tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10301919246740820422026-04-14T14:24:08.397-07:00The Raw StoryFocused on providing independent journalism.Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.comBlogger10052125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-22601909412853809552015-10-01T11:24:00.001-07:002015-10-01T11:24:58.890-07:00FBI: Nearly 5X More Murders Committed With Knives Than Assault Rifles
Far more murders are committed with knives than so-called “assault rifles,” according to the FBI.
The new crime statistics released by the agency reveal that out of 11,961 murders performed within the U.S. in 2014, 660 were committed unarmed, 1,567 were committed with knives and only 248 murders were known to have been committed using rifles of any type, including single-shot long arms and “Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-15172010755376178152015-10-01T10:26:00.001-07:002015-10-01T10:26:42.591-07:00HBO and Snapchat are Actively Working with the U.S. Government to Create Propaganda
In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.
Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-81024321351647314482015-09-30T14:31:00.001-07:002015-09-30T14:31:01.656-07:00Invincible Saudi Prince: Kidnapped, Beat, Raped 3 Women in Beverly Hills Compound, US Lets Him Go. Won't even release his picture.
On the 23rd of September, a servant employed at a Beverly Hills mansion compound saw a woman screaming for help while desperately trying to climb the tall wall surrounding the $37 million estate.
She was bleeding and had just been raped by 28 year old Saudi prince; Majed Abdulaziz al-Saud, the Times reported. She was only the latest of his several victims, who have now come forward. The servantWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-84608892212792403632015-09-30T12:06:00.003-07:002015-09-30T12:06:58.724-07:00Propaganda War Begins: Russia's Syria Strikes Targeted US-Backed "Moderate" Rebels, West Says
With the US having officially lost control of the narrative in Syria now that The Kremlin has called Washington’s bluff on the battle to eradicate ISIS and eliminate the Sunni extremist elements that threaten to wrest control of Syria from President Bashar al-Assad, the only remaining question after Russian lawmakers officially cleared the way for airstrikes was how long it would be beforeWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-72341246607682933852015-09-30T12:06:00.001-07:002015-09-30T12:06:57.763-07:00U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars”
“We’ve ended two wars.” — Barack Obama, July 21, 2015, at a DSCC fundraiser held at a “private residence”
“Now that we have ended two wars responsibly, and brought home hundreds of American troops, we salute this new generation of veterans.” — National Security Adviser Susan Rice, May 20, 2015
“His presidency makes a potentially great story: the first African-American in the Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-88323866363172209852015-09-30T09:23:00.001-07:002015-09-30T09:23:50.371-07:00The Start Of China’s Unrest? Southern China City Rocked By “Massive” Bomb Explosions, At Least 6 Dead
Update: it did not take long to find the possible bombing suspect:
Suspect is a local 33 year-old guy. http://bit.ly/1WyhtMk So far 7 dead, 2 missing, 48 injured
— Fergus Ryan (@fryan) September 30, 2015
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Over the weekend when we reported that one of China’s largest coal miners had laid off 100,000, or 40% of its workforce, we noted that China’s hard-landing is starting to hit where it Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-27872438123563290152015-09-30T05:18:00.001-07:002015-09-30T05:18:33.393-07:00Saudi Prince Calls For Royal Coup
In the wake of the petrodollar’s dramatic collapse late last year, we’ve been keen to document the projected effect on global liquidity of net petrodollar exports turning negative for the first time in decades. We also moved to explain how this dynamic relates to the FX reserve liquidation we’re now seeing across EM.
Of course we’ve also endeavored to explain that while grasping the big Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-57582500026255379862015-09-29T14:25:00.001-07:002015-09-29T14:25:47.203-07:0071% Of Americans Oppose Civil Asset Forfeiture. Too Bad Their Representatives Don't Care.
According to a YouGov/Huffington Post poll, 71% of Americans are opposed to civil asset forfeiture.
Too bad their opinion doesn't matter. This is part of the problem.
