[FrontPage] A suspect was arrested and faces arson and burglary charges after investigators said he lit a pair of fires at a Las Vegas synagogue Monday evening in a possible hate crime, according to authorities.
Las Vegas Police arrested Afshin Bahrampour in a shopping center parking lot across the street from the scene of two fires set at the Chabad of Southern Nevada Desert Torah Academy at 1261 Arville Street late Monday, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue spokesman Tim Szymanski said.
Firefighters were called out to handle a car fire in the synagogue’s parking lot just after 8 p.m. Monday. Crews quickly extinguished the blaze, which caused significant damage to the vehicle and minor damage to two others.
While firefighters were cleaning up after the car fire, synagogue personnel told investigators they had extinguished a mysterious fire in a waste basket inside their building two hours earlier, Szymanski said.
[Breitbart] A Massachusetts judge has agreed to erase the murder conviction of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez, essentially because his suicide prevents his pursuit of justice by putting an abrupt end to his appeal.
In a decision released Tuesday, Judge E. Susan Garsh said case law in Massachusetts is clear that "abatement" defendants, who are denied the ability to finish an appeal before they die, can have their convictions vacated, ABC News reported.
The former New England Patriots tight end committed suicide in his cell on April 19 while serving a life sentence for the 2013 murder of football player Odin Lloyd. He died only five days after being acquitted of a second murder charge from an incident in 2012. But, Hernandez had filed an appeal of his conviction and was awaiting the process when he committed suicide.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The teen wanted for body-slamming a 68-year-old woman and then dragging her into a pool in a shocking viral video has turned himself into police.
Leon Balfour, 16, turned himself into police Monday evening, saying 'I messed up and I have to own up to it.'
He was charged with one count of battery on a person 65 years of age or older. Video shows him arriving at the Broward County juvenile detention center Monday night. He is set to make his first court appearance sometime Tuesday.
'I’m very happened that they caught the person,' victim Nancy James told CBS Miami.
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My suspicion that his Mom saw the vid and demanded he own up to it. Kudos for her.
Is li'l Leon Balfour punctilious?
Oh, hell yes! His materfamilias:
"My baby likes swimmin'
With hip-fractured women,
But turns himself in. A good filius!"
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"Twas merely a case of high spirits.
My classmates were screeching like parrots...
And impulse control?
I'm a merry old soul!
Goodness me, must you mete out demerits?"
[USAToday] DES MOINES -- A 3-foot giant rabbit that died last month following a United Airlines flight from London may have mistakenly been placed in a freezer by airline employees, a Des Moines attorney announced Monday. This rabbits hot, lets cool him off in here for a while.
Additionally, the rabbit was cremated by United following its death, making an autopsy to determine what exactly happened impossible, Cook said. That action by the airline was tantamount to "destroying evidence" in the case, he said. The airline cremated the remains without the permission of the ownership group, he said. Aw man!! He's cold as ice now, here, take him somewhere and thaw him out!
"Whatever the cause of Simon's death may be, Simon died in the care of United Airlines' and its decision to destroy his remains establishes a reckless disregard for the Simon Group's rights and are indicative of the negligent care United Airlines provided Simon," a demand letter from the attorney reads. "Hey Boss, he got too hot, what'll we do now?"
"Finish him. No rabbit ashes, no rabbit evidence. Save one of the rabbits foot, though, we'll need it!"
In addition to the investigation, the ownership group is demanding the airline to pay for the purchase price of the rabbit, shipping costs and the "economic loss" of the rabbit's death. The demand letter gives United seven days to respond before a lawsuit is filed.
The giant bunny was purchased from British rabbit breeder Annette Edwards, who told the Sun newspaper that Simon had a check-up with a vet three hours before the flight and was "fit as a fiddle." Edwards owns Simon’s four-foot long father, Darius, who currently holds the title as the world’s biggest rabbit.
A wave-making article on the effects of plastic microbeads on sea life has been retracted by the journal Science after an independent review board found its authors "guilty of scientific dishonesty."
The original study, published in June 2016, reported that ingesting plastic microparticles like those found in cosmetics and toiletries made baby fish "smaller, slower, and more stupid," and overall less likely to survive, as Mental Floss reported at the time. I think I found the root cause of progressiveness.
These conclusions were not terribly surprising, as other studies have found that plastics and the chemicals that cling to them can significantly affect animal behavior, growth, and mortality. But this particular study raised some serious red flags for other experts in the field.
