Florida Shooter Had Been Sent To A Mental Hospital Over “ISIS Ties”, Was Investigated For Child Porn

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As more details emerge about the Ft. Lauderdale airport shooter, Esteban Santiago-Ruiz, 26, who on Friday afternoon opened fire at the baggage claim area at the airport, killing 5 and wounding 8, we start to get a detailed glimpse not only into his past, but his numerous recent interactions with authorities.
According to law enforcement officials, Santiago was found with an active military ID and is an American citizen, born in New Jersey. Previous known addresses include Penuelas, Puerto Rico and Anchorage, Alaska.
They add that in November 2016, just two months ago, he walked into an FBI office in Anchorage claiming that the government had “forced him to watch ISIS videos” and to fight for ISIS. According to a slightly different narrative presented by CNN, source said that Santiago was hearing voice telling him to join the Islamic State. Ultimately he was sent to a psychiatric hospital.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 6, 2017.

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The High Life: Here Are The States Where The Most People Are Tokin’ Up

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After a slew of states across the country have decided to legalize medical and/or recreational use of marijuana, the Washington Post decided to take a look at the impact this new legislation has had on weed consumption by state. Ironically the map looks a lot like the 2016 electoral college map with the highest levels of consumption per capita coming from the liberal strongholds of New England and the West Coast. Meanwhile, Montana seems to be the one conservative outlier where people love both their individual liberties and tokin’ up on the reg.
Overall, a study by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services found that 22 million Americans like to light up on a monthly basis with closer to 37 million admitting they partake at least once a year.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 6, 2017.

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In Stunning Last Minute Power Grab, Obama Designates Election Systems As “Critical Infrastructure”

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In a stunning last minute power grab by the Obama administration with just 14 days left in his Presidency, the Department of Homeland Security released a statement this evening officially declaring state election systems to be “critical infrastructure.” The statement from DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson defines “election infrastructure” as “storage facilities, polling places, centralized vote tabulations locations, voter registration databases, voting machines” and all “other systems” to manage the election process…so pretty much everything.
I have determined that election infrastructure in this country should be designated as a subsector of the existing Government Facilities critical infrastructure sector. Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure meet the definition of critical infrastructure, in fact and in law.
I have reached this determination so that election infrastructure will, on a more formal and enduring basis, be a priority for cybersecurity assistance and protections that the Department of Homeland Security provides to a range of private and public sector entities. By ‘election infrastructure,’ we mean storage facilities, polling places, and centralized vote tabulations locations used to support the election process, and information and communications technology to include voter registration databases, voting machines, and other systems to manage the election process and report and display results on behalf of state and local governments.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 6, 2017.

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The Fourth-Generation War

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For most people, the term ’4GW’ will conjure visions of a new and improved data service for their mobile devices. For members of the military and intelligence community, 4GW means something entirely different: Fourth-Generation Warfare, a form of warfare where the lines between civilians and combatants, political and military goals, and even the weapons to be used in fighting the war are blurred.
Smudged to the point where even identifying the warring parties is difficult.
To understand the 4GW, look no further than last month’s attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany.
Instead of using a bomb, gun, or even a knife, the attacker used a commercial truck. The attacker was from Tunisia, a country with no clear grievances against the Germans. He was an adherent of Islam (natch). Given the attack was directed against innocent bystanders at a Christmas market, we assume – but don’t know – that it was motivated by a religious goal. But to what end? We can have no idea. And why Germany, the country that had provided succor to the man and his family as refugees? Was the attack part of a broader strategy to complete the Islamization of Germany? All of Europe? Or was it to force the Europeans to withdraw from the Middle East – even though the European footprint in the Middle East is barely visible compared to the US and Russia?

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 6, 2017.

