Month: October 2017

Bored Panda – by ​Ilona Baliūnaitė

Look carefully at this floor. There’s a big hole in it isn’t there? Nope, it’s actually perfectly flat and was designed to stop you running down the hallway of a showroom for Casa Ceramica, a tile company from Manchester, UK.

Just why people are dashing into their showrooms at speed instead of walking hasn’t been explained, we can only assume that their tiles are just so good that people can’t wait to see them. Duncan Cook, the owner of Casa Ceramica posted a videos of himself first ‘navigating’ the floor, followed by a demonstration of it all being actually in your mind, walking straight over the ‘hole’ and finishing with a neat dab.
Continue reading “Genius Optical Illusion On This Floor Stops People From Running In The Hallway”

ABC 7 News

WASHINGTON (KABC) — President Donald Trump approved California’s disaster declaration for areas affected by multiple destructive wildfires.

The White House released a statement saying that federal funding is now available.

Massive wildfires are sweeping through parts of California. In Orange County, at least 24 homes were destroyed and more than 5,000 people remain evacuated from their neighborhoods.   Continue reading “President Trump approves California disaster declaration for multiple wildfires”

The Guardian

Athletes need to be fitted with microchips, in a similar way that dogs are, in the fight against drug cheats in sport, according to a leading representative of international sports people.

Mike Miller, the World Olympians Association chief executive, claimed that radical anti-doping methods – including implants to recognise the effects of banned substances – are needed to protect clean sport.   Continue reading “Call for athletes to be fitted with microchips in fight against drug cheats”

By Stephen Byers

Here is a bit of interesting info I compile each year.

Safe States: Well, just like every year, according to the FBI Annual Crime Report, NH, VT, ME, are the 3 safest states, as relating to violent crime. The only 3 states mind you, with a violent crime rate of under 200 per 100,000 people. (source: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/topic-pages/tables/table-3 ).   Continue reading “More Guns does equal Less Crime”

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump will try to make the case that corporate tax breaks would benefit middle-class wage earners Wednesday evening — and an excerpt of his speech suggests he’ll use a measure of salesmanship.

Trump is expected to say the typical American household would get “a $4,000 pay raise” from facets of the planned legislation that would cut the corporate tax rate and end the current U.S. practice of taxing corporations’ foreign earnings, according to part of the speech released by the White House.

Economists disagree on just how much individuals benefit from corporate tax breaks, but even Trump’s own economic advisers have said that the $4,000 benefit he plans to highlight would only materialize over eight years. On an annual basis, it’s closer to $500.   Continue reading “Trump to Pitch Americans a $4,000 ‘Pay Raise,’ But It Could Take 8 Years”

The Hill

President Trump plans to gear his tax-reform pitch Wednesday in Pennsylvania to truckers, arguing that his plans to make business tax changes will put more money in people’s pockets.

“We will eliminate the penalty on returning future earnings back to the United States. And we will impose a one-time low tax on money currently parked overseas so it can be brought back home to America – where it belongs,” Trump plans to say, according to an excerpt provided by the White House.   Continue reading “Trump to focus on truckers in tax-reform pitch”

RT

A Greek anarchist group stormed the Spanish embassy in Athens in support of Catalonian independence, hanging banners from the roof and throwing leaflets from the windows.

Embassy staff were forced to evacuate Wednesday morning as 19 demonstrators from the group, Rouvikonas, burst into the building on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street in the Makrigianni area.

Only a few diplomats remained inside, reports Reuters citing an embassy official.   Continue reading “Anarchists storm Spanish embassy in Athens”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea’s nuclear weapons development is spooking most Americans, and two-thirds of them say President Donald Trump’s war of words with the isolated nation’s leader is making the situation worse. Less than 1 in 10 thinks Trump’s comments are making it better.

Those are the findings of a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, as tensions between the adversaries escalate and North Korea comes closer to its goal of having a nuclear-tipped missile that could strike the continental U.S.  Continue reading “AP-NORC Poll: Most say Trump making NKorea situation worse”

Mail.com

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan judge on Wednesday ruled that a minor opposition candidate can run for president in this month’s election, bringing fresh uncertainty a day after opposition leader Raila Odinga withdrew from the new vote ordered by the Supreme Court.

