06 June 2013 (13:59 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Rajab 1434/16 Khordad 1391/28 Wu-Wu (4th month) 4711
The New York State Senate passed a new bill likely to be signed into law: Annoy a cop, go to prison!
Threatening a cop is usually accepted as a reason to get arrested, but the S.2402 will make it a felony to also “…harass, annoy…….or alarm…” a policeperson.
Gee, I didn’t know that cops armed with clubs, pepper spray, tasers and heavy firepower, felt so threatened by the general public?
06 June 2013 (13:44 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Rajab 1434/16 Khordad 1391/28 Wu-Wu (4th month) 4711
After earlier reports by Israeli military and pro-rebel groups, that U.S. backed rebels seized control of the Quneitra crossing on the Israel-Syria ceasefire line in the Golan Heights, it’s now clear who actually won the battle; Syria.
The Syrian government reports that after a day long battle they’ve “liberated” Quneitra.
Also, the Austrian government announced it with pullout 380 of its troops stationed on the Golan Heights. They are part of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). Austrian officials say major fighting on the Golan continues. This is looking as if Syria is serious about taking back their rightful territory from Israel.
06 June 2013 (04:06 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Rajab 1434/16 Khordad 1391/28 Wu-Wu (4th month) 4711
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) radio says a group of U.S. backed Syrian rebels have captured the Quneitra crossing on the Israel-Syria ceasefire line in the Golan Heights.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a pro-rebel group based in United Kingdom, confirmed the IDF report.
Both the IDF and the SOHR say fighting between rebels and Syrian forces continue in that area. However, an unnamed Israeli source questioned just who captured the Quneitra crossing: “The incident is ongoing so it’s very hard to say who is in control there.”
06 June 2013 (03:46 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Rajab 1434/16 Khordad 1391/28 Wu-Wu (4th month) 4711
“The NSA’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter.”-a prophetic warning in 1975 by Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho
“We decline comment.”-Ed McFadden, Verizon
The news media in the United Kingdom has revealed a top secret order from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It orders cell phone companies to hand over all customer records to the U.S. National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation. It specifically names cell service provider Verizon.
The order states that the collection of customer data (called “tangible things”) will be “…on an ongoing daily basis…” It encompasses “…all call detail records…”
Not only that, but it ordered “…that no person shall disclose to any other person that the FBI or NSA has sought or obtained tangible things under this Order…”
However, the Guardian obtained a copy of the police stateist order, and you can read it by clicking here.
Your glorified leaders in Washington DC are using legal games and referring to phone calls as “metadata”, because if they used the term ‘communications’ then they would have to get court orders on each and every customer!
“We’ve certainly seen the government increasingly strain the bounds of ‘relevance’ to collect large numbers of records at once, everyone at one or two degrees of separation from a target, but vacuuming all metadata up indiscriminately would be an extraordinary repudiation of any pretence of constraint or particularized suspicion.”-Julian Sanchez, Cato Institute
This is more proof that Obama is no different, perhaps even worse, than Bush Jr!
06 June 2013 (18:20 UTC-07 Tango 05 June 2013)/27 Rajab 1434/16 Khordad 1391/28 Wu-Wu (4th month) 4711
“I think the county’s response is probably indicative of a larger mindset that is really frightening right now in the public school system. That we’ve stopped seeing kids as individuals…..Instead, they’re a number, or they’re a dollar sign!”-Katie Kaiser, outraged parent in Kentucky
“He sat at a table and watched his friends eat lunch. He was embarrassed and he was hungry. He came home starving.”-Elizabeth Ireland, outraged that her son was denied food at J.A. Leonard Middle School in Maine
Here’s what dip schtick school superintendent David Walker said: “[Middle School] Students are old enough to take responsibility for their lunches.”
