Mail.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Oregon lawmakers created the state’s legal marijuana program, they had one goal in mind above all else: to convince illicit pot growers to leave the black market. That meant low barriers to entry that also targeted long-standing medical marijuana growers, whose product is not taxed. As a result, weed production boomed — with a bitter consequence.

Now, marijuana prices here are in freefall, and the craft cannabis farmers who put Oregon on the map decades before broad legalization say they are in peril of losing their now-legal businesses as the market adjusts.   Continue reading “Easy entry into Oregon’s legal pot market means huge surplus”

CNBC

President Donald Trump said Thursday he plans to issue a pardon to Dinesh D’Souza, a prominent conservative commentator and filmmaker who was convicted of making an illegal campaign contribution.

Trump said he will pardon D’Souza on Thursday, adding that D’Souza “was treated very unfairly by our government!”   Continue reading “Trump will pardon conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza, who was convicted of campaign finance violation”

Middle East Monitor

One of the biggest weapons manufacture in the world is setting up shop in Jerusalem to delivery education programmes to children as young as five.

Lockheed Martin is famous for manufacturing the F-35 fighter jet, famed for pummelling Palestinians in Gaza. The American aerospace and weapons firm is now partnering with the Israeli education ministry to open an “one of a kind” kindergarten in Jerusalem.  Continue reading “Weapons manufacturer to offer primary education to Israel kids in Jerusalem”

London Evening Standard – by Tom Powel, November 2016

Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been pictured holding a gun atop an Israeli tank in a war-torn region of the Middle East.

The former leader of the English Defence League (EDL) posted the photo on Wednesday from the Golan Heights, an area of Syria occupied by Israel since 1967.  Continue reading “Flashback 2016: Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson pictured holding gun on Israeli tank near Syrian border”

The Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

CNS News:

Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has released a statement calling on the United Nations to “seriously” pursue seven “human rights” cases in the United States. One of these is what Khamenei perceives as the need for gun control. Continue reading “The Grand Poobah Has Spoken On Gun Rights”

The Organic Prepper

In China, where firearms are tightly restricted, it’s probably no surprise that those who want to hurt people found another way to do it. The dramatic rise of knife attacks around the world shows that the problem these days isn’t with guns. It’s with people.

Mass knife attacks have become so common over the years that a Chinese police department recently released a video to teach citizens how to defend themselves against knife-wielding assailants and it has gone viral, with 16 million views in just a few days. It has subtitles and some great advice that even I would be able to follow.   Continue reading “The Rise of Mass Knife Attacks Around the World Shows the Problem Isn’t Guns. It’s People.”

Fox News

A Tennessee sheriff’s deputy was killed Wednesday and a manhunt is on for the gunman, officials said.

Sgt. Daniel Scott Baker, of the Dickson County Sheriff’s Office, got into an altercation with the suspect when the deputy responded to a report of a stolen vehicle in Kingston Springs.  Continue reading “Tennessee sheriff’s deputy shot and killed, search for gunman underway”

MassPrivateI

FBI: Fewer police officers killed on duty last year than 2016

According to an article in Officer.com fewer police officers were killed last year than in 2016.

“The FBI reports that 93 law enforcement officers were killed on duty last year, 46 criminally and 47 accidentally. The total is down from 118 in 2016.”   Continue reading “Out of control policing; ‘It’s open season on Americans by US police forces’”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr Eowyn

Billionaire financier George Soros, is flooding cash — massive donations typically only seen in gubernatorial, congressional or presidential campaigns — into local district attorney (DA) races, and winning. In so doing, the evil POS in extending his tentacles into local criminal justice policies across the country.

In 2015-2017, Soros spent more than $8 million on local DA races. His modus operandus is the same in nearly every city: Establish political action committees (PACs), pour money into local races, then turn around and shut them down once the election is over.  Continue reading “George Soros funding and winning DA races across America”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

Parkland, Florida – Cellphone footage has been released that shows Nickolas Cruz in the hours before he opened fire on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The disturbing videos give insight into a deranged individual who excitedly plotted the massacre and looked forward to the fame and notoriety it would bring him.

“Hello, my name is Nik, and I’m going to be the next school shooter of 2018. My goal is at least 20 people with an AR-15 and a couple tracer rounds,” Cruz said as he filmed himself before carrying out a shooting that killed 17 people.   Continue reading “Chilling Video Released of Nickolas Cruz Plotting Parkland Massacre”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

Congress’ border loopholes for asylum seekers have delivered more than 400,000 additional migrants into Americans’ workplaces, reducing free-market pressure on employers and investors to raise wages for blue-collar Americans.

The 400,000-strong population of asylum seekers “is a huge thing — it is almost half of our legal immigration flow per year,” said Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA.   Continue reading “Asylum Loopholes Deliver 400,000 Migrants to U.S. Employers”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Did DARPA just admit to investigating transhumanism “for national security”?

In an oddly open and honest press release this week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – the U.S. military’s top research and development laboratory – explained how it has begun a new program – PREPARE – with the goal to change human genetics to defend against specific threats.   Continue reading “Resident Evil? DARPA Unveils Genetic “Tuning” To Fight Chemical, Radiation Attacks”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he expects major drug companies to slash prices on their products in two weeks, but did not provide details on which companies would do so or how such reductions would be made.

Health care lobbyists in Washington said they were caught by surprise and had no idea what Trump was talking about.   Continue reading “Trump says drug companies to announce ‘massive’ price cuts soon”

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Movie producer Harvey Weinstein was indicted on Wednesday on charges of rape and a criminal sexual act, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said, the first case to emerge from a slew of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

“This indictment brings the defendant another step closer to accountability for the crimes of violence with which he is now charged,” Vance said in a statement on the charges against the disgraced 66-year-old co-founder of the Miramax film studio and the Weinstein Co.   Continue reading “Film producer Weinstein indicted for rape: New York prosecutor”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

It was reported this week that a veteran police officer in Florida was suspended for five days after he made a comment on social media, expressing how he’d like the Parkland anti-gun activists to be run over and killed during their “die-in” protest in a Publix grocery store.

Coconut Creek Officer Brian Valenti took to Facebook over the weekend to write that he hoped “some old lady looses [sic] control of her car in that lot. Jus sayin…” The comment was made on a post about the “die-in” protest. According to reports, David Hogg, Parkland survivor and anti-gun activist, was in the photo on the post.   Continue reading “Gun Control Logic Fails as Cop Says He Wants Parkland Anti-Gun Activists To Be Killed”

The American Mirror – by Victor Skinner

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren would rather praise communist China than the President of the United States.

The 2020 presidential hopeful and darling of the left appeared on CBS This Morning to hawk her new book when host John Dickerson brought up North Korea and the progress President Trump’s made in pressuring the rogue nation to de-nuclearize its military.  Continue reading “Elizabeth Warren praises communist China ‘long-term whole-of-government’ strategy”