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on September 20, 2013 in World News
Pennsylvania pro-gun police chief will be fired
Pennsylvania pro-gun police chief will be fired for YouTube videos gone viral Local officials voted 6-1 Thursday night to terminate the police chief of a small Pennsylvania borough who came under fire earlier this year for posting profanity-laced YouTube videos featuring his arsenal of firearms. The sun will likely soon set on Chief Mark Kessler’s tenure as Gilberton, PA police chief following Thursday’s meeting in which the council governing the borough of barely 800 people moved to terminate its loud mouth local YouTube sensation and the area’s only full-time lawman. Kessler made international headlines months earlier when his online… View Article
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on September 20, 2013 in World News
Western promotion of LGBT values a concern’
Western promotion of LGBT values a concern’ A senior Russian diplomat has blasted as unacceptable the ongoing attempts of Western nations to impose their values on other countries, while at the same time infringing on the socio-economic rights of their own citizens. “The urge of Western countries to impose their neoliberal system of values on the other members of the international community as a universal basis of living can only cause concern. This is especially noticeable on the background of their aggressive promotion of the sexual minorities’ rights,” said the Foreign Ministry’s plenipotentiary for human rights, Konstantin Dolgov, while… View Article
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on September 20, 2013 in World News
JPMorgan Chase slammed with $920mn fine
JPMorgan Chase slammed with $920mn fine over ‘London Whale’ probe JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $920 in fines to settle probes related to the ‘London Whale’ financial debacle of 2012 in which bankers covered up $6.2 billion in losses. The settlement was announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Reserve on Thursday September 19. The firm “exercised inadequate oversight over the CIO and failed to implement adequate controls to ensure the full and adequate disclosure of relevant information to senior management” the Fed said in order. Former JPMorgan traders Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout were formally… View Article
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on September 20, 2013 in World News
Contractor that screened Snowden also vetted alleged Navy Yard shooter
Contractor that screened Snowden also vetted alleged Navy Yard shooter The government contractor that screened Edward Snowden also was responsible for a background check that granted “secret” security clearance to Aaron Alexis, the alleged Navy Yard shooter. USIS, a private company based in Falls Church, Va., said on Thursday that it had vetted Alexis in 2007.The security clearance he subsequently received in 2008 was good for ten years, until 2018. A USIS spokesman declined to say what Alexis’ background check revealed, although government officials have said it turned up a 2004 arrest in Seattle for malicious mischief. “We are contractually… View Article
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on September 20, 2013 in World News
BlackBerry to Fire 4,500 Write Down Up to $960 Million
BlackBerry to Fire 4,500 Write Down Up to $960 Million BlackBerry Ltd., the smartphone maker that’s evaluating a sale, will cut 4,500 jobs and record an inventory writedown of as much as $960 million after a new set of devices failed to catch on with consumers. The company, based in Waterloo, Ontario, expects to report a net operating loss of as much as $995 million for the fiscal second quarter, according to a statement. Sales in the quarter were about $1.6 billion, just more than… View Article
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on September 20, 2013 in World News
Israel Alarmed Over Prospect of US-Iran Diplomacy
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on September 20, 2013 in World News
FBI calls half of populace with 9/11 doubts potential terrorists
FBI calls half of populace with 9/11 doubts potential terrorists The FBI is instructing local police departments and “communities against terrorism” to consider anyone who harbors “conspiracy theories” about 9/11 to be a potential terrorist, in a circular released to local police departments. The memo thus adds 9/11-official-story skeptics to a growing list of targets described by federal law enforcement to be security threats, such as those who express “libertarian philosophies,” “Second Amendment-oriented views,” interest in “self-sufficiency,” “fears of Big Brother or big government,” and “Declarations of… View Article
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on September 20, 2013 in World News
Dem Official Wishes Death On Ted Cruz Aide’s Children
Dem Official Wishes Death On Ted Cruz Aide’s Children Allan Brauer is a communications chair for the Democratic Party of Sacramento who used his Twitter account Friday to wish that the children of Senator Ted Cruz aide Amanda Carpenter, “die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases.” He later apologized. — @amandacarpenter May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases. — allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013– Busy blocking the tapeworms that have slithered out of hellspawn @amandacarpenter’s asshole. How’s your day so far? — allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September… View Article
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on September 19, 2013 in Right Edition