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Killer robots programmed to open fire without human control are just a “small step” from the battlefield and military powers should agree to outlaw them, a top United Nations official has said.
Angela Kane, the UN’s high representative for disarmament, said governments should be more open about programmes to develop the technology and she favoured a pre-emptive ban before it was too late.
Continue reading “Killer robots a small step away and must be outlawed, says top UN official”
The Department of Justice’s board of immigration appeals has decided to let Guatemalan women win asylum in the United States if they claim to be victims of domestic violence.
The decision creates a huge new incentive for Guatemalan women to cross the U.S. border, because if their asylum claim is accepted, their children get U.S. citizenship, plus the use of federal health, education and retirement programs, regardless of their initial education and work skills.
The new decision also means that many of the Guatemalan women who have already crossed the border this year have a new claim for asylum. Continue reading “Justice Dept. Opens New Asylum Gate For Guatemalans”
They say this the day AFTER Nieto tells America that we should accept more Mexicans. Coincidence?
As Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto travels across California and declares America to be “the other Mexico,” a Pew Research survey has found that 60% of Mexicans disapprove of Peña Nieto on the economy. Perhaps as a result, a plurality of Mexicans think that life is better across the border, and a third want to move to America. Continue reading “Pew Survey: 1/3 of Mexicans Want to Move to America; 60% Disapprove of Peña Nieto’s Economy”
Washington Examiner- by Paul Bedard
Two top federal judges Wednesday said the nation’s immigration courts are in chaos, with the backlog of cases at an historic high of 375,000 for just 227 judges, leading to a minimum three-year delay in hearings for illegal immigrants.
In Washington to take advantage of the current crisis to demand a new court system, the judges accused the Justice Department of treating their courts like Cinderella’s abusive family by starving them of money and support and blamed the insufficient Justice funding for letting illegals “linger” in the country. Continue reading “Border chaos: 375,000 pending immigration cases, Obama lawyers AWOL”
Israel‘s acceptance of an Egyptian ceasefire proposal may have temporarily ended the war with Hamas – but the move has sparked a row within Israel’s security cabinet that now threatens the future of the country’s coalition government.
Over half of Israel’s cabinet members are said to have opposed the ceasefire deal which entered into effect on Tuesday evening, with many members furious that Mr Netanyahu opted not to bring it up to a vote.
Continue reading “Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet in revolt over Gaza ceasefire”
(WDTN) An unexpected drone in the area around Dayton, Ohio’s Miami Valley Hospital prevented a CareFlight helicopter from landing, with a “significantly hurt” patient onboard.
“Picture yourself driving down the highway and something flies in front of you. That’s the same for us It’s very very difficult,” says CareFlight pilot John Berthy. Continue reading “Drone delays medical helicopter landing at OH hospital”
On Friday, Manhattan will officially become home to the world’s swankiest Denny’s. Patrons of the sleek new Financial District diner-cum-lounge will have access to all sorts of unholy pairings unfathomable to your teenage self growing up in Chippewa Falls: Madam, would you care for a Bellini with your Grand Slam? A craft mezcal cocktail to accompany your Pancake Puppies? Looking to impress clients or a mid-level courtisan? Look no further than the $300 Grand Cru Slam, which includes two Grand Slam breakfasts, a bottle of Dom Perignon Vintage 2003 champagne and a “bartender high five,” if you’re OK with allowing your manicured hands contact with the lower castes like that. Continue reading “Manhattan’s First Denny’s Opens Friday With $300 Grand Cru Slam”
U.S DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAS TOLD BANKS – IN WRITING – IT MAY INSPECT SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES WITHOUT WARRANT AND SIEZE ANY GOLD, SILVER, GUNS OR OTHER VALUABLES IT FINDS INSIDE THOSE BOXES!
According to in-house memos now circulating, the DHS has issued orders to banks across America which announce to them that “under the Patriot Act” the DHS has the absolute right to seize, without any warrant whatsoever, any and all customer bank accounts, to make “periodic and unannounced” visits to any bank to open and inspect the contents of “selected safe deposit boxes.” Continue reading “Do not use Safety Deposit Boxes”
Extremely low levels of the compound in marijuana known as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, may slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a recent study from neuroscientists at the University of South Florida show.
