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Google has blocked Press TV and Hispan TV’s access to their official accounts on the technology company’s platforms, including YouTube and Gmail, without prior notice, citing “violation of policies”.
“Your Google Account was disabled and can’t be restored because it was used in a way that violates Google’s policies,” Google said in a message that appears after Press TV tries to log into its account. Continue reading “Google ‘disables’ Press TV’s YouTube account without prior warning”
An Anchorage man facing a criminal charge over his hobby of finding and recovering stolen vehicles has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Although the deal, reached last week, brings his 19-month court battle to an end, he says it also takes aim at his crime fighting.
JUNEAU — The Alaska Permanent Fund has surpassed the oil industry and all other taxes combined as the cornerstone of the state budget, according to an updated forecast from the Alaska Department of Revenue.
According to the figures released Friday and presented Monday to the Senate Finance Committee, the Permanent Fund will deliver $2.7 billion to the state treasury this fiscal year. The oil industry will pay $2.1 billion in taxes and royalties. The state will collect another $548 million in other revenue, according to the latest forecast.
Continue reading “Permanent Fund revenue tops oil and taxes as Alaska’s budget foundation”
Two Rivers musher Richie Beattie said he thought his 5-year-old sled dog named Oshi was just tired on Thursday on the way to the Iditarod finish line in Nome. Two days later, Oshi died.
“We’re devastated,” Beattie said in an interview on Monday. “Losing her is no different than losing a family member.”
US President Donald Trump is the “insidious inspiration guiding the hand that pulled the trigger of the guns used to commit the mass slaying of Muslims in New Zealand,” according to Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs.
Trump has said he doesn’t view white extremism as a rising threat even though many blame the terrorist massacre in New Zealand on Friday on his demonization of Muslims. Continue reading “Trump is the guiding hand behind the mass slaying of Muslims in New Zealand: Analyst”
Reports have emerged of a deal clinched between the United States and Daesh, under which Washington has received massive amounts of gold in exchange for providing safe passage to the terror group’s members in Syria.
The deal gave the United States “tens of tons of gold that the terror organization had stolen,” the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Tuesday, citing local sources. Continue reading “US giving Daesh safe passage in east Syria under gold deal: Local sources”
A man suspected in a road-rage shooting that injured a toddler in Fairview last May was arrested in the Dominican Republic last week, Anchorage police said in a press conference Tuesday.
Investigators believe the shooting started after a road dispute on May 21 ramped up into a high-speed chase that ultimately led to gunfire in the area of Hyde Street and East 12th Avenue, police said.
Linda Skeek has been gone for more than three years now.
She is presumed dead: The 32-year-old’s family ran an obituary in the newspaper and held a memorial.
But her body has never been found. Now, her husband is on trial in Anchorage for her murder.
Anchorage Daily News – by Madeline McGee
Just before 3 p.m. on April 26, 1993, custodial workers cleaning a dormitory bathroom at the University of Alaska Fairbanks made a discovery that would shock the Fairbanks community and haunt the Alaska State Troopers for the next quarter century.
Sophie Sergie, a 20-year-old woman from the Yukon River village of Pitkas Point who had been on campus visiting a friend, was lying in a bathtub, dead. She had been sexually assaulted, stabbed multiple times and shot in the back of the head, according to the charging document in the case.
The United States is moving its special forces closer to Venezuela as part of a covert plan to stage military intervention in the South American country, which has been engulfed by unrest over the past weeks.
Cuba said in a “Declaration of the Revolutionary Government” on Thursday that recent events in Venezuela, where US-backed opposition Juan Guaido has been challenging the leadership of President Nicolas Maduro, amounted to an attempted coup that had so far failed. Continue reading “US preparing for military action in Venezuela: Cuba”
The second Wednesday of every month now holds a special significance for me. You see, this specific Wednesday, based on the numerical date of my birth, is when the Social Security Administration makes SS retiree payments to me. (Others receive it on the first Wednesday, others the third, I’m sure it took thousands of man-hours to concoct this elaborate scheme, instead of just paying everyone all at once each month.) Continue reading “The Social Security Blues”
Misanthrope – by LightWorker 111
Would it surprise you to know that a little-known greenhouse operation in rural Norfolk, England, is churning out nearly half of the world’s production of medical marijuana?
It’s true. The United Nations’ 2016 World Drug Report revealed that Britain is the global leader in the cultivation and distribution of legal marijuana plants. Continue reading “Brits Dominate The World Cannabis Market”
A jury has found drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán guilty of drug trafficking, weapons charges and money laundering, a verdict that means he will face life in prison at his sentencing. The leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel has been in American custody since early 2017.
The decision came Tuesday, February 12th, after nearly three months of testimony from a wide assortment of former associates and underlings of Guzmán, who walked jurors through more than 30 years of the drug lord’s career as a trafficker, describing smuggling routes, wars with rival cartels, bribery and a handful of brutal murders ordered, and in some case committed, by the defendant. Continue reading “El Chapo Found Guilty on All Charges in Harrowing, Months-Long Trial”
Walter B. Jones Jr., a North Carolina congressman who so enthusiastically supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq that he argued for the french fries and French toast served in House cafeterias to be called “freedom fries” and “freedom toast” — a jab at France for its opposition to the war — but who later underwent a dramatic change of heart and emerged as a prominent Republican critic of the war, died Sunday, on his 76th birthday.
His office confirmed the death in a statement. It had announced on Jan. 26 that the 13-term lawmaker had entered hospice care, his health having declined after a fall in which he broke his hip. Jones had been granted a leave of absence in late 2018 for an unspecified illness. Continue reading “Walter Jones, ‘freedom fries’ congressman who became Iraq War critic, dies at 76”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Houston, TX — A botched drug raid last month shook the nation as a couple was killed by police in their own home and four officers shot. Now, after controversy and rumors have swarmed the case, more details are coming out that may paint an entirely different picture than what police have been telling the public. Adding to this suspicion is the news that this week, an officer involved in the raid has been relieved of duty amid questions about the warrant used to justify this raid containing false information. Continue reading “Cop in Raid that Left Couple Dead, Suspended Amid Questions Over False Information on Warrant”
