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Better Stockpile Plenty Of Water
Post Date: 2017-05-19 06:16:11 by Deckard
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America just gets greater again, doesn’t it? Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke announced Wednesday afternoon that he would be taking a position in the Department of Homeland Security, allegedly at the invitation of President Trump. In case you wonder who this guy is, this is the sheriff in whose jail an inmate died of thirst. You heard me right. The officers in the jail were ordered to shut off the water in a cell where they had socked away a human being. No water. For days, this poor man cried out and begged for water and, evidently, none of these fine public servants were in possession of a conscience. Now, they said this inmate had kept on overflowing the toilet in his ...
AmericaÂ’s Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows
Post Date: 2017-05-19 06:03:49 by Deckard
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“The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” ― James Madison Who designed the malware worm that is now wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of computers internationally by hackers demanding a king’s ransom? The U.S. government. Who is the biggest black market buyer and stockpiler of cyberweapons (weaponized malware that can be used to hack into computer systems, spy on citizens, and destabilize vast computer networks)? The U.S. government. What country has one the deadliest arsenals of weapons of mass destruction? The U.S. government. Who is the largest weapons manufacturer and exporter in the world, such that ...
Comey Under Oath: ‘Have Not Experienced Any Requests to Stop FBI Investigations’
Post Date: 2017-05-18 10:17:01 by cranky
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The debate about former FBI Director James Comey’s alleged memo about President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the agency’s investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn showed up on Twitter Wednesday. A reporter tweeted that Comey denied any interference in the agency’s investigations while under oath at a Senate hearing earlier this month. Jack Posobiec, Washington Bureau Chief for The Rebel.media, tweeted about it on Wednesday. Although Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) didn’t specifically ask about Trump in the question she posed to Comey, the inquiry was about whether or not he had experienced having a higher authority stop an FBI ...
BREAKING NEWS: Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has died, aged 77, less than one year after resigning from the station he founded amid sexual harrassment scandal
Post Date: 2017-05-18 08:48:59 by cranky
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Roger Ailes has died at the age of 77, his wife Elizabeth revealed in a statement on Thursday Roger Ailes has died aged 77, according to his wife. The founder and former Chairman and CEO of Fox News's death comes less than a year after he resigned from the company over allegations of sexual harassment. His wife Elizabeth, with whom he has one son, released the following statement to Matt Drudge: 'I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning. Roger was a loving husband to me, to his son Zachary, and a loyal friend to many. 'He was also a patriot, profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity ...
Trump Considering Joe Lieberman for FBI Director: Spicer
Post Date: 2017-05-18 07:25:22 by HomerBohn
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President Donald Trump is considering former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman to lead the FBI, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Wednesday. Trump will meet Wednesday with Lieberman and other candidates, including acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, and former top FBI official Richard McFeely, Spicer added. During a briefing on Air Force One en route to Washington, D.C. from New London, Connecticut, where Trump delivered a commencement address to Coast Guard cadets, Spicer said "the president will continue to meet with candidates for FBI director." But a senior administration official tells NBC News that this is the first ...
‘The Drug Whisperer’ | Drivers arrested while stone cold sober
Post Date: 2017-05-18 05:59:16 by Deckard
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Drunk driving arrests are down sharply after decades of aggressive enforcement, while drugged driving arrests are climbing. Georgia now has more than 250 officers with special ‘drug recognition expert’ training. But 11Alive News Chief Investigator Brendan Keefe discovered some drivers are getting arrested for driving stoned — even when their drug tests came back clean. Cobb County Police Officer T.T. Carroll: “You said you haven’t had anything to drink tonight?”Katelyn Ebner: “Not tonight, no.”Officer Carroll: “Not tonight, okay. One of the things we do is we ask people to blow through this thing, okay.” Katelyn Ebner crossed the ...
