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A man who was shot and killed by a King County sheriff’s deputy for carrying a knife was actually carrying a pen, the sheriff’s office said Thursday.
Tommy Le, a Burien man, was shot just before midnight on June 13 by King County Sheriff Deputy Cesar Molina.
Molina had more than two years of experience in Los Angeles, Sgt. Cindi West said. He’s also worked for King County for more than two years. Continue reading “Burien man shot by deputy was holding a pen, not knife”
SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. — Simpsonville police have confirmed that a former Upstate police chief wanted for a bank robbery has been arrested.
A source close to the investigation says that former Williamston Police Chief Richard Inman has been arrested in Franklin County, Georgia. Continue reading “Police: Former Upstate police chief wanted for bank robbery has been arrested”
Courthouse News – by David Lee
DALLAS (CN) – Criminologists say that police officers who deal with stressors, including divorce and falling behind on paying bills are more likely to use deadly force and should be closely monitored throughout their careers.
Faculty members at the University of Texas at Dallas, Loyola University Chicago and the University of South Florida studied the personnel records of 1,935 Philadelphia police officers and published their findings in the latest issue of Police Quarterly journal. Continue reading “Stressed-Out Cops Need Close Monitoring, Professors Say”
WEB Notes: “Hate Group,” “Hate Speech” all phrases to control what you think. No one wants to be placed into those categories. It sounds negative and places you on the outside. As Sue said in the comments the other day, a separation is taking place. It will be on a grand scale when Satan is here, but the last year and a half to two years I have seen it start. It is not only a separation between government and groups, but Christian communities as well.
Over 40 pro-family groups recently signed a letter to the charity database site GuideStar after it labeled dozens of organizations as “hate groups” based on a list compiled by the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Continue reading “Pro-Family Groups Push Back After GuideStar Labels 46 American Organizations ‘Hate Groups’”
Central banks buying stocks are effectively nationalizing US corporations just to maintain the illusion that their “recovery” plan is working because they have become the banks that are too big to fail. At first, their novel entry into the stock market was only intended to rescue imperiled corporations, such as General Motors during the first plunge into the Great Recession, but recently their efforts have shifted to propping up the entire stock market via major purchases of the most healthy companies on the market.
Brian Rich, writing for Forbes, describes the economic illusion created by central banks buying stocks during a time of presidential prosecution: Continue reading “Central Banks Buying Stocks Have Rigged US Stock Market Beyond Recovery”
The details of Miami-Dade County’s proposed plan to surveil poor, black neighborhoods with semipermanent spy planes were grotesque. MDPD had asked for a federal grant for so-called wide-area surveillance (WAS) planes, which can record up to 32 square miles at once and were first used to track Iraqi insurgents. Even worse, MDPD buried its Department of Justice grant deep in a county document and somewhat clandestinely asked county commissioners to “retroactively” approve the fact that the department had asked for the spy planes.
But after New Times broke news of the plan two weeks ago, MDPD Director Juan Perez announced in an email to the American Civil Liberties Union today that he’s scrapping the program. Continue reading “MDPD Scraps Plan for Aerial Spy Planes After Public Outcry”
HONG KONG – Takata has filed for bankruptcy and is selling most of its business to an American rival after failing to recover from one of the worst auto safety scandals ever.
Analysts had long warned that Takata could be forced into bankruptcy due to the huge cost of a deadly exploding airbag crisis, which resulted in the recall of tens of millions of vehicles around the world. Continue reading “Takata, brought down by airbag crisis, files for bankruptcy”
Strategic Culture – by Wayne Madsen
Ever since the end of World War II, the United States, rightly or wrongly, but most of the time, wrongly, has fancied itself as the «world’s policeman». Even a disastrous and costly military intervention in Southeast Asia did not deter the United States from acting as the chief arbiter of what governments were «in» and which were «out» as evidenced by Central Intelligence Agency interloping in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Haiti, and Colombia. Two military interventions in Iraq and a U.S.-led military campaign directed against Yugoslavia were not enough to pry the United States from its self-appointed role as the chief «global cop». In fact, American neoconservatives continued to fanaticize about the United States leading the world into a post-Cold War «new American century». Continue reading “The «World’s Policeman» Retires on Disability”
Android Headlines – by Karthik
Amazon filed a new patent which describes the company’s vision for making the drone deliveries a lot more efficient. One of the biggest challenges which the company is facing right now when it comes to drone delivery is how inefficient it is, due to the distance a drone has to cover to deliver a package. Most of the current warehouses are located on the outskirts of the cities due to a large amount of space that is needed. However, Amazon is planning to replace these huge warehouses with multi-level fulfillment centers. Continue reading “Amazon Plans To Set Up Drone Delivery Towers In Your City”
“Pharma Bro” just won’t keep his mouth shut.
Even with his federal securities fraud trial set to begin Monday, Martin Shkreli has blatantly defied his attorneys’ advice to lay low. The former pharmaceutical CEO, who became a pariah after raising the cost of a life-saving drug 5,000 percent, has been preening for cameras and trolling on social media, potentially complicating his defense.
“I’m excited,” Shkreli said of the trial in a brief phone call last week to The Associated Press. “I can’t wait.” Continue reading “‘Pharma Bro’ defies advice to keep quiet before fraud trial”
It’s not often that Russia’s most fervent media detractors find themselves on the same page as the Kremlin. But when it comes to the dangers of internet anonymity, Moscow is making moves that some of its sternest critics want implemented in the West.
Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor’s target is Telegram, a popular messaging app, which is also known in the English-speaking world as ISIS’ communications platform of choice. Continue reading “Why Telegram messenger is short of supporters as Russia moves to block it”
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational summit next month. But the idea is exposing deep divisions within the administration on the best way to approach Moscow in the midst of an ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. elections.
Many administration officials believe the U.S. needs to maintain its distance from Russia at such a sensitive time — and interact only with great caution. But Trump and some others within his administration have been pressing for a full bilateral meeting. He’s calling for media access and all the typical protocol associated with such sessions, even as officials within the State Department and National Security Council urge more restraint, according to a current and a former administration official. Continue reading “Trump eager for big meeting with Putin; some advisers wary”
PARIS (AP) — The jihadis’ targets in Europe are depressingly repetitive: the Brussels metro, the Champs-Elysees in Paris (twice), tourist-filled bridges in London (twice) and a U.K. rock concert. And that’s just the past few months.
The steady stream of attacks on centers of daily life have drawn pledges from Europeans not to let terrorists change how they live, but in ways large and small they already have. There is a heightened awareness and quicker reactions, especially in the hardest-hit countries of France, Britain and Belgium, that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago. Continue reading “Europeans learn to live with _ and adapt to _ terror attacks”
JERUSALEM (AP) — A high-profile group of Jewish leaders cancelled a gala event with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to protest his government’s decision to scrap plans for a mixed-gender prayer area at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
The stunning move reflects an unprecedented gulf that has erupted between Israel and the Jewish diaspora over how Judaism can be practiced in Israel. Most American Jews belong to its more liberal Reform and Conservative streams and feel alienated by Israel’s ultra-Orthodox authorities that question their faith and practices. Continue reading “Jewish group cancels meeting with Netanyahu in protest”
On Sunday, New York County District Attorney Cy Vance suggested Republican efforts to pass national reciprocity for concealed permit holders helps the Islamic State.
Speaking about Rep. Richard Hudson’s (R-NC) national reciprocity legislation–HR 38–Vance said, “this bill is supported, I’m sure, by ISIS.”
Vance said these things during an interview on AM 970 and the The Hill quoted Vance, saying, “It would be completely legal for a person to bring a loaded gun or guns in New York as long as it was legal to possess them in the person’s home state. A guy from Idaho, where there’s no permitting requirement whatsoever, could carry his gun into New York city loaded, into Times Square.” Continue reading “NY County DA: National Reciprocity Helps Islamic State”
Despite an American electorate fed up with the outsourcing of American jobs, corporations and tech firms are continuing to send once high-paying work overseas.
In a recent report by the Charlotte Observer, a staffing executive with TalentBridge admitted that the outsourcing of American jobs continues because companies profit from hiring foreign workers who are paid slave wages. Continue reading “Lowe’s, Wells Fargo Outsourcing Americans’ Jobs to Cheap Foreign Workers”
New York Daily News – by ERIN DURKIN, LEONARD GREENE
A rainbow of New Yorkers hit the streets with more pride than ever Sunday, celebrating the city’s LGBT community with a spirited parade, the first in the new era of President Trump..
With multi-hued banners, and multi-faceted backgrounds, the city’s annual pride parade sauntered along Fifth Ave., carrying with it a message of fortitude honed by the fire of prejudice. Continue reading “New Yorkers hit streets louder than ever to march in 2017 Pride Parade”
How much are the wealthiest people in each state making? More than ever, a new report from Forbes found. Most of the people on the list were on it last year — and collectively, they’re worth $682 billion more than last year. Overall, the net worth of each person averages $14.4 billion in the 2017 listing, up from $12.6 billion each in 2016.
A silver lining for people not in the 1%: of the 50 top earners in each state, 35 of them have self-made fortunes and only 15 inherited their massive wealth. Many of their respective fortunes were made in industries specific to the states where they reside. Here are the wealthiest people in each state and how they made it rich. Continue reading “Here is the richest person in each U.S. state”
Health Impact News – by Paul Fassa
You may have read or heard somewhere that laetrile, a condensed purified extraction of apricot seed kernels sometimes sold as B-17 tablets, can cure cancer safely, without serious side effects. Yet mainstream medical “experts” and news sources derisively label it as worthless and toxic. It can kill you they say, adding there’s no scientific proof it helps rid one of cancer.
The FDA has banned laetrile’s use in the USA, but there are several cancer clinics in Mexico that use it, inviting many medical tourists from the USA and elsewhere to take advantage of Mexico’s health freedom. Continue reading “Laetrile From Apricot Seeds: The Cancer Cure Suppressed by Big Pharma”