Blog Heap of Links for the day 18 April 2015

…With Wal-Marts in several Jade Helm 15 states mysteriously closing for at least 6 months and the mystery now deeper as we learn of an underground Wal-Mart tunnel system project launched along with the Department of Homeland Security and NSA involving hundreds of stores and the creation of a system of underground tunnels throughout the country which they say were designed to 'further protect the homeland and ensure the safety of its' citizens in case of nuclear, biological or chemical attacks.'

We also learn here that the joint-venture tunnels will serve as conduits for national defense to rapidly move troops, supplies and armor throughout the nation between strategic locations in the southern portions of America. We can also imagine that if and when gun confiscations take place, human cattle will likely be moved through these tunnels. …

Police in Australia say they have foiled an Islamic State-inspired plot to carry out an attack at a World War One centenary event. Police arrested five suspects, including two 18-year-olds…

…Islamic extremists have developed a sophisticated network of interconnected organizations across America. The following are profiles of these organizations and the people behind them. The common thread among these organizations is their ideology of Political Islam which aspires to implement sharia governance and to establish a global Islamic caliphate. Search by state or scroll through to find your state.…

It’s been 20 years since Timothy McVeigh blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City, the worst domestic terrorist attack in US history. The right-wing extremist threat remains today, experts warn.… [says Christian Science Monitor, once a great paper.]

…the woman whose leg was amputated in the midst of the crumbled Murrah building… After hearing that Daina’s prosthetic is out-dated and ill-fitted, someone decided that Daina could still use a little help. A GoFundMe campaign has been started to raise funds for a new leg for Daina.…

…Florence Rogers remembers April 19, 1995 like it was yesterday.

She worked in the credit union inside the federal building and watched the floor in front of her fall six stories.

“I was the only one that got out of that room. All of the other eight that were in there perished,” said Florence Rogers.

Rogers was thrown back from the blast onto an 18 inch ledge. Her coworkers’ desks collapsed with the floor when the bomb exploded.…

…After taking care of pediatric patients who came in right after the bombing, ambulances stopped coming to the hospital, so Dr. Tuggle and his colleague, Dr. Andy Sullivan, decided to go straight to the blast zone. Police led them to Daina Bradley, a 20-year-old mother of two, was trapped under a collapsed column. Her right leg was pinned under a beam. The doctors had to make a quick decision to safe Bradley’s life.

“Could we cut through the pillar? Could we raise it with the jaws of life? And there was no way. It was just going to bring the building down. So, Andy talked about the options and said, ‘it looks like we are going to have to amputate….'”

…“It was smoky. Hard to breath. And you knew you had no choice. And water from busted pipes was coming down. I would actually take a shower to get the soot and concrete dust off me and clean my glasses so I could go back in and do it again,” Avera remembered.

Then, Avera heard something.

“All of a sudden, I hear this baby crying. So we turn around. And I went over to where I hear it and we started digging around the rock. And we found two babies…."

In those first frantic minutes after the bombing, Avera was too busy to notice the photographer.

He never knew the photo was being transmitted around the world. …

…When I drove back to Norman to head to the newsroom, the radio alerted me that children had perished at the daycare, and I began to weep as I drove. The adrenaline started to fade, and I began to grasp the reality and scope of what had happened.

In the days that followed, I tried to convey the emotions and the feel of the recovery in my stories. But ... there really were no words. So many people were terribly injured. So many people had died. So many people were emotionally broken. Including me. …

…Jannie Coverdale, the boys’ grandmother, refused to give up hope.

“I’m almost positive that Aaron and Elijah will be found alive,” she said in the days following the bombing.

Fate would not allow it. The boys, inseparable in life, would share the same casket.

“I kept saying I believe in miracles,” says Jannie. “When they came and told me they had identified their bodies, I started screaming at God and I told him I would never serve him again. And I meant it.” … "I had a journey. A very long journey. And my anger really didn’t go away until I started writing Terry Nichols. And he asked me to forgive him.” …

Researchers in Hawaii are recruiting girls as young as 14 to participate in second trimester abortions, where the preborn baby is 18-24 weeks gestation, in order to test whether or not oxytocin can reduce bleeding in mothers during and after abortion.…

[Students protest showing of American Sniper] …The other week I went on something of a rant on Twitter about how I'm sick of these lily-livered little campus snowflakes using the English language to call something violent which is not violence. This bullshit statement has just exploded my rage meter.…

…David Horowitz reportedly said during a recent speech at the University of North Carolina that members of Muslim students associations have been linked with terrorism, prompting a massive backlash among Muslim students, who say his assertion is not only false but made them feel unsafe. [Imagine that!] …throughout the week the hashtag #NotSafeUNC gained ground and a “Not Safe UNC” Tumblr page was created to chronicle alleged bias against Muslims at UNC and the region. The UNC College Republicans are also taking heat for inviting Horowitz to speak. In an email, College Republican Chairman Frank Pray said he is receiving a lot of hate mail. …

[bob sees faces everywhere. The amazing thing is how, with some of these, you might not notice, but thanks to the context, you can't help but notice.]

Researchers in Japan said on Thursday oxytocin, a hormone that among other things helps reinforce bonds between parents and their babies, increases in humans and their dogs when they interact, particularly when looking into one another's eyes.…

…"Part of tornado debris," a woman named Alyssa Murray wrote above the photo. "Please pass along and let me know if you know who these people are!"

"That's my dad and Geri," Frazier wrote after it was posted to the "Found Items from the Fairdale Illinois Tornado" page. "Unbelievable."…

Bronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages of Columbus. …

…tens of thousands of veterans are being called mentally defective and banned from gun ownership? …if you need financial assistance to manage your benefits, you’re mentally defective? You mean, like calling an accountant is a sign of mental illness? This is outrageous!…

Hillary Trying to Copy Obama’s Successful 2008 Media Strategy [Videos]

• According to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the most dangerous leaders of the Islamic State are “Swedes”. Meanwhile, the UN reports that increasing numbers of food vouchers issued by the World Food Program are being diverted and sold on the black market by Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.

• In other news, the European Commission has ordered Spain to allow migrants to submit asylum requests without their being required to first scale the border fences at the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

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A socialist by any other name… [Graphic]

Take a look at the bodies mysteriously left in Clinton's wake!