The Drug War Escalation Is Cruel and Stupid
Post Date: 2017-05-18 05:46:08 by Deckard
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions's order to prosecutors to seek maximum sentences is wrongheaded.President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ordered federal prosecutors to seek maximum penalties for drug-related crimes. This is both cruel and stupid.It's cruel because Session's 5,000 prosecutors must now push for long jail sentences even for people who pose no violent threat and for some who are utterly innocent. It's stupid because it will cost America a fortune but won't make us safer. The U.S. already locks up more people than any other country. We have 4 percent of the world's population but more than 20 percent of the world's prisoners. This ...
Former FBI Director Mueller to lead Trump-Russia probe
Post Date: 2017-05-17 18:31:49 by cranky
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The Justice Department on Wednesday appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. The appointment came amid a growing Democratic outcry for someone outside the Justice Department to handle the politically charged investigation. It followed the revelation Tuesday that fired FBI Director James Comey had written in a memo that Trump, in a February meeting in the Oval Office, had asked him to end an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The White House has denied that account. Mueller was appointed FBI ...
GOP wall around Trump is starting to crack
Post Date: 2017-05-17 12:12:30 by Willie Green
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After a week of tumult and negative news, the protective Republican wall around President Donald Trump is starting to crack. Leading Republican politicians are becoming more vocal in their complaints, while networks are struggling to find Republicans willing to go on-air to defend the president. The cracks come after a trio of bombshells. The first was Trump's controversial firing of FBI Director James Comey last week. He was let go while he was overseeing an investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials to swing the November presidential election in Trump's favor. Next were reports on Monday that Trump had disclosed highly classified ...
His ‘Death is His Fault’: Cop Testifies Unarmed Man with Hands Up Forced Her to Kill Him
Post Date: 2017-05-17 06:31:54 by Deckard
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Tulsa, OK — Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher in September when he experienced car trouble after leaving night classes at Tulsa Community College. On Monday, Shelby testified in her own defense to attempt to justify the killing of this unarmed man — and shamelessly blamed him — stating she has “no regrets” about what happened. Shelby, who faces up to life in prison if convicted of first-degree manslaughter, blames Crutcher for his own death. Incidentally, this is not the first time this killer cop blamed the victim. In a brazenly despicable fashion, Shelby went on 60-minutes in April and explained ...
Assault Coffee
Post Date: 2017-05-17 05:29:00 by Deckard
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I heard tell some teen died of a “caffeine overdose” back east someplace after downing a cappuccino, a diet Mountain Dew, and an energy drink. One would imagine in rapid-fire order. Of course, there are immediate calls for “something to be done.” There is something to be done. It’s called getting your head out of your dufflebag. Look, yes, there is an LD-50 for caffeine. It’s something like 100 cups of coffee. But if you don’t do your own due diligence on the stuff you put into your own body, how on earth can the government convince you to do so? You can drink too much water and die, too. It actually happened recently as part of a radio show contest that ...
Trump and Evangelicals, the Culmination of an Unholy Alliance
Post Date: 2017-05-17 05:23:56 by Deckard
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President Ronald Reagan speaking at "Baptist Fundamentalism '84," led by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. Donald Trump listening to Jerry Falwell Jr. Jerry Falwell. Photo credit: US Air Force / Wikimedia, CSPAN and Liberty University / Flickr (CC BY-SA 3.0) To an objective observer, it might seem odd that President Donald Trump received a hero’s welcome at Liberty University Saturday. However, the religious right’s idol-worship of the president is only the latest chapter in a long history of conservative Christians selling their souls for 30 pieces of silver, which, in American politics, is a seat at the table. President Trump was invited to deliver the ...
The States Are Revolting Against the War on Drugs
Post Date: 2017-05-17 05:13:52 by Deckard
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On the same day that Attorney General Jeff sessions announced that he would attempt to revamp the war on drugs, it came to my attention that potentially more important events regarding the war on drugs were taking place in Vermont, the “freedom and unity” state. It would seem that the state legislature in Vermont has voted to eliminate the war on marijuana in the state for recreational use. This is important, critically so, because all of the efforts to legalize recreational marijuana so far have been done by the processes of voter-sponsored ballot initiatives and referendums. In other words, marijuana legalization is now taking place in at least one state legislature, not just ...
