Month: September 2014

1913 Intel – Military.com

However, those goodwill feelings have changed since Russia has shown aggression in its recent conflict with Ukraine and instituted some tactics the U.S. hasn’t seen since the Cold War. Considering Russia’s significant nuclear arsenal, it has drawn the attention of the Navy’s nuclear submarine leaders.   Continue reading “US Navy Issues Warnings on Russia, China’s Submarine Fleets”

Fox News – by Justin Fishel

As the Pentagon tries to figure out how it’s going to pay for the new war in Iraq and mission to combat Ebola in West Africa, the Afghan government says it’s broke — so broke it’s asking the U.S. for an immediate $537 million bailout.

The Afghans are blaming their financial woes on the stalemated election results. Secretary of State John Kerry was there a month ago trying to arrange a unity government, but neither candidate is willing to step aside. Without a resolution, the Afghan government will be unable to prevent a full withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of this year.   Continue reading “Afghanistan asks Washington for $537 million bailout”

ITAR-TASS

SOCHI, September 19. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia and China are discussing over 30 joint projects worth over $100 billion with the frames of the mutual economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, said on Friday.

“We have set up an intergovernmental Russian-Chinese commission and recently discussed over 30 projects worth over $100 billion,” Dmitriev said addressing the International Investment Forum Sochi-2014.   Continue reading “Russia, China negotiate over 30 joint projects worth over $100 bln — official”

Today

WASHINGTON — China’s navy commander has vowed to continue intercepting United States military surveillance planes that come close to its coast, while saying he wants to avoid a repeat of a collision that downed two jets 13 years ago, killing a Chinese pilot.

“It’s become routine for the US to conduct close-in surveillance of China and I don’t see the end of these activities. The US won’t be the US if it stops doing it,” People’s Liberation Army navy chief Admiral Wu Shengli told top US navy officials at an global forum in Newport, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, said a report in the state-owned Global Times newspaper yesterday. “But China’s countermeasures won’t end either.”   Continue reading “China to continue intercepting US jets that come too close”

Count Down to Zero Time

Just when you thought the police couldn’t be more irrelevant and ridiculous in america have a look at this.

BECKLEY (AP) — West Virginia natural resources police say they have made 11 arrests and seized 190 pounds of dry ginseng that was illegally harvested.(as if this was cocaine )

The West Virginia Department of Natural Resources estimates the market value of the native herb at $180,000.   Continue reading “Police seize 190 pounds of illegally harvested ginseng”

Concealed Nation – by Brandon

Four gang members in Chicago were driving around with the intentions of finding rival gang members and shooting them. Seems like a productive way to spend your day, I know.

Derrick Allmon, 19, Jabari Williams, 22, and Michael D. Baker, 19, and another unidentified thug came up to two men during their drive who were apparently rivals. Williams handed a gun to Allmon and ordered him to shoot the two men.   Continue reading “9-Year-Old Boy Shot And Killed By Gang Member In Chicago”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

A quick thinking, quick acting concealed carrier reacted when a man posing as a police officer tried to steal his truck.

According to KENS5,

According to the San Antonio Police Department, Joshua McCann was in town to pick up a motorcycle from a local shop and haul it back to Michigan for a customer. But, when he pulled into the shopping center, a man claiming to be a police officer stopped him and instructed him to get out of the truck. Continue reading “Concealed Carrier Shoots and Kills Car Jacker Who Was Pretending to Be a Cop”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Well these three guys aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed.

According to local media sources, Edvis Miquem Galloway, Savon Khalif Hardaway, and Kalmeaice Kawanna Williams tried to use a man’s own rifle against him in an armed robbery attempt, but it went oh so wrong for the three suspects.   Continue reading “3 Suspects Try to Rob Gun Seller With His Own [Unloaded] Gun, but End Up Getting Held at Gunpoint, Arrested”

WCHS 8 News – by Stefano DiPietrantonio

The Fusion Intelligence Center in Charleston has been on top of classified information coming in daily on ISIS and keeps tabs on how close the terrorist organization’s activities might be to the Mountain State.

