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A Chicago police officer fatally wounded a teenage boy during a foot chase after he was stopped in a vehicle believed to have been involved in an earlier shooting, local media and police said on Tuesday.
The Chicago Tribune identified the suspect as Pierre Loury, 16, who was shot and killed by an officer on Monday evening on the city’s West Side. Continue reading “Chicago police officer fatally shoots teenager during foot chase”
Hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers will now have an easier path to getting their loans discharged, the Obama administration announced Tuesday.
The Department of Education will send letters to 387,000 people they’ve identified as being eligible for a total and permanent disability discharge, a designation that allows federal student loan borrowers who can’t work because of a disability to have their loans forgiven. The borrowers identified by the Department won’t have to go through the typical application process for receiving a disability discharge, which requires sending in documented proof of their disability. Instead, the borrower will simply have to sign and return the completed application enclosed in the letter. Continue reading “Why Obama is forgiving the student loans of nearly 400,000 people”
Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston
An illegal migrant was sentenced to 11 years in prison this week for possessing more than eight pounds of methamphetamine, where he will join his brother, a fellow illegal-immigrant who is also serving an 11-year sentence.
In October of 2014, 37-year-old Mexican national Eleazar Flores-Lopez was pulled over on Interstate 75 in Dayton and was found with the large amount of meth by a K-9 unit. Authorities surmised that Flores-Lopez was smuggling the drugs into Ohio from Mexico. Continue reading “Feds Re-Unite Illegal-Immigrant Family, in Jail, For Smuggling Meth”
A former South Carolina cop that was indicted on a felony charge after he fatally shot a motorist, was sentenced to three years of probation as part of a plea deal on Monday.
In the February 2014 incident that was captured on dash-cam video that was not released until after Monday’s sentencing, North Augusta police officer Justin Gregory Craven attempted to pull over 68-year-old Earnest Satterwhite for drunk driving. Continue reading “SC Cop Sentenced To Three Years Probation After Killing Motorist”
Scientists who would like to speak out about the harmful effects of climate engineering (chemtrails) are being threatened and gagged as Wigington points out, “U.S. government scientists have no First Amendment protection–none. Now, there is a federal gag order on all National Weather Service and all NOAA employees. How much more obvious is this situation, and they are trying to plug leaks in the ship. We have environmental scientists being fired all over. Canada has let go a huge number of their scientists. Continue reading “Former CNN Reporter Greg Hunter Exposes Climate Engineering”
Weather Channel – by Chris Dolce
You may have never heard of it, but an “omega block” weather pattern is about to have a big impact on weather in the U.S. The omega block takes shape late this week into the weekend, resulting in warmer conditions for parts of the Midwest, Northeast and West Coast, while the Plains is targeted by several rounds of thunderstorms.
The term omega block is not new — it’s often first taught in basic meteorology courses. Continue reading “Omega Block Weather Pattern Develops This Weekend; Will Impact Weather From Coast to Coast”
Housekeeper Celia Vargas was marching on the picket line in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas when a motorcade ferrying the billionaire rumbled past.
Against the backdrop of palm trees and shouts of “no contract, no peace,” the 57-year-old maid craned to catch a glimpse of her employer — a property tycoon who has built his presidential campaign on appealing to blue-collar workers but now risks being cast in Sin City as a union-buster. Continue reading “Trump’s clash with Las Vegas union highlights his unpredictability”
Host Margaret Harrington talks with Arnie Gundersen about the ongoing nuclear man made crisis when there is no sound methodology in place for decommissioning Fukushima Daiitchi or Vermont Yankee or any of the nuclear power plants being decommissioned in the US. A nuclear power plant carcass can sit for 60 or 70 years with ratepayers and tax payers paying for them after the plant owners have been subsidized at the public expense. Continue reading “Arnie Gundersen on CCTV- Nuclear Free Future: Fukushima at 5 and the Vermont Yankee Shutdown: What Do They Mean”
Donald Trump’s proposal to force Mexico to pay for his planned border wall by threatening to block remittances from illegal immigrants would be a major violation of Mexicans’ rights, Mexico’s central bank governor said on Tuesday.
The Republican presidential hopeful’s campaign said last week that if elected in November, Trump would use a U.S. anti-terrorism law to cut off such money transfers unless Mexico made a one-time payment of $5 billion to $10 billion for the wall. Continue reading “Trump remittance plan would violate Mexican rights: Mexico cenbank”
Hillary Clinton was sworn in today as President. She has disposed of Bill and is spending her first night alone in the White House. She has waited several years for this!
FIRST NIGHT
Suddenly, the ghost of George Washington appears to her, and Hillary says, “How can I best serve my country?” Continue reading “Hillary’s First Night as President”
Most of us recognize the value of science in dealing with complex problems that pose significant risks to public health and well-being.
Thus we expect reputable science to be reported and used in helping us make difficult policy choices, such as what to do about climate change.
Scientific findings and associated uncertainties should be scrutinized carefully and debated vigorously within the scientific community and among the public. Continue reading “Michael E. Kraft: Climate-change deniers deserve punishment”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Minooka, IL — The Minooka Police Department decided that the benefits from police body cameras do not outweigh the inconvenient administrative work associated with their use. They have halted the department use of body cameras after only six months.
In 2013, a high-profile study of the use of police body cameras in Rialto California showed their use to be nothing short of stunning. After body cameras had been implemented, the department saw a 60% reduction in use of force instances and an 88% reduction in officer complaints. Continue reading “Illinois Police Dept Gets Rid of Body Cams Because Administrative Workload is Too Burdensome”
A Tennessee bill allowing counselors to cite religious beliefs for refusing service to patients is headed to the governor, one of a raft of state measures that critics say discriminates against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender individuals.
The measure protects therapists and counselors from lawsuits and criminal prosecution if they deny services to clients whose religious beliefs conflict with their own. Continue reading “Tennessee bill denying service based on counselor religion goes to governor”
Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger
Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information that is shaking political regimes around the world.
“The CIA I’m sure is behind this, in my opinion,” Birkenfeld said. Continue reading “Swiss Bank Whistleblower Claims Panama Papers Was A CIA Operation”
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has a new ad out and it’s appalling. It features Alice, from Alice in Wonderland, finding a gun and shooting herself in the face.
Yes that is literally what happens in the “PSA”. Continue reading “Watch Gun Control Nuts Shoot ‘Alice in Wonderland’ In The Face With New ‘PSA’”
ZME Science – by Alexander Gerea
It could be water, and not air pollution that’s China’s biggest problem. The Chinese government has published some extremely worrying statistics about the water quality in rural areas, showing that over 80% of it is not drinkable due to contamination from industry and farming. Considering the government’s tendency to underestimate pollution levels, it seems safe to say that virtually none of the rural water is safe.
In 2014, China said that 60% of its underground water is polluted, with things apparently going worse and worse every year. Continue reading “Almost all of China’s rural water is undrinkable, cities aren’t doing much better either”
A man had just settled into his seat next to the window on the plane when another man sat down in the aisle seat and put his black Labrador Retriever in the middle seat next to the man.
The first man looked very quizzically at the dog and asked why the dog was allowed on the plane. Continue reading “Another bad day”