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June 28, 2012: The House votes to hold Holder in contempt of Congress, but he does not face criminal prosecution. House Republicans are joined by 17 Democrats in citing Holder, while dozens of Democrats walk out in protest. |
The House also cites Holder for civil contempt to give it the option of filing a lawsuit compelling Holder to turn over documents sought by Oversight Committee investigators. Issa concedes that investigators lack any evidence that Holder knew of the failed weapons-tracking tactics of Fast and Furious. |
July 9, 2012: Federal authorities unseal an indictment charging five men in Terry's death. |
The indictment charges Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, Ivan Soto-Barraza, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes and Lionel Portillo-Meza with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, attempted interference with commerce by robbery, carrying and using a fire... |
Up to $1 million is offered for information leading to the arrest of four men still at large. |
September 19, 2012: The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general issues a report finding 14 ATF and DoJ employees responsible for management failures in the Fast and Furious operation. The report refers the 14 for possible disciplinary action, but did not recommend criminal sanctions. |
The report also finds that Holder was not informed of the operation until 2011, after Terry's December 2010 death. |
Also, Holder announces that Melson, the acting ATF director, has retired, and that former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein has resigned. |
Some fancy talking there. You forgot one thing. An agent DIED because of some screwed up government plan. Nobama and his cronies need to be taken to task for it. Plain and simple. By the way, this November vote for the Mormon, not the Moron. |
I'll stick the "Moron". He's much smarter than you think. |
That is WITH the "Moron". |
Fact: The ATF agents made repeated calls to the Justice Department to make arrests of the people in possession of the weapons, as they obtained their evidence. |
Fact: The Justice Department ignored the agents requests and the suspects were unable to be arrested. |
The ATF agents are good people trying to stop guns from getting into criminal hands. They were told to make gun shop owners sell these guns to known "straw buyers" and then not allowed to do anything about it as they transferred hands. How could any agent with a conscious allow this to go on. Eventually someone was bra... |
We should all be outraged by this, Democrats and Republicans alike. |
I live in Arizona. I hear a lot of news about the border that people are shocked to hear in other parts of the country. I have been hearing about fast and furious for over a year now. Aside from that there have been car bombs, be-headings and other murders on OUR SIDE of the border. But we are told our border has never... |
The problem is that the media dismisses any controversy or wrongdoing by this administration. CNN is a major player in that. Be diverse in what you read. There is more news out there other than CNN and Fox. |
Obama and Holder are murders. Aided the killing of over 300 persons. Send Obama and Holder to the big house.. |
Poor Mr. Holder, of course he had nothing to do with this. |
We know of the death of 1 American due to the use of guns lost by F&F. Now Imagine how many Mexicans died due to those guns. Not that anyone in American care, since they don't look like us, but good to remember when trying to understand why everyone in the world hates us and our infamous double standards. |
The agent, Brian A. Terry, was an American child, and deserved to have his death answered. I would have demanded answers this if he was black, Latino or Purple . Would the Black Congressional Leaders have done the same? Do they fight as hard for answers of t he deaths of the children of Michigan and Ill., Atlanta, and ... |
If it was a Repub responsible, we wouldn't have even heard of this. Instead it is a big issue, but it won't help the Trust Fund Baby ger elected! There's no hope for a hypocrite like him. |
Furget a bout it! So much for the Obama Administration being TRANSPARENT,Bottom line is, even though DOJ has handed over 2700 pages of documents, they are not supplying the MISSING documents and the ones that the Congressional Committe really wants.Having this alleged check and balance that exists between the three bra... |
CNN as Usual, my POSTS have fallen into your Abyss!!!!!!!! |
And that means you go declassifying things and putting them out in the open and having hearing just because it's election time, it puts a LOT of people in danger and can have some really negative consequences. Hey people will know about this; but now is just not the time, and it's not going to reveal anything that woul... |
Why are people just assuming that because the weapons are traced back to a certain agency that is responsible for keeping track of that kind of thing, that that is the main agency involved in this operation, or that any of this is the case when nothing is released yet? Pentagon and Whitehouse "leaks" could be nothing b... |
NOTHING our intelligence agencies do should be public. Operations are subject to failure and successes – that's just how it is. FBI, CIA, DEA – all of them should be priviledge informaiton not for media, congress and especially not the press. |
Some time line. It starts with the killing in 2010. We want to know when the illconceived program start and when was the weapon used in the killing allowed to go to Mexico. Every thing that happened after the 2010 killing is pure politics. But what else can we expect from the right leaning CNN staff. |
Lillian Williams Notice: Lillian Williams’s Obituary by the The Sydney Morning Herald. |
Passed away peacefully on August 2, 2018. |
Loved by her many friends and family. |
A Celebration of Lillian's Life will be held in the Chapel of White Lady Funerals, 4 East Parade, Eastwood on Friday August 10, 2018 at 10am. |
In lieu of floral tributes please consider a donation to the Starlight Children's Foundation in Lillian's honour. |
Sweden keeper Andreas Isaksson claims Joe Cole is the key to the success of England's World Cup campaign. |
Cole scored and was outstanding in the 2-2 draw with Sweden that sealed a last 16 clash with Ecuador on Sunday. |
