USAID has paid Alan Gross, a subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba for 5 years, $3.2 million to settle a lawsuit against the government by his former employer. His lawyers probably will get most of it. Meanwhile, he’s appealing the dismissal of a separate lawsuit he filed against the government an[...]
Archive for December, 2014
December 23rd, 2014 - 5:11 pm § in Uncategorized
What if N. Korea didn’t hack Sony?
CBS News reports that “cybersecurity experts are questioning the FBI’s claim that North Korea is responsible for the hack that crippled Sony Pictures.” A cybersecurity executive told CBS News his company “has data” that casts doubt on the FBI’s findings. He claim[...]
December 23rd, 2014 - 4:40 pm § in Uncategorized
Black NYC cops fear white cops, complain of being profiled
NYPD is notorious for its blatant racial profiling, from which its own black officers aren’t exempt. Reuters, a news agency, interviewed 25 black male officers of the NYPD, 15 retired and 10 active, and “all but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of [...]
December 23rd, 2014 - 2:41 pm § in Misc.
Where was the GOP’s outrage when Cliven Bundy thugs killed 2 cops?
Remember the two cops murdered last summer by a pair of rightwing Bundy followers? Didn’t think so. To be honest, I’d all but forgotten about it, too. That story made headlines for a couple days, then dropped from sight, and you’ve heard nothing more about it, because Republicans h[...]
December 23rd, 2014 - 2:40 pm § in Uncategorized
A Christmas Movie
Charles Park on FACEBOOK OK. I will go to any local theater in Southern California that shows the movie Interview. I was planning to brush it off and not see it… Sony hackers threaten US cinemas Hackers targeting Sony Pictures have threatened to attack US cinemas showing the studio’[...]
December 23rd, 2014 - 2:24 pm § in Misc.
Fox affiliate caught faking “kill a cop” protest chant
What the protesters chanted: “We won’t stop. We can’t stop. Until the killer cops. Are in cell blocks.” How Fox 45 in Baltimore cut, pasted, edited, and aired it: “We won’t stop. We can’t stop. Kill a cop.” The TV station has since apologized and pul[...]
December 23rd, 2014 - 1:20 pm § in America
NYS pays $4.75M to wrongly convicted man
New York State has agreed to pay $4.75 million, the largest wrongful conviction settlement in the state’s history, to a man who served 18 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Fernando Bermudez, 45, was convicted of shooting a 16-year-old boy outside a Greenwich nightclub even t[...]
December 23rd, 2014 - 1:19 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: SONY TELLS NORTH KOREA “GO TO HELL!”
Message to David Goldstein: David I know you are getting over the flu, SO ..I looked up and it appears that the only showing of the Interview on this holy day is at the cheapo theatre in YOUR nabe .. The Arc. SO here is a challenge for the 25 th. The Interview is showing […][...]
Al Sharpton is a Very Bad Man
Sharpton Refuses de Blasio’s Calls to Halt Protests Until After NYPD Funerals As Sharpton told Reuters, he and his followers are holding vigils for Eric Garner and Michael Brown and, thus, are technically not protesting. The false hero of the Tawana Brawley mess has not changed. This man is in it [...]