AlterNet – by Vijay Prashad

A few years ago, I asked a retired Iraqi Air Force officer what it felt like to be bombed periodically by the United States in the 1990s. Whenever US President Bill Clinton felt irritated, I joked, he seemed to bomb Iraq. The officer, a distinguished man with a long career serving a military whose political leadership he despised, smiled. He said with great lightness – ‘When our leadership said something threatening those words itself were taken to be terrorism; when the United States bombs, the world does not even blush.’

To me this is an intuitive statement.   Continue reading “America Commits Acts of Terrorism—Why Is That So Hard to Understand?”

Collective Evolution – by Kalee Brown

High-level rape and pedophilia have been severe issues in the government and the U.S. army for many years. Governments and international organizations have been caught on numerous occasions trying to hide their involvement with sex rings, rape, and pedophilia, but despite their efforts, the public is starting to wake up to this type of high-level corruption.

It’s not just pimps and escaped convicts involved like the media wants you to think; oftentimes, it’s the people you’d least expect, or even respect the most: the politicians, the elite, the wealthy businessmen, and in some cases, even your friends and family.   Continue reading “Ex US General & VP Of Military Contractor With Ties To Child Sex Trafficking Charged With Rape Of A Child”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (April 20, 2017) – On Tuesday, the Alabama Senate passed a “Constitutional Carry” bill that would eliminate the requirement to obtain a permit in order to lawfully carry.  Passage into law would also foster an environment hostile to federal gun control.

Sen. Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa) introduced Senate Bill 24 (SB24) in February. The legislation would eliminated the permit requirement for carrying a concealed firearm in the state.   Continue reading “Alabama Senate Passes Constitutional Carry”

LIVE 5 News

The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office released dash cam video of a high-speed chase that ended with the death of a motorcyclist Wednesday night.

The motorcyclist, Robert Lee Clark, Jr., 30, of Goose Creek, was declared dead at the scene, authorities said.

A deputy on patrol on College Park Road at approximately 11:51 p.m. Wednesday spotted a motorcycle speeding toward Crowfield Boulevard from the direction of I-26, according to Chief Deputy Mike Cochran.   Continue reading “Berkeley Co. deputies release dash cam video in fatal motorcycle pursuit”

The Daily Caller – by Kerry Picket

Twenty-one non-citizens voted illegally in the 2016 election in Nevada, the state’s secretary of state Barbara Cegavske announced Wednesday.

The 21 non-citizens — and about 80 other non-citizens — registered to vote through the Department of Motor Vehicles despite having “presented evidence of non-citizenship,” Cegavske wrote in a statement about her office’s investigation into the integrity of the election.   Continue reading “21 Non-Citizens Voted Illegally In Nevada In 2016 Election”

Yahoo News

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian military said on Friday it was not building up its forces near the border with North Korea, denying earlier media reports which said it was, the Interfax news agency reported, citing an army spokesman.

Some media in Russia’s Ear East have cited local residents as saying they had seen military hardware being moved toward North Korea as tensions with the United States over its nuclear programme escalated.   Continue reading “Russian army denies building up forces near North Korea: Ifax”

Jerusalem Post – by Herb Keinon

Israel and many countries in the region and the world welcome the strategic change in American foreign policy ushered in by US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday.

Netanyahu, speaking in his office before a meeting with visiting US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, said that Israel senses “a great change in the direction of American policy.”  Continue reading “Netanyahu welcomes Trump’s strategic change of US foreign policy”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has affirmed a lower court’s stripping of a federal officer’s qualified immunity in a… moon rock sting case. This is a thing. Relatives and friends of NASA personnel have received what they believe are gifts from them — items containing moon rock pieces, or heat shield fragments, or whatever. The problem here is the government believes it owns anything related to its exploration missions.

It’s not always illegal to be in possession of these items, but as Lowering the Bar’s Kevin Underhill explains, it’s almost always going to be treated as illegal by the federal government.   Continue reading “Court: No Immunity For Federal Agent Who Made Elderly Woman Stand In Urine-Soaked Pants For Two Hours While He Questioned Her”

Business Insider – by Elena Holodny

Money goes further in some states than others.

