Month: April 2015

NJ.com – by  Justin Zaremba

ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP — A possible explosive threat at the entrance of Picatinny Arsenal prompted the evacuation of employees from the base Friday.

At about 11:30 a.m., a driver tried to gain access to the Picatinny Arsenal through the post’s truck gate when security personnel noticed something suspicious within the vehicle, Picatinny Arsenal spokesman Ed Lopez said.   Continue reading “Suspicious car deemed ‘explosive threat’ at Picatinny, base evacuated”

CNN – by Barbara Starr and Wesley Bruer

The guard came to Ferguson to support law enforcement officers, whom many community leaders and civil rights activists accused of using excessive force and inflaming an already tense situation in protests that flared sporadically from August through the end of the year.   Continue reading “National Guard Ordered To Consider Americans As ‘Enemy Forces’ And ‘Adversaries’”

RT

Aldermen approved a $5 million settlement to be granted to the family of a teen shot 16 times by Chicago police last October, but insisted on keeping the dashboard camera footage of the shooting away from the public.

The City Council voted 47-0 on Wednesday to pre-empt a federal lawsuit by paying the family of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, shot by a Chicago police officer on October 20, 2014. Legal counsel for the city Stephen Patton told reporters that lawyers for the family initially sought $16 million.   Continue reading “Chicago pays $5 million to family of teen shot 16 times by police, but withholds video”

Mail.com

SEATTLE (AP) — A 911 dispatcher seemed understandably confused by the call from a baggage handler who fell asleep inside the cargo hold of an Alaska Airlines jet bound for Los Angeles and said he needed someone to stop the plane.

“I’m inside a plane, and I feel like it’s moving in the air. Flight 448. Can you please have somebody stop it?” the airport worker said in a recording of the call made on Monday. The recording was released Thursday.   Continue reading “Dispatcher puzzled by 911 call from trapped baggage worker”

Mail.com

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Coast Guard cutter arrived Thursday in San Diego with more than 14 tons of cocaine, part of what authorities described as a surge of seizures near Central and South America.

The cocaine, valued by the Coast Guard at $424 million, was seized by U.S. and Canadian forces in 19 separate incidents in the eastern Pacific Ocean near Central and South America. It included a 10½-ton bust from a coastal freighter, the largest maritime drug interdiction in that area since 2009.   Continue reading “Coast Guard cutter arrives in US with 14 tons of cocaine”

Mail.com

PHOENIX (AP) — Five adults were found dead inside a Phoenix home after a shooting in a suspected dispute over the family’s business, police said.

Police said Thursday the three men were brothers and the dead women apparently were the men’s mother and a spouse of one of the brothers. Two other women and two children managed to escape the home unharmed.   Continue reading “Police say 5 adults found dead inside Phoenix home”

Sputnik

China has signed a contract with the Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport for the purchase of the S-400 air defense systems, the company’s chief executive Anatoly Isaikin said in an interview with the Russian daily Kommersant.

“I will not disclose the details of the contract, but yes, China has indeed become the first buyer of this sophisticated Russian air defense system.  It underlines once again the strategic level of our relations,” Isaikin said, when asked whether it was true that Beijing signed a contract for the purchase of four S-400 divisions in September 2014.   Continue reading “Russia Confirms Arms Deal to Supply China With S-400 Air Defense Systems”

Continue reading “Corporate slimeballs are bottling California water and selling it out of state”

Reuters – by Krista Hughes

Senior U.S. lawmakers reached agreement on Thursday on the wording of a bill aimed at giving the White House “fast track” authority to negotiate a Pacific trade pact that is central to President Barack Obama’s strategic shift toward Asia.

The agreement, over six months in the making, sets the stage for a bruising legislative battle over Obama’s proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and similar trade deals, with many Democrats opposed to the legislation along with a small but vocal contingent of Republicans.   Continue reading “U.S. lawmakers agree on wording of bill key to Pacific trade deal”

Human Wrongs Watch – by Kate Shuttleworth and Samuel Okiror

JERUSALEM/KAMPALA, 16 April 2015 (IRIN) – For Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers facing deportation from Israel’s Holot detention centre, the future is bleak. Those who have gone before describe a hand-to-mouth existence in Uganda or no freedom of movement in Rwanda.

“There was no difference with the life in Israel,” Abush Mekonen, one of eight Eritrean asylum-seekers deported to Rwanda in July 2014, told IRIN. Mekonen said they had been promised jobs in Rwanda but instead were confined to a hotel. “We were not allowed to move or go out.”  Continue reading “Prison or Poverty: Impossible Choice for Israel Deportees”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Earlier today we said the following about the Greek government’s rapidly deteriorating cash situation:

So it’s either pay salaries and pensions or pay the IMF which is tragically ironic because Athens has already gone the route of plundering pensions to make payments to its creditors, the only difference is that now, instead of “borrowing” money from the public coffers and hoping to pay it back in the interim before anyone actually gets shorted, you’re talking about simply not paying people at all Continue reading “Greece May Pay Wages And Pensions In IOUs”

Free Beacon – by Daniel Wiser

The Air Force confirmed this week that it is shuttering a vital airlift wing at Fort Bragg, N.C., that trains the Army’s airborne and special operations forces, prompting outrage from the state’s lawmakers.

The Air Force finally submitted on Tuesday its “Report on C-130 Force Structure” to Congress after its release had been delayed since January. Units such as the 440th Airlift Wing at Fort Bragg’s Pope Army Airfield fly the C-130s to prepare airborne forces for emergency operations overseas.   Continue reading “Air Force Confirms Shuttering of Vital Airlift Wing”

First Look – by Jana Winter

Going to Disney World this summer? Don’t laugh excessively with widely open staring eyes — because those behavior indicators could identify you as a potential terrorist. Packing a Mickey Mouse costume? Wearing a disguise is another indicator.

Yes, the Transportation Security Administration’s embattled $900 million behavior detection program, called Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques, or SPOT, is not just used at airports. It’s also used at theme parks.   Continue reading “TSA Trained Disney, SeaWorld to Spot Terrorists”