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Yahoo News – by ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM | Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media accused rebels of firing a chemical weapon for the first time on Tuesday in the north of the country on Tuesday, killing 15 people. Rebels quickly denied the report and accused regime forces of firing the weapon.
Neither of the accusations could immediately be verified. Continue reading “Syria accuses rebels of firing chemical weapon”
The NYPD may not at the point where it can deploy its own RoboCop to patrol the streets, but its high-tech gear is on the cutting edge of crime fighting.
From high-definition cameras to social networking trackers, experts say the NYPD leads the nation when it comes to 21st Century policing, and the agency is still looking for new gadgets for its arsenal. Continue reading “NYPD brings city policing to 21st Century with new tech”
New York Daily News – by BARRY PADDOCK
The cop busted for spying with a surveillance camera was actually peeping on his own stepdaughter for sick sexual gratification, officials revealed Monday.
Officer Miguel Gomez, 41, secretly watched the 21-year-old getting dressed and having sex between May 28 and July 15 in the home she shared with the cop and her mom in the Bronx, according to court papers. Continue reading “NYPD officer busted for spying on his stepdaughter for sexual pleasure: court documents”
DENVER (Reuters) – Colorado’s governor will sign three gun control bills into law on Wednesday, including one banning ammunition magazines with more than 15 rounds in a state that has experienced two of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
The measures that Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper will sign also include a bill requiring universal background checks for gun buyers, and another that requires gun buyers to pay for their own background checks, said the governor’s spokesman, Eric Brown. Continue reading “Colorado governor will sign 3 gun control measures on Wednesday”
Rwandan-born former Congolese general Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court for suspected war crimes in Congo, has given himself up at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said on Monday.
“We have learned today that Bosco Ntaganda entered Rwanda and surrendered to (the) U.S. Embassy in Kigali,” she posted on Twitter. Continue reading “U.S. confirms Rwandan-born former Congolese general turned himself in at U.S. Embassy in Kigali”
In 2002, author Martin Lee wrote an article for Common Dreams: “Truth Serum and Torture.”
It could have been written yesterday, because now a Colorado judge has stated that, if James Holmes pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to the Aurora murders, state psychiatrists can subject him to drugs that will “help him remember his state of mind” at the time of the shootings. The drugging will reveal whether he really was insane that night last summer at the Aurora theater. Continue reading “The CIA, James Holmes, MKULTRA, and truth-serum torture”
NY Daily News – by Mike Lupica
It is three months since the killings in Newtown, since 20 children and six adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School less than two weeks before Christmas. And as bad as the story was, and will always be, it is even worse than we originally knew because now we discover that this was slaughter by spreadsheet.
It has been reported previously that law enforcement found research about previous mass murderers at the Newtown, Conn., home the shooter, video gamer Adam Lanza, shared with his mother, the first victim of Dec. 14. Continue reading “Morbid find suggests murder-obsessed gunman Adam Lanza plotted Newtown, Conn.’s Sandy Hook massacre for years”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An NYPD detective was arrested early Monday and charged with driving under the influence – becoming the sixth police employee arrested in a period of three days.
Detective Washington Mosquera, 37, was arrested at 1:30 a.m. Monday in the 75th Precinct, which is located in the East New York section of Brooklyn. Continue reading “Detective Becomes Sixth NYPD Employee Arrested Since Friday”
New York Times – by ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, fresh off a defeat in his campaign to limit large servings of sugary drinks, proposed legislation on Monday requiring stores to put cigarettes out of public sight and to increase penalties on the smuggling and illegal sales of cigarettes.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced a proposal on Monday that would require stores to keep cigarettes out of public sight. Continue reading “Bloomberg’s Plan Would Make Stores Conceal Cigarettes”
Salmonella outbreaks. E. coli outbreaks. Millions of dollars in economic losses.
These are among the scenarios the Obama administration warned about last month as it claimed the sequester would force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to furlough meat inspectors. Continue reading “Dems preserve US-Mexico food stamp ‘partnership,’ while USDA prepares for meat inspector furloughs”
In an effort to fill another second-term Cabinet vacancy with someone who is loyal to his agenda, President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Thomas Perez, the current assistant attorney general for civil rights, to be the next secretary of labor, according to a White House source. But several Justice Department co-workers and citizens groups believe Perez is a fanatic with a radical agenda that was on display during the Justice Department’s inaction against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation. Continue reading “Obama to elevate alleged Black Panther sympathizer to cabinet post: Critics”
Well the 2016 election is upon us. Strange, seems like only five months ago that we had our last presidential election. I’m telling you, we have entered the twilight zone wherein the every four year presidential election process has become like the movie, “Groundhog Day”, with a perpetual campaign to foster perpetual hope for perpetual change.
