The Weather Channel

Snow, hail, rain, lightning and the potential for mudslides hit parts of Southern California, Utah and Arizona on Wednesday, snarling traffic and leading to the evacuation of several beaches in the Los Angeles area.

The San Diego Fire Department rescued two people from a car that was overcome by floodwaters, KNSD-TV reported. Meanwhile, lightning strikes forced the evacuation of the Santa Monica pier and Los Angeles area beaches, according to the Associated Press.

Continue reading “Slippery Conditions Cause Rollovers, Flood Roadways in California, Arizona and Utah”

Yahoo News

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli officials announced Wednesday that dozens of world leaders will arrive in Jerusalem for the largest-ever gathering focused on combatting anti-Semitism amid a global spike in violence against Jews.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said the fifth World Holocaust Forum in January will coincide with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. Continue reading “Israel to host largest event ever focused on anti-Semitism”

Yahoo News

Two hundred and thirty years ago today, on November 20, 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the proposed amendments to the Constitution that we now know as the Bill of Rights. Over the next two years, other states followed suit, culminating in the adoption of the amendments in December of 1791. It almost didn’t happen. Supporters of the Bill of Rights won their opponents over, though, thanks in large part to the inclusion of the Ninth Amendment.  Continue reading “Americans Should Remember the Ninth Amendment”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

The House judiciary committee will debate and vote Wednesday on a bill to award multiple amnesties to the agriculture industry’s large illegal-immigrant workforce.

The “Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019” would also convert swathes of rural America into cheap-labor, low-tech company towns. The bill would allow employers to hire from the unlimited inflow of H-2A visa-workers whose low wages will be capped by government officials working hand-in-glove with cheap-labor employers — so leaving many Americans unemployed or underpaid in their own community.  Continue reading “Democrats Set Wednesday Vote for Amnesty and Company-Town Economy”

Fox News

A 20-year-old man in the country illegally who was street-racing when he crashed into a car in Oregon, killing a woman, was able to flee to Mexico after local authorities did not honor an immigration detainer, according to federal officials.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a news release on Tuesday that Alejandro Maldonado-Hernandez was arrested on July 12 in connection with the fatal car crash that killed Janice Ator and seriously injured her husband, Patrick Ator.  Continue reading “Illegal immigrant arrested in deadly Oregon crash fled to Mexico after jail didn’t honor ICE hold request”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Gwinnett County, GA — Earlier this year, Sarah Wood was stuck in rush hour traffic on I-85, driving just 6 mph, when her life would be forever changed. One moment, she is idling down the interstate in traffic and the next, more than a month later, she would wake up in the hospital, having been in a coma. She was struck by a cop who was not paying attention and who was driving 70 mph when he smashed his car into hers. He wasn’t paying attention because he was distracted by Grand Theft Auto playing in his cruiser. Seriously. Continue reading “Cop With 7 At-Fault Crashes, Playing Grand Theft Auto Before Smashing Into Woman, Nearly Killing Her”

The People’s Voice, May 24, 2011

By Susan Lindauer, former Asset covering Iraq & Libya and the second non-Arab American indicted on the Patriot Act

Many Americans think they understand the dangers of the Patriot Act, which Congress has vowed to extend 4 more years in a vote later this week. Trust me when I say, Americans are not nearly frightened enough.  Continue reading “Flasback 2011: The Patriot Act: When Truth Becomes Treason”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

An indictment drawn up by Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General against Burisma owner Nikolai Zlochevsky claims that Hunter Biden and his partners received $16.5 million for their ‘services’ – according to Ukrainian MP Alexander Dubinsky of the ruling Servant of the People Party.

Dubinsky made the claim in a Wednesday press conference, citing materials from an investigation into Zlochevsky and Burisma.  Continue reading “Ukrainian Indictment Claims $7.4 Billion Obama-Linked Laundering, Puts Biden Group Take At $16.5 Million”

Wolf Street – by Wolf Richter

The US Gross National Debt has jumped by $1.28 trillion as of today, compared to 12 months ago, to $23.04 trillion. And these are the good times. The economy is rocking and rolling, we’re told. How will this debt balloon during the next economic downturn? Yes, that was a rhetorical question. It’s better to not even think about it. And no one is thinking about it:  Continue reading “US National Debt Spiked by $1.3 Trillion in 12 Months, to $23 Tn. But Who Bought This Pile of Treasury Securities?”

