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Attention

The devil's drug: Meth is back and it's deadlier than ever

Joshua Sharpe
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:03 UTC
meth mouth
© Kimberly Smith / AJC staffA Georgia meth user being examined by a dentist in 2007.
Before news of an opioid crisis tore through national media, Tori Holcomb knew the dangers of painkillers. She got addicted after a softball injury at North Gwinnett High and saw others around her struggling, too.

Before the resurgence of heroin caused alarm, Holcomb knew it was getting more popular. She fell into the drug, and the bleak new world that came with it, when doctors stopped writing her prescriptions for Percocet.

It is the afflicted who are first to know about every epidemic.

Now, Holcomb knows something else most people don't: Methamphetamine, a drug that lawmakers fought with success in the 2000s, is back - and it's more popular, plentiful and lethal than ever.

While the opioid crisis takes the spotlight, prosecutors and police say they also have been coming to grips with the devastating rebound of meth, which is killing more people in America today than in the mid-2000s when it was the national problem everyone was talking about.
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Biohazard

Libyan nuclear energy advisor: NATO used depleted uranium munitions in 2011 Libya airstrikes


Sputnik
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:33 UTC
A civilian fighter
© AP Photo / Mohammed el-ShaikyIn this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, a civilian fighter holding the Libyan flag stands in front of damaged buildings in Benghazi, Libya
A military operation against the government of Muammar Gaddafi, conducted by NATO in 2011, led to a civil war and split the country into three parts with different governments and various militant groups.

A report, made by a group of Libyan nuclear experts, says that NATO forces missiles with depleted uranium.

"We conducted a study at one of the headquarters of the Libyan army, which was bombed by NATO. There were places with increased levels of radiation. After precise measurements we found that this radioactivity was a result of using an assembler with depleted uranium," Nuri al-Druki, an advisor to the Libyan committee for the environment and nuclear energy told Sputnik.

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Propaganda

Ukraine attacks journalists for reporting on Israeli weapons flow to its neo-Nazi militia

Ben Norton
The Grayzone Project
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:33 UTC
Ukrainian using Israeli weapon
Ukraine's embassy in Israel has attacked Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal by name and indirectly implicated this writer, Grayzone contributor Ben Norton, for reporting on Israel's arming of Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

While the Ukrainian government has falsely accused us of spreading "fake news," it has ironically spread fake news itself, incorrectly alleging that Blumenthal has been writing under the pseudonym "John Brown" - based on a "quick search on the internet."

The Ukrainian government has also denied that Israel has armed Ukraine's neo-Nazi militia the Azov battalion, even after Azov posted a video on its own YouTube channel showing it using unmistakably Israeli weapons.

On June 10, the Ukrainian embassy in Israel published an open letter to Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of the major Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Kiev condemned Haaretz for publishing a June 9 news report titled "Rights Groups Demand Israel Stop Arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine."

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Arrow Up

Russian government issues decree allowing young Syrians to study in Russian military schools for free


RT
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:12 UTC
Cadets of the Ussuriysk Suvorov military school during the graduation ceremony
© Vitaliy Ankov / SputnikCadets of the Ussuriysk Suvorov military school during the graduation ceremony
The Russian government has issued a decree allowing young Syrians to study in Russian military schools for free if they have sufficient knowledge of Russian and pass the necessary exams.

New Syrian cadets "will be accepted in military schools after a competition, within the limits allowed by the Russian law and in line with the procedure applied to Russian citizens," reads the document published on the official web portal for legislative information on Friday.

The decree says the Syrian side should select future cadets and conduct necessary medical tests. Applications will then be forwarded to the Russian state agency responsible for the project (most likely the Defense Ministry - the body usually responsible Russian military schools) before January 15 of the year candidates wish to begin studies. The Russian side will then decide on the number of successful candidates.
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African-American leaders on Capitol Hill call for House Speaker Ryan to censure Maxine Waters

Cortney O'Brien
Townhall
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:20 UTC
maxine waters
© Monica Almeida / ReutersCongresswoman Maxine Waters speaks at an immigration protest in Los Angeles
A group of conservative African-American leaders informed House Speaker Paul Ryan Thursday morning on Capitol Hill that they wanted him to censure Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) for her controversial speech last month encouraging supporters to harass Trump officials.

Maxine "is the unchallenged face of the Democratic Party," said Johms Gool of the Victory Christian Center, in Charlotte, NC. "She represents half of the U.S."

As such, he "encourages her to respect our liberty and issue a retraction" to her call to followers to harass Trump supporters.

"Reverse, retract and call for an end to this activity now."
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Eye 2

Peter Strzok rolls eyes and smirks while Trey Gowdy destroys him in opening statement

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:02 UTC
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

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On Thursday the House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee held a joint hearing with former top FBI invesigator Peter Strzok.

Chairman Gowdy destroyed Peter Strzok in his opening comments describing the undeniable bias of Peter Strzok in the Clinton email investigation and the Russian collusion investigation against President Trump.

Strzok sent several messages to hie lover Lisa Page admitting his bias and hatred against Donald Trump.

While Gowdy was speaking you could see Peter Strzok roll his eyes at one point and smirking.

Strzok was a top agent at the Obama FBI.


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Peter Strzok's bizarre, creepy smirk goes viral on Twitter

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:02 UTC
strzok smirk hearing
Peter Strzok
While Peter Strzok's marathon Congressional testimony was full of bickering, chaos and drama - mostly between members of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees - a clip of the disgraced FBI agent's seemingly giddy reaction after answering a question is creeping people out.


Comment: Psychologist Paul Ekman defines "duping delight" as:
[T]he near irresistible thrill some people feel in taking a risk and getting away with it. Sometimes it includes contempt for the target who is being so ruthlessly and successfully exploited. It is hard to contain duping delight; those who feel it want to share their accomplishments with others, seeking admiration for their exploits.

It is hard to contain duping delight; those who feel it want to share their accomplishments with others, seeking admiration for their exploits.

The presence of others witnessing the successful liar typically intensifies the delight experienced and increases the chances that some of the excitement, pleasure, and contempt will leak, thus betraying the liar.


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Venezuelan prepper looks back at "things I would have done differently if I knew what was coming"

J.G. Martinez D.
The Organic Prepper
Mon, 09 Jul 2018 15:51 UTC
Venezuelan prepper looks back
Having overcome a few personal incidents that rocked the boat these last few weeks, I want to write now about one of the most important experiences regarding the psychological aspect of prepping. Looking back as a Venezuelan prepper, there are things I would have done differently if I had fully known what was coming our way.

Enduring what we have gone through, even after having a proper approach to prepping, sort of conventional in a sense: gensets, water tanks, storage capacity, dry supplies for a few months, and other stuff, all of these are into the field of the conventional and regular prepping.

Off-road vehicles perhaps, or at least a vehicle in good enough shape to take a beating up to the retreat, radios, some food production and particular, merchandisable skills. (I lack a little bit in the field of manual arts, like pottery or painting, but maybe it is just me...I can change a tire in record time, which is an art by itself especially in a Venezuela where the roads are plagued with thugs.)

This is stuff that any person concerned about self-reliance should have covered. But next, we have to try to imagine what could be on the horizon that we have never considered.

I am not talking about prepping for every conceivable threat. That is just not possible nor practical.

What I want, is that you imagine what your action course would be just in case your worst scenario, one so bad you could not even imagine, takes place.

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War Whore

Orangeman's Day celebrations turn violent: Police say rioters tried to murder them during 6th night of unrest in N. Ireland


RT
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:46 UTC
Police
© Charles McQuillan/ Getty Images
Improvised explosives and more than 70 petrol bombs were thrown at Northern Ireland police officers in the city of Derry following Twelfth of July celebrations.

Northern Ireland's police service said rioters tried to murder them on the sixth straight night of violence in the city. The unrest coincides with the Loyalist marching season which sees Loyalists and Unionists marching through Nationalist areas.

The violence broke out in the Bogside area of the city following Twelfth of July marches earlier in the day.

July 12, also known as Orangeman's Day, marks Protestant William of Orange's victory over Catholic King James in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. The day is celebrated by the, mainly-Protestant, Unionist community and shunned by the, largely-Catholic, Nationalist community.
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The other new revolutionary Russian weapons systems no one is talking about: ASATs

The Saker
The Unz Review
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:27 UTC
Putin address
The President of Russia delivered the Address to the Federal Assembly. The ceremony took place at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the March 1st, 2018, speech of President Putin to the Federal Assembly, had a tectonic effect on the world public opinion. Initially, some tried to dismiss it as "Russian propaganda" and "bad CGI", but pretty soon the reality hit hard, very hard: the Russians either had already deployed or were about to deploy weapon systems which were decades ahead of anything similar in the West and against which the West had no defensive measures.

For those interested in a good summary about these weapons, please check this rather well done RT video:
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