Marshall Law Instated After Eviro-Mentals Murder 11 over Support for Rock Quarry and Highway

9/24/2014

GUATEMALA CITY – Authorities have reestablished order after the massacre of 11 Indians on the weekend in the western municipality of San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala’s interior minister said on Tuesday.

After the state of emergency declared on Monday, security forces restored calm to the municipality some 31 kilometers (19 miles) west of the capital, Mauricio Lopez Bonilla told reporters.

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Workers of the World, Goodbye

9/24/2014

There was something pathetically nostalgic at the specter earlier this month of fast-food workers demanding compensation to the tune of $15 an hour for performing jobs that require almost no skills beyond not being in a coma.

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Study: Monterey County has highest youth homicide rate in California

9/24/2014

A nonprofit organization's annual study on youth homicide finds that Monterey County has the highest rate of youth homicides of any California county.

The "Lost Youth" study by the Violence Policy Center looks at homicide rates for Californians ages 10 to 24 in 2012.  It's based on analysis of data from California Department of Justice...

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Terrorist Breeding Ground Growing Below Our Southern Border

9/24/2014

Sinaloa forcibly recruits indigenous women

Recently a Sicaria of La Línea admits participating in 30 murders  Drug cartels are recruiting  older girls and young women to work as executioners in the SierraTarahumara of Chihuahua State region  Below is an article from a few months ago with information about about the Sicarias.

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Obama: “Nobody Gets a Pass” in the Fight Against Climate Change

9/24/2014

UNITED NATIONS – U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday measures to help other countries fight climate change, saying that it is necessary to adopt an ambitious worldwide accord in which all countries are involved.

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Cam Whores: ISIL Opens a “Cinema” to Show Their Crimes to Mosul Residents

9/24/2014

MOSUL, Iraq – The radical Islamic State (IS) has opened an outdoor “cinema” to show videos of their brutal crimes and terrorize residents of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which they have controlled since June.


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Hyatt to Invest $36 Million in its First Hotel in El Salvador

9/24/2014

SAN SALVADOR – U.S.-based Hyatt Hotels Corp. has laid the cornerstone for its first hotel in El Salvador, a $36 million project, the Salvadoran government development agency said.

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Kidnapped Congressman’s Body Found in Western Mexico

9/24/2014

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – The burned body of a kidnapped congressman was found on Tuesday inside his SUV on the border between the western Mexican states of Zacatecas and Jalisco, officials said.

Gabriel Gomez Michel, a member of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was abducted on Monday, Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera Gutierrez said in a press conference.

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9/24/2014

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Syria Is 7th (Muslim) Country Bombed By 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

9/24/2014

The U.S. today began bombing targets inside Syria, in concert with its lovely and inspiring group of five allied regimes: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan.

That means that Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed by the 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate – after Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Iraq.

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ISIS Dynamites Church Memorializing Victims of Armenian Genocide

9/24/2014

An Armenian Apostolic church constructed in memory of the victims of the 20th century Armenian genocide was “rigged and dynamited” on Sunday by forces loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS), according to reports from Syria’s government news agency.


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Enraged protesters in Ferguson take to the AGAIN streets and vandalize beauty supply store after fire destroys makeshift Michael Brown memorial

9/24/2014

A fire has destroyed one of two memorials at the site where 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri

Ferguson resident Meldon Moffitt said the fire started around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday on the street where Brown was fatally shot Aug. 9 by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson

About two dozen residents gathered at the site Tuesday morning, many of them angry

Police Chief Tom Jackson said in a statement the department is investigating and has asked for the public to help with information 

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Philly ironworkers admit arson at non-union site

9/23/2014

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia ironworkers eager to get day work at their union hall have admitted in court that they did "nightwork" at non-union job sites, torching buildings and toppling steel beams.

Four of 10 people charged in a federal indictment pleaded guilty to racketeering charges this week, and four more have signed plea agreements. They each face more than a decade in prison unless they get significant breaks amid their pleas.

Three union members took part in the devastating Dec. 20, 2012, arson of a Quaker meetinghouse being built in Philadelphia, the February indictment charged. All three are pleading guilty, including James Walsh, who entered his plea Tuesday.

"There has been a long tradition of nightwork within the Ironworkers Local 401 stretching back 50 years or more," Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Livermore wrote in Walsh's plea memos. "The defendants in this case took (it) to a new level."

The group's intimidation tactics included beating non-union workers with a baseball bat, damaging huge structural beams and anchor bolts, and using gasoline to set fire to a crane, the plea document said.