Another parent responded angrily: “Take financial issues up with me, not my child!”-Kyla Harrison
“I’m proud that I was able to take a stand where others might not have been able to, and that I can maybe, in some little way, cause a change.”-Johnny Cook, school bus driver in Georgia, fired after he revealed that students are being denied food
Here’s what Johnny Cook wrote that got him fired: “A middle schooler got on my bus this evening and said mr johnny im hungry. I said why are you hungry buddy? Didn’t you eat lunch ? He said no sir I didn’t have any money on my account. I said they would let you charge it? No sir.
Huh! What! This child is already on reduced lunch and we can’t let him eat. Are you kidding me? I’m certain there was leftover food thrown away today. But kids were turned away because they didn’t have .40 on there account .
As a tax payer, I would much rather feed a child than throw it away. I would rather feed a child than to give food stamps to a crack head. My number is (…) the next time we can’t feed a kid for forty cent, please call me . We will scrape up the money.
This is what the world has come to.”
A private contracted food service company “…fired four employees after about two dozen students at a Massachusetts middle school were denied lunches…”-Associated Press
But wait, the New York based food service contractor didn’t fire the employees because they denied the students at Coelho Middle School food, but because masses of parents complained! In other words, the employees were following orders! Parent, John Greaves, is pissed off: “There are people in prison who are getting meals, my daughter, an honor student, is going hungry!?”
“Parent Katie Kaiser said her daughter who attends R.C. Hinsdale Elementary School was forced to dump out a full tray of food and given saltine crackers and cheese last week during state testing because of a $1.15 debt in her lunch account. Kaiser says she deposited money in her daughter’s online lunch account the night before, but the transaction wasn’t posted by lunch time the next day.”-WCPO channel 6, Kentucky
It was revealed by WCPO that at least 40 impoverished Kenton County, Kentucky, elementary school students were denied food during state testing in May 2013!
“Kenton County Assistant Superintendent Kim Banta says they are authorized to give away only certain foods that the federal government provides the school for free.”-WCPO
According to WCPO, teachers, principals, parents with money and even unnamed donors are now paying to make sure all students get fed. Gee, we already pay outrageous taxes for public schools and they can’t even provide one meal?
“Students at a Rhode Island middle school…..were forced to go back to class hungry after some of them were denied lunch and others were even ordered to throw away the lunches….24 students in all were turned away….The school’s principal said he is shocked, and has since launched an investigation into the [contracted] lunch provider.”-WHAS channel 11, Rhode Island
“Parents in New Jersey are outraged after learning their autistic son was forced to go hungry all day at school. That’s because the school denied the boy his lunch…..So the 5-year-old just sat there at Cliffwood Elementary in Matawan and watched others eat.”-WABC channel 7, New York
“I put my number in and they just said that I was short 20 cents and I couldn’t get a lunch.”-Kerstin Hughes, Lakewood Middle School student in Washington
In Virginia, a Montevideo Middle School student was denied lunch, and was told even the so called ‘free’ lunch would cost her money: “….they just took my lunch back and said, ‘Sorry, you can’t have lunch today, and if we give you bread and milk, we’re gonna have to charge you an extra fifty cents.’”-Casey Irvine
KOMU, channel 8 in Missouri, reported that at least 12 students were denied food at Moberly High School. “…they took his tray from him and dumped it out. My son said he wasn’t the only kid it was happening to. It was happening to other kids!”-Johnnie Carden, angry parent
In Michigan, a Roseville Middle School student was denied food, not because his parents owed money, but because the pre-paid account was too low and the lunch officials were not willing to extend credit: “He just said they denied him lunch. He said, ‘I need money,’ but that was too late in the day for me to get him any money. I was never notified by the school. He just said that they said he couldn’t have it.”-Fred Eckert, angry parent
In Pennsylvania, Millersburg Middle School students were denied food, because the pre-paid accounts were negative $5. School officials say it’s standard policy. Angry parents say they were not notified about the account shortage, or the policy.
