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Miami Herald – by Katy Bergen

It’s the distance a trained police officer can typically shoot an assailant with accuracy, he says. Next, he points to a door farther down the hallway — a distance still much shorter than the typical hallway at a Shawnee Mission school.

“To expect that I could stop somebody with a pistol from here to there….” He doesn’t finish his sentence.

Douglass cites the rising threat of active shooter situations as the reason why the district’s police department has issued eight semi-automatic rifles to its district resource officers, who have operated separately from municipal police forces since 1972.   Continue reading “School district buys semi-automatic rifles. Some parents are angry and scared”

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HeatStreet – by Ian Miles Cheong

Pennsylvania supermarket shooter Randy Stair left behind a trove of material explaining his motivations for gunning down three of his co-workers. In his recorded suicide notes, released just hours before Thursday’s rampage, the 24-year-old talked extensively about his depression and about who he was as a person—a transgender woman who hated men and toxic masculinity.

In a video titled “Goodbye,” Stair says his YouTube cartoon series, Ember’s Ghost Squad, gave him a purpose, and that the cartoon character “Ember McLain,” from the Nickelodeon series Danny Phantom, brought out the girl in him.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania Supermarket Shooter Self-Identified as Transgender Woman Who Hated All Men”

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Press TV

A senior Qatari official says Qatar hosted the Taliban militant group based on a request from the United States, whose president, along with a number of Arab regimes, has been pressuring Doha over what they say is its support for extremist groups.

Mutlaq al-Qahtani, a senior counterterrorism adviser to Qatar’s foreign minister, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that Qatar hosted the Taliban “by request by the US government” and as part of Qatar’s “open-door policy, to facilitate talks, to mediate and to bring peace.”   Continue reading “Qatar hosted Taliban on US request: Official”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

Australia has no Second Amendment, no Fourth Amendment, no Fifth Amendment, no First Amendment.  There is strong tradition and law that searches shall require warrants, and that people will not be forced to testify against themselves.

There are only a few rights actually protected by the Australian Constitution, and they are weakly protected.

In the following story, the information that lead to the searches and arrests came from the United States.  It wasn’t about people purchasing anything illegal. It was about solvent traps. From smh.com.au:   Continue reading “U.S. Surveillance State Leads to Gun Arrests in Australia”

NPR – by Colin Dwyer

Updated at 5:52 p.m.

Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly voted for U.S. statehood for their island in a non-binding referendum on Sunday.

The Associated Press reports that only partial results are in but a low turnout and boycott by several opposition parties calls into question the validity of the non-binding vote.   Continue reading “Puerto Rico Overwhelmingly Votes On U.S. Statehood In Non-binding Referendum”

Tri-State Homepage

Tyson Foods, Inc. is recalling over 2 million of their products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens.

We are told that 2,485,374 pounds of ready-to-eat breaded chicken products could contain milk which is not declared on the product label.   Continue reading “Tyson Recalling Over 2 Million Products”

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What Really Happened

1. “There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy.” Israeli president Moshe Katsav. The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001

2. “The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more”…. Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time – August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000   Continue reading “Examples Of Hate Speech By Israel Against Palestine”

Seattle Times – by Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) — A U.S. Army colonel, his wife and a former defense contractor are accused of participating in what federal prosecutors call a bribery and kickback scheme connected to a Georgia military base.

Col. Anthony Roper conspired with his wife and others to seek and accept bribes in exchange for rigging more than $20 million in Army contracts to individuals and companies, prosecutors said Thursday.   Continue reading “U.S. Army colonel, wife and others charged in alleged bribery scheme”

SF Gate – by Amy Larson

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are detaining illegal immigrants this week on the Central Coast.

ICE agents went to homes in King City Monday, Soledad Wednesday, Santa Cruz Wednesday night, and Watsonville Thursday morning. They were also detentions in Salinas.   Continue reading “ICE raids underway across the Central Coast”

Fox News

An attacker threw an explosive device over the fence of the U.S. Embassy in Kiev that detonated in the early hours on Thursday, Reuters reported.

There were no injuries, according to the report. Authorities called the incident a terrorist act.

Authorities in Kiev said in a statement that the incident occurred at 12:05 a.m. local time, and occurred at the U.S. Embassy compound in the Shevchenko district.   Continue reading “Device explodes at US Embassy in Kiev in reported terrorist act; no injuries”

WAFB

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – A man who allegedly killed a 16-year-old boy on his birthday has pleaded guilty to federal charges that were filed in connection with the case.

Octavio Bringas-Posados, 50, pleaded guilty at the federal courthouse in the courtroom of Judge Shelly Dick Wednesday, June 7 to illegal possession of a firearm by a prohibited person (1 count) and illegal reentry (1 count). Brignas-Posadas and his attorney Mark Upton did not have a plea deal.   Continue reading “Man who illegally re-entered U.S. pleads guilty to federal charges connected with shooting death of 16-year-old”

CNN – by Donna Borak

House lawmakers are poised to pass the “crown jewel” of the GOP-led regulatory reform effort on Thursday, effectively gutting the Dodd-Frank financial regulations that were put in place during the Obama administration.

Called the Financial Choice Act, the Republican bill seeks to undo significant parts of the 2010 financial reform law.   Continue reading “House to vote on killing Dodd-Frank today”

Washington Post – by Anna Fifield

TOKYO — South Korea has suspended the deployment of a controversial American missile defense system, with the new liberal administration declaring that no further moves can take place until an environmental assessment is carried out — a process that could take a year or even two.

The decision highlights the potential for a rift between the United States under President Trump and South Korea with its new liberal president, Moon Jae-in, who is due to visit the White House later this month for their first meeting.    Continue reading “South Korea suspends deployment of American missile defense system”

NBC News

SANDY, Utah — Utah investigators and stunned residents of a middle-class Salt Lake City suburb are trying to understand what led a man to open fire on a woman and children inside a car, leaving the woman, a boy and the man himself dead and two other children injured.

Police went out to the area in Sandy, Utah, after getting a 911 call Tuesday afternoon about a domestic disturbance, said police Sgt. Jason Nielsen.   Continue reading “Sandy, Utah Shooting: Mom, Young Son Dead After Gunman Opens Fire on Car”

Bloomberg – by Joshua Brustein

Cisco Systems Inc. applied for about 3,000 H-1B visas in fiscal 2016, intending to hire people to work at its sprawling, utilitarian campus in suburban San Jose. These were good jobs — many of them for management-level logisticians and operations research analysts — and they paid well. The average annual salary was about $120,000. At the upper end, the company planned to pay a “senior corporate strategy director” $197,000 a year.   Continue reading “The Secret Way Silicon Valley Uses the H-1B Program”

Yahoo News

NEW YORK (AP) — A crackdown on illegal immigration under President Donald Trump has driven some poor people to take a drastic step: opt out of federal food assistance because they are fearful of deportation, activists and immigrants say.

People who are not legal residents of the U.S. are not eligible to take part in what is formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.   Continue reading “Fear of deportation drives people off food stamps in US”