ABC News – by Emily Schmall

The secrecy that enshrouds the investigation into a biker shootout in May that left nine people dead and led to the mass-arrest of 177 people is hardly surprising in this city, where public scrutiny is rare and unwelcome.

On the banks of the Brazos River in Central Texas, Waco and the surrounding county are largely run by a close-knit circle of judges, prosecutors and law enforcement that defense lawyers complain leads local agencies to close ranks in the aftermath of this most recent calamity.   Continue reading “Texas Officials Under Scrutiny for Biker Shootout Case”

RT

A black New York woman is suing the city and a hospital after being injected with heavy drugs and forced to spend eight days in a psych ward – all because police did not believe she owned a BMW. She was slapped with a $13,000 hospital bill upon release.

In her first on-camera interview since the incident, the 32-year-old African American banker, Kamilah Brock, told PIX 11 the whole ordeal was a“nightmare.”   Continue reading “‘Not your BMW!’: Woman sues NYC after being forced into psych ward by police, injected with drugs”

ABC News

Three teenagers were arrested in Arizona for allegedly using a slingshot and rocks to attack pedestrians and cars, in an incident officials described as a “copycat” to a string of shootings along a nearby freeway.

The teenagers allegedly shot at several cars and pedestrians on Arizona State Route 24 Saturday afternoon and evening, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Arizona Department of Public Safety Director Frank Milstead said at a news conference.   Continue reading “3 Teens Arrested in ‘Copycat’ Case After String of Arizona Freeway Shootings”

USA Today – by Thomas M. Kostigen

Poorer nations suffering from extreme weather disasters, so much so that their citizens are seeking refuge in safer terrains outside their borders, want rich nations like the United States to pay for reparations and to relocate populations.

Preparatory talks ahead of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to be held in Paris in December has representatives from developing nations asking for more than an already agreed upon $100 billion per year for climate change mitigation measures. They want additional compensation for weather-related disasters as well as a “displacement coordination facility” for refugees. And they want all this to be legally binding as part of the larger anticipated Paris accord.   Continue reading “Poor nations want U.S. to pay reparations for extreme weather”

Fox News – by Perry Chiaramonte

Second Amendment groups are accusing the gun control lobby of putting law-abiding owners of firearms in danger by urging people to call the police on anyone carrying a gun in public.

As more states relax rules about open-carrying of guns, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has taken to social media to urge the public to assume gun-toters are trouble, and to call the cops on anyone they feel may be a threat.   Continue reading “Gun control groups accused of ‘swatting’ open-carry permit holders, putting lives at risk”

ABC News

The FBI is warning that an ISIS-inspired group of hackers is threatening to mark today’s anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with a new cyber-assault against U.S. government-related websites.

Twitter users claiming to be associated with the group, branding themselves with the “hashtag” moniker #AmericaUnderHacks, have already been posting online what they say is sensitive information about U.S. government personnel. But the information is available through basic Internet searches and is “recycled” from several years ago, sources told ABC News.   Continue reading “FBI Warns of ISIS-Inspired Cyber Attacks on 9/11 Anniversary”

Waking Times – by Alex Pietrowski

Many of the mass shootings in the United States (US) over the last few decades – including the Columbine School shooting, Virginia Tech massacre, and the Colorado movie theater shooting – were carried out by individuals known to be taking psychotropic prescription drugs. This, of course leads to the questions, what role do these pharmaceuticals play in the rise of mass shootings?

Is there a link between psychotropics, particularly antidepressants, and shocking acts of public violence.   Continue reading “Rise in Antidepressant Prescriptions Followed by Increase in Extreme Violence”

Living Traditionally

In our age of western medicine, the society has turned away from the natural health remedies that were greatly used by our ancestors. We often rely more on the modern chemically produced pills than all natural traditional medicine. Honey is much sweeter than sugar and is far better for you. Honey is essentially a highly concentrated water solution of two sugars, which our bodies break down easier and faster. Because honey is low on the Glycemic Index, it is gradually absorbed into the blood stream.   Continue reading “40 Uses For Honey That Will Blow Your Socks Off”

Ancient Origins – by Mark Miller

Evoking visions of mad scientists, French researchers are set to revive a mega-virus dormant for 30,000 years that they discovered in the permafrost of the Russian Arctic.

The researchers, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, say they will take precautions to revive the specimen under safe laboratory conditions. They published a paper detailing their research in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The group of researchers is headed by Jean-Michel Claverie, who runs a laboratory at the French center.   Continue reading “Ancient mega-virus that does not resemble any virus on Earth is set to be revived”

RT

Flooding from Typhoon Etau has caused new leaks of contaminated water to flow from the Fukushima nuclear power station into the ocean. The incident came after a rush of water overwhelmed the site’s drainage pumps.

