Have you ever seen this man. Case closed, but, never found.

Dan Cooper was believed to be in his forties in 1971, that would make him in his eighties today. He may be dead by now. Or. Maybe not.

July 14, 2016

By Rohan Smith

Only a handful of cases stump (click here) America's most experienced investigators. This is one of them.

In 1971, a well-groomed businessman-type boarded a Boeing 727 in Portland, Oregon. It was bound for Seattle, Washington, but the passenger had other plans.

Shortly after the Northwest Orient Airlines jet took off, the man calling himself Dan Cooper gestured to a flight attendant before handing her a napkin with a note scrawled in capital letters. On it were demands for $200,000 cash, four parachutes and his freedom.

The man, believed to be in his early 40s, told the woman he had a bomb. He showed her the inside of his briefcase where eight red cylinders were attached to a series of wires....

Wow, the ATF actually did something!

July 12, 2016
Did federal authorities (click here) in Louisiana manage to prevent another round of cop killing with the arrest of three people in Baton Rouge this week? WBRZ-TV is reporting that ATF agents, sheriff’s deputies, and police raided a home Monday and might have foiled a plan to kill officers at a protest over the police-involved shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge last week....

It was really scary, huh? But, nothing stops the big, tough and brave ATF.

Did I tell you? Right? Salvos of more to come. Please tell me the ATF had this figured out before I did.

How can US Representative Keith Ellison (click here) state Paul Ryan is a great guy and I can work with him.

Really?

I have immense respect for Rep. Ellison. He is a model citizen. He worries about his district, the safety of citizens and speaks words needed to defend a minority religion in the USA. I don't know where the country would be without his words and willingness to speak out.

But.

Ryan? 

Paul "No Clue" Ryan is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

I wish US Rep. Ellison would speak honestly, otherwise, the way I see it, his willingness to extend kind words to Paul "No Clue" Ryan is nothing more than go along to get along. 

Paul Ryan has a very bad record on human rights, the budget, respect for President Obama. I would think after Orlando the US House would be moved to act against military style weapons. 

Honestly, Rep. Ellison, Paul Ryan is more a hindrance to protect the people you speak for. He is not a nice man. He is not easy to work with. He is upholding the very danger American face from the free flow of guns in the USA. Please, stop it.

I think Senator Bernie Sanders should be promised a Presidential Cabinet position.

The Republican political platform is defined by pluralistic ignorance throughout.

Democratic Party candidates across the spectrum of government should be carrying this as a banner into the November elections.

Republicans are destroying the two party system.

Pluralistic ignorance is when a group of members reject a norm. They incorrectly assume that most others accept it. Supposedly, it is an unspoken truth or wish for a society to achieve.

Basically, the people creating the Republican platform live in isolation of reality and the norms and values of most of the country. This is a defeated platform. It is rejected by most if not all Americans, save this drafting committee that is completely laughable.

Political platforms can be extreme, but, for a country in turbulence and one leaders are trying to unite, this is not the way. This is pluralistic ignorance. There is a name for it.

July 12, 2016
By Jeremy W. Peters

Cleveland — Republicans moved on Tuesday (click here) toward adopting a staunchly conservative platform that takes a strict, traditionalist view of the family and child rearing, bars military women from combat, describes coal as a “clean” energy source and declares pornography a “public health crisis.”

Amazing. In most federal elections the military votes Republican, but, this year I think it is an open debate about the military vote. The military will vote for better benefits and quality of life for their families including support for caregivers when women or men are called into battle. The USA military today is different than eight years ago. Today, women in the military speak out about sexual assault and there are same sex marriages recognized. The issues today are about a changing paradigm in the military and one the country mostly embraces.

It is a platform that at times seems to channel the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump — calling to “destroy ISIS,” belittling President Obama as weak and accusing his administration of inviting attacks from adversaries.

But, the document positions itself far to the right of Mr. Trump’s beliefs in other places — and amounts to a rightward lurch even from the party’s hard-line platform in 2012 — especially as it addresses gay men, lesbians and transgender people.

As delegates debated in two marathon sessions here on Monday and Tuesday, they repeatedly rejected efforts by more moderate members of the platform committee to add language that would acknowledge or condemn anti-gay discrimination — something Mr. Trump has done himself....

The chairwoman for the platform committee was Virginia Fox from North Carolina. There is no description needed. North Carolina has grown to be among the most corrupted states in the country.