Isaksson told BBC Sport: "Cole was England's best player by a long way. He is very important to this England team. |
"He has lots of skills the others don't have. He scored a great goal, a little lucky perhaps, but still a great goal. We were very impressed with him." |
Isaksson's verdict was backed up by your player ratings for the game with Cole, who scored 8.45, well clear of all his England team-mates. |
Isaksson believes England could still progress in the tournament, despite struggling desperately in the second half in Cologne. |
He said: "England can go very far, but it is a tough competition and from now on any team can win this." |
Sweden maintained their record of not losing against England for 38 years, thanks to Henrik Larsson's late equaliser. |
Isaksson said: "I don't know why England can't beat us. |
"I think we are extra motivated when we play against England because in Sweden we grew up with English football and we watch the Premier League. |
"It has always inspired us and we have many players who have played in the Premier League. Whatever the reason, we are happy about it and happy England still couldn't beat us here. We take great confidence from that." |
The Council has received the following applications that are required to be statutorily advertised. They can be seen, together with the plans, ONLINE at www.richmond.gov.uk/planning; at the Civic Centre, 44 York Street, Twickenham TW1 3BZ; and at the Libraries indicated. Enquiries can only be dealt with at the Civic Ce... |
Rear roof extensions including alterations to the pitch of the front roof slope and raising the ridge of the main roof and installation of new doors to the rear elevation of the outrigger. |
Single storey side, rear and front extensions, roof extension, new rooflights, alterations to existing fenestration and new rear terrace to existing detached dwelling. |
The proposed development is for a single dwelling, consisting of ground floor and basement floor with an intensive green roof, fronting on to Mount Ararat Road, with private driveway parking, secure storage for min. 2 bicycles and private rear garden space. |
Installation of wooden frame with cover and new extract flue to rear to facilitate the change of use of premises from A1 (retail) to a mixed A1/ A3 (retail/cafe) use. |
Demolition of the existing side extension, outbuilding and covered bin store and erection of single-storey ground floor side extension, including alterations to boundary wall and installation of a gate. Installation of 3 rooflights. |
Installation of new staircase handrails leading to northern elevation transept door and prayer chapel door. |
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday at 5:39 p.m. EDT (2139 GMT). The commercial booster is hauling up the Thaicom 8 television broadcasting satellite from Cape Canaveral. The rocket’s first stage successfully landed on SpaceX’s recovery platform in the Atlantic Ocean. |
The Falcon 9 rocket’s fifth flight of the year will take off from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, heaving the Thaicom 8 communications satellite into orbit on an easterly trajectory from Florida’s Space Coast. |
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine kerosene-fueled Merlin engines on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Tuesday evening in a critical milestone before liftoff with a commercial Thai communications satellite later in the week. |
The construction of infrastructure projects at Hanoi's Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park was launched on Friday, after being delayed for years due to sluggish site clearance, local media reported. |
About US$450 million has been assigned for the task, most of which comes from Japan's official development assistance funding program. |
When all the infrastructure projects are ready in 2018, the park, around 47 kilometers from the city's center, will attract more investment, Hoa Lac's management board was quoted as saying. |
Since Hoa Lac was established in 1998, Vietnamese authorities have licensed 67 hi-tech projects with a combined capital of over VND56.8 trillion, including a $35-million tech institute invested by the South Korean government, Pham Dai Duong, chief of the management board, said. |
About half of the approved projects have gone into operation, Duong said. |
Last year total exports of these businesses hit $133 million. |
The husband who is suspected of murdering his wife 16 months ago and threw himself off an 80ft cliff after a police chase buried her remains underneath their restaurant, authorities say. |
David Viens, 43, who survived the fall last Wednesday in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Dawn, 39, in October 2009, after his alleged suicide attempt. |
The floors and walls of the Thyme Contemporary Cafe in Lomita are being excavated with pickaxes, shovels and cadaver dogs by authorities hoping to solve the mystery of what happened to Mrs Viens. |
Viens may have remodelled the café with new floors and walls to conceal his wife’s body after killing her at their former home where blood stains were allegedly found, officials said. |
He may have buried his wife's body in freshly poured concrete, investigators said. |
Detectives have also been searching his mother's home in Lomita, his brother's plumbing business in Gardena and the home he shares with his girlfriend in Torrance. |
He claims his wife ran away to the mountains from their restaurant 16 months ago after an argument over whether she should go for drug rehabilitation. |
But authorities were suspicious because of ‘inconsistent statements’ he gave and the fact she left behind her wallet, mobile phone and other personal belongings. |
His new girlfriend, Kathy Galvan, then took over Mrs Viens’s job and moved into her home, before he was seen throwing out his wife’s belongings into a dustbin behind his restaurant, police said. |
He survived the fall last Wednesday but suffered critical injuries and was arrested on suspicion of murder at Harbor UCLA Medical Center on Monday, reported the Los Angeles Times. |
Viens was placed in an induced coma and recently had a breathing tube removed. |
Last week the case was upgraded from a missing person to homicide, after it was revealed detectives allegedly found blood splattered on the walls inside his home last November. |
