Month: January 2017

Yahoo News

Washington (AFP) – The United States added Hamza bin Laden, son and would-be heir of the late global jihadist leader Osama bin Laden, to its terrorist blacklist on Thursday.

Hamza, who is in his mid-twenties, has become active as an Al-Qaeda propagandist since his father’s death at the hands of US special forces on May 2, 2011.

According to letters found in the Navy SEAL raid on Osama’s hideout in Pakistan, Hamza wrote to the Saudi-born Al-Qaeda leader asking to be trained to follow him.   Continue reading “US puts bin Laden’s son on terror blacklist”

Global Warming???

USA Today

A series of winter storms is forecast to continue hammering California with several feet of heavy snow and driving rain over the next few days and into the weekend, good news for the drought-plagued state and for ski areas, but potentially bad news for travelers and homeowners worried about floods and mudslides.

Meanwhile, a storm could also spread a stripe of snow across the South, all the way from Texas to Virginia, from late Thursday into Saturday.   Continue reading “10-15 feet of snow to bury California; wintry weather also targets South”

ABC 15 News

PHOENIX – Sheriff Paul Penzone was sworn in Wednesday as metro Phoenix’s new top law enforcer.

The retired police sergeant defeated six-term Sheriff Joe Arpaio in November.

“It’s an organization that’s had one form of leadership for 24 years, so being a new person coming into that, it can be challenging, or in some ways uncomfortable, getting to know each other, but that hasn’t been the case,” Penzone said.

Continue reading “New Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone takes oath in public ceremony”

Washington Post – by Dan Lamothe

QUANTICO, Va. — Drill instructors at the Marine Corps recruit center at Parris Island, S.C., drank alcohol on the job and repeatedly ordered recruits to do illegal calisthenics in a decrepit building called “the dungeon,” recruits testified here Thursday.

The allegation emerged as Staff Sgt. Antonio B. Burke, a Parris Island drill instructor, became the first Marine to face a hearing in a series of cases involving hazing and abuse allegations over the last couple of years. Burke is charged with cruelty and maltreatment, failure to obey a lawful general order and making a false official statement.   Continue reading “Marine drill instructors accused of using a ‘dungeon’ on recruits and drinking on the job”

Jon Rappoport

The basic purpose of these ten forms is the presentation of a false picture of reality.

You could find more forms, or divide these ten into sub-categories.

The ten basic forms are:   Continue reading “Ten basic forms of fake news used by major media”

Courthouse News – by Adam Klasfeld

MANHATTAN (CN) — For more than two years, a New Jersey high school has tried to fend off allegations that it overreacted to the doodle drawn by an autistic student days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook.

A new ruling guarantees that federal litigation over the episode will continue into 2017.   Continue reading “Panic Post-Sandy Hook Dogs NJ School”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

According to a report, the FBI has never examined the servers of the Democratic National Committee — not even for the six months during which the bureau claimed to be investigating allegations of Russians compromising cyber networks.

In fact, according to unnamed officials who spoke to Buzzfeed News, “the bureau has still not requested access to the hacked servers, a DNC spokesman said. No US government entity has run an independent forensic analysis on the system.”   Continue reading “FBI Never Even Examined the DNC Servers Over Allegations of Russian Hacking”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

After the DEA moved to further constrain Americans’ access to medically miraculous CBD oil by classifying it alongside heroin and cocaine, Britain chose compassion and common sense — and just classified cannabidiol (CBD) as a medicine.

On Monday, Britain’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) decided CBD — which can treat illnesses and conditions from severe childhood epilepsy to autism to cancer — warranted the classification as a medicine based on credible evidence of its efficacy.   Continue reading “UK Reclassifies CBD Oil as Medicine Just as America Puts It in Class With Heroin”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Eowyn

Imagine paying $8.03 for this 8-pack of Lipton Diet Green Tea that normally costs $4.99.  Continue reading “Philadelphia in shock over 51% beverage tax”

Yahoo News

Vice President-elect Mike Pence says that the first priority of President-elect Donald Trump is to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. But Democrats say the incoming administration has nothing to replace it with, and that repealing the law will only lead to “chaos.”

