Year: 2017

Yahoo News

The Girl Scouts of the USA has issued a blistering rebuke of the Boy Scouts of America‘s decision to begin letting girls into the ranks of its troops.

“The Boy Scouts’ house is on fire,” Girl Scouts told ABC News in a statement today. “Instead of addressing systemic issues of continuing sexual assault, financial mismanagement and deficient programming, BSA’s senior management wants to add an accelerant to the house fire by recruiting girls.”   Continue reading “Girl Scouts slam Boy Scouts’ decision to accept girls: ‘The Boy Scouts’ house is on fire’”

RT

The US State Department confirmed the country is officially withdrawing from UNESCO, the UN’s cultural body it helped found in 1945, citing “anti-Israeli bias” and the need for reform. The move will take effect on December 31, the US announced.

“This decision was not taken lightly, and reflects US concerns with mounting arrears at UNESCO, the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO,” the State Department said in a Thursday statement cited by Reuters.   Continue reading “US withdraws from UNESCO, cites ‘continuing anti-Israel bias’”

Mail.com

Two newly filed lawsuits against the white nationalists and others who descended on Charlottesville during a summer rally aim to prevent the violent chaos that unfolded from happening again. One of the lawsuits was filed Thursday in Charlottesville Circuit Court on behalf of the city, local businesses and neighborhood associations. It accuses organizers of the August “Unite the Right” rally, leading figures in the white nationalist movement and their organizations, as well as private militia groups and their leaders, of violating Virginia law by organizing and acting as paramilitary units.

It doesn’t seek monetary damages but asks for a court order prohibiting “illegal paramilitary activity.” “Touted as an opportunity to protest the removal of a controversial Confederate statue, the event quickly escalated well beyond such constitutionally protected expression,” the lawsuit says. “Instead, private military forces transformed an idyllic college town into a virtual combat zone.”   Continue reading “New lawsuits aim to prevent more violence in Charlottesville”

Mail.com

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years of being held captive by a network with ties to the Taliban, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Thursday.

U.S. officials said Pakistan secured the release of Caitlan Coleman of Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, and her husband, Canadian Joshua Boyle, who were abducted five years ago while traveling in Afghanistan and had been held by the Haqqani network.   Continue reading “Family held captive by Taliban-linked group released”

The Gateway Pundit – by Joe Hoft

It’s being reported that the security guard made famous in the Las Vegas shooter story is not even registered as a guard with the State of Nevada.  Is he even a guard?  Why was he there?

Every security guard in the state of Nevada has to register as an armed or unarmed guard with the state’s Private Investigator’s Licensing Board (PILB).  This entity’s records are publicly searchable at: nevadapilb.glsuite.us.
Continue reading “Las Vegas Security Guard Shot by Vegas Killer is Not Registered as a Security Guard in the State of Nevada?”

CBC News

In the race to slow global warming, science has been exploring ways to manipulate the climate, but until recently the conversations have been confined to laboratories.

While the growing field of geoengineering offers promise, it also comes with all kinds of potential pitfalls, and that’s what experts and policy-makers are discussing at a conference in Berlin this week.   Continue reading “Geoengineering aims to slow global warming by manipulating climate, but risks are unknown”

Kansas City Star – by Jonathan Shorman, Hunter Woodall

TOPEKA – In a revelation that shocked lawmakers, the companies running the state’s foster care system said Tuesday that more than 70 foster children are missing in Kansas.

Lawmakers also were furious that Phyllis Gilmore, secretary of the Kansas Department for Children and Families, appeared unaware that three sisters have been missing from a northeast Kansas foster home since Aug. 26.
Continue reading “Lawmakers shocked to learn 70-plus children missing from Kansas’ foster care system”

In mid-September, the guarantor states of the Syrian ceasefire regime (Iran, Russia and Turkey) in Astana signed an agreement on creating the forth de-escalation zone including Idlib and some parts of Aleppo, Latakia and Hama Governorates.   Continue reading “Exclusive: Turkey colludes with Jabhat al-Nusra”

RT

An American grandmother sentenced to a year in jail after photographing an anti-drone protest outside a military base in Hancock, New York, is appealing her conviction for violating a restraining order.

Mary Anne Grady Flores, 58, is set to appear in the New York State Court of Appeals Wednesday, hoping to get her one-year jail term overturned.

“I had been arrested twice at the Hancock Air [Force] Base, where there are drone assassinations happening on a daily basis,” Flores told RT. Those arrests were in 2011 and 2012.   Continue reading “Granny protesting US drones fights jail sentence”

NPR – by Scott Neuman

Thousands more people were being evacuated as some of the worst wildfires in California’s history swept through wine country, leaving a trail of smoldering destruction and a death toll of at least 23.

Firefighters were locked in a fight with the wind-whipped blazes, but heading into a fourth day of the struggle they appeared no closer to containing them. In fact, the fires that have burned since Sunday in Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Mendocino and Yuba counties are now threatening the towns of Sonoma, Napa, Calistoga and Fairfield.   Continue reading “More Flee California Wine Country As Deadly Wildfires Spread”

NZ Herald

A new optical illusion is sweeping the web – and it’s just like *that* dress all over again.

Facebook user Nicole Coulthard discovered a screenshot of a sneaker, but no one can decide on what colour it is.

There are two groups of people who think they have the correct answer – some think that the shoe is pink and white, while the other group say it’s grey and aqua.   Continue reading “Are these sneakers pink and white, or blue and grey?”

But when the government does this it’s ok? They have already turned on lap top cameras and possibly phone cameras “in the name of home land security”

Yahoo News

Two people said they are upset after discovering a hidden camera pointed at the bed in a room they rented from the popular site Airbnb.

“My wife and I are distressed by this situation. I hope more victims will come forward,” Derek Starnes told ABC News affiliate WFTS-TV of Tampa, Florida, after he said he found a camera hidden in the smoke detector of a room he rented through Airbnb on Longboat Key, just south of Tampa Bay.   Continue reading “Couple finds hidden camera in Florida Airbnb”

Four men were riding on a train together in the same compartment – a Russian, a Cuban, an American and a Khazar.

The Russian took a bottle of vodka out of his carry-on-luggage, poured some of it into a glass, drank it, and said, “In USSR, we have the best vodka in the world – nowhere in the world you can find vodka as good as the vodka we make in Russia. And we have so much of it that we can just throw it away…” Saying that, he opened a window in the train compartment and threw the entire bottle of vodka out of the window.
Continue reading “Four Men on a Train”

Fox News

An illegal immigrant accused of beheading his mother in March may have the charges against him dropped, a local television station reported.

Oliver Mauricio Funes-Machado, 18, has been accused of beheading his 35-year-old mother at their home in North Carolina on March 6.

WNCN reported a judge is expected to sign an order that will drop the first degree murder charges against him after he ruled he’s not mentally competent to stand trial.   Continue reading “Illegal immigrant accused of beheading mother to have charges dropped, report says”