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In one of his last acts as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg signed legislation Monday banning electronic-cigarette use in indoor public places, as well as in city parks, beaches, and pedestrian plazas.
And in a final act of protest against the three-term mayor, one stubborn smoker lit a real, non-electronic cigarette inside City Hall, The New York Daily News reports. Continue reading “Woman Lights Up Cigarette Inside City Hall As Bloomberg Signs E-Cigarette Ban Into Law”
New York Daily News – by DAVID HARDING
A man with a NYPD squad car has been arrested — by British police after he drove it in an English town.
The 33-year-old driver, Mark Knight, was arrested as he parked his car — complete with the iconic police livery – in the traditional market town of Guildford, close to London, while he went to buy a McDonald’s. Continue reading “Man busted for driving real NYPD squad car — in England!”
New York Post – by Natasha Velez
A cop was busted for shoplifting at a Century 21 in Queens — and using a toddler’s stroller to hide the designer clothes, police sources said.
Jessica Mayorga, 30, a cop at the 48th precinct in the Bronx, was at the department store on Junction Boulevard near 97th Street at 5:30 p.m. Monday, according to police. Continue reading “NYPD officer nabbed ‘boosting’ designer duds in baby stroller”
During the last few hours of a lengthy tenure atop the New York Police Department tainted by both scandal and success, outgoing-NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly echoed soon-to-be-ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg with big words about the city’s boys in blue.
Bloomberg provoked a fair share of criticism from Big Apple residents in late 2011 when he said, “I have my own army in the NYPD . . . the seventh biggest army in the world.” Continue reading “NYPD a ‘quasi-military organization,’ according to outgoing top-cop Ray Kelly”
Every year, people make a series of New Year’s Resolutions that are usually forgotten by the time you flip the page of the calendar over to February. This list starts with some of the standard resolutions that everyone makes that are particularly pertinent to preppers, and then contains some that are unique to this community.
Make this the year that you improve your life right now and your chances of survival later. Pick one or all of these resolutions and persevere! Continue reading “10 New Year’s Resolutions That Every Prepper Should Make in 2014”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Returning Police Commissioner William Bratton will be sworn into office just after midnight New Year’s Day.
Bratton will be sworn in at a private ceremony at NYPD Headquarters in Lower Manhattan. Mayor Bill de Blasio will also take the oath of office at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. Continue reading “Protest To Accompany Bratton’s Official Return As NYPD Commissioner”
AccuWeather – by Alex Sosnowski
Two storms will merge quickly enough to produce a major snowstorm from the upper part of the mid-Atlantic to southern New England Thursday into Friday.
The storm will affect more than 70 million people in the Midwest and the Northeast combined and could have a major negative impact on travel for people returning from holiday destinations, heading back to school or resuming business activities. Continue reading “Snowstorm Targets 70 Million in Northeast, Midwest”
Manasquan, NJ –-(Ammoland.com)- New York’s rights infringing ban on assault weapons is constitutional, but it cannot limit a gun magazine to seven bullets, a federal court judge ruled today.
The ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny in Buffalo found that New York’s gun-control law, called the SAFE Act, that restricts assault weapons doesn’t infringe on Second Amendment rights. But the judge tossed a provision that limits a magazine that can hold 10 rounds to just seven bullets. Continue reading “Federal Court Strikes Down Magazine Limit but Upholds NY Assault Weapons Ban”
MISSOULA, Mont. –-(Ammoland.com)- The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation headed up a successful collaborative effort to permanently protect and open access to 13,082 acres in the Headwaters of the John Day River in northeast Oregon.
By purchasing the land and conveying it to the United States at a bargain sale price, the transaction also secures and improves access to tens of thousands of acres of publicly-owned National Forest System lands. Continue reading “RMEF Opens 13,000 Acres of Oregon Elk Country, Secures Public Access to Public Lands”
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the U.S. government, demanding the release of information about its program to conduct surveillance of Americans’ international communications.
The civil rights group pointed to former CIA employee Edward Snowden – who blew the lid off the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program, insisting until the disclosures, little was known about the NSA’s authority. Continue reading “ACLU sues for info on government surveillance”
ANN ARBOR (WWJ) – “War SUX.” That’s the sentiment of a personalized licence plate at the center of a federal lawsuit filed by the ACLU.
