Weird News Stories of the Day.....

CarolKing

Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
Could too-tight jeans land you in the hospital?
By Mary Helen Moore, CNN

Updated 1:45 AM ET, Wed June 24, 2015

150624102614-skinny-jeans-heidi-klum-exlarge-169.jpg


(CNN)Skinny jeans could leave you weak in the knees, literally.

One woman was hospitalized for days after her jeans caused her to lose feeling in her legs, according to a study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

The study said that squatting in skinny jeans can damage nerves and muscles in the legs.

The 35-year-old woman had spent her day helping a relative move, squatting for hours as she emptied closets. When she was walking home that night, her feet grew numb, and she tripped and fell. Immobilized, she spent hours on the ground before she was found and rushed to the hospital.
 

grokit

well-worn member
People Who Live On This Island Kill Anybody Who Tries To Come Ashore

the Sentinelese hold javelins as they see outsiders approaching.

An indigenous tribe has lived on North Sentinel Island with limited contact from the outside world for the past 60,000 years. Anybody who has tried to contact the Sentinelese people has been killed, or at least drawn a violent reaction from the community. The island which rests in the Indian Ocean, is so dangerous for outsiders to attempt to visit that India’s government has established a three-mile exclusion zone to prevent more violence. The tribe rejects modern civilization and actually prefers their no-contact status quo. Any visitors are attacked – from the two fishermen that lost their lives after fishing illegally within the exclusion zone to low-flying planes… the indigenous tribe is more than hostile towards outsiders. They violently rebut them.


Photo taken by the Indian Coastguard after a member of the Sentinelese tribe fired an arrow at their helicopter – sent to the island on a tsunami relief effort in 2004.


Satellite photo of the island – which is the size of Manhattan.


The island is located within the Bay of Bengal.

North Sentinel Island is part of the Andaman Islands – but their exclusion zone prohibits people from visiting.

This image shows a tree canopy. As the tribespeople have not had contact with outsiders in so long – they have to live off of th


This photo from Google Maps shows a shipwreck which resulted in many deaths when the sailors clashed with the tribespeople.

comments
 

Vapetrees

Vaped Out
People Who Live On This Island Kill Anybody Who Tries To Come Ashore

the Sentinelese hold javelins as they see outsiders approaching.

An indigenous tribe has lived on North Sentinel Island with limited contact from the outside world for the past 60,000 years. Anybody who has tried to contact the Sentinelese people has been killed, or at least drawn a violent reaction from the community. The island which rests in the Indian Ocean, is so dangerous for outsiders to attempt to visit that India’s government has established a three-mile exclusion zone to prevent more violence. The tribe rejects modern civilization and actually prefers their no-contact status quo. Any visitors are attacked – from the two fishermen that lost their lives after fishing illegally within the exclusion zone to low-flying planes… the indigenous tribe is more than hostile towards outsiders. They violently rebut them.


Photo taken by the Indian Coastguard after a member of the Sentinelese tribe fired an arrow at their helicopter – sent to the island on a tsunami relief effort in 2004.


Satellite photo of the island – which is the size of Manhattan.


The island is located within the Bay of Bengal.

North Sentinel Island is part of the Andaman Islands – but their exclusion zone prohibits people from visiting.

This image shows a tree canopy. As the tribespeople have not had contact with outsiders in so long – they have to live off of th


This photo from Google Maps shows a shipwreck which resulted in many deaths when the sailors clashed with the tribespeople.

comments
That's super interesting, in a way it's better for them to not allow outsiders in as it may be taken away from them since it looks so beautiful and is an island.
 

macbill

Oh No! Mr macbill!!
Staff member
I wonder how these natives explain jets and contrails? They must think they are heaven sent. I took a 100 level course in cultural anthropology: an overview of the discipline. Very very interesting. What is remarkable are the celebration of important life events across all cultures: birth: the recognizing of a new member; the elevation of a child to man/womanhood; Marriage - the joining of two into one; elevation to priesthood; death.
 

Vapetrees

Vaped Out
I wonder how these natives explain jets and contrails? They must think they are heaven sent. I took a 100 level course in cultural anthropology: an overview of the discipline. Very very interesting. What is remarkable are the celebration of important life events across all cultures: birth: the recognizing of a new member; the elevation of a child to man/womanhood; Marriage - the joining of two into one; elevation to priesthood; death.
Yeah interesting as well, I wonder how they process that fact. Seeing something so foreign like a jet or plate and what they tie it to? I wonder if they think its some type of alien. Another thing that would be interesting to know is if they've ever tried to have someone leave the island.
 

