Year: 2015

New York Daily News – by DAREH GREGORIAN

Fixing stop and frisk is going to be costly for taxpayers.

The court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the NYPD’s controversial practice will make a whopping $43,750-a-month, according to court records.

The fee for Peter Zimroth includes work done by staff at his law firm, Arnold and Porter, but not for outside consultants who help them — and who can make up to $375-an-hour, according to an agreement with the city filed in Manhattan Federal Court on Friday.   Continue reading “Monitor overseeing stop and frisk reforms will cost more than 43G per month, court records show”

The Daily Beast

This week, a grand jury declined to indict a Bushwick teenager on terrorist-threat charges brought after he posted Facebook statuses with violent emojis. In addition to criminal gun and drug possession charges, the seventeen-year-old faced allegations that he caused “New York City police officers to fear for their safety” via a series of statuses he wrote in mid-January, one of which included a gun emoji pointed at an emoji of a police officer.

New York City police have been vocal about expanded monitoring of social media, which the department classifies as key to detecting “lone wolf” terrorists and would-be cop killers.   Continue reading “NYPD Social Media Policy Allows Catfishing—With the Proper Paperwork”

New York Daily News – by KERRY BURKE , BARRY PADDOCK

Mayor de Blasio put his money where his mouth is Friday, rushing through the purchase of 13,000 new state-of-the-art bullet-resistant vests.

Two weeks ago, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association hand-delivered a letter to City Hall demanding de Blasio buy the vests without delay.   Continue reading “De Blasio rushes to purchase 13,000 bullet-resistant vests for NYPD cops”

Whole Foods Magazine

February is Heart Health Month and heart health expert and cardiologist Dr. William Davis, M.D., talks about the importance of lowering high cholesterol naturally and reducing your chances of coronary heart disease with the use of magnesium and other nutritional strategies.

Tired of the media onslaught promoting statin drugs? What happened to the conversation about nutritional strategies that reduce cholesterol? Since February is Heart Health Month, now is a great time to highlight the importance of magnesium for the reduction of high cholesterol.   Continue reading “Reduce High Cholesterol with Nutritional Magnesium”

CNBC – by Everett Rosenfeld

In 2000, Ecuador moved to ditch its stumbling currency for the U.S. dollar. Now more than 15 years later, the South American country is revamping its monetary system again—using digital currencies.

Ecuador’s Sistema de Dinero Electrónico (electronic money system) kicked off in December by allowing qualifying users to set up accounts, and it will begin acting as a real means of transaction this month.   Continue reading “Ecuador becomes the first country to roll out its own digital cash”

Cop Block

An anonymous reader shared the content below, regarding a case in which a heavily armed SWAT Team was used by the Marion County Sheriff’s Outfit to enforce a minor traffic violation based on the political beliefs of Dustin Heathman, the individual accused of “committing” that victimless crime, via the Cop Block Submissions page. There is a support page on Facebook for Dustin where you can get more information and lend support.   Continue reading “SWAT Team Used For Arrest On Minor Offense Due To Political Beliefs”

State of the Nation

Something has been very wrong with the Chris Kyle story from the very beginning.  The circumstances and timing around his death are particularly troubling.  As usual with the violent death of a high profile individual, the entire incident seemed staged and unreal.

Many inflammatory statements in Kyle’s book are also troubling.  Various public comments that Chris has made about key events in war and after his return are equally disturbing.  Undoubtedly there has been something very heavy going on in the background for perhaps his entire military career.   Continue reading “The True Story About ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle Finally Comes Out”

The Free Thought Project – by Cassandra Rules

Sylmar, CA– John Flores IV was driving to work early on the morning of Jan. 20, when he alleges he was pulled over by an LAPD vehicle.  He says he was then kidnapped and assaulted.

Flores alleges that it is the same LASPD (Los Angeles School Police Department) officer that he had previously filed a civil suit against over multiple attacks during his freshman year in high school.

When Flores was pulled over on the 20th, he explains that he was instructed to lay on the hood of his car by LASPD officer Amirfar Zariett, who he immediately recognized.  He explains that he was then handcuffed and arrested without any explanation.    Continue reading “Man Claims He Was Kidnapped & Assaulted by Same Cop Who Beat & Harassed Him In High School”

Yahoo News – by Lesley Wroughton and Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is pressing Cuba to allow the opening of its embassy in Havana by April, U.S. officials told Reuters, despite the Communist island’s demand that it first be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.

A refusal by Cuba to allow the United States to quickly establish an official embassy for the first time in half a century could complicate talks between the Cold War foes, reflecting enduring mistrust as they move to end decades of confrontation.   Continue reading “U.S. pressing Cuba to restore diplomatic ties before April – officials”

Medical Xpress

Since 1970, life expectancy around the world has risen dramatically, with people living more than 10 years longer. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that starting when people are in their mid-to-late-20s, the brain begins to wither—its volume and weight begin to decrease. As this occurs, the brain can begin to lose some of its functional abilities.   Continue reading “Forever young: Meditation might slow the age-related loss of gray matter in the brain”

Salt Lake Tribune – by Lee Davidson

Continue reading “Massive Utah cyberattacks — up to 300 million per day — may be aimed at NSA facility”

Fox 2 Now

SPRINGFIELD, MA (WSHM) — A Springfield man stole a police cruiser and drove around the city while taunting police over the radio after officers responded to a disturbance between him and his girlfriend early Thursday morning. Officers Shelley Whitley and Christopher Roberts responded to the disturbance on Laurelton Street at about 4 a.m. and were greeted by a woman who said she wanted her boyfriend removed from her home, according to Springfield police Sgt. John Delaney.   Continue reading “‘Possessed driver’ steals police cruiser, taunts police over radio”

Breitbart – by Michelle Moon

Border patrol agents with National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) Local 1613 are publicly voicing concern over new policies the representatives say pose a threat to national security.

Among the issues the NBPC Local 1613 representatives cited in speaking with Breitbart California after a Tuesday meeting with Congressman Duncan Hunter were Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), an exceedingly high bar for prosecution of criminal aliens, agent pay reductions, decreased training time, and the need for improved equipment.   Continue reading “Border Patrol Agents Speaking Out Against New Orders”

Guardian – by Vivien Goldman

“Me no really say no bad things about no one, cause me have a full heart,” Bob Marley once told me. “That is a sign of being an ignorant and undisciplined human being. Me prefer just to understand the situation and suss it out and say what is right and what is wrong.”

Confident in taking a stand, Bob Marley was not afraid to sing with moral authority. As events echoing the struggles he took part in and sang about take place around the world, I often find myself wondering: what would Bob have made of this if he were alive to celebrate his 70th birthday? What songs might he have written? Except that, usually, he already has.   Continue reading “Bob Marley at 70: legend and legacy”

Breitbart – by  ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

McALLEN, Texas – One of the commanders in the ongoing cartel war that has terrorized the cities just south of the Texas border and left 14 hitmen dead in just three days is a previously deported alien.

Since Sunday, two rival factions of the Gulf Cartel have gone to war, setting off a series of shootouts and blockades that have put the citizens of the border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa on edge.   Continue reading “Commander In Mexican Cartel War Is Previously Deported Alien”

Breitbart – by  ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

As the border region has exploded into a war zone, a grenade was thrown at a local border television station, part of the the Gulf Cartel’s continued efforts to silence the Mexican media from reporting on the escalating violence.

The grenade was thrown at Friday night at the Televisa building in Matamoros, according to a Tamaulipas law enforcement official who spoke with Breitbart Texas. Televisa is a local TV station that is part of a larger network, and has been reporting on the cartel violence.   Continue reading “Mexican Cartel Throws Grenade at Border TV Station for Reporting on Them”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

For those who have been following the recent ISM reports, one of the recurring concerns of respondents in both the manufacturing and service sector has been the congestion at West Coast Ports – which handled 43.5% of containerized cargo in the U.S and where transiting cargo accounted for 12.5% of US GDP – as a result of reduced work output by the local unions who have been more focused in recent weeks on ongoing wage hike negotiations.

And according to the latest update from the 29 west coast ports that serve as the entry point of the bulk of Asia/Pac trade into and out of the US, things are about to get far worse for America’s manufacturing base, because as RILA reported earlier, talks between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) representing port management, and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) officially broke down on Wednesday, and without an agreement, experts have suggested that nearly 30 west coast ports could be shut down within a week.   Continue reading ““Catastrophic Shutdown Of America’s Supply Chain Looms” As West Coast Port Worker Talks Break Down”

Natural Society

Charlotte Figi suffered from Dravet syndrome, a rare disease that caused her to have over 300 seizures a week and display autism-like symptoms. After trying every other conventional medical treatment available, her neurologist decided to treat her with cannabis oil extracts, and the results were astounding.

Figi’s parents live in Colorado, luckily, and her treatments with cannabis oil extracts were legal. In addition to eliminating her autism-like symptoms, Figi drastically reduced her seizures with cannabis oil. After eight short months, 99% of her debilitating condition was completely gone.   Continue reading “6 -Year-Old Free of Debilitating Seizures After 8 Months of Cannabis Oil Use”