Month: May 2019

Reuters

BOSTON (Reuters) – The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc on Thursday became the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive to be convicted in a case tied to the U.S. opioid crisis, when he and four colleagues were found guilty of participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive painkiller.

A federal jury in Boston found John Kapoor, the drugmaker’s former chairman, and his co-defendants guilty of racketeering conspiracy for engaging in a scheme that also misled insurers into paying for the drug.  Continue reading “Founder, execs of drug company guilty in conspiracy that fed opioid crisis”

KOCO News – by Abigail Ogle

GUTHRIE, Okla. — A 28-year-old man who is a young father suffered a major stroke.

Josh Hader of Guthrie tore an artery in his neck leading to his brain. The cause of the stroke? He popped his neck.  Continue reading “28-year-old Oklahoma man suffers stroke from cracking his neck”

New York Times – by Jesse Barron

The news spread around Huntsville, Ala., in the winter of 2014. Remington, the country’s oldest gun maker, had decided to expand from its historic home in upstate New York to a gigantic former Chrysler factory near the airport. Workers at the new plant, the company said, would earn a minimum average of $19.50 an hour assembling shotguns, pistols, hunting rifles and AR-15-style semiautomatics. The city’s mayor wrote in a newspaper column that he was thrilled that Remington’s quest for a new factory space had ended in Huntsville. He calculated the typical annual salary as $42,500.  Continue reading “How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery”

MIT Technology Review – by Antonio Regalado

In September 2016, Jennifer Doudna called a new colleague named Kyle Watters to her office. By then, the University of California, Berkeley, biochemist was famous as the coinventor of CRISPR. The invention of the fast and versatile tool to edit genes had vaulted her to global notoriety and to considerable wealth. She was the founder of several startup companies and had collected millions in science-prize money.   Continue reading “The search for the kryptonite that can stop CRISPR”

The Guardian

The US Defense Department expects China to add military bases around the world to protect its investments in it ambitious One Belt One Road global infrastructure program, according to an official report released on Thursday.

Beijing currently has just one overseas military base, in Djibouti, but is believed planning others, including possibly Pakistan, as it seeks to project itself as a global superpower.  Continue reading “China will build string of military bases around world, says Pentagon”

Yahoo News

DONNA, Texas — Thousands of migrant families and children apprehended crossing the U.S. border in the Lower Rio Grande Valley will spend their first night in America in a vast air-conditioned tent complex with access to showers, hot meals and cots to sleep on.

The massive 40,000-square-foot white vinyl tent erected in less than a month on farm country owned by the federal government about a mile from the Rio Grande was set to open for the first time Thursday to handle what authorities described as a 240 percent increase in apprehensions in the Border Patrol sector anchored by the city McAllen. Continue reading “Immigration officials in Texas showcase huge new tents to house migrant families”

Sputnik

Before US Vice President Mike Pence took the podium to address the sailors of the USS Harry S. Truman Tuesday, the members of the armed forces were reportedly given particularly puzzling instruction on how to welcome the VP.

On Tuesday afternoon, Pence traveled to Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, to deliver a message from US President Donald Trump while also recognizing the 2,000-plus missions the USS Harry S. Truman and its 7,500 sailors have been a part of in the past year.  Continue reading “US Navy Sailors Told to Clap Like They’re ‘at a Strip Club’ for Pence”

Miss Liberty

Perhaps as many as a hundred million people were victims of communism in the last century, deliberately rounded up, shot, starved, or simply forced to march into snowy wasteland until dead, exterminated by communist regimes.  Continue reading “May 1: Victims of Communism Day | Ten Films to Honor the Dead”

A store that sells new husbands has opened in Toronto, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

You may visit this store ONLY ONCE!  Continue reading “Husband Store”

Jewish Racism – by Christopher Jon Bjerknes

I do not know what caused the fire at Notre Dame. Maybe it was an electrical short. My memories of it are also aflame. I seem to recall that it would have been easy for someone to scale the structure near the flying buttresses, or to launch some sort of incendiary missile from outside the building into the bell tower, but these are vague and old memories. Continue reading “Religion as a Weapon of War”

The Sun Sentinel

A bill prohibiting anti-Semitism in Florida’s public schools and universities is going to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Senate unanimously passed the bill Monday, two days after a gunman opened fire in a California synagogue, killing one and injuring three others.  Continue reading “Florida Legislature passes anti-Semitism bill for public schools”

Arutz Sheva

This is the Dayenu for President Trump, based on the simple realization that there has never been a president as pro-Israel as Trump, and it is almost unthinkable that there will ever be another.

Let us count the ways, individual acts for which alone we would sing Dayenu, “it would have been enough:”  Continue reading “The Trump “Dayenu””

Kyiv Post – by Illia Ponomarenko

Personnel of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division arrived in Ukraine on May 2, as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine (JMTG-U) mission. They deployed to the International Center For Peacekeeping and Security in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine.

Over 130 soldiers from the division’s 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team “Strike” have replaced the Tennessee Army National Guard 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, which had been providing training to Ukraine’s troops at the center, commonly known as the Yavoriv training range, since August 2018.  Continue reading “US Army 101st Airborne soldiers deploy to Ukraine”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Since the beginning of the year, the Free Thought Project has been reporting on the hysteria associated with the measles outbreak and the subsequent loss of liberties and police state crackdown that’s ensued. We’ve seen children banned from public spaces,mandatory vaccinations, and a pro-vaccine push in the mainstream media like we’ve never seen before. Now, the pro-mandatory vaccine push has reached a new level, as the Washington Post published an article calling for the arrest of those who choose not to vaccinate.  Continue reading “Mainstream Media Now Calling for the Arrest of “Antivaxxers””

The Intercept – by Robert Mackey

NEW LEGISLATION PROPOSED by Rep. Betty McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat, would ban Israel from using any of the billions of dollars in military assistance it receives from the United States every year to pay for the detention, interrogation, or torture of Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank.

Israel’s military typically arrests and prosecutes 500 to 700 Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 17 each year, subjecting them to coercive interrogation, physical violence, and trials in military courts that lack basic guarantees of due process. Continue reading “New House Bill Would Bar Israel From Using U.S. Military Aid to Detain Palestinian Children”