Zombie apocalypse newsflash interrupts US TV schedule

Infowars.com 
Feb 12, 2013

Hackers were to blame for a Montana television station’s regular programming being interrupted by news of a zombie apocalypse on Monday.

Libya in Chaos: American-funded television station burned to the ground in Benghazi!

Several dozen protesters have burst into the office of the Alhurra US TV channel, broadcasting in Arabic, in Benghazi, in the east of Libya, destroyed it and set it on fire.
Several staff members were injured, and broadcasting was suspended.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2012/10/22/alhurra-tv-office-destroyed-by-furious-protesters-in-benghazi.html

Town Considers Streaming Surveillance Video On Television Station

RISTOL BOROUGH, Pa. (CBS) - There are hundreds of television channels out there, but in one Bucks County community, there could soon be another. People may soon be able to watch a video feed of a police security camera — from their couch.

“I personally don’t like being viewed as I’m coming out my door,” said Bashean Baxter of Bristol Borough.

Police surveillance cameras are constantly watching you.

“Doesn’t bother me one way or [...]

Police confirm actor Sherman Hemsley has died

El Paso, Texas, police have confirmed to television station KFOX that actor Sherman Hemsley, star of “The Jeffersons” has died at his home in El Paso.

TMZ.com also reports: Hemsley, who was 74, became famous during his appearances on “All in the Family.”  The spin-off, “The Jeffersons” was a monster hit.  He also starred in the TV show, “Amen.”  He was also a professional singer and even released the single in 1989, [...]

Alligator bites off swimming teen’s arm in Fla

MOORE HAVEN, Fla. (AP) – A Florida teenager has lost his right arm below the elbow to an attacking alligator.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino told Fort Myers television station WBBH (http://bit.ly/NljdlO ) the teen’s arm was still inside the 11-foot alligator when it was hunted down and killed Monday evening.

Read more: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/18987711/alligator-bites-off-swimming-teens-arm-in-fla#ixzz20DmOdS7m

Homeless man who lived like a king: Brazen con artist who ‘scammed hotel guests and stayed in their swanky rooms, racking up thousands of dollars in charges’

David Price has been living on the streets of Orlando, Florida, for the past two years, but on some nights, he found himself sleeping not on a park bench or in an alley, but rather in some of Orange County’s most luxurious hotels.

According to police, Price used a simple yet ingenious strategy: he would pose as a hotel guest and go on wild spending sprees paid for by his unsuspecting [...]

BREAKING: Germany threatens to leave EU; Merkel attacks Hollande, questions political union

via translate.google.de

On Thursday afternoon, Angela Merkel will meet with the heads of party and faction in the Bundestag parties responsible for the first time to negotiate the implementation of the Fiscal Pact (the opposition wants to take the vote on it until after the summer break in the eye - here ). Without two-thirds majority of the Covenant can not be ratified.

Without binding budgetary rules, “we will create a political union can not,” she [...]

Caught on camera: Terrifying moment knife-wielding man breaks into TV station and stabs two employees

Man later identified as Ray Miles broke into Kansas news station
Miles was tackled by WIBW-TV employees, but allegedly pulled out knife and stabbed two employees in the leg
Reportedly yelled ‘I’ll f***ing kill you all’ and allegedly bit one employee on the ear
Was upset Department of Veteran’s Affairs was ‘mishandling his case’

A disgruntled man wielding a knife broke into a Kansas television station Wednesday morning and stabbed two sales employees – [...]

Biden: West Virginia voters who chose felon over Obama are frustrated, angry

 

Vice President Biden said he understood the frustration that led many West Virginia Democrats to vote for a felon over President Obama in the state’s presidential primary.

Asked what he made of a felon sitting in a Texas prison who won four out of 10 Democratic primary voters in West Virginia, Biden told Ohio television station WTOV that he doesn’t blame people who are frustrated and angry over the economy.

 

http://thehill.com/video/administration/228385-biden-wva-voters-who-chose-felon-over-obama-are-frustrated-angry

HUFFPOST: Michele Bachmann is now a citizen of Switzerland

From HUFFPOST:

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has been granted citizenship in Switzerland.

