Archive for February 20th, 2013

Nisha Whitehead Rutherford.org February 19, 2013 WASHINGTON, DC — In a 9-0 decision in Florida v. Harris, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that police may use drug-sniffing dogs to carry out warrantless searches during routine traffic stops. Citing studies raising serious doubts about the reliability and training of drug detection dogs, The Rutherford... »

12160.info February 20, 2013 Bulgarian government collapses Breaking news from Bulgaria — the government has resigned following weeks of protest against its austerity programme. Prime minister Boiko Borisov announced the dramatic development in parliament this morning, following violent clashes between police and demonstrators last night which resulted in 25 people being taken to hospital.... »

Contracts were for “training aids” and “paperboard” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com February 20, 2013 The company behind controversial shooting targets that include images of children, pregnant women and elderly gun owners received almost $2 million dollars in contracts from the Department of Homeland Security. Minnesota-based Law Enforcement Training Inc., which brags of its... »

DHS supplier responds to outrage over “no hesitation” targets which include children Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com February 20, 2013 Law Enforcement Targets, Inc., a provider of shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security, has admitted that targets depicting pregnant women were “requested” by law enforcement agencies. As you can hear in the... »

James Hall Activist Post.com Wednesday, February 20, 2013 The alarmist media always seeks to sell papers or broadcast ratings built on the unswerving fear that following the financial meltdown the banking establishment profits from the debt liquidation panic. The lack of stability in fiscal confidence certainly abounds, but the schemes to paper over the... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/20/2013 Think the Walmart “disastrous” sales memo was a one-off event, which net of Walmart’s damage should be completely ignored (something the market has been perfectly happy to oblige with)? Then listen to a separate perspective on the US consumer, this time from a very different angle: that of Town... »

Ben Traynor Goldseek.com Wednesday, 20 February 2013 THE SPOT gold price dropped below $1600 an ounce for the first time in six months Wednesday, as the Dollar strengthened and stock markets were broadly flat, ahead of the publication of the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting minutes later today. Silver fell to $29.19 an ounce,... »

Air Vehicles Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, is already developing prototypes of tiny drones that can hover The Micro Air Vehicles will work in swarms to provide complex surveillance of a battlefield They can also be armed with incapacitating chemicals, combustible payloads or even explosives ‘for precision targeting capability’ By... »

By William A. Levinson AmericanThinker.com February 20, 2013 “Dangerous incompetence” means exactly that: ignorance, negligence, and/or dereliction of duty that endangers human life and safety. A medical quack who prescribes medications for patients he has never seen, or without going to medical school and passing a licensing examination, is a prime example. Equally dangerous... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/20/2013 While CAT’s CEO puts on a brave face, the results from his company are clearly indicative of the slowing global growth that everyone (apart from nominal equity indices) knows is occurring. For months, talking heads have used CAT’s results as a proxy for growth and as they are rising... »