Author: Sunfire

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Google has opened a service for European users to request deletion of their data from search engines if they consider their content irrelevant or outdated, a move that followed the ruling of the European court calling for the “right to be forgotten.”

“Certain users can ask search engines to remove results for queries that include their name where those results are inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed,” says the form on a Web page that Google opened late on Thursday for European users.   Continue reading “‘Right to be forgotten’: Google launches form to allow users delete their ‘inadequate’ data”

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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — In a stately neighborhood of Boulder, a city known as the Berkeley of the Rocky Mountains, a bull elk named “Big Boy” had become a treasured fixture.

When Mapleton residents learned a police officer killed the regal animal last year as it grazed beneath a crabapple tree, they led marches, wrote songs, held prayer vigils and hatched plans for a permanent memorial.   Continue reading “Elk killing trial ignites emotions in hippie town”

Yahoo News – by Jim Salter

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri should establish its own laboratory to produce chemicals for use in executions rather than rely on an “uneasy cooperation” with medical professionals and pharmaceutical companies, the state’s attorney general said Thursday.

Attorney General Chris Koster, a Democrat, spoke to the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis during the group’s meeting at Lake of the Ozarks.   Continue reading “Missouri official proposes execution drug lab”

I’m sure this “fine, young man” will make for a wonderful police officer!

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A ‘smart’ and ‘sane’ North Carolina teen has admitted to stabbing and bludgeoning his parents to death over slight and routine punishments, like depriving him of his iPod.   Continue reading “‘8 knives, bat and crowbar’: 16 yo admits to parents’ brutal murder for taking away iPod”

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A federal appeals court has ruled that Americans have the right to videotape police officers in public, thereby allowing a court case brought against New Hampshire police to progress.

Carla Gericke was arrested in 2010 for videotaping members of the Weare Police Department who pulled over her friend during a traffic stop. Her video camera malfunctioned, however, and she failed to record evidence of the incident.   Continue reading “Americans have First Amendment right to film police, US appeals court rules”

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PHOENIX (AP) — Navy veteran Ken Senft turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care in 2011 after his private insurance grew too costly. It could have been a fatal mistake, he now says.

A few years ago, the 65-year-old had a lesion on his head. He went to a VA clinic near his home outside Phoenix, but he said the doctor told him it could be two years before he might get an appointment with a dermatologist.   Continue reading “Report: 1,700 vets left off VA hospital wait list”

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NEW MILFORD, New Jersey — Five New Milford high school students are facing charges stemming from a counterfeiting scheme.

Counterfeit $20 bills with the same serial numbers began surfacing at local businesses over a four-week period. Police reviewed security video and identified the students.   Continue reading “5 New Milford high school students charges in counterfeiting scheme”

This article truly shows the level of hypocrisy, lies, and insanity 
running rampant.

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WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Seeking to redefine America’s foreign policy for a post-war era, President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared that the United States remains the only nation with the capacity to lead on the world stage but argued it would be a mistake to channel that power into unrestrained military adventures.   Continue reading “Obama seeks ground between intervention, isolation”

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LONDON (AP) — Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.

Researchers found more than 2 billion people worldwide are now overweight or obese. The highest rates were in the Middle East and North Africa, where nearly 60 percent of men and 65 percent of women are heavy. The U.S. has about 13 percent of the world’s fat population, a greater percentage than any other country. China and India combined have about 15 percent.    Continue reading “30 percent of world is now fat, no country immune”

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MIAMI (AP) — A divided appeals court on Wednesday threw out the murder conviction and lengthy prison sentence for a former FBI agent in the decades-old mob-style killing of a gambling executive, one of numerous slayings linked to jailed Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger.

Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled 2-1 that former agent John Connolly was improperly convicted and sentenced to 40 years for his role in the 1982 slaying of World Jai-Alai President John Callahan. Connolly, 73, remains in prison for now, and prosecutors vowed to appeal.   Continue reading “Fla. court voids ex-FBI agent’s murder conviction”

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Bad welds, dents and damaged coatings discovered at the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline have led to safety regulators imposing two extra conditions on the implementation of the project’s northern segment.

The two new conditions have been added to a list of 57, which project implementers, TransCanada Corp, agreed to three years ago, AP reports. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has thus amended the environmental impact statement on Keystone XL released by the State Department in January.    Continue reading “‘Horrible’ pipeline defects prompt new rules for Keystone XL construction”

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Some $1.9 billion is to be spent on clearing abandoned or unusable properties in Detroit. Around 70,000 unusable properties across the city will need to be cleared in the next five years – at a cost of $1.9 billion to the taxpayer.

Uninhabited or unusable properties make up one in five of all the city’s properties.   Continue reading “Clearing up Detroit’s dilapidated buildings to cost $1.9bn”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google will build a car without a steering wheel.

It doesn’t need one because it drives itself. The two-seater won’t be sold publicly, but Google said Tuesday it hopes by this time next year, 100 prototypes will be on public roads. Though not driving very quickly — the top speed would be 25 mph.

The cars are a natural next step for Google, which already has driven hundreds of thousands of miles in California with Lexus SUVs and Toyota Priuses outfitted with a combination of sensors and computers.   Continue reading “Google: We’re building car with no steering wheel”

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BEIJING (AP) — China is targeting popular smartphone-based instant messaging services in a monthlong campaign to crack down on the spreading of rumors and what it calls infiltration of hostile forces, in the latest move restricting online freedom of expression.

Such services incorporate social media functions that allow users to post photos and updates to their friends, or follow the feeds of companies, social groups or celebrities, and — more worryingly for the government — intellectuals, journalists and activists who comment on politics, law and society. They also post news reports shunned by mainstream media.   Continue reading “China cracks down on instant messaging services”

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A treasure trove of rare gold coins discovered by a California couple out walking their dog has gone on sale, with one coin selling for $15,000 on Tuesday.

The coins date from 1847 to 1894 and have been valued at $11 million. Several coins were auctioned at the Old San Francisco Mint at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, and one of them — an 1874 $20 double eagle that is usually worth $4,250 — sold for $15,000.   Continue reading “California couple’s buried gold coins go for sale”

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Someone is dropping envelopes full of cash across San Francisco — and causing an international frenzy on social media.

An anonymous man with the Twitter handle @HiddenCash has been hiding money throughout the city since Friday, leading scores on a scavenger hunt. His Twitter following exploded from a few hundred Friday to more than 80,000 and counting by midday Tuesday.   Continue reading “Anonymous “HiddenCash” creates social media frenzy”

This year I took my mom to a Memorial Day parade held at Turkey Brook Park in Mount Olive Township in New Jersey.  I could not help but notice that all the American flags in the parade had a gold fringe on them.  I have heard the topic of the gold fringed flag brought up on several occasions during the Trenches Livestream cast. 

I found various pages on the Internet that address the issue.  Does anyone else have any further information about how these flags have come to be in every courtroom, municipal building, etc.? Continue reading “Gold Fringed Flag”

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Adepts of conspiracy theories might well take a deep breath: the HAARP program could be dismantled as soon as this summer, so from now on a tornado destroying your house will be a mere whirlwind, not a DARPA prank. Or will it?

The Air Force is said to be getting ready to wave their last good-bye to the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), the Anchorage Daily News reports. Unlike last year’s rumors about the project’s demise, this time it appears to be for real.    Continue reading “Research center or weather weapon? US military is shutting down HAARP”

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The world took one significant step closer to inventing a real-life cybernetic organism as US scientists, inspired by the Terminator movie, combined organic matter with semiconductors in a process that replicates plants’ transformation of light into fuel.

The breakthrough is quite significant, scientists at universities in Michigan and Pittsburgh believe. Their blend of a chemical used in solar panels and a plant protein that acts during photosynthesis “recreate the process that allows plants to turn sunlight into fuel,” the Michigan press-release cites the team as saying.    Continue reading “‘Inspired by Terminator’: Scientists create self-assembling bionic particles”