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Hemp Comes Home (Legal hemp has returned to Kentucky. Will the Feds step aside and let the industry flourish?)
Post Date: 2017-09-06 07:21:54 by Deckard
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In a former tobacco warehouse in Kentucky's horse country, a silver-haired seventh-generation hemp farmer sits with his business partners. As Andrew Graves, the chairman of Atalo Holdings, leads a discussion of seed varietals and soil consistencies, the group snacks on hemp nuts, grabbed in handfuls from a sack. In the warren of rooms just behind them, oils drip from stills as lab techs figure out formulas for supplements and vapors. No one in the room is younger than 50. No one talks about marijuana, and honestly, they'd rather you not bring it up either. Kentucky's new face of hemp looks remarkably like the old one. A really old one. For much of its history, the Bluegrass ...
Utah Nurse's Abuse by Police Detective Goes Viral; Does the Outrage Actually Mean Anything?
Post Date: 2017-09-06 07:13:40 by Deckard
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Even other law enforcement agencies are throwing shade. A Utah hospital that became the center of a holiday weekend media blitz has enacted new controls on police access in order to avoid a repeat of a nurse's abuse and arrest. A Salt Lake City police detective's terrible treatment of University of Utah nurse Alex Wubbels was the outrage story of the weekend. In the July incident, Wubbels refused to comply with Det. Jeff Payne's demands for the blood of a man put in a coma when he was struck during a high-speed chase. (The patient in question was an innocent bystander, and he was not suspected of any misconduct.) This past Thursday, Wubbels released body camera footage that ...
Another Dead Hillary Clinton Associate, Special Agent Kurt Smolek Found Dead in a River
Post Date: 2017-09-05 10:25:08 by Deckard
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The lifeless body of Diplomatic Security Special Agent Kurt Smolek was found in the Potomac River on Wednesday evening. Smolek (45) had been declared a “critical missing person” in a tweet released by the police department of the District of Columbia. According to a Missing Persons report by the DC Metropolitan Police Department, Smolek was last seen on August 28, 2017 at approximately 10 pm, in the 600 Block of Water Street, Southwest, Washington. "He was last seen wearing a blue oxford shirt and khaki pants,"read the report. "Kurt was last seen operating a grey 2011 GMC Terrain SUV, bearing Virginia tags XGG6532 with tinted windows."Smolek was described ...
California Supreme Court Rules Against Police Collection of License Plate Data
Post Date: 2017-09-05 10:22:26 by Deckard
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Privacy and civil liberties advocates won a small victory this week as the California Supreme Court ruled that license plate data secretly gathered from millions of drivers can not be kept secret. On Thursday the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California by confirming that law enforcement cannot keep secret about license plate data gathered from millions of unwitting drivers. The court ruled that license plate data was gathered indiscriminately and not as part of an investigation targeted at a particular crime. Thus the records can not be classified as records related to an ongoing ...
Deputy Shoots New Carlisle News Photographer
Post Date: 2017-09-05 10:13:33 by Deckard
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New Carlisle News photographer Andy Grimm was shot by a Clark County deputy Monday evening. Andy had left the office around 10:00 p.m. to take pictures of lightning. There was a traffic stop on Main Street near Studebaker’s Restaurant involved, but Andy was not the subject of the stop. He had his camera and tripod in his hands and Deputy Jake Shaw apparently mistook it for a weapon and fired, striking Andy in the side. He was rushed to Miami Valley Hospital for surgery. He is expected to recover from his wounds. "I was going out to take pictures and I saw the traffic stop and I thought, 'hey, cool. I'll get some pictures here.'" He said he pulled into ...
North Carolina man charged with murder after telling 911 he woke up from dream and found wife dead
Post Date: 2017-09-04 13:17:47 by misterwhite
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A North Carolina man called 911 on Friday and told the operator that he woke up from a dream, covered in blood and found his wife stabbed to death in their bedroom. “I think I killed my …” Matthew Phelps told the operator, according to The News & Observer. “There’s blood all over me, and there’s a bloody knife on the bed. I think I did it.” Raleigh Police charged Phelps, 28, with murder after he made the emergency call. Phelps told the operator he took more cold medicine than he should have and woke up after his dream covered in blood and a knife on the bed he shared with his wife, Lauren Ashley Nicole Phelps, 29. “I took more medicine that I ...
