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Gawker

ABC News and The New York Times have known since 2007 that Robert Levinson, the ex-FBI agent who was kidnapped in Iran, was not, as the U.S. government and his family claimed, an independent businessman: He was working for the CIA. The Times’ report today discloses this timeline; ABC News’ report does not—but a source at the network confirmed to Gawker that ABC reporters discovered the CIA connection in 2007 as well. At the request of the government and Levinson’s family, however, both outlets repeatedly stated, without any caveats, that Levinson was on a “business trip” when he was captured. A review of their coverage indicates that ABC News did so at least 7 times, and the Times at least 3 times.   Continue reading “ABC, NYT Repeatedly Lied About CIA Operative Robert Levinson”

NBC DFW

Fifth quake in December. 20 quakes were recorded in November

Another earthquake rattled North Texas on Thursday, bringing the total count to 25 quakes in the area in the last two months.

The recent earthquake hit near Pottsboro in Grayson County just before midnight Thursday.   Continue reading “2.6 Magnitude Quake Reported Near Pottsboro on Thursday”

New York Times – by Henry Fountain

OKLAHOMA CITY — Mary Catherine Sexton has been rattled enough.

This fall her neighborhood in the northeastern part of this city has been shaken by dozens of minor earthquakes. “We would just have little trembles all the time,” she said.

Even before a magnitude 4.5 quake on Saturday knocked objects off her walls and a stone from above her neighbor’s bay window, Ms. Sexton was on edge.   Continue reading “Experts Eye Oil and Gas Industry as Quakes Shake Oklahoma”

Huffington Post – by Michael Calderone

The New York Times is expected to publish a story Friday on Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who went missing in Iran in 2007.

On Thursday night, The AP first revealed that Levinson was working for the CIA at the time of his disappearance, a detail the news organization held for three years at the government’s request while efforts were underway to find the missing American.   Continue reading “New York Times Held News Of Missing American’s CIA Ties”

SI Live – by Frank Donnelly

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — With winter fast approaching, a cop from Staten Island tried to make a few extra bucks by peddling some warm North Face jackets in his spare time.

But the merchandise Marc Florida was selling wasn’t the real McCoy, prosecutors allege.

Florida, 42, was arrested Thursday in Brooklyn, during a sting operation, for selling counterfeit goods, according to court papers and a law enforcement source.   Continue reading “Prosecutors: Cop from Staten Island sold bogus North Face jackets”

NY Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

A heartless thief posing as a cop has been preying on elderly women for more than two years, stealing their savings after convincing them he is investigating a banking case, police said Thursday.

Cops are hunting the scammer, who has targeted 23 women and one man, all between the ages of 77 and 98, since June 2011. He has stolen a total of $428,760 from the 18 seniors who fell for his con, including $102,000 from an 84-year-old Brooklyn woman in June.   Continue reading “NYPD bogus: Fake cop scams seniors out of more than $400,000”

New York Post – by Andy Soltis and Jamie Schram

The NYPD has announced its Super Bowl security plan for Times Square, which includes a slew of anti-terror measures — and extensive street closures.

The big game will be played in East Rutherford, NJ, on Feb. 2, but the center of entertainment will be a Manhattan theme park called Super Bowl Boulevard that will shut down Broadway from 33rd to 48th streets from midnight Jan. 26 until Feb. 1.   Continue reading “Super Bowl lockdown looming around Times Square”

CNN Money – by Peter Elkind

FORTUNE — When Michael Bloomberg retires as New York’s mayor in January after 12 years in office, it’s unclear what exactly he’ll do (beyond claiming a desk back at Bloomberg LP, the financial data giant he founded). Whatever he does, he’s sure to keep making news.

You can count on him to keep fighting for new gun-control laws. He could well continue to push his public-health initiatives against sugary drinks and smoking. And he’s certain to make headline-grabbing charitable gifts: He’s worth an estimated $31 billion, and gave $350 million just in 2013 to Johns Hopkins (bringing his lifetime total giving to his alma mater over $1 billion).   Continue reading “Bloomberg News reaffirms ban on writing about Mike Bloomberg”

Huffington Post – by Jessica Elgot

The snow that has blanketed much of the Middle East turned Cairo white on Friday – with local news reports claiming it was Egypt’s capital’s first snowfall in 112 years.

The city averages less than an inch of rain each year, and hundreds stopped their walk to work or school to snap pictures of the falling flakes, tweeting their delights.   Continue reading “Snow In Egypt For The First Time In 100 Years, Reports Say”

Washington Post – by Adam Goldman

An American man who went missing in Iran more than six years ago had been working for the CIA in what U.S. intelligence officials describe as a rogue operation that led to a major shake-up in the spy agency.

