Overdrive

A box truck driver will receive nearly $200,000 from a Kentucky-based trucking company who fired the driver after he refused to drive in bad weather.

According to a press release, the DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), ordered Freight Rite, based in Florence, Kentucky, to reinstate an unnamed box truck driver who was fired after he refused to operate in hazardous road conditions caused by inclement winter weather.  Continue reading “Trucker ordered to receive nearly $200,000 after being fired for refusing to drive in bad weather”

Bleeping Computer – by Sergiu Gatlan

Cloudfare experienced a worldwide outage today for about 30 minutes, with network performance issues that brought down a multitude of websites and web services all around the world, and triggered “502 Bad Gateway” errors.

While various speculations said that the provider of content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services was being under attack, Cloudfare’s John Graham-Cumming says that the 502 errors seen by visitors of Cloudfare sites were actually caused by a spike in CPU utilization on the provider’s network.  Continue reading “Cloudflare Worldwide Outage Caused by Bad Software Deployment”

Big League Politics – by Tom Rappert

The Proud Boys and conservatives are planning a large “End Domestic Terrorism” rally to push back against Portland Antifa following a weekend of violence that saw journalist Andy Ngo brutally beaten and attacked with milkshakes, and an elderly man’s skull fractured after being attacked with a metal bar.

Enrique Tarrio, Chairman of the Proud Boys and co-organizer of the D.C. “Demand Free Speech” rally that has been threatened with acid attacks from Antifa, is planning a large rally to push back against what he considers “domestic terrorism” on behalf of the far left organization responsible for brutally beating Ngo last weekend.  Continue reading “Conservatives Plan MASSIVE ‘End Domestic Terrorism’ Rally Against Portland Antifa”

Breitbart – by Frances Martel

Hundreds of anti-communist protesters in Hong Kong destroyed the legislative council (LegCo) building in the city late Monday, shattering its glass exterior, spray-painting anti-China slogans over its walls, and rendering it unusable, according to city officials.

Many protesters had spent much of the day trying to break into the building using metal bars and succeeded late into the night. Upon entering, they chanted slogans against China, waved the flag of the United Kingdom (to which they belonged until 1997), and vandalized the legislative chamber. Continue reading “Protesters Destroy Hong Kong Legislature on Anniversary of Handover to China”

The New Observer

Violent white German resistance to the Third World invasion of that country is at an all-time high, and invader centers are being attacked at the rate of one every two days, according to newly-released official figures.

According to the latest report issued by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (“Verfassungschutz,” or BfV) titled “Verfassungsschutzbericht 2018,” the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) reported that the number of attacks carried out by Germans against invaders and those supporting the invasion rose by 3.2 percent. Continue reading “German Resistance to Third World Invasion at All-Time High: Invader Centers Attacked Every 2 Days”

Breitbart – by Michelle Moons

Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke campaigned in Mexico Sunday with migrants not admitted to the U.S. at the southern border.

O’Rourke called the Trump administration’s policies “unlawful and inhumane” in a post about crossing into Mexico on Sunday to meet with migrants waiting there for U.S. court dates. He used the visit to promote his own immigration plan. Continue reading “‘Beto’ O’Rourke Campaigns in Mexico”

The Sun

VLADIMIR Putin today called an urgent meeting with defence chiefs hours after 14 sailors died in a mystery submarine blast.

The Russian leader cancelled his schedule for a meeting with his defence minster Sergei Shoigu.

It came as US Vice President Mike Pence was called back to Washington for an “undisclosed emergency”.  Continue reading “Vladimir Putin calls urgent meeting with defence chiefs after 14 Russian sailors die in submarine fire”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

Federal authorities are warning that political radicals may attack people celebrating on July 4th.

A bulletin to law enforcement around the country states that domestic terrorists “have attacked perceived oppressors, opponents, or enemies engaged in outdoor First Amendment-protected rallies or protests during past summers.” Continue reading “Federal agents warn of possible terror attacks targeting the Fourth of July”

Fox News

Vice President Pence was called back to Washington on Tuesday for what was initially described as an emergency, as he canceled a planned visit to New Hampshire.

Officials did not offer details on the situation but later sought to downplay the change of plans.  Continue reading “Pence called back to DC for unspecified emergency, cancels New Hampshire visit”

The Great Recession

That didn’t take long. On Saturday, well before the US stock market opened post-China-trade-talks, I wrote:

The next step for the market would likely be that the remaining stock indices that have not pushed past their own previous peaks would now punch through. By that … I meant those indices like the Dow that were very close to breaking past their old heights

“Best-Case Scenario Has a Worst-Case Twist“  

Continue reading “Cleaning up after the China Trade Summit Looks Exactly Like I Said it Would”

Alaska Daily News – by Tegan Hanlon

Furlough notices went out to University of Alaska employees on Monday in the wake of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s huge cut to its state funding, according to a UA spokeswoman.

About 2,500 University of Alaska staff must take 10 days of unpaid leave during the current fiscal year that started Monday, unless the state Legislature reverses Dunleavy’s veto, said the furlough notice from UA President Jim Johnsen.

Continue reading “Furlough notices go out to University of Alaska employees in the wake of governor’s veto”

IMEMC News – by Jafar M. Ramini

Well, it’s happened. It’s real. Mr. Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and Senior Advisor of President Trump has delivered 136 pages of lies, suppositions and conjuring tricks to seduce or compel us Palestinians to accept our fate and surrender our rights. What rights? As far as this document is concerned, Palestinians have no rights whatsoever, and, as for a Palestinian perspective, what is that?  Continue reading “The Lie Of The Century”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Just a week after Nike appeared to bow to Chinese authorities’ demands, halting the sale of a range of sports shoes in China after its Japanese designer showed support for Hong Kong protests in an Instagram post; the sportswear company has been implicitly banned from Arizona after nixing the launch of its “Betsy Ross Flag” sneakers after former football player Colin Kaepernick complained.  Continue reading “Arizona Blocks Nike After Kaepernick-Complaint Sparks Virtue-Signaling Sneaker Ban”

PIX 11

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Two young men playing with fireworks late Monday night in Jersey City were shot in what witnesses and local outlets are calling a police-involved shooting.

Now the mother of one of the men shot is demanding to know how playing with fireworks could lead to her son being shot.  Continue reading “Two men wounded in police-involved shooting in Jersey City: reports”

Rats – by Claire Wolfe

These days, law enforcement at all levels — from the local cop shop to obscure federal agencies — uses snitches to trap ordinary people. Snitches tell lies that send their friends to jail. Paid agents provocateurs talk or trick otherwise harmless people into committing crimes. In many places, Snitch culture has virtually replaced real investigation of real crimes.  Continue reading “RATS! Your guide to protecting yourself against snitches, informers, informants, agents provocateurs, narcs, finks, and similar vermin”

Unz Review – by Kevin Barrett

I recently received an email from Code Pink:

“Winning the NBA finals is a great achievement, but Raptors billionaire co-owner Larry Tennenbaum—an unapologetic Israel supporter—wants to reward them with a propaganda trip to Israel. Help us appeal to the Raptors to reject their coach’s offer: Tell them to dunk the ball for Palestinian rights by refusing to travel to Israel.”  

Continue reading “Toronto Raptors’ Trip to Israel”

The Daily Signal – by Fred Lucas

The Internal Revenue Service seized $446,000 from the bank accounts of brothers Jeffrey, Richard, and Mitch Hirsch in 2012, claiming a “structuring” violation against the owners of Bi-County Distributors Inc. for making multiple bank deposits of less than $10,000.

The government never charged them with a crime, nor gave them a hearing to enable them to contest the seizure, but after intense national media attention to the case, the government returned the funds.  Continue reading “Trump Signs Law Making It Harder for IRS to Seize Money From Americans”

New York Governor

As a Result of Solidarity Trip Last Week, Partnerships to Focus on UAV/Drones, Transportation, Energy, Cybersecurity, Financial Technology and Health Care Technology and Research

17 Israeli Entities Will Work with Six New York State Agencies and Other Partners to Bolster Innovation and Economic Ties Between the Two States  Continue reading “Governor Cuomo Announces Sweeping Series of Economic Development Partnerships Between New York and Israel”

If Americans Knew

In ongoing Israeli attacks on Occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces also abducted 3 Palestinians & ransacked dozens of homes, hospitals and clinics, assaulting physicians, nurses & patients… part of Israel’s effort to create a “National Garden” in the area… Soldiers shot 21 year old, in the heart from close range. 

IMEMC reports:

Israeli soldiers have killed one Palestinian, injured more than 95 and abducted at least 30, in ongoing invasions and serious escalation since this past Thursday, in the al-Isawiya town, in the center of occupied East Jerusalem.  Continue reading “Israeli forces kill one, injure 95, attack doctors, nurses, for Nat’l Garden”

Middle East Monitor

Two Israeli officials have proposed a “solution” for the Gaza Strip which includes another massive military offensive against the enclave and moving the Palestinians to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Arabi21.com reported on Sunday. The end of the government led by Mahmoud Abbas is also suggested in a report published by the Jerusalem Institute for Public and State Affairs.  Continue reading “Israeli ‘solution’ for Gaza includes massive military offensive and move to Sinai”