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NEW YORK (AP) — A rookie police officer who shot an unarmed man dead in a darkened public housing stairwell was convicted Thursday of manslaughter in a case closely watched by advocates for police accountability.

The courtroom audience gasped and Officer Peter Liang, who had broken into tears as he testified about the 2014 shooting of Akai Gurley, buried his head in his hands as the verdict came after 17 hours of jury deliberations. Liang is the first New York City police officer convicted in an on-duty death since 2005.   Continue reading “NYC officer convicted of manslaughter in stairwell shooting”

Mail.com

A bill headed for President Barack Obama this week includes a provision that would ban U.S. imports of fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia, gold mined by children in Africa and garments sewn by abused women in Bangladesh, closing a loophole in an 85-year-old tariff law that has failed to keep products of forced and child labor out of America.

An expose by The Associated Press last year found Thai companies ship seafood to the U.S. that was caught and processed by trapped and enslaved workers. AP tracked fish and shrimp from people locked in cages and factories to supply chains of top retailers and restaurants, from supermarket chains like Wal-Mart and Whole Foods to restaurants including Red Lobster. The companies all said they strongly condemn labor abuse and are taking steps to prevent it.   Continue reading “Congress bans import of forced labor products”

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A judge cleared the way Thursday for a New Mexico teenager who shot and killed his parents and three younger siblings to be sentenced as a juvenile and released from state custody by the time he turns 21 after the teen’s attorneys argued he could be psychologically rehabilitated.

Nehemiah Griego was 15 when he opened fire in his family’s home south of Albuquerque, killing his mother as she slept and then his 9-year-old brother and two sisters, ages 5 and 2, authorities said. Griego’s father was the last to die: The teen waited in a bathroom and ambushed the gang member turned pastor after he returned home, sheriff’s officials said.   Continue reading “Teen who killed 5 family members to be sentenced as juvenile”

Shark Tank – by Nicole Sanders

An inferno is currently burning at an industrial park in Somerset County, New Jersey. I have been advised all of the counties 700 voting booths are most likely destroyed.

Former Bound Brook mayor, Carey Pilato had the following to say about what will happen if the voting booths are a total loss:   Continue reading “Inferno In New Jersey Torches 700 Voting Booths”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

Disarmists use the bandwagon fallacy, (argumentum ad populum) to promote citizen disarmament.  In essence, the non-argument makes the claim; everyone else disarms their population – so we should do the same.  This is a logical fallacy.  Perhaps you remember a parent telling you “if everyone is jumping off a bridge, it does not mean that you should”.

How did most of the rest of the world come to have gun control imposed on them? It was done by force of arms.   Continue reading “How was Gun Control Imposed Upon an Unwilling World?”

Superstation 95

Russia will have no choice but to use Tactical (Battlefield) Nuclear Weapons to defend Syria once a ground invasion begins within 18 days, as 350,000 troops, 20,000 Tanks, 2,450 military planes  and 460 Helicopters from 25 countries are massing in northern Saudi Arabia.  Syria has warned “any aggressor entering the country will go home in wooden coffins;” Russia has said any country sending ground troops into Syria without permission will be considered “a declaration of war.”

Thousands of soldiers from regional countries are set to participate in what is being “called” a military “exercise” media reports say.   Continue reading “Saudis (and Friends) mass 350,000 troops, 20,000 Tanks, 2,450 Planes, 460 Helicopters for Syria Invasion”

Fox News

The Clinton Foundation was subpoenaed last fall by State Department investigators for records relating to charity projects that might have come before the department when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, a source confirmed Thursday.

The development was first reported by The Washington Post. A representative for the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation confirmed the details to Fox News.   Continue reading “State Dept. IG subpoenaed Clinton Foundation in 2015”

Oregon Live – by Carli Brosseau

Blaine Cooper, a member of the core group that took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 2, was arrested Thursday in southwestern Utah.

He was booked into jail in Washington County, Utah, which includes the city of St. George, online jail records show. The arresting agency was listed as the FBI.   Continue reading “Occupier Blaine Cooper arrested in Utah”

The Guardian

Cliven Bundy, the father of Malheur national wildlife refuge occupiers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, has been charged with six federal crimes stemming from his confrontation with the federal government in 2014.

