Washington Post – by Peter Holley

The sight of a large blue-and-white Trump flag perched atop the lead vehicle in a military convoy was a shocking sight for some Kentucky drivers on the final weekend in January.

Video and photos of the vehicle spread rapidly online, prompting Navy officials to open an investigation after they confirmed that the convoy was from a special warfare unit from Virginia Beach.   Continue reading “A special warfare unit flew a Trump flag in public. Now the Navy is punishing its members.”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Propaganda might tell you attackers lie in wait to pick off police at every opportunity, but the fact remains there simply is no war on cops — and while special protections and charges await anyone using violence against authorities, that hasn’t stopped 32 separate so-called Blue Lives Matter bills from being introduced in 14 different states. In just the first two months of the year.   Continue reading “Rise of Police Privilege — 32 Blue Lives Matter Bills in 14 States Introduced in 2017”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Malheur Wildlife Reserve occupier Blaine Cooper has become the first witness for the government against four men who are facing multiple charges in the occupation of the reserve in 2016. However, at least one eyewitness of event claims that Cooper’s testimony is false based on the fact that she saw him.

First, Oregon Live reports on what Cooper testified:   Continue reading “Eyewitness Claims Oregon Occupier Blaine Cooper’s Testimony for Government is False”

Reuters

Seven Baltimore police officers were arrested on Wednesday on federal racketeering charges for robbing and extorting up to $200,000 from victims, along with stealing guns and drugs, prosecutors said.

Many of the alleged shakedowns took place while the Baltimore Police Department was under intense media scrutiny and facing a U.S. Justice Department civil rights investigation for the 2015 police-involved death of a black man that plunged the largely African-American city into turmoil.   Continue reading “Seven Baltimore police officers arrested on racketeering charges”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

An internal White House strategy review on North Korean options includes the possibility of both military force and regime change to counter the country’s nuclear-weapons threat, the WSJ reports, a prospect that has some U.S. allies in the region on edge. The review comes amid recent events have strained regional stability including last month’s launch by North Korea of a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, and the assassination of the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia.   Continue reading “White House Is Exploring Use Of Military Force Against North Korea”

Truth Dig – by Emma Niles

Just a day before President Trump spoke to Congress and stated that his administration has “begun to drain the swamp of government corruption,” the White House announced new additions to the National Economic Council, which is packed with former corporate lobbyists and with allies of the Koch brothers. The council advises the president on foreign and domestic economic policy.

Council Chairman Gary Cohn said the new appointees would be part of a “best-in-class team,” but many observers were quick to point out conflicts of interest.   Continue reading “Ex-Lobbyists and Koch Brothers Allies Will Run Trump’s Economic Team”

Widener’s Reloading and Shooting Supply

Smokeless powder may be the most important component for any shooter who is reloading ammo and it’s probably the most complicated as well. With different characteristics and a ton of variables, gunpowder needs to be fully understood before you attempt to reload ammunition.

This guide will take you through the basics of reloading powder, show how all smokeless powder is not the same and demonstrate how the different characteristics of powder can make your reloads more effective depending upon your intended purpose.   Continue reading “Guide to Smokeless Powder”

St. Louis Post Dispatch

ST. LOUIS • A man killed Friday while riding his bike in the 10600 block of Riverview Drive has been identified as a St. Louis University professor and bioterrorism expert Robert Mark Buller.

Buller, 67, was a professor in the department of molecular microbiology and immunology at SLU. The university posted an obituary that said he was “one of the nation’s foremost poxvirus researchers.”   Continue reading “Bicyclist killed on Riverview Drive was SLU professor, expert on bioterrorism”

If Americans Knew

An Israeli Defense Forces soldier has been sentenced to 18 months in jail on a manslaughter conviction for shooting a Palestinian man in the head after he had already been disarmed and injured by other soldiers.

The incident occurred last year in the city of Hebron and was caught on video (scroll down to view) by Imad Abu Shamsiya.   Continue reading “Palestinian children throwing stones got longer sentences than Israeli who killed unarmed man”

AOL

HARTFORD, Connecticut (WTIC) – After a decade-long legal battle, the city of Hartford is paying a local family $885,000. Their beloved pet dog was shot during an unlawful search of their property in 2006.