In Tennessee, Mount Juliet Middle School lunch officials denied food to a 12 years old: “They took the tray away from him and said, ‘You can go find 30 cents if you want to eat your lunch’.”-Jennifer Jones, angry parent
And just what did Mount Juliet Middle School do with the lunch? They threw it in the trash! Give the kid the food or throw it in the trash, either way the dip schtick food service provider/school still loses the money!!!!
Even the Pope is pissed: “Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.”-Pope Francis
I’d like to correct the Pope; it isn’t “like stealing” from the poor, by denying food and throwing it away they have actually stolen the food from the poor!!!
In 2007 a school lunch lady, in Iowa, was fired for not only denying students food, but intentionally denigrating them in front of other students. Here’s what she said about low income students: “[students] didn’t deserve to eat because they didn’t have money.”-Nancy J. Harvey
But wait, there’s more! Don’t think this is all about money, in one case a four years old was denied his own lunch that he brought from home!!! In Raeford, North Carolina, the food police at West Hoke Elementary School took her home made lunch on the grounds it was not nutritional! Here’s what was in her lunch made with love by mom: A turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, a container of apple juice, and potato chips.
But there’s insult to injury, the police stateist school told the mother of the child that they’re going to charge her for the crappy school made lunch that they forced her daughter to eat!!!
And in California, an Agoura High School student, with learning disabilities, who normally leaves campus for lunch was prevented from doing so because he scored low on the STAR (Standardized Testing And Reporting) test!!! In other words school officials were using denial of access to food as a punishment for doing bad on a test!
Here’s what the evil school officials said in response to complaints by the parents: “It’s a privilege, not a right.”
Eating is a privilege? I thought it was a necessity!
31 May 2013/21 Rajab 1434/10 Khordad 1391/22 Ding-Si (4th month) 4711
In Kapisa Province, witnesses say a U.S./NATO drone strike killed six people and wounded 12 others. Most of those killed and wounded were women and children.
In Nuristan Province, local government officials say Pakistan shelled Kamdish District. One person killed, two wounded.
In Ghazni Province, major battles reported between Mujahideen and pro-government forces. Both sides reported dozens of killed and wounded.
Mujahideen continue to swear they were not behind the attack on the Red Cross in Jalalabad: “….the Islamic Emirate wants to make it clear to everyone that it had no hand in the attack on….the ICRC office in Jalalabad city and neither does it support such attacks.”-Qari Yousuf Ahmad
In an interview with Politics Confidential, evil Donald Rumsfeld admitted the long term occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq are failures: “Well, it’s not combat….the Department of Defense…is not organized and trained and equipped to nation build…..Don’t leave the impression that you can run a country that you can’t run.”
30 May 2013/20 Rajab 1434/09 Khordad 1391/21 Ding-Si (4th month) 4711
In Maiden Wardak Province, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant was killed after the vehicle he was in drove over a landmine. The Texas man was assigned to the 68th Combat Support Sustainment Battalion, 43rd Sustainment Brigade, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Carson, Colorado.
In Kapisa Province, Afghan National Army launched an offensive against Mujahideen. They claim they’ve killed four Mujahideen and captured 86.
Just a few days after saying they weren’t leaving Afghanistan, the International Committee of the Red Cross has suspended operations in eastern Afghanistan: “As a consequence of the attack… all our activities have been frozen and our office in Jalalabad is closed.”
The U.S. Department of Defense is investigating whether a USMC General deliberately relaxed security at the Camp Bastion/Camp Leatherneck, in Helmand last year. The joint base was attacked, people killed and at least $200 million USD in damage to U.S. aircraft. Last month is was revealed, after a U.K. investigation, that British run guard towers were unmanned on the night of the attack.
29 May 2013/19 Rajab 1434/08 Khordad 1391/20 Ding-Si (4th month) 4711
In Ghazni Province, police say a man detonated a bomb near a school, wounding two boys and one girl. Police say they shot and killed the man.