While it could not get into specifics about locations or how many people, the Fusion Center said ISIS is training and recruiting members here in the United States; close enough to be concerned. The center has monitored people with terrorist ties passing through here.   Continue reading “ISIS Movements Near West Virginia Being Monitored”

New York Times – by ASHLEY SOUTHALL

Four of five inmates who escaped from a jail in central California and were considered “armed and dangerous” were captured on Saturday, the authorities said.

The inmates escaped from the Madera County Jail around 9:15 p.m. on Friday, the county Sheriff’s Department said in a statement on its Facebook page.

But around 10 p.m. on Saturday, Pacific time, Erica Stuart, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department, announced that four of the inmates had been captured. Roel Soliz, 29, who was convicted of burglary and parole and probation violations, was still at large, she said in an email.   Continue reading “4 of 5 Inmates Are Captured After Escape From California Jail”

Yahoo News – by Asawin Suebsaeng

Erik Prince has a message for ISIS: You’re lucky Blackwater is gone.

On Friday night, the controversial founder of the private military company had plenty to say about what the organization he once ran could be doing in the fight against the so-called Islamic State—and also why Republicans need to stop being such losers.   Continue reading “Blackwater Founder: We Could Stop ISIS”

Huffington Post

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday expressed his dissatisfaction with a chronically high jobless rate and complained of a “very sick idea” that the unemployed would “rather just sit around.”

The top House Republican said there were a “record number of Americans stuck” and that government had an “obligation to help provide tools for them to use to bring them into the mainstream of American society.”   Continue reading “John Boehner Is Sick Of Unemployed People That Would ‘Rather Just Sit Around’”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

More than 4 years ago on May 5, 2010, Cinqo de Mayo, four students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California — a school with a predominant Mexican-American student body — were ordered by the vice principal Miguel Rodriguez to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out.

One of the boys, Daniel Galli, said they were told they could wear the flag T-shirt any other day “but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today” because their T-shirts were “incendiary” and could lead to fights on campus.   Continue reading “U.S. 9th Circuit Court rules high school can ban students from wearing American flag T-shirt”

RT

A powerful explosion occurred at a military plant in the rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk after a shell hit it. A fire is now ravaging the damaged facility.

The plant was used for producing explosives and ammunition as well as for dismantling unexploded munitions collected on the battlefields. On Saturday morning, residents of the war-torn city heard a powerful blast, which was followed by a huge cloud of white smoke rising into the sky.   Continue reading “Huge blast devastates munitions factory in Ukraine’s rebel-held Donetsk”

AOL – by Josh Lederman

WASHINGTON (AP) – A man who drove up to a White House gate and refused to leave was arrested on Saturday, the Secret Service said, less than 24 hours after another man jumped the fence and made it all the way into the presidential residence before being apprehended. The president and first family were not at home.

The second incident started Saturday afternoon when a man approached one of the White House gates on foot, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said. He later showed up at another gate in a car and pulled into the vehicle screening area. When the man refused to leave, he was placed under arrest and charged with unlawful entry. Officials have not released his identity.   Continue reading “Second man arrested trying to enter White House”

Daily Mirror – by John Kelly

For Margot Wölk, eating was a job not a pleasure and every day she really could bite off more than she could chew.

She was Nazi leader Adolf Hitler‘s food taster, press-ganged into testing every morsel the Fuhrer was about to eat in case plotters tried to kill him via the kitchen.

The women doing the job cried after every meal, so convinced were they that this would be the method the British would use.  Continue reading “Adolf Hitler’s food taster tells how she cried with relief at surviving after every meal”

Yahoo News – by MARC LEVY and MARYCLAIRE DALE

CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — The suspect in the deadly ambush at a state police barracks in a remote part of northeastern Pennsylvania remained at large for an eighth day Saturday as police appeared to have narrowed their search, largely shutting down the area where he lived with his parents but leaving neighbors with few answers about what’s going on just outside their front doors.

With a helicopter flying overhead, law enforcement officers wearing bulletproof vests and armed with rifles continued their hunt for Eric Frein, 31, now on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.   Continue reading “Tense hunt in trooper ambush case hits 8 days”