Becky Rogness, a spokeswoman for the conservative congresswoman, said in a statement, “Congresswoman Bachmann’s husband is of Swiss descent so she has been eligible for dual-citizenship since they got married in 1978.” She added, “However, recently some of their children wanted to exercise their eligibility for dual-citizenship so they went through the process as a family.”

Bachmann herself discussed the news with a Swiss television station. The [...]

Student’s ordeal in DEA jail sparks outrage

Elected officials are demanding answers after Daniel Chong, a 23-year-old UC San Diego student, was left unattended for five days in a Drug Enforcement Administration detention cell.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) called on U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. asking for an “immediate and thorough” Department of Justice investigation into the matter.

“After the investigation is completed, I ask that you please provide me with the results and the actions the department will [...]

Colombian ambassador demands apology from Obama after secret service sex scandal ‘ruined reputation of Cartagena’ (where prostitution is legal)

Gabriel Silva wanted a ‘clear expression of remorse’ from White House

Colombia’s diplomat in the U.S. has demanded that President Obama say sorry for the secret service sex scandal  – which he claimed has damaged the reputation of his country.

Gabriel Silva gave an impassioned interview to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo where he criticised the American government’s handling of the scandal which saw federal agents buying hookers.

The incident became public on April [...]

COPS: Meth Lab Explodes in Man’s Pants During Traffic Stop

OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) -  The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a portable methamphetamine lab exploded in a man’s pants as he tried to run away from a state trooper during a traffic stop.

Tulsa television station KOTV reports the incident happened shortly after midnight Friday in Okmulgee County. Authorities say the man tried to run away when the trooper asked him about a chemical smell.

Trooper Shiloh Hall says the man had an active meth [...]

TSA Hires Criminals and Sexual Predators Without Checking Backgrounds

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 27, 2012

Infowars.com has reported numerous instances of TSA employees assaulting and stealing from passengers over the last few years. The TSA has consistently hired violent criminals and even pedophiles and there is a logical explanation for this – the agency does not follow through on background checks.

Earlier this week, a television station in Atlanta reported that the TSA is so swamped with background checks it is now hiring just about [...]

The girl, six, who VANISHED from her bed in middle of the night: FBI launch hunt for Isabel amid fears she was taken

Police and FBI agents have launched a desperate search in Arizona for a six-year-old girl who disappeared from her bed on Friday night.

They fear that Isabel Mercedes Celis might have been kidnapped, but officials say she could have run away from home instead.

The parents of first-grader Isabel last saw her in bed at 11pm on Friday, and they discovered her missing at about 8 am on Saturday, according to police.

Missing: [...]

Aftermath: World Without Oil (Videos You Can Watch Now)

Aftermath: World Without Oil

The Aftermath series was created by Canada’s History Television station and aired in the United States on National Geographic. (Other parts include: When the Earth Stops Spinning, Red Giant (Earth Swallowed By The Sun), and Population Overload. It all began with the original one-off special Aftermath: Population Zero.)

The “World Without Oil” special imagines what life on Earth would be like if oil all over the world were to suddenly [...]

BREITBART OBAMA VIDEO SET FOR RELEASE

by JOEL B. POLLAK

Earlier today, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.”

The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright–about whom we will be releasing significant information [...]

Cruise ship’s cook says captain ordered dinner after crash

(CNN) – The captain of the Costa Concordia ordered dinner for himself and a woman after the ship struck rocks off Italy’s coast, a cook from the ship told a Filipino television station.

In an interview with GMA Network, cook Rogelio Barista said Capt. Francesco Schettino ordered dinner less than an hour after the accident.

“We wondered what was going on. … At that time, we really felt something was wrong. … The [...]

NURSES FIRED FOR TAPING PATIENT’S MOUTH SHUT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two nurses in a Utah hospital’s intensive care unit were fired this week for taping a patient’s mouth shut and laughing about it, hospital officials said Friday.

Penny Artalejo was admitted to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo on Dec. 17 with nausea and anxiety from taking medication for chronic neck pain, her daughters told KSL (http://bit.ly/tbVNuS ).

Artalejo’s daughter, Brittany Bilson, told the television station that [...]

35 Bodies Dumped in Veracruz, Mexico

Reuters
September 21, 2011

The bodies of 35 people with suspected links to organized crime were dumped under a highway bridge in eastern Mexico on Tuesday, in a major escalation of violence in the once-quiet port city of Veracruz.

