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BEAUFORT COUNTY, N.C. (WCTI/CNN) – You look out for bad drivers and objects in the road while you’re driving, but a North Carolina woman says her car was hit by something truly unexpected – a falling catfish.
Rhesa Walston was driving her SUV home from her mother’s house when she got a surprise from the sky.
Continue reading “Catfish shatters N.C. woman’s car windshield”
WASHINGTON – Bits of metal, hard plastic, rubber and even glass are increasingly getting mixed and baked into processed meat products reaching consumers, triggering a record number of safety recalls, a Washington Post analysis of federal records shows.
So far this year, the Agriculture Department has announced 34 recalls involving 17 million pounds of meat products after stray materials were found in them. Continue reading “Recalls for processed meat rise drastically as consumers bite down on metal, plastic and glass”
New York Post – by Gabrielle Fonrouge and Aaron Feis
The Brooklyn CBD wholesaler whose 106-pound shipment of perfectly legal hemp was wrongfully seized by the NYPD last month will have a green Christmas, as the stash was released on Monday.
“We got everything back,” said Oren Levy, the proprietor of Green Angel CBD, whose brother, Ronen, picked up the haul from the NYPD’s Queens narcotics lock-up on Monday. “They actually sealed it normally. I was surprised.” Continue reading “Brooklyn CBD wholesaler gets wrongfully seized hemp back from NYPD”
It was by chance that two brothers who own a smoke shop in Queens found video footage in a smashed video recorder when they returned to their store after spending more than a month in jail.
At the brothers’ arraignment in late August, prosecutors said in court NYPD cops had recovered 40 pounds of cocaine during a raid and search warrant by the Queens north gang unit. The DA’s office provided no documentation and asked for the two suspects to be held without bail. Continue reading “NYPD Cops Seen Disabling Security Camera After Brothers’ False Drug Charges Bust”
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, told New York Magazine in an interview that he’s “more of a Jew” than George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and Democratic activist.
“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” Giuliani said. “Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is. I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist [district attorneys] in the United States. He’s a horrible human being.” Continue reading “Rudy Giuliani insists he’s ‘more of a Jew’ than George Soros, who survived the Holocaust”
The Arkansas 911 dispatcher who scolded a woman crying on the phone before she drowned will not face criminal charges, an internal investigation ruled.
A Fort Smith Police investigation into Debra Stevens’ death found that while the 911 dispatcher “violated policy by being rude to Stevens at times,” she hadn’t violated the law in her response. Continue reading “A 911 dispatcher who told a drowning woman to ‘shut up’ will not face charges”
On Friday, May 31st the Illinois House approved a law legalizing recreational cannabis, or marijuana, in the state, making Illinois the 11th of the United States to do so. The law, referred to as the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (“CRTA” or the “Illinois law”) is on the desk of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who has championed legalization, to sign and then will go into effect January 1st, 2020. Two things make the Illinois law stand out from the rest of the nation’s cannabis legalization legislation. Continue reading “Two Things that Stand out About Illinois’ Landmark New Legislation Legalizing Cannabis”
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is advising members of the military not to use consumer DNA kits, saying the information collected by private companies could pose a security risk, according to a memo co-signed by the Defense Department’s top intelligence official.
A growing number of companies like 23andMe and Ancestry sell testing kits that allow buyers to get a DNA profile by sending in a cheek swab or saliva sample. The DNA results provide consumers information on their ancestry, insights into possible medical risks and can even identify previously unknown family members. Continue reading “Pentagon warns military members DNA kits pose ‘personal and operational risks’”
Democrat governors representing red states such as Kentucky, North Carolina, Montana, and Kansas have approved more refugee resettlement in 2020 for their states.
For Fiscal Year 2020, President Donald Trump will continue cutting refugee admissions by reducing former President Barack Obama’s refugee inflow by at least 80 percent. This reduction would mean a maximum of 18,000 refugees can be resettled in the U.S. between October 1, 2019, and September 30, 2020. This is merely a numerical limit and not a goal federal officials are supposed to reach. Continue reading “Red State Democrat Governors Approve More Refugees for Their States”
Heavy fog and an ice-slickened highway contributed to a massive pre-Christmas 69-vehicle pileup in eastern Virginia on Sunday that left more than 50 people injured, two in critical condition, authorities said.
