Month: April 2017

Reuters

Prosecutors charged a Florida police officer on Wednesday in the shooting last July of an unarmed black man who was seen on cellphone video lying in a street with his hands in the air at the time he was shot in the leg.

North Miami Police Department officer Jonathan Aledda was charged with attempted manslaughter, a felony, and culpable negligence, a misdemeanor, according to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office.   Continue reading “Florida police officer arrested in shooting of unarmed black man”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Blink, and you missed Trump’s blistering, seamless transformation into a mainstream politician.

In the span of just a few hours, President Trump flipped to new positions on several core policy issues, backing off on no less than five repeated campaign promises.   Continue reading “Trump Flips On Five Core Key Campaign Promises In Under 24 Hours”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

Award-winning Iran-Contra journalist Robert Parry says the chemical weapons attack in Syria was launched from a joint Saudi-Israeli special operations base in Jordan, according to his intelligence sources.

U.S. intelligence analysts determined that a drone was responsible for the attack and “eventually came to believe that the flight was launched in Jordan from a Saudi-Israeli special operations base for supporting Syrian rebels,” according to the source.   Continue reading “U.S. Intelligence Source: Syria Chemical Weapons Attack Launched From Joint Saudi-Israeli Base”

Reuters

Russia blocked a Western effort at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn last week’s deadly gas attack in Syria and push Moscow’s ally President Bashar al-Assad to cooperate with international inquiries into the incident.

It was the eighth time during Syria’s six-year-old civil war that Moscow has used its veto power on the Security Council to shield Assad’s government.   Continue reading “Russia blocks U.N. Security Council condemnation of Syria attack”

Yahoo News

The gigantic headache currently suffered by United Airline’s PR team doesn’t look like it will go away any time soon as more stories about their mistreatment of passengers start to emerge.

Geoff Fearns, 59, president of Tripacific Capital Advisors, has told of an incident a week before the infamous moment seen across the world where David Dao was forcibly dragged screaming from an overbooked flight. Fearns was threatened to be put in handcuffs if he didn’t vacate his first-class seat to Los Angeles for “somebody more important”.   Continue reading “Second United Airlines passenger threatened with handcuffs to give seat up for ‘more important’ flyer”

Newsmax – by Jason Devaney

The White House said North Korea has not technically threatened to use nuclear weapons because the reclusive nation has yet to obtain them.

“There’s no evidence that North Korea has that capability at this time,” press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.   Continue reading “White House: ‘No Evidence’ North Korea Has Nukes”

Jon Rappoport

The new devil in the US press, as of last summer, was Russia. All of a sudden. And then, in the wake of the election, the devil became the DEVIL. Was this nothing more than an attempt to discredit Trump and his victory?

No. It was definitely something more.

As David Icke stated on the Richie Allen show a few days ago, Russia was the player who was standing in the way of the long-term goal to get rid of Assad in Syria and turn the country into a hellhole like Libya.   Continue reading “Why Russia has become the number-one target in the US press”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a potentially concerning geopolitical development, Reuters reports that foreign journalists visiting North Korea have been told to prepare for a “big and important event” on Thursday, although the wire service says there were “no indications it was directly linked to tensions in the region over the isolated state’s nuclear weapons program.”   Continue reading “North Korea Tells Foreign Journalists To Prepare For “Big” Event On Thursday”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

The federal government will test 20 different prototype border walls near San Diego this summer, according to a Tuesday report in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

The test walls will be built in the Otay Mesa community alongside the existing border walls, once the most promising proposals are selected in June, according to the newspaper.   Continue reading “Prototype Border Walls Will Be Built Near San Diego”

Yahoo News

President Trump is doubling down on the unsubstantiated wiretapping claims against his predecessor as well as his unproven allegation that former national security adviser Susan Rice may have committed a crime.

In an interview with Fox Business on Tuesday, Trump also suggested he could change his mind on whether FBI Director James Comey remains in his post.   Continue reading “‘It’s not too late’ to get rid of FBI Director James Comey, Trump says”

Good News Network – by McKinley Corbley

Jennifer Austin had long awaited the day that her husband would finally return from the hospital – but after weeks of time spent in the ICU, Don Austin arrived home on Friday only to find a frustrating obstacle standing in his way: the stairs to his front door.

Due to a host of health issues, Don had had his leg amputated below the knee. Though he had crutches handy, he still wasn’t strong enough to make it up the stairs to their house in Creston, Florida.   Continue reading “Man Helps Amputee Up the Stairs, Then Returns to Build Ramp”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program mount, the United States Air Force has deployed a WC-135 (a.k.a. the “Nuclear Sniffer”), an aircraft that specializes in detecting radioactive debris after the detonation of a nuclear device, to Okinawa, Japan to assist with monitoring for potential nuclear tests in the region.  The aircraft was deployed to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, as confirmed by the Nikkei media outlet reported based on talks with a senior Japan Self Defense Forces official.   Continue reading “US Deploys “Nuclear Sniffer” Plane To Japan As North Korea Tensions Come To A Boil”