Global Research – by Philip A Farruggio

Leave your stepping stones behind there, something calls for you
Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who’s rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start anew
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

Those are lyrics from the great Bob Dylan song It’s All Over Now Baby Blue (1965).    Continue reading “Bob Dylan: It’s All Over Now Baby Red, White and Blue. The Two Party Political Scam and the U.S. Military Industrial Complex”

Washington Post

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) told colleagues Wednesday that he will not seek reelection this year, ending a nearly 20-year tenure in Congress and adding further uncertainty about whether embattled Republicans can maintain control of the House.

“The speaker is proud of all that has been accomplished and is ready to devote more of his time to being a husband and a father,” said Brendan Buck, counselor to Ryan, adding that Ryan plans to serve out his term and retire in January.  Continue reading “House Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek reelection”

NPR – by Scott Neuman, Bill Chappell

President Trump had a ready retort to a Russian threat to shoot down any U.S. missiles in Syria: “Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’ ”

Trump tweeted that news early Wednesday and added, “You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!”  Continue reading “Trump Tells Russia: ‘Get Ready’ For U.S. Missiles Striking Syria”

WFSB 3 News

Balloons won’t fly anymore in New Shoreham, Rhode Island.

The town council there voted unanimously this week to say goodbye to balloons for good. The new law prohibits the sale and use of balloons throughout the town, which comprises the area of Block Island off Rhode Island’s coast.   Continue reading “Town votes to ban balloons, fine violators up to $200”

NTD TV

A Californian father has been hailed a hero after he came rushing to rescue his daughter from a man who allegedly tried to abduct her, dragging her away from a park.

Freddie Cantrell said his 3-year-old daughter Aubrey was playing at the park with her 6-year-old sister and mother when she was approached by a strange man.

The man then interlaced his hands with the little girl’s and then started running and skipping away. When the toddler resisted, he started to drag her.  Continue reading “Man Hospitalized After Father Catches Him Trying to Grab Toddler at Park”

Seattle Times

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court says a man who had a loaded handgun in his glove compartment violated Wisconsin’s concealed carry law.

Police in Milwaukee stopped Brian Grandberry in 2014 and found a loaded semi-automatic pistol in the glove compartment. Grandberry didn’t have a concealed weapon permit and prosecutors charged him with violating the state’s concealed carry law.  Continue reading “Court: Gun in glove compartment violated concealed carry law”

Daily Mail

You may soon be able to get your hands on a pair of affordable augmented reality glasses.

Hand-tracking company Leap Motion has unveiled ‘Project North Star’, a prototype headset that superimposes computer-generated images onto the world around you.

The futuristic AR headset places two high quality, albeit somewhat gigantic, screens in front of the user’s eyes, enabling them to see virtual graphics in real life.  Continue reading “Leap Motion unveils $100 augmented reality headset equipped with gesture- tracking technology that turns your hands into ‘virtual wearables’”

Fox News

Florida deputies confiscated an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from an Army veteran on Thursday, and the seizure was the first of its kind under the state’s new gun control law enacted following the Parkland school shooting.

Jerron Smith, 31, of Deerfield Beach, is the first person to be arrested for running afoul of the new law since it went on the books March 9, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.   Continue reading “New Florida gun law leads to first seizure: AR-15 from Army vet charged with attempted murder”

The Daily Caller – by Amber Randall

A New York police department “arrested” winter Friday for sticking around for so long.

The Depew Police Department sent out a Facebook post notifying winter that it had been placed under arrest, reports the Associated Press.   Continue reading “Police Department Vows To Arrest Winter For Staying Around”

The Daily Sheeple

Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood worked an area of California with a higher-than-average number of police killings. Youngblood has said that that’s because “financially” it’s better to kill a suspect than it is to wound them and pay for their medical care for life.

Officers have said before that the county force, labeled “America’s deadliest police,” was “in desperate need of positive changes.”   Continue reading “Sheriff: It’s ‘Better Financially’ To Kill Suspects Than It Is To Wound Them”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a day full of bizarre twist and turns, and not long after the FBI raided the office and home of Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, moments ago the UK’s Telegraph reported that the British headquarters of the Murdoch entertainment empire 21st Century Fox have been raided by investigators from the European Commission.

As Bloomberg adds, Fox Networks Group was said to be cooperating fully with the commission inspection.  Continue reading “EU Raids London HQ Of Murdoch’s Fox; Documents, Computer Records Seized”

Yahoo News

Budapest (AFP) – Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Tuesday that his resounding election win, challenged by the opposition, hows that voters want to stop US billionaire philanthropist George Soros interfering in the country.

However the largest opposition party has demanded that the National Elections Office investigate alleged irregularities in the conduct of Sunday’s poll.   Continue reading “Hungarian people want to ‘stop Soros’, Orban says”

ArsTechnica – by Timothy B. Lee

Tyler Barriss stands accused of making a fake emergency call, a crime known as “swatting,” that led to the death of a Kansas man. He has been held in a Sedgewick County Jail since January. He is not supposed to have Internet access there, but on Friday the Wichita Eagle noticed Barriss tweeting.

“How am I on the Internet if I’m in jail?” Barriss wrote. “Oh, because I’m an eGod, that’s how.”  Continue reading ““Your ass is about to get swatted,” swatting suspect tweets from jail”