CBS News

Federal agents arrested the founder of a major drug company in an early-morning raid Thursday on charges stemming from an alleged scheme to get doctors to illegally prescribe a powerful opioid to patients who don’t need it.

John Kapoor, 74, was taken into custody in Phoenix, Arizona. Kapoor is the billionaire founder and former CEO of the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics. He faces charges including racketeering, conspiracy, bribery and fraud.

Kapoor is the most significant pharmaceutical executive to be criminally charged in response to the nationwide opioid crisis.   Continue reading “Drug company founder John Kapoor arrested for alleged opioid scheme”

Mondoweiss – by Sheren Khalel

Israeli cabinet members on Sunday will vote on a bill seeking to annex large swaths of land into the Jerusalem municipality. The bill, coined the “Greater Jerusalem Bill,” will go to Knesset vote after what is expected to be an approval by the cabinet, however moving through the Knesset could prove difficult, as religious hardliners fear a change in the Jewish Israeli demographics of the city.

The controversial Likud-backed bill would bring at least 19 illegal Israeli settlements and outposts under Jerusalem jurisdiction and sever three Palestinian communities from the municipality. The five major illegal West Bank settlements to be annexed are listed as Ma’aleh Adumim, Gush Etzion, Efrat, Beitar Illit and Givat Ze’ev — the others are part of “settlement blocs” within the larger five.   Continue reading “‘One step further into the annexation of the West Bank’: Israeli cabinet to vote on annexing West Bank settlements into Jerusalem”

Washington Examiner – by Stephen Wilson

A Trump administration attorney said Friday that federal courts cannot evaluate whether a president is waging an illegal war, even if the war clearly has no grounding in a congressional authorization of force and someone directly impacted sues.

The claim was made during oral arguments in an appeal filed by Nathan Michael Smith, a now-former Army intelligence analyst who sued last year claiming former President Barack Obama was illegally fighting Islamic State terrorists without an authorization for use of military force, or AUMF, from Congress.   Continue reading “Trump Justice Department: Wars are off limits to court review”

Your News Wire

Danny Contreras, an eyewitness Las Vegas shooting survivor who publicly claimed there were multiple shooters involved in the attack, has been found dead in an empty house in Las Vegas with multiple gunshot wounds.

His body was found in a vacant home in the northeastern valley after a neighbor heard a man groaning inside the building and called 911. Police say Contreras was dead when they arrived at the 5800 block of East Carey Avenue, near North Nellis Boulevard.   Continue reading “Las Vegas Shooting Witness, Who Described Multiple Gunmen, Found Dead”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: I spent a little bit of time researching this and trying to find out what was so offensive in the plaque. Unless I am missing something this is not an attack on the Presidents of the past, but an attack on God…

This article says,

“Currently, simple stone memorials stand on either side of the alter in the church, honoring Washington and Lee. The memorials are engraved with gold lettering that say, “In memory of George Washington.” and “In memory of Robert Edward Lee.”Those plaques are now coming down, church officials have announced.”   Continue reading “George Washington’s Church To Tear Down Memorial Honoring First President”

Fox News

Jesus Campos, the hotel security guard who was wounded during the Las Vegas massacre, is staying for free at an undisclosed hotel owned by MGM Resorts International, according to the company.

The arrangement has led to speculation that MGM wants to prevent the media from questioning Campos about the Oct. 1 massacre, in which a gunman opened fire from a hotel owned by the company. Campos, who was shot in a leg during the rampage that killed 58 people and injured more than 500, is on paid leave while he recovers.  Continue reading “Guard shot in Las Vegas massacre sequestered in free MGM hotel”

ABC 4 News

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A plan to split California into three separate states has cleared its first hurdle. Supporters are set to begin collecting signatures to qualify for next year’s ballot.

The plan is being funded by Bay Area tech billionaire Tim Draper, who previously funded a similar proposal back in 2014 to divide the state up into sections.

