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BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was put to death Wednesday for raping and killing a college student in 1995, making him the first U.S. prisoner executed since a lethal injection in Arizona last month in which an inmate took nearly two hours to die.

The Missouri Department of Corrections said Michael Worthington was executed by lethal injection at the state prison south of St. Louis and was pronounced dead at 12:11 a.m., 10 minutes after the process began. He is the seventh Missouri inmate executed this year.   Continue reading “Missouri inmate executed for raping, killing woman”

bank-contractor-lawsuitsHuffington Post – by Ben Hallman

Every day in neighborhoods across the country, low-paid workers with little oversight or training decide whether to break into someone else’s home.

They are independent contractors working indirectly for banks, including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.   Continue reading “Banks Keep Breaking Into Houses, And Homeowners Are Fighting Back”

Gold Core – by Mark O’Brian

European stocks fell today as nervous investors sold stocks on reports of a build-up of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine. Polish foreign minister Sikorski said Russia has gathered substantial military forces at the border with Ukraine to either put pressure on the neighbouring country or to enter it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to prepare retaliatory measures against the latest round of Western sanctions. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev threatened on yesterday to retaliate for the grounding of a subsidiary of national airline Aeroflot because of EU sanctions, with one newspaper reporting that European flights to Asia over Siberia could be banned.   Continue reading “Russia And Iran Sign Historic 500,000 Barrel A Day Oil Deal – Petrodollar Under Threat”

Lady's 6.5-inch gash in her scalp after being shot by police. (Source: Megan Shimburski)Police State USA

ERIE COUNTY, NY  — A family was traumatized when gun-wielding police officers walked onto their quiet property and shot their dog in the head while looking for a man who did not live there.

Megan Shimburski, 25, was spending a quiet afternoon with her children at her parents’ countryside East Concord residence on July 25, 2014. It was a normal day, she said, which involved watching her 5-year-old daughter play behind the house with their dog, as her infant son lied in a playpen inside the house.   Continue reading “Family pet shot in the head by plainclothes cops searching at wrong address”

Activist Post

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released a video by acclaimed documentarian Brian Knappenberger(The Internet’s Own Boy) that explores how and why an unlikely coalition of advocacy organizations launched an airship over the National Security Agency’s Utah data center.

The short documentary explains the urgent need to rein in unconstitutional mass surveillance, just as the U.S. Senate has introduced a new version of the USA FREEDOM Act. Continue reading “Airship Flight Over the NSA Data Center: New Behind-the-Scenes Video”

EFF – by David Greene

A few weeks ago we fought a battle for transparency in our flagship NSA spying case, Jewel v. NSA. But, ironically, we weren’t able to tell you anything about it until now.

On June 6, the court held a long hearing in Jewel in a crowded, open courtroom, widely covered by the press. We were even on the local TV news on two stations. At the end, the Judge ordered both sides to request a transcript since he ordered us to do additional briefing. But when it was over, the government secretly, and surprisingly sought permission to “remove” classified information from the transcript, and even indicated that it wanted to do so secretly, so the public could never even know that they had done so.   Continue reading “UNSEALED: The US Sought Permission To Change The Historical Record Of A Public Court Proceeding”

Police officer is holding with a rifle ShutterstockPhilly.com – by DANA DiFILIPPO

A SOUTHWEST Philadelphia woman claims cops trying to subdue a neighbor’s unruly pit bull blasted their guns at the animal – and hit her.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in Common Pleas Court, Kristen Kelly said that at least one of the six bullets two officers fired at the dog on Aug. 5, 2012, hit her in the leg on her block on Etting Street near Reed. Continue reading “Lawsuit: Cops trying to subdue dog shot woman”

javier-vega-cropped-internal.jpgFox News – by Jana Winter

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — Two illegal immigrants from Mexico who were charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent in front of his family in Texas have been arrested and deported numerous times, police sources told FoxNews.com.

One suspect has been arrested no fewer than four times for entering the U.S. illegally, according to federal court records. The other has been deported twice after entering the U.S. illegally, sources said.   Continue reading “Suspects in murder of Border Patrol agent arrested and deported numerous times”

HomelessThe Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

As they say, you can always judge a society by how they treat their weakest members. So I shudder to think of how future generations will judge our society. We’ve become a nation that discards our poor like they are trash, and anyone who doesn’t “fit in” is segregated from the herd.