RT

House Democrats have slipped an unqualified renewal of the draconian PATRIOT Act into an emergency funding bill – voting near-unanimously for sweeping surveillance carte blanche that was the basis for the notorious NSA program.

A three-month reauthorization of the notorious PATRIOT Act was shoehorned into a last-minute continuing resolution (CR) funding the US government, bundling measures needed to avert yet another government shutdown with a continuation of the wildly-intrusive surveillance powers passed after the 9/11 terror attacks. Democrats voted almost unanimously for it, granting the far-reaching surveillance capabilities to the very same president they’re trying to impeach.  Continue reading “So much for the #Resistance! While all eyes were on impeachment hearing, House re-authorized PATRIOT Act”

The Mind Unleashed – by Elias Marat

Have you or a friend ever thought of quitting your job and sitting around your pad, smoking weed all day?

What if you were actually paid to do that—not only with free cannabis, but $3,000 a month?  Continue reading “Company Will Pay You $3,000 a Month to Smoke Weed Every Day”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Ongoing trade conflicts have forced China to increase financial decoupling between the US. China wants to decrease its US exposure and diversify its reserves away from dollars, according to economists at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ).

“The ongoing trade war and geopolitical issues have increased the risk of a financial decoupling between China and the US,” Raymond Yeung, Greater China chief economist, wrote in a recent note.

Continue reading “China “Discreetly” De-Dollarizing Amid Ongoing Trade Tensions”

Smith On Stocks

You Really Don’t Own the Shares that Appear in Your Brokerage Account; They Belong to Cede

Most investors when they buy a publicly traded stock believe that they own a part of some company. They think that somewhere there is a stock certificate or some indication of ownership that has their name on it, but this is not the case. When you buy a “stock” you are actually purchasing a security that affords certain entitlement rights related to registered stock which actual owners hold. Continue reading “Illegal Naked Shorting Series: Who or What is Cede and What Role Does Cede Play in the Trading of Stocks?”

The Guardian – by Michael Sainato

It’s been over a dozen years since Susanne LeClair of West Palm Beach, Florida was first diagnosed with cancer and she’s been fighting ever since. Now she, like many other Americans facing life-threatening illness, is bankrupt despite having health insurance.

Before her first cancer-related surgery, LeClair was told by the hospital they accepted her employer-based health insurance.  Continue reading “‘I live on the street now’: how Americans fall into medical bankruptcy”

Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson

The town of Durham, New Hampshire announced it was removing several Christmassy elements from its annual “holiday celebration” because two people complained about being offended.

Yes, really.  Continue reading “New Hampshire Town Removes Christmas From Its Christmas Ceremony After Two People Complain About Being Offended”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Bristow, OK — Imagine for a moment that you are a parent of a 9-year-old girl. You daughter tells you she is going to the bathroom but then doesn’t come back for a while. When you go to check on her, you find a grown man with his hand in your daughter’s pants, molesting her. This is exactly what a mother in Oklahoma says happened to her daughter and, according to the mom, when she caught the child predator in the bathroom, things got even scarier — because the predator is a cop.  Continue reading “Mom Catches Cop Molesting Her Daughter in Bathroom, Cop Threatens Mom if She Tells”

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two jail officers falsified records to cover up their failure to check in on financier Jeffrey Epstein in the hours before he killed himself, U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday.

According to an indictment, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas fell asleep and surfed the Internet instead of monitoring Epstein, who was found unresponsive on Aug. 10 in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan. An autopsy concluded that Epstein hanged himself.  Continue reading “Two jail guards for Jeffrey Epstein charged with coverup in his suicide”

RT

The US decision to recognize Israeli settlements in the West Bank as legal will aggravate the situation in the region, Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

“We consider Washington’s decision as another step aimed at scrapping the international legal base of the Middle East settlement,” Moscow stated, adding the US move will only further undermine the “already tense situation in Palestinian-Israeli relations.”   Continue reading “Moscow slams US decision to ‘legalize’ Israeli settlements in West Bank, says it puts spanner in the works for peace process”