Year: 2015

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HONOLULU (AP) — The military on Wednesday said a second Marine has died of injuries he received after an Osprey aircraft crashed during a training exercise last weekend in Hawaii.

Lance Cpl. Matthew Determan of Maricopa, Arizona, was among several people who were injured when the MV-22 Osprey went down at Bellows Air Force Station outside Honolulu on Sunday. The military said in a statement that Determan, 21, died on Tuesday.   Continue reading “2nd Marine killed in Hawaii crash identified as Arizona man”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Yesterday China’s richest man, Li Hejun, lost more than half his fortune when his solar company stock suddenly crashed over 50%. Overnight it happened again, and Hong Kong’s securities regulator, warned other investors to exercise “extreme caution,” as Hong Kong’s best-performing stocks this year are crashing in a serial, tulip-like manner. And another billionaire was promptly wiped out: Pan Sutong started the day engorged with wealth after his companies Goldin Financial and Goldin Properties had risen 300% this year. By the close he had lost 60% of his wealth!   Continue reading “Crash Contagion: Second Chinese Billionaire Wiped Out In Seconds After Stock Instacrash”

New York Post – by Daniel Prendergast, Shawn Cohen and Jamie Schram

The city’s narcotics cops are being told to stop arresting suspects over the age of 40 — a major strategy shift designed to target younger dealers, who are more likely to carry guns and use them, The Post has learned.   Continue reading “Narcotics cops ordered to stop arresting suspects over 40”

Shark Tank – by Nicole Sanders

Senator Rand Paul (KY-R) started filibustering at 1:18 pm on Wednesday and as soon as he started his campaign team jumped on social media urging people to Stand with Rand and to donate to his campaign.

After 10 hours Paul was done. He said it was because he was tired but others speculate he probably raised his campaign quota for the day.   Continue reading “Rand Paul Tries to Win Over Voters With Fillibuster”

Spectator – by Ron Ross

Currently the average price of regular gasoline in California is $3.81 per gallon. That is $1.11 above the national average ($2.70). What are the reasons for this 40 percent higher price? There’s a witch’s brew of factors, but in a nutshell it boils down to the fact that California’s Democrat politicians have taken on the responsibility of saving the planet. That, of course, is a quixotic endeavor. Californians are wasting billions of dollars and getting nothing in return.

Individually California consumers spend about sixteen dollars more than necessary each time they fill their gas tanks or about $600 a year on average. Collectively California consumers purchase 14 billion gallons of gasoline each year. In other words, we’re spending $15 billion a year more than what we would if gasoline prices equaled the national average. The benefit-cost ratio of those expenditures is as close to zero as you can get.   Continue reading “California Gasoline Prices: The Damage Done”

WTOP – by Rick Massimo

WASHINGTON — The recent discovery of a person with measles visiting the D.C. area, as well as an outbreak in California that began late last year, highlight the importance of getting children vaccinated.

Dr. Fauci says that the main reason for outbreaks of the disease, once thought eliminated, is that “not everyone who could and should be vaccinated is getting vaccinated.”That’s the word from Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, who spoke with WTOP on Thursday.   Continue reading “Expert: The lesson from recent measles case? Vaccinate”

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Drunk driving has decreased by one-third since 2007 and three-quarters since 1973, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) 2013-2014 Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers.

The NHTSA used FORCIBLY collected oral fluid or blood samples from 11,100 drivers at 60 locations across the country to make the determination that drunk driving is decreasing.   Continue reading “Homeland Security is paying police to set up DUI checkpoints”

Western Rifle Shooters

Will Grigg:

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…The bloody incident at Waco’s Twin Peaks restaurant was not a “biker shootout.” At present there is no evidence that any of the nine victims were killed by fellow bikers, rather than being “taken out” by the scores of police — including snipers — who had effectively turned the parking lot into a kill zone…
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Then from over the transom:   Continue reading “First They Came For The Bikers…”

Dr. Mercola

Hypertension is dangerous if uncontrolled, increasing your risk for heart attack and stroke. But using drugs to lower your blood pressure may shorten your lifespan instead of extending it, according to the results of a University of Florida study.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,¹suggests that when it comes to blood pressure medication, less is more.   Continue reading “Lowering Your Blood Pressure Using Drugs May Increase Your Risk of Death, Study Shows”

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The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. The no-knock raid was prompted by an anonymous tip which suggested there were drugs in the house. As the officers forced their way into the home, they lobbed a flash grenade which wound up landing in the crib where baby “bou-bou” was sleeping. As it erupted, the infant suffered severe burns and had to be taken to the hospital, and placed in a medically induced coma.   Continue reading “Cops Who Flash Banged Infant’s Crib Are Blaming the Baby”

New York Post – by Josh Saul and Laura Italiano

Two Manhattan DEA employees secretly owned a low-rent strip club in South Hackensack, NJ, that employed illegal immigrants from Brazil and Russia as dancers, the feds say in a new criminal complaint.

The dive, called the Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge, has repeatedly been cited by state regulators for lewdness because the dancers over-exposed themselves — and also took money for sex in the private lap dance rooms, the complaint says.   Continue reading “DEA staffers secretly owned strip club with illegal immigrant dancers: feds”

Reuters – by David Dekok

A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday barred the release of a video that allegedly shows a Hummelstown police officer shooting a traffic-stop suspect to death earlier this year as the man lay face down on the ground.

Judge Deborah Curcillo of Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas said making the video public before trial was “highly unusual” and would jeopardize the ability of Officer Lisa Mearkle to receive a fair trial for criminal homicide.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania judge bars release of police shooting video before trial”

Able Danger – by Jim Stone Freelance

FACT 1: The section of track the train crashed on was a speed-restricted section, which means the computer takes over during that section and won’t let the conductor go faster than the set limit (in this case 50 mph) even if he wants to. CONCLUSION: The conductor did not cause this.

FACT 2: The conductor unexpectedly survived, and said the speed readouts on the train showed 50 mph up until he blacked out. Yet investigators have proven the train was doing 107 mph when it crashed. CONCLUSION: Something was amiss in the electronic controls that provide the readouts. Continue reading “Stuxnet was used to Crash the Amtrak Train in Philadelphia: The Zio Clan is Totally Busted”

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The City of Wichita Falls has made a “drastic” change to plans for Thursday’s scheduled mandatory evacuations, according to its Facebook page.

Residents in parts of the Tanglewood neighborhood and parts of the city’s east side will be evacuated at 8 a.m. Thursday due to flooding in the Wichita River.   Continue reading “Wichita Falls moves mandatory evacuations to Thursday morning”