Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Sometimes, being too trusting can be a fatal mistake – especially in diplomacy – as one member of the Australian delegation at the United Nations learned early Wednesday morning, when he plunged to his death from his Manhattan balcony during a night of boozing with friends and his wife. The circumstances of Julian Simpson’s death are bizarre, considering that he died during a “trust game” gone wrong, according to the New York Post. Continue reading “UN Diplomat Plunges To His Death After “Game Of Trust” Gone Wrong”

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A short story. I used to do property maintenance for a slum lord here in Wyoming. One time while doing some plumbing upgrades to one of his multiplex properties, I wanted to check on the weatherproofing and winterizing on what used to be an old coal chute.

I found an old manila folder in there. It seemed to be from the mid to late 50’s. There were magazine adverts of women’s dresses, tea sets, the usual girl stuff. But one advert caught my eye. It was an advert for linoleum flooring. showed a happy family spending time in the kitchen. Youngest daughter was on the floor playing with a doll, son was at a desk there doing homework, mother was cooking dinner, and dad was at the dining room table cleaning a rifle. in a FLOORING advertisement.   Continue reading “How gun culture used to be AMERICAN!”

AZ Central

LAS VEGAS — A federal jury got a first look Tuesday at videos of confrontations involving armed federal agents and Bundy family members that rancher Cliven Bundy’s lawyer said provided a catalyst for an April 2014 gunpoint standoff and a trial now underway in Las Vegas.

One clip that attorney Bret Whipple said spread widely on the Internet showed Bundy’s sister, Margaret Huston, thrown to the ground by a federal agent after she approached the driver’s side of a vehicle involved in a U.S. Bureau of Land Management cattle round-up near the Bundy ranch.   Continue reading “‘Videos don’t lie’: Defense opens Bundy Ranch trial with clips of scuffles with agents”

CBS News

Police in Northern California say the gunman in a deadly shooting rampage was feuding with his neighbors. They were his first victims. He targeted seven locations in the rural community of Rancho Tehama, including an elementary school that went on lockdown before he came in.

Four people were killed in the assault that lasted 45 minutes and 10 more were injured, including at least one young student. Police killed the suspected shooter, Kevin Janson Neal.
Continue reading “Suspected shooter in Northern California rampage was known to police”

Record Spotlight – by Jim Schultz

Five people are dead, including the suspect, in a mass shooting at and around a school some 15 miles southwest of Red Bluff, where at least another 10 people have been hospitalized — some of them children.

Tehama County Undersheriff Phil Johnston confirmed two children were also shot and wounded, but said children were not among the dead.

“It’s a very sad day for us in Tehama County,” said a deputy, who was visibly shaken.  Continue reading “Five killed, 10 hospitalized in Rancho Tehama shooting”

NOLA – by Emily Lane

A man was fatally shot by a Baton Rouge Police Department officer at an apartment complex in Baton Rouge Monday evening (Nov. 13), Louisiana State Police said.

The shooting occurred shortly after 6 p.m. at the Palms Apartments, in the 5600 block of McClleland Drive, the agency said in a news release. WAFB reported that a large crowd gathered at the scene, where the person who was shot was pronounced dead.

The Baton Rouge officer was called to the scene to escort a case worker for the Department of Children and Family Services while the case worker conducted an investigation, the statement from State Police says.   Continue reading “Man shot dead by Baton Rouge police officer: State Police”

The Oregonian – by Maxine Bernstein

LAS VEGAS — In a surprising reversal, U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro late Monday agreed to place Ryan Bundy on GPS monitoring and release him from jail to a halfway house on the eve of the Bunkerville trial.

The decision came after a full-day hearing in closed court as defense lawyers raised repeated questions about alleged government misrepresentations of evidence.

Among them: Prosecutors claimed Ryan Bundy had been stunned with a Taser during an arrest in Utah about 10 years ago, but a video played in court apparently showed that didn’t happen.    Continue reading “Judge grants Ryan Bundy’s release to a halfway house on eve of trial”

The Daily Caller – by Ryan Pickrell

Surveillance cameras produced by a Chinese company and partially owned by the Chinese government are hanging all over America, a new report reveals.

Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, in which the Chinese government has a 42 percent share, produces surveillance equipment for China’s vast domestic surveillance network, used to keep tabs on the Chinese people. But, these cameras are also being used to monitor U.S. Army bases, embassies, streets, and homes, according to The Wall Street Journal.   Continue reading “Chinese Cameras Monitor US Army Bases, Streets And Homes”

Reuters – by Clyde Russell

LAUNCESTON, Australia, Nov 13 (Reuters) – U.S. crude oil is flooding into Asia, and may continue to do so as the arbitrage window that was initially created by Hurricane Harvey remains open, even though the disruption from the costliest storm to hit the Gulf of Mexico has faded.

