Category: News

MassPrivateI

The “Massachusetts Task Force on School Safety and Security” released a report. As you’d expect from a report written with plenty of police input and none from the civil liberties community, it recommends changes that are highly intrusive, probably ineffective, definitely expensive, and likely to benefit police more than they benefit students.

The report recommends introducing “school resources officers” – often retired police officers – into schools to develop relationships with students, and encourages trainings that would teach “young children not to be frightened of police.” This, in a country where the police kill an absolute minimum of one American per day.   Continue reading “Massachusetts wants students to become anonymous spies”

Courthouse News Service

FERGUSON, Mo. (CN) – A growing number of media outlets claim that Ferguson, Mo. is charging way too much money – $2,000 or more – to respond to Freedom of Information Acts requests about the Michel Brown shooting.

St. Louis Public Radio has filed a formal complaint against Ferguson with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office.   Continue reading “Ferguson Charges $2,000 for Press FOIA Requests”

New York Daily News – by Joel Landau

Cold onion rings led to an attack involving a switchblade and Taser at a New Mexico Burger King, alleges a customer.

Robert DeYapp filed a lawsuit against the fast-food franchise last week after he said the manager Francisco Berrera tried to attack him after he asked for his onion rings to be heated up, reports Courthouse News Service.

The incident occurred at the restaurant in Bloomfield, N.M., on June 7, 2013, the lawsuit states.   Continue reading “New Mexico Burger King manager attacked customer over cold onion rings: lawsuit”

TheBlaze – by Elizabeth Kreft

A District of Columbia Council member has feelings about guns that his staff doesn’t like him to share much: He doesn’t want police to carry them.

“My staff won’t let me tell you that I think we oughta get rid of guns in the city and that police shouldn’t have guns so I’m not gonna tell you that,” D.C. Council Member at large David Grosso said.   Continue reading “D.C. Council Member: ‘My Staff Won’t Let Me Tell You…Police Shouldn’t Have Guns’”

Health Impact News

In a case bearing several similarities to Justina Pelletier’s family’s experience with Boston Children’s Hospital, and Isaiah Rider’s family’s experience with Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, 10 and 12 year old sisters have been seized by Phoenix Children’s Hospital over a medical dispute. The mother has reportedly been ordered to not discuss the case with anyone, and has been forced to take down YouTube videos and a Facebook Page with over 3000 followers that was documenting the actions of Child Protection Services and doctors at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.   Continue reading “10 and 12 Year Old Sisters Seized from Family by Hospital in Phoenix”

Penn Live – by Associated Press

NEW YORK  — Public hospitals in New York City are so concerned about Ebola, they’ve secretly been sending actors with mock symptoms into emergency rooms to test how well the triage staffs identify and isolate possible cases.

A small Ohio hospital has hung up signs imploring patients to let nurses know immediately if they have traveled recently to West Africa.   Continue reading “Ebola prep in U.S. includes actors testing hospitals, ambulances carrying plastic”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 40 years ago, authorities said former diplomat William Bradford “Brad” Bishop Jr. bludgeoned his family to death with a sledgehammer and disappeared into the North Carolina woods. For decades, investigators believed he might have used his education, international experience and knowledge of foreign languages to flee to Europe and assume a new identity.

On Thursday, the FBI had a new theory: Bishop never left the rural South, living as a homeless vagrant until he was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Alabama in 1981. The John Doe in that case bears a strong resemblance to Bishop, so authorities have dug up the unidentified remains to see if they match his DNA, the FBI said. The agency said the results could be known soon but wouldn’t elaborate.   Continue reading “FBI exhumes body in 10 Most Wanted search”

CNN

Just 12 miles south of the spot where a police officer killed Michael Brown, it happened again: Another 18-year-old died at the hands of police on Wednesday.

An off-duty officer opened fire on the teen, and the policeman didn’t stop until he’d fired his weapon 17 times, authorities say.

