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Pope Francis Calls for End of Sovereignty and Establishment of Global Government
Post Date: 2019-05-12 07:30:13 by IbJensen
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At a meeting of the Pontifical Academy held recently, Pope Francis (shown in white) advocated a policy of decreased national sovereignty and increased global unity. A shift toward globalism is necessary, he said, in order to fight climate change and other worldwide “threats.” "When a supranational common good is clearly identified, it is necessary to have a special authority legally and concordantly constituted capable of facilitating its implementation. We think of the great contemporary challenges of climate change, new forms of slavery and peace,” his holiness told those gathered to discuss “Nation, State, and Nation-State,” the conference theme. Pope ...
Trump Nominates 'Embodiment of the Military-Industrial Complex' Patrick Shanahan to Lead Pentagon
Post Date: 2019-05-11 21:29:57 by Hondo68
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Shanahan worked at Boeing, one of the world's largest defense contractors, for more than 30 years before joining the Trump administrationThe White House announced Thursday that President Donald Trump will nominate acting Defense Secretary and former Boeing executive as Pentagon chief. (Photo: United States Air Force)In a move critics warned could further deepen the ties between the sprawling and immensely profitable private weapons industry and the U.S. government, the White House announced Thursday that President Donald Trump will nominate former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan to head the Pentagon. "Conflict of interest? Boeing is already the second-largest recipient of private ...
Billy Beane would let ‘Jeopardy!’ champ James Holzhauer ‘ruin’ baseball
Post Date: 2019-05-10 11:04:14 by Deckard
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Recently, record-breaking “Jeopardy!” champ James Holzhauer said that his real dream was to work in a Major League Baseball front office. He loves baseball, of course, but as anyone who is aware of the way Holzhauer has applied an analytical framework and strategy to the popular gameshow is aware, there is a certain logic to that separate and apart from a love for the game. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he has, for lack of a better term, hacked “Jeopardy!” and it’s not an exaggeration to say that the modern baseball front office is largely in the business of hacking baseball, with each trying to get the most out of it they possibly can. Holzhauer’s ...
Run Out of Gas? Hut! Hut! Hut!
Post Date: 2019-05-10 09:20:15 by Deckard
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Running out of gas is apparently “suspicious,” too – and justifies a Hut! Hut! Hutting! Two guys in a black SUV were forcibly removed from their SUV, shackled and subjected to the demeaning “sit on the curb” Submission Training Exercise popular with AGWs as a tool for establishing their dominance. But what did the driver and his passenger do to warrant this treatment? Cue Dark Helmet… absolutely nothing. Not even a traffic violation. But the AGWs eructed “suspicious” – and that gave them the power to handle the two men as presumptive criminals, in the absence of any evidence that a crime had been committed. The men were forced ...
That First Taste of Freedom
Post Date: 2019-05-10 09:09:43 by Deckard
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Riding a bicycle has changed – and the change may account for the waning of interest in driving as well as the waxing hostility between cyclists and drivers.Cycling is mostly an adult activity now. It’ rare to see kids out riding their bicycles – especially by themselves.They used to.A bicycle was once upon-a-time a kid’s first taste of real freedom. This appetizer tended to instill a hankering for more. An expectation. An awakening.Those who grew up before the era of helicopter parenting commenced in the ’90s will remember it because they lived it. Saturday morning came and as soon as you were finished with breakfast, you bolted outside, got on your bike ...
Our Former Right to Travel – And How to Reclaim It
Post Date: 2019-05-10 08:55:31 by Deckard
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Control mobility – free movement – and you have controlled the population. Their other rights are automatically cheapened into functional irrelevance if the right to come and go without permission and free from interference is denied. And so it has been. It took a couple of generations, but most Americans seem to implicitly accept the idea that travel – even on foot – is a conditional privilege conferred (and legitimately regulated) by “the government.” Which of course is just an evasive euphemism for the busybodies and control freaks who have somehow acquired a legal monopoly on the use of force – and who use its threat (and actuality) to enforce ...
