Business Insider

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The unprecedented move from MGM Resorts International to sue hundreds of victims of last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas using an obscure U.S. law never tested in court has been framed by the casino-operator as an effort to avoid years of costly litigation — but the legal maneuver may not play out that way.

The company is not seeking money in the lawsuits filed in at least seven states over the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Instead, it wants federal courts to declare that it has no liability to survivors or families of slain victims under a federal law enacted after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.   Continue reading “MGM banks on never-used anti-terrorism law in suing victims”

LA Times

A gunman who opened fire outside a Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake was in custody Saturday evening after a standoff that began when he shot two people at a South L.A. home and fled in a car. Police were not searching the store to care for bystanders who were inside.

Witness described a terrifying scene of shoppers diving for cover amid the gun battle.

Los Angeles police Asst. Chief Robert Arcos said the gunman is in the Trader Joe’s with some bystanders. Other law enforcement sources said the bystanders and the gunman appeared to be in different parts of the store.

Continue reading “Tense standoff at Silver Lake Trader Joe’s after gunman opens fire; he and bystanders inside store”

Daily Star – by Rachel O’Donoghue

The horror meltdown in 2011 was sparked by a massive tsunami, causing waves that overwhelmed the plant’s reactors.

But despite fears about radioactive particles possibly entering the food and drink chain, the World Health Organisation insisted the risk outside Japan was relatively low.

But it can now be revealed that wine made in the west coast US state since the meltdown contain isotopes from the accident’s fallout.   Continue reading “Radiation traces from Fukushima nuclear disaster found in Californian wine”

Fox News

A man living in Florida was arrested after allegedly raped and impregnated a 12-year-old girl last fall, police said.

Jorge Estuardo Cobon-Juarez, originally from Guatemala, was arrested on July 13 in West Palm Beach on charges of sexual assault on a minor and child cruelty, the West Palm Beach Post reported.  Continue reading “Guatemalan living in Florida arrested for allegedly raping, impregnating 12-year-old girl: police”

New York Post

One disastrous tweet has finally revealed Elon Musk for what he is: a fraud.

Enraged that a British cave diver called his idea to rescue the Thai soccer team for what it was — “a p.r. stunt [with] absolutely no chance of working” — Musk took to Twitter and called him a “pedo.”

Just like that, Tesla’s market value plummeted by $2 billion.  Continue reading “Elon Musk is a total fraud”

Chron

A day after a beloved cardiologist was gunned down biking to work, Houston police are struggling to hone in on a motive for a crime that shook the city’s tight-knit medical community.

Dr. Mark Hausknecht, a renowned doctor who once treated former President George H.W. Bush, was shot by a passing bicyclist in broad daylight on Main Street, according to police. The 65-year-old died Friday morning at Ben Taub Hospital.   Continue reading “Police: Search continues as image of doctor’s shooter spotted on video”

The Great Recession

Economic cracks big enough to drive a car industry into are opening up all over the globe. Trade gaps are opening up between major allies. Widening spreads between the dollar and other currencies are shredding emerging markets. As we start into summer, these cracks and several others described below have become big enough to get everyone’s attention, just as I said last year would become the situation.

I had, as readers here know, predicted the same for last summer but revised my timing to this summer after Trump was elected and the hope for tax cuts lit on fire one of the world’s greatest stock rallies. Those tax cuts are also creating another rapidly rising gap between government revenue and government spending.   Continue reading “The Economy is Cracking Up. Are You?”

Why is no one screaming about the mass drugging of American Children???

When will this stop?

USA Today

Fleeing an abusive stepfather in El Salvador, Gabriela headed for Oakland, California, where her grandfather had promised to take her in. When the teenager reached the U.S. border in January 2017, she was brought to a federally funded shelter in Texas.  Continue reading “Immigrant shelters drug traumatized teenagers without consent”

The Mind Unleashed – by Markab Algedi

In a bicycle to bicycle drive-by shooting on the southwest side of Houston, Texas, a cardiologist who quite publicly treated former US President George H.W. Bush was killed Friday morning not far from Texas Medical Center.

65 year old Dr. Mark Hausknecht was the man who passed away. This is a photo of him with the former president.   Continue reading “George H.W. Bush’s Cardiologist Shot to Death in Bicycle Drive-By”

The Organic Prepper

By now, you’ve probably read about the duck boat tragedy in Branson, Missouri.  Whenever I hear about events like this, I analyze the situation to think about what might have altered the outcome for the better. After a tragedy, there is always at least one survival lesson we can learn that may help us if we are ever caught up in a similar incident.

In this case, it’s that you should always trust your own judgment in an emergency instead of the soothing words of people whose jobs depend on you not freaking out.   Continue reading “The #1 Survival Lesson You Can Learn from the Duck Boat Tragedy”

WFLA

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) – An argument about a handicapped parking space led to a deadly shooting outside a Clearwater convenience store Thursday that was witnessed by the deceased man’s 5-year-old son.

No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting. Detectives are investigating to determine if the case meets the criteria of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law.   Continue reading “Stand Your Ground? Handicapped parking feud leads to deadly Clearwater shooting”

Fox 5

NEW JERSEY (FOX5NY) – Never short on ideas for things to tax, lawmakers in New Jersey are considering a tax on tap water.

The proposal is being floated by State Sen. Bob Smith D-Middlesex, who is trying to say it’s not actually a tax but a ‘user fee’.

“It is a user fee based on volume,” Smith told Fox 5’s Chasing New Jersey.   Continue reading “NJ considers taxing tap water”

Kansas City Star

One of Emelia Holden’s co-workers said this kind of thing “literally happens all the time” at work.

But on this Saturday night, Holden was having none of it.

About 11 p.m. June 30, Holden was at her job as a server at Vinnie Van Go-Go’s, a pizza joint in Savannah, Georgia.   Continue reading “‘You don’t touch me!’ Waitress seen on video throwing around man who groped her rear”

Chron

A Houston Methodist Hospital doctor has died after being shot near the Texas Medical Center Friday morning, according to the Houston Police Department.

Dr. Mark Hausknecht, a cardiologist who treated former President George H.W. Bush, was shot around 8:50 a.m. in the 6600 block of Main Street while riding his bicycle to work. He died after being taken to Ben Taub Hospital.   Continue reading “Houston Methodist doctor on bike fatally shot at Texas Medical Center”

Greg Hunter

Putin dropped a bomb in the recent Trump/Putin meeting in Helsinki, Finland. Putin charged that an investment fund manager named Bill Browder (a British citizen) took $1.5 billion out of Russia and that he (and others) made the money illegally. On top of that, Putin charged that some U.S. Intelligence Officers helped guide “$400 million as a contribution to the campaign (2016) of Hillary Clinton.” Putin suggested Russian authorities want a deal to talk to Browder. Trump has turned down Putin, but shouldn’t the U.S. ask some questions? Don’t expect the disinformation scam that is the mainstream media (MSM) to ask the hard questions because FOX and MSNBC would only get Browder’s reaction to Trump turning down the Putin request. NOBODY would ask about the $400 million that Putin says was sent via U.S. Intel Officers to the Clinton Campaign. Not asking that question of Browder, when you have him on camera for an interview, is too stupid to be stupid.   Continue reading “MSM Disinformation Scam, Trump/Putin Meeting Fake Hysteria, Wells Fargo Troubles”