Fox News

Authorities in Oregon said they successfully detonated a live “World War II-style mortar shell” uncovered on a woman’s property.

The military weapon was found Thursday in the shed at a woman’s home in Gold Hill, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The release said it had been there for more than 30 years, as long as she’d lived there. But the history of the shell was otherwise murdy.   Continue reading “Active ‘World War II-style mortar shell’ turns up in, of all places, an Oregon woman’s shed”

New York Daily News – by Andrew Keshner

O.J. Simpson could be sprinting to court to sue a Las Vegas casino that permanently bounced him from the premises, according to a letter from his lawyer.

Simpson’s attorney told The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas to hold on to all sorts of evidence — because he’s planning to sue for at least $100 million after stories that the Juice was banned for being drunk and disruptive.  Continue reading “O.J. Simpson to sue Las Vegas casino that banned him for at least $100M”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Orange Park, FL — The Clay County Sheriff’s Department is receiving heavy backlash on social media this week after making a video of a SWAT raid in which hundreds of thousands of dollars of police resources were used to bust a handful of kids who had some marijuana.

In the ominous video that looks more like a terrorist organization threatening its enemies than public servants solving crimes,  Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels taunts his massive militarized police army and how it was just used to kidnap a bunch of young people for having marijuana.   Continue reading “Sheriff Makes Ominous Video Bragging About Using a Small Army to Bust Kids With Weed”

Anti-Media – by Carey Wedler

Washington, D.C. — The pervasive problem of cops shooting dogs throughout the United States has been part of the conversation about police brutality for some time. From chihuahuas and pit bulls to cocker spaniels and Labrador retrievers, police officers have developed a reputation for overreacting to family pets with their firearms.   Continue reading “DC Police Release Guidelines for Residents to Follow So Cops Don’t Kill Their Dogs”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Like many years before, 2017 proved to be a deadly and dangerous year for those who found themselves on the other side of the badge. During 2017, 1,188 people lost their lives to the judges, juries, and executioners known as the American police. Everyone from children to the elderly were killed by police this year as most Americans watched football and looked the other way. Police brutality has become so prominent that it is now recorded on video—repeatedly—for the world to see.   Continue reading “The Top 5 Most Disturbing Police Brutality Videos From 2017”

Fox News

Jerry Van Dyke, comedian, actor and younger brother of Dick Van Dyke, died Friday afternoon at his Arkansas home at the age of 86.

Van Dyke’s wife, Shirley, confirmed her husband’s death to TMZ. Shirley said her husband’s health began deteriorating after they were both involved in a car accident two years earlier.   Continue reading “Jerry Van Dyke, comedian and actor, dead at age 86”

Daily Mail

Who else would have access to the best stocked pantry in the world but Martha Stewart?

The lifestyle guru is inviting a member of the public to join her on the first ever expedition to the ‘doomsday’ Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic.

Buried beneath the world’s northernmost town on an island in the icy reaches of Norway, the vault contains around half a billion seeds of just about every type of crop on the planet.  Continue reading “Martha Stewart heading to the ‘Doomsday’ Arctic seed vault”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Daniel Gruss didn’t sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel, something we discussed in “Why The Implications Of The Intel “Bug” Are Staggering.” And as Reuters describes in fascinating detail, the 31-year-old information security researcher and post-doctoral fellow at Austria’s Graz Technical University had just breached the inner sanctum of his computer’s CPU and stolen secrets from it.

Until that moment, Gruss and colleagues Moritz Lipp and Michael Schwarz had thought such an attack on the processor’s ‘kernel’ memory, which is meant to be inaccessible to users, was only theoretically possible.   Continue reading “The “Meltdown” Story: How A Researcher Discovered The “Worst” Flaw In Intel History”

VPR – by John Dillon

An escalation in immigration enforcement over the past year has brought a new level of anxiety for the several thousand migrant farm workers living in Vermont.

For the first time since 2010, arrests and detentions by the U.S. Border Patrol increased in Vermont, New Hampshire and northeastern New York last year.   Continue reading “For Undocumented Workers On Vermont Farms, 2017 Was A Year Filled With Anxiety”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In what is being characterized as a rare address to the world’s largest fighting force, President Xi Jinping on January 04 urged the Chinese military to be ready for war and ‘don’t fear death’.

As the beat of the war drums gets louder in East Asia and abroad, Xi’s rare speech to the military kicked off the New Year with a grim warning, as China and other countries in the region could be preparing for a turbulent year ahead.  Continue reading “China’s Xi Warns Military: Be Ready For War & “Don’t Fear Death””

RT

The home of a woman who accused Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual harassment has burned down in what is being investigated as a possible arson attack.

Tina Johnson, who alleged in November that Moore groped her in his office in 1991, said Friday that her house in Gadsden, Alabama had burned down on Tuesday morning. None of the family were home at the time of the fire.   Continue reading “Home of Roy Moore accuser burned to the ground in suspected arson”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey

ALBANY, N.Y. (Jan. 5, 2018) – A bill introduced in the New York Senate would allow customers to opt out of installing “smart meter” technology on their homes and businesses. Passage of this bill would allow New Yorkers to protect their own privacy, and it would take a step toward blocking a federal program in effect.

Sen. Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn) introduced Senate Bill 7214 (S7214) on Jan. 3. The legislation would allow New Yorkers to opt out of any utility company smart meter program with no penalty.  Continue reading “New York Bill Would Allow Customers to Opt Out of Smart Meters, Undermine Federal Program”