A record amount of U.S. crude is scheduled to arrive in Asia in November, according to vessel-tracking and port data compiled by Thomson Reuters Oil Research and Forecasts.

The data show 19.7 million barrels of U.S. oil is due to arrive across Asia in November, equivalent to about 657,000 barrels per day (bpd). The data are filtered to show only vessels that are currently underway, and those that are discharging or have discharged their cargoes.   Continue reading “US crude exports to Asia poised to hit new record”

Radio Farda

Tasnim and Mehr news agencies say at least 348 people have been killed and emergency services report that the number of those injured could reach as high as 6,000 in a devastating earthquake near the Iran-Iraq border.

Iran’s Interior Ministry said earlier on November 13 that most of the casualties were in Kermanshah Province, with residents reporting feeling the 7.3 magnitude quake throughout the region, from Turkey to Kuwait.   Continue reading “More Than 348 Dead, Thousands Injured In Powerful Iran-Iraq Quake”

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Educate Yourself

[Editor’s Note: You have to remember that smuggling millions of children onto the US across the Mexican border was a sympathy-rich, calculated scheme by Organized Jewry and their Hispanic Marxist cohorts to further the influx of poor, uneducated, unskilled third world inhabitants (on top of the existing 30 million illegals already living in America) to continue to drain American citizens of their national identity, jobs, safety, educational opportunities, and wealth, while propping up and subsidizing the failure of corrupt governments south of the border to provide a decent job, schooling and a safe living environment for their own citizens. Continue reading “Poll: Less Than 30 Percent of Americans Favor Amnesty for DACA Illegal Aliens”

AP

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia officials say they have an agreement with China Energy Investment Corp. Ltd. for the company to invest $83.7 billion in shale gas development and chemical manufacturing in West Virginia over 20 years.

State Commerce Secretary Woody Thrasher and China Energy President Ling Wen signed the memorandum in Beijing as part of the US-China trade mission during President Trump’s visit.   Continue reading “West Virginia signs investment pact with China Energy”

The Federalist – by Margot Cleveland

When the Supreme Court meets later today to discuss pending petitions for review, the justices’ conference calendar will include a pivotal Second Amendment case: Kolbe v. Hogan.

In Kolbe v. Hogan, the full Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Maryland’s ban of semiautomatic rifles and detachable ammunition magazines that exceed ten rounds. In doing so, the Fourth Circuit became the fourth federal appellate court to uphold the constitutionality of a ban on “assault” weapons and large-capacity magazines. The Second, Seventh, and District of Columbia circuits have previously upheld similar bans, and, to date, the Supreme Court has refused to enter the fray.
Continue reading “If The Supreme Court Takes This Gun Control Case, Its Decision Will Be Huge”

Reuters

BEIJING, Nov 9 (Reuters) – China’s top state oil major Sinopec, one of the country’s top banks and its sovereign wealth fund have agreed to help develop Alaska’s gas sector as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit, company and government statements said on Thursday.

Sinopec, China Investment Corp and the Bank of China will work with the Alaskan government on LNG marketing, financing and China’s role in developing the state’s major liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.   Continue reading “Chinese companies agree to develop LNG in Alaska as Trump visits”

Forbes – by Nick Sibilla

With only 550 residents and a main street just 600 feet long, Castleberry, Alabama has certainly fallen on hard times. But the town has found a way to make its fortune: take it from someone else.

Lying on US Route 31, about halfway between Mobile and Montgomery, Castleberry has become one of the state’s worst speed traps. Earlier this year, 15 people filed a lawsuit against the town and its police chief, claiming that Castleberry police unlawfully seized their cash, impounded their cars or detained them against their will.   Continue reading “Tiny Alabama Speed Trap Seizes Cash, Impounds Cars To Fund Police”

RT

Washington has expended a whopping $5.6 trillion on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan since 2001, according to a new study. That figure is more than three times what the Pentagon has claimed in official estimates.

Research from the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University found that as of late September, the US wars combined with “additional spending on Homeland Security and the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs” had totaled more than $4.3 trillion since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. That number surged to $5.6 trillion once likely costs were added for fiscal year 2018, along with estimated future spending on veterans.    Continue reading “US spent $5.6 trillion on wars since 9/11 – study”