CarolKing

Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
a butt plug that looks likes the Donald. It's got everything from his puckered lips to his trademark comb-over.

"I wanted to do something insulting," Sosa told The Huffington Post. "I like the mental picture of his face going into people's asses."

The sex toy was created in reaction to Trump's last month blasting of Mexico and Mexican immigrants. "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists," he said in remarks after launching his presidential campaign.

Sosa used a 3D printer to get Trump's trademark hair to whip up just right.

"The technology requires a certain thickness and texture on the hair, so duplicating his thin, see-through comb-over was tough," he said.

They sell for $27.99. Future versions will come with accessories for Trump's noggin like a snap-on toupee and a piece of artificial poop that will also fit snugly on the head.

o-TRUMP-BUTT-PLUG-570.jpg


Sosa has done similar sex toys for Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul, among others, but said he never planned to do Trump.

It might be a collectors item.;)
 
Last edited:

grokit

well-worn member
Tax havens: Super-rich 'hiding' at least $21tn

A global super-rich elite had at least $21 trillion (£13tn) hidden in secret tax havens by the end of 2010, according to a major study.

The figure is equivalent to the size of the US and Japanese economies combined. (emphasis mine)

The Price of Offshore Revisited was written by James Henry, a former chief economist at the consultancy McKinsey, for the Tax Justice Network.

Tax expert and UK government adviser John Whiting said he was sceptical that the amount hidden was so large.

Mr Whiting, tax policy director at the Chartered Institute of Taxation, said: "There clearly are some significant amounts hidden away, but if it really is that size what is being done with it all?"

Mr Henry said his $21tn is actually a conservative figure and the true scale could be $32tn. A trillion is 1,000 billion.

Mr Henry used data from the Bank of International Settlements, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and national governments.

His study deals only with financial wealth deposited in bank and investment accounts, and not other assets such as property and yachts.

The report comes amid growing public and political concern about tax avoidance and evasion. Some authorities, including in Germany, have even paid for information on alleged tax evaders stolen from banks.

The group that commissioned the report, Tax Justice Network, campaigns against tax havens.

Mr Henry said that the super-rich move money around the globe through an "industrious bevy of professional enablers in private banking, legal, accounting and investment industries.

"The lost tax revenues implied by our estimates is huge. It is large enough to make a significant difference to the finances of many countries.

"From another angle, this study is really good news. The world has just located a huge pile of financial wealth that might be called upon to contribute to the solution of our most pressing global problems," he said.

The report highlights the impact on the balance sheets of 139 developing countries of money held in tax havens that is put beyond the reach of local tax authorities.

Mr Henry estimates that since the 1970s, the richest citizens of these 139 countries had amassed $7.3tn to $9.3tn of "unrecorded offshore wealth" by 2010.

Private wealth held offshore represents "a huge black hole in the world economy," Mr Henry said.

Mr Whiting, though, urged caution. "I cannot disprove the figures at all, but they do seem staggering. If the suggestion is that such amounts are actively hidden and never accessed, that seems odd - not least in terms of what the tax authorities are doing. In fact, the US, UK and German authorities are doing a lot."

He also pointed out that if tax havens were stuffed with such sizeable amounts, "you would expect the havens to be more conspicuously wealthy than they are".

Other findings in Mr Henry's report include:
  • At the end of 2010, the 50 leading private banks alone collectively managed more than $12.1tn in cross-border invested assets for private clients
  • The three private banks handling the most assets offshore are UBS, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs
  • Less than 100,000 people worldwide own about $9.8tn of the wealth held offshore.
Mr Henry told the BBC that it was difficult to detail hidden assets in some individual countries, including the UK, because of restrictions on getting access to data.

A spokesman for the Treasury said great strides were being made in cracking down on people hiding assets.

He said that in 2011-12 HM Revenue & Customs' High Net Worth Unit secured £200m in additional tax through its compliance work with the very wealthy.

He said that agreements reached with Liechtenstein and Switzerland will bring in £3bn and between £4bn and £7bn respectively.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3e8zoa/tax_havens_superrich_hiding_at_least_21tn/
 

CarolKing

Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
US prisons
Drone's heroin delivery to Ohio prison yard prompts fight among inmates


Nine clash after drone drops package of heroin, marijuana and tobacco, leading officers to use pepper spray and strip-search 205 prisoners



A drone dropped off drugs at a prison yard in Ohio. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Associated Press

Tuesday 4 August 2015 13.36 EDTLast modified on Tuesday 4 August 2015 13.39 EDT
Save for later
A drone dropped a package of drugs into a prison yard while inmates were outside, sparking a fight, prison officials have said.

