Month: April 2018

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Newark, NJ — A police officer in New Jersey was arrested by the FBI after he was caught selling drugs out of his patrol car and near the police department, in a sting set up by undercover agents.

Ruben McAusland, 26, reportedly sold roughly $12,000 in drugs to an undercover buyer who was working with the FBI, US Attorney Craig Carpenito said in a statement. McAusland is accused of selling at least 35 grams of marijuana, 48 grams of heroin, 31 grams of cocaine and 31 grams of crack between October 2017 and April 2018.  Continue reading “FBI Arrests Cop For Selling Drugs—On Duty—From His Own Patrol Car”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

China’s second-largest lender by assets, China Construction Bank (CCB), has opened a Shanghai branch run entirely by robots that greet customers and manage accounts, Mirror reported.

The bank doesn’t just utilize robots; it’s packed full with new technology including virtual reality, artificial intelligence and facial recognition.   Continue reading “World’s First Bank Entirely Run By Robots Opens Up In China”

The Organic Prepper – by  M.K. Matthews

The ten year U.S. Treasury Bonds rose above 3% for the first time since January 2011.  The main reason is speculation that the Fed will seek an increasingly aggressive rise in interest rates.   Yields rose as Fed officials talk of raising interest rates four times this year instead of the previously discussed three times.

Rising interest rates can have a significant effect on the economy and your finances on a personal level.   Continue reading “10 Year Treasury Yield Hits 3% (Here’s What This Means for your Wallet)”

Breitbart – by Sean Moran

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially repealed the agency’s Obama-era 2015 net neutrality order on Monday.

In December, the FCC passed the “Restoring Internet Freedom Order,” which repealed the agency’s Obama-era net neutrality regulation. The FCC published the regulation in the Federal Register in February, which started a 60-day timeline for the rule to take effect on Monday.   Continue reading “FCC Officially Repeals Obama-Era Net Neutrality Order”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While it will likely take the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons weeks or even months to issue their final report on the alleged gas attack in Douma (an attack for which journalists and other independent parties have failed to find any evidence), the organization’s investigators have apparently spoken with Russian military officials after visiting the site of the Barzeh research center in Damascus – one of the three facilities targeted by the strikes.   Continue reading “OPCW Investigators Reportedly Found “No Evidence” Of Chemical Weapons At Syrian Facilities Bombed By US”

AL.com

Alec Allen has suffered from persistent nausea and other gastrological problems since 2011, when he was incarcerated in the Etowah County jail for about nine months.

Doctors have not been able to pinpoint a culprit, but the long-haul truck driver said he had a parasite when he was released, and he blames his ongoing medical issues on the food he and other inmates were served.   Continue reading “Jail kitchen workers say donated, spoiled food keeps costs low for beach house sheriff”

Reason – by Jacob Sullum

After a police officer pulls over a teenaged girl without any legal justification and frightens her to the verge of tears, the local press portrays the incident as charming rather than alarming. You know what that means: Prom season is upon us.

The cop-assisted promposal, in which police help a teenager carry out a prank that ends with an invitation to the big dance, has become a familiar springtime ritual, documented in online videos and feel-good newspaper stories. But beneath the warm and fuzzy images of adolescent couples lurks a disturbing willingness to tolerate abuses of power by police officers as long as their motives are pure.   Continue reading “Are Cop-Assisted Promposals Charming or Alarming?”

Reason

On June 21, 2016, Chicago police pulled Spencer Byrd over for a broken turn signal. Byrd says his signal wasn’t broken, but that detail would soon be the least of his worries. Ever since, Byrd has been trapped in one of the city’s most confusing bureaucratic mazes, deprived of his car and his ability to work. He now owes the city thousands of dollars for the pleasure.

Byrd, 50, lives in Harvey, Illinois, a corrupt, crime-ridden town south of Chicago where more than 35 percent of the populace lives below the poverty line. He’s a carpenter by trade, but until the traffic stop, he had a side gig as an auto mechanic. Byrd says he’s been fixing cars “ever since I was 16 years old and blew my first motor.” Sometimes he did service calls and would give clients rides when he couldn’t repair their cars on the spot.  Continue reading “Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt By Impounding Innocent People’s Cars”

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The Organic Prepper – by Anonymous 411

In the role of Information Specialist of a prepper group you may or may not also be the Communications Specialist (radio operator) of the group. Either way, you will likely have input as to the tools and information should be gathered for emergency communications means.

During a disaster, you need to stay abreast of the events going on around you. In a weather emergency, such as a hurricane, tornado watch or warning, or winter storm, you need an NOAA weather radio or a radio capable of receiving NOAA weather broadcasts.  Continue reading “The Tools and Information Preppers Need for Emergency Communications”

The Organic Prepper

It’s that time of the year again! EWG has announced it’s annual “Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen” list of the foods that are the most contaminated with pesticides. Meanwhile, nutrition “experts” are telling consumers that the list isn’t important and that we should completely ignore the shopper’s guide.

Why is this list so important?   Continue reading “EWG’s 2018 Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 Lists (and Why “Experts” Are Telling Us to Ignore Them)”

Daily Mail

Analogue clocks will be removed from exam halls and replaced with digital ones because teenagers are unable to tell the time, claim head teachers.

Digital devices will be installed into exam halls because GCSE and A-level students complained that they were unable to read the correct time.   Continue reading “Staff replace traditional analogue clocks with digital ones in exam halls… because pupils can’t tell the time”

AOL

A third federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the Trump administration’s campaign to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented immigrants, ordering the administration to not only continue processing applications but also to resume accepting new ones.

U.S. District Judge John Bates of the District of Columbia Circuit was withering in his 60-page ruling, calling the administration’s attempts to end the program, known as DACA, “arbitrary,” “capricious,” “virtually unexplained” and “unlawful.”   Continue reading “D.C. judge issues strongest order yet backing DACA”

AOL

Travis Jeffrey Reinking, who was wearing just a green jacket when he is accused of killing four people at a Waffle House in Nashville, got a new outfit Tuesday from his jailers — and it’s also green.

It’s called a suicide smock — a padded gown made from heavy-duty polyester that is held together with Velcro strips — and the 29-year-old suspect is likely to be wearing it when he makes his first court appearance on Wednesday, Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall said Tuesday at a news conference.   Continue reading “Waffle House shooting suspect faces judge Wednesday”