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Robert O’Neill, Former SEAL Claimed He Shot Osama Bin Laden

November 13, 2014 By Deborah Nielsen Leave a Comment

Recently, Fox News took an exclusive interview of Robert O’Neill, former Navy SEAL who claimed he shot Osama Bin Laden. He explained how he looked into the Al Qaeda leader eyes before he killed him.

Former Navy SEAL who has come forward openly to discuss the May 2011 raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, stated he was most likely the last person bin Laden saw.

“He was standing 2 feet in front of me, hand on his wife, the face I have seen 1000’s times. I thought, ‘We got him, we just ended the war.'” O’Neill stated.

“Osama Bin Laden looked into my eyes before I shot him dead,” O’Neill said. I was the very first person in the SEAL team to go in bin Laden’s bedroom on the raid’s night. Bin Laden apparently attempted to defend himself with his youngest wife before he was shot.

About ten years-long manhunt for the man who planned the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C has ended. But I am still trying to puzzle out whether it was the best thing I ever did or the worst one,” O’Neill added.

Though, O’Neill is bearing some long term consequences after the raid, which he told to Esquire (that didn’t name him) last year. He got separated from his wife and now struggling to pay bills.

In addition, some disputes regarding who actually fired the shot that killed Osama Bin Laden were roaming around. “O’Neill did not fire the fatal shot,” claimed by an anonymous source who was close to another member of the SEAL team that carried out the raid.

“Two leaders of US Naval Special Warfare Command sent a letter to their team members on 31st Oct, two days after the Fox interview was announced, in which they attacked any SEAL who would abuse their “ethos” and talk about a mission in public, SOFREP, a website that covers national security and US special operations forces,” revealed.

FEMA Ask NYC Adult Home Residents To Repay Aid Money

November 9, 2014 By Brian Galloway 2 Comments

Belle Harbor Manor citizens spent 4 wretched months in emergency shelters after Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters rushed through their living center on New York City’s Rockaway peninsula.

At the moment, the home’s disabled, seniors and mostly poor citizens possess a new nuisance: The FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) has requested some of them to repay 1000’s of dollars in disaster aid.

Recently, Robert Rosenberg, 61, who was one of the Belle Harbor Manor citizens who got notices from FEMA telling them that they retroactively been affirmed disqualified for aid inspections they received 2 yrs ago within the storm’s immediate consequences. The issue, the letters stated, could be that the money was intended to have been allocated to temporary housing, however that never happened since the citizens were moved from one state-funded shelter to another.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency gave Rosenberg until 15^th November to mail a reimbursement check for $2,486 or file a petition.

Rosenberg said, “We are on the fixed earnings. I don’t have that money! I am suffering from a spine disability along with other chronic health issues. Long ago, I spent that aid money on food and clothing, both of which were in short supply after the storm.”

Certainly, these demand letters are part of a larger FEMA effort to recuperate huge amount of money in aid obligations that went to barred homes, either due to errors, a misunderstanding of the rules or utter fraud.

FEMA was inspecting 4,500 homes it suspected had received improper aids. In those days, 850 has been requested to return a sum of $5.8 million. Some other cases are still under review, the Associated Press reported in September.

On Tuesday, the Associated Press requested up-to-date figures on the number of storm sufferers who was simply requested to return money, but FEMA did not immediately provide them.

Though, data acquired via a previous public records request demonstrated that by July 30, the company was thinking about a recoupment action against 35 citizens of aided living facilities within the same a part of Queens that’s the home to Belle Harbor Manor. Overall, those citizens had received $108,598, with most of that money projected to cover temporary housing. 5 citizens had also received aid to cover destroyed property.

Right after their hysterical migration, Belle Harbor Manor citizens were initially come to an enormous evacuation center setup in the Brooklyn armory, then spent a short period sleeping four-to-a-room in a hotel inside a crime-affected neighborhood where these were advised not to go outdoors at night.

Afterwards, the state then moved the citizens, a lot of whom are afflicted with mild mental ailments, to some midway house on the grounds of a partly-abandoned psychiatric hospital in Queens, where they bunked on cots and were barred from getting site visitors in their rooms.

Rosenberg told that the FEMA employees who advised him to get assistance during the time when citizens were staying in the armory never described that the money could just be used for housing.

“Everybody asked, ‘Do we need to pay this back afterwards? Is it a loan?’ They said, ‘No. It is a gift from Obama,'” he stated. “If I wasn’t qualified, then why give it to me in the first place? They already knew i was residing in an old home and my shelter was being paid for by the state. It isn’t like I lied on the application.

It wasn’t clear that time how long they would be in the shelter, or where they would go next.

