ArsTechnica – by Jonathan M Gitlin

The most important safety feature on your car isn’t its airbag or even the seat belts—it’s the tires. This should be obvious; those four round black things are the only part of the vehicle to actually touch the road, after all. Sadly, most American drivers fail to take care of their tires, with 35 percent of drivers not able to tell if their tires are bald. When you consider that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that vehicles with worn out tires were three times more likely to end up in a crash, you can see the problem.  Continue reading “More than one in three drivers doesn’t know when their tires are bald”

PJ Media – by Tyler O’Neil

No fewer than 60 organizations branded “hate groups” or otherwise attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are considering legal action against the left-wing smear factory, a Christian legal nonprofit leader confirmed to PJ Media on Tuesday. He suggested that the $3 million settlement and apology the SPLC gave to Maajid Nawaz and his Quilliam Foundation on Monday would encourage further legal action.

“We haven’t filed anything against the SPLC, but I think a number of organizations have been considering filing lawsuits against the SPLC, because they have been doing to a lot of organizations exactly what they did to Maajid Nawaz that’s part of the settlement,” Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, told PJ Media on Tuesday.   Continue reading “‘About 60 Organizations’ Are Considering a Lawsuit Against the SPLC Following $3M Nawaz Settlement”

The Daily Sheeple

Cops in Texas have arrested protesters for desecrating thin blue line flags.  The cops also seized cameras being used by the protesters in front of city hall to record the event which amounted to cops violating the basic rights of other human beings.  Continue reading “Cops Arrest Protesters For Desecrating Thin Blue Line Flags”

RT

Both chambers of the Canadian parliament have voted to approve the bill, paving the way for recreational use of marijuana and its cultivation, including home growth. To become law, it needs a largely formal royal approval.

The Canadian non-elected Senate passed the bill, commonly known as the Cannabis Act, on Tuesday, with 52 votes in favor and 29 against. The long-awaited piece of legislation, which has been in the works for several years, will now require a royal assent, a formal consent of the Queen, to approve the law, granted by the governor general.   Continue reading “First in the West: Canada votes to legalize recreational cannabis, lifting 95yo ban”

Heavy – by Tom Cleary

17-year-old was fatally shot Tuesday night by East Pittsburgh Police and the shooting was caught on a video that has spread on social media after being posted on Facebook. The teen was shot by officers while running from a car following a traffic stop, the Allegheny County Police Department said in a press release. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The video shows officers stopping a car on a residential street. Two people get out of the car and run and shots are then fired. One person, who has his back to the officers, appears to fall to the ground after the shots were heard. You can watch the video below. The video shows the shooting footage twice, once zoomed in:   Continue reading “Video Shows East Pittsburgh Police Shooting [GRAPHIC]”

The Local

New research shows there are an estimated 2,332,000 firearms in civilian possession in Switzerland, or 27.6 weapons per hundred inhabitants.

This puts the country 16th overall in terms of ownership of civilian firearms, according to data just published by the Geneva-based NGO Small Arms Survey.
Continue reading “Switzerland ranks 16th for civilian firearms: survey”

Bearing Arms – by Tom Knighton

In my neck of the woods, people get rather squirrely about alcohol. They don’t want it to be sold in certain places like near schools, churches, or other such places. People who support these laws forget that there’s literally nothing stopping people from bringing said alcohol as close to the church as they want–they also forget that not all faiths have a prohibition against alcohol, but that’s another topic for another time.

A town in New Jersey is looking to start treating gun stores the same as liquor stores are treated here.   Continue reading “New Jersey Town To Require Distance Between Gun Stores, Schools”

Fox News

The shooting massacre in February at a Florida high school has unleashed a plethora of what experts say are questionable statistics that stoke confusion regarding gun violence in America.

