Showing posts with label tragedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tragedy. Show all posts

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Venezuela: 'The election was fake - but the violence was real' - 17 murdered by #Maduro mercenaries



















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Monday, December 19, 2016

Obama Golfs After Learning About Turkey, Germany Attacks... "Trump says These terrorists and their regional and worldwide networks must be eradicated from the face of the earth"



























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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Nope, there’s been no statement from Obama on the devastating natural disaster happening in Louisiana.









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Friday, July 29, 2016

Oakland-bound medical plane crashes — 4 killed





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Monday, October 19, 2015

This is a family that commodifies everything, from sex tapes to fertility treatments to Caitlyn Jenner’s transition.



As former NBA star Lamar Odom clings to life in a Las Vegas hospital, his soon-to-be ex-wife Khloe Kardashian and her clan have done what they do best: make the story all about them.
Before the Kardashians even made it to the hospital, there was no dignity here. Odom was found on Tuesday unconscious and face down in a Nevada brothel, choking on his own mucus, damage to his lungs from crack cocaine and track marks on his arms. He’d spent four days and $75,000 there, in a grim whorehouse that most closely resembles a Marriott....

...The Kardashians, said the source, “have blood on their hands.”

It’s a well-established pattern of abusive behavior for the Kardashians, who have built a $100 million empire on mining their lives — while shamelessly exploiting others — for entertainment.

Odom — who once confessed to the LA Times that, emotionally, “I consider myself a little weak” — was no match for a family who casually and consistently trails human wreckage in their wake.

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

The Charleston church devastated by a mass murder re-opens for a Sunday service















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Saturday, June 20, 2015

The prog media is calling this SOB a "right winger"













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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Government spending boosters using the Philadelphia train derailment tragedy to demand more money for Amtrak might want to ask the White House why President Obama has failed for 127 days to even nominate an administrator for the Federal Railroad Administration, instead leaving in charge as “acting” chief a 37-year-old Obama loyalist who reportedly has little substantial railroad experience.

◼ Obama Failed to Appoint Railroad Chief - Keith Koffler/White House Dossier



The agency’s acting chief, Sarah Feinberg, is a former Facebook executive and ex-aide to Rahm Emanuel who has close ties to the White House and much popularity on the Hill — but little substantial railroad experience. And as only an interim boss, she faces obstacles in even attempting to make the changes that FRA critics want to see at the agency, which some lawmakers have lambasted as too slow to regulate and too cozy with the railroads it oversees.
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Friday, May 15, 2015

The Federal Communication Commission has spent $110 million on the system, and are now trying to figure out why it hadn't been turned on

◼ Revealed: Amtrak train accelerated from 70 to 106mph in seconds before crash and speed control system that could have prevented deadly derailment WAS installed but not turned on - WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

  • NTSB said the commuter service was travelling at twice the speed limit
  • Engineer Brandon Bostian hit the emergency brakes - but it was too late
  • Train came off tracks - killing eight people and injuring more than 200
  • Has been claimed 'Positive Train Control' was in place on stretch of track
  • The system - used to slow the train down - was not turned on at the time
  • There have been installation delays because of problems with radios
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Wreckage of missing Marine Helicopter found in Nepal

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Derailed Amtrak train reportedly traveling at twice the speed limit before crash











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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

AmtrakDerailment in Philadelphia





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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Not one student has been rescued


◼ On the night of April 14, 2014, hundreds of schoolgirls at the Chibok boarding school in northeastern Nigeria awoke to the sound of gunfire. They saw men in camouflage approaching and thought soldiers were coming to save them from a militant attack, according to survivors' accounts. - Huffington Post

Instead, more than 270 of the schoolgirls found themselves in the clutches of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Their abduction sparked global outrage and a huge campaign calling for their rescue, partly propelled by the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.

Sunday marks five months since the girls were kidnapped. Here's what has happened since.

Not one student has been rescued...

Even though they were reportedly located months ago. In May, a Nigerian military official claimed he knew where the girls were being held.

Other countries have made little progress...And Boko Haram violence rages on...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

California media finally note Obamacare a rotten deal for young people

◼ Among the many things the mainstream media have ignored or downplayed about Obamacare is how terrible a deal it is for young, healthy people. The Mercury-News finally got around to pointing this out today... - Cal Watchdog

It is mindboggling that this wasn’t a key focus of the Romney campaign last year. The high deductible for young Obamacare enrollees is the least-reported huge downside of the fiasco. It basically means millions of healthy people under 40 will pay big premiums and in normal years get nothing for it — no help with their medical bills.

