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Washington, D.C. (HNNUSA) - An NSA program called DROPOUTJEEP allows the agency to intercept SMS messages from virtually all Apple iPhones, access contact lists, locate a phone using cell tower data, and even activate the device's microphone and camera, according to leaked documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and German news magazine Der Spiegel.

Dally Mailreports a Florida teen watching his drunk father beat his mother defended her by shooting the violent man dead.

Christopher Albano, 35, came home drunk early Wednesday morning and started hitting his wife. The 15-year-old boy rushed to her defense by grabbing a gun and shooting the violent father dead on the spot. There were two other children in the home at the time.

The boy was taken into custody last night but not arrested while police decided whether to file charges, according to multiple reports.

Police arrived at the Avalon home after the beaten woman called 911 to say her husband came home drunk and was beating her just before 2:30am, police told the Orlando Sentinel.

She told police that her son had shot the violent man dead.

The family was at a New Year's Eve party in the neighborhood before the altercation, neighbors told WESH.

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Politicker reports a line hundreds deep and hours long snaked through the City Hall rotunda this afternoon, crammed with New Yorkers waiting to take a picture with the new mayor of New York City after his inauguration.


To the many admirers of Mayor Bill de Blasio, the first Democratic mayor in two decades, a bitter cold day in January and a massive wait could do little to diminish their glow.



“It was awesome. I guess you can say it was like a growth experience for me because I’m grateful my vote counted and the guy I really wanted to get in, got in,” said Helen Marrow, a Manhattan hotel worker, as she waited for her turn with Mr. de Blasio.
“It’s something I never imagined, but I am so thrilled for him and his family and it gives me faith in politics in general,” reflected Marian Fontana, a writer from Staten Island. “I probably waited an hour and a half.”

Mr. de Blasio, looking confident between indecipherable small talk and endless photos–chugging a can of Limoncello to keep fresh in his dark suit and red tie–was feted as the sudden hero of progressives and good-government advocates across the city.

But the inauguration, which was touted before-hand as “one of the most open and accessible swearing-in events in New York City history,” also provided a window into how the administration will handle the new crush of attention, with Mr. de Blasio–a former political operative known to be image-conscious–keping certain aspects of the event tightly controlled.

Along with Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo and the other stars who graced the inauguration stage, various non-political New Yorkers were asked to join them, lending the event an even more populist tinge. Hours before the speeches began, those New Yorkers sat quietly on folding chairs in the City Hall rotunda. But when Politicker approached a man to ask him about how it felt to take part in the inauguration, security quickly circled and demanded the interview end.

Later, when reporters tried to approach volunteers at the event, staffers quickly swooped in, saying the volunteers were barred from talking to the press.

And after Mr. de Blasio’s speech, reporters gathered inside on a carpet awaiting the Clintons were ordered by security guards off the carpet and behind columns where several refused to go. When asked who was inside, a de Blasio aide guarding the entrance was terse.

“Keep wondering,” he offered.

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This is just the tip of the iceberg of how secretive the de Blasio regime will be.  

Politicker reports during the election season, Bill de Blasio was often painted by conservatives as a leftist radical. But at his inauguration today, it was not Mr. de Blasio who dropped the most aggressive lines, but the first two speakers at the event.


In particular, Rev. Fred Lucas Jr., who was among several chaplains representing the city’s uniformed workers, surprised many observers by comparing the five boroughs to a “plantation.”


“Let the plantation called New York City be the city of God, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness,” he declared. “Elevate our valleys. Make low our mountains. Make our crooked places straight and our rough places smooth. Oh God, oh God, oh God, break every chain, break every chain, break every chain.”

Mr. Lucas had several additional references to slavery in his short address, citing shackles, bondage, auction blocks, the Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

“Oh God, on this first day of January–the anniversary of the first Emancipation Proclamation–sound forth the trumpets of heaven proclaiming a new Emancipation Proclamation in New York City,” he invoked. “From your divine leadership, emancipate every New Yorker from the shackles of fear, futility and frustration … Oh God, end the civil wars and usher in a new Reconstruction Era that builds upon the many successes and achievements of yesterday while proclaiming the beginning of a new beginning.”

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US Military Defeated By Idiots!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, that sexual assaults in the US military are up -- and climbing!

The leftists in America's government have tried for decades to destroy the world's finest military and they have very nearly completed that task, almost reached their goal.  They should be proud of themselves. They have accomplished what some of the strongest militaries on the planet have been unable to do and that is -- defeat the US military.

Allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military and allowing women in combat positions are the last nails in the US military's coffin. Both have compromised the effectiveness of the military.

Look.  Even a blithering idiot knows that if you place healthy young men and women in close situations for prolonged periods nature will run its course and have its way. 

Don't believe me?  Ask about the US Navy ships having to put women sailors ashore due to pregnancies. (Naval policy is to transfer women immediately to shore duty if they become pregnant) It is mind boggling.  The numbers were so high, one had to wonder when they found time to sail the cussed ship.   Some even referred to it as "The LOVE Boat."  For more, read the article from the New York Times published April 30th, 1991 entitled:  36 Women Pregnant Aboard a Navy Ship That Served in Gulf at: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/30/us/36-women-pregnant-aboard-a-navy-ship-that-served-in-gulf.html

There were reasons women were not allowed to serve alongside men on seafaring vessels.  That has been a virtual law of the sea since men began venturing out onto the water alone for prolonged periods.

Oh, it gets worse. The number of reported sexual assaults in the military increased by more than 50 percent this year, according to a report by The Associated Press.  You may check the story from the Associated Press for yourself at: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ap-early-data-shows-50-percent-increase-in-reports-of-military-sexual-assaults/

Then we get stories like this one:  "Female Marines Not Required To Do 1 Pull-Up."  The article explains: "Females in the Marine Corps currently are not required to do even a single pull-up, and a deadline mandating that by Jan. 1, 2014, they be able to do at least 3 pull-ups as part of their  training has been delayed for at least a year, the Corps quietly announced on social media." - SOURCE:  http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-boland/female-marines-not-required-do-1-pull#sthash.ez0B7byV.dpuf

Then we get this report from the New York Daily News:  "Majority of sexual assaults and rapes committed in military in 2011 were against men."  This article was published way back in September of 2012 and says the following:  "Of the estimated 19,000 reported sexual assaults and rapes in the armed forces last year, the majority were actually committed against men."

The article goes on: "Men are assaulted at a lower rate — 1% of servicemen reported being attacked by a comrade last year versus 4.4% of women — but that still translates to more than 10,000 cases compared with 9,000 attacks on female recruits and officers."

“This is the supersilent epidemic,” said Dr. Curt Dill, chief of emergency medicine at the Manhattan VA... ."

Dr. Dill continued:  "It is not accepted in our culture that this happens to men, so they are far more ashamed and embarrassed and far less likely to talk about their experiences with their health care providers or even their loved ones.”  - SOURCE:   http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/majority-sexual-assaults-rapes-committed-military-2011-men-article-1.1150235#ixzz2oo61SY8d

There's an old expression that states:  "Stop crying over spilt milk -- and get the mop!"  We KNOW the source of the problem.  We know what to do to stop it, but, in all honesty, it won't be "fixed" because our Congress doesn't have the courage to do that which ought to be done. 

In the meantime, those of us who insisted that unit cohesion would be affected by allowing homosexuals to serve openly, and allowing women in combat roles, have been MORE than proven correct.  We now know it's not just unit cohesion, but the cohesion of the entire armed forces of the United States. 

America's domestic enemies, those Americans who hate America, are deliberately destroying the US military.  Why, because they can -- and they KNOW they can get away with it because they ARE getting away with it. 

THIS is what lack of courageous leadership in Washington does to a country.  

J. D. Longstreet