David Devarti of Ann Arbor says he paid for the plate, only to get a letter in the mail from the Secretary of State saying that he couldn’t use it because it’s offensive.
Devarti disagrees. Continue reading “ACLU Sues On Behalf Of Ann Arbor Man Over ‘WARSUX’ License Plate”
John Birch Society – by Art Thompson
In this week’s analysis behind the news video, JBS CEO Art Thompson discusses how the U.S. State Department is behind much of the turmoil and instability around the world; how this has been the case since at least the administration of Franklin Pierce; and how those who wish to impose socialism in the U.S. are the same people who are in charge of our foreign policy. Continue reading “What’s Behind the Turmoil and Instability Around the World”
WASHINGTON – The family of Capitol Hill shooting victim Miriam Carey has apparently lost patience with the glacial pace of the official investigation into the death of the unarmed mother, as their attorney made two major announcements.
Eric Sanders is calling on Congress to investigate the shooting death of the 34-year-old dental hygienist by uniformed Secret Service agents and U.S. Capitol Police officers on Oct. 3. The attorney told WND no members of Congress have contacted the family. Continue reading “Congress urged to investigate ‘murder’ by D.C. cops”
Huffington Post – by CHRIS TOMLINSON
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The deaths this year of three major Texas Republican donors, including a billionaire who died over the weekend, could signal a generational change for party kingmakers in the nation’s largest GOP stronghold.
Harold Simmons, whose business interests ranged from energy to nuclear waste dumps, helped transform Texas from a Democrat-controlled state in the 1970s to a Republican stronghold by the turn of the century. Simmons’ death Saturday came after Republicans lost home builder Bob Perry in April and businessman Leo Linbeck Jr. in June. For decades, all three helped bankroll political campaigns both in Texas and nationwide. Continue reading “Texas Republicans Lose Three Major Donors In 2013”
Before It’s News – by Susan Duclos
Starting with what we know as a fact, which isn’t much with how dishonest TEPCO and Japan have been to date and the amount of lies the have already been caught at and the fact that Japan passed a secrecy law which would imprison anyone from reporting any news they deem “inappropriate,” including ongoing events at the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant.
FACT: Steam is once again rising at the unit #3 reactor, registered on at least three to four days between December 19 and the 27th. Continue reading “Did They Abandon Fukushima?”
TheBlaze’s national security editor Buck Sexton opened Monday’s Glenn Beck Program with a simple question: Will 2014 be the year America says enough is enough? As Buck explained, the United States has been teetering on the edge of big government progressivism for quite some time now, and soon the weight of a bloated government and overregulation will prove to be too much for this country to bear. With the midterm elections just around the corner, 2014 provides the opportunity to take a step back and reevaluate the current state of this country. Will Americans finally be ready say enough is enough? Continue reading “Will 2014 be the year America says enough is enough?”
Humanity Awakens – by Jim Costa
One of my life defining moments occurred while driving from work back to my lonely apartment. I was working thirty miles west and had been dating my wife for three months, who lived thirty miles east. The radio played the Beach Boys’ song with the words. “Wouldn’t it be nice to say “good night” and stay together? Wouldn’t it be nice?” I realized at that moment that my life was all wrong. I was working hard to create exactly what I didn’t want – unhappiness. I drove straight to her house and announced that I was moving in. I have to admit that all I got back was a giant blank look, but we were married in another three months and every day since the Beach Boys, we have both known the true miracle of being a human and co-creating us; God, it’s nice. Continue reading “Jefferson Starship & Global Solution”
Excerpted from Walid Shoebat – Egypt’s Attorney General Hisham Barakat is looking into evidence that arrested Muslim Brotherhood leaders accepted bribes from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, according to a report from Almesryoon, an Egyptian newspaper that cites a “judicial source”.
The trials that are scheduled to begin in Cairo on August 25th will feature a litany of charges against the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Included among them are murders, assassinations, prison escapes, sniping, indiscriminate killing of demonstrators, and collaborating with foreign governments, to include both the United States and Qatar. Continue reading “Egypt Attorney General Says Muslim Brotherhood Leaders On Secret Salary From Obama”
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NBC News – by Aliyah Frumin
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