RT

Six military personnel have been killed and one seriously wounded in an explosion that hit a military convoy in the southeast of Turkey, the armed forces said in a statement. The convoy was traveling along a highway linking Diyarbakir and Bingol.

The military also said that a handmade bomb was detonated by remote control while the military vehicle was searching for mines on the highway linking Diyarbakir to the district of Lice, Reuters reports.   Continue reading “6 dead, 1 injured as blast hits military convoy in SE Turkey”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

In January 2016, police killed 113 people — at least one person was fatally gunned down by a cop every day that month. One particularly deadly day, January 27, saw ten people meet their fate, thanks to the police. On average, that is almost 4 people a day.

And there is no indication this tragic epidemic will end soon.   Continue reading “Cops Killed Nearly 4 People a Day in January – More Deaths a Day Than Most Countries Kill Per Year”

Reuters – by Sharon Bernstein

A woman charged with conspiracy in the takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge last month has filed a rambling counter-complaint in which she accuses the federal government of working for the devil and demands $666,666,666,666.66 in damages.

Shawna Cox, who made headlines by challenging the FBI’s version of the events leading up to the death Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, another of the occupants, said she and the other occupiers were victims of numerous crimes committed by mercenaries and foreign agents.   Continue reading “Accused Oregon refuge occupier cites devil, demands damages from U.S.”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is expanding its counter-terrorism efforts by launching a propaganda site for children, complete with a comically primitive video game that no kid would want to play.

The stated purpose of the FBI’s new program, called “Don’t Be A Puppet: Pull Back the Curtain on Violent Extremism,” is to “keep young people…from embracing violent extremist ideologies in the first place.”   Continue reading “The FBI Just Released a Video Game to Propagandize Children — It’s Both Orwellian and Terrible”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

A wealth of conspiracy theories have followed the sudden and shocking death of 79-year-old Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, with many people suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the jurist’s demise. But Scalia’s own son is now pleading for an end to the “hurtful” speculation.

Appearing on the Laura Ingraham radio show, the conservative giant’s eldest son, Eugene Scalia, denied there was any wrongdoing in his father’s death.   Continue reading “Justice Scalia’s Son Calls for End to ‘Hurtful’ Conspiracy Theories Over Dad’s Death”

Gizmodo – by Kate Knibbs

The FBI and Apple are fighting over modern technology using a very old law. A 227-year-old statute, created at the same time as the federal courts themselves, is now at the center of a showdown about privacy.

The FBI wants Apple to write custom software that will help the FBI break into a seized phone. Apple doesn’t want to do that, because it would be creating a serious security flaw in its own privacy protections, a flaw that could be exploited to hurt its millions of customers. Depending on how the All Writs Act is interpreted by a judge, Apple may have to comply.   Continue reading “The 227-Year-Old Statute Being Used to Order Apple to Endanger Your Privacy, Explained”

The Anti-Media – by Clarice Palmer

 A recent examination of National Security Agency documents previously released by whistleblower Edward Snowden shows that the CIA and other U.S. agencies may be killing innocent people as a result of their reliance on metadata.

The NSA’s SKYNET is a program that surveils phone metadata in order to track suspected terrorists. Through SKYNET, the security agency engages in mass surveillance of Pakistan’s mobile phone network, affecting 55 million people — but that’s not all. Once the data is gathered, it’s run through a machine learning algorithm that attempts to rate whether a particular individual is more or less likely to be a terrorist.   Continue reading “The NSA Actually Has A Program Called SKYNET — And It’s Terrifying”

Yahoo News

A federal grand jury in Nevada indicted Cliven Bundy and four others Wednesday on 16 charges related to an armed standoff near his ranch in 2014 over unpaid grazing fees.

The 69-year-old Nevada rancher was arrested Feb. 10 in Portland, Oregon, where his sons, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are jailed and accused of organizing the occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. In the takeover, which lasted nearly six weeks, they had demanded that public lands be turned over to locals and that two area ranchers serving sentences for arson be freed.   Continue reading “Cliven Bundy, 4 others, face federal indictment in Nevada”

CNN  – by Holly Yan

South Dakota could become the first state to ban transgender students from using restrooms of the gender they identify with.

The state Senate passed the bill Tuesday in a 20-15 vote, after the state House approved it 58-10 last month. The measure now goes to Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s desk.   Continue reading “S.D. passes transgender student bathroom ban bill”

Reuters

British Typhoon fighter jets intercepted two Russian Tu-160 bomber planes heading towards British airspace on Wednesday, a spokeswoman from the Ministry of Defence said.

The British aircraft were scrambled from a Royal Air Force base in eastern England and escorted the Russian planes while they flew in an area which is closely monitored by Britain, but outside its territorial airspace.   Continue reading “Britain scrambles fighters to intercept Russian bombers”

Gov’t Slaves

KANSAS CITY, MO  Retired union workers facing large pension cuts gathered to voice their anger at those cuts Tuesday.

Representative Emanuel Cleaver conducted the town hall meeting.

According to Cleaver, more than 270,000 people from across several states, including Missouri, who have vested millions of dollars into their pension funds, have been told their benefits from the Central States Pension Fund would be drastically cut, some as much as by 60 percent.   Continue reading “270,000 truckers told their pensions will be cut up to 60%”

Counter Current News – by M. David and Jackson Marciana

As Americans struggle to get an accurate total of just how many people U.S. police gun down annually, police in Iceland have still not shot asingle person since their single fatality in 2013.

The Guardian UK has created a database to track down hundreds of U.S. citizens killed by the police who were sworn to protect them.   Continue reading “Iceland Police Grieved and Apologized After Killing a Man For the First and Only Time In History”