May 20, 2015

Cops Make Largest Heroin Bust In NYC History! (150 Pounds, Estimated $50 Million Worth)

Video at the link

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhph07PhJi3iv9MBZN


The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Tuesday that it has seized 154 pounds of heroin, worth $50 million, from a secret compartment in a vehicle in New York City, in addition to collaring two men believed to be running a massive drug ring along with a Mexican cartel. It's the largest heroin seizure the state of New York has ever seen, and the fourth-largest ever in the United States, according to a DEA press release. Jose A. Mercedes (aka "Hippie&quot and Yenci Cruz Francisco were arrested Sunday in the Bronx after a yearlong investigation by DEA agents, New York City Police Department investigators and state police detectives. "The $50 million street value of the heroin in this case is a conservative estimate. To put it in perspective, this load was so large it carried the potential of supplying a dose of heroin to every man, woman and child in New York City," DEA Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan said in the release. Over the weekend, agents followed Mercedes and Cruz Francisco as they drove a Chevy Suburban to an industrial parking lot in Montville, New Jersey. There, the pair allegedly picked up a large drop of heroin. When they got back to New York, agents maintained surveillance until Sunday morning, when the pair left a Bronx apartment in separate vehicles. They pulled Mercedes over in a Kia Sorrento, and the DEA alleges that "Several large bags containing a tan powdery substance were recovered from the front seat of the car and from a hidden compartment in the center console."Cruz Francisco was stopped in the Suburban, where officers found a hidden compartment under the floor that contained 70 "rectangular shaped kilogram packages of heroin" labeled "Rolex," as well as $24,000 in cash. Subsequent searches of New York City apartments connected to the pair revealed $2 million in cash underneath floorboards and a .38-caliber firearm.

May 20, 2015

China Plans First Ever Landing on the Dark Side of the Moon

The closest extraterrestrial body, the moon has done much to shape our history and mythologies. It’s been associated with Artemis and Greek conceptions of rebirth. It’s also connected with Chang’e, the Chinese goddess of the moon.

Hence the name of China’s latest probe, the Chang’e-4. The mission, part of China’s Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP), plans to land the probe and accompanying rover on the far side of the moon.

"We are currently discussing the next moon landing site for Chang’e 4," Chief lunar exploration engineer Wu Weiren told China Central Television. "We probably will choose a site that is more difficult to land and more technically challenging. Other countries have chosen to land on the near side of the moon. Our next move probably will see some spacecraft land on the far side of the moon."

The Chang’e-4 will follow the Chang’e-3, a probe launched in 2013, which carried the Jade Rabbit rover to the lunar surface. Though currently immobile, Jade Rabbit still transmits data back to Earth, and Chang’e-4 would take on a different scientific role.


Read more: http://sputniknews.com/science/20150519/1022336534.html#ixzz3aeZTJ5mr

May 19, 2015

America's biggest ranch, which is larger than New York City, goes on sale for $713 million in Texas

Source: Daily Mail UK

One of the largest ranches in the U.S. and an icon for Texas horse and cattlemen has been listed for $725 million, marking the end of a decades-long courtroom battle among the heirs of cattle baron W.T. Waggoner, who established the estate in 1923.

The estate includes the 510,000-acre ranch spread over six North Texas counties, with two main compounds, hundreds of homes, about 20 cowboy camps, hundreds of quarter-horses, thousands of heads of cattle, 1,200 oil wells and 30,000 acres of cultivated land, according to Dallas-based broker Bernie Uechtritz, who is handling the sale along with broker Sam Middleton of Lubbock.

Heirs and stakeholders currently occupy two of the three principle houses and much of the estate has not yet been explored for oil and other mineral reserves.

Uechtritz says the estate falls within a 'super asset class,' akin to selling the 'Statue of Liberty' of cowboy culture. The Waggoner Ranch is the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. W.T. Waggoner's father, Dan Waggoner, started ranching in 1849, and the Waggoner name was prominent in the development of Hereford cattle and pedigree American quarter horses.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3087774/America-s-biggest-ranch-larger-LONDON-goes-sale-713million-Texas.html#ixzz3abHRgefX

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May 19, 2015

Judge orders 'rolling' release of Clinton's State Department emails

Source: Politico

A federal judge has rejected the State Department’s plan to release most of Hillary Clinton’s emails as secretary of state in one large batch, insisting that the agency parcel out releases of the records over time.

U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras announced Tuesday his plans to order a “rolling production” of the emails just hours after the State Department proposed that it not be required to make the records public until January 2016, a lawyer involved said.

At a brief hearing on a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Vice News, Contreras did not set a specific date by which State must begin releasing the emails.

However, the judge gave the government one week to provide a schedule for the periodic release of records, Vice News lawyer Jeffrey Light said after the session.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/hillary-clinton-state-department-emails-release-schedule-118085.html

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May 19, 2015

Florida college sued over forced vaginal exams

Two college students say they were forced to submit to transvaginal probes as part of their classroom training to learn how to perform the medical procedure.

