The Hill – by Joe Concha

The Blaze will be conducting mass layoffs in an effort to “become more nimble” and “keep pace with the massive changes” in the media business, Glenn Beck, the company’s founder, said Thursday.

“Today, we said goodbye to just over 20 percent of the combined workforce of Mercury Radio Arts and TheBlaze,” Beck, a one-time Fox News and HLN host, said in a statement.

Beck, 53, said that while he was awarded the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award in 2013, he doesn’t believe he’d “finish in the top 100″ today.   Continue reading “Glenn Beck announces mass layoffs at The Blaze”

Phys.org – by Charlotte Hsu

Human antidepressants are building up in the brains of bass, walleye and several other fish common to the Great Lakes region, scientists say.

In a new study, researchers detected high concentrations of these drugs and their metabolized remnants in the  tissue of 10  species found in the Niagara River.

This vital conduit connects two of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, via Niagara Falls. The discovery of antidepressants in aquatic life in the river raises serious environmental concerns, says lead scientist Diana Aga, PhD, the Henry M. Woodburn Professor of Chemistry in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences.  Continue reading “Antidepressants found in fish brains in Great Lakes region”

Weather Channel

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is strongly encouraging anyone living east side of Houston’s flood control reservoirs with water still inside their home to evacuate.

“Second story housing and above will not be safe,” the mayor said in a series of tweets. “Apartments, therefore, are covered by evacuation request. But only residences with water on [the] first floor. Water may stay there for two weeks.”

Turner said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be releasing reservoir water into Buffalo Bayou for 15 days, and the Corps has said the releases are necessary to avoid larger catastrophe if the city should receive another heavy rainfall event. The mayor said 15,000 to 20,000 homes could be impacted by flooding due to water releases from the reservoir.  Continue reading “Houston Mayor Strongly Encouraging Evacuations Near Reservoirs”

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YNet News – by Andrew Friedman

A US court has thrown out a billion-dollar lawsuit aimed at slashing funding to Israeli charities and institutions in the West Bank, ruling these organizations comply with Treasury Department regulations for non-profit status and noting the attempt to block funding was a political question that is outside the jurisdiction of the courts.

The suit, Al-Tamimi v. Adelson, charged 49 defendants—including philanthropist Sheldon Adelson, Texas Pastor John Hagee, media mogul Haim Saban, non-profits such as the Hebron Fund and corporate entities such as Bank Leumi, Motorola and other companies that provide services to the IDF—with violating both international law and US policy by supporting Israeli ventures in the West Bank.   Continue reading “US court throws out Palestinian suit against businessmen supporting IDF, settlements”

Jerusalem Post

Pepe the Frog hopped out from the virtual world into a real-life legal dispute.

Matt Furie, the cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog, took legal action against Eric Hauser, the author of an “alt-right” children’s book that uses the Pepe character.

Pepe the Frog first appeared in the early 2000s and had no political or ideological connotations. Beginning in late 2015, however, people and groups associated with the alt-right adopted the cartoon amphibian as their own and used his image to espouse racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic ideas.   Continue reading “‘Alt-Right’ Children’s Book Profits To Go To Muslim Advocacy Group”

Jerusalem Post

A movie about Megan Phelps-Roper, who left the viciously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church after a Twitter correspondence with a prominent Jewish blogger, is in the works.

The screenplay for the film, with the working title “This Above All,” will be written by Nick Hornby. Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea and Bill Pohlad reportedly have been tapped to produce the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter.  Continue reading “Turning Away From Hate Thanks To A Jewish Tweeter”

Jerusalem Post

The Civil Administration registered to the Jewish National Fund 87.6 hectares (216 acres) in the Kfar Etzion area, thereby ending a 70-year acquisition process.

The land had previously been considered survey property whose land ownership status was unknown. It is located both within and immediately outside the lines of the Kfar Etzion settlement in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank.   Continue reading “IDF Registers 216 Acres Of Jewish Land In The West Bank”

Jerusalem Post

Israel has less oversight of its nuclear program than other Western democracies, a study by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, which was obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post, concludes.

A summary of decades of work on the issue by Avner Cohen, a Professor of nonproliferation studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a Senior Fellow at CNS, and CNS Davis fellow Brandon Mok, but updated with recent developments, the study is being publicized just days before the issue of oversight goes before the High Court of Justice on Wednesday.   Continue reading “Israel Nuclear Program Has Less Oversight Than Other Democracies”

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Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

President Trump was crucified by the mainstream media a few weeks back after hosting an improvised press conference and saying there was “blame on both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville that resulted in the death of a counterprotester.  The comments resulted in most of Trump’s advisory councils being disbanded, as CEO’s around the country pounced on the opportunity to distance themselves from the administration, and heightened calls from CNN for impeachment proceedings.

The problem is that while Trump’s delivery probably could have been a bit more artful, the underlying message seems to be proving more accurate with each passing day and each new outbreak of Antifa violence.   Continue reading “FBI, DHS Officially Classify Antifa Activities As “Domestic Terrorist Violence””

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

You’re probably thinking this is a satirical report from The Onion.

We thought so, too.

But be assured it’s very real, as reported by Fox 40 Sacramento:  Continue reading “Only In California: Sacramento To Pay Gang Bangers A Cash Stipend If They Stop Killing People”

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Secretary has approved up to 4.5 million barrels of crude oil to be released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to the impact from Tropical Storm Harvey, a spokeswoman for the Department of Energy said on Friday.

That marks an additional 3.5 million barrels on top of the 1 million barrels of oil approved as of Thursday.   Continue reading “U.S. Energy Secretary approves release of another 3.5 million barrels from oil reserve”

The Daily Caller – by Peter Hasson

The Southern Poverty Law Center has declared three of America’s largest Army bases Confederate monuments “with the potential to unleash more turmoil and bloodshed” if activists don’t “take down” the Army bases.

The SPLC included Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Benning in Georgia on a list of 1,500 “Confederate monuments” that the SPLC claims could inspire more violence like what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia last month. All three bases are named after Confederate military leaders.   Continue reading “SPLC Says Army Bases Are Confederate Monuments That Need To Come Down”

NY Daily News

The most expensive meatloaf ever served on Rikers Island came with a hard-to-swallow $378,000 tab for the city.

Twenty-one inmates settled a federal lawsuit with the city after charging the tainted March 2015 lunch caused vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding and fainting among the captive diners.

The city, eager to get the case off its plate, will serve up checks of $17,650 to 20 plaintiffs and $25,000 to one of the victims, the Daily News has learned.   Continue reading “21 Rikers inmates get $378G from city after vomiting from meatloaf they say was tainted with rat poison”