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The United States' 'War on Drugs' Really Did Make Things Worse, New Research Finds
Post Date: 2019-04-06 12:40:39 by Hondo68
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(Luke Pinneo/US Coast Guard) After five decades of intense and expensive policing, the United States' so-called 'war on drugs' has only created a bigger problem, a new study has found.The research is based on a unique geographic model, called NarcoLogic, that was designed to figure out how cocaine smuggling networks have adapted to US drug interception over the years. It's a perennial cat-and-mouse game that's been going on since 1971. Yet despite the government spending up to almost US$5 billion federal dollars annually on the seizure and disruption of cocaine shipments, the new model has now corroborated what critics have long suspected: the mouse is ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘What We Need to Do is Have a Serious Conversation’ About Cow Flatulence
Post Date: 2019-04-06 12:21:50 by IbJensen
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.-N.Y.) said in a March 29 appearance on MSNBC’s “All in With Chris Hayes” that Americans “need to have a serious conversation” about climate change, including the contribution being made to it by “cow flatulence.” The issue came up when Hayes referenced a “FAQ” put out by Ocasio-Cortez’s office in February that explained her Green New Deal and conceded that the changes that it envisioned within 10 years would have a certain limit because they might not be able to “get rid of farting cows and airplanes” within that time frame. After the FAQ was released, Ocasio-Cortez’s office amended it to ...
South Africa downgrades Israel ties: FM says it won’t bring ambassador back
Post Date: 2019-04-06 12:04:57 by IbJensen
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Lindiwe Sisulu says Pretoria will henceforth maintain liaison office in Tel Aviv with ‘no political mandate, no trade mandate and no development cooperation mandate’ (President Cyril Ramaphosa, right, of South Africa and the Minister of International Affairs, Lindiwe Sisulu, in Kigali, Rwanda Tuesday March 21, 2018) South Africa’s foreign minister said the nation will not send a new ambassador to Israel after its last envoy ended his term and went home last year. “We are in the process of following the downgrade resolution of the ruling party and stage one has been completed,” Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, said. Her ...
AOC ripped by Obama-era Border Patrol chief for 'reckless' rhetoric 'I'm trying to restrain myself'
Post Date: 2019-04-06 11:19:05 by IbJensen
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Former U.S. Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan says he must “restrain” himself while addressing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that agents “cage children at the border and inject them with drugs” out of “hatred.” The Obama-era official sat down with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Thursday evening when a recent Instagram Live post by the New York Democrat was addressed. “I’m not trying to cage children at the border and inject them with drugs. That’s not a mistake, that’s just hatred,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez told supporters on social media. Mr. Morgan, who spoke to lawmakers this week on the border crisis, blasted Ms. ...
The Top Ten Evilest People of All-Time
Post Date: 2019-04-06 10:29:20 by IbJensen
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Have you ever wondered who the evilest people to ever walk this earth are? Adolf Hitler always seems to be the go-to reference in such conversations. It is a difficult thing to quantify. Do we do it statistically — that is, according to who killed the most people — or should it be based on their evil influence on history? My list relies on both. Of course, it’s totally subjective, but those making the Top Ten might surprise you. So, starting in reverse order, I give you a list of people who will make you feel better about yourself: 10. (tie) The Kims: Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong-un This is quite possibly history’s worst political dynasty. In addition to ...
Trump’s Signing of Huge Wilderness Bill Continues Bipartisan Clinton-Bush-Obama War on the West
Post Date: 2019-04-05 13:11:16 by Hondo68
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To the surprise of many, President Trump has signed the nation’s largest wilderness preservation legislation in a decade. In a move that has elated enviro-activists and is certain to dumbfound and anger many of his stalwart supporters, the president signed a massive package of public lands legislation that had rolled together more than 100 individual bills that were pet projects of a bipartisan array of more than 50 U.S. Senate and House members. Among the big ticket items in the mammoth bill — and sure to be the most controversial — is the designation of 375,000 new acres of wilderness across Utah, California, New Mexico, and Oregon. Moreover, the newly enacted ...
