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They are going to twist this story to fit into their agenda of making all Preppers/Survivalists appear to be Psychos. I see it coming.
NBC News – by JOHN BRECHER AND TRACY CONNOR
The survivalist sharpshooter accused in the deadly ambush of a Pennsylvania police barracks is “not a psycho” but needs to “suffer the consequences” of his actions, his sister told NBC News on Wednesday. Continue reading “Pennsylvania Trooper Suspect Eric Frein Not ‘Psycho,’ Says Sister”
The first healthy human volunteer has been injected with an experimental Ebola vaccine today as part of a fast-tracked British trial.
Ruth Atkins, a 48-year-old NHS communications manager from Marcham, Oxfordshire, was injected at Oxford’s Vaccine Group Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine today.
The trial, which will ultimately involve 60 volunteers including two on Friday, is part of a series of safety tests of potential drugs aimed at preventing infection with the virus. Continue reading “First British healthy volunteer to be injected with experimental Ebola vaccine designed to fight deadly virus”
The proportion of coal miners who suffer from an advanced form of black lung disease has skyrocketed in central Appalachia in recent years, according to experts with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
In a letter published Monday in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the NIOSH scientists wrote that the prevalence of progressive massive fibrosis, or PMF, a particularly lethal form of black lung, had reached its highest rate since the 1970’s in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Continue reading “Black Lung Disease Rates Skyrocket To Highest Levels Since 1970s”
Colorado has a history with gun violence so it’s only appropriate that 17-year-old Kai Kloepfer, a high school student from Boulder, would want to apply biometric user authentication to firearms. Kloepfer just won the $50,000 Smart Tech for Firearms Challenge for his smart gun prototype.
Angel investor and gun reform advocate Ron Conway became the main backer of the $1 million Smart Tech prize to spur gun safety solutions earlier this year. “Let’s use innovation to bring about gun safety. Let’s not rely on Washington,” Conway told the SF Examiner in January. According to the Smart Tech Foundation, a total of 15 innovators will receive a part of that million dollar prize. Kloepfer is the first to get the award. Continue reading “Colorado High Schooler Invents Smart Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint”
The terrorist group ISIS is known for its sophisticated social media outreach. Now it seems they are bringing that sophistication to their video propaganda, too.
ISIS, which also calls itself the Islamic State, recently created a new propaganda wing called the al-Hayat Media Center. We asked Elliot Greenebaum, a New York filmmaker who has worked on advertising and feature films, to look at some of the ISIS videos for us. He says they show a fair amount of skill.
“They’re taking archival photographs and they’re adding filters to them, and they’re layering the photos so they look fragmented and highly active,” Greenebaum says about a new two-minute music video celebtrating the “establishment” of the Islamic State. Those are techniques, he says, “that a Madison Avenue firm would try to deploy on behalf of a client.” Continue reading “ISIS has mastered high-end video production in its new propaganda wing”
Huffington Post – by Charlotte Alfred
Islamic State militants released a video on social media on Saturday they said showed the beheading of British aid worker David Haines.
In the video produced by ISIS’ media wing and posted on Twitter, a masked militant with a British-sounding accent addresses U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, before appearing to behead Haines.
(Warning: disturbing image below) Continue reading “ISIS Video Claims To Show Beheading Of British Aid Worker David Haines”
Makers of munitions and unmanned aircraft top the list of private-sector beneficiaries.
It’s far too soon to tell how the American escalation in the sprawling, complex mess unfolding in Iraq and Syria will play out. But this much is clear: As our military machine hums into a higher gear, it will produce some winners in the defense industry. Continue reading “The war on ISIS already has a winner: The defense industry”
On August 13th, 2012, a pitbull mix was shot by police in broad daylight in the East Village, as its owner was collapsed on the sidewalk suffering a seizure. That pitbull, Star, nipped at a woman and ran towards an officer at one point, in an apparent attempt to protect owner Lech Stankiewicz (you can see very graphic video of the shooting here). The dog was shot in the head, resulting in her losing an eye as well as sustaining “soft tissue, bone, head trauma, and eye damage.” No one thought she would survive the ordeal, and most of us seemed to forget about her—except for Charlie Cifarelli. Continue reading “How A Nebraska Man Rescued A Dog Shot By The NYPD”
It is currently peak season for the puss caterpillars, and even though they usually live at a safe distance high up on tree branches, reports of people being stung are on the rise.
The one-inch puss caterpillar is named for its cute cat-like fur, but it is the most venomous caterpillar in the United States.
Although they appear to be furry and soft, the caterpillars actually have a defense system of poisonous bristles that can break off into your skin if they are touched. Continue reading “Venomous Caterpillar Sighting In Florida Prompts Warning”
The Sacramento Bee – by Robert D. Davila
Redding police have arrested a man accused of killing and cooking his estranged girlfriend’s dog and serving the animal to her in a meal.
The suspect, Ryan Eddy Watenpaugh of Palo Cedro, denied killing or cooking the victim’s missing Pomeranian. But he admitted placing dog paws on the victim’s doorstep, police said.
Watenpaugh, 34, was arrested Thursday by law enforcement officers from three agencies, police said. A search of his home found a Romanian variant AK-47 assault rifle and high-capacity magazines, officials said. Continue reading “Shasta County man accused of cooking, serving up estranged girlfriend’s dog”
ABC News – by Michael Rubinkam
Pennsylvania State Police have identified the two troopers who were ambushed outside a state police barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania during a late-night shift change, leaving one dead and another injured.
