Year: 2017

Reuters

Police in Georgia were searching on Tuesday for two armed inmates who escaped from prison transportation after overpowering their guards and shooting them dead, authorities said.

The corrections officers were transporting prisoners at 5:45 a.m. EDT (945 GMT) in Putnam County, about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Atlanta, when inmates Donnie Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, disarmed them, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.  Continue reading “Two inmates on the run in Georgia after killing guards”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Rex Tillerson announced on Tuesday that North Korea has released Otto Warmbier, an American who was serving a 15 year jail sentence somewhere in the bowels of the hermit kingdom. The announcement came just hours after Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea for an unexpected trip, as reported last night. Warmbier, a University of Virginia student from Cincinnati, was sentenced in March after a televised tearful public confession to trying to steal a propaganda banner.

“At the direction of the President, the Department of State has secured the release of Otto Warmbier from North Korea,” Tillerson said in a statement. “Mr. Warmbier is en route to the U.S. where he will be reunited with his family.”   Continue reading “North Korea Releases US Student Following Rodman Visit”

NBC News – by Jon Schuppe

The nation’s smallest jails, often overlooked in discussions about America’s high incarceration rate, have been quietly driving a historic increase in the number of people behind bars, according to researchers.

These local jails, mostly serving rural communities with low crime rates, hold a disproportionate number of people who are waiting for trial and who are being held by outside agencies, such as overburdened state prison systems and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a newly released report says.   Continue reading “Rural and Small-Town Jails Are Driving America’s High Incarceration Rate, Researchers Find”

Breitbart – by Kristina Wong

Blackwater founder and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince is recommending, as the Trump administration debates its Afghanistan War approach, that the U.S. military go back to its light footprint approach in Afghanistan.

Prince told the “Breitbart News Sunday” radio program that the approach – which would see CIA, special operators, and contractors working with Afghan forces to target terrorists – would be more effective and save the U.S. billions of dollars annually.   Continue reading “Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Recommends ‘Cheaper, Lighter’ Afghanistan Approach”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill to criminalize “sexting” among teenagers. But that’s not all. This ominous bill also punishes their parents by making them face a 15-year mandatory, minimum sentence.

H.R. 1761, the Protecting Against Child Exploitation Act of 2017, seeks to “criminalize the knowing consent of the visual depiction, or live transmission, of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and for other purposes.”   Continue reading “Congress Passes Bill to Throw Parents of Sexting Teens in Jail for 15 Years”

ArsTechnica – by Beth Mole

In a letter dated May 1 of this year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions personally wrote to Congressional leaders urging them to ditch a provision in spending legislation that bars the Department of Justice from cracking down on state-legal medical marijuana.

The letter was revealed Monday by Massroots.com and subsequently verified by The Washington Post.   Continue reading “Sessions wrote to Congress asking permission to go after medical marijuana”

Natural News – by Amy Goodrich

The pharmaceutical world will do everything in its power to protect its cash cow. Anything that stands in its way will be eliminated. In just over one year, more than 60 holistic doctors and researchers have been found dead, most of them in suspicious circumstances.

Christopher Bayley King, 49, is the latest holistic doctor to be murdered in cold blood. He was eating at the Farm to Table Restaurant, Bramble & Hare, when he was approached by a man named Louis Joseph Sebastian, 32, and shot dead on Memorial Day, reported Your News Wire. Just before he got murdered, Dr. King was arguing with his killer. Then they went outside and Dr. King got shot.   Continue reading “Holistic doctor gunned down outside organic restaurant in Colorado as war on natural health continues”

CBC News – by Hilary Bird

Indigenous advocates from around the world are calling on a UN committee to make appropriating Indigenous cultures illegal — and to do it quickly.

Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency.   Continue reading “Cultural appropriation: Make it illegal worldwide, Indigenous advocates say”

PoliZette – by Ramin Oskoui, MD

President Ronald Reagan’s warning to beware of anyone who says, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,” is extremely applicable to the latest EpiPen scandals — and the whole problem of drug prices.

Americans pay four to 10 times more for prescription drugs than what citizens of other developed countries pay. It’s true that drug prices must be high enough to pay for research and development, but there is no reason that only American consumers should bear that cost. We effectively subsidize the generous national health systems of Canada and other western countries by allowing them to get away with paying much lower prices that don’t reflect the much greater R&D costs of the drugs they use.   Continue reading “Lesson of EpiPen Scandal: Government Is Not Your Friend”

NPR – by Yuki Noguchi

When I started my career at The Washington Post in the late 1990s, the newsroom wore a dusty, outdated look as if it were paying homage to its legendary past. The Post of today occupies an updated building on D.C.’s renowned K Street, in modern, glass-walled offices with a Silicon Valley aesthetic.

