Waking Times – by Alex Pietrowski

The federally mandated, nationally standardized education program Common Core has many parents and teachers concerned. For starters, it imposes rigorous testing onto students, forcing curriculums to be molded around exams, not necessarily around learning or the development of critical thinking. Additionally, Common Core is part of a system developed by corporations and aims to prepare children for the life of being an employee, not a change-maker.

The program is causing friction around the nation, and a slow-burn rebellion of sorts is underway. In 2015, 4th grader Sydney Smoot made national headlines when she eloquently ripped standardized testing at a school board meeting.  Continue reading “School Ditches Common Core Then Soars To #1 In English Language Arts”

Reuters

Israel’s foreign ministry has issued a statement denouncing U.S. billionaire George Soros, a move that appeared designed to align Israel more closely with Hungary ahead of a visit to Budapest next week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew who has spent a large part of his fortune funding pro-democracy and human rights groups, has repeatedly been targeted by Hungary’s right-wing government, in particular over his support for more open immigration.   Continue reading “Israel backs Hungary, says financier Soros is a threat”

Daily Mail

Hundreds of camels have died of starvation and thirst after being driven out of Saudi Arabia during its row with Qatar.

Some animals perished when they got stuck in No Mans Land at the border between the two countries where there was insufficient food and water.

Others have been left to die by the roadside after their owners were given one hour to leave their farms.   Continue reading “Hundreds of camels die of thirst in the desert: Qataris kicked off farms in Saudi Arabia amid rift between Gulf nations are unable to save their animals”

Technocracy Now – by Alex Newman

Common Core is not about education, it is Technocracy’s initiative to collect life-long data on young students in order to condition them for the global citizenry. The 1934 Technocracy Study Course wrote about education as a “continental system of human conditioning’, which is exactly what we have today. ⁃ TN Editor

Government schools are now conducting mental health and psychological assessments of your children each month under the unconstitutional Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA),according to various reports. Even more alarming: Parents have not offered their consent, or even been told that the exams are taking place.   Continue reading “Government Schools Are Tracking The Mental Health Of Your Children”

NPR

Cardinal George Pell, an advisor to Pope Francis, has returned to his home country of Australia to face allegations of sex abuse in years past.

Australia announced the charges against Pell late last month. Pell says he he innocent and promises to fight the charges. He has taken a leave of absence for the trial, but says he plans on returning to his powerful post in the Vatican.   Continue reading “Prominent Cardinal Returns To Australia To Face Sex Abuse Charges”

Tucson.com – by Caitlin Schmidt

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury’s decision to award a Tucson couple more than $1 million in damages after they were wrongfully detained by sheriff’s deputies during a raid executed after a fake 911 call.

In April 2016, a U.S. District Court jury ordered the Pima County Sheriff’s Department to pay Rob and Jill Larson $1.25 million in damages and more than $200,000 in attorney’s fees after deciding deputies violated the couple’s constitutional rights, according to Arizona Daily Star archives.

Continue reading “$1.25M judgment against Pima Sheriff’s Department upheld in mistaken raid”

Chicago Tribune

Environmental activists who raised a banner at Trump Tower in protest of President Donald Trump’s agenda caused thousands of dollars in damage to the River North skyscraper, according to prosecutors.

Four people appeared Sunday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on felony charges after they were accused of hanging a Greenpeace banner with the words “resist” and “defend” from Trump Tower’s 16th-terrace.   Continue reading “Protesters caused thousands in damage at Trump Tower: prosecutors”

St. Louis Today – by Kurt Erikson

JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri soon will have a system to notify the general public when a law enforcement officer is killed or injured.

Patterned after the Amber Alert system for missing children, the so-called “Blue Alert” law was signed Thursday by Gov. Eric Greitens, who had championed the idea.   Continue reading “Missouri joins 27 other states with ‘Blue Alert’ system for violence against police”

Courthouse News – by Victoria Prieskop

ALBUQUERQUE (CN) — The ACLU sued Albuquerque for information on how its police use Stingray cellphone spying technology, and whether they use it for immigration enforcement, but Albuquerque claims all such records are confidential — including whether they use Stingrays at all.

International Mobile Subscriber Identity catchers — also known as cell-site catchers or Stingrays — simulate cell phone towers, pulling in all cellphone use within a certain distance. They can scan an area near targets of investigations for location and usage information, and in some cases can listen to conversations and track texts on phones in range, including those which have nothing to do with the investigation.   Continue reading “Albuquerque Police Call Spying Tech So Secret They Can’t Even Say They Have It”

Epoch Times – by  Charlotte Cuthbertson

EDINBURG, Texas—”It’s not just a horse, it’s a mustang.”

Ruben Garcia, horse patrol coordinator for the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector, is unbridled in his praise of the horses employed on the Texas border.

It’s fast and volatile work, and the mustangs Border Patrol adopts are perfect for the job.

The horses are wild for the first two to three years of their lives.   Continue reading “Using Horsepower on the Southern Border”

New York Post – by Tina Moore

It takes strength and cunning to fight the violent MS-13 gang, Suffolk County’s top cop says.

But when that’s not enough, a chain saw can sure come in handy.

“It’s Environmental Design 101, you know?” Police Commissioner Timothy Sini told The Post, describing how authorities used some creative landscaping to make a wooded plot in Huntington, LI, less appealing to gang recruiters.   Continue reading “The one way to fight the violent MS-13 gang”

Reason – by C.J. Ciaramella

Two Detroit residents filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Detroit Police Department Wednesday, alleging that several police officers needlessly and maliciously shot their three dogs during a marijuana raid.

Kenneth Savage and Ashley Franklin say that on July 22, 2016, Detroit police raided their house and found the dogs in a back yard bounded by an eight-foot-tall fence. The officers refused to let Savage and Franklin retrieve the dogs and, instead, shot them.   Continue reading “Detroit Police Sued Again For Shooting Dogs During a Marijuana Raid”

“We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system!”

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Adolf Hitler in his May Day Speech, Berlin, 1 May 1927

New York Times – by Kenneth P Vogel

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence has been courting scores of the country’s most influential donors, corporate executives and conservative political leaders over the past several months in a series of private gatherings and one-on-one conversations.

The centerpiece of the effort is a string of dinners held every few weeks at the vice president’s official residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in Washington. Mr. Pence and his wife, Karen, have presided over at least four such soirées, and more are in the works. Each has drawn roughly 30 to 40 guests, including a mix of wealthy donors such as the Chicago hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin and the brokerage firm founder Charles Schwab, as well as Republican fund-raisers and executives from companies like Dow Chemical and the military contractor United Technologies.

Continue reading “At Private Dinners, Pence Quietly Courts Big Donors and Corporate Executives”