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Modern plague: Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50

Josh Katz
New York Times
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 16:09 UTC

Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data compiled by The New York Times.

The death count is the latest consequence of an escalating public health crisis: opioid addiction, now made more deadly by an influx of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and similar drugs. Our estimate of 62,500 deaths would be a 19 percent increase over the 52,404 recorded in 2015.

Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, and all evidence suggests the problem has continued to worsen in 2017.

Because drug deaths take a long time to certify, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will not be able to calculate final numbers until December. The Times compiled estimates for 2016 from hundreds of state health departments and county coroners and medical examiners. Together they represent data from states and counties that accounted for 76 percent of overdose deaths in 2015. They are a preliminary look at the extent of the drug overdose epidemic last year, a detailed accounting of a modern plague.

CNN host under fire making racist comment to Indian American Spelling Bee winner

RT
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 16:08 UTC

CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota is under fire from the Twitteratti after making the assumption that the 12-year-old winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, who is of Indian descent, was "used to using" Sanskrit.

Camerota was interviewing America's new spelling bee champ, Ananya Vinay, alongside co-host Chris Cuomo on the New Day program, when she decided to set her a task.

"We have a challenge for you... do you know the word covfefe?" she asked, referring to Trump's notorious tweet typo.

Vinay asked for the definition, which Camerota explains as "a nonsense word made up by the 45th president of the United States in a late night tweet."

When the spelling bee champ asks for the language of origin for the word Cuomo responds "gibberish."

After Vinay misspells the word, Camerota consoles her by saying: "Again it's a nonsense word - we're not sure that its root is actually in Sanskrit which is what you're probably used to using, so I don't know, anyway."

'Missile attack imminent': Evacuation drills held in Japanese town over potential N. Korea strike to raise public awareness

RT
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 07:21 UTC

© JIJI Press / AFP
Schoolchildren are led by teachers during an evacuation drill, Abu town, Yamaguchi prefecture June 4, 2017.

Dozens of schoolkids and residents of Abu, a small coastal town on the Sea of Japan, were rushed to safety as part of evacuation drills Sunday after being warned that a ballistic missile was approaching and its wreckage would likely rain on them.

Some 280 people involved in the drills were alerted to a potentially devastating missile launch through loudspeakers as blaring sirens stunned schoolchildren playing outside a local elementary school.

Following the announcement, the evacuees were accompanied to a school's gymnasium, where they were to stay during the attack.

According to the scenario of the imaginative strike, the missile was set to fall in the rocky terrain of the Yamaguchi Prefecture where the town with some 3,400 residents in located, Jiji Press reported.

Poll shows Russians still see US and Ukraine as main foes

RT
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:56 UTC

Russians see the United States and Ukraine as the most hostile nations towards them, a recent poll has shown. China, Belarus and Kazakhstan were named as the friendliest countries in the same survey.

The independent public opinion research center Levada asked Russians to name several nations hostile towards their country, with 69 percent of respondents mentioning the United States, 50 percent naming Ukraine and Germany, and 24 percent noting Latvia and Lithuania.

Other countries mentioned included Poland, Estonia, the United Kingdom, Georgia, France and Turkey.

Cops arrest teen for asking questions during skatepark shakedown

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:50 UTC

When the Niles skate park was built, according to some residents, the impression they got from the fundraisers put in place to help construct it, was that bicycles would be allowed. The town reportedly sold t-shirts with bikes on the front to help construct the skatepark. But after construction, somewhere along the way, bikers became an unwelcomed presence at the town's skatepark — and so police were called in.

Both Skateboarding and BMX biking are Olympic sports, and any town should be proud of having a teenage population desiring to pursue their sport, possibly even making it to the Olympics. But not Niles. Biking in the skatepark isn't wanted, and offenders are often given hundreds of dollars in tickets with one resident reporting saying he'd amassed nearly $700 in fines for skating and biking infractions.

Evidence of just how serious the apparent aggravation bikers pose to police was documented last week when two young men (one a minor) were arrested by Niles police. According to an email we received from Niles Police Chief Jim Millin, "Ofc. Daniel observed a subject riding a bike inside the skatepark which is a violation of skatepark rules."

When Ofc. Daniel attempted to make contact with the young man about removing his bike from the skate park, "he (the minor) and another subject identified as Mr. Fedak began yelling and cursing loudly creating a disturbance."

Filipino rescuers nicknamed 'Suicide Squad' saves civilians from ISIS stronghold in Marawi

RT
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:41 UTC

A group of Filipino rescuers, nicknamed the Suicide Squad, are risking their lives to save hundreds of civilians trapped in Marawi, which is under the control of Islamic State-linked militants. RT traveled to the area to speak exclusively to the group.