In Panjshir Province, six or seven men dressed in Afghan National Police uniforms attacked the provincial government compound. At least one of them was wearing an explosive vest, and blew himself up. The others were killed in a gunbattle: “Six militants armed with suicide vests and weapons stormed the provincial governor compound at around 3am local time in Bazarak city. The attack and counter-attack claimed the lives of all attackers and one policeman.”-Rohullah Yousufi
In Helmand Province, Camp Bastion, a secretly run prison was revealed. The U.K. Red Coats have been holding Afghans for at least 14 months, without charge, violating current agreements with the government of Afghanistan.
In Nangarhar Province, Jalalabad City, the Red Cross building was attacked, at least one person killed, several people wounded. Government officials blame Mujahideen, but Mujahideen say it was not their doing.
Reports out of Afghanistan say the number of drug addicts has increased right along with the increased production of opium. The Afghan Counter Narcotics Ministry points out that the majority of people in Afghan prisons are there on drug charges. The Ministry also backs up past claims by Iran and Russia, that more and more Afghans are being pushed into drug trafficking into other countries: “Around 3 million people are involved in drug trafficking across the country…”-Abdul Khalil Bakhtyar, Counter Narcotics Ministry
Afghan officials point out that the provinces that have the biggest opium production are under direct U.S./NATO/ISAF control: “90% of opium have been producing at Helmand, Kandahar, Farah and Urzgan Provinces…”-Zabi Ullah, Counter Narcotics Ministry
An opium addict said it best, revealing the possible true motive for the drug explosion under the watch of the United States: “I am happy to die rather than to be alive. If you wish bad luck to your enemy wish him to become addicted to opium or heroin, as there is no other greater punishment rather than being addicted.”-Noor Mohammad, Kapisa Province
Another report, from Reuters, backs up claims made by Iranian border police over the years; the U.S. drug meth (methamphetamine) is being made and trafficked through Afghanistan. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, meth use in Afghanistan tripled in 2012. Afghanistan is already a violent place, now imagine large numbers of Afghans addicted to a drug that turns people into paranoid homicidal maniacs: “If this country gets addicted to meth, there will be a big problem!”-Peter Bottomley, UNODC
Unnamed ignorant and pathological liars within the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (plenty of reports showing the DEA is actually a major drug dealer) told Reuters reporters that the meth was coming from Iran!
Stems, a major flower supplier to grocery stores and other retailers in Florida, Texas and Georgia, now bankrupt.
In Illinois, U.S. Cellular announced that as many as 600 people will lose their jobs! It’s part of the takeover by Sprint. Also, heavy equipment maker, Caterpillar, will layoff at least 460 people in June! Company officials blame declining sales.
What automotive recovery? California based hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive laid off about 175 people! Company officials blame the Obama administration for cancelling a $529 million USD loan last year.
In Florida, United Space Alliance laid off 68 people. The final layoffs as a result of the retirement of the Space Shuttle. Also, hundreds of government contractors were laid off with little or no notice, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base: “I just bought a new house in October thinking I had a pretty secure job. And that’s not the case. Just got my lay off notice.”-Dustin Rhoades, contracted firefighter
The Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware, laid off 25% of employees. Ticket sales have been down, as well as corporate donations. Main Street Sliders restaurant closed down in Newark. The owner blames the bad economy and credit cards: “My fixed costs have started to outweigh my income. This used to be a cash heavy business. Today as much as 80% of my business is in credit cards.”-Jason Voit
In Tennessee, 32 people lost their jobs with cell phone insurer Asurion.
Front Street Books in Marathon, Texas, closed.
In Alabama, Books-A-Million closed its Tuscaloosa store. The Books-A-Million chain lost $2.8 million at the end of their last fiscal year! Also, the Gap clothing store closed their University Mall location.
Italian-American restaurant, Serafina, closed their Concord, Massachusetts operation. The owners were done in by the bad economy: “It has been an up and down ride for the last seven years….We worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week. We thought it was time for us to move on.”-Sam Cannarozzi
In Maryland, Kids Consignments closed in Edgewater.
Language software company, Rosetta Stone, announced they will close 56 kiosk locations, and layoff 245 people! This is after they laid off 70 people back in March.
What automotive recovery? In Indiana, Hy-Matic Manufacturing shut down after 50 years of operations. The owners of the automotive parts supplier say they lost their two biggest contracts.
In Potsdam, New York, the Sugar Creek/Wilson Farms store closed down. It might be connected to the 2011 takeover by 7-Eleven.
28 May 2013/18 Rajab 1434/07 Khordad 1391/19 Ding-Si (4th month) 4711
It was revealed that the government of Japan will give Afghanistan $30 million USD worth of their taxpayers’ money, supposedly for road construction equipment.
In Nangarhar Province, the Afghan senate chairman secretary was assassinated. Local police do not know who did it: “Shafiqullah, secretary of Afghan senate chairman Fazal Hadi Muslimyar was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Lalma area in Chaparhar district…”
In Kandahar Province, seven cops were killed at a checkpoint. Some reports say it was done by a fellow cop, other reports say two Mujahideen attacked the checkpoint. Also in Khakrez District, a Afghan National Army convoy ran over a landmine, killing three people and wounding three.
In Parwan Province, Qarabagh District, eight people killed, three wounded by a remote detonated bomb. Police say the managing director of Afghan Wireless Communications Company was the target. Mujahideen say they were trying to hit a U.S. convoy that was expected to come through the same area.
The European Union extended the European Police Mission in Afghanistan until 31 December 2014.
U.S. based Ace Hardware announced it will open 15 stores in Afghanistan, over the next ten years.
27 May 2013/17 Rajab 1434/06 Khordad 1391/18 Ding-Si (4th month) 4711
In Kandahar Province, Panjwai District, local police are reporting that as U.S./NATO personnel abandon bases in the area, fighters from Pakistan are taking their place: “Taliban militants from Pakistani Madrasas have been deployed in Panjwai district which has created issues for the local residents. Their deployment comes amid withdrawal of coalition forces from Moshan and Talokan areas…”-Fazal Mohammad Ishaqzai, Panjwai District Police chief
In Jawzjan Province, Darzad District, the district governor was wounded in an assassination attempt. Two other people were wounded when a teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up.
In Farah Province, Bala Bolok District, two people wounded after a suicide attack on a Italian/NATO convoy. Mujahideen claim five Italians were killed.
26 May 2013/16 Rajab 1434/05 Khordad 1391/17 Ding-Si (4th month) 4711
In Daykundi Province, Mujahideen claim they’ve liberated the village of Nur Khanwalo.
In Parwan Province, Bagram City, a member of the U.S. Louisiana Army National Guard was killed when his vehicle was hit by an RPG. According to Louisiana news reports, his family knew of his death before the U.S. Army confirmed it!
In Ghazni Province, Ghazni City, reports of battles between Mujahideen and NATO/ANA forces. In Gilan District, government officials claim they’ve killed 28 Mujahideen, and wounded 17 others.
The Afghan Defense Ministry claimed that in the past month they have killed 443 Mujahideen, and lost 100 Afghan National Army troops. They also said 2224 battles/operations took place.
The U.S. Department of State has ordered all U.S. contractors in Afghanistan, and Israel, to undergo drug testing. The drugs being tested for are opiates, amphetamines, steroids, cocaine and other hard drugs. There are reports that drug abuse by U.S. contractors is on the increase.
In Kentucky, Seven Counties Services bankrupt. Company officials blame mandatory payments into the Kentucky Employees Retirement System. According to local news reports, if the mental health/developmental services/addiction treatment center shuts down it will affect 32000 people!
Too Big to Jail, Bank of America, laying off hundreds more employees, this time in New Jersey. 469 people lost their jobs in Newark!
Nebraska State Bank & Trust closed two branch offices, in Oconto and Mason City. Bank officials blamed declining customers.
Allstate Insurance laying off an undisclosed number of employees in Virginia.
