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NBC Bay Area – by Marianne Favro

The massacre in Newton, Conn., and other mass shootings have prompted for a call to curb gun violence.

California assembly member Nancy Skinner answered that call with a proposal to restrict ammunition sales in the state.

“2,800 people in California were killed last year by gunfire,” Skinner said. “It is easier to buy bullets than cough medicine or alcohol. It should not be that easy. We need to have much more scrutiny when it comes to the purchase of guns.”

Monday she unveiled Assembly Bill 48. It would require bullet buyers to show identification. It would also require ammunition dealers to be licensed and report all sales to the department of justice.

Emmeryville police chief Ken James supports the tighter restrictions.

”Right now you can buy bullets in any store and the sale is not recorded”, James said. “Gun violence will continue unless we control the sale of bullets.”

Oakland mayor Jean Quan also said she supports the bill and that Oakland has seen too much gun violence and the changes may help.

The so-called “bullet bill” would also ban kits to convert ammunition clips into high-capacity magazines. At the same time, this debate goes on some are questioning why a new gun shop is now open for business In Los Gatos.

Templar Sports on University Avenue opened Dec. 29 and employees say business has been steady. Templar Sports did not respond to our request for an interview.

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Gun Owners of America

Bank of America has once again shown its hostility and disdain for the 2nd Amendment, its gun owner customers and for free enterprise.  I first reported a story last year about McMillan Co. which had their accounts closed by BoA because they branched out into firearms manufacturing.

Well, apparently Bank of America has decided to double down on the harassment of gun manufacturers in an attempt to dictate how they should operate their business and what that business should entail.
Continue reading “If you are a gun owner at Bank of America…it’s time you left them”

Huffington Post – by Kavitha A. Davidson

Tough sanctions and a struggling economy have caused a severe medicine shortage in Iran, but the country is also facing a dire health crisis of another kind: air pollution.

Hassan Aqajani, an adviser to Iran’s health minister announced Sunday that 4,460 people have died from air pollution in Tehran in a one-year period since March 2011, AFP reports. The announcement came just as a five-day closure of government offices, schools, and banks because of air pollution came to an end — the second such shutdown in a month.
Continue reading “Tehran Pollution Crisis 2012: Thousands Dead In Iran’s Capital As Government Warns To Stay Indoors”

Huffington Post

MANILA, Philippines — An unarmed target drone found in central Philippine waters was launched from a U.S. Navy ship during a combat exercise off Guam last year and may have been washed by ocean currents to the country, officials said Tuesday.

U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Bettina Malone said the BQM-74E drone was launched from the USS Chafee, a guided-missile destroyer, as a mock missile target during naval combat exercises off Guam’s coast in September.
Continue reading “U.S. Drone In Philippines Came From Guam Drill, Says Embassy”

Huffington Post – by Karen Matthews

NEW YORK — Google said Tuesday it is teaming up with a New York City neighborhood business group to provide the company’s first urban Wi-Fi network.

The network will be available free to about a 10-block area surrounding Google’s offices in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, where Google has more than 3,000 employees. The area also is home to other tech companies, as well as high-end hotels and nightclubs and a housing project with more than 2,000 tenants.
Continue reading “Free Public Wi-Fi In Chelsea From Google: Mayor Bloomberg, Eric Fried Announce City’s Largest Wi-Fi Network”

New York CBS Local

HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) – Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal announced plans to introduce federal legislation that he said would close a massive loophole in the law involving the sale of ammunition.

Blumenthal said that while convicted felons and others are prohibited from purchasing guns, there is nothing to stop them from buying ammunition.
Continue reading “Blumenthal Seeks To Close ‘Black Hole’ Of Gun Violence With Background Checks For Ammo”

Wall Street Journal – by TAMARA AUDI And ANDY PASZTOR

Two years after being severely wounded by a gunman who killed six people outside a Tucson, Ariz., grocery store, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence.

Spurred by last month’s killing of 20 children and six adults in a Connecticut elementary school, Ms. Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, wrote in an op-ed piece published Tuesday in USA Today that Americans for Responsible Solutions “will raise the funds necessary to balance the influence of the gun lobby.”
Continue reading “Giffords Makes a Push on Gun Control”

The Excavator

The mad man in the White House needs you to believe in his magic, and that those who question the U.S. government’s narrative of the war on terror are mentally ill deviants.

The modern totalitarian state is the psychotherapist for the whole of society. It acts on the elitist principle that it knows everything and the people deserve to be mind controlled and brainwashed for their own good.
Continue reading “Fear of Tyranny Is Now Treated As A Psychiatric Disorder In The West”

Huffington Post

In a blow to the NYPD’s controversial use of stop-and-frisks, a federal judge has ordered an “immediate cease” to some police stops conducted under “Operation Clean Halls” outside apartment buildings in the Bronx.

