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Yahoo News – by CHRIS R. MURPHY and GEOFF MARTZ
While Drug Enforcement Administration agents in California are cracking down on the popular new drug known as “wax,” people in Colorado are rushing to embrace it.
Wax, the ultimate distillation of marijuana, is so potent that it is said a single hit will keep a person high for more than a day. Continue reading “Colo. Marijuana Businesses Embrace New Drug at Center of DEA Crackdown in Calif”
The Baltimore Sun – by Jon Sham
When Sergio Gutierrez pulled out his iPhone to film an arrest taking place outside of The Greene Turtle on York Road in Towson late Saturday, he didn’t expect the video would go viral.
But when Baltimore County police officers saw Gutierrez standing there among other bystanders, holding up the phone, they intervened. Continue reading “Bystander who filmed Towson arrest talks about interaction with police”
Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville
In a state where it was once commonplace to carry a hunting rifle in the back window of one’s truck at all times, a man has been shot by York County, South Carolina deputies because Deputy Terrence Knox thought that the man was reaching for a rifle in the back of his truck.
The victim, 70-year-old Bobby Canipe, was, of course, not reaching for a rifle but for his cane which he kept in the bed of the truck. Continue reading “Cop Shoots Elderly Man Reaching For Cane”
Journal Sentinel- by John Diedrich and Raquel Rutledge
ATF agents have lost track of dozens of government-issued guns, after stashing them under the front seats in their cars, in glove compartments or simply leaving them on top of their vehicles and driving away, according to internal reports from the past five years obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Agents left their guns behind in bathroom stalls, at a hospital, outside a movie theater and on a plane, according to the records, obtained Tuesday by the news organization under the federal Freedom of Information Act. Continue reading “ATF agents lost track of dozens of their own guns, reports show”
The Maryland Public Service Commission on Wednesday announced it has decided on fees for Pepco customers who opt-out of the company’s smart meter installation program.
Residential and small commercial customers who decline to have smart meters installed will have to pay a $75 up-front fee and $14 monthly fee starting in July. Continue reading “PSC Sets Fees For Opting Out Of Pepco Smart Meters”
New Jersey’s public pension system is $47 billion in the hole. But that doesn’t derail the gravy train.
In 2010, 992 retired New Jersey public employees pulled in a pension of at least $100,000 per year.
By the end of 2013, that figure had swelled to 1,731 — an increase of about 75 percent. Continue reading “Only in New Jersey: Get a government job, retire on $195,000 per year!”
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Wednesday she has vetoed a controversial bill that would have allowed religious beliefs as a defense for denying service to gays and others.
Brewer, who spent several days considering whether to sign the bill, said it had “the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve.It could divide Arizona in ways we cannot even imagine and no one would ever want.” Continue reading “Arizona governor vetoes controversial bill allowing religious beliefs as defense for denying service”
Want to reduce traffic? Don’t let poor people drive.
That’s one scheme being considered by the Director General of Dubai, Hussain Lootah, as the Emirate looks for ways to ease increasing congestion on its roads, according to The National
.
“This city is growing very fast and everyone is buying their own car,” he told the Abu Dhabi-based newspaper. “If we keep going in this direction we’ll just have roads and bridges everywhere.” Continue reading “Dubai considers minimum salary requirement for car ownership”
Residents of the southern Arizona town of Arivaca are monitoring a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint to see how many arrests and drug seizures are made in a bid to remove longstanding interior checkpoints on the roads leading into the town.
Arivaca residents say they are regularly subjected to delays, searches, harassment and racial profiling at the checkpoints. Six residents monitored the checkpoint Wednesday on Arivaca Road, 25 miles north of the Mexico border. Continue reading “Residents in Arizona town push to remove ‘militaristic’ border checkpoint”
My SA – by GUILLERMO CONTRERAS
SAN ANTONIO — Judges in Bexar County got them. State and federal prosecutors in San Antonio and South Texas got them. So did defense lawyers, court clerks, secretaries and bondsmen.
And now courthouse regulars are scratching their heads, struggling to remember what they spoke about with a defense lawyer at the center of a federal corruption investigation. Continue reading “FBI to courthouse: Your phone has been tapped”
A former White House security advisor has suggested that you, dear reader, are naive if you think hosting data outside of the US will protect a business from the NSA.
“NSA and any other world-class intelligence agency can hack into databases even if they not in the US,” said former White House security advisor Richard Clarke in a speech at the Cloud Security Alliance summit in San Francisco on Monday. “Non-US companies are using NSA revelations as a marketing tool.” Continue reading “Prez Obama cyber-guru: Think your data is safe in an EU cloud? The NSA will raid your servers”
Havana (AFP) – A Russian warship was docked in Havana Wednesday, without explanation from Communist Cuba or its state media.
The Viktor Leonov CCB-175 boat, measuring 91.5 meters (300 feet) long and 14.5 meters wide, was docked at the port of Havana’s cruise ship area, near the Russian Orthodox Cathedral. Continue reading “Russian spy ship docked in Havana”
As the economic collapse deepens and things spiral further out of control, deadly confrontations with police will be a norm in vast cities across America.
In fact, police nowadays are so scarred and have been trained by such scum and so mentally and physically weak, that they will fire on anyone for anything, including a mini-van full of kids. Continue reading “Out of control cops on power trips now murdering daily with free-range”
About one week after a leak resulted in record levels of radiation near the United States’ first nuclear waste depository, more airborne radiation has been detected, according to the Associated Press.
The latest readings were confirmed on Monday by the US Department of Energy, which stated that multiple air tracking stations around the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, are monitoring the situation. Continue reading “More airborne radiation confirmed near New Mexico nuclear site”
Police in a Boston suburb are investigating reports that lasers were pointed at two airplanes and possibly also at several cars.
Newton, Mass., police said they were told by the Federal Aviation Administration of reports from pilots Tuesday evening, WCVB-TV reported. One of the planes was flying into Logan International Airport, a few miles to the east, and the other had just taken off for Atlanta. Continue reading “Lasers pointed at planes in Boston suburb”
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