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Supreme Court Rules Cops Can Kill Non-Threatening People As Long As They Say They Were Scared
Post Date: 2018-04-09 05:16:01 by Deckard
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Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins In a ruling that will be used to a reinforce a disturbing pattern practiced by police officers across the United States, the Supreme Court has determined that officers who shoot non-threatening citizens are completely justified and cannot face consequences for their actions—as long as they express to the court that they feared for their safety. The case of Kisela v. Hughes originated from a police shooting in Tucson, Arizona, in 2010. Police Corporal Andrew Kisela heard a report over police radio about a woman using a kitchen knife to hack a tree and acting erratically in public. He responded to the scene with two ...
GOP Rep Meadows: If Rosenstein Doesn’t Turn Over Docs, We Will Move to Impeach
Post Date: 2018-04-08 05:00:17 by 3-Dee
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Saturday, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said that if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein does not turn over the unredacted documents requested by Congress related to FISA, FBI and more then impeachment could be in order. “Rod Rosenstein can call Michael Horowitz, who has the documents, and say just give them to Congress. If he doesn’t do that … there is a growing consensus of holding them in contempt of Congress, but it’s not enough to stop there. We have to have someone willing to do the job. If the deputy attorney general is not willing to do it and not willing to allow us to have our Constitutional Oversight Authority supported, then we’ll find someone who ...
Obama State Dept used taxpayer dollars to fund George Soros group's political activities in Albania, watchdog group says
Post Date: 2018-04-08 04:56:55 by 3-Dee
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American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp on whether it's ethical for George Soros to give $18 billion to his open foundation. The Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayer funds to a group backed by billionaire George Soros to fund left-wing activities in Albania, a conservative watchdog group says. The group, Judicial Watch, obtained 32 pages of records from the Justice Department this week through a May 2017 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID.) The new documents show USAID funds were sent through the agency’s Civil Society Project to back Soros’ left-wing "East West ...
‘God help us if it gets hot’: Train hauling 10M pounds of human feces stranded in Alabama town
Post Date: 2018-04-07 11:41:11 by Willie Green
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PARRISH, Ala. — Right now, dozens of train cars carrying 10 million pounds of poop are stranded in a rural Alabama rail yard. Technically it’s biowaste, but to the 982 residents in the small town of Parrish, that’s just semantics. They want it gone. The load has been there for almost two months, and it’s making the whole place smell like a rotting animal carcass. To add insult to injury, it isn’t even their poop. For the last year, waste management facilities in New York and one in New Jersey have been shipping tons of biowaste — literally, tons — to Big Sky Environmental, a private landfill in Adamsville, Alabama. But in January, the neighboring town ...
Trump’s National Guard Deployment to the Border Is Political Theater, Just Like Obama’s and Bush’s
Post Date: 2018-04-06 07:40:05 by Deckard
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Border Patrol guards average just two illegal-immigrant apprehensions per month; they don’t need reinforcements.President Donald Trump, like his two immediate predecessors, has signed an order that will send an as-yet unknown number of National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico to assist Border Patrol agents and also attend to the president's own short-term political needs. If you think the above sentence is unfair in any way to the more immigrant-friendly George W. Bush, dial the wayback machine to May 2006, and note that Bush made the announcement on the exact same friggin' day that the Senate began debating an ill-fated comprehensive immigration reform package. If you think ...
Think college students are privileged? Nearly a third are hungry and homeless
Post Date: 2018-04-06 05:52:43 by IbJensen
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Sarah Barrett didn't need a grand study to tell her a bunch of students on Kansas State University's campus had been going without food. As an assistant dean of students, she had heard enough of them talk about choosing books or housing costs over food to know that the university needed to do something to help its hungry students. K-State students are not alone. The problem of college students' inability to afford food is common on campuses across the country. According to a first-of-its-kind survey of two- and four-year private and public schools, 36 percent of students on college campuses in the U.S. do not get enough to eat. On Wednesday afternoon just after the noon ...
