Category: News

Cryptogon

Just about everyone I know with XP won’t budge, despite my warnings.

Maybe Microsoft has plans to try to convert millions of XP users over to Windows 8 with the rumored Windows 8.1 with Bing, which will supposedly be free.

Still, tens of millions of people will probably refuse to deal with the situation. I wouldn’t use Windows 8.x if someone paid me to use it. But I wouldn’t use XP on the Internet after that cut off date either. No way.   Continue reading “Windows XP Market Share Climbs Again as Customers Dig Their Heels In”

Information Liberation – by Chris

From the Baltimore Sun:

A city police officer is accused of beating a Jack Russell terrier puppy with a mop, then choking the dog and sending a picture of its dead body to its owner — his girlfriend.   Continue reading “Cop Strangles Puppy to Death, Sends Picture to Owner”

RT

Turkey has given a US Navy Warship the green light to pass through the Bosphorus within the next two days as tensions in Ukraine’s Crimea region continue to divide world powers.

Turkish sources, speaking with the Hurriyet Daily News on Wednesday, declined to elaborate on the name of the US warship. The same officials told the daily on condition of anonymity that the ship in question was not the USS George H.W. Bush nuclear aircraft carrier as suggested in some news reports, as it did not meet the standards specified by the 1936 Montreux Convention in terms of weight.    Continue reading “Turkey grants US warship permission to enter Black Sea”

Npr.org – by Mark Memmott

Russian President Vladimir Putin is among the 278 nominees for a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize,according to Peace Research Institute Oslo, an institution that closely tracks the Nobel committee’s work.

Putin, who of course is now at the center of one of the world’s most dangerous situations — the crisis in Ukraine — has been “nominated by the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation Among the Nations of the World and backed by Russian MP Iosif Kobzon, for his averting of an air strike on Syria after the chemical gas attacks in August 2013,” PRIO reports.   Continue reading “Putin Reportedly Joins List Of Nobel Peace Prize Nominees”

PJ Tatler – by Bridget Johnson

In a somewhat unusual move, the State Department issued a fact sheet titled “President Putin’s Fiction: 10 False Claims about Ukraine” Wednesday evening.

The fact sheet was released after Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that talks with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Paris today didn’t get anywhere.    Continue reading “State Department Issues Fact Sheet on Why Putin’s a Lying Liar”

AOL

CHICAGO (AP) – A father, mother and daughter from a posh Chicago suburb stole $7 million in merchandise during a decadelong shoplifting spree – traveling to stores nationwide and targeting dolls, toys, cosmetics and other valuables – according to a federal complaint released Wednesday.

The three were arrested earlier this week at their $1.3 million Northbrook home after returning from a three-day trip through Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, where authorities say they shoplifted from stores. Working in tandem, the family traveled from their Chicago-area residence to hit businesses in multiple states, including Maryland, Tennessee and Florida, according to the 20-page complaint.   Continue reading “Mom, dad, daughter accused in $7M shoplift spree”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

Should police be able to kill a man for shooting at a police robot?

Sherry Booth thought she had a good, if nosy neighbor, in the man who lived in the other side of her Grays Hill Court duplex. Then her daughter called her a little after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“She was scared to death,” Booth said. “The police (sic) was banging on the door. Told her to hurry up and get out because he had a gun.”   Continue reading “Did Kentucky State Police Kill A Man For Shooting A Robot?”

AOL

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was blocked by bipartisan opposition Wednesday in an emotional postscript to the long-ago murder of a Philadelphia policeman and the legal help his killer received.

The vote against advancing Debo Adegbile toward confirmation was 47-52, shy of the majority needed under new procedures Democrats put in place late last year to overcome Republican stalling tactics.   Continue reading “Senate blocks Obama’s pick of Debo Adegbile for civil rights post”

Freedom Outpost – by David Zuniga

In our Constitution, We The People empower Congress to make laws within its federal aegis.  But most Americans are oblivious to the bedrock fact in American civics:

We The People created our supreme law and through it, we created government.  All of government is under the Constitution, and We The People are sovereigns over it.  We The People created, defined, and severely limited our servant congresses, presidents, and supreme courts.    Continue reading “Can the Cartels Be Stopped? – The American People are the Sovereigns of the Constitution”

Arab Times

The Register – by John Leyden

CIA officers allegedly hacked into the US Senate Intelligence Committee’s computers to find out what the oversight committee had found out about its controversial detention and treatment of terror suspects.‬

The oversight committee had managed to get its hands on unapproved material, or so the CIA feared, the New York Times reports. In response, the agency allegedly went as far as hacking into the Congressional network to find out what it knew and perhaps where the leaked material came from, an unnamed official told the paper.   Continue reading “CIA snoops snooped on Senate to spy spy torture report – report”

Haaretz – by Zvi Bar’el

For the first time in many generations, a dhimma (protection agreement) was signed between the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) – an Islamist branch of Al-Qaida – and leaders of Raqqa’s several thousand Christians. Members of ISIS gave the latter three options: accepting the agreement, converting to Islam, or risking death.   Continue reading “Under threat, Syria’s Christians sign accord with Islamists”

Natural News – by J.D. Heyes

When a historic earthquake created a massive tsunami that destroyed part of the Fukushima Daiichi power station in northern Japan in March 2011, causing meltdowns at three of the plant’s six nuclear reactors, a radiological disaster ensued.

As part of the effort to control damage and lend assistance, President Barack Obama ordered the U.S. Navy to respond to what would become the worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union in the mid-1980s.   Continue reading “More than 100 Navy members struggle for justice as radiation slowly kills them”

Natural News – by J. D. Heyes

There is something seriously wrong in the fertile Yakima Valley region of Washington. A surging number of babies are being born with major birth defects, and the reasons why are eluding state health officials.

As reported by CNN, a nurse in the area, Sara Barron, was the first to report on a particularly horrifying condition: anencephaly — a condition in which babies are born without much of their brain and skull.   Continue reading “Surge in babies born without brains in Washington State”

Mark Koernke is urging everyone living near a river and/or floodplain to go out and get sandbags now.  Don’t wait for the thaw, everyone knows it is coming, it always does.

Ask your county government.  Some counties have them at their fire stations. They give them away for free.

AmmoLand – by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Members of the Burlington City Council have worked out a strategy to attack second amendment rights in Vermont, where there is a strong preemption law that prevents local governments from enacting separate firearms laws.  David Codrea noted it months ago.

The Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs wanted to find out how and why the City was attempting to attack second amendment rights.  A public records request was filed in September of 2013.   The Acting President of the Federation is Chris Bradley.   From the burlingtonfreepress:   Continue reading “Council Members, Burlington, VT “Keep the Crowd Down””

The New American – by Bob Adelmann

With a Senate committee voting to confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy (shown) as the new U.S. surgeon general 13-9 last week, he is expected to win confirmation to the post by the full Senate later this week.

If there were a candidate more perfectly qualified to occupy the bully pulpit as surgeon general in the Obama administration, one would be hard pressed to find him.   Continue reading “Anti-gun Doctor Expected to be Confirmed as Surgeon General”

Huffington Post

The handling of raw fish at three New York City Chinatown markets has led to an outbreak of a rare skin infection.

The city’s health department has identified 30 people with the infection– caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium marinum– all of whom handled live or raw seafood at the Chinatown markets in Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.   Continue reading “New Yorkers Warned Of Rare Skin Infection Outbreak Caused By Raw Fish In Chinatown”