Trump reportedly plans to end DACA — and the young immigrants who depend on the program are in 'panic mode'
Post Date: 2017-09-04 10:09:32 by buckeroo
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President Donald Trump is expected to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a controversial Obama-era policy that shielded immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the US illegally as children. According to at least two media reports published on Sunday, Trump wants to end the program and delay enforcement for six months. The delay would allow Congress to pass legislation mitigating the effect that DACA's demise may have on the nearly 800,000 immigrants who benefit from it. Politico reporter Eliana Johnson cited sources who said the White House and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan spoke about the decision Sunday morning. Trump was set to ...
Frustration mounts over premiums for individual health plans
Post Date: 2017-09-04 08:57:03 by XDMAR
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people who buy individual health insurance policies and get no financial help from the Affordable Care Act are bracing for another year of double-digit premium increases, and their frustration is boiling over. Some are expecting premiums for 2018 to rival a mortgage payment. What they pay is tied to the price of coverage on the health insurance markets created by the Obama-era law, but these consumers get no protection from the law's tax credits, which cushion against rising premiums. Instead they pay full freight and bear the brunt of market problems such as high costs and diminished competition. On Capitol Hill, there's a chance that upcoming ...
Philly Police Union President Calls Black Lives Matter Activists 'A Pack Of Rabid Animals'
Post Date: 2017-09-03 14:15:46 by XDMAR
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The president of a Pennsylvania police union responded to Black Lives Matter activists demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man by calling the group a “pack of rabid animals.” Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police President John McNesby made the statement Thursday during a rally held by and in support of police, according to NBC Philadelphia. The “Back the Blue” rally was in response to a protest the week before by members of Black Lives Matter held outside the house of Officer Ryan Pownall, who fatally shot a David Jones in June. Pownall, a 12-year veteran, shot Jones in the back as he fled from a traffic stop. Police said Jones was armed with a ...
Maths teacher, 52, ‘confesses affair with teenage student after her daughter reports her’
Post Date: 2017-09-03 13:47:53 by XDMAR
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A maths teacher confessed to having a year-long affair with a teenage student after her own daughter reported her to police, prosecutors say. Alberta Padilla, 52, started a sexual relationship with the 17-year-old boy while she gave him personal tuition at the Lady Bird Johnson High School in San Antonio, Texas, it is claimed. Ms Padilla allegedly had sex with the teen in a public park and bought him gifts including food, clothes and a mobile phone after they started meeting to have sex. She was arrested and charged with forming an improper relationship between an educator and student after her daughter raised suspicions about the affair with the police, according to local news station ...
Walter Becker, Steely Dan Co-Founder, Dead at 67
Post Date: 2017-09-03 12:26:24 by Stoner
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted bassist-guitarist's partnership with Donald Fagen yielded classic LPs like 'Aja,' 'Katy Lied' and 'Pretzel Logic' Walter Becker, bassist, guitarist and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band Steely Dan, died Sunday at the age of 67. Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage By Daniel Kreps 2 hours ago Walter Becker, guitarist, bassist and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band Steely Dan, died Sunday at the age of 67. Related Read Donald Fagen's Moving Tribute to Steely Dan Partner Walter Becker "I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan ...
‘We were just praying for everyone’: Browns players explain decision to kneel during ‘National Anthem’ [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-09-02 08:53:04 by IbJensen
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(A group of Cleveland Browns players kneel in a circle in protest during the national anthem prior to a preseason game against the New York Giants at FirstEnergy Stadium on August 21, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) CLEVELAND, Ohio — Colin Kaepernick still is without an NFL team, but that hasn’t discouraged players for following his controversial lead and opting not to stand during the national anthem. Twelve members of the Cleveland Browns took a knee Monday night and shared a moment of prayer before their home preseason game against the New York Giants. Other teammates huddled around the group in support. It was the largest group of NFL players ...
