What the hell is this American plane owned by the Bank of Utah doing in IRAN?Yahoo News – The Daily Caller

On Tuesday morning, a plane owned in trust by the Bank of Utah showed up in a very visible area of the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

What was it doing there exactly? Nobody knows, reports The New York Times.

Under President Barack Obama, the United States has eased some of the long-standing punitive economic sanctions against Iran. Still, very little American – or European – economic activity is allowed inside the religious theocracy.   Continue reading “What the hell is this American plane owned by the Bank of Utah doing in IRAN?”

Tech Dirt – by Timothy Geigner

When we talk about the stupidity that are school-affiliated zero-tolerance policies, those stories usually revolve around an administration’s inability to marry common sense with their reactions to non-issues. This can produce somewhat varied results, from really dumb stories about children being children and ending up in serious trouble, to a far more angering practice of victim-blaming. What it all boils down to, though, is an overreaction to certain tragic situations that results in bureaucratic lunacy on a level I never would have thought possible. School shootings and violence are the impetus in these cases, but we see this elsewhere as well. 9/11 resulted in the s#!*-show we know as airport security and NSA surveillance. The Boston Marathon bombing has resulted in the kind of militarized protection and media-blitzkrieg that would likely have other world nations that deal with far more terrorism shaking their heads. And, in each of these cases, we learn a simple truth that we should have seen coming all along: reactionary policies breed stupidity, corruption, and trouble.    Continue reading “The Logical Conclusion Of Zero Tolerance: College Prof Suspended Because Daughter Wore A GoT Tshirt”

Displaced residents of Budge Drive in Jackson, Wyo. register with the American Red Cross on Thursday, April 10, 2014 as geologists study the hillside on East Gros Ventre Butte where the potential for a landslide called for an evacuation the night before. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News and Guide, Price Chambers)Philly.com – by Matthew Brown

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) – A sudden lurch in a creeping landslide in the northwest Wyoming resort town of Jackson split a house in two and forced workers to abandon just-begun efforts to stabilize the hillside.

A huge crack in the ground that had opened up under the house a couple weeks ago shifted several feet downhill in less than a day, breaking off a room or two and leaving a door swinging above the precipice. Rocks and dirt tumbled down in an almost constant stream and a geologist warned much bigger chunks could fall. The ground had been moving at a rate of an inch a day. Continue reading “Looming, creeping landslide splits home in Wyoming”

Mexico rattled by 7.2-magnitude earthquakeABC AU

A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake has struck Mexico’s capital and Pacific coast, shaking buildings, shattering windows and sending residents fleeing into the streets.

There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) says the earthquake’s epicentre was 36 kilometres north-west of Tecpan, near the Pacific resort of Acapulco in Guerrero state.   Continue reading “Mexico rattled by 7.2-magnitude earthquake”

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US prosecutors have unveiled plans to sell an Iran-owned Manhattan skyscraper in the largest terror-related seizure ever, and distribute proceeds to families affected by attacks linked to Tehran.

The settlement approved by a federal judge with 19 plaintiffs is the latest development in a long-running case over the fate of 650 Fifth Avenue.   Continue reading “US to sell Iran-owned building in New York”

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The Internal Revenue Service and other U.S. agencies awarded about $415,000 in contracts to a license plate-tracking company before Homeland Security leaders dropped a plan for similar work amid privacy complaints.

Federal offices such as the Forest Service and the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command chose Livermore, California-based Vigilant Solutions to provide access to license plate databases or tools used to collect plate information, according to government procurement records compiled by Bloomberg.   Continue reading “IRS Among Agencies Using License Plate-Tracking Vendor”

Image Gallery: American RevolutionHow Stuff Works – by Molly Edmonds

Did you know that two other men accompanied Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride? If you didn’t, then you’re not alone. The story of the midnight ride was stamped on the American psyche by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s popular 1861 poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” And anyone who’s read the poem envisions a lone hero dashing through the night, single-handedly warning his countrymen of a British attack.   Continue reading “What happened to the two other men on Paul Revere’s ride?”

