ABC News – by Marcy Gordon, AP

The U.S. Treasury Department continued to approve “excessive” pay raises for top executives at General Motors and its former consumer finance arm, both of which received taxpayer-funded bailouts during the financial crisis, a new government report says.

The government watchdog that oversees the $475 billion bailout said Treasury approved cash salaries exceeding $500,000 last year for 16 of the 47 top executives at General Motors Corp. and Ally Financial Inc. Treasury allowed total pay packages, including company stock, of at least $1 million for every top executive at the two companies, according to the report released Wednesday by the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.   Continue reading “Report: Treasury OKs Big Pay Raises for GM, Ally”

Daily Beast

A grand jury in Ohio voted Wednesday not to indict a white police officer who shot and killed a black man inside an Walmart this year. John Crawford III was shot by Officer Sean Williams while carrying a pellet gun he had picked up in the sporting goods section of the store.

Police had arrived at the store in response to a 911 call saying there was a man in the store pointing a rifle at people.   Continue reading “Killer Cop in Walmart Not Charged”

USA Today – by Casey Nolen

FERGUSON, Mo. — At least two protesters were arrested and some businesses were damaged Tuesday night after a memorial to Michael Brown was destroyed in a fire. The confrontation reignited tensions in the St. Louis suburb that was rocked by violence this summer after Brown, an unarmed teenager, was shot by a Ferguson police officer.

Police responded Tuesday evening to a reported break-in of a beauty supply store on West Florissant Avenue, according to multiple reports. Then several gunshots were heard and approximately 200 people gathered at the site where demonstrations were held following the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, 19, by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.   Continue reading “Tensions flare in Ferguson after Brown memorial burns”

Hot Air – by AllahPundit

Seems far-fetched. We’re going to recruit and vet thousands of possibly unreliable foreigners, arm them to the teeth, shower them with cash, give them some perfunctory training, then send them into battle against the world’s nastiest jihadi degenerates, from ISIS to Al Qaeda to Hezbollah? Why, that’s … exactly what Obama’s planning to do with Syria’s “moderates.”Right? One of O’Reilly’s guests last night called his mercenary plan “morally corrosive” because it would outsource the national security of the United States to foreign actors, which … we’re right now in the process of doing. Who would you rather take your natsec chances with? A multinational mercenary force of experienced Blackwater-types who share no interests with ISIS, or a group of Sunnis from Syria who are more interested in attacking Assad and might be A-OK with the thought of Wahhabis ruling Damascus when push comes to shove?   Continue reading “Bill O’Reilly: Why not raise a 25,000-man global mercenary army to fight ISIS?”

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All News Pipeline – by Live Free or Die

What we have uncovered about alleged Pennsylvania cop-killer Eric Frein in the last few days should be enough to make anyone question what’s really going on in the Poconos Mountains in Pennsylvania. It first needs to be said that we don’t condone ANY violence against the police, nor anyone else, but after checking out Eric Frein’s IMDB actor’s page (the 3rd video below called ‘Lustig’ features Frein acting as a Nazi soldier!) and visiting his MySpace page (which has since been deleted but saved in screenshots and video below!), we see that there may be MUCH more going on with this horrible incident than meets the eye.   Continue reading “PA Cop Killer An Actor! Russian Spetsnaz Link Found!? Eric Frein False-Flag Operation Exposed? Killer’s MySpace Page Scrubbed But Saved Here! Check Out The Connections!”

Press TV

Syria has once again slammed the Israeli regime’s support for the Takfiri ISIL militants operating inside the Arab country.

A Syrian military official, whose name was not mentioned in the reports, made the comments on Tuesday after Tel Aviv said earlier in the day that it had shot down a Syrian warplane as it attempted to fly over the ceasefire line into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.   Continue reading “Syria slams Israel support for ISIL”

A Syrian fighter jet is seen in flames after it was hit by the Israeli military over the Golan Heights on TuesdayReuters – by MAAYAN LUBELL

Israel shot down a Syrian warplane on Tuesday, saying the aircraft crossed the battle lines of Syria’s civil war and flew over the Israeli-held Golan Heights, perhaps by accident.

The incident coincided with but did not appear to be directly related to air strikes the United States and Gulf Arab allies mounted on Islamic State strongholds in Syria.   Continue reading “Israel downs Syrian warplane it says violated its Golan airspace”

ABC 13 – by Miya Shay

ALDINE, TX (KTRK) –As Stovall middle school let out for the week, Gustavo Guzman can’t believe he will never see his friend Jose Meraz in class again.

“He was like a real calm person, no problems, he would come everyday to play soccer,” said Guzman, who lived in the same apartment complex as Meraz.

The 14-year-old can be seen smiling in his Facebook posts. He was an eighth grade student at Stovall. But on September 15, a person walking his dog discovered a body in a heavily wooded area in west Houston. Two days later, classmates and friends would learn it was Meraz.   Continue reading “Mystery Surrounds Killing of Boy in Middle School”

Yahoo News – by Julia Edwards and Roberta Rampton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A decorated Iraq war veteran who scaled a fence on Friday night and got into the White House had over 800 rounds of ammunition in his car and was arrested in July with a sniper rifle and a map marking the executive mansion, a federal prosecutor said on Monday.

Omar Gonzalez, 42, was also stopped, but not arrested in August walking by the White House with a hatchet in his waistband, federal prosecutor David Mudd told a federal judge.   Continue reading “White House intruder had 800 rounds of ammunition in car: prosecutor”

Fox News

DEVELOPING: Three Afghan National Army soldiers who vanished from a Cape Cod military base where they had been taking part in a training exercise have been found at the Canadian border near Niagara Falls, a senior Pentagon official told Fox News.

