KDVR

DENVER — The National Rifle Association has given more than $7 million in grants to hundreds of U.S. schools in recent years, according to an Associated Press analysis, but few have shown any indication that they’ll follow the lead of businesses that are cutting ties with the group after last month’s massacre at a Florida high school.

Florida’s Broward County school district is believed to be the first to stop accepting NRA money after a gunman killed 17 people at one of its schools Feb. 14.   Continue reading “Denver Public Schools to stop accepting several NRA grants”

ABC News

The smirk wiped off his face, a crying Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud Friday in a hard fall for the pharmaceutical-industry bad boy vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.

Shkreli, the boyish-looking, 34-year-old entrepreneur dubbed the “Pharma Bro” for his loutish behavior, was handed his punishment after a hearing in which he and his attorney struggled with limited success to make him a sympathetic figure. His own lawyer confessed to wanting to punch him in the face sometimes.   Continue reading “‘Pharma Bro’ gets 7 years in prison in securities fraud case”

NJ.com

The federal government has been advising a beach town on the Jersey Shore on plans to build a pier and start a ferry service that would speed New Yorkers to the doorstep of a resort co-owned by Jared Kushner.

Kushner’s seaside resort sits right next to the proposed pier, which places the federal government in the awkward position of helping steer a project that would benefit President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser.   Continue reading “Jersey Shore town seeks fed backing for ferry dock near Kushner-owned resort”

Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill

Dr. Patrick Slattery plays clips of professor Stephen F. Cohen talking about Israeli meddling in American elections and American meddling in Russian elections. Then he takes calls on the Jewish background of Russian oligarchs and the ‘Kosher Question.’

Professor Stephwn F. Cohen, a Jewish professor and well known intellectual, appears regularly on the John Batchelor show.   Continue reading “Jewish ‘Russian Studies’ Scholar Talks About Israeli Meddling In American Elections”

Citizen Free Press

Detailed Timeline Shows Exactly How Authorities Responded To Stoneman Douglas Shooting

It had been 11 minutes since Nikolas Cruz unleashed his deadly barrage of gunfire inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.  That’s when four Coral Springs police officers and two Broward Sheriff’s deputies entered the 1200 building, according to a timeline and radio calls released Thursday by the sheriff’s office.   Continue reading “Broward Sheriff Audio Released”

OC Register

Orange County Public Works released eye-popping figures Thursday, March 8, on the total amount of debris, needles and hazardous waste removed when crews cleaned up the area along the Santa Ana River Trail once populated by the encampments of homeless people.

Here’s what was collected between Jan. 22 and March 3 from a more than two-mile stretch of bike trail roughly from I-5 in Orange to Ball Road in Anaheim, according to OC Public Works spokesman Shannon Widor:   Continue reading “Thousands of pounds of human waste, close to 14,000 hypodermic needles cleaned out from Santa Ana River homeless encampments”

Reuters

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) – When a massive earthquake struck in 2011, Japanese oyster fisherman Atsushi Fujita was working as usual by the sea. Soon after, a huge black wave slammed into his city and killed nearly 2,000 people.

Seven years on, Fujita and thousands like him along Japan’s northeast coast have rebuilt their lives alongside huge sea walls that experts say will protect them if another giant tsunami, which some see as inevitable in a seismically active nation like Japan, was to strike.   Continue reading “Seven years after tsunami, Japanese live uneasily with seawalls”

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world’s computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.

That long-sought and closely guarded ability was part of a cluster of spying programs discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software maker that has exposed a series of Western cyberespionage operations.   Continue reading “Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program”

CNN

Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law Friday, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on February 14.

The law, known as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, tightens gun control in several ways but also allows some teachers to be armed.

Scott, surrounded by families of the victims, recounted the grief visited on his state in the aftermath of the Valentine’s Day carnage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland and, in 2016, the shootings at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale Airport.   Continue reading “Florida Gov. Rick Scott signs gun bill”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

China’s first prototype station, Tiangong-1, will come crashing back to Earth between March 29 and April 9, experts say. The space station is carrying toxic waste, and it’s still unknown where Tiangong-1 will actually hit once it falls back to the planet.

The Chinese space station is said to be errant and out of control while carrying extremely hazardous toxic waste.  The problem is that the space station is going to crash into the Earth within the next 21 days, and experts have no idea where it’s going to land.
Continue reading “Out Of Control Chinese Space Station Carrying Toxic Waste Will Crash To Earth In Days”

CDL Life

The California Air Resources Board recently announced that by the year 2020 trucks will need to meet health-based requirements in order to obtain Department of Motor Vehicles registrations.   Continue reading “Big rigs with older engines will be denied registration in California by the year 2020”

Fellowship of the Minds – by DCG

The city of Baltimore faces many challenges, mainly a very high crime rate. See our following blog posts:

Continue reading “Follow the money: Baltimore to spend $200,000 to help illegal aliens fight deportation”

LA Times

One of the nation’s largest veterans care facilities in the country was put on lockdown Friday morning after reports of an active-shooter and hostage situation, facility officials said.

“Law enforcement authorities have responded to the Yountville Veterans Home this morning following reports of gunfire near the main dining hall. The facility is on lockdown, and all residents and staff are sheltering in place. We will continue to update you as we get more information,” said state Department of Veterans Affairs spokesman Johsua Kiser in an email.

Continue reading “Veterans facility in Yountville on lockdown amid reports of active shooter, hostage situation”

Campus Reform – by Mitchel Gunter

A group of students at the University of Texas, San Antonio plans to start publishing a “No Whites Allowed” (NWA) magazine.

According to a Facebook event titled “Zine Release,” the magazine will be revealed on March 1 at La Botanica, which describes itself as “Texas’ first vegan restaurant with a full bar and performance and event venue.”   Continue reading “Texas students launch ‘No Whites Allowed’ magazine”