The charges, filed on the same day that the final four occupiers of Malheur surrendered to law enforcement officials and one day after his arrest in Portland, Oregon, marked a stunning turn in a two-decades-long dispute over Bundy’s illegal grazing of cattle on federal land.   Continue reading “Oregon standoff: Cliven Bundy faces six federal charges over 2014 confrontation”

Progressives Today

While testifying in favor of Washington’s HB 2460, the ban of self defense in public parks, retired King County sheriff’s deputy David Hellene says “We look foolish! I’ve got family in Europe, and they can’t understand how this gun violence continues and how we do nothing about it and don’t speak out about it.” He rambles on to say “We change traffic laws incrementally over the last 40 years to prevent DUI deaths, and I think we need to do something incrementally here to prevent these kinds of deaths from happening.”   Continue reading “Sheriff Says We Need Incremental Gun Control Laws”

Progressives Today

“You’re trying to be too logical,” says Oregon state Rep. Lew Frederick, after a woman rants about “multi automatic guns”, challenging the 2nd Amendment in court, wanting licensing for guns like we do with cars.

Rep. Frederick goes on to say that the issue has been “Hijacked by an effort to get as many guns as possible into the community. Where you have people believing that that is the only way that they can be safe. So they’ve got that message, we’ve gotta break that message.” He then goes on to mock people who study the Constitution, and ends by saying we need “enough people, frankly, in elected office who are willing to take on this issue.”   Continue reading “When Anti Gunners Ramble… Misinformed Drivel Happens”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

Despite all the public hoopla, all the cases of microcephaly being discovered in Brazil have never been scientifically linked to the Zika virus. A group of doctors from South America are now saying the brain deformations the world is witnessing are caused by the mass fumigation of low-income Brazilian people with a chemical larvicide, not by mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus.   Continue reading “Zika HOAX exposed by South American doctors: Brain deformations caused by larvicide chemical linked to Monsanto; GM mosquitoes a ‘total failure’”

Gov’t Slaves

(Kris Turner)  Carrier is shuttering its manufacturing facility in western Indianapolis and moving its operation to Mexico, eliminating about 1,400 jobs during the next three years.

The heating, ventilating, air conditioning manufacturer announced Wednesday that it would begin eliminating its Indianapolis workforce in 2017 and continue the layoffs through 2019. The company’s plan is being discussed with United Steelworkers Local 1999, which represents the employees who face termination.   Continue reading “Another US Company To Lay Off All Employees, Move To Mexico”

KGW 8 News

BURNS, Ore. — All four holdouts at the Malheur refuge have surrendered.

Three of the four remaining occupiers had surrendered around 9 a.m. but David Fry was holding out. He surrendered around 11 a.m. and is in custody of the FBI.

For two hours after the three surrendered, Fry was on a phone call with the FBI, a blogger and supporters of the occupation. He described himself as suicidal and that his grievances have not been heard and acted upon.   Continue reading “Last remaining occupier surrenders at Malheur Wildlife Refuge”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Los Angeles, CA — Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca shocked everyone Wednesday when he pled guilty to lying to federal investigators — reversing years of insistence he had been unaware of the corruption and civil rights abuses which were once rampant throughout the county jail system he headed for 15 years.

In return for an agreement with prosecutors that they would not seek a prison sentence longer than six months, Baca admitted he had willfully made a number of false statements during the corruption probe and agreed not to contest a number of other allegations against him.   Continue reading “National Sheriff of the Year Pleads Guilty, Rats Out Deputies, Exposing Rampant Corruption”

Beta News – by Mark Wilson

Microsoft has been accused of pushing Windows 10 rather aggressively, and the company’s latest move is going to do nothing to silence these accusations. For Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, Windows 10 just became a ‘recommended update’ in Windows Update.   Continue reading “Microsoft makes Windows 10 a ‘recommended update’ for Windows 7 and 8.1 users”

Privacy SOS

Granting the ACLU and the public access to staffing, budgetary, and statistical information about the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and FBI would mean “the public would know where the FBI was putting its resources,” warned an Assistant US Attorney in oral argument in a Boston federal court last week. The government apparently doesn’t want the public to know anything about how the FBI and JTTF spend public money, staff its offices, or conduct investigations.   Continue reading “Feds: We Can’t Disclose FBI Records Because Then Public Would Know How FBI Works”