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A giant ‘sinkhole’ about 50-feet wide opened up in an IHOP parking lot in Mississippi over the weekend, swallowing at least 14 vehicles, officials said.
At about 7:15 p.m. CT Saturday night, “we received a call of vehicles going through the pavement at the IHOP in Meridian,” Patrol Lieutenant Rita Jack with Meridian Police told NBC News. Continue reading “Giant ‘Sinkhole’ Swallows Over Dozen Cars at Mississippi International House of Pancakes”
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he planned to discuss defence aid with President Barack Obama as he left for his first meeting with the US leader in over a year.
Netanyahu is due to meet Obama on Monday in Washington as the two leaders seek to set aside their testy personal relationship and turn the page after a sharp disagreement over the July nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. Continue reading “Netanyahu stresses defence aid ahead of Obama meeting”
State District Judge Julie Kocurek, the presiding felony judge for Travis County, was shot in the driveway of her West Austin home late Friday, authorities said. Police said the injury is not considered life threatening.
Kocurek was taken to University Medical Center-Brackenridge, where she was joined by several other Travis County judges and her court staff. Her condition initially was considered critical, but shortly after midnight officials said her condition had been upgraded to stable. Continue reading “Travis County judge Julie Kocurek shot outside home, officials confirm”
Sent to us by the author, Kenneth Anton author of ‘Popsicle Man’ and ‘Cancer Vortex’
There is a growing disconnect between the American people and government whose lying statistics proclaim a recovery while 92 million remain out of work; the Middle Class is disappearing; students are overburdened with debt and the top 0.1% control 90% of the wealth. As times get harder and they will, Americans are demanding the truth. Why waste trillions bombing other countries where the enemy (Al Qaeda and Islamic State) are known CIA creations. Continue reading “Exposing the Greatest Conspiracy of Modern Times”
Fuel Fix – by Jennifer A. Dlouhy
WASHINGTON — A bid by oil export advocates to tether the trade issue to a federal highway bill has hit a dead end.
Oil producers and their allies in Congress had hoped to use the highway bill as a vehicle for unrelated provisions lifting the 40-year-old ban on U.S. crude exports. Continue reading “End of the road for oil exports on highway bill”
Amnesty activists opposed to Donald Trump and his immigration policies have gone beyond piñatas and have launched a new video featuring children yelling obscene profanities at the Republican frontrunner.
The new video, hosted at deportracism.com, is linked to a campaign to keep Trump off NBC’s Saturday Night Live and features a young boy and girl shouting words like “motherf#@kers,” “f#@k,” and “d#@k,” as well as Spanish profanity. At one point, a boy raises a middle finger to the camera while he holds a sign reading, “Deport this.” Continue reading “Video–Latino Kids Blast Donald Trump: ‘F*ck you, racist f*ck!’”
Thanks to Enemy of the State.
New York Post – by Bruce Golding
A former FedEx driver plans to sue the city for $10 million after he was allegedly beaten to a pulp by cops furious over the fact that he unwittingly gave directions to the gunman who assassinated two cops last year, his lawyer said Tuesday. Continue reading “Man says NYPD beat him up for mistakenly helping cop killer”
An Illinois police officer whose shooting death in September led to a massive manhunt committed suicide due to personal and professional pressures, investigators announced during a Wednesday morning news conference.
Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles Joseph “Joe” Gliniewicz was stealing and laundering money from the Fox Lake Police Explorer’s program and committed suicide due to the “personal stress from scrutiny of his management,” Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko said. Continue reading “Illinois police officer’s shooting death called ‘carefully staged suicide’”
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The slogan “Death to America” is not aimed at the American people, but rather American policies, Iran’s supreme leader said in comments reported on his official website Tuesday.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei discussed the slogan while meeting with Iranian students ahead of the anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. Militant students stormed the compound and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Continue reading “Iran Ayatollah: ‘Death to America’ refers to US policies”
HOUSTON – Voters have said a resounding no to Houston’s controversial equal rights ordinance.
Prop 1, nicknamed HERO, failed by a margin of 62-percent to 38-percent.
Opponents of the issue branded it “the bathroom ordinance,” playing up the argument that it would allow sexual predators dressed as women to use women’s restrooms. A television ad featured a little girl being cornered by a man in a restroom. Continue reading “Voters reject Houston Equal Rights Ordinance”
Whale.to – by Alan R Cantwell Jr., M.D.
New Dawn No. 68 (September-October 2001)
Disinformation and Nuclear Fallout
Secret Radiation Experiments
The Atomic Energy Commission
Uranium Mine Workers
Medical Ethics of the Cold War
The President’s Advisory Committee
Keeping Government Secrets
Current Secret Biomedical Experimentation
Does Secret Medical Experimentation Continue? Continue reading “How scientists secretly used US citizens as guinea pigs during the Cold War”
Authorities have released the identities of the people killed in Saturday morning’s shooting spree in Colorado Springs, in which the shooter killed three people before he died during a shootout with police.
The first person shot was Andrew Alan Myers, 35, who was riding a bicycle. Witnesses said that he begged for his life before being killed. Continue reading “Colorado Springs Massacre: Cops Identify Victims and Shooter”
Opening arguments are expected to begin on Tuesday in the murder trial of a Pennsylvania police officer who shot and killed a suspect last February as he lay face down in the snow, immobilized by a Taser charge.
The shooting death of David Kassick, 59, by Officer Lisa Mearkle, 37, was captured on the video camera in her Taser, police say. Her lawyers successfully fought release of the video prior to her trial, saying it could taint potential jurors. Continue reading “Pennsylvania officer who shot, killed prone suspect heads to trial”
Washington Post – by Michael E. Miller
Across the country, high schools are increasingly confronting a thorny issue: Should transgender students be allowed into the locker room?
And increasingly, the federal government is stepping in to provide an answer: Schools must give trans students full locker room access.
Fox News – by Christina Corbin
It might be the world’s most expensive gas station — not to mention a gross misuse of taxpayer money, according to a top government watchdog.
The Department of Defense spent $43 million to build a gas station in Afghanistan that should have cost roughly $500,000, the lead oversight team monitoring U.S. spending in Afghanistan has found. The discovery came as part of a broader investigation into allegations of criminal activity within the DOD’s premiere program to kick-start the Afghan economy. Continue reading “‘Colossal waste’: DOD slammed for $43M, US-funded gas station in Afghanistan”
On Monday, President Obama is announcing a new order to reduce potential discrimination against former convicts in the hiring process for federal government employees.
It is a step towards what many criminal justice reformers call “ban the box” – the effort to eliminate requirements that job applicants check a box on their applications if they have a criminal record. While the rule was once seen as a common sense way for employers to screen for criminal backgrounds, it has been increasingly criticized as a hurdle that fosters employment discrimination against former inmates, regardless of the severity of their offense or how long ago it occurred. Banning the box delays when employers learn of an applicant’s record. Continue reading “Obama Bans Hiring Bias Against Ex-Cons Seeking Federal Jobs”
From Enemy of the State.
NBC News – by ELISHA FIELDSTADT
A 35-year-old man has been charged with two of seven fires set in the span of two weeks in St. Louis, authorities said Friday.
David Lopez Jackson was detained Thursday and is facing two counts of second-degree arson, said St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson. Continue reading “Man Arrested in Connection With St. Louis Church Fires”
Yahoo News – by Julia Harte and Julia Edwards
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Almost a third of 6,000 federal prisoners scheduled to be freed between Friday and Tuesday, part of a push to reduce America’s soaring incarceration rate, will immediately be turned over to U.S. immigration authorities for deportation proceedings.
While this weekend will be a happy occasion for the thousands of inmates who are U.S. citizens and will reunite with their families, many of the roughly 1,780 foreign inmates to be put on the deportation track will leave family members behind in the United States. Continue reading “Mass release of U.S. prisoners spells deportation for hundreds”
Three people were killed in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Saturday morning before city police officers shot and killed a suspect, reported the sheriff’s office of El Paso County, Colorado.
Police received a report of a shooting about 8:45 a.m. along with a description of a suspect, the sheriff’s office said. Continue reading “4 dead, including suspect, in Colorado Springs shooting”