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The Last Refuge
by ‘sundance’
10/4/2017

Excerpt:

The latest press conference from Las Vegas reveals some stunning information. During the Q&A within the latest update the Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo noted the shooter Stephen Paddock had an apparent escape strategy to survive the attack.

As more information is revealed the scope of the pre-planning by Stephen Craig Paddock lends to a strong probability that more than one person is involved. ….

• *Paddock led a secretive life. No social media presence.
• *Paddock previously scouted a prior venue.
• TIMELINE:
• *10:05pm shooting begins. Suspect on 32nd floor.
  *10:12pm First two officers arrive on 31st floor stating gunfire origin on 32nd floor.
  *10:15pm Last shots fired by suspect.
  *10:17pm First two officers arrive on 32nd floor.
  *10:18pm Security guard, Jose Campos tells police he was shot and exact room location.
  *10:26-10:30pm Eight additional officers arrive on 32nd floor. Begins evacuation.
  *10:55pm Eight additional officers arrive at suspect hotel room door.
  *11:20pm Initial room breach. Suspect located. 2nd Door (room) identified.
  *11:27pm Second breach, 2nd room. Radio: All Clear – Suspect Down.

• *over 200 strafing rounds were fired through the door at the responding Mandalay Bay security guard, Jose Campos.
• *several of the weapons Paddock was using jammed during the shooting.
• *gunman had an apparent escape strategy (unidentified).
• *non of the cameras discovered (4) were recording.
• *suspect vehicle held ten 1lb containers of tannerite explosive. Two 20lb containers of tannerite and an additional 1,600 rounds of ammunition.
• *no idea why Paddock did not utilize explosives.  Why bring them?
• *police still seeking tips on Stephen Paddock activity for months, weeks, days up to the event.
• *motive still unknown. Local LEO does not know results from FBI interview with Ms. Danley.
• *the possibility of an accomplice is strong.
• *there was a great deal of premeditation involved in carrying out this attack.
• *possibility of Paddock having done pre-surveillance of alternate attack venue.
• *thousands of rounds of ammunition present in room.
• *no suicide note was found in the room.
• *assumption is Paddock stopped shooting because security guard knock spooked him.
• *Paddock was gambling at some points prior to the shooting.  Did not appear to have companion for gambling.
• *Paddock purchased 33 weapons in October 2016.  Police are interested in what took place in/around October 2016 to elicit his bulk purchase of firearms.
• *police see evidence he planned to survive and escape. Would not elaborate.
• *residence in Reno large ammo and firearms. Residence in Mesquite large ammo and firearms. All indications point toward having some form of assistance.

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View the complete article including videos, images, links and comments at:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/10/04/update-mandalay-bay-massacre-latest-las-vegas-sheriff-press-conference/

Reuters
by Simon Johnson and Ben Hirschler
10/4/2017

Excerpt:

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) – A trio of Swiss, American and British scientists won the 2017 Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for developing cryo-electron microscopy, allowing researchers to see biological molecules frozen in action.

The work by Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson makes it possible to image proteins and other molecules after freezing them rapidly to preserve their shape, providing a powerful new tool for medical research.

“It’s like frames in a movie. Each of these pictures represents a frame and they can be put together into a movie and we can see what the molecules do,” said Peter Brzezinski, a member of the Nobel committee for chemistry.

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View the complete article including images and links at:

https://in.reuters.com/article/nobel-prize-chemistry/microscope-trailblazers-win-chemistry-nobel-for-freeze-framing-life-idINKCN1C916S

Gateway Pundit
by Jim Hoft
10/4/2017

Excerpt:

Investigative reporter Laura Loomer posted room service receipts from the Mandalay Bay for room service to killer Stephen Paddock’s room.

The Mandalay Bay server Tony Hernandez Armenta posted the receipts on Facebook.

An employee of the Mandalay Bay told Loomer that Paddock had the room since September 25th not the 28th as was previously reported.

The Mandalay Bay employee says Paddock had the vista suite since last Monday the 25th and the connector room since Thursday the 28th.

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View the complete article including images, links and comments at:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/report-room-service-receipts-show-hotel-delivered-food-stephen-paddocks-suite-2-people/

Patrick J. Buchanan — Official Website

by Patrick J. Buchanan
10/2/2017

“An act of pure evil,” said President Trump of the atrocity in Las Vegas, invoking our ancient faith: “Scripture teaches us the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

“Our unity cannot be shattered by evil. Our bonds cannot be broken by violence,” Trump went on in his most presidential moment, “and though we feel such great anger at the senseless murder of our fellow citizens, it is love that defines us today and always will. Forever.”

Uplifting words. But are they true?

Or will this massacre be like the Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, or Charleston massacre of black churchgoers by Dylan Roof — uniting us briefly in “sadness, shock and grief” only to divide us again and, more deeply, in our endless war over guns.

