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Hungary has decided to shelve a proposed tax on internet data traffic after mass protests against the plan.
“This tax in its current form cannot be introduced,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
Large-scale protests began on Sunday, when demonstrators hurled old computer parts at the headquarters of Mr Orban’s ruling Fidesz party. Continue reading “Hungary internet tax cancelled after mass protests”
Yahoo News – by Christopher Sherman
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Authorities are investigating a possible police connection to the killing of three U.S. citizens visiting their father in Mexico who were found shot to death along with a Mexican friend more than two weeks after going missing.
Parents of the three siblings, whose bodies were identified Thursday, have said witnesses reported they were seized by men dressed in police gear calling themselves “Hercules,” a tactical security unit in the violent border city of Matamoros wracked by cartel infighting. Nine of the unit’s 40 officers are being questioned, Tamaulipas state Attorney General Ismael Quintanilla Acosta said. Continue reading “Mexico police questioned in killing of 3 Americans”
ARS Technica – by Lee Hutchinson
Multiple sources are reporting the early termination of this morning’s test flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, which suffered “an in-flight anomaly” at 16:09 UTC. The flight marked the first use of a new type of fuel to power the ship’s engine.
Unconfirmed reports from Twitter indicate that it is likely that one of SpaceShipTwo’s crew of two was killed in the accident. This information was picked up by at least one Twitter user listening to SpaceShipTwo’s air-to-ground radio over a local radio scanner audio feed. Continue reading “One confirmed dead as Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo destroyed in test flight”
A former Marine who served in Iraq says he’s been banned from his daughter’s Maryland high school after a heated argument over a lesson on Islam.
Kevin Wood told MyFoxDC.com that he went to La Plata High School in La Plata, a town about 30 miles southeast of Washington, and challenged a history assignment requiring students to list the benefits of Islam. He said the meeting with the vice principal got heated; the school said he made a threat and banned the Iraq veteran from school property. Continue reading “Former Marine banned from daughter’s school after dispute over Islam lesson”
New York Post – by Carl Campanile and Natalie O’Neill
Democrats are telling voters that they had better head to the polls — or else.
The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday.
“Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record,” the letter says. Continue reading “Democrats threaten public shaming to get voters to polls”
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USA Today – by Michael Winter, John Bacon and William M. Welch
Eric Frein, suspected of killing one Pennsylvania trooper and wounding another in a September ambush, was captured Thursday after 48 days on the run, the state police confirmed.
The 31-year-old Frein, who was one of the FBI’s 10-most-wanted fugitives, reportedly was armed when U.S. Marshals found him at a hanger at a small, abandoned airport in Tannersville. That’s about 35 miles from the scene of the Sept. 12 attack on the state police barracks in Blooming Grove. Continue reading “Accused Pa. cop-killer Eric Frein captured”
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Barack Obama uses anyone or anything to avoid revealing any document which would supposedly help prove he was eligible to seek the Presidency of America. Why he did this? He knew disclosure would reveal a deception beyond belief. He deliberately fought against producing a valid “Certificate of Live Birth” from Hawaii which should have confirmed he was born there and was a natural-born American citizen. He could have brought a divided Nation together. Instead, he chose lying, falsifying documents (including an ineligible “Certification of Live Birth” which he, a former Constitutional teacher, knew was an ineligible document for a presidential aspirant. The deception had begun! Continue reading “The Man Who Stole America – Part Three”
An election-watch group is suing Maryland over the alleged presence of noncitizens on the state’s voting rolls.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, asserts that individuals who opted out of jury duty because they were not legal U.S. residents have cast ballots in at least three Maryland elections.
Based on the number of potential unqualified voters identified in Frederick County, up to 7 percent of Maryland’s registered voters could be illegal immigrants, according to estimates. Continue reading “Group sues Maryland over ‘illegal’ voters”
The US Federal Reserve has announced it is ending its quantitative easing (QE) stimulus program begun in 2008.
The Fed said it was confident the US economic recovery would continue, despite a global economic slowdown.
