The Daily Iowan – by MATTHEW BYRD

Sometimes the news is just so drearily awful that you have to sit back and almost appreciate the pure comedy induced by it.

Take this item from Washington, Iowa, where the local police have recently acquired an MRAP vehicle (short for Mine Resistance Ambush Protected) through a Defense Department program that donates excess vehicles originally produced for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to local police departments across the United States, including other Iowa towns such as Mason City and Storm Lake.   Continue reading “The new Washington war machine”

CBS Miami – by Lauren Pastrana

CUTLER BAY(CBS4) — A veteran Miami-Dade Police officer has been relieved of pay after detectives say he was driving drunk last Saturday night when his white GMC truck hit a shopping cart with two children inside it.

“It’s crazy,” said the victims’ father Manny Garcia of Cutler Bay. “They are supposed to be protecting us, not hurting us.”   Continue reading “Off-Duty Cop Who Hit Grocery Cart With Kids Inside Charged With DUI”

WND – by F. MICHAEL MALOOF

WASHINGTON – A long-suppressed report prepared by the Department of Homeland Security for the Defense Department concludes that North Korea could deliver on its threats to destroy the United States with a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack.

The report remains blocked from release to the American public.   Continue reading “DHS study: North Korea Capable Of EMP Attack on US”

gmo brazil glyphosate 263x164 Sorry Monsanto: Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutor Demands Ban on All Glyphosate PoisonsNatural Society – by Christina Sarich

A full suspension of the toxic main ingredient in Monsanto’s RoundUp, glyphosate, is being demanded by the Brazilian Federal Public Prosecutor in the Federal District. It is currently the most commonly used herbicide in Brazil, and negatively affects numerous crops, as well as human and ecosystem health.   Continue reading “Sorry Monsanto: Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutor Demands Ban on All Glyphosate Poisons”

ListVerse – by ALAN BOYLE

Many believe the world is run by a secret organization like the Illuminati, and the people we think are in power are nothing but stooges. It sounds implausible, but is it really a crazy idea?

Yes. Yes, it is. And yet there have been secret organizations that created the world as we know it.   Continue reading “10 Secret Societies That Created The Modern World”

AlJazeera – by Jason Leopold

A Senate Intelligence Committee report provides the first official confirmation that the CIA secretly operated a black site prison out of Guantánamo Bay, two U.S. officials who have read portions of the report have told Al Jazeera.

The officials — who spoke on condition of anonymity because the 6,600-page report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program remains classified — said top-secret agency documents reveal that at least 10 high-value targets were secretly held and interrogated at Guantánamo’s Camp Echo at various times from late 2003 to 2004. They were then flown to Rabat, Morocco, before being officially sent to the U.S. military’s detention facility at Guantánamo in September 2006.   Continue reading “Revealed: Senate Report Contains New Details on CIA Black Sites”

Kang Chun WongCBS New York

An 84-year-old Upper West Side man who was ticketed for jaywalking will not face prosecution.

Kang Chun Wong was taken into police custody in January, when he was out in his neighborhood.

He was one of 18 people given jaywalking tickets at the intersection of 96th Street and Broadway during a pedestrian safety push by the NYPD.   Continue reading “No Prosecution For 84-Year-Old UWS Man Ticketed For Jaywalking”

Before It’s News 

America’s National Guard is following a direct order — but it does not seem very happy about it. All of the National Guard’s AH-64 Apache helicopters are scheduled to go to the active Army, and there’s nothing its top brass can do about it.

“None of us like what we’re having to do,” National Guard Chief Gen. Frank Grass told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, the military website Defense One reported. “My big concern right now is figuring out how I’m going to move, and how many states I’m going to have an impact on, and what’s the cost of facilities and to retrain pilots. I’ve got to tackle that because the decision’s been made.”   Continue reading “United States Army Ordered To Seize Apache Attack Helicopters From National Guard – ASAP”

Sandra-Ferris---with-gunSHTF Plan- by Mac Slavo

Last summer Bob Ferris’ wife returned from church looking particularly beautiful so he decided to take a few snapshots with his camera. A few months later the couple happened across a contest promotion in People magazine called “Real Beauty at Every Age.” The contest was open to everyone and all that it required was a photo submission. Just about all submissions, so long as the pictures were tasteful, were allowed entry into the contest.

But Sandra Ferris, who says the contest submission was her husband’s idea, didn’t even get past the qualifying stage.   Continue reading “Banned: Woman’s Photo Rejected from Beauty Contest Because Of Handgun: “Inappropriate Content””

This is being posted on Facebook:

The cattle are dying and being slaughtered and buried in the desert by federal Agents… The protesters tried to stop a convoy of trucks and backhoes coming off of the PRIVATE land owned by the Bundy’s, so they could be inspected by a sheriff … The agents then started tazing the protesters and throwing women to the ground.    Continue reading “Bundy cattle slaughtered and buried in the desert by federal agents”

Cliven Bundy has been grazing his cattle on public lands for 20 years.8 News Now Las Vegas – by Lauren Rozyla and Tim Zietlow

LAS VEGAS — Tensions are growing as people in the community of Bunkerville are trying to stop federal agents from taking cattle off of public land. Rangers had tasers ready to go as they faced a few dozen protesters Wednesday.

One woman claims federal officers hit her with their vehicle. A man says he was tased twice. In just a matter of minutes, the situation escalated from calm to angry with the protestors shouting and the rangers ready to respond with dogs, tasers and physical force, if needed.   Continue reading “Tensions increase as feds seize Nevada rancher’s cattle”

Members of the 113th Congress take the oath of office in the House of Representatives chamberThe Guardian – by Gary Younge

The finance chairman of the Republican national committee, Ray Washburne, travelled to Chicago last Wednesday to solicit money from two big funders who had reached their donation limit for this election cycle. While he was on the plane, the supreme court ruled that there would no longer be any limits. Washburne told the New York Times that when he landed and heard the news, he said: “Eureka”. He came back with promises of more cash.  Continue reading “Thought money could buy an American election? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet”