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The social wasp Polybia paulista protects itself against predators by producing venom known to contain a powerful cancer-fighting ingredient. ABiophysical Journal study published September 1 reveals exactly how the venom’s toxin–called MP1 (Polybia-MP1)–selectively kills cancer cells without harming normal cells. MP1 interacts with lipids that are abnormally distributed on the surface of cancer cells, creating gaping holes that allow molecules crucial for cell function to leak out.

Shannon Miles, who shot Deputy Darren Goforth 15 times, has been charged with capital murder. Sheriff David Clarke recently appeared on Fox News to talk about this incident, and he was…upset.

“Judge, I am too pissed off tonight to be diplomatic about what’s going on, and I’m not going to stick my head in the sand about it. I said last December that war had been declared on the American police officer led by some high-profile people. One of them coming out of the White House, one coming out of the United States Department of Justice.”

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A Houston teen is dead after reportedly shooting himself in the throat while taking selfies with a gun.

Deleon Alonso Smith, a 19-year-old father of two, was fooling around with the loaded weapon when it went off Tuesday afternoon, KPRC reported.

Smith’s cousin, who was in another room of the apartment when the shooting happened, told police that they found the gun earlier that day.

“It’s the worst feeling in my life,” the teen’s uncle, Eric Douglas, told the station.

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As I listened to a radio pundit this morning declare that our churches have failed us, I have known this to be true for quite a period of time. This does not mean that the Lord has failed us. Any more than the people failed because the government failed us.

People want to be free and to be left alone. Especially when it comes to government run by a political elite class. This country will not recover for multiple reasons and our collapse will be epic. The prescient quote above from Thomas Jefferson is true. The government understands this and that is the reason any government wants to disarm their people. The 2nd amendment was specifically written to allow the people the right to bear arms against a tyrannical government. It is our natural law right and our duty if we have Sacred honor.

This fight would be easier if we were a moral nation guided by our churches which were intended to be the fourth branch of government by our founding fathers. So if our churches are not producing moral people (and political leaders), Congress has relinquished power to the executive branch and the judicial branch writes laws dictated by the executive branch, our course of action is one of two paths:

1. Resistance
2. Slavery

The corollary to slavery is death. Usually by genocide since resistance must never be allowed to gain a foothold.

It really is that simple.

David DeGerolamo

After enduring their worst August in 17 years, U.S. stocks are off to their worst start to a September in 13 years.  Just yesterday, I declared that we would be entering the “danger zone” this month, and it didn’t take long for the action to begin.  Historically, this month is the worst month of the year for stocks, and most of the biggest stock market crashes throughout our history have come in the fall.  On Tuesday, the Dow plunged another 469 points, and it is now down more than 10 percent from the peak of the market back in May.  That means that we have officially entered “correction” territory.  Asian stocks also crashed hard on Tuesday, so did European stocks, and the price of oil plummeted about 8 percent.  For a long time, there have been a lot of people out there that have been warning that a financial crisis would happen in the second half of 2015, and they are being proven right.  It is actually happening.

Of course there will be plenty of ups and downs still to come.  I cannot emphasize enough that we should fully expect waves of panic selling and waves of panic buying.  This always happens during any market crash.

For instance, just consider what happened when the tech bubble crashed.  The following analysis comes from Graham Summers…

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Did you know that a magnitude 3.5 earthquake hit the New Madrid fault about a week ago? According to Fox News, the New Madrid fault line is approximately twenty times larger than the San Andreas fault in California, and it is starting to wake up.  Most people don’t realize this, but this fault zone has produced some of the largest earthquakes in U.S. history.  In 1811 and 1812, immensely powerful earthquakes along the New Madrid fault rang church bells in Boston and permanently changed the course of the Mississippi River.  If we had similar earthquakes today, the devastation would be unimaginable.  Unfortunately for us, earthquake activity in the middle part of the country is becoming much more common.  The USGS says that the number of significant earthquakes in the middle part of the country has more than quintupled in recent years, and the USGS has publicly admitted that the New Madrid fault zone has the “potential for larger and more powerful quakes than previously thought“.  Very few Americans are talking about this right now, but as you will see below, the threat is very, very real.

According to international insurance giant Swiss Re, if the 1811 and 1812 New Madrid earthquakes were to repeat today, the losses would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars…

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In a speech in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday President Barack Obama warned that if nations do not act to stop climate change “we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair.”

“Climate change is no longer some far-off problem,” Obama said.” It is happening here. It is happening now. Climate change is already disrupting our agriculture and ecosystems, our water and food supplies, our energy, our infrastructure, human health, human safety–now. Today.”