The targets for inflation and reduction in unemployment were on track, the Fed said in a statement. Continue reading “US Federal Reserve ends QE stimulus program”
All soldiers returning from the Ebola mission in West Africa will undergo a 21-day quarantine.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered military leaders to develop a plan within 15 days on how to carry out the “controlled monitoring regimen” for the approximately 4,000 troops that could be involved in the military’s Ebola operations, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, in a statement Wednesday. Continue reading “Pentagon Announces It Will Quarantine Soldiers Returning From Ebola Mission”
Feds Retaliate against the Bundy Ranch and the Southern Nevada People On Friday October 10th, 2014 a Notice from the federal registry reveals that the federal government is mounting retaliations against the Bundy family and the Southern Nevada people.
Federal Register / Vol. 79, No.197 Notice, outlines plans to make the Bundy ranch and most of the rest of Southern Nevada, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs). 90 days from October 10th, 2014 these proposals will become federal law without consent from the Nevada State legislatures or the people of Southern Nevada. Continue reading “Feds Retaliate against the Bundy Ranch and the Southern Nevada People”
Free Thought Project – by Cassandra Rules
Pharr, TX — Trial is set to begin December 1, in the case of former Pharr police officer Erasmo Mata, Jr., accused of repeated first-degree felony sexual assaults of a child.
A federal civil lawsuit filed with Texas Southern District Court back in May accused Mata of assaulting the minor five times, on five separate occasions, all while on duty. The suit alleges that the attacks took place in abandoned houses around the city as other Pharr police officers stood by and watched. Continue reading “Former Cop Headed to Trial for Raping a Child While Other Officers Watched”
ABC News – by GREGORY KATZ, AP
Britain’s Lloyds Banking Group said Tuesday it will eliminate 9,000 jobs over the next three years and shut some 200 branches in a bid to improve efficiency.
The group has been partly owned by the British taxpayer since it was rescued during the financial crisis and has been under pressure to cut costs.
Its executives had pledged three years ago to keep its number of branches at a consistent level despite the cuts, but Chief Executive Antonio Horta-Osorio said Tuesday that strategy has now changed. Continue reading “Britain’s Lloyds Bank to Cut 9,000 Jobs”
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican authorities searching for 43 missing college students have found human remains in a new area of southern Guerrero state and are testing to see if they belong to the young men who last were seen in police custody a month ago, a government official said Monday.
Authorities came upon the new location based on statements from four people arrested early Monday, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. The new remains were found in Cocula, a town about 10 miles from where the students last were seen. Continue reading “In search for missing students, Mexican authorities discover more bodies in Guerrero”
USA Today – by Doyle Rice and William M. Welch
An unmanned rocket headed for the International Space Station to deliver supplies exploded on launch from Wallops Island, Va., Tuesday.
The Antares rocket supplied by contractor Orbital Sciences blew up six seconds after liftoff, NASA said.
NASA and Orbital Sciences were gathering data to determine the cause of the failure of the Orbital CRS-3, the space agency said. Continue reading “Unmanned Antares rocket explodes on launch”
New York Daily News – by Sasha Goldstein
A suspected gunman is in custody as police still search for a second suspect after the shooting of two men outside a rural North Carolina courthouse Tuesday.
Gunfire broke out sometime before noon in front of the Nash County Courthouse, about 45 miles northeast of Raleigh in the agricultural town of Nashville.
The condition of the victims is unknown, though one was on a stretcher and speaking to authorities, Sheriff Dick Jenkins told WNCN-TV. Continue reading “Suspected gunman arrested after two shot outside Nash County Courthouse in North Carolina”
The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday it has increased security at federal buildings across the county, citing terror threats and recent attacks in Canada and elsewhere.
The announcement was made by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who said Federal Protective Service officers are providing the increased security.
Officials said the move was a “precautionary” step and not made in response to any specific threat. But they cited last week’s violence in Canada, and Islamic State threats. Additional security will be put in place in Washington, other major U.S. cities and unnamed locations across the country. Continue reading “DHS increases security at federal buildings over terror concerns”
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