The bodies were discovered near a shopping center in Boca del Rio, along Mexico’s Gulf coast, state prosecutor Reynaldo Escobar told the Milenio television station, horrifying passers-by who forwarded pictures [...]

Gadhafi Speaks, Says Retreat was a ‘Tactical Move’

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:02 PM EDT Gadhafi Speaks, Says Retreat was a ‘Tactical Move’

Moammar Gadhafi spoke to Libyans early Wednesday morning, calling his retreat from the Bab Al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli a “tactical move.”

Al-Urubah, a television station that can be categorized as loyal to Gadhafi, said the long-time Libyan leader gave a radio address from an undisclosed location. Gadhafi vowed to continue the fight [...]

Obama Plans Jobs Speech, Calls for Long-Term Deficit Cuts to Pay for Spending Now (More Debt)

As he prepares to give a major speech with fresh ideas to jump-start the economy, President Obama told a Kansas City television station Tuesday that he wants to rein in the deficit in the long term in order to spend on jobs programs “here and now.”

Two senior officials confirmed to Fox News that the president will deliver an address focused on jobs and deficit reduction [...]

Cops Shut Down Another Little Girl’s Lemonade Stand

The Associated Press
August 4, 2011

CORALVILLE, Iowa — Police closed down a lemonade stand in Coralville, telling its 4-year-old operator and her dad that she didn’t have a permit.

Cedar Rapids television station KGAN reports that an officer told Abigail Krutsinger’s dad on Friday that she couldn’t run the stand as RAGBRAI bicyclers poured into Coralville. RAGBRAI is The Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across [...]

Arkansas just made it illegal to smoke in a car with children under the age of 14

GREENWOOD — A bill toughening the ban on smoking in cars with children is about to become Arkansas law.

Current law makes it illegal to smoke in a car with a child younger than 6. The law that goes into effect on Monday raises the age to 14.

Greenwood police Capt. Richie Wolford says officers will vigorously enforce the new standard.

Wolford says second-hand smoke is much more concentrated in a car [...]

Budget cuts blamed! ‘Handcuffed by policy’: Fire crews watch man drown in neck-deep water

SAN FRANCISCO — Fire crews and police could only watch after a man waded into San Francisco Bay, stood up to his neck and waited. They wanted to do something, but a policy strictly forbade them from trying to save the 50-year-old, officials said.

A witness finally pulled the apparently suicidal man’s lifeless body from the 54-degree water.

The San Jose Mercury News reported that the man spent [...]

OSAMA WANTED TO KILL OBAMA

President Barack Obama speaks at a Democratic National Committee campaign fundraising event in Austin, Texas, May 10, 2011. (Charles Dharapak/AP Photo)

U.S. officials are analyzing one million pages of data from the trove found in Osama bin Laden’s compound during the raid that killed him, and say they have learned more in the past ten days than in the past 10 years.

Among the things they’ve learned is [...]

Angry Mob Chases Would-Be Flag Burner Off LSU Campus

NEWSCORE – A mob of angry protesters chased a would-be flag burner at Louisiana State University (LSU) off campus Wednesday to chants of “USA, USA.”

Graduate communications student Benjamin Haas had earlier been given permission by the school to burn the flag. But because he lacked a local burn permit, he agreed instead to read a statement in an area of the university known as free [...]

Housing Market: Sales are now just half the pace of 1963 — even though there are 120 million more people in the United States now.

Earlier this week we have had data from both existing home sales and new home sales. Both have been abysmal…. and I’m not speaking in hyperbole. As I often say, focus on existing home sales because it is generally around 90% of the market – but currently up to 95% since new homes are simply so uncompetitive with so much distressed inventory on [...]

Looks like Gaddafi’s promise that civil war will never break out while he is alive, has just been broken

by ZH

“Forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi made good on threats to trigger a civil war in Libya on Wednesday night, by taking up positions across the capital, Tripoli and launching a rearguard fight against rebels in major cities. Residents of parts of the capital were trapped in their homes as “thousands” of soldiers patrolled the streets accompanied by African mercenaries. Tanks took up positions [...]