Search This Blog

Friday, January 27, 2012

Instead of Foreclosing on Girlfriend's House, Banker Burns It Down After Getting Dumped.


There's no shortage of press coverage when it comes to dating sociopaths in the financial industry.
Remember the investment manager who sent a creepy email that landed on reddit?

What about the insane investment banker who broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment and pretended to be an Israeli secret agent?

Still, none of these quite top the most recent report of one banker in the U.K. who armed himself with a slew of weapons, including two crossbows and a rifle, and allegedly burned down his ex-girlfriend's parents house, reports the Mirror.





Read More http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/uk-banker-gets-dumped_n_1237197.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Gang Bang all over the Net.

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

Office gets Caught Trying To Buy Drugs.


Memphis, TN - Federal prosecutors say a 32-year-old Memphis police officer has been charged with trying to buy cocaine while in uniform and driving his patrol car.

The U.S. attorney's office for West Tennessee says Melvin Robinson was arrested Thursday while trying to buy what he believed to be 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of cocaine.

Prosecutors said Friday that Robinson has been charged with attempt to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute. If convicted on the charges, he faces up to life in prison.

Memphis police say Robinson has been on the force since October 2008. He has been relieved of duty with pay during the investigation.

Court records do not list an attorney for Robinson





Read More http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/mpd-officer-arrested-on-drug-charge-mfo-20120127?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Teen Eats More Then Lunch At Chicago School.


A 17-year-old Chicago girl has been charged with biting a Chicago police officer who intervened Thursday in a cafeteria fight at an East Garfield Park school.

Danielle McClinton, of the 5000 block of West Erie Street, allegedly instigated the brawl, which also led to the arrest of three other female students, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The fight reportedly began at 12:30 p.m. when several Al Raby School for Community and Environment students started fighting, causing the police officer assigned to cover the school to intervene. In the midst of the fight, McClinton allegedly bit the officer's right hand three times, according to the Tribune.












Read More http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/danielle-mcclinton-chicag_n_1236701.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003



The Face Of The New Slavery.


Reality check: There are more slaves in the world today than were taken from Africa in the four centuries of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade--over 27 million. Of those, two million are children exploited in the commercial sex trade.

Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, with annual profits exceeding that of ExxonMobil ($32 billion from sex trafficking alone). The average girl forced into prostitution is 13. Many are younger than that.





Read More http://www.huffingtonpost.com/corban-addison/modern-slavery_b_1214371.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

First Arizona Governor, Now Arizona Police Disrespect President Obama.


The Secret Service has launched an investigation into Peoria, Ariz. Police Sgt. Pat Shearer after a picture appeared on his Facebook page showing seven young men holding up a shirt with President Barack Obama's face on it, riddled with bullet holes.

The photo, uploaded to Facebook on Jan. 20 with the caption, "Another trip to the ranch," shows the group in a line, four holding firearms, with the perforated t-shirt between them bearing Obama's likeness above his 2008 campaign slogan, "Hope." The picture was removed on Thursday, after the Secret Service began looking into the matter.






Locked Up With No Key, 13,185 People Locked up for Immigration.


WASHINGTON -- On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a crime, some of whom will not be charged with one, according to information The Huffington Post obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Instead, at a cost of roughly 2 million taxpayer dollars per day, the men and women were detained while immigration authorities sorted out their fates.

This case stands in stark contrast to the stated goal of immigration policy under the administration of President Barack Obama: to detain and deport unauthorized immigrants who've been convicted of crimes






Read Morehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/immigration-detention_n_1231618.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Republican Keep Pushing Race As A Issue.


We've seen a lot of weird ads this season, but nothing quite like this. Mark Oxner, a Republican congressional candidate from Florida, released a 39-second spot this week depicting the Obama administration as a slave ship.

The video features several men and woman on a boat--"The U.S.S. Obamaship"--discussing how "this ship" has given them various benefits, such as a bank bailout and "free health care for life."

The video also includes shots of children rowing the boat while a man holding a whip watches closely.
"Let's not enslave our children with debt," Oxner says, as the boat heads towards the edge of waterfall. "It's time to turn this ship around."

Oxner said in a statement that this is the first of multiple ads he will be releasing as he vies for Florida's 27th District.





Read More http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/mark-oxner-gop-congress-obama_n_1232431.html?ref=black-voices&ir=Black%20Voices

Teacher Taught Students More Than Classwork.


GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. -- A popular suburban Kansas City elementary school teacher who also helped coach children's soccer teams has been charged with molesting four boys in his second-grade classroom, and police say they are looking for other possible victims.

