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BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. (AP) — Two troopers were ambushed outside a state police barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania during a late-night shift change, leaving one dead and another injured, and authorities were searching Saturday for the suspect or suspects, state police said.

One trooper was leaving the barracks in Pike County’s Blooming Grove and another was arrived when shots were fired just before 11 p.m. Friday, State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan said. He confirmed that one trooper was killed and the other was injured and taken to Geisinger Medical Center in Scranton, where he was in stable condition.   Continue reading “State police: Trooper shot dead outside barracks”

Amsterdam News – by Herb Boyd

Nothing leaped from Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s mouth like the words “Chokeholds are not illegal,” during his oversight appearance Monday before the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety.

This was a stunning revelation after it’s been reported again and again by the media that chokeholds have been illegal in the NYPD since 1993 or 1994, depending on the source.

“Illegal” may be the troubling word here and not seen as the same as “banning” by Bratton. Chokeholds been prohibited by the NYPD since Anthony Baez was killed in a chokehold by Office Francis Livoti in 1994.   Continue reading “‘Chokeholds not illegal,’ Bratton says”

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WND – by Leo Hohmann

President Obama’s Homeland Security chief may have let the cat out of the bag about the real reason for Obama’s decision to delay plans to declare amnesty for 5 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S.

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, in a meeting Wednesday with the influence-wielding Council on Foreign Relations, indicated the president didn’t want to add fuel to an already burning fire of conservative anger over illegal immigration before this November’s critical mid-term elections. To do so might cause a repeat of the historic Democrat losses of 1994 and 2010.   Continue reading “Homeland Security Chief Drops Amnesty Bombshell”

Infowars – by Kit Daniels

The Department of Homeland Security has fined an American and a Canadian $5,000 each for crossing the U.S./Canada border, fines which are never assessed on thousands of illegal aliens who are detained by Border Patrol daily.

The two men, a 40-year-old American and a 44-year-old Canadian, were walking down a dirt road with mountain bikes near the border when they were approached by a Border Patrol agent.   Continue reading “DHS Fines American – But Not Illegals – $5,000 For Crossing Border”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

Just days before his company’s value topped $200 billion, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg went to Mexico and pushed for amnesty legislation at billionaire and New York Times minority owner Carlos Slim’s charity event.

Zuckerberg was reportedly in Mexico City last Friday as a “keynote speaker” at Slim’s “annual Telmex Foundation charity event,” where he “criticized the current state of the U.S. immigration system. “   Continue reading “Zuckerberg Pushes Amnesty At Billionaire Carlos Slim’s Charity Event In Mexico”

BBC News

Russia has warned that US air strikes against militants in Syria would be a “gross violation” of international law.

A Russian foreign ministry spokesman said any such action, without the backing of the UN, would be “an act of aggression”.

It comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry meets Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia to try to build a coalition against Islamic State (IS) militants.   Continue reading “Russia warns US against strikes on Islamic State in Syria”

Fox 4 KC

NEW YORK — The public will soon get a broader glimpse at the still-secretive world of government data collection.

Yahoo said Thursday it won release of 1,500 pages of documents filed in a secret surveillance court. It said the documents stem from an unsuccessful lawsuit it brought in 2008 challenging the government’s right to demand user information.

The company won a victory last year when portions of previously-closed documents were ordered public. As it noted Thursday, disclosures from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are “extremely rare.”   Continue reading “You will soon get a glimpse at secretive government data collection process”

Reuters

An overnight fire that destroyed two buildings in an industrial area of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and forced about 400 residents to evacuate, also may have polluted a popular fishing area, officials said on Friday.

The blaze, which began Thursday evening, sent several fireballs into the air as superheated drums of perfume and other chemicals exploded inside the Rowayton Trading Co, the city fire department said in a statement.   Continue reading “Bridgeport, Connecticut, industrial fire forces hundreds to evacuate”

USA Today – by Doug Stanglin

The U.S.Navy was searching Friday for one of two pilots whose F/A-18 Hornets crashed while flying off the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the western Pacific.

The guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill and the guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley, along with helicopters, joined the search for the missing pilot.

