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A powerful storm system in Southern California caused flash flooding and mudslides in Los Angeles County on Thursday, stranding drivers and triggering a variety of severe weather warnings.
According to the National Weather Service, heavy rain and “life threatening flooding” is occuring in Antelope Valley in northern LA County, near the areas of Leona Valley, Quartz Hill and West Palmdale. Continue reading “Cars trapped in ‘life threatening’ flooding, mudslides in Southern California”
ABC News – by Michelle L. Price, AP
Utah police were searching Thursday night for a man who strode into the state Capitol and placed a wreath and a cardboard box containing an unloaded rifle on the floor before leaving the building.
The Salt Lake City building was evacuated shortly after Capitol security officers watching surveillance cameras spotted the man leaving the package Thursday afternoon, state Highway Patrol Trooper Lawrence Hopper said. Continue reading “Utah State Capitol Evacuated After Rifle Found in Box”
An the old saying goes: “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” It may not quite apply to a new FBI report on officer-involved shootings, but the phrase expresses some of the frustrations felt by activists on behalf of the victims who went uncounted.
Released Thursday, the FBI’s figures for police-on-civilian deadly shootings lacked adequate substance and included errors, according to a report by the Guardian. The data was collected on a voluntary basis from local police departments, but 99 percent of them did not volunteer any information. Continue reading “No Eric Garner or Tamir Rice: FBI fails to adequately count civilian deaths by police”
Illegal alien Crescencio Heredia raped a sleeping Chicago woman last week, police say, while she was groggy with prescribed pain medications.
Heredia had been at the victim’s residence drinking beer when she went to sleep, she told police. She woke to to find him raping her. She told him to stop, but he began attacking her shortly later. Continue reading “Chicago Police: Illegal Alien Rapes Sleeping Woman”
Shark Tank – by Javier Manjarres
Months after President Obama agreed to “normalize” relations between the U.S. and Cuba, and after opening an American embassy on the island, Raul Castro, in an obvious move to embarrass Obama, has agreed to send Cuban military troops to Syria at Putin’s behest.
Putin has dropped 300 Cuban troops into Syria to help his ally President Bashar al-Assad, beat back ISIS and those CIA-backed rebels that are combating the terrorist group, as well as trying to topple him. Continue reading “Cuban Troops Land In Syria, U.S. Dragged Into Proxy War With Russia”
Lew Rockwell – by Laurence M. Vance
If there is one thing that the smelliest, most down-and-out, most destitute, most forsaken homeless guy who sleeps under a bridge has in common with Donald Trump it is that they both own their own bodies. That may be all the homeless guy owns, but he owns it free and clear and should be able to do what he wants with it.
And so should we—as long as our activities are peaceful, our interactions are consensual, and our associations are voluntary. Continue reading “Do You Own Your Own Body?”
The “police use-of-force” expert who wrote one of two reports that deemed the fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November was “reasonable” was also instrumental in clearing Colorado officers in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old girl.
S. Lamar Sims, a senior deputy district attorney in Denver, Colorado, was hired by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office to conduct an independent review a Cleveland, Ohio police officer’s use-of-force against Rice ahead of a grand jury trial. The inquiry will attempt to determine whether Officer Timothy Loehmann, who is white, used reasonable force in shooting the 12-year-old Rice, who was black, because he was perceived as being “a serious threat.” Continue reading “Same expert justified both Cleveland & Denver cops’ shooting of minors”
The corporatists at Big Pharma, as well as the purveyors of political correctness, have scored another victory with Americans: shaming anyone who thinks that dangerous psychotropic, mind-and-mood-altering medications are ultimately bad for your health.
They even have a catchy new hashtag campaign underway.
