Alaska September Oil Output Jumps 30% as Maintenance Ends

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Alaska North Slope oil production rose 30 percent in September from the previous month as fields operated by BP Plc (BP/) and ConocoPhillips (COP) resumed production after annual maintenance ended.

Production averaged 516,296 barrels a day in September, up from 398,643 in August, the state’s tax division said on its website.

Production from Prudhoe Bay fields operated by BP rose to 271,444 barrels a day from 177,182 in August, when two fields, Milne Point and Northstar, and three Prudhoe Bay facilities were shut for maintenance during part of the month, said Dawn Patience, a BP spokeswoman in Anchorage.

“Operations are back to normal, and our maintenance season, which typically takes place in the summer because otherwise we are in arctic conditions, has wrapped up,” Patience said.

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Video Bombshell Report: Over a Dozen Mexican Teenagers Slaughtered by Holder’s Fast & Furious Guns

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From the Hispanic Univision network comes an explosive report about over a dozen Mexican youths’ murders at the hands of a cartel with weapons provided to them by the Obama administration under Fast and Furious. Warning: the following video includes explicitly violent images:

Lindsay Lohan Accuses GOP Staffer of Assaulting Her

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Lindsay Lohan has accused a Republican Party staff member of assaulting her at a five-star New York hotel last night.

[Christian] LaBella was accused of harassment after allegedly getting in a tussle with Ms Lohan at the W Hotel in Manhattan’s Union Square, when he is said to have punched her after she demanded he delete cellphone photos of her.

But he will not face any criminal charges, to the fury of the actress, who apparently regards the fact that LaBella has escaped punishment as ‘distressing and outrageous’.

The 26-year-old actress was involved in an altercation with LaBella after meeting him at a nightclub before bringing him back to her room where a group of her friends was present, according to NBC News 4.

An argument between Lohan and LaBella is believed to have stemmed over photos he took of the actress on his mobile phone while at the hotel.

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Explosive: US Gov’t Used Planes, Rooftop Aerosols to Disperse Radioactive Particles to Test Their Effect on Population (+video)

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By Emily Anne Epstein. The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, a researcher has claimed.

While it was known that the government sprayed ‘harmless’ zinc cadmium silfide particles over the general population in St Louis, Professor Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist at St. Louis Community College, claims that a radioactive additive was also mixed with the compound.

She has accrued detailed descriptions as well as photographs of the spraying which exposed the unwitting public, predominantly in low-income and minority communities, to radioactive particles.

‘The study was secretive for reason. They didn’t have volunteers stepping up and saying yeah, I’ll breathe zinc cadmium sulfide with radioactive particles,’ said Professor Martino-Taylor to KSDK.

Through her research, she found photographs of how the particles were distributed from 1953-1954 and 1963-1965. Read more from this story HERE.

Here’s the explosive video report from St. Louis’ KSDK:

Video: Nancy Pelosi Stars in Animal Sacrifice Ritual in New Attack Ad

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In what some have suggested is a “new political low,” Nancy Pelosi’s Republican opponent John Dennis has cut an ad placing Nancy Pelosi in a dark cavern with a bunch of zombies in an apparent satanic ritualistic animal sacrifice.

Dennis shows up in the nick of time, saves the “sacrificial lamb,” and confronts Pelosi.

Obviously, the satirical production was made in anticipation of Halloween.

Chris Burgard, the producer of Herman Cain’s “Smoking Man” video, created this “Night of the Living Pelosi.”

Welcome to the Arab Spring: Tunisian Woman Raped by Police Faces Jail for Indecent Exposure

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Tunisia’s minister for women has condemned the alleged rape by police of a woman who was later – together with her fiance – charged with indecency.

“Nobody is above the law,” the minister, Sihem Badi, told reporters.

A lawyer for the woman says she was charged with public indecency after being raped by two officers.

The Tunisian interior ministry says that before the alleged rape took place, the woman and her fiance were found in an “immoral position”.

