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New York City: Film an idling vehicle, get paid

Yoav Gonen
New York Post
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:09 UTC

If you see something, they'll pay something.

Two city lawmakers want to recruit everyday New Yorkers to help battle the scourge of idling vehicles by paying them for video footage that results in fines.

City Council members Helen Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) and Donovan Richards (D-Queens) will introduce a bill Wednesday that would give citizens up to 50 percent of the summons revenue if they catch someone breaking the idling law, take a video and submit it to the Department of Environmental Protection.

The exact cut for videographers would be determined by the DEP, they said. But citizen enforcers could makes hundreds — even thousands — of dollars.

The bill would keep first-time idling violations punishable by just a warning, but would boost fines for second offenses to between $350 and $1,500.

Comment: Turning Americans into snitches for the police state: 'See something, say something' and community policing

Judge orders buses and trains in Philadelphia to run anti-Islamic ads featuring Hitler

Sputnik
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:41 UTC

A Federal Judge has ordered Pennsylvania buses and trains to display "Stop the Islamic Jew-Hatred" ads that call for ending US foreign aid to all Islamic countries.

US District Judge Goldberg ruled the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) must allow the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) to post anti-Muslim advertisements, showing a photo of Hitler and an Islamic leader.

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AFDI, an American offshoot of a European anti-Muslim organization, claimed it has a first amendment right to run bus ads linking Muslims to Hitler.

The judge sided with them on the premise that since SEPTA has run other political speech ads in favor of teacher seniority or opposed to fracking, it opened up its advertising spaces as venues of expression.

Comment: The demonization of Muslims in the U.S. continues unabated. When did hate speech become a protected right of free speech?

Cannibal cop guilty of violating employer's computer use restriction; will this set a dangerous precedent?

RT
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:48 UTC

The case of a New York cop convicted of planning to kidnap and kill women before eating them could mean employees could be held criminally liable under federal law for violating an employer's computer use policy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation says.

While courts have conceded that the details of former New York Police Department officer Gilberto Valle's plots are grisly, a conspiracy charge was overturned last year by a federal judge, who said "the nearly yearlong kidnapping conspiracy alleged by the government is one in which no one was ever kidnapped, no attempted kidnapping ever took place, and no real-world, non-Internet-based steps were ever taken to kidnap anyone." The court said a conspiracy charge was tantamount to thoughtcrime.

Valle used the NYPD's federal database to collect information on various women he intended to target. For this offense, he was charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for abusing his position to illegally access the database. Unlike the conspiracy charge, the CFAA violation stuck, as the court interpreted Valle had violated an "access" restriction his employer put on his database use, rather than a "use" restriction.

Comment: For more on the history of this case see:

Van transporting radioactive material crashes in Bosnia

B92
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:46 UTC

A van transporting radioactive material - iridium-192 - and a passenger car collided on Friday morning, near the town of Modrica in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The driver of the car, a VW Polo, died in the accident.

Plunging into the abyss: 83% of Syrian electricity wiped out

RT
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:30 UTC

The toll from the four-year civil war in Syria is clearly visible even from space, with satellite images revealing that 83 percent of the lights have gone out in the country since 2011.

The satellite data - which compares Syria's night landscape in 2011 to that of 2014, from 800 kilometers above earth - reflects a grim picture of the situation on the ground in Syria, according to researchers from China's Wuhan University.

"These satellite images help us understand the suffering and fear experienced by ordinary Syrians as their country is destroyed around them," the lead researcher on the project, Dr. Xi Li, said in a statement.

Comment: Such a terrible and tragic display of what humans can do to other humans.

2 cops shot in apparent ambush at protest outside Ferguson, Missouri police station

Ashley Fantz and Ray Sanchez
CNN
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:56 UTC

© Michael B. Thomas/Getty
Police officers armed and relishing the idea of combat during a protest outside the Ferguson Police Department on March 11th, 2015.

Two police officers shot and wounded while standing guard outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police department early Thursday were deliberately targeted in what a police official called an "ambush." Such ambush-style attacks were the leading method in the surging number of shooting deaths of law enforcement officers, according to the nonprofit, Washington-based National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

Comment: When the police are killed it's an 'ambush', but what would you call killing a 7 year-old while she slept?

The shootings were a chilling low point in the nonstop protests in the city since a Ferguson police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. The demonstrators were out again late Wednesday -- in response to the announcement hours earlier of Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson's resignation -- when shots rang out from a hill about 125 yards from where the protesters had gathered, according to witnesses.

Comment: Seems as if the author's are trying to blame the protesters, does it not?

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the shootings were an ambush intended "for whatever nefarious reason" to inflict harm on the officers. The officers -- one shot in the face, the other in the shoulder -- have been released from the hospital.

Comment: That's how you paint a whole group of people as 'bad guys'. Suddenly, peaceful protesters are associated with violent whackjobs and anyone who isn't paying close attention, or only gets their news from mainstream sources, thinks the protesters are to blame.