Marijuana bill could help Cory Gardner(R)’s re-election chances. Will Senate GOP leaders get behind it?
Post Date: 2019-04-05 11:04:08 by Hondo68
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Bipartisan measure would end federal interference in states that have legalized cannabisColorado Sen. Cory Gardner, center, says the STATES Act would pass if it got to the House and Senate floors, though the latter may be harder to accomplish. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo) A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday to clear away some of the weedier legal issues between federal marijuana law and states that have legalized cannabis.The bill, co-sponsored in the Senate by Colorado Republican Cory Gardner and Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren and in the House by Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer and Ohio Repbublican David Joyce, would amend the federal ...
Manhattan D.A. Spent $250K in Asset Forfeiture Funds on Fine Dining and Luxurious Travel
Post Date: 2019-04-05 06:24:44 by Deckard
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The expenses included five-star Parisian hotels and sumptuous dinners.Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance spent nearly $250,000 over the past five years from a state asset forfeiture fund on fine dining, first-class airfare, and luxurious hotels, according to public records obtained by The City, a nonprofit news outlet in New York City. While regular state employees, like the line prosecutors under Vance, are bound by strict travel and expense rules, Vance is under no such regulations, and his office controls more than $600 million in funds seized by New York law enforcement in civil and criminal cases. During his frequent trips across the country, Vance lived high on the hog, The City ...
Man faces animal cruelty charges after he allegedly abandoned a pet fish
Post Date: 2019-04-05 06:18:29 by Deckard
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WITN 7 News WILMINGTON, NC (WITN) – A New Hanover County man faces animal cruelty charges after he allegedly abandoned a pet fish after he was evicted from his home last month. Michael Ray Hinson, 53, was charged Wednesday with three counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals and one count of abandonment of an animal. He was released on a $4,000 unsecured bond. The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office said Hinson was evicted on March 22, and when deputies went to the home a few days later, they found he had left behind an Oscar fish that was in poor health and swimming in a dirty tank. ...
Leftist SJW ... assaults 74 year-old Jewish man for his MAGA hat –- Then all hell breaks loose…
Post Date: 2019-04-04 19:22:00 by BorisY
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CITIZEN FREE PRESS Leftist SJW assaults 74 year-old Jewish man for his MAGA hat – Then all hell breaks loose… Posted by Kane April 4, 2019 “I am going to publicly shame him in town and try to get him fired and kicked out of every club he is in,” she vowed. “I am going to go to his house and march up and down carrying a sign that says he hates black people. I am going to organize protests where he works to make him feel as unsafe as he made every brown person he met today.” One of Mankey’s posts read, “Anybody in Palo Alto know this freak.” “He will never forget me and will think seriously about wearing that hat in my town ever ...
Catherine Pugh Maryland U.S. News Baltimore Baltimore mayor goes on leave as book scandal intensifies
Post Date: 2019-04-04 08:50:41 by IbJensen
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s embattled mayor announced Monday that she is taking an indefinite leave of absence, just as a political scandal intensifies over what critics call a “self-dealing” book-sales arrangement that threatens her political career. Mayor Catherine Pugh’s office says she feels unable to fulfill her obligations as mayor due to deteriorating health brought on by a recent bout of pneumonia. “She’s been advised by her physicians that she needs to take time to recover,” her office’s statement said, adding that the City Council president will take over the Democratic mayor’s day-to-day responsibilities. The first-term ...
State Passes Bill To Seize Guns Based on Entirely ‘Unchallenged’ Accusations, With NO Due Process
Post Date: 2019-04-04 06:10:42 by Deckard
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In February of 2018, after the tragic shooting in Parkland, FL, President Donald Trump took to national television to betray his oath to the Constitution and his supporters and famously said, “take the guns first, go through due process second.” While this was largely ignored by his base and downplayed in the media, since then—that’s exactly what’s been happening. As politicians and anti-gun rights activists continuously chant, “we don’t want to take your guns,” behind the scenes — in only the year — politicians have been working overtime to limit your right to bear arms. In just the first six months after the shooting in Parkland and the ...
