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I estimate between 350 and 1000 people turned out for this action. It’s inspiring to see so many people of all ages, alone, as families, couples, so many bringing incredibly creative protest signs. The leadership at the event was also very good. Continue reading “Chicago March Against Monsanto 2014”
The Telegraph – by Nick Squires
Pope Francis made an unscheduled stop at the Israeli-built barrier that separates the town of Bethlehem from Jerusalem on Sunday, praying against the wall that has come to symbolise Arab-Israeli division.
The unexpected gesture in the cradle of Christianity came as the Pope was en route to Manger Square, where Jesus is thought to have been born 2,000 years ago.
What can’t money buy?
A service called Rent-A-Gent lets women choose a male companion from a list of “smart and handsome men.”
For $200 bucks an hour, men can serve as handymen, dates, or personal chefs. Continue reading “Women Are Using ‘Rent-A-Gent’ To Hire Men To Do Chores And Go On Dates”
Redlands Daily Facts – by Brenda Gazzar
Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s and federal ATF officials served a search warrant and searched the premises of the West Hills home of the mother of the young man who went on a shooting rampage that left six people dead and 13 injured Friday night in Isla Vista, a college town near Santa Barbara.
Officials brought out one blue box after searching the home of Lichin Rodger, who goes by the name Chin Rodger, for more than an hour but declined to comment on its contents. Continue reading “Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department, ATF search homes of suspect Elliot Rodger’s parents”
Parents of a second-grader in Colorado Springs, Colorado, are outraged after their son was questioned by school officials for completing a class assignment in which he said he had seen the figure of a gun in the clouds.
Kody Smith, a student at Talbott Elementary in the Widefield School District, went outside last week with his classmates after being asked to describe figures in the clouds. The students were told to use their imaginations. Continue reading “Boy sees ‘gun’ in cloud, school goes ballistic”
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will let more veterans obtain health care at private hospitals, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki announced Saturday.
Shinseki, who faces calls to resign amid reports of lengthy waiting lists and preventable deaths in the VA’s healthcare system, said the agency is “increasing the care we acquire in the community through non-VA care,” according to the Associated Press. Continue reading “VA turns to private hospitals for help”
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said on “Face the Nation” Sunday that this weekend’s shooting rampage in California should prompt lawmakers to reconsider legislation that would help provide more resources for the mentally ill and prevent them from buying guns.
“We need more resources to make the country healthier and to make sure that these kinds of horrific, insane, mad occurrences are stopped. And the Congress will be complicit if we fail to act,” said Blumenthal. Continue reading “Senator: California shooting should prompt fresh look at gun laws”
New York Daily News – by Doyle Murphy
The deranged 22-year-old behind a Santa Barbara killing spree fantasized about a global takeover, a friend says.
After watching the movie “Chronicle” with a group of friends, Elliot Rodger announced he wanted to “dominate the world,” friend Andi Chan told ABC News.
“We all thought he was insane, but we were used to it,” Chan said in the interview. “Maybe in his mind he really wanted to do that.” Continue reading “Friend: Santa Barbara killer Elliot Rodger wanted to ‘dominate the world’”
Yesterday we showed how Russia and China hold “massive” naval drills in the northern part of the East China Sea (close enough to Japan for us to footnote “ahem Japan and Taiwan”), which in addition to a clear signal to the US (on part of Russia), was sending just as clear a message to Japan (on the part of China). Sure enough, overnight Japan was not too happy with this massive show of force by the two biggest and closest foes near its disputed territory. As a result it dispatched an OP-3C surveillance plane and a YS-11EB electronic intelligence aircraft. China promptly retaliated and as Reuters reports, it scrambled a Su-27, fully-armed with missiles, which came as close as 50 meters of the Japanese fighters – the closest Chinese warplanes had come to aircraft of Japan’s Self-Defense Force according to Japan – in what can only be described as “please take the first punch.” Continue reading “China Scrambles Fighter Jet, Flies Within 50 Meters Of Japanese Airplanes”
Nanotechnology is an important new area of research that promises significant advances in electronics, materials, biotechnology, alternative energy sources, and dozens of other applications. The graphic below illustrates, at a personal level, the potential impact on each of us. And where electrical measurement is required, Keithley instrumentation is being used in an expanding list of nanotechnology research and development settings. Continue reading “How Nanotechnology Could Reengineer Us”
Those following the developments in Friday evening’s UCSB shootings are aware of the suspected perpetrator Elliot Rodger‘s frightening YouTube manifesto, describing his bitterness towards women and the men who are able to find a mate.
As it turns out, he had also written a 141-page manifesto that lays out his grievances in painstaking detail, describing stories from his childhood onward that seemed to have laid the foundation for his anger towards women, “alpha males,” and society in general. Continue reading “Elliot Rodger’s Written Manifesto Is 141 Pages Long and Absolutely Terrifying”
This one includes the deleted videos.
Mashable – by Christina Warren
Who was Elliot Rodger?
The online history and detailed writings of Rodger, who police identified as the gunman in a series of shootings near the University of California, Santa Barbara, paint a chilling profile of a 22-year-old obsessed with appearance, acceptance and getting a girlfriend. Continue reading “Elliot Rodger: Portrait of a Lonely Outcast Obsessed With Status”
Huffington Post – by GILLIAN FLACCUS and OSKAR GARCIA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before Elliot Rodger killed six people in a beachside California college community, the 22-year-old repeatedly talked online in videos about being sexually frustrated, alone and miserable.
Rodger’s family worried about him enough to call police about his videos on YouTube, saying they were alarmed by seeing him talk of suicide and killing people, family attorney Alan Shifman said Saturday. Three weeks later, Rodger stabbed three people at his apartment to death, gunned down two women outside a sorority and killed one more person outside a deli. Police believe he killed himself after a roving gunbattle with police. Continue reading “Elliot Rodger’s Videos Raised Alarm Before Santa Barbara Shooting”
OpEd News – by Rob Kall
AOL – by Caroline Moss
WND – by Jim Fletcher
The Hill – by Keith Laing
CBS News – by REBECCA KAPLAN
Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden
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Mediaite – by Andrew Kirell