Reason – by Eric Boehm

Scott Peterson, the Broward County sheriff’s deputy who failed to engage the Parkland high school shooter, is eligible to receive an annual pension in excess of six figures.

The Sun Sentinel obtained records from the Florida Department of Management Services showing that Peterson, who retired in the weeks after the March shooting, is due to collect $8,700 per month. That works out to slightly more than $104,000 a year. Peterson, who is 55 years old, will be able to receive that pension for the rest of his life, and Broward County taxpayers will cover 50 percent of his health insurance premiums.  Continue reading “Deputy Who Failed to Engage Parkland Shooter Gets $104,000 Annual Pension for Life”

Fox News

The Las Vegas gunman ranted about conspiracy theories in the weeks before he gunned down 58 people and wounded hundreds more from his sniper perch inside a high-rise hotel last year, new documents reveal.

A jailed man who gave a statement to authorities in November said he encountered a man he believed was Stephen Paddock and who told him that Federal Emergency Management Agency “camps” setup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were “a dry run for law enforcement and military to start kickin’ down doors and…confiscating guns.”   Continue reading “Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock ranted about FEMA camps, Waco before concert massacre, witnesses say”

Reason – by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

“Protect and Serve Act” passes House. File under bipartisan-is-just-another-word-for-both-sides-licking-the-same-boot: majorities of both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have voted in favorof new hate crime legislation that sets up cops as a protected class.

Overall, just 35 House members voted against the bill (H.R. 5698), which isn’t far from making it a federal crime to resist arrest. Under the so-called “Protect and Serve Act,” anyone who injures or attempts to injure a police officer will be guilty of a federal offense—no matter how small the injury and no matter if it was intentional—if the offense has some connection to or effect on interstate commerce.   Continue reading “New Hate Crime Bill Protecting Cops Passes House Despite Clear 10th Amendment Violation”

SF Gate

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The unwanted were turned away from cafeteria tables. Fistfights broke out at karaoke. Dances became breeding grounds for gossip and cruelty.

It became clear this place had a bullying problem on its hands. What many found surprising was that the perpetrators and victims alike were all senior citizens.   Continue reading “A surprising bullying battleground: Senior centers”

As we have heard many times for those of us who have or still listen to the Intelligence Report we are all aware of how Mark and Ed talk about bringing people into the fold and not just dumping everything on them less they run away. Many times they have talked everyone’s collective ear’s off about the levels of learning and how not everyone knows X or B but must be carefully taught.

Bullshit. That one word sums it up very well, the truth of the matter is there is no such thing as “levels of learning” when you tell the truth, in this case I am referring to what really matters: the Bill of Rights (BoR).    Continue reading “Levels of Learning”

BBC News

A video of a man threatening to report Spanish-speaking restaurant workers to US immigration authorities in New York has gone viral on social media.

The footage shows a customer berating staff for speaking Spanish at the premises in Manhattan.

“Your staff are speaking Spanish to customers when they should be speaking English,” he tells one employee.   Continue reading “New York man threatens Spanish-speaking workers in viral video”

Wall Street Journal – by Zusha Elinson

A report of a suspicious person crackled from John Messner’s RadioShack police scanner, one of two he keeps at his home in Knoxville, Tenn.

When an officer was heard yelling “Shots fired!” minutes later, Mr. Messner knew it was time to go. The 52-year-old construction worker and photographer grabbed his two cameras, his portable scanner, jumped in his 1999 Plymouth Voyager minivan, and raced to the scene 3 miles away, where a suspected burglar was shot by police.   Continue reading “Want to Listen to Police Scanners? Cops Say No More”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

The L’Osservatore Romano is the daily newspaper of the Vatican City State. The paper was founded in 1861. It is classified as a semi-official newspaper of the Holy See.

The paper this week praised communist founder Karl Marx.

More than a 100 million people were killed by communist regimes in the 20th century.  Continue reading “Vatican Newspaper Under Pope Francis Praises Karl Marx the Founder of Communism”

Sputnik

With as many as 150,000 victims of female genital mutilation residing in the Scandinavian country that consistently ranks at the top of various equality ratings, Swedish Social Democrat Gursimer Singh has advocated rigorous measures to stop this illegal and immensely painful procedure from happening.