In response to allegations of misconduct from the scientific community, the authors' institution, Uppsala University, ordered a preliminary investigation, which was inconclusive. But the concerned researchers had also notified the Central Ethical Review Board of Sweden (CEPN), which launched a more thorough investigation of its own.
As experts began poring through their files, authors Oona Lönnstedt and Peter Eklöv contacted Science to notify the publication that their data was missing and could not be recovered or examined‐the result, they claimed, of a stolen laptop. In response, Science published an Editorial Expression of Concern.
Back in Sweden, CEPN hired ichthyologist Bertil Borg of Stockholm University to review the work, and Borg found Lönnstedt and Eklöv's paper to be riddled with problems and holes. "The suspicions of deceit cannot be denied," he wrote to the board.
The CEPN group's final report [PDF] was damning. In addition to the missing data, the board found that the authors had failed to acquire the right ethics-board permissions to experiment on the fish‐and that it's possible they may never even have conducted the experiments. The report concluded that Lönnstedt and Eklöv's responses to the allegations "have been in all essentials deficient, at times contradictory and have not infrequently given rise to further questions."
The report chided Science, one of the most prominent scientific journals in the world, for ever publishing the study in the first place.
Despite telling the journal that they disagreed with elements of the report, the authors requested on April 28 that it retract their study, and on May 3, Science did just that.
Some researchers feel a retraction is not a sufficient response to the extent of the authors' misconduct, and have pressed Uppsala to investigate further.
"We take what has happened very seriously," university representative Johan Tysk said in a statement. "It may damage confidence in the University and in research. It is also very difficult for all those involved. We intend to thoroughly review all aspects of the case, but we cannot say at present exactly how we will go about this." Public hanging of the fraudsters. Makes others at least think twice about doing it.
But this is what happens when the religion of Gaia is more important than science. Almost all "studies" will come to the same conclusion because of that religion.
[NYPost] The infamous hacktivist group Anonymous has released a chilling new video — urging people across the globe to “prepare” for World War 3 — as the US and North Korea continue to move “strategic pieces into place” for battle.
“All the signs of a looming war on the Korean peninsula are surfacing,” the group says in the ominous six-minute clip, posted on YouTube over the weekend.
Using their signature Guy Fawkes character, the hackers make several claims about recent military movements in the region — and alleged warnings made by Japan and South Korea about imminent nuclear attacks from the North — as they deliver their frightening prophecy.
“Watching as each country moves strategic pieces into place,” the organization says, in its notorious robotic voice. “But unlike past world wars, although there will be ground troops, the battle is likely to be fierce, brutal and quick. It will also be globally devastating, both on environmental and economical levels.”
[TheLibertarianRepublic] Arctic waters absorbed vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, creating a cooling effect that's 230 times greater than the warming from methane emitted from underwater seeps, according to a new study.
The findings are a complete reversal of what scientists previously believed ‐ that methane seeps in the Arctic Ocean were contributing to global warming. Can we all agree now that you idiots really don't know what the fuck you are talking about when it comes to climate?
"If what we observed near Svalbard occurs more broadly at similar locations around the world, it could mean that methane seeps have a net cooling effect on climate, not a warming effect as we previously thought," John Pohlman, a U.S. Geological Survey biochemist and lead author of the study, said in a statement Monday.
If the results hold, Pohlman's study could have big implications for how scientists calculate the global carbon "budget" and for future projections of global warming. I guess not. The religion and gods illusion must be maintained at all costs.
"This is … totally unexpected," Brett Thornton, a Swedish geochemist who was not involved in the study, told Science Magazine.
A group of U.S., German and Norwegian scientists measured methane and carbon dioxide concentrations off Svalbard's coast. They found 2,000 times more carbon dioxide was taken out of the atmosphere than methane escaping from underwater vents.
Methane escaping margin seeps at depths of 260 to 295 feet appeared to stimulate marine phytoplankton, which may have increased their intake of carbon dioxide. The study "suggests physical mechanisms that transport methane to the surface may also transport nutrient-enriched water that supports enhanced primary production and CO2 drawdown."
"These findings challenge the widely held perception that areas characterized by shallow-water methane seeps and/or strongly elevated sea−air methane flux always increase the global atmospheric greenhouse gas burden," reads the study's executive summary.