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GROUNDBREAKING STUDY SHOWS PRESCRIPTION PAINKILLERS PROLONG CHRONIC PAIN

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A research team out of University of Colorado-Boulder has found that prescription opioids may actually worsen chronic pain. The study also discovered that these drugs may in fact prolong the condition that they are supposed to help placate. This may explain why in the U. S., prescriptions of opioids, such as methadone, oxycodone (such as OxyContin) and hydrocodone (such as Vicodin), have quadrupled since 1999.
Pain after disease/damage of the nervous system is predominantly treated with opioids, but without exploration of the long-term consequences. We demonstrate that a short course of morphine after nerve injury doubles the duration of neuropathic pain. (Source)
Prescription Painkillers are Killers
There is little contention to the claim that prescription painkillers are dangerous. They have been responsible for over 183,000 deaths over the last 15 years. Some particular brands have killed thousands. Take Vioxx, for example. This painkiller killed over 60,000 before it was pulled off the market in 2004. In the year prior, Merck made $2.5 billion from sales of Vioxx, which was heavily marketed via direct-to-consumer advertising.

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on JANUARY 6, 2017.

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama Has 14 Days To Start World War III

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Barack O’Bomber was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize before he even became President. And he hasn’t had one day of peace in his eight years.
And, he now has 14 days left and appears to be trying to foment World War III with his remaining opportunity.
Long ago O’Bomber accepted the Nobel Peace War, but didn’t do anything to either justify or deserve it. More recently he’s actually done a lot to repudiate it.
In fact, according to an analysis done by the Council on Foreign Relations of Defense Department data, the U. S. dropped over 26,000 bombs in 2016 during Obama’s final year in office, that’s over 3,000 more than in 2015!
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, the ousting of Viktor Yanujovych was followed by the ascension of Petro ‘Porky’ Porochenko. Porky was a pro-Western puppet and moved Ukraine in a Westerly direction.

This post was published at Dollar Vigilante on January 7, 2017.

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“Friends, Long Live” Duterte Tells Russian Navy, Hopes Moscow Will Become Philippines’ “Ally And Protector”

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On Tuesday, in a surprising move confirming the ongoing pivot by the Philippines away from the US sphere of geopolitical influence, and toward the China-Russia axis, the Russian destroyer Admiral Tributs and sea tanker Boris Butomato unexpectedly arrived in the Philippines to conduct military training exercises in what the Russian media described as “an unprecedented navy-to-navy contact between the two nations.”
The warships arrived in the region on Tuesday as Russian Navy Rear Admiral Eduard Mikhailov proclaimed a joint mission between Manila and Moscow to target the region’s two most pressing security concerns, maritime piracy and terrorism. The Rear Admiral said that “we’re very sure in the future” Russia and the Philippines will “get such exercises, maybe just the maneuvering.” Alternatively, “maybe just use some combat systems and so on,” he noted, so as not to tip Russia’s hand concerning its regional naval strategy.
A spokesman for the Philippine Navy told reporters this is the first official interaction with the Russian navy, an arch rival of its former colonial master and closest ally in the region, the United States. Mikhailov said they were willing to help train Philippine counterparts to fight piracy and terrorism and they hope to foster stronger security in the region.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 6, 2017.

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City Of Dallas Looks To “Clawback” Ill-Gotten Pension Gains From Police

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Almost exactly one month after taking the unprecedented step of suspending withdrawals from the Dallas Police and Fire Pension (DPFP), the Dallas city council is looking to “clawback” what it views as ill-gotten interest payments made to pensioners to the tune of roughly $1 billion.
Of course, we have followed the epic meltdown of the DPFP closely over the past several months after a series of shady real estate deals brought the fund to, in the words of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, “the verge of collapse” and resulted in an FBI raid of one of the funds largest real estate investors (see “Dallas Cops’ Pension Fund Nears Insolvency In Wake Of Shady Real Estate Deals, FBI Raid“). The discovery of the failed real estate deals led to a “run on the bank” as scared pensioners looked to withdraw as much as possible before the whole ponzi scheme collapsed (see “After A “Run On The Pension Fund” Dallas Mayor Demands Halt Of Withdrawals“). All of which culminated with the unprecedented decision last month to suspend withdrawals (see “In Unprecedented Move, Dallas Pension System Suspends Withdrawals“) after nearly $500mm was removed from police accounts.
Now, according to a local ABC affiliate, the Dallas city council is frantically working with the DPFP board to close a $4 billion funding gap. While the city has agreed to throw an incremental $1 billion of taxpayer money at the problem over the next 30 years, that additional funding comes with some strings attached, which includes a $1 billion “clawback” of what the city views as ill-gotten gains from Police DROP accounts. The proposed “clawbacks” would come in the form of reduced future distributions for pensioners.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 6, 2017.