Late Thursday, St. Louis city Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Graham said the teen was hit seven or eight times.   Continue reading “Police: Off-duty St. Louis officer shoots, kills man who fired at him”

Press TV, Sept. 18, 2014

On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House voted 333 to 92 in favor of the “Audit the Fed” bill that would authorize the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the Federal Reserve’s board of governors and banks within one year and present a report to Congress on the findings.   Continue reading “US House passes bill to audit Federal Reserve”

Here’s an example of why we should not believe everything we see on the Internet:

Huffington Post – by Kate Matthews

Thea is 12 years old. She’s a seventh-grader at her school in Norway, and she loves riding horses and listening to One Direction. According to her blog, she’s also marrying a 37-year-old man this weekend.

But Thea and her impending wedding aren’t actually real. They were fabricated for a viral marketing campaign aimed at raising awareness about the forced marriages of underage girls around the globe.   Continue reading “This Norwegian Preteen Is ‘Marrying’ A 37-Year-Old For One Important Reason”

The Hill – by Sarah Ferris

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved the use of an experimental drug that has been hailed as one of the pharmaceutical industry’s best chances at fighting the Ebola virus.

Chimerix, a North Carolina-based biopharmaceutical company, announced Monday that it has received approval to administer an antiviral drug called brincidofovir that has successfully treated Ebola in lab tests.   Continue reading “FDA approves use of experimental Ebola drug”

Vineyard of the Saker – by The Saker

Military situation

The situation in the Ukraine and Novorussia is a very tense and could lead to a major resumption of hostilities.

The Junta Repression Forces (JRF) have used the ceasefire to lick their wounds, get reorganized, concentrate their forces, bring in much needed reinforcements, prepare defensive fortifications and bring in new units.  The Novorussian Armed Forces (NAF) have done the same but, unlike the JRF, the NAF suffer from a lack of equipment, possibly made worse by a reduction of the flow of weapons, in particular heavy ones, from Russia (the so-called voentorg).  In terms of personnel, the influx of volunteers to the NDF has remained steady and strong.   Continue reading “Ukraine SITREP October 8th, 16:00 UTC/Zulu: The calm before the storm?”

Publius Forum – by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois is in such bad shape it can’t even produce no littering signs that are properly spelled, it appears.

Friend to the blog John Ruberry of the wonderful MarathonPundit blog was on a trip through the state when he spotted a no littering sign that read: “Please Don,t Liter.”   Continue reading “How Much Did Illinois Spend on Misspelled No Littering Signs?”

Japan Times

A supertyphoon on course to hit Japan over the weekend is as powerful as the deadly storm that ripped through the Philippines in 2013 killing thousands of people, meteorologists said Wednesday

The monstrous storm, named Vongfong, was picking up speed as it churned through the far west of the Pacific Ocean.

“Its strength is very much similar to Haiyan,” which ravaged the Philippines in November, said a meteorologist at the Meteorological Agency.   Continue reading “Vongfong, supertyphoon rivaling Haiyan, roaring toward Japan”

Rick Rozoff

KYIV: The United States is planning to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine.

National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing on Thursday, citing U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Derek Chollet, a Ukrinform correspondent reported.   Continue reading “U.S. To Provide Lethal Weapons To Ukrainian Client Regime”

FAS – by Steven Aftergood

A report to Congress on authorized disclosures of classified intelligence to the media — not unauthorized disclosures — is classified and is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, the National Security Agency said.

The notion of an authorized disclosure of classified information is close to being a contradiction in terms. If something is classified, how can its disclosure be authorized (without declassification)? And if something is disclosed by an official who is authorized to do so, how can it still be classified? And yet, it seems that there is such a thing.   Continue reading “Report on Disclosures to the Media is Classified”

The Daily Caller – by Tristyn Bloom

An administrative law judge has ruled that a Kentucky printer’s refusal to print gay pride T-shirts “constitutes unlawful discrimination,” and, by extension, that printers cannot refuse to print materials promoting ideas they disagree with.

Hands On Originals is a business that prints custom designs on clothes, accessories and other items like mugs and bottles. According to the ruling, Blaine Adamson, its managing owner, “instructed his sales representatives to decline to design, print, or produce orders whenever the requested material was perceived to promote an event or organization that conveys messages that are considered by the sales representative or Mr. Adamson to be inappropriate or inconsistent with Christian beliefs.”   Continue reading “Judge Wants To Force A Printer To Make Pro-Gay T-Shirts”