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Distressing video has revealed how a black man was confronted by at least five police officers while picking up trash outside his own house in Colorado.
Footage taken from inside the home in Boulder shows the man, who is identified as Zayd by his friend, having an angry conversation with an officer on Friday morning. Continue reading “Man collecting trash from his OWN yard is confronted by FIVE cops yelling at him to ‘put down your weapon’ even though he was only carrying a litter-picker”
Every October, all residents of Alaska – from teachers and construction owners to retail clerks and business owners – find a check from the state in their mailboxes. The money doesn’t come because they overpaid their taxes or worked for the government. They get the check simply because they live in Alaska. Continue reading “Alaska Gives Cash To Its Citizens Every Year. The Rest Of The U.S. Could Too.”
California police have confirmed that two young sisters who were missing for two days have been found.
Eight-year-old Leia Carrico and her five-year-old sister Caroline Carrico were last seen outside their home in Benbow, north west of Sacramento, on Friday at 2.30pm. Continue reading “California sisters, aged 5 and 8, who went missing two days ago, have been found”
In the Netflix era, many Americans are managing their finances based on their monthly subscription payments, often with little regard to the total they’ll pay in the long run.
That paradigm benefits the automotive industry and the lenders that finance car loans, as auto sales remain near record levels. Continue reading “Why Americans are suddenly paying $550 per month for new cars”
Jennifer Lawrence is the star of a new documentary about corruption in the American political system.
The film is called ‘Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis,’ and lasts just over 12 minutes.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) introduced “H.R. 1384: To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program” on Wednesday, holding a rally on Capitol Hill with some of the bill’s 106 other co-sponsors. Continue reading “Democrats Introduce ‘Medicare for All’ Bill; Eliminates Employer-Provided Health Insurance”
A recent report on the nation’s worst freight bottlenecks shows not just how much time is wasted at certain urban tarpits, but also how quickly the clogging is progressing. The American Transportation Research Institute study found that in the 10 worst bottlenecks, truck speeds had dropped by an average of nearly 9 percent — in only one year.
So it’s no surprise that talk of a big infrastructure plan is back in the news. The American Trucking Associations’ Transport Topics reported Jan. 3 that Trump and congressional leaders had a consensus to produce an infrastructure bill this year. Trump later included the idea in his State of the Union address, a year after pitching a flawed matching funds proposal that hit a dead-end. Continue reading “No time left for you: Bottlenecks and detention”
The Roman Empire lasted around 500 years from the ascension of Julius Caesar to the deposition of teenage ruler Romulus Augustulus.
By this timeline the United Kingdom in its current form is middle-aged, with Ireland joining England, Wales, and Scotland in 1801.
So how long do we have left? Continue reading “Scientists fear end to Mankind not ‘decades away’ but ‘much sooner’”
Average tax refunds are down 17 percent so far in the first filing season under President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul, according to the IRS, prompting the Treasury Department to caution that the data contain aberrations and could be misleading.
Direct-deposit refunds dropped for the third week in a row this filing season to $2,703, from $3,256 a year earlier, for the seven days through Feb. 15, the IRS reported late Friday. The total number of refunds was down 26.5 percent to 23.5 million, it said. Continue reading “U.S. Tax Refunds Plunge 17% as Treasury Ratchets Up Defense”
American Greatness – by Conrad Black
The most immense and dangerous public scandal in American history is finally cracking open like a ripe pomegranate. The broad swath of the Trump-hating media that has participated in what has amounted to an unconstitutional attempt to overthrow the government are reduced to reporting the events and revelations of the scandal in which they have been complicit, in a po-faced ho-hum manner to impart to the misinformed public that this is as routine as stock market fluctuations or the burning of an American flag in Tehran. Continue reading “The Greatest Constitutional Crisis Since the Civil War”
A schoolboy successfully made a nuclear fusion reactor in his family’s spare room aged just 12.
Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, now 14, is believed to be the youngest person to build a functioning nuclear fusion reactor. Continue reading “Teenage boy becomes the youngest person to build a working nuclear fusion reactor”
After years of seeing posted highway speeds creep up around the country, perhaps it’s no surprise that a California legislator would propose the ultimate in motoring freedom: No limits at all.
State Sen. John Moorlach’s vision for a Golden State version of Germany’s famed Autobahn — a stretch of pavement where you can drive as fast you want — is just the latest in a series of moves by states to put the pedal to the metal when it comes to speed limits. Continue reading “Is the American Autobahn next? How states are pushing highway speeds past the limit”
South China Morning Post – by He Huifeng
Millions of Chinese individuals and businesses have been labelled as untrustworthy on an official blacklist banning them from any number of activities, including accessing financial markets or travelling by air or train, as the use of the government’s social credit system accelerates.
The annual blacklist is part of a broader effort to boost “trustworthiness” in Chinese society and is an extension of China’s social credit system, which is expected to give each of its 1.4 billion citizens a personal score. Continue reading “China’s social credit system shows its teeth, banning millions from taking flights, trains”
Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard
America’s foreign-born population has reached its highest level in over 100 years, driven by immigrants from Latin America, according to new Census Bureau data.
What’s more, the Pew Research Center has found that most Latinos feel the percentage of foreigners in the United States is just about right, though 14 percent said America needs more. Continue reading “Census: Highest immigrant population in 100 years, over half Latinos”
The first tax filing season under the new federal tax law is proving to be surprising, confusing – and occasionally frightening – for some Americans, especially those accustomed to getting money back from the government.
Take Andy Kraft and Amy Elias of Portland, Oregon. The couple had grown comfortable getting a small refund each year, a few hundred dollars or more. Then they found out they owe $10,160 this year. Continue reading “Americans shocked by impact of new tax law as IRS reports that total returns are down 16 PERCENT”
Former Vice President Joe Biden told a European audience Saturday that America under the current administration is “an embarrassment.”
President Obama’s vice president focused his criticism on the United State’s family detention policy, global warming policy, and the Trump Administration’s stricter limits on political refugees. Continue reading “Biden In Europe: America Today Is ‘An Embarrassment’”