"Facing mounting costs, construction delays, and the fear of physical assault, many non-union contractors caved into the Ironworkers Local 401's extortionate demands and hired some union ironworkers," Livermore wrote.

Walsh was something of an outsider because he did not have relatives in the union and, as a recovering alcoholic, did not go out for beers after work. He therefore aimed to become a "legend" when it came to after-hour sabotage.

"It does seem you have to do nightwork to be considered for day work," defense lawyer William J. Brennan said Tuesday. "If that's the case, it's unfortunate."

He called Walsh a hard-working man trying to support his family. The other co-defendants pleading guilty this week include William Gillin, who was also involved in the meetinghouse arson.

The lead defendant, 73-year-old business manager Joseph Dougherty, is now retired but plans to fight the charges.

"Joe Dougherty was not involved in any of the criminal activity associated with the Ironworkers union," defense lawyer Fortunato Perri Jr. said Tuesday. "Nor did he order anything."

Dougherty's trial is set for Jan. 5.

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Hillary Clinton front group files federal campaign complaint against Scott Walker

9/23/2014

MADISON, Wis. – And now the left bites back.

Wisconsin’s wild political ride continued Monday, when a left-leaning group with ties to Hillary Clinton announced it is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

Interesting that the American Democracy Legal Fund pushes out its plea to Obama administration top gun Eric Holder just as Mary Burke, the Democrat’s candidate for governor, is embroiled further in a major plagiarism scandal.

The American Democracy Legal Fund, run by liberal power brokers David Brockand Brad Woodhouse, wants the Justice Department to investigate whether Walker sponsored and ensured passage of mine legislation in exchange for campaign contributions from northwest Wisconsin mine developer Gogebic Taconite.

“Wisconsin voters deserve to know whether their state’s highest elected official made a devil’s bargain with Gogebic Taconite, selling out Wisconsin in order to secure his own political future,” the liberal group states in a widely distributed press release.

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INTERESTING TIMING? The left-leaning American Democracy Legal Fund files a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice raising campaign ethics violations against Republican Gov. Scott Walker just as Mary Burke, the Democrats candidate for governor, is embroiled in a plagiarism scandal.

ADLF, it seems, is trying to make political hay with mainstream media accounts a few weeks ago asserting that court documents indicate illegal coordination after the developer of the proposed $1.5 billion mine dumped $700,000 into campaign funds to defend Republicans in Wisconsin partisan recall campaigns in 2011 and 2012.

Only one problem with the allegation: Two judges have debunked the legal theory by prosecutors of a secret investigation that insists dozens of conservative groups illegally coordinated with Walker’s campaign. No illegal coordination, no bribery, as Republican attack machine ADLF suggests in its complaint to the Justice Department.

“Less than a year after Gov. Walker won the recall election, he signed into law mining legislation that was extremely favorable to the interests of Gogebic Taconite, allowing the company to build what has been described as ‘the world’s largest open-pit iron ore mine,” the group writes in its letter.

But the legislation doesn’t “allow” the company to build a mine, it merely streamlines the state permitting process. Gogebic Taconite is a long way from state Department of Natural Resources approval, and still must go through a more involved regulatory approval process at the federal level, with bureaucracies controlled by the Obama administration.

That Walker and almost all Republican lawmakers supported the legislation should come as no surprise: They have, for several years, been pushing for the resumption of iron ore mining in northern Wisconsin as a way to boost the Badger State economy and create jobs in an area that was hardest hit by the recession.

The brains behind this latest campaign against Walker comes from, as Politico recently put it, the self-described right-wing hitman-turned-Clinton enforcer David Brock. Brock is the head of liberal propaganda machine Media Matters, and he recently took over left-leaning watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

“Brock was elected chairman of the group’s board … after laying out a multifaceted expansion intended to turn the group into a more muscular — and likely partisan — attack dog, according to sources familiar with the move,” Politico noted in a piece last month.

And then there’s Brock’s henchman, Brad Woodhouse, whose lefty resume includes a stint with the Democratic National Committee, a strategist for President Barack Obama, and now as the president of Democratic super PAC, American Bridge.

These boys are BIG backers of Hillary Clinton.

Their letter to the Justice Department comes as Burke, lagging just a bit behind Walker in the latest Marquette Law School poll, is caught in a firestorm of controversy following revelations last week that her campaign lifted large portions of the Democrat’s jobs plan from proposals by other failed Democratic candidates for governor.

Buzzfeed, which has had its own PR black eyes with plagiarism, reported late Thursday that Burke’s plan, “Invest for Success” pilfers entire passages from the jobs plans laid out by Delaware Democratic Gov. Jack Markell in 2008, and Democratic gubernatorial candidates Ward Cammack of Tennessee in 2009 and John Gregg of Indiana in 2012.

Burke campaign spokesman Joe Zepecki told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Friday that a consultant blamed for pilfering the passages was let go as soon the camp was made aware of the story, first broken by BuzzFeed.

Zepecki defended the swiping, telling the newspaper the sections represented “fewer than 10 paragraphs of a 49-page plan.”

BuzzFeed has since reported more instances of apparent plagiarism, including in Burke’s veterans and rural communities plans.

Burke’s campaign has not answered repeated requests for comment from Wisconsin Reporter.

The governor’s spokeswoman did not return an email request for comment.

Republicans blasted Burke on Friday following the revelations, with some calling on the candidate to drop out of the race. Walker did not join that chorus.

“It’s a sad day for Wisconsin when the Democratic nominee for Governor misleads voters by offering a plagiarized jobs plan, in which she has staked her entire candidacy,” said Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign manager Stephan Thompson in a statement. “Wisconsin deserves better, and its (sic) clear that Mary Burke cannot be trusted to lead our state.”

Joe Fadness, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, quipped that Burke needs a lesson in business ethics “because even eighth-graders know that you shouldn’t copy the work of others.”

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Police State: County sheriff touts grenade launcher as key tool

9/23/2014

TORRINGTON, Wyo. (AP) — Sheriff's officials in Goshen County are touting a grenade launcher as a useful tool for keeping the peace, even though they have never used it.

The Casper Star-Tribune (http://bit.ly/1sSTJkQ ) reported Sunday that officials bought the weapon for use in the county jail, which houses 25 inmates and has not had a large fight in the past year.

Lt. Jeremy Wardell says the grenade launcher, one of three the county has owned, is a less-lethal option for controlling riots. He compared it to pepper spray or a Taser.

"We would use it in situations when less-lethal force is justified to get the situation under control," Wardell said. "That tool gives us an option not to use lethal force."

Officials say deputies can use it to fire tear gas during a hostage situation, though Goshen County has not had one in 15 years. The sheriff's office stocks non-lethal sponge grenades, which provide temporary incapacitation through blunt trauma, according to the Federation of American Scientists.

Goshen County, which has about 14,000 residents, received its first grenade launcher, a 37mm, in the 1950s from Federal Signal, Murphy said. Federal Signal is a global corporation that makes and distributes equipment for police and fire departments.

The county received a M79 single-shot grenade launcher from the Department of Defense's military surplus program. Wardell said the county does not have records on the second weapon after its return to the federal government.

Linda Burt, director of the ACLU in Wyoming, says the grenade launcher could make tense situations worse.

The initial police reaction in August to protests over a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, drew national attention to the militarization of local police departments, with critics arguing that the heavily armed police presence only fueled the tensions.

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Donna ISD campaign manager arrested in "coke for votes" scheme

9/23/2014

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Authorities are moving closer to the top in the "coke for votes" scandal after arresting a man who ran the campaigns for candidates running for the Donna ISD school board.

FBI agents arrested Francisco "Frankie" Garcia on conspiracy and election fraud charges on Friday.

Investigators told Action 4 News that Garcia was the campaign manager for candidates in the 2012 school board race.

Garcia allegedly instructed at least five "politiqueras" or campaign workers to pay cash or cocaine for votes.

Authorities have not released the names of the candidates or if the vote buying affected the outcome of the race but three campaign workers that worked for Garcia are all facing charges.

FBI officials reported that agents arrested Garcia in Alton, Illinois.

Details about the arrest were not immediately available but Garcia appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald G. Wilkerson in East Saint Louis, Illinois on Friday.

Court records released on Monday revealed that Garcia is facing a four-count, four-gage indictment issued by a grand jury in McAllen.

Judge Wilkerson issued Garcia a $10,000 dollar bond bu a series of strict conditions including not being able to come within 1,000 feet of a polling place.

Garcia was ordered to appear for arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dorina Ramos in McAllen on October 8th.

Election records show that incumbents Ernesto Lugo, Alfredo Lugo, Mike Flores and Nick Castillo all kept their seats on the school board during the election.

Investigators confirmed that Alfredo Lugo, who also served as Donna ISD's school board president, took his own life on New Year's Day.

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