Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Sperry, OK — Residents in Oklahoma are experiencing near-historic flooding this week as well as damaging wind and tornadoes. Thousands of people have been displaced and have lost everything. Adding to the extreme harsh hand dealt out by mother nature is the fact that in at least one instance, people trying to save their property or rescue others are being harassed and fined by police—for being good Samaritans.  Continue reading “Cop Caught on Video Harassing, Fining Flood Victims for Trying to Help Each Other”

Press TV

Two airstrikes carried out by US forces in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand and eastern Kunar provinces have killed at least 14 civilians, mostly children and women.

Five women and seven children were among those killed in the attacks that took place in Helmand’s Gereshk and Kunar’s Chawki districts on Monday and Wednesday, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said Thursday.  Continue reading “US airstrikes kill at least 14 civilians in Afghanistan”

Canary – by Mohamed Elmaazi

The current US secretary of state – also an ex-director of the CIA – recently put out a statement regarding Iran. And it was so outrageous that the response on Twitter was overwhelming.

Mike Pompeo claimed – apparently without a hint of irony or shame – that the Iranian government had been engaged in “40 years of unprovoked aggression”:  Continue reading “Former CIA director claims US is victim of ’40 years of unprovoked aggression’ by Iran. Twitter responds accordingly.”

Breitbart – by Edwin Mora

Police officers in Pakistan this week arrested an engineer from China for allegedly pushing a Pakistani worker into a three-story-deep furnace for failing to understand his instructions at a factory in Punjab’s Faisalabad region. The move prompted other employees to protest against Chinese national’s alleged mistreatment of locals staffers.

The worker, identified only as Shehroz, survived but sustained burns to 40 percent of his body.  Continue reading “Pakistan Arrests Chinese Man for Throwing Local Worker into Furnace”

ABC News

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday announced her resignation, putting an end to months of speculation over her future because of her handling of Brexit.

“It is now clear to me that it is in the best interests of the country to have a new prime minister,” May told reporters.  Continue reading “UK Prime Minister Theresa May resigns in wake of mismanaged Brexit”

Eric Peters Autos – by Eric

One of the neat things about being a “law enforcer” is having the power (because you’ve got the gun) to make up laws – and then enforce them.

Here we have a guy walking around in a public area, taking video of things which can be viewed from the public area. There is no law prohibiting either nor requiring permission prior to doing either thing.  Continue reading ““It’s National Security Stuff” Says AGW”

Click Orlando

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – An Osceola County deputy was fired a day after filing to run against his boss in a 2020 sheriff’s race.

The Orlando Sentinel reports Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson fired Deputy Marco Lopez last week after he refused to resign.  Continue reading “Osceola deputy fired day after filing to run against sheriff”

AJC

An Oxford, Mississippi, police officer has been charged with the murder of a north Mississippi mother.

The shooting happened Sunday afternoon in the 1000 block of Suncrest Drive. Officers arrived to the scene to find an “unresponsive person” who was pronounced dead at the scene.  Continue reading “Police officer charged with murder of Mississippi mother who was shot and killed”

Common Dreams

WASHINGTON – Most top officials at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) become lawyers and lobbyists for major technology companies after they leave the agency or bring Silicon Valley conflicts with them when they arrive, a new Public Citizen report found.

The report shows that most of these officials – 63% (26 out of 41) have revolving door conflicts of interest involving work on behalf of the technology sector. These conflicts help explain the FTC’s chronic reluctance to strictly enforce consumer protection and antitrust laws against Big Tech, Public Citizen maintains.  Continue reading “A Whopping 75% of FTC Officials Have Revolving Door Conflicts With Tech Corporations and Other Industries”

PBS

By 1929, Charles Mitchell, President of the National City Bank (which would become Citibank), had popularized the idea of selling stock and high yield bonds directly to smaller investors. Mitchell and a very small group of bankers, brokers, and speculators manipulated the stock market, grew wealthy and helped create the economic boom of that fabulous decade. Their successes made them folk heroes of the day. The Crash of 1929 chronicles a fateful year through the words and experiences of the descendants of these titans of finance.  Continue reading “The Crash of 1929”

Activist Post – by Nicholas West

It is becoming clearer each day that new technologies are further highlighting the great expanse between intention and application. As with all technologies of value, medicine has pitted the powerful desire of human liberation from suffering and the pursuit of a longer life up against the powerful desire to create centralized systems of management, both for profit and control.  Continue reading “Comcast Plans In-Home Health Surveillance and Medical Tracking Device”

Daily Mail

Phoenix, Arizona, is the fastest growing city in America, with a population spike of 25,288 to reach 1.63 million residents in 2018, according to U.S. Census data released Thursday.

The majority of the nation’s fastest-growing cities were in the West and the South, while the major hubs of New York City and Chicago continued to see their populations shrink.  Continue reading “America’s fastest-growing cities are in the South and the West – with Phoenix seeing the most rapid population increase of more than 25,000 people”

LifeSiteNews – by Diane Montagna

ROME, May 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The Chinese government is harvesting organs from prisoners while they are still alive to supply its lucrative organ transplant industry, a leading expert on China has told LifeSiteNews.

He is therefore calling on the Vatican to speak out.  Continue reading “‘The victim is still alive and breathing’: Expert exposes China’s ‘horrific’ organ harvesting program”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Thursday that “100%” of illegal-immigrant families in the new border surge are being released into communities, rather than being held and deported.

He said within a month or two, they are also granted work permits, giving them a foothold to live and remain in the U.S. while their cases proceed through the immigration courts — a process that averages two years, and stretches even longer in some overwhelmed regions. Continue reading “‘100%’ of illegal immigrant families being released into U.S., Homeland Security says”

Health Impact News – by Brian Shilhavy

According to LifeSiteNews, a Catholic publication, the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association is charging UNICEF and WHO with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus vaccination program sponsored by the Kenyan government.

The Kenyan government denies there is anything wrong with the vaccine, and says it is perfectly safe.  Continue reading ““Mass sterilization”: Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine”