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U.S. police far more concerned about "anti-gov" domestic extremists than Al-Qaeda

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Wed, 01 Jul 2015 02:56 UTC

U.S. law enforcement agencies rank the threat of violence from anti-government extremists higher than the threat from radicalized Muslims, according to a report released by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS).

The report, "Law Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism Threat," was based on survey research by Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and David Schanzer, director of TCTHS and associate professor of the practice at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.

The survey — conducted by the center with the Police Executive Research Forum — found that 74 percent of 382 law enforcement agencies rated anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction. By comparison, 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations as a Top 3 terrorist threat.- From Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy

Comment: How much of the police survey response of rating anti-gov extremism in the top three is part of their programming script...perhaps 74 percent? And for Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist orgs...perhaps 39 percent?

Comment: What is "extreme" is the perspective. If the gov were to actually serve the people and the people were actually in charge, the gov would have no basis to fear "anti-gov" domestic extremism. This is about a warped and twisted ruling body's self-preservation paranoia that just so happens to serve a larger and iniquitous agenda. A refocus. Blame the public for what you do yourself, call it protection and shift corruption, ineptness, immorality into tyranny and control. Bogeymen and lies. The new justifiers for totalitarianism.

Bacon makes everything better: Oldest person in the world, at 116, eats diet of bacon and eggs

Nick Allen
telegraph.co.uk
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:35 UTC

© Richard Drew/AP
Susannah Mushatt Jones is embraced by her niece Lois Judge in her room at the Vandalia Avenue Houses in Brooklyn, NY.

She is one of only two living people in the world who was born in the 1800s - and puts her longevity down to eating bacon and eggs every morning for over a century.

Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, celebrated her 116th birthday on Monday.

At the time of her birth on July 6, 1899, William McKinley was President of the United States, the Spanish-American War had recently ended, and WG Grace had just played his final Test for England.

Miss Jones was one of 11 children born to a father who picked cotton in Alabama. After leaving school she joined him in the fields before heading to New York where she worked as a nanny in the Roaring Twenties.

She lived through two world wars, technological revolutions, the civil rights movement, and the election of America's first black president.

The last three decades have been spent at a public housing complex for the elderly in Brooklyn, New York, where she took part in tenant security patrols until she was 106.

Miss Jones went blind 15 years ago but is not bed-bound and visits a doctor only three times a year.

The only medication she takes is for high blood pressure.

Every morning she starts her day with a breakfast of several strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, and ground corn.

A sign on her kitchen wall reads "Bacon makes everything better".

Comment: For more information regarding the benefits of eating a high fat, low carb diet and their effects on the body, see: The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview

See also:

Study finds eating bacon could extend your lifespan

College student charged with felony for waiting to pull over in well-lit area, he committed no crime

Matt Agorist
Counter Current News
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 01:44 UTC

DaJuawn Wallace was on a late night drug store run to get medicine for his sick girlfriend when he was targeted for a traffic stop.

Saginaw Valley State University Police Officer Leon Wilson had seen a car driving on the sidewalk on the SVSU campus earlier that night. Despite not knowing the make nor the model of the car, Wilson decided to pull over Wallace, citing that he "fit the description."

"I was uncertain about the make and the model of the vehicle, but this vehicle looked like the same color and was leaving the immediate area," Wilson wrote.

As Wilson turned on his lights to pull Wallace over, Wallace decided that it would be far safer to wait to pull over until he was in a well-lit area.

"I live in Detroit, and I know some people who were robbed by fake police officers," Wallace said. "I was taught to find a well-lit area to pull over in."

In fact, Detroit police have even gone on record and said that you have permission not to stop if you don't believe a real cop is trying to pull you over.

Besides the risk of the cop being fake, there is also the danger of the cop simply being a cop. Just south of Kochville, in Inkster, Michigan, 57-year-old Floyd Dent was pulled over on a dark road, in March of this year. He was subsequently beaten, framed and charged with multiple counts including resisting arrest, assault on an officer, and fleeing police. Dashcam video eventually proved his innocence.

Wallace had driven an extra 1.5 miles after the initial turning on of Wilson's police lights. He never once accelerated, nor did he turn off his lights, try to turn, or make any attempt at all to evade Wilson. He did, however, signal Wilson with his hand from out of the window, suggesting that he would be pulling over ahead.

Nigeria bans female genital mutilation

Kimberley Richards
A Plus (Nigeria)
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 22:11 UTC

Nigeria made history by outlawing female genital mutilation. The ban falls under the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015 that was passed in Senate on May 5 and recently enacted into law.

This was one of the last acts by the outgoing president, Goodluck Jonathan. His successor, Muhammadu Buhari, was sworn into office this past Friday, May 29.

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is the act of either partially or totally removing the external female genitalia or causing injury to the female genital organs for non-medical purposes.

According to UNICEF: "More than 130 million girls and women have experienced FGM/C in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where the practice is most common."

With the help of community activism, campaigns and numbers of organizational efforts to end this practice, UNICEF reported that teenage girls were now one-third less likely to undergo FGM/C today than 30 years ago.

Comment: It's about time. Now, how much longer until this psychopathic practice is actually stopped? And how long until male genital mutilation (i.e. circumcision) is similarly banned and eradicated? Unfortunately, probably not in our lifetime. But for those who still preach and practice this little ritual act of barbarity, the apostle Paul had the best advice: they should castrate themselves (Galatians 5:12)! Come to think of it, Putin said something similar:

Corporate elites dominate National Public Radio governing boards

Aldo Guerrero
FAIR
Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC

Typical public radio board members: 66 percent of NPR affiliate board members have the same gender, 72 percent have the same ethnicity and 75 percent represent the same social class as these gentlemen.

For a public radio service, NPR is notoriously known for its lack of diversity within its staff, audience and guests invited onto their shows—problems that NPR has itself acknowledged (6/30/14).

A new FAIR study finds that NPR's diversity problem also extends into the board of trustees of its most popular member stations: Two out of three board members are male, and nearly three out of four are non-Latino whites. Fully three out of every four trustees of the top NPR affiliates belong to the corporate elite.

FAIR studied the governing boards of the eight most-listened-to NPR affiliate stations, based on Arbitron ratings (Cision, 2/13/13). The stations and their broadcast regions are KQED (San Francisco), WAMU (Washington, DC), WNYC (New York City), KPCC (Los Angeles), WHYY (Philadelphia), WBUR (Boston), WABE (Atlanta) and WBEZ (Chicago). (Two top-rated public stations, KUSC in Los Angeles and WETA in Arlington, Va., were not included in the study because they mainly play classical music rather than having a news/talk format.) Board members were coded by occupation, ethnicity and gender.

Comment: Many Americans still suffer from the misconception that NPR is a voice for the people, which is exactly in accordance with their marketing efforts. The elite control of this organization belies this, showing that in fact it is little more than "controlled opposition". As such, choices are made to air or slant opinions that either covertly support the control system or offer washed-down versions of dissent.

Major lockdown at Walter Reed military hospital over shooter reports

RT
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:30 UTC

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, DC is on lockdown as police investigate a report of an active shooter. The hospital provides long-term care for wounded veterans, including those with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Shortly before 1 p.m. local time, federal law enforcement told the media they received an order to stand down, after finding "no indication of a shooter."

Comment: Are shootings at federal buildings becoming more frequent or just test runs?

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Medical malfeasance: Dentists performing excessive, needless services on Medicaid patients

ANH-USA
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00 UTC

They’re raking in hundreds of millions of dollars across multiple states.

Over the past couple of years, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been looking into a colossal scandal across the country. Thousands of dentists have been implicated in a series of reports by the OIG. The charge? Highly questionable Medicaid reimbursement bills for excessive and even needless services given to low-income children, often to their great harm.

The latest report from OIG looks at California. It identified 335 providers with questionable billing practices who collected $117.5 million from Medicaid for pediatric dental services in 2012 alone. Half of these dentists worked for dental chains, suggesting an organized scam. They are, in fact, gaming Medicaid.

Comment: It seems many dentists are simply following their peers in other fields of medicine as the healthcare industry seems to have devolved into little more than a money-making scheme. Apparently the days of "first do no harm" are long past.

Greece votes No: The European Union is dying before our eyes

Nigel Farage
Daily Telegraph
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 14:49 UTC

Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP

It's not just disaffected pensioners: young Greeks have worked out that they don't need the bloated EU

Despite the scaremongering and bullying from those in Brussels, we are waking today with Greece having delivered a resounding No.

That comes despite EU bosses saying that it would mean a Greek exit from the Euro, not to mention the heavy economic pressure placed on the Greek people to go along with the wishes of Brussels. It is a crushing defeat for those Eurocrats who believe that you can simply bulldoze public opinion.

Chief bully-boy Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, and other supposed leaders of the European Union did their best to terrify the Greek people into submitting to the wishes of the European Union. But they utterly failed. The fear espoused by the Yes campaign was rejected. Opinion polls that put the Yes side ahead just days before were way out, as thousands upon thousands of Greek citizens lined the streets chanting "Oxi".

550,000 gallons of water dumped because of conservation efforts in San Diego Co., CA

Olivia Smith
ABC News
Fri, 03 Jul 2015 01:01 UTC

Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water went to waste in California at a time when water conservation efforts are more serious than ever for the drought-stricken state.

The mayor of Poway, a city in San Diego County, defended the decision to dump 550,000 gallons of drinking water into a nearby canyon, according to ABC affiliate KGTV.

"It was a perfect storm of conservation and heat," Poway Mayor Steve Vaus told KGTV.

Comment: There are so many other uses for the water that was dumped besides drinking water! What a waste of precious water. The city needs to be held accountable.

Are you easy prey for a psychopath?

Jane McGregor
Well Doing
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:10 UTC

A sociopath is someone who lacks empathy and has no moral compunction in doing whatever is in their own interests. Estimates suggest one person in 25 exhibits sociopathic traits. Sociopaths feel no obligation to anyone else. Many sociopaths wreak havoc in a covert way. Their relationships are generally dysfunctional because they tend to protect and enhance their own self-esteem at the cost of cooperative relationships.

To see through the sociopath's ruses, you first need to open your eyes. In The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson, two weavers promise the emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those who are stupid and unfit for their positions. When the emperor parades before his subjects, all the adults, not wishing to be seen in a negative light, pretend they can see the clothes. The only truthful person is a child who cries "But he isn't wearing any clothes!"

Comment: The word sociopath is often used as a way of softening the more unpopular word psychopath. When dealing with this topic however, it's best if we just call a spade a spade.

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Society's Child

U.S. police far more concerned about "anti-gov" domestic extremists than Al-Qaeda

Bacon makes everything better: Oldest person in the world, at 116, eats diet of bacon and eggs

College student charged with felony for waiting to pull over in well-lit area, he committed no crime

Nigeria bans female genital mutilation

Corporate elites dominate National Public Radio governing boards

Major lockdown at Walter Reed military hospital over shooter reports

Medical malfeasance: Dentists performing excessive, needless services on Medicaid patients

Greece votes No: The European Union is dying before our eyes

550,000 gallons of water dumped because of conservation efforts in San Diego Co., CA

Are you easy prey for a psychopath?

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