“In memory of the fallen, I have directed that our great flag be flown at half-staff,” said the president. As he spoke, the mind went back to yesterday afternoon where the NFL was roiled anew by athletes earning seven-figure salaries “taking a knee” in disrespect of that flag.

Also on Sunday, cable TV was given over to charges that Trump, attending a golf tournament in New Jersey, cared nothing about the suffering of “people of color” in Puerto Rico.

And we just closed out a summer where monuments honoring the explorers and missionaries who discovered the New World and the men who made the America we have been blessed to inherit have, along with those of Confederate soldiers, been desecrated and dragged down.

Only the 1960s, with Vietnam and the great cultural revolution, and the War Between the States from 1861-1865, rival this as a time of national disunity and civil discord.

To understand what is happening to us, we should look to Europe, where the disintegration appears more advanced.

Sunday, 4,000 national police, sent by Madrid, used violence to break up a referendum called by the regional government of Catalonia on secession. Nine in 10 of those able to cast a ballot voted to secede from Spain.

Televised pictures from Barcelona of police clubbing and dragging voters away from the polls, injuring hundreds, may make this a Selma moment in the history of Europe.

This is the first of the specters haunting Europe: the desire of ethnic minorities like Catalans in Spain and Scots in Britain to break free of the mother country and create new nations, as the Norwegians did in 1905 and the Irish did in 1921.

The second is the desire of growing millions of Europeans to overthrow the transnational regime that has been raised above them, the EU.

The English succeeded with Brexit in 2016. Today, almost every country in Europe has an anti-EU party like the National Front in France, which won 35 percent of the presidential vote in 2017.

Beyond the tribal call of ethnic solidarity is a growing resentment in Northern Europe at having to bail out the chronic deficits of the South, and in Southern Europe at the austerity imposed by the North.

The German elections underlined a new threat to European unity. The ruling coalition of Angela Merkel’s CDU and SPD suffered major losses. The Bavarian-based sister party of the CDU, the CSU, was itself shaken.

Angela Merkel as the new “leader of the West” in the time of Trump is an idea that has come and gone. She is a diminished figure.

Some 13 percent of the votes went to Alternative for Germany, a far-right party that, for the first time, will enter the Bundestag. In states of the former East Germany, the AfD ran second or even first.

What produced this right turn in Germany is what produced it in Hungary and Poland: migration from Africa and the Middle East that is creating socially and culturally indigestible enclaves in and around the great cities of Europe.

Europeans, like Trumpians, want their borders secured and closed to the masses of the Third World.

Germans are weary of 70 years of wearing sackcloth and ashes.

Race, tribe, borders, culture, history — issues of identity — are tearing at the seams of the EU and pulling apart nations.

We Americans may celebrate our multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual, multicultural diversity as our greatest attribute. But the acrimony and the divisions among us seem greater than ever before in our lifetimes.

Blacks, Hispanics, feminists, Native Americans, LGBT — all core constituencies of the Democratic Party — seem endlessly aggrieved with their stations in American life.

In the Republican Party, there is now a vast cohort of populist and nationalists who agree with Merle Haggard, “If you’re runnin’ down my country, man, You’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.”

A massacre of Americans like that in Las Vegas may bring us together briefly. But what holds us together when issues of race, religion, ethnicity, culture, history and politics — our cherished diversity itself — appear to be pulling us ever further apart?

View the complete article including links at:

http://buchanan.org/blog/moment-unity-disintegrating-world-127716

When Big Brother is really watching you.

FrontPage Mag
by Scott S. Powell
9/28/2017

Excerpts:

Just two or three generations ago, most Americans understood that George Orwell’s classics Animal Farm and 1984 were written to explain how freedom is lost to totalitarianism and the intolerance that accompanies it. “Big Brother,” a term that many people still casually use to describe an all-knowing governing authority, comes right out of 1984. In the society that Orwell describes, all citizens are continually reminded that “Big Brother is watching you,” by way of a constant surveillance through the pervasive use of “telescreens” by the ruling class. 

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Many assume there is a long way to go before the American government has the power of Orwell’s Big Brother. After all, the thinking goes, the press in the U.S. is not controlled by the government so Americans cannot be so easily brainwashed as they theoretically would be through state-controlled propaganda.

But what if the universities and the educational system and the major television and print media institutions embrace the groupthink that ingratiates them with the ruling elite? What if the culture shapers in Hollywood and the advertising industry on Madison Avenue follow a similar path in participating in and reinforcing the same groupthink norms?