Teen turns down plea deal for 25 years in prison, gets 65 years instead [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-04-06 05:15:19 by IbJensen
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WETUMPKA, Ala. — A teenager tried as an adult under Alabama's accomplice liability law was sentenced to 65 years in prison Thursday after rejecting an earlier plea deal that recommended 25 years. In a two-day trial in March, Lakeith Smith, now 18, of Montgomery was convicted of felony murder, burglary and theft for helping in the 2015 break-ins of two homes in Millbrook, about 10 miles north of Montgomery. He did not kill A'Donte Washington, 16, of Montgomery, who was part of a group of five accused in the thefts. But several in the group, including Washington, fired shots at Millbrook police officers who responded Feb. 23, 2015, to a call of a burglary in progress, ...
GOP Senate Candidate Austin Petersen Wants You to Be Able to Legally Buy a Machine Gun
Post Date: 2018-04-06 04:56:44 by Deckard
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Austin Petersen, the 2016 runner-up for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination and current contender for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat in Missouri, has always believed in free possession of fully automatic weapons (machine guns) for American citizens. As he reminded me in a phone interview this week, one of his colorful slogans during his L.P. run was, "I believe in a world where gay married couples are free to protect their marijuana fields with fully automatic machine guns." Austin Petersen Twitter "I've been saying this for years," Petersen notes. But he felt inclined to say it again in the past week because his most prominent rival vying for ...
Aluminum Prices Fall Despite New Tariffs
Post Date: 2018-04-05 19:33:35 by 3-Dee
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Aluminum Prices Fall Despite New Tariffs US President Donald Trump signs off on tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum by John Carney 5 Apr 2018 Economic data is stubbornly refusing to follow the narrative that Trump’s trade policies are going to ruin everything. The stock market stubbornly refused to crash for a second day Thursday despite China’s announcement that it would slap tariffs on $50 billion of goods imported from the U.S. The trade war panic will have to wait for another day. More surprisingly, the new tariffs on aluminum are not weighing on American consumers and manufacturers as so many predicted. In fact, aluminum prices have ...
Nine Major Studies Reveal DARE Program Actually Makes Drug Problem WORSE
Post Date: 2018-04-05 06:42:07 by Deckard
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DARE has been around for decades, despite the fact that every single study done on the program has shown that it was ineffective at best, and counterproductive at worst.In the mid-1980s when the crack epidemic was in full swing, there were a number of public programs and policies put into place that promised to curb drug trafficking and thus addiction. Many of these policies centered around a mentality of abstinence and zero tolerance, such as mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes, as well as “educational” programs like “Just Say No” or “DARE.” Nearly 40 years later, it is clear that the establishment’s “War on Drugs” has done nothing to ...
Interview With Prepper: ‘We Were Held Without Charges’ For Survivalist Facebook Posts (Update)
Post Date: 2018-04-04 20:10:02 by Deckard
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It is no longer a conspiracy theory, but a fact that people are being specifically targeted for their participation in what some call “prepping” and others dub survivalism. A couple from California had their home raided and were held without charges for making non-violent posts on Facebook about survival techniques and thought-provoking discussions. We were able to sit down and chat with Sarah Leach about why the government felt it necessary to raid the home she shared with her husband over what amounted to thought-provoking Facebook posts. Although Leach admitted she wasn’t certain which particular Facebook post lead to the SWAT teams seizing all of their handguns and ...
Remembering MLK [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-04-04 13:17:04 by redleghunter
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Remembering MLK by: Chuck Colson Fifty years ago today, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today on BreakPoint, we’ll share Chuck Colson’s thoughts on a great man and the idea of moral law. On April 4, 1968, the leader of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.,, was gunned down on his hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. It was a tragic, violent death of a great man of peace. To honor Dr. King’s legacy today, I want to share with you a BreakPoint commentary Chuck Colson aired on Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The issues Dr. King raised about the nature of law, what constitutes an unjust law, and how we should respond to ...
Many People Really Are Sheep: Experiments in Social Compliance Show Few People Argue With Authority Figures
Post Date: 2018-04-04 10:14:32 by Deckard
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Many of us really are sheep, quick to follow the crowd and obey orders. Instead of standing up and speaking out on our own convictions, we often choose to fit in. Assimilating with the crowd, we find it’s easier to go-along to get-along, even if that means giving away our own power, rights, and dignity in the process. In fear of isolation, we do not question or challenge authority figures, even when they are morally and ethically wrong. Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram unveiled this sad reality of human behavior in a social compliance experiment that showed how ordinary people will torture others under the social pressures of an authority figure. ...
