Business Insider – by Andy Kiersz

Immigration has always been a central part of the American experience, and certain areas draw more immigrants than others.

The US Census Bureau recently released its annual population estimates for each of the country’s 3,142 counties and county equivalents. In addition to showing the estimated total population change in those areas between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, the Census Bureau also included a breakdown of the components of that change, including net international migration, or the number of immigrants from other countries moving into a county minus the number of people leaving that county for another country.   Continue reading “Here’s where immigrants are moving to in the US”

The American Mirror – by Victor Skinner

The United Nation’s Ambassador to Peace Leonardo DiCaprio told the world body in 2014 that “now must be our moment for action” to fight climate change.

This week, DiCaprio was pictured on his private gas-guzzling jet enroute to Coachella, the annual California music festival.  Continue reading “‘Climate change’ campaigner Leonardo DiCaprio takes private jet to Coachella”

..because a federal judge presided over the ceremony at his Caramoor Estate in Bedford, NY about an hour NNE from NYC.

And to think that Judge Kimba Maureen Wood was Bill Clinton’s failure of a nominee for Attorney General. Shame on you, George Soros!   Continue reading “On or about 20-Sep-2013 George Soros got married. Why should Americans care?”

KDVR 31 News

WASHINGTON — The mayor of Washington, D.C., and a majority of the council are voicing support for letting 16-year-olds vote for president.

Local media report that the measure would lower the voting age from 18 for both federal and local elections.   Continue reading “Washington D.C. may consider allowing 16-year-olds vote for president”

Waking Times – by Phillip Schneider

In a world where the average person consumes more resources than could possibly be regenerated in their lifetime, it’s no surprise to hear that our quickening resource consumption is resulting in a slow-motion collapse of the environment and all life on the planet.

However, researchers at a San Francisco Bay startup company have discovered a way to counteract this degradation. MycoWorks, a company which creates products out of fungi, believes that the answer may lie in replacing just some of the many products we consume with this entirely sustainable and renewable source material.  Continue reading “Company Develops Revolutionary Way to Create Leather, Wood, and Bricks from Mushrooms”

If you were in the market for a watch in 1880, would you know where to get one? You would go to a store, right? Well, of course you could do that, but if you wanted one that was cheaper and a bit better than most of the store watches, you went to the train station!

Sound a bit funny? Well, for about 500 towns across the northern United States , that’s where the best watches were found.   Continue reading “About the Pocket Watch”

Dollar Collapse

“War” and “pensions” are conceptually about as different as it’s possible to be. But – in a measure of how far into Crazy Town we’ve wandered – they’re both taking the world in the same direction.

If a Middle East (or Asian!) war doesn’t spike oil prices and push the global economy into recession, then pensions will probably produce the same end result. Here’s an excerpt from a much longer New York Times article that should be read in its entirety for a sense of what public finance has become:   Continue reading “More Absolutely Crazy Pension News”

The Hill

Police detectives in Pittsburgh have been instructed to start bringing their riot gear to work over fears that President Trump could soon fire special counsel Robert Mueller and set off widespread protests.

WTAE reporter Marcie Cipriani obtained emails sent to detectives in Pittsburgh warning them of a “potential large scale protest” in the city.   Continue reading “Pittsburgh police told to prepare for protests over potential Mueller firing: report”

Daily Mail

The Wyoming school district where U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos suggested that teachers might need to be armed to protect children from grizzly bears voted Tuesday on doing just that, though concerns about school shootings worry parents more than the possibility of big bruins on the prowl.

The 4-2 vote by the Park County School District No. 6 board in the town of Cody near Yellowstone National Park came after more than six months of discussion and debate. Under the proposed policy, school employees would need to have at least 24 hours of initial firearms training and annual recertification to carry concealed guns at school.  Continue reading “Wyoming school district where Betsy DeVos suggested teachers should carry guns to protect children against BEARS now votes to arm its educators”

Business Insider

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump has given his “blessing” for North and South Korea to discuss the end of the Korean War amid a diplomatic push to end the North Korean nuclear standoff. One problem: There can be no real talks without the involvement of the other countries that fought the 1950-53 war, and especially the United States.

The reason is that South Korea wasn’t a direct signatory to the armistice that stopped the fighting but left the Korean Peninsula still technically in a state of war.  Continue reading “South and North Korea are talking about peace — But to end the war they need the US and China”

AOL

WPMT — As the saying goes, food is fuel for the brain.

And Kyle Byler, an 8th grade social studies teacher at Hand Middle School in Lancaster, hoped to bring his students some extra fuel during the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment testing, better known as the PSSAs.

“This teacher took it upon himself to make sure these kids were fed so they didn’t have to worry about being hungry while trying to take a test,” said Crystle Martinez, parent of an 8th grader at Hand Middle School.   Continue reading “Teacher says he was suspended for making students pancakes”

Citizen Free Press

Griff Jenkins confronts California Governor Jerry Brown over the murder of a 6 year-old girl that would have been prevented if California had cooperated with the ICE deportation order. Watch the clip all the way to the end.   Continue reading “Reporter Confronts Jerry Brown Over Murder Of 6 Year-Old Girl By Illegal Alien”

A&E for 9/11 Truth – by Ted Walter

On the morning of April 10th, attorneys from the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, together with more than a dozen family members of 9/11 victims, filed a petition with the interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, demanding that he present evidence of unprosecuted federal crimes at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, to a special grand jury.
Continue reading “Lawyers and Victims’ Families File Petition for Federal Grand Jury Investigation”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

West Valley City, Utah – Disturbing body camera footage has been released that gives insight into the moments before an unarmed man was shot and killed by police officers who opened fire as he appeared to comply with their orders to put his hands in the air.

Elijah James Smith, 20, was shot and killed by police just 10 seconds after two officers confronted him in a garage and started screaming, “Put your hands up now! Let me see your hands!”   Continue reading “Video Shows Cops Kill Unarmed Man for Complying with Order to ‘Get Hands Out of Pockets’”