And what if the rise of social media, and specifically the dominant players like Facebook and Google, promote a kind of groupthink conformity that effectively marginalizes and silences opposing views? Could it then be that propaganda in a free democratic nation like America might be more effective in shaping thought and attitudes than state-controlled propaganda in totalitarian societies, which typically foster abject cynicism? — (bold emphasis added in above 2 paragraphs)

Orwell’s concept of Big Brother watching the people has certainly become a reality in the National Security Agency’s tracking and recording all email, text and telephone communication in the United States. But Big Brother has a new dimension and counterpart now with social media and consumer giants, Google, Facebook, and Amazon knowing almost everything about people’s thoughts and preferences through their artificial intelligence peering into peoples’ “telescreen” computers and smartphones.

View the complete article including image and comments at:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267965/revisiting-orwell-understand-our-times-scott-s-powell

Gateway Pundit
by Jim Hoft
10/1/2017

Excerpt:

Liberalism at work.

Two Georgia 10-year-old students were taunted by classmates for standing during the Pledge of Allegiance and placing their hand over their heart.

The teacher told students in her class she will never stand for the national anthem.

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View the complete article including video, images, links and comments at:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/two-10-year-old-georgia-students-heckled-called-kkk-nazis-standing-pledge-allegiance-video/

RedFlag

Excerpt:

In the latest sign that China is moving to dramatically limit its exposure to its restive neighbor and long-time economic dependent, Chinese authorities on Thursday ordered all North Korean firms to stop doing business in the world’s second-largest economy, fulfilling Beijing’s obligations according to the latest round of UN Security Council sanctions, which were passed two weeks ago.

The order comes just days after President Donald Trump revealed that the People’s Bank of China had asked the country’s banks to sever their business ties with North Korea.

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View more on this topic, including video at:

https://www.redflagnews.com/headlines-2017/buckle-up-china-orders-all-their-companies-in-north-korea-to-close-within-120-days

and also at:

ZeroHedge, by Tyler Durden, 9/28/2017 — http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-28/beijing-orders-all-north-korean-businesses-close

WILL HE “DEBUNK” THE MEDIA?

The Post & Email
by Sharon Rondeau, h/t TM
9/28/2017

Excerpt:

(Sep. 28, 2017) — An article published on Wednesday by the Bay Area News Group reported that former Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio will be a guest at a fundraiser hosted by the Central Valley Republicans in Fresno on Friday evening.

Arpaio reportedly gave an interview to the news organization in which he said, “Don’t think I’m going fishing.  I am not going away,” spurring speculation that he might plan to seek political office.

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View the complete article including image, links and comments at:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2017/09/28/report-arpaio-plans-continue-publicize-obama-birth-certificate-findings/

Aaron Rodgers and the Packers lined up on the sideline, arms locked together:

Prior to their game vs. the Bears, the Packers were joined by the Lambeau faithful in linking arms.

SB Nation NFL
9/28/2017

Excerpt:

The Green Bay Packers and some of their fans linked arms on Thursday night prior to their game against the Chicago Bears.

CBS cameras showed the fans adhering to the request to link arms:

ESPN’s Michele Steele tweeted that most fans did not actually link arms.
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Earlier in the week, Aaron Rodgers made a request that fans join the team.

“This is about equality,” Rodgers said Tuesday. “This is about unity and love and growing together as a society and starting a conversation around something that may be a little bit uncomfortable for people.

“But we’ve got to come together and talk about these things and grow as a community, as a connected group of individuals in our society, and we’re going to continue to show love and unity, and this week we’re going to ask the fans to join in as well and come together and show people that we can be connected and we can grow together.”

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View the complete article including video, images, links and comments at:

https://www.sbnation.com/2017/9/28/16381646/packers-fans-linking-arms-national-anthem

Lefties often like to tell us what we could get for the billions that we spend on new military hardware. They’re less enthusiastic about telling us what we could get for the billions we spend on welfare or environmental projects or research grants that study alcoholism in lesbian mice. Or the $135 billion a year that illegal aliens cost us.

Already we have illegal districts. With amnesty, we would have an illegal nation.

Canada Free Press
by Daniel Greenfield, Bomb Throwers
9/28/2017

Excerpt:

The swelling population of illegal immigrants and their kids is costing American taxpayers $135 billion a year, the highest ever, driven by free medical care, education and a huge law enforcement bill, according to the the most authoritative report on the issue yet.

And despite claims from pro-illegal immigration advocates that the aliens pay significant off-setting taxes back to federal, state and local treasuries, the Federation for American Immigration Reform report tallied just $19 billion, making the final hit to taxpayers about $116 billion.

State and local governments are getting ravaged by the costs, at over $88 billion. The federal government, by comparison, is getting off easy at $45 billion in costs for illegals.

And if you think that illegal aliens are expensive, try legalizing them and watch how much giving them access to every single government handout will cost.

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View the complete article including image, links and comments at:

http://canadafreepress.com/article/illegal-aliens-costing-americans-135-billion-a-year