Cops Sexually Assault Innocent Man in Broad Daylight Because They “Smell Weed”
Post Date: 2018-04-04 10:03:39 by Deckard
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South Hampton, NJ — One of the most disturbing videos illustrating the horrors of marijuana prohibition was released this week showing police officers handcuff an innocent man and publicly grope his genitals and probe his anus. The lengths the police state will go to prosecute otherwise innocent people for this plant were on full display as two New Jersey state troopers detained a man then humiliated and sexually assaulted him for nearly ten minutes in broad daylight. Highlighting the gross negligence associated with such a tyrannical and vile act — the public sexual assault of this innocent man turned up nothing. What’s more, the footage of the attack was hidden ...
Producer Claims 'Very Powerful People' Tried To Stop His Movie About Chappaquiddick Scandal
Post Date: 2018-04-04 07:48:47 by Deckard
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googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1509590440695-0'); }); The chief executive from the film studio behind a movie about the Chappaquiddick scandal has said he was pressured to dump the project.Byron Allen, the CEO of Entertainment Studios and the executive producer of Chappaquiddick, says ‘some very powerful people…tried to put pressure’ on him ‘not to release this movie.’‘They went out of their way to try and influence me in a negative way,’ he told Variety.‘I made it very clear that I’m not about the right, I’m not about the left.‘I’m about the truth.’Chappaquiddick refers to the ...
2001: A Space Odyssey returning to theaters in 70mm for 50th anniversary [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-04-04 07:37:17 by Deckard
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"Unrestored" version will feature no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits" If you’re half crazy all for the love of Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, you’re in luck. To mark its 50th anniversary, Warner Bros.’ is opening its archives’ pod bay doors to present a theatrical re-release of the film. Docking in select theaters on May 18th, WB’s reissue is an “unrestored” 70mm print “struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative,” according to a studio statement (via The Wrap). “This is a true photochemical film recreation. There are no digital ...
Florida Obituaries show no Parkland school shooting deaths
Post Date: 2018-04-04 05:28:39 by Deckard
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Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr Eowyn From Wikipedia: On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more were wounded, making it one of the world’s deadliest school massacres. […] Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more were wounded. Here are the names of the 17 individuals who were killed on February 14, 2018, in Parkland Florida: Alyssa Alhadeff, 14Scott Beigel, 35Martin Duque, 14, posthumously honored by the U.S. Army with the ROTC Medal for Heroism.Nicholas Dworet, 17Aaron Feis, 37Jaime Guttenberg, 14Chris Hixon, 49Luke Hoyer, 15Cara Loughran, 14Gina ...
ouple Spied On, Raided and Kidnapped by Feds for Peaceful Posts Questioning Government
Post Date: 2018-04-04 05:23:28 by Deckard
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A couple was ambushed, arrested and detained for 13 hours with no explanation before they learned that the evidence against them consisted of a stack of papers that contained detailed screenshots of posts from their social media accounts.The owners of a tactical supply company were violently arrested and then detained for hours with no explanation while their home was raided by a SWAT Team and their assets were seized—but the evidence used against them by police had nothing to do with alleged illegal activities. In an exclusive interview with The Free Thought Project, Sarah Leach said that she and her husband, Andrew, were ambushed and detained by police for more than 13 hours before ...
Stossel: Little Pink House (how the government can take your home against your will)
Post Date: 2018-04-04 05:06:16 by Deckard
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Susette Kelo bought a run-down home. She fixed it up and painted it pink. Then the government came and took it. "Eminent Domain" has long allowed politicians to grab your property to build roads, railroad tracks, a border wall–anything they claim is for "public use." But they wanted Kelo's house so they could give the property to a private developer. Is that right? A new movie called "Little Pink House" tells the story of how Susette fought for her home, all the way to the Supreme Court. Eventually she lost her case, and her home. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor explained the problem in her dissent, writing, "nothing is to prevent the State ...
