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A group of Upstate New York fire officials on Monday ordered a department to stop flying American flags from its trucks, calling the patriotic display a “liability” and a possible “distraction.”
Firefighters from the Arlington Fire District in the town of Poughkeepsie removed the flags from three trucks during a ceremony Tuesday, The Poughkeepsie Journal reported. Continue reading “US flags called ‘liability,’ ordered removed from New York fire trucks”
If anyone needs proof that the presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton truly is dividing the country, they should look to Texas.
According to poll results from Public Policy Polling released Tuesday, three out of five Texans who support Donald Trump said they would support seceding from America if Hillary Clinton becomes president. Continue reading “Poll: Three out of five Texans support secession if Hillary becomes president”
The Washington Examiner – by Rudy Takala
The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months, officials have confirmed.
The department will finalize the transition effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling wrote on Tuesday, barring what he called “any significant impediment.” Continue reading “America to hand off Internet in under two months”
In his On The Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849), Henry David Thoreau asked:
How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. … What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. Continue reading “Non-Voting”
A judge in Brazil has issued an order to prevent U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen from leaving the country on the grounds they gave conflicting accounts of their robbery outside the Rio Games on Sunday, a Brazilian daily said on Wednesday.
Lochte, one of swimming’s most decorated Olympians, had already returned to the United States ahead of the court ruling, the newspaper quoted Brazilian police as saying. It was unclear if Feigen had also left the country. Continue reading “Judge orders Lochte and teammate not to leave Brazil”
A statement by the ‘Shadow Brokers’ hacking collective, claiming they have hacked an NSA affiliate and obtained a set of US government spying and surveillance tools, coincided with the NSA official website going offline for many hours.
The website of the US National Security Agency (NSA) went offline at about 10:54pm Monday and remained inaccessible for almost a full day, until about 5pm Tuesday, reports Politico. Continue reading “NSA website down for 1 day after hackers take out its affiliate – media”
A man has been reportedly detained by German police over plans to carry out a terrorist attack at a festival in the town of Eisenhuttenstadt. Explosives have been found in the suspect’s apartment, local media say, citing police.
Police have also found materials linked to Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) as the search of the suspect’s apartment continues, German media report. According to news agency DPA, the suspect had a Salafist background and was under police supervision. Continue reading “German police seize explosives, detain suspected Islamist for plotting attack on festival – reports”
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Wednesday.
The three-member western New York-based team said it discovered the shipwreck earlier this summer in deep water off Oswego, in central New York. Images captured by a remotely operated vehicle confirmed it is the Washington, which sank during a storm in 1803, team member Jim Kennard said. Continue reading “Explorers find 2nd-oldest confirmed shipwreck in Great Lakes”
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The man killed in a police shooting that sparked two nights of violence in Milwaukee suffered from cognitive and mental health issues, and he carried a gun because he had been shot more than once in the past, his grandfather said.
Sylville K. Smith had a lengthy criminal past, but was just trying to survive in the inner city, William Brookins told The Associated Press. “In this city, there’s a lot of killings going on in the street,” said Brookins, who detailed Smith’s problems in a letter to a judge last year seeking mercy for his grandson. “He was afraid for his life. He was concerned about his safety and surviving.” Continue reading “Grandfather: Man killed by police was just trying to survive”
A federal appeals court on Tuesday banned the Justice Department from prosecuting medical marijuana cases if no state laws were broken.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered the federal agency to show that 10 pending cases in California and Washington state violated medical marijuana laws in those states before continuing with prosecutions. Continue reading “Court Bars Feds From Prosecuting Medical Pot Cases”
Can a debt collector accused of crossing the line avoid liability by buying a consumer’s legal claim out from under her?
A federal judge in Las Vegas said yes. The case deserves attention because if the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirms the judge’s ruling, you can be sure that more debt collectors will attempt this counter-intuitive maneuver to shield themselves from federal liability. Continue reading “Suing a Debt Collector? Now They Can Buy Your Lawsuit”
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As the dust settles following the suspected breach of an elite NSA-linked hacking unit dubbed the Equation Group, which potentially exposed a number of cyberweapons used by US spooks, whistleblowing outfit WikiLeaks has claimed it will publish a ‘pristine’ version of the data online for the world to see. Continue reading “WikiLeaks to release ‘pristine copy’ of NSA cyberweapons hack data”
Counter Current News – by Tasha Sharifa
During a presidential campaign many of us would have loved to be a joke, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (Robert Smigel) has come to the rescue with a little comic relief.
