Category: News

CNS News – by Susan Jones

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), an early and vocal advocate of U.S. intervention in Syria, is warning of “mass slaughter” in Kobani, a Syrian town on the border with Turkey where fighting raged on Monday.

Islamic State fighters are battling Kurdish defenders for control of Kobani. “And if it falls, there is going to be a mass slaughter,” McCain told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto on Monday. And there will be no better indication of the ineffectiveness and fecklessness of this air campaign we’re now seeing, where you warn the enemy weeks ahead of time.   Continue reading “McCain: ISIS Advance Shows ‘Ineffectiveness and Fecklessness’ of Air Strikes”

IHS Jane’s 360 – by Mike Yeo

Japan’s Ministry of Defense has released a photo of a new type of Chinese intelligence-gathering aircraft that its fighters intercepted in international airspace over the East China Sea on 3 October.

Known as the GX-8 (GaoXin, literally High New, the name assigned to China’s Y-8/Y-9 special missions aircraft), the aircraft is based on the Shaanxi Y-9 transport.   Continue reading “Japan intercepts new Chinese GX-8 ELINT aircraft”

Next Big Future – by Brian Wang

Scientists from MIT say they’ve figured out the underlying physics of a new type of energy generation which could one day make it possible to generate electricity directly from liquid fuels using a process called a Thermopower Wave.

There’s no heavy pollution, no noisy engine, and intermediary energy state, although the technology is still very much in the experimental stage.   Continue reading “Thermowave power using graphene or carbon nanotubes could enable pulsed power from liquid fuel without emissions”

New York Daily News – by TINA MOORE, BILL HUTCHINSON

The family of a Staten Island man who died in an apparent police chokehold put the city on notice Tuesday that they intend to file a $75 million wrongful-death lawsuit.

Eric Garner’s widow, Esaw Snipes, their six children and his mother, Gwen Carr, informed city Controller Scott Stringer of the pending lawsuit, revealing they will name the city, the NYPD and eight cops as defendants.   Continue reading “Family of Eric Garner plan to sue NYPD and the city for $75 million”

The Watchers – by Adonai

A very strong and shallow earthquake measuring M6.6 (CENC) on the Richter scale struck Chinese province of Yunnan on October 7, 2014, at 13:49 UTC (21:49 local time). CENC reported very shallow depth of 5 km. USGS is reporting M6.0 at depth of 10 km.

Epicenter was in a remote, mostly rural mountainous part of Yunnan, located 18 km (11 miles) WSW of Weiyuan, 158 km (98 miles) N of Jinghong, 218 km (135 miles) SW of Longquan and 231 km (144 miles) WSW of Yuxi, China.   Continue reading “Very strong and extremely dangerous M6.6 earthquake struck Yunnan, China”

Chicago Tribune – by Jason Meisner

One day after a Bolingbrook teen was accused in federal court in Chicago of plotting to travel to the Middle East and join Islamic State, the FBI is asking for the public’s help to identify other individuals who have traveled — or are planning to travel — overseas to fight alongside terrorist organizations.

“We need the public’s assistance in identifying U.S. persons going to fight overseas with terrorist groups or who are returning home from fighting overseas,” Michael Steinbach, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, said in a statement posted Tuesday afternoon on the bureau’s website.   Continue reading “FBI asks public to help identify homegrown terrorists”

Rick Rozoff

Over 700 Ukrainian servicemen killed in east Ukraine operation

The Ukrainian Armed Forces sustained the largest losses during the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine and three quarters of the fatalities are Ukrainian servicemen, Ukraine’s chief military prosecutor, Anatoliy Matios, has said. He also said at a press conference in Kyiv on October 7 that five Ukrainian servicemen had been killed and 28 others wounded over the past 24 hours.   Continue reading “Ukrainian Junta Admits Losing Almost 1,000 Soldiers In 176-Day War”

Information Liberation – by William Norman Grigg

In Habersham County, Georgia, it is not a crime to mutilate children in midnight raids, assuming that the assailants are privileged purveyors of state-sanctioned violence.

Following a six-day investigation, a Habersham County Grand Jury has declined to indict the law enforcement officers who nearly murdered 19-month-old Bounkham Phonesavanh by heaving a flash-bang grenade into his crib during a no-knock drug raid earlier this year. The raid followed a tip from an anonymous informant that there were drugs and weapons at the residence, which was supposedly patrolled by armed guards. The same informant claimed that there were no children present at the targeted home. While there was certainly a child on the premises, neither drugs nor guns were found during the raid.   Continue reading “No Criminal Charges for the Baby-Burning Stormtroopers of Habersham County”

Know your enemy. As we’ve been saying for years, “There is no difference between the Parties. Just follow the money.”

New York Times – by Jonathan Martin

Michael R. Bloomberg plans to leave a $25 million footprint in the month before the midterm elections as part of a final push to elect centrist-oriented candidates of both parties.

