Month: January 2019

Yahoo News

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Natalie Corona was a rising star in her police department with a sparkling smile and a huge heart who had followed in her father’s footsteps and became an officer, fulfilling a lifelong dream just a few months ago when her dad pinned the badge on her uniform.

On Friday, her father and a stunned community mourned the 22-year-old who was shot and killed on duty while responding to a multi-vehicle crash in the small college town of Davis, California. Investigators believe she was ambushed by a gunman on a bicycle, but they haven’t a determined the motive for his actions.   Continue reading “Rookie cop in Northern California ‘ambushed’ at crash scene”

Decadent Decaf

Think you’ve never drunk synthetic caffeine? It sounds dodgy, wrong, futuristic, but you’ve likely consumed synthetic caffeine this week or even today.

A century ago, caffeine added to soft drinks, energy drinks and caffeine tablets used to be derived from extracting the caffeine from tea leaves or coffee beans. But the desire for caffeine has increased exponentially since then and scientists from Monsanto looked for cheaper ways to produce much greater industrial quantities of pure caffeine.   Continue reading “Ever wondered where the caffeine comes from in soda or energy drinks? Answer: synthetic caffeine”

Counter Punch – by Patrick Jordan, Steve Kelly

A newsfeed came across our inboxes that promoted a notion that China was somehow misbehaving regarding the use of CRISPR to create edited humans.  The dialectic was a non-sequitur because earlier press releases on the efficiency of CRISPR read like a high school newspaper writing about the success of its stageplay being a success because it was over, yet was a total train wreck of a production.  CRISPR can indeed edit a genome for the target mutations, however there can be a hundred downstream changes that were neither intended or predicted or controllable.  That used to be called: The Operation Was A Success But The Patient Died.   Continue reading “When Worlds Collide”

ABC News

Six families of victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School won a legal victory Friday in their fight against controversial radio and internet personality Alex Jones.

A judge in Connecticut has granted the families’ discovery requests, allowing them access to, among other things, Infowars’ internal marketing and financial documents.

The judge has scheduled a hearing next week to decide whether to allow the plaintiffs’ attorneys to depose Jones.   Continue reading “Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims win legal victory in lawsuit against InfoWars, Alex Jones”

Rense.com

Secure Fence Act of 2006

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On October 26, 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Pub.L. 109-367) into law stating, “This bill will help protect the American people. This bill will make our borders more secure. It is an important step toward immigration reform.”[1]    Continue reading “President G. W. Bush Signed The 2006 Secure Fence Act For A Border Wall – Where’s The $50 Billion? Where’s The Fence?”

Creativity RV

If you are considering a mobile life, try Boondocking on BLM land. When you do, your budget opens up and the beauty of the natural world reveals itself in miraculous ways, each new adventure unfurling just around the next bend in the road.

Because boondocking is free, you can live without the worry of a mortgage or rent payment. It opens up your budget and allows you to choose how you want to live.  Perhaps that is to work less, or be creative, or just sit and watch the birds fly by.  It’s up to you.  But Boondocking is not your mother’s RV camping. To me, it’s a lot more fun, but its also a little different than traditional RVing.   Continue reading “How to Camp on BLM Land: Why, How and Where”

Explain Life

Australian nurses and midwives who dare to speak out against the dangers of vaccinations on social media or in person will be prosecuted, the Australian government has warned, urging members of the public to report vaccine skeptics to the authorities.

Medical professional face a jail sentence of 10 years for expressing doubt about the effectiveness of vaccinations or urging further studies into vaccine safety. Opponents of the new law claim free speech and scientific integrity is under attack in Australia by a government that has been bought and paid for by Big Pharma.   Continue reading “Vaccine Skepticism In Australia Now Punishable By 10 Years In Jail”

KCRA 3

LOWELL, N.C. — A police officer in North Carolina is accused of raping and impregnating the teenager he was once assigned to find in a missing persons investigation, according to a lawsuit.

The girl, who was 13 at the time, was reported missing in 2015. Lowell Police Officer James Paul Blair was put on the case and eventually he found the young teen, reported the Charlotte Observer. Continue reading “Officer offered to mentor missing 13-year-old after finding her; lawsuit alleges he impregnated her”

Activist Post – by Catherine Frompovich

Who would have ‘thunk’ it: a routine international traveler’s vaccination apparently delivered organ failure to renowned cancer expert Martin Gore, 67, who took the Yellow Fever vaccine.

Can we equate Dr. Gore’s sudden death with what infants often experience after receiving vaccines, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome [1]?   Continue reading “Routine Vaccination Kills UK Cancer Expert Shortly After The Jab”

Mint Press News – by Whitney Webb

MINNEAPOLIS — Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was caught stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages on Facebook and Twitter was “just the beginning” of a concerted effort by the U.S. government and powerful corporations to silence online dissent within the United States and beyond.    Continue reading “How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media”

USA Today

Finland’s basic income program that drew international attention is coming to an end, the Finnish government announced Tuesday.

The pilot program that paid about 2,000 randomly-chosen unemployed Finnish people a monthly check of €560 ($685) will stop by the end of the year, the BBC reports.    Continue reading “Finland paid unemployed people a basic income of $685 every month. It didn’t work out – for now”

Philly.com

Continue reading “AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation”