Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

Actor James Dean of Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden and Giant, died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, when he was only 24 years old.

Dean’s untimely death romanticized him into a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement. Hollywood celebrated him by making him the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list.  Continue reading “James Dean faked his death? – died at age 95 in Canada”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

Tulsa, OK – A man who never returned the copy of the movie “Ted” he rented for $5 from a local store in 2014 was contacted by police and threatened with jail time if he did not pay the hefty fine that has accumulated over the last four years.

Lonnie Perry said he vaguely remembers renting the movie, watching it and then forgetting to return it—but he became homeless around that time, and he believes the DVD copy of “Ted” was just another one of the possessions he packed into a box when he moved to a neighboring town.   Continue reading “Police State Defined—Man Facing Jail Time For Overdue $5 Movie Rental”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Austin, TX — A video from July 4 in downtown Austin has sparked outrage and an internal investigation after it showed two Austin police officers holding a man down and punching him in the head during a violent arrest.

The video was taken by Patrick King who described the incident as disturbing and pointed out noted that this was his first time seeing police brutality. King said that he was out with some friends when all of the sudden these two officers took down a man half their size.   Continue reading “Cop Holds Small Man Down As His Partner Smashes in His Face”

New York Post

A Rockland County woman was caught on camera going on a racist rant — spewing the N-word at passengers on a local bus.

“I hope you all got your motherf–king papers,” the unidentified woman yells to Transport of Rockland passengers on Saturday, according to video that rider Zoe Mac posted on Facebook. Continue reading “Woman unleashes on bus passengers in racist rant”

Telegraph

Illegal immigrants, now estimated to make up a fifth of the population of Seine-Saint-Denis, north-east of Paris, are severely straining public services and creating social tensions, according to a parliamentary report.

Seine-Saint-Denis has long been the French department with the highest proportion of immigrants, but the report warns that the number of illegal migrants may have risen as high as 400,000.   Continue reading “Illegal migrants in Paris suburb soar to 400,000 as hundreds of migrant children sleep on streets”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Across the US, cities are independently passing measures to implement a $15 minimum wage – or mandating higher wages with an eye toward one day achieving that goal. But low-wage workers who are celebrating their fatter paychecks should enjoy the feeling while it lasts…because the more expensive workers become, the faster employers will work to replace those human workers with robots who can do the same job for a fraction of the cost.   Continue reading “Meet Hadrian, The Brick Laying Robot That Will Make Construction Workers Obsolete”

RT

Tehran will close the Strait of Hormuz, effectively blocking all the oil shipments from the Persian Gulf if Washington succeeds in its attempts to reduce Iranian oil exports, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said.

“Any hostile attempt by the US [to impede Iran’s oil trade] will be followed by an exorbitant cost for them,” Esmail Kowsari, a deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Sarollah base in Tehran told the Iranian Young Journalists Club, which is linked to the national broadcaster controlled by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  Continue reading “Iran threatens to block Strait of Hormuz in response to US attempts to stop its oil exports”

Reuters

JAKARTA (Reuters) – The captain of a sinking Indonesian ferry managed to steer his ship onto a reef to enable the evacuation of more than 100 passengers, but 31 people drowned as the vessel floundered in stormy seas, officials said on Wednesday.

The latest ferry disaster in Indonesia, which happened on Tuesday near Sulawesi island, came two weeks after an overcrowded ferry sank on Lake Toba in Sumatra, one of the world’s deepest volcanic lakes, with the death of more than 200 people.   Continue reading “Captain of sinking Indonesian ferry sails onto reef; 31 dead”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: You have to go back to Chapter 2 of “The Timeline of the Tribulation“, “The Ram and the He Goat” to understand some of this. While the world is merging together, we see some of it continuing to fracture, even in our present time. This will continue until the prophecy of Daniel is fulfilled…

The agenda against Iran continues each and every day. You have nations who are siding with Iran like China and even the Euro nations as this article, “U.S. Sidelined as Five Powers Set to Give Iran New Assurance” explains.
Continue reading “Iran And China Call US ‘Biggest Threat To Humanity’ As They Boost Military Ties”

Orthodoxy Today – by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn penned this essay in 1974 and it circulated among Moscow’s intellectuals at the time. It is dated Feb. 12, the same day that secret police broke into his apartment and arrested him. The next day he was exiled to West Germany. The essay is a call to moral courage and serves as light to all who value truth.