The temptation is strong to say that it is karma that young voters are going to be abused by Obamacare. But if they didn’t know it was coming, courtesy of our atrocious media and a somnolent Romney campaign, it’s not all karma. It’s also because of corrupt journalism and political incompetence.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

FRIEND: NAVY YARD SHOOTER LIBERAL, SUPPORTED OBAMA

◼ Tuesday, on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper," Michael Ritrovato spoke at length about his friend, suspected Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis. - John Nolte/Breitbart

Ritrovato went on to explain that two of them had a close relationship based in part on their differences, specifically race and politics. Alexis was black, Ritrovato is white. Ritrovato described himself as conservative and Alexis is "more of a liberal type" who supported Barack Obama:
I would say things like, 'You know, you are my brother from another mother.' And he would say things like, 'You're my Italian mafia guy from New York.' So we had things we joked about: Aaron wasn't conservative like I am. He was more of a liberal type; he wasn't happy with the former [Bush] administration. He was more happy with this [the Obama] administration -- as far as presidential administrations.
FRIEND: Obama supporter, 'more of a liberal'...
MEDS: Navy Yard gunman was treated by US for serious mental illness, 'hearing voices'...
Sought help weeks before shooting...
Claimed to have PTSD after rescuing victims on 9/11...
Navy had not declared mentally unfit...
Passed two background checks...
Cited 8 times for misconduct...
Got honorable discharge...
Had 'secret' clearance...
LATEST...
Awarded 'Global War on Terrorism Service Medal'...
Attended Buddhist temple...
Carney: Obama implementing executive actions...
Navy exploring base security measures...
Feinstein calls for new gun control laws...
REPORT: Gunman entered with shotgun, picked up weapons inside...
REPORT: No AR-15 involved; shotgun, 2 handguns...
Mass shootings fuel fear, account for fraction of murders...
LAST WEEK: Al Qaeda calls for small-scale attacks inside United States...
DC mayor blames 'sequester'...
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Friday, April 5, 2013

They found prescription medication for sertraline, a generic version of Zoloft used to treat depression, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder; and Clonazepam, usually prescribed to treat anxiety and panic attacks.



◼ Killer James Holmes' psychiatrist warned he may pose threat - Unsealed documents in the Colorado theater shooting case reveal that the suspect told his university psychiatrist a month before the attack that he was having homicidal thoughts. - LA Times

◼ Adam Lanza's murder spree at Sandy Hook may have been 'act of revenge' - Matthew Lysiak AND Rich Schapiro / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Adam Lanza's motive for the shooting rampage that tore through Sandy Hook Elementary School and left 26 people dead remains a mystery, but Marvin LaFontaine, a friend of Adam's mother Nancy, is convinced Adam had been harboring resentment toward the school after being bullied for years.



Newtown killer Adam Lanza may have launched his murder spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School as an “act of revenge,” the Daily News has learned.

A close friend of Lanza’s mother told The News that the troubled boy was a target of relentless bullying when he attended the Connecticut school years ago.

“I think Adam felt betrayed by the school and this was his act of revenge,” said Marvin LaFontaine, a friend of Nancy Lanza’s.

“Nancy told me he was being picked on at school. That they were just torturing him.”

Nancy Lanza was so incensed by the school’s failure to protect her son that she sometimes showed up unannounced to watch over him, LaFontaine said.

“She was so upset that the teachers weren’t protecting him from the bullies that she went with him like a bodyguard,” said LaFontaine, who was also Lanza’s Cub Scout leader when he was a young boy.

“Adam didn’t like her showing up. She would sometimes sit in the back of the class and make sure no one would touch him.”

◼ Emails show history of illness in Adam Lanza's family, mother had worries about gruesome images - NY Daily News

Nancy Lanza's emails, obtained by the Daily News, offer new insight in the family's medical history. She feared Adam Lanza, who killed 26 in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, would develop the same auto-immune disease that killed his grandfather.

...Just two weeks before the Newtown shooting, Nancy discovered ghastly and sinister pictures in her son’s room featuring dead bodies, but she did not confront him.

“One (drawing) had a woman clutching a religious item, like rosary beads, and holding a child, and she was getting all shot up in the back with blood flying everywhere,” a friend said.

“Nancy was disturbed, really disturbed, but didn’t confront him,” he said. “She wanted to think it over.”

As the world now knows, on Dec. 14, Nancy was shot dead by her son, who then killed 26 more people during a rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Now the governor seeks to undo what he done did in haste and stupidity - and other gun news

◼ Andy Cuomo Learns an Important Lesson About Guns - Bryan Preston/PJM

“There is no such thing as a seven-bullet magazine,” Mr. Cuomo said at a news conference. “That doesn’t exist. So you really have no practical option.”

