NYPD's stop-and-frisk goes on trial

Published time: March 18, 2013 18:43

A trial challenging the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy kicked off Monday. As the department argues the policy’s importance in stopping crime, opponents continue to challenge its constitutionality.

The class-action lawsuit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, is meant to “end racially…

Syrian opposition elects US-educated tech exec as interim PM

Published time: March 18, 2013 23:56 

Edited time: March 19, 2013 03:04

The Syrian opposition coalition has elected Western-educated former businessman and US citizen Ghassan Hitto to oversee a provisional government for Syria's rebel-held areas in a vote in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Hitto received 35…

Rare 1940's Color Pics of America back when it was America!

Baseball, Chevrolet, Family Owned Shops, Unlocked Doors, Honor, Pride  

(Thanks Lib of Cong Flickr gallery)…

Everyone in politics bends the truth.  But some do it more than others.  Here is a list of five memes gun-control advocates continue to propagate despite their dubious validity.   

1.  40 Percent of Guns are Sold without Background Checks

From New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to President Obama to Vice President Biden, they’ve all…

Another Wall Street investigation. Another trove of e-mails, instant messages and telephone conversations capturing executives, bankers and traders discussing their compromising positions.

First, it was the evidence that depicted questionable behavior at Barclays, UBS and the Royal Bank of Scotland, where traders discussed their rate-rigging activities. Then it was the Justice Department’s complaint against Standard & Poor’s over toxic mortgage securities, which included an…

JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s biggest bank, ignored internal controls and manipulated documents as it racked up trading losses last year, while its influential chief executive, Jamie Dimon, briefly withheld some information from regulators, a new Senate report says.

The findings by the Congressional investigators shed new light on the multibillion-dollar trading blunder, which has claimed the jobs of several top executives and prompted an inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll on Saturday, marking an early indicator of conservative support ahead of the next presidential election in 2016.

Paul topped the list and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) came in second, according to Ian Bishop.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) came in third place this year, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie --…

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NHK WORLD, March 15, 2013: [Experts] are calling for a thorough investigation. [...] According to their…

Published time: March 15, 2013 20:04

Edited time: March 15, 2013 21:30





Palestine has won UN recognition as being a sovereign state, and will now be referred to as the “State of Palestine” on all future UN documents. Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas calls the move a “major achievement.”



It’s led many to question whether Palestine can now take Israeli…

(Reuters) - An ally of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has received a suspended death sentence for taking millions of yuan in bribes, a Beijing lawyer said on Thursday, in the latest fallout from one of China's biggest political scandals.

Tang Jianhua, once deputy police chief in the southwestern city of Chongqing, where Bo was Communist Party chief, was found guilty of taking 17 million yuan ($2.7 million) in bribes, according to Li Zhuang, a lawyer and prominent opponent of Bo…

North Korea on Friday accused the United States and South Korea of carrying out a "persistent and intensive" cyber attack against its official websites in recent days.

A number of official North Korean websites, including those of the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the daily Rodong Sinmun newspaper, and Air Koryo airline became inaccessible early Wednesday.

"Internet servers operated by our republic have come under daily cyber attack(s) which are persistent and intensive",…

LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - Archaeologists said on Friday they had found a graveyard during excavations for a rail project in London which might hold the remains of some 50,000 people killed by the "Black Death" plague more than 650 years ago.

Thirteen skeletons laid out in two neat rows were discovered 2.5 metres (8 feet) below the road in the Farringdon area of central London by researchers working on the 16 billion pound ($24 billion) Crossrail project.

Historical records…

CIA must respond to request about secret drone program

Published time: March 15, 2013 14:54

A federal appeals court says that the Central Intelligence Agency was wrong to refuse a Freedom of Information Act request for details on the CIA’s drone program.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a FOIA request with…

'Obama’s financial spy plan moves US towards Orwellian police state'

Published time: March 15, 2013 14:25

The Obama administration’s financial spying plan, which if enacted will grant spy agencies access to US citizens’ finance data, is a shocking attack on personal freedom, independent journalist Charlie McGrath has told RT.

The planning …

By Uki Goni, The Guardian

Thursday, March 14, 2013 0:01 EDT

Jorge Bergoglio was head of the Jesuit order in the 1970s when the church backed military government and called for patriotism

Despite the joyful celebrations outside the Municipal Cathedral in Buenos Aires yesterday, the news of Latin America’s first pope was clouded by lingering concerns about the role of the church – and its new head – during Argentina’s brutal military…

'Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress

Published time: March 14, 2013 17:38

Should Congress approve a proposition included in an agriculture bill up for vote this week, biotech companies like the Monsanto Company could win yet another victory in Washington.

The US House of Representatives is expected to weigh in on the Agricultural…

The Associated Press

on March 14, 2013



ALEM -- More than 10,000 people could die when -- not if -- a monster earthquake and tsunami occur just off the Pacific Northwest coast, a new study predicts.

Coastal towns would be inundated. Schools, buildings and bridges would collapse, and economic damage could hit $32 billion.

The chilling report by the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission…