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Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Carroll County, MD — A very graphic and hard to watch video has surfaced prompting backlash toward the Carroll County Sheriff’s office in Maryland after it showed one of their deputies shoot and kill a tiny ground hog.
According to the department spokesperson, Cpl. Jon Light, the deputy stopped and killed the ground hog because it was ‘acting oddly.’ Continue reading “Witnesses Watch in Horror as Cop Kills Tiny Groundhog for ‘Acting Oddly’”
Japanese leader Shinzo Abe and his wife were dished up dessert in a shoe during dinner at the Israeli prime minister’s residence.The culturally offensive move has been slammed by diplomats from both countries.
“This was a stupid and insensitive decision,” a senior Israeli diplomat who had previously served in Japan told newspaper Yediot Aharonot. “It is equivalent to serving a Jewish guest chocolates in a dish shaped like a pig,” he said, adding “there is nothing more despised in Japanese culture than shoes.” Continue reading “Foot in mouth: Japanese PM served dessert in a shoe at Netanyahu dinner”
A California high school student was charged on Monday after he allegedly recruited classmates into a drug and human smuggling ring, authorities said.
Phillip Junior Webb, 18, was arraigned Monday at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego on federal charges of human smuggling and conspiracy to distribute illicit narcotics. He is also charged with trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with illegal immigrants hidden in his trunk, according to charging documents. Continue reading “California teen charged with recruiting classmates for drug smuggling operation”
US President Donald Trump has used a bombastic approach to gain the attention of European nations, using them as leverage as he bids to alter the Iran nuclear deal, former Pentagon official Michel Maloof tells RT.
Despite international pressure, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says his country plans to stay in the agreement even if the United States backs out – as long as the other members agree to honor the agreement. Continue reading “Will Donald Trump kick the can over Iran nuclear deal?”
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met China’s Xi Jinping for the first time since historic intra-Korean talks and pledged to shut down its nuclear weapons program. It is Kim’s second visit to China in a several weeks.
“Xi held talks with Kim and hosted a welcome banquet for him,” China’s state-run Xinhua agency reported on Tuesday. Chinese state media have confirmed that the leaders shared a “cordial and friendly atmosphere” during the talks and a luncheon in the Chinese city of Dalian. Continue reading “North Korean leader meets Chinese President for the first time since historic Korean talks”
The US Olympic Committee is embroiled in a fresh misconduct controversy as a new lawsuit alleges that it knowingly allowed the sex trafficking and abuse of Taekwondo athletes for more than 20 years.
Four female athletes and 44 women, whose identities have been withheld, are accusing the USOC and USA Taekwondo of allowing more than two decades of sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of its athletes. Continue reading “‘Heinous acts’: US Olympic committee accused of sex trafficking in new lawsuit”
NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is investigating allegations of violence against women by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned just hours after accounts of abuse by four women.
It was a swift and stunning fall for a Democrat who held himself out as a champion of women and a liberal foil to President Donald Trump and who pledged to use his office to hold others accountable for abusing their power. Continue reading “Manhattan DA to probe abuse allegations against Schneiderman”
The Organic Prepper – by Selco
It is hard to bring the mindset of survival to the people who have not experienced a hard situation of at least some kind of survival event.
Over the many years of being connected with people who are into survival, I realize there are the same topics for discussion and people actually become fixated on those topics. Continue reading “Selco’s SHTF Reality Check: 5 Deadly Mistakes That Preppers Are Making”
Leave it to the great American police state to turn Reality TV into real-time spying of its citizens.
Recently the Newark, New Jersey Police Department decided it needed to do more, much more to build trust between the police and the community.
Here’s a little background on police building trust in the community. Continue reading “Police CCTV cameras turn citizens into stay-at-home spies, spying on their neighbors 24-7”
WEB Notes: Rand Paul goes on to say, “Under this bill, Congress could only disapprove of war, turning the Constitution on its head“. Unless they make a change to the Constitution, their new bill is null and void. Why is it so hard for people to understand nothing supersedes the Constitution? Too many years of conditioning I suppose. This all sounds like a good way to push for war with Iran.
In the near future, Congress will debate a new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). I use the word “debate” lightly. So far, no hearings have been scheduled, and no testimony is likely to be heard unless something changes. That’s a shame, because this is a serious matter, and this is a deeply flawed AUMF. Continue reading “Rand Paul: Congress Moves To Give The President Unlimited War Powers”
Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general who rose to prominence as an antagonist of the Trump administration, abruptly resigned on Monday night hours after The New Yorker reported that four women had accused him of physically assaulting them.
