LEO Affairs

BRONX, New York –  The relationship between the New York State Police and New York Police Department is not going to mend anytime soon.

Trooper Dana Narvaez, 42, was arrested near his Bronx home when cops from the 45th precinct found him passed out behind the wheel of his car that was idling. Narvaez was arrested for DUI and given a Breathalyzer that indicated he was double the legal limit.

A judge ordered Narvaez released when he appeared for his arraignment hearing.   Continue reading “Tensions rise from threats of retaliation after NYPD arrest NYSP Trooper”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Nothing goes up in a linear fashion except for taxes and your age. The stock market has been at record highs for quite some time now, at some point it will comeback down. Markets always move up and down.

Investors may be in for disappointing market returns in the decade to come with valuations at levels this high, if history is any indication.   Continue reading “Goldman Sachs: There’s A 99% Chance Stock Market Returns Will Be Subpar From Here”

RT

Ukrainian state-owned energy firm Centrenergo has signed a contract with America’s Xcoal Energy & Resources to supply 700,000 tons of coal to Ukraine this year.

“This contract was signed in fulfillment of the agreements between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States reached during our president’s visit to America in June,” said Centrenergo head Oleg Kozenko.   Continue reading “Ukraine signs deal to buy American coal”

Mail.com

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Two of Venezuela’s leading opposition figures were taken from their homes in the middle of the night by state security agents on Tuesday in President Nicolas Maduro’s government’s first moves against prominent enemies since a widely denounced vote granting the ruling party nearly unlimited powers.

The Venezuelan Supreme Court said in a statement that Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma had violated the terms of their house arrest by criticizing the government in messages released on social media in recent days.   Continue reading “Court says 2 Venezuela opposition leaders back to prison”

Mail.com

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis police officer’s murder trial that begins this week is expected to hinge on videos and DNA evidence that have raised questions about the officer’s actions after the shooting and the weapon recovered by police.

Jason Stockley, who’s white, is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black 24-year-old. Charges were filed last year after then-Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce cited unspecified new evidence. The trial, the latest of several across the U.S. involving the fatal police shootings of black men, begins Tuesday and is expected to last two weeks.   Continue reading “Videos, DNA evidence may be key in St. Louis officer’s trial”

Mail.com

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A dozen inmates escaped from an Alabama jail by using peanut butter to change the numbers above a door and trick a new employee into opening another door that led outside, a sheriff said Monday.

The inmates changed the number above a cell to the number that identified the door leading outside the jail. So when an inmate asked a young, inexperienced jailer to let him into his cell, the jailer was fooled into opening the outside door instead.   Continue reading “Jailbreak: Inmates used peanut butter to fool guard”

WTSP 10 News – by Jason Miles

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A woman shot and killed an armed intruder near Katy Monday, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

The 60-year-old woman told deputies two armed men entered her home through the open garage door around 11:30 a.m.

“Both were armed with pistols, she confronted both suspects,” said Thomas Gilliland with HCSO.    Continue reading “60-year-old woman fatally shoots armed home intruder”

Fox News – by Brooke Singman

President Trump, hoping to prod reluctant lawmakers to once again try for an ObamaCare overhaul deal, has zeroed in on a benefit that could serve as a powerful piece of leverage for the negotiator-in-chief.

The president’s ultimatum to Congress: Figure out a way forward on health care, or lose a valuable insurance carve-out for you and your staff. The benefit allows part of their ObamaCare premium costs to be covered by taxpayers.    Continue reading “Trump targets Congress members’ own health plans after ObamaCare repeal falls flat”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration slapped financial sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday after a weekend election that gave the South American country’s ruling party virtually unlimited powers.

The sanctions freeze any assets Maduro may have in U.S. jurisdictions and bar Americans from doing business with him. They were outlined in a brief notice by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control ahead of a White House announcement from President Donald Trump’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.   Continue reading “US hits Venezuelan president with financial sanctions”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

There is a complex set of factors for determining if a person is transgender. While science hasn’t nailed down the exact physiological and neurological markers to determine what makes a person have gender distress, there is no doubt that it exists. If individuals identify with a different gender than they were born, it is no one’s right to prevent them from remedying it. That being said, should young children who feel they may be in gender distress be given sex change drugs — by the government?

Regardless of how you feel in regard to the question above, the fact is that it is happening. More than 800 children in the United Kingdom — some as young as 10 — are now being given these controversial sex change drugs.   Continue reading “UK: Govt Now Giving Sex Change Drugs to Children as Young as 10”

The Daily Sheeple – by Will Porter

Amid consistent signaling that the administration will deploy several thousand additional soldiers to the Afghan war zone, inability to agree on a strategy has brought about discussion of a troop withdrawal, an option long thought to be beyond the pale for Washington policymakers.

“It’s a macro question as to whether the U.S., this administration, and this president are committed to staying,” an anonymous senior administration official told the Wall Street Journal. “It doesn’t work unless we are there for a long time, and if we don’t have the appetite to be there a long time, we should just leave. It’s an unanswered question.”  Continue reading “White House Considers Afghan Troop Withdrawal”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

Oakland, CA – Oakland is beginning an experiment that can be considered both laudable and questionable. As cannabis businesses are set to spring up across the city, following California’s legalization of recreational cannabis, Oakland is providing reparations to victims of the drug war.

They’re not doling out money, though. They’ll be doing it through the normally mundane permitting process, in accordance with ordinances passed in March. Continue reading “As Cannabis Becomes Legal, Oakland Now Giving ‘Reparations’ to Ex-Cons Arrested for Selling Weed”

Breitbart – by Edwin Mora

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States government should look into the potential relationship between record production of opium in Afghanistan and the heroin crisis in the United States that has killed tens of thousands of Americans, a top U.S. watchdog tells Breitbart News.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko, declared:   Continue reading “Top Inspector Urges: Probe Possible Link Between Afghan Opium and U.S. Heroin Epidemic”