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The Phillipines has reported the country’s first suspected cases of the Ebola virus. According to the country’s health officials, seven workers who returned to the Phillipines from Sierra Leone are showing symptoms symilar to that of the tropical virus.

There are currently over 1,300 suspected cases worldwide. The World Health Organization says there is little risk of the virus spreading outside of West Africa, but countries outside of the affected region are still taking precautions to prevent a spread.   Continue reading “Phillippines reports possible Ebola cases”

axel kicillofYahoo Finance – by Linette Lopez

Argentina has defaulted.

Argentine Finance Minister Axel Kicillof delivered the news to the world from Argentina’s consulate in New York City.

He had just finished a meeting in which he and a delegation from The Republic failed to satisfy the demands of a group of hedge fund creditors negotiating over $1.3 billion worth of debt owed to them for over a decade.   Continue reading “Agentina Defaults on its Debt”

Concept image of an electromagnetic fieldCNBC – by Lawrence Delevingne

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer has issued an unusual warning for investors, calling the threat of a widespread blackout from an electromagnetic surge the “most significant danger” in the world.

Called an “electromagnetic pulse” or EMP, the events can occur naturally from solar storms or artificially from a high-altitude explosion of nuclear weapons. Continue reading “Paul Singer: This threat is ‘head-and-shoulders’ above all others”

An RCMP officer at the scene of a shooting in Norway House, MB on July 20, 2014Global News – by Peter Chura

WINNIPEG – A northern Manitoba community is outraged after a police officer shot a suspect during a foot pursuit through a baseball diamond where children were playing. Witnesses say the suspect was unarmed.

It happened in Norway House Cree Nation,  475 kilometres north of Winnipeg, late Sunday afternoon.

Witnesses told Global News an RCMP officer pursued a suspect on foot onto the field where two games were going on, one between 16-and-under teams and the other between 12-and-under teams. Witnesses said they saw the male suspect walking with his arms raised when the officer fired as many as four shots.   Continue reading “RCMP shoot man at kids’ baseball game in northern Manitoba”

Mordechai KedarIB Times – by Gianluca Mezzofiore

An Israeli academic has claimed that raping wives and mothers of Palestinian Hamas militants is the only thing that could deter further terrorist attacks.

The remarks by renowned Middle East scholar Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University were made three weeks ago after the grim discovery of the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, but the recording was published online (in Hebrew) on Monday.   Continue reading “Israeli Professor: Rape Hamas Militants’ Mothers and Sisters to Deter Terrorist Attacks”

The Rundown Live – by Mike Paczesny

Video taken from a witness to an officer-involved shooting in northwest Spokane on March 26, 2014, shows a man leaving a single-story house who is then fired upon several times.

Police officers shot and killed a robbery suspect outside a home.

Police had been watching the man in a home. He was suspected in an armed robbery of an ice cream store, according to police.

Continue reading “Police Kill Suspect After Ordering Him Out of House”

640 AM Toronto – by Jessica Gray

The Special Investigations Unit has laid several charges against a former Toronto Police Officer in the alleged sexual assault of two men.

The SIU says the agency was notified of a complaint against the officer. The incident is alleged to have taken place between January 1, 1970 and December 31, 1971.   Continue reading “Former Toronto Police Officer Charged by SIU”

KREM – by BRIANA BERMENSOLO 

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho—An officer shot and killed a pit bull on Wednesday morning near 8th Street and Sherman. Investigators described the dog as a “vicious” pit bull and said it lunged at the officer. However, the dog’s owner said the dog was not a pit bull but a black lab (pictured above).

The incident began Wednesday morning when an officer responded to call about a suspicious van. The caller claimed the driver of van was watching young children from a nearby parking lot. The owners of coffee shop reported the white van because they thought it was possibly connected to child luring case.    Continue reading “Lunging “pit bull” fatally shot by Coeur d’Alene officer was a black lab”

Screenshots demonstrating the FxGuru app, used here to depict a rocket launcher attack on the Windsor Star building. Police have charged a local man for making a similar video involving Windsor police headquarters.The Windsor Star – by Dalson Chen

A 44-year-old local man is facing a criminal charge because he allegedly posted on Facebook a video depicting Windsor police headquarters being blown up with a rocket launcher.

“We take this seriously,” said Windsor police spokesman Sgt. Matt D’Asti on Tuesday.

“We felt strongly enough that this was a conveyance of a threat — and we acted on it.”   Continue reading “Windsor police arrest man over Facebook video post”

Trucks drive past piles of shipping containers at the Qingdao port in Qingdao, Shandong province June 8, 2014. REUTERS/China Stringer NetworkReuters – by Aileen Wang and Koh Gui Qing

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s trade performance improved in June but still missed market forecasts, reinforcing expectations that Beijing will have to unveil more stimulus measures to stabilize the economy and meet its 2014 growth target.

Exports rose 7.2 percent in June from a year earlier, the best pace in five months, but well below a median forecast in a Reuters poll for a rise of 10.6 percent.   Continue reading “China June trade data misses forecasts, doubts over economy linger”

Police Lights (KSN News)KSN

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A well-known American Indian artist said police in New Mexico pulled a rifle on him after his dog pooped in his SUV and a woman mistook his cleanup efforts for a burglary.

Pueblo painter Mateo Romero told The Associated Press that a Santa Fe officer pointed a weapon at him during the bizarre misunderstanding Monday that landed him in handcuffs and in the back of a patrol car.    Continue reading “Police pull rifle on man cleaning up dog poop”

Ma’an News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian-American teen who was beaten, badly injured, and detained by undercover Israeli police officers in Jerusalem on Thursday is set to be tried Sunday, a rights group said.

Tarek Abu Khdeir, 15, was beaten in the Shufat neighborhood at around 8 p.m. by Israeli police in the yard of his uncle’s home and arrested without charges, Addameer said on its website Friday. Continue reading “American teen brutalized by Israeli police ‘to be tried Sunday’”

Image: alainonline.netForbes – by Peter Kelly-Detwiler

The rapid advance of jihadists throughout Iraq unnerves us. The goal of establishing a radical Islamist caliphate – providing a haven to thousands of violent individuals with a hatred of the West – should unnerve us. Because it’s the unknown next step that follows that keeps us awake at night, and reminds us of our vulnerability.

News from Yemen last week further underscores that sense, as we learned that an attack on the power lines left the entire nation of Yemen (with its 23 million people) without power for a day.

Continue reading “Terrorist Attack Left All of Yemen In Darkness Last Week: Another Wake-Up Call”

There is a big difference between the above image and a hallway.Gov Exec – by Eric Katz

Environmental Protection Agency workers have done some odd things recently.

Contractors built secret man caves in an EPA warehouse, an employee pretended to work for the CIA to get unlimited vacations and one worker even spent most of his time on the clock looking at pornography.

It appears, however, that a regional office has reached a new low: Management for Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email earlier this year to all staff in the area pleading with them to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior, including defecating in the hallway.   Continue reading “EPA Employees Told to Stop Pooping in the Hallway”