“Obamacare has failed,” Pence said after a meeting with House Republicans on Wednesday. “Now is the time to keep our promises. Step one will be to repeal Obamacare.”  Continue reading “Pence: Trump will sign executive orders to begin repealing Obamacare on Day 1”

RT

A veteran Detroit Police Officer is being investigated for calling residents of the city ‘garbage‘ and for boasting about using physical violence against children.

Officer Daniel Wolff made the inflammatory statements on Facebook under an article published on the Motorcity Muckraker website which revealed that a record number of Detroit police now live outside of the city.   Continue reading “Detroit police officer calls citizens ‘garbage’, brags about hitting ‘kids’”

RT

A B-52 Stratofortress bomber lost one of its eight engines while conducting a training flight off Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

“Earlier today, a B-52 dropped an engine while in flight,” a US Air Force spokesperson told Military.com in an email on Wednesday. “The aircraft landed safely with no injuries.”

The engine broke up and debris landed in an unpopulated area, the report said. No immediate information of injuries or damage on the ground was available.   Continue reading “B-52 loses engine over North Dakota”

Mail.com

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Days after Donald Trump won the White House vowing to deport millions of people in the country illegally and fortify the Mexican border, California farmer Kevin Herman ordered nearly $600,000 in new equipment, cutting the number of workers he’ll need starting with the next harvest.

Herman, who grows figs, persimmons and almonds in the nation’s most productive farming state, said Trump’s comments pushed him to make the purchase, larger than he would have otherwise. “No doubt about it,” Herman said. “I probably wouldn’t have spent as much or bought as much machinery as I did.”   Continue reading “Trump’s deportation vow spurs California farmers into action”

Mail.com

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Much of Northern California and the Sierra Nevada braced for potential flooding into the weekend as a winter storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow around Lake Tahoe made its way toward Utah and the Rockies.

Stiff winds toppled a towering evergreen tree into an Oregon home, killing an 8-year-old girl, while blizzard conditions closed major highways and triggered a small avalanche in the Sierra on Wednesday as wet, windy storms pummeled much of the West.   Continue reading “Wet, winter storms pummel West; headed for Rockies”

Washington Post – by Dan Morse

A 22-year-old man who had been lured to Maryland from New Jersey — expecting to rendezvous with a woman after an exchange of Facebook messages — was killed and buried in a shallow grave in Montgomery County, according to police documents filed in court Wednesday.

The killing, which took place in October, appears to be related to the MS-13 street gang, authorities said. The gang has made a resurgence in the Washington area over the past year.   Continue reading “Prosecutors: MS-13 murder victim lured to Maryland using fake woman, Facebook”

NBC 5 News

PROVO, Ut. — In Provo, hitting someone with a snowball may get you cited.

According to Good4Utah, the ordinance has been around for years – and it’s not meant to cite those having a snowball fight.

“Ultimately, this is not going to be applicable to somebody in a snowball fight, or people who are willing participants in throwing snow,” said officer Nisha King with Provo Police.  Continue reading “Throwing a snowball may get you a misdemeanor”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

On Wednesday, President Obama added another prestigious medal to his Nobel Prize collection when he had Defense Secretary Ash Carter award him with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Secretary Carter awarded his boss with the medal on January 4 during the Armed Forces Full Honor Farewell Review for the President held at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia.   Continue reading “President Obama Awards Himself Distinguished Public Service Medal”

BBC News – by Zoe Kleinman

Beauty giant L’Oreal has unveiled a smart hairbrush packed with sensors to help consumers improve their brushing technique.

The Hair Coach, which will retail at just under $200 (£160), contains a microphone, gyroscope and accelerometer among other sensors.   Continue reading “CES 2017: Smart hairbrush listens for breaking hair”