Truth News International

David COHEN POSEL, you have already LOST your self-declared “war” and you don’t even realize it yet. Give it up before you hurt yourself more than is necessary and than you can handle because this “war” update below is merely a heads-up to BACK-OFF for it is a fact and promise that slowly but surely we will see to it that your sites will crumble if you really force us to. Back-off and we might allow you to further deceive your remaining readership.   Continue reading “Game Over: David COHEN POSEL (Occupy Corporatism – US Independent) Exposed as “Global Depopulation Policy” Pawn”

Portland Press Herald – by Gillian Graham

SANFORD — The federal government is trying to revoke the license of a gun store owner who refused to allow a federal agent to copy gun records during a compliance inspection last year.

Phil Chabot, who owns Pac N Arms on Emery Street in Sanford, was issued a notice of revocation in February by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The bureau got a warrant to search Chabot’s store in February, and court records indicate he is suspected of making “straw sales” – sales through an intermediary – to a convicted felon who was barred from buying or possessing guns.   Continue reading “Maine gun store may be shut for refusing to let ATF copy records”

The Palm Beach Post – by The Associated Press

MIAMI — Miami-Dade police have arrested five men who were spotted in a car changing into phony police clothing and gear.

Authorities say the men had hats and shirts with the word “police” on them, authentic-looking badges, handcuffs and other law enforcement items. They also had two semi-automatic handguns and an air pistol.   Continue reading “Miami-Dade police arrest 5 in fake officer gear”

WIVB News 4 – by Rachel Kingston

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Gun owners and Second Amendment rights advocates gathered in downtown Buffalo’s Niagara Square Tuesday afternoon to protest the NY SAFE Act by shredding gun registration forms.

April 15, 2014 marked the deadline for when people who owned assault weapons prior to the passage of the SAFE Act were supposed to register them with New York State.   Continue reading “Gun owners shred documents to protest SAFE Act”

Conspiracy theorist and investigative journalist Michael Ruppert, 63, has reportedly committed suicideDaily Mail – by LOUISE BOYLE

9/11 conspiracy theorist and investigative journalist Michael Ruppert has reportedly committed suicide.

The 63-year-old former narcotics investigator with the LAPD shot himself after his radio show, according to an announcement by author Carolyn Baker who was a guest on his final broadcast on Sunday.

Mr Ruppert was famous for his litany of conspiracy theories which encompassed the CIA to drugs, international politics, the oil industry, Wall Street and 9/11.    Continue reading “9/11 conspiracy theorist and investigative journalist ‘commits suicide’”

Makeshift memorial at police tape line near the scene of a multiple fatal stabbing in northwest Calgary, Alberta on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Calgary police say the son of one of their own is a suspect in the worst mass murder in the city's history, a bloody and baffling attack on a group of university students at a house party. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Larry MacDougalYahoo Canada – by Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press

CALGARY – Calgary police say the son of one of their own is a suspect in the worst mass murder in the city’s history, a bloody and baffling attack on a group of university students at a house party.

Five young people were celebrating the last day of classes at the University of Calgary when they were stabbed to death early Tuesday. A suspect was arrested a short time later after he was tracked down and bitten by a police dog.   Continue reading “Son of senior police officer suspected in Calgary’s worst mass murder”

millerVeterans Today – by Dr. Kevin Barrett

Sunday, on the eve of Passover – just as the feds were backing down from their standoff in Nevada – some idiot shot and killed three people outside a Jewish Community Center and a Jewish Retirement Home in Kansas City. Reports say that none of the victims were Jewish.

The suspect, a professional “notorious anti-Semite” and federal informant named Frazier Glenn Miller, reportedly was screaming “heil Hitler” as he was hauled off by police.   Continue reading “Reports: Idiot Jew-hater kills two Methodists and a Catholic in KC”