Matthew J. Nelson, 33, has taught second- and third-graders at Grain Valley elementary schools for a decade and was honored in 2007 as the local "Teacher of the Year." He also was an assistant coach for boys and girls soccer teams.

"That's our fear: the potential there could be more victims out there," said Grain Valley Police Chief Aaron Ambrose.





Read More http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/missouri-teacher-accused-_0_n_1236500.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Pastor Forgets To "Love Thy Neighbor" Cat.


"Love thy neighbor" is a lesson that goes back to Leviticus, but Texas police say one pastor forgot the Golden Rule, or at least doesn't think it applies to your neighbor's cat.

Bastrop Christian Church Pastor Rick Bartlett, whose sermons promise "deliverance and renewal from wrongs suffered and caused" in life, allegedly left his neighbor's 12-year-old cat Moody in a cage in the back of his truck for three days, then chucked the pussy off a bridge where it fell 50 feet to its death on Jan. 15, according to KEYE TV.
Bartlett allegedly told animal control officers that he thought Moody was one of many stray cats afflicting his yard. He claims he captured it and put it in a cage in the back of his truck. He told officers that he forgot about the cat for three days before bringing it to police, though he denies deliberately neglecting the kitty, the site reported.





Read More http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/texas-pastor-throws-cat-off-bridge_n_1233975.html?ref=dumb-criminals

Telling My Cost You Your Head.


A Raleigh man accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a North Carolina terrorism case will make his first appearance Friday in federal court.

Shkumbin Sherifi was arrested last weekend after FBI agents tracked him to a meeting in Wilmington with a government informant posing as a hit man. Agents say the 21-year-old paid the informant $4,250 in cash toward the first killing.

Officials say the plot was masterminded by Sherifi's imprisoned older brother Hysen Sherifi, who was sentenced to 45 years earlier this month in what prosecutors described as a conspiracy to attack the Marine base at Quantico, Va., and targets abroad.

Also arrested was Nevine Aly Elshiekh, a 46-year-old school teacher from Raleigh. Her first appearance is scheduled for Feb. 3.




Read More http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/beheading-plot-court-date_n_1236223.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Ron Paul Words Come Back To Bite Him In The Butt.


Ron Paul, well known as a physician, congressman and libertarian , has also been a businessman who pursued a marketing strategy that included publishing provocative, racially charged newsletters to make money and spread his ideas, according to three people with direct knowledge of Paul’s businesses.

The Republican presidential candidate has denied writing inflammatory passages in the pamphlets from the 1990s and said recently that he did not read them at the time or for years afterward. Numerous colleagues said he does not hold racist views.

But people close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company that produced the newsletters, Ron Paul & Associates, and closely monitored its operations, signing off on articles and speaking to staff members virtually every day.






Read More http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ron-paul-signed-off-on-racist-newsletters-sources-say/2012/01/20/gIQAvblFVQ_story.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost



Racism Is Not Only An American Problem.


Although it's been almost two decades since apartheid ended, South Africans still feel the pangs of racial tension, and a poster depicting an interracial couple proves just how deep the issue goes.

The political ad created by the student wing of the Democratic Alliance party, shows a white man and a black woman embracing with the tagline "In OUR future, you wouldn't look twice." While the students might be right about the future, in the present the poster has incited a heated debate among the local media and politicians, the Washington Post reports.

While some have supported the ad for its progressive message of tolerance, others were outraged. For example, one commenter left a positive message under a photo of the poster on the group's.





Read More http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/interracial-poster-in-south-africa_n_1235146.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Home Grown Hate Leads to Bomb Plot of Utah High School.


A Utah high school student bragged to police that he was smarter than the Columbine killers and was plotting with an older student to set off a bomb during a school assembly and escape in a stolen plane, court documents say.

Dallin Morgan, 18, and the 16-year-old boy were pulled out of school Wednesday and arrested after authorities learned of the plot, Roy police spokeswoman Anna Bond said Thursday.

The students prepared by logging hundreds of hours on flight simulator software on their home computers, and they planned to take a plane at Ogden Hinckley Airport after the bombing, Bond said.




Read More http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/utah-teens-arrested-in-al_0_n_1234511.html

Latino Republican Jumping Ship Quicker Than The Italian Ship Captain.


A new generation of Latinos is changing the face of Florida politics.

They are more diverse, tracing their roots to more Latin American countries and identifying, in increasing numbers, as Democrats.

There are also signs that they are becoming increasingly vocal.

Cristina Albright, a Colombian-born U.S. citizen who has lived here for 35 years, told The Huffington Post that Democratic Hispanics weren't always welcome in Florida's Hispanic community.