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Oregon’s largest utilities are considering shutting down power to at least 42,000 households due to extreme wildfire danger on Friday and Saturday.
The power shutdowns appear most likely east of Interstate 5 outside of Salem, Albany and Eugene, along with the foothills and mountains outside Portland. Continue reading “Oregon utilities plan power shutoffs to 42,000 due to extreme wildfire danger Friday and Saturday”
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Gun Owners of America (GOA) secured release of information surrounding a form which was used by the FBI in an effort to secure forfeiture of Second Amendment rights. Continue reading “FOIA Request Uncovers FBI Effort to Get Americans to Forfeit 2nd Amendment Rights”
The number of American jobs outsourced to foreign visa workers each year has exploded in recent decades to more than half a million, federal data suggests. Continue reading “Feds Annually Outsource over Half a Million American Jobs to Foreign Visa Workers”
A homeowner in Keizer, Oregon, awoke to strange noises about 2:15 a.m. Sunday and shot an alleged intruder dead.
KATU2 reports that the home is located on Mayfield Place North. Continue reading “Homeowner Wakes Up and Shoots Alleged Intruder Dead”
The Pentagon signed a contract with Boeing on Thursday to supply Israel with four KC-46 refueling planes that are needed for potential Israeli strikes on Iran, although the aircraft won’t be delivered until at least 2025. Continue reading “US Signs Deal to Give Israel Four Refueling Planes Needed to Bomb Iran”
Two days after the US Navy said that IRGC operatives in the Gulf seized and then later let go of an American sea drone, there are fresh reports Friday of another major incident in regional waters. Continue reading “Iran’s Navy Says It Seized Two US Sea Drones In “Anti-Terror” Mission”
Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson
Around 22,000 households in Colorado lost the ability to control their thermostats after the power company seized control of them during a heatwave. Continue reading “Power Company Seizes Control of Thermostats in Colorado During Heatwave”
Ravil Maganov, the vice president and chair of the board of directors of Russian oil giant Lukoil, died after falling out of a sixth floor hospital window in Moscow on Thursday, state-controlled media reported. Continue reading “Russian Oil Oligarch Who Criticized Ukraine War ‘Falls’ Out Of Hospital Window To His Death”
While speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday President Biden said, “The bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun.” Continue reading “Biden Claims Bullet Out of AR-15 Is 5X Faster than Bullet Out of Any Other Gun”
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the bright lights and electronic billboards across New York’s Times Square, city authorities are posting new signs proclaiming the bustling crossroads a “Gun Free Zone.” Continue reading “New York to restrict gun carrying after Supreme Court ruling”
TAIPEI, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s military on Tuesday fired warning shots at a Chinese drone which buzzed an islet controlled by Taiwan near the Chinese coast, a military spokesperson said. Continue reading “Taiwan fires warning shots at Chinese drone near offshore island”
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Safeway employee who previously served in the U.S. Army for two decades attacked a gunman in the produce section of the Bend, Oregon, supermarket, police said Monday, possibly preventing more casualties from a shooting that left the employee and one other person dead. Continue reading “Police: Heroic Safeway employee confronted gunman in store”
Oregon working families are caught in the tightening vice of inflation, paying record sums for gasoline, utilities, groceries and other necessities. Despite healthy wage gains, the median wage for working Oregonians, when adjusted for inflation, is declining. Working Oregonians can afford less now than they could a year ago. Economist Milton Friedman called inflation “the cruelest tax” because it saps buying power from consumers. Oregonians need the cruelty to end, and now. Continue reading “Oregon workers need the Snake River dams”
For the first time ever, the median rent in the U.S. topped $2,000 a month in June — and the increases show no sign of stopping. Continue reading “Census Bureau: 3.8 million renters will likely be evicted in the next two months — why the rental crisis keeps getting worse”
It was just days ago we wrote about how Ford was hiking the price of its F-150 EV by almost exactly the same amount offered as an EV subsidy in the Biden administration’s new “Inflation Reduction Act”. Continue reading “Ford Hikes Mustang Mach-E Price By As Much As $8,000”
GALICE, Ore. – Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared a state of emergency on Saturday in response to the Rum Creek wildfire burning in the southwestern part of the state near the California border that has claimed the life of a 25-year-old firefighter and destroyed at least three structures. Continue reading “Firefighter killed, state of emergency declared as Rum Creek Fire scorches 10,000 acres in Oregon”
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal regulators on Friday issued a final environmental impact statement that supports the demolition of four massive dams on Northern California’s Klamath River to save imperiled migratory salmon. Continue reading “Federal report boosts plan to remove 4 dams on California river”
The US launched more airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, marking the third day of violence since President Biden ordered the bombing of facilities in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, on Tuesday night. Continue reading “US Launches More Airstrikes in Syria, Says Four Killed”
DALLAS — A federal judge has struck down one of Texas’ few remaining firearm restrictions, finding a law that barred adults under the age of 21 from carrying a handgun was unconstitutional. Continue reading “Federal judge strikes down Texas handgun age restriction”