NBC News

Federal immigration officials are force-feeding six immigrants through plastic nasal tubes during a hunger strike that’s gone on for a month inside a Texas detention facility, the Associated Press has learned.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 11 detainees at the El Paso Processing Center have been refusing food, some for more than 30 days. Detainees who reached the AP, along with a relative and an attorney representing hunger strikers, said nearly 30 detainees from India and Cuba have been refusing to eat, and some are now so weak they cannot stand up or talk.   Continue reading “ICE force-feeding detainees on hunger strike”

NHPR

The Office of The Child Advocate, established in 2018 as an independent agency to oversee the Division of Children, Youth and Families, issued its first annual report recently. Among its recommendations:  The state should fund more DCYF staff to help relieve overloaded case workers – a problem that has long beset the agency. But OCA Director Moira O’Neill says the job of protecting children includes the broader community — though not all Granite Staters may realize they’re required by law to report suspicions of child neglect and abuse.     Continue reading “N.H. Child Advocate: Not All Realize They’re Required To Report Suspected Child Abuse & Neglect”

Bangor Daily News – by Abigail Curtis

More than 20 years ago, Don Hanson of Green Acres Kennel Shop of Bangor took his golden retriever puppy, Tikken, to the veterinarian to get her mandatory rabies vaccine.

Tikken had a bad reaction to the vaccine, he said, and developed severe aggression and what in humans would be called obsessive compulsive disorder.   Continue reading “The anti-vax movement seems to be spreading to Maine pet owners. That worries animal care experts.”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

If you need a hammer for any reason, the United Kingdom’s counter-terrorism policing unit will consider you a potential terrorist.  They are also asking that anyone who sees someone doing something suspicious, like purchasing a hammer, to report it to the enforcers.

Buying a hammer is suspicious and is potentially an indicator of criminal activity according to the Tweet below posted by the U.K. Counter Terrorism Policing office.  Continue reading “Totalitarianism: Buying A Hammer Now Makes You A Terrorist In The UK”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Tampa Bay, FL — Malcolm Curtis Tillman, a Tampa Bay school cop assigned to Booker T. Washington Elementary School, has been arrested and charged with sexual battery for blindfolding and then sexually assaulting a 6-year-old student in his care.

According to LEO Affairs, Tillman is a 22-year-old cop who reportedly believed the young girl was being sexually abused so he proceeded to investigate. Instead of interviewing the girl with a social worker present, or referring her to sex crimes detectives, Tillman reportedly took the small child to a so-called “game room” and sexually assaulted her.  Continue reading “School Cop Arrested for Blindfolding and Brutally Raping 6-Year-Old Girl in a Classroom”

Press TV

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has declared the end of his country’s war on drugs, saying that his government no longer considers the fight against narcotics a priority.

Obrador said during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on Wednesday that Mexico would no longer prioritize using the army to capture cartel kingpins and would instead concentrate on ensuring public safety and reducing the number of murders.   Continue reading “War on drugs no more a priority: Mexican president”

Patriot Rising

“THIS IS JACKBOOTS IN THE MORNING. THIS IS AN AMERICAN NIGHTMARE THAT THEY WOULD ARREST SOMEBODY LIKE THIS.”—JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO

The American Police State does not discriminate.   Continue reading “Jackboots in the Morning: No One Is Spared From This American Nightmare”

ABC News 11

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — A Fayetteville police officer was found dead just two days after a criminal complaint was filed against him regarding a crime against a child.

On Friday, the department said it received a complaint against the officer involving a young victim.

The Youth Services Unit and Internal Affairs Unit began an investigation and obtained arrest warrants later that day.   Continue reading “Fayetteville officer found dead after investigation uncovers crimes against child”

Courthouse News – AP

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul was awarded more than $580,000 in damages and medical expenses on Wednesday in his lawsuit against the neighbor who tackled him and broke several of his ribs in a dispute over lawn maintenance.

A jury in Bowling Green, Kentucky, deliberated less than two hours before delivering the award to the Republican lawmaker who had been attacked while doing yard work at his Kentucky home.   Continue reading “Rand Paul Awarded More than $580K in Attack by Neighbor”

New York Times – by Jack Nicas

SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a trade war between the United States and China and past admonishments from President Trump “to start building their damn computers and things in this country,” Apple is unlikely to bring its manufacturing closer to home.

A tiny screw illustrates why.

