Month: December 2014

USA Today – by Eric J. Lyman

LIMA, Peru — The latest round of United Nations climate talks ended in the early hours of Sunday morning — nearly 33 hours later than scheduled — with a deal that barely kept hopes for a meaningful global agreement next year.

The conference, which started on Dec. 1., had two main goals: to agree to a series of measures aimed at reducing the greenhouse gases scientists say cause climate change in the near term, and to pave the way for an agreement that will include action from all countries by the end of the next edition of the talks, a year from now in Paris.   Continue reading “Deal reached at U.N. climate talks in Peru”

Fox News

The Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill late Saturday that funds the government through next September, averting a partial government shutdown and sending the measure to President Obama’s desk.

The Senate voted 56-40 for the long-term funding bill, the main item left on Congress’ year-end agenda. The measure provides money for nearly the entire government through the end of the current budget year Sept. 30. The sole exception is the Department of Homeland Security, which is funded only until Feb. 27.   Continue reading “Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending bill, averting partial gov’t shutdown”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco are holding gun buybacks to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook elementary.

The San Jose buyback is hosted by the San Jose Police, whereas the Oakland and San Francisco buybacks enjoy partial funding from “Gun by Gun”–“a tech nonprofit that crowdfunds gun buybacks.”

According to Political Blotter, Oakland is paying “up to $100 for handguns, shotguns, and rifles, and up to $200 for firearms that meet the state’s definition of assault weapons.”    Continue reading “Bay Cities Hold Handgun, Shotgun, ‘Assault Weapon’ Buybacks to Commemorate Sandy Hook”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

A couple trying to smuggle 80 pounds of cocaine were arrested on Thursday while trying pass through Texas’ Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint.

The drugs had an estimated street value of $2.5 million, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The man and woman were ultimately apprehended after a K-9 alerted agents to the Nissan Sentra they were driving. During an inspection of the vehicle, agents found the cocaine in 32 bundles being stored in a “secret compartment.”   Continue reading “80 Pounds of Coke Seized on Texas-Mexico Border”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

MCALLEN, Texas – Federal agents raided a home on the Texas border while serving a search and arrest warrant on a fellow agent.

The raid took place Friday in the border city of Brownsville where agents with Homeland Security Investigations and the Brownsville Police arrested a federal agent, a local TV station reported.   Continue reading “Federal Agents Arrest One Of Their Own Near The Texas Border”

CNS News – by Terrence P. Jeffrey

The federal debt has increased by $3.8 trillion in the 3.8 years that have passed since House Speaker John Boehner cut his first spending deal with Senate Democrats and President Obama.

That works out to $32,938.38 for every household in the United States—including those taking federal welfare benefits—and $42,783.20 for every full-time year-round private-sector worker in the United States.   Continue reading “Boehner’s Spending Deals Have Increased Debt $3.8T in 3.8 Years”

The Independent – by Kitty Knowles

Fed up with Britain’s icy blasts and soaring house prices? Then why not bask in the sun and paddle the azure seas from the shores of your own Greek island. You may have to share living space with goats, but with more than 20 Greek islands for sale, Brits can live out their Mamma Mia! fantasies for the price of a central London flat.

Little Lesbos, an uninhabited 16-acre haven in the Aegean Sea, 200 metres from the island of Lesbos and described as “one of the most beautiful islands in the Mediterranean” by real estate company Vladi Private Islands, is available for €800,000 (around £630,000).   Continue reading “A Greek island – yours for the price of a London flat”

ABC News – by Amy Taxin

In small-town community centers, schools, churches and a vast city convention center, immigrant advocates are spreading the word about President Barack Obama’s plan to give millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally a temporary reprieve.

The November announcement promising work permits and protection from deportation made a splash, but lawyers say the events are crucial to dispel rumors about eligibility, ward off fraud, and help immigrants determine what they might need to apply.   Continue reading “Immigrants Flock to Workshops After Obama Reprieve”

Huffington Post 

Tens of thousands of protesters streamed out of New York City’s Washington Square Park on Saturday to protest the killings of unarmed black people by police officers, as part of the “Millions March NYC.”

The crowd began to wind its way through Manhattan. A large labor union contingent was present, including members of the Communications Workers of America wearing red shirts and AFL-CIO supporters waving blue signs.

In contrast to other marches over the past week, this large, orderly demonstration took place during the day. A number of families with children took part, and demonstrators followed a pre-planned route. The march made its way uptown to Herald Square, then looped back downtown, with thunderous chants of “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” and “Justice! Now!” echoing down Broadway.   Continue reading “Tens Of Thousands March On NYPD Headquarters To Protest Police Killings”

Chicago Tribune

A Mississippi pastor brought a horse in a wedding dress to stand with him outside a federal courthouse on Friday in Jackson to protest a federal judge’s ruling, currently on hold, to overturn the socially conservative state’s ban on gay marriage.

The horse, complete with white flowers tucked into its harness and a bouquet at its feet, munched grass as the pastor, Edward James of Bertha Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, spoke and waved signs at passersby.   Continue reading “Mississippi pastor trots out horse in wedding dress to protest gay marriage”

McAdams

Joseph Kennedy had befriended McCarthy because he found him to be a likable fellow Irish-Catholic who had all the right ideas on the domestic communist menace. These warm feelings were quickly transferred to the entire Kennedy family. JFK liked the fact that McCarthy went after the “elites” in the State Department whom JFK regarded with contempt. ⁽¹³⁾ Even before McCarthy made accusations against the State Department of subversion, JFK had already aligned himself with the militant anti-communists who blamed the Truman State Department for the “loss” of China. So JFK declared on the House floor in January 1949.   Continue reading “The Kennedys and McCarthyism”

David Stockman

September 15, 2008 is the day that Lehman died and the moment that the world’s central banks led by the Fed went all-in. As it has turned out, that was an epochal leap into the most dangerous monetary deformation that the world has ever known.

It needn’t have been. What was really happening at this pregnant moment was that the remnants of honest capital markets were begging for a purge and liquidation of the speculative rot that had built up during the Greenspan era. But the phony depression scholar running the Fed, Ben Bernanke, would have none of it. So he falsely whooped-up a warning that Great Depression 2.0 was at hand—-sending Washington, Wall Street and the rest of the world into an all-out panic.   Continue reading “Duck And Cover – The Lull Is Breaking, The Storm Is Nigh”

Left Hook – by Dean Henderson

It comes as no surprise that the same ISIS crazies currently relieving Syria of its state-owned oil reserves to help crash global crude markets for the Illuminati, are also welcomed in the Rothschild creation known as Israel for medical treatment.

It also came as no surprise to students of Middle East history when on February 12, 2012 al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called for the ouster of Syria’s “pernicious, cancerous regime,”. Progressive Syria has been targeted by al Qaeda in the past, and is currently under attack by Islamists from the CIA/Mossad-trained Free Syrian Army.   Continue reading “Zionists Use ISIS To Attack Syria”

Forward Observer – by Samuel Culper

I just read an interesting article entitled, “Epic Landpower Fail,” in which the author, a US Army Major and strategy professor at West Point, makes the point that today all landpower is attributional.  What he means is that landpowers – armies – can be attributed to a specific country.  You can’t just mass a force in a foreign country without the entire world knowing to whom it belongs.  As we saw recently with Russians in Ukraine, even putting a small contingent of troops in a country is going to draw attention.  They may look different, act differently, or exhibit all those ‘C’ factors (Contrasts) that good analysts look for when identifying threat characteristics.  Those threat characteristics, or signatures, are going to lead analysts to believe that those men were/are Spetsnaz or FSB.   Continue reading “Non-Attributional Warfare”

Time – by Eliza Gray

New York City cops may soon be armed with more Tasers. But experts are skeptical that will make the city safer.

Police Commissioner William Bratton announced plans Wednesday to purchase an additional 450 Tasers to give to training officers who work with rookies, the New York Daily News reports. “We are very interested in expanding [the use of Tasers] very significantly,” Bratton said, describing them as “a nonlethal method officers could use.”   Continue reading “More Tasers for New York Cops Might ‘Do More Harm Than Good’”

Factually – by Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Around ten lawsuits were filed against the NYPD every day, according to a new analysis by I Quant NY of a city report that also says most suits were “primarily of allegations of police misconduct, civil rights violations, and injury and/or damage from accidents involving police vehicles.”

In July, city Comptroller Scott Stringer introduced a program called ClaimStat aimed at using data analysis to keep track, and eventually reduce, the amount of claims by identifying “patterns and practices that lead to lawsuits against the City.” The wonderful I Quant NY blog has now found a way to access the specific data sets produced by the ClaimStat project, and that means we now have numbers—and maps—of the amount of claims made last year.   Continue reading “The NYPD Was Sued an Average of 10 Times a Day Last Year”

New York Times – by Stephanie Clifford

The tip comes from a confidential informer: Someone has a gun. Ten or more minutes later, police officers find a man matching the informer’s detailed description at the reported location. A gun is discovered; an arrest is made.

That narrative describes how Jeffrey Herring was arrested last year by police officers in the 67th Precinct in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. It also describes the arrests of at least two other men, Eugene Moore and John Hooper, by some of the same officers.   Continue reading “In Brooklyn Gun Cases, Suspicion Turns to the Police”