The details are outlined in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Orlando against Valencia College and three instructors. It alleges that medical diagnostic students at Valencia College were forced to submit to the examination of their sexual organs under threat of having their grades reduced or of being blacklisted by future employers. The three defendants named in the lawsuit, Maureen Bugnacki, Linda Shaheen and Barbara Ball, have not responded to CNN's requests for comment.

Peer physical examination is an accepted practice in the medical field, but several recent reports cited by the U.S. National Library of Medicine mention a growing need for clear policies regarding peer physical examination at medical schools.

The lawsuit claims during orientation, the college "had a second-year student, Jennifer Astor (nicknamed the 'TransVag Queen') explain the medical diagnostic sonography program's faculty believed that students should undergo invasive transvaginal ultrasound procedures in order to become better sonography technicians."

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida-college-sued-over-forced-vaginal-exams/33088234

May 19, 2015

House OKs cannabis oil in victory for marijuana advocates (tx)

Marijuana supporters are on the brink of a small victory they say is nonetheless significant in the conservative Texas Legislature.

The Republican-controlled House on Monday approved legalizing trace amounts of a marijuana plant extract for medicinal purposes. The cannabis oil wouldn’t produce the high associated with other parts of marijuana.

Parents of children with intractable epilepsy have pleaded with lawmakers all session, saying the oil helps control seizures.

A doctor would have to provide a prescription if the law is signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Since current Texas law doesn’t allow any form of medical marijuana, advocates say this has been their most successful Texas legislative session in history.

http://kxan.com/2015/05/18/house-oks-cannabis-oil-in-victory-for-marijuana-advocates/

May 19, 2015

Sumo Fans

Heres a great channel for ya

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsyhbQggi0M3t_DMePOLgSw

Off to the standing bar to watch sumo with the Ojisans (Old Guys) and drink Imo sochu (Sweet Potato Spirits).

May 19, 2015

Waco police: Some bikers may have been shot by officers

Source: USA Today

A phalanx of law enforcement officers were combing a bloody, bullet-riddled crime scene Monday, trying to sort out who killed whom a day after a melee involving rival biker gangs left nine people dead.

Some of the dead and wounded may have been shot by officers responding to the bedlam at the Twin Peaks restaurant franchise, Waco police spokesman Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.

"They started shooting at our officers and our officers returned fire," Swanton said. Most of the dead and wounded suffered from gunshot and stab wounds, he added.

"It is a pretty gruesome scene," Swanton said.

How many bikers may have died from police gunfire is not yet known. Citing a law enforcement source, CNN reported that four of the dead bikers were shot by police.


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/18/waco-shootout-police-involvement/27530257/

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170 charged with capital murder. I'm not sure why many are taking the police narrative at face value. If we have learned anything over the last few months it's the police who kill, and lie about it. They admit to killing four, I won't be surprised if it is many more.



No guns?

May 18, 2015

GMO Yeast + sugar = Morphine

A Way to Brew Morphine Raises Concerns Over Regulation

ll over the world, the heavy heads of opium poppies are nodding gracefully in the wind — long stalks dressed in orange or white petals topped by a fright wig of stamens. They fill millions of acres in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Laos and elsewhere. Their payload — the milky opium juice carefully scraped off the seed pods — yields morphine, an excellent painkiller easily refined into heroin.

But very soon, perhaps within a year, the poppy will no longer be the only way to produce heroin’s raw ingredient. It will be possible for drug companies, or drug traffickers, to brew it in yeast genetically modified to turn sugar into morphine.

Almost all the essential steps had been worked out in the last seven years; a final missing one was published Monday in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.

“All the elements are in place, but the whole pathway needs to be integrated before a one-pot glucose-to-morphine stream is ready to roll,” said Kenneth A. Oye, a professor of engineering and political science at M.I.T.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/health/a-way-to-brew-morphine-raises-concerns-over-regulation.html?_r=0

May 18, 2015

Child porn charges effectively end political consultant’s career

For Enrique Pearce, a top-tier San Francisco political consultant facing felony charges for possession of child pornography, the rule of “innocent until proven guilty” applies only in the courtroom.

Although Pearce was arraigned Wednesday and won’t face a jury for months, his career in politics effectively ended May 7, when police raided his Tenderloin apartment and seized computers that court records say held sordid, gut-wrenching pictures and videos of children being sexually abused by adults.

Within days, his clients abandoned him and political allies began to suggest they hadn’t really been that close to him. Phone calls went unanswered at both his downtown law office and his consulting company, Left Coast Communications. Pearce’s websites were scrubbed from the Internet. He has been released on $400,000 bail.

“Guys like Enrique Pearce disappear from the (political) map and are never heard from again,” said Sam Singer, a public relations veteran with experience in both political work and crisis communication.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Child-porn-charges-effectively-end-political-6267401.php