USA Today – by Jess Aloe

BARRE CITY, Vt. – On a cold, sunny Thursday afternoon, Deputy Jean Miguel Bariteau of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department spots the driver of a red hatchback using his cell phone. When Bariteau pulls him over, it’s a straightforward call to write a ticket. He saw the driver use his phone, and the young man behind the wheel admits it.

If the man behind the wheel had denied violating Vermont’s distracted driver law, checking the phone records would have helped the deputy make his case. But a search like that requires a warrant.   Continue reading “Proposed law would allow warrantless cell-phone searches”

Free Thought Project – by Mike Sawyer

El Cajon, CA — In yet another tragic case of an officer fearing for his life from a fleeing car, a woman and a dog have been killed.

Early Saturday morning, police spotted a stolen red Toyota and pulled over the vehicle. Inside the car were three men, a woman and a dog. As the officer approached the vehicle, it sped off before he could get to them and led police on a high-speed chase.   Continue reading “Officer Firing at Fleeing Vehicle Misses Driver, Kills Female Passenger and Her Dog Instead”

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

Washinton, D.C. – A “critical warning” has been issued by Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes “to the entire U.S. military, but especially to the military Special Operations Command and community” with it secondarily being “addressed to federal LEOs, and especially to their SRTs, such as the FBI HRT (many of whom are former military special operations).”

The “warning” indicates that the escalation the situation in Oregon from a simple occupation of an empty federal building by ranchers and U.S. veterans to a use of force situation could risk pushing the nation into another civil war.   Continue reading “Oath Keepers Warn Feds Not to “Waco” Oregon Occupation — or there Will be Civil War”

Off the Grid News – by Wally Peterson

It’s nothing short of ironic that this nation, which was founded, explored, and made great by adventurous and self-reliant people, has now become a haven for those who insist on being cradled and sheltered by convenience. Responding to the demand that this has created, the government has increasingly made it more difficult to be self-reliant and now seems thoroughly dedicated to preventing anyone from taking care of themselves and their families.   Continue reading “The 5 Greatest Threats To Off-Grid Living”

RT

Three American soldiers and a translator have reportedly been kidnapped by militia in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

While their identities have not yet been confirmed, Iraqi independent news agency Akad News said a US serviceman and a translator are among those who were captured in the south of Baghdad.   Continue reading “Three Americans kidnapped in Baghdad – reports”

RT

The private spaceflight company SpaceX has launched a reusable rocket that is supposed to deliver a NASA ocean-monitoring satellite into low-Earth orbit. However, the audacious plan to land the rocket on a platform at sea in the Pacific Ocean did not go as smoothly as planned.

SpaceX failed to land the Falcon 9 rocket on the platform, despite the first stages of the launch being successful, the company officials said. The touch-down must have been “hard,” since the rocket’s landing leg broke.   Continue reading “Expectation v reality: Watch Falcon SpaceX rocket fall & explode attempting barge landing”

Mail.com

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has launched an estimated 1 million propaganda leaflets by balloon into South Korea amid increased tension between the rivals following the North’s recent nuclear test, Seoul officials said Monday.

A Cold War-style standoff has flared since North Korea’s claim on Jan. 6 that it tested a hydrogen bomb. South Korea resumed blasting anti-North propaganda broadcasts and K-pop songs from border loudspeakers. North Korea quickly responded by restarting its own border broadcasts and floating the balloons over the border carrying anti-South leaflets, according to Seoul officials.   Continue reading “Seoul: North Korea has sent 1 million propaganda leaflets”

Mail.com

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civic leaders, activists, artists and others are celebrating, marching and paying homage Monday to Martin Luther King Jr., marking the 30th anniversary of the federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader.