As Joe Berkowitz of fastcocreate reports:
“Back in February, Triumph’s Election Special 2016 showed how well Smigel’s creation was suited for this most circus-like election cycle. Continue reading “Watch A Pro-Trump Focus Group Not Realize These Amazing Campaign Ads Are Satire”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt University announced Monday that it will pay more than a million dollars to remove an inscription containing the word “Confederate” from one of its campus dorms.
The private university has referred to the Confederate Memorial Hall simply as “Memorial Hall” since 2002, but was blocked in court from changing the name chiseled on the building because it was constructed with the help of a $50,000 gift from the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1933. Continue reading “Vanderbilt pays $1.2M to remove ‘Confederate’ from dorm name”
NEW YORK (AP) — The reopening — and reinvention — of the World Trade Center mall Tuesday reflects how much lower Manhattan has changed since the 9/11 attacks.
Once a scene of massive destruction, the area is now a vibrant one of office towers and upscale hotels, with three times the number of residents as before the attacks, weekday employees in industries beyond Wall Street, and millions of tourists visiting every year. Continue reading “World Trade Center mall reopens, shows progress since 9/11”
A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California’s Cajon Pass exploded to 6,500 acres in five hours, forcing thousands in the town of Wrightwood to flee.
With low humidity and temperatures in the triple digits, the so-called Bluecut fire, first reported around 10:30 a.m. PDT near Interstate 15, is burning uncontrollably, KTLA.com reported. Four and a half hours after it was sparked, the inferno had torched 5,500 acres of land. Continue reading “Bluecut Fire Explodes to 6,500 Acres in Five Hours; Thousands of Residents Flee While Structures Burn”
Yes, black lives certainly do matter, but the gang of idiots presently running rampant under that name don’t matter to anyone, and never will, because they’re little more than a gang of dupes being used by the communists to cause social unrest, and divide the population along racial lines.
Black lives matter, Asian lives matter, and although I haven’t seen it personally, I’m sure there are intelligent, and hard working Mexicans who contribute to our society, are in full support of American values, and the Bill of Rights. The Mexicans, Blacks, and Asians you see on TV, and in much of the “alternative media” only serve the purpose of causing division, and undermining popular unity, which unity can and does cross all racial and ethnic lines. Continue reading “Black Lives Matter”
SHTF Plan – by Jeremiah Johnson
Yes, we are all well aware the Constitution limits the Presidency to two consecutive four-year terms of office. Then again, if you weigh the track record of the Obama administration, the Constitution is nothing more than a challenge that he bypasses and circumvents with every given opportunity. Small wonder that he may very well do the same thing with the upcoming presidential elections. Already a sham, the presidential elections are actually a vehicle he can use to grab that “Third Term” for himself. Continue reading “Obama Wants A Third Term And This Is How He Could Make It Happen”
Despite “heroic” promises to accept 160,000 Syrian refugees, European Union member states have only accepted 6,000 to date while the US alone has already admitted 8,000 of the 10,000 promised. So in light of recent terrorist attacks this begs the question is the U.S. being honorable or just dumb? According to Nayla Rush of the Center for Immigration Studies the answer might just be the latter (although she’s far more polite than we are): Continue reading “Obama Accepts “Surge” Of 8,000 Syrian Refugees – More Than All Of Europe (And Hillary Wants More)”
An outbreak of yellow fever that’s been hitting the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola hard, killing more than 400 people and sickening even more, is poised to spread beyond central Africa. It’s already the region’s largest outbreak in decades.
Yellow fever is transmitted by the same mosquito as the Zika virus. The symptoms can be anything from just a general fever to jaundice (that’s where the “yellow” comes in) and a severe liver disease with bleeding. While the more severe symptoms are relatively rare, the virus kills about half of those who develop them. Continue reading “Another deadly virus is poised to go global”