That plan failed.   Continue reading “Plan to divide California into 3 parts clears first hurdle”

The Great Recession

Is the Federal Reserve’s Great Unwind already coming unwound? I thought it would be good to check up on Federal Reserve balance sheet reduction since the Fed is supposed to be up and running on the move out of quantitative easing this month. It should be fascinating to see what progress the Fed is making as it happily applauds its own successful recovery.   Continue reading “Federal Reserve Hesitates on QE Unwind / Balance Sheet Reduction”

Las Vegas Review Journal

They couldn’t live without each other.

When Dennis Carver realized the loud cracks weren’t fireworks but instead rapid gunfire, he jumped on top of his wife, Lorraine Carver, to shield her from the bullets.

“That’s just the kind of love they had for each other,” Brooke Carver, the couple’s oldest daughter, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Their love was selfless.”   Continue reading “Couple with Henderson ties die in crash after surviving Las Vegas shooting”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Nearly a month after the worst mass shooting in US history, many questions remain unanswered.

After an exhaustive investigation, the FBI and Las Vegas Police Department have confirmed that Paddock meticulously planned the assault, and even booked hotel rooms overlooking music festivals in other cities – suggesting that he had planned previous attacks, but backed out for whatever reason. However, his motive is seemingly lost to the wind.
Continue reading ““Shots Fired” – MGM Releases Audio Of Security Guard Reporting Las Vegas Shooting”

Boing Boing

The Youth Court of Pearl, Mississippi has been shut down and its judge, John Shirley (also a Republican Party activist) has been forced to resign after widespread disapproval of his decision to bar a mother from seeing her 4-month-old baby for 14 months over her unpaid court fees.

The story began when the mother, who is African American, was passing through Pearl on a job-hunt. She was pulled over by local police, who found that she and the car’s driver had outstanding warrants for misdemeanor offenses. She and the driver were arrested and the baby was declared “abandoned” by the arresting officer, despite the baby’s grandmother arriving “within minutes” of the arrest.   Continue reading “Judge resigns and youth court shut down after baby is taken from mother over unpaid court fees”

WBAL TV

BALTIMORE — A former Baltimore police detective shared revealing testimony Wednesday about the crimes committed by members of an elite gun squad.

It’s the first time details of the corruption that went on were made public. Momodu Gondo pleaded guilty earlier this month to robbery and overtime fraud, and now he’s a government witness in a drug case.   Continue reading “Former detective reveals crimes gun squad members committed”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Hollywood, CA — “Just name the abusers already!” “Why don’t you name these people?” “You are protecting them by not naming them!” These are just some of the comments currently being hurled at Corey Feldman and others who’ve come forward with their allegations of sexual abuse by predators in Hollywood. While naming names makes perfect sense on the surface, as the example below illustrates, it’s often an exercise in futility.

Corey Feldman did name names. He told the police in 1993 and they did nothing.  

Continue reading “Corey Feldman Told Cops the Names of Abusers, It Was Recorded & Police Did Nothing”

“The same people who want to break up the Middle East into smaller and easier to bully countries also want to break up the European nation states which will be easier to bully when the Jews realize their dream of world domination. If such a dream is allowed to come true, will an independent Catalonia or an independent Flanders or an independent Scotland ever be able to resist to a nuclear-armed Jewish state? We have said many times before that the project of the EU is to destroy all the nation states of Europe, make them so small and unable to defend themselves so that they are easier to govern by one single authority based in Brussels. … Already Brussels is bypassing the official national authorities and dealing directly with the different regions as if the nation states do not exist… … Brussels has already fragmented all European countries in what they call the Euro-regions, Euro-regions which make no room whatsoever for nation states. We are not saying that the aspirations of the Spanish Catalans people are not genuine. We are saying that Judea Inc. is using these very sincere feelings of the Spanish Catalans to further their messianic plans, the very same way they used the sincere frustrations and feelings of the Arabs to engineer an ‘Arab Spring’ meant to deliver the Jewish Summer. Do not be fooled.”
— Mark Glenn