Study: The 'War On Cops' Is Pure Bullshit
Post Date: 2019-05-10 08:19:48 by Deckard
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from the it-keeps-the-money-rolling-in-though deptFri, Apr 26th 2019 10:44am — Tim Cushing The "War on Cops" is a belief system that's currently being preached to the converted. Evidence abounds that it's safer to be a cop now than it's ever been, and yet, officers still claim they're being targeted and use these unfounded fears to obtain military equipment and qualified immunity rulings. We've covered how safe police work is here before. But the narrative coming from the law enforcement community refuses to change, despite evidence to the contrary. Research is piling up, exposing law enforcement agencies' claims of cops being targeted by a vengeful ...
You Apparently Can't Win A Drug War Without Sexually Abusing Kids And Murdering Parents
Post Date: 2019-05-10 08:08:49 by Deckard
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from the flag-emojis-and-etc. deptMon, May 6th 2019 11:58am — Tim Cushing This is the price we're paying to win fight stand our ground during participate in a drug war. We take criminals under our wing, turn them into informants, and send them out into the general population to engage in criminal activity -- all under the assumption this will eventually lead to the dismantling of a drug cartel. Of course, this is the same rationale propelling civil asset forfeiture. But no matter how much property is taken from people never charged with crimes, drug cartels remain intact and their products continue to flow into the country. But that's only dollars and cars and houses lost. ...
Elizabeth Warren: We Need Big Government, ‘Nobody in America Succeeds on Their Own’
Post Date: 2019-05-10 07:58:31 by IbJensen
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) would like to follow in Barack Obama’s footsteps by winning the White House in 2020 and she seems to be taking a cue from the former president’s now infamous “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that” speech in 2012. Like Obama, Warren believes it is not American ingenuity and hard work but the federal government that makes the people and the country great. Warren wrote in an op-ed for CNN Business Perspectives: Nobody in America succeeds on their own. Government-funded labs are fueling world-changing innovations. Much of American wealth was built through government-sponsored home equity. Strong American businesses ...
Florida Man Arrested, Thrown in Jail for Truck Sticker that Had the Word ‘A**’ On It
Post Date: 2019-05-10 05:46:08 by Deckard
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Lake City, FL — Freedom of speech, in the land of the free, is not guaranteed. Despite the wording of the First Amendment, claiming that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech,” there are countless laws across the country designed to do exactly that. However, even when there aren’t archaic anti-speech laws on the books, police will all too often deprive people of their freedom — for practicing their freedom. A Florida man learned this the hard way when he was arrested this week for a sticker on the back of his truck. Dillon Shane Webb, 23, was pulled over this week by a Columbia County sheriff’s deputy. Webb had broken no traffic ...
Cop Shoots 14-year-old Boy Through a Fence as He Played With His Friends
Post Date: 2019-05-10 05:41:12 by Deckard
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Oklahoma City, OK — Disturbing body camera footage was released this week showing how normal childhood acts can and will lead to children being shot by police. Boys being boys is apparently now a reason for deadly force in the land of the free. Lorenzo Clerkley, 14, was playing with his friends two months ago when Oklahoma City police officer Kyle Holcomb put two bullets in him. Lorenzo was playing with friends in an abandoned house and he was also playing with toy guns with his other friends, but this was no reason for a cop to open fire—especially when the cop knew the boys were playing with toy guns. “Everything happened so quick,” Cherelle Lee, Lorenzo’s ...
Great-Grandmother Arrested at Disney World for Having CBD Oil in Her Purse
Post Date: 2019-05-10 05:35:54 by Deckard
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The Mind Unleashed – by Emma Fiala For many, a trip to Disney World is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, with some planning their trips years in advance. Sometimes, even a small change in plans—like a delayed flight or a thunderstorm—can result in a big loss when it comes to both money and fun. For one great-grandmother, her trip to the most magical place on earth turned into a nightmare. The 69-year-old woman from North Carolina was visiting Disney World when she was arrested after an Orange County Deputy discovered CBD oil in her purse. The great-grandmother, Hester Jordan Burkhalter, had been using CBD oil to treat arthritis on a recommendation from her doctor. She ...
He Helped Reveal How U.S. Drone Strikes Were Killing Innocents. The Feds Just Charged Him With Espionage.