Fox News: Seth Rich, Murdered DNC Staffer, ‘Leaked Thousands of Internal Emails to WikiLeaks’
Post Date: 2017-05-16 15:14:45 by nolu chan
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Fox News: Seth Rich, Murdered DNC Staffer, ‘Leaked Thousands of Internal Emails to WikiLeaks’ by Breitbart News 6 May 2017 Malia Zimmerman of Fox News writes that murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich “leaked thousands of internal [DNC] emails to WikiLeaks” and that the FBI is in possession of their correspondence. From Fox News: The Democratic National Committee staffer who was gunned down on July 10 on a Washington, D.C., street last July just steps from his home had leaked thousands of internal emails to WikiLeaks, law enforcement sources told Fox News. A federal investigator who reviewed an FBI forensic report detailing the contents of DNC ...
Disturbing Video Shows Cops Force K9 to Maul Man for Not Getting Out of Car Fast Enough
Post Date: 2017-05-16 09:52:00 by Deckard
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Beaver, PA — For many years we, at The Free Thought Project, have published story after story of small-town police departments and officers allegedly terrorizing its residents with threats of being tasered, beatings, head-stomping, and arm breaking arrests at the hands of the very people who are sworn to protect and serve them. Unleashing attack dogs on compliant citizens is also, unfortunately, a very real part of that list. Beaver, Pennsylvania has a population of just over 4,000, with one of its residents being James Cicco (34). Cicco told his lawyers he has been harassed by police in the past, so when Beaver Police Officer Jeffrey Wijnen-Riems attempted to pull over Cicco for a ...
Mom Calls Police for Help, Cop Shows Up and Beats Her In Front of Her Kids
Post Date: 2017-05-16 09:44:31 by Deckard
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Harris County, TX — An innocent mother’s assault by a police officer highlights the risk people take when calling 911 for help. Angela Lopez needed the police for help but when they showed up, help was the last thing she got. The Free Thought Project spoke with Mrs. Lopez, who wants her story told so that others do not share her brutal fate. On August 16, 2014, Lopez had an altercation with her daughter. So, she called the cops to help her resolve this situation. “I was involved in a physical incident with my oldest daughter that turned out bad. I was really upset because she had hit me and bit me in the knee. I wanted her and ex-boyfriend out of my home. After they refused ...
Ann Coulter Is Worried The ‘Trump-Haters Were Right’
Post Date: 2017-05-15 10:21:50 by cranky
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Conservative author Ann Coulter was one of the most vocal supporters of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign. She wrote “In Trump We Trust” and proclaimed that she worships him like the “people of North Korea worship their Dear Leader – blind loyalty.” Coulter described herself as a single-issue voter during the election and was drawn to Trump due to his “Mexican rapist speech” and him calling for a border wall to be built. In an interview Sunday with The Daily Caller, Coulter let it be known she still has hope in the Trump presidency, but is ready to jump ship. So there’s no wall, and Obama’s amnesties look like they are here to ...
How Trump gets his fake news
Post Date: 2017-05-15 09:55:56 by Willie Green
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The president rarely surfs the web on his own, but his staff have made a habit of slipping news stories on to his desk—including the occasional internet hoax. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Trump. Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers. One, supposedly from the 1970s, warned of a coming ice age; the other, from 2008, about surviving global warming, according to four White House officials familiar with the matter. Trump quickly got lathered up about the media’s hypocrisy. But ...