The chain-reaction crash happened just before 8 a.m. in the westbound lanes of Interstate 64 near Williamsburg, Virginia, Virginia State Police Sgt. Michelle Anaya said during a news conference Sunday afternoon. Continue reading “More than 50 people injured in 69-vehicle pileup on Virginia Interstate”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Sunday that efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israeli forces in Palestinian-controlled areas were rooted in anti-Semitism.
Reuters reported that the Israeli leader made the accusation at a Hannukah ceremony in Jerusalem in front of the Western Wall, a holy site for Judaism, and claimed that the ICC was opposing the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. Continue reading “Netanyahu calls ICC war crimes probe anti-Semitic”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Sonoma County, CA — Last month, David Glen Ward was the victim of a carjacking. Like he was told to do, he reported this attack and theft to police. Sadly, however, after he would get his green Honda Civic back, police would mistake him for the thief, pull him over and kill him. Video of the incident was recently released.
According to officials, on Nov. 24, Ward reported he’d been the victim of a carjacking. During the theft, Ward was pistol whipped by his attacker, leaving him with injuries to the face. Three days after his car was stolen, Ward would recover it. Sadly, however, he would make a fatal mistake and forget to officially tell police he got his car back. Continue reading “Cops Accuse 52yo Man of Carjacking His Own Vehicle and Kill Him”
A ruling by British judges declaring it legal for Britain’s state security service – MI5 – to shield agents or informers from prosecution for crimes committed in the line of duty is a hugely sinister development.
The ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) last week represents a formalizing of secret British government policy of affording its internal security service unlimited powers and immunity from prosecution in the execution of activities. The policy was legally contested by four British human rights groups, calling on the IPT to ban such powers. Continue reading “License to kill for Britain’s secret service makes UK a police state”
GREEN BAY – A Tuesday night incident involving alleged trespassing at a west-side church by two friends of former Green Bay Packers player Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila has prompted police to alert area schools about the men.
If Ryan DeSmith or Jordan Salmi “are observed on your school grounds, please notify the Green Bay Police Department,” the notice states. Police directed school officials to distribute the notice to all employees. Continue reading “Police to schools: Be on the lookout for Gbaja-Biamila associates involved in disturbance outside church”
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) — The man who investigators were looking to arrest was already in jail when a task force raided his former home in Wilmer on Thursday morning.
Ann Rylee, a 19-year-old woman who now lives at the home on Old Moffat Road, was shot several times as investigators made their way inside the house. Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran claims that Rylee had a shotgun in her hand and pointed it at officers. Continue reading “Wanted man was already in jail when agents raided his former home and shot woman inside”
Scary Mommy – by Julie Scagell
A police department’s therapy dog and resident Very Good Boy is feeling the holiday spirit this season — perhaps a little too much. Officers noticed the toys that’d been donated to the station were disappearing from the room they’d put them in and came to find out it was their furry friend, Benjamin Franklin, that was the culprit. Continue reading “Police Dog Busted For Stealing Donated Toys In Adorable Video”
Last week we reported that something strange was going on at the same time that central banks are injecting $100 billion each month in electronic money to crush volatility and ramp markets: a similar amount in physical currency and precious metals was literally disappearing. Continue reading “Steven Mnuchin Explains Why $1.5 Trillion In $100 Bills Have Disappeared”
Global Research – by Larry Romanoff
In July of 2013, Rose Aguilar wrote a wonderful article for al-Jazeera (1), in which she discussed the dire hunger crisis that envelops the US today. In her article, she brought back a memory of something I had long forgotten, an event that so outraged the American public that the government was temporarily forced to respond with more humane policies. That event was a 1968 CBS special hour-long documentary called Hunger in America, in which viewers literally watched a hospitalized child die of starvation. Nixon responded because the public outrage left him no choice, but Reagan quickly dismantled those improvements. Continue reading “The Richest Country’s Empty Plates. 50 Million Hungry Americans”
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The family of a man pardoned by Gov. Matt Bevin for a homicide and other crimes in a fatal 2014 Knox County home invasion raised $21,500 at a political fundraiser last year to retire debt from Bevin’s 2015 gubernatorial campaign.
The brother and sister-in-law of offender Patrick Brian Baker also gave $4,000 to Bevin’s campaign on the day of the fundraiser, according to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance database. Continue reading “Kentucky governor pardons convicted killer whose brother hosted campaign fundraiser for him”
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