Month: February 2018

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. budget deal adopted by Congress on Friday includes what advocates call a landmark compromise to provide an estimated $1.5 billion over 10 years to try to keep struggling families together, including those with babies born dependent on opioids.

The provision allows assistance on mental health, substance abuse and parenting whenever any child is deemed at imminent risk of entering foster care. It also offers support for relatives who unexpectedly assume responsibility for a child when a parent cannot.   Continue reading “U.S. budget deals grants $1.5 billion for opioid-addicted babies, families”

Yahoo News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, the head of the Legislative Women’s Caucus and a leading figure in the state’s anti-sexual harassment movement, is accused of groping a male staffer from another lawmaker’s office.

Daniel Fierro told The Associated Press on Thursday that Garcia stroked his back, squeezed his buttocks and attempted to touch his crotch in a dugout after a legislative softball game in 2014.   Continue reading “Man accuses California #MeToo leader of sexual misconduct”

Daily Mail

A university library worker claims he was accused of harassment because he typed an email in all capital letters.

Grandfather Stephen Poole said he sent the email after ‘snowflake’ bosses told him to work longer hours with just one week’s notice.

He finished off the email with the words ‘YOU DO IT’ before being ordered days later to see the library’s manager.    Continue reading “Snowflake university library bosses ‘accuse colleague, 65, of shouting at them and harassment’ after he used capital letters in an email”

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

A Utah school board voted to change the name of the oldest elementary school in its district from Andrew Jackson Elementary School to honor a NASA engineer with the same last name.

The Salt Lake City school board voted unanimously this week to change the school’s name from Andrew Jackson Elementary School to Mary Jackson Elementary School, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.   Continue reading “Utah School Named After Andrew Jackson Renamed to Honor NASA Engineer”

Register Guard – by Christian Hill

Eugene Water & Electric Board commissioners changed course and adopted an “opt out” policy for so-called smart meters with a unanimous vote Tuesday night.

The decision means customers will have to contact EWEB and specifically direct that the meter attached to their home or business not transmit their electric and water usage data. Currently, meter readers visit customers’ properties monthly and take down that information.   Continue reading “EWEB decides customers must ‘opt out’ if they oppose ‘smart’ meters”

Daily Mail

George Soros, in a rare moment of candour, once confessed to being driven by what armchair psychiatrists would call a Messiah complex.

‘I have always harboured an exaggerated view of my self-importance.’

He wrote: ‘To put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god…as I made my way in the world, reality came close enough to my fantasy to allow me to admit my secret. Needless to say, I feel much happier as a result.’   Continue reading “GUY ADAMS on George Soros who ‘broke the Bank of England’”

The Organic Prepper – by J. G. Martinez D

I want to share some insights that have been bouncing inside my head these last few weeks about the situation in Venezuela.

I am not particularly fond of TV shows, to be honest. I have plenty of things to do these days to make the ends meet in a new country: writing, consulting, private math/English lectures, and generally getting my daily income. But from time to time, I like to watch some of the recent post-apocalyptic stories. There is a lot we can learn from the imagination of those writers.   Continue reading “Daily Life in Venezuela Is Like a Post-Apocalyptic TV Show”

The Hill – by Timothy Cama

The two-year budget deal reached by congressional leaders would set up the biggest sale in history from the nation’s emergency oil stockpile.

In an effort to partially pay for new spending, the budget agreement would sell 100 million barrels of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the next decade.

Taken with sales Congress authorized last year to pay for other spending, the deal would leave the Department of Energy-managed reserve with just over 300 million barrels, or about half its previous size.   Continue reading “Budget deal envisions largest oil stockpile sale in history”

Global Research – by Prof. James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya

This pathbreaking analysis, which is currently the object of controversy and debate, was first published by Global Research in July 2016

The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of ‘premature deaths’ – a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic.  There have been quiet studies and reports peripherally describing this trend – but their conclusions have not yet entered the national consciousness for reasons we will try to explore in this essay.  Indeed this is the first time in the country’s ‘peacetime’ history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline – and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural communities of the United States.     Continue reading ““Genocide by Prescription”: Drug Induced Death in America”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved swiftly early Friday to reopen the federal government and pass a $400 billion budget deal, overcoming opposition from both liberal Democrats and tea party conservatives to endorse enormous spending increases despite looming trillion-dollar deficits.

The 240-186 vote came in the pre-dawn hours, putting to bed a five-and-a-half hour federal freeze that relatively few would notice. Many who did quickly labeled it a pointless, head-scratching episode. The shutdown was the second in three weeks.   Continue reading “Congress votes to reopen government, passes budget deal”

CBS News – by Len Ramirez

SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – The number of people packing up and moving out of the Bay Area just hit its highest level in more than a decade.

Carole Dabak spent 40 years living in San Jose and now she’s part of the mass exodus that is showing no signs of slowing down.

The retired engineer’s packing up and calling it quits about to move to the state of Tennessee.   Continue reading “San Francisco Bay Area Experiences Mass Exodus Of Residents”

The New Observer

The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) has confirmed that it is in discussions with the Israeli government to ship the African invaders facing deportation from the Jewish ethnostate to “safe western countries,” which will likely include the US and Canada, rather than allowing them to be sent back to Africa.

According to a report in the Jerusalem-based Times of Israel, Sharon Harel, the external relations officer at the UNHCR office in Israel, confirmed the existence of the deal, which will halt Israel’s current campaign to deport thousands of Africans to Rwanda.  Continue reading “UN Wants to Ship Africans from Israel to “Safe Western Countries””

The Daily Caller – by Peter Hasson

George Soros helped tip another district attorney’s race with more than $100,000 in support of his preferred candidate — and he did it without anybody finding out until after the campaign.

A Soros-funded national political action committee (PAC), Justice & Public Safety, spent more than $100,000 on behalf of Portsmouth, Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Stephanie Morales between Sept. 9 and Nov. 4, the PAC’s FEC filings reveal. Soros’s support for Morales’s campaign has not been previously reported.   Continue reading “George Soros Quietly Poured $100K Into Local DA Race Without Anybody Knowing”

Daily Mail

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at police in a rare attack with detectives reportedly on the verge of recommending his indictment for accepting bribes.

Pressure has built on Netanyahu as police investigating him in the long-running probe reportedly prepare to submit their recommendations to the attorney general next week.

Israeli media have reported that police are expected to recommend his indictment for bribery, fraud and breach of public trust.   Continue reading “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashes out at police with detectives ‘on the verge of recommending his indictment for accepting bribes’”