Year: 2014

MassPrivateI

Facebook has offered to pay $200,000 a year for a full-time Menlo Park police officer who would work out of the city’s planned substation in Belle Haven, a stone’s throw from its headquarters.

The company has pledged to fund the position for three years, and possibly two more, according to an agreement that goes to the Menlo Park City Council for approval.

THAT’S CLOSE TO A MILLION DOLLARS THE POLICE OFFICER WOULD EARN: $600,000 FOR 3 YEARS & $800,000 FOR 5 YEARS!   Continue reading “Facebook becomes the first private company to hire a full-time police officer to spy on public”

MassPrivateI

The advent of mobile apps and websites that allow more people than ever to listen to police radio chatter prompted two local law enforcement agencies to follow a growing trend across the country – encrypting police radio traffic.

What that means is news outlets and the general public will no longer be able to hear when a traffic accident blocks a major intersection or an armed standoff results in evacuations.   Continue reading “Law enforcement agencies are encrypting radio transmissions citing bogus officer safety concerns”

World Events and the Bible

(Natural Society) – A newly published study in Harvard’s The Lancet weighs in on the toxins causing autism and ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder). Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) say that along with these numerous environmental toxins, fluoridated water is adding to the higher incident of both cognitive and behavioral disorders.   Continue reading “Harvard Says Fluoridated Water is Causing Cognitive Disorders”

WZTV Fox 17

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee liquor store owner says he’s fed up with Russia’s antics, so he’s banning Russian vodka from his shelves.

Bob Gilbertson, owner of Bob’s Liquors in Knoxville, says he’s not happy about Russia’s recent and aggressive involvement in Ukraine over Crimea.

He has decided to sell his Russian vodka at cost to get rid of it.   Continue reading “Russian Vodka Banned from Tennessee Liquor Store”

Huffington Post

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco stopped the destruction of millions of telephone records collected by the National Security Agency more than five years ago.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, who is overseeing an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against the agency, issued a nationwide order Monday to safeguard evidence until March 19, when he will hold a hearing on extending the deadline further.   Continue reading “Judge Halts Destruction Of NSA Surveillance Records”

Washington Post – by Henry Kissinger

Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation. But do we know where we are going? In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins.

Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other — it should function as a bridge between them.   Continue reading “Henry Kissinger: How the Ukraine crisis ends”

NPR – by EYDER PERALTA

Sheryl Sandberg doesn’t like a word a lot of people and parents use to describe little girls.

In an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, she called it “the other B-word.” She says as a kid, she didn’t really play with other kids, instead the current chief operating officer of Facebook used to organize their play.   Continue reading “Sheryl Sandberg: The Word ‘Bossy’ Should Be Banned”

Two–Four

“Communism. I’ve seen it, I’ve lived it. I will hate it until the end of my life.

Most of you here say guns in the hands of people can defeat tyrants. Regardless of what you may hear from naysayers and firearms ‘hobbyists’ who will tell you AR’s and AK’s in civilian hands are no match for tanks and machine guns (I remember one such hobbyist posting this here on Calguns), I come before you to tell you that what you believe to be true it is true: on December 22nd 1989 me and thousands of my compatriots we did just that.   Continue reading ““Why Do I Fight For 2A Rights?””

Third World Traveler

Excerpts from the Book by Philip Agee, Penguin Books, 1975

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… what the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.   Continue reading “CIA Diary: Inside the Company”

    An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.

The two elderly gentlemen were talking, and one said, “Last night we went out to a new restaurant, and it was really great. I would recommend it very highly.”

The other man said, “What’s the name of the restaurant?”   Continue reading “Senior Moment”

The Raw Story – Agence France-Presse

Spanish authorities seized 62 bales containing close to two tons of hashish that washed ashore on Monday on a beach in one of Spain’s exclaves in North Africa, police said.

Officers on a routine patrol spotted several bales at the Calamocarro beach just outside Ceuta, which lies across the Strait of Gibraltar from mainland Spain and is surrounded by Morocco, police said in a statement.   Continue reading “Nearly two tons of hash washes up on Spanish beach”

Yahoo News

Moscow (AFP) – Russia has refused to budge from its seemingly imminent annexation of Crimea, defying Western pressure at the UN Security Council, as Ukraine’s ousted president prepared to make his first public appearance in more than a week Tuesday.

As Kremlin-backed forces tightened their grip on Crimea, Russia rebuffed pressure from Western members of the Security Council on Monday to change course on a secession referendum in the strategic peninsula.   Continue reading “Russia stares down UN pressure on Ukraine”

Crockett Lives

“What the president will be doing this weekend in Florida is essentially what the president would be doing back at the White House. It’s just that the weather will be a little warmer.” — Josh Earnest, Deputy Press Secretary

“I believe he can be as ineffective in Key Largo as he was in the White House.” – Newt Gingrich   Continue reading “I, Barack Obama”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: No, McCain it would be tragic to send more of our young men and woman off to be killed in another senseless war.

(LewRockWell) – If the US/EU backed overthrow of the Ukrainian government last month had a face, that face would be Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). McCain is the “Energizer Bunny” of US interventionism: wherever there is a government to subvert, a regime to change, chaos to foment, there you will find McCain in its midst.   Continue reading “McCain: ‘It’s Tragic’ There’s No U.S. Military Option In Ukraine”