Common Dreams – by Jessica Corbett

A secret report by the Israeli military police—obtained by The Intercept‘s Robert Mackey—reveals that a week into Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in 2014, “air force, naval, and intelligence officers” mistook four 10- and 11-year-old boys who were playing on a beach in Gaza for Hamas militants and killed them by firing missiles from an armed drone.   Continue reading “As Victims’ Families Fight for Justice, Secret Report Details How Israel Used Armed Drone to Kill Gazan Children”

Reuters

PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) – The Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people in February opened on Wednesday for a new school year with three armed guards and other new security measures that some parents and students worried would not be enough.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, doubled its campus security detail to 18, including three armed uniformed sheriff’s deputies. The school’s 3,300 students wore new identification badges as they funneled through three entrances at the sprawling 45-acre campus.   Continue reading “Florida school opens for class with new security after massacre”

The Stream – by Michael Brown

This article is not a spoof. I’m not making up these headlines or quotes. Every word you’re about to read is true.

The story is now more than two months old, but it just caught my eye this week, and I felt it was important to share with you. I trust you’ll agree as you read.   Continue reading “This is Not Satire. An Open Pedophile is Running for Congress”

RT

A Toronto-based company has come up with a… cannabis-brewed beer. The drink is being prepared in anticipation of Canada’s legalization of marijuana this year.

As Canada is set to become the second country in the world to legalize the class-B drug for recreational use, Province Brands has figured a unique way of bringing cannabis-based products to the consumer market.   Continue reading “Cannabis beer on the horizon as Canadian company invests in world’s first marijuana brewery”

USA Today

A Phoenix father is accused of beating a man to death after being told the man had tried to forcibly enter a bathroom stall occupied by his teenage daughter.

A police report published by KPHO/KTVK of Phoenix says the incident happened on Aug. 2 after Melvin Harris, 40, drove to a convenience store to pick up his daughter and two friends.   Continue reading “Arizona Dad ‘Killed Man Who Tried to Enter Daughter’s Bathroom Stall’: Police Report”

Personal Liberty Digest – by Bob Livingston

Diets rich in canola oil, one of the most widely consumed vegetable oils in the world due to its low cost and supposed heart health reputation, have been linked to memory problems.

Is it a coincidence that canola — real name rapeseed — is genetically modified to withstand weed killers sprayed on them as they grow, and that these weed killers are accumulating in humans and other animals and creating neurotoxicity and memory problems?    Continue reading “The oil that makes you fat and forgetful”

Courthouse News – by Nicholas Iovino

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a lawsuit claiming Chevron funded deadly acts of terrorism through its illegal oil payments to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Despite presenting “compelling evidence” that Chevron paid illegal kickbacks for cheap oil, the plaintiffs did not show a “direct connection” between those payments and acts of terrorism, U.S. District Judge James Donato concluded in his ruling Tuesday.   Continue reading “Chevron Defeats Terrorism Liability Lawsuit”

RT

High school-age children in the United States are set to receive “life-saving trauma training” funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in an effort to prepare them for “mass casualty events”.

The DHS has issued a $1.8 million grant to create the program, according to federal procurement documents obtained by The Young Turks (TYT) news organization.  Continue reading “US high school students to receive ‘trauma training’ to prepare for ‘mass casualty events’ – report”

Yahoo News

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal authorities say a Mississippi sheriff gave protection for years to a drug dealer who robbed other dealers and kicked back stolen money and drug profits to the lawman.

The illegal partnership began about 15 years ago when Tallahatchie County Sheriff William Brewer — who resigned Tuesday — began helping a then-teenage drug dealer, federal officials allege in a sworn statement .   Continue reading “FBI: Sheriff was bribed to shelter drug dealer for 15 years”

You know what else would make an awful lot of sense? Killing traitor feds while they are at home in bed, before they can do more damage to the Bill of Rights.

I guess I will have to assume the feds will honor the oath they take to the constitution, and they will have to assume I won’t burn their damn houses down around their ears and shoot anybody that tries to run out…

CBS News

TSA Administrator David Pekoske said a surveillance program known as “Quiet Skies,” which has been criticized for tracking American citizens not suspected of any crimes, “makes an awful lot of sense.”   Continue reading “TSA administrator says domestic surveillance program “makes an awful lot of sense””

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Charlotte, NC — Freedom of speech, in the land of the free, is not guaranteed. Despite the wording of the First Amendment, claiming that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech,” there are countless laws across the country designed to do exactly that. However, even when there aren’t archaic anti-speech laws on the books, police will all too often deprive people of their freedom — for practicing their freedom. As the video below shows, a man name PJ Briggs has become the latest victim of cops who don’t like to hear certain words.   Continue reading “Cops Assault, Arrest Man for Exercising His 1st Amendment Right to Say ‘Motherf*****’”

CBS News

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The long-awaited state grand jury report into sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses, including Pittsburgh and Greensburg, has finally been released.

The 884-page document, two years in the making, shines a light into the dark corners of these dioceses going back seven decades, exposing the predators and the efforts of their bishops to protect them.   Continue reading “301 ‘Predator Priests’ Named In Pa. Grand Jury Sex Abuse Report: ‘They Were Raping Little Boys & Girls’”

Health Nut News – by Erin Elizabeth

Newly Released Report, and Associated Organic Dairy Brand Scorecard, Enables Defrauded Consumers and Wholesale Buyers to “Vote with Their Pocketbooks”

When commercialized in the 1980s, the organic dairy movement was viewed by many farmers as opting out of a rapacious agricultural marketing system that had already driven the majority of dairy farm families off the land over the preceding two decades. Now, a quarter century later, history is repeating itself with giant “factory farms” flooding the organic dairy market with fraudulent “organic” milk and economically devastating family businesses and rural communities.   Continue reading “USDA-backed “factory farm” takeover of organic milk production crushing family-scale farmers and forcing them out of business”