Year: 2015

UPI – by JC Finley

DAMASCUS, Syria, March 27 (UPI) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave two recent interviews in which he discussed his relationship with U.S. officials, in one saying he would be “open” to dialogue and in another dismissing the United States as “colonialist” and “warmongers.”

“As principle, in Syria we could say that every dialogue is a positive thing, and we are going to be open to any dialogue with anyone, including the United States, regarding anything based on mutual respect,” Assad told Charlie Rose during an interview for CBS Evening News that aired Thursday.   Continue reading “Syria’s Assad open to U.S. talks — if demands change”

Before It’s News – by The Awake Zone

Sweden may have been neutral, but in great secrecy started as the fourth nation after Germany USA and Russia to develop Nuclear Weapons. When the Swedish nuclear weapons program began: It was done in order to protect themselves against Atomic weapons, but first one must know how they work and how they can be manufactured. It seemed that Sweden, as a major power in the Nordic countries, on whose shoulders rested the defense against the Soviet Union, would need to have nuclear weapons.   Continue reading “The Swedish Nuclear Weapons”

UPI – by Amy R. Connolly

BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) — A Boston woman who said she was injured as a result of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was indicted on charges she stole money from a fund for victims.

Joanna Leigh, 41, said she suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of the explosions that killed three and injured 260. She denies the allegations she stole from One Fund Boston, established in the wake of the bombing to financially support victims. She said her indictment is retribution for her vocal criticism about the way the funds are dispersed.   Continue reading “Woman indicted for stealing funds from Boston Marathon victims”

Time – by Alex Rogers

There’s more to the retiring Senate Democratic leader than meets the eye

When Harry Reid retires in 2017, he will have served as the Senate Democratic leader for 12 years—longer than all but two other senators in the country’s history.   Continue reading “3 Surprising Facts About Senator Harry Reid”

USA Today – by Steve Reilly

About once every four days, part of the nation’s power grid — a system whose failure could leave millions in the dark — is struck by a cyber or physical attack, a USA TODAY analysis of federal energy records finds.

Although the repeated security breaches have never resulted in the type of cascading outage that swept across the Northeast in 2003, they have sharpened concerns about vulnerabilities in the electric system. A widespread outage lasting even a few days could disable devices ranging from ATMs to cellphones to traffic lights, and could threaten lives if heating, air conditioning and health care systems exhaust their backup power supplies.   Continue reading “Bracing for a big power grid attack: ‘One is too many’”

KOIN 6 News – by Jonathan J. Cooper

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Democrats are taking the first step toward requiring background checks on private gun sales.

A bill introduced on Thursday could begin moving through the Legislature as soon as next week.

Gun control advocates have tried for years to expand Oregon’s background check requirement. With expanded Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate following last year’s election, the bill now has much stronger prospects.   Continue reading “Oregon Dems introduce gun background checks bill”

Cassad – by Olexandr Mikhelson

When Crimea will ask to be accepted back into Ukraine (like, actually, it was in 1954 – due to hunger), the Ukrainians won’t celebrate this. Instead, they will roll up their sleeves and will start to repair everything that was broken by Moscow.

Like, actually, it was in 1954.   Continue reading “The Verkhovnaya Rada wants to have an election in Crimea”

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People in the USA, are being told by the U.S. government and media that global warming is man-made.  If that is true, how can the government and media explain the high temperatures the earth has experienced in past years when there were far fewer people?  Let us look back in the world’s history: for example, between roughly 900AD and 1350AD the temperatures were much higher than now.  And, back then there were fewer people, no cars, no electric utilities, and no factories, etc. So what caused the earth’s heat?  Could it be a natural occurrence?  The temperature graph, shown below, shows the temperatures of the earth before Christ to 2040.   Continue reading “Why There Is Global Warming”

Nutritional Anarchy – by Lisa Egan

If you live in Sweden, this is your lucky day!

Everybody’s favorite fast food leviathan is spreading its tentacles out of the garbage grub industry and into new territory. Alas, Swedes are the only ones who can get the goods right now.

Earlier this week, McDonald’s launched an online boutique featuring bed sheets, wallpaper, raincoats, rubber rain boots, a jacket for dogs, and (my personal favorite) thermal underwear emblazoned with Big Macs.   Continue reading “McFashion: We’re Not Lovin’ It”

RT

Police have found a torn sick leave note for the date of the crashed Germanwings flight in the home of Andreas Lubitz, suspected of voluntarily bringing the plane down, Dusseldorf prosecutors say.

Prosecutors believe Lubitz could have been concealing his illness from the company.

“Documents with medical contents were confiscated that point towards an existing illness and corresponding treatment by doctors,” said the Prosecutors’ Office in Dusseldorf, Reuters reports.   Continue reading “Germanwings co-pilot ‘hid illness,’ medical leave note from employers – prosecutors”

Mail.com

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — Declaring a reported kidnapping wasn’t a hoax, the attorney for California woman who went missing for two days says she has met with police and is cooperating with their investigation.

Denise Huskins met with Vallejo Police detectives for several hours Thursday “with the hope of clearing her name because she is absolutely, unequivocally, 100 percent, positively a victim,” attorney Doug Rappaport said.   Continue reading “Lawyer says kidnapping wasn’t hoax, woman talking to police”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters on Friday used high-powered water towers to extinguish pockets of fire at the site of an apparent gas explosion in Manhattan’s trendy East Village as authorities reported that two people were still unaccounted for.

Nineteen people were injured, four critically, after the powerful blast and fire sent flames soaring and debris flying Thursday afternoon. The police department hasn’t yet issued official missing-person’s reports on the two people who haven’t been located, the mayor’s office said.   Continue reading “2 people unaccounted for after apparent NYC gas explosion”

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Yahoo News – by Lindsay Dunsmuir

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents had alleged “sex parties” with prostitutes over several years, said a report published on Thursday and stemming from a review of allegations of misconduct by several DEA agents in Colombia.

The alleged parties were funded by local drug cartels, said the report by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, an agency internal watchdog.   Continue reading “U.S. drug agents had sex parties funded by drug cartels: watchdog”

Badass of the Week

William Ewart Fairbairn is one of the most badass martial arts masters the world has ever seen. In addition to developing the basis for the martials arts systems used by cops and special forces across the globe, he also invented the SWAT Team, came up with the idea of riot police, invented the police officer’s tactical bullet-proof vest, and created the knife that was used by the SAS, Army Rangers, and Marine Raiders in World War II. He also survived over 600 non-training street fights in his lifetime as a police officer and was allegedly covered from face to ankle in scars from knife wounds he received in life-or-death battles with dirtbag criminal scumbags on the streets of Shanghai.   Continue reading “Badass of the Week: William E. Fairbairn”