The Tax Foundation  released a map  showing the relative value of $100 in every state compared with the national average using the data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

In expensive states like New York, you can afford comparatively less than average; in less expensive states like Mississippi, you can buy relatively more.   Continue reading “This map shows what $100 is actually worth in your state”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Toledo, OH — In 2016, the attention of much of the world was centered on a rumored sex trafficking scandal in Washington, DC known as “Pizzagate.” While any truth that pizzagate exists was dismissed by the mainstream media as rumor and fodder for conspiracy theorists, many people felt that at the very least, it warranted an investigation. However, that did not happen.   Continue reading “Pastors Advocating for Foster Kids Caught Running Child Sex Trafficking Ring”

The Daily Sheeple – by Piper McGowin

Well, this is certainly comforting (in much the same way getting a hug from a rabid, starving polar bear would be considered “comforting”).

A team of scientists attempted to train a deep learning algorithm to recognize illustrations from thousands of pages of children’s books including those by authors Dr. Seuss, Marc Brown, and Maurice Sendak. They used not one or even two but three models to do it: ALexNEt, VGG-19 and GoogLeNet.   Continue reading “Scientists Try to Teach AI to Create Children’s Book Art — AI Creates an Apocalyptic Nightmare from Hell Instead”

Reuters

Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Jehovah’s Witnesses were an “extremist” organization and must disband and hand over all property to the state, local media said.

The religious grouping confirmed the ruling about its “liquidation” in Russia.

“We are greatly disappointed by this development and deeply concerned about how this will affect our religious activity,” Yaroslav Sivulskiy, a spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia, said in emailed comments.   Continue reading “Russian court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses as extremist”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a stunning new report, CNN has just revealed, according to anonymous sources at least, that US authorities have prepared charges and will seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for intelligence leaks dating all the way back to 2010.   Continue reading “U.S. Preparing Charges To Arrest Julian Assange”

Washington Post – by Orin Kerr

In a new case, Alexander v. City of Round Rock, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit considers the following question: If the police pull over a driver and the driver indicates he will refuse to answer any police questions, does it violate the Constitution for the police to retaliate against the driver to punish him for refusing to answer their questions?   Continue reading “Can the police retaliate against a citizen for refusing to answer police questions?”

KOLO 8 News

LAS VEGAS (AP) – The Latest on the trial of six men charged in an armed standoff with federal agents (all times local):

12:45 p.m.

A federal jury in Las Vegas ended a half-day of deliberations without a verdict in the trial of six men who brought assault-style weapons to a standoff with government agents near Cliven Bundy’s ranch in April 2014.   Continue reading “Bundy jury takes break and will resume deliberations Monday”

Daily Mail

A policeman was shot dead while two others were seriously injured by a Kalashnikov-wielding gunman on the Champs Elysees in central Paris – just three days before the French presidential election.

The alleged ISIS gunman, identified as 39-year-old Karim C, pulled up in a car and opened fire on a police bus after it had stopped at a red light on the world famous avenue.

French police said the attack was probably a ‘terrorist act’ and dramatic video footage captured the moment police shot dead the assailant – who was known to security services – and had been flagged as an ‘extremist’.   Continue reading “Paris terror attack: AK-47 ambush on the Champs Elysees as manhunt launched for SECOND extremist”

Wicked Local – by Cohasset Mariner, April 14, 2017

Cohasset police seized approximately 100 unsecured weapons including shotguns, rifles and pistols from 50 Doane St. Friday afternoon. A Navy unit out of Newport, R.I. took custody of five military-grade ordnance shells also found in the home.

Police received information from a credible source that the resident at that address had numerous unsecured rifles and shotguns strewn about his house and as a result, obtained a search warrant issued by a Clerk Magistrate at Quincy District Court. They executed the search warrant at 2 p.m.   Continue reading “Cohasset police seize 100 firearms and 5 military-grade shells from Doane St. home”