Month: July 2016

ITV

NatWest has said it may start charging customers to hold cash if the economy takes a tumble.

The bank warned more than one million of its customers it could introduce negative interest rates if that were to happen.

This would mean customers are effectively paying the bank to hold their savings.
Continue reading “Britain: NatWest may start charging customers to hold cash”

RT

Police in Florida appear to have made ‘dopes’ of themselves after they arrested a man for possessing what they thought was crystal meth, when it was actually icing sugar from a Krispy Kreme doughnut.

Orlando resident Daniel Rushing is now planning to sue over the case of mistaken amphetamine, and according to the Orlando Sentinel has been put off munching the sugary snack in his car for good.   Continue reading “‘No, it’s meth’: Florida police mistake Krispy Kreme icing for hardcore drug”

Mail.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals, 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country’s heroin troubles, is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states, where authorities say they’ve found it mixed with or passed off as heroin.

The appearance of carfentanil, one of the most potent opioids known to investigators, adds another twist to the fight against opioid painkillers in a country already awash in heroin and fentanyl cases.   Continue reading “A new threat in fight against overdoses: Elephant sedative”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Red-light cameras are widely hated, but a new study says getting rid of them can have fatal consequences. Traffic deaths from red-light-running crashes go up by nearly a third after cities turn off cameras designed to catch motorists in the act, according to a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The institute is funded by auto insurers.

While cities continue to add cameras at intersections with traffic signals, at least 158 communities have ended their red-light camera programs in the past five years, the study said. Researchers compared trends in annual crash rates in 14 cities that had ended their camera programs with those in 29 cities in the same regions that continued their camera programs.   Continue reading “Turning off red-light cameras can be deadly”

Mail.com

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s top diplomat for U.S. affairs told The Associated Press on Thursday that Washington “crossed the red line” and effectively declared war by putting leader Kim Jong Un on its list of sanctioned individuals, and said a vicious showdown could erupt if the U.S. and South Korea hold annual war games as planned next month.

Han Song Ryol, director-general of the U.S. affairs department at the North’s Foreign Ministry, said in an interview that recent U.S. actions have put the situation on the Korean Peninsula on a war footing.   Continue reading “N. Korea: US has crossed red line, relations on war footing”

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American business magnate, politician, and philanthropist. With a net worth of US$46.7 billion as of July 2016, Bloomberg is the 6th richest person in the United States and the 8th richest in the world.

Bloomberg is the founder, CEO, and owner of Bloomberg L.P., the global financial data and media company that bears his name, and is notable for its Bloomberg Terminal, which is widely used by investment professionals around the world. Bloomberg began his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers, before forming his own company in 1981 and spending the next twenty years as its Chairman and CEO. Bloomberg also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, from 1996 to 2002.   Continue reading “Bad Example of Man Target”

USA Today – by Tom Vanden Brook

WASHINGTON — Military officials have relieved a senior officer from a key post in Europe after determining he had misused government resources while having an extramarital affair, the Army has confirmed.

Army Maj. Gen. David Haight had been in charge of operations for U.S. European Command, the Pentagon’s principal command for confronting a resurgent Russia with the 28-nation NATO alliance.   Continue reading “Extramarital affair, misuse of resources cost Army general his post”

SuperStation95

After hundreds of Bernie Sanders supporters stormed out of the Democratic National Convention, the Wells Fargo Center appeared almost empty.  The Democrats are now advertising for “Actors” who will be paid $50 a day to attend the rest of the convention to “cheer” and “wear promotional material.”

The DNC is literally trying to fill empty seats with paid actors for their national convention!   Continue reading “Democrats RUNNING ADS on Craig’s List for “Actors to fill empty seats” at Convention: $50 a day to applaud”

Natural News – by Beverly Entin

Potatoes are rich in vitamins and minerals that are essential for the proper body functions. They are especially enriched in:

• Vitamin C: A half cup of potato juice contains almost half of the daily recommended intake of vitamin C
• Potassium: A half cup of the juice provides around 27% of the daily recommended intake of potassium
• Thiamine: A half cup of the juice provides more than 20% of the daily recommended intake of thiamine

Continue reading “This Drink is A Medicine For Diseases – How A Cup of Potato Juice Heal Your Entire Body”

MuckRock – by Daniel Welch

Many of the training plan proposals we’ve received from U.S. law enforcement agencies will allude to a ‘visual presentation’ component of the lesson, but for the majority agencies this is as much evidence of that presentation as they choose to provide.   Continue reading “Clip art and controversy in Colorado police’s MRAP training materials”

Activist Post – by Derrick Broze

A federal judge has ruled that law enforcement may continue to place recording devices in public places because it does not violate the constitutional guarantee against warrantless searches and privacy protections. 

On Friday July 22, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton issued a 17-page ruling which found the practice of placing recording devices on the steps of courthouses in Oakland and Martinez, California to be “unsettling,” but not in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The four defendants in the federal criminal fraud case are accused of rigging real estate bids throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.   Continue reading “Federal Judge Rules Hidden Microphones In Public Do Not Violate Constitution”

Reuters

China and Russia will hold “routine” naval exercises in the South China Sea in September, China’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday, adding that the drills were aimed at strengthening their cooperation and were not aimed at any other country.

The exercises come at a time of heightened tension in the contested waters after an arbitration court in the Hague ruled this month that China did not have historic rights to the South China Sea and criticized its environmental destruction there.   Continue reading “China says to hold drills with Russia in South China Sea”