At the same time, lawmakers approved amendments to the electoral law that have been criticized by the opposition and Western diplomats. The amendments require the approval of President Uhuru Kenyatta, whose ruling party sought the changes after the Supreme Court nullified Kenyatta’s election in August and cited “irregularities.”  Continue reading “Kenya ruling brings new uncertainty to fresh election”

Mail.com

MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy demanded Wednesday that the leader of Catalonia clarify whether he has declared the region’s independence, issuing a veiled threat that the central government could limit or rescind Catalan autonomy if he has.

Rajoy said Catalan president Carles Puigdemont’s response would be crucial in deciding “events over the coming days.” The prime minister’s remarks marked the first time that Rajoy has openly said that invoking a section of the Spanish Constitution that allows the government to assert control over regions would be the next step, if Catalan authorities don’t backtrack.   Continue reading “Spain’s PM demands clarity from Catalonia on independence”

Fox News

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a man accused of dousing a 19-year-old former high school cheerleader with a flammable liquid, setting her ablaze and leaving her to die along a north Mississippi back road.

Quinton Tellis, 29, has been charged with the murder of Jessica Chambers on Dec. 6, 2014, and faces life in prison without parole if convicted. Tellis has pleaded not guilty.

Opening arguments and testimony are expected to begin Tuesday morning, with prosecutors expecting to call more than 40 witnesses in a trial that could last up to two weeks, the Commercial-Appeal reported.    Continue reading “Murder trial begins in gruesome burning death of former Mississippi cheerleader Jessica Chambers”

NBC New York

A New York City man has been arrested on federal charges for allegedly threatening a Las Vegas-style attack on a Colorado Internet company that had caught on to his apparent efforts to milk its referral bonus program, according to a criminal complaint.

Victor Casillas allegedly sent photos of assault weapons to the firm and threatened, “Get ready 4 Las Vegas part two,” according to the criminal complaint.

Officials stress they did not find any assault weapons when they arrested the Manhattan man.    Continue reading “Manhattan Man Mad Over Unpaid Bonuses From Internet Company Threatens ‘Las Vegas Part 2’: Feds”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

A recent revelation over trying to nab pedophiles online has raised serious questions that lead many to question the entire job of a public servant’s duty to ‘protect society.’

How far should police go to catch bad guys? How many wrongs should investigators be permitted to commit in pursuit of justice? Should police be permitted to run the world’s largest dark web child porn distribution site? For a year? Should police distribute images and videos of child victims, further revictimizing the parents and children, and encourage people to join and share these horrific images and videos?   Continue reading “Largest Pedophile Site in the World Discovered to Be Secretly Run by Police—for an Entire Year”

CNBC – AP

A day after authorities revised the timeline of events on the night of the Las Vegas mass shooting, the hotel where the gunman was staying is casting doubt on the changes.

Police said earlier this week that they believe Stephen Paddock shot a hotel security guard through the door of his high-rise hotel suite six minutes before he unleashed a barrage of bullets into a crowd at a musical performance below. The injured guard ran down a hall using his radio and possibly a hallway phone to call for help, reporting he had been shot in the leg.   Continue reading “Hotel questions revised timeline of Las Vegas massacre”

Reason – by C.J. Ciaramella

A federal judge has reinstated the drivers’ licenses of two Tennessee residents, thanks to a class action lawsuit challenging the state’s practice of suspending licenses for unpaid traffic fines. The suit is still ongoing, but the reinstatement is a good sign; groups representing the plaintiffs say this may be the first court decision of its kind.

Attorneys for Civil Rights Corps, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, Just City, and the law firm Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz filed the federal suit in September on behalf of what they say are more than a quarter of a million Tennessee residents whose licenses were suspended for unpaid traffic fines. These suspensions occur, the lawsuit says, without notifications or consideration of ability to pay, violating the Constitution’s due process and equal protection clauses.   Continue reading “Federal Judge Restores Drivers’ Licenses to Two With Unpaid Traffic Tickets; May Be First Ruling of its Kind”