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Bibi1581 Blog For 10/28/2017: Morning Edtion

1…………> Opioid Clamp-Down: AG Sessions

 

“More than 20,000 Americans died of synthetic opioid overdoses last year, and millions are addicted to opioids. And yet some medical professionals would rather take advantage of the addicts than try to help them. This Justice Department will not tolerate this. We will hold accountable anyone – from street dealers to corporate executives — who illegally contributes to this nationwide epidemic. And under the leadership of President Trump, we are fully committed to defeating this threat to the American people,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions as the founder and majority owner of Insys Therapeutics Inc., John N. Kapoor, 74, of Phoenix, Ariz., was arrested and charged with leading a nationwide conspiracy to profit by using bribes and fraud to cause the illegal distribution of a Fentanyl spray intended for cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain. 

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founder-and-owner-pharmaceutical-company-insys-arrested-and-charged-racketeering

2…………> Drone Cargo Delivery: China

China’s heaviest cargo 3.4 tonnes unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) completed its maiden flight of 26 minutes flight in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. It can take-off and land at 600 feet, has a range of 1360 miles at 200 mph with useful load 1.5 tonnes and service ceiling of 18,000 feet.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/27/c_136710480.htm

 

3…………> The Chocolate Houdini: Guatemala

 

 The Guatemalan citizen Jacobo Leonel Orellana-Estrada, 21, was arrested by DHS ICE officers for transporting three kilograms of heroin that had been coated in chocolate in a failed attempt to bring the drugs undetected through Newark Liberty International Airport.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/guatemalan-man-admits-smuggling-heroin-covered-chocolate

 

4…………> The E-cigarette Scam: Hidden Danger

 
“There is confusion about whether e-cigarettes are ‘safer’ than cigarettes because the potential adverse effects of e-cigarettes are only beginning to be studied. Our results suggest that e-cigarettes might be just as bad as cigarettes, like comparing the harm of e-cigarettes with cigarettes is a little like comparing apples to oranges,” said Dr. Mehmet Kesimer, senior study author and associate professor of pathology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
 

A recent study suggested that E-cigarettes appear to trigger unique immune responses as well as the same ones that cigarettes trigger that can lead to lung disease.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/22/c_136696794.htm

 

5…………> Siberia ET: Get Ready

“The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction, and my first thought was of a very powerful searchlight, but the speed [the spectacle] changed everything around changed [my] idea, at first I was taken aback for a few minutes, not understanding what was happening,” a witness reported as the people in Siberia were stunned by an out of this world spectacle: a huge glowing sphere rising up in the sky.