One recent story by CNN, for example, states that there have been 23 school shootings so far this year where someone has been hurt or killed, and 288 since 2009.   Continue reading “Experts shoot holes in CNN’s report on school gun violence”

Times of Israel

Far-right activists chanted slogans cheering for the death of an 18-month old Palestinian outside a courthouse in central Israel as the late toddler’s family walked near them following a hearing Tuesday.

Referencing toddler Ali Saad Dawabshe, killed in a 2015 arson attack carried out by Jewish terrorists, right-wing extremists chanted “Where is Ali? Ali’s dead,” “Ali’s on the grill” and other hate slogans.   Continue reading “Jewish extremists taunt ‘Ali’s on the grill’ at slain toddler’s relatives”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The Trump administration and the U.S. Department of the Treasury last week slapped sanctions on several Russian companies and billionaires for allegedly supporting Russia’s military and intelligence agencies in fueling more cyber attacks and other malicious activities.

Despite the newest round of tough U.S. sanctions, Russia will supply two batches of rocket engines to the U.S. Air Force in 2018, Chief Developer of Energomash Scientific and Production Association [the engines’ developer] Pyotr Lyovochkin told TASS on Friday.   Continue reading “Despite ‘New, Tough Sanctions’, US Takes Delivery Of Russian Rocket Engines”

Bloomberg

The Trump administration withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, making good on a pledge to leave a body it accused of hypocrisy and bias against Israel.

“For too long, the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers, and a cesspool of political bias,” Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the UN, said Tuesday at the State Department in Washington. She said the decision was an affirmation of U.S. respect for human rights, a commitment that “does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.”  Continue reading “U.S. Quits UN Human Rights Council, Saying It’s Anti-Israel”

Bloomberg

Americans’ long-running joke about a Starbucks on every corner may be nearing its end.

The coffee behemoth is retrenching in its home market as it contends with sales growth that Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson acknowledges isn’t fast enough. The cafe chain said Tuesday it expects comparable sales to rise just 1 percent globally for the current quarter—the worst performance in about nine years. That’s well below the 2.9 percent analysts were expecting, according to Consensus Metrix.   Continue reading “Starbucks Pumps the Brakes in Its Home Market”

US Breaking News

THE DEMOCRATS ARE HAVING SELECTIVE MEMORY…The faux outrage is such a joke if you remember back in 2015 when photos and videos of illegal alien kids were scant. The politicians and reporters were mostly not allowed to enter the camps holding children. Republican lawmakers attempted to enter but were prohibited. Now we have Democrats practically busting the doors down to get into these detention facilities. Hypocrites and liars all!   Continue reading “Dems Using Illegal Kids As Midterm Pawns But Said Nothing During 2015 Border Surge”

Collective Evolution – by Richard Enos

(Note: If you have not read part 1 of this article, my strong recommendation is to follow the link and read it first, because it provides an essential context for the discussion here.)

As we described in Part 1, Lucifer is considered to be a highly evolved ‘group soul’, having reached 6th density, while our world is currently in 3rd density transitioning to 4th density. The concept of ‘group soul’ is important here, as it suggests that, as individual souls evolve towards reunion with the One Creator, they gather into ever larger sub-groups of consciousness from which they came.   Continue reading “Who Lucifer Actually Is & Why They Are Here (Part 2: Bloodline Families)”

Thought Co. – by Cynthia Vinney

Psychologist Abraham Maslow’s theory of self-actualization contends that individuals are motivated to fulfill their potential in life. Self-actualization is typically discussed in conjunction with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which posits that self-actualization sits at the top of a hierarchy above four “lower” needs.   Continue reading “Understanding Maslow’s Theory of Self-Actualization”

The Wichita Eagle

TOPEKA  A federal judge has struck down a Kansas voter citizenship law that Secretary of State Kris Kobach had personally defended.

Judge Julie Robinson also ordered Kobach, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, to take more hours of continuing legal education after he was found in contempt and was frequently chided during the trial over missteps.   Continue reading “Judge strikes down Kansas voter law, orders Kobach to take classes”