RT

An undetected drug allegedly passed around at a music festival in Tampa, Florida killed two young people and sickened 57 others, with one attendee describing the concert as “really uncontrolled.” Meanwhile, police are looking into the causes of death.

So far, Florida residents Katie Bermudez of Kissimmee, and Alex Haynes of Melbourne are the only two confirmed deaths. Both were rushed from the Sunset Music Festival in Tampa to a hospital over the weekend.   Continue reading “Unknown drug kills 2 young people at Florida music festival, 57 in hospital”

RT

Transgender people in Denmark will soon no longer be classified as having a mental illness, lawmakers from the parliament’s Health Committee have decided. The move has been hailed as a victory by rights groups.

The decision, which will take effect on January 1, 2017, was made by Danish lawmakers on Tuesday. As of that date, the word “transgender” will no longer appear on Denmark’s official list of mental illnesses.   Continue reading “First in the world: Denmark MPs approve removing ‘transgender’ from mental illness list”

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — Demand for long-term care is expected to increase as the nation ages, but the majority of Americans 40 and older lack confidence in their ability to pay for it. The annual cost of long-term care expenses range from $17,680 for adult day care to more than $92,000 for a private room in a nursing home, according to Genworth Financial.

Yet an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey finds that a third of Americans 40 and older have done no planning for their own-long term care needs, such as setting aside money to pay for a home aide or to help with daily activities or a room in a nursing home.   Continue reading “Poll: People unsure about ability to pay for long-term care”

Mail.com

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal officials in Minneapolis will announce Wednesday whether they believe the civil rights of a 24-year-old man were violated last November in a confrontation with two police officers that led to his death.

An officer shot Jamar Clark Nov. 15, and he died a day later. His death sparked weeks of protests and an 18-day occupation outside a north side police precinct. A key issue was whether Clark was handcuffed at the time of the shooting. Several witnesses said he was; police said he was not.   Continue reading “Civil rights inquiry due in Minneapolis police shooting”

Mail.com

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt said Wednesday that a French ship has picked up signals from deep under the Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board.

The development raised hopes the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders, known as the black boxes, could be retrieved and shed light on the aircraft’s tragic crash. In Cairo, the Civil Aviation Ministry cited a statement from the committee investigating the crash as saying the vessel Laplace received the signals. The French Navy confirmed the Laplace arrived on Tuesday in the search area and picked up the signals “overnight.”   Continue reading “Egypt says signals picked up from doomed plane’s black box”

USA Today – by Elizabeth Weise

SAN FRANCISCO — In a rare recall of baking and cooking flour, General Mills on Tuesday issued a recall of 10 million pounds of flour because of a possible link to an outbreak of E. coli that has sickened 38 people in 20 states since December.

The recall covers some bags of Gold Medal bleached and unbleached flour, bleached and unbleached Signature Kitchen flour, Gold Medal self-rising flour and Gold Medal Wondra quick-mixing flour. A full list of the recalled flours is listed below and on the General Mills website.   Continue reading “General Mills recalls 10 million pounds of flour”

Fox News

The Justice Department moved Tuesday to fight a federal judge’s order that its lawyers undergo mandatory ethics training, digging in after the DOJ was accused of misleading the courts over President Obama’s immigration executive actions.

In filings Tuesday, the department said the order would “far exceed the bounds of appropriate remedies” and would cost the department millions.    Continue reading “DOJ fights federal judge’s order for lawyers to attend ethics training”

Progressives Today

Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is stepping down in August, on the heels of several ethics scandals that have come to light. These include dismissing a staffer who revealed that the corrections department uses unnecessary force, afemale deputy was harassed and “fat shamed”, and, most recently, his souped up Dodge Charger cruiser that he ordered for himself on the county dime, against policy.

Set to take over for him on an interim basis is former Portland police chief Mike Reese.   Continue reading “Bloomberg Owned Police Chief Moving Up To County Sheriff”

Progressives Today

As Portland police chief Larry O’Dea takes his paid leave of absence, after he got drunk and accidentally shot a friend on a hunting trip then lied about it to cover it up, assistant chief Donna Henderson has been appointed as “acting” chief until the situation is resolved.

Henderson is not without her own sordid past.   Continue reading “Meet Portland’s Anti Gun “Acting” Police Chief”

Progressives Today

David Alpher has a PhD in “conflict resolution” and teaches at George Mason University. He also writes for some leftists website that no one’s ever heard of until now called The Conversation. His most recent article was picked up by Raw Story on June 1st, at the stroke of midnight.

Entitled “An expert explains why domestic extremists are a much bigger risk than foreign terrorists in America“, Alpher attempts to make a case for painting the modern Patriot movement as being the most dangerous group on the planet. The article originally featured a picture of a Trump rally, but was since replaced with a collage of the mugshots from the Malheur Wildlife Refuge takeover.   Continue reading “Professor Says American Patriots More Dangerous Than Foreign Terrorists”

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Daily Mail

An outbreak of measles that began with an inmate at a federal detention center for immigrants in central Arizona has now grown to 11 confirmed cases.

Seven of those infected are inmates at the Eloy Detention Center, and four are workers at the facility, Pinal County Health Services spokesman Joe Pyritz said.    Continue reading “Measles Outbreak Traced Back to Inmate at Arizona Immigrant Detention Facility as Confirmed Cases Continue to Grow”

Press TV

A report says Israel remapped as much as 15,000 acres of occupied Palestinian land in 2015 as an attempt at justifying settlement expansion inside the re-designated areas.

Reporting on Tuesday, Israeli daily Ha’aretz said the move was taken to put a legal face on construction activities within the territory Israel had previously claimed as its own.   Continue reading “Israel remaps 15,000 acres in West Bank: Report”

There was a Mensa Convention in San Francisco recently.  Mensa, as you probably know, is a national organization for people who have an IQ of 140 or higher.

Several of the Mensa members went out for lunch at a local café.  When they sat down, one of them discovered that their salt shaker contained pepper, and their pepper shaker was full of salt.  How could they swap the contents of the two bottles without spilling any, and using only the implements at hand?   Continue reading “Mensa Convention”

Geoengineering Watch – by Dane Wigington

Willful blindness to the criminal actions of your country is not patriotism, it is tyranny. Any that are living under the delusion that our government is in any way concerned about them, their lives, or the lives of our brothers and sisters in the US military, are unimaginably disconnected from reality. The public has been very successfully programmed by the power structure controlled corporate media to blindly support the actions of the criminal cabal that masquerades as legitimate government. This public programming must be broken down if we are to have any chance of salvaging what remains of Earth’s life support systems.   Continue reading “Betrayed – 100 Years Of US Troops As Lab Rats”

Trending News Guide

The Obama administration is stepping in to prevent Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from being deposed in a legal case dealing with her use of a private email server for classified information.

The Hill reported Friday that the Justice Department has filed a motion opposing a request from legal watchdog Judicial Watch that Clinton be deposed.   Continue reading “Obama Administration Files Motion In An Effort To Protect Clinton”

The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

Contrary to what political correctness and social justice advocates would have you believe, their ideas are not about protecting minorities. They serve only one purpose in our society, and that is to hamstring free speech and hobble the cultural cornerstones of our rights. On the surface these ideas may sound like they’re promoting sensitivity, but in reality they are tools of social engineering designed to break down our culture and language, and pave the way for a new oppressive society.   Continue reading “Louisiana Democrat Claims Declaration Of Independence Is Racist”

The Weather Channel

It seems that there is no rest for the rain-weary over parts of Texas. Several significant rain events have produced flooding across the region in recent months and more rain is on the way.

Another round of heavy rain inundated the Lone Star State over the past several days, resulting in even more flooding. After a brief break, more significant rain is expected again this week.   Continue reading “More Locally Heavy Rain For Flood-Weary Texas This Week”