“It’s been my great honor and privilege to serve as attorney general for the people of the State of New York,” Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement. “In the last several hours, serious allegations, which I strongly contest, have been made against me.
Continue reading “Eric Schneiderman, Accused by 4 Women, Quits as New York Attorney General”
New York Daily News, April 28, 2018
Cops raiding a Queens home Thursday found a small arsenal of guns and ammo.
Officers hauled off 16 rifles, a crossbow and 13,000 rounds of ammunition around 9:34 a.m. from the Queens Village house of Keith Harvey, 44, a contractor.
Bullets were packed into metal military-like ammo boxes or still in the original packaging.
Continue reading “Man arrested after cops hauled away arsenal of rifles from his Queens home”
Business Insider – by Lynn Parramore
Life for the medieval peasant was certainly no picnic. His life was shadowed by fear of famine, disease and bursts of warfare. His diet and personal hygiene left much to be desired.
But despite his reputation as a miserable wretch, you might envy him one thing: his vacations.
Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking toil, but the peasant enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to half the year off. Continue reading “The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant”
Future of Freedom Foundation – by James Bovard
The Justice Department was caught in January in another high-profile travesty of due process. On December 20, federal judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and others after prosecutors were caught withholding massive amounts of evidence undermining federal charges. Two weeks later, she dismissed all charges against Bundy and his sons. Navarro slammed the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors for “outrageous” abuses and “flagrant misconduct.” Navarro also condemned the “grossly shocking” withholding of evidence from defense counsel in a case that could have landed the Bundys in prison for the rest of their lives. Continue reading “Bundy Ranch Case Explains Distrust of Washington”
SAN DIEGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Trump administration will increase criminal prosecutions of parents entering the United States illegally and place their children in protective custody, stepping up efforts to tighten immigration enforcement, U.S. officials said on Monday.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the policy was not new and that the government was expanding procedures already in place. They were speaking at Friendship Park, San Diego, at the U.S.-Mexico border. Continue reading “U.S. says it will separate families crossing border illegally”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior Canadian, U.S. and Mexican officials trying to rescue slow-moving talks to update the NAFTA trade pact met on Monday in a new bid to resolve key issues before regional elections complicate the process.
With time fast running out to strike some kind of deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement, the three member nations are still far apart on major points. Continue reading “NAFTA talks resume amid fears of ‘zombie’ deal”
An arrest warrant for an 89-year-old woman, who failed to show up to begin her two-year prison sentence for “inciting the German people to holocaust denial,” was issued by German authorities on Monday.
Dubbed the “Nazi Grandma” by German media, prolific Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck was sentenced to two years behind bars in August 2017 after losing her appeal to reverse a 10-month sentence she received earlier that year. She was initially charged with sedition and incitement after publishing several articles denying the Holocaust in a right-wing newspaper, Stimme des Reiches (Voices of the Reich). Continue reading “‘Nazi grandma’ on the run after failing to start 2-year prison term for Holocaust denial”
GeoEngineering Watch – by Dean Wigington
How much longer can our government continue to hide the global climate engineering assault in plain sight? How much longer will populations continue to blindly accept the official government narrative of lies and denial in regard to the clearly visible and rationally undeniable ongoing geoengineering operations? How is it possible for the power structure to create and maintain the official denial of fully deployed climate intervention programs? By completely controlling the flow of information, including the weather forecasts themselves. Continue reading “Legal Action Update: Government Controlling Weather Forecasts To Cover Climate Engineering Crimes”
Venezuela will not be swayed by the threats of sanctions, and the invasion of the deep state military industrial complex. The people are ready to defend their country and passing out guns to ensure that every man can defend his family. No more fear, strength is in numbers and the armies of Venezuela know the people will fight for their country and protect all who do. Continue reading “Venezuela Arms its Citizens – They Won’t Go Down Like Syria, People Ready to Fight!”
A 12-year-old schoolboy was arrested and taken away by police officers during an anti-Putin rally in southwestern Russia on Saturday.
Egor Pryanishnikov addressed the crowd of demonstrators in the city of Saratov, to vent his anger at the poor state of the roads where he lives. Continue reading “Russian police arrest a 12-YEAR-OLD for speaking at an anti-Putin rally before Presidential inauguration”