Author: Angel - NYC

New York Post – by Tara Palmeri and Jamie Schram

Joe Biden’s art-dealer niece went on a violent rampage at her luxury Tribeca apartment Tuesday — throwing punches at police officers and flailing “frantically” as cops wrestled her into handcuffs, sources said.

Caroline Biden, 26, went wild at about 9:15 a.m., “screaming at the top of her lungs” after her roommate confronted her about unpaid rent at their $3,500-a-month digs, sources said.   Continue reading “Biden’s niece busted after roommate dispute”

NBC Washington

The gunman who killed 12 people and injured eight Monday in a mass shooting at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard said in a recent incident that he could hear people talking to him through the walls, floor and ceiling of his motel rooms, and believed persecutors were keeping him awake by talking to him and sending vibrations into his body.

Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas, displayed troubling signs of mental illness less than two months ago, according to a Rhode Island police report obtained by NBC New York’s Jon Dienst.   Continue reading “In Aftermath of Navy Yard Shooting, Questions Remain About Gunman”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

 CNN is reporting that there may not have been an AR-15 recovered at the scene, as originally reported, but a shotgun and two handguns. Here is an excerpt from the CNN report:

“However, federal law enforcement sources told CNN Tuesday that authorities have recovered three weapons from the scene of the mass shooting, including one — a shotgun — that investigators believe Alexis brought in to the compound. The other two weapons, which sources say were handguns, may have been taken from guards at the Navy complex.   Continue reading “Gun prohibitionists rush to exploit Navy Yard shooting”

AmmoLand – by Max McGuire

New Jersey –(Ammoland.com)- We all knew this was coming.

Before the victims the Navy Yard shooting had been identified, gun control proponents were already making their case.   Continue reading “It’s So Much Easier To Blame The Gun”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A magazine in Arizona has decided to pull its October issue from newsstands, after mistakenly advising that a mushroom that can cause hallucinations is edible.

Arizona Highways Magazine announced Friday that in its October 2013 issue, it mistakenly included an item advising that the fly agaric mushroom is edible.   Continue reading “Magazine Mistakenly Advises Eating Dangerous Mushroom”

DeSmog Blog – by FARRON COUSINS

Will the turmoil in the Middle East surrounding Syria expedite approval of the Keystone XL pipeline?  North Dakota Republican Senator John Hoeven believes it will.

Hoeven, an ardent supporter of the pipeline, recently told a North Dakota newspaper, “Right now, we’re determining how to respond in the Middle East, specifically Syria, and it shows, with the volatile situation there, how important it is that we can produce our own energy in North America and not have to get it from the Middle East.”   Continue reading “Republican Congressman Says Syrian Conflict A Boon For Keystone XL”

NOLA – by Benjamin Alexander-Bloch

The St. Bernard Parish water system has tested positive for a rare brain-eating amoeba, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed, about a week after St. Bernard Parish government officials assured the public that the parish was taking every precaution possible to flush out its water system.

The CDC has confirmed the presence of the Naegleria fowleri amoeba in four locations of parish’s water system in Violet and Arabi, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals said Thursday (Sept. 12).   Continue reading “St. Bernard water system tests positive for rare brain-eating amoeba, CDC confirms”

Huffington Post – by FREDERIC J. FROMMER

WASHINGTON — The federal government says it will declassify parts of a 2008 secret court order that required Yahoo to turn over customer data under the National Security Agency’s PRISM data-gathering program.

In a filing Thursday with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Justice Department said that the declassification would make possible the publication of “much of the court’s opinion and order.” But the department said that some of the information in the opinion must remain classified and would be redacted.   Continue reading “Parts Of Secret Yahoo Court Order Will Be Declassified, Justice Department Says”

Citizens Voice – by Katie Sullivan

A Clarks Summit man sent an email to the White House threatening to kill President Obama a week before his visit to Scranton, the authorities said Thursday.

Nicholas Savino, 42, called Obama the “Anti-Christ” and said he would be “shot dead” if he did not stop “breaking the constitution,” federal prosecutors said in a news release announcing Savino’s indictment.  Continue reading “Feds: Clarks Summit man emailed Obama death threat”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

Washington, Oregon and Minnesota “could be the next battlegrounds” for the kind of gun control promoted by anti-gun billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns, according to a report in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal following Tuesday’s recall of two anti-gun Democrat state senators in Colorado.

