DIRTY DOZEN PLUS?

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So far, there are twelve candidates reportedly running for president, but how many will there be on election day? Your guess is as good as mine, but read on to stay updated.

We expect this political camp pain to be just that, a real pain in the *** You may recall the following timeline.

March 23: Republican Ted Cruz
April 7: Republican Rand Paul
April 12: Democrat Hillary Clinton
April 13: Republican Marco Rubio
April 30: Democrat Bernie Sanders
May 4: Republican Ben Carson
May 4: Republican Carly Fiorina
May 5: Republican Mike Huckabee
May 27: Republican Rick Santorum

SURVEILLANCE SHOWDOWN

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US Senators have rushed and passed major NSA reform legislation. Senators passed the bill 67-32 to approve the USA Freedom Act, which was approved by the House last month. It now goes to President Obama, who has promised to sign it.

US Senate votes to curtail bulk data collection http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32982140

Senate Approves USA Freedom Act, After Amendments Fail http://n.pr/1KBCMG7

Senate passes USA Freedom Act, limiting NSA surveillance powers — RT USA http://rt.com/usa/264417-senate-vote-freedom-act/#.VW4a-_lXzto.twitter

LATINOS RULE

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Hispanics are Number One-and-Two: Latinos are now # 1 and # 2 richest ever. Hispanos Unidos De America.

1st, Carlos Slim $77.1 B 75 Telecom, Mexico. América Móvil (NYSE:AMX), Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú's telecom giant, announced Tuesday that it was selling assets to comply with Mexico's new anti-trust telecom rules that forbid companies from controlling more than 50 % of market share. How Carlos Slim Built His Fortune.
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THE NEW JENNER

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From superstar to starlet. Bruce Jenner says he is finally free to be she and now wants to known as Caitlyn Jenner.

Caitlyn Jenner: Bruce Jenner's first photo shoot as a woman http://shr.gs/UeYtB1h

Bruce Jenner Debuts as Caitlyn in Vanity Fair's Behind-the-Scenes Video: "I'm Free" http://usm.ag/1QkfTZy

The Short List: Caitlyn Jenner; Court rules against Abercrombie; Tracy Morgan makes us cry http://usat.ly/1LYgjDF

RECORDING OFFICIALS

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According to Pew Research, over half of all adults who are living in US now have their own smartphones.

Most of us depend on our smartphones for online access, and never has it been this fast and easy to take a photo or video and share it online for everyone to see.

This brings up a few questions. Can law enforcement simply take our phones from us? What are citizens' rights when it comes to filming in public?

NEWS QUICKIE

HUNDREDS MAY PERISH FROM CAPSIZED CHINESE BOAT
A Yangtze River cruise with 458 people aboard has rescuers working to save elderly tourists.

NEWS+ STRATEGY AGAINST ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS
Iraq and allies meet to plot against Islamic State militants, but Russia, Iran and Syria are out.

US SENATE VOTES ON PHONE COLLECTION
Passing US Freedom Act will restore portions of the Patriot Act that expired at midnight on Sunday.

MYSTERIOUS SURVEILLANCE AIRCRAFT OVER US
FBI air force of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and cellphone spying technology.

HOMELAND INSECURITY

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INSIST ON TRUTH TELLERS

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With the camp pain season well underway, CITY IMAGES suggests that all candidates stop lying. We must insist that all public servants start telling the truth. One candidate says he plans to change the world. Why do we continue to allow public servants to habitually lie to US?

While listening to someone, who you think may be lying, you could have difficulty focusing on the conversion, and begin wondering how you can trust them.

Human beings have instincts for detecting liars, however this is often overridden by our conscious minds.

NEWS QUICKIE

NSA LOST AUTHORITY TO COLLECT BULK AMERICAN PHONE RECORDS
Sunday's US Senate session failed to develop a deal to extend the fiercely contested Patriot Act provision.

JOHN KERRY'S BIKE ACCIDENT AFFECTS IRAN TALKS
The secretary of state broke his leg and of a lengthy rehabilitation could delay nuclear negotiations.

US HURRICANE SEASON BEGINS AND SOME CITIES BEAT THE ODDS
Tampa, Jacksonville and Daytona haven't seen a major hurricane in 70 years, making them statistically overdue.

WATER-LOGGED TEXAS SEES SUNSHINE

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PATRIOTIC?

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Patriot Act may have lost it's teeth, now that National Security Agency loses its authority to collect Americans' phone records in bulk, after an extraordinary weekend Senate session that failed to produce an 11th-hour deal to extend the fiercely contested program.

Intelligence officials say outcome amounts to a win for terrorists. But civil liberties groups say s an unconstitutional intrusion into Americans' privacy. The once-secret post 9/11 program was made public by Edward Snowden.

NEWS 12 BIRTHDAY

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I'd like to be the first to wish News 12 The Bronx a joyous and healthy Happy Birthday and 17 year anniversary.

You're no longer a baby, you're a popular and good looking teenager. However, since my talented team and I lovingly gave birth to you 17 years ago, and I will always and forever see you as one of my many beautiful cable and broadcast babes.

News 12 Long Island is the flagship channel of the Cablevision news group. It launched way back on December 15, 1986 as the brainchild of visionary Charles Dolan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dolan. News 12 became the first 24-hour local cable news channel in the nation. This cable TV station provides 24-hour news coverage primarily focused on Long Island news and information content.

Years later, I was very proud to be chosen your founding station manager, to build and then launch News 12 The Bronx in June 1988, after being hired by the company founder, owner and then CEO.

I had already lived in the NY metropolitan area before, while working for NBC http://www.nbcnews.com/ as an awatrd winning writer and producer. Later, as news director, for WNJU-TV 47, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNJU. I moved to City Island, The Bronx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Island,_Bronx from the west coast, where I had been working for KVEA-TV 52, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVEA .

Following many intense months of nearly non stop work, News 12 became the sixth and most diverse operation of the News 12 Regional News Network, which currently reaches about 300,000 cable television households in The Bronx.

We built this 24 hour cable news channel inside what used to be an abandoned roller-skating ring, located in the Soundview area. I then hired the best staff I was able to recruit and so to it that they were well trained inside the very same South Bronx neighborhood, where US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor enjoyed her early years.

These "on air " staffers included folks who are now well known media personalities, like NBC News anchorwoman Natalie Morales: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Morales and FOX Newsman James Rosen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rosen_%28journalist%29#Career to name two. The only staff member, who is still working there from the original founding group, which I hired at News 12 The Bronx: http://bronx.news12.com/ is Operations Manager Brian Webb, https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=26637770&authType=name&authTok…

News 12 The Bronx was the first television news organization in the region to adopt the utilization of robotic cameras: http://www.parkervision.com/, as well as digital video servers to play back news: http://www.capitalnetworks.com/ and an environmentally friendly fleet of Hybrid electric vehicles which make up the state of the art news-gathering mobile units and reduce air pollution.

HB News 12, The Bronx * https://youtu.be/gParpNbPD8Y

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