Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Marlin, TX — As Texas Rangers arrived at the home of Marlin police Chief Nathan Sodek to arrest him on Friday, the 30-year-old top cop allegedly pulled his gun and took his own life. The warrant being served by the Rangers for Sodek’s arrest was for the alleged sexual assault of a suspect the chief forced to have sex with him for her freedom.  Continue reading “Police Chief Commits Suicide As He’s Being Arrested for Forcing Woman to Have Sex for Her Freedom”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Los Angeles, CA — As TFTP reported in June, panic erupted inside a Corona, California Costco as multiple people were injured and one man was killed. Dozens of  shoppers immediately dropped to the ground as fears of the next mass shooting filled their thoughts. However, it turns out the “mass shooter” was an LAPD cop and his unarmed victims were a mentally disabled non-verbal man and his parents. Now, for the first time since the shooting, the parents, who have been recovering since the shooting are speaking out about the death of their son.  Continue reading “Judge Blocking Video Reportedly Showing LAPD Cop Shoot a Family in Their Backs, Killing the Son”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It appears that Jeffrey Epstein had really good timing when he, according to New York Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson, decided to hang himself in his Manhattan jail cell the morning of August 10th – crushing bones in his neck which can fracture during hangings, but are typically broken during homicide by strangulation.  Continue reading “Surveillance Video Outside Epstein’s Cell Deemed ‘Unusable’”

Breitbart – by Kyle Morris

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has shut down a national hotline used by detained immigrants after it was featured in a storyline in the Netflix prison drama Orange is the New Black.

The National Immigration Detention Hotline, which was created in 2013 and was shut down on August 7, was a free and confidential resource that offered legal assistance to detained immigrants and connected them to advocates at Freedom for Immigrants.  Continue reading “Immigration Detention Hotline Shut Down After Netflix Prison Drama Causes Chaos”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

One of the most unusual stories to start the week is coming from VladTime, a Russian news agency, who reported Russian Special Forces have been exercising with American M4 carbines this month, with additional reports of how some of these soldiers are currently buying western weapons.

Military officers of the 45th Spetsnaz Airborne Brigade, a special reconnaissance and special operations military unit of the Russian Airborne Troops, said soldiers practiced shooting targets, reloading, and assembly and disassembly of the M4 last week.  Continue reading “Why Are Russian Special Forces Training With American Assault Rifles?”

Daily Mail

Shocking video has revealed violent caregivers pushing, shoving and holding down a disabled woman.

CCTV footage from two cameras show the women abusing one of the clients at a Mount Dora, Florida, group care home on Tuesday August 13.  Continue reading “Disturbing video shows caregivers pushing over a disabled woman and holding her face down on the floor as four employees at a group care home are charged with abuse”

MassPrivateI

It is no longer speculation, American law enforcement has been lying to the public about the expansion of CCTV camera surveillance.

A recent report released by CompariTech confirmed what I have been warning people about for years: American law enforcement has become a world leader in spying on its citizens.  Continue reading “American And Chinese Cities Lead The World In Spying On People”

Mint Press News – by Mnar Muhawesh

The role of journalism in a democracy is publishing information that holds the powerful to account — the kind of information that empowers the public to become more engaged citizens in their communities so that we can vote in representatives that work in the interest of “we the people.”  Continue reading “Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange”

WSWS – by Andy Thompson

In the latest attack on jobs, Del Monte Foods announced last Thursday that they will be closing two plants in Illinois and Minnesota, laying off at least 800 workers. Additionally, the company will sell plants in Wisconsin and Texas calling into question the employment status of another 700 workers.  Continue reading “Del Monte Foods to close plants in Illinois and Minnesota”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

With the Amazon ‘on fire’, everybody expected the climate talks at the G-7 Summit this weekend to be particularly contentious, as leaders like France’s Emmanuel Macron insisted that the international community must do something, while President Trump refused to support anything along those lines. But in a ‘symbolic’ gesture that was quickly seized upon by the media, President Trump skipped the G-7 session on climate change, giving photographers ample opportunity to snap photos of his empty chair. Continue reading “Trump Skips G-7 Climate Meeting, Says Won’t Risk US Wealth On “Dreams””

Reason – by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

For nearly a decade, Backpage has been demonized by politicians, denounced in legislatures, and dramatically mischaracterized by the press, Hollywood, and well-funded activist groups. As early as 2010, top prosecutors from 21 states claimed the classified-ad platform was “exploiting women and children.” In 2012 Washington state passed the first (but not last) law aimed specifically at toppling Backpage, and by 2015 U.S. senators were investigating the company.  Continue reading “Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage”

AIER – by Peter C Earle

Higher Ground, the production company founded by Michelle and Barack Obama, has released the first of a planned seven-film series on Friday. American Factory chronicles the opening of a Chinese factory near Dayton, Ohio, where a GM plant closed in 2008. It’s reasonable to suppose that the point was to alarm us about the wiles of global capitalism. Oddly, the film might have the opposite effect on many viewers. It certainly did for me.   Continue reading “The Obama Film American Factory Backfires”

Event Horizon Chronicle

I will eventually get to your question that has to do with what Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin want, but first let me propose that all mainstream media commentators and analysts and virtually all alternative media personalities are profoundly misstating and misapprehending how the world really works, and has worked for a very, very long time.  Continue reading “Who Really Runs This Planet: Organized Crime’s Nefarious Grip On Humanity”

Breitbart – by Robert Arce

The Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico (La Secretaría de Marina–SEMAR) has reported a major fentanyl seizure believed to be of multi-ton in the Mexican port city of Lázaro Cárdenas in the state of Michoacán.

The Mexican government announced the major fentanyl seizure of initially reported by local media outlets to be approximately 25.75 tons (23,368 kilograms or 51,517 pounds) of powdered fentanyl that originated in Shanghai China and was headed to Culiacán, Sinaloa, the home base for the Sinaloa Cartel. According to a government spokesperson, the seizure was a result of a joint operation led by the Mexican naval elements of the 10th naval zone and Lázaro Cárdenas customs enforcement personnel as reported by local media. Michoacán is located in western Mexico and has a stretch of coastline along the Pacific Ocean.  Continue reading “Major Fentanyl Shipment from China Seized in Mexico”

Boing Boing

The Supreme Court of California decided unanimously on Monday the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and other law enforcement agencies within in the state must disclose to prosecutors a deputy’s history of misconduct if and when the deputy plans to testify in a criminal case.  Continue reading “California Supreme Court backs expanding access to police misconduct cases”