Pohlman cautioned the "cooling effect" of the seeps may be limited to certain times of the year, but he and his team were astounded to find such low amounts of methane above the seeps.
"These areas of methane seepage may be net greenhouse gas sinks," reads a summary of the work.
Methane is a more potent gas than carbon dioxide, and scientists have become increasingly worried about "methane bomb" from thawing permafrost and warming oceans. Methane hydrates from the ocean floor "a key cause of the global warming that led to one of the largest extinctions in the earth's history," Ryo Matsumoto, a University of Tokyo professor, said in 2008.
Scientists worry a huge release of methane from the sea floor could cause massive amounts of warming. One 2016 study warned "the release of methane from hydrate may be apocalyptic." And yet it has happened in the past... and life survived. It will happen in the future... and life will survive.
But Pohlman's research suggests there's a lot more to learn about methane seeps and their role in global greenhouse gas inventories.
Pohlman's study was the first to observe this in methane-rich waters, but the implications for climate science could be big if results can be replicated at other methane seeps.
"We are looking forward to testing the hypothesis that shallow-water methane seeps are net greenhouse gas sinks in other locations," Pohlman said. But humans are still killing the planet so give us all your money.
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It has been know for years that the atmospheric CO2 isn't increasing as fast as CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Most people thought the difference comes from CO2 sequestration in soils or in the ocean. The relative contribution of these two vectors is, of course, still under research. Methane seeps while not rare are also not particularly common.
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The 1970s called. They want their climate alarmism back.
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The EDF claims anthropogenic effects are the main cause of climate change. Get rid of the fake science publications. Quit funding the UN. Sue the people claiming climate change for fraud. The problem will go away.
[Fox] A lethal new drug dubbed “gray death” by authorities that is dangerous to even touch with gloves is being eyed in overdose cases across Georgia, Alabama and Ohio. Investigators said the high-potency cocktail — which is comprised of heroin, fentanyl, the elephant tranquilizer carfentanil, and a synthetic opioid called U-47700 — can kill users with a single dose.
A spokeswoman for the agency told the Associated Press that they’ve seen 50 overdoses cases involving gray death over the past three months. Users can inject, swallow, smoke or snort the drug, which varies in consistency and looks like a concrete mixture.
The Ohio coroner’s office told the news agency that a compound similar to gray death has been coming in for months, with at least eight samples matching the drug mixture. A user can buy the lethal cocktail for as low as $10 on the street, Forbes reported.
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which is comprised of heroin, fentanyl, the elephant tranquilizer carfentanil, and a synthetic opioid called U-47700 — can kill users with a single dose. Death waiting to happen.
An emergency has been declared in central Hanford in Eastern Washington state Tuesday after the roof of a tunnel used to store highly radioactively contaminated waste collapsed.
Several thousand workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation were told to take shelter in buildings.
About 1:35 p.m. non-essential workers north of Hanford’s Wye Barricade were told to go home. Swing shift was canceled for much of the site.
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No one was being allowed to enter the site beyond the security barricades and flights over the reservation were restricted for much of the morning.
[Iran Press TV] An kaboom at a fireworks warehouse in Mexico has killed at least 14 people and maimed 22 in the second such tragedy in a matter of months.
The blast occurred Monday night in a rural area of central Puebla state, Diodoro Carrasco, a bigwig in the state government, told radio station Cinco Radio.
He said as many as 11 of the fatalities may be minors.
The kaboom in the village of San Isidro, 270 kilometers (170 miles) east of Mexico City, came during preparations for a religious festival on May 15, the state government said.
There are people who live in the building where the fireworks were being stored, it said.
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[DAWN] The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday said that Uzma, an Indian woman who came to Pakistain to marry a man from Buner and went ’missing’ last week, will be repatriated only after all legal requirements are completed.
Uzma, 20, had sought refuge at the Indian High Commission last week and asked to be repatriated to India after her marriage to Tahir Ali, a resident of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , claiming she only came to know after her nikkah was solemnised that Ali was already married and had four children.
During a court hearing on Monday, Uzma alleged that Ali had forced her to enter a marriage contract at gunpoint and subsequently subjected her to physical and sexual abuse. He also confiscated her documents, she claimed, adding that she was not under any sort of pressure while recording her statement.
FO Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria told DawnNews that Uzma's case is currently being heard in court and she will only be able to return once all legal requirements are complete.
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Hard to imagine becoming enlightened in Pakistan.
[Independent] Scientists have discovered the first instance of a deer which eats human remains. The animal was caught mid-feast by a motion-sensitive camera at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at Texas State University, a 26-acre area where forensic scientists study how human bodies decompose in the wild.
Scientists also monitor how animals interact with the bodies, but the reaction from the white-tailed deer was an unexpected crunch point.
Deer are mostly herbivores, although they have been known to scavenge small mammals or birds and occasionally eat other meats. As documented in the Journal of Forensic Scientists, the experts explained that the animal captured on camera was the "first known photographic evidence of deer gnawing human remains".
The deer was scavenging when it came across the decomposing body, which had already been feasted on by vultures. Experts watched as the animal held "the bone in its mouth like a cigar", on two occasions, in January 2015.
Interesting story if you have a few minutes to kill. It's a classic tale of Hollywood excess, overspending and lawsuits everywhere when things started to go belly-up.
[HolleywoodReporter] Early one afternoon in October 2012, Jake Bloom and Joel Mandel left their respective Beverly Hills offices, slipped into their luxury cars and embarked on the roughly 30-minute journey to the Hollywood Hills compound of their client, Johnny Depp. Bloom was a rumpled and graying lawyer whose disheveled style camouflaged an intellect exercised on behalf of such luminaries as Martin Scorsese and Sylvester Stallone. Mandel, then in his early 50s, was a tall, rather amiable accountant who favored loose-fitting jeans and looser-fitting shirts, sartorial code designed to assure his clients he was just another boy in their band as well as a top-flight business manager steeped in the arcana of arbitrage and amortization.
Both men had been close to Depp for years. Bloom, indeed, was such a confidant to the actor that he had even joined him for an induction ceremony into the Comanche nation when he played Tonto in The Lone Ranger; as for Mandel, he had accompanied Depp to his three-island property in the Bahamas, atolls Mandel had helped his client buy for a total of $5.35 million.
[SanDiegoUnionTribune] A drunken driving suspect in a hit-and-run crash that severely injured a 6-year-old boy in San Ysidro over the weekend has been deported from the U.S. at least 15 times, authorities said Tuesday. Constantino Banda-Acosta, 38, was last deported Jan. 18, with at least 14 prior cases since 2002, federal authorities said. The Illegal Alien version of herpes. Just keeps coming back
Banda-Acosta is accused of speeding west on Camino de La Plaza, running a stop sign at Dairy Mart Road and slamming his pickup into a Honda Accord about 11:30 p.m. Saturday. The pickup driver did not stop. Banda-Acosta, a Mexican citizen, was arrested about half an hour later, San Diego police and the U.S. Border Patrol said.
A few blocks away, shortly after midnight, agents found a damaged pickup that matched the description Ingrid Lake gave them. Inside were two men, who were detained.
Banda-Acosta was identified as the driver. He was booked into jail on suspicion of felony hit-and-run with injury, drunken driving with injury and driving without a valid license.
The Border Patrol took custody of Banda-Acosta's passenger, also an unauthorized immigrant Illegal Alien, agency officials said.
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If the 'proggies' can turn up the volume on the Comey firing, perhaps this unhappy bit of news will get pushed to page 5.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The teen wanted for body-slamming a 68-year-old woman and then dragging her into a pool in a shocking viral video has turned himself into police. 
A wave-making article on the effects of plastic microbeads on sea life has been retracted by the journal Science after an independent review board found its authors "guilty of scientific dishonesty."
[TheLibertarianRepublic] Arctic waters absorbed vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, creating a cooling effect that's 230 times greater than the warming from methane emitted from underwater seeps, according to a new study.
[Fox] A lethal new drug dubbed “gray death” by authorities that is dangerous to even touch with gloves is being eyed in overdose cases across Georgia, Alabama and Ohio. Investigators said the high-potency cocktail — which is comprised of heroin, fentanyl, the elephant tranquilizer carfentanil, and a synthetic opioid called U-47700 — can kill users with a single dose.
[SanDiegoUnionTribune] A drunken driving suspect in a hit-and-run crash that severely injured a 6-year-old boy in San Ysidro over the weekend has been deported from the U.S. at least 15 times, authorities said Tuesday. Constantino Banda-Acosta, 38, was last deported Jan. 18, with at least 14 prior cases since 2002, federal authorities said.