Continue reading “Swedish Politician Proposes Female Genital Mutilation Checks at Airports”

The Organic Prepper

Ebola is back, and in a “new phase.” The deadly hemorrhagic fever is no longer confined to the remote regions of the Congo. On Wednesday, a man was diagnosed in Mbandaka, a city with a population of nearly 1.2 million people in Equateur Province, which is in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ebola has gone urban.   Continue reading “Ebola Goes Urban: WHO Warns of “Potential for EXPLOSIVE INCREASE””

Reuters

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to provide congressional investigators confidential records on a failed gun-trafficking operation during the Obama administration known as “Fast and Furious” that long has been criticized by Republican lawmakers.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would hand over documents to the Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had been withheld by Democratic former President Barack Obama’s administration.   Continue reading “Trump administration to provide records on Obama-era gun-smuggling probe”

Trucks.com

Diesel prices have jumped 22 percent from a year ago and stand at their highest level in 41 months.

The average price of diesel reached $3.24 per gallon Monday, up from $2.54 a year ago, according to the latest U.S. Energy Information Administration fuel pricing report.

This is creating higher expenses for businesses that need to ship goods.   Continue reading “Shippers, Truckers Face Diesel Prices 22 Percent Above A Year Ago”

MassPrivateI

It appears the police in Brookhaven, Georgia are not content with just having their own ‘Operation Plugged In’ cam-share program.

What they have done is create one of the most disturbing corporate/police relationships I have had the displeasure of writing about.   Continue reading “Georgia Power Company leasing license plate readers to police departments”

Yahoo News

A senior at Kent State University whose graduation photos show her wearing an AR-10 rifle and a cap that reads “COME AND TAKE IT” is reportedly receiving death threats. 

This week, Kaitlin Bennett tweeted the images, writing, “Now that I graduated from @KentState, I can finally arm myself on campus. I should have been able to do so as a student — especially since 4 unarmed students were shot and killed by the government on this campus,” with the hashtag #CampusCarryNow.    Continue reading “Pro-Trump college grad’s assault rifle photo shoot goes viral: ‘Come and take it’”

A military base of the U.S.-led international coalition established in 2014 in Syria has already become a point of concern for most parties in the region. There is no doubt that the declared purpose of fighting against ISIS is far from being primary intention of the U.S. It is no secret either that the base serves to train anti-governmental military formations that actually haven’t succeeded in the fight against terrorism so far.

So-called moderate opposition groups are key tools of the Pentagon in its war against Assad regime in Syria. Americans supply militants with weapons and give them the ideological drive in order to make them fight for vague values.   Continue reading “Al-Tanf U.S. military base as a threat to the security of the region”

Chicago Tribune

More than three years after taking title to the land where the audacious Chicago Spire was once envisioned, and more than two years after soliciting designs from a half-dozen architecture firms, Related Midwest on Tuesday unveiled a bold plan for the waterfront site.

The long-awaited vision for the 2.2-acre site along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, unveiled in the first community meeting for the project, is toned down a bit from the 2,000-foot-tall Spire plan that stirred emotions but never advanced beyond a 76-foot-deep foundation hole. The design, by One World Trade Center architect David Childs, includes a south tower rising 1,100 feet and an 850-foot north tower.   Continue reading “First look at two-tower plan for Spire site: ‘There will not be a shot of Chicago that doesn’t have these buildings in them’”

Business Insider – by Lindsay Dodgson

Psychopaths are difficult to spot most of the time. They’re not the “Jack the Ripper” caricatures you see in films or read about in books. Often, psychopaths appear normal, which makes them hard to identify.

In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, someone with a psychopathic personality type is defined as having an inflated, grandiose sense of themself, and a knack for manipulating other people. But a diagnosis is rarely simple.

One thing psychopaths tend to have in common is the careers they go for. For example, you’re likely to find a lot of them in leadership positions because of their ruthlessness, charisma, and fearlessness. They’re very good at making snap decisions, but not so good at the empathetic professions like nursing or therapy.

Kevin Dutton, a British psychologist and writer, specialises in the study of psychopathy. In his book “The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success,” he made a list of the types of jobs that attract the most psychopaths.

“Functional psychopaths,” as Dutton calls them, “use their detached, unflinching, and charismatic personalities to succeed in mainstream society.” In other words, psychopaths often live as normal people with a few traits that make them different.

Scroll down to see what the top 10 career choices for psychopaths are, ranked in ascending order by popularity.

Continue reading “The 10 professions with the most psychopaths”