On December 20, 2006, Hartford Police Sergeants Anthony Pia and Johnmichael O’Hare entered the fenced yard on Enfield Street without a warrant. They were investigating a tip that illegal weapons might be in an abandoned car on the property.   Continue reading “City to pay $885,000 to family in decade-old dog shooting case”

Jon Rappoport

For six days, Google shut down all listings for Natural News.

Google gave no rational explanation. Then, again with no comprehensible reason, Google restored Natural News.

To say this behavior was deranged would be a vast understatement.   Continue reading “Mike Adams’ Natural News restored by Goggle after massive takedown”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Colerain Township, OH — A video uploaded to social media this week is causing quite the controversy after showing a violent interaction between two deputies with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office and a 12-year-old girl — at a skating rink. At the center of the controversy is the deputies’ decision to taser the girl for compliance.   Continue reading “Cops Taser 12-Year-Old Girl at Skating Rink After She Refused to Wear Skates”

Reuters

The Trump administration supports renewing without reforms a key surveillance law governing how the U.S. government collects electronic communications that is due to expire at the end of the year, a White House official said on Wednesday.

“We support the clean reauthorization and the administration believes it’s necessary to protect the security of the nation,” the official said on customary condition of anonymity.  Continue reading “White House supports renewal of spy law without reforms: official”

i24 News

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US State for International Organization Affairs Erin Barclay condoned the UN’s “obsession with Israel” during an address she delivered to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday.

Barclay asserted that the council’s “obsession with Israel” comprised the “largest threat” to the “council’s credibility.”   Continue reading “US envoy slams UN Human Rights Council for having ‘obsession with Israel’”

New York Post – by Jamie Schram, Kevin Fasick, Yaron Steinbuch and Daniel Prendergast

A 47-year-old financial company executive was killed Wednesday when he jumped from a luxury apartment building on the Upper West Side, authorities said.

Kevin Bell jumped from a ninth-floor kitchen window at the famed Apthorp building on West End Avenue near West 79th Street around 7:20 a.m., a source told The Post.   Continue reading “‘Depressed’ Wall Street exec jumps to his death”

The Guardian – by Carol Rosenburg

Hundreds of U.S. forces are rehearsing a migrant crisis this week at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a massive multimillion dollar drill that envisions the United States capturing huge numbers of people in the Caribbean bound for the United States — and how the military, State Department and Homeland Security would collaborate on handling it.

At the Southern Command, Army Col. Lisa Garcia said the military was contributing 400 troops and spending $2.5 million on its portion of the month-long exercise, to include transportation and airlift. It ends Friday.   Continue reading “It’s only a drill: Guantánamo rehearses Caribbean migrant crisis”

LA Times – by Joshua Emerson Smith

A massive sewage spill in Tijuana that polluted beaches in San Diego County this month may have been no accident, according to state and local officials.

In a preliminary estimate, officials said about 143 million gallons of raw sewage spewed into the Tijuana River during a period of more than two weeks that ended Thursday. While cross-border sewage spills of a few million gallons are routine for the region, this is one of the largest such events in the last two decades, according to water quality experts in San Diego.   Continue reading “‘Tsunami of sewage spills’ in Tijuana fouls U.S. beaches, may have been intentional”

SHTF Plan – by Daniel Lang

Earlier this month, we all heard the news that the Oroville Dam was damaged, and that thousands of residents living in its shadow would have to be evacuated. Fortunately the dam held, and the residents of Oroville were able to return to their homes. For the most part the story has since faded from the news. However, the damage remains.

When the crisis was at its peak, you may have heard about what specifically went wrong with the dam. The main spillway was damaged when the dam operators attempted to release some water to control the depth of Lake Oroville. Essentially, a crater unexpectedly emerged in the middle of the spillway, and when the water flowed through that hole, it eroded the soil beneath. So the dam operators decided to let the water flow over an emergency spillway instead. But as the emergency spillway began to erode as well, an evacuation order was issued.   Continue reading “Dramatic Aerial Footage Shows What The Oroville Dam Looks Like Now”