Federal Gov’t Jobs Down 11,000 in 2017; State Gov’t Jobs Down 2,000; Local Gov’t Jobs Up 12,000
Post Date: 2017-09-02 08:35:39 by IbJensen
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(CNSNews.com) - The number of people working for the federal government has declined by 11,000 in 2017 while the number working for state governments has declined 2,000, according to data published today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But because the number of people employed by local governments has climbed 12,000 so far this year, the overall decline in the number of people employed nationwide by government has only dropped by 1,000 in 2017. Meanwhile, even though manufacturing jobs have increased by 137,000 this year, the number employed by government in August still exceeded the number employed in manufacturing by 9,818,000. In December 2016, there were 22,299,000 people ...
Why Houston's prospects for recovery look good - unlike some other hurricane-battered cities
Post Date: 2017-09-02 08:31:46 by XDMAR
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Twelve years after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, New Orleans has never fully recovered. Hundreds of thousands fled and never came back. Its population today is 80 percent of what it was before the storm. New Orleans is not alone. After Hurricane Ike, Galveston, Texas lost 20 percent of its population. Hurricane Andrew forced out about 30,000 people or 35 percent of the population of Homestead, Florida. Yet many believe Houston and surrounding environs may be spared a similar fate. "It will recover. It will absorb this shock. And how long it's going to take depends on how big the shock is, but it will recover," says Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy. Her ...
One Of The Last Clinics To Offer Late Abortions Just Quietly Shut Down
Post Date: 2017-09-02 04:21:57 by Hondo68
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Dr. LeRoy Carhart is one of few doctors in the country who perform abortions later in pregnancy. (Orjan F. Ellingvag via Getty Images) Last week, news quietly emerged that the clinic where Carhart has been a provider since 2010 ― Germantown Reproductive Health Service in Maryland ― has permanently closed. The Washington Post was the first to report that the Germantown clinic is under contract to be purchased by the anti-abortion group the Maryland Coalition for Life, leaving women like Sue with even fewer options. The Post reports that the group raised funds to make an offer to buy out the current owners of the property who also ran a second clinic that did not ...
Kid Rock Responds to Watchdog Group's Complaint Against His Senate Run: 'Go F--- Yourselves'
Post Date: 2017-09-01 16:57:00 by A K A Stone
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Kid Rock presents an award onstage at the 2017 CMT Music Awards at the Music City Center on June 7, 2017 in Nashville, Tenn. Watchdog group Common Cause has filed a complaint against Kid Rock's future Senate run with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice. In the complaint, the group urges attorney general Jeff Sessions and deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to investigate whether Kid Rock has violated federal election laws by acting as a Senate candidate -- tweeting about it and launching kidrockforsenate.com -- without registering his candidacy. Common Cause further states he has not complied with contribution restrictions or publicly disclosed contributions ...
Cop Fired for Attacking Innocent Elderly Vet Gets Termination Reversed & Back Pay
Post Date: 2017-09-01 10:11:07 by Deckard
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Seattle, WA — An overzealous cop was fired in 2015 after the officer was caught falsely accusing a 69-year-old man of swinging a golf club at her patrol car. Accused by the police chief of acting with racial bias in an unnecessarily aggressive manner, Officer Cynthia Whitlatch wrongfully arrested an Air Force veteran walking down the street using a golf club as a cane. Although Whitlatch argued that her dash cam video recorded the elderly man swinging at her, the video does not support any of her allegations. Now, two years later, this cop is having her termination reversed and receiving two years of back pay. As KIRO 7 reports:The back pay is more than $105,000 in two lump payments, ...
‘Drive By Shooting’: Cop Deploys Taser from Car Window at Boy on ATV—Killing Him
Post Date: 2017-09-01 09:57:22 by Deckard
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This photo of Demond Grimes on his ATV was taken one day before he died. (Photo: Supplied by Grimes family) Warren, MI — Under no circumstances is it ever okay to fire a weapon, lethal or not, at an unarmed child who is controlling an ATV—especially if you are a police officer and you are also in a vehicle. However, that is exactly what happened in Warren, Mich. last weekend and now an aspiring high school freshman is dead because of it. Michigan State Police Officer Mark Bessner allegedly fired his taser from his police cruiser, striking 15-year-old Damon Grimes. Grimes then, according to his family’s lawyer, either died immediately from the 50,000 volts surging through ...