State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan says that Cpl. Bryon Dickson of Dunmore was killed and Trooper Alex Douglass was wounded when shots were fired Friday night outside the Blooming Grove barracks. The station is in a wooded area surrounded by state game lands. Continue reading “Pa. State Police Identify Trooper Killed in Ambush”
This is one tree you want to avoid — unless there’s something about the nickname “Little Apple of Death” that appeals to you.
At first glance, the Manchineel tree is quite beautiful, with lush green leaves and fruit that looks like small green apples — but looks can be deceiving.
Native to parts of Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Central America and Northern South America, this is one of the most poisonous trees in the world. Its milky white sap is a cocktail of powerful skin irritants that ooze out of all the tree’s parts, not just the fruit. Continue reading “Have you ever seen a poisonous ‘little apple of death’ tree?”
New York Daily News – by Kerry Burke, Thomas Tracy
Cops swatted a .40-caliber Glock out of a drunken state narcotics agent’s hand Friday night after he shot two drinking buddies on the Upper West Side, authorities and witnesses said.
Amsterdam Ave. erupted in gunfire and blood-curdling screams just after 9 p.m. when Victor Zambrano Jr., 49, shot a 31-year-old woman in the left foot and the woman’s 42-year-old boyfriend in the right calf during an argument over his weapon, neighbors and police sources said. Continue reading “Drunken narcotics agent allegedly shoots pals in Upper West Side after tussle over gun”
New York Post – by Dana Sauchelli
New York’s Finest need to become New York’s funniest.
The NYPD’s new Twitter handbook urges top cops to channel their inner comedian in a set of out-of-touch instructions about how to use “humor” to gain followers, The Post has learned.
Top brass are turning to a “Do’s and Don’ts” section on Page 6 of the handbook — obtained exclusively by The Post — for advice on how to churn out knee slappers to promote a better image of cops. Continue reading “NYPD teaches cops how to be Twitter comedians”
Vermont Watchdog – by Bruce Parker
It’s a best-seller at bake sales, a king of American confections, even a mandatory munchie of marijuana users. But the iconic chocolate brownie, that perfect blend of cake and cookie, is banned in Vermont schools.
In its place are new hoped-for kid favorites like fruit shish kebab, kale and even gluten-free paleo lemon bars. Continue reading “Vermont bans brownies, turns kids on to kale, gluten-free paleo lemon bars”
New York Daily News – by SARAH RYLEY, TINA MOORE
The city’s top cop says he would shake hands with Satan himself if it would help keep New York safe.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton made the fiery comment on Wednesday, as he tried to deflect criticism directed at him and Mayor de Blasio for having the Rev. Al Sharpton participate in a roundtable discussion at City Hall last month in the wake of Eric Garner’s chokehold death. Continue reading “Devil is in details, not Al Sharpton, NYPD’s Bratton says after Eric Garner roundtable comment”
NY Post – by Rebecca Rosenberg and Lia Eustachewich
Another ringleader of the widescale, multimillion-dollar Social Security disability scam copped a plea deal Friday that could involve testifying against his co-defendants.
Retired NYPD officer John Minvera, 62, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and conspiracy charges in Manhattan Supreme Court for his role in recruiting dozens of retired FDNY and NYPD officers — some who claimed to be sick from working at Ground Zero — in the 26 year-long disability scheme. Continue reading “Another ringleader in FDNY, NYPD disability scam pleads guilty”
One of the states that was hit the hardest by last winter’s “Polar Vortex” is already under several inches of snow.
Some South Dakota towns have been hit by the earliest winter storm in more than 120 years. The town of Custer has received eight inches and Mount Rushmore is under seven freezing inches. Continue reading “Parts of South Dakota are buried under eight inches of snow”
Daily Finance – by Mitch Lipka
More than 1 million alarms intended to alert people to smoke and carbon monoxide in their homes are being recalled because of a defect that could cause them to fail, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday.
The Kidde smoke alarms and combination smoke detector/CO alarms are hard-wired, and can fail following a power outage, the CPSC said. About 1.2 million were sold in the U.S. and about 112,000 were sold in Canada. The problem, Kidde said, is in the programming code of the devices. Continue reading “1.3 Million Smoke Alarms and Carbon Monoxide Detectors Recalled”
Huffington Post – by Arthur Delaney
WASHINGTON — Police in Kansas City, Missouri say someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s (D-Mo.) office there early Thursday morning, breaking a window but failing to start a fire.
Police responded to an alarm at Cleaver’s office around 3:00 a.m.
“Upon arrival they observed a window on the northwest side of the building to be broken out,” the Kanas City Police Department stated in an incident report. “On the ground below the window they observed two broken bottles with paper towels sticking out the necks of the bottles resembling a Molotov cocktail. There was a chemical odor resembling that of lighter fluid. The only damage appeared to be the broken window.” Continue reading “Molotov Cocktail Thrown At Emanuel Cleaver’s Missouri Office: Police”
Daily Mail – by Lizzie Parry
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Tech Crunch – by Sarah Buhr
PRI – by Bruce Wallace
Fortune – by Tory Newmyer
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AOL – by Ryan Gorman