The men were reported missing by the Massachusetts National Guard Saturday night at Joint Base Cape Cod. A statement identified the soldiers as Maj. Jan Mohammad Arash, 48, Capt. Mohammad Nasir Askarzada, 18, and Capt. Noorullah Aminyar, 20.   Continue reading “Missing Afghan soldiers found at Canadian border near Niagara Falls”

Boston.com – by Lara Salahi

Federal military officials along with state and local police are searching for three Afghanistan National Army soldiers who went missing Saturday night from a regional cooperation training exercise at Camp Edwards in Sandwich.

According to Massachusetts National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. James Sahady, the three men were senior military officers from Afghanistan and were cleared by the US State Department to participate in the exercise. The three men have been identified as Maj. Jan Mohammad Arash, Capt. Mohammad Nasir Askarzada and Capt. Noorullah Aminyar.

Continue reading “Three Afghan Soldiers Missing From Joint Base Cape Cod”

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In a blatant conflict of interest, defense contractors and foreign governments are hiring pundits and think tanks to advocate for their agendas without media outlets disclosing their fiscal ties. Following a strategy developed by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, think tanks funded by military contractors and foreign governments use commentators to influence policy or to generate exorbitant profits. Failure to disclose these financial connections reveals a glaring lack of journalistic integrity on the part of major media corporations.   Continue reading “Defense Contractors and Foreign Governments Funding Pundits and Think Tanks”

Yahoo News

Monrovia (AFP) – A second deployment of United States troops arrived in Liberia on Sunday as part of an eventual mission of 3,000 soldiers helping its beleaguered health services battle the Ebola outbreak.

The contingent will be focused on training local health workers and setting up facilities to help Liberia and its neighbours halt the spread of the epidemic, which has left more than 2,600 dead across west Africa.   Continue reading “More US troops in Ebola-hit Liberia: airport source”

Jon Daniel ACLU The Guardian – by Ed Pilkington

The police hadn’t even come for him. When four fully-armed officers of a Swat team burst into Jacob Elliott’s house in Peoria, Illinois in April they were looking for the source of a parody Twitter feed that had upset the town’s mayor by poking fun at him.

It transpired that one of Elliott’s housemates, Jon Daniel, had created the fake Twitter account, @peoriamayor, and so incensed the real-life official, Jim Ardis, with his make-believe account of drug binges and sex orgiesthat the police were dispatched. Elliott was just a bystander in the affair, but that didn’t stop the Swat team searching his bedroom, looking under his pillow and in a closet where they discovered a bag of marijuana and dope-smoking paraphernalia.   Continue reading “Illinois judge rules police entitled to Swat raid over parody Twitter account”

Fox News

State police lifted a shelter in place order for residents in an area of northeastern Pennsylvania late Saturday where authorities are searching for the man suspected in the fatal shooting of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper.

State police spokeswoman Maria Finn said in an emailed statement late Saturday that residents should use extreme caution as they move back into their homes in Barrett and Price Townships. She said police strongly recommend that residents stay inside and not enter the dense woods were officers are searching for Eric Frein.   Continue reading “Residents return home as cops hunt suspect in Pennsylvania trooper ambush”

Shut Down All Ports Border Protest CancelledTheBlaze – by Zach Nobel

UPDATE (9:30 a.m. EDT): One of the “Shut Down All Ports of Entry” organizers has shed more light on why the protest was called off hours before it was supposed to begin: cartel threats.

“It was [a] cartel threatening a blood bath, [Facebook] hits coming [en] masse from Mexico,” Stasyi Barth told TheBlaze Saturday. “One of the organizers was being followed and was verbally told not to go.”

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The plan had been to take a stand for American sovereignty, with ordinary citizens taking action to block the ports of entry along the U.S. border.    Continue reading “‘Cartel Threatening a Blood Bath’: Huge Border Protest Was Just Cancelled for a Disturbing Reason”

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Business Insider – by Ewan Palmer

Ketamine, the horse tranquilizer which is also a popular party drug, could be used to treat people who have been suffering from long term depression, according a study.

Researchers at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford said they noticed a “remarkable” change in people suffering treatment-resistant depression once they were given the drug, which has recently been upgraded to Class B.   Continue reading “Ketamine, LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Ecstasy: The Illegal Drugs Which Can be Good for You”

Yahoo News

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Two F-22 fighter jets intercepted six Russian military airplanes that neared the western coast of Alaska, military officials said Friday.

Lt. Col. Michael Jazdyk, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, said the U.S. jets intercepted the planes about 55 nautical miles from the Alaskan coast at about 7 p.m. Pacific time Wednesday.   Continue reading “U.S., Canadian jets intercept 8 Russian aircraft”

All Gov – by Danny Biederman, Noel Brinkerhoff

The militarization of American police forces hasn’t been paid for by just the federal government. Pro-Israel groups in the U.S. have also played a role by financing trips for hundreds of law enforcement officers to travel to the Middle East for counterterrorism training, according to Ali Winston, a contributor to the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR).

Monies provided by such groups as the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee’sProject Interchange and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs have made it possible for “at least 300 high-ranking sheriffs and police from agencies large and small – from New York and Maine to Orange County and Oakland, California” to attend privately funded seminars in Israel since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Winston discovered.   Continue reading “Jewish Groups Pay to Send U.S. Police to Train in Israel”