Findings from the experiments, using a cellular model of Alzheimer’s disease, were reported online in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Continue reading “Marijuana compound may offer treatment for Alzheimer’s disease”
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Repeated security concerns at WIPP
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a deep geological disposal facility in New Mexico designed for the safe deposit of radioactive waste used with nuclear weapons. According to the US Department of Energy, it is the only plant of its kind in the United States. It is used for storing radioactive waste material from nuclear weapons safely away from the outside environment. The Department states that the waste “consists primarily of clothing, tools, rags debris, residues and other non-liquid disposable items contaminated with trace amounts of radioisotopes”. Continue reading “Concerns rise over radioactive waste disposal after New Mexico leak”
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When the news media reports on radiation, it is usually prompted by a cataclysmic accident such as occurred at Chernobyl or Fukushima. The reality of the situation is however, we are exposed to low levels of radiation on a daily basis, which can have deleterious affects on population centers without residents being any the wiser. Known as stochastic health effects, the study measures the effects of low-level, chromic exposure to radiation. Continue reading “When is Too Much Radiation too Much?”
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Common medical wisdom holds that an apple a day can keep the doctor away. A nod to the importance of eating a sensible and healthy diet in general, the term takes on new meaning and importance when you consider the role that pectin-based products have in helping cleanse the body of many of the toxins that are associated with living in a highly industrialized world. From the heavy metals that can seep into municipal drinking water to the cancer-causing particles emitted from high-intensity power lines, our bodies are subject to a myriad of invasive chemicals, particles, and pollutants. The most damaging, owing to the near impossibility of complete decontamination, radiation, can takes weeks, years, or even decades to break down in the environment. Continue reading “An Apple a Day: More than an Old Wives Tale?”
The star of a hit reality television show has reportedly been arrested for repeatedly raping his own 12-year-old daughter.
“Sons of Guns” star Will Hayden, 44, was arrested Tuesday in Louisiana by U.S. Marshals and charged with aggravated rape of a child – his second arrest in as many weeks for child molestation. Continue reading “‘Sons of Guns’ star arrested for allegedly raping his 12-year-old daughter”
Day after day police seem to feel using excessive force is the way to protect the communities they serve.
Joseph Jennings is the latest example, on Aug 25th Joseph Jennings was brutally shot by police in The Orscheln Farm and Home parking lot on 2008 Princeton St in Ottawa, Kansas. Continue reading “Kansas Police Shoot Unarmed Teen 16 times As Bystanders Beg Them to Stop Shooting”
The Washington Post – by Abby Ohlheiser
A veteran “Cops” sound supervisor who was critically injured while filming an armed robbery in Nebraska on Tuesday has died, the reality show’s production company said Wednesday. Thirty-eight-year-old Bryce Dion was killed by a police officer’s errant bullet during a shootout with a robbery suspect in Omaha.
“We are deeply saddened and shocked by this tragedy and our main concern is helping his family in any way we can,” Pam Golum said in an e-mailed statement. “Bryce Dion was a long term member of the Cops team and a very talented and dedicated person. We mourn his passing. An investigation is ongoing and we are cooperating with local authorities.” Continue reading “The ‘Cops’ crew member killed in a police shootout was shot by an officer’s gun”
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In a move certain to bolster his national standing with conservatives, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal sued the Obama administration Wednesday, hoping to strike a blow against the controversial Common Core education standards and raising his profile as he builds a likely presidential campaign.
Jindal’s lawsuit accuses the Department of Education of illegally manipulating federal money and regulations to force states to adopt Common Core by dangling $4.3 billion in grants and policy waivers that encouraged them to adopt uniform standards and testing. Continue reading “Louisiana Gov. Jindal sues feds over Common Core”
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The bodies of two men who had been bound with duct tape, stabbed and weighed down with makeshift anchors were pulled from a river Wednesday after a third bound man, wet and also covered with stab wounds, was found wandering along a road in the dark, police said.
The surviving victim said he had been abducted, thrown in a van and robbed by four or five people before being thrown in the river, but managed to get free, police said. The 20-year-old man, who was not immediately identified, suffered an estimated nine stab wounds to the neck, chest, body and legs, but was reported in stable condition after being hospitalized, police said. Dressed only in underwear and a shirt, his arms had been tied around his back, his ankles had been tied together and he had been blindfolded. Continue reading “Bound bodies of 2 found in Philly river; 3rd hurt”
Extreme drought conditions have become so harsh for the Central Valley community of East Porterville, many of its residents dependent on their own wells have run out of water.
Roughly 300 homes have received a three-week supply of bottled water after Tulare County officials discovered their wells had gone dry. Continue reading “Central California residents rely on bottled water as wells run dry”
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