Author: Angel - NYC

Bloomberg – by Chris Dolmetsch

New York’s ban on outdoor smoking in state parks was blocked by a judge after a smokers’-rights group argued that the Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation exceeded its authority.

Supreme Court Justice George B. Ceresia Jr. in Troy, in a ruling dated Oct. 8 and made public today, permanently blocked the office from implementing or enforcing the ban and ordered any signs referring to it removed.   Continue reading “N.Y. State Parks Outdoor Smoking Ban Is Blocked by Court”

Gothamist

After an off-duty undercover police officer was arrested Tuesday for his involvement in the highly publicized motorcycle gang assault on an SUV driver, sources told NBC he had also spied on Occupy Wall Street as a member of the NYPD Intelligence Division. Now members of the movement remember “Albert,” or more accurately, Detective Wojciech Braszczok, as a quiet, omnipresent demonstrator who would show up at your birthday party, sleep on the street, and get arrested at a demonstration.   Continue reading “Occupy’s Undercover Cop: “Shady,” Ubiquitous, & Willing To Get Arrested”

Huffington Post

The undercover NYPD detective arrested in connection to the brutal assault of an SUV driver routinely spied on Occupy Wall Street members using the name “Albert.”

DNAinfo reports at the height of the movement in 2011, Wojciech Braszczok infiltrated Zucotti Park and feigned sympathy for the protesters’ cause to glean information that’d he’d then report to the NYPD’s Organized Crime Intelligence Division.   Continue reading “Wojciech Braszczok, NYPD Officer Arrested In Biker-SUV Attack, Spied On Occupy Wall Street”

ABC Local

NEW YORK (WABC) — An off-duty undercover New York City police detective appeared in court on Wednesday to face upgraded charges of 1st degree assault and gang assault in connection with the brutal attack on SUV driver Alexian Lien on the Henry Hudson Parkway.

Undercover narcotics officer Wojciech Braszczok was arrested Tuesday night after investigators found video showing Braszczok punching the rear window of the SUV.   Continue reading “Charges upgraded against undercover cop in motorcycle assault case”

New York Times – by DIANE CARDWELL

THE North American shale boom has brought with it many benefits, including new jobs, cheaper electricity and the potential for energy independence.

But as producers tap ever more oil and gas, they are also exposing major shortcomings in the country’s transportation system and grappling with a problem of plenty: how to move all that product to market? “The problem is transport,” said Ed Hirs, an energy economist at the University of Houston.   Continue reading “Unplugging Bottlenecks in Oil and Gas Deliveries”

AmmoLand

Albany, NY –-(Ammoland.com)- Students at SUNY Albany on October 15th 2013 at 10:00am will be hosting a large pro-Second Amendment Rally on Collins Circle with an anticipated attendance of over 500 activists.

The Young Americans for Liberty chapter is going to take the campus by storm as distinguished speakers such as Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, Assemblyman Steve Katz along with many others will fill up Collins circle to stand for the Second Amendment, fight the SAFE Act and go against the anti-gun agenda of Governor Cuomo.   Continue reading “Student Activists Organize 2A Rally Featuring NY Assemblyman Mclaughlin, Stand Up For Your Rights”

AmmoLand – by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- In 1994, when Arizona started its shall issue concealed carry weapon (CCW) program, there was considerable interest in how many and what types of homicides would be related to the new law.

I started teaching classes for the Arizona CCW permit when it went into effect, and I immediately noticed that my students were well above average in attitude, responsibility, and civility.   They always pitched in to assist in setting up where necessary, and their personal checks have always been good.   Continue reading “Police Officers One Third More Likely to Murder Than Concealed Carry Permit Holders”

In an obscene development, a Monsanto executive is winning this year’s “Nobel Prize of agriculture” — the prestigious World Food Prize — for creating GMOs. Receiving it legitimizes the sort of rampant genetic modification Monsanto pioneered, and helps validate a ruthless business model that impoverishes farmers and monopolizes our food.   Continue reading “Do not sully the World Food Prize by giving it to Robert Fraley and Mary-Dell Chilton on World Food Day.”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Officials have closed West 57th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues after a tower crane hoisting a load got stuck Monday morning.

A large, yellow box can be seen dangling at the end of the crane about 20 stories above the street below.   Continue reading “Crane On 57th Street Gets Stuck While Hoisting Load Above Street”

Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill on Saturday limiting the state’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities, a rebuke of a major Obama administration enforcement policy that has led to record deportations from the state.

As the Congress stalls on immigration reform, action continues in the states, and advocates and politicians in California hope they can serve as an example of how to do it right.

“While Washington waffles on immigration, California’s forging ahead,” Brown said in a press release after signing the legislation into law. “I’m not waiting.”   Continue reading “Trust Act Signed In California To Limit Deportation Program”

New York Times – by NICHOLAS KULISH and ERIC SCHMITT

NAIROBI, Kenya — A Navy SEAL team targeted a senior leader of the Shabab militant group in a raid on his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility.

The SEAL team stealthily approached the beachfront house by sea before exchanging gunfire with militants in a predawn firefight that was the most significant raid by American troops on Somali soil since commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Qaeda mastermind, near the same town four years ago.   Continue reading “U.S. Says Navy SEAL Team Stages Raid on Somali Militants”

Voice of America

NEW YORK — Police in Washington could have avoided shooting dead a woman pursued by officers in a car chase that led to the lockdown of the Capitol this week, the driver’s sister, former New York police sergeant Valarie Carey, said late on Friday.

The family of Miriam Carey, whose one-year-old daughter Erica was in the car with her during the encounter with police on Thursday, has said she suffered from post-partum depression.   Continue reading “Former NYPD Sergeant Questions Sister’s Killing by Police in Washington”

Fox News

A former Hells Angels leader who watched the helmet-cam video of a high-speed chase in New York that resulted in a father taking a beating in front of his wife and 2-year-old child said nothing justifies the attack.

“These types of incidents unfairly give us a bad name,” George Christie, who led the Ventura, Calif., chapter of the Hells Angels for 35 years, said. “They are not an example of what we stand for.”   Continue reading “Former Hells Angels leader slams New York beating after motorcycle chase”

The USDA has never denied a single application from Monsanto for new genetically engineered crops.

Monsanto’s growth hormones for cows have been approved by Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto lobbyist turned USDA administrator and FDA deputy commissioner. This was after Margaret Miller, a former Monsanto employee, oversaw a report on the hormones’ safety and then took a job at the FDA where she approved her own report.    Continue reading “Investigate Monsanto’s Takeover of USDA”