Trump, irked at cabinet and staff, mulls sweeping shake-up
Post Date: 2017-05-15 07:42:59 by HomerBohn
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At the urging of longtime friends and outside advisers, most of whom he consults after dark, President Trump is considering a "huge reboot" that could take out everyone from Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon, to counsel Don McGahn and press secretary Sean Spicer, White House sources tell me. Trump is also irritated with several Cabinet members, the sources said. "He's frustrated, and angry at everyone," said one of the confidants. The conversations intensified this week as the aftermath of the Comey firing pushed the White House from chaos into crisis. Trump's friends are telling him that many of his top aides don't know ...
Police Try to Justify Photo of Cop Arresting Man Selling Vegetables, Facebook Owns Them
Post Date: 2017-05-13 21:58:13 by Deckard
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San Lorenzo, CA — A heartening trend is growing on social media showing that people are waking up to the state persecuting individuals over victimless crimes. The latest example of this trend comes from the Alameda County Sheriff’s department posting a photo of a deputy arresting a man for selling fruits and vegetables on the roadside and attempting to justify it. When people read the department’s justification, they lashed out — peacefully — to let them know what they were doing is wrong. Legality does not dictate morality. The photo, which has sparked so much backlash online, depicts a deputy confiscating strawberries and mangoes while the man selling ...
Local Officials Are Coming for Your Garden
Post Date: 2017-05-13 13:19:13 by Deckard
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Local regulatory busybodies are zoning away your right to grow food in your garden.With spring in bloom, gardening season is underway across the country. That means lettuces and herbs, tomatoes and carrots. But it also means local regulatory busybodies are hard at work in many parts of the country making sure some gardeners' toughest fights this season won't be against drought, weeds, and non-human pests.In Columbiana, Ohio, for example, the city council has proposed to amend existing law to allow residential gardens in the city. Yay? Nope. Residents are crying foul. They call the measure "just another effort on the city's part to restrict their rights." ...
The way Trump sould keep treating the press and his other enemies
Post Date: 2017-05-12 16:21:49 by no gnu taxes
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It doesn't matter what Trump does; these jackasses will never warm up to him. Just treat them like the garbage they are.
Massachusetts State Police Promise Higher Standard For No-Knock Warrants; Immediately Break It
Post Date: 2017-05-12 11:29:53 by Deckard
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from the promising-change,-delivering-soundbites dept No-knock warrants may have served a purpose when they first became a thing. It's not as though law enforcement's fear of evidence disappearing or a violent reaction to warrant service is completely unjustified. But no-knock warrants are being deployed extremely frequently, becoming the preferred method of warrant service any time drug sales are involved. The warrant requests are supposed to be subjected to a higher standard of review, but it's devolved to the point where officers are requesting no-knock warrants simply because the residence they're searching has locking doors and working toilets. Now, cops and citizens ...
Repeal and Repent! Jerry Brown Demands Republican ‘Penance’ on Obamacare
Post Date: 2017-05-12 09:12:37 by cranky
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California Governor Jerry Brown warned Thursday that the Republican members of the state’s congressional delegation would have to perform “penance” for having voted for the American Health Care Act in the U.S. House. Last week’s vote on the bill was the first step towards repealing (most of) Obamacare and replacing it with a more market-oriented health insurance system that would, supporter say, lower premiums and create better competition. Every one of California’s 14 Republicans voted for the bill, which now proceeds to the Senate. (Both of Califorina’s U.S. Senators are Democrats.) Governor Brown and the rest of California’s statewide leadership, all ...
Police Dept Wanted a Cop to Kill a Suicidal Dad, He Chose Not To, So They Fired Him
Post Date: 2017-05-12 06:55:58 by Deckard
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Weirton, WV — Former Weirton police officer Stephen Mader is suing the city after he was fired for not killing a suicidal man who needed help. As we reported last year, on May 6, 2016, Mader responded to a domestic call about a suicidal person. When he arrived on the scene, Mader confronted 23-year-old Ronald D. Williams who was armed and mentally distraught. Madar said that he began talking to the young man in his “calm voice.” “I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me.’ And I told him, ‘I’m not going to shoot you brother.’ Then he starts flicking his wrist to get me to react to it. “I ...
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