Then there is reality wherein nothing changes except the faces on the commercials as the international corporate mafia continues to suck out the wealth of our nation. For the past four years and twenty before that, fewer and fewer have a whole lot more while a whole lot more have a whole lot less. Continue reading “CPAC Neo-Con Con”
When we are involved in a traffic accident, the so called law requires that we fill out an accident report and exchange insurance information and if we fail to comply with this so called law, we face stiff fines and penalties, and even possibly jail time.
On February 26, 2013, Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano directed ICE to begin releasing foreign criminals from our jails that were on their way to being deported back to their home countries as US law dictates they must be. Napolitano gave the excuse that because of the sequester the finances just weren’t there to carry out the law. Continue reading “The American National’s Responsibility Under the Law”
The question is continually being presented as to when World War III will begin and when the United States will join in on the bloodletting frenzy. Technically the war has already begun and the United States is already engaged on three fronts.
Invasion into a sovereign country, contrary to popular propaganda, is an act of war; thusly the US invasion forces in Mali are engaged in war in Africa. Continue reading “World War III Breaking Out”
Yahoo News – by Associated Press
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado sheriff says he won’t enforce two aggressive gun-control measures waiting to be signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Weld County Sheriff John Cooke told The Greeley Tribune (http://bit.ly/141Ee2z ) that Democratic lawmakers are scrambling after recent mass shootings, and the bills are “feel-good, knee-jerk reactions that are unenforceable.” Continue reading “Colo. sheriff refuses to enforce gun-control bills”
Poison On The Platter looks at the GM issue through the lens of activists, scientists and ordinary citizens. It brings alive the various shades of the GM issue such as the scientific evidences against GM food from lab rat studies, the GM disasters such as L-Tryptothan, the story of Bt Cotton and farmer suicides in India and protests across the world against GM food. Continue reading “Poison on the Platter”
Front Page Mag – by Mark Hendrickson
The sequester deadline came and, lo and behold, the United States did not turn into a pumpkin or suffer an economic collapse. That isn’t surprising to those who know history and economics: Reductions in federal spending (real reductions, that is, not just smaller-than-planned increases such as we debate today) unleashed powerful economic growth in the 1920s and then again in the late 1940s. Both of those periods featured reductions in federal spending that were far more radical than anything even being proposed today. The booms that followed those shrinkages of government illustrate the basic principle, confirmed time after time both here and abroad, that economic growth is far more robust when government gets out of the way than when it intervenes in and interferes with the private sector. Continue reading “Obama’s Disturbing Spending Priorities”
The New American – by Alex Newman
Panic-stricken bank depositors in Cyprus emptied ATM machines across the nation after the surprise announcement Saturday that, as part of an extremely controversial European Union and International Monetary Fund bailout deal, authorities would seize up to 15 percent of all savings deposited in Cypriot banks. Markets across Europe plunged as fears of contagion or even a large-scale bank run in the region plagued investors, with the single euro currency falling to multi-month lows and gold rising back above $1,600 following news of the $13 billion scheme. Continue reading “Panic Grips Europe as Cyprus, EU, and IMF Confiscate Savings”
Occupy Corporatism – by Susanne Posel
James Clapper, director of National Intelligence spoketo the Senate Intelligence Committee this week on the assessment that the federal budget cuts will “jeopardize our nation’s safety and security.”
Clapper says that the loss of “thousands of FBI employees” and thousands of analysts “may risk missing an early sign of an attack.” Continue reading “The Sequester Scam Disguises Federal Gov Preparation for Totalitarian Coup”
The Daily News – by Scott DeSmit
ALABAMA — It was about midnight on a night last week when Randy Smith took his dog outside and for the third time this year, heard the mysterious booms.
“Three times in a row I heard it,” Smith said. “It sounds as loud as a sonic boom. Maybe louder. As soon as it goes off, the dog starts growling and gets startled.”
Smith and his father, Laverne Smith, live at 748 Lewiston Rd. (Route 77) and have been hearing the booms for nearly two years now. Continue reading “Mysterious ‘booms’ still unexplained”
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