In Florida, U.S. Navy contractor East Coast Repair and Fabrication laid off 25 people. Company officials blame contract cancellations by the USN.
Price Chopper lays off 34 more employees in New York. Company officials blame it on skyrocketing health care costs. In West Village, The Lively Set antique shop closed down. The owner says sales are no longer high enough to pay the rent.
In Kansas, Bunge North America is suspending soybean crushing and laid off one third of its employees. Company officials blame “depleted supplies” of soybeans.
The Higley Unified School District, in Arizona, cut 11 administration jobs. The school district is short $1.8 million USD!
In Massachusetts, the 40 years old J&N Joke Shop closed down. The owner is shifting to internet sales. And the family owned West Concord SuperMarket closed down. The brother owners want to retire, and no one else in the family wants to take over.
In California, My Baby News baby store closed in Santa Rosa. The owners blamed crashing sales on internet competition. Amylin Pharmaceuticals announced they are ending their San Diego operations in 2014. 420 employees will be affected!
After 90 years in business, Savrud Paint Shop closed in Kalispell, Montana. They blamed the bad housing construction market: “The construction downturn has been very long. Very, very long. We don’t have nearly as much contractor business as we had.”-Dale Saverud
In Michigan, Michigan Steel has died. The company was seized by creditors. Last year company officials outright lied to local news media, telling them that business was so good they were expanding operations. Then news that employee paychecks were bouncing, then checks to their creditors started bouncing. State and federal tax liens were placed against the company. At the beginning of this year company officials admitted they were in trouble but would not give details. At one point the company had 200 employees.
In California, Japanese video game maker, Square Enix, will layoff an undisclosed number of employees in Los Angeles. Also, evil Disney killed video game maker LucasArts. Unnamed sources said 150 LucasArts employees will lose their jobs!
In Texas, the La Paz Community Health Care Center now bankrupt. The for profit mental health care center said it experienced a $3 million USD drop in revenue in 2012, blamed on Obama/Romney Care!
Also in Texas, the La Marque Independent School District is laying off 54 employees.
In Maine, the Brewer School System will layoff 30 employees. Officials blame a $1.5 million shortfall.
The Waukesha School District, in Wisconsin, canceled a school bus contract with Dairyland Buses. 155 people out-o-work! The dumb school officials switched to a company that uses buses that run on non-renewable inefficient propane. Dairyland Buses use efficient diesel, and could be run on renewable bio-diesel.
In New York, the Chappaqua Central School District wants to cut 12 jobs. After 34 years, the Good Food grocery store closed in Carroll Gardens. The owner blames competition and an confidential offer from his bank. In Corning, the Berger’s Ski & Snowboard Shop shut down. The owner blames global warming. Saratoga Beads closed down in Saratoga Springs. The owner says it’s time to retire. Too Big to Jail Bank of America announced that 1320 people will lose their jobs in Getzville!
The Roma Bank will layoff 57 employees in New Jersey. It’s the result of their merger with Investors Bank.
Flower & Craft Warehouse in Pennsylvania, shutting down. Interestingly, the East Earl Township requires businesses that are going out of business to get a license to do so (apparently it’s also a state law)! Before the township approved the going out of business sale, the store owners called it a “customer appreciation sale”. This is an example of what’s wrong with local government vs local businesses.
In Florida, Duke Energy’s Crystal River CR3 nuclear powered electricity maker laying off 31employees. It was also revealed that the nuke plant operators have plans to cut the nearly 600 employees down to about 80, over the long haul.
In Maryland, Famous Footwear closed down their Riva store.
Christian book store, LAOS Interfaith Bookstore in Amherst, Massachusetts, closing down.
In Connecticut, clothing maker Warnaco closing down its Milford factory. 208 people out-o-work! They blame being taken over by New York based PVH. In Cheshire, Willow’s Motorsports went out-o-business after 35 years in operation. The owner wanted to retire, ten employees out-o-work.