Year: 2016

RT

Adolf Hitler’s personal copy of Mein Kampf, found by US officers in his Munich flat in May 1945, will be auctioned off in Maryland along with other Nazi-era artifacts. The inflammatory diatribe was never banned in the US and can be bought in bookshops.

Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland will open up bidding on the 1927 edition of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto for March 17 and 18.   Continue reading “Hitler’s personal copy of Mein Kampf to be auctioned in Maryland”

RT

Virginia senators have passed a bill allowing condemned inmates to be executed via the electric chair. The legislation comes amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs, though Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe has not said whether he will sign it.

The bill won approval in a tight 22-17 vote in the Virginia Senate on Monday. If Governor McAuliffe vetoes the legislation, lawmakers will have to somehow garner more support to override it and pass the bill into law. It is expected to be sent to the governor this week.   Continue reading “Virginia Senate approves use of electric chair for executions”

Mail.com

MILFORD, Conn. (AP) — A teenager accused of stabbing a classmate to death at their high school for rejecting his invitation to the junior prom pleaded no contest to murder Monday, and prosecutors said they will seek a 25-year prison sentence.

Christopher Plaskon, 18, accepted a plea bargain during a brief appearance in Milford Superior Court. Sentencing is set for June 6. Plaskon was charged with killing 16-year-old Maren Sanchez at Jonathan Law High School in Milford on April 25, 2014. His family and friends said he became upset that Sanchez turned down his prom invitation.   Continue reading “Teen pleads no contest to killing girl on day of junior prom”

Mail.com

PHOENIX (AP) — A jury verdict against two polygamous towns in Arizona and Utah for discriminating against nonbelievers now puts the future of the communities in the hands of a judge who will have to remedy the sweeping civil rights violations.

Federal authorities haven’t specified the changes they’ll seek in Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, but the judge has several options, including disbanding the towns’ shared police force, one of the targets in the Monday’s verdict.   Continue reading “Judge to decide future of polygamous towns in Arizona, Utah”

Baltimore Sun – by Luke Broadwater

A former Baltimore police officer acquitted of animal cruelty charges after he slit a dog’s throat will receive $45,000 in back pay from city government.

Jeffrey G. Bolger, 50, is to get payment for about 10 months of paychecks he missed while on unpaid leave from the Police Department. The Board of Estimates is expected to approve the deal Wednesday.   Continue reading “Former Baltimore officer who cut dog’s throat to get $45,000 in back pay”

Oregon Live – by Maxine Bernstein

A detention hearing in the 16-count Nevada indictment against independent broadcaster Pete Santilli has been rescheduled to Friday in federal court in Portland, where he’s in custody.

Federal Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman on Monday allowed for the delay after Santilli’s court-appointed lawyer, Thomas Coan, referenced a 59-page government detention memo that he and his client haven’t been able to fully review.   Continue reading “Feds describe Pete Santilli as a “shill” for Cliven Bundy in 2014 standoff in Nevada”

NPR

A large tree that had fallen onto the tracks caused a Bay Area commuter train to derail Monday night, in an incident that sent nine passengers to the hospital — four of them with serious injuries.

The train, Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) No. 10, was traveling from San Jose to Stockton Calif., when it went off the tracks Monday night. The derailment came after hours of sustained rains.   Continue reading “Commuter Train Derails, Plunges Into Creek East Of San Francisco”

MassPrivateI

DHS’s 2015 Data Mining report, reveals that TSA, CBP or all DHS employees are using their own judgment to determine who’s put on a government watchlist!

“While each program described below engages to some extent in data mining, no decisions about individuals are made based solely on data mining results. In all cases, DHS employees analyze the results of data mining, and then apply their own judgment and expertise to bear in making determinations about individuals initially identified through data mining activities.”
Continue reading “DHS employees use their own judgment to put Americans on Do-Not-Fly list”

Union Leader

CONCORD — A Rochester man facing conspiracy charges in connection to his role in a 2014 standoff with federal agents in Nevada remained in custody Monday after a one-hour court hearing over whether he should be released.

U.S. District Court Judge Andrea Johnstone said she needed more time to consider all of the information in the case against Gerald DeLemus, who faces nine federal charges based on an indictment brought in Nevada.    Continue reading “Judge refuses to release NH liberty activist charged in 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff”

ABC 7 Chicago

TINLEY PARK, Ill. (WLS) — A 28-year-old Oak Forest police officer was arrested in connection with an attack on two teenagers in California. The victims said they were targeted because they were speaking Arabic.

Arthur Roman, of Tinley Park, his 25-year-old brother, Martin, and his brother’s wife, Jessica, were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and battery.   Continue reading “Oak Forest Police Officer Arrested in California Attack on 2 Teens”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Southfield, MI — This week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District ruled that on an officer, who violently endangered the lives of an innocent grandmother and her three grandchildren by repeatedly ramming his car into theirs, is not immune from a lawsuit.

On Oct. 24, 2011, Cheryl McCarty was driving her three young grandchildren to school when she was stopped by Southfield police officer Keith Birberick. Birberick accused her of illegally passing a school bus.   Continue reading “Cop Rams Car Full of Children, Flees, Deletes Dashcam — Says it Was all in the ‘Scope of his Job’”

Planet Free Will – by Joseph Jankowski

Cleveland is seeking to buy 2,000 sets of riot gear, including riot-control suits and collapsible batons, as apart of the city’s move to prepare for the July Republican National Convention.

According to a report from Cleveland.com, the city seeks to obtain the “Elite Defender” riot-control suit manufactured by HWI Gear and a 26-inch baton manufactured by Monadnock, along with 2,000 bags to carry them.   Continue reading “Cleveland Seeks to Buy Large Amount of Riot Gear For Republican National Convention”

Breitbart – by John Hayward

Both manned and unmanned aircraft were reportedly used in a massive U.S. airstrike on a training camp for the al-Shabaab terrorist organization in Somalia on Saturday.

Based on Monday reports from the Pentagon, it looks like most of the “graduating class” at the terrorist camp was wiped out while they were “standing outdoors in formation” at a graduation ceremony, according to one U.S. official.   Continue reading “U.S. Bombs Al-Shabaab Terror Camp Graduation, Killing over 150 Terrorists”

Breitbart

NEW YORK, March 7 (UPI) — Two New York City police officers were injured by a man who sprayed them with chemical accelerant during his arrest after a violent rampage, police said.

Patrick James Dillon, 23, allegedly had a beer bottle full of chemical accelerant, a substance designed to spread fires, as well as a knife on his person when he was arrested Sunday. Dillon threw the bottle at police, who shot him twice in the legs during the arrest in the Astoria section of the borough of Queens, police said.   Continue reading “Man Arrested After Burning NYPD Officers with Chemicals, Killing Liquor Store Owner”