The Cafe' [Think Tank]

WHAT IS GOING ON, MY PEOPLE!!!!     Photo by: WillyBill Nov 30, 2013 @ 6:17pm by WillyBill I was sitting in my house watching tv when the piercing sound of 3 gunshots rang out. I muted my tv to see if I was hearing what I thought I had heard. I heard voices so I got up went to my back door to see a young brother waking down the street putting his hands on his head as if  it was his attempt to hold himself together. Still not quite convinced that I heard gun shots I progressed to the back door. Suddenly, I saw a sister running toward the sound then a brother; meanwhile the brother that was with the victim continued to walk away numb as if in shock. I immediately ran to my phone to dial 911. The operator answered, she began asking me questions about what happened, I became frustrated because I couldn't answer her questions, I wanted to but I didn't have the answers. Finally, I saw the police lights in the crack of my open door. I said, "the police are here."...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) --  U.S. law enforcement accessed a database of phone calls for a longer time than the National Security Agency's monitored cellphones, The New York Times said. The Hemisphere Project , a partnership between federal and local drug officials and AT&T, involves a close association between the government and the company for at least six years, enabling law enforcement officials, through subpoenas, to access a huge AT&T database with records of decades of Americans' phone calls, the Times said. The government pays the telecommunications giant to place its employees in drug-fighting units nationwide, the Times said. The company employees sat alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives, supplying phone data from as far back as 1987. The Times said it received Hemisphere training slides from Drew Hendricks, a peace activist in Port Hadlock, Wash., who said he received the presentation in response to public infor...