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US President Barack Obama says sticking to the principles of the Vienna talks on Syria notably holding a ceasefire is the only way to resolve the conflict.
Barack Obama said on Tuesday ISIL must not be given the chance to divide members of the anti-Daesh campaign, adding that that’s how terrorist groups achieve their goals. Continue reading “Obama: Syria needs ‘ceasefire’ to resolve crisis”
The Baltimore Sun – by Erin Cox
Millions of dollars later, Maryland has officially decided that its 15-year effort to store and catalog the “fingerprints” of thousands of handguns was a failure.
Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The idea was to build a database of “ballistic fingerprints” to help solve future crimes. Continue reading “Maryland scraps gun “fingerprint” database after 15 failed years”
NEW YORK — A Pakistani man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday for a failed al-Qaida bomb plot on the New York City subway.
A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Abid Naseer in March following a trial that featured spies in disguise, evidence from the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound and the defendant’s questioning of an admitted co-conspirator. Continue reading “Pakistani Man Abid Naseer Gets 40 Years in Al-Qaida Plot to Bomb NYC Subway”
If Putin was angry when Turkey shot down a Russian plane, which may or may not have crossed Turkish territory – reports on both sides are conflicting – he will be absolutely livid to learn that, according to Turkey’s Dogan News, the Russian pilots who had parachuted in an attempt to save their lives after the plane was shot down, had been executed while parachuting down by local rebels, which considering the video released earlier belonged to the Free Syrian Army, are same “rebels” who are funded directly by the CIA. Continue reading ““Rebels” Shooting At Russian Pilots While Parachuting Caught On Tape”
A traffic stop on a downtown Philadelphia highway turned violent Tuesday when a suspect got back into his car and fled, rear-ended a school bus and then shot and wounded a trooper, state police said.
Two suspects were taken into custody, and the trooper was hospitalized in stable condition, state police spokeswoman Maria Finn said. The trooper was shot in the shoulder. Continue reading “Philly Traffic Stop Turns Violent; Trooper Shot in Shoulder”
Free Thought Project – by Andrew Emett
San Antonio, TX — Assaulted by two SWAT team members and an undercover cop in a case of mistaken identity, an innocent father of three was left paralyzed from the chest down due to complications from a recent surgery to repair his spine. Although the officers attacked an innocent man and caused his paralysis, the police chief stated that nothing “out of order happened.” Continue reading “Innocent Dad Left Paralyzed After Cops Mistook Him for a Criminal and Beat Him to a Pulp”
Dr. Carl Hart, an associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University who specializes in drug abuse and drug addiction, is also an outspoken critic of the drug war, and made comments in the media recently about how the popular big pharma drug Adderall is pretty much the same thing as crystal meth. Continue reading “Big Pharma’s Adderall Is Basically Crystal Meth, Says Dr. Carl Hart”
In the disturbing film released by the Free Syrian Army rebel group a missile can be seen travelling towards the stricken chopper, which has landed in a mountainous area, before it explodes in a huge fireball.
Moments earlier a single soldier is seen assembling an American made TOW portable anti-tank missile launcher on a hillside before taking aim at the helicopter.
Continue reading “Syrian rebels BLEW UP Russian rescue helicopter after forcing it to land with missile shot”
This family of antibiotics should be taken off the market! Share with everyone you know.
20 Things Cipro’s Warning Label WON’T Tell You:
1. As everyone knows, all drugs have potential side effects. In the vast majority of drugs on the market (over 95% of them), these side effects are transient–meaning they cease when the medication is discontinued. This is NOT the case with Cipro. Many of the side effects listed on Cipro’s warning label (plus many others that are not) can actually be PERMANENT and result in lifelong disability! Bayer blatantly hides this fact, as the word “permanent” appears absolutely nowhere on the drug’s warning label1. Continue reading “Do not take fluoroquinolones like Cipro”
Any New York commuters using the city’s subway recently may have felt as if Adolf Hitler had never been defeated. The interior of subway trains has been decorated with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, all courtesy of an Amazon ad campaign.
Numerous pictures that have been released on social media show a ‘Nazified’ American flag, a Nazi ‘Reichsadler’ eagle, and a Rising Sun flag used by the Japanese empire during WWII. The insignia can all be seen on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s 42nd Street shuttle. Continue reading “Amazon ad campaign plasters NY subway with Nazi-like insignia”
CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times and is expected to be charged with murder surrendered to authorities at the courthouse early Tuesday, just a day ahead of a deadline for the city to release a squad-car video of the shooting.
Veteran officer Jason Van Dyke is expected to be indicted in the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, an official close to the investigation told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt an announcement of the charge. Continue reading “Source: Chicago cop expected to be charged in teen’s death”
The latest on the Russian warplane shot down by Turkey on Tuesday (All times local):
4:43 p.m. Syria’s Information Minister says the shooting down of a Russian warplane is a “new crime” that will be added to the record of insurgent groups and the countries that finance and arm them. Omran al-Zoubi specified Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar _ countries that have been among the strongest backers of insurgent groups trying to remove President Bashar Assad from power. Continue reading “The Latest: Syria official says downing Russia plane a crime”
Mondoweiss – by Phil Weiss and Annie Robbins
Robert Kagan helped start the Project for a New American Century, the famous neoconservative shop that advised George Bush that Israel’s war with terrorism was our war and hurry up and topple Saddam Hussein because he has nuclear weapons. “If we do not move against Saddam Hussein and his regime, the damage our Israeli friends and we have suffered until now may someday appear but a prelude to much greater horrors,” they wrote. Well the greater horrors came, hundreds of thousands killed and injured, Iraq torn apart, and ISIS rising. Continue reading “Kagan pushed regime change in Iraq, now says US must get over ‘trauma’ and do Syria”
Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestlé SA’s supply chains.
The unusual disclosure comes from Geneva-based Nestlé SA itself, which in an act of self-policing planned to announce the conclusions of its yearlong internal investigation on Monday. The study found virtually all U.S. and European companies buying seafood from Thailand are exposed to the same risks of abuse in their supply chains. Continue reading “Nestlé admits slavery and coercion used in catching its seafood”
“Prepare your daughter for a lifetime of surveillance with Hello Barbie, the doll that records children’s private conversations and transmits them to cloud servers, where they are analyzed by algorithms and listened to by strangers. Girls will learn important lessons, like that a friend might really be a corporate spy, and that anything you say can and will be used for market research.” Continue reading “Kid’s toys are recording and transmitting every conversation”
Amazon has force-reset an unknown number of accounts, after passwords may have been compromised.
A number of readers told ZDNet they received an email from Amazon saying the company has reset their account password. The message was also sent to their account message center on Amazon.com, and Amazon.co.uk, confirming the message is genuine. Continue reading “Amazon force-resets some account passwords, citing password leak”
Immigration Minister John McCallum will release details today of the Liberal government’s plan to resettle 25,000 refugees across the country. Some information has already been leaked, but there are still outstanding questions about how the plan will unfold. Continue reading “Canada’s Syrian refugee plan: What we know and don’t know”
Courthouse News Service – by Rebekah Kearn
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) – A Bakersfield police detective portrayed in the Disney film “McFarland, USA” is charged with taking bribes from a drug dealer.
The 16-count indictment against Damacio Diaz, 43, was unsealed Thursday.
As a member of the Bakersfield Police Department’s Narcotics Unit, Diaz also worked with DEA agents and was assigned to the Southern Tri-County Task Force of the Central Valley High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), a multi-agency drug task force investigating both state and federal narcotics crimes, according to the 23-page indictment. Continue reading “Cop from Disney Film Faces Bribery Charges”