Medical Kidnap

How the Elderly Lose Their Rights

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

By Rachel Aviv The New Yorker

Excerpts:

For years, Rudy North woke up at 9 a.m. and read the Las Vegas Review-Journal while eating a piece of toast. Then he read a novel—he liked James Patterson and Clive Cussler—or, if he was feeling more ambitious, Freud. On scraps of paper and legal notepads, he jotted down thoughts sparked by his reading. “Deep below the rational part of our brain is an underground ocean where strange things swim,” he wrote on one notepad. On another, “Life: the longer it cooks, the better it tastes.”   Continue reading “Medical Kidnapping of Seniors: A $273 BILLION Industry”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Charles Upham, the father of Misty Upham, the Hollywood actress known for her roles in August: Osage County and Django Unchained, spoke out recently about the alleged rape of his daughter and the horrifying problem that is Hollywood sexual abuse.

Charles noted that although Hollywood found a “poster boy” in Weinstein to “ease the conscience of high society for a while,” that the problem is persistent and “not an isolated incident.”   Continue reading “Actress With DNA Evidence of Her Rape at Golden Globes Mysteriously Fell Off a Cliff and Died”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the government’s own account of nationwide drug deaths to cover all of 2016. The vast majority of those deaths are from opioid-based substances such as fentanyl, heroin, and prescription opioids. Now, a natural plant that is helping people kick their addictions to these dangerous opioids — kratom — is under attack by the FDA as it is threatening big pharma’s grip on the pain and addiction market.

On Tuesday, Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, issued a public health advisory on kratom, outlining concerns about its “deadly risks.”   Continue reading “FDA Loyalty to Big Pharma Exposed in Move to Ban Plant that’s CURING Opioid Addiction”

Reuters

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe appeared in public on Friday for the first time since the army took charge, as the ruling party made plans to force him to step down after more than three decades in power.

The president, who is 93, opened a graduation ceremony at Zimbabwe Open University in Harare. He wore blue and yellow academic robes and a mortar board hat and appeared to fall asleep in his chair as his eyes closed and his head lolled.   Continue reading “Zimbabwe’s Mugabe digs in heels as ruling party moves to depose him”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – From Pataskala, Ohio, to Conroe, Texas, local government leaders worry that if Republican tax-overhaul plans moving through the U.S. Congress become law, it will be harder for them to pave streets, put out fires, fight crime and pay teachers.

A tax plan approved by the House of Representatives on Thursday would sharply curtail a federal deduction that millions of Americans can now claim for tax payments to state, county, city and town governments.   Continue reading “U.S. towns, cities fear taxpayer revolt if Republicans kill deduction”

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OKANOGAN COUNTY, Wash. – Officials with the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island said one of their aircraft was involved in the obscene skywritings spotted in Okanogan County.

Photos sent to KREM 2 by multiple sources show skydrawings of what some people are saying is male genitalia. Some sources have even tweeted pictures of what they saw.   Continue reading “Navy admits to being involved in obscene skydrawings spotted in Okanogan Co.”

Fellowship of the Minds – by DCG

The author of this opinion piece, Travis Rieder, PhD, is the Assistant Director for Education Initiatives, Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program and Research Scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Public Health Advocacy within the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

From NBC News: A startling and honestly distressing view is beginning to receive serious consideration in both academic and popular discussions of climate change ethics. According to this view, having a child is a major contributor to climate change. The logical takeaway here is that everyone on Earth ought to consider having fewer children.   Continue reading “Bioethicist opinion: Science proves kids are bad for earth; morality suggests we stop having them”

The Truth About Guns – by Robert Farago

In the wake of three high-profile mass shootings — Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs and Rancho Tehema — I wonder if firearms freedom fence sitters are starting to get the message: gun control doesn’t work. Background checks don’t stop criminals, crazies and terrorists from tooling-up and going postal. Background checks don’t stop them. Assault weapon bans don’t stop them. Ammunition capacity laws don’t stop them. A bullet to the brain? That stops them! Here’s more proof [via dailyrecord.co.uk] . . .   Continue reading “How Did a “Gun Nut” Amass 160 Firearms in “Gun Free” UK?”

The Daily Caller – by Eeric Leiberman

Facebook is launching a feature that will try to help users decide what news articles on its platforms are legitimate, the company announced Thursday.

The tech conglomerate is attaching “Trust Indicators” to certain articles shared on the platform, which will provide information about the publishers. Such details will include the content creators’ polices on ethics, corrections, fact-checking, “ownership structure, and masthead.” Publishers have to upload the extra information through the Brand Asset Library, which is listed under Facebook’s Page Publishing Tools. To achieve its goal, Facebook is working with the Trust Project, “an international consortium of news and digital companies.”   Continue reading “Facebook Launches ‘Trust Indicators’ To Help You Decide What’s Fake News”

WMUR

BUFFALO TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Audrey and Edward Cramer, of Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania, were reported to police by their Nationwide insurance agent for allegedly having marijuana plants on their property.

The couple say that on Sept. 20 police stormed their house, harassed them, took their plants and arrested them, while Audrey Cramer was still in her underwear.

The problem for police is that the plants they confiscated were Kenaf hibiscus plants, not marijuana.   Continue reading “Lawsuit: Couple arrested after hibiscus plants mistaken for marijuana”

VPR

The federal government says the company that owns Mount Snow can open its own EB-5 regional investment center.

Peak Resorts announced Thursday that United States Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the company’s request to operate the privately managed Great North Regional EB-5 Center, which will handle foreign investment for its northeast resorts.  Continue reading “Feds Approve Regional EB-5 Center For Mount Snow”

Daily Mail

The deadly plague will never be eradicated, scientists have warned amid fears the situation in Madagascar is spiralling out of control.

At least 171 people have died in the country off the coast of Africa’s ‘worst outbreak in 50 years’ and 2,119 have been infected, World Health Organization figures show.

International aid workers are desperately battling to contain the ‘crisis’, which has prompted 10 nearby African countries to be placed on high alert by the WHO.   Continue reading “‘It’s not possible to eradicate plague’: Scientists warn”

Telegraph – by Sarah Knapton

The world’s first human head transplant has allegedly been performed on a corpse in an 18 hour operation which successfully connected the spine, nerves and blood vessels of two people.

The operation was carried out by a team led by Dr Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University, China, who last year successfully grafted a head onto the body of a monkey.  Continue reading “World’s first human head transplant a success, controversial scientist claims”

USA Today

HAWTHORNE, Calif. — Elon Musk wears many masks. Internet entrepreneur. Electric car salesman. Rocket man.

Add trucker to the list.

Musk rolled silently into a long-anticipated and oft-delayed event here Thursday at the controls of Tesla Semi. The first electric big rig truck from a company known for its luxury electric long-range cars is a shot across yet another industry bow for the brash Tesla and SpaceX CEO who has vowed to remake automobiles, solar energy and space exploration.   Continue reading “Tesla Semi, an electric big rig truck with 500-mile range, rolls into reality”

American Thinker – by Colin Flaherty

Budding Hollywood actresses do not have to rely on semi-naked fat dudes in expensive hotels for acting tips.  Not anymore.

Real-life examples of real-life emotions such as despair, abandonment, anguish, and betrayal are easy to find if you know where to look – e.g., local stories of black-on-white violence.   Continue reading “This Is What Anguish Looks Like: Victims of Black-on-White Violence”

Gateway Pundit – by Cristina Laila

As previously reported, Congress has a rampant sexual harassment problem. In fact the problem is so bad that female lawmakers and aides keep a ‘creep list’ of men who are notorious for lewd behavior.

A release of the year-by-year breakdown of harassment settlements and other awards has people guessing names!   Continue reading “Twitter Set Ablaze After Congressional Office of Compliance Releases Year-by-Year Breakdown of Settlements WITHOUT DETAILS”