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Courthouse News Service – by Mike Heuer
RENO, Nev. (CN) – A federal judge stayed proceedings while the Ninth Circuit reviews an immunity claim by a Nevada Highway Patrol deputy chief who was found to have violated an officer’s First Amendment rights.
U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks entered summary judgment in July against Deputy Chief Kevin Tice, for telling officers not to speak publicly about unrest in the K9 program. Continue reading “Cop’s Case Stayed for Ninth Circuit”
The Guardian – by Roger Hamilton-Martin
When a United Nations investigator reported the rape of a refugee in Sri Lanka, she did not expect the disclosure to force her into a decade-long legal battle with her employer.
Caroline Hunt-Matthes was ostracised and eventually ousted while on medical leave. She has still not secured redress after a decade fighting her case. Continue reading “Ostracised, sacked … and even arrested: the fate of whistleblowers at the UN”
A 14-year-old boy was arrested by police in Texas after a homemade clock he wanted to show his school teachers was mistaken for a bomb.
Ahmed Mohamed told US media that he had made a clock at home and brought it into MacArthur High School in Irving to show his engineering teacher.
Another teacher saw it and, concerned it looked like a bomb, alerted school authorities who called the police. Continue reading “Ahmed Mohamed, 14, arrested over clock mistaken for bomb”
A Manhattan judge has allowed Ultra-Orthodox Jews to continue performing the religious slaughtering of chickens in the streets of New York City. The more-than-2,000-year-old ritual was challenged by animal rights group that called it “a public nuisance.”
The ruling by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Debra James came on Monday and marked Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It starts the 10-day period leading up to Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, the holiest day for Jews. Continue reading “Orthodox Jews can continue chicken-killing ritual in Brooklyn – NYC judge”
In the mind of State Department spokesman John Kirby, Russia should not back Syria against the terrorists, president Assad is to blame for ISIS, Iraq is much better off because of the US invasion, and it’s ‘absolutely astounding’ anyone would dare to disagree.
That is what the press briefing at the State Department on Tuesday amounted to in a nutshell. The retired US Navy admiral, now speaking on behalf of the US foreign ministry, repeatedly blamed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for the very existence of Islamic State terrorists. Continue reading “Blame Assad: The world according to State Department”
A 15-year-old Philadelphia boy has been arrested over an alleged threat to launch a “homeland attack…targeting a foreign dignitary,” the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security said in a joint briefing. ABC News reported that the target was Pope Francis.
“The minor was inspired by [ISIS] and sought to conduct a detailed homeland attack which included multiple attackers, firearms and multiple explosives, targeting a foreign dignitary at a high-profile event,” read the brief, which was issued on August 14. Continue reading “American teen arrested for alleged ISIS-style plot against Pope Francis”
Market Watch – by Sally French
Facebook is finally going to give you the ability to ”dislike” a post.
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday in the Q&A portion of a “town hall“ event at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., that the company FB, +0.64% is working on a dislike button to be tested on Facebook soon, according to a report from VentureBeat. Continue reading “Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is working on a ‘dislike’ button”
Two Chatham County Sheriff’s deputies were indicted on perjury charges for lying during a grand jury proceeding in January. The Grand Jury was convened to investigate the death of Matthew Ajibade, who was in custody, and restrained, at the time of his death.
Deputies Jason Paul Kenny and Maxine Evans were previously indicted on involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of Ajibade. The manslaughter indictment states that Deputy Kenny used excessive force when he tasered Ajibade while he was restrained in a chair, killing him. Continue reading “Two Deputies Indicted For Manslaughter And Perjury In Tasing Death”
Hundreds of people held an anti-Donald Trump protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, on Monday ahead of the Republican frontrunner’s campaign rally. The real estate mogul spoke to more than 17,000 people, but a major Latino group had a simple message: Dump Trump.
The protest rally, spread across social media with the hashtag #DumpTrump, brought together several hundred people on a Monday evening as they marched for a mile from the Catholic Cathedral to Dallas City Hall. Continue reading “Dump Trump: Major Latino group protests GOP frontrunner, clashes with supporters”
General Electric plans move 500 American jobs overseas, the company announced Tuesday, citing the expiration of the U.S. Export-Import Bank earlier this summer. GE says the jobs will be moving to France, Hungary and China. France will take 400 of them, and China and Hungary will split the remaining 100. Texas, South Carolina, Maine, and New York will all see job losses.
The Ex-Im Bank helps U.S. companies finance the sale of their products overseas. It is supported by President Barack Obama, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and mainstream factions in both parties. But it faces opposition from some conservative Republicans and tea party groups. As a result, Congress failed to reauthorize it, sparking widespread frustration among American corporations that are active overseas. Continue reading “General Electric To Ship 500 Jobs Overseas, Citing Expiration Of Export-Import Bank”
Supporters of genetically modified or engineered foods want you to believe that the concept is no big deal and that humans have been cross-breeding and “modifying” food for centuries.
In reality, however, GMO seeds and foods created in a lab are far different than the traditional hybrid crop. In fact, the latter has only been in existence for a few decades. Continue reading “Rare film clip shows George H. W. Bush plotting with Monsanto to use US government to spread GMO imperialism”
The Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Jerome Arps, 58, began his sickening obsession with forcing himself on women as a teenager when he participated in the gang raping of a 14-year-old girl. Decades later, in 2006, after multiple other rapes, this monster’s addiction to forced sex was so compelling that he grabbed a woman in front of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and publicly raped her on the church’s steps.
One would think that in today’s society, such a vile serial rapist like Arps would never see the light of day after being apprehended. However, one would be wrong. Continue reading “Violent Rapists Set Free as the State Makes Room in Prisons for “Evil” Drug Users”
President Obama announced a new executive order on Tuesday which authorizes federal agencies to conduct behavioral experiments on U.S. citizens in order to advance government initiatives.
“A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights — research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them — can be used to design government policies to better serve the American people,” reads the executive order, released on Tuesday. Continue reading “President Obama Orders Behavioral Experiments On American Public”
The dual peril of unfettered migration into Europe and the United States has a different complexion of invaders, but both suffer an appalling economic aftermath. However, the flood gates from the Middle East and Africa “so called” refugees are destined to overcome and hasten the breakup of the European Union. Just note the impact from not defending the borders of Europe, both placing terminal pressure on the economies and finances of EU countries, but also from the social dissolution of Western societies. Continue reading “Economic Consequences from Refugee Invasion”
Russia Today was recently granted a rare interview with other foreign media outlets at Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s home, wherein he summed up the entire refugee issue: Continue reading “Assad: “Worried About Refugees? Stop Supporting Terrorists””