High-capacity gun magazines to remain legal in California, judge rules
Post Date: 2019-04-03 19:35:05 by Justified
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – High-capacity gun magazines will remain legal in California under a ruling Friday by a federal judge who cited a home invasion where a woman used the extra bullets in her weapon to kill an attacker and two other cases women without additional ammunition ran out of bullets. "Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts," San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez wrote. He called the law that would have banned possessing any magazines holding more than 10 bullets unconstitutional. California law has prohibited buying or selling such magazines since 2000, but those who had them before were allowed to keep them. In 2016, the Legislature ...
Come Visit The NASA Scientific Visualization Studio!
Post Date: 2019-04-03 18:58:42 by Liberator
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Description NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) works closely with scientists to create visualizations of NASA data in order to promote a greater understanding of Earth and space science research activities at NASA and its collaborators. We are creating more and more of our content in 4K resolution and are starting to experiment in 360-degree visuals, so releasing material through YouTube will allow users greater ease and flexibility in using our visualizations. Starting in 2017, we plan on releasing all our new material here as well as on our website, https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov .
Poster Comment:So who knew NASA had an animation "Studio"? Cool! It's difficult ...
Climate Change Helped Destroy Ancient Civilizations – With No Help From Your SUV
Post Date: 2019-04-03 17:26:34 by IbJensen
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Short video totally proves my point, that NATURALLY occurring climate change destroyed civilizations. This video, put out by the World Economic Forum, tells of the collapse of the Maya civilization, the collapse of the Mesopotamian civilization, the collapse of the Khmer Empire, and more recently, the collapse of the Viking culture in Greenland. I guess the video is trying warn us about the perils of man-made global warming. But it falls far short of that goal, because remember, some of these collapses came during periods of COOLING, not warming. Here a few of the excellent comments about this video: “Here’s five examples of pre-industrial climate change. But this time ...
Sportswriter: Trump ‘cheats like a mafia accountant’ at golf
Post Date: 2019-04-03 13:11:17 by Hondo68
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In an interview with CNN’s John Berman, longtime sportswriter and author of "Commander in Cheat" Rick Reilly details how President Donald Trump allegedly cheats his opponents at golf.
Poster Comment:Busted by Tiger Woods.
8 Historic Cases That Show the FBI and CIA Were Out of Control Long Before Russiagate
Post Date: 2019-04-03 09:38:16 by Deckard
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Conservatives tend to have two bad habits. First, they’re prone to viewing the past through a nostalgic lens. Second, they tend to instinctively give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. These tendencies help explain why conservatives for decades have been able to overlook the many abuses—constitutional, legal, and moral—of US intelligence agencies. Unlike some more seasoned media, conservatives have appeared genuinely shocked by revelations of the Trump-Russia saga: abuse of FISA warrants, classified leaks from top FBI brass, corruption, campaign moles, and an apparent plot to remove an elected president through undemocratic (and ...
Gun control costs: Dick’s Sporting Goods takes $150 million loss, CEO is perfectly fine with it
Post Date: 2019-04-03 09:23:50 by Deckard
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Dick’s Sporting Goods took a hard Communist stance against guns in the wake of the school shooting at Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Since then, Dick’s has lost over $150 million, but the CEO is ok with it. In the midst of the retail apocalypse, Dick’s CEO Ed Stack has decided it isn’t important to make money, it’s only important to be a flamboyant leftist. According to a Bloomberg report, that Dick’s lost about $150 million after the company publically came out for gun control, yet Stack continues to stand his ground. He addressed America’s gun policy, saying, “The system does not work. ...
American Idiocracy: 50 Years Later, We’re Still Stranded in the Twilight Zone
Post Date: 2019-04-03 07:44:09 by Deckard
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“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”—Rod Serling Have you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone? Only instead of Rod Serling’s imaginary “land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas,” we’re trapped in a topsy-turvy, all-too-real land of corruption, brutality and lies, where freedom, justice and integrity play second fiddle to political ambition, corporate greed, and bureaucratic tyranny. It’s not merely that life in the American Police State is more brutal, or more unjust, or even more corrupt. ...
