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KCRA 3 News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities seized more than two dozen guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from a California man, nearly five months after a judge barred him from having firearms, highlighting a backlog in a state system meant to seize guns from those who aren’t allowed to have them.

A judge in September ordered Mark Morman to surrender his firearms and ammunition. In January, agents from the California Department of Justice went to his home in North Hollywood looking for two guns that he had registered.   Continue reading “10,000+ people barred from owning guns in CA still have them”

Reason – by Christian Britschgi

The Indiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is fighting for your constitutional right to flip off the cops.

Last week the group filed a lawsuit on behalf of Mark May of Vigo County, Indiana. May was ticketed $500 for flipping off Iowa State Trooper Matt Ames while driving down a state highway last year.   Continue reading “Do You Have a First Amendment Right to Flip Off the Cops?”

WSOC TV – by Joe Bruno

ROCKWELL, N.C. – A Davidson County deputy is accused of robbing the F&M bank on West Main Street in Rockwell Tuesday afternoon.

Davidson County Sheriff David Grice said Jeff Athey was arrested around 4 p.m., four minutes after walking into the bank he is accused of robbing with a semi-automatic weapon.   Continue reading “Davidson County deputy accused of robbing Rowan County bank”

New York Post – by Kevin Carty

America’s biggest tech giants are nothing if not popular. Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon rank as some of the most well-liked brands in the world. Pollsters find that 86 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of Google and 80 percent share a favorable impression of Amazon. The reason is simple — these companies’ products are entertaining, accessible and seemingly cheap.   Continue reading “Tech giants are the robber barons of our time”

Activist Post – by Guevara Noubir, Northern University

U.S. military officials were recently caught off guard by revelations that servicemembers’ digital fitness trackers were storing the locations of their workouts – including at or near military bases and clandestine sites around the world. But this threat is not limited to Fitbits and similar devices. My group’s recent research has shown how mobile phones can also track their users through stores and cities and around the world – even when users turn off their phones’ location-tracking services.   Continue reading “Your Mobile Phone Can Give Away Your Location, Even If You Tell It Not To”

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Six weeks after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 Americans, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act in an attempt to prevent future incidents of terrorism. The acronym USA Patriot Act stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001. The law was proposed by the Department of Justice with the intention of providing additional tools to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for the purpose of identifying and disabling terror networks both in the United States and abroad. It has far-reaching effects, including changes in immigration and how citizens and non-citizens of the United States interact with banks.   Continue reading “How Does the Patriot Act Affect My Bank?”

Let’s just start with the 21 trillion dollar debt; no way in hell can you have a legit stock market with this kind of debt, no how, no way. We have American gold sitting in other countries vaults used as leverage, a pacifier to keep them at bay for loaning American mobsters huge money to keep a fake market looking like something half way legit.

The 401k is the instrument most used to support this splattering of diarrhea upon the American people, over the years trillions have been lost from falling market value, and brokers giving phony advice, many of which used a method of “churning” in which they moved the money from one type of investment fund to another, promising bigger returns, costing the account holder a fee, which comes right out of the said account, basically screwing the holder of the 401k.   Continue reading “Over Leveraged Securities – Derivatives Gone Wild – A Bunch of Crooks Running the Con”

CNN

The spokesman described the planning process as being in its “infancy.”

In response to the news, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that Trump had asked the Defense Department to “explore” the idea.   Continue reading “Trump tells Pentagon to plan a military parade”

Daily Mail – by Piers Morgan

Mankind ended last night.

I know, I know, you probably didn’t realize.

But it happened.

A world leader publicly pronounced it dead.

Yes, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau killed off ‘mankind’ because he finds the word offensive.   Continue reading “Piers Morgan: How dare you kill off mankind, Mr Trudeau, you spineless virtue-signalling excuse for a feminist”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The number of US renters is growing much more rapidly than the number of homeowners, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that rents in the vast majority of American cities climbed again last month – continuing a trend that has largely persisted since the financial crisis, according to data compiled by RentCafe, a website that provides rental listings nationwide. RentCafe occasionally analyzes the reams of data it collects to provide insightful clues about the US housing market. And as markets puked following a robust headline increase in average hourly earnings – one of the first signs that stagnant consumer prices might once again rise – RC’s latest report shows that the national average rent was $1,361, 2.8% higher than this time last year, but flat on a monthly basis.  Continue reading “Rents Increase In 89% Of Largest US Cities”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday searched the offices of a Colorado businesswoman who operates a funeral home and a body donation company from the same building.

The raid in Montrose, Colorado, follows a Reuters report last month in which former funeral home employees expressed concern that owner Megan Hess was running a side business dissecting donated bodies and selling the parts to medical training and research organizations.   Continue reading “FBI raids Colorado body broker following Reuters report”

RT

A unique bacteria that produces gold as a byproduct of ingesting toxic metals may be key to the future refinement of the precious mineral, according to new research.

The study published in the journal Mettalomics claims to solve the mystery of how the metal-gobbling bacterium,Cupriavidus metallidurans, can consume copper and gold without poisoning itself.   Continue reading “Toxic metal into nuggets: Secrets of gold-pooping bacteria unraveled by scientists”

The Organic Prepper – by Anonymous Financial Guy

In this economic climate, lots of folks are wondering how to protect their money. Some people are forced to invest in retirement funds by their employers, others play the market, some invest on their own, and nearly everyone has checking and savings accounts. But when the amount of money you have goes beyond something you could live off for a month or two, how do you deal with it wisely while minimizing your risk?   Continue reading “3 Things You MUST Know to Protect Your Money (Even If You Know Nothing About the Market)”

New York Post – by Danielle Furfaro

A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as it was cruising through Maryland on Tuesday, sources told The Post.

The 2150 Acela was traveling from Washington D.C. to the Big Apple when the incident happened at about 6:30 a.m. The train was traveling at about 125 mph, according to the source.   Continue reading “Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph”

Anti-War – by Justin Raimondo

You don’t need any special analytical abilities to understand “the memo” and its meaning. A simple reading reveals that allegations of skullduggery peeking by the Obama administration during the presidential campaign were entirely accurate: the memo just filled us in on the details. And while the debate has largely been over whether the proper legal procedures were followed by the FBI and administration officials in spying on Carter Page – someone only marginally connected to the Trump campaign – the real question is: why were they sneaking around Page at all?  Continue reading “FISA-Gate: The Plot To Destroy Our Republic”