Times of Israel – by Stuart Winer

An Israeli cabinet minister has warned that if the Syrians use their recently supplied advanced Russian air defense missiles to bring down Israeli planes over Israeli territory, the launchers would be targeted — even if that means endangering Russian military specialists at the launch sites.

Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin, who is also co-chair of the Russia-Israel Intergovernmental Commission, told Russian media Monday that it was a “big mistake” for Moscow to supply its ally Syria with the S-300 missile system, because the advanced missiles, which are considered a significant threat to Israeli air power in the area, “might lead to destabilization of the situation.”   Continue reading “Minister: Israel might destroy Syrian S-300s, even if manned by Russians”

AMN – by Leith Aboufadel

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:50 P.M.) – The Russian Navy has been amassing a large number of ships off the coast of Syria as the Sochi Agreement continues to fall apart.

According to media reports, Russia has sent their Admiral Makarov frigate with long-range Kalibr cruise missiles to the Mediterranean; it will join the Admiral Grigorovich, Admiral Essen and Pytlivy frigates, landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov and the Vishny Volochek missile corvette.   Continue reading “Russian Navy amasses its ships off Syrian coast in preparation to strike jihadists”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Louisville, KY — The Louisville Metro Police are in the spotlight this week after a citizen’s video was uploaded to social media showing an officer pound a man’s face in with his taser, as his fellow officers hold him down during an arrest.

According to police, they were responding to an alleged fight outside the Nowhere Bar in Louisville early Sunday morning when they encountered Matthew Murphy. Police claim Murphy attacked them and they had no other choice but to engage. The video does not show this attack.   Continue reading “Horrific Video Shows 4 Cops Hold Man Down as One Smashes His Face in With a Taser”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Chino, CA — In a testament to the neglect and abuse suffered by inmates at the hands of police, a woman in Chino, California—in dire need of medical attention for a mental health problem—was ignored until she literally ripped out her own eyeball and swallowed it.

Every 15 minutes, for four hours straight, the woman had screaming fits which were ignored repeatedly. This neglect by jail staff was in spite of the fact that the woman was admitted and known to be ‘psychotic.’   Continue reading “Jail Guards Stand Idly By as Mentally Ill Woman Gouges Out Her Own Eye and SWALLOWS It”

Albany Democrat-Herald – by Alex Paul

Linn County’s commissioners on Tuesday approved accepting a $284,513 Emergency Management Homeland Security Grant to purchase an armored personnel vehicle.

In a written request to the commissioners, Sheriff Jim Yon noted, “Our world has changed in the last 10 years. A fire truck was attacked last week in Springfield. They took shotgun rounds to the cab while responding to an emergency call. We need to have equipment like this to protect ourselves and the public from that type of evil.”

Continue reading “LCSO to get armored vehicle, high-tech drone”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Back in the summer of 2017, to much fanfare President Donald Trump announced that Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, best known for making the iPhone, would build a new plant producing LCD panels in Wisconsin that will bring thousands of jobs to the state.

On the surface it was great deal: in what’s being called the “largest economic development project in state history”, Foxconn said it would build a $10 billion plant that will eventually employ as many as 13,000 people, according to the White House and Gov. Scott Walker. To be sure, it was a quid pro quo: to help lure the manufacturer, the state pledged $3 billion in tax and other “performance-based” incentives and local authorities added $764 million. Foxconn must meet hiring, wage and investment targets by various dates to receive most of those benefits.   Continue reading “Foxconn May Bring Chinese Workers To Its New Wisconsin Facility”

MassPrivateI

The birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr., appears to be reverting back to the 1950’s.

A recent appeals court ruling reveals that Montgomery, Alabama judges and police are allowed to give indigent people two choices to pay for traffic tickets. One, they can wash police cars and clean courtrooms or two, they can go directly to jail.   Continue reading “Court: Can’t pay your ticket? Wash police cars and clean courtrooms or go to jail”

Yahoo News

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has launched a “Magna Carta for the web”, warning that tech giants must change their ways to save the online world from the dangerous forces they have unleashed.

