Huffington Post – by Sara Boboltz

A Florida detective successfully obtained a warrant to search the company GEDmatch’s full database of user-provided genetic information, even if users had opted out of appearing in police search results, HuffPost has confirmed.

The warrant, signed by a judge in Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in July, will likely earn praise from law enforcement and criticism from privacy advocates wary of how DNA databases could be abused.  Continue reading “Judge Says Police Can Search Company’s Entire DNA Database”

RT

The controversial White Helmets, also known as the ‘Syrian civil defense’ group, have confirmed that James Le Mesurier, the man behind their support and training, was found dead in Istanbul, Turkey.

Le Mesurier’s body was discovered near his home in Istanbul’s Beyoglu district. The circumstances surrounding his death are still being investigated.  Continue reading “White Helmets co-founder & ex-British officer Le Mesurier found dead in Istanbul”

“There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.”

“War is a racket. It always has been… A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.”  Continue reading “In light of Veterans Day, some quotes by Major General Smedley Butler”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Spokane, WA — Spokane Police Department Officer Dan Lesser didn’t actually quit on his own terms. He was either forced to step down or requested to stop being a K-9 handler following a viral video depicting a violent arrest in which Lesser sicced his police K9 attack dog on a man while threatening to kill him.  Continue reading “‘I’m Going to F**king Kill You’—Cop Quits After Threatening to Kill Man, Siccing K9 On Him”

Natural News – by JD Heyes

There is ‘out of touch’ and there is outright tone-deafness, and the head of a large California power company just set the new standard for the latter.

You may have heard that California energy company PG&E has been engaging in rolling blackouts for several weeks after the producer was blamed for several large, deadly wildfires over the past few years. Continue reading “CEO of California’s PG&E says people who lost refrigerators full of food should visit “food banks,” and thank him for “not burning down any houses””

Breitbart – by Simon Kent

Turkey is following through on its promise to repatriate captured Islamic State terrorists, signalling Monday that NATO allies France, Germany, Denmark, and the U.S. will be the first on the receiving end of returned jihadists.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu warned last week Ankara would begin to send back Islamic State militants to their home countries even if their citizenships have been revoked, as Breitbart News reported.  Continue reading “Turkey Begins Deporting Captured Islamic State Terrorists to U.S., Germany, France”

ABC News

A 21-year old protester was shot by police with a live round and a pro-China man was set on fire as Hong Kong woke up Monday to chaos on its streets.

Protesters, answering an online call, attempted to disrupt the Monday morning commute all across the city with what they dubbed as “Operation Dawn.” Groups of protesters fanned out across the city setting up blockades and vandalizing subways stations and intersections.  Continue reading “Hong Kong protester shot by police while a pro-China man is set on fire”

I’m sure you’ve attended the finest schools, studied tirelessly, learned a lot, and are now home to a wealth of information, but I’m also sure you’ve never bothered to investigate what knowledge may have been intentionally excluded from your education, or how much of it is simply untrue.

Let’s not forget that deception is our enemy’s stock-in-trade, and that a comprehensive propaganda and censorship mechanism exists that decides what you’ll see on TV, read in books or newspapers, or learn in school.  Continue reading “Deception”

Campus Reform – by Jonathan McCormick

A student at the University of Michigan is being investigated by campus police after he was recorded stealing and destroying recruitment materials from a conservative student group. The video shows the vandal dumping items onto the ground, tearing-up signs and throwing property in the trash.

When one of the TPUSA members told the vandal “Stop it. It’s against the law to steal,” the vandal replied, “You know what else is against the law? Hate speech.” Another member asked the vandal “What were we doing that was hateful, sir?” to which he replied, “Nothing.”  Continue reading “Vandal deems conservative group’s speech ‘hateful,’ destroys their property”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

With billionaire gun controller Michael Bloomberg testing the waters for a presidential run it is time to think about some of his favorite gun control proposals and how they would impact gun owners on a national level.

Some of the gun controls listed below represent Second Amendment restrictions Bloomberg and/or one of his gun control groups actively supported. Others represent instances Bloomberg and/or his groups fought against the exercise of Second Amendment rights, as in their opposition to campus carry for self-defense. Continue reading “Michael Bloomberg’s Top 10 Gun Controls”

AP

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s king announced Sunday that his country is retaking “full sovereignty” over two pieces of land leased by Israel, reflecting the cool relations between the neighboring countries as they mark the 25th anniversary of their landmark peace deal.

King Abdullah II had said last year that he wouldn’t renew the parts of the 1994 treaty that gave Israel a 25-year lease of the two small areas, Baqura and Ghamr. Even amid mistrust and a looming deadline, Israel was hoping a solution could be found.  Continue reading “Jordan retakes lands leased by Israel in 1994 peace accord”

Fox News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country’s south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country’s proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over U.S. sanctions.

The announcement by Hassan Rouhani comes as Iran faces crushing American sanctions after the U.S. pulled out of its nuclear deal with world powers last year. Continue reading “Iran’s president: New oil field found with over 50 billion barrels”