Month: August 2019

Common Dreams – by Jon Quealley

Civil liberties groups are warning of a major threat to online freedoms and First Amendment rights if a leaked draft of a Trump administration edict—dubbed by critics as a “Censor the Internet” executive order that would give powerful federal agencies far-reaching powers to pick and choose which kind of Internet material is and is not acceptable—is allowed to go into effect.  Continue reading “Leaked Draft of Trump Executive Order to ‘Censor the Internet’ Denounced as Dangerous, Unconstitutional Edict”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Illegal alien Cristhian Bahena Rivera claims in new court filings that his constitutional rights were violated by Iowa law enforcement officials after being interrogated for allegedly murdering 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn, Iowa, last year.  Continue reading “Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Mollie Tibbetts Claims ‘Constitutional Rights’ Violated”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The much-anticipated results of the New York City medical examiner’s autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein have been released… kinda… saying its determination is “pending further information at this time.”

Statement from Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson:  Continue reading “Epstein’s Autopsy Results Delayed “Pending Further Information””

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A ‘gunman’ opened fire on a crowd gathered in Garland Park in Chicago’s West Side this weekend, leaving six people wounded.

As CBS News reports, according to police, the victims were among over 100 people attending a street party. Police said several altercations occurred at the gathering. Continue reading “Yet Another Mass Shooting Leaves 6 Wounded”

Press TV

People lined up in droves Sunday (August 11) in Caracas’ Bolivar Plaza to sign petitions that will be sent to the UN Secretary General in a show of opposition to US sanctions.

People signing the petitions called the US measures a “blockade” and said the sanctions were bringing suffering to the people of Venezuela.  Continue reading “Venezuelans line up to sign petition opposing US sanctions”

Intellihub

Jeffrey Epstein was handcuffed and wheeled into medical at the Metropolitan Correctional Center at around 4:15 p.m. Friday night just before an unmarked van containing unknown military personnel showed up unannounced to “switch him out”, according to an anonymous post timestamped nearly 10 minutes prior to the actual mainstream news release of the accused sex trafficker’s death by “suicide” which hit the press Saturday morning around 8:53 a.m. on Saturday.  Continue reading “Prison worker’s 4Chan post 10 minutes before news of Jeffrey Epstein’s death hit media: “…guy in a green dress military outfit… switched him out””

Conservative Tribune – by Bradley Evans

After every mass shooting, politicians on the left clamber for increased gun control measures. They tell Republicans to “do the right thing” and “get something done.”

Lost in the noise, however, is what exactly should be done. And even more important, why.   Continue reading “Knives Account for 3 Times as Many Murders as Rifles Do According to the FBI”

Post News

On Saturday multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, the highest profile prisoner in US custody, was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan.

This occurred the day after two thousand previously sealed court documents involving the Jeffrey Epstein child sex abuse case were released to the public.  Continue reading “Here It Is… Complete List of Clinton Associates Who Allegedly Died Mysteriously or Committed Suicide Before Testimony, Including Jeffrey Epstein”

Independent

There are too many f**king guns in America,” says Corey Taylor. “I could walk outside right now and find a gun within minutes. There’s a very toxic gun culture here, it’s a cult, and it worries me.”

Two days after the Slipknot frontman says this, a man walks into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, during one of the busiest times of the day, and starts shooting – 22 people lose their lives and more than two dozen are injured. The next day, in Dayton, Ohio, a man opens fire at the entrance of a local bar. He kills nine people, and injures 27.  Continue reading “Slipknot: ‘Gun culture in America is a cult’”

Fox News

The U.S. Border Patrol confirmed with Fox News Friday that a vessel stationed on the Rio Grande was shot at multiple times by gunfire coming from the Mexican riverbank.

Agents assigned to the RGV Marine Unit in the Rio Grande Valley sector said that at around 2:25 a.m, they saw four people on the Fronton Main Landing near Fronton, Texas, who shot more than 50 rounds at them using automatic weapons.  Continue reading “US Border Patrol boat shot at from Mexican riverbank”

Fellowship of the Minds  – by DCG

More benefits for illegal aliens that Oregon tax-paying citizens will have to cough up. That’s what you get when you live in a sanctuary state.

Excerpts from Oregon Live:  Continue reading “Oregon governor signs “progressive” paid family leave act; includes benefits for illegal aliens”

Mises Institute – by Chris Calton

In 1984, as part of Ronald Reagan’s renewed war on drugs, the Drug Enforcement Administration launched Operation Pipeline. This program was inspired by the strategies employed by state troopers in New Mexico who, after pulling somebody over, asked specific questions designed to determine whether the driver might be a drug trafficker. Combined with the financial incentives of federal grants for drug enforcement and civil asset forfeiture laws, state and local police had strong new incentives to find reasons to stop vehicles and search for drugs. Operation Pipeline was meant, in part, to train officers how to legally harass drivers.  Continue reading “Federal Judges Are Waging War on the Fourth Amendment”

Mondoweiss – by Michael Arria

The State Department has updated the working definition of anti-Semitism detailed on its website to include comparisons between current Israeli policies and those of the Nazis. The move comes just two weeks after the House passed a resolution denouncing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and amidst consistent attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for introducing a bill that affirms the right to boycott foreign countries in the name of human rights.  Continue reading “State Dept updates antisemitism definition to include comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany”

Daily Mail

Bloomberg’s ranking of the world’s richest families has revealed how heirs at the top of the list are watching their fortunes grow by millions of dollars every hour.

Currently ranked the world’s richest family, The Walton family, behind US super-giant Walmart Inc., is accumulating $4 million more every hour.  Continue reading “The richest 25 dynasties on earth control £1.16 TRILLION and watch fortunes grow millions every HOUR”

Washington Examiner – by Hunter Lovell

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham claimed on Friday that he owns an AR-15 to protect himself in case of a hurricane or another scenario in which law enforcement would not be able to defend him.

The South Carolina senator made the comments to reporters aboard Air Force One that he maintains an AR-15 in case “there’s a hurricane, a natural disaster, no power, no cops, no anything.”  Continue reading “Lindsey Graham says he owns an AR-15 to defend himself against looters during natural disasters”

Post Gazette

Neighbors of a Penn Hills High School teacher who officials say pointed a gun at police before officers shot and killed him Tuesday in Shaler, described his behavior as “shocking” because he was usually a “straight-laced guy.”

Don Babbit, 49, was shot and killed by police around 3 p.m. in the 800 block of Spencer Grove Lane after he was acting “erratically” and reportedly waved a gun at officers, Allegheny County police said.  Continue reading “‘A straight-laced guy’: Neighbors say behavior of Penn Hills teacher killed in Shaler was unusual”

New York Post – by Brad Hamilton

he following account is from a former inmate of the Metropolitan Correction Center in lower Manhattan, where Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive Saturday, and declared dead at a hospital of an apparent suicide. The ex-convict, who spoke to The Post’s Brad Hamilton and Bruce Golding on the condition of anonymity, spent several months in the 9 South special housing unit for high-profile prisoners awaiting trial — like Epstein.   Continue reading “Former MCC inmate: There’s ‘no way’ Jeffrey Epstein killed himself”