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Latest Articles: United States News
Family Receives Threats After Batman-Themed Photo Shoot on Railroad Tracks
Post Date: 2015-06-18 08:33:44 by Deckard
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Roxanne, Mike and Finn DalyCourtesy Daly familyBy Alexandra Rockey Fleming06/17/2015 AT 07:00 PM EDTA Wisconsin mom has been receiving threats after posting staged images of herself as a damsel in distress tied to railroad tracks being rescued by her 15-month-old son dressed as Robin and her husband, dressed as Batman. The proud parents posted the photos, which were an early Father's Day gift from Roxanne to her husband, to Facebook and they took off from there, provoking an "extreme" backlash, according to Finn's dad and Roxanne's husband, Mike Daly, 27. "People threatened us," he tells PEOPLE. "Some said that our son should be taken from us. We're ...
Charleston Church Shooting: KKK, White Supremacists Operate in South Carolina
Post Date: 2015-06-18 07:48:57 by Willie Green
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South Carolina is home to 19 known hate groups — including two factions of the Ku Klux Klan and four "white nationalist" organizations, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. While police described Wednesday's massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, of nine people at one of the nation's oldest African-American churches as a hate crime, they did not suggest the attack was linked to any group. The SPLC's database records the distribution of KKK leaflets in a Seneca neighborhood was among four hate crimes committed in the state last year. More than a dozen of the groups listed are explicitly based on racial hatred — perhaps a reflection of local ...
Nine killed in shooting at South Carolina church, gunman still at large [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-06-18 06:43:43 by GrandIsland
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June 17, 2015: Police and ambulances responded to the scene of a shooting in Charleston, S.C. (Photo courtesy WCSC) Nine people were killed late Wednesday at a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C. after a white gunman walked in during a prayer meeting and began shooting in what authorities described as a hate crime. "This is a tragedy that no community should have to experience," Mullen said. "It is senseless and unfathomable in today's society that someone would walk into a church during a prayer meeting and take their lives." "The only reason that someone could walk into a church and shoot people praying is out of hate," said ...
After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs
Post Date: 2015-06-17 21:56:24 by Tooconservative
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The NY Times previously reported that Disney made laid-off workers train their foreign replacements. The Times now reports that Disney has reversed its decision to lay off the workers and canceled training of the replacements. This follows public uproar, two investigations by the Department of Labor into outsourcing firms, complaints to the Justice Department, and calls for an investigation into the H-1B Visa program by Senator Bill Nelson. One of the workers said, "We were told our jobs were continuing and we should consider it as if nothing had happened until further notice." A former Disney employee who was forced to take an early retirement shared his personal thoughts on ...
Hillary Clinton Dominates The Pack … In Fake Twitter Followers
Post Date: 2015-06-17 16:36:54 by redleghunter
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When it comes to fake Twitter followers, Hillary Clinton is winning the presidential race by a landslide. Clinton has more fake followers and a higher ratio of bogus Twitter fans than any of the other main 2016 presidential contenders, a Vocativ analysis shows. On the other end of the scale, the candidates with the lowest percentage of fake Twitter followers are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Contrary to what one might guess from his reputation for extravagant self-promotion, Trump’s 2.6 million Twitter followers are 90 percent real people. Only 311,388 were deemed fake by the analysis using the tool TwitterAudit. Bernie Sanders was tied for the highest ratio of authentic ...
The War Nerd: A Glorious Victory, For Once!
Post Date: 2015-06-17 14:44:26 by nativist nationalist
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You’ve probably heard by now that the Syrian Kurds have taken Tal Abyad, the key border town due north of Islamic State’s capital, Raqqa. It’s a huge loss for Islamic State, and a big boost for the Kurds. But it’s something more than that: a glorious victory. That’s not something I get to write very often. Most war stories are the dead opposite of glorious. You start out, as a war- nerdy kid, believing that Gettysburg is the norm—a good clean fight between brave, simple soldiers, ferocious against each other but sparing non- combatants. There was exactly one civilian death at Gettysburg, and that was from a stray bullet. Then you get serious about warfare ...
Texas Officially Legalizes Cannabis Oil to Treat Epilepsy
Post Date: 2015-06-17 11:11:57 by Deckard
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CBD oil was recently legalized in the state of Texas. However, the legalization comes with a long list of arbitrary requirements for use of the oil (while THC remains forbidden). One requirement for use is that a patient must prove they had no success with at least two pharmaceutical drugs prior to being treated with CBD oil. The bill, unfortunately, appeals to authority as Texan politicians—and politicians in general—frequently do. This time, it is an appeal to the authority of Big Pharma. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); According to High Times, “the law requires patients who qualify under the initial guidelines to be given permission by two ...
Good Samaritan Prevents Burglary, So a Cop Killed His Beloved Family’s Dog, Who was on a LEASH!
Post Date: 2015-06-16 22:04:21 by Deckard
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Cleveland, MS — A good samaritan never thought that his attempts to prevent a burglary would end with the killing of their beloved family pet. However, that is exactly what happened to Tyler Muzzi and his family’s beautiful 18-month-old yellow lab. On Friday, Tyler Muzzi noticed a suspicious man on their dead-end street snooping around his neighbors house. Muzzi then called the neighbor to alert him to the possible burglar. The property owner in turn called the Cleveland police. When police showed up, they found the suspect and placed him in the back of the patrol car. At this point, Muzzi heard two gunshots and thought that police may have been shooting at the suspect, but ...
Apparently Loitering In Walmart Is Racist Now
Post Date: 2015-06-16 20:16:32 by A K A Stone
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Alabama City Suing Couple to Get Back On The Grid, Threatens Arrest
Post Date: 2015-06-16 11:14:52 by Deckard
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Tyler Truitt, WAFF 48 newsBy Heather CallaghanHuntsville, Alabama says couple can't live "off the grid," condemned their property and threatens arrest for trespassing "I just don't see how we're hurting anyone by being here," said Tyler Truitt when asked about having to defend his off-grid lifestyle to city hall. As a military veteran, he found it really odd that he thought he was defending the American way only to come back home and be scolded by bureaucrats to hook-up! As you might imagine, Truitt doesn't want to yield so easily and says they'd rather be arrested than leave their land. Who would want to leave their paid-for property and off-grid ...
Accidental Shootings More than Double After Cops Purchase New Guns with No Safety
Post Date: 2015-06-16 09:49:44 by Deckard
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Two years ago, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department equipped their officers with guns that were less safe, and unsurprisingly the amount of accidental gunshots has more than doubled. Prior to the change in weapons, the county only had roughly 12 accidents per year, while now there are at least 30. The new gun, the Smith & Wesson M&P9, is not fitted with a safety mechanism to prevent accidents, and the trigger is extremely sensitive, but police say that the new guns are “easier to shoot.” The police department insists that this problem could be solved by more training, but many critics are saying that the change in firearms is a dangerous move. “I ...
‘Shoot A Cop’ Bumper Sticker Disturbs Va. Police
Post Date: 2015-06-16 09:44:04 by Deckard
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A picture of a black BMW with a Virginia license plate and a plausibly homemade white bumper sticker is stirring up controversy, and for good reason. The bumper sticker on the vehicle plainly reads, “Shoot A Cop,” in bold, capitalized letters. Concerned locals contacted NBC12 about the image to ask whether it was a serious threat. NBC12 legal analyst Steve Benjamin said that, while disturbing, the bumper sticker's message is protected by the driver’s First Amendment rights. “As obnoxious and stupid and potentially dangerous as that might be,” he said, “that’s the expression of a message, and that’s protected by the First ...
Iowa Supreme Court affirms right to be drunk on front porch
Post Date: 2015-06-16 09:30:30 by Deckard
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DES MOINES — The right to be drunk on the front porch of a private home was endorsed Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court, which said a woman can't be convicted of public intoxication while standing on her front steps.Patience Paye, 29, of Waterloo based the appeal of her 2013 case on the contention that her front steps are not a public place so she can't be charged with public intoxication.Justices agreed, rejecting a district court judge's conclusion that Paye's front porch was a public place because it was plainly accessible and visible to any passers-by and it was a place to which the public is permitted access."If the front stairs of a single-family residence are ...
