Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

“We’re an empire now,” Karl Rove nefariously asserted in 2004, “and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality —  judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Rove might have said that 12 years ago, but the words hauntingly describe our situation in 2016 — Oxford Dictionaries, incidentally, named “post-truth” the international word of the year — with facts seemingly relative, truth debatable, and a falsely-premised war on fake news, Orwell must be rolling in his grave.   Continue reading “2016: How Truth was Destroyed So You’d Buy the Government’s Propaganda”

The Daily Sheeple – by Piper McGowin

Some people just don’t understand that Dogs. Aren’t. People.

Our dog hates clothes. Even those little sweaters to keep small dogs warm in cold weather. If anyone attempts to put clothes on our dog for any reason, he freezes like a wax statue and refuses to budge for anything. You could set down a freshly prepared T-bone steak in front of that dog and if you even so much as placed a kerchief around his neck a minute before, he will just sit there and stare at you like an even more suicidal Eeyore. He won’t move until the offending article has been removed.   Continue reading “Dog Mauls Whole Family After They Attempt To Put A Christmas Sweater On Him”

SOTT – by Aeneas Georg

The biggest problem besetting the psychopathic elite in their push for global domination is that normal human beings don’t want war. Most people, for the most part, just want to live a peaceful life with their family and friends. So how do you sell something as unpalatable as war? There are several options, which can be used alone, or in combination:    Continue reading “Rise of the War Harpies: The Women Destroying our World”

Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He has served on that court since 1997.

A native of the Chicago area, Garland graduated summa cum laude as valedictorian from Harvard College and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. After serving as a law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States, he practiced corporate litigation at Arnold & Porter and worked as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he played a leading role in the investigation and prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombers.   Continue reading “Obama’s possible appointment to the supreme court. Wouldn’t you know it, a JEW.”

Yahoo News

Nineteen states are raising the minimum wage today in a shift that stands to lift the income of millions of workers.

The minimum wage will be increased in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Vermont, and Washington to start 2017.   Continue reading “19 States Increase Minimum Wage at the Start of 2017”

MLive

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Washtenaw County Continuum of Care is looking for about 50 to 60 volunteers to help with the 2017 homeless point-in-time count for the Ann Arbor area, from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26.

Volunteers will canvass the streets in an attempt to count every unsheltered homeless person in Washtenaw County.   Continue reading “50-60 volunteers needed for Ann Arbor-area homeless count”

The Telegraph – by Sarah Knapton

High-tech washing machines and fridges will soon be used by detectives gathering evidence from crime scenes, experts have forecast.

The advent of ‘the internet of things’ in which more devices are connected together in a world of ‘smart working’ could in future provide important clues for the police.   Continue reading “Fridges and washing machines could be vital witnesses in murder plots”

The Telegraph

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, is being questioned by detectives on suspicion of illegally accepting valuable gifts from prominent businessmen in a scandal that is roiling Israeli politics.

Police officers came to the prime minister’s official residence in Jerusalem on Monday evening to question him about claims that he took designer suits and overseas trips his son from at least two businessmen.   Continue reading “Netanyahu questioned by Israeli police over allegations he took gifts from businessmen”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

Here we go again with more Russia hysteria, courtesy of the Washington Post.

Any time a story comes out of Washington Post, readers should realize three things. First, WAPO is a regular attendee at the secretive elite Bilderberg annual conference, has been for decades. Two, so is WAPO’s relatively new owner, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos. Three, Bezos literally works with the CIA, having taken contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the agency to provide its cloud data storage.   Continue reading “Washington Post Forced To Retract Fake Story That Russia Hacked US Power Grid”

RT

At least 25 people were detained in the Polish town of Elk on Sunday after they smashed up a kebab diner and clashed with police, throwing firecrackers and stones. Up to 300 people took part in a rally after a Pole was allegedly killed by men of Arab descent.   Continue reading “Xenophobic riots erupt in Polish town after local man killed at kebab diner”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Heart attacks and broken hips cause much suffering and worry as people grow older. This year, Medicare wants to start changing how it pays for treatment of these life-threatening conditions, to promote quality and contain costs. Beneficiaries and family members may notice a new approach.

Hospitals and doctors in dozens of communities selected for large-scale experiments on this front are already gearing up. The goal is to test the notion that better coordination among clinicians, hospitals, and rehab centers can head off complications, prevent avoidable hospital re-admissions and help patients achieve more stable and enduring recoveries. If results back that up, Medicare can adopt the changes nationwide.   Continue reading “Medicare launches revamp for heart attacks, hip fractures”

Mail.com

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s capital has emerged as a leading destination for Afghan refugees who were awarded special visas because of their service to coalition forces in the war. But life in the United States for them has proven a constant struggle.

These former translators, engineers and doctors awarded Special Immigrant Visas must start over in bug-infested, low-rent apartments with minimum-wage jobs while dealing with PTSD and other health problems, the Sacramento Bee reported (http://bit.ly/2hBy7yv).   Continue reading “Afghan refugees coming to California struggle with PTSD”

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois law that takes effect Sunday aims to take advantage of the trusted relationship between hairstylists and their clients to prevent domestic violence. Stylists, barbers, cosmetologists, estheticians, hair braiders and nail technicians in Illinois will receive an hour of mandated abuse-prevention training as part of the licensing process. The law does not require them to report any violence, and it shelters them from any liability.

Instead, the training provides beauty professionals with information about local help and resources they can share with clients. The Illinois measure appears to be the first of its kind in the country, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.   Continue reading “Illinois law enlists hairstylists to prevent domestic abuse”

World Events and the Bible

Remember the global financial crash of 2007-2008?

Suddenly, the entire world collapsed upon itself, all at the same time. Suddenly the answer from all the nations drowning in debt was to create “bailouts” and print more fiat currency to revive it from financial death, all at the same time. How exactly did the nations instantly come up with the same conclusion unless it was already a planned event and outcome?  Continue reading ““Populism” Rises In The U.S., China, Brazil, Mexico And Britain, Or Does It?”

Privacy Internet Access – by Rick Falkvinge

It begins: Amazon’s constantly-listening robotic home assistant was near a domestic murder case, and now the Police wants access to anything it might have heard. There have been similar cases in the past, but this is where it starts getting discussed: There are now dozens of sensors in our house. Do we still have an expectation of privacy in our home?

A recurring theme in the dystopic fiction of the 1950s was an everpresent government watching everything you did, as witnessed in the infamous Nineteen Eighty-Four and many others. Adding to the dystopia, starting in the 1970s with movies such as Colossus, computers are typically added to the mix of watching everything all the time.   Continue reading “The Government didn’t install cameras and microphones in our homes. We did.”

The Daily Caller – by Eric Lieberman

Nothing may have had as bad of a year as the Internet.

The Internet has been hit with an onslaught of criticism and suffered several setbacks in 2016: from relinquishment of American control over web address management, introduced surveillance measures in the United Kingdom, social media backlash for users’ hate speech and terrorist affiliations, to censorship and fake news.   Continue reading “2016’s Assault On The Internet Was Brutal. Will 2017 Be Worse?”