President Obama changed U.S. drone missile attack policyThursday. He ruled that the U.S. will no longer use drone missiles to kill terrorists if innocent bystanders can get hurt. From now on al-Qaeda leaders will conduct all their operations in front of a studio audience. Â More information.Â
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Firenze Sage: Â Or [hide from drones] in a hospital or orphanage or church. Â jaj48@aol.comÂ
MI5 asked Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo if he wanted to work for them about six months before the killing, a childhood friend has said.
Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight his friend – one of two men arrested after Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder in south-east London on Wednesday – had rejected the approach from the security service.
The BBC could not obtain any confirmation from Whitehall sources. Â More information
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Firenze Sage: Â Well so much for British efficiency but then remember Philby. Â jaj48@aol.com
In Sweden  police don’t do anything to prevent cars from being torched by “youths”  Here’s  a hint, the “youths†aren’t named Erik or Gustav.  The parking regulations are strictly enforced.
So we have this absurd situation:
Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford.
When questioned, the officer explained that the ticket was issued because the vehicle lacked a tag showing its time of arrival.
The fact that the vehicle had been effectively destroyed – its windshield smashed and the interior heavily damaged by fire – was irrelevant according to the meter maid, who asked Fria Tider’s photographer to destroy the photos he had taken.  more information
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Firenze Sage: Â Is Eric Holder the AG Â for Sweeden — or does he get his ideas from them? Â Â Â Four More Obama Years
MOSCOW–A Russian court has denied parole to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group.
In its ruling Thursday, the court accepted a claim by prosecutors that Maria Alekhina had systematically disobeyed prison authorities and failed to repent for her crime, Russian media reported.
Alekhina went on a hunger strike Wednesday after being barred from the court hearing in Perm province, and she ordered her defense not to participate.
Band members Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich gained worldwide notoriety last year when a Moscow court jailed them for two years for conducting a punk protest in Moscow’s main cathedral. Â More Information
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Firenze Sage: Â REPENT say the commies because they [Pussy Riot punk group] Â are closet evangelicals? Â Â Four More Obama Years
As Memorial Day weekend gets underway, law enforcement is out in full force to crack down on drunk driving.
But SDSU grad Sennett Devermont, better known as “MrCheckpoint,” is also working overtime, publicizing through social media the locations and times of DUI checkpoints throughout San Diego and the rest of Southern California, including Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles counties.
Devermont uses Twitter, Facebook, his own website and text messages to get the word out to his tens of thousands of followers.
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Firenze Sage: Â Now we need a service to report drivers checking Mr Checkpoint on their cell phones.
The city of Detroit may be facing a deepening financial crisis but that hasn’t stopped four trustees of its public pension funds from spending $22,000 of retirement system funds to attend a conference in Hawaii this week.
John Riehl, a senior sewage plant operator and 34-year Detroit employee, is one of the four. The cost fell within continuing education guidelines set by the legislature, he said.
“It’s one of these things we trustees must do to stay on top of the field,” Riehl said. “It’s important that we participate in these conferences. The stakes are too high.” Â More information.Â
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Firenze Sage:  This is definitely it: A class in how to spend other people’s money. [taxpayer tab is  22K]  jaj48@aol.com
A 22-year-old man has been charged on suspicion of making malicious comments on Facebook.  The remarks related to  the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby.
Benjamin Flatters, from Lincoln, was arrested last night after complaints were made to Lincolnshire Police about comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature.
Flatters  was charged with an offence of malicious communications this afternoon in relation to the comments, a Lincolnshire Police spokesman said.
A second man was visited by officers and warned about his activity on social media, the spokesman added. Â More information.
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Firenze Sage: Â Most of the world does not honor free speech. Let us not lose ours. Â jaj48@aol.com Â
BELCHERTOWN (CBS) – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.
State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests†for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.
The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs.
State Police say there were no warrants or advisories on any of the individuals and “there was no evidence that the seven were committing any crime beyond the trespassing.â€
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Firneze Sage: Â Their career interest is poisoning water supplies, me thinks.
Wade Robson, who once took the stand to defend Michael Jackson against sexual molestation charges, now says the pop star sexually abused him for seven years.
‘He is now fighting for money from the Jackson’s estate and asking a probate court to allow him to file a late creditor’s claim against the estate, even though the deadline has passed for creditors to file such claims. The estate’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, has dismissed Robson’s claims.
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 Firenze Sage:  A miracle cure for amnesia— money.