As reported by the left-leaning Buzzfeed news site, #MedicatedAndMighty is a hashtag developed by Erin Jones, a blogger who posted a photo on her Facebook page of her holding a pair of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs after being offline for a while, with this accompanying explanation: Continue reading “Americans now PROUD to be medicated with mind-altering drugs: #MedicatedAndMighty hashtag now being used by total zombies sporting bags full of prescription drugs”
Irish Central – by Owen McCormack
Christopher Columbus is a polarizing historical figure whose life has been defined, by many, for his astonishing level of courage and intestinal fortitude; nevertheless, such impressive traits should never blur the fact that he oversaw a murderous quest for material riches that resulted in the utter demise of a people. Each year, as October 12 comes and goes, a question is raised – what are we celebrating about his life? Continue reading “Columbus was a mass killer and father of the slave trade”
The federal Bureau of Prisons, a subdivision of President Barack Obama’s Justice Department, has banished all pork products from the menus in all federal prisons, according to a report in the Washington Post.
The government says it made the decision to do this because a survey showed that inmates do not like eating pork products. Continue reading “Administration Bans All Pork Products From Prison Menus”
At least one person died and seven were injured in a large factory blaze at Tanjong Kling Road in Singapore. Witnesses filmed the site erupting in explosions and thick billowing smoke. Continue reading “1 dead, 7 injured in massive Singapore warehouse explosion & fire”
Thousands of Israeli protesters have staged a massive rally to protest the recent spate of clashes between Palestinian people and Israeli troops, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On Saturday evening, the demonstrators converged in front of Netanyahu’s residence in al-Quds (Jerusalem) to denounce the spiraling violence in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds as well as the Tel Aviv regime’s failure to bring the situation under control. Continue reading “Israeli protesters hold large anti-Netanyahu demonstration”
The University of New South Wales (NSW) in Sydney warned that police are responding to a shooting threat published on the popular 4chan image board. The warning is similar to the one posted before the recent mass shooting in the state of Oregon in the US.
“We are treating this incident seriously and have been liaising with the NSW Police through the anti-terrorism and security group and Local Area Command,” said a university statement posted on Facebook.
Continue reading “New shooting threat on 4chan sends Australian university campus on high alert”
Prosecutors investigating the death of a 12-year-old black boy who was fatally shot by a white Cleveland police officer say they are just trying to be transparent in seeking and sharing outside reviews by experts in use of force. A lawyer for the boy’s family, however, says the outside reports finding that the shooting was justified show that prosecutors are avoiding accountability.
The reports were released Saturday night by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, which asked for the outside reviews as it presents evidence to a grand jury that will ultimately determine whether Timothy Loehmann will be charged in the November death of Tamir Rice, who was holding a pellet gun. Continue reading “Officer’s shooting of Tamir Rice justified, 2 outside reports rule”
No, I’m not running. This is a hybrid article about something else. Call it fantasy, metaphor, excursion into the wild blue yonder. It’s as real or unreal as things are to you when you imagine them. Have you ever experienced, with full-bodied impact, a future that didn’t exist, a new day that hadn’t come yet? Have you ever fallen asleep and had a dream that was more real than waking life? If so, you qualify as a candidate for the Presidency…
Okay. Here we go.
Ahem. Let me start off by saying this a metaphysical article, because on that level I am already President of the United States…and if that sounds ridiculous…good. Let’s begin from the ridiculous, since that’s where this country is anyway. Continue reading “Rappoport: if I were President, if you were”
London (CNN)The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United Kingdom is back in the hospital with a complication from the virus, and doctors say her condition is serious.
Pauline Cafferkey, who was initially discharged from a hospital in January after recovering from the virus, is being treated in a high-level isolation unit at London’s Royal Free Hospital. Continue reading “UK’s first Ebola patient back in hospital in serious condition after complication”
A man leaping from a luxury lower Manhattan apartment building met a grisly end Thursday when he was decapitated after crashing into a railing, horrified witnesses said.
The unidentified man jumped from a West St. building at about 11 a.m., officials said. His body exploded apart after it hit the railing bordering Battery Place and the underpass that leads to FDR Drive — leaving stunned onlookers covered in blood. Continue reading “Another Banker Suicide Added To The List Of 72 Dead By Un-Natural Causes!”
The number of sanctuary cities has exploded since July, when the issue came into the national spotlight after a young woman was gunned down by an illegal criminal immigrant on a pier on San Francisco.
In July, there were 276 sanctuary cities and counties. Now there are 340, according to a new report by the Center for Immigration Studies citing data from the Department of Homeland Security. Continue reading “41 new sanctuary cities in just 4 months”