The woman’s lawyer, Bouchra Belhaj Hmida, told AFP news agency that the governing Islamist Ennahda party bore a “political and moral responsibility”.

US Death Toll Hits 2000 in Afghanistan but LSM Silent

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A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle packed with explosives rammed his bike into a patrol of Afghan and international forces on Monday morning in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 14 people, including three NATO service members and their translator, officials said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, which came a day after the U.S. death toll in the war in Afghanistan reached 2,000 troops and as relations between international forces and their Afghan partners have been pushed to the breaking point by a surge in insider attacks by Afghan allies.

The bomber struck a group of Afghan police and international troops shortly after they got out of their vehicles to walk through a market area in Khost city, the capital of Khost province, said provincial government spokesman Baryalai Wakman.

Six civilians and four police officers were killed in the blast, Wakman said. He said the police officers were part of a specialized quick-reaction force.

Blood could be seen on the market road as Afghan police and soldiers tried to clean up the area after the blast. Slippers and bicycle parts were strewn about.

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Chinese Government Hackers Break into White House Military Office in Charge of Nuclear Football

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Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident.

One official said the cyber breach was one of Beijing’s most brazen cyber attacks against the United States and highlights a failure of the Obama administration to press China on its persistent cyber attacks.

Disclosure of the cyber attack also comes amid heightened tensions in Asia, as the Pentagon moved two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups and Marine amphibious units near waters by Japan’s Senkaku islands.

China and Japan—the United States’ closest ally in Asia and a defense treaty partner—are locked in a heated maritime dispute over the Senkakus, which China claims as its territory.

U.S. officials familiar with reports of the White House hacking incident said it took place earlier this month and involved unidentified hackers, believed to have used computer servers in China, who accessed the computer network used by the White House Military Office (WHMO), the president’s military office in charge of some of the government’s most sensitive communications, including strategic nuclear commands. The office also arranges presidential communications and travel, and inter-government teleconferences involving senior policy and intelligence officials.

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Alaskan Scientist Galvanized ESA, Global Warming Movement to Polar Bear Drownings with Article that Used “Incomplete” and “Understated” Data

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An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents.

An Interior Department official said emails released by Charles Monnett were cited by a federal appeals court in decisions to vacate approval by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of an oil and gas company’s Arctic exploration plan.

The official, Walter Cruickshank, deputy director of BOEM, said in a memo that an inspector general’s investigation contained findings that Monnett had improperly disclosed internal government documents, which he said were later used against the agency in court. He also said the investigation made other findings in regards to Monnett’s conduct, but he wasn’t taking action on those. He would not specify those findings.

Cruickshank called Monnett’s “misconduct very serious,” and said any future misconduct may lead to more severe discipline, including removal from federal service.

Read more from this story, including the government’s conclusion that Monnett and his co-author had used an “incomplete database as their primary source of information to write the article, made conflicting statements to investigators regarding the writing and editing process and understated data in the manuscript,” HERE.

US Embassy: Egyptian Terrorists “Targeting US Female Missionaries in Egypt”

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The US Embassy in Cairo issued a terrorist threat warning on Friday for American citizens living in Egypt.

The diplomatic mission stated on its website that it has “credible information suggesting terrorist interest in targeting US female missionaries in Egypt.”

The embassy urged US citizens to “exercise vigilance, taking necessary precautions to maintain their personal security.” Americans in Egypt were also advised to maintain valid travel documents and to regularly monitor the US Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs website, which lists updated travel warnings and alerts.

On August 4, the US issued a travel warning to Americans to “take precautions in travel to the Sinai.” It warned that “overland travel from Israel to the Sinai in particular is strongly discouraged.” That warning came soon after Israel urged its citizens to get out of the Sinai. The next day, Sinai terrorists killed 16 Egyptian border guards in an assault at the Egypt-Gaza-Israel border.

Also on Friday, the chairwoman of the House of Representatives committee that oversees foreign aid said she would block $450 million in US assistance to Egypt in light of tense relations between the two countries.

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