Breitbart – by Brandon Darby

LUBBOCK, Texas — Seven Mexican cartels are operating command and control networks in Texas, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). A recent data release by the DPS reports:

Mexican cartels are the most significant organized crime threat to Texas, with seven of the eight cartels operating command and control networks in the state, moving drugs and people into the United States, and transporting cash, weapons and stolen vehicles back to Mexico. In short, an unsecure U.S.-Mexico border is a state and national security problem.  

Continue reading “Seven Mexican Cartels Operate Command and Control Networks in Texas”

Vietnam and Russia established diplomatic ties in 1950 [Xinhua]The BRICS Post

Russian officials are speeding up negotiations for Vietnam to join the Moscow-led Customs Union bloc, officials said on Monday. The inclusion of Vietnam in the group would reinforce President Putin’s drive to show Russia will not be isolated by Western sanctions.

The two countries will boost bilateral trade revenue to $7 billion in 2015 and $10 billion in 2020, said Doan Duy Khuong, vice chairman of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), on Monday. The two sides are also beefing up efforts to conclude negotiations on a free trade agreement, said the official at a Vietnam-Russia business forum held in Hanoi.   Continue reading “Vietnam to join Moscow-led Customs Union bloc: Reports”

SarahBoneHull Daily Mail – by Trudi Davidson

An East Riding school is to install CCTV cameras in student toilet areas after concerns some pupils “feel vulnerable”.

Headlands School and Community Science College headteacher Sarah Bone is pressing ahead with the move – which she accepts is “a sensitive issue” – after consulting parents of pupils at the Bridlington secondary.   Continue reading “UK: CCTV cameras to be installed in toilets at Headlands School in Bridlington”

The Washington Post – by Yasmine Ryan

TOBRUK, Libya — Being a parliamentarian in Libya is a death-defying act.

Entissar Chennib’s car was blown up in the eastern city of Derna on election day in June. Another representative, Ali Omar Tekbeli, knows it is too hazardous to go home to the capital.   Continue reading “Libya’s parliament moves to small port city as dangers in Tripoli increase”

The Waldorf-Astoria atThe Real Deal – by Claire Moses

Hilton Worldwide Holdings sold the Waldorf Astoria to Anbang Insurance Group for $1.95 billion.

Hilton reached an agreement with the Chinese carrier under which it will continue to operate the famed hotel for the next 100 years. The building will be renovated to “restore the property to its historic grandeur,” according to a press release announcing the sale.   Continue reading “Another Chinese buy as insurer nabs Waldorf-Astoria for $1.9B”

Publius Forum – by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois Senior Senator, Democrat Dick Durbin was forced to respond to aChicago Tribune story that revealed that his wife is a lobbyist who received high-dollar federal contracts. Durbin said it was purely coincidental… then offered to sell us the Brooklyn Bridge.

Durbin told the Tribune that his wife only lobbies with the State of Illinois, not the federal government, so the millions she rakes in from federal contracts is just a coincidence. Really. It was… a totally, unseen, completely accidental coincidence… that a Senator who is the third in line of power in the US Senate has a wife who just coincidentally got millions in federal contracts.   Continue reading “Sen. Durbin’s Wife A Lobbyist Who ‘Accidentally’ Got High Dollar Federal Contracts”

Newmax Health

Exposure in pregnancy to a chemical commonly found in plastics and cans — known as bisphenol A, or BPA — may increase a child’s risk of breathing problems, researchers say.

In a study of nearly 400 pregnant women and their children, researchers found that each 10-fold increase of BPA in a mother’s urine was associated with a 14 percent decrease in the child’s breathing function at 4 years of age.   Continue reading “Plastics Chemical BPA Linked to Lung Problems”

Prevent Disease – by DR. MARIANNA POCHELLI

Abdominal pain can be a challenging complaint, especially for those of us who specialize in natural medicine. This type of pain is frequently a benign complaint, but can also herald serious acute pathologies. At least some type of abdominal pain is present in more than 60 percent of an otherwise healthy adolescent and adult population. Here are the most significant sources of pain, their location and when you should seek treatment.

The history and physical examination are central to narrowing the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain and guiding the evaluation.    Continue reading “16 of the Most Common Types of Abdominal Pain”

EbolaNatural News – by Mike Adams

Right now is the perfect time to point out the gross contradiction in the U.S. government’s policies on supposedly preventing the spread of communicable disease. Across the board, children who are unvaccinated against diseases that don’t even exist in America anymore – such as polio — are loudly condemned as “a threat to public health” and often barred from attending public school.

The logic goes like this: An unvaccinated child might easily catch polio and then spread it to other children. Therefore, that child should be barred from attending public school.   Continue reading “U.S. govt: Foreigners with risk of Ebola are safe to cross the border, but unvaccinated U.S. children are a threat to public health”

ebola virus orange vitamin c 263x164 High Doses of Vitamin C Could Rid the Body of the Ebola VirusNatural Society – by Christina Sarich

Whether Ebola is a natural virus that has gone rouge or a form of biological warfare (sounds crazy, I know), know that you do not need to fear. Between real conventional successes and natural solutions, whether suppressed or not, there are treatments for just about anything – and that includes the latest Ebola virus that has come to the U.S. in Dallas. Specifically for Ebola, vitamin C may be the answer.

