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A Colorado preschool has booted a 4-year-old after her parent’s questioned the administration about its curriculum promoting homosexuality and transgenderism.
R.B Sinclair told the Denver Post that she wanted her daughter excused from classroom discussions on sex and gender, because she sees it as sex education. Continue reading “Child Booted From Preschool After Parents Question ‘Same-Sex’ and ‘Gender’ Curriculum”
Business Insider – by David Armstrong
The dozen packages were shipped from China to mail centers and residences in Southern California.
One box was labeled as a “Hole Puncher.”
In fact, it was a quarter-ton pill press, which federal investigators allege was destined for a suburban Los Angeles drug lab. Continue reading “Chinese suppliers have been flooding the US and Canada with a deadly drug”
A sophisticated ring of money launderers — with an array of pop cultural nicknames like “Tony Montana,” “Pitbull” and “Neymar” — has been busted on charges of sending untold millions in illegal cocaine profits to Colombia using nearly a dozen businesses in Miami-Dade.
In a news conference scheduled for Thursday, Miami-Dade prosecutors will announce arrest warrants for 22 people believed to have worked in a scheme that included the suspected chief money launderer for the Mexican drug cartel headed by notorious kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Continue reading “Miami drug money-laundering ring involving ‘El Chapo’ cartel snares 22”
According to the St. Louis Dispatch article, Ferguson agreed to DOJ mandated police reform but only if they could raise taxes so citizens could pay for it.
“Both measures were intended to offset a $2.9 million budget deficit.” Continue reading “Ferguson agreed to police reform but only if they could raise taxes so citizens could pay for it”
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities have detained four Australians, including journalists, on suspicion they were involved in the abductions of two children in Beirut, police officials and Australian media said Thursday.
The officials added that a British citizen has been detained as well on suspicion that he planned to smuggle the children out of Lebanon on his boat. Police officials said the detainees are being questioned over the kidnapping of Noah and Lahela al-Amin. They are the son and daughter of a Lebanese man and an Australian woman who have been living in Beirut since their father Ali al-Amin brought them from Australia late last year, the officials said. Continue reading “4 Australians detained in Lebanon on kidnapping suspicion”
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Standing before a federal judge, former coal company executive Don Blankenship expressed sorrow for the families of 29 men killed in his coal mine six years ago but contended that he committed no crime.
“I just want to make the point that these men were proud coal miners. They’ve been doing it a long time. And they’d want the truth of what happened there to be known,” Blankenship said Wednesday, drifting closer toward mentioning his theory that an act of nature, not negligence, caused the deadly explosion in his mine. Continue reading “Wounds reopened as ex-coal chief gets 1 year in prison”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former second-in-command of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was convicted Wednesday in a corruption probe that brought down his boss and several underlings who tried to thwart a federal investigation into abuses in the nation’s largest jail.
Ex-Undersheriff Paul Tanaka could face up to 15 years in federal prison after being found guilty of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Tanaka, 57, helped orchestrate efforts to hide a jail inmate after deputies discovered he was an FBI informant, prosecutors said. Tanaka, who is also mayor of Gardena, played a key role in sending sergeants to intimidate an FBI agent in the case and threaten to have her arrested. Continue reading “LA sheriff’s former No. 2 convicted in corruption probe”
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A lottery vendor for years manipulated drawings to enrich himself and associates by installing software code that allowed him to predict winning numbers on specific days of the year, Iowa investigators alleged Wednesday.
Authorities called the newly obtained forensic evidence a breakthrough in the investigation of alleged jackpot-fixing scheme by Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association. A jury convicted him last year of rigging a $16.5 million jackpot, and he’s awaiting trial on charges linking him to prizes in Colorado, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Kansas. Continue reading “Code let lottery vendor predict winning numbers, police say”
Bystanders didn’t take long to call police last month when they spotted a couple of suspicious men skulking around a New Jersey train station taking photos of security cameras. Port Authority cops turned on lights and sirens and rushed to the scene in hour traffic.
But when they got there, the officers were shocked to find that the emergency they had rushed to was only a test. The suspicious men? Port Authority’s own security analysts. Continue reading “Port Authority Cops Say Surprise Terror Drills Pose Danger to Officers, Public”
Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard
A tax advocacy group on Wednesday revealed that Americans spend more on taxes than their whole budget for food, clothing and housing.