Fliers were sent out reporting Mrs Viens was a missing person who may have been murdered, and detectives developed enough information to identify him as a suspect in her killing. |
Police had been looking for him when they saw Viens and his new live-in girlfriend, Kathy Galvan in his car on a road near the coastline by Point Vicente Interpretive Center near Rancho Palos Verdes. |
He sped off to a lighthouse car park, jumped out and began grappling with Ms Galvan before officers tried to intervene. But Viens broke free and seemed to purposely leap off the cliff to the beach below. |
‘Viens dove off a 100ft cliff to avoid talking to our detectives, and that is somewhat telling,’ Sheriff's Department detective chief Bill McSweeney said. |
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It’s no secret that the global economy is in trouble, so if you’re bored of the world of stocks and bonds and feel the tedium of a slowing market, the time may have come to explore a whole new world of investment: space travel. |
In a few years, passenger travel into the world beyond our own will be a reality, and as the lucrative possibilities for commercial trips into the galaxy continue to grow, now might be the time to leave the rat race and join the new and much more exciting space race, according to some space travel enthusiasts. |
"Our mission is to start taking people to space commercially from the beginning of 2014," co—founder of Space Expedition Curacao Michiel Mol told CNBC. "We can take people to space in a small rocket ship, with one passenger and one pilot. It takes off like a conventional airplane and then goes straight up into the air ... |
"It’s a spaceship built by a company called XCor. It flies on jet fuel so we can land, refuel and go again; we have four flights a day with one spaceship," he said. |
Mol’s company is already working in partnership with major commercial airlines, like Dutch carrier KLM. "KLM has the same vision as we have: in 20—25 years from now the next successor of our spaceship will be able to take you from London to Sydney within two hours," Mol said. |
Co-founder of another pioneering space travel company ZeroInfinity, Jose Mariano Lopez—Urdiales, was also confident of success. "We go where the sky is black and the earth is blue," he said. |
The company’s approach is to use new green technologies to send up helium balloons supporting pods with four passengers each into space. And with around 20 million euros ($26 million) of investment needed, it is a fraction of the cost of a space shuttle launch which costs around $1 billion. |
It is a sector aimed at high-net worth individuals, led at present by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic which has sold 430 tickets to space at a cost of $200,000 each. SXC has sold over 50 tickets for a much reduced $95,000 each and in third place is Bloon, whose tickets have not yet gone on sale but will start at arou... |
Despite these high prices, the industry is already starting to take off, and Mol was optimistic: "If everything goes to plan the company is profitable this year already," he said. Lopez—Urdiales also foresaw soaring profits: "From 100 flights we can start to break even which is incredibly early for such a system." |
For the prospective investor, gaining access means investing in a company, as there are currently no funds. The new Space Global Index could help shed light on the sector. |
"It's really pioneering so there are not that many companies involved yet but the number will grow," said Mol. |
But with such massive costs and as yet untested ventures into space, are the fundamentals there to secure a real investment, or is it all just hot air? |
CEO of iBundle and DADapp.com, Julian Ranger, told CNBC that the move to space was inevitable. "There is quite a move to space. The moon is the next place we are going to go basically for resources and experiments," he said. |
"Therefore you need to actually understand the conditions on the moon … and there is a little bit of entertainment money that we can get as well." |
He explained how private companies can work in conjunction with major space exploration programs to make significant profits. NASA will pay upfront the $100 million needed for his company’s trip to the moon, in exchange for help with a water exploration project. Once on the moon, the company is then free to take contra... |
And with cost-cutting exercises slashing government budgets, the opportunities for private companies to get in on the action are growing. |
"If you go back to the early 2000s, NASA had a plan for eight lunar exploration missions at $1 billion each," Ranger continued. "We are doing this for sub $100 million, so we can really dramatically save for them." |
"And then we open up—there are a lot of other commercial entities that want to do low gravity experimental research, other experiments from the moon because of its unique characteristics. So we can meet both sets of requirements very cheaply, and therefore make quite a large profit," he said. |
Ranger said that although major government agencies have budgets that far exceed anything a private company could muster, the know-how is there to keep costs low—private businesses can book rockets for far less than the cost of developing them themselves, and also essentially streamline what would otherwise be more bur... |
"You can do this with low cost now, with the materials, the understanding … so we can definitely do it," he said. |
But it’s not all business for Ranger, who’ll be racing robots to the moon in Google’s multi-million dollar project 'The Lunar X Space Race.' He also has his ticket booked on a Virgin Galactic flight for next year. So, along with an investment to really boost your portfolio, just think what space travel could do you for... |
It’s finally that time. Put down your prelim study guides, your Redbull and your Venti Starbucks cup, and evacuate Olin immediately, because Homecoming weekend is upon us! The last hurrah before fall exams, it’s sure to be an amazing weekend. The weather forecast looks good (albeit a bit cold — red scarf?) and I’m bett... |
Oh, and who can forget Avicii is playing Saturday night?! Well, I suppose the 15,000-plus disappointed non-ticket holders, but, this is not a post protesting such injustice. It is purposeful, nonetheless: This is a guide on what to wear this festive weekend. |
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