Rafael Lemaitre, FEMA speaker stated that the company was needed legally to extract improper payments, but didn’t directly address the residents’ situation.

He further added, “FEMA remains dedicated to dealing with candidates and making certain they understand the choices open to resolve their debt, including creating a payment, filling a petition, asking for an agreement and creating a repayment plan.”

Other prevalent kinds of FEMA recoupment actions include homes ineligible for help as their damaged properties were vacation houses or rental properties, or families that received extra payments because several household members had requested assistance. FEMA also generally recoups emergency aid payments for damage afterward covered by insurance.

Lawyers at MFY Legal Services, a legitimate aid group which has worked with adult home citizens previously, have provided to help Belle Harbor Manor citizens using their appeals.

MFY attorney Nahid Sorooshyari, “Our stance is that it would be an intolerable financial hardship and injustice, to ask the citizens to pay back the aid money.”

New York City’s Latest Species Is a Leopard Frog: Big City, Big Surprise!

October 29, 2014 By Germaine Hicks Leave a Comment

Recently, the biologists have discovered a new species of the Leopard frog in the New York City.

In the past 30 years, it’s the 2^nd frog species found in the continental United States. The researchers told that it remained hidden in plain sight in a city of 8.4 million people.

Jeremy Feinberg, Rutgers University ecologist and part of a group of researchers who made the discovery stated, “It’s a pretty unique event.”

Feinberg and colleagues—including Catherine Newman, Louisiana State University geneticist, Joanna Burger, fellow Rutgers ecologist, Leslie Rissler, University of Alabama biologist and Brad Shaffer biologist of the University of California, Los Angeles—first revealed the existence of the new amphibian two years ago in the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution journal, National Geographic reported.

As the title of that journal suggests, however, they focused their initial work narrowly on the genetic uniqueness of the then-unnamed frog, which until then was considered a southern leopard frog.

The recent study was published Wednesday in the PLOS ONE journal in which the researchers explain what makes the native New Yorker so unique that it deserves a new species designation: Rana kauffeldi—named after the great herpetologist Carl Kauffeld, who in the mid-20th century contemplated that an as-yet-unidentified leopard frog might reside in New York City.

However, R. kauffeldi’s skin has subtly distinctive spots and its most illuminating characteristic is the mating call of the males. The researchers describe it as a “single-note unpulsed chuck,” unlike the pulsing and snore-like calls of the region’s other leopard frog species.

Feinberg said, those calls are what led the researchers to the new frog. While conducting southern leopard frog field studies, every so often they’d hear the unusual “chuck” sound above the pulses. The researchers eventually realized that the two calls rarely occurred in the same habitat.

Closer examination revealed that R. kauffeldi predominated in open-canopied coastal marshes, “places where you can almost see and smell the ocean,” as well as bottom and floodplains within a few miles of river mouths, Feinberg said.

That they heard mating calls at all was fortunate: R. kauffeldi breeds for just a few weeks each year. Within that brief time their chorus is often drowned, at least to our ears by the sound of spring peepers.

“That helps keep them hidden. You have to win the jackpot to hear them,” Feinberg added.

Call of a Survivor

Since the first description of R. kauffeldi’s two years ago, several people have been listening closely enough to win that jackpot. Most of them reported of hearing the call, extending the species’ range in a coastal ribbon from Connecticut to northeastern North Carolina.

However, most of the newly discovered frog’s habitat, has already been lost to development, especially in the New York City. Likely once found throughout the region, R. kauffeldi is now restricted to the region of Staten Island, where Feinberg first discovered them and where wetland development is an ever-present threat.

Feinberg said, “There’s one population in Staten Island, where all it would take is filling in one pond, and it would be gone.” The remaining habitat of the R. kauffeldi tends to be fragmented, resulting in isolated populations that might lack the genetic diversity necessary for long-term health.

Still, they have stuck around this long, but on a positive note, it seems that R. kauffeldi might be able to defy the chytrid fungal disease that elsewhere has caused an amphibian apocalypse. R. kauffeldi has persisted, even as other leopard frog populations in the region have declined or disappeared, Feinberg said.

Like a true New Yorker, the new leopard frog is a survivor.

Wall St Earnings Ascended; S&P Reported the Best Week in 2 Years

October 25, 2014 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

U.S stock showed their best week after a long time period of two years. The total revenue of Procter and Gamble and Microsoft played a vital role in this new record.

Shares of Microsoft ascended 2.5 percent to USD 46.13 after the largest software developer unveils the first quarter report. On the flip side, Procter and Gamble increased 2.3 percent and touched USD 85.16.

Moreover, the biggest consumer product company informed that it would transfer its Duracell battery business into a new firm.

