Sports Illustrated

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft provided the team’s plane to fly the families of the 17 victims and other injured students of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting to Washington D.C., the team’s spokesperson said.

The students and thousands of others are expected to participate in the “March for Our Lives” rally against gun violence on Saturday.  Continue reading “Robert Kraft Provides Patriots Plane For Parkland, Fla., Students, Families”

The World Needs This Man – by Jon

Through my years of experience with the alternative media I believe I have become pretty good at detecting bullsh!t.

During the Trump campaign I found myself at my wits end seeing and listening to endless drivel about how Donald Trump was anti-establishment and fighting the neo-con establishment from the likes of Alex Jones, Jeff Rense and all of the alt-right talking heads that seemed to appear out of nowhere. All of these people were (and many still are) spewing the same narrative like they were taking direction from a think tank. (More on that later.)   Continue reading “Deep neocon connections to pro-Trump alternative media shills”

Daily Mail

White House officials said Thursday that President Donald Trump will sign a hotly contested budget bill when lawmakers send it to him, despite the fact that it provides for only 33 miles of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump vowed in April 2017 that his long-promised border wall would be finished by the end of his first term in office.     Continue reading “White House says it can only build 33 miles of new border barriers”

Science Alert – by Peter Dockrill

It began with sinkholes. Two of them, gaping mouths to nowhere opening up as if to swallow the town of Wink, Texas. As they expanded, there were fears they might collide, morphing into one giant void.

They first emerged in 1980, and things haven’t gotten better since. Now, an unprecedented study reveals Wink and its vast sinkholes are just a tiny part of a much bigger problem – a vast stretch of historical oil fields that are heaving and sinking, covering an area almost the size of Connecticut.  Continue reading “Massive Oil Fields in Texas Are Heaving, Sinking, And Opening Up Like Mouths”

Fast Company

Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have presented Google with warrants to obtain data from mobile phones from not just specific suspects who were in a crime scene area, but from the mobile phones of all people in the area, reports Raleigh television affiliate WRAL.

The request will trouble Fourth Amendment advocates as it could be seen that police are carrying out unreasonable searches on people who just happened to be in the area at the time the crimes were committed.    Continue reading “Raleigh police are asking Google to provide user data for all people near crime scenes”

Action Network

International pop star Lorde is scheduled to perform in Tampa, Florida on April 11th and Miami, Florida on April 12th for thousands of adoring fans.

But Florida politicians are now trying to pressure Tampa and Miami to cancel these concerts.   Continue reading “Do not cancel Lorde’s Florida concerts because of anti-free speech laws!”

Daily Mail

A 93-year-old former nurse honoured for her services to the NHS was left in a hospital corridor in urine-soaked clothes for six days.

Enid Stevens was taken to A&E in St James’s Hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire, with a spinal fracture.

After a six-hour wait, the MBE nurse was left in a cubicle on her own for another five hours in soaking wet clothes after becoming incontinent.   Continue reading “Grandmother, 93, and ex-nurse is left in a hospital corridor for SIX DAYS soaked from head-to-toe in her own urine”