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The Obama administration is pulling out the stops to renew and expand a little-known program that uses offshore drilling revenue for conservation.
The administration has pushed Congress to triple the amount of money available for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which officials use to acquire land, build recreation facilities and maintain parks. Continue reading “Obama seeks $900M for conservation program”
Thousands of Americans living overseas continue to give up their citizenship as foreign banks turn them away over the burden of completing increasingly expensive and complicated tax returns required by a controversial new tax law.
More than 1,500 Americans have renounced their citizenship in so far 2014,the Guardian reports. This year’s total may not top last year’s record-setting statistic – nearly 3,000 Americans gave up their citizenship in 2013 – but the high numbers shows that new tax law implemented by the US continues to force those living abroad to make difficult decisions. Continue reading “Overseas Americans continue to give up citizenship as banks refuse to deal with US tax returns”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of shootings in which a gunman wounds or kills multiple people has increased dramatically in recent years, with the majority of attacks in the last decade occurring at a business or a school, according to an FBI report released Wednesday.
The study focused on 160 “active shooter incidents” between 2000 and 2013. Those are typically defined as cases in which a gunman in an attack shoots or attempts to shoot people in a populated area. The goal of the report, which excluded shootings that are gang and drug related, was to compile accurate data about the attacks and to help local police prepare for or respond to similar killings in the future, federal law enforcement officials said. Continue reading “FBI releases report examining mass shootings”
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian forces expanded their search on Thursday through the mountainous region where a newly-formed extremist group claiming allegiance to the Syria-based Islamic State group beheaded a French hiker the day before.
French President Francois Hollande, meanwhile, held a special defense meeting Thursday about Paris’ role in fighting the Islamic State group, and said afterward, “This crime will not remain unpunished.” Continue reading “Algerian forces search for extremists in beheading”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Samuel Little has a rap sheet across half the continental U.S., but has very little time in prison to show for it.
That is likely to change Thursday. Little, 74, faces life in prison without parole for murdering three women in the late 1980s during the crack cocaine scourge when several serial killers prowled the streets of South Los Angeles and preyed on drug users and prostitutes. Continue reading “Strangler faces life term in old Los Angeles cases”
Aljazeera Arabic reports on the reaction in Syria to US air strikes against ISIL, which included attacks on Wednesday on their oil installations, an important revenue stream for the terrorist organization. It turns out that the Damascus press is giving President Obama an uncomfortable embrace.
This kind of talk is deadly to the political mission Obama is embarked on, and there is already talk of anger at him among the Syrian rebels for not striking at key government buildings. Continue reading “Syrian Media Hail America as Damascus Ally, Support U.N. Ban on Foreign Fighters”
CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — The suspected killer of a state trooper, who has eluded a massive dragnet for nearly two weeks, might be treating the manhunt in the Pennsylvania woods as a game against law enforcement, according to police.
Eric Frein, 31, appears to have purposely made himself visible at times, staying just far enough away to make it unlikely he’d be caught in the rough terrain, said state police Lt. Col George Bivens. “I almost think that some of this is a game to him,” Bivens said Wednesday. Continue reading “Trooper ambush suspect making manhunt a ‘game’”
New Boogeyman Has Already Been Debunked
Obama is now – after the fact – scrambling to justify bombing the sovereign nation of Syria without the permission of either the Syrian government or even the United States Congress by saying that we were going after the super-evil Khorasans, who were about to attack us.
My God! That sounds terrifying … like a cross between Genghis Khan, Klingons and the Kardashians! Continue reading “The Khorasans: As Fake As the Kardashians”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration’s legal fight against terrorism and pushed to make the criminal justice system more even-handed, is resigning after six years on the job. He is the nation’s first black attorney general.
The White House said Thursday that President Barack Obama planned to announce Holder’s departure later Thursday. The White House said Holder plans to remain at the Justice Department until his successor is in place. Continue reading “Official says Holder resigning as attorney general”
A Philadelphia woman who faced mandatory jail time for bringing a legally registered gun into New Jersey won a reprieve Wednesday.