Federal Judge Rules Indiana Seizing Cars With Civil Forfeiture Is Unconstitutional
Post Date: 2017-09-01 09:47:31 by Deckard
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In a major win for private property rights, a federal judge ruled that Indiana can no longer seize vehicles under its controversial civil forfeiture laws, which allow police to confiscate property without filing criminal charges. Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson ruled that Indiana's laws were unconstitutional because they failed to provide a timely hearing for the property owner to contest the seizure. The decision comes just days after Hoosier lawmakers held a summer study committee to discuss forfeiture reform, and less than a month after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new policy to expand police seizures nationwide. The case began last September when an officer with ...
Utah nurse arrested for refusing cop's order to draw blood from unconscious patient
Post Date: 2017-09-01 09:36:26 by Deckard
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SALT LAKE CITY A nurse in Utah said she was assaulted and illegally arrested by a Salt Lake City police detective for following hospital policy that forbids blood draws from unconscious patients, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported.The nurse claims she was assaulted by a Salt Lake City detective for refusing police orders to draw blood from an unconscious patient. Alex Wubbels was working as a charge nurse at the University of Utah Hospital when Police Detective Jeff Payne demanded a blood sample from a truck driver who was hospitalized after a car crash on July 26, Deseret News reported. When she refused, citing the hospital’s policy, Payne grabbed her arms, marched her ...
Nurse screams for help as she is arrested for saying she can't draw blood from unconscious patient
Post Date: 2017-09-01 08:54:50 by XDMAR
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A nurse was allegedly assaulted and illegally arrested when she told a detective she could not take a blood sample from an unconscious patient. Alex Wubbels told a police officer she could not take blood from the victim of a lorry crash because he could not consent, and the officer had produced no warrant. Footage taken by University Hospital, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Detective Jeff Payne's body camera show he threatened Ms Wubbels with jail if she did not comply, despite her having checked the policy with her bosses, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. As Ms Wubbels, a former Winter Olympian, is dragged from the hospital to a police patrol car, she can be heard to scream: ...
People are outraged over a Charlie Hebdo cover characterizing Hurricane Harvey victims as neo-Nazis
Post Date: 2017-09-01 07:35:40 by Deckard
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A French satirical magazine famous for its provocative and inflammatory cartoons was met with backlash on Thursday after it released a cover that characterized Hurricane Harvey victims as neo-Nazis. The cover for its Friday magazine showed an image of drowning limbs saluting Nazi flags, accompanied by the text: "God exists. He drowned all the neo-Nazis of Texas." Predictably, the cartoon provoked some — occasionally misguided — backlash on social media. The French publication has long courted and embraced controversy over its topical cartoons. After publishing images that some Muslims found offensive, the publication was the target of a terrorist attack at its ...
Git R’ Done Texas – Redneck Army Rescues National Guard…
Post Date: 2017-09-01 07:18:10 by Deckard
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Even the fine patriots within the National Guard need rescuin’ every once in a while. Who ya’ gonna turn to when it gets beyond the scope of the guard? Bubba and the Git-R-Done Redneck Army… that’s who. ‘Merica! Enjoy: Capitalism -vs- Govt. Boo-Yah !! Git-r-Done…
US orders Russia to close San Francisco consulate
Post Date: 2017-08-31 17:59:07 by Hondo68
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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Thursday ordered Russia to close its consulate in San Francisco and two other installations in two days, a move Moscow greeted with "regret," as relations between the nuclear-armed powers took another dive.The State Department said the decision was made "in the spirit of parity," after Moscow in July ordered a dramatic reduction of US diplomatic staff in Russia.At the start of Donald Trump's presidency in January, the Republican leader said he hoped for improved relations with Vladimir Putin's Russia.But after the US Congress approved new economic sanctions against Moscow over its alleged meddling in the 2016 US ...
Katrina commander: Federal response to Harvey is 'amateur hour'
Post Date: 2017-08-31 12:04:51 by Willie Green
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Former Joint Task Force Katrina Commander Russel Honore said Wednesday the military's rescue efforts in states affected by Hurricane Harvey resembles "amateur hour" because the federal government lacks a strategy for how to respond to large-scale natural disasters. "The American people have put too much confidence in us," Honore told CNN host Erin Burnett. "We have been too successful overseas to come out in amateur hour and incrementally deploy the force." The retired Army lieutenant general said the federal government should have "come in big" and arrived at the "edge of the storm" so that rescue efforts could begin immediately after ...
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