In the aftermath of that political wake-up call, the Los Angeles Times acknowledged in an analysis by reporter Mark Barabas that gun control proponents want to make firearms less available. It is a startling admission by a newspaper that has been consistently and decidedly anti-gun-rights, and it unintentionally confirms what gun rights advocates have been saying about the gun control movement for decades: They are not interested in controlling crime, they want to take guns out of circulation, and that includes guns owned by law-abiding citizens.   Continue reading “Bloomberg group could target Washington, Oregon next”

AmmoLand

Huffington Post – by Brock Vergakis

ATLANTIC, Va. — NASA scientists are using former military surveillance drones to help them understand more about how tropical storms intensify, which they say could ultimately save lives by improving forecast models that predict a hurricane’s strength.

The unmanned Global Hawk aircraft were designed to perform high-altitude, long-endurance reconnaissance and intelligence missions for the Air Force. Two of the original Global Hawks built in the developmental process for the military have found new life as part of NASA’s research mission, studying storms that form over the Atlantic Ocean. NASA planned to launch one of the drones from its Wallops Flight Facility on Wednesday to study Tropical Storm Gabrielle, which re-formed in the Atlantic on Tuesday.   Continue reading “NASA Weather Drones: Scientists Launch Unmanned Aircraft To Study Storms”

Christian Science Monitor – by Elizabeth Barber

One year ago, Mars One announced big plans for the Red Planet: a human settlement. The colonizing mission, planned for 2023, would be stylized like a reality TV show, but with the added drama that its participants, the would-be first humans to set foot on another planet, will never get to go home.   Continue reading “More than 200,000 people apply for a one-way trip to Mars”

Gothamist – by Christopher Robins

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly attended a farewell speech for outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday, raising further speculation that he may be a top choice to succeed her. But it wasn’t just Kelly’s presence that rekindled the belief that the Obama administration is seriously considering the commissioner for the post: Vice President Joe Biden gave Kelly a fist bump on his way from the lectern, which just a few years ago, might have attracted attention from the NYPD’s Demographics Unit.   Continue reading “Biden Gives Ray Kelly Fist-Bump At Homeland Security Speech”

Business Insider – by BRETT LOGIURATO

In two high-profile elections on opposite sides of the country on Tuesday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a big loser.

The first came in his backyard of New York, where Democratic voters are on the verge of making Bill de Blasio their nominee for mayor. Bloomberg, as he revealed last weekend, is not a big fan of de Blasio, a candidate who has made a winning campaign out of tarnishing Bloomberg’s legacy. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Bloomberg’s preferred choice, finished a distant third.   Continue reading “It Was A Terrible Night For Michael Bloomberg”

Business Week -by Matthew Philips

Take Part – by RL Miller

No, it’s not the brown acid passed around at a 1960s rock concerts.Hydrofluoric acid is the most dangerous chemical you’ve never heard of, and it’s being trucked around California’s back roads and injected into oil wells, with virtually no oversight.

How bad is it? HF acid is extremely toxic; it can immediately and permanently damage lungs if inhaled, and a spill on skin is easily absorbed deep into the body’s tissues and changes bone calcium atoms to fluorine atoms.   Continue reading “Why Oil Companies Want to Drop Acid in California”

Huffington Post – by Emily Flitter and Ben Hirschler

NEW YORK/LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are investigating British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline for violations of U.S. anti-bribery laws in China after Chinese government officials accused the company of bribing doctors, a company spokesman confirmed on Friday.

The investigation is part of a wider probe of drugmakers’ sales practices in China, said a source familiar with the investigation.   Continue reading “GlaxoSmithKline Under Investigation For Allegedly Bribing Doctors In China”

AOL – by Erik Sherman

As low-wage workers are staging walk outs for raises, one Pennsylvania woman who had been earning $9 an hour won a small, but little-noticed victory against her employer. A Pennsylvania court just sided with Shamela Hightower who was essentially fired because she couldn’t afford a car on the wages her employer paid, as the Patriot-News reported.   Continue reading “Social Service Agency Fires $9/Hour Worker For Not Buying A New Car”