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FBI calls half of Americans with 9/11 doubts potential terrorists

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Rethink911.org billboard in Dallas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly considering those Americans who harbor “conspiracy theories” about the September 11, 2001 attacks as a potential terrorist. The FBI has instructed local police departments about the case in a circular, Digital Journal reported. “The memo thus adds 9/11-official-story skeptics to a growing list of targets... 

New York City brutal hate crime attack ignored by the media

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Attacked: Three people were punched in New York by a man who allegedly said he would attack the next white person to walk by More black-on-white violence largely ignored by the mainstream media. Another unprovoked black-on-white attack in the wake of the George Zimmerman trial has received little national media attention even though it is being investigated as a hate crime. In New York City last Wednesday,... 

Study lists 20 cities most threatened by flood

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A new study carried out by the researchers in England has released the name of 20 cities which are at the highest risk of damaging floods. Scientists at the University of Southampton listed the cities that face the worst damage from floods and giant storms. The report illustrates that nearly all of them are in Asia and North America, five of them are in the United States, according to Live Science. The... 

NSA spied on UN videoconferencing meetings

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The US National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations’ headquarters in the US city of New York. According to Germany’s weekly Der Spiegel in the summer of 2012, NSA experts managed to get into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracked its coding system. “The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!),” Der Spiegel quoted one document.... 

Bloomberg reveals largest gun seizure ever in New York

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that his administration has successfully carried out the largest gun seizure in the city’s history. At a Monday morning press conference, Mayor Bloomberg and Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly announced that authorities in New York have managed to indict and arrest 19 individuals believed responsible for running an illegal gun pipeline from... 

Bloomberg seeks mandatory fingerprinting for NYC public housing residents

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The 620,000 residents living in public housing projects should be fingerprinted as a crime-prevention measure, said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but many city residents protest that the proposal is an invasion of privacy. Bloomberg, 71, who has acquired a reputation for promoting controversial ideas, including imposing a ban on the sale of large soft drinks, says his latest proposal will make... 

New York City runs risk of bankruptcy like Detroit: Mayor

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New York City Mayor Bloomberg As New York City wrestles with rising pension and health care costs, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has warned that the city runs a real risk of bankruptcy like Detroit. Detroit’s bankruptcy and the problems facing its pension funds have concerned many states and cities across America with Mayor Bloomberg becoming the latest official to warn that his city may go the way of... 

Soursop 10000 times Stronger Cancer Killer Than Chemotherapy

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Cancer has touched many of us in some way. Whether we know of or have overcome cancer ourselves, or know someone who has passed from it, we can all draw some form of intimate connection to the disease. The subject of cures and treatment has been of great debate within the industry as the generally accepted methods of chemotherapy and radiation come with moderately effective results and incredibly... 

NYC Mayor: Tsarnaevs planned to set off bombs in Times Square

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Authorities in the United States believe that the two brothers suspected of detonating bombs at the Boston Marathon last week hoped to wreak similar havoc in New York City’s Times Square. On Thursday afternoon, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a press conference that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were planning to set off explosives in Midtown Manhattan. “The surviving attacker revealed... 

Bloomberg takes aim at NRA in anti-gun crusade

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attracted the ire of the National Rifle Association by announcing a pricey ad campaign that he hopes will “level the playing field” against the influence of America’s powerful gun lobby. Bloomberg, who ranks among the top 10 wealthiest Americans, is bankrolling the $12 million television ad campaign for the Mayors Against Illegal Guns in an effort to get... 

NYPD sued over 'stop-and-frisk' policy

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The New York Police Department has been taken to court over its controversial ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy, which rights groups say specifically targets minorities. A civil case is to begin on Monday in Manhattan, where more than a hundred witnesses are expected to testify regarding the NYPD practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people. Blacks and Hispanic men are the main targets, a claim... 

Samsung Galaxy S4 Officially Launched, Prices Revealed

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Samsung has officially launched today in New York City its new Galaxy smartphone, the long anticipated Galaxy S4. The new Galaxy S4 brings new great features such as two Quad Core CPUs, oddly, at different speeds, a Quad Core CPU Cortex-A15 clocked at 1.6GHz, and a second Quad Core CPU Cortex-A7 running at 1.2GHz. The CPUs are running together with the Exynos 5 Octa chipset and the PowerVR SGX 544MP3... 

NYC Mayor Bloomberg's Soda Ban Struck Down by Judge

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It is the ultimate dream of socialist control freaks to dictate every detail of your life: what you eat, what you think, what you say and even whether you have the right to self defense. New York City Mayor Bloomberg tried to take his control freak power grab one step beyond all reason with a recent regulatory ban on large sodas. But not all sodas, mind you: diet sodas laced with toxic aspartame were... 

Wall Street disaster plan: Trade without humans

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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is preparing contingency plans wherein computers will replace outcry auctioning in case another disaster, such as terrorism or severe weather, forces the closure of trading in downtown Manhattan. NYSE Euronext is preparing to submit details of the plan, which would permit computers to take securities to market just as human traders have done on Wall Street for the... 

80% of New York City graduates Unable to Read

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New York City’s literacy rates are on the decline: nearly 80 percent of high school graduates lack basic skills like reading, writing and math and are required to relearn them before qualifying for community college. During his most recent State of the City address, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hyped about the large investment the city has made on education – a multi-billion dollar investment... 
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