Kim Jong-un is using barbaric methods to 'purge' his officials and cling onto power, according to a damning South Korean investigation.
The dictator has had 421 officials executed and exiled since seizing power in 2011, with victims being fed naked to hunting dogs, blown up with anti-aircraft guns, burned alive with flamethrowers and hanged, the report claims.
In some cases, entire families of officials have been executed while others were imprisoned in concentration camps and 'erased from society'.
FALL RIVER — It’s not every day that a brand new job market just falls in your lap.
While many celebrated the 2016 legalization of recreational marijuana as an end of prohibition and a beginning of potentially millions of dollars in revenue for municipalities hosting dispensaries, it also represented the birth of an entire industry.
Depending on how many businesses are approved by the state’s Cannabis Control Commission to open, hundreds, and possibly thousands, of jobs in the Massachusetts marijuana industry could be created by the end of the year. It’s now up to each company to figure out how to fill these jobs when “relevant work experience” was considered illegal just a few years ago.
Fall River-based dispensaries like Northeast Alternatives and Hope Heal Health, which has yet to expand into recreational sales, are making efforts to hire locally, but that means very few applicants have employment histories in the cannabis industry. Because of this, Hope Heal Health President John Rogue said companies are looking for anyone with transferable skills.
“The truth is, you’re trying to qualify people without experience,” he said. “Someone who went to school and came out of an agricultural program is good. A lot of people who work well here came out of the restaurant business and have skill managing a large operation or working in fast-paced environments. People with any level of experience or desire is what we’re looking for.”
Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro stormed out of an interview with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos after being shown video of citizens eating food scraps from a garbage truck, the journalist said Monday evening.
Earlier Monday evening, Univision said Maduro temporarily detained six of its reporters, including Ramos, at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas after asking questions the disputed Venezuelan president “didn’t like.”
The network also reported the team’s recording equipment was confiscated before being released. The crew was released around three hours after the incident started, said the network.
“[W]hen I showed him these images, he said that the interview was over,” the Univision anchor said. “He didn’t like the things we were asking, about the lack of democracy in Venezuela, the torture of political prisoners, about the humanitarian crisis that they are living,” he added.
A conservative website, TruNews, had a commentator ridicule Mike Pompeo for claiming the Hezeb’allah was in Venezuela.
So Mike Pompeo, the other day -- I don’t know if you guys caught this. I had heard it, but it registered today -- that He said that Hezb’allah is making inroads into Venezuela -- TruNews on YouTube (4:18 -- set to right time)
Though Christian and conservative, TruNews is critical of Zionism; and it seemed absurd to the speaker that Arab terrorists could be infiltrating South America. For those unaware, it might indeed seem crazy that Hezb’allah would be moving into South America. The culture, the religion, and the history are seemingly quite foreign to Islamic interests.
However Arab influence is quite enormous in Latin America, and has been around for roughly a century. As early as 1947, the Palestinians in Chile were politically powerful enough to dissuade a pro-Zionist Chilean government from voting for a partition of the British mandate, allowing for a Jewish state.
Instead, Chile abstained.
Today, Honduras, El Salvador, and Chile all have sizable and powerful Palestinian populations. In Chile’s case, their influence has distorted the politics of the country. More here
Univision's star anchorman, Jorge Ramos, got a taste of what a real dictator is over in Caracas, when, after showing Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro a cell phone video of starving Venezuelans eating out of a garbage truck, found himself and his television crew shoved in a dark room for two and a half hours in detention, only to be released with their expensive television equipment and interview material stolen.
He's lucky they didn't break his nose (which in Maduro's Venezuela was done to a female dissident leader) or throw him in a dungeon for several years without trial (which was done to another top opposition leader). This is what dictators do. This is dictators up close. And this is a vicious dictatorship employing muscle directly from Cuba.
Touchy, touchy bastard.
This brings up the last time Ramos was in the news — getting thrown out of a press conference for interrupting other reporters and breaking the house rules, and then comparing President Trump to a dictator. A few months ago, he even said he wanted to return to Mexico because he was so unhappy with President Trump..