Mr. Bloomberg will pay for television ads through his Independence USA PAC, spending that could play a pivotal role in two of the country’s most closely contested races for governor, in Michigan and Massachusetts. In both campaigns, he is backing the Republican.   Continue reading “Bloomberg Tries to Help Centrists With TV Ads”

Police State USA

EAST DUBLIN, GA — A drug task force gunned down a grandfather in his home during a botched late-night raid that was based on the word of a self-confessed meth addict and burglar who had robbed the property two nights prior. His grieving widow is disputing the official story regarding the no-knock raid that led to her husband’s untimely death.

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The devastating incident occurred the evening of September 24, 2014. David Hooks and his wife of 25 years, Teresa, had settled in for the evening; Mr. Hooks was asleep and his wife was upstairs in her craft room.   Continue reading “Police kill Georgia grandfather during no-knock raid on wrong home”

Reason – by Damon Root

Another day, another federal appeals court invalidates a state ban on gay marriage. Writing today for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, Judge Stephen Reinhardt struck down Idaho and Nevada’s prohibitions on same-sex unions:

[The states’] essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families. Heightened scrutiny, however, demands more than speculation and conclusory assertions, especially when the assertions are of such little merit. [The states] have presented no evidence of any such effort. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit. Because defendants have failed to demonstrate that these laws further any legitimate purpose, they unjustifiable discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, and are in violation of the Equal Protection Clause.

Continue reading “Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Bans in Idaho and Nevada”

Wall Street Journal – by PERVAIZ SHALLWANI And YONI BASHAN

Complaints about the New York Police Department’s use of chokeholds have increased in the past several years as efforts to discipline officers using the banned tactic have been “a virtually total failure,” an NYPD oversight board said in an analysis released Tuesday.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board’s 139-page analysis was commissioned after Eric Garner died, in part, because an officer subdued him with a chokehold during an arrest in July, according to the city medical examiner.   Continue reading “Chokehold Complaints Are Growing – NYPD Oversight Agency Says Discipline is “a Virtually Total Failure””

Syria Deeply – by Yasser Allawi

Many local journalists fled Deir Ezzor when ISIS arrived – and the ones who stayed behind are forced to abide by the extremist group’s draconian rules

After raging battles between rebel forces and the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, the latter gained control of much of Deir Ezzor province. Local journalists documented the instability and chaos.

But then ISIS swiftly implemented new rules for journalists working in areas under their control. The new rules drove many journalists to flee either to other parts of Syria or neighboring countries.   Continue reading “ISIS Issues 11 Rules for Journalists in Deir Ezzor”

Mail.com

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An invention that promises to revolutionize the way the world lights its homes and offices — and already helps create the glowing screens of mobile phones, computers and TVs— earned a Nobel Prize on Tuesday for two Japanese scientists and a Japanese-born American.

By inventing a new kind of light-emitting diode, or LED, they overcame a crucial roadblock for creating white light far more efficiently than incandescent or fluorescent bulbs. Now LEDs are pervasive and experts say their use will only grow.   Continue reading “LED there be light: 3 share Nobel for blue diode”

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Nearly 250 years ago, Capt. James Cook ran aground on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef during a voyage to the South Pacific to observe the planet Venus. His ship was the Endeavour, an ugly and awkward little vessel that improbably helped him become the first European to chart Australia’s east coast.

Today, schoolchildren in Australia learn about the Endeavour’s historic 1768-71 voyage. But few people give a second thought to what ultimately happened to the ship. A marine archaeologist in Rhode Island thinks she knows.   Continue reading “Australians to help look for historic ship in US”

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MADRID (AP) — Health officials in Spain rushed to contain the Ebola virus Tuesday after it got past Europe’s defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a nursing assistant got infected and persuading a court that the woman’s dog must die.

The first case of Ebola transmitted outside Africa, where a months-long outbreak has killed more than 3,400 people, is raising questions about how prepared wealthier countries really are. Health workers complained Tuesday that they lack the training and equipment to handle the virus, and the all-important tourism industry was showing its anxiety.   Continue reading “Ebola evades European defenses; pet dog must die”

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BOSTON (AP) — School and law enforcement officials in New England say they are dealing with an unusually high number of bomb threats that have forced the cancellation of classes just weeks into the new academic year.

Nearly a dozen schools and colleges in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut have received the threats, forcing evacuations and cancellations in many of the schools this past week. Local school and law enforcement officials say they aren’t sure if they’re dealing with a coordinated effort or a number of copycats. But the sheer number of threats in such a short amount of time is concerning, they say.   Continue reading “New England schools face rash of bomb threats”

KIII TV

(CNN) – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says it is firing four senior officials — moves made amid investigations of alleged long wait times at VA medical facilities.

The VA said it is in the process of firing the directors of the VA health care systems in Pittsburgh and central Alabama, as well as the director of the VA medical center in Dublin Georgia, and the VA’s deputy chief procurement director in Washington.   Continue reading “VA says it is Firing Four Senior Officials”