...Additional provisions included those that promoted state laws to limit which restrooms transgender people could use, nodded to “conversion therapy” for gays by saying that parents should be free to make medical decisions about their children without interference and stated that “natural marriage” between a man and a woman is most likely to result in offspring who do not become drug-addicted or otherwise damaged....

There is absolutely no research that upholds any of these positions, except, for that coming out of Dobson's "Focus on the Family." The entire Republican platform is pluralistic ignorance so that the followers of radio shows and FOX News will pay attention to the date of the election. It is all populous nonsense that damages the country and does nothing to unite it.

Facial Recognition Technology is not perfected enough for police use.

July 2, 2016
By Robinson Meyer

Facebook has also been thinking about faces. (click here) Last summer, the company’s artificial intelligence team announced that its facial-recognition software passed key tests with near human-level accuracy. Last week, it presented a further development: Yann LeCun, the AI team’s director, boasted that a different algorithm could identify people 83 percent of the time even if their faces were not in the picture. The program instead works from a person’s hairdo, posture, and body type....

Mike Pence, no different than Paul "No Clue" Ryan in 2012, needs a career saving event.

July 13, 2016
By Tony Cook, Chelsea Schneider, Jill Disis and Chris Sikich

A fiery (click here) Gov. Mike Pence praised Donald Trump and slammed Hillary Clinton during a rally in Westfield on Tuesday that was widely seen as an audition to become Trump’s running mate.

Trump made no announcement, but seemed to relish teasing his Indiana audience with the prospect....

...Others under consideration for the vice presidential slot have also joined Trump on the campaign trail in recent days, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has compared the selection process to Trump’s reality TV show The Apprentice.

Those who attended the private fundraiser at the Columbia Club said Trump spoke highly of Pence. Indiana Senate leader David Long, a Fort Wayne Republican who attended the fundraiser, said that at one point Trump asked if Pence would be a good vice president and the crowd roared “Yes!”

Pence isn’t the only possible vice presidential pick who Trump has dropped hints about. At a rally in Ohio last week, he said Gingrich “will be involved with our government,” according to the Washington Post....

The climate crisis is not about believing. It is fact. It is very scary fact.

This is a heat wave of 123.8 F, not simply a daytime high.

May 26, 2016

By Gavin Fernando

A severe heatwave (click here to see video) has set off new records in India, so much so that the roads beneath pedestrians are literally melting like wet cement.

Literally.

In the footage above, pedestrians' footwear can be seen actually sinking into the tarmac as they walk due to how hot it is.

For farmers in particular, the effects have been widespread and devastating, worsening poverty and even prompting suicide.

The Indian government has estimated that as much as 25 per cent of the country - 330 million Indians - could be affected by the shortages.

Temperatures in the northern desert province of Rajasthan have soared to 51C (123.6 Fahrenheit), the highest in the country's recorded history, and the third-highest temperature ever documented on Earth....

Justice Ginsberg public comments makes it to New Zealand.

Some people believe if a case regarding Donald Trump in anyway makes it to the Supreme Court then Justice Ginsberg should recuse herself. 

The Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment for the very reason politics doesn't effect their decisions. It is debatable that is the case, but, for a Supreme Court Justice to recuse themselves is a very serious issue.

In demanding Justice Ginsberg recuse herself is to say she is not able to separate her passions for political commentary from her decision making on the job. That is not an accurate depiction of Justice Ginsberg. She has been making public comment about politics for as long as she is a Justice. She speaks frequently to law students and less frequently to the public. She has a wonderful personality and is a pleasure to hear speak. I think she is a very competent Justice to the Supreme Court and should continue speaking freely at ever opportunity.

I have not always agreed with her decisions either, but, to censor her public life is completely wrong. It would set very bad precedent. 

July 13, 2016

...She said her late husband (click here) would have said: "Now it is time for us to move to New Zealand".

She also told AP that she assumed Democrat Hillary Clinton would win the November election. The 83-year-old Ginsburg was nominated to the court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton.

Asked what would happen if Trump won instead, she said, "I don't want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs."

Her comments were met with a wave of alarm by many judicial ethics experts, who called them surprising if not potentially recusal-worthy should a legal issue involving Trump come before the court....

Dear President Obama, Stop minor violation traffic stops. From an American that is still alive.