The Business earnings report revealed that the S&P 50 climbed 5.5 percent as compared to its lowest of mid October.

The first case of Ebola is reported in the New York City. The news spread like a fire in the entire city on Thursday. Fortunately, markets recovered instantly of that anxiety related to Ebola on Friday.

The main cause behind this relief of anxiety is the rapid improvement in the health of that patient. On the other hands, World Health Organization planned some really significant future strategies for the complete eradication of Ebola virus. It includes the release of new Ebola experimental vaccines.

Chief market strategist of Clearpool New York, Peter Kenny stated that authorities’ new tactics provided a great hope to the market to move forward.

Steve Sosnick, equity risk manager at Timber Hill expressed that it is a positive sign that the news of Ebola virus failed to leave an impact on the market. It spears as if markets is attempting to take some really sharp moves.

This week Amazon stands on the negative side of the market. The American e-commerce company hit the hardest bump and fell 8.3 percent to USD 287.06. It is one the largest drag for Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500.

The quarterly report of Amazon dissatisfied Wall Street to a great extent.

Taylor Swift’s New Track “Welcome To New York”

October 20, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

Taylor Swift’s new track, “New York, New York”; Billy Joel crooned “New York State of Mind”; Jay Z dropped “Empire State of Mind” is written by Kander and Ebb. Now, Taylor Swift is adding her take to the canon of songs about New York, the city that never sleeps.

This Monday morning, Swift previewed “Welcome to New York,” the first song off her album 1989, which is, yes, about moving to New York.

Taylor Swift explains in her video message, “The inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I’ve ever experienced in my life. New York is an electric city.”

Though, Swift previewed her new track as a “wide-eyed,” optimistic take on New York, but this doesn’t exactly mean she’s stepping any new ground here. FYI: Taylor Swift’s New York is a Tribeca penthouse. As per Good Morning America, the song that results, which she did with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, is a thumping anthem. It will become available at 12 a.m. on iTunes on Tuesday.

Record-Breaking Crowd Expected At UN Climate Change Summit March

September 20, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

As per the Labor Unions and other environmental societies, we are anticipating a big churn out for a NYC Protest happening this Sunday in order to drag the concentration to the climate change heading 2-daysprior to the United Nations Summit on the matter.

According to the organizers of the NYC clime change March (protest), same action will come to pass this Sunday in several other cities, counting Rio de Janeiro and Lagos, Nigeria.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has requested several states heads to a September 23 climate change summit going to held New York. President Barack Obama is likely to attend the summit too.

Donovan Richards, City Councilman stated that at the rally to announce the protest expecting lots of people coming from around the country “will move down on New York City streets to let our leaders know that we can no longer turn a blind eye to this crisis.”

He further stated that he is hoping to never see a different Super-storm Sandy, which shocked his region situated in the Rockaways section of Queens.

Richards also says that, “Unluckily, the truth is that if we don’t set up to tackle with the global warming, I am predicting another Sandy in my generation”.

On the other hand, the scientists are actually hesitant to held responsible just one storm on the issue of global warming; particularly the rise of sea levels added to or deteriorates the impact of Super-Storm Sandy.

History Breaking Climate March To Hit NY City

September 20, 2014 By Rebecca McGhee 1 Comment

Sunday, September 21, is to herald what is touted as the biggest civil march of its kind called the People’s Climate March. This gathering is projected at a top of hundreds of thousands of people who will be marching through the streets fo the Big Apple. The demonstration is to bring light to the debate of Climate Change.

Of note, the overwhelming majority of climate scientists in the known world agree that we are at present on the edge of a human caused climate disaster. For the uninitiated, the issue here is that a massive amount of scientific evidence has pointed to the supposition that we humans are engaged in activities that are changing the form of climate/weather that normally occurs. In doing this, we have changed things to the point that severe new weather patterns have erupted, ice is melting in usual patterns, stronger storms especially hurricanes, typhoons, and tornadoes. This brought about primarily by excessive carbon emissions into our atmosphere. There have been plenty of scientific debates and political debates but the scientific data was being mired by opinion, greed, fear. Now the jury is almost in on Climate Change and it doesn’t look good.

This is the reason for the People’s Climate March and what is going to go on this Sunday in New York City.

First of all this march is part of the growing action regarding climate change. It will be a show of force to the powers that be that the people are now actively conscious regarding the problem. Doing it on a mass scale like this draws the attention of the world in general thus putting the heat on the opposition.

This gathering will take place amidst the headquarters of the business leaders of the world. Including the United Nations that has been trying to get governments around the world to abide to not producing the products and effects that lead to climate change. Having the march here is strategically important. Also, bringing together people from different races, religions, political ideologies, this march will make new allies to build upon an even greater alliance of climate change activists.

