Month: November 2013

USA Today – by Brian Tumult

WASHINGTON — The union representing airport screeners for the Transportation Security Administration says Friday’s fatal shooting of an agent at Los Angeles International Airport highlights the need for armed security officers at every airport checkpoint.

“Every local airport has its own security arrangement with local police to some type of contract security force,” said J. David Cox Sr., president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents the screeners. “There is no standardization throughout the country. Every airport operates differently. Obviously at L.A. there were a fair number of local police officers there.”   Continue reading “TSA union calls for armed guards at every checkpoint”

Bloomberg – by Alan Bjerga and Tim Catts

Local police will increase their presence at U.S. airports, as Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport reopened and air traffic returned to normal the day after a gunman killed a Transportation Security Administration officer.

Enhanced security at Los Angeles will remain for the foreseeable future, said Patrick Gannon, the airport police chief, who didn’t give details. Passengers should feel safe with the additional resources, Gannon said.   Continue reading “Airport Police Presence Boosted After Officer Killed”

ABC News – AP

Shots fired on homecoming weekend at North Carolina A&T State University prompted a brief campus lockdown after a 21-year-old man was wounded by a bullet fired from a “considerable distance,” authorities said.

Greensboro Police Department said in a statement released overnight that “one or more” suspects fired shots near McCain Hall on campus about 10 p.m. Saturday and one of the rounds struck 21-year-old Divine Eatman.   Continue reading “1 shot at North Carolina A&T State University”

High Times – by Mike Adams

Today, Denver reeks less of bureaucratic smoke and more of weed.

The mile-high municipality has decided that a recently proposed law to ban the odor of marijuana throughout the city, even in people’s backyards, may have been a little hasty.   Continue reading “Denver Amends Law: Will Allow Backyard Toking”

Off the Grid News – by John Evans

Voters in Sunnyvale, California will decide next week on a strict new gun control measure that has already set off both sides of the debate on gun laws in the United States.

The ballot initiative, known as Measure C, would affect gun possession and ammunition sales. Gun owners would have to report firearm theft to the police within 48 hours, lock up guns at home, get rid of ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, and provide a thumbprint when purchasing ammo. Gun dealers would also have to keep records of ammunition sales, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.   Continue reading “All Gun Owners Must Provide Thumbprint If California Town Passes Measure”

The Steady Drip – by Sam Sewell

Going Postal
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/blum.asp
The husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein chairs a company that brokers sales of USPS facilities.

It was recently learned that the United States has entered into a contract with one firm to sell 56 buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government has decided that it no longer needs these buildings (many of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country).    Continue reading “Going Postal”

Activist Post – by Michael T. Winter

What is truth? Not a simple question. Is it as you feel it to be? (Subjective truth). Is it based on what you perceive to be facts, uninfluenced by your feelings? (Objective truth). Is it only what your five senses confirm to be real? (Empirical truth). Even within these three very basic concepts of truth, there rests a plethora of subtleties upon the definition of truth – correspondence, coherence, constructivist, consensus, and many more. It is within these subtleties we find a foundational dichotomy between the ‘truth’ of MSM and the ‘truth’ of the alternative press (Alt. P).    Continue reading “The Dichotomy of Mainstream Media vs. the Alternative Media”

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An Arizona Highway Patrol officer stops a Harley for traveling faster than the posted speed limit, so he asks the biker his name. ‘Fred,’ he replies.

‘Fr…ed what?’ the officer asks.

‘Just Fred,’ the man responds.

The officer is in a good mood, thinks he might just give the biker a break, and write him out a warning instead of a ticket. The officer then presses him for the last name.   Continue reading “I am just Fred”

Huffington Post

One British man recently learned a hard life lesson while drooling over photos of a model in lingerie online: fantasize all you want, but never comment about how you’d totally leave your wife for a one-night stand with the woman in the photos.

