Year: 2016

ABC 27 News

NEW DELHI (AP) – Indian police have arrested 70 people and are questioning hundreds more after uncovering a massive scam to cheat thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars by posing as U.S. tax authorities and demanding unpaid taxes, a police officer said Thursday.

According to police in Mumbai, the yearlong scam involved running fake call centers which sent voice mail messages telling U.S. nationals to call back because they owed back taxes.   Continue reading “Dozens arrested at India call center linked to IRS scam calls”

Campus Reform – by Anthony Gockowski

The University of Wisconsin-Stout is scrapping a longstanding tradition of honoring a homecoming king and queen in favor of awarding eight students with a gender-neutral “Spirit Award.”

The school announced Thursday that, for the first time in 80 years, it will not crown a king and queen for its October 8 homecoming in order to avoid being held down by the dated gender binary.   Continue reading “UW-Stout replaces homecoming court with gender-neutral ‘Spirit Award’”

Press TV

Israel is the “instigator and the entire source of this problem that’s going to plague the entire world with nuclear war,” Steven Kelley said in an interview with Press TV on Friday.

“None of this would be happening if it was not for the expansionist desires of the Zionist regime, and this very fact that we are now threatened with horrible annihilation and nuclear destruction, should be time for all of us to sit back and look and see who is profiting and who is instigating this fight and it is not between [US President Barack] Obama and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” Kelley said.   Continue reading “Israel is the instigator of the tensions between the US and Russia”

WQAD News 8

(CNN) — Another 102 prison inmates learned Thursday, Oct. 6 their sentences are being reduced by a stroke of President Barack Obama’s pen, the latest batch in a record-setting effort by the White House to reverse harsh sentences for mostly nonviolent drug offenders.

A handful are from Iowa and Illinois, including Christopher Simmons from Moline. Simmons was given life in prison in 2009 on charges of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. His sentenced has been commuted to a term of 188 months in prison – or just under 16 years in prison – and 10 years of supervised release.   Continue reading “Obama reduces 102 inmates’ sentences”

Constitution – by Michael Ware

We have all been around those people. Those people that are constantly talking about themselves. How good looking they are. What they have done and how well they have done it. How they accomplished this and that, when we all know they had nothing to do with those things they take credit for.

It is usually that guy in the office. The girl at the gym who goes on and on about themselves. And we all know that the reason that they talk so much about themselves and their accomplishments is because they have never done anything. They are nobodies and do nothings, but they try to cover it up with false bravado and lies.   Continue reading “Why is Obama Spending $500 Million on Public Relations?”

Reuters

BEIRUT/GENEVA – Rebels holed up in Aleppo can leave with their families if they lay down their arms, President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday, vowing to press on with the assault on Syria’s largest city and recapture full control of the country.

The offer of amnesty follows two weeks of the heaviest bombardment of the five-and-a-half-year civil war, which has killed hundreds of people trapped inside Aleppo’s rebel-held eastern sector and torpedoed a U.S.-backed peace initiative.   Continue reading “Assad offers rebels amnesty if they surrender Aleppo”

Popular Science – by Grennan Milliken

As Hurricane Matthew charges into Florida with winds up to 140 mph, approximately 1.5 million people are preparing to clear out of the storm’s path. By Thursday evening, the National Weather Service was imploring residents to head to safety. “Now is the time to urgently hide from the wind. Failure to adequately shelter may result in serious injury, loss of life or immense human suffering,” the agency said on its website. On Thursday, President Obama declared a State of Emergency in Florida.   Continue reading “Don’t Take Weather Advice From Matt Drudge”

MassPrivateI

Malls and retailers across America, are working with DHS to install facial recognition cameras and license plate readers everywhere. DHS is working with malls and retailers to identify people with criminal records and scan their license plates to see if a shopper is on DHS’s terrorist watch list.

New York Post – by Jamie Schram

He’s a real “porn dog.”

A 17-month-old Labrador retriever named Ruger is the latest cop to join the fight against hoarders of kiddie porn after being purchased for $11,000 by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio.

Since Sept. 7, the cute black pooch has been assigned to a K-9 unit of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, using his snout to sniff out hard drives containing a chemical agent that leads them to child porn.   Continue reading “This Labrador retriever sniffs out kiddie porn for cops”

The Weather Channel

Note: FloridaDisaster.org has a complete list of shelters available to evacuees on its website. Click here to see that list.

As Hurricane Matthew continued its march along the Florida coast, hundreds of thousands in Florida were without power.

According to the Florida Power and Light, more than 307,250 customers were without power early Friday morning.   Continue reading “As Hurricane Matthew Continues Its March Up Florida Coast, Hundreds of Thousands Without Power”

Underground Reporter – by Christina Sarich

Niger, Africa— DARPA, or the secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which works under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Defense, has created some spooky technology in its time — from tiny drones called ‘Gremlins,’ to ‘implantable, wireless neuroprosthetics’ that are lodged in a soldier’s brain to offer a reprieve from PTSD and other brain injuries resultant of the DoD’s war path. DARPA’s latest investment stands to take advantage of ample real estate in one of the world’s most impoverished nations.   Continue reading “Guess What You’re Funding Now? A $100 Million Drone Base In Africa”

Activist Post – by Bernie Suarez

Zika virus, a entirely benign virus factually demonstrated in the medical literature for decades has in a very short period of time become the “ISIS” of viruses. Why the comparison to ISIS or the Islamic State? Because ISIS, the US proxy army in the Middle East has been the recipient of (as I’ve stated many times) the greatest global PR campaign in modern human history. They were at one point an unknown and insignificant group of Middle Eastern men secretly led by US and Israeli special forces operatives. These men of mostly hidden identities then suddenly found themselves glorified daily by the mainstream media and politicians in an ongoing psyop PR campaign that would, by the end of 2014, ultimately portray ISIS to be god-like and more powerful than all the worlds military powers… combined!   Continue reading “Zika Now Suddenly Claimed To Be MORE Dangerous – “Microcephaly” Not Scary Enough”

Reuters

The Southeast United States is expected to be hit with fuel shortages in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, as the storm barrels toward one of the largest energy-consuming regions in the country.

Some states are already experiencing supply constraints as motorists fill up tanks as an emergency precaution. The region is not known for energy production, but there are significant storage facilities directly in the path of the storm that have already been evacuated.   Continue reading “Fuel crunch looms, terminals in path as Hurricane Matthew nears U.S.”

Cop Block – by Brian Sumner

Lt. Peter Salzone shot himself multiple times in the stomach on Friday, had been recently told by the feds that he was wanted for questioning as a witness in their ongoing corruption probe. To add insult to injury the NYPD placed him on modified assignment and stripped him of his badge and gun while he was still unconscious recovering from his self-inflicted gun shot wounds. The probe is directed at four upper echelon NYPD officers who were accepting bribes, in the form of vacations and prostitutes, in exchange for police escorts, department access and gun licenses.   Continue reading “NYPD Officer Who Shot Himself was Wanted as Witness in Corruption Probe”