Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Body camera footage showing the shocking moment a police officer tasered her co-worker—on purpose—has just been released. The victim, Judah Adunbi, the department’s race relations adviser was tasered in the face as he walked his dog because the officer mistook him for him for a criminal.

Despite the overt act of excessive and unnecessary force, sergeant Claire Boddie was cleared of any wrongdoing in May by an internal review for tasering the 64-year-old race relations officer in the face.   Continue reading “Cop Tasers Fellow Coworker in the Face, After Mistaking Him for a Criminal”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While Syria seemed to have dropped from the Western media’s radar over the past months as the Syrian Army and its Russian and Iranian allies made rapid gains, multiple huge developments this week have returned the war to center stage in Washington and the dangerous rhetoric of escalation.

In just the last 24 hours alone, we’ve learned:   Continue reading “Top US Envoy Says “Lots Of Evidence” Assad Prepping Chemical Weapons; Russia Threatens Attack On US Base”

Daily Mail

A transgender prisoner has been accused of sexually assaulting four female inmates after being sent to a women’s prison, despite not having had reassignment surgery.

It is alleged the first attack took place within days of the inmate arriving at New Hall jail in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.   Continue reading “Transgender prisoner put in female jail ‘assaulted four women’”

Boing Boing – by Cory Doctorow

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up — Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.

This is a glimpse of the near future. In one week, the European Parliament will vote on a proposal to force all online services to implement Content ID-style censorship, but not just for videos — for audio, text, stills, code, everything.   Continue reading “The future is here today: you can’t play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions”

Intellihub – by Shepard Abellas

United States health officials and authorities are on high alert after three passenger aircraft have been quarantined at U.S. airports in the past two days.

It all started on Wednesday when an Emirates airline pilot reported to air traffic control that about 100 people aboard the 500 seat superjumbo jet abruptly fell ill with flu-like symptoms while in route to the U.S. from Dubai.   Continue reading “Red alert: Three airliners, their passengers, and contents quarantined by CDC officials”

Independent Sentinel – by Linda Goudsmit

On January 26, 2018, Daniel Greenfield gave a brilliant speech in South Carolina in which he argued that politics make civil wars – not guns. “Guns are how a civil war ends. Politics is how it begins.” What does that mean?

“Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.”   Continue reading “Countdown to Civil War”

Fox News

Johnny Bobbitt, the homeless military veteran who had $400,000 raised for him by well-wishers, will receive the full amount of money even though those behind the fundraiser allegedly squandered it.

GoFundMe, along with law firm Cozen O’Connor, said Thursday that Bobbitt will receive the balance of what he was not given of the hundreds of thousands raised for him in late 2017, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.   Continue reading “Homeless Philadelphia man Johnny Bobbitt will get his $400G, GoFundMe says”

Fox News

PHILADELPHIA –  Authorities say 12 passengers on two flights from Europe were evaluated for sore throats and coughs upon arrival at Philadelphia International Airport, but none were considered severely ill.

A federal Customs and Border Protection spokesman says the sick passengers had been attending the hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.   Continue reading “Passengers on 2 flights from Europe arrive sick in Philly”

Record Searchlight

Update at 7:15 p.m.

The fire is now 22,000 acres and still has no containment, officials said.

Update at 7:00 p.m.

Castle Rock Elementary School in Castella will remain closed on Friday because of its nearness to the fire area, evacuations and road closures, superintendent and principal Autumn Funk announced Thursday evening in an email.   Continue reading “Delta Fire updates: Blaze now 22,000 acres with no containment”

Seattle Times

Amazon has ordered 20,000 Mercedes-Benz vans for use in a new package delivery service, more than four times as many as the retail and technology giant anticipated when it announced the program this summer.

The vans are part of Amazon’s effort to meet its rising demand for trucks and personnel to take items from its warehouse network to customers’ doorsteps, called last-mile delivery in the industry. Amazon currently relies on logistics giants UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service, as well as independent contractors, for that work.   Continue reading “Amazon orders 20,000 vans for new delivery program”

AP

SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) — Truckers abandoned big-rigs and motorists screamed in fear as they came dangerously close to an explosive wildfire that shut down about 45 miles of a major California interstate near the Oregon border that authorities were desperately trying to reopen.

In a video, a passenger in a vehicle screams: “Oh my God, I want to go!” as nearby trees burst into flames.   Continue reading “Big rigs abandoned as wildfire scorches California freeway”