CNN – by Ann O’Neill, Ed Lavandera and Jason Morris

Waco, Texas (CNN)After the guns fell silent on May 17 — one of the bloodiest afternoons in the history of American motorcycle clubs — nine bikers lay dead in a strip mall parking lot littered with weapons.

Many more were injured, bleeding from gunshots and knife wounds. A police officer asked what every other cop there must have wondered at that moment: How many of you are armed?   Continue reading “Knives, guns, blood and fear: Inside the Texas biker shootout”

True Activist – by John Vibes

A young boy named Landon Riddle was diagnosed with Leukemia, and was told by his doctors that he only had an 8-10% chance of living for more than a day or two.

“His whole chest was full of leukemia tumors, which is why he couldn’t breathe. They started him on chemo, but told us that he probably wasn’t going to make it,” his mother, Sierra Riddle said.   Continue reading “Cannabis Oil Cures 3 Year Old Boy Of Cancer After Doctors Gave Him 48 Hours To Live”

RT

Hand guns and rifle sales are spiking in Austria, with some shops reporting they are running out of stocks of shotguns, since no license is needed to buy them.

“Yes, I can confirm, the demand in Austria for weapons is growing. My revenue doubled in September. And in October it has doubled again, and we are still in October,” a gun shop owner told RT.   Continue reading “Austrians snapping up shotguns as thousands of Mideast refugees enter country”

Mail.com

TOKYO (AP) — The film set in Japan after a nuclear catastrophe depicts greed, discrimination, loyalty, beauty — traits made more heartbreakingly human by the cast’s inhuman star — a robot.

In this eerie film, aptly called “Sayonara,” people fearfully wait to be picked for evacuation abroad to flee radiation. Politics is involved. The sick, people with criminal records and foreigners are doomed.   Continue reading “Robot star illuminates human themes in nuclear disaster film”

Mail.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two men killed by an explosion inside a World War II-era tank at an Oregon firing range were participating in a video shoot in a military vehicle owned by one of the victims, a collector who had been filmed for shows on the Discovery Channel, the Smithsonian Channel and a video game commercial.

A crew was filming the tank firing rounds when the blast occurred Tuesday east of the city of Bend, killing vehicle owner Steven Todd Preston, 51, and Austin Tyler Lee, 22, Deschutes County Sheriff L. Shane Nelson said.   Continue reading “Victim of blast in vintage tank appeared in TV shows, ads”

Mail.com

DALLAS (AP) — Four people kidnapped a woman and held her captive for three days in a San Antonio-area home, forcing her to ingest drugs and at one point conducting a “blood ritual,” a sheriff’s spokesman said Wednesday.

Authorities believe Mercedes Salazar, 32, was the ringleader who orchestrated the woman’s captivity, according to James Keith, spokesman for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. Salazar is being held on charges that include aggravated kidnapping, he said.   Continue reading “Texas woman used in ‘blood ritual’ while being held captive”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

A school district north of San Francisco has decided to implement a new “grading system” that almost entirely negates the point of, well, grading systems.

Via The Daily Caller:

Under a new policy, students will be able to earn passing grades with scores of just 20 percent — and a solid C for doing absolutely nothing at all… Continue reading “Dumbing Down of America? California School District’s New Grading Scale Gives out Cs for “Doing Absolutely Nothing at All””

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Back in 1978, the Chinese politburo enacted the “one-child policy”, whose main purpose was to “alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems” in China as a result of the soaring population. According to estimates, the policy prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011. And while not applicable to everyone, in 2007 approximately 35.9% of China’s population was subject to a one-child restriction.   Continue reading “China Abandons 37-Year-Old “One-Child Policy” – Here Are The Implications”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

Would you pay $400,000 for a single helmet?  Of course you wouldn’t – but that is precisely what the U.S. government is doing.  Just the helmet for the pilot of the new F-35 Lightning II is going to cost taxpayers nearly half a million dollars.  And since we are going to need 2,400 of those helmets, the total bill is going to end up approaching a billion dollars.  But what is a billion dollars between friends, eh?   Continue reading “The U.S. Government Is Spending 400,000 Dollars On A Single Helmet”

The Daily Mail – by Hannah Parry

An Amish man is suing the government for the right to buy a gun without a photo ID over claims his religious freedom is being violated.

Andrew Hertzler, from an Amish community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, filed the lawsuit after an gun dealer refused to sell him a weapon without the correct identification.   Continue reading “Amish man sues to buy firearm without photo ID”

New York Daily News – by Jennifer Fermino

A new bill to reduce gun violence aims to hit would-be weapons buyers where it hurts — in the wallet.

U.S. Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez is introducing a bill that would slap every gun sale with a $100 tax, and then use the extra money on anti-violence and mental health programs.   Continue reading “Bill that would slap $100 tax onto gun sales, put money towards mental health programs heads to Congress”

New York Post – by Shawn Cohen and Rebecca Rosenberg

The weapons assembled here flowed into the city through the same “Iron Pipeline” that supplied the Glock handgun used to kill NYPD Officer Randolph Holder, authorities said yesterday.

The weapons are among 74 firearms — including pistols, revolvers, rifles and at least one sawed-off shotgun — that a gang of traffickers allegedly smuggled up from South Carolina and peddled to undercover NYPD cops during a nearly yearlong sting operation.   Continue reading “Gun used to kill NYPD cop trafficked through ‘Iron Pipeline’”

11 Alive News – by Christopher B Buchanan

BOULDER, Colo. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a minor solar radiation storm warning on Thursday morning following readings from a weather satellite in orbit around the Earth.

The warning is expected to last from 12:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, Thursday afternoon.   Continue reading “NOAA issues solar storm warning”

RT

Republican Paul Ryan of Wisconsin was elected Speaker of the House, defeating Democrat Nancy Pelosi. The 45-year-old has become the youngest congressman to serve as the House leader since 1869.

Of the 432 votes cast, 236 went to Ryan and 184 to Pelosi.

Ryan is is now second in line to succeed to the US presidency, in case both the president and the vice-president become incapacitated.   Continue reading “Paul Ryan elected Speaker of the House”

Crack Two

From National Review:

When Bob Woodward, one of two Washington Post reporters who were instrumental in cracking open Watergate, went on MSNBC and compared Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal to Richard Nixon’s tapes, eyebrows went up all over Washington. Then it was reported that FBI analysts may be able to recover some of the e-mails that were “wiped” off of Hillary’s private server as well as learn who had access to it and whether outsiders tried to hack it. Comparisons to Nixon and his tapes are becoming more concrete.

Continue reading “Richard Nixon and Hillary Clinton Perfectly Compared”

Cryptogon

Via: Harvard:

The first study to measure the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events during the perioperative period — immediately before, during and right after a surgical procedure — has found that some sort of mistake or adverse event occurred in every second operation and in 5 percent of observed drug administrations.   Continue reading “Medication Errors Found in 1 Out of 2 Surgeries”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Because there is almost no expectation of privacy in open areas — which can include backyards and fenced-in land — it’s very difficult for a law enforcement agency to violate anyone’s Fourth Amendment rights with aerial surveillance. Whether this is accomplished with a drone, plane or helicopter, the Supreme Court has held that any place that could theoretically be viewed by a member of the public can also be observed by a government agency. (From the Supreme Court’s OTHER Riley decision — this one from 1989.)   Continue reading “Court: When Aerial Surveillance Resembles An ‘Invasion,’ It Becomes An Illegal Search”