Over 16 percent of U.S. adults have high cholesterol, defined as 240 mg/dl according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Even the average level for Americans, 200mg/dl, is high, they say.
Many health organizations insist that high cholesterol puts people at increased risk for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States
But Dr. Ellen Kamhi, Ph.D., says this isn’t necessarily true. And other experts reveal information that runs contrary to what most of us have been told about cholesterol over the years.
“This stated fact scares millions of people into taking statin drugs to lower their cholesterol levels,” she says. “But cholesterol is actually an essential part of your body, used to produce cell membranes, steroid hormones, vitamin D and the bile acids your body needs to digest fat.
Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D.) filed an amicus brief in court cases where cities and counties in California are suing major energy production companies for damages related to climate change, but did not disclose he had taken political donations from the attorneys who are conducting that litigation.
Currently, persons or agencies that file such briefs aren't required to make such disclosures. However, Whitehouse has been one of the leading advocates for exactly that kind of transparency.
"In a Jan. 4 letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, [Sen. Whitehouse] chided the Court for accepting amicus—friend of the court—briefs from ‘special interest groups that fail to disclose their donors,'" wrote the Wall Street Journal editorial board, which broke the news. "He calls out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as well as think tanks and policy shops that receive money from right-of-center foundations. Mr. Whitehouse claims these ‘repeat-player' filers are unduly influencing the Court, even as they hide their ‘deep-pocketed corporate contributors.'"
"This is a familiar stand for Mr. Whitehouse, who has long tried to silence his political opponents," the editorial concluded.
Victor Sher and Matt Edling are the two named partners of the law firm Sher Edling, which is bringing suits on behalf of the cities of San Francisco and Oakland and other governments such as Marin and Santa Cruz counties against oil producers such as Exxon, BP, and Shell.
Federal Election Commission records show Sher and Edling have given $6,400 and $1,000 to Whitehouse's political campaign committee, respectively, since 2016.
Two federal agents stand on a desert highway in front of an open van, reviewing the scene of a massacre. Blood splatter and spent bullet casings litter the asphalt, as one agent describes how the van driver was shot in the back of the head.
“Just another Sunday in paradise,” the other agent says.
And it’s just another episode of the CBS drama “NCIS: Los Angeles,” complete with the graphic violence that has become routine for broadcast and cable television, according to TV watchdog groups.
Now those groups are cheering a directive tucked into Congress’s recent spending bill that requires the Federal Communications Commission to review its ratings system for TV content for the first time since it was implemented more than 20 years ago.
“We’re absolutely thrilled,” said Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television Council. “Never, ever once has there been any oversight as to whether this system is doing what is promised to parents.”
The 2019 federal spending package orders the FCC to report to Congress within 90 days on the status of TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring system, which went into effect in January 1997 to provide information about the content of television programs.
Former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova says civil discourse is over in America, and recommends voting and buying guns because "we are in a civil war."
Speaking with Laura Ingraham on her podcast, diGenova noted that the "all liberal" media has given a pass to both Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) and VA Attorney General Mark Herring for appearing in blackface, while similarly glossing over Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax's credible sexual assault allegation.
“There’s two standards of justice, one for Democrats one for Republicans. The press is all Democrat, all liberal, all progressive, all left – they hate Republicans, they hate Trump. So the suggestion that there’s ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future in this country is over. It’s not going to be. It’s going to be total war. And as I say to my friends, I do two things – I vote and I buy guns.”
Unless the Fed is going to start buying millions of homes outright, prices are going to fall to what buyers can afford.
There are two generalities that can be applied to all asset bubbles:
1. Bubbles inflate for longer and reach higher levels than most pre-bubble analysts expected
2. All bubbles burst, despite mantra-like claims that "this time it's different"
The bubble burst tends to follow a symmetrical reversal of very similar time durations and magnitudes as the initial rise. If the bubble took four years to inflate and rose by X, the retrace tends to take about the same length of time and tends to retrace much or all of X.
