Archives for 7 月 2016

Police Applications Soar By 344% Following Dallas Shootings

The Dallas police chief has urged Black Lives Matter protesters to “serve the community” rather than rally against deadly police violence.

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In this Monday, July 18, 2016, photograph taken with a fisheye lens, Denver Police Department officers head out in their patrol car after role call for the swing shift in District 6 in downtown Denver. After more than two decades of making officers patrol on their own, the city of Denver has revived two-officer patrols following the killings of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Since a sniper fatally shot five Dallas police officers earlier this month, applications to join the city’s police department have increased by 344 percent, the news site Fusion reported. The department received a record number of 467 applications for the thirteen-day period between July 8 – a day after the shooting – and July 20. They received

Houthi Rebels Invade Southern Saudi Arabia, Launch Ballistic Missile Counter-Offensive

After recent victories and the fact that Houthi forces have managed to successfully invade Saudi territory, KSA’s weakness appears to be even greater than what many informed observers may have suspected.

A Shiite Houthi soldier stands guard during a rally in support of the Houthi movement in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, July 18, 2016.

While the war in Syria continues to rage and the world’s focus oscillates between American elections, terror attacks in Europe, and a failed Turkish coup (which no one really understands), a scrappy band of rebels in Yemen has not only withstood an onslaught from the Saudi-led coalition, they have managed to launch a counteract that amounts to an

US Detention Of Asylum Seekers Increased Nearly Threefold Under Obama

Human Rights First said in a report that the number of persons seeking asylum imprisoned in the United States increased by close to a factor of three during the Obama administration.

Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a news conference at the G-7 summit

WASHINGTON — The number of persons seeking asylum imprisoned in the United States increased by close to a factor of three during the Obama administration, a US human rights group said in a report. "The number of asylum seekers sent to and held in immigration detention has increased nearly threefold from 2010 to 2014," the report, released

Florida Judge: ‘Bitcoin Isn’t Money Because It Can’t be Hidden Under A Mattress’

A Judge found that cryptocurrency, which is based on verified encrypted transactions that are recorded on a public ledger, did not constitute “tangible wealth” and“cannot be hidden under a mattress like cash and gold bars.

Bitcoin Block chain

In a landmark decision, a Florida judge dismissed charges of money laundering against a Bitcoin seller on Monday following expert testimony showing state law did not apply to the cryptocurrency. Michell Espinoza was charged with three felony charges related to money laundering in 2014, but what appears to have helped to clear him of any and all

UK Hate Crimes See Rapid Rise, Hate Crime Prosecutions Sees Rapid Decline

The total numbers of reported hate crimes have soared by 20% over the past year (from 50,288 to 60,225), with 34 out of the 40 forces recording a rise in offences. But despite this increase, in most of these forces police and prosecutors took action in fewer cases last year than previously.

A group of London's Metropolitan Police force in uniform. (Flickr / Ramon Rosati)

The chances of police or prosecutors taking action against hate crime offenders have plummeted over the last year, new figures show. Victims of hate crime now have only a one in four chance of seeing a perpetrator charged, cautioned or dealt with in some other way by the police – down from one in three in the previous year, data obtained by the

Hillary Clinton Starts Her Own Cold War, Blames Russia For WikiLeaks’ DNC Email Dump

Experts hired by the DNC to investigate the breach which led to WikiLeaks’ publication of 20,000 DNC emails are singing a tune to anyone familiar with the Cold War: It was the Russians!

A delegate wears a hat with a bubble-head doll of Democratic Presidential candidate Sec. Hillary Clinton during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

MINNEAPOLIS --- (Analysis) WikiLeaks’ release of 20,000 emails from some of the top brass of the Democratic National Committee reveal how the Hillary Clinton campaign colluded with the party’s governing body to smear and undercut Bernie Sanders and his supporters. Now, perhaps in an attempt to discredit WikiLeaks and distract from the content of