The Tenneseean

Fred Thompson, a former U.S. senator from Tennessee, GOP presidential candidate, Watergate attorney and actor who starred on the television drama “Law and Order,” died on Sunday in Nashville. He was 73.

Mr. Thompson died after a recurrence of lymphoma, according to a prepared statement issued by the Thompson family. Mr Thompson, who had recently purchased a house in Nashville to return to Tennessee, was first diagnosed with cancer in 2004.   Continue reading “Fred Thompson, with larger-than-life persona, dies at 73”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

We can only assume that rabidly anti-gun mayor Rahm Emanuel and rabidly anti-gun (and inept) police superintendent Gary McCarthy are fuming that, even in Chicago, concealed carry thwarts crime and saves lives.

A robbery was thwarted at a Southwest Side corner store Saturday night when a patron with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed robber, authorities said. Continue reading “Concealed Carrier Kills Robber In Chicago”

ArsTechnica – by Jon Brodkin

When you live somewhere with slow and unreliable Internet access, it usually seems like there’s nothing to do but complain. And that’s exactly what residents of Orcas Island, one of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, were doing in late 2013. Faced with CenturyLink service that was slow and outage-prone, residents gathered at a community potluck and lamented their current connectivity.

“Everyone was asking, ‘what can we do?’” resident Chris Brems recalls. “Then [Chris] Sutton stands up and says, ‘Well, we can do it ourselves.’”   Continue reading “How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service”

Yahoo News – by Julia Harte and Julia Edwards

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Almost a third of 6,000 federal prisoners scheduled to be freed between Friday and Tuesday, part of a push to reduce America’s soaring incarceration rate, will immediately be turned over to U.S. immigration authorities for deportation proceedings.

While this weekend will be a happy occasion for the thousands of inmates who are U.S. citizens and will reunite with their families, many of the roughly 1,780 foreign inmates to be put on the deportation track will leave family members behind in the United States.   Continue reading “Mass release of U.S. prisoners spells deportation for hundreds”

Reuters

One person was killed and another injured early Sunday on the campus of Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, the university’s website said.

The names of the victims have not been released and the alleged gunman is still at large, local media reported. Campus police and local police could not immediately be reached for comment.   Continue reading “One killed in shooting at university in North Carolina”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

COTTONWOOD, Ariz. (INTELLIHUB) — R. Dyved, a local FedEx driver, submitted the following information to Intellihub, including several photographs which show spiderweb-like fibrous strands that Dyved spotted himself falling from the sky which he later “managed” to collect samples of, putting them in a jar:   Continue reading “More strange fibers rain down from sky onto populace, samples taken”

RT – by Finian Cunningham

Obama’s decision to send Special Forces into Syria is being widely viewed as a US military escalation in the country. The troop dispatch also signals that the US trying to forestall Russian successes in wiping out Washington’s regime-change assets in Syria.

In short, the US Special Forces are being used as “human shields” to curb Russian air strikes against anti-government mercenaries, many of whom are instrumental in Washington’s regime-change objective in Syria.   Continue reading “US Special Forces deployed as ‘human shields’ to salvage terror assets in Syria”

Patch – by Kara Seymore

Four police officers were injured, including a female officer who was taken to the ground, after responding to a 200-person brawl outside a Pennsylvania high school Thursday.

According to reports, the officers were injured as they responded to a fight around 3 p.m. near Allen High School in Allentown.   Continue reading “Police Officers Attacked By Students During Brawl Outside Pa. School”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

A Monsanto research site in France was enveloped recently in heavy flames due to a possible arson attack against the company. Two areas dedicated to maize research caught fire with the smell of petrol lingering in nearby hallways and throughout other areas of Monsanto’s building site.

Jakob Witten, an official spokesperson for the company told police that the company suspects arson because no electrical damage was found.   Continue reading “Monsanto Research Site in France Goes up in Flames”

CNN – by Ralph Ellis

Three people were killed in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Saturday morning before city police officers shot and killed a suspect, reported the sheriff’s office of El Paso County, Colorado.

Police received a report of a shooting about 8:45 a.m. along with a description of a suspect, the sheriff’s office said.   Continue reading “4 dead, including suspect, in Colorado Springs shooting”

Huffington Post – by Natasha Srdoc

Jerusalem Leaders Summit
Inbal Jerusalem Hotel

US presidential candidates have been invited to participate in the first-ever US Presidential Candidates’ Forum held abroad, focusing on foreign and defense policy issues. From Jerusalem, Israel, each presidential candidate will have an opportunity to present their views on U.S. foreign policy, US-Israel relations, threats affecting US allies in Europe and Asia, the instability in the Middle East, terrorism, and solutions to increase the economic well-being and security of Americans in the US and abroad. Continue reading “First-Ever U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Forum Held Abroad in Jerusalem, Israel, November 3-4, 2015”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

That didn’t take long: following the worst Russian airplane disaster in history, the question everyone was asking is who is responsible. Moments ago we may have gotten the answer.

A militant group affiliated to Islamic State in Egypt claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Saturday, the group said in a statement circulated by supporters on Twitter.   Continue reading “ISIS Releases Video Of Alleged Russian Airplane Mid-Air Exposion After It Claims Responsibility For Disaster”

The Guardian – by Samuel Gibbs

Microsoft’s efforts to entice users to upgrade to Windows 10 will soon see it automatically downloaded on to users computers without their knowledge.

The company announced that Windows 10 will become a “recommended update” starting next year, which means anyone with Windows 7 or 8 that has automatic updates activated – the default and the best way to keep a computer protected against security bugs – will have Windows 10 automatically downloaded without asking.   Continue reading “Windows 10 will automatically download on to Windows 7 or 8 PCs”

Yahoo News – by Yusri Mohammed and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan

ISMAILIA, Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) – A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers and crew crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Saturday, and a security officer at the scene said most passengers appeared to have been killed.

The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said.   Continue reading “Russian airliner with 224 aboard crashes in Egypt’s Sinai”

Health Nut News – by Erin Elizabeth

We are so sorry to break this news (as gently as possible) as yet another holistic doctor dies within a matter of months. My heart goes out to his friends, family, and his patients who are commenting on my Facebook page tonight about the wonderful memories of this great man.

The article linked at the bottom also says that he was married and the father to eight children.   Continue reading “Thirteenth Holistic Doctor (MD, PhD) Dies- Allegedly Jumped from 20th floor”

Huffington Post – by Michael McLaughlin

A grand jury recommended clearing one Atlanta-area cop in the fatal shooting of a man seeking help, but couldn’t reach an agreement about another police officer’s killing of an unarmed man in controversial circumstances.

The DeKalb County grand jury said the district attorney shouldn’t indict DeKalb Officer Joseph Pitts for the December killing of Kevin Davis, 44, who had called 911 seeking help because his girlfriend had been stabbed. Continue reading “Grand Jury Recommends No Charges Against Atlanta Cop In Killing”

Politico – by EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE

President Barack Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan haven’t had a face-to-face meeting in more than two-and-a-half years. And despite Ryan’s election this week and Obama’s congratulatory call to him in advance of the vote, there still isn’t one scheduled.

But the two already have a good sense of each other — and beside John Boehner, Ryan’s probably the House Republican Obama’s spent the most time with. And if Obama had to pick a House Republican to be speaker, people who know the president say he’d probably have voted for Ryan himself. There isn’t a close runner-up.   Continue reading “Obama and Ryan: Covert collaborators”