Autopsy report: ‘Miami cannibal’ was not high on bath salts

I had a feeling this whole bath salts meme was crap, and NO!, they better not try to blame this on weed, as millions of potheads worldwide would beg to differ!  The Raw Story.  Full article:

The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner reported on Wednesday that the so-called “Causeway cannibal” had not ingested any synthetic drugs before tearing off a homeless man’s face with his teeth.



Rudy Eugene was shot dead by police after he was found eating another naked man’s face on the MacArthur Causeway in Miami. Police had claimed Eugene was overdosing on synthetic stimulants sold under the name “bath salts.” The media quickly picked up on the story and news outlets have since blamed other attacks on the drug.


But the toxicology report released Wednesday did not find evidence that Eugene had ingested any psychoactive substance besides marijuana. Whether Eugene was high on marijuana at the time of the attack is unclear because of the length of time marijuana can remain detectable in the human body.  (So don't jump to any other false conclusions, dumbasses..)


“The department has also sought the assistance of an outside forensic toxicology reference laboratory, which has confirmed the absence of ‘bath salts,’ synthetic marijuana and LSD,” the report said. “Within the limits of current technology by both laboratories, marijuana is the only drug identified in the body of Mr. Rudy Eugene.”



Eugene’s victim is expected to recover, despite losing nearly 80 percent of his face.

(In a related knee-jerk reaction..)On Tuesday, the Senate passed legislation that outlaws 26 drugs, including synthetic stimulants like “bath salts” and synthetic alternatives to marijuana like “K2″ and “Spice.”


“This ban can’t come quickly enough,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said. “Just about every day, there’s a new tragedy related to K2 or bath salts. The sooner this poison is off the store shelves, the better. I hope the president will sign this measure into law very quickly.” (Ahh..  Chuck Grassley:  God love 'im, he isn't EVER afraid to be wrong, now is he?)


By the way, I was right.  The authorities never specifically stated it was bath salts, but the media ran with, and for two weeks, unsubstantiated allegations ruled the day.. 

Maybe now police will  focus on Rudy Eugene's missing time the morning and afternoon before the attack, no?  So it looks like he "snapped," came under a "voodoo curse," or..  What's the other unknown?  ..Like a light switching on..  Or off..  Huh..  I wonder if we'll ever get a true follow up or answer to what really happened, here.  Don't hold your breath..

Clif's Latest Dispatch: The Gift Of..

Shit.  The gift of shit.  Halfpasthuman.  Excerpts: 

Into everyone's life, shit happens. When the shit happens in your life, be aware that this is universe providing you the necessary precondition for transformation.


By rejecting the process of transformation which is triggered by the shit reaching too damn high, you are sticking your chin out as far as you can, and inviting Fate to bitch slap the shit right out of you.

You see, the shit must go. That is how universe works. It piles shit up to the rafters as a method of forcing us lazy pie eaters to get out of our kitchens and deal with the transformation, that we know, deep in our gut, is required.

Universe does not provide us with what we want. It gives us what we need.
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Universe rewards courage. It removes obstacles, smooths the path, and brings additional opportunities, once courage is demonstrated. By embracing Destiny, one can avoid Fate. The difference is the intent to recognize, and harmonize with the 'gift of shit' from universe. The ability to harmonize grows over time and is not a prerequisite to universal process. It is the decision, apparently, to take all that comes from universe as grist for our personal mill of transformation, that changes the experience from fate to destiny. Thereafter it is keeping to that decision that is necessary. No small task. Beyond that, the ability to listen to universe, and effectively harmonize, are skills that grow over time with failure (success rarely teaches anything).


This is true both personally and collectively.

Universe rewards courage, both personally and collectively. Paradoxically, in order for the populace to have courage collectively, the individual must have it, and be prepared to demonstrate it. Once demonstrated by one individual, courage runs through a populace like flame through brush. This is what scares the QE (quivering elites). This is why they work so hard to manage the flow of shit to coincide with their schedule of things....as they are aware that even shit will ignite if you pile it deep enough.


The shit has been piled this deep on this planet before. The evidence shows that those ancient peoples denied their Destiny and were consumed by Fate.
It is our turn now..

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Cirque De Soleil Sex

Crazy Days And Nights.  Ridiculous, over the top oral PDA(In front of kids?  C'mon, now..), with surprise punchline!  Thank, Enty!  Excerpts:

I have been to several Cirque De Soleil shows in my life.  ..but I have yet to find one that made me really want to have sex right then and there. This is not the case for one San Diego couple who were caught having oral sex during a show. Apparently someone saw the couple doing this and the person was not amused. She was even less amused when she (saw) the recipient of the oral sex giving a high five to the two boys in front of him who had turned around and watched. So, the witness then turned on her cell phone. The brightness attracted the usher and the couple stopped what they were doing. The man was upset at being stopped and shoved the witness at the end of the show who called the police. The couple are both immigration officers.



Beautiful.  Turn-Ons?  Public sex in front of children, Circuses, bureaucracy, witness intimidation.  Turn offs?  Immigrants, decorum, decency, ushers, and witnesses who "won't let it go.."

People are losing their minds.

High Five!

Greek Parliment Votes Austerity. Greek Citizens Vote Chaos..

Here we go..  Greek financial and political discourse is about to get really rocky..  With real rocks.  The Roundup begins now..  The Extinction Protocol, via Reuters..  Excerpts:

Historic cinemas, cafes, shops and banks were set ablaze in central Athens on Sunday as black-masked protesters fought Greek police outside parliament, while inside lawmakers looked set to defy the rage by endorsing a new EU/IMF austerity deal. State television reported violence spread to the islands of Corfu and Crete, the northern city of Thessaloniki and towns in central Greece. Shops were being looted in the capital in the worst breakdown of order since 2008 when violence gripped Greece for weeks after police shot a 15-year-old schoolboy. As parliament prepared to vote on a new 130 billion euro bailout to save Greece from a messy bankruptcy, a Reuters photographer saw buildings in Athens engulfed in flames and huge plumes of smoke rose in the night sky.