In 2012, Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, went on prime-time television to announce that Apple would make a Mac computer in the United States. It would be the first Apple product in years to be manufactured by American workers, and the top-of-the-line Mac Pro would come with an unusual inscription: “Assembled in USA.”

Continue reading “A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’”

MassPrivateI

Day by day, year by year our justice system proves the Constitution has essentially become worthless.

Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled that police do not need a reason to place a person on the Suspicious Person List.

The ruling explains how President George W. Bush created Fusion Centers whose primary mission was to identify “suspicious Americans.”   Continue reading “Appeals Court: Police do not need a reason to place Americans on a Suspicious Person List”

Green Bay Press Gazette – by Liz Welter

TOWN OF FORESTVILLE – Multiple SWAT teams and dozens of officers from six police departments descended on a home in Forestville Tuesday morning.

Police had a warrant to search the house and buildings on the property for a state investigation led by the Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation, according to a news release from the Door County Sheriff’s Office.   Continue reading “Three SWAT teams, officers from six police departments descend on Door Co. home”

Green Bay Press Gazette – by Trent Tetzlaff

STURGEON BAY – Seven people had to be rescued from an ice shanty in Door County Tuesday.

According to the United States Coast Guard, the group had been fishing about one mile northeast of Snake Island before they decided to head back and began to have issues with their UTV.    Continue reading “Seven rescued from Sturgeon Bay ice shanty in dangerous cold Tuesday”

The Organic Prepper

Life hacks are all over the place at the minute (seriously, they’re everywhere) and some are really good – but often they’re more Martha Stewart than Grizzly Adams.   Continue reading “21 Life Hacks To Help You Breeze Through the Apocalypse (or at Least the Next Power Outage)”

Reason – by Jacob Sullum

On Monday evening in Houston, a dozen armed men broke into the home of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, a middle-aged couple who had lived in the house at 7815 Harding Street for at least two decades. The first man through the door, who was armed with a shotgun, used it to kill one of the couple’s dogs. Tuttle responded to the home invasion by grabbing a revolver and shooting the man with the shotgun, who collapsed on a sofa in the living room. As Nicholas tried to disarm the intruder, his accomplices shot her. Tuttle returned fire, and by the end of the shootout he and his wife were both dead. Four of the assailants were hit by gunfire, while a fifth injured his knee.   Continue reading “The Cops Were the Aggressors in This Week’s Deadly Houston Drug Raid”

AZ Central – by Dani Coble

U.S. Border Patrol cameras captured images of 123 undocumented migrants surrendering to agents after they crossed the border near Yuma on Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said Wednesday.

The group of migrants surrendered to agents after crossing vehicle barriers, the agency said in a post on its Arizona Twitter account Wednesday.   Continue reading “Video shows 123 migrants surrendering to Border Patrol agents in Arizona”

Yahoo News

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy revealed on Wednesday that it secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from South Carolina to a nuclear security site in Nevada months ago despite the state’s protests.

The Justice Department notified a federal judge in Reno that the government trucked in the radioactive material to store at the site 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Las Vegas before Nevada first asked a court to block the move in November.   Continue reading “US secretly shipped plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Swain County, NC — The Free Thought Project has reported on some utterly ridiculous wastes of taxpayer dollars so police can lock people up for tiny amounts of weed or some other victimless crime. Police once spent tens of thousands of dollars undercover at a Burger King to make a $75 pot bust. Ridiculous, we know. However, the story below has to be the most ridiculous waste of taxpayer money on an undercover ‘sting’ we have ever seen.

Last week, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation concluded a six-month long joint undercover sting operation with the Bryson City Police Department and North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement to bust a gas station for selling glass pipes. Their entire mission for six months was to stakeout a single gas station who had a glass display case which contained the pipes.   Continue reading “Cops Brag About 6-MONTH Undercover Sting to Seize Glass Weed Pipes—Internet Destroys Them”

Global Research – by Philip Giraldi

A study by a Toronto-based consulting and research company has revealed that over the past fifty years mainstream reporting about Israel has been distorted to portray the Jewish state in positive terms while ignoring the plight of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation. The media study, based on a computer analysis of 50 years of data, found that major U.S. newspapers have provided consistently skewed, pro-Israel reporting on Israel-Palestine. The slanting in news coverage included subtle manipulations like using word associations favorable to Israel and derogatory to Palestinians as well as persistent publication of stories praising Israel while also avoiding reporting anything supportive of the dispossessed Arab point of view.   Continue reading “Israel’s Story: Lies from Top to Bottom”