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UK middle classes turn to stealing food they can't afford
Gourmet cheese and beef joints are among the top stolen items in the UK, a new report has shown. Middle class shoppers have turned to stealing out of need for food, due to the weak economy, with the total cost of retail theft hitting £3.4bn last year.
Shoplifting has proved to be the biggest concern for UK retailers, accounting for 36 percent of total losses, or £1.224 billion, according to the...
Dad Calls Cops on Son to Teach Him a Lesson, Cops Shoot Son Dead
A father’s attempt to teach his son a lesson for taking his truck without permission ended in tragedy Monday after a local police officer shot the teenager dead.
James Comstock told the Des Moines Register he called the police on his son Tyler after the latter took the former’s truck in retaliation for refusing to buy him cigarettes.
Ames Police Officer Adam McPherson reportedly spotted the lawn...
Bulgaria deports 100 illegal immigrants
Refugees at a camp in Bulgaria
Bulgaria has deported nearly 100 immigrants at its border with Turkey as the poorest country of the European Union grapples with a sharp rise in the number of refugees from non-EU states.
Speaking on Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday, the secretary general of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry Svetlozar Lazarov said the group of immigrants was stopped in the Strandzha mountains,...
Nigeria senators extend state of emergency in NE
Nigerian soldiers ride on an armored vehicle in Maiduguri, the capital city of the northeastern Borno State.
The Nigerian Senate has approved a request by the country’s president to extend emergency rule in the restive northeast for another six months.
Lawmakers in Nigeria’s upper house of parliament unanimously voted on Thursday “to extend the state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and...
Turkey seizes huge chemicals haul near Syria border
Turkish authorities say they have seized a large quantity of chemicals on the country’s border with Syria, adding that the chemicals “could be transformed into weapons.”
Turkey’s army said in a statement issued on Sunday that a convoy of three vehicles attempted to smuggle the chemicals across the border on Saturday near the southeastern Turkish town of Reyhanli.
Para-military police were...
Cops Tase Father Trying To Save His 3-Year-Old Son From House Fire
A Louisiana, Missouri father was prevented from saving his 3-year-old son from a house fire when cops tased him three times for attempting to enter the burning building.
The fire started in a ground floor play room while the parents were asleep in the living room. The toddler was asleep upstairs in his bedroom.
After waking up to the smell of fumes, the parents managed to get outside before calling...
SPLC and Raw Story Blame “Patriots” for the LAX Shooting
The Paul Ciancia story is custom-made for the likes of the SPLC, Raw Story, and the rest of government-loving cheerleaders who are constantly on the lookout for “right-wing” predators to pin their hysterical false left-right paradigm theories on.
On Saturday, the Southern Poverty Law Center put it all into focus for us. The LAX shooter “was carrying a one-page ‘manifesto’ that included...
Obama told his top aides he is 'really good at killing people' - New book
US President Barrack Obama has told his top aides during the 2012 presidential campaign that he is “really good at killing people”, according to a new book.
The book titled “Double Down: Game Change 2012,” is written by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
According to the book, the US president made the remarks while discussing country’s controversial assassination drone...
Chinese police on alert after terrorist attack in Beijing
On Monday, an alleged terrorist attack took place at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. A passenger vehicle crashed into the crowd and then burst into flames. Five people were killed, 38 injured and hospitalized. Some police sources associate the incident with the Uighurs, a Muslim separatist-minded population of China. Has jihad come to China?
On Tuesday, Reuters agency, citing informed sources, reported...
Rebels conduct new chemical weapons attack in Syria near Turkish border
The rebels used chemical weapons in north-eastern Syria near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, a Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen reported.
The toxic shell exploded near a Kurdish defense forces’ checkpoint close to the border with Turkey in the city of Ras al-Ayn al-Hasakah.
The attack was reported by Kurdish defense forces who are conducting military operations against the rebels in the region.
They...
Leader of al-Nusra Front killed in Syria
Leader of the al-Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda affiliated fighting force in Syria, has been killed, state television reported.
According to reports Abu Mohammad al-Golani, has been killed in the Western province of Latakia.
Syrian State TV did not provide any further details. There has been no immediate comment from opposition groups. However reports are emerging that al-Golani was not killed as he was...
Rebels blast gas pipeline near Damascus causing southern Syria blackout
A gas pipeline was attacked near Damascus causing the capital and the southern part of Syria to suffer a blackout. The electricity minister blamed the blast on rebels.
“A terrorist attack on a gas pipeline that feeds a power station in the south has led to a power outage in the provinces, and work to repair it is in progress,” electricity minister Emad Khamis told SANA news agency.
As...
Holiday in North Korea
North Korea, not exactly known as a vacation destination, has opened a water park to improve its seriously dismal image.
The Munsu Water Park, located east of the capital of Pyongyang, recently hosted an ostentatious opening. See photos here.
Of course, the average citizen will not be able to afford the fun of a water slide.
“The standard of living has deteriorated to extreme levels of deprivation...
Evidence That 5 Million Americans Have Been “Disappeared” By Obama Shocks Russia
A shocking new report released today by the Federal Security Service (FSB) states that as many as 5 million Americans have been “disappeared” by the Obama regime during the past 4 ½ years and are presumed to be dead in the worst incident of mass genocide since the Cultural Revolution that took place in the People’s Republic of China from 1966 to 1976 and claimed upwards of 20 million lives.
According...
Terrorist blast kills at least 5, injures over 20 in Volgograd, central Russia
An unknown explosive device has detonated in a bus in Volgograd, 1,000km to the south-east of Moscow, killing at least five people and injuring 20. A terrorist attack is now viewed as the cause of the blast.
A terrorist act has been confirmed by the National Anti-terrorist Committee.
“Today at 2:05pm Moscow time [10:05 GMT] in Volgograd inside a bus, as a result of an unknown explosive device going...