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The Wichita Eagle – by Jaime Green
A 12-year veteran of the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office was shot and killed Sunday in western Sedgwick County.
Robert Kunze was shot while responding to a suspicious character call, Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter said during a Sunday evening news conference. A second person, the suspect, was also killed. Continue reading “Kansas deputy killed during suspicious character call, sheriff says”
Miami Herald – by Mario J Penton
A video of an argument with a Taco Bell employee in Hialeah has unleashed a wave of indignation on social media.
The incident happened on Wednesday night, when Alexandria Montgomery was trying to place an order — in English — at a Taco Bell drive thru window at 785 East Ninth St. The employee refused to take her order because she wasn’t speaking Spanish. Continue reading “Taco Bell employee refuses to help client who doesn’t speak Spanish”
Floodwaters from Tropical Depression Florence has entirely cut off the North Carolina city of Wilmington, prompting officials to call for additional help from state law enforcement and the National Guard.
During a Sunday news conference, Woody White, chairman of the board of commissioners of New Hanover County, said additional rainfall Saturday night made roads into the city impassable. Continue reading “Florence Floodwaters Cut Off Wilmington, North Carolina; Death toll Rises to 12 in the State”
A top Israeli military and energy official has questioned Israel and China’s growing economic ties just as a Chinese company is set to begin operating Haifa Port as part of a major 25-year contract previously struck in 2015.
“When China acquires ports,” Israeli Brigadier General Shaul Horev began in an interview this week with national news source, Arutz Sheva, “it does so under the guise of maintaining a trade route from the Indian Ocean via the Suez Canal to Europe, such as the port of Piraeus in Greece. Does an economic horizon like this have a security impact?” Continue reading “China To Take Over Israel’s Largest Port, Could Threaten US Naval Operations”
As I was growing up as a kid, just as all of you, I ate anything and everything that was put in front of me, if it smelled and tasted good I ralphed it down; food was everything as I was growing up. As I grew older that came to be a curse, all the crap that came with this good food is now taking its toll. I won’t go into details, but I will tell you this, I have pain that stays with me 24/7. I look at it as a curse, pain that would make your toenails curl if you could just feel it for a couple of minutes. Continue reading “More Americans Living With Chronic Pain – GMOs, Chemtrails, Chemicals in Meat and Poultry?”
Shrouded in mystery, a US-funded medical facility in Georgia could be a cover for a bioweapons lab used for disturbing experiments that banned in the US, a Georgian ex-security minister has claimed. Tbilisi denies the accusations.
The center, which is officially called the R. Lugar Center for Public Health Research, is described as a “brand new facility” tasked with the “prevention of proliferation of technology, pathogens and expertise related to the development of biological weapons” by the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), an agency of Georgia’s Health Ministry. The task is said to be part of a cooperation program between Georgia and the US. Continue reading “Deadly experiments: Georgian ex-minister claims US-funded facility may be bioweapons lab”
Police in North Carolina arrested five people Saturday night as looters began to break into stores while Tropical Storm Florence brought chaos to the region.
Wilmington Police confirmed the arrests on Twitter but did not immediately release the identities of the five individuals. Continue reading “Police arrest 5 in North Carolina as looters begin to capitalize on Florence chaos”
According to pro-industry publication, Smart Cities Dive:
Once upon a time three bulls lived in the forest. One white, one brown and one black. They were brothers and lived together in harmony. In that forest also lived a tiger who had his eye on the bulls. But every time he attacked one of them the others came to his aid and together they drove the tiger away.
The tiger decided that he needed to change his strategy. So one day when the Black Bull was away, he went to the other two and said, “You know, the Black Bull is black and dirty and evil. Why do you keep him with you? He is a disgrace to you. You are beautiful and noble. If the Black Bull is no longer there, you will have all the grazing to yourself. He takes away your food and adds no value to you.” The two bulls listened to the tiger’s spiel and said, “Well, you know, he is our brother. What can we do?” Continue reading “The Arabic Legend of the White Bull”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration will send a message to all U.S. cellphones on Thursday to test a previously unused alert system that aims to warn the public about national emergencies.
The messages will bear the headline “Presidential Alert”, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said in a statement this week. Phones will make a loud tone and have a special vibration, said FEMA, which will send the alert. Continue reading “Trump administration to send U.S. cellphones a test alert on Thursday”
I took the name Vidrebel for this blog because I began it by commenting on videos from a rebel’s perspective. Today I want to go back to my origins by commenting on two videos you need to know about.
The first is an interview with Rosemary Gibson who wrote China Rx. China makes the active ingredients for most drug manufacturers in the world including all those generics made in India. They make our penicillin, birth control pills and antibiotics. China dumped drugs on the market to bankrupt competitors in Europe, the US and India. The FDA banned 29 Chinese company products due to impurities. The FDA had to rescind the ban on 14 products because nobody else was producing it. Contaminated Chinese heparin killed many American heart patients but still imported from China as we had no alternative sources. This is becoming a national security issue. Continue reading “Two Must See Videos”
The Intercept – by Sharon Learner
THE PEOPLE WHO wrote an ordinance banning the aerial spraying of pesticides in western Oregon last year aren’t professional environmental advocates. Their group, Lincoln County Community Rights, has no letterhead, business cards, or paid staff. Its handful of core members includes the owner of a small business that installs solar panels, a semi-retired Spanish translator, an organic farmer who raises llamas, and a self-described caretaker and Navajo-trained weaver. Continue reading “How a Ragtag Group of Oregon Locals took on the Biggest Chem Companies – and WON!”
Huffington Post – by Arthur Delaney
WASHINGTON ― The Economic Club of Washington threw a party for Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, on Thursday night in the fancy hotel ballroom that also hosts the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Economic Club president and billionaire private equity investor David Rubenstein interviewed Bezos on a stage for the benefit of lesser rich people who’d paid to attend. At one point near the beginning of the event, Rubenstein asked the crowd if anyone had taken the subway to get there, and everyone laughed.
Continue reading “The World’s Richest Man Came To Washington, D.C., And It Was Gross”