Month: March 2018

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

Pikeville, Kentucky – Local media outlets are speaking out after they received emails from a state police spokesperson demanding that they wait for a press release from the police department before publishing stories about ongoing investigations, which implies that the outlets are prohibited from using a narrative that is different from the one chosen by police.

The Mountain Advocate newspaper and a Bell County radio station received an email from Kentucky State Police spokesman Shane Jacobs, in which he started out by writing that he personally has “a great working relationship with the media,” but that all of the inquiries he receives from media contacts take time away from his personal life and add to his apparently busy schedule.   Continue reading “Police Warn Reporters Not to Report News Until Cops Give Them Permission—Or Face Consequences”

The Organic Prepper – by Selco

Editor’s Note: If a disaster is bad enough and lasts long enough, it isn’t going to take long before there is no food to be had. In this interview with Selco, he shares his real-life experiences and explains how people kept from starving to death when there was no food in the stores. ~ Daisy

How do you get food when there are no stores?

At the beginning of everything, most of the people did not have any significant “stash” of food in their homes.   Continue reading “Selco: What We Ate and How We Got Food When the SHTF”

SF Gate – by Graph Massara

A camp on top of the Antioch Amtrak station was discovered Thursday, police said, after a bystander reported seeing someone lowering a bicycle down from the station roof.

Officer Tom Lenderman, who responded to the report, found an “unsafe” rooftop camp, the Antioch Police Department wrote in a post on an official Facebook page. The city’s public works department dispatched a boom truck to the train station, which lifted Lenderman onto the roof.   Continue reading “Person found camping on roof of Antioch Amtrak station”

The Oregonian – by Kaiser Health News

On the last morning of their lives, Charlie and Francie Emerick held hands.

The Portland couple, married for 66 years and both terminally ill, died together in their bed on April 20, 2017, after taking lethal doses of medication obtained under the state’s Death With Dignity law.   Continue reading “Oregon couple’s final days captured in intimate aid-in-dying video”

Jon Rappoport

Television viewers are inundated with drug ads from Big Pharma. It’s a flood.

Have you ever heard of these drugs? Otezla, Xeljanz, Namzaric, Keytruda, Breo, Cosentyz? Not likely. If you have, do you know what conditions they treat? Highly unlikely. But there they are, splashed in commercials.

Why? Who is going to remember to ask their doctor whether these and other obscure meds are right for them?   Continue reading “The deeper reason for drug ads on television”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Maryland — Under the guise of preventing child abuse, lawmakers in Maryland have introduced a bill that will allow the state to intrude in the lives of innocent families, keeping tabs on them, and destroying their right to privacy.

The bill, HB 1798 – County Boards of Education – Home Instruction Program – Observation of Instruction and Reporting of Abuse and Neglect, lays out some fairly ominous requirements that will persecute otherwise entirely innocent families for doing nothing other than teaching their children at home.   Continue reading “State to Force Homeschoolers to Submit to Warrantless Home Inspections, Trampling Rights”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will support a modest set of fixes to gun laws, stepping back from some of the more sweeping changes he had considered after the country’s latest mass school shooting, senior officials told reporters on Sunday.

Opting for a plan the administration officials described as “pragmatic,” Trump backs legislation proposed in Congress aimed at providing more data for the background check system – a database of people who are not legally allowed to buy guns.   Continue reading “Trump pulls back from big changes to gun laws after Florida shooting”

CNN

The section of a Baltimore park that once hosted a Confederate monument was rededicated on Saturday in honor of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

A tree-filled area of Wyman Park Dell, near Johns Hopkins University, was renamed the Harriet Tubman Grove as part of a ceremony marking the 105th year since her death. Residents gathered in the park on Saturday to celebrate her life and the renaming of the grove.   Continue reading “Baltimore renames former Confederate site for Harriet Tubman”

The Times

Waitrose is selling gender-neutral Mother’s Day cards as retailers reduce their use of the M-word to make today’s celebration more “transgender inclusive”.

The supermarket chain is selling a “Happy You Day” card in its Mother’s Day range in which the word “mother” does not appear.   Continue reading “Mother’s Day cards go gender-neutral”

AOL

President Donald Trump took the first step toward arming America’s teachers on Sunday night, promising Justice Department assistance to help fund firearms training for school personnel.

The controversial proposal, which the president announced last month after a former student killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was part of a series of school safety measures the White House released Sunday evening.  Continue reading “White House promises federal aid to train armed teachers”

AOL

PANOLA COUNTY, Mississippi (WREG) — A Panola County Sheriff’s deputy has been on leave for several weeks during an investigation after he was accused of rape.

He says everything was consensual. Meanwhile, an outside agency has been brought in to look into this case.

WREG is not identifying the deputy because he has not been charged.  Continue reading “Mississippi sheriff’s deputy accused of raping police officer”

Breitbart – by Trent Baker

Saturday, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) discussed the bill Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed Friday to raise the purchase of long firearms from the age of 18 to 21, calling it “merely the beginning” of the response to last month’s Parkland, FL, shooting.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) sued the state of Florida over the provision, saying it violates the Second Amendment.   Continue reading “Dem Rep Deutch: Gun Bill Florida Signed ‘Merely the Beginning’ of the Response to Parkland”

Mr. Mehra

A 20-year-old man’s pushing of a transgender woman into a river last year, causing her to drown, does not constitute criminal conduct, a Texas judge has ruled.

The decision means Mark Daniel Lewis, of Live Oak, will not face trial in the death of Kenne McFadden, a 26-year-old transgender woman, who was found floating in the San Antonio River.   Continue reading “Man charged in drowning death of transgender woman will avoid trial”