In South Carolina, civil rights leaders planned a march to their state capitol as in past years when their rally highlighted calls to remove the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds. The King Day at the Dome gathering began in 2000 with that call. Last July, organizers got their wish as South Carolina swiftly removed the flag which had flown at the capitol for more than 50 years after what police said was a racially motivated shooting that claimed nine lives at a church in Charleston.   Continue reading “Confederate flag’s removal turns King Day into celebration”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Southhaven, MS — Troy Goode had taken LSD at a concert he and his wife attended in Southaven, Mississippi, but must have been having a bad trip and began acting erratically, running around the parking lot. Though the Memphis, Tennessee, man’s behavior wasn’t violent or threatening to anyone, someone felt it necessary — likely out of misguided concern — to summon the police. That fateful decision by a stranger cost Goode his life.

Inept police arrived on scene and, as bystander video footage revealed, forcefully hogtied Goode, placing him face-down — a position known to be potentially deadly — and loaded him onto a stretcher and into a waiting ambulance.   Continue reading “Lawsuit Exposes Police Horror Story, Cops Sic K9 on Peaceful Man, Hogtied Him Face Down Until Dead”

Video Rebel’s Blog

We are headed to the worst Financial Crisis in 500 years because we have more Unpayable Debts to cancel than anytime in 5 centuries… You can predict the severity of a coming Depression by estimating the amount of Unpayable Debt.
Dr Steve Keen

Cucumbers are $3. Cauliflower $8. Bananas $3.14 a pound. Cheddar Cheese $19.69 for 8 1/2 ounces. $4.40 for a pound of apples.   Continue reading ““How Bad Can 2016 Get?””

Reuters

A police officer was shot dead and another was wounded on Sunday by a suspect during a foot chase after a car crash outside of Salt Lake City, police said.

Officer Doug Barney died after he was shot once and fellow officer Jon Richey was expected to survive after he was shot three times in Holladay, Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake Sheriff Jim Winder said at a news conference.   Continue reading “Utah police officer shot dead, another wounded during foot chase”

Activist Post – by Derrick Broze

A number of the world’s leading climate scientists are showing their true colors by advocating the use of a dangerous technology as the solution to environmental degradation and climate change.

The Paris Climate Conference and subsequent Paris Agreement was an absolute failure. Not only was the entire premise flawed from the beginning, but the entire conference was a facade attempting to hide the influence of corporations on governmental policies. The Paris Agreement itself was anotherblack eye to indigenous communities who attempted to have their voices heard, only to be drowned out by corporate colonization. Outside of the conference was not much better, with Paris resembling a police state stripping away free speech rights from protesters.   Continue reading “Leading Climate Scientists Say Paris Conference Failed, Call For Geoengineering”

OPB – by John Sepulvado and Amelia Templeton

A militant leader on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge told OPB his involvement in the occupation has resulted in the loss of his four foster children.

Robert “LaVoy” Finicum and his wife Jeanette were foster care parents for troubled boys. Finicum estimates that over the past decade, more than 50 boys came through their ranch near Chino Valley, Arizona. The boys often landed there from mental hospitals, drug rehabs and group homes for emotionally distressed youth.   Continue reading “Militant Says Foster Children Were Pulled From His Home”

RT – by Iben Thranholm

After the incidents of sexual assault in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve committed by Muslim refugees against German women, feminist apologetics have acquired renewed vigor in the European debate.

Pundits and politicians assure the public that refugee males now storming the gates of Europe from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia will be required to learn that Western women are independent and sexually liberated. Such arguments, however, are obviously too weak to have any impact on the male cultures representative of certain refugee groups.   Continue reading “Europe’s tragedy: Too much Angela Merkel, too little masculinity”

Natural News – by Daniel Barker

During 2016, while the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was busy covering up its mistakes in the Gold King Mine cleanup disaster in Colorado – which polluted waterways in three states – and while jailing others who committed environmental crimes less serious than the agency’s own SNAFUs, it managed to also ignore what could turn out to be one of the biggest potential environmental disasters in the nation’s history.   Continue reading “After denying the problem for years, EPA finally orders barrier to block underground fire from reaching 100,000 tons of nuclear waste near St. Louis”