Post Date: 2019-05-10 05:28:48 by Deckard
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Another intelligence analyst who leaked important information to the public is treated like a traitor.21 (Ilka Cole/ZUMA Press/Newscom) A former Air Force intelligence officer has been arrested and charged with espionage for leaking information to the press detailing how the U.S. government uses armed drones for secret assassination missions in foreign countries.Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, was arrested Thursday morning. According to the Justice Department, Hale, during his time in the Air Force as an intelligence analyst, and then later as a private sector employee of a defense contractor, passed along top secret documents to a reporter, some of which were published.The 2013-20 ...
Denver voters narrowly pass ‘magic mushroom’ measure (Shrooms decriminalized )
Post Date: 2019-05-09 20:20:28 by Hondo68
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DENVER — The Mile High City has become the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, commonly referred to as "magic mushrooms."Initiative 301 narrowly squeaked by, passing with only 50.56% of the vote, according to the final unofficial results. The measure appeared to be losing in early returns, with the "no" votes holding a substantial lead.The initiative would effectively decriminalize use or possession of psilocybin by people 21 and older, making it the lowest enforcement priority for police and prosecutors. The measure does not legalize psilocybin or permit its sale by cannabis businesses.The ordinance would also prevent city funds from being used ...
San Francisco Democrat under fire for repeated use of N-word during committee meeting
Post Date: 2019-05-09 17:01:01 by misterwhite
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A civil rights attorney, local Democratic Party official and former San Francisco city supervisor is in hot water after repeatedly using the N-word during a public meeting last month. Angela Alioto has apologized but is facing calls for her removal from the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee over the incident during an April DCCC meeting with African-American union members. Without self-censoring, Alioto had used the N-word during that meeting while responding to a remark from an African-American woman about hearing the racial epithet in the workplace. “Full disclosure, I’m a civil rights trial lawyer,” Alioto said in a video of the meeting. “It’s ...
Pandering to Israel Means War With Iran
Post Date: 2019-05-09 13:57:58 by Hondo68
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The United States is moving dangerously forward in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to provoke a war with Iran, apparently based on threat intelligence provided by Israel. The claims made by National Security Advisor John Bolton and by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that there is solid evidence of Iran’s intention to attack US forces in the Persian Gulf region is almost certainly a fabrication, possibly deliberately contrived by Bolton and company in collaboration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It will be used to justify sending bombers and additional naval air resources to confront any possible moves by Tehran to maintain its oil exports, which were blocked by ...
Cubs investigating fan allegedly flashing ‘white power’ sign behind NBC Sports reporter
Post Date: 2019-05-09 11:33:01 by Deckard
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Chicago Cubs Cubs President of Business Operations Crane Kenney said in a statement released early this morning that the club is investigating a fan using what appeared to be a hand gesture associated with the white power movement while NBC Sports Chicago reporter Doug Glanville did a TV segment in front of him. The statement: We are currently investigating an incident that occurred during the Cubs’ May 7 broadcast on NBC Sports Chicago while reporter Doug Glanville was on the air. An individual seated behind Mr. Glanville used what appears to be an offensive hand gesture associated with racism. Such ignorant and repulsive behavior is not tolerated at Wrigley Field. We are reviewing ...
Police seize over a thousand guns, piles of ammunition from Los Angeles home
Post Date: 2019-05-09 11:22:51 by Deckard
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A man in Los Angeles' posh Holmby Hills neighborhood was hiding a stash of weapons large enough to outfit an army. The Los Angeles Police Department busted Girard Damien Saenz, 57, with as many as 1,000 weapons piled up in his home. Authorities also found massive stockpiles of ammunition. Saenz, who was living in the home alone, was booked for unlawful transportation and giving, lending or selling assault weapons. Additional charges may be added later, including federal charges, authorities said. He is being held on $50,000 bond. Los Angeles Police DepartmentThe Los Angeles Police Department removed over a thousand guns from the home of a man in the city's Holmby Hills ...