If we look at the chart of the Case-Shiller Housing Index below, this symmetry is visible in Housing Bubble #1 which skyrocketed from 2003-2007 and burst from 2008-2012.
Housing Bubble #1 wasn't allowed to fully retrace the bubble, as the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to near-zero in 2009 and bought $1+ trillion in sketchy mortgage-backed securities (MBS), essentially turning America's mortgage market into a branch of the central bank and federal agency guarantors of mortgages (Fannie and Freddie, VA, FHA).
These unprecedented measures stopped the bubble decline by instantly making millions of people who previously could not qualify for a privately originated mortgage qualified buyers. This vast expansion of the pool of buyers (expanded by a flood of buyers from China and other hot-money locales) drove sales and prices higher for six years (2012-2018).
Sussex County– The Delaware State Police in conjunction with the Dorchester County Narcotics Task Force, Caroline County Narcotics Task Force, Maryland State Police Heroin Investigative Unit, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Sussex Drug Unit (SDU), Governor’s Task Force (GTF), and the Seaford Police Department concluded a three month drug trafficking investigation that resulted in multiple search warrants and arrests, with one suspect still at large.
The three month investigation, concluded on February 23, 2019, when 33-year-old James M. Frazier of Cambridge, MD was taken into custody without incident by members of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) in the Dover area, after a search warrant was executed on his vehicle, a 2018 Lincoln MKZ. Also in the vehicle and taken into custody without incident, was 37- year-old Trivette A. Jackson of Federalsburg, MD.
Four additional search warrants were subsequently executed in Sussex County at the following locations:
20300 block of Wesley Church Road, Seaford
22000 block of Hensley Road, Seaford
900 block of Woodland Mills, Seaford
37400 block of Burton Village, Rehoboth Beach
As a result of the search warrants at all locations, the following items were seized in total:
453.5 grams of Methamphetamine
261.23 grams of Cocaine
68.78 grams of Crack cocaine
42.82 grams of Heroin
19,549.82 grams of marijuana
Over $78,000 in suspected drug proceeds
4 firearms including:
Smith and Wesson .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol (reported stolen out of Kentucky)
Ruger .357 revolver
Smith and Wesson .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol (reported stolen out of Troop 7)
Beretta .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol
James Frazier was charged with the following:
Possession With Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance in a Tier 4 quantity (6 counts)
Possession With Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance in a Tier 5 quantity
Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Tier 5 quantity (5 counts)
Possession of a Firearm By a Person Prohibited (3 counts)
Receiving a Stolen Firearm
Conspiracy 2nd (3 counts)
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Frazier was arraigned before the Justice of the Peace Court 3 and committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution on $809,000.00 cash only bond.
Trivette Jackson was charged with the following:
Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Tier 5 quantity
Possession With Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance in a Tier 4 quantity
Conspiracy 2nd
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Jackson was arraigned before the Justice of the Peace Court 3 and released on $21,000.00 unsecured bond.
Donisha Holland, 25, of Seaford was taken into custody without incident upon the execution of the search warrant on Hensley Road where three children were present. Holland was charged with the following:
Possession With Intent to Deliver a controlled substance in a Tier 4 quantity
Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Tier 5 quantity
Possession With Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance in a Tier 2 quantity
Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Tier 3 quantity
Possession of a Firearm By a Person Prohibited
Receiving Stolen Firearm
Conspiracy 2nd
Endangering Welfare of a Child (3 counts)
Holland was arraigned before the Justice of the Peace Court 3 and committed to the Delores J. Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution on $50,500.00 secured bond.