Most Americans haven't even heard of civil asset forfeiture. This is why the programs have run unchallenged for so many years. An uninformed electorate isn't a vehicle for change. This issue is still a long way away from Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-20173416921226953352015-09-29T12:22:00.001-07:002015-09-29T12:22:41.967-07:00Fiat Chrysler Admits Under-Reporting Deaths & Injuries To NHTSA
Yet another auto-maker has lied.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US says in a statement
that it has identified deficiencies in its
TREAD reporting
and has promptly notified NHTSA. One cannot help but wonder what came first, a leak or some conscience, but as NHTSA notes this means FCA under-reported the number of deaths and injuries that the automaker may be responsible Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-29768352788634018962015-09-29T09:11:00.001-07:002015-09-29T09:11:43.126-07:00Americans Trust In Mainstream Media Hits Rock Bottom
Four in 10 Americans say they have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust and confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This ties the historical lows on this measure set in 2014 and 2012. Prior to 2004, slight majorities of Americans said they trusted the mass media, such as newspapers, TV and radio.
Americans' confidence in the media has slowly eroded Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-9209637660191301692015-09-29T08:23:00.001-07:002015-09-29T08:23:48.595-07:00Organic Farmers Suffer 77-fold Increase in Lost Revenue from GMO Contamination in Last 3 Years
Monsanto has many weapons in its arsenal when it comes to eliminating competition from non-GMO and organic farmers. After more than two decades of pushing their products onto US farmland with purposely flawed safety studies, the sheer presence of genetically modified crops poses an existential threat to the business of traditional and organic farming.
A new report has come Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-89376523380880623392015-09-29T08:08:00.001-07:002015-09-29T08:08:58.049-07:00More Doctors Against Vaccines
Athough it is true that the majority of doctors support vaccines, most of them don’t even know what vaccines contain or their dangers. Their training ends with knowing how to administer them. They are taught vaccine reactions are rare and they are quick to share the same assurances with their patients. These assurances are not based on objective science but merely on what they were told, what Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-77425232046050037632015-09-28T11:30:00.001-07:002015-09-28T11:30:20.094-07:00Australian Government Warns That Alternative Rock, Teenage Rebellion Could Lead To Radicalization
The Australian government is fighting back against the unrelenting terrorist threat that threatens to consume every Western nation. It, too, has noticed that youngsters and their SnapChats are particularly prone to radicalization from outside forces. As Richard Chirgwin of the Register points out, it has chosen to address this threat to Australian society in the way only a government Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-59175588799443522422015-09-28T11:15:00.003-07:002015-09-28T11:15:43.544-07:00The Average American Worker Earns Less Today Than 40 Years Ago
Because most everything we buy gets more expensive over time, we have to earn more money each year just to maintain our existing standard of living. When we're not given raises that keep up with this rate of inflation, we're effectively suffering a pay cut.
That's why many American workers are actually poorer today than four decades ago. They may be earning more money. But, in real terms, Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-44319334628620264402015-09-28T11:15:00.001-07:002015-09-28T11:15:41.355-07:00Two-Tiered Justice: How DEA Agents Commit Egregious Acts with Zero Accountability
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed its employees to stay on the job despite internal investigations that found they had distributed drugs, lied to the authorities or committed other serious misconduct, newly disclosed records show.
Lawmakers expressed dismay this year that the drug agency had not fired agents who investigators found attended “sex parties” Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-63698001934094539442015-09-28T05:01:00.001-07:002015-09-28T05:01:56.834-07:00Your TV habit might be killing you
But as you get comfy on your sofa, you might want to consider this: Your TV habit might be killing you. A growing body of evidence links not just sitting in general but TV viewing in particular with all sorts of health problems. Those include obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and, yes, premature death.
Too much TV “is a really serious health hazard,” says Frank Hu, a professor of Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-6178316300480791342015-09-27T18:14:00.003-07:002015-09-27T18:14:56.578-07:00How US Public Schools Have Come to Increasingly Resemble Prisons Instead of Learning Centers
In the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.).
