Year: 2016

Yahoo News

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Shooting deaths of law enforcement officers spiked 78 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to last year, including an alarming increase in ambush-style assaults like the ones that killed eight officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, according to a report released Wednesday.

However, data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund shows that firearms-related deaths of officers in the line of duty are still lower than they were during previous decades like the 1970s.   Continue reading “Shooting deaths of law enforcement spike in 2016”

RT

There has been an officer-involved shooting following an armed robbery at a pharmacy in Tempe, Arizona. The suspect barricaded himself in a local senior center after scuffling with police, and later died from a gunshot wound.

The police officer is okay, the department said.   Continue reading “Officer-involved shooting, suspect barricaded in Tempe senior center ‒ police”

Reuters

A manslaughter charge against a sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed a black man carrying an air rifle was dismissed on Wednesday after the deputy argued that he acted in self-defense, court documents showed.

Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Peter Peraza, who is Hispanic, argued for protection under the state’s “stand your ground” law, his attorney Eric Schwartzreich said in a telephone interview.   Continue reading “Florida sheriff’s deputy cleared of manslaughter in shooting death”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

An Oregon Episcopal church man has won a rifle at a raffle to benefit a girls softball team.  He wanted very much to destroy that rifle.  The Girls’ softball team and the rifle’s manufacturer, were smiling all the way to the bank.  It was a win-win-win.

From oregonlive.com:   Continue reading “Reverend Spends $3,000 of Church Money to Destroy a $700 Rifle”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

In 1991 George Bush Sr., in at least two separate speeches, announced an active geopolitical endgame for global stability; something he called the “New World Order.” This was not the first time the concept of the NWO had been uttered by a prominent figure. Fabian socialist H.G. Welles wrote an entire book on the ideology decades before, in 1940, entitled ‘The New World Order’, and even scripted a thinly veiled propaganda film on the rise of globalism titled ‘Things To Come’. The core of this ideology is the institution of global governance and the erasure of sovereign nation states, ostensibly in order to end the persistent threat of world war.   Continue reading “The Law Of The Jungle Is Far Superior To The Ideology Of Globalism”

Science Alert – by Jacinta Bowler

An international team of scientists has just sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches. The reason?

It’s more than four times as nutritious as cow’s milk and, the researchers think it could be the key to feeding our growing population in the future.

Although most cockroaches don’t actually produce milk, Diploptera punctate, which is the only known cockroach to give birth to live young, has been shown to pump out a type of ‘milk’ containing protein crystals to feed its babies.   Continue reading “Scientists think cockroach milk could be the superfood of the future”

RT

Prosecutors dropped all charges against the three remaining Baltimore Police Officers that were indicted over the death of Freddie Gray.

The decision was announced by the Baltmore City State’s Attorney’s Office on Wednesday morning during a motions hearing for Officer Garrett Miller. Officer William Porter was to set be retried in September, and Sgt. Alicia White was scheduled for trial in October.   Continue reading “Remaining charges dropped against police officers in Freddie Gray case”

RT

WikiLeaks possesses “a lot more” documents to surprise American voters ahead of the upcoming presidential elections – and will not hesitate to make them public.

The leak of 20,000 internal emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), published by the whistleblowing website on July 22 “is having so much political impact in the United States,” Julian Assange acknowledged to CNN in a Skype interview on Tuesday.   Continue reading “Assange promises to leak ‘a lot more’ materials on US presidential elections”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 35 years after he tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster, John Hinckley Jr. will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full time with his mother in Virginia, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Judge Paul Friedman wrote in a 14-page ruling and accompanying 103-page opinion that Hinckley — who currently spends more than half his days at his mother’s home — is ready to live full time in the community. Friedman granted Hinckley leave from the hospital starting no sooner than Aug. 5.   Continue reading “Judge: Reagan shooter can leave hospital to live in Virginia”

Mail.com

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Nearly 70 people have been arrested as officers cleared demonstrators from the street in front of the Minnesota governor’s mansion, police in St. Paul said Wednesday. Demonstrators have been camping outside the governor’s residence since July 7, a day after Philando Castile, a black man, was shot and killed by a suburban police officer during a traffic stop. Castile’s girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath of his shooting on Facebook.   Continue reading “About 70 protesters arrested at Minnesota governor’s mansion”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

A former Virginia police officer and U.S. Navy veteran, whose trial for murder begins this week, told a witness, “this is my second one,” after killing an unarmed 18-year-old black man in April 2015.

While unclear whether or not the jarring statement amounted to a boast, the camera on ex-Portsmouth Officer Stephen Rankin’s Taser recorded him saying this to a Walmart employee mere seconds after he fatally shot unarmed teen and alleged shoplifter William Chapman in the store’s parking lot in April 2015.   Continue reading ““This is My Second One” — Virginia Cop Caught Bragging About Killing Two Unarmed People”

Wall Street Journal

U.S. oil prices sank to a fresh three-month low Tuesday as a glut of gasoline keeps weighing on the market.

U.S. oil for September delivery settled down 21 cents, or 0.5%, at $42.92 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Six losing sessions out of the past seven have sunk it to its lowest settlement since April 25. Brent, the global benchmark, gained 15 cents, or 0.3%, to $44.87 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe, snapping a three-session losing streak.   Continue reading “U.S. Oil Prices Hit 3-Month Lows on Growing Oversupply Concerns”

Reuters

Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) expects lower refinery utilization over the rest of the year as companies step up efforts to counter slumping refining margins caused by record supplies of gasoline and diesel products.

Shares of Valero, which also reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, were up 3 percent at $51.88 in morning trade on Tuesday.   Continue reading “Valero expects lower refinery utilization as margins tank”