New York Times – by LEO H. CARNEY, June 29, 1986

OCEAN GROVE— THIS seaside hamlet is in transition, trying to incorporate century-old spiritual and civic patterns into the fabric being woven by newcomers.

In 1979, the State Supreme Court found Ocean Grove’s blue laws and form of government unconstitutional. People here called it the ”opening of the gates” and it was, literally and figuratively: A ban on Sunday vehicular traffic was lifted and the chains that had tried to keep the 20th century at bay were removed.   Continue reading “Flashback: Ocean Grove Tries To Keep Old Charm In New Times”

Independent – by Andrew Griffin

Julian Assange will not hand himself in despite a promise to do so if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency, according to one of his lawyers.

WikiLeaks had pledged in a tweet that its founder would agree to be extradited to the US if Barack Obama granted clemency to Ms Manning, which he did in the final hours of his presidency. Mr Assange’s lawyers initially seemed to suggest that promise would be carried through – telling reporters that he stood by his earlier comments – but it appears now that Mr Assange will stay inside the embassy.   Continue reading “Julian Assange will not hand himself in because Chelsea Manning’s release won’t happen immediately, lawyer says”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Oklahoma City, OK — Police officers assaulting or even killing deaf people for being unable to hear their commands is a tragic reality. Pearl Pearson Jr. has learned that reality the hard way. For nearly seven minutes, Pearson, 64-years-old at the time and diabetic was beaten and arrested by police officers as they yelled at him to stop resisting.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers, Eric Foster and Kelton Hayes were the two officers that were involved in what an affidavit claims was a 7-minute altercation.   Continue reading “Elderly Deaf Man Beaten by Cops for 7 Minutes for Not Responding to Their Yelling”

Daily Sheeple – True Activist

Editor’s Note: This woman was not just evicted from any apartment but specifically from a low-income housing complex for senior citizens. Come on. We’re sitting in a country with hundreds of thousands if not millions of empty homes and this woman died over $300 bucks she couldn’t afford to pay for her already low-income housing for seniors in a country where cops arrest people for feeding the homeless and throw their food away???

Sick. This is sick.   Continue reading “Oregon Woman Freezes to Death After Being Evicted for a Measly $338 in Back Rent”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

Multiple studies are finding that trust in central governments and their institutions (including the establishment media) is at an all-time low around the world.

Regarding a recently released global survey titled Leader’s Report: The Future of Government Communications, the Guardian reports:   Continue reading “Surveys Show Global Trust In Government At All-Time Low, Losing Control Worldwide”

CNN

Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, former First Lady Barbara Bush, have both been hospitalized, his spokesman said Wednesday.

Jim McGrath told CNN that the 41st president has been hospitalized at Houston Methodist Hospital since Saturday, and later said in a statement the cause was “an acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia. Doctors performed a procedure to protect and clear his airway that required sedation.”   Continue reading “George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush both hospitalized, spokesman says”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump may take four or five executive actions on Friday, the day he is sworn into office, spokesman Sean Spicer said.

“He’s got a few of them probably in the area of four or five that we’re looking at for Friday,” some of them logistical, Spicer said Wednesday at a news briefing. “Then there are some other ones that I expect him to sign with respect to a couple of issues that have been high on his priority list.”   Continue reading “Trump to take handful of executive actions on Day One: transition”

Daisy Luther

Amid the screaming and wailing of the anti-Trump activists, it’s easy to lose sight of the possible changes that the United States – and even the world – could see when Donald J Trump officially becomes the President of the United States on Friday. Most people want to see the changes as either black or white, but there are many shades of gray in each of them.

Here are nine changes we could see, presented without judgment.   Continue reading “Bane or Blessing? 9 Ways Trump Could Change the World”

Daisy Luther

In a clearcut case of an ironically bearded hipster fox guarding the henhouse of truth, Slate presents a brand new extension that Chrome users can install. The tool not only identifies “fake news” but allows readers to narc on anything they don’t like.

Of course, anyone who would accept a word that Slate has to say as “truth” is so far left-leaning that they’re about ready to topple over, and will report a lot of true things they just don’t like as “fake.” We all know that in their eyes “fake” and “something I don’t like” are identical in definition, and that definition has nothing to do with the act of thinking critically.   Continue reading “Slate Presents a Fake News Tool So You Can Narc on Stuff You Don’t Like”

Public Discourse – by Adam J. MacLeod

Laws that give municipal officials and their private contractors power to issue tickets via traffic cameras confer powers of both criminal and civil law while excusing them from the due process duties of both criminal and civil law.

The traffic-camera ticket: like a parking ticket, it looks lawful enough. When they receive one, most people simply write the check. It seems like the sensible and law-abiding thing to do.
Continue reading “That Time I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into the Constitutional Trial of the Century”

The Burning Platform

“Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” – John Adams

Thomas Paine was born in 1737 in Britain. His first thirty seven years of life were pretty much a series of failures and disappointments. Business fiascos, firings, the death of his first wife and child, a failed second marriage, and bankruptcy plagued his early life. He then met Benjamin Franklin in 1774 and was convinced to emigrate to America, arriving in Philadelphia in November 1774. He thus became the Father of the American Revolution with the publication of Common Sense, pamphlets which crystallized opinion for colonial independence in 1776.   Continue reading “Common Sense – 2017”

State of the Nation

John F. Kennedy was entirely right about the CIA … and that was back in 1961.  Imagine how much worse the global CIA-run tyranny is in 2017, 56 years later.  In addition to brutally murdering the American president, how many other heads of state have been summarily assassinated by the Central Intelligence Agency?   Continue reading “Time to ‘splinter’ the CIA—DJT needs to finish the job started by JFK”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

The Obama administration has responded to calls to declassify the full CIA Torture Report with a “will this do?” promise to lock up one copy in the presidential archives. While this ensures one copy of the full report will survive the next presidency, it doesn’t make it any more likely the public will ever see more than the Executive Summary released in 2014.

Other copies may still be scattered around the federal government, many of them in an unread state. The Department of Defense can’t even say for sure whether its copy is intact. Meanwhile, an ongoing prosecution in which the defendant is alleging being waterboarded by the CIA has resulted in an order to turn over a copy of the full report to the court.  Continue reading “DOJ, Obama Administration Fight Order Requiring The Full CIA Torture Report To Be Turned Over To The Court”

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Antonius Aquinas

John Connally, President Nixon’s Secretary of the Treasury, once remarked to the consternation of Europe’s financial elites over America’s inflationary monetary policy, that the dollar “is our currency, but your problem.”  Times have certainly changed and it now appears that the dollar has become an American problem.   Continue reading “Donald & the Dollar”

Natural News – by Ethan Huff

Treating cavities with standard dental fillings may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new research showing that damaged teeth have a natural ability to heal on their own. Researchers from England have shown in new animal trials that, when exposed to a substance known to aid in mineral delivery and dentine formation, tooth cavities will naturally regenerate and seal themselves without the need for mercury-based amalgam, porcelain, cement, or some other synthetic material.

At King’s College London in England, a team of scientists began experimenting with a substance known as Tideglusib that is already undergoing trials as a potential remedy for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Though the drug has yet to show any promise for this specific purpose, it is showing promise in another: the natural regeneration of damaged teeth.   Continue reading “Scientists discover a way to avoid teeth fillings that proves teeth can be regrown”