LMT Online

It sounds like a flimsy excuse. But poppy seeds really can make you fail a drug test, both peer-reviewed scientific studies and unofficial experiments conducted by journalists have found. Because they’re derived from opium poppies, they sometimes contain traces of morphine ― not enough to get you high, obviously, but potentially enough to register on a highly sensitive drug test.

That’s what a Maryland mother says happened to her back in April when she went to the hospital to give birth.   Continue reading “Yes, you can fail a drug test by eating a poppy seed bagel, as a Maryland mother learned”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Two Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies are hearing — for the fourth time — they’ll be personally responsible for a string of Constitutional violations resulting in them filling two innocent people with bullets. At this point, the officers have lost at the district level, the Appeals Court, got a partial remand (but no grant of immunity) from the Supreme Court, and are back in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals losing again. Continue reading “9th Circuit Denies Cops Who Shot Innocent People 15 Times Qualified Immunity For The Second Time”

Activist Post – by Catherine J. Frompovich

Deborah Tavares of StopTheCrime.net appeared before the Sonoma County Board Supervisors meeting where she discussed the “Plan to burn up Northern California” during which she also predicted more “burnings” will occur.

There is nothing I can add to Deborah’s video except that either she knows what she’s talking about or she has a great sense of precognition.   Continue reading “Northern California Is Burning; What’s Next For That Area?”

Consortium News – by John Kiriakou

Have you ever heard of Senate Joint Resolution 59 (S.J.Res. 59)? Neither had I. A friend of mine saw a blurb about it on an obscure national security blog and brought it to my attention. At first glance it didn’t seem to be any big deal. It’s inelegantly named the “Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) of 2018.” It was introduced on April 16, 2018 by Senators Bob Corker (R-TN), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), and Tim Kaine (D-VA). Officially, the bill would “Authorize the use of military force against the Taliban, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and designated associated forces, and provide an updated, transparent, and sustainable statutory basis for counterterrorism operations.”  Continue reading “Giving Trump Carte Blanche for War”

Epoch Times – by Martha Rosenberg

How did the once modest medical specialty of child psychiatry become the aggressive “pediatric psychopharmacology” we see today? Millions of children who were once just considered too active are now diagnosed with ADHD, conduct disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, mixed manias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, pervasive development disorders, irritability, aggression and personality disorders and given drugs.

Children who were once considered shy or moody are now diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, mood disorders, social phobia, anxiety, borderline disorders, assorted “spectrum” disorders and even schizophrenia.   Continue reading “Psychiatric Drugs for Kids–– A Big (and Dangerous) Pharma Marketing Push”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A San Francisco Jury awarded $289 million in damages to a former school groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, who said Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller gave him terminal cancer. The award consists of $40 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages.

Johnson’s trial was fast-tracked due to the severe state of his non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system he says was triggered by Roundup and Ranger Pro, a similar glyphosate herbicide that he applied up to 30 times per year. His doctors didn’t think he’d live to live to see the verdict.    Continue reading “Monsanto Slammed With $289 Million Verdict In Historic ‘RoundUp’ Cancer Lawsuit”

Fox News

A Horizon Air passenger plane crashed on an island in Puget Sound Friday night, not long after a suspect conducted an “unauthorized take-off” from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state, officials said.

Witnesses reported seeing a large plume of smoke in the air above Ketron Island after the plane went down. No passengers were believed to be aboard the Q400 aircraft, airport officials said.   Continue reading “Plane crashes after ‘unauthorized take-off’ from SeaTac airport, officials say”

AP

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury found an FBI agent not guilty Friday of obstructing an investigation into who fired two errant shots at a key figure in a group that seized an Oregon wildlife refuge in 2016.

W. Joseph Astarita, 41, displayed a slight smile when the jury returned its verdict after less than a day of deliberations. He left the courthouse without comment.   Continue reading “FBI agent found not guilty of lying about gunshots”

Science Alert

Annually, between July 17 and August 24, the Perseid meteor shower puts on one of the brightest cosmic events of the year.

This year the meteor shower is predicted to reach its peak on the night of August 12, as Earth passes through the densest part of the Comet 109/Swift-Tuttle‘s trail.   Continue reading “Catch The Best of This Year’s Perseid Meteor Shower This Weekend”

New York Post

A routine traffic stop in Pennsylvania resulted in a gunfight on the side of the road that nearly killed one of the officers. Police pulled Daniel Clary over for speeding and attempted to arrest him when it appeared that he was impaired. State Trooper Seth Kelly’s heart reportedly stopped due to wounds he received from the shootout, although he was revived.   Continue reading “Heart-stopping moment officer is shot by man pulled over for speeding”

Breitbart – by John Carney

Question: How can you tell if an employer is lying?

Answer: He tells you he cannot find workers to fill jobs at his company.

Unemployment is very low. There have officially been more job openings in the U.S. than unemployed workers for three consecutive months. And businesses have been telling anyone who would listen—including Federal Reserve officials—that they cannot find enough workers.   Continue reading “Real Wages Crash, Destroying the Idea that We’re in a Labor Shortage”

Heavy

rett Kavanaugh, the federal judge who is the president’s nominee for Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, played a key role in the Vince Foster investigation.

The death of Hillary and Bill Clinton’s White House lawyer has spawned legions of conspiracy theories. Kavanaugh, who served in the George W. Bush administration and who helped Ken Starr write the Starr Report into Bill Clinton, was in the middle of some of the 1990s’ most dramatic controversies involving the Clintons. Among them: The death of Vince Foster, which was ruled a suicide.   Continue reading “Brett Kavanaugh & Vince Foster: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know”

Yahoo News

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Serap, a 23-year-old clerk at a clothes store in central Istanbul, is sure of who to blame for the precipitous slide in Turkey’s lira currency.

“This crisis is created by America,” she said.

The lira has lost more than 35 percent against the dollar this year and hit a fresh low on Friday, its biggest one day fall since Turkey’s 2001 financial crisis.   Continue reading “On Istanbul streets, defiant Turks see U.S. hand behind lira crisis”

MSN

A British woman and her four-year-old daughter were locked up in a jail in Dubai for three days, after it was found the former had consumed a glass of complimentary red wine on an Emirates flight from the United Kingdom.

Dr. Ellie Holman, 44, who is a mother of three and a dentist, from Sevenoaks, Kent, said as soon as she and her daughter, Bibi, got off the flight on July 13 at Dubai International Airport, the pair were taken aside and questioned by immigration officials.   Continue reading “Drinking A Glass Of Wine On Flight Lands Dentist, Daughter In Jail”