Year: 2015

Cop Block – by Kelly Patterson

Officer Valerie Palombi, of the Roswell Police Department, was arrested after Chaves County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call for a suicidal person. Initially when officers arrived, Palombi was standing on her back porch with a gun in her hand. Instead of killing her, like they would with anyone else they encounter with a gun (or anything else) in their hand, the deputies simply allowed her to walk into the house.   Continue reading “Roswell Police Officer Taken Alive in Standoff After Shooting, Then Refusing to Drop Gun”

Houston Eater – by Wes Griffin

KTRK reports a mysterious theft occurring on the premesis of the 8943 Katy Freeway location of the SaltGrass Steakhouse chain. If Sheriff Glen Smith’s name sounds familiar it could be because he was brought to a national stage in the mysterious and alleged suicide of Sandra Bland in his Waller County jail facility. While this case still remains open and of hot debate, the Sheriff has found himself again in another case where people are wondering if he is the crooked common denominator.   Continue reading “Machine Gun Arsenal Mysteriously Stolen from SaltGrass Steakhouse”

Washington’s Blog

The Times of India reported yesterday:

Nearly 70,000 [Muslim] clerics [from around the world] came together and passed a fatwa [i.e. Islamic legal decree] against terrorist organizations, including IS, Taliban and al-Qaida. These are “not Islamic organizations,” the clerics said to a sea of followers, adding that the members of these outfits were “not Muslims”.

Continue reading “The Vast Majority of Muslims HATE ISIS and Terrorism”

RT

The US food regulator has approved GMO chicken to produce a breakthrough drug. Extracted from transgenic hens’ egg whites, the medicine is hoped to help patients with a rare, rapidly progressive disease affecting fewer than 200,000 Americans.

The drug, named Kanuma, would help people whose bodies can’t break down fatty molecules in cells, causing fat to accumulate in the liver, spleen and vasculature. In the medical world this illness is called lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LAL deficiency). A rare, inherited condition, it is diagnosed in infants within their first six months. Statistically, sick babies don’t live past their first year.   Continue reading “FDA approves GMO chicken to produce breakthrough drug”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The commando force that President Barack Obama is dispatching to Iraq to conduct clandestine raids against the Islamic State group does not fit neatly into a picture of the U.S. military strategy for defeating the extremist army.

Even the name — “specialized expeditionary targeting force” — is a bit of a riddle. The main point is that the force is intended to ratchet up pressure on the Islamic State by using a small group of special operations troops — possibly fewer than 100 — to more aggressively use intelligence information, to include capturing and killing the group’s leaders. In theory, this would generate even more and better intelligence, feeding what the military calls a “virtuous cycle” of intelligence-driven air and ground operations.   Continue reading “US keeps wraps on new commando force for Iraq”

Associated Press – by Frank Eltman

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The ex-chief of one of the country’s largest local law enforcement agencies was arrested Wednesday on charges he took revenge against a man who stole sex toys, pornography and other items from his SUV by beating the suspect and then coercing officers to lie about it.

Former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke also threatened to kill the suspect with a heroin overdose and “went out of control” — punching, screaming and cursing — after the suspect called him a “pervert” until a detective “finally said, ‘Boss that’s enough, that’s enough,'” prosecutors told a judge.   Continue reading “Former NY police chief accused of covering up beating”

Prison Policy – by Peter Wagner

Wait, does the United States have 1.4 million or more than 2 million people in prison? And do the 636,000 people released every year include the people getting out of local jails? Frustrating questions like these abound because our systems of federal, state, local, and other types of confinement — and the data collectors that keep track of them — are so fragmented. There is a lot of interesting and valuable research out there, but varying definitions and other incompatibilities make it hard — for both people new to criminal justice and for experienced policy wonks — to get the big picture.   Continue reading “Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2015”

ABC News – by David Warren, AP

A Texas police chief who warns President Barack Obama in a social media video that trying to disarm Americans would “cause a revolution in this country” is the latest law enforcement official to urge citizens to arm themselves in the wake of mass shootings.

Randy Kennedy, longtime chief in the small East Texas town of Hughes Springs, about 120 miles east of Dallas, says in the video posted this week on his personal Facebook page that the Second Amendment was established to protect people from criminals and “terrorists and radical ideology.”   Continue reading “Texas Police Chief, Others Urge Citizens to Arm Themselves”

The Hill – by Mark Hensch

GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Thursday that he is no longer meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his home turf later this month.

“I have decided to postpone my trip to Israel and to schedule my meeting with @Netanyahu at a later date after I become president of the U.S.,” he tweeted.   Continue reading “Trump cancels trip to Israel”

RT

A Texas cop who was suspended for a Facebook post saying that he loved his job because he got to kill people without risking jail, will soon be back on duty, according to the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD).

Officer Daryl A. Carle was suspended on November 15 for 30 days, documents obtained by MySA.com have shown. The post was made on August 11 and discovered by the police department on August 12.   Continue reading “Texas cop who wrote he loved to ‘kill people and not go to jail’ returning to work”

The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

Over the past few years the dollar has staged an impressive comeback. Not because there’s anything fundamentally good about this currency’s future prospects, but because for the interim, most of the economies in world aren’t doing so hot. For a lot of investors, it is the lesser of many evils in the short-term, so they view the dollar as a temporary safe haven.

However, recent signs suggest that the dollar’s rally may be coming to an end. Among them, is the fact that China and Japan, the world’s two largest holders of U.S. Treasury Debt, have just dumped a ton of dollars.   Continue reading “China and Japan Just Dumped Billions of Dollars”

Tech Crunch – by Josh Constine

Mark Zuckerberg urged the world not to “succumb to cynicism” despite bigots like Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States. Today, Facebook’s CEO posted on his site that “I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world…As the leader of Facebook I want you to know that you are always welcome here and that we will fight to protect your rights”.   Continue reading “Zuckerberg Says Muslims Will Always Be Welcome On Facebook”