So, even under the revision, New Yorkers could own a 10-round magazine…they just couldn’t put 10 rounds into it.

Criminals all over the state will be sure to abide by that.





◼ RANGEL FIBS: DEMOCRAT CLAIMS ‘MILLIONS’ OF KIDS BEING ‘SHOT DOWN BY ASSAULT WEAPONS’ - FOX



◼ Colorado Gov. signs gun control bill amid opposition - Red Alert Politics

On Wednesday, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill that strictly curbs gun rights in that state.

Hickenlooper, a Democrat, signed legislation requiring a background check for all gun purchases in Colorado, a bill that requires the gun buyer to pay for that background check, as well as legislation that restricts gun magazine capacity to 15 rounds of ammunition. The new regulations will begin on July 1....

“He just slapped rural Colorado right in the face,” Brophy said about Hickenlooper’s signing of the bill. ”They are overwhelmingly upset about this.”

Besides the obvious Second Amendment issues, many other pro-gun advocates pointed to losses in jobs and business that will occur because of the new legislation. One company, Magpul Industries, which manufactures gun magazines and accessories in Colorado, has already announced that they will be leaving the state in order to re-establish their business elsewhere.

Many sheriffs in the state have come out opposing the legislation, with a few even announcing that they will not enforce it. One sheriff, Terry Maketa of El Paso County, Colo., even went so far as to say that he would destroy any concealed carry records his department held, rather than hand them over.

“[I]f anyone tried to get their hands on it [database of gun owners], I would destroy the database [and] would intervene if government agents started arresting county residents for exercising their constitutional rights,” Maketa said.
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Monday, March 18, 2013

Morbid find suggests murder-obsessed gunman Adam Lanza plotted Newtown, Conn.'s Sandy Hook massacre for years

◼ Law enforcement reportedly discovers a sickeningly thorough 7-foot-long, 4-foot-wide spreadsheet with names, body counts and weapons from previous mass murders and even attempted killings. 'It sounded like a doctoral thesis, that was the quality of the research,' an anonymous law enforcement veteran said. - NY Daily News

What investigators found was a chilling spreadsheet 7 feet long and 4 feet wide that required a special printer, a document that contained Lanza’s obsessive, extensive research — in nine-point font — about mass murders of the past, and even attempted murders.

But it wasn’t just a spreadsheet. It was a score sheet.

“They don’t believe this was just a spreadsheet. They believe it was a score sheet,” he continued. “This was the work of a video gamer, and that it was his intent to put his own name at the very top of that list. They believe that he picked an elementary school because he felt it was a point of least resistance, where he could rack up the greatest number of kills. That’s what (the Connecticut police) believe.”

The man paused and said, “They believe that (Lanza) believed that it was the way to pick up the easiest points. It’s why he didn’t want to be killed by law enforcement. In the code of a gamer, even a deranged gamer like this little bastard, if somebody else kills you, they get your points. They believe that’s why he killed himself.
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Monday, February 4, 2013

Newtown Calls for Armed School Officers

◼ The Newtown Board of Education wants more armed police officers in the town's four elementary schools after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. - By George Colli/NBC Connecticutt

...(T)hey decided to ask the town to approve the request to include one additional full-time Newtown police at each of the elementary schools in next year's budget....

Parents said security means more than a police presence.

“My main concern is with accessibility to these school, said Neil Johnson, a parent of two Newtown students. “On December 14th, that was the main bare-boned reason that occurred.”

“After what happened in our community, I just think we should go over and above and provide a shining example for the rest of the world and protect our kids,” said resident Donna Lorenz.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Homeland Security has advice for confronting mass murders: scissors



◼ That’s some of the helpful advice in a new instructional video from the Department of Homeland Security that was posted on the agency’s Web site just a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. - S.A. MILLER/NY Post

The nearly four-minute-long video opens with chilling scenes from the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, and the 2011 attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords.

But the video quickly shifts to hokey footage of office workers scampering under desks, crouching in corners and racing into closets to hide from a rampaging gunman on the loose.

“To protect your hiding place, lock the door if you can. Block the door with heavy furniture,” recommends the male narrator, speaking in measured, authoritative tones.

Other survival strategies promoted in the video include hiding “behind large items such as cabinets or desks. Remain quiet. Silence your cellphone or pager. Even the vibration setting can give away a hiding position.”

Richard Feldman, president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, said he has a better option for consideration than a pair of scissors when confronting an armed mass murderer — a legal firearm.
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