Typhoon Etau brought lashing rains, floods and storm winds to Japan. Tens of thousands of Japanese people have been ordered to leave their homes across the country.   Continue reading “Fukushima leaks radioactive water after Typhoon Etau busts drainage system”

Fox News

A Florida man described as an “online troll” who posted as an ISIS supporter living in Australia was arrested Thursday and accused of trying to plan a bomb attack on a Sept. 11 memorial event in Kansas City this weekend.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that Joshua Ryne Goldberg, 20, was arrested and charged with distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.   Continue reading “Florida ‘online troll’ charged in plot to bomb 9/11 memorial event in Kansas City”

Truth Dig – by Bill Boyarsky

This is the second installment in a three-part series that Truthdig columnist Bill Boyarsky has written about homelessness.

READ: Part 1: Why Ending Homelessness Is Political Poison

The main Los Angeles County jails are less than two miles from Skid Row—within walking distance for the mentally ill and addicted homeless men who are arrested for petty offenses and then released back to the streets. Returning to Skid Row, they may be nailed by the police again for any number of offenses, such as jaywalking, refusing to move their possessions from the sidewalk, urinating in an alley or sleeping in a public place.   Continue reading “Go Directly to Jail: Punishing the Homeless for Being Homeless”

AmmoLand – by David Codrea

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is looking to crack down on gun dealers that sell firearms to criminals,” The Hill reported Tuesday.  “The Responsible Transfer of Firearms Act introduced Tuesday would hold gun dealers liable for sales made to people who are prohibited from owning guns.”

But not just dealers:

It would apply to both federally-licensed gun dealers and private sellers.

Continue reading “Kaine Gun Bill Reflects Opportunistic Deception, Not Public Safety”

BBC News Magazine

Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months and became famous. But how did he live without a head for so long, asks Chris Stokel-Walker.

On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would clean them up. But one of the 40 or 50 animals that went under Olsen’s hatchet that day didn’t behave like the rest.   Continue reading “The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head”

Preparing for SHTF

1.) Fish Trap

This works best with a two liter bottle because of the size. First, cut the top off to create a funnel. Then you cut the threaded neck off to create a bigger opening in the funnel, or leave it in its original state depending on what size fish you want, or expect to trap.   Continue reading “Top 10 Survival Uses for Plastic Bottles”

EuroPacific – by Peter Schiff

There is a growing sense across the financial spectrum that the world is about to turn some type of economic page. Unfortunately no one in the mainstream is too sure what the last chapter was about, and fewer still have any clue as to what the next chapter will bring. There is some agreement however, that the age of ever easing monetary policy in the U.S. will be ending at the same time that the Chinese economy (that had powered the commodity and emerging market booms) will be finally running out of gas. While I believe this theory gets both scenarios wrong (the Fed will not be tightening and China will not be falling off the economic map), there is a growing concern that the new chapter will introduce a new character into the economic drama. As introduced by researchers at Deutsche Bank, meet “Quantitative Tightening,” the pesky, problematic, and much less disciplined kid brother of “Quantitative Easing.”  Now that QE is ready to move out…QT is prepared to take over.   Continue reading “Meet QT; QE’s Evil Twin”

AL..com – by Leada Gore

An Air Force pilot from Join Base Lewis-McChord was attacked Sept. 5 during a protest in Olympia, Washington, according to local police.

Olympia police said they are searching for two men who are believed to be part of a “local hate group” that describe themselves as “anarchists,” Air Force Times reported.Police said the men were taking part in a protest around 10 p.m. when they saw two Confederate flag on the back of the victim’s motorcycle, surrounded him and tried to knock him down.   Continue reading “Police: ‘Anarchists’ beat Air Force pilot flying Confederate flags on motorcycle”

The Hacker News – by Khyati Jain

Until today, there existed such Fingerprint Biometric Readers that required your touch to authenticate yourself as an authorized person.

However, the latest research shows that the future of fingerprint scanners lies in a “no-touch” activity by an individual for gaining access.   Continue reading “Contactless Fingerprint Scanner That Can Capture Your Prints from Meters Away”

Informed Comment – by Juan Cole

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has produced a report [pdf] in which it finds that

“Official data released by the Israeli authorities indicate that over 11,000 demolition orders – affecting an estimated 13,000 Palestinian- owned structures, including homes -are currently ‘outstanding’ in Area C of the West Bank. These orders heighten the vulnerability of thousands of poor Palestinian households, some of whom are at imminent risk of forcible displacement.”

Continue reading “Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine”