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The house always wins: Woman won $8M, casino says not so much

Sarah Burris
Addicting Info
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 01:01 UTC
casino
© KOIN 6 News
It was an awesome day for at one woman at Oregon's Lucky Eagle Casino. Veronica Castillo took her mom to the bank of slot machines where she quickly put in $100 and scored the jackpot.... or so she thought.

"I was very excited, happy," she told local KOIN 6 News. "Then I couldn't believe it."

But as the adage goes, the house always wins. While celebrating in excitement Castillo and her mother got a visit from the casino staff who said the machine malfunctioned. Sorry! No $8 million for you!

"They shut off the machine, took it away, printed out a ticket and gave me $80." After she put in $100, remember. So, not only did she not win $8 million she lost $20.
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Attention

US shells out $150mn on unsavory recreational drug-related animal tests


RT
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 17:52 UTC
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US health institutions have cashed in more than $150 million to sponsor 95 experiments on how recreational drugs affect animals - without any apparent scientific benefits, according to a new report by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and the Animal Justice Project.

Just a few disturbing examples: a $9.6 million research that involved injecting LSD into the brains of rabbits to check if the drug would trigger more eye-blinking and head-bobbing; a $7.6 million study to look into whether psychedelic drugs cause mice to twitch their heads; or a $1.1 million study to find out if Methamphetamine-addicted monkeys would prefer food to the drug.

Comment: These are horrific acts needlessly performed on defenseless animals and using taxpayers' money used to torture helpless animals. Appalling!

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Mysterious military maneuvers force planes to avoid coming in over the Pacific Ocean to land at LAX

Jory Rand
KABC News
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:04 UTC
LAX
Mysterious maneuvers over the Pacific are forcing a change in Los Angeles International Airport landings late at night, meaning noise for thousands of people in the flight path.

Instead of landing from the east over Inglewood, planes begin flying from the west and over the ocean to keep noise levels down, but due to secret military operations, the airspace over the Pacific is closed to incoming flights for the next week.

"We clearly understand that neighbors and communities east of the airport will experience noise and we apologize for that," said Nancy Castles, LAX public relations director.

The military is not saying what exactly is causing the change, and LAX claims it's also in the dark. Castles said all they know is planes can't be flying at low altitudes to our west.
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Butterfly

Hawaii moves one step closer to sovereignty

Carey Wedler
The Anti Media
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:26 UTC
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This week, Native Hawaiians initiated an historical election that may grant them sovereignty from the United States and the state of Hawaii, itself, after well over a century of colonial rule. More than 95,000 indigenous people will elect delegates to a constitutional convention, scheduled for this winter, when they will work to create a government that serves and represents Native Hawaiians — the only group of indigenous people in the United States currently restricted from forming their own government.

In the 19th century, European and American missionaries and traders began settling in Hawaii. They quickly formed a political movement and succeeded in transferring power from the king to his cabinet and the legislature. Though they drafted a new constitution limiting the king's control, they also limited the voting rights of Asians and Native Hawaiians while granting that right to wealthy non-citizens.

Comment: See also: A historical act of war: The illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

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Conditioning the masses - No unsupervised playing or hugging!

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:12 UTC
Nanny State
© Liberty Blitzkrieg
I haven't covered the American nanny state in a while, but two articles recently caught my eye and I simply have to share.

The first one relates to two parents charged with "reckless endangerment of a child," for letting their two boys play on a Cape Cod beach for an hour unsupervised.

From Reason:
Parents who let their boys, ages 7 and 9, play on their own for an hour at a family beach will be arraigned later this month on charges of reckless endangerment of a child.

Charles Smith and Lindsay Pembleton of Niagara Falls were vacationing with their kids on Cape Cod. The boys wanted to stay at the beach for a little longer rather than walk back to the nearby campground (which is, according to one commenter, accessible via a car-free path). The parents said okay, but told them they couldn't go in the water, according to The Cape Cod Times.

By the time a lifeguard spot the children, they were—gasp—wet from the rain. What's more, they were "standing around a food truck with no adults in charge."

Thankfully, the police were called before any of that wetness and unsupervised food trucking could escalate into something worse.

Even though over 90 percent of sex crimes against kids are committed by people they know, not random beach inhabitants, the cop decided to file reports of suspected abuse or neglect in both Massachusetts and New York. And, for good measure, she also "applied for criminal complaints against them in Orleans District Court."
Moving along, we find ourselves in Florida, a state which always provides a disproportionate amount of "this can't be real" type stories.
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Quenelle - Golden

Moscow police rescue a 4-month old tiger cub from poachers, then adopt it


Sputnik
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 16:22 UTC
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Moscow's police department has officially adopted a tiger cub it rescued from the clutches of a gang of poachers in Russia's Far East.

