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Desperately seeking a drug bust: Police raid couple's home after Facebook post on legal, edible mushrooms

mushroom arrest
It is a travesty enough when the drug war lays waste to the rights and lives of entirely decent people who've harmed no one simply because they choose to ingest a substance deemed illegal by the state. However, because the drug war is such an immoral and barbaric practice, entirely innocent people are also swept up in the dragnet of tyranny and ignorance. Case in point: a couple in Maryland were raided by cops for posting photos of legal morel mushrooms they picked and ate.

On Friday, John Garrison and his girlfriend Hope went foraging the mountains for some morel mushrooms. Morels are known to those in the region as being the safest mushroom to hunt for as they are very easily identified due to their unique look. From mid April to mid May, lovers of nature and good food, like John and Hope will find them growing near trees or where there used to be trees.

Garrison was so excited that they had found a bunch of them, that he posted a photo on Facebook of he and Hope's bounty along with his plans to "sautee them with brown sugar and cinnamon and see how that turns out."

Attention

Thousands rally in Ireland against liberalization of abortion laws

Ireland protest against abortion
© Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
A section of the crowd attending the Love Both rally in Merrion Square, Dublin.
Ireland, the deeply Catholic nation, will decide on 25 May whether or not to change the 8th amendment to its constitution which deals with the highly controversial topic of abortion.

According to the latest Irish poll (foreign polls are not allowed anymore, see our related coverage), some 45 percent will vote to change the law, 34 percent will vote no and 18 percent are still undecided.

The Eighth Amendment, article 40.3.3, which was inserted into the Constitution in a referendum in 1983, provides that the State "acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."

Comment: George Soros has his tentacles in the pro-abortion movement in Ireland, planning to overturn legislation in the country before spreading his degenerate agendas throughout Latin America, Africa, Europe and Tasmania.


Document

DSMA committee issued two 'D-notices' over Skripal affair

DSMA Notice
Spinwatch can reveal that the Skripal affair has resulted in the issuing of not one but two 'D-Notices' to the British media, which are marked private and confidential. We can also disclose the contents of both notices, which have been obtained from a reliable source.

That two notices were issued has been confirmed by the 'D-Notice' Committee. The Committee, which is jointly staffed by government officials and mainstream media representatives has recently changed its name to the 'Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Committee'. The use of the word 'advisory' is no doubt a bid to discourage the public from thinking that this is a censorship committee. However, the DSMA-Notices (as they are now officially called) are one of the miracles of British state censorship. They are a mechanism whereby the British state simply 'advises' the mainstream media what not to publish, in 'notices' with no legal force. The media then voluntarily comply.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury and discovered collapsed on a park bench in the late afternoon of Sunday 4 March. Less than three days later on 7 March, the first and - until now undisclosed - notice was issued.

Comment: See also: Look Where They Tell You Not to Look


Stormtrooper

Palestinians protest opening of US Embassy in Jerusalem as Israel kills another 43 and injures 2,200 in Gaza - in one day

Gaza March of Return
The Israeli military continued its violent repression of Palestinian protesters on Monday when soldiers once again gunned down unarmed demonstrators whom it claimed were trying to penetrate the border fence separating Israel from the Gaza Strip.

According to Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Israeli soldiers said they were "provoked into violence" when small groups of Palestinians began throwing stones at IDF soldiers from the other side of the border fence. The soldiers responded by gunning down demonstrators; by the time the demonstrations had quieted down, at least 28 Palestinians had been killed, and another 600 had been wounded, according to the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.


Comment: It's not just snipers murdering demonstrators: Israeli warplanes bomb north Gaza Strip

(The headline has been updated with the latest casualty figures.)


Stock Down

British pensioners receiving less than those retiring in India, Chile, or China

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Our state pensions are actually the least generous in the developing world, the latest research from the OECD shows.

Brits earning the average salary of £26,500 will have to get by on less than a third of that if they are relying on a state pension. They are now looking at just £122.30 a week to retire on.


Comment: A salary of £26,500 is actually much higher than the average worker is earning.


And worryingly, the Government Actuary has warned that the cost of the present British pension pot is too much.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) analysed state pensions in industrialised countries as a proportion of salary earned, taking into account taxes and social security payments.

Comment: Considering life expectancy averages around 81 years, although for the poorest it is much lower and females in England it is actually falling for the first time since the 1920's, those who are lucky enough to reach retirement age have a life of poverty to look forward to.

This is just one of many signs of the impending collapse of the UK - and the US is faring no better:


Fire

Footage shows fire engulfing apartment block in Dubai, residents evacuated

blaze tower dubai may 2018
© dcd997 / Instagram
Dubai firefighters battled a major fire at a high-rise residential building in the city. Footage from the scene shared on social media shows flames and huge plumes of smoke engulfing the tower.

