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The U.S. Department of State reports that only 17 U.S. citizens were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2011.* That figure includes deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq and all other theaters of war.

In contrast, the American agency which tracks health-related issues – the U.S. Centers for Disease Control – rounds up the most prevalent causes of death in the United States:   Continue reading “You’re Nine Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist”

International effort: Australia's deputy prime minister Warren Truss unveiled the latest search plan at a press conference in Canberra last Wednesday. The government has contracted a new firm to take up the searchMail Online – by Mia De Graff

More than £20,000 has been stolen from four passengers aboard the doomed MH370 flight.

Five months after the Malaysia Airlines flight went missing, mysterious withdrawals totaling 111,000 RM (£20,916) have been recorded, reports claim.

A bank in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reported the apparent discrepancies in their accounts on July 18, before lodging a police complaint, Assistant Commissioner to the crime investigation department Izany Abdul Ghany revealed.    Continue reading “Mystery as £20,000 cash is withdrawn from accounts of four passengers who went down with doomed Flight MH370”

Gulf Daily News

WASHINGTON: The former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Snowden said intelligence services of three countries created a terrorist organisation that is able to attract all extremists of the world to one place, using a strategy called “the hornet’s nest”.

NSA documents refer to recent implementation of the hornet’s nest to protect the Zionist entity by creating religious and Islamic slogans.

According to documents released by Snowden, “The only solution for the protection of the Jewish state “is to create an enemy near its borders”.     Continue reading “Baghdadi ‘Mossad trained’”

Alyssa Langel feeds Cinco a three-year-old horse, still recovering after eating bad alfalfa in July. Cinco still has large patches of skin exposed and is being kept in a shaded stall to prevent sunburn.  (James Quigg, Daily Press)Hesperia Star

PHELAN — Equine owners in Phelan are still dealing with sick animals and remain unsure what caused many horses to manifest swollen eyes and lips, as well as blisters on their muzzles.

Speculation as to the source of the sickness has run from an equine virus and weeds, to high levels of protein or chemicals in a batch of feed.

According to Chuck Burt of Diamond B Hay and Feed, the medical condition may have been brought on by feed that was sold at his store at the end of July, and is “isolated to one load of alfalfa, just at the Phelan location.”   Continue reading “Phelan owners concerned about sick horses”

US Air Force ground crew members wave at a B-52H Stratofortress bomber as it taxis in Diego Garcia for take off on a strike mission against AfghanistanThe Telegraph – by Peter Foster

It has long been known that Diego Garcia was used to refuel at least two CIA extraordinary rendition flights, but the British government faces a potentially much more serious charge: did it allow the CIA to use the British territory to detain, and even torture, leading terror suspects?

Anonymous US officials, quoted in a US media report earlier this year, claimed that classified CIA documents showed that the US had held high-valued detainees on Diego Garcia with the “full cooperation” of the British government.

Continue reading “Could the CIA have run a ‘black site’ detention centre on Diego Garcia?”

PHOTO: Governor Rick Perry speaks at the 2014 Red State Gathering, in Fort Worth, Texas on Aug. 8, 2014. He was indicted for abuse of power by an Austin grand jury on Aug. 15.ABC News

A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state’s first indicted governor in nearly a century.

A special prosecutor spent months calling witnesses and presenting evidence that Perry broke the law when he promised publicly to nix $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit run by the office of Travis County Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Lehmberg was convicted of drunken driving, but refused Perry’s calls to resign.   Continue reading “Texas’ Perry Charged With Coercion for Veto Threat”

US border patrol police stand guard as US President Barack ObamaThe Daily Caller – by Rachel Stoltzfoos

A small community in southeast Mexico is not thrilled that hundreds of illegal immigrants are still being housed in a federal center usually reserved for training the Border Patrol.

In June, 700 women and children who entered the country illegally were sent to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico, which has been used to train the Border Patrol and other federal agents for nearly 30 years, New Mexico Watchdog reports.   Continue reading “Awkward! Border Patrol Training Center Still Housing Illegal Immigrants”

covera_jayadams-p.31_mBoing Boing

Via Stacy Peralta, and via Boing Boing pal and skating/hiphop/punk photographer Glen E. Friedman, comes sad news today. American skateboarder Jay Adams, one of the original members of the Zephyr (later nicknamed Z-Boys) skateboarding team, is reported to have died. Friends say he suffered a massive heart attack last night, while traveling in Mexico. He was known as “The Original Seed” of skating as a sport, and known as one of the most influential skaters in history. Continue reading “Jay Adams, skating legend and original Zephyr skate team member, 1961-2014”

staplerzipgun2 improgunsThe Firearm Blog

Not quite – though as this recent article points out, there do appear to be increasing numbers of staplers converted into fairly advanced zip guns being confiscated worldwide. The common double action stapler is highly modular, regularly seen trivially adapted to fire .38 spl, 12 gauge shotgun shells and even 40mm grenades.   Continue reading “A peer reviewed forensic analysis of weaponized stapler engineering developments”

LOL-OF-THE-DAYConcealed Nation – by Brandon

You can’t make this stuff up. Around 12:30am a few Sundays ago in Alabama, an armed robber entered a home uninvited and pointed his pistol at the occupants. Little did he know, one of the people he was trying to rob had a firearm of his own.

The armed occupant pointed his pistol at the robber and then things took a different turn. Now fearing for his own life, the robber takes off out the door, but not before doing the following:   Continue reading “LOL Of The Day: Armed Robber Drops His Pistol And Wallet When Confronted By Armed Citizen”

Mario AlejandroNJ.com – by Rob Spahr

Mario Alejandro was ready for a fight when he was part of the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Where he did not expect a fight was at Six Flags Great Adventure while taking his children there for a birthday party.

But due to the shirt that his family bought him for Father’s Day, a fight is exactly what the 33-year-old veteran from Woodbridge says he encountered while attempting to enter the theme park on Saturday.   Continue reading “N.J. veteran says Six Flags denied him admission over shirt supporting Marines”

Related story: Study finds record-low midterm turnout amid discontentHopefully people aren’t voting because they know it changes nothing.

LA Times – by DAVID ZAHNISER

Alarmed that fewer than one-fourth of voters are showing up for municipal elections, the Los Angeles Ethics Commission voted Thursday to recommend that the City Council look at using cash prizes to lure a greater number of people to the polls.   Continue reading “Panel wants L.A. to look at using prizes to boost voter turnout”

Zero Gov – by Bill Buppert

The days of Mayberry RFD are long over and done with. The police serve and protect the rulers and no one else.

Frequent visitors to my site know that cops are a favorite topic here. No political bad actor can possibly deny the freedom of one human being absent the police enforcement mechanism to do so. Police have been and remain the primary existential threat to human liberty; all on display in the latest clown posse shenanigans in Missouri. The huge statist police occupation of America is Exhibit A of how important that maxim seems to be to the powers that be. The latest mischief by the law enforcers in Ferguson, MO point to some systematic and oft-repeated concerns about police brutality, quickness to violence and secure blanket immunity to ensure that bad cops (is there any other?) evade punishment for crimes that would put the taxpaying proles in the hoosegow.   Continue reading “An Intrusion of Coproaches: Sheriff Andy is Shown the Door”

Last Resistance – by Onan Coca

Guest host on MSNBC’s the Ed Show, Michael Eric Dyson, took time to tell his audience that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder would be perfect for the Supreme Court.

Blech.   Continue reading “MSNBC Host Eric Dyson says Obama and Holder would be “Great Choices” for the Supreme Court”