Troopers have been unable to locate 49-year-old Reginald L. Sample, of Seaford who currently has active warrants for the following:
Possession With Intent to Deliver a controlled substance in a Tier 4 quantity (4 counts)
Possession of a controlled substance in a Tier 5 quantity (4 counts)
Possession of a Firearm By a Person Prohibited (3 counts)
Receiving Stolen Firearm
Conspiracy 2nd
Reginald L. Sample
Anyone with information in reference to the whereabouts of Sample is asked to please contact Troop 4, Sussex Drug Unit, at 302-856-5850. Information may also be provided by calling Delaware crime stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333 or via the internet athttp://www.delaware.crimestoppersweb.com
Supreme Court To Hear Oral Arguments On Peace Cross
“We will see this through and use all means available to keep the Peace Cross fully intact and honoring our veterans for another hundred years.” - Governor Larry Hogan, April 19, 2018
On February 27, 2019, The Supreme Court Will Hear Oral Arguments In Cases Regarding The Constitutionality Of The Peace Cross.
Peace Cross In Prince George’s County Commemorates Marylanders Who Made The Ultimate Sacrifice While Serving The United States In World War I
The Peace Cross Was Erected Nearly 100 Years Ago As A Memorial To Prince George’s County Residents Who Lost Their Lives While Serving The United States In World War I. “The forty-foot Peace Cross is a memorial to residents of Prince George's County who lost their lives during World War I (1914-1918)... The Peace Cross, erected 1919 to 1925 as a monument to Prince George's County residents who lost their lives serving in the United States Armed Forces in World War I, is historically significant for its association with the nationwide trend to erect community memorials to fallen soldiers after World War I.” (“Maryland’s National Register Properties: Peace Cross,” Maryland Historical Trust, Accessed: 2/26/19)
The Monument Lists The Names Of The 49 Prince George’s County Residents Who Lost Their Lives Fighting In World War I. (“Maryland’s National Register Properties: Peace Cross,” Maryland Historical Trust, Accessed: 2/26/19)
Governor Hogan Stated That The Decision By A Federal Appeals Court Deeming That The Peace Cross Is Unconstitutional, Was “Outrageous.” GOVERNOR HOGAN: “This is outrageous. The Peace Cross was built in 1925 by families in Prince George's County who joined with the American Legion to honor their fallen from World War I. Marylanders are united in showing respect for our veterans. I’m a native Prince Georgian and have passed by this memorial thousands of times. I view it as an incredible tribute to those who came before us and made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. The idea that memorializing our soldiers killed in battle on foreign lands to make the world safe for democracy is somehow unconstitutional goes against everything we stand for as Americans. Our administration will fight this unacceptable overreach. Enough is enough.” (Governor Larry Hogan, Facebook, 10/20/17)
In October 2017, In A 2-1 Ruling A Federal Appeals Court Stated That The Peace Cross Was Unconstitutional.“A federal appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a towering cross-shaped monument that has marked a major intersection in Prince George’s County for 90 years. In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said the 40-foot-tall memorial maintained with thousands of dollars in public funds ‘has the primary effect of endorsing religion and excessively entangles the government in religion.’”(Ann Marimow, “Towering Cross-Shaped Monument On Public Land Is Unconstitutional, Court Rules,” The Washington Post, 10/18/17)
Federal Appeals Court Ruling In 2017 Overturned A Unanimous Ruling In 2015 By The U.S. District Court For Maryland Which Stated That The Peace Cross Was Constitutional. “A federal court in Maryland has ruled that a cross-shaped war memorial in Prince George's County is constitutional, after an organization argued the structure's presence on public land is a violation of the First Amendment. The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland ruled Monday that even though the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial, a 40-foot-tall monument erected in 1925, takes the shape of a cross, its purpose is not primarily religious. Therefore, the court found, it does not violate the First Amendment's provision that ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.’” (Jonathan Pitts, “Court Finds Cross Memorial Constitutional,” The Baltimore Sun, 11/30/15)
A former federal prosecutor and a county board leader will face each other in a runoff to become Chicago's first black female mayor after leading a large field Tuesday that included a member of the Daley family that has dominated the city's politics for much of the last six decades.
Political outsider Lori Lightfoot, who was a federal prosecutor in northern Illinois, and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle were the top two vote-getters among 14 candidates, but neither received more than the 50 percent needed to avoid an April 2 runoff. The winner will succeed Mayor Rahm Emanuel to lead the nation's third-largest city. Emanuel did not seek re-election.