President Obama, the deaths won't stop of you don't solve the problem. This is not negotiating an arms treaty, this is bad methodology and racial profiling. It needs to end. There is no middle ground. Too many have died already.

SOLVE THE PROBLEM AND SAVE LIVES!

Citizens can go to their local mayor and council and demand city ordinances that respect human life by ending minor violation stops by police. There is a better way of doing it with current or pending technology. No police officer ever will have to get out of their car and expose themselves to danger again.

Enough is enough.

Get it done, no one else will.

That was minor violation, not minor traffic violations. No stopping for cigarello theft, selling CDs or Lucys. End minor violation stops, including traffic issues.

What a mess. There are vortices inside vortices. The southern hemisphere is getting some wicked weather.

Infrared Antarctica Satellite (click here)
12 July 2016
21 UTC

The Antarctica turbulence is NOT classic. The Southern Hemisphere needs to reassess the patterns that will effect their weather. 

THIS IS NOT CLASSIC!!!!!

It may seem classic, but, the etiology of the severity of the weather needs to be reassessed. 

THIS IS NOT CLASSIC !

July 13, 2016
821 AM

...The Bureau of Meteorology (click here) predicts today will have the worst of the weather, with temperatures close to zero expected across Victoria and strong winds and thunderstorms hitting coastal areas.

The cold air mass is a "classic Antarctic blast" that originated near the coast of Antarctica during the week, the Bureau said.

The State Emergency Service received more than 1000 calls following winds up to 100km/h that uprooted trees and caused widespread damage to property and roads.

SES duty officer Andrew Murton told the ABC the gusty conditions had played havoc across the state....

There is a real chance of increasing cold with each vortex that passes through Australia. The temperature may fall and rise slightly after the vortex passes through, but, the next will bring the cold with it and the rising temperature will stop to become cold again. As the temperatures rise, if it doesn't return to a reasonable temperature, there is a danger in that.

One of the problems people have to face is the fact they will experience weather very differently. One of the dangers in winter lies when vacillating temperatures increase the cold incrementally. People may get used to cold and not be prepared for severe cold or exposure.

The image above is from 21 hours ago when the severe weather came in on Australia. There is another one to the west that will approach as well. The vortexes currently are at a maximum and carry vortex within a vortex. Sort of like tornadoes do.

Cold is unforgiving and no one should under estimate it. 

Typhoon Nepartak crossed Taiwan causing deaths and incredible damage.

Typhoon Nepartak went from a tropical storm to a category typhoon in 48 hours.

July 9. 2016

A powerful typhoon (click here) lost power after slamming into Taiwan's eastern coast, bringing ferocious winds and torrential rains to the area.

It has killed two people and injuring 66 others.

Planes and fishing boats were grounded, while more than 15,000 people were evacuated.

Typhoon Nepartak made landfall in Taitung county before weakening to a medium-strength typhoon, the island's Central Weather Bureau reported....

NASA Observatory Report (click here)

The typhoon was so intense the air turned blue with water.

Super typhoon Nepartak (click here for blue air video) made landfall in Taiwan early Friday, about 15 kilometers south of the eastern city of Taitung, tearing roofs off buildings, flipping cars and dumping rain across the island.

So far, three deaths and 142 injuries have been reported by the Taiwan Central Emergency Operations Center after the typhoon packed winds of up to 240 kph (150 mph).

The storm hammered the eastern coast of Taiwan with torrential rain and wind for several hours prior to arrival, with photos on social media showing cars destroyed by the onslaught....

A road is washed away in Minqing county, south-east China’s Fujian province, on Sunday in the wake of super typhoon Nepartak.

Photograph: Xinhua / Barcroft Images

11 July 2016

Nearly 2,000 homes (click here) destroyed as storm brings chaos to China’s south-eastern coast after hitting Taiwan....

...The economic cost was estimated at 860m yuan (£99m).

Nepartak brought chaos to Taiwan on Friday, forcing more than 15,000 people to flee their homes as part of the island saw its strongest winds in over a century.

It had weakened into a tropical storm by the time it made landfall in Fujian on Saturday but still caused havoc, with pictures showing cars upended, buildings ripped apart and towns swamped in mud.

In Taiwan, Nepartak killed three people and injured more than 300, according to the island’s central emergency...

The killer cop said Philando Castile looked like someone wanted by police. That is an excuse and not a reason.