At one time we dared not even to whisper. Now we write and read samizdat, and sometimes when we gather in the smoking room at the Science Institute we complain frankly to one another: What kind of tricks are they playing on us, and where are they dragging us? Gratuitous boasting of cosmic achievements while there is poverty and destruction at home. Propping up remote, uncivilized regimes. Fanning up civil war. And we recklessly fostered Mao Tse-tung at our expense—and it will be we who are sent to war against him, and will have to go. Is there any way out? And they put on trial anybody they want and they put sane people in asylums—always they, and we are powerless.   Continue reading “Live Not By Lies”

Weather Channel

Rounds of heavy rain left Houston streets flooded, making holiday travel difficult.

Numerous streets became impassable including Interstate 10 in both directions at Washington Avenue and Westcott, KTRK reports. The roadway reopened eastbound lanes by Wednesday evening.

Continue reading “Heavy Rains Flood Houston Streets, Making Holiday Travel Difficult”

Patch – by Daniel Hampton

FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ — When a 72-year-old Fountain Hills man tried to put his 92-year-old mother in an assisted living home, she pulled out a pistol hidden in her robe and shot him to death, authorities said. Now, she’s been charged with first-degree murder.

After learning of her son’s plans, Anna Mae Blessing hid a pair of handguns in her robe and confronted him in his bedroom at their home Monday, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said in a release. The home is located near North La Montana Drive and East El Lago Boulevard.   Continue reading “Arizona Mom, 92, Kills Son Over Nursing Home Plans: Authorities”

RT

The European Union has turned down China’s proposal of co-operation against escalating US trade tariffs on European and Chinese goods.

China proposed launching joint action against the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO), EU officials and diplomats told Reuters ahead of a Sino-European summit in Beijing on July 16-17.   Continue reading “Europe rejects China’s offer of alliance in trade war with United States”

RT

A woman trapped between a train and a platform in Boston, with her bone exposed through her thigh, pleaded with bystanders not to call an ambulance, asking them “do you know how much an ambulance costs?”

The accident happened on Friday, and a Boston Globe reporter on the scene described how the woman slipped between the subway train and the platform, trapping her leg. Left “in agony and weeping” as commuters rocked the train back and forth in an effort to free her, she begged them not to call an ambulance, as she said, “It’s $3000…I can’t afford that.”   Continue reading “Injured woman begs people not to call ambulance because she can’t afford it”

Mail.com

BEIJING (AP) — China rejected “threats and blackmail” ahead of a threatened U.S. tariff hike, striking a defiant stance Thursday in a dispute companies worry could flare into a full-blown trade war and chill the global economy.

A government spokesman said Beijing will defend itself if U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead Friday with plans to raise duties on $34 billion of Chinese goods in the escalating conflict over technology policy.   Continue reading “China rejects ‘blackmail’ on eve of US tariff hike”

Mail.com

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester gave President Donald Trump a tongue-in-cheek welcome to Montana Thursday by taking out a full-page ad in more than a dozen newspapers thanking him for signing 16 bills the Democrat sponsored or co-sponsored.

Trump was scheduled to hold a rally in Great Falls on Thursday to campaign for Tester’s Republican challenger, State Auditor Matt Rosendale. The president has made the Montana Senate race a priority after he blamed Tester for derailing the nomination of his first Veterans Affairs nominee, White House physician Ronny Jackson.   Continue reading “Montana Sen. Tester ‘welcomes’ Trump by touting passed bills”

Thought Co. – by Austin Cline

United States Founding Father Thomas Paine wasn’t just a political revolutionary but also took a radical approach to religion. Born in England in 1736, Paine, moved to the New World in 1774, thanks in part to Benjamin Franklin. He took part in the American Revolution and even inspired the settlers to declare independence from Britain. His pamphlet “Common Sense” and pamphlet series “The American Crisis” made the case for revolution.

Paine would go on to also be an influence in the French Revolution. Because of his political activism in defense of the revolutionary movement, he was arrested in France in 1793. In Luxembourg Prison, he worked on his pamphlet, “The Age of Reason.” In this work, he objected to organized religion, criticized Christianity and advocated for reason and free thought.

Continue reading “Insightful Thomas Paine Quotes on Religion”