The event begins at 11:30 am at Central Park West between 65^th and 86^th streets.

Again, this march has several goals. Primarily is to bring attention to the climate change issue. Second to get the attention of the decision makers in business and government to stand up and do something about the growing problem. Third, the march is geared at getting allies together to be part of a growing global movement to address the problem and prevent disaster.

Hectic Days: A Protest Spotlighting on Climate Change

September 19, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

In the Bushwick part of Brooklyn, there is a 3-story storehouse having hundreds of people who are working hard in order to go round the People’s Climate March intended to happen this Sunday into a visual manifestation.

Certainly, the Hurricane Sandy sufferers from the Rockaways are working on a 3- foot inflatable life preserver with several other artists along with the migrant artists building a papier-mâché tree entrenched with hatchets. In another place, there are spiritual chiefs, who were busy in constructing an ark along with some researchers who were building a chalk-board filled with computations regarding carbon.

According to the organizers, this protest seems to be one of the largest protests concerning climate change going to happen in the entire history of United States which ultimately has changed the New York City to a spot of scheduling and creativeness, sketching graying neighboring campaigners together with the juvenile artists coming as far as from Germany.

Rachel Schragis, an artist and campaigner, who is basically belonged from Brooklyn, is organizing the making of hovers, posters and symbols stated that, “It is the last munch the creation of 6-months of work to create the People’s Protest a huge hit, gorgeous appearance of the climate progress.”

This protest is actually planned by dozens of ecological, labor and socials justice societies will move through Midtown Manhattan all along a 2 mile road permitted by the city’s Police Department in the preceding month. The protest will initiate at Columbus Circle at around 11:30 am and after that it travels towards eastern side beside 59^th St, south on Avenue of the Americas and west on 42^nd St, ending at 11^th Avenue and West 34^th St.

In contrast to the nuclear disarmament protest held back in 1982, which drew almost 5 million people to the Central Park, this protest will fully relying on the protesters to televise a message of irritation and annoyance at what planners explain it as a action lacked by American and world leaders.

It has been decided that after a moment of silence at 1 pm, all the protestors are allowed to use devices such as cell phones, alarms, and whistle in order to produce as much noise as possible. The protest is helped by the almost 20 marching bands along with the ringing of church bells crossways the city.

Bill McKibben, co-founder of the group 350.org stated that, “We also play the intruder alarm on people who are pinching the future.” He is serving to manage the protest plus the author of numerous books on climate change, particularly “The End of Nature,” printed 25-years back.

“It’s not like that things are not improving, though they getting terribly poorer. In contrast to other problems we are facing, this one’s time up. If we don’t get it right almost immediately, we will never get it right.” Mr. McKibben told in a telephonic interview scheduled on Wednesday.

According to the organizers, there is no way to forecast how many people will come out at the protest, though 1400 ‘partner firms’ are ready to join up, including various small groups to international alliances. Additionally, students have activated protestors with more than 300 college campuses, and more than 2,700 climate events in 158 countries are intended to agree with the New York protest, as well as rallies in Delhi, Jakarta, London, Melbourne and Rio de Janeiro.

To bring campaigners in New York from remote areas like Kansas and Minnesota almost 496 buses are expected by organizers.

Mr. McKibben says that the most functional gasoline gallon which was ever used by people is the one which take them to the protest rally.

The sunniest weather of high temperature up to 81 degree centigrade will persuade a larger audience forecasters’ said.

In Feb. 2013 near Washington round about 40,000 protestors evicted to claim an action on climate changes and to change the controversial XL pipeline.

The central park of west-north of Columbus is closed by police, and before the start of march planners asked protestors to arrive from West 65th to West 86th road.

Leslie Cagan has met the police to sort out the issues of Sunday march. He is a person who basically organizes the expression of nuclear disarmament in 1982. He said that central park west region can seize a lot of people estimated from 80,000 to 100,000.

Organizers request the protestors only to go to different areas which are decided along the central park west.

E.g. different families, students and youth can assemble from north of 65 street below rubric and all the furniture is provided by organizers for this protest.

Organizers have arranged for telephone banks, and they also cover all subways with pamphlets and also give news in different news channels.

Fifty two minutes documentary has also been released on TV channels which are based on all disturbances which they faced during planning the march. This film was released on 7^th September, which consist of pre march relies and meetings which held on this issue which also includes the education on climate changes and sheathing efforts to stop it.

Organizers said that they select Sunday for this protest because there comes a climate peak on Tuesday in United Nations. Delegates of world predicted to have very high-level debates on changing climate.

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