Bob Levinson, an ex-FBI agent, traveled to the Iranian Island of Kish in March 2007 to investigate corruption at a time when he was discussing the renewal of a CIA contract he had held for several years. He also inquired about getting reimbursed for the Iran trip by the agency before he departed, according to former and current U.S. intelligence officials.   Continue reading “Ex-FBI agent who went missing in Iran was on rogue mission for CIA”

AOL Weather

A storm will drop heavy snow and disrupt travel from parts of the Midwest to a large part of the Northeast by Sunday.

The snowstorm will reach span more than 1,000 miles and affect tens of millions of people.

Thanks to recent Arctic air making roads and sidewalks much colder compared to previous storms, enough snow to shovel and plow is in store from parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey to much of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.   Continue reading “Snowstorm to Affect More Than 1,000 Miles From St. Louis to Boston”

Reuters – by Jack Kim

(Reuters) – North Korea said on Friday Jang Song Thaek, the uncle of leader Kim Jong Un and previously considered the second most powerful man in the secretive state, has been executed after a special military tribunal found him guilty of treason.

“The accused Jang brought together undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state,” the North’s official KCNA news agency said.   Continue reading “North Korea says Jang Song Thaek, uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, executed”

AmmoLand – by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- In 2008, Brian L. Frye published the seminal paper on the history of United States v. Miller, the single most important second amendment case before U.S. V. Heller.

While Miller no longer holds as much significance in second amendment cases as it used to, the way in which the government manipulated the case in order to deprive American citizens of their second amendment rights deserves detailed study.   Continue reading “UNITED STATES V. MILLER: How the Second Amendment Was Subverted”

The New York Times

About 1,500 state gun bills have been introduced since the Newtown massacre.
178 passed at least one chamber of a state legislature. 109 have become law.

In the 12 months since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., almost every state has enacted at least one new gun law. Nearly two-thirds of the new laws ease restrictions and expand the rights of gun owners. Most of those bills were approved in states controlled by Republicans. Those who support stricter regulations won some victories — mostly in states where the legislature and governorship are controlled by Democrats — to increase restrictions on gun use and ownership.Select categories from the table below to see all gun bills that passed at least one chamber of a state legislature.   Continue reading “State Gun Laws Enacted in the Year Since Newtown”

Washington Post – by NIRAJ CHOKSHI

This Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Newtown, Conn.’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty children, six staff members, shooter Adam Lanza and his mother all died that day. The killings reinvigorated both sides of the gun-control debate, but gun rights advocates maintained the edge they’ve had for years.

An impressive (roughly) 1,500 state gun bills have been introduced in the year since the Newtown massacre and, of those, 109 are now law, according to The New York Times. Seventy of the enacted laws loosen gun restrictions, while just 39 tighten them. And, though largely symbolic, some 136 bills nullifying federal gun regulations were sponsored in 40 states. In Colorado, two pro-gun control lawmakers were booted from office in historic recalls and a third stepped down in anticipation of a similar fight.   Continue reading “How gun control is losing, badly (in charts)”

The Daily Courier – by Tamera Sone

PRESCOTT – In what has become an issue pitting gun rights against land use codes, a Williamson Valley landowner had his Second Amendment rights upheld in a Tuesday hearing in Prescott.

Brad DeSaye, owner of Headhunter Ranch LLC, said he never intended to build gun ranges on his properety.   Continue reading “Ranch owner prevails in gun rights dispute with neighbors and Yavapai County”

AmmoLand – by Chuck Norris

Dallas, TX – -(Ammoland.com)- Advocates of Common Core State Standards love to point out how 45 states and the District of Columbia have voluntarily adopted this new national public school regimen.

What they’re not telling you, however, is how federal and state funds were used to muscle its adoption or how expert reviews and efficacy shortfalls have prompted political and educational action in at least 17 of those states to restrict or reverse the tides of CCSS rollout, according to a brand-new report in The Huffington Post.   Continue reading “Is Common Core Good for Kids and Teachers? (Part 5)”

AmmoLand

New Jersey –-(Ammoland.com)- Due to increased concerns over recent home invasions in the Ocean County area and elsewhere, the New Jersey Second Amendment Society (NJ2AS) is sponsoring a “Home Security Seminar” in Brick Township New Jersey on Thursday December 19, 2013, from 7:30 pm until 10:00 pm.

The seminar is free of charge to the public and will be held at “Mansion on the Plaza” whose GPS location is 1060 Cedar Bridge Road, Brick, NJ 08723.   Continue reading “Free Home Security Seminar by New Jersey Second Amendment Society & Howell Gun Works”