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Washington Post Deceives Public & Profits From Fake News

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21st Century Wire says…
The Washington Post has been caught lying and deceiving the public twice in the last few weeks pushing the unfounded mainstream media meme that Russia invaded the U. S. electric grid and another claiming that Russia is behind the explosion of so-called ‘fake news.’
Considering that the power grid story was proven to be a fake news story that WashPost had to later retract… We have to consider the legitimacy of any further claims the outlet has against Russia as particularly dubious.
The Intercept has some interesting analysis on how outlets such as WashPost not only deceive the public, push false state sponsored talking points but also how they profit financially from this collusion.
In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of ‘fake news,’ the other on how it invaded the U. S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging that the core claims of the story were fiction: The first note was posted a full two weeks later to the top of the original article; the other was buried the following day at the bottom.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on JANUARY 7, 2017.

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PRESSTITUTE POLLS TWITTER TO FIND OUT IF PEOPLE BELIEVE WIKILEAKS OR US INTELLIGENCE: GUESS WHO IS IN THE LEAD?

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CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood, whose friendly relationship with the Clinton campaign was exposed in the Podesta Leaks, Tweeted to ask Americans who they believe regarding the hacking of the Democratic National Committee – WikiLeaks or US Intelligence.
So far, here are the results of Harwood’s poll…

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on JANUARY 6, 2017.

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Here’s How Many Bombs Obama Dropped In 2016

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Seven years after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” despite having been in office for less than one year and having pretty much no actual, tangible foreign diplomacy accomplishments at the time, President Obama will depart the White House having dropped 26,171 bombs on foreign countries around the world in 2016, 3,027 more than 2015.
According to an analysis of Defense Department data from the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan think tank, the majority of Obama’s 2016 bombs were dropped on Syria and Iraq. Meanwhile, Afghanistan, a country President Obama vowed U. S. troops would evacuate completely by the end of his Presidency, was also bombed over 1,300 times, a 40% increase over 2015. Per McClatchy DC:

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 6, 2017.

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FINALLY, SOME COMMON SENSE GUN LEGISLATION: CONGRESSMAN MOVES TO HAVE ‘GUN FREE SCHOOL ZONES ACT’ REPEALED

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On December 8, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced that he will be chair of a new Congressional Second Amendment Caucus.
In a press release, Massie said:
‘The recent election results present us with a new opportunity to advance pro-gun legislation and reverse the erosion of the Second Amendment that’s occurred over the last few decades. I look forward to working with the new President and this determined group of conservatives to promote a pro-gun agenda.’
Members of the Second Amendment Caucus will draft and sponsor pro-gun legislation, and will invite firearm experts, constitutional scholars, and pro-gun groups to speak to the caucus.

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on JANUARY 6, 2017.

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Rumors Swirl That Hillary Is Considering A Run For New York City Mayor

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After failing miserably in her 2016 bid for the White House, several sources are reporting today that Hillary Clinton is mulling a potential run for New York City Mayor. Although Mayor de Blasio, whose term ends at the end of 2017, has close ties to the Clintons there is no love lost between the two after de Blasio initially refused to endorse Hillary’s presidential bid.
Rpt: @HillaryClinton mulling NYC mayoral run pic.twitter.com/18QhllNzuy
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) January 6, 2017

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 6, 2017.

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