Why parents are more paranoid than ever
Post Date: 2018-04-03 09:26:21 by Deckard
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Utah just became the first state in America to pass the so-called “Free-Range Parenting” bill, named for the movement I founded. It declares that parents can’t be arrested for negligence just because they let their kids play outside, walk to school or wait briefly in the car. But do we really need a law like that? “What next?” wrote one commenter. “Utah legalizes drinking from the hose?” Well here’s the rub: In most places, it is still, thank God, totally legal to let your kids do the things we did as kids, like play outside or bike to the store. Most parents who give their kids a little freedom do not get arrested or investigated. But once in a ...
Fox News Says Laura Ingraham Will Return
Post Date: 2018-04-03 07:58:52 by IbJensen
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Laura Ingraham will return to Fox News Channel, despite a spate of recent defections by advertisers from the program she hosts there each weeknight. “We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts,” said Jack Abernethy, co-president of the 21st Century Fox-owned cable outlet, in a statement. “We look forward to having Laura Ingraham back hosting her program next Monday when she returns from spring vacation with her children.” The note is unusual for a corporate executive to issue on behalf of a program host, but the situation swirling around Ingraham is anything but normal. She announced Friday on her 10 p.m. program, “The ...
Man in Central Park violently robbed by two teens: cops
Post Date: 2018-04-03 07:46:57 by IbJensen
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A Manhattan man was attacked and robbed by two teenagers in Central Park, police said on Sunday. The 52-year-old man was walking in the park near 72nd Street and Central Drive just before 10:30 p.m. Friday, when Ronald Hill, 16, and Calisha Armand, 19, approached and began asking him questions, police said. Hill, from Syosset, Long Island, suddenly punched the unsuspecting man in the face, knocking him to the ground. The duo then stole the man’s wallet and ran off. The victim was treated at the scene by EMS. The thieves were arrested nearby shortly thereafter, police said. Hill was charged with robbery and criminal possession of stolen property. He has three prior arrests, ...
Hogg’s Mindless Minions Caught Sticking Sick Item Up Their Noses For FOUL Reason – It’s Gone TOO FAR
Post Date: 2018-04-02 15:30:17 by IbJensen
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David Hogg’s weirdo generation of senseless teens just got the best news of their life! The news is that they could be the worst generation anyone has ever seen. This is all sparked by doing things such as eating Tide Pods to get social media likes, protesting to give their rights away, and now it’s about to get a whole lot worse. If you thought Hogg’s generation was bad when they were eating detergent, then wait until you see what they’re doing next. It’s absolutely horrible, disgusting, foul, and downright repulsive! The challenge you’re about to see is absolutely horrific. Parents always hope their teenagers make smart decisions, but it seems like this ...
Tennessee store clerk charged in death of teen believed to be shoplifting beer, report says
Post Date: 2018-04-02 09:26:19 by misterwhite
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Police in Tennessee said Sunday that a convenience store clerk has been charged in the fatal shooting of a suspected shoplifter whose body was found near the store. The Commercial Appeal reports Memphis police charged 28-year-old Anwar Ghazali with first-degree murder. The shooting occurred on Thursday, but police said Ghazali never reported the incident. The 17-year-old's body was found beside a home near the store Saturday. Fox 13 Memphis identified the victim as Dorian Harris. Police spokesman Louis Brownlee said the teen was suspected of leaving the store without paying for a beer, and Ghazali followed him and allegedly shot him. "The victim/suspect stole a beer and goes ...
How the Free-Range Kids Movement Is Helping Parents Embrace Their Libertarian Side
Post Date: 2018-04-02 05:51:14 by Deckard
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"So basically it's now legal to go outside and play like when I was a kid."In signing the Free-Range Kids Bill, Utah just became the first state to explicitly recognize the right of parents to raise their kids without the threat of government intervention. Imagine that: it will no longer be considered negligent to let your kid walk to school, play outside, come home with a latchkey, or even, under certain conditions, wait briefly in the car. The bill, which was named for the movement I started, has has been getting tremendously positive press. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal (that one's by me), Good Morning America, USA Today, The Hill, and ...
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