Atlantic County Prosecutor Jim McClain said he will not oppose a diversion program for Shaneen Allen, reversing a stance that had prompted widespread criticism. Continue reading “Woman avoids jail time for gun charge in South Jersey”
EL PASO, Texas – A 64-year-old woman drowned when police said her vehicle ended up in a drainage canal in Northeast El Paso Monday morning.
El Paso police said they were called out to the intersection of Diana Drive and Vulcan Avenue just after 6:30 Monday morning due to reports of a vehicle that had gone into a drainage ditch overflowing with floodwaters. Continue reading “Drowning witness: Police stopped men from trying to save woman trapped in car”
(Dennis J. Kucinich) The administration’s response to the conjunction of this weekend’s People’s Climate March and the International Day of Peace?
1) Bomb Syria the following day, to wrest control of the oil from ISIS which gained its foothold directly in the region through the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Jordan funding and arming ISIS’ predecessors in Syria. Continue reading “The Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria”
The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations has welcomed a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution aimed at stopping the flow of militants into Syria and Iraq, saying that terrorists operating in the two Arab nations must not be classified as extremists and moderates.
Addressing a UN General Assembly during a meeting on Wednesday, Bashar Ja’afari spoke against “dividing terrorists into good terrorists and bad terrorists and distinguishing moderate terrorism from extremist terrorism,” saying, “Terrorism is terrorism.”
Continue reading “There are no moderate terrorists: Syria UN envoy”
A South Carolina state trooper was fired last week and arrested on Wednesday after a dashcam video showed him shooting an unarmed man during a routine traffic stop.
Former officer Sean Groubert, 31, is seen in the newly released video pulling over Levar Edward Jones. The clip, which was recorded on Groubert’s dashcam on Sept. 4, shows Jones getting out of his vehicle at a gas station in Columbia. Continue reading “Sean Groubert, South Carolina State Trooper, Fired & Arrested After Shooting Unarmed Man”
A suspect in the fatal ambush of a trooper has occasionally made himself visible to officers before melting back into the forest, and police found empty packs of Serbian-branded cigarettes and soiled diapers believed to have been left by him, Pennsylvania State Police said Wednesday.
Officers saw a man they believe to be Eric Frein as recently as Tuesday, Lt. Col. George Bivens said Wednesday afternoon. But it was at a distance, and the extremely rugged terrain separating the officers from Frein gave him “the ability to disappear,” Bivens told reporters. Continue reading “Cops: Saw ambush suspect, found his dirty diapers”
West High School in Manchester, New Hampshire, is on lockdown after a man entered the school with a gun, according to Manchester Police.
The man, a 21-year-old former student was spotted with the gun tucked in his waistband when entering the school. Continue reading “Man With Gun Prompts School Lockdown”
The woman who was captured on cellphone video being beaten by a California Highway Patrol officer on the side of a Los Angeles freeway reached a $1.5 million settlement with the department on Wednesday, according to her attorney, Caree Harper.
The settlement included a provision that the officer involved would resign, Harper said. Continue reading “CHP Reaches $1.5M Settlement With Woman in Videotaped Beating”
What is the United States? It is not a republic as it follows no semblence of its Constitution, the very foundation of its power, of its authority. It is a system of terror, with the power to destroy lives with contrived charges; offhandedly encumbering citizens with debt and criminal charges on a whim. This is the very system our forefather’s fled and risked everything to resist. In effect, they have taken our citizenship, robbed us of our birthright.
Yet, we do not fight. Continue reading “Willing Demons”
Zachary Proper, age 15, committed suicide two weeks ago in an adult prison in Pennsylvania. There has been little media coverage of his death, suggesting a disturbing complacency about suicide by youth who would rather take their own lives than endure decades in jail.
How did Zachary end up serving time as an “adult”? At the age of 13, he was charged with killing his grandparents. Under Pennsylvania law, because Zachary was charged with murder, state law required that he be charged as an adult. He ultimately plead guilty to third degree murder of his grandparents and was sentenced to 35-80 years in prison. Continue reading “15 Year old commits Suicide while serving a 80 year sentence in Adult Prison. Convicted at Age 13”
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