Sir Tim, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, called for a “revolution” in how the internet is regulated and monetised in order to stem abuse, political polarisation and fake news.    Continue reading “Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches ‘Magna Carta for the web’ to save internet from abuse”

The Organic Prepper – by Meadow Clark

Canola oil is a popular food ingredient used mostly for frying and baking that doesn’t belong on anyone’s plate or in any snack bags. It’s an ingredient not meant for human consumption and shouldn’t be in any preppers’ pantries! Yet, this cooking oil is touted as a healthy alternative to saturated fats. Sadly, most health food stores are soaked in this oil.

Nope, it’s not the new enemy of mainstream, coconut oil!   Continue reading “Canola Oil Is Destroying Your Heart (Even If It’s Organic) – Here’s What to Use Instead”

Engadget – by AJ Dellinger

Cashier-less checkouts are supposed to be all about convenience, so it’s only right that a convenience store gets in on the action. 7-Eleven is launching a new pilot program called Scan and Pay that lets you scan your purchases and checkout with your smartphone without needing to visit the cashier. The chain is testing Scan and Pay at 14 locations in Dallas.

Continue reading “7-Eleven is testing a ‘scan and go’ mobile checkout system”

Baylor University Medical Center – by Robert F. Reilly, MD

This review describes medical and surgical care during the American Civil War. This era is often referred to in a negative way as the Middle Ages of medicine in the United States. Many misconceptions exist regarding the quality of care during the war. It is commonly believed that surgery was often done without anesthesia, that many unnecessary amputations were done, and that care was not state of the art for the times. None of these assertions is true. Physicians were practicing in an era before the germ theory of disease was established, before sterile technique and antisepsis were known, with very few effective medications, and often operating 48 to 72 hours with no sleep. Each side was woefully unprepared, in all aspects, for the extent of the war and misjudged the degree to which each would fight for their cause. Despite this, many medical advances and discoveries occurred as a result of the work of dedicated physicians on both sides of the conflict.

Continue reading “Medical and surgical care during the American Civil War, 1861–1865”

Baltimore Sun – by Colin Campbell

Two Anne Arundel County police officers serving one of Maryland’s new “red flag” protective orders to remove guns from a house killed a Ferndale man after he refused to give up his gun and a struggle ensued early Monday morning, police said.

The subject of the protective order, Gary J. Willis, 60, answered his door in the 100 block of Linwood Ave. at 5:17 a.m. with a gun in his hand, Anne Arundel County police said. He initially put the gun down next to the door, but “became irate” when officers began to serve him with the order, opened the door and picked up the gun again, police said.   Continue reading “Anne Arundel police say officers fatally shot armed man while serving protective order to remove guns”

“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out.”
– Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)

Bloomberg

The sullen teenager grinding through a restaurant shift after school was once a pop culture cliche—as American as curly fries.

Nowadays, Brad Hamilton, the teen played by Judge Reinhold in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” would probably be too young to work at the fictional Captain Hook Fish and Chips. That’s because senior citizens are taking his place—donning polyester, flipping patties and taking orders. They’re showing up at casual dining chains such as Bob Evans and fast-food operators like McDonald’s Corp., which says it plans to make senior citizens one hiring focus in the coming year.   Continue reading “Senior Citizens Are Replacing Teenagers as Fast-Food Workers”

The Daily Caller – by Luke Rosiak

The suspect in the vandalism of a New York synagogue was a Democratic activist and former City Hall intern who worked on anti-hate crime issues, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

He is a “queer” black man informally adopted by a Jewish couple, and The New York Times’ charity, the Neediest Cases, helped pay for him to go to college where his focus was African American studies, according to a 2017 New York Times profile.   Continue reading “NYC Synagogue Vandalism Suspect Is Former City Hall Anti-Hate Crime Intern”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

Video has surfaced online reportedly showing members of one of several migrant caravan armies headed to the US attacking police at Mexico’s border.

The video shows dozens of military-aged males throwing metallic objects at police. Five officers were reportedly left injured.   Continue reading “Migrant Caravan Armies Attack Police, Smash Through Borders On Way to U.S.”