A Conspiracy Theorist Confesses to his Petty Crimes
Post Date: 2019-04-03 07:38:50 by Deckard
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By Edward Curtin “Our research has shown for the first time the role that conspiracy theories can play in determining an individual’s attitude to everyday crime. It demonstrates that people subscribing to the view that others have conspired might be more inclined toward unethical actions.” – Professor Karen Douglas, University of Kent press release for the research, entitled “Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Intentions to Engage in Everyday Crime,” in the British Journal of Social Psychology Let me be perfectly clear from the outset. I am not referring to the conspiracy theories of George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Donald Trump ...
Trump Tells the Truth: Sanctions Cause People to Suffer
Post Date: 2019-04-03 07:33:05 by Deckard
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This week President Trump admitted what the Washington policy establishment of both parties would rather be kept quiet. Asked why he intervened to block a new round of sanctions on North Korea, he told the media that he believes the people of North Korea have suffered enough. "They are suffering greatly in North Korea…And I just didn't think additional sanctions at this time were necessary,” he said.The foreign policy establishment in Washington, whether they are neocons, “humanitarian interventionists,” so-called “realists,” or even progressives have long embraced sanctions as a way to pressure governments into doing what Washington wants without ...
The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s is the Story of Our Times
Post Date: 2019-04-03 07:29:54 by Deckard
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A Quasi-Review of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Lisa Pease “ ‘We’re all puppets,’ the suspect [Sirhan Sirhan] replied, with more truth than he could have understood at that moment.” – Lisa Pease, quoting from the LAPD questioning of Sirhan When Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5,1968, the American public fell into an hypnotic trance in which they have remained ever since. The overwhelming majority accepted what was presented by government authorities as an open and shut case that a young Palestinian American, Sirhan Sirhan, had murdered RFK because of his support for Israel, a false ...
The Measles Couldn’t Kill the Brady Bunch (Episode memory-holed by CBS/Hulu)
Post Date: 2019-04-03 06:45:24 by Deckard
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Poster Comment: ‘Brady Bunch’ Anti-Vaccine Episode “Is There a Doctor In the House?” Is Very Scary An episode of the 1960s sitcom The Brady Bunch has been quietly scrubbed from official streaming channels, and its connection with anti-vax propaganda. It appears that CBS has pulled the Brady Bunch episode “Is There a Doctor In the House?” from official streaming channels like CBS All-Access and Hulu. It’s not clear how long this episode has been unavailable for streaming, but it’s very clearly gone.Comment from the site:That's why they call them childhood diseases, you're meant to get them as a child because it's much, ...
This Veteran, Who Supplied Water to Firefighters, Went to Prison for Digging Ponds (on his own property)
Post Date: 2019-04-03 05:32:59 by Deckard
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An elderly veteran who ran a business supplying water to fight forest fires was prosecuted by the federal government and sent to prison for digging ponds on his own property, one of his lawyers says. Joe Robertson, a Navy veteran from Montana, was 78 when he was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $130,000 in restitution through deductions from his Social Security checks. His crime? Robertson, whose business supplied water trucks to Montana firefighters, dug a series of small ponds close to his home in 2013 and 2014. The site was a wooded area near a channel, a foot wide and a foot deep, with two to three garden hoses’ worth of flow, ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bards of the Working Class
Post Date: 2019-04-03 05:21:52 by Deckard
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Their songs put the spotlight not on free love, but average joes just trying to get by.Fifty years ago, one of the greatest rock bands in history overwhelmed the American music scene. They released three hit albums in a single year. They toured incessantly. They left an indelible mark on rock music. Their songs are still featured on the radio, in commercials, and in movies. And they weren’t British. I write of Creedence Clearwater Revival, who, though they didn’t write “We’re an American Band” (that honor goes to Grand Funk Railroad), exhibited the most important qualities of the quintessential American rock group. Indeed, in many respects, the band, also known as ...
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