Indeed, at a time when we are all viewed as suspects, there are so many ways in which a person can be branded a criminal for violating any number of laws,Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-25967782293755949342015-09-27T18:14:00.001-07:002015-09-27T18:14:53.103-07:0071-Year-Old Arrested For Widespread "Hitlerization" Of Shinzo Abe Posters
Japan’s House of Councilors Briefly Transforms into Rada Outpost
Pictures such as those below used to primarily reach us from Ukraine’s Rada, back before Poroshenko’s “lustration law” banned about four million Ukrainian citizens from the political process forever. In Ukraine, brawls regularly broke out between Western Ukrainian nationalists and representatives of Eastern Ukrainian ethnic Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-20271604823896952302015-09-27T13:12:00.001-07:002015-09-27T13:12:40.734-07:00George Soros Demands EU Accept 1 Million Refugees (Costing €15 Billion) Per Year For Foreseeable Future
George Soros want Europe to do a lot more for the refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants mass-exodus-ing from The Middle East. As he writes in a Project Syndicate op-ed, The European Union needs to accept responsibility for the lack of a common asylum policy,which has transformed this year’s growing influx of refugees from a manageable problem into yet another political crisis.
Each member Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-36518305852663026312015-09-26T14:33:00.001-07:002015-09-26T14:33:04.344-07:00Scientists Figure out How to Transmit Thoughts Over the Internet
“In the experiment, two participants (an ‘inquirer’ and a ‘respondent’) played a question-answering game similar to ’20 Questions.’ The respondent is given an object (e.g., ‘dog’) that is unknown to the inquirer and that the inquirer has to guess.
The inquirer asks a question about the object by selecting a question (using a mouse) from questions displayed on a screen. The question is then Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-50980052024694470942015-09-26T06:58:00.001-07:002015-09-26T06:58:48.258-07:00Study Finds that Meth Crime Spikes in Counties Where Alcohol Sales are Banned
According to a recent study, counties that ban the sale of alcohol have a higher rate of meth crime than counties where booze is legal. Researchers at the University of Louisville determined that if all dry counties in the state permitted the sale of alcohol, the total number of meth lab seizures in Kentucky would decline by about 25%.
In a paper titled “Breaking Bad: Are Meth Labs Justified Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-87751277363029724172015-09-26T06:43:00.001-07:002015-09-26T06:43:54.826-07:00Study Finds that Meth Crime Spikes in Counties Where Alcohol Sales are Banned from The Free Thought Project
According to a recent study, counties that ban the sale of alcohol have a higher rate of meth crime than counties where booze is legal. Researchers at the University of Louisville determined that if all dry counties in the state permitted the sale of alcohol, the total number of meth lab seizures in Kentucky would decline by about 25%.
In a paper titled “Breaking Bad: Are Meth Labs Justified Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-47279427976966520032015-09-26T06:13:00.001-07:002015-09-26T06:13:47.248-07:00Syria Claims Tacit Deal Between US, Russia On Ending War
Smoke rises over Saif Al Dawla district in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 .(AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)
In an interview on Syrian state media today, top Syrian government adviser Bouthaina Shaaban claimed that there is a “tacit agreement” between the US and Russia on coming to some sort of agreeing on the ongoing civil war, and that some sort of negotiated settlement could happen soon.
The Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-78103726053037326162015-09-25T15:35:00.001-07:002015-09-25T15:35:28.869-07:00Migrant Crisis Sparks Balkan Border Battles As EU Buckles Under Overwhelming Refugee Flow
When last we checked in on Europe’s worsening migrant crisis, Brussels had just approved a plan which aims to settle some 120,000 asylum seekers by way of a mandatory quota system. Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania were opposed which, as WSJ noted, “sets the stage for intensified friction within the bloc over the contentious issue.”
To be sure, calling the crisis a “contentious Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030191924674082042.post-31971206888172355202015-09-25T04:35:00.001-07:002015-09-25T04:35:18.508-07:00Half Of Americans Think "Government Is An Immediate Threat To Liberty"
Government poses a threat to liberty, that much is clear.
But what may be surprising is that almost half of Americans clearly identified government as a clear and “immediate” threat, and are obviously outraged about what is going on.
Oddly, the number of angry Americans has remained consistent in poll number ever since about 2006 during George W. Bush’s second term, maintaining around 46-49% Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073919781286378642noreply@blogger.com0