That’s what happened Tuesday, when a Manchester man named Tom got all hot and bothered over photographs showing model and TV presenter Kelly Brook in sexy lingerie on the Daily Mail’s website, including this photo:   Continue reading “Lingerie Photos Land Drooling Husband In Hot Water”

St. Louis Today – by Robert Patrick & Jennifer S. Mann

Shannon Renee McNeal was torn from her screaming children by police who were seeking a woman with a similar name — a woman who they should have known had been murdered seven months before.  A clerical mistake set up the arrest, sloppy attention to fingerprints put her behind bars and months of indifference to the error cost McNeal her home, $15,000 and, for a while, her job driving a Metro bus.

Yet she may be luckier than scores of others who have been wrongfully arrested and spent weeks, even months, trapped behind bars in a broken St. Louis city justice system.   Continue reading “Jailed By Mistake – Wrongful arrests jail 100 people for over 2,000 days”

Huffington Post

A school in Brooklyn was shut down this week following reports of a noxious odor, which turned out to be Axe body spray.

In a statement, the Department of Education said eight students were taken to the hospital Wednesday for reactions to a hazardous substance at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, according to the Smoking Gun. Two other students of the Crown Heights school were also evaluated by private doctors.   Continue reading “Axe Body Spray Shuts Down School, Sends 8 Students To Hospital”

Occupy Corporatism – by Susan Posel

The new Personal Belief Exemption (PBE) form is available for Californians who want to opt out of vaccinations for their children.

Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) explains that the new rule will make parents “take a careful look” before they opt out of vaccinating their child.   Continue reading “California Parents Incriminated For Not Vaccinating Children”

Huffington Post

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — A Chicago lawyer and certified public accountant was convicted Friday for his role in a 10-year tax fraud that generated $7 billion in phony tax losses, a scheme authorities have called the largest tax fraud in history.

Paul Daugerdas, the 63-year-old former head of the Chicago office of the now defunct Texas-based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist, was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, evade taxes, commit mail and wire fraud and other crimes after a seven-week jury trial in federal court in Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.   Continue reading “Paul Daugerdas, Chicago Lawyer, Convicted In ‘Largest Tax Fraud In History’”

Boiling Frogs – by Sibel Edmonds

Have you ever come across an imperialist who was keen on activists challenging the establishment?

British establishment mouthpiece BBC leads the way again. This time it is about the biggest threat to democracy today. No, it is not terrorists. No, it is not Islamism. And, no, it is not the Western-Installed Dictator Regimes around the world. No, no, no, no, no. The new enemy is the conspiracy theorists. It is those who question their governments. It is those who find facts and confront the mainstream lies and liars such as BBC. Basically, it is you … and me.   Continue reading “Conspiracy Theorists Are the Greatest Challenge to Democracy … According to … Here’s who …”

The Steady Drip – by Sam Sewell

Former basketball player describes visit to his friend’s private island: ‘Just normal people, drinking cocktails and laughing’

theguardian.com, Saturday 2 November 2013 09.08 EDT

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, is a “good guy”, a “good-hearted kid” who offers the best tequila to his guests on his private island, according to the former basketball player Dennis Rodman.   Continue reading “Dennis Rodman: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a ‘good-hearted kid’”

Daily Mail – by SIMON TOMLINSON

Russian investigators claim to have found household appliances imported from China which contain hidden microchips that pump spam data and malware into wi-fi networks.

Authorities in St Petersburg allegedly discovered 20 to 30 kettles and irons with ‘spy microchips that send some data to the foreign server’, according to Russian media.   Continue reading “China is spying on you through your KETTLE: Bugs that scan wi-fi devices found in imported kitchen gadgets”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Connecticut Police raided the home of Joseph Callahan, 69, confiscated more than 270 guns and he was charged with several felonies, including 11 counts of illegal possession of explosives and six counts of first-degree reckless endangerment. Was Callahan really endangering anyone or planning some sort of terrorist attack? No, he was not.

According to Callahan’s attorney, Richard Meehan, he is just a collector, a gun aficionado, and a hoarder. Meehan also claims that Callahan is a retired chemist and collector who had no “nefarious intent” when items were discovered at his upscale Fairfield home.   Continue reading “Connecticut Man Joseph Callahan Arrested for Having ‘Too Many’ Guns & Model Rockets”