The package was dropped 29 July at the Mansfield correctional institution in Ohio. It contained seven grams (almost a quarter of an ounce) of heroin, 57 grams (more than two ounces) of marijuana, and 140 grams (more than five ounces) of tobacco, JoEllen Smith, a spokeswoman for the department of rehabilitation and correction, told the Mansfield News Journal.
 

grokit

well-worn member
:uhoh: Meanwhile, in the holy fuckin' shit department...

Pentagon Concludes America Is Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World. US Plans War against Russia.

Pentagon-1-400x206.jpg

The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,” June 2015. http://news.usni.org/2015/07/02/document-2015-u-s-national-military-strategy

The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that challenge international norms are sovereign countries that pursue policies independently of Washington’s policies. These “revisionist states” are threats, not because they plan to attack the US, which the Pentagon admits neither Russia nor China intend, but because they are independent.

Be sure to grasp the point: The threat is the existence of sovereign states, whose independence of action makes them “revisionist states.” In other words, their independence is out of step with the neoconservative Uni-Power doctrine that declares independent action to be the right of Washington alone. Washington’s History-given hegemony precludes any other country being independent in its actions. By definition, a country with a foreign policy independent of Washington is a threat.

The Pentagon’s report defines the foremost “revisionist states” as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. The focus is primarily on Russia. Washington hopes to co-opt China, despite the “tension to the Asia-Pacific region” that China’s defense of its sphere of influence causes, a defense “inconsistent with international law” (this from Washington, the great violator of international law), by turning over what remains of the American consumer market to China. It is not yet certain that Iran has escaped the fate that Washington imposed on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Ukraine, and by complicity Palestine.

The Pentagon report is sufficiently audacious in its hypocrisy, as all statements from Washington are, to declare that Washington and its vassals “support the established institutions and processes dedicated to preventing conflict, respecting sovereignty, and furthering human rights.” This from the military of a government that has invaded, bombed, and overthrown 11 governments, murdering and displacing millions of peoples, since the Clinton regime and is currently working to overthrow governments in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina.

In the Pentagon document, Russia is under fire for not acting “in accordance with international norms,” which means Russia is not following Washington’s leadership and behaving as a vassal, which is the behavior to which the Uni-Power is entitled

In other words, this is a BS report written by neocons in order to foment war with Russia.

Nothing else can be said about the Pentagon report, which justifies war and more war until no one exists. Without war and conquests, Americans are not safe. This path to nuclear Armageddon is being drilled every day into the heads of Americans and Washington’s vassals in Europe by the Western presstitute media. “War makes us safe!”

Washington’s view toward Russia is the same as Cato the Elder’s view toward Carthage. Cato the Elder finished his every speech on any subject in the Roman Senate with the statement “Carthage must be destroyed.”

This Pentagon report tells us that war with Russia is our future unless Russia agrees to become a vassal state like every country in Europe, and Canada, Australia, Ukraine, and Japan. Otherwise, the neoconservatives have decided that it is impossible for Americans to tolerate living in a world in which countries make decisions independently of Washington. If America cannot be The Uni-Power dictating to the world, better that we are all dead. At least that will show the Russians.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/pentag...the-world-us-plans-war-against-russia/5461706
 

LuckySeed777

Well-Known Member
HE ESCAPED!!

Deputies Suspend Search For Burglary Suspect Believed To Have Fled Underground

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/09/02/police-pursue-burglary-suspect-on-sb-605-freeway/

"The silver Toyota SUV exited the 605 in Whittier and began off-roading, driving through dusty gravel along some train tracks.

..The man approached an underground tunnel near the tracks and appeared to have run inside. Deputies set up a perimeter around the area and were guarding the tunnel entrance with guns raised.

Around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, a SWAT team was uncovering manhole covers in Whittier in their search for the suspect.

Shortly before 5 p.m., authorities took down their perimeters and suspended the search."

Car chases are no fun without video. Not sure how to post only video
http://kroq.cbslocal.com/video/3289...ry-suspect-on-southland-freeways-underground/
 
Last edited:

grokit

well-worn member
:uhoh:
End of the world fears sparked by 'blood moon' and meteor strike prophecy




Nasa has moved to refute the predictions, which are based on a Biblical passage

Minority Christian groups have predicted the world will end later this month – when they say a ‘blood moon’ will bring about an apocalyptic meteor strike.

Scientists say a ‘blood moon’ will occur on September 28, when the moon passes into the shadow of the earth cast by the Sun (a lunar eclipse) and appears dim and reddish.

Some religious leaders believe that because this is the fourth consecutive lunar eclipse since April 2014, it is part of a "tertrad" - which foretells a meteorite destroying earth and the end of time.

:cool: Experts at Nasa remain unconvinced.

The organisation monitors the heavens constantly for asteroids and none are on course to collide with Earth for several hundred years. However, the fears are widespread enough for it to have issued an official statement on the topic.

In pictures: Blood Moon October 2014

The Blood Moon theory has its roots in a passage in the Bible in Joel 2:31 which reads: "And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come."

Similarly, in Acts 2:20: "The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord."

And again in Revelation 6:12: "[...] and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood".

That a "tetrad" of lunar eclipses, with six full moons in between them, will coincide with an asteroid hitting earth was popularised by US pastors Mark Biltz and John Hagee. They each noted that previous tetrads in history had coincided with noteworthy, tragic and triumphant events in Jewish history.

(...)
 

macbill

Oh No! Mr macbill!!
Staff member
Man Urinates on Fellow Passengers

[P]assengers and airline employees told officers Rubin had been sleeping for most of the flight. About 30 minutes before landing, they said, he stood up and began urinating through the crack between the seats in front of him — and onto the passengers sitting there.

I'd be pissed.
 
Last edited:

h3rbalist

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too
Surgeons find fir tree 'growing inside patient's lung'

Russian surgeons have claimed to have found a two-inch fir tree growing inside a man's lung.
The amazing 'discovery' was apparently made when they opened up Artyom Sidorkin, 28, to remove what they thought was a serious tumour.

Mr Sidorkin had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood. Doctors were convinced he had cancer.

"We were 100 per cent sure," said Vladimir Kamashev, a surgeon in Izhevsk in the Urals. "We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour.

"I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery."

Before removing part of the man's lung, the surgeon investigated the tissue.

"I thought I was hallucinating," said Mr Kamashev. "I asked my assistant to have a look: 'Come and see this – we've got a fir tree here'. He nodded in shock. I blinked three times as I was sure I was seeing things."

Medical staff said that Mr Sidorkin must have inhaled a seed, which later sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung.

The spruce, which was said to be touching the man's capillaries and causing severe pain, was removed.

"It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me," said Mr Sidorkin. "I'm so relieved it's not cancer."

There was no independent verification of the surgeon's claims.
 

grokit

well-worn member
^ Texas should really get its own fuck you !!! thread :2c:

Texas ninth-grader makes a clock to show his engineering teacher, gets arrested for making a bomb

Screen_Shot_2015-09-16_at_7.57.43_AM.png

9th grade engineering whiz and NASA fan, Ahmed Mohamed

Ahmed Mohamed, a ninth-grader in Irving, Texas, is an engineering whiz. For fun, he makes workable gadgets and rudimentary electronics. Basically, he is what we dream an American ninth-grader will be in 2015, as our nation lags behind the world in math and science education. Wanting to show his engineering teacher what he was capable of, he brought a homemade electronic clock to school.

What should've been a beautiful moment of congratulatory pride quickly turned into a full-fledged nightmare for Ahmed. His English teacher, who decided the clock looked like a bomb, notified the principal, who called campus police, who called the county police. They then interrogated Ahmed, arrested him on the spot, and took him to jail.

Mind you: He's a ninth-grader in a NASA shirt and the clock, which anyone could see was not attached to any explosives of any kind, was harmless. He never pretended it was a bomb, never told anyone it was a bomb. It was a clock.

But, as you can see, he's not white and his name isn't Tommy Anderson, so an engineering phenom is mistaken as a threat to national security.

This entire story is an absolutely despicable case of Islamophobia and will forever impact this young man's life. Below, hear Ahmed in his own words and see a picture that was snapped when he was arrested and put in handcuffs at the school.

"I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed's sister asked me to share this photo.

A NASA shirt!"
pic.twitter.com/nR4gt992gB

— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015​

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...ngineering-teacher-arrested-for-making-a-bomb
 
Last edited:
Top Bottom