The Tax Foundation, in its annual report on when the nation as a whole has earned enough to pay its taxes, announced the date as April 24. Continue reading “Americans spend more on taxes than food, clothing, housing combined”
The story of how the FBI finally tracked down notorious fugitive Lynn Cozart, using its brand-new, $1 billion facial recognition system, seems tailor-made to disarm even the staunchest of skeptics.
Cozart, a former security guard in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, was convicted of deviant sexual intercourse in 1996. According to court filings, he had molested his three juvenile children, two girls and one boy, from 1984 through 1994. It wasn’t until May 11, 1995, that the children’s mother came forward and told the Pennsylvania State Police what Cozart had been doing. He was convicted, but he failed to show up for his sentencing hearing in April 1996. Federal agents raided his home, interviewed family members and released photos of the man to the general public. Continue reading “The FBI Now Has The Largest Biometric Database In The World. Will It Lead To More Surveillance?”
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – A Kentucky lawyer, a former administrative law judge and a psychologist were indicted for conspiring to commit more than $600 million in disability fraud by submitting phony medical papers, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.
Eric Christopher Conn, a lawyer based in Stanville – about 130 miles east of Lexington – faces 18 counts, including three counts of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering after his indictment by a grand jury for the U.S. District Court in Lexington, Kentucky. Continue reading “Three Kentucky men indicted in $600 million federal fraud case”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
In a devasting blow to its megabank creditors, Puerto Rico’s Legislature approved a bill on Wednesday that suspended the US territory’s debt payments until at least January 2017.
Since 2000, Wall Street has conned the Puerto Rican government into a massive black hole of debt. After Puerto Rico handed them control of their federal bond sales, Wall Street executives tacked on hundreds of millions in fees for their “services,” greasing the skids for the island’s financial dismay. Continue reading “Puerto Rico Deals Horrendous Blow to Wall Street — Suspends All Payments On Public Debt”
A private college in Arizona is charging students a fee to fund a scholarship for illegal immigrants, a controversial move supporters say gives a hand to those who need it but anti-illegal immigration advocates call irresponsible.
Prescott College is tacking a $30 annual fee onto its $28,000 annual tuition to establish an annual scholarship for “undocumented” students, as part of a policy first proposed by students and faculty from the undergraduate and Social Justice and Human Rights Master of Arts divisions. While students can opt out of paying the fee, if they do nothing it will be automatically imposed. Backers say it helps reverse what they call Arizona’s reputation as a “national example of discriminatory politics.” Continue reading “Arizona college imposes mandatory fee to fund scholarship for illegal immigrants”
You’ve been taught all sorts of lies about cancer by the “cancer profiteers” — the institutions, cancer doctors, oncology centers and chemotherapy drug makers who profit from cancer.
In order to keep their profits flowing, they have to keep you in the dark about cancer truths: How it originates, how it can be prevented and how it can even be reversed! Continue reading “The 20 biggest cancer lies you’ve been brainwashed to believe by the criminal fraudsters who run the for-profit cancer industry”
(Auto Blog) FCA will indefinitely lay off a total of 1,420 workers from its Sterling Heights Assembly and Stamping plants on July 5, according to The Detroit News. This decision will cut a 1,300-person shift that builds the Chrysler 200, and it will also affect 120 people who stamp the sedan’s components. The company’s statement said the decision would “better align production with demand.” FCA plans to give these folks open full-time positions as they become available. Chrysler 200 sales are down 63 percent to just under 18,000 units so far in 2016. Continue reading “Chrysler Dumps 1,420 Detroit Jobs As Sales Slip”
(Wayne Duggan) With the addition of 200,000 private sector jobs in March, the U.S. job market is at its strongest point since the financial crisis.
However, companies likeSchlumberger (SLB),HP Inc (HPQ) and Boeing (BA) are still drastically cutting their workforces. Continue reading “3 More Companies Issuing Major Layoffs”
True Activist – by Brianna Acuesta
After crying and begging for the police not to shoot him as he crawled toward them with his hands up, Daniel Shaver was fatally shot by Officer Philip Brailsford. The police were responding to a complaint that Shaver was holding a rifle outside of his hotel room, which turned out to be a pellet gun, even though Shaver did not even have that gun on him.
Police responded to an emergency call just after 9 PM that claimed that someone was pointing a rifle out of their fifth-story window, which turned out to be Shaver showing off his pellet gun to new friends that were in the room with him. Continue reading “Unarmed Man Yells “Please Don’t Shoot” Before Being Killed By Police, Officer Fired And Charged With Murder”