This is the Post after Jeff Bezos, the Amazon CEO and e-commerce visionary, bought it in 2013. Since then, the paper’s business and technology has almost outshone its award-winning journalism.   Continue reading “At ‘Washington Post,’ Tech Is Increasingly Boosting Financial Performance”

Tucson.com – by Carmen Duarte

A Sierra Vista man who worked as a civilian for the Army was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday for child pornography and other sex crimes.

Ian Joseph Ritzer, 34, also will face a lifetime of supervised release once out of prison.

Ritzer previously pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of production of child pornography, extortion, and attempted enticement of a minor. Ritzer was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez, according to a news release.   Continue reading “Sierra Vista man sentenced to 25 years in prison for child sex crimes”

Tucson.com – by Nick Meyers

Riding in an ambulance can be life-saving, but for a woman rescued Friday in Nogales, being trapped inside a sweltering ambulance compartment almost killed her.

Authorities rescued a 26-year-old Mexican woman identified only as Angeles, who Nogales police said had been locked inside an out-of-service ambulance for nearly two days during an illegal border-crossing attempt.
Continue reading “Nogales police: Migrant survived 40 hours trapped in ambulance compartment”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Putin has said this many times. But that has not stopped his military from dropping bombs on Syria either has it? He fully understands the US creates and supports the terrorists factions in the middle east. But does nothing to stop it. Why? He is a part of the same agenda, he just has a slightly different angle.

The US is to blame for the rise of Al-Qaeda and its late mastermind Osama bin Laden, which it empowered to fight Soviet troops in Afghanistan, Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone. Putin also said there is proof the CIA supported terrorists in Russia’s Chechnya.  Continue reading “US Nurtured Al-Qaeda & Supported Terrorists In Chechnya – Putin”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey

RALEIGH, N.C. (June 12, 2017) – Last week, the North Carolina House passed a “Constitutional Carry” bill that would make it legal for most North Carolinians to carry a firearm without a license, and foster an environment hostile to federal gun control.

A coalition of four Republican representatives introduced House Bill 746 (H746) in April. Under the proposed law, any person who is a citizen of the United States and at least 18 years old would be able to legally carry a handgun, openly or concealed, without a concealed handgun permit in North Carolina unless provided otherwise by State law or by 18 U.S.C. § 922 or any other federal law.   Continue reading “Permission Not Required: North Carolina House Passes “Constitutional Carry” Bill”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: This guy better be careful with his words. The globalists do not like light shining on their agenda. His airplane just might have a “mechanical failure”, where have we seen that before…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused the European Union of favouring terrorists after Brussels protested the terrorism trial of an asylum seeker in Hungary.  Continue reading “Hungarian PM Orbán: ‘The European Union Is On The Side Of Terrorists’”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: FLIP. Trump’s administration is “now” open to the idea of the whole “Dreamer” act you Republican/Conservatives shot Obama down for. The new US administration is seriously considering the idea of amnesty for 1 million illegal immigrants. I heard you all hoot and holler when Obama wanted to do it. Let’s hear you hoot and holler now that a Republican is in office and wants to do it. You realize if you stay silent that is a bit hypocritical. Make a stand and stick with it already. Otherwise you are just wasting air with your banter and playing politics. Our nations is being destroyed and you cannot see it as “your party” stands in office. How disgusting.

The Trump administration last week floated an amnesty idea for potentially 1 million illegal immigrants, looking to find permanent solutions for some of the most sympathetic cases in the long-running immigration debate.   Continue reading “Trump Administration Considering Dream Acts, Amnesty For 1 Million Illegal Immigrants”

Miami Herald – by Katy Bergen

It’s the distance a trained police officer can typically shoot an assailant with accuracy, he says. Next, he points to a door farther down the hallway — a distance still much shorter than the typical hallway at a Shawnee Mission school.

“To expect that I could stop somebody with a pistol from here to there….” He doesn’t finish his sentence.

Douglass cites the rising threat of active shooter situations as the reason why the district’s police department has issued eight semi-automatic rifles to its district resource officers, who have operated separately from municipal police forces since 1972.   Continue reading “School district buys semi-automatic rifles. Some parents are angry and scared”