The police are now fining homeless folks for any arbitrary offense they can think of, and city councils across the country are making it illegal to sleep in public. They’ve gone so far as to make it illegal to camp, or even sit or lay down in certain public areas. Worst of all, many cities are making it illegal, or prohibitively expensive to give food to the homeless. According to an interview from The Independent, with a former police chief involved in a charity dedicated to feeding the poor:   Continue reading “It’s Official: Being Poor in America Has Been Outlawed”

RIKERS ISLANDHuffington Post – by Christopher Mathias

A scathing report released Monday details the “culture of violence” imposed upon teenage inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island, the second largest jail facility in the U.S. The report, a product of a two-and-a-half-year investigation by the Justice Department, describes the “rampant use of unnecessary and excessive force” by guards and the overreliance on solitary confinement as a means of punishment.

It also offered a grim reminder that Rikers Island has become a de facto psychiatric hospital from hell.   Continue reading “Rikers Island, NY Has Become A De Facto Psychiatric Hospital From Hell”

farmNatural News – by Julie Wilson

Martha Boneta, operator of a small family farm in Paris, Virginia, achieved success not only for her business but also for small farmers and property owners across the state when the “Boneta Bill” finally became law on July 2.

Despite efforts from local and state government officials, including Fauquier Zoning Administrator Kimberley Johnson, who accused Boneta of violating zoning ordinances, HB-268 passed, which protects traditional farming and agricultural practices against over-regulation on the county level. Continue reading “Small family farmer fights back against over-reaching government forcing her off her land”

Preparing to Hunker Down in Place Backdoor SurvivalBackdoor Survival – by Gaye

For the past week, I have been giving a lot of consideration to what I would personally do if there was even the slightest hint of an Ebola pandemic in the United States.  You would think that the process I engage would be easy since I live on an island that is only accessible by ferry, private vessel, or small aircraft.  But, as with all things, preparedness, there are always unique circumstances that come into play in any disaster and a pandemic is no different.   Continue reading “Preparing to Hunker Down in Place”

The IRS Will Be Stifling Free Speech in ChurchesJohn Birch Society – by Art Thompson

In this week’s analysis behind the news video, JBS CEO Art Thompson discusses how the IRS agreed on July 17 to monitor church sermons for political content as part of an agreement made with the Freedom From Religion Foundation; how tax collection in the United States has always been rife with corruption; how our original Constitution prevented the the imposition of the federal income tax; how our original Constitution provided for U.S. Senators to be chosen by state legislatures, not by a popular vote of the people; and how we need to get back to a truly independent Senate that represents the state legislatures, repeal the income tax, and thereby get back to our original system of financing the government.

Continue reading “The IRS Will Be Stifling Free Speech in Churches”

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Every production phase or civilization or other human invention goes through a so called transformation process. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation. In this article I will use one such transition to demonstrate the position of our present civilization and its possible effect on stock exchange rates.

When we consider the characteristics of the phases of a social transformation we may find ourselves at the end of what might be called the third industrial revolution. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation (= 25 years). A transition has the following characteristics:   Continue reading “New stock market crash, a pattern?”

CDC Concerned About Airborne Transmission of Ebola VirusDC Clothesline – by Paul Joseph Watson

Despite repeated assurances that the Ebola virus cannot be transmitted via airborne particles, the CDC is concerned about that very outcome and has directed airline staff to take steps to prevent the spread of “infectious material through the air.”

While Ebola is highly contagious, the risk of a full blown pandemic has been downplayed by health authorities because, according to our current understanding of the virus, Ebola, “is not airborne and is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids, including sweat and blood.”

Continue reading “Airborne? CDC Now Confirms Concerns of Airborne Transmission of Ebola”

FedBizOps

Solicitation Number: HSFE70-14-I-0006

Agency: Department of Homeland Security
Office: Federal Emergency Management Agency
Location: Logistics Branch

: Added: Jan 10, 2014 11:54 am

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is seeking to augment its market research with a Request for Information (RFI) to be used in the formulation of the requirement with feedback from waste removal industry vendors that can potentially provide either dumpster service and/or bio-medical waste collection and removal services during emergency response events within the Continental United States (CONUS) area of responsibility.    Continue reading “FEMA Request for Dumpster & Bio Medical Waste Removal Services”

altGun Owners of America

Pat yourselves on the back!

As you will recall, GOA rallied gun owners several times over the past couple of months in opposition to Operation Choke Point.

Well, faced with a devastating barrage from the Second Amendment community, the Obama administration has staged a hasty retreat on its plan to shut off credit for gun stores through “Operation Choke Point.”   Continue reading “Obama Administration Retreats on “Choke Point””