The second pilot, who was rescued, was being treated aboard the aircraft carrier, the Navy said in a statement. Neither pilot was identified.   Continue reading “Pilot missing after 2 Navy Hornets crash in Pacific”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

We recently wrote about the ongoing delays in releasing a (heavily redacted) executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s torture regime following 9/11. That was linked to a Reuters story about how the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee still can’t agree on what to redact. However, I’d totally missed a line at the end of that Reuters piece that Kevin Gosztola calls to our attention. It’s where Reuters reporter Patricia Zengerle decides to not call torture “torture,” but rather “physically stressful interrogation.”   Continue reading “Reuters Downplays CIA Torture As Merely ‘Physically Stressful Interrogation Techniques’”

Fox News – by Hollie McKay

Emails within a tight circle of academics at an exclusive university just outside Boston founded by American Jews reveal a long-standing and vehement anti-Israel bias and anger at Fox News and a human rights advocate who renounced her Muslim faith.

Thousands of messages on a Brandeis University ListServ obtained by conservative students and reviewed by FoxNews.com were hyperbolic in their condemnation of Israel, regarding the recent fighting in Gaza and prior conflicts with the Palestinians. Accusations that Israel has committed war crimes and “holocaustic ethnic cleansing” against Palestinians appear in the messages from academics at the school.    Continue reading “Brandeis faculty emails reveal anti-Israel bias”

ABC News

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered military forces in the country’s east to carry out a major exercise to test their preparedness.

This is a second major drill of combat readiness since June when the conflict in eastern Ukraine was already raging. That drill in the Volga region and the Urals involved 65,000 troops. In May, Russia and China held a joint naval exercise in the East China Sea.   Continue reading “Putin Orders Forces in the East on Combat Drill”

Yahoo News

Beijing (AFP) – China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in northeast Asia on Russia’s Sea of Japan coast, reports said, in a further sign of the powerhouses’ growing alliance.

The seaport is expected to be able to handle some 60 million tonnes of cargo a year, China’s state-run People’s Daily Online reported late Wednesday — comparable to Britain’s busiest port Immingham or Le Havre in France, according to European Commission statistics.   Continue reading “China, Russia to build seaport: report”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton

So far, Jeh Johnson has managed to largely stay out of the spotlight and avoid much of the hate showered on his predecessor Big Sis Janet Napolitano. One example is right there, in the fact that no one really refers to Jeh as Big Bro Johnson, which is good, because it sounds like a really bad porno name.

But I digress…

Yesterday, the Washington Times reported that Homeland Security is going to release a brand new, shiny guidance list to retailers this week (just in time for another 9/11!) which will “train” them on how to watch for suspected terrorists in their stores, i.e. — anyone who buys a bunch of stuff from what Mr. Johnson says is a “long list of materials that could be used as explosive precursors.”   Continue reading “See Something Snitch Something Is Back: DHS to Release New Guidelines for Stores to Watch Shoppers”

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Silver Coins – by Dave

It is unfortunate that articles like this have to be written,
but where there is money trading hands, there will always be fakes, frauds, and counterfeits.

If you have purchased some silver and can’t get rid of that little voice in your head that keeps saying what if they are fake silver coins …

Below are 12 ways on how to spot fake silver eagles, bars, and bullion. We’ve ranked them from the least to the most effective methods in detecting counterfeits. (Most of these tests can also be applied to gold as well).   Continue reading “Fake Silver Coins: 12 Ways to Spot Counterfeits”

ABC News – by ERIN DOOLEY, MARY BRUCE and MICHAEL FALCONE

In an address to the nation tonight, President Obama laid out his most detailed plan yet to “lead a broad coalition” to confront the vexing problem of ISIS, the militant group that executed American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff in Syria and terrorized civilians in Syria and neighboring Iraq.

Here’s Obama’s four-point plan to destroy ISIS:   Continue reading “Obama Pledges to ‘Degrade and Ultimately Destroy’ ISIS: What You Need To Know”

Paul Craig Roberts

The tragedy of September 11, 2001, goes far beyond the deaths of those who died in the towers and the deaths of firefighters and first responders who succumbed to illnesses caused by inhalation of toxic dust. For thirteen years a new generation of Americans has been born into the 9/11 myth that has been used to create the American warfare/police state.

The corrupt Bush and Obama regimes used 9/11 to kill, maim, dispossess and displace millions of Muslims in seven countries, none of whom had anything whatsoever to do with 9/11.   Continue reading “9/11 After 13 years”