The Suicide Squad have rescued more than 500 civilians in the last two weeks, RT's Charlotte Dubenskij said, reporting from Marawi, on Mindanao island.

"It started on our first mission when it was very dangerous, when most of our members were shot at when trying to save people," Saripada Pacasum, a Suicide Squad member, told RT.

Oklahoma man kills neighbor who was allegedly trying to drown twin babies

RT
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:02 UTC

A man in Oklahoma will have to go before the district attorney to prove justifiable homicide after he shot and killed his neighbor who was allegedly trying to drown twin babies.

Police say Cash Freeman shot and killed his neighbor, Leland Foster, on Friday because Foster was trying to drown his three-month-old infant twins.

Officer Lisa Bratcher told Texas TV station KXII that Foster was attempting to drown his two infant children when a 12-year-old girl ran out of the home and told his neighbor. Foster was also allegedly threatening the mother of the children with a knife during the violent incident.

When Freeman arrived on the scene, he reportedly found Foster trying to drown the twins, a boy and a girl, in the bathtub. He shot the man twice in the back.

ICRC ready to operate in Syria de-escalation zones, needs to understand conditions

Sputnik
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:30 UTC

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is ready to operate in Syria's safe zones when they are created, however, it is necessary to know the conditions at the scene in order to carry out humanitarian operations, President Peter Maurer told Sputnik in an interview.

"Our point here is only that if we want to be able to operate in those zones, we have to have access. If we want to have safety for people, we also have to listen to people and what they want. People have to be able to go in and out of those safe zones,"

Maurer said, adding that it was necessary to know the conditions of work at the scene.

Bilderberg Group 2017: Should we be worried yet?

Robert Bridge
RT
Sun, 04 Jun 2017 03:04 UTC

Just like they've been doing every year since 1954, influential Bilderberg members - including journalists - assembled behind closed doors to hold off-the-record talks on a number of pressing global issues.

The best criticism I've seen yet against the Bilderberg Group was found on a banner that draped a barbed-wire fence surrounding a golf course at one of these high-powered pow-wows: "Bilderberg Ate My Hamster" the message declared. That's basically the long and the short of it, because thanks to the group's arcane cloak of secrecy, everything and anything can now be blamed on them.

First, for the uninitiated, a brief primer on Bilderberg. In 1954, the world's movers and shakers, then top-heavy with balding American and European white males, arranged to meet in private at Oosterbeek, Netherlands. Inside of the discrete Bilderberg Hotel, these global overachievers, according to investigative journalist Daniel Estulin in his book, The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, first began to debate "the future of the world."

Needless to say, Bilderbergers think big.

"Imagine a private club where presidents, prime ministers, international bankers and generals rub shoulders, where gracious royal chaperones ensure everyone gets along, and where the people running the wars, markets, and Europe (and America) say what they never dare say in public," Estulin wrote.

Comment: See also:

David Rockefeller: One Head of a Globalist Hydra
And in the Darkness Bind Them: Declassified Documents Show CIA Not Only Attended But Spied on Bilderberg Meetings for Years
Who really controls the world?

Multiple fatalities reported in suburban Orlando, Florida shooting

RT
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:18 UTC

Five people are dead after an apparently disgruntled employee of a suburban Orlando business opened fire in the workplace, before turning the gun on himself. Orange County, Florida authorities say there was no connection to terrorism.

Police received an emergency call at 8 am local time, about an active shooter at an industrial park in northeastern Orlando, according to Sheriff Jerry Demings. They found 3 men and a woman dead inside Fiamma, Inc. Another man later died in the hospital. Seven other people on the premises survived.

The 45-year-old suspect was armed with a handgun and a knife, and was a former employee of the company, which makes camping accessories. He was fired in April and was apparently a "disgruntled employee," according to Demings, who described the shooting as "a workplace violence incident."

The suspect was known to the police from a 2014 workplace incident, where he was accused of battering another employee, but no charges were filed at the time. He had a history of minor charges, such as possession of marijuana and driving under the influence, Demings said.

At least the WHO, stopped their concert immediately, when that tragedy happened in Cincinnati. This, on the other hand is reprehensible.

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Society's Child

Modern plague: Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50

CNN host under fire making racist comment to Indian American Spelling Bee winner

'Missile attack imminent': Evacuation drills held in Japanese town over potential N. Korea strike to raise public awareness

Poll shows Russians still see US and Ukraine as main foes

Cops arrest teen for asking questions during skatepark shakedown

Filipino rescuers nicknamed 'Suicide Squad' saves civilians from ISIS stronghold in Marawi

Oklahoma man kills neighbor who was allegedly trying to drown twin babies

ICRC ready to operate in Syria de-escalation zones, needs to understand conditions

Bilderberg Group 2017: Should we be worried yet?

Multiple fatalities reported in suburban Orlando, Florida shooting

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