“If we were to abandon our course of action, if we stop trying to build a clean-energy economy and reduce carbon pollution, if we do nothing to keep the glaciers from melting faster, and oceans from rising faster, and forests from burning faster, and storms from growing stronger, we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair,” he said.

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Despite strong denials from Moscow, Russian airborne troops are preparing to land in Syria to fight Islamic State forces. The surprise attack on Monday, Aug. 31, by ISIS forces on the Qadam district of southern Damascus, in which they took over parts of the district – and brought ISIS forces the closest that any Syrian anti-Assad group has ever been to the center of the Syrian capital – is expected to accelerate the Russian military intervention.

Moscow is certainly not ready to endanger the position of President Bashar Assad or his rule in Damascus, and views it as a red line that cannot be crossed. If Russia intervenes militarily in this way, Russia will be the first country from outside the Middle East to send ground forces into the Syrian civil war.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that discussions by the Russo-Syrian Military Commission, which was established last month in Moscow to coordinate the intervention, accelerated during the last few days.

Our intelligence sources point out that the concerted activities of the commission are taking place amid the nearly complete paralysis of the US Central Command-Forward-Jordan (CCFJ), where operations against the rebels in southern Syria, including those holding positions across from Israel’s Golan, are coordinated. Officers from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel are attached to the CCFJ.

Most of the operations of the CCFJ have been halted due to a conflict that erupted between the Syrian rebels and the U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM. The US military is opposed to the rebels cooperating with Al-Qaeda-linked groups, such as the Al-Nusra front, while the rebels claim that this cannot be avoided fir they are to defeat the forces of Bashar Assad and Hizballah.

The paralysis of the CCFJ is spurring the Russians to try to show that their “central command” for Syria is operating without any difficulties.
In recent weeks, the Russians have taken four military steps related to Syria:

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed that the Islamic Republic would violate outstanding United Nations restrictions governing the country’s ballistic missile program and that the behavior would not violate the recent nuclear accord, according to a translation of the leader’s remarks performed by the CIA’s Open Source Center.

Iran is “not committed to the restrictions on its missile program,” according to a recent comment made by Rouhani, who said  a violation of  international restrictions would not impact the nuclear accord recently reached with global powers.

“We have formally announced that we are not committed to these provisions [related to missiles] mentioned in [the] U.N. resolution,” Rouhani was quoted as saying in an Aug. 29 Persian language speech broadcast on Iran’s state-controlled television networks.

It is written into the nuclear accord that a violation of U.N. bans on Iran’s missile program will not impact the deal.

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Iran wins on two fronts:

1. Their pretext of negotiating a treaty (not an accord) bought them years of nuclear development.
2. They made the United States’ government look like the arrogant fools that they are.

Got iodine?

David DeGerolamo

The main railway in Budapest got closed for an “undetermined time” for migrants Tuesday after hundreds of them attempted to board a train to Vienna, the latest event in the spiraling migrant crisis that’s engulfing Europe.

Hundreds of refugees – most of them from conflict areas like Syria – are now waiting at the station, with the entrance blocked by police, and are demonstrating, urging the authorities to let them in, shouting “Germany, Germany.”

The station remains open for other passengers, local media report.

Earlier in the morning, clashes took place between security forces and hundreds of migrants as they were pushing towards platform gates.

Several told AP that they had spent hundreds of euro to buy the train tickets.

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“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”  – George Washington

This past weekend, we had the great fortune to see some of the good, the bad, and the ugly in West Virginia.  First of all, the physical terrain is an invader’s nightmare.  That country, just like the rest of Appalachia, is unforgiving.  The human terrain – the people who comprise the populace and make or break insurgencies – are, for the most part, very hospitable and accommodating if you’re the right kind of people.  They have their clannishness and infighting, however, their ability to remain otherwise free in an unfree world puts them in the top five percent of the nation.

But there are lots of EBT card holders as well, which makes dependency a significant limitation.  One estimate put those on welfare into the 30% range in a nearby county.  That’s a problem that local security will have to figure out, and there are no easy answers.  Along those same lines, budgets are tight.  One town had to release five of their part time/reserve deputies, and are now down to two officers for the town (both of whom are very pro-Constitution and members of Oath Keepers, by the way).  That’s another significant limitation for security and stability in an SHTF environment, but it underscores the need for the good men and women to fill in the gaps.

And we heard stories of the corruption in government and law enforcement that peppers the region.  What’s most depressing, however, is the drug trade there and the addiction that goes with it.  Some politicians and law enforcement are complicit in that drug trade, and the good law enforcement officers who stand up are hammered back down.  It fuels addiction which increases associated crimes like theft and robbery.

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