Blog Heap of Links for the day 22 July 2016

New York has obtained a confidential document from the Malaysian police investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that shows that the plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, conducted a simulated flight deep into the remote southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane vanished under uncannily similar circumstances.…

Daily Mail: 'Boom boom boom - he's killing the kids': Gunman shouting 'Allahu Akbar' executed children in Munich McDonald's before rampaging through shopping mall leaving NINE dead then fleeing …

Second shooting in Munich as gunman reported to open fire at Marienplatz Metro station …

…A five-year-old boy spent his fifth birthday party mourning the loss of his beloved dog after it was shot and killed with an assault rifle by an Oklahoma police officer - despite it being on the other side of a fence.…

…Two weeks ago on a Tuesday night, at around 9 p.m, 18-year-old Lane Smith was at a Flower Mound park with his friends, searching for a PokéStop—a place to stock up on Poké Balls and helpful items. While distracted by the game, with his eyes glued to the screen of his cell phone, a small brown snake -- believed to be a copperhead -- wrapped itself around Smith's foot and sunk its venomous fangs into his toe.…

…Firefighters in Gloucester County were dispatched to Eglington Cemetery in East Greenwich Township on Tuesday night after receiving a report of a woman who got stuck in a tree while chasing a Pokemon. A rescue team used an extension ladder to rescue her. …

…On Wednesday, a team of neuroscientists released an extremely detailed map of terra incognita of the human brain — the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is the brain’s outermost layer and is responsible for sensory perception, language, attention, tool use and abstract thinking. The new map divides the cortex into 180 distinct areas, or “parcels,” including 97 previously undiscovered ones.…

…Texas man saved a baby deer from drowning in a lake. …jumped into Lake Buchanan and rescued the baby after he saw her struggling to stay above the water. With one arm under the deer, the man managed to keep the baby's head above the lake as he slowly worked his way back to the boat.…

…Archaeologists in Texas have found a set of 16,700-year-old tools which are among the oldest discovered in the West. Until now, it was believed that the culture that represented the continent’s first inhabitants was the Clovis culture. However, the discovery of the ancient tools now challenges that theory, providing evidence that human occupation precedes the arrival of the Clovis people by thousands of years.…

…Moore was arrested and charged with killing a man in Oklahoma City, but his attorney says there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime. …found guilty and handed 2 life sentences without parole.… spent his 20's locked up in a state penitentiary. "Those years, you know. I've been depressed, you know, I almost gave up. I almost gave up, I tried to take my life once or twice…” During his incarceration, Moore crossed paths with his now Fiancée Lola Gaines and things eventually started to turn around. "Once I started committing my life to God, you know what I mean he started doing things for me, he started doing things through her. I feel he put her in my life for a reason,” said Moore. …private investigators… found a key witness who was willing to come forward with new testimony that would prove Moore's innocence.… July 18, 2016 in an Oklahoma County Court, the state dismisses the case and Moore is cleared of all charges. At 11:00 that night Moore walks out the doors of the jail a free man for the first time in 18 years.…

…Funai, the last remaining manufacturer of the VCR, will cease production of the players by the end of the month…

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday officially removed the lesser prairie chicken from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, fulfilling a federal court ruling and drawing praise from Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas industry.…

Shortly after an appeals court ruled Texas’ voter identification law to have discriminatory effects requiring fixes before the November election, a federal judge released guidelines for a remedy on Thursday.…

Trump accepts Republican nomination, vows to put 'America first'…
Iraq sweats in near-record heatwave…
Amazon to enter student loan business…

A man named Peter Zhurawel drove a burning car into the security barrier at the entrance to a parking garage under a police station in Sydney. Mr. Zhurawel, a Czech national, was severely burned, but no one else was injured. The gas bottles he carried in the car failed to explode. Police have raided his house and carried away various materials. The motive for the attack remains unknown, but Mr. Zhurawel is alleged to have had mental health problems.

In other news, police in Brazil arrested ten people who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and reportedly planned a terror attack during the upcoming Olympics.…

A young man in downtown Brussels who was wearing a long overcoat with wires dangling from it aroused suspicion and was detained by police for four hours. However, it turned out that he was simply a physics student who was conducting an experiment measuring radiation, so he was released.

In other news, the French National Assembly has voted to extend the current state of emergency for another six months.…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Today’s Muslim Horoscopes…
Joe For America: Kansas Eliminates Income Tax, Makes $85 Million, Sees Jobs Soar…
This Ain’t Hell: Combat & Anger – Making Excuses For Murderers…

Michelle Malkin: Who Gets Absolute Moral Authority?…
Joe For America: Sheriff Clarke Obliterates CNN Reporter On Anti-Police Rhetoric…
Megan McArdle: Republicans Can’t Praise Trump, So They Bash Clinton…

16,700-Year-Old Tools Found in Texas Change Known History of North America…
The World Looks at Trump, Confused…
Inside Erdogan’s palace: The £500 million mansion Turkey’s president calls home…

6 Top Sex Positions And How to Train For Them…
The War on Sugar…
Clinton to Resettle One Million Muslim Migrants During First Term Alone…

500 elephants relocated in massive man-made African animal migration…
Haidt: When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism…
Palestinian Children Receive Military Training At Hamas Summer Camps…

Finland: Man Thrown in Prison For Using “Excessive Self-Defense” Against Home Invaders…
Anti-RNC Protesters Lash Out After No One Joins Their Protests…
Environmentalists Voyage to Show Arctic Ice is Shrinking, Get Blocked by Ice…

No need to be kind, forget the rewind…
Governnemt work means never having to take responsibility…
It's just not the U.S.A. the entire world is going f*#&!@% nuts…

…On this day in 1934 outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, John Dillinger was gunned down by FBI agents after being ratted out by a madam who he did business with.…

…Tim Kaine has enjoyed support from the National Muslim Democratic Council, the communist-aligned Alliance for Retired Americans, and one of the most vile and influential organizations you never heard of: Council for a Livable World. In the 2012 election, Tim Kaine was supported by the Asian American Action Fund. The “socialist infiltrated, anti-Israel ‘two state solution’ JStreet PAC endorsed Tim Kaine in 2012, 2014 and 2016.…

Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine As Her Running Mate

Mrs Clinton broke the news in a text message to her supporters. She plans a formal announcement on Saturday.…