One of the components of American strategic projection has been the world's most prodigious and sophisticated aerial refueling fleet. There are currently approx 400+ KC-135s capable of refueling two receiver aircraft at the same time in the current USAF fleet. The...
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VIDEO: Cop Tortures Pregnant Mother With Taser
For four months, Officer Leon Davis with the Springfield [Massachusetts] police department escaped accountability for a most disturbing act of using his taser on a pregnant woman—repeatedly—in a sickening attempt to inflict punishment. However, the actions by Davis...
Afghanistan’s Competing Presidents
On FPF #463, I discuss the political instability caused by two different men claiming to be president. Incumbent Ashraf Ghani and his former Cheif Executive Abdullah Abdullah have both claimed victory in an election that happened in September. They exploit the rampant...
See, That’s How They Getchya.
Cops are crazy-violent as hell, so we need them to wear body-cameras. Watch them turn the cameras off in the middle of violating innocent people. But then, ... Oh, so you like body-cameras on cops, eh? Well now you've just lost even more freedom than before.
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A Police Officer Was Caught On His Body Camera Allegedly Fondling A Dead Woman's Breasts The incident occurred when the officer, who has not been identified, and his partner were responding to a call about a possible dead woman in a residential unit, the Los Angeles...
Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement
Via Trevor Lyman, Vice: Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a “portal” that allows police to request footage from these cameras, a...
Texas Poised To Ban All Red Light Cameras
No f---ing way. Really? Rad. Across the country different jurisdictions -- not sure about Texas, but wouldn't be surprised -- have been caught shortening yellow light times to increase revenue. Which is simply murder. Score one against the technopoly. Update: Oy....
Judge Confirms: Oregon Engineer Has a First Amendment Right to Call Himself an Engineer
A federal judge has ruled that the Oregon Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying violated the First Amendment when it tried to fine Mats Järlström—an Oregonian with a degree in engineering and years of experience in the field—for describing himself as...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
