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Los Angeles’ new police chief is a $1.27 million beneficiary of a controversial city “retirement” program that is so costly and prone to abuse that other cities which tried it have since abandoned it.
Michael Moore, a 36-year department veteran who had been managing operations as assistant chief, was named in June to replace retiring Chief Charlie Beck. Continue reading “L.A.’s New Police Chief Pretended To Retire and Got $1.27 Million for It”
The parents of a 10-year-old boy with autism in Denton, Texas, say they are planning to take legal action after they received a video that showed their son being repeatedly held to the ground by his neck and handcuffed by a school resource officer.
In the events captured by the officer’s body camera — the footage was shared with ABC News and parts of which were corroborated with police reports — the child, Thomas, appears to try to isolate himself in a cubbyhole when he saw a teacher moving toward him. Continue reading “Parents to sue after 10-year-old boy with autism repeatedly pinned to ground, handcuffed by officer”
I remember as a child when fires happened, rain often followed. What is stopping it now? Who is wanting these fires? See the last picture below of how simple ionizers along with dust particles can be used to create rain within a few hours. We have the dust particles from the forest. Our government created 52 artificial rain storms in Abu Dhabi desert for 11 million dollars (Scientists Create 52 Artificial Rain Storms in Abu Dhabi Desert) with as little as 30 humidity on days when NO (ZERO) rain was predicted. So why is our government letting California, Oregon and Colorado burn. Why? By design?
Humans have been trying to control the weather since the day we traded in our spears for shovels. Cultures from every corner of the globe have worshipped rain-granting deities, and our sci-fi villains have been obsessed with flood and drought. But in the modern era, we no longer have use for the old water gods. We’ve got the technology, finally, to make the clouds do our bidding. Continue reading “The Rainmakers: How Human Beings Control the Weather”
Just hours after being arrested and released on bail for allegedly assaulting his wife, a Utah man stole a plane and crashed it into his own home where his wife was staying, police said.
The man, 47-year-old Duane Youd, did not survive the crash Monday, officials stated.
Flames engulfed the house in the city of Payson after the crash and ensuing fire at 2:30 a.m. Continue reading “Hours after domestic violence arrest, husband crashes stolen plane into his own home where wife was staying”
Elections: American democracy has a problem — a voting problem. According to a new study of U.S. Census data, America has more registered voters than actual live voters. It’s a troubling fact that puts our nation’s future in peril.
The data come from Judicial Watch’s Election Integrity Project. The group looked at data from 2011 to 2015 produced by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, along with data from the federal Election Assistance Commission. Continue reading “U.S. Has 3.5 Million More Registered Voters Than Live Adults. A Red Flag For Electoral Fraud.”
The Florida man who invoked the “stand your ground” self-defense law after shooting a black man in a dispute over a parking space was charged Monday with manslaughter, officials said.
Michael Drejka, 48, was arrested Monday morning in the fatal shooting in July of Markeis McGlockton in Clearwater, Florida — an incident that was caught on video which sparked an uproar after its release. Continue reading “Florida ‘stand your ground’ shooter Michael Drejka charged with manslaughter”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning banks that cybercriminals are preparing to carry out a highly choreographed, global fraud scheme known as an “ATM cash-out,” in which crooks hack a bank or payment card processor and use cloned cards at cash machines around the world to fraudulently withdraw millions of dollars in just a few hours.
“The FBI has obtained unspecified reporting indicating cyber criminals are planning to conduct a global Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cash-out scheme in the coming days, likely associated with an unknown card issuer breach and commonly referred to as an ‘unlimited operation’,” reads a confidential alert the FBI shared with banks privately on Friday. Continue reading “FBI Warns of ‘Unlimited’ ATM Cashout Blitz”
Talk Poverty – by Hannah Leibson & Rebecca Cokley
Right now, Congress is in a deadlock over Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court. Senators are reviewing more than 1 million pages of his legal writing—which have laid out his stance on women’s reproductive rights (opposed), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (opposed), and the Affordable Care Act (opposed)—and members are battling over access to additional documentation that could reveal past experience with torture and wiretapping. While many of Kavanaugh’s opinions have been controversial—in particular his dissent from a decision that allowed an immigrant woman to have an abortion—one of his most problematic rulings has gone unreported. As a Judge in D.C. Circuit Court, Kavanaugh argued that people with disabilities could be forced to undergo elective surgeries, including abortion, without their consent. Continue reading “Kavanaugh Thinks It’s OK to Perform Elective Surgery on People Without Consent”
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Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Wilkes-Barre, PA — A disturbing video surfaced this week showing a Wilkes-Barre police officer appear to kick a handcuffed suspect in the head and stomp on his neck while he was detained on the ground.
In spite of the video, Officer Kevin Novackowski has been cleared by two internal investigations. Continue reading “Cop Stomps Handcuffed Man’s Head, Stands on His Neck With His Boot, Tried to Steal Video”
Waking Times – by Alex Pietrowski
For those who’ve for years been fighting Monsanto, affectionately known as the world’s most evil corporation, a San Francisco jury’s decision last Friday to fine the company $289 million is earth-shattering news. Apparently financial markets and analysts agree.
In the case of Dwayne Johnson vs. Monsanto, the plaintiff was awarded an enormous amount of money after contracting non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The jury decided that Johnson’s cancer was most likely the result of exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup and Ranger herbicide products, which Johnson routinely applied as a school groundskeeper. Continue reading “Bayer Stock Nosedives After Jury Finds Monsanto Guilty of Covering Up Cancer Risks”
Several hours after Turkey unveiled its first tentative steps toward capital controls when late on Sunday the country’s banking regulator imposed a limit on the amount of foreign currency and lira swap and swap-like transactions (not to exceed 50% of the bank’s shareholder equity) yet failed to halt the collapse in the Turkish lira, the Turkish central bank made its first move to support the financial system and investor confidence, also without much success. Continue reading “Turkey Rolls Out Prison Threats After Central Bank Steps In To Halt Lira Crash, Fails”
Al Jazeera received a secret report prepared by former military officials who worked with the Saudi-UAE alliance in Yemen on the conditions of prisons and secret detention centres and forced disappearances.
The information in the report matched the testimonies of prisoners and abductees given to human rights activists. Such details also reinforced what had been revealed by the Associated Press in previous investigations. Continue reading “Methods of torture in Saudi-led coalition prisons in Yemen: Rape using devices, hot pepper, salt and bone smashing”