Daily Mail

It has now been 20 years since TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air just 12 minutes after taking off from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport en route to Paris, and many are still questioning just what caused the crash that killed all 230 people on board.

The National Transportation Safety Board spent four years looking into the cause in what would become the lengthiest and most expensive investigation in the history of American aviation before publishing their findings in 2000, which stated the explosion was likely caused by a short circuit in the plane’s fuel tank.   Continue reading “TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy”

Opposing Views – by Michael Allen

An unidentified man reportedly refused to roll his car window all the way down at a DUI checkpoint on July 3 in Hawthorne, California, so police had his car towed with him and his passenger inside (video below).

The man rolled his window down three-quarters and gave a California Highway Patrol officer his driver’s license. However, a Hawthorne Police Lieutenant said the driver was a not obeying “the rules of the checkpoint,” and had the car towed, notes Photography is Not a Crime.
Continue reading “Cops Tow Car, Driver Inside, At DUI Checkpoint”

Vocativ – by Kevin Collier

A ten-year study of how state and federal law enforcement wiretaps suspects shows that the government is extremely efficient at the practice, and is only getting better.

The new report, conducted by the Federal Judiciary, looked at the prevalence of the FBI and state and local police petitioning for a warrant to surveil someone. Methods range from tracking their computer activity to bugging a home telephone or a room, though it overwhelmingly—96 percent of the time 2015—meant tracking or listening to their cell phone calls. It has become a common enough practice that in a ten-year span, a wiretap request has been denied only eight times, and never more than twice in a year. According to the report, “No wiretap applications were reported as denied in 2015.”   Continue reading “US Government Approved 100% Of Wiretap Applications In 2015”

RT

Insurers and police across the country are raising awareness of a new trend in car theft, as thieves have been using laptop computers or other devices to hack a car’s electronics.

For the Houston Police Department, the discovery came after watching surveillance camera footage in which a pair of thieves used a laptop computer to start a 2010 Jeep Wrangler before stealing it from the owner’s driveway. Police said the same method was used in four other thefts of late-model Wranglers and Cherokees.   Continue reading “Car hacking: Insurers say car thieves may use laptops in crimes”

Mail.com

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana police officer shot and killed a man following a confrontation outside a Baton Rouge convenience store, authorities said. An autopsy shows Alton Sterling, 37, of Baton Rouge, died Tuesday of multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and back, said East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. William Clark.

Officers responded to the store about 12:35 a.m. Tuesday after an anonymous caller indicated a man selling music CDs and wearing a red shirt threatened him with a gun, said Cpl. L’Jean McKneely. Two officers responded and had some type of altercation with the man and one officer fatally shot the suspect, McKneely said. Both officers have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard department policy, he said.   Continue reading “Louisiana officer fatally shoots suspect, sparking protests”

Waking Times – by Isaac Davis

Independence, liberty, freedom. Ideas worth celebrating, for sure, only intangible constructs of the human mind, therefore, their meanings can change along with the times. And since people are extremely adaptable creatures, we rapidly normalize to ever-evolving societal and cultural conditions and values.What people consider to be ‘freedom’ today, is nothing similar to what it was even a couple of generations ago.   Continue reading “4 Celebrated Freedoms that Now Require Permission or Privilege to Enjoy”

Daily Mail

The idea that people can interfere with others’ thoughts and implant things in their minds was made famous by the 2010 film ‘Inception’.

But the concept is not completely science fiction, according to a group of researchers at Brown University.

The scientists have discovered a way to implant associations in people’s brains, without the subjects being aware of it happening.   Continue reading “Scientists use unnerving trick to plant false experiences into people’s brains”

Newser

Luis Hernandez-Gonzalez runs a successful gardening store in Miami-Dade, but not quite successful enough to explain the $24 million cops found stashed in his wall. The 44-year-old was charged with offenses including money laundering and marijuana trafficking after police found the cash stuffed in 5-gallon Home Depot buckets in a secret compartment guarded by a statuette of St. Lazarus in a raid on Tuesday, the Miami Herald reports. Officers also recovered cash and marijuana from Hernandez-Gonzalez’s “Blossom Experience” store, which they say caters to indoor pot growers with products like lights and fans.   Continue reading “Cops Find $24M Stashed in Suspect’s Wall”

Fox News

A Boston taxi driver was praised by police Tuesday after he returned a $187,000 cash inheritance that was left in his cab over the weekend.

Raymond “Buzzy” MacCausland picked up an unidentified male passenger on Saturday at the corner of Tremont Street and Massachusetts Avenue in downtown Boston. After he dropped the man off, MacCausland discovered a backpack in the backseat of the cab.   Continue reading “Boston cabbie returns $187G to rider, police say”

Yahoo News

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A retired police dog wandering a neighborhood attacked and dragged a man in Southern California after he gave the animal a bowl of water because he thought it looked thirsty, authorities said Tuesday.

The man’s family members were forced to stab the German shepherd with steak knives when the dog wouldn’t release the victim and dragged him from a front lawn into a street Sunday, John Welsh, spokesman for the Riverside County Animal Services Department, told The Associated Press.   Continue reading “Retired police dog attacks, drags man in California”

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Ecclesia – by Richard Anthony

Introduction

Words have a tremendous impact on us. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or evil. The basic tool for the manipulation of truth is the manipulation of words. If one can control the meaning of words, one can control the people who use those words. Likewise, the basic tool for the preservation of truth is the preservation of God’s words. If one understands the original meaning of God’s words, we can more easily recognize those who try to manipulate and control others through deception and the altering of the original definitions of words.   Continue reading “The Power of Words – The Words of His Kingdom and the Words of the World Compared”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Breitbart News reported on June 30 that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) blinked days after a Democrat-sponsored sit-in, announcing he would allow a gun control vote this week. Representative Justin Amash (R-Mich-3rd), however, has issued a warning about HR 5611.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23) sponsored the legislation and framed it in the language of fighting terrorism.   Continue reading “Rep. Justin Amash: GOP-Run House Voting to Ban Gun Ownership for ‘Pre-Crime’”

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

Sydney, Australia – While in Australia doing press interviews for the upcoming release of the latest installment of Bourne movie series, movie star Matt Damon waded in to the contentious subject of gun control – applauding the countries complete ban on public gun ownership. He then noted that he believes the United States should follow the same course.   Continue reading “Action Star Matt Damon Just Called for Australian-Style Gun Ban in the United States”

The Daily Sheeple – by Piper McGowin

Is this supposed to be his legacy? Saving Africans from malaria with a vaccine? (You know, instead of causing tens of thousands of Indian children to get non-polio paralysis with botched polio vaccines in a country where polio has supposedly been eradicated anyway?)

If so, Bill and his billions are doing a pretty crappy job at it.   Continue reading “Eugenicist Bill Gates’ Crappy Malaria Vaccine Is Admittedly Only 4% Effective”

Freedom Outpost

An illegal immigrant from Mexico named Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez murdered three people on a farm in Oregon. Well, now it turns out that he was deported six times before the murder. Here is the report:   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrant Who Slaughtered Three People in Oregon Had Been Deported Six Times”