Supreme Court races the clock on gay marriage, Obamacare and more
Post Date: 2015-06-15 17:00:02 by redleghunter
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WASHINGTON — The future of same-sex marriage and President Obama's health care law hang in the balance as the Supreme Court's 2014 term draws rapidly to a close this month. But those aren't the only big issues on the justices' plate. Free speech and fair elections. Religious liberty and racial discrimination. Clean air and capital punishment. All await rulings over the next three weeks as the court completes action on 20 cases remaining this term. The next decisions will come Thursday morning. Here's a look at the Elite Eight: • Same-sex marriage. In a decision likely to come on the term's last day — possibly June 29 or 30 — the court will ...
Colorado Supreme Court: Employers can fire for off-duty pot use [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-06-15 14:23:07 by cranky
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Lawyer for Dish Network employee fired after using medical pot to treat muscle spasms calls ruling "devastating". Brandon Coats, right, with his mother Donna Scharfenberg sitting by his side, Sept. 30, 2014. The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday affirmed lower courts' rulings that businesses can fire employees for the use of medical marijuana — even if it's off-duty.The 6-0 decision comes nine months after the state's highest court heard oral arguments in Brandon Coats' case against Dish Network. Coats, who had a medical marijuana card and consumed pot off-duty to control muscle spasms, was fired in 2010 after failing a random drug test.Coats challenged ...
Police Seize 6 Children Simply Because Family Was Camping [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-06-15 11:14:44 by Deckard
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Stock photo A Michigan family which had dreams of camping during the summer in the great outdoors was horrified when state officials seized their six children simply because they were temporarily living in tents, Off The Grid News has learned. The nightmare experience for Christopher and Antonia Hernandez began May 19 when Otsego County sheriff deputies and a CPS official took their children, and ended June 10 when their children were returned after the parents won a court ruling based on the fact the mother and children are eligible for enrollment in the Tlingit Native American tribe. The federal Indian Child Welfare Act makes it more difficult for state officials to separate Native ...
Good Cop Demoted, Transferred & Worse for Exposing his Department in the Killing of a College Student
Post Date: 2015-06-15 10:42:19 by Deckard
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Kansas, MO — On May 31 of last year, 20-year-old college student Brandon Ellingson was stopped for suspicion of driving a boat while intoxicated. Ellingson would not make it out of the water alive. Trooper Anthony Piercy was the officer who stopped then young Iowa native that day. According to witnesses, Piercy handcuffed Ellingson’s wrists behind his back and then pulled an already buckled life vest, with armholes, over his head and upper torso, completely against the recommended use of the vest. As Piercy drove the dangerously restrained young man back to the office for a breathalyzer, he tumbled out of the boat and into the water. He would never come back up. An investigation ...
How theme parks like Disney World left the middle class behind [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-06-15 09:21:22 by Willie Green
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When Walt Disney World opened in an Orlando swamp in 1971, with its penny arcade and marching-band parade down Main Street U.S.A., admission for an adult cost $3.50, about as much then as three gallons of milk. Disney has raised the gate price for the Magic Kingdom 41 times since, nearly doubling it over the past decade. This year, a ticket inside the “most magical place on Earth” rocketed past $100 for the first time in history. Ballooning costs have not slowed the mouse-eared masses flooding into the world’s busiest theme park. Disney’s main attraction hosted a record 19 million visitors last year, a number nearly as large as the population of New York state. But ...
What if Pearl Harbor happened and nobody noticed? [data breach of 14M federal employees]
Post Date: 2015-06-15 08:58:22 by Tooconservative
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Last week, while people were going on about the white woman who posed as black to get an NAACP job, Hillary Clinton's (latest) campaign relaunch and President Obama's trade-bill debacle in the House, a much bigger story slipped by with much less hoopla: the successful seizure of a vast trove of federal personnel records, reportedly by the Chinese.And then it got worse. "Hackers linked to China have gained access to the sensitive background information submitted by intelligence and military personnel for security clearances, U.S. officials said Friday, describing a cyberbreach of federal records dramatically worse than first acknowledged."And there are lessons in this ...