A police officer keeps watch over protesters, armed with a sniper rifle. It'd be interesting to know what kind of rifle was responsible for shooting those officers.

It will be interesting to follow this story; the intent is clear, smearing the protesters by association. One thing is certain though, it's a jungle out there.

Russia Insider's Charles Bausman: Germans are fed up with media lies

RT
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:49 UTC

Russia Insider has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds

A poll by German public broadcaster NDR has found out that 63 percent of Germans have little or no confidence in the Ukraine reporting by German media. Of these 63 percent almost every third thinks their reporting might be one-sided or not objective. No wonder given the principles which Germany's largest publishing house follows. Alex Springer SE - among its brands are Die Welt and BILD newspapers. So its media outlets have to uphold their policies which are further unification of the peoples of Europe, supporting the vital rights of the people of Israel and maintain solidarity with the United States of America. In other words Mainstream. Russia Insider editor Charles Bausman is In the NOW telling us how German outlets are reacting to people's criticism and how his new project is launching to change things.

"In the Now" with RT's Senior Political correspondent Anissa Naouai is the first dedicated nightly Primetime show to air live out of our Moscow headquarters. Host Anissa Naouai has worked in the field for almost a decade and has reported from over 80 cities across the globe. Now from Monday to Thursday viewers can enjoy fresh, honest, and hard-hitting news coverage on some of the world's most pressing issues with one of RT's most experienced journalists . We'll put the spotlight on stories you'll never hear on mainstream networks or even in RT's daily news bulletins. "In the Now" - 8pm Moscow, 5pm London, 12pm New York.

30 people feared dead and 40 injured after shopping centre inferno in Kazan, Russia

Ted Thornhill
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:48 UTC

Firefighters extinguish a fire at a shopping mall in Kazan, 720 kilometers (450 miles) east of Moscow, Russia

Five people are confirmed dead and 25 more are missing and presumed dead after a shopping center in the city of Kazan collapsed in a fire, Russian emergency officials said.

Officials said on Thursday that the toll of missing at the Admiral centre is based on reports from relatives and workers in the shopping center, 450 miles east of Moscow.

Forty people were injured in the blaze.

The cause of the fire that began Wednesday has not been determined

Took 'em long enough! USA Today finds Nazis in Ukraine

RT
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:32 UTC

© RIA Novosti / Alexandr Maksimenko
Azov battalion soldiers take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine in Kiev's Sophia Square before being sent to the Donbass region

An Azov Battalion sergeant has confessed to USA Today of praising Nazi ideology. He also pledged a march on the Ukrainian capital after the war. A spokesman for the pro-Kiev brigade insists this is a 'personal choice' of no more than a fifth of the unit.

Comment: "It's all right, guys, seriously. No more than 20% are Nazis! What's the big deal?"

USA Today visited the Azov Battalion stationed in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol and spoke to a number of servicemen of the unit, which is sponsored by Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoysky.

Comment: What the heck is a Jewish businessman doing sponsoring Nazis? Maybe someone should let him know...

A drill sergeant who identified himself as Alex told the newspaper that he supports Nazi-style strong leadership for Ukraine but does not share Nazis' genocide agenda against Jews, as long as minorities "don't demand special privileges."

Alex insisted that once the war is over, he and others from the Azov Battalion will go back to Kiev to oust the corrupt government and nationalize the property of wealthy oligarchs.

French terror threat 'high': 10,000 troops to stay on streets

RT
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:23 UTC

As the threat of attacks by Islamist extremists remains high in France, President Francois Hollande has decided to continue the deployment of 10,000 troops on the streets across the country.

"The threat of terrorist attack against our country remains high. The head of state has decided to maintain the level of the army on the national territory at 10,000 troops in support of security forces from the Interior Ministry," Hollande's office said in a statement after a meeting of senior ministers, AFP reported.

Comment: How exactly do they determine these terrorist threat levels? Examining dead chicken livers? Examining the flight pattern of pigeons? Or is it high just because they say it's high?

A total of 7,000 troops will be monitoring and protecting religious buildings that are "particularly threatened," the statement added.

Among other sites that are being patrolled by the troops are stations, media buildings and various other possible targets for terrorists.

The move comes almost two months after deadly attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine's headquarters and a kosher shop in Paris left 17 people dead.

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Society's Child

New York City: Film an idling vehicle, get paid

Judge orders buses and trains in Philadelphia to run anti-Islamic ads featuring Hitler

Cannibal cop guilty of violating employer's computer use restriction; will this set a dangerous precedent?

Van transporting radioactive material crashes in Bosnia

Plunging into the abyss: 83% of Syrian electricity wiped out

2 cops shot in apparent ambush at protest outside Ferguson, Missouri police station

Russia Insider's Charles Bausman: Germans are fed up with media lies

30 people feared dead and 40 injured after shopping centre inferno in Kazan, Russia

Took 'em long enough! USA Today finds Nazis in Ukraine

French terror threat 'high': 10,000 troops to stay on streets

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