Blog Heap of Links for the day 21 August 2015

Three people have been hurt after a heavily armed man opened fire on a train in northern France, before being overpowered by two American passengers. …on the high-speed Thalys service near Arras… one [American] was seriously injured, as was another passenger. …arrested was a 26-year-old Moroccan… weapons were said to include a Kalashnikov, a knife, an automatic pistol and cartridges. … French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve … praised the Americans …they were "particularly courageous and showed great bravery in very difficult circumstances… Without their composure we could have been confronted with a terrible incident." …passengers who overpowered the suspect were US Marines who had heard the man loading a weapon in a toilet cubicle and confronted him when he came out.…

ISIS Bulldozes Ancient Christian Monastery Including Tomb Of Saint Elian in Syria

18 Aug 2015 - Sharia Watch director and former UKIP candidate Anne Marie Waters has announced today that a forthcoming exhibition of Mohammed cartoons to be shown in London has been cancelled after discussions with counter-terror police.…

…This may not be a grand-scale combat engagement with massive tank formations, but where there’s violent conflict between ideologies, there is war.

This new battlefield will not comprise massive armies; rather, non-state, non-uniformed belligerents supported by nation-states. Even Russia has learned the art of deploying “para-military” forces to covertly conduct their business of armed conflict. And so it’s imperative to interdict the flow of finances and material support to these unlawful enemy combatants.…

The militant Palestinian group Hamas has "arrested" a dolphin discovered off the Gaza coast and accused it of being… an Israeli spy. …Army Radio reported that the dolphin was decked out with "spying equipment," including cameras, when it was captured by Hamas' naval unit.…

Two men in Poland claim they have found a legendary Nazi train that according to local lore was loaded with gold, gems and valuable art and vanished into a system of secret tunnels as the Germans fled advancing Soviet forces at the end of World War II.

Historians say the existence of the train has never been conclusively proven, but authorities are not passing up this chance at possibly recovering treasures that have sparked the imaginations of local people for decades.

"We believe that a train has been found. We are taking this seriously"…

Apparently there are killer, crazy ants in Birmingham which are addicted to electricity, and can bite, sting, and spread salmonella.

Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday that it is launching ads targeting vulnerable Republican senators over talk of defunding the organization. … Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) …face tough reelection races next year. …Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who faces one of the toughest races next year, was the lone Republican senator to oppose the procedural motion, and he is not targeted in the ads.…

…In the video, Cate Dyer, the CEO of StemExpress, is shown in a lunch meeting with undercover operatives posing as representatives of a biotech firm. Dyer is laughing about how StemExpress purchases fully intact aborted babies from Planned Parenthood. She laughs about how shippers of the aborted babies would give a warning to lab workers to expect such a baby.

“Oh yeah, if you have intact cases — which we’ve done a lot — we sometimes ship those back to our lab in its entirety,” she says.

“Tell the lab its coming,” she laughs about the intact unborn babies. “You know, open the box and go ‘Oh my God,'” Dyer adds.…

The Center for Medical Progress released their seventh video Wednesday morning on the Planned Parenthood harvesting scandal. … tells a former procurement technician’s harrowing story of harvesting an intact brain from a late-term male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion.…

In Greensboro, EPA-funded contractors grading a toxic 19th-century cotton mill site struck a water main, sending the deadly sediment into a nearby creek. Though that accident took place five months ago, the hazard continues as heavy storms — one hit the area Tuesday — wash more soil into the creek.

The sediment flows carry dangerous mercury, lead, arsenic and chromium downstream to Lake Oconee and then to the Oconee River — home to many federally and state protected species.

Lead in the soil at the project site is 20,000 times higher than federal levels established for drinking water…

…Turns out that this isn't the first time the EPA has been engaging in craptacular shenanigans in the Animas River and trying to cover it up. According to this, the EPA's been dumping toxic sludge from mines into the river going back to 2005…

…Experts differed over the best color for the tiny plastic balls, with one telling FoxNews.com they should have been white and another saying a chrome color would be optimal. But all agreed that the worst color for the job is the one LA chose. …

n a Friday sermon in Jerusalem earlier this month, Muslim cleric Sheikh Issam Amira slammed presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to move the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Puerto Rico in order to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But the supposed plan was reported in satirical news piece posted on a comedy news site that produces spoof articles and the sheikh was seemingly duped.…

August 18 OKTAHA, Oklahoma - The Muskogee County sheriff said a member of the group guarding an Oktaha gun shop accidentally shot himself Tuesday. … dropped his gun and a bullet hit him in the arm. …did not identify the man or offer any other details… The group of armed citizens and veterans is standing guard outside the Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gear store after the owners said they received death threats from all over the world for putting up a sign saying Muslims weren't welcome.…

An Oklahoma man who made threats against President Obama and former Presidents George W. Bush and Clinton — and who said he wanted to be the "next John Hinckley" — was stopped Sunday outside the White House. … Archie Monroe Glass, Jr.… was able to get within close range of the White House, despite being under travel restrictions and the supervision of probation officials and mental health providers.…

A new study suggests that joining a religious group could do more for someone’s “sustained happiness” than other forms of social participation, such as volunteering, playing sports or taking a class.…

SGM Ernie Tabata, Legend in the Special Forces community, departed on his Final Infil 10 August 2015… an SF legend, is Distinguished Member of the Regiment, his service, military and as civilian instructor spanned 59 years. He trained and was loved by legions of SF demo men.…

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

…turns out he’s a 15-year-old from Iowa. Unlike his competitors in the race to be president in 2016 … Deez Nuts has no public profile. He will likely never appear in any televised debates; he has never held public office. Wednesday was a big day for Deez Nuts. First he won 9% of the vote as an independent in a Public Policy Polling poll of voters in North Carolina – which, on top of recent results of 8% in Minnesota and 7% in Iowa from previous polls, makes him what experts confirmed is the most successful independent candidate for president in two decades. It was also the day of his high school sophomore orientation.…

Deez Nuts is currently the top Independent candidate.