Press Herald – by Randy Billings

Maine’s largest city will no longer celebrate Columbus Day as a municipal holiday.

The Portland City Council voted unanimously Monday to designate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The vote came after nearly an hour of public comment.

Portland became the latest municipality in Maine to recognize indigenous people instead of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who arrived in the New World on Oct. 12, 1492. Belfast was the first to make the switch in 2015, Bangor did so last month and Orono followed suit last week. Later Monday night, the Brunswick Town Council voted 8-1 to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.   Continue reading “Portland designates 2nd Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day”

Need to Know

Tim Pool, an independent journalist who has covered protests including Occupy Wall Street and the Ferguson riots, says that the majority of the violent protesters are Antifa communists. The common thread for these groups is the desire to take down the US. An example is when they chant, “No Trump, No Wall, No USA at ALL!” Pool says the radical left despises liberals and have said, “Liberals get the bullet, too.” -GEG
Continue reading “Antifa Communists Say “Liberals Get the Bullet, Too””

RT

A federal court denied convicted Charleston shooter Dylann Roof’s request to replace his two defense lawyers, who are Jewish and Indian. Roof called the lawyers appealing against his death sentence his “political and biological enemies.”

Roof, 23, killed nine and wounded three black parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015. He told police he wanted to start a “race war.” He was found guilty in December 2016 and subsequently sentenced to death in a federal hate crimes trial.   Continue reading “Court denies Charleston shooter’s request to fire his Jewish & Indian lawyers”

Mail.com

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nations on Wednesday began signing the first treaty to ban nuclear weapons, a pact backed by over 100 countries but spurned by those with nuclear arms. The U.N. treaty office said 51 countries are expected to attach their names on the opening day for signatures. Brazilian President Michel Temer was first to sign.

The treaty requires all countries that eventually ratify it not to develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons “under any circumstances. Wednesday, the opening day for signatures. Brazilian President Michel Temer was first to sign.   Continue reading “Nations start signing nuke ban treaty opposed by big powers”

Mail.com

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 23-year-old white man was arrested and accused of killing two black men and shooting up a black family’s home in a string of attacks last week that police say may have been racially motivated.

A law enforcement official said Tuesday that authorities found a handwritten copy of an Adolf Hitler speech at Kenneth James Gleason’s home and investigators said surveillance footage and DNA on a shell casing link him to the crimes.   Continue reading “White man faces charges in shooting deaths of 2 black men”

Mail.com

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — One of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit Puerto Rico pummeled the island Wednesday, tearing off roofs and doors, toppling cell towers and unleashing heavy flooding in an onslaught that could deepen the U.S. territory’s financial crisis.

Maria, which left at least nine people dead in its wake across the Caribbean, blew ashore in the morning in the southeast coastal town of Yabucoa as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph (250 kph).   Continue reading “Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico, heavy flooding reported”

Washington’s Blog – by David Swanson

In planning an upcoming conference aimed at challenging the institution of war, to be held at American University September 22-24, I can’t help but be drawn to the speech a U.S. president gave at American University a little more than 50 years ago. Whether or not you agree with me that this is the best speech ever given by a U.S. president, there should be little dispute that it is the speech most out of step with what anyone will say on Capitol Hill or in the White House today. Here’s a video of the best portion of the speech:   Continue reading “The Best Speech Yet From Any U.S. President”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: By far Trump called for the most murder and death himself. In fact everything Trump accused Iran of doing the United States is doing or has done. Trump accused Iran of supporting terrorism, which we know the United States has done for years. He accused Iran of killing innocent people and destroying nations. I do not know which version of reality this guy watches, but I have seen with my own eyes the United States remove leaders of sovereign nations for years and years. I have seen the U.S. kill innocent people. I have never seen Iran take down another country, neither have I seen North Korea do that…
Continue reading “Trump’s United Nations Speech: ‘Totally Destroy North Korea’, Iran Is ‘Murderous Regime’”

The Organic Prepper

According to some analysts, Americans may be overly confident in our military’s ability to shoot down North Korean missiles if the country were to attempt to strike. Maybe the reason we haven’t shot down North Korea’s test missiles is that we can’t. While we all certainly hope that our military would be able to successfully defend the country against incoming missiles, we need to be prepared for any possibility.

According to an article by Joe Cirincione of Defense One, the reason we don’t shoot down North Korea’s missiles when they fire them over Japan is because…

We don’t have the capability.   Continue reading “Are We Really Capable of Shooting Down North Korean Missiles?”

The Kansas City Star – by Laura Bauer

VERSAILLES, MO. – A Missouri Highway Patrol trooper will spend 10 days in jail for his role in the drowning death of a handcuffed Iowa man.

In addition to the “shock time” in the Morgan County jail, Judge Roger Prokes sentenced Trooper Anthony Piercy to two years of supervised probation and ordered him to complete 50 hours of community service. Piercy will serve time in jail in five, two-day increments with his first stint scheduled to begin Friday.

For Craig Ellingson, whose son Brandon Ellingson drowned in May 2014 in Piercy’s custody on the Lake of the Ozarks, it’s not nearly enough.
Continue reading “Trooper gets 10 days ‘shock time’ in Brandon Ellingson drowning at Lake of the Ozarks”

Yahoo News – by Tom O’Connor, Newsweek

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took an opportunity at his U.N. General Assembly speech Tuesday to praise President Donald Trump, who he said was improving Israel’s reputation abroad.

Netanyahu joined his U.S. ally, President Donald Trump, in disparaging the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed by President Barack Obama, along with the leaders of Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia and the U.K in July 2015. The landmark agreement lifted sanctions against Tehran in exchange for Iran severely restricting its nuclear production capacity, but Netanyahu and Trump have accused Obama of being too soft on their mutual foe and. After facing a cold shoulder from Obama last year, Netanyahu embraced Trump’s tough talk Tuesday, which he said proved a crucial defense for Israel.   Continue reading “Netanyahu: Trump Is Changing the World by Supporting Israel”

Daily Mail

A total of around 150 schools have introduced gender neutral uniforms to enable children to experience ‘equality’, it emerged yesterday.

Rising numbers of primaries and secondaries are adopting the policy, which includes allowing boys and girls to wear skirts or trousers.

Many parents support the move to increase choice, but education experts have argued that youngsters could become confused by ‘politically correct’ practices.   Continue reading “150 schools introduce gender neutral uniforms”