Among those they defeated was William Daley, who has never held major elected office but featured the most famous surname in the race. His father, Richard J. Daley, and brother, Richard M. Daley, held the city's top job for nearly 43 years of a 55-year span before Emanuel took the oath in 2011. Daley is a former U.S. Commerce secretary who, like Emanuel, served as White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama.
Total 1,404 Pounds Seized at Dulles and BWI during February
STERLING, Virginia – Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) seizure of khat shipments continued Monday when officers bagged another 410 pounds in air cargo at Washington Dulles International Airport.
During February, CBP officers seized more than 1,400 pounds of the green, leafy plant at Dulles and at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI). All shipments arrived from Nigeria.
In this latest seizure, CBP officers examined a shipment February 20 from Nigeria that was manifested as “dry moringa oleifera” and destined to an address in Dallas. Officers discovered seven boxes with a combined 80 bags of a green, leafy product. The shipment weighed 186.28 kilograms, or about 410 pounds, 11 ounces.
CBP submitted samples to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanist who verified the substance Friday as Catha Edulis, commonly known as khat. Officers seized the khat Monday. The khat will be destroyed.
Mark Harris, the GOP contender in North Carolina's uncalled 9th Congressional District race, has opted not to run in the special election ordered by state officials after an election fraud scandal.
The North Carolina pastor who ousted incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger in the last primary cycle cited health concerns caused by the legal battles he and his campaign faced during the certification process for the election. Harris confirmed in a prepared statement that he will be undergoing surgery next month.
"Given my health situation, the need to regain full strength, and the timing of this surgery the last week of March, I have decided not to file in the new election for Congressional District 9."
Supposedly it still is, but only on some things. It seems that teaching that a woman should be responsible for her safety is “blaming the victim” for not stopping a rape–even though no one is saying or even believing that–but it’s perfectly fine to try to penalize the victim for having their guns stolen.
A bill in Texas, of all places, seeks to criminalize people who have their guns stolen and don’t immediately report it to authorities.
A bill introduced this legislative session seeks to make it a crime to fail to report a lost or stolen gun to law enforcement authorities.
State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez said it’s a law that doesn’t exist and needs to be on the books.
“We know when guns are stolen or lost, a crime will be committed with that weapon,” he said.
House Bill 1207 would require a gun owner whose weapon is lost or stolen to report it to authorities within five days of first realizing the weapon is gone. Failure to do so would mean the person would face a Class C misdemeanor and the loss of their eligibility for a license to carry for five years.
Rodriguez thinks the law would cut back on “straw purchases,” which are a federal crime.
“The ‘straw purchase’ is me giving (a gun) to someone that really shouldn’t be allowed to have one,” Rodriguez said.
He thinks it’s a commonsense bill that should make it through the floor.
Annapolis, MD - Statement from Maryland Republican Party Chairman Dirk Haire:
"The Maryland Republican Party is calling for the immediate resignation of Delegate Mary Ann Lisanti. Her comment referring to Prince George's County as a "ni**er district" is beneath the office of Delegate, and we agree with the Legislative Black Caucus that her apology was inadequate."
EVERY CALIFORNIA DRIVER'S seen it: While you're sitting in your car on the freeway, creeping through traffic, one motorcyclist after another zips by, riding between lanes. It may seem unfair (why does he get to go ahead!?) and unsafe (won't he be hit!?), and for those reasons, illegal.
It's not. At least not in California. Lane splitting, also called lane sharing and traffic filtering, is 100 percent legal in the Golden State, simply because it's not illegal. It's not mentioned anywhere in the rules of the road.
Now, California politicians are looking to make it legit, with a bill that would make lane splitting explicitly legal—and, naturally, regulate it a bit. The bill sailed through the state Assembly without debate, and is headed to the Senate.
And if you care about congestion, carbon emissions, or motorcyclist safety, that's a good thing.
