CBS News

Going to medical school today takes more than ambition, good grades in biology in college, and an appetite for hard work. It takes a willingness to incur a crushing amount of debt. Student debt in general is in crisis in this country. All told, borrowers owe $1.5 trillion, more than people owe in credit card debt or car loans.

People have borrowed money to attend medical school for decades, but the scale of the debt has skyrocketed in recent years, along with just about every other cost in health care. The average medical student now graduates with a debt burden as big as a home mortgage.  Continue reading “How the NYU School of Medicine is going tuition-free”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Two weeks ago, somewhat out of the blue, ECB President Mario Draghi issued an odd statement confirming that the European Central Bank needs to approve any operation in the foreign reserves of euro zone countries, including gold and large foreign currency holdings.  Continue reading ““It Belongs To The People, Not The Bankers” – Italy Moves To Seize Gold From Central Bank”

Middle East Monitor

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel used force “wisely” in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli soldiers have killed “more than 300” Palestinians near the eastern fence of the besieged enclave.

In an interview with Israel Hayom, Netanyahu said: “More than 300 Palestinians have been killed near the border when they tried to breach the fence and abduct our soldiers. We have used force wisely, and powerfully.”  Continue reading “Netanyahu: Killing 300 Gaza protesters was ‘wise’ decision”

Hartford Courant – by Norm Pattis

You’ve probably heard by now that Alex Jones of Infowars plans to defend himself against charges that he defamed the families of folks killed in the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012 by claiming some form of psychosis.

You heard wrong. You swallowed a meme, becoming the very thing you say you scorn — a dupe to a hateful, half-baked piece of misinformation. Continue reading “Alex Jones’ lawyer: If you want the Infowars host silenced, you’re scarier than he is”

Gateway Pundit – by Brock Simmons

Now that police in New Zealand are going door-to-door to confiscate firearms, which involves bird-dogging people at work and monitoring their online activity, one man who has gotten caught up in the covfefe was recently stripped of his airsoft BB guns and his crossbow.

Adam Holland, apparently from Queenstown, made this post to his facebook page on March 28th:  Continue reading “New Zealand Police Confiscate Airsoft Pellet Guns, Crossbow from Man Because He Supports Trump”

Fox News

A Texas state trooper was in critical but stable condition early Sunday after being shot while approaching a driver who had fled from a crash scene not far from the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said.

Further information on the trooper’s condition, along with his name, was not immediately available.  Continue reading “Suspect held in shootout near US-Mexico border; Texas trooper ‘critical’ but stable”

The Telegraph

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, has promised to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he is re-elected on Tuesday.

Palestinian leaders immediately reacted with anger at the pledge, which came in an interview with Israeli Channel 12 News three days ahead of the election. Continue reading “Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu ‘plans to annex settlements in West Bank’ if reelected”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

A new “report” has been released by Copytrack, supposedly detailing the insane amount of “stealing” that goes on every day. “Report” is in quotes for reason. First, the “report” [PDF] opens up with a literally unbelievable statistic conjecture.

[I]t is estimated that more than 2.5 billion images are stolen daily. These license violations have the potential to result in up to €532.5 billion in damages daily.  

Continue reading “Copyright Enforcement Service Claims $600 Billion-Worth Of Images Are ‘Stolen’ Every Day”

The Organic Prepper – by Dagny Taggart

A “mysterious and dangerous” fungal infection has emerged, and experts are warning that it is a serious global health threat.

In A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy, The New York Times outlines the terrifying details:  Continue reading “Candida Auris: The Incredibly Deadly Fungus KILLING People Across the Planet”

SF Gate

As President Donald Trump threatened to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border in recent days, his Department of Homeland Security nearly doubled the number of temporary guest worker visas available this summer.

DHS and the Labor Department plan to grant an additional 30,000 H-2B visas this summer on top of the 33,000 H-2B visas they had planned to give out, the agencies confirmed.  Continue reading “Trump administration nearly doubles H-2B guest visa program, which brings many Mexican workers”

Prep for That – by Jim Statney

A New York state Supreme Court judge has ruled in favor of a group of parents who objected to Rockland County’s emergency ban on unvaccinated kids. The emergency ban has been a continued point of contention in the region since it was enacted on March 30th. It was set to last 30 days, however, the new ruling has cut the time span short.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day’s order was intended to stop a measles outbreak. However, the measure was widely considered overreaching and draconian in nature. The ban ordered anyone under the age of 18 who was unvaccinated with a measles vaccine to stay out of public places. This included churches, schools, and even grocery stores. Continue reading “Judge Overturns New York County Unvaccinated Ban”

Daily Wire

According to medical doctors and a parent of a gender non-conforming child speaking on a panel for the Heritage Foundation, their quest to stop dangerous transgender treatments on minors has exposed that “government-funded research now allows wrong sex hormones such as testosterone to be given to girls as young as 8,” reported The Christian Post on Tuesday.  Continue reading “Doctors Are Now Giving 8-Year-Old Girls Testosterone, Claiming They’re ‘Transgender’”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

The House of Representatives voted 263 to 158 on a Democrat-led bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act on Thursday. Only 33 Republicans voted for the legislation. However, anybody who tries to cast those numbers as Republican indifference to violence against women isn’t telling the whole story.

Rather than simply reauthorize the law, Democrats used the opportunity to add more federal gun control to legislation originally aimed at combating domestic violence and sexual assault.  Continue reading “House Democrats sneak gun control measures into Violence Against Women Act”

Tech Spot – by Cal Jeffrey

Why it matters: We expect that when we have a CT or MRI scan that the results are accurate. After all we are talking about equipment that can cost millions of dollars and radiologists with years of training and sometimes decades of experience. However, hospital security can be lax and researchers have now shown they can fake CT and MRI scans using a generative adversarial network (GAN).  Continue reading “Security researchers fake cancerous nodes in CT scans with machine learning”

KCRA 3 – by Dan Thompson

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday halted sales of high-capacity ammunition magazines in California, giving state officials a chance to appeal his order last week that allowed their sale for the first time in nearly 20 years.

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez barred further sales until the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considers whether to reinstate the state’s ban on magazines holding more than 10 bullets.  Continue reading “Judge again halts high-capacity magazine sales in California”