‘Somebody Help!’: Cops Handcuff Mentally Challenged Boy, Before Pepper Spraying & Beating Him
Post Date: 2019-05-09 08:29:01 by Deckard
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Albion, MI — Utterly horrifying and extremely hard to watch body camera footage has just been released of the arrest of a 13-year-old boy, whose only ‘crime’ had been acting up at home. Da’veon Cieslack, the mentally ill child had been hiding his grandmother’s keys and throwing pillows and so police showed up, handcuffed him, threw him in the back of a cruiser and proceeded to savagely beat him. The incident occurred on November 24, 2018 as police were called out to a home to deal with the 13-year-old. The boy’s grandmother called them and rather than deal with her own flesh and blood herself, she had police do the dirty work—and dirty it was. When police ...
D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
Post Date: 2019-05-09 08:17:59 by Deckard
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“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political ...
Denver Just Became the First U.S. City to Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms
Post Date: 2019-05-09 07:21:59 by Deckard
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23In a surprise turn of events, a Denver ballot initiative to effectively decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, previously thought to have failed, now appears to have narrowly passed after all. This would make the Mile High City the first in the U.S. to decriminalize psilocybin.If the unofficial final tally holds, Denver law enforcement will be directed to treat psychedelic mushrooms owned for personal possession as the lowest enforcement priority. The initiative will not legalize commercial sales."We're sending a clear signal to the rest of the country," Kevin Matthews, the leader of the "Decriminalize Denver" movement, which placed the initiative on the ...
Florida City Tries To Steal an Elderly Man's House Over Uncut Grass
Post Date: 2019-05-09 06:53:01 by Deckard
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Institute for Justice sues Dunedin, Fla., over the $29,000 in fines imposed without due process over Jim Ficken's unmowed lawn. (ID 97304413 © Bigtunaonline | Dreamstime.com) The city of Dunedin, Florida, wants to foreclose on a private home because the owner, Jim Ficken, owes the city over $29,000 in fines. The crime for which he is threatened with home loss? Having his lawn grass be too tall (over 10 inches) for a period of eight weeks last summer. The city fined him $500 per day of violation, with no warning.Ficken was out of town at the time, settling his mother's estate. Ficken hired a handyman to deal with his lawn while he tended to his dying mother and then to her ...
Want to Make Money? Work for the Government
Post Date: 2019-05-08 17:33:19 by IbJensen
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Which class of full-time, year-round American workers has the highest median earnings? Is it the class that works for private-sector employers? Is it the class that works for the government? Or is it the entrepreneurial class, who are self-employed? According to the Census Bureau's Personal Income Table 07 (PINC-07), the competition isn't close. When it comes to making money in the modern United States of America, government workers win. Among Americans who actually earn income by working, they are the upper class. In 2017, according to PINC-07, there were 115,704,000 Americans who worked full-time (at least 35 hours per week) and year-round (at least 50 weeks in the year). The ...
Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Full Mueller Report
Post Date: 2019-05-08 11:03:58 by Willie Green
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WASHINGTON — President Trump asserted executive privilege on Wednesday in an effort to shield hidden portions of Robert S. Mueller III’s unredacted report and the evidence he collected from Congress. The assertion, Mr. Trump’s first use of the secrecy powers as president, came as the House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Wednesday morning to recommend the House of Representatives hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for the same material. “This is to advise you that the president has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials,” a Justice Department official, Stephen E. Boyd, ...
"Stop The TV Whore Takeover": Drone Drops Nazi Flyers On Sacramento State Bridge Dinner
Post Date: 2019-05-08 08:43:38 by Deckard
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Hundreds gathered at an outdoor college fundraiser in downtown Sacramento Friday evening; residents were abruptly interrupted when a drone buzzed overhead and dropped Nazi propaganda flyers, reported The State Hornet. Flyers landed on Sacramento State's annual "Bites on the Bridge" Farm-to-Fork dinner held on Guy West Bridge, a suspension bridge for students linking the school with campus dorms. Additional reports said flyers were also dropped around the Golden 1 Center, where thousands were waiting to enter the stadium for an Ariana Grande concert. The flyers, marked with swastikas and statements like "stop the TV whore takeover" and "the press is the ...
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