California electric bill shock: Private firms charge way more than public utilities
Post Date: 2015-06-15 08:16:08 by Willie Green
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In Sacramento, a family using 500 kilowatt hours of electricity last October was charged $58. Customers in Los Angeles, also served by a public utility district, paid $79.Pacific Gas & Electric charged $93 for the same amount of power. Southern California Edison billed customers $97. And San Diego Gas & Electric topped the Southern California Public Power Authority survey at $116 for 500 kilowatt hours.The comparison of rates charged by public and private electricity providers in California shows a notable discrepancy in the amounts customers pay for power, depending on where they live and which provider serves them.Especially for heavy users, bills are higher at the investor-owned ...
TV News Reporters Speak Out About Explosion of Explicit On-the-Street Taunts
Post Date: 2015-06-14 20:22:55 by Tooconservative
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“It’s a brand of harassment I was not expecting when I chose this profession,” NBC4 Southern California reporter Beverly White tells TheWrap It’s not a new problem, but it’s one that by most accounts is getting worse. A growing number of TV news reporters say over the past year, there has been an increase in the level of sexually explicit taunts they face while covering stories on public streets. The disturbing trend involves hecklers running up and yelling, “F–k her right in the pu–y” into microphones as reporters stand in front of the camera. “The acronym ‘F her in the P’ is constant,” NBC4 Southern California reporter ...
Where Did Unemployed Mechanic Boulware Get Money to Buy “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle”?
Post Date: 2015-06-14 14:26:01 by Deckard
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James Boulware, the man killed Saturday in Dallas after shooting up a police station, bought a customized “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport” despite the fact his family said he did not have any money. A van similar to the one used by Boulware was sold by Jenco Sales Inc. in Newnan, Georgia on eBay for $8,250. Boulware traveled to Georgia last week to pick up the vehicle. “He just got the van last week,” said Jim Boulware, the dead man’s father. “He went and took a bus to Georgia and picked it up.” WFAA, an ABC News affiliate in Dallas, reported that Boulware’s family wanted him to get psychiatric help, but he did not have the ...
Brooklyn man who recorded boss setting homeless victim on fire gets 15 years
Post Date: 2015-06-14 13:45:10 by cranky
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Lorenzo Fonerin’s mother Rosa is wheeled out of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn after learning her son was sentenced to 15 years for recording his boss lighting a homeless man on fire. A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday for standing by and recording as his boss set a homeless man on fire. "I was asleep when I found out my son was on fire ... the burns on his lower back were so bad it looked like leather," said Tasheen Hand's mother Priscilla during her victim impact statement in Brooklyn Supreme Court, where she urged the judge to throw the book at Lorenzo Fonerin. Fonerin, 23, was working at a bodega with Suliman Ahmed on September 23, 2012, ...
Army Refuses To Deny 'House-To-House Gun Confiscation' Part Of Raider Focus Military Training Operation
Post Date: 2015-06-14 12:19:27 by Deckard
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By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLineAaron Wilson PhD had the opportunity to send some questions over to Fort Carson Public Affairs Chief of Media Relations, Dani Carson, in relation to the Raider Focus training exercises this summer at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, which is a non-contiguous part of Fort Carson, Colorado where the 4th Infantry Division among other units are based.While the entire question and answer article can be found here, we would like to highlight the most concerning question and answer of the interview.Question #4: Will there be house to house gun confiscation type training? Answer: We do not discuss specific types of training however, the 4th Infantry ...
Defense Official warns that DoD Directive allowing the use of military force against American citizens is latest step towards martial law
Post Date: 2015-06-14 12:13:49 by Deckard
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Defense official’s warning destroys media claims that only “conspiracy theorists” believe martial law could be declared in the near futureIn a stunning revelation published by a mainstream news outlet, an anonymous Department of Defense official has revealed their belief that a DoD Directive outlining military support to civilian authorities is the latest step towards President Obama eventually using military force against the American people. The quote from the defense official was published in a now viral report that detailed the 2010 DoD Directive and how it could be used, under authority from the President, to unleash the might of the US military onto the civilian ...
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