Dubai Civil Defence said they were working to put out the blaze at Zen Tower in the Marina area on Sunday morning, and confirmed that all residents had been evacuated safely, with no reports of injuries.

The fire broke out at around 11am local time and appears to have stripped the building's cladding. The blaze coincides with a huge dust storm in the region, causing poor visibility.

Dubai Civil Defence said it brought the blaze under control within an hour of reaching the site.

Comment: There do appear to be a significant number of fires in apartment buildings, hotels, malls and even churches occurring around the world. While the causes may differ, at least in the case of Dubai, and the other United Arab Emirate states, it could have something to do with the slave labour they employ to construct the buildings:


Question

Army gets caught up in Obama birther conspiracy theory

Ellen Gilmore
© SHANNON SZWARC/(COLUMBUS, GA.) LEDGER-ENQUIRER
Maj. Stefan Cook places his hand on Ellen Gilmore, a self-proclaimed concerned citizen, outside of the federal courthouse in Columbus, Ga., earlier this month. She thanked him for having “the courage to stand up for the Constitution of the United States.”
Army Maj. Stefan Cook sought out a notorious lawyer in February, formally volunteered for an Afghan deployment in May and was granted orders to deploy in June.

But the Army reservist's intention appeared not so much to fight for America as to fight against President Barack Obama, in furtherance of a bizarre conspiracy theory.

In July, Cook filed a lawsuit against the Army, the defense secretary and the president, claiming that Obama could not lawfully order him to go to war because he is not the legitimate president of the United States.

Cook is one of the so-called "Birthers," a small group of activists who subscribe to a fringe conspiracy theory alleging that Obama was not born in the United States and therefore cannot legally serve as president. The conspiracy theory, proven false by numerous media investigations as well as officials in the state of Hawaii where Obama was born, first surfaced early in the presidential campaign, but in recent months it has continued to fester on the Internet.

Vader

Supreme Court again sets aside challenge over Obama's citizenship

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© Evan Vucci - Pool/Getty Images
The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts.

The justices without comment Monday rejected a challenge from Charles Kerchner Jr., a Pennsylvania man who sought a trial in federal court forcing the president to produce documents regarding his birth and citizenship.

Kerchner's attorney, Mario Apuzzo, had argued in a petition with the Supreme Court that Obama did not fit the definition of a "natural-born citizen" required for the nation's highest office, as defined by Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.

That clause states, "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

Snakes in Suits

Michigan's first-ever Muslim candidate for Governor loses his cool over question about Sharia

Dr. Abdul al-Sayed

Dr. Abdul al-Sayed, shown here with his wife, Sarah, is running for governor of Michigan as a Democrat.
Michigan's first-ever Muslim candidate for governor, Dr. Abdul al-Sayed, took a shot at fellow gubernatorial candidate Patrick Colbeck on Thursday that some Republicans are saying went below the belt.

Colbeck, speaking at a candidate's forum in East Lansing, expressed his concerns about Sharia law and the extremist Muslim Brotherhood's tactic of civilization jihad. Colbeck took exception with an article he says was planted by Sayed supporters in the left-of-center website Buzzfeed, which painted Colbeck as a fringe extremist using "unfounded conspiracy theories" against Sayed.

Rather than address Colbeck's concerns, Sayed called Colbeck a racist Islamophobe whom Muslims "definitely hate."

Sayed, 33, the former public-health director for the city of Detroit, was on stage Thursday at the Michigan Press Association with several other Democrat and Republican candidates for governor running in the Aug. 7 primary.

Eye 2

Surveillance footage shows cop savagely beating his daughter at school, and no one tries to stop him

cop beats daughter
Disturbing surveillance camera footage has been released that shows a police officer confronting his daughter after she was sent to the principal's office for disrespecting her teacher-and his response is so violent that it has even led to criticism from advocates of corporal punishment.

Footage from the incident, which occurred in March, shows Officer Raymond Emilio Rosario entering the school office. Moments later, his 14-year-old daughter entered, and he immediately slapped her across the face and then hit the back of her head. Surprisingly, the officer's violent actions didn't seem the faze the office secretary who never moved from her seat.

Rage continued from Rosario in front of everyone in the office and anyone who may have witnessed it while walking by the office's glass doors. The enraged officer pushed his daughter's head to the side, grabbed his belt and began whipping her with his belt. The humiliation of being whipped in public was followed by a slap to the face and finally a closed-fist punch to the jaw.