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Environmentalist Nutbag Killed By Police At Discovery Channel Headquarters – ABC News
A radical enviornmentalist who took three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters while wearing what police may be explosives was shot and killed by officers, police said.
The gunman, identified as James Lee, was killed by police following four hours of negotiations but the hostages are all safe, said Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger.
Manger said the suspect had “metalic canisters” strapped to his chest and back. When Lee was struck by police bullets, one of the canisters “popped.” Police have not confirmed if the canisters were a bomb, but Manger said the “device may have gone off” when he was shot.
Manger said police will search the building looking for other potential explosives Lee may have left inside.
“All the hostages are safe,” Manger said, ending a four hour standoff in which some 1,900 employees were evacuated from the building as well as the company’s on-site daycare center.
Manger said police spoke with Lee “for several hours” during which time he expressed “a wide range of emotions during those communications.”
Law enforcement identified the suspect as James Lee, 43, from Washington, D.C., who has for at least two years called for protests against the company and who was arrested and found guilty of disorderly conduct for a protest outside of Discovery’s headquarters in 2008.
In a rambling manifesto on Lee’s website, believed to have been written by Lee, the writer rails against “disgusting human babies,” “parasitic infants,” and says people should “disassemble civilization.” The manifesto also calls on Discovery to “broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet.”
The drama began when workers in the building got a bulletin from the building’s security.
“We have reason to believe there is an armed gunman at One Discovery Place. All employees should seek protection in a locked office on their respective floors immediately,” read an email sent to employees and read over the public address system.
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Audits: ICE Isn’t Cracking Down On Employers Of Illegal Aliens – Houston Chronicle
Immigration inspectors poring over the hiring paperwork of a California company last summer found that 262 employees – a whopping 93 percent of the total workforce – had “suspect” documents on file.
At an Illinois service company, auditors found dubious documents for nearly 8 in 10 of its employees. Inspectors examining records at a Texas firm found suspicious paperwork for over half of its employees.
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Clashes, Rioting In Indonesia Over Death Of Man In Jail – CNN
The death of a man in police custody has led to deadly riots in Indonesia, police said on Thursday.
The unrest, in the town of Buol in central Sulawesi, started over what police say were rumors that a man arrested on Monday had been tortured to death. Police late Tuesday and early Wednesday opened fire on an angry crowd when hundreds attacked a local police station.
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Judge Rules Against Obama On Oil Drilling – Yahoo News
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the government’s request to dismiss an industry lawsuit challenging its deepwater oil drilling moratorium, dealing another blow to the Obama administration.
Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc and other drilling companies sued the administration on June 7 after it first ordered a halt to deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico following BP Plc’s well rupture.
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Massachusetts Gets Hurricane Warning – MSNBC
As Hurricane Earl churned toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina with top sustained winds near 140 mph, forecasters issued a hurricane warning much further up the coast Thursday for parts of Massachusetts, including Nantucket.
The center of the hurricane was about 300 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N.C., around midday Thursday.
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Departing White House Economic Adviser Urges More Spending – CNS
Christina Romer, the departing chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, said the “only surefire ways” to boost the economy are for the “government to spend more and tax less.”
She also said that concern about the federal deficit is no “excuse for leaving unemployed Americans to suffer.” Romer predicted that the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act would drop unemployment to 8%.
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Ban On Plastic Grocery Bags Defeated In California Senate – Xinhua
California’s Senate has defeated a bill to impose a first-in-the-nation ban on plastic grocery bags, lawmakers said on Wednesday. This was the second time that the bill, AB 1998, failed a Senate vote at an overnight session.
The new ban, rejected by a 21 to 14 vote, would have included grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores.
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Democrat State Senator From Maryland Indicted On Extortion, Bribery Charges – Washington Examiner
A federal grand jury has indicted powerful Maryland Senate committee chairman Ulysses S. Currie on charges of bribery, extortion, and mail fraud and making false statements.
Currie, a Democrat from Forestville, is accused of taking an off-the-book job with Shoppers Food Warehouse in exchange for using his position to influence government business to benefit the supermarket chain.
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911 Caller: ‘I Need A Hug And Hot Chocolate’ – KPTV
A man called 911 to tell police he needed a towel and a hug, but instead he found himself arrested on criminal trespassing charges. Mark Eskelsen was found in a private hot tub at the Four Seasons Rec Center at about 7 a.m.
Neighbors had complained about noise in the area, but police said Eskelsen called emergency dispatchers himself and claimed to be the Washington County sheriff.
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Golfer Sparks 12-Acre Fire With Shot In The Rough – London Telegraph
His hacking in the rough caused a spark that lit the rough ablaze and spread, destroying 12 acres, although no homes were destroyed. The fire, at the exclusive Shady Canyon Golf Club in Irvine, California, USA, attracted 150 firefighters.
Capt Greg McKeown, from the Orange County Fire Authority, said: “We had firefighters on the ground and attacking the fire on the ridge.”
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Man Lost Masterpiece After Drinking Session – Orange News
A New York man is being sued for apparently losing a £:900,000 painting after a drinking session. James Haggerty says he lost the Jean Baptiste Camille Corot masterpiece, Portrait of a Girl, after a bender at The Mark hotel in Manhattan.
“I think he’s a complete fumbling idiot,” Kristyn Trudgeon, who co-owns the painting, told the New York Daily News.
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Man Replaces Ex-Girlfriend With Custom-Made Sex Doll – News AU
A sex-starved businessman was so hung up on his ex-girlfriend after she dumped him that he paid $18,000 to recreate her as a life-sized sex doll.
The 50-year-old man put together a collection of photos of his ex and told Italian adult toymaker Diego Bortolin: “I want it just like her but with bigger boobs”. Mr Bortolin creates extremely realistic sex dolls at the factory behind his shop.
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Ed,
I don’t know if we should call them ‘nutbags’, etc. anymore. I’m beginning to think they are mainstream Progressives.