To date, not a single virus has been tested that is not inactivated (killed) by a large enough dose of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Not the GMO kind, but rather the naturally occurring Vitamin C. This vitamin is easily disseminated throughout the body with very little resistance, non-toxic at every level. It is also quite bio-available during an attack on the body by a virus.   Continue reading “High Doses of Vitamin C Could Rid the Body of the Ebola Virus”

Opposing Views – by Michael Allen

A police dashcam video captured a dramatic chase between two alleged thieves and a cop in Duluth, Ga.

Two unidentified men in a minivan allegedly robbed a Tucker, Ga., hardware store this morning at 1:30 am (video below).

When a police officer gave chase, one of the suspects in the mininvan began throwing presumably stolen chainsaws and a weed-eater onto the road to stop the police cruiser’s pursuit, reports WMAV.   Continue reading “Thieves Throw Chainsaws at Cop During Wild Chase”

PHOTO: A member of the Scranton, Pa., Police Special Operations Group, prepares to ender the woods, Oct. 2, 2014, in Barrett Township, Pa., to search for suspected killer Eric Frein. ABC News – by AARON KATERSKY and RHEANA MURRAY

A handwritten letter penned by Eric Frein has been found in the Pennsylvania woods as police continue to scour the area looking for the accused cop shooter, authorities said today.

Details in the letter lead police to believe it was written by Frein, who’s been on the run since Sept. 12.

The note offers no motive for the shooting death of Cpl. Bryon Dickson and the wounding of another trooper when Frein allegedly ambushed the Blooming Grove police barracks, a law enforcement official familiar with the case told ABC News   Continue reading “Eric Frein’s Handwritten Note Found During Manhunt: Police”

Mail.com

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Islamic State fighters backed by tanks and artillery pushed into an embattled Syrian town on the border with Turkey on Monday, touching off heavy street battles with the town’s Kurdish defenders.

Hours after the militants raised two of their Islamic State group’s black flags on the outskirts of Kobani, the militants punctured the Kurdish front lines and advanced into the town itself, the Local Coordination Committees activist collective and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.   Continue reading “Islamic State wages assault on Syrian border town”

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — A 19-year-old American left a letter expressing disgust with Western society before trying to board an international flight in Chicago, the first step in his plan to sneak into Syria to join the Islamic State group, according to a federal criminal complaint released Monday.

Mohammed Hamzah Khan, who lived with his parents in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, was arrested Saturday at O’Hare International Airport trying to board a plane on the first leg of connecting flights to Turkey, which borders Syria. He is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist group, which carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence.   Continue reading “Feds: Illinois teen sought to join Islamic State”

GTY456734146Reuters – by Aruna Viswanatha

Oct 6 (Reuters) – Former Treasury Secretary Henry “Hank” Paulson told a packed courtroom on Monday that AIG shareholders were singled out for punishment as part of the U.S. government’s attempt to contain the contagion of the 2008 financial crisis.

The testimony from Paulson appeared to bolster some claims contained in a lawsuit brought by former AIG Chief Executive Hank Greenberg, who contends the terms of a government loan to AIG cheated its shareholders.   Continue reading “Ex-Treasury Secretary Paulson says AIG bailout was punitive”

newsThe Daily Sheeple

Usually, when the mainstream media mentions preppers and survivalists, the angle is not flattering.  Maybe someone who considers himself a survivalist has committed a heinous crime and is on the loose.  Perhaps a prepared family is beaming from the page while sitting in their bunker, hundreds of food buckets in the background and 17 paragraphs of mockery in the article below the photo.

But the possibility of a pandemic changes things, and with the Ebola case in Dallas, Texas, the folks in the mainstream media have a lot of questions for the preparedness community. With only a couple of exceptions, the reports have been a lot more open-minded than usual, if a little lacking in understanding of the preparedness community.   Continue reading “The Mainstream Media: Preppers Aren’t So Crazy Anymore”

ebola zombie victimHuffington Post – by Sara C. Nelson

A gruesome picture purporting to be that of a Liberian Ebola victim “risen from the dead” has gone viral online.

The image is accompanied with the words: “For the first time in human history, confirmed footage of a man who scientists watched die from Ebola then only several hours later, regain life and rise from the dead.” (sic)

It then cites Bible passage Isaiah 26:19-20: “Your dead shall live, their bodies shall rise.”   Continue reading “Ebola Zombie ‘Risen From The Dead’ Is A Horrible Viral Hoax”

rocheThe Clarion-Ledger – by Therese Apel

A Jackson County woman caught allegedly burglarizing cars in the parking lot of her children’s school who then told police that she was actually hunting terrorists has been given a $5,000 bond.

Lisa Carol Roche, 41, of Hurley, told police she was “looking for ISIS terrorists” when she was found allegedly taking sunglasses and other items out of cars at East Central High School late last week, said Jackson County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Curtis Speirs.   Continue reading “Mississippi woman ‘hunting ISIS’ at school gets $5K bond on burglary charges”