“Clean Halls” allows police to stop, question and search residents in and around New York City apartment buildings, with permission of the landlord.
Continue reading “NYPD ‘Clean Halls’ Stop-And-Frisk Policy: Judge Orders ‘Immediate Cease’ To Stops Without ‘Reasonable Suspicion’”

Washington Times – by Seth McLaughlin

A new poll shows that Congress is less popular than carnies, root canals and colonoscopies, but more popular than the ebola virus, meth labs and gonorrhea.

Those findings are in a Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released Tuesday showed that 9 percent of the respondents held a favorable opinion of Congress, while 85 percent held an unfavorable view.
Continue reading “Congress less popular than root canal, cockroaches and lice, poll says”

Reuters – by Kim Palmer and Jim Forsyth

CLEVELAND/SAN ANTONIO, Jan 8 (Reuters) – School teachers in Texas and Ohio are flocking to free firearms classes in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school massacre, some vowing to protect their students with guns even at the risk of losing their jobs.

In Ohio, more than 900 teachers, administrators and school employees asked to take part in the Buckeye Firearms Association’s newly created, three-day gun training program, the association said.
Continue reading “Teachers in Ohio, Texas flock to free gun training classes”

Citizen Wells News

California Crime Drops As Gun Sales Surge, Gun buyback lauded, 600000 sold last year, New CA gun laws for 2013 2014, Criminals turn in crime guns no questions asked

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”…Barack Obama

“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up [every gun]… Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in.”…Dianne Feinstein
Continue reading “California Crime Drops As Gun Sales Surge, Gun buyback lauded, 600000 sold last year, New CA gun laws for 2013 2014, Criminals turn in crime guns no questions asked”

Xinhua News – by Peter Mertz

CENTENNIAL, Colorado, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — Police officers on Monday tearfully recalled the bloody chaos and carnage that greeted them as they responded to the Colorado theater shooting that left 12 people dead.

The officers described “slipping in blood” and “seeing dead bodies everywhere,” in riveting testimony during the first day of a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to put James Holmes on trial for the July 20 attack that also left dozens injured.
Continue reading “Police testify on first day of hearing for accused U.S. theater shooter”

Off Spectrum – by James Farganne

Proof That Antidepressants Destroy People – BY DESIGN

Jim Stone, the man who proved that Israel did Fukushima, made the following chart to show you with horrifying visual clarity what antidepressants (Prozac, Paxil, Effexor, etc.) do to the cells of the frontal lobe of your brain. Here it is, unspeakably awful, please take a look:
Continue reading “Want A Chemical Lobotomy? Take Antidepressants!”

Overworld Magazine

You would think that a company that gets bailed out by the government of the United States of America would have enough dignity to at least respect its constitution… Think again. In April 2012 Kelly McMillan, owner of McMillan arms reported that Bank of America began terminating business with them even though they were in good standing. According to bank representative Ray Fox, it was purely political.
Continue reading “First McMillan then American Spirit: Bank of America’s War on Guns”

RT News

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has said the CIA may try to kill him prior to upcoming elections. Citing reports of a plot to “destabilize the region,” Correa said the threats were “credible,” given the history of US involvement in Latin America.

Correa alluded to reports by Chilean journalist Patricio Mery Bell, who allegedly passed on information to the Ecuadorian government that President Correa’s life was “under threat” by a CIA plot.
Continue reading “Ecuadorian president warns of possible ‘CIA attack’ before elections”

RT News

Owners of wrongfully repossessed houses could now get up to $125,000 as ten major US banks agree to settle federal complaints. This will end a foreclosure review process begun by a 2011 enforcement action.

Under the new agreement, those people who had their homes seized and then sold would get the biggest pay offs, while banks who failed to modify people’s loans in light of a change of income would get off more lightly. The settled compensation is anywhere between $1000 and $125,000.
Continue reading “US banks agree an $8.5 billion foreclosure settlement”

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — With no signs of trauma and nothing to raise suspicions, the sudden death of a Chicago man just as he was about to collect nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings was initially ruled a result of natural causes.

Nearly six months later, authorities have a mystery on their hands after medical examiners, responding to a relative’s pleas, did an expanded screening and determined that Urooj Khan, 46, died shortly after ingesting a lethal dose of cyanide. The finding has triggered a homicide investigation, the Chicago Police Department said Monday.
Continue reading “Chicago lottery winner died from cyanide poisoning”