Courthouse News – by Barbara Leonard

WASHINGTON (CN) – Taking a stand for privacy rights, the Supreme Court remanded a case Monday where police searched a rental car without the driver’s consent because his name was not on the rental agreement.

Though the ruling notes that people’s privacy expectations in general are diminished in automobiles, Justice Anthony Kennedy emphasized that the question of whether a warrant is required is separate from the matter addressed here.   Continue reading “Drivers of Rental Cars Have Privacy Rights, Too, High Court Says”

BuzzFeed – by Caroline Kee

Despite their tiny size, ticks are surprisingly powerful vectors of disease. And in the US, the risk of tick-borne infections is increasing. According to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ticks infected people with seven new germs — including bacteria, parasites, and viruses — between 2004 and 2016.

The CDC recently analyzed data trends for all nationally notifiable diseases caused by the bite of an infected mosquito, tick, or flea. The number of cases has tripled since 2004, to 642,602, and those caused by ticks doubled. Of the tick-borne illnesses, 82% were cases of Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that causes a rash and flu-like symptoms that can spread to the joints and nervous system if left untreated.
Continue reading “Ticks Are Spreading More Rare Diseases In The US Than Ever Before”

ABC 6 News

There are new restrictions on which types of animals are permitted on American Airlines flights.

Insects, goats and hedgehogs cannot be brought on planes as emotional support animals.

Miniature horses are still OK, as long as they have been properly trained as service animals.   Continue reading “American Airlines: No hedgehogs, goats; mini horses are OK”

Natural Blaze

WORLDWIDE– Hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens will hit the streets May 19th, 2018 for the 7th international March Against Monsanto grassroots campaign.

The global events will take place in hundreds of cities on six continents with the objective to further educate and raise awareness about Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds and the increasingly toxic food supply, as well as its merger with the German pesticide, GMO and pharmaceutical giant Bayer.   Continue reading “March Against Monsanto 2018 Global Protests – Be There This Weekend”

CNN

North Korea says the US should carefully consider the fate of the North Korea-US summit, in view of what it calls “provocative military disturbances with South Korea,” North Korea’s state news agency reported early Wednesday local time.

The warning comes as KCNA reported North Korea has suspended talks with South Korea because of a joint military drill conducted by South Korea and the US.
Continue reading “North Korea warns US as it suspends South Korea talks over military drills”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Darlington, MD — It is a travesty enough when the drug war lays waste to the rights and lives of entirely decent people who’ve harmed no one simply because they choose to ingest a substance deemed illegal by the state. However, because the drug war is such an immoral and barbaric practice, entirely innocent people are also swept up in the dragnet of tyranny and ignorance. Case in point: a couple in Maryland were raided by cops for posting photos of legal morel mushrooms they picked and ate.   Continue reading “Innocent Couple Raided by Cops for Facebook Post of LEGAL Morel Mushrooms”

Information Clearinghouse – by Peter Koenig

May 14, 2018 “Information Clearing House” – It’s called “Vollgeld Initiative” – in German, meaning more or less “Referendum for Sovereign Money”. What is “Sovereign Money”? – Its money produced only by the Central Bank, by the “Sovereign”, the government, represented by its central bank. Money created in accordance with the needs of the economy, as contrasted to the profit and greed motives of the banking oligarchy – wat it is today; money creation at will, by private banking.   Continue reading “Switzerland – A Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance to Spreading Positive Banking News to the World”

Daily Mail

Dozens walked out of the Cannes premiere of Lars von Trier’s new movie The House That Jack Built, declaring it horrifically violent.

The Danish director called it his most violent film to date and at least 100 viewers couldn’t handle it and left the screening on Monday night.

Matt Dillon stars as Jack, a serial killer with more than 60 deaths to his name who relishes bloodshed and plots increasingly horrifying ways to inflict death.   Continue reading “The House That Jack Built sparks walkouts at Cannes”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Newark, Delaware – Police officers are being criticized for their response to a call about two stray dogs, and the concerned citizen who called animal control to ask for help is saying that the officers’ actions were actually what she hoped she could save the dogs from.

Leigh Spencer told Fox 29 that she was horrified when she witnessed the officers intentionally trying to run over over the dogs with their patrol cars. “I was the one that called Animal Control, and this was the outcome,” she said.   Continue reading “Woman Calls for Help to Catch Two Dogs, Cops Respond by Running Over, Shooting Them”

Forces News

A far-right Army veteran has been jailed for stirring up racial hatred after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was pressured to reconsider not bringing charges against him.

Jeremy Bedford-Turner, 48, called for his “soldiers” to liberate England from “Jewish control” in a speech outside Downing Street and blamed Jews for issues ranging from both World Wars to Jack the Ripper.   Continue reading “British Army Veteran Jailed For Stirring Up Racial Hatred”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

Federal officials are closing a little-known loophole in immigration law which allows millions of foreigners to dodge penalties for overstaying their student or seasonal-work visas.

The prior 1997 rules did not start counting the length of a person’s overstay until a federal enforcement agency first formally recognized that the person had not gone home on time.  Continue reading “DHS Shuts Big Loophole to Deter Illegal-Immigrant Students, Workers”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday unveiled a new national strategy for addressing the growing number of cyber security risks as it works to assess them and reduce vulnerabilities.

“The cyber threat landscape is shifting in real-time, and we have reached a historic turning point,” DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement. “It is clear that our cyber adversaries can now threaten the very fabric of our republic itself.”   Continue reading “Homeland Security unveils new cyber security strategy amid threats”

RT

Israel has told Turkey’s consul to leave the Jewish state, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. It comes after Ankara ordered Israel’s ambassador out of Turkey over the violence in Gaza.

A spokesman for the ministry said the consul had been summoned and was told to return to Turkey “for consultations for a period of time,” Reuters reported.   Continue reading “Israel tells Turkish consul to leave country in tit-for-tat move”