Tag Archive: 2nd amendment

on January 17, 2015 in World News

NYC hired Rikers officers with gang ties, psychological issues

NYC hired Rikers officers with gang ties, psychological issues A report into the recruiting and hiring practices of the New York Correction Department found that more than one-third of the people hired had problems – criminal histories, mental issues – that should have disqualified them from the job. Conducted by New York City’s Department of Investigation (DOI), the review is the latest in a number of critical revelations about city jails including death, brutality, and drug smuggling. The year-long review by city investigators evaluated department hiring and recruiting practices by looking at the applications of 153 people who were hired…. View Article

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on January 17, 2015 in World News

Senator’s husband stands to profit big from government deal

Senator’s husband stands to profit big from government deal Ever wonder how lowly paid lawmakers leave office filthy rich? Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing how it’s done. The US Postal Service plans to sell 56 buildings — so it can lease space more expensively — and the real estate company of the California senator’s husband, Richard Blum, is set to pocket about $1 billion in commissions. Blum’s company, CBRE, was selected in March 2011 as the sole real estate agent on sales expected to fetch $19 billion. Most voters didn’t notice that Blum is a member of CBRE’s board and… View Article

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on January 17, 2015 in World News

Politico Magazine: Idea of ‘Defensive Gun Ownership’ a ‘Tragic Myth’

Politico Magazine: Idea of ‘Defensive Gun Ownership’ a ‘Tragic Myth’ On January 14, Politico Magazine (PM) ran a story suggesting the claim that guns are used for defense purposes more often than ill-intent is wrong, and the whole idea behind “defensive gun ownership” is a “tragic myth.” PM defined the “tragic myth” as the belief “that millions of gun owners successfully use their firearms to defend themselves and their families from criminals.” They pointed to the dearth of academic support for defensive gun uses (DGUs) in “public health literature” and listed three instances in which a homeowner fired a gun… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

Arkansas Rep Proposes Campus Carry For State Colleges, Universities

Arkansas Rep Proposes Campus Carry For State Colleges, Universities On January 15, Arkansas state representative Charlie Collins (R-Fayetteville) proposed legislation to allow faculty and staff at state colleges and universities to carry guns on campus for self-defense. Known as House Bill 1077, the measure would allow faculty and staff with concealed carry licenses to carry on campus and would not allow colleges or universities to deny their right to do so. According to Arkansas Matters, Collins proposed a similar bills two years ago, but it allowed college and universities to opt out if they so chose. The opt out was… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

Wynn Resorts Co-Founder Joins Push to Outlaw Private Gun Sales in Nevada

Wynn Resorts Co-Founder Joins Push to Outlaw Private Gun Sales in Nevada Billionaire and Wynn Resorts co-founder Elaine Wynn has joined Michael Bloomberg’s push to ban private gun sales in the state of Nevada. For her part, Wynn “will chair an advisory board that is working to pass a background check initiative that recently qualified for the 2016 ballot.” According to USA Today, the initiative “would impose stricter background checks on people buying firearms from private sellers and at guns shows.” In other words, it would be similar to the gun control Bloomberg helped fund and push through in Washington… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

FBI Foils FBI Terror Plot

FBI Foils FBI Terror Plot Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation, at the center of which is a government informant. In these cases, the informants — who work for money or are seeking leniency on criminal charges of their own — have crossed the line from merely observing potential criminal behavior to encouraging and assisting people to participate in plots that are largely scripted by the FBI itself. Under the FBI’s guiding hand, the informants provide the weapons, suggest the targets and even initiate the inflammatory political rhetoric that later elevates the charges to the… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

International court calls on Mexico to ban genetically modified corn

International court calls on Mexico to ban genetically modified corn Mexico is desperately trying to avoid a bioterrorism takeover by Big GMO, which is insistent upon ushering in genetically modified (GM) maize to replace the dozens of native corn varieties already grown throughout the country. The Mexican Chapter of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has issued an urgent plea to the Mexican government to once and for all ban all plantings of GM maize in order to avoid catastrophic losses to the “center of origin and diversity of this staple crop.” The ruling, which came after the Tribunal spent three years… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

Canada Admits Pesticides Are Killing Mass Amounts Of Bees

Ontario, Canada Admits Pesticides Are Killing Mass Amounts Of Bees. Here’s What They’re Doing About It Is it a little to late? It seems that we’ve known for years that pesticides are killing millions of bees, if not billions. More specifically, it’s neonicotinoid pesticides that have been targeted as the culprit, and the province of Ontario, Canada is doing something about it. Ontario’s government recently made the decision that neonicotinoid pesticide use will be reduced by 80 percent no later than 2017. Neonicotinoid insecticides persist in very high levels in planter exhaust material produced during the planting of crops treated… View Article

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on January 16, 2015 in World News

Pastors: Houston mayor deceived ‘every step of the way’

Pastors: Houston mayor deceived ‘every step of the way’ Now promising to do ‘whatever’ she needs to defend transgender ordinance The lesbian mayor of Houston, Annise Parker, is promising to do “whatever” is needed to defend a transgender ordinance in a court trial scheduled for Jan. 26. Her opponents say that’s not particularly surprising, since she has been deceptive “every step of the way” in the case brought by a coalition of local pastors. At issue in the “equal rights” ordinance granting transgenders additional rights adopted by the city council at the mayor’s urging last year. As a lesbian, she… View Article

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