A woman and child was in that car!

You mean to tell me the killer cop never checked to see a man harassed by police? The killer cop decided Mr. Castile was too slick for cops and gave himself permission to carry out the death penalty?

This is BAD POLICE WORK!

Killer cops believe 'the myths' and prejudice. Who did Sandra Bland look like?

July 9, 2016
By Carla K. Johnson and Steve Karnowski

Minneapolis — When Philando Castile (click here) saw the flashing lights in his rearview mirror the night he got shot, it wasn’t unusual. He had been pulled over at least 52 times in recent years in and around the Twin Cities and given citations for minor offenses including speeding, driving without a muffler and not wearing a seat belt.
He was assessed at least $6,588 in fines and fees, although more than half of the total 86 violations were dismissed, court records show.
Was Castile an especially bad driver or just unlucky? Or was he targeted by officers who single out black motorists like him for such stops, as several of his family members have alleged?
The answer may never be known, but Castile’s stop for a broken tail light Wednesday ended with him fatally shot by a suburban St. Paul police officer, and Castile’s girlfriend livestreaming the chilling aftermath....                     

The New York Times forgot a vital column to their discussion. UNIONS and their role in obstructing justice.

Police unions are in the background of police aggression and the continued ability of incompetent officers to patrol the streets.

The New York Times is better than this. This isn't the best journalism and they know it. No different than homelessness under Reagan and bringing justice to the incarcerated including the lack luster of the USA death penalty. The injustice of the USA legal systems begins at the street. Police officers are not suppose to be held to a standard that creates immunity to wrongful deaths.

Not all unions cause death among citizens.

July 12, 2016
By Haeyoun Park

...In all of the cases (click here) listed here, officers were placed on administrative leave or reassigned soon after the episodes. That is a routine step before an internal investigation and is not a form of discipline, said Christopher Dunn, the associate legal director at the New York Civil Liberties Union....

This article appeared in The New York Times last October. The New York Times is on the trail of finding the common denominator because it is the moral thing to do. 

October 16, 2015
By Sendhi Mullainathan

...As an economist (click here) who has studied racial discrimination, I’ve begun to look at these deaths from a different angle. There is ample statistical evidence of large and persistent racial bias in other areas — from labor markets to online retail markets. So I expected that police prejudice would be a major factor in accounting for the killings of African-Americans. But when I looked at the numbers, that’s not exactly what I found.

I’m not saying that the police in these specific cases are free of racial bias. I can’t answer that question. But what the data does suggest is that eliminating the biases of all police officers would do little to materially reduce the total number of African-American killings. Police bias may well be a significant problem, but in accounting for why some of these encounters turn into killings, it is swamped by other, bigger problems that plague our society, our economy and our criminal justice system....

The methodologies in all these deaths required police aggression. The officer was on the OFFENSE from the beginning of the interaction. We have all seen the videos of cops that stopped a pick up truck or high performance cars and are caught by surprise by the driver's agenda against them. That is tragic and it happens, but, the danger to police and citizen has crossed the line and causing repeated deaths.

The methodology in stopping cars due to minor auto violations has to be reworked. The police current methodology has too much exposure to death for police and citizen, it has to be called what it is, "Bad police work."

At this point there is no accurate criticism of this police methodology so the entire behavior has to end At some point in the future the reason for citizen deaths will be known beyond a reasonable doubt and the methodology of stopping cars in traffic will return, but, it simply needs to stop now to prevent the deaths of innocent lives.

I DO NOT BUY INTO THE IDEA SOME DEATHS WILL HAPPEN TO MAINTAIN A SAFE COUNTRY. THAT IDEOLOGY IS HIDEOUS IN THE FACE OF A DEMOCRACY.

THE PERMISSION OF COPS TO KILL AT WILL BECAUSE IT CREATES A SAFE COUNTRY IS HIGHLY DANGEROUS. I SUPPOSE IF COPS CONTINUE TO KILL ANY AND ALL PEOPLE AT WILL THERE WILL BE A MORE LAWFUL COUNTRY FOR THE SAME REASON THERE ARE IMPROVEMENTS IN BAGHDAD; DEAD PEOPLE DON'T CAUSE PROBLEMS.

DON'T FORGET, THE COPS ARE NOW CARRYING BOMBS IN THEIR METHODS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. ISRAEL, AT LEAST, USE BULLDOZERS.

THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE USA IS CONDUCTED AT A PRISON. IT SHOULD NEVER BE TOLERATED ON THE AMERICAN STREETS.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE POLICE METHODOLOGY THAT PROTECTS THE INNOCENT NO MATTER WHAT!

THIS IS BAD POLICE WORK. END OF DISCUSSION.

The political circus in the USA will be finding a new platform beginning on Monday, July 18th. There are insurgents in both major parties as the nominees will be established at their national conventions.

I'll put it this way; those that seek turning conventions into still yet another resurgence of issues already decided will find the sour grapes they exude will do the work for their continued and egotistic priorities.

Party members need to get behind the nominee. The primaries mattered to set the outcomes of the future, don't ruin it.

These are silly priorities by China in aspirations to be a global leader.

Recently the USA cruised through the Pacific to let the region know there is going to be respect for sovereign borders. That had nothing to do with this finding by the international tribunal at The Hague. The USA was respected for it's military presence, but, there was more than simple strong arm status; there was justice.

China needs to realize when it comes to being a global leader aggression is not bringing allies. Currently, countries in the Pacific value the USA's alliance because it protects sovereignty. Recognizing sovereignty and international rules is paramount to having allies.

Currently, China is imposing threats to near border countries. The result in that aggression is to drive allies to the USA. What if China protected other countries in the region? What if China supported vulnerabilities of these countries with protection and not aggression? Would the USA still have allies?

China is being foolish in imposing threats to near border countries. It is bad international policy for China. I am sure Chinese leaders can now see that folly and will resolve to be a strong ally in peace rather than the threat of nuclear holocaust.

The Hague's decision recognizes sovereign borders that even the USA has to respect. This decision is not exclusive to China. The decision sets precedent for all aggression. The USA can be a trusted ally while recognizing the Hague's decision. China's leadership needs to rise to the same trusted status the USA has achieved, it is China's neighborhood after all.

The Hague's ruling stops aggression by any other country. The decision sets the stage for stability in the region, isn't that what China wants, too?

July 12, 2016
By Jane Perlez

Bejing — An international tribunal (click here) in The Hague delivered a sweeping rebuke on Tuesday of China’s behavior in the South China Sea, from the construction of artificial islands to interference with fishing, and ruled that its expansive claim to sovereignty over the waters had no legal basis.

The tribunal also said that Beijing had violated international law by causing “severe harm to the coral reef environment” and by failing to prevent Chinese fishermen from harvesting endangered sea turtles and other species “on a substantial scale.”
The landmark case, brought by the Philippines, was seen as an important crossroads in China’s rise as a global power. It is the first time the Chinese government has been summoned before the international justice system, and neighboring countries have hoped that the outcome will provide a model for negotiating with Beijing or for challenging its assertive tactics in the region....                    

I think confronting racism is unproductive at this point. I think police need better methodology to minor traffic violations.

July 12, 2016
By Juliet Eilperin

Almost exactly three years ago, (click here) US President Barack Obama stood in the White House briefing room and said that he didn't think it would be "particularly productive" for him to convene "a national conversation on race".

But in the wake of a recent series of high-profile, racially charged shootings across the country, the President this week found himself doing exactly that.

Obama spent today preparing to address the US at a memorial service tomorrow in Dallas for five slain police officers and meeting with experts and advocates at the White House aimed at bridging the divide the between law enforcement and communities of colour.

The President met for nearly two hours with leaders of five law enforcement groups, informing them that he considered the killing of the five Dallas police officers on Friday "a hate crime" and that he would work actively to serve as an intermediary between minority activists and police....

We have been pursuing the end to racism in the USA for at least the past ten years while President Obama was running for his nomination to the Democratic Party. We aren't even treading water on this issue. We are sinking.

Police work carries the idea that every traffic stop could be a larger violation once the car and it's occupants are searched. A minor traffic violation gives police permission to rummage through a car and its occupants. That has to stop. The police should be limited to ticketing the minor traffic violation and nothing more. When that is the STANDARD, the dash cam can capture a minor traffic violation to be fined through US Mail services.

It is necessary to end the violence of traffic stops we have witnessed sweeping the country. The methodology itself is deadly. The methodology brings too much anticipation of confrontation and confrontation with deadly force. This has to stop. There are innocent people dying. That should be an alarm to the profession and changes should be engaged.

