Captured on surveillance video using excessive force against a man for sitting on a bench, a Metro police officer resigned on Monday to avoid termination. Although the disgraced cop can still apply to other police departments, the district attorney is currently deciding whether to prosecute the violent ex-cop.

Around 7:30 a.m. on September 14, a surveillance camera recorded two Metro police officers confronting Darrell Giles at a train platform. Sitting on a bench, Giles remained seated while calmly talking to the cops.   Continue reading “Cop Was Beating Unarmed Man So Bad, His Fellow Officer Tried to Stop It — But Failed”

RT

Damascus has a recording of conversations between the American military and Islamic State terrorists ahead of the US-led coalition airstrike that hit Syrian troops near Deir ez-Zor on September 17, the speaker of the People’s Council of Syria said.

“The Syrian Army intercepted the communications between the Americans and Daesh [Arabic pejorative for Islamic State/IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] ahead of the attack on Deir ez-Zor,” Hadiya Khalaf Abbas said, as cited by Sputnik Arabic.   Continue reading “Damascus has proof US talked to ISIS militants ahead of airstrike on Syrian forces – lawmaker”

Reuters

Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t want details of his dirty laundry aired in public – and he is suing his own office and Israel’s attorney general to try to prevent it.

Legal documents published on Tuesday showed that the prime minister, citing a right to privacy, is asking a Jerusalem court to overturn a decision to release his laundry bills and those of his family under the country’s Freedom of Information law.   Continue reading “Israel’s Netanyahu in a spin over dirty laundry”

RT

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third, saying it’s the first time in 15 years international commerce will slip below GDP.

According to the WTO, global trade will expand by merely 1.7 percent this year which is well below the April forecast of 2.8 percent.   Continue reading “World trade growth weakest since 2009 financial crisis – WTO”

Mail.com

LONDON (AP) — As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo’s massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that the record-breaking haul of password data could be used to open locks up and down the web.

While it’s unknown to what extent the stolen data has been or will be circulating, giant breaches can send ripples of insecurity across the internet. “Data breaches on the scale of Yahoo are the security equivalent of ecological disasters,” said Matt Blaze, a security researcher who directs the Distributed Systems Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, in a message posted to Twitter .   Continue reading “Password breach could have ripple effects well beyond Yahoo”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats on Tuesday threatened to block must-do legislation to prevent the government from shutting down Friday at midnight, battle the Zika virus and help flood-ravaged Louisiana rebuild.

The aim is to pressure Republicans to add money to the stopgap spending bill to give Flint, Michigan, immediate help with its water crisis instead of settling for promises from top Republicans that the city will receive aid after the election.   Continue reading “Democrats poised to block stopgap funding bill over Flint”

Mail.com

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Residents of Cedar Rapids are watching anxiously as the quickly rising Cedar River threatens to inundate their city with devastating floodwaters for the second time in just over eight years.

After days of sandbagging and erecting an extensive system of flood barriers, residents and officials in Iowa’s second-largest city were simply waiting to see how high the Cedar River would rise and what impact the flood would have.   Continue reading “Iowa city braces for highest floodwaters since 2008 record”

The Globe and Mail

TransCanada Corp. is offering about $848-million (U.S.) cash to buy all the equity in Columbia Pipeline Partners LP that it doesn’t already own – strengthening its grip on a pipeline network that stretches from New York to the Gulf of Mexico.

The Calgary-based company’s offer to other investors in the Houston-based limited partnership follows TransCanada’s purchase of the Columbia Pipeline Group. That deal was valued at $13-billion, including $2.8-billion in debt.   Continue reading “TransCanada bids $848-million to buy rest of Columbia Pipeline Partners”

Daisy Luther

There is a very real possibility that Deutsche Bank is going down.

If the most prominent bank in Germany fails, the effect on Europe will be profound, and I don’t think the United States will escape the effects. The ripples will turn into a tsunami as they travel across the Atlantic. Already, the bank’s troubles have stressed the American stock market.

Angela Merkel has stated that Deutsche Bank will not be getting a bailout from the European Central Bank – the lender of last resort for European banks.   Continue reading “Deutsche Bank Is Going Under: Is The Real Reason Germans Were Told To Prepare For A National Crisis?”

Daisy Luther

Folks frustrated with the American election have been decorating their vehicles with the sentiment, “Giant Meteor 2016: Just End It Already.”  Well, they almost got their wish, and NASA missed the whole darned thing.

NASA, tasked with protecting us from incoming threats from space, failed to spot a meteor that slammed into the ocean off the coast of Australia yesterday (Sept. 16). Police received hundreds of calls as people watched a fireball move across the sky above the Gladstone area of Queensland.   Continue reading “Speaking of Giant Meteor 2016, NASA Missed the One That Hit Earth Yesterday”

The Hill

The IRS announced Monday that it plans to start a new private debt-collection program in the spring.

The program was authorized by a transportation funding law enacted last December. Contractors will work on the government’s behalf to collect debts from taxpayers who owe money but whose accounts are no longer being worked on directly by the IRS.   Continue reading “IRS set to use private debt collectors”

Fusion Centers & Clowns, Doesn’t Anyone See The Irony?

Fox 17

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) – Apparently, Tennesseans need to be on high alert for clowns.

A warning was given by the Tennessee Department of Safety and the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) on Saturday. The agencies took to Twitter posting, “Watch for clowns in your area. They could be child predators seeking kids” and “Watch for clowns trying to lure children into the woods. They are possibly predators.”   Continue reading “Clown warning issued in Middle Tennessee”

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote, mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a cloud of dust toward him.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and a YSL tie, leans out the window and asked the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”   Continue reading “A Cowboy Named Bud”

NBC News – by Jon Schuppe

The family of a suburban Baltimore man who died after a violent scuffle with police is planning his funeral while waiting to learn what exactly killed him.

Tawon Boyd, 21 — who had himself called 911 for assistance — died Wednesday, three days after an early morning encounter with police at his home in Middle River, Maryland that ended with an officer hitting him in the head and others climbing on top of him to subdue him, according to police.   Continue reading “Baltimore Family Waits for Answers in Tawon Boyd Death After Police Scuffle”

Bloomberg

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is one of those federal agencies that tends to inspire intense reactions among the traveling public. It’s a bureaucracy that interacts with millions of passengers each day, requiring their shoes, jackets, laptops—and time.

Virtually all this occurs at airports, with about 80 percent of the agency’s $7.4 billion budget spent on aviation security. Only 2 percent of the TSA’s funding goes to surface transportation, according to a report by the Office of Inspector General earlier this month. Congress is looking to change that.
 Continue reading “After New York Attack, Congress Wants TSA to Secure Amtrak, Buses”