The 4-month-old feline was named Stepa, after Uncle Stepa the Militia Man - a fictional law enforcement officer from a popular children's book. The name was selected by Moscow residents in an online poll.

"Our Stepa is not adapted for living in the wild, so we took him under our patronage," said Moscow Deputy Police Chief Gennady Golikov, according to a statement posted on the Interior Ministry's official website. "We'll be responsible for his well-being and will provide for him."

Comment: This guy sure is an interesting addition to the Moscow police force!

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Piggy Bank

Sugar babies: Female college students are literally selling themselves to cover rising tuition costs

Melissa Dykes
The Daily Sheeple
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:22 UTC
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While some call prostitution the oldest profession, its getting a high tech, modern boost due to rising college tuition costs (no street corners involved).

More students these days are turning to so-called "sugar baby/sugar daddy" websites to get hooked up with older, rich "generous sponsors" to "help" them graduate college debt-free.

One of the largest Sugar Daddy/Baby sites, Seeking Arrangement, tagline: "Where beautiful, successful people fuel mutually beneficial relationships," claims that more than one million college students have joined "for their Sugar Baby Scholarship".

Comment: This frightening trend is happening in the United Kingdom as well:

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Candle

Sinai A321 plane crash: Grief-stricken families, friends struggle with loss of loved ones


RT
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:41 UTC
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© RTIrina Vitalyeva and her daughter Alisa were killed in the deadly A321 plane crash in the Sinai desert.
A total of 224 people lost their lives in the Sinai plane crash - many of them children, young men and women, full of life and promise. A week after the disaster, relatives and friends are struggling hard to come to terms with their loss

"They were so bright, so beautiful. They had an appetite for life," Elena Voytenko tells RT, crying bitterly.

Her daughter Irina and granddaughter Alisa died in the A321 plane crash in the Sinai desert.

Comment: This is one of many heartbreaking stories concerning the Sinai A321 plane crash.See more:
  • Sinai plane crash: 224 people died in Russian tragedy


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Bomb

People evacuated after bomb threat at Ekaterinburg airport


RT
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:18 UTC
Ekaterinburg Koltsovo airport
© Konstantin Chalabov
About 150 people were rapidly evacuated from Ekaterinburg's Koltsovo airport in the Russian Urals following a bomb alert, a local law enforcement source told RIA Novosti news agency.

The evacuation was prompted by an anonymous phone call to the airport. A message warning about a bomb later turned out to be a false alert, however.

"The airport has been examined, nothing suspicious has been found," a police source told TASS.

During the alert, all the passengers inside the building were taken outside, and the passengers from arriving flights were kept on their planes.

The planes were also pulled away from the airport building, passengers stuck on the planes reported via Twitter messages.

Comment: With the West pushing their hasty theory of a bomb on flight A321, perhaps this threat was meant to weaken Russian resolve in the fight against terrorism by sowing seeds of doubt with the fear of a blow back at home.

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Airplane

Lufthansa staff start longest-ever strike leaving almost 60,000 passengers grounded


RT
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:33 UTC
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© Ralph Orlowski / Reuters Members of cabin crew union UFO stand during a strike in Frankfurt airport, Germany, November 6, 2015
Lufthansa has canceled 520 flights scheduled for Saturday, with at least 58,000 passengers expected to be affected as cabin crew went on their longest-ever strike in a 2 year-long pensions dispute. Cabin staff joined the strike for the first time.

The Independent Flight Attendants Organization (UFO) plans to stage walkouts over the course of the next six days.

Strikes by pilots have already cost Lufthansa 130 million euros so far this year. Equinet analyst Jochen Rothenbacher told Reuters that walkout costs could total 20 million euros ($21 million) a day, depending on the number of cancellations. Should the union strike for seven days, as promised, it could cost the company 140 million euros.

All European and domestic services have been scrapped, with the exception of some flights between Munich and Frankfurt, as well as three Frankfurt-London Heathrow links. No intercontinental flights will be hit, however, the airline said, with the exception of one connection between Dusseldorf and Newark, New Jersey.

Saturday's stoppage will last until 2200 GMT, UFO said. UFO reassured that no strike is planned on Sunday because most people traveling that day will be doing so in a private capacity, not on business.
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