I think the police over reach their authority when seeking reasons for search and seizure of innocent people stopped for a traffic violation. 

Last week I was pulled over for a tail light that was out. I didn't know why the officer stopped me until he explained why. He gave me no reason to be upset, but, I found my hands trembling and at one point I handed him my voter registration card.

The officer gave me a warning and I thanked him. I had no idea the tail light was out. I could not believe my reaction to his actions. Subconsciously I was scared to death. The fear of the minor traffic stop had never raised sincere fear in me before, but, it did that day and I am Caucasian. I just identify with people that are victims to law enforcement. 

Deaths due to minor traffic violations has to end. Dash cams can capture the violation and the US postal service can deliver the summons to appear in court. 

It seems to me more often than not the law enforcement agencies are reaching for evidence of crime in inappropriate places, such as selling CDs and Lucys. These minor traffic violations are another example of that. They won't find drug cartel bosses riding in a car with a child in the back seat while having the trunk packed with money and drugs. There is no drug cartel member selling Lucys at the corner Mini-Mart. There is no drug cartel activities saved to CDs sold on the corner of Main Street and Vine.

The law enforcement 'at the street level' is hideous. I don't want to hear about the awesome finds police made while making a minor traffic stop. That is few and far between and American lives are more important. 

End the practice of minor traffic violation now. It stops!

Comparing Donald Trump to Richard Nixon is fatal to his presidency. Richard Nixon was demanding "The Silent Majority" to vote. The Vietnam War caused raging on USA campus across the country. Richard Nixon's law and order statements lead to the deaths at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard.

How is the heightened fear of Black men existing in 2016?

Exactly, crime is down and why are Black men still dying. How is it the societal taboo exists with these men?

July 9, 2016
By Gregg Zoroya

The number of police officers shot (click here) and killed in the USA is 44% higher than at this time last year following the Dallas ambush Thursday night that left five officers dead, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. 

The deaths of four Dallas police officers and one Dallas transit officer from sniper fire during a protest in the city Thursday raised the national total of firearm deaths among police to 26. This compares with 18 at this point in time in 2015, said Nick Breul, director of research for the fund in Washington, D.C.
Breul said it was also the latest of 11 ambushes of police officers so far this year across the country, already outpacing the eight ambushes of law enforcement that occurred last year....

None of it makes sense. How can crime be down and tensions between Black men and police worse?

Don't start using money as a reason for these deaths on both side of the issue. There are reasons this is occurring and now it is getting worse and not better. Complaining about money is an opportunity and not a reason. Somehow more money paid in police salaries are going to bring the best police on the market and all the unjust killings will end. Does anyone expect me or any Black community to believe that?

So we are great people, right? We can articulate the problem. Wrong, we are not a great people because we are all talk and no resolution.

This is not resolving. Police need to stay away from minor traffic violations. Record the car license number with a video and send the owner a ticket to pay.

SEPARATE BLACK MEN FROM POLICE AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY WHERE THESE DEATHS ARE TAKING PLACE!

Sandra Bland as well was a minor traffic infraction. What happened to her was complete abuse of power from the time the cop put his top light flashers on.

Separate every citizen from the police. Send a citation through the mail no different than intersection cameras. This is ridiculous.

The day Sandra Bland was stopped, the cop was out to make money for the town. She was the second car in that same stretch of road pulled over. ONE RIGHT AFTER ANOTHER. He was looking for trouble to make his monthly quota. It is extremely obvious. He had a chance to take a traffic stop and roll it into a larger amount of money by arresting her and that is exactly what he did. It is abuse of power. Stop the police from pulling cars over for minor traffic infractions.

How many times do I have to complain about cops pulling cars over for minor traffic violations that turn into death by cop? How many times?

Peace talks between Israel and Palestine are proposed by Egypt.

10 July 2016

Before the meeting (click here) in Jerusalem on Sunday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said the Middle East was at a "crucial and challenging juncture," adding that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would have a "far-reaching and dramatic and positive impact on the overall conditions of the Middle East region. Egypt remains ready to contribute toward achieving this goal."

Egypt remains a "steadfast and unwavering" supporter of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Shoukry added.

"It is no longer acceptable to claim that the status quo is the most we can achieve," Shoukry said in Jerusalem.

The talks could indicate a thawing in Israel's foreign policy in the region, after overtures to Turkey in June....