A hearse leaves the site of an accident in the Netherlands where three people were killed after a moThe Guardian

A monster truck fitted with tractor-sized wheels has crashed into a crowd during a show in the Netherlands near the German border, killing two people and injuring 18 more, six seriously.

Video footage of the incident on Sunday showed the truck veering off course after driving over the top of a row of cars, then knocking down a guardrail and driving into a group of onlookers.   Continue reading “Monster truck kills three and injures a dozen more at event in the Netherlands”

hong kong tear gas nightBusiness Insider – by Gus Lubin and Michael B Kelly, Reuters

Hong Kong democracy protesters stayed in the streets on Sunday night despite multiple volleys of tear gas and use of pepper spray and batons by riot police.

“Atmosphere has completely changed on streets of Hong Kong following police firing tear gas. From hopeful to furious. And crowd has swelled,” AFP editor Jerome Taylor tweeted.

“The use of tear gas by the Hong Kong police has had a 10x multiplier on the number of protestors. No wonder they stopped,” US expat and military historian Andrew Leyden tweeted.   Continue reading “Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters, But They’re Not Going Anywhere”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It all started with a Pentagon tweet showing a before and after picture of a “modular oil refinery” used by ISIS:

By “modular” the Department of Defense meant “mobile.” CNN had more: 

U.S. and coalition warplanes pounded ISIS positions in eastern Syria on Wednesday, targeting what a Pentagon official described as mobile oil refineries being used by the so-called Islamic State terror group to help finance its operations. Continue reading “Is ISIS Using Alibaba To Buy Mobile Refineries From Turkey?”