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According to the ‘Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law‘ SEVENTEEN universities require students to divulge ANY contact they’ve had with the police or courts.

“The first phase of the initiative seeks information from 17 colleges and universities that include inquiries on their applications regarding contact with the criminal justice system, including arrests that did not lead to conviction, sealed or expunged youthful offender records, or pardoned records.”
Continue reading “Universities are asking students to divulge ANY contact they’ve had with the police or courts”

Last Day!

Mary, Deb, and Darzak are sponsoring a drawing for a wealth of knowledge and a wealth of wealth.

Mary has provided seven excellent books grouped into categories absolutely relevant to we involved in this struggle.

The first group educates the reader in reference to the reality of our situation:   Continue reading “From the Trenches Drawing for Knowledge and Wealth”

New York Times

PONTIAC, Mich. — On the day a heavily armed couple fatally shot 14 people and wounded more than 20 others in San Bernardino, Calif., last month, Michael J. Bouchard, a sheriff here in the Detroit area, got an order to return his department’s 14-ton armored personnel carrier to the federal government.

It was one of hundreds of similar notifications from the Obama administration to law enforcement agencies across the country — from Los Angeles to rural areas like Calhoun County, Ala. — to give back an array of federal surplus military equipment by April 1, in response to concerns that the equipment was unnecessary and misused. The items to be returned: armored vehicles that run on tracks, .50-caliber machine guns, grenade launchers, bayonets and camouflage clothing.   Continue reading “Some Officers Bristle at Recall of Military Equipment”

The Texas Tribune

State senators expressed bipartisan disapproval Wednesday of an unpopular program that levies large surcharges on drivers for traffic offenses, with several calling for broad changes or for scrapping it entirely.

The Driver Responsibility Program, created in 2003 to address a budget shortfall and promote more responsible driving, requires drivers convicted of certain traffic offenses, such as speeding and driving while intoxicated, to pay additional annual surcharges on top of any court fines and criminal penalties to maintain their driver’s licenses. Nearly 1.3 million drivers now have invalid licenses, according to the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition.   Continue reading “Lawmakers Compare Driver Surcharge Program to Debtors’ Prison”

FBI Portland Division

Good evening. My name is Greg Bretzing, and I am the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Oregon.

We have quite a bit of information to share with you tonight concerning the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.   Continue reading “Remarks by SAC Greg Bretzing at a Press Conference to Address the Ongoing Situation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge”

KDVR

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — The city of  Commerce City has paid a huge financial settlement for the death of someone’s pet.

The city recently paid $262,500 to the family of a chocolate lab-mix named Chloe, shot and killed by police. The payment was part of a settlement to avoid a federal civil court trial scheduled later this month.   Continue reading “Settlement reached in police killing of dog, called largest in U.S. history”

Free Thought Project – by William N. Grigg

Seeking to placate growing public outrage over corruption, abuse, and a lack of accountability in the Chicago Police Department — including an apparently endless string of unjustified police killings, the maintenance of a Gitmo-style “black site,” and a still-festering decades-long scandal involving interrogation through torture — Mayor Rahm Emanuel has sought help from a veteran obstructionist who has performed a similar service as head of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing: Former Washington, D.C. police chief Charles Ramsey, who recently retired after a scandal-plagued term as Police Commissioner in Philadelphia.  Continue reading “To Address Police Violence, Rahm Emanuel Hires Notoriously Abusive Cop as His ‘Civil Rights’ Adviser”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

In a move that took place late Thursday, a caravan of dozens of vehicles headed into the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge this afternoon. Plenty of people continue to stay at the refuge.

Ammon Bundy has issued a statement through his attorney to the remaining occupiers to turn themselves in without using any force. According to news reports, he has asked those still there to go home and hug their families.   Continue reading “Convoy Heads into Oregon Refuge, Including Heavily Armed Vehicles”

Breitbart – by JORDAN SCHACHTEL

In a step towards joining an Israel boycott, the U.S. is now requiring goods originating from the West Bank (also known as Judea and Samaria) to be labeled separately from products from the rest of Israel, following the European Union’s crackdown on products from the disputed territories.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has issued new mandates requiring that West Bank products not be marked “Israel,” citing a notice from the year 1997 that offers such instructions.   Continue reading “Obama Joins Israel Boycott, Labels West Bank Goods”

RT

The World Health Organization will assemble an emergency committee to deal with what it says is a rapidly spreading Zika virus pandemic. However, scientists believe a vaccine is years away, while doctors say “questions abound” concerning the disease.

The UN-endorsed body says that since the first cases were registered in Brazil in May of last year, as many as 1.5 million people have been affected by the virus in that country alone, while more than 20 other Central and South American states have registered native infections as well. The disease had previously only broken out in small pockets of Africa and Asia.   Continue reading “WHO says Zika ‘spreading explosively’ & 4mn may be infected, while ‘no vaccine expected for years’”

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Supreme Court Case – by John Trowbridge

In the original Houston Division case, 31 Federal actors in the United States District Court, United States Department of Justice, and United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit taken collectively, committed over a thousand felonies while perpetrating the theft of Petitioner’s house in Montgomery County, Texas.   Continue reading “Damages of $37,822,100 demanded of 31 Federal actors in the Houston case; criminal complaint filed with military”

CBC News

A religious couple in Salmon Arm, B.C., have been convicted of assault for “spanking” their daughter with a mini hockey stick and a skipping rope after learning she had sent nude photos of herself to her boyfriend on Snapchat.

In a case that tests issues of consent, discipline and parental responsibility, provincial court Judge Edmond de Walle found no excuse for the parents’ behaviour.   Continue reading “‘Spanking’ over nude Snapchat photo leads to assault conviction for parents”

BBC News

The benchmark rate of -0.1% means that commercial banks will be charged by the central bank for some deposits.

It is designed to encourage them to use their reserves to lend to businesses in an attempt to counter Japan’s economic slump.

The charge does not directly apply to ordinary customers’ accounts.   Continue reading “Japan adopts negative interest rate in surprise move”