Archive for the 'Florida' Category
Florida: Police State Urban Week
May 22nd, 2013Via: CBS: Cameras, both mobile and stationary, have been installed throughout the city. Ready to be deployed throughout the city of Miami Beach are a total of 62 light towers, twelve visual messaging boards and three watch towers. Roughly 400 officers per shift from multiple agencies will pack the streets of Miami Beach. In addition […]
Florida Tweaks Traffic Lights to Rob Citizens of Millions of Dollars
May 15th, 2013Via: WTSP: A subtle, but significant tweak to Florida’s rules regarding traffic signals has allowed local cities and counties to shorten yellow light intervals, resulting in millions of dollars in additional red light camera fines. The 10 News Investigators discovered the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) quietly changed the state’s policy on yellow intervals in […]
Florida: Teen Faces Felony Charges for High School Science Experiment
May 2nd, 2013Via: Riptide: Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record. She wasn’t the kind of kid you’d expect to find hauled away in handcuffs and expelled from school, but that’s exactly what happened after an attempt at a science project went horribly wrong. On 7 a.m. on Monday, the 16 year-old mixed […]
Gladio, NATO’s Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis by Richard Cottrell
April 1st, 2013Disclosure: The publisher sent me a copy of this book for review. This is a very richly detailed and terrifying account of Operation Gladio. There are many more tentacles than I had previously known about. While the imbroglios set in motion after World War II may seem like ancient history to the uninitiated, Gladio actually […]
Florida County Spends Tens Of Thousands On Ambulance For Obese Patients
March 30th, 2013Via: CBS: The Orange County Fire and Rescue spends tens of thousands of dollars for an ambulance to transport patients that weigh up to 1,100 pounds. Central Florida News 13 reports that the ambulance was purchased after emergency responders had to transport at least two dozen patients who weighed more than 500 pounds last year. […]
Florida Man Feared Dead After Sinkhole Swallows Him
March 2nd, 2013Via: Reuters: A Florida man was missing and feared dead on Friday after a sinkhole suddenly opened up under the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, police and fire officials said. Rescuers responded to a 911 call late on Thursday after the family of Jeff Bush, 36, reported hearing a loud crash in the house […]
Miami Police Officer Luis Hernandez Held Without Bond on Armed Sexual Battery, Kidnapping Charges
February 6th, 2013Via: NBC: The Miami Police officer arrested for allegedly kidnapping and sexually battering a woman while on duty is being held without bond, a Miami-Dade judge said Thursday. Luis Hernandez, 27, made his initial court appearance on charges of armed sexual battery by a law enforcement officer and armed kidnapping. Internal affairs detectives arrested Hernandez […]
Florida Cops Too Busy Drinking Coffee and Screwing Around to Respond to Emergency Calls
February 6th, 2013That sergeant looks like it’s on the Jabba the Hutt diet. Via: NBC: A group of Miami-Dade police officers was disciplined following a 2010 internal affairs investigation, police documents showed. Five police officers and one sergeant with the Kendall squad were allegedly caught on camera ignoring emergency dispatch calls. The video, obtained by NBC 6 […]
U.S. Air Force X-37B Returns to Orbit
December 12th, 2012Via: NBC: An Atlas 5 rocket sent the Air Force’s X-37B mini-shuttle on its first repeat flight on Tuesday, kicking off a months-long classified mission reportedly aimed at testing advanced spy satellite sensors.
‘U.S. Ready to Offer Mercenaries $10 Billion for a Drug-War Air Force’
December 5th, 2012Kill the competition. Steal their drugs. Profit. Via: Wired: Unsure how your private security firm makes money as the U.S. war in Afghanistan winds down? One option: Go into the drug trade — more specifically, the lucrative business of fighting narcotics. The State Department needs a business partner to keep its fleet of drug-hunting helicopters […]
