Baltimore Sun – by Luke Broadwater

Baltimore City Council members concerned about lobbying efforts to privatize the city’s water supply unanimously approved legislation Monday that, if approved by voters, would make Baltimore the first major city to ban the sale or lease of the water system.

City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young waived council rules to allow for fast-tracked approval of a charter amendment that will go to voters on the November ballot.   Continue reading “Baltimore could become first major U.S. city to ban sale of its water system”

Washington Examiner – by Caitlin Yilek

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is calling on other tech companies to ban more sites like InfoWars, and says the survival of American democracy depends on it.

“Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it,” Murphy tweeted Monday.  Continue reading “‘Survival of our democracy’ depends on banning sites like InfoWars, Dem senator says”

Video Rebel’s Blog

A leaf 100 feet (30.5 meters) up in a tree needs Calcium. It sends that message down the tree to its roots where it is delivered to the biological life teeming in the soil which in turn fills the leaf’s need in exchange for sugars the leaves made during photosynthesis. The leaf receives its Calcium 90 seconds after its initial request. And the soil receives its Carbon from the earth and sun above.

Did anyone ever teach you that in high school?   Continue reading “Our Future Depends On Understanding Dr Elaine Ingham”

Watts Up With That – by Bob Bradley

“If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit [between now and] the year 2025 to 2050…. The rise in global temperature is predicted to … caus[e] sea levels to rise by one to four feet by the middle of the next century.”

— Philip Shabecoff, “Global Warming Has Begun.” New York Times, June 24, 1988.

It has been 30 years since the alarm bell was sounded for manmade global warming caused by modern industrial society. And predictions made on that day—and ever since—continue to be falsified in the real world.   Continue reading “Failed Prognostications of Climate Alarm”

Daily Mail

A woman’s shocking photo showing her veteran brother waiting ‘eight hours’ for treatment at a Tennessee Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center has gone viral.

Gail Hobbs shared the image of Tony Mims lying on the floor at the Alvin C. York Campus of the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, located in Murfreesboro, when he went there for treatment on Thursday.   Continue reading “Photo of ill veteran lying on the floor of VA hospital”

Peace and Freedom – by Sam Stein

Freedom of the press may be guaranteed in the Constitution. But a plurality of Republicans want to give President Trump the authority to close down certain news outlets, according to a new public opinion survey conducted by Ipsos and provided exclusively to The Daily Beast.

The findings present a sobering picture for the fourth estate, with respondents showing diminished trust in the media and increased support for punitive measures against its members. They also illustrate the extent to which Trump’s anti-press drumbeat has shaped public opinion about the role the media plays in covering his administration. Continue reading “New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media”

DC McClatchy – by Christine Condon

WASHINGTON – Habersham County’s Mud Creek precinct in northeastern Georgia had 276 registered voters ahead of the state’s primary elections in May.

But 670 ballots were cast, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office, indicating a 243 percent turnout. Continue reading “670 ballots in a precinct with 276 voters, and other tales from Georgia’s primary”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

As the United States continues to fuel Yemen’s worsening humanitarian crisis, and boast that it’s targeting al Qaeda in the impoverished nation (AQAP) with airstrikes, new reporting reveals that the U.S.- and U.K-backed Saudi coalition waging a bombing campaign there is recruiting al Qaeda fighters to join its ranks, and paying off the extremists to leave areas.   Continue reading “‘US Is Now Allied With al-Qaeda in Yemen’: AP Reveals American-Backed Saudi Coalition Forged Deals With AQAP Fighters”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

Typically, when Americans hear someone say that the education system in the United States “runs on lies,” they would expect the statement to come from a disgruntled parent or student—but now it is coming from the former Secretary of Education, as he admits that the U.S. lies to families on a daily basis by promising them a quality education through public schools.

Arne Duncan, who served as education secretary for the Obama Administration, now appears to be calling out all sides of the spectrum for failing to prioritize the next generation. In an interview with CBS’ Face The Nation, Duncan argued that politicians are never held accountable for failing students and teachers.   Continue reading “Fmr Education Secretary Admits US Students are Failing Because Education System ‘Runs on Lies’”

Jon Rappoport

In 1971, Gary Allen published his book, None Dare Call it Conspiracy. It quickly became an unofficial best seller.

Over the years, several million copies have been sold.

Allen’s thesis was stark: super-rich American capitalists were financing socialism. This bizarre paradox was resolved when socialism was properly understood—not as “power to the people”—but as elite power over the people. In other words, as a hoax.   Continue reading “Erased history: how Rockefeller bankrolled Soviet Russia”

Fox News

A Texas police officer who vanished from his home last week was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.

Baytown police officer John Stewart Beasley, 46, was found dead Tuesday in a field three miles from his Cove residence, Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said.

Beasley, a 23-year veteran of the police force, was reported missing Thursday and last seen walking away from his home. It’s believed Beasley died the same day he was reported missing.   Continue reading “Missing Texas police officer found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials say”

Bloomberg

Some of the world’s largest companies have benefited from a little-known law that lets the Defense Department override decisions barring contractors accused or convicted of bribery, fraud, theft, and other crimes from doing business with the government.

International Business Machines Corp., Boeing Co., BP Plc, and several other contractors have received special dispensation to fulfill multimillion-dollar government contracts through “compelling reason determinations.” That process allows the Defense Department in rare cases to determine that the need to fulfill certain contracts justifies doing business with companies that have been suspended from government work.   Continue reading “Millions Flow to Pentagon’s Banned Contractors Via a Back Door”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

One day after what appeared to be a coordinated attack by media giants Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google on Alex Jones, whose various social media accounts were banned or suspended in a matter of hours, the crackdown against alternative media figures continued as several Libertarian figures, including the Ron Paul Institute director, found their Twitter accounts suspended.    Continue reading “The Crackdown Continues: Twitter Suspends Libertarian Accounts, Including Ron Paul Institute Director”

B’Tselem

In just over two months, from the beginning of May to 7 July 2018, B’Tselem documented 10 instances in which settlers destroyed a total of more than 2,000 trees and grapevines and burned down a barley field and bales of hay. In some places, the settlers left behind them graffiti slogans in Hebrew, reading “No to farmer terrorism” and “”There’s not place we won’t reach”. Some of the farmers had already suffered settler violence in recent years.

Continue reading “Settlers destroy 2,000+ Palestinian-owned trees and vines, backed by Israeli authorities”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

School shootings in the United States have become so ubiquitous that while legislators continue to try to “ban guns” – the effect of which has resulted in no meaningful legislation and seemingly no prevention of incidence –insurance companies like McGowan Program Administrators are stumbling onto an unfortunate realization: school shooting insurance is necessary and in demand. They have written over 300 of these policies already.   Continue reading “School-Shooting Insurance Is A Real Thing – And Its On the Rise”