Yeah, it's burning..

So, what does this all mean?  Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge 'splains and sums up..

The Greek parliament just passed the latest proposed austerity plan with a majority voting Yes. Judging by the reaction of the EURUSD, which experienced a modest 40 pip short covering squeeze in the last few minutes, one would imagine that today's Greek vote outcome is surprising. It isn't: after all, all Greece has done is promise to do something it won't do in hope it can get another bailout package, this time amounting to €210 billion (of which its people will pocket a de minimis 19%). As we said earlier: "The only real questions are i) what the Greek population may do in response to this latest selling out of a population "led" by an unelected banker, which if history is any precedent, the answer is not much, and ii) how Germany will subvert this latest event, and put the bail [sic] back in Greece's court once again."
Plus, a little funny for you..
..everyone knows revolutions in heavily socialist countries only start between 9 am and 5 pm, with a 2 hour break for siesta.

Not funny, though, is how the Greek people will respond to these financial shenanigans.  Not well is the answer; Not well at all..

I fear for a social explosion: Greeks can't take any more punishment The Guardian.  Excerpts:

Despair has enveloped Greece. This weekend the bankrupt nation, for that is what it is, began negotiating the latest act of a drama that many fear will end in catastrophe – financially, socially and politically.


In an electric atmosphere, with thousands demonstrating outside parliament, MPs began debating the arduous terms of a €130bn (£110bn) rescue package that the interim prime minister, Lucas Papademos



"A disorderly default," he said, referring to the 20 March deadline that Greece faces of repaying €14.5bn in maturing debt, "would plunge our country in a disastrous adventure. It would create conditions of uncontrolled economic chaos and social explosion."
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But in both parties MPs are far from convinced. The country has reached a crossroads, of that there can be no doubt. But almost two years since it was first "rescued" with €110bn, the nation's acceptance of this latest lifeline puts it in a perilous place. Politicians, almost without exception, believe they are "damned if they do and damned if they don't".


After more than two decades reporting from Athens, I can only concur. For the truth – as unpalatable as it may be for the IMF, EU and European Central Bank, Greece's "troika" of creditors – is that, far from plugging the country's budget black holes, the harsh austerity pursued in the name of deficit-reducing goals has pushed it towards economic and social collapse. Relentless wage and pension cuts, tax rises and cost-cutting reforms have left the country a shadow of itself. In its fifth successive year of recession, Greece is a hollowed-out version of what it once was, coming apart at the seams a little more with each day. Men and women forage through rubbish bins late at night. More sleep on the streets. Last week as Eurostat, the European statistic agency, announced that poverty had engulfed more than a third of the nation, it was revealed that unemployment had also exceeded one million people, from a record 19% to 20.9% in one month.


"Nothing functions. Nobody pays anybody any more and the state is not just crumbling but in complete stasis," said Giorgos Kyrtsos, a prominent political commentator. "These guys," he said of officials in the troika of European agencies negotiating the bailout, "should really lose their jobs. They've miscalculated everything. I understand on Friday the police trade union called for their arrests. Well, maybe they are right!"

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A series of resignations by ministers on Friday, unwilling to support the latest measures, not only underlined the panic of the political class – in a country where MPs no longer feel safe walking in the streets – but proved how tenuous public support is for the bailout. If there is to be a social explosion, many said that it would come because Greeks had been pushed too far. The loan agreement not only will lead to job losses and more cuts in salaries and pensions but a 22% reduction in the minimum wage.



Ferment on the street is back. The clashes during last week's second general strike are generally expected to be a prelude to something much more ominous. "There is going to be a huge social eruption," said Apostalia Kiroudi, an unemployed jeweller shouting herself hoarse in front of parliament.

"Our politicians lied to us. They never told us the truth, and now they want to pass policies that they have no mandate to do. As that sign says over there," she said, pointing to a friend holding a placard, "We choose to be free. Keep your money."

Things are going to devolve rapidly.  The bankster gangsters won't take The People's shit, and vice versa.  And the Greeks have proven time and again they're always up for a fight, and a fight they shall have.  I sure hope Riot Dog has been resting up--In the coming days, he's going to be busy!

14 signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun

The end is nigh, bitches..  Natural News.  Excerpts:

A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn't mean the end of the world; it means the closing of one era and the birth of a new one. It is a transition between the ages. This particular transition, however, promises to be the most tumultuous and costly transition humankind has ever seen.



But don't wait around for December 2012 to look for the signs. Here are 14 signs that the world as we know it is unraveling right now. We are living through the end of one era and the birth of a new one. In the future, they'll look back and call this all one moment in history, but when you're living through it, it seems to move forward at almost a snail's pace. But make no mistake: We are living through the opening chapters of the end of the world as we know it, and on the other side of all this will emerge a new world that's very different from the one we know today.

#1 - Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis
#2 - The silence of the bees  (Colony Collapse Disorder)
#3 - The failure of nuclear science (In a word, Fukushima..)
#7 - The runaway destruction of the world by energy companies (Ahh.. Delicious Corexit!)
#11 - The plummeting intelligence of the masses

#13 - The ongoing pharmaceutical pollution of our world

#14 - The radioactive contamination of the global food supply


Get the whole list and descriptors at the link. It's a tad disturbing to see them all grouped together like this, but then again, maybe more people will understand the severity of our collective situation.  Probably not, though..