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One of the largest con jobs put upon the American National, keeps on keepin’ on.
The Kenyan born, bred and fed circus clown cannot seem to shut his yap, as he takes credit for the continued con of a supposed favorable economy; numbers just don’t add up, never have, never will. Continue reading “Illegally Elected President – Still Flapping His Gums – Millions in the Bank”
WILLIAMSVILLE, Ill. (WAND)- Illinois State Police patrolled a stretch of I-55 in a semi Wednesday as part of a new effort called Trooper in a Truck.
Troopers in the truck watched for drivers using mobile phones, then alerted troopers in patrol cars who cited the problem drivers. Continue reading “Troopers in trucks target distracted driving”
According to Misha Mitchell, an attorney for a conservation group in Louisiana’s ecologically sensitive Atchafalaya Basin, Energy Transfer Partners and other private oil interests broke the law when they began building a section of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline on a parcel of private land in the iconic river swamp without permission from the landowners.
Mitchell filed a lawsuit against the pipeline project on behalf of landowner Peter Aaslestad and his family after construction began on their property in late July, but work continued on the property until Monday, when Energy Transfer Partners struck a deal in a local court with the plaintiffs to temporarily halt construction. Continue reading “States Allow For-Profit Pipeline Companies to Seize Private Property”
No police department should ever have to explain why they tased an 87-year-old woman. It’s not that the public doesn’t deserve an explanation. It’s that there is seldom any reason to deploy force against 5’2″ 87-year-old. But that’s what Chatsworth Police Chief Josh Etheridge had to do after one of his officers tased the woman during a “confrontation” behind the local Boys and Girls Club.
The police chief of a small Georgia town is defending an officer who deployed a stun gun on a “smiling” 87-year-old woman, saying she refused to comply with numerous commands to put down a kitchen knife she was using to cut dandelions.
The Automatic Earth – by Raúl Ilargi Meijer
In the wake of a number of the Lehman and 9/11 commemorations in America, and as a monster storm is once again threatening to cause outsize damage, we find ourselves at a pivotal point in time, which will decide how the country interacts with its own laws, its legal system, its Constitution, its freedom of speech, and indeed if it has sufficient willpower left to adhere to the Constitution as its no. 1 guiding principle.
The main problem is that it all seems to slip slide straight by the people, who are -kept- busy with completely different issues. That is convenient for those who would like less focus on the Constitution, but it’s also very dangerous for everyone else. Americans should today stand up for freedom of speech, or it will be gone, likely forever. Continue reading “The Ritual Burial of the US Constitution”
Business Insider – by Peter Kotecki
A growing number of North American architects and developers are supporting mass timber construction. Tall timber can sequester carbon, it’s more resistant to fire than concrete, and it’s often cheaper than using steel or concrete. Timber structures use large, prefabricated wood pieces.
But the process of building mass timber structures remains tough, because most cities place height restrictions on wooden structures. Continue reading “Oregon just became the first state to legalize mass timber high-rises, and it could lead to a boom in tall wood buildings”
Daily Beast – by Amy Zimmerman
Last week at the Toronto International Film Festival, Michael Moore debuted his latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9. The Daily Beast described the political documentary as a fast-paced, wide-reaching project, jumping from Flint, Michigan to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (and stopping along the way to compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler). As Natalia Winkelman wrote, “Moore’s best zingers and most penetrating indictments land on the Democratic Party, whom he implicates (along with dominant liberal news media) as part of an establishment system continually churning in place to maintain the status quo and impede forward movement. He even calls out Obama on a few occasions: for letting down the people of Flint, for accepting Goldman Sachs money, for deporting immigrants, for drone strikes. But best of all, Moore acknowledges and emphasizes that he himself is not totally free from that establishment either.” Continue reading “Michael Moore Accused of Stiffing, Smearing Vendors: ‘All I Would Like Is to Be Paid’”
Reversing a three-month trend, the apprehension of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border spiked upward in August. A massive increase across the southwest border moved the number of arrests to record levels.
During August, Border Patrol agents apprehended 37,544 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. This is up from 22,293 in August 2017 — an increase of more than 68 percent, according to the August Southwest Border Migration reported published Wednesday afternoon by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. The number of arrests is also up 20 percent from July 2018 when agents apprehended 31,299 migrants. Continue reading “Illegal Border Crossings in August Up 68 Percent”
ANDOVER, Mass. (Reuters) – At least six people were injured and hundreds were ordered to evacuate their homes following a series of 70 explosions that rocked three communities near Boston on Thursday, apparently triggered by a gas pipeline rupture, local officials said.
Live TV images showed firefighters battling blazes in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover, around 25 miles (40 km)north of the U.S. city. The streets were darkened where authorities had cut off electricity and were shutting down gas service in an effort to stop further blazes. Continue reading “Multiple injuries in dozens of gas blasts near Boston: officials”
A 75-year old Cleveland man ended up trapped in his 2006 Cadillac XLR for 14 hours last month, according to a story reported by the Detroit Free Press. The owner of the car, Peter Pyros, hopped into his roadster to back out onto his driveway, but he quickly learned that the battery was dead. He was “trapped” because the doors use an electric button to activate the door latch to open the door. Since the battery was dead, the buttons did nothing. Continue reading “Man trapped in Cadillac XLR for 14 hours after battery dies”
America’s biggest truck-stop company wants to be the solution to some of the shortages bedeviling the Permian shale basin.
Pilot Flying J, better known for its more than 750 roadside travel centers, announced two deals earlier this year to almost double its crude-hauling capacity to 220,000 barrels a day. The company backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has plans for even more growth, with expansions into wastewater trucking and sand delivery that would add two more services crucial to hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. Continue reading “Truck-stop king looks to corner hauling in chaotic Permian”
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Old-Thinker News – by Daniel Taylor
Chinese man describes the horror as best he can: “They’re eating our flesh and drinking our blood“.
This is the system that big tech companies are bowing to.
Apple and Google have created a dangerous precedent for both business and press freedom in choosing to ally with the communist Chinese. Continue reading “Bone-Chilling Footage From Inside China Shows Raw Reality of Enslavement Tacitly Supported by Big Tech”
Turkish officials announced Wednesday that they sent hundreds of additional special forces, along with tanks, armored vehicles, and other equipment, across the border into Syria’s Idlib Province. They are intended to reinforce Turkish military posts in northern Syria.
Turkish officials say that the intention is to deter the Syrian military from launching an offensive against the Idlib Province, which is under the control of various Islamist rebel factions, the largest of which is al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front. Turkey is aligned with some of these fighters in supporting regime change in Syria. Continue reading “Turkey Sends Troops, Tanks to Syria’s Idlib to ‘Deter’ an Offensive”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
New York, NY — This week, it was reported that seven NYPD cops of various ranks have been arrested for being involved in a massive prostitution and gambling ring. The officers have reportedly been under investigation since 2015 when the city’s internal affairs department received a tip from a whistleblower in the department.
Two detectives were placed on modified duty after the arrests, but it is not clear what their relation to the case is. An additional 30 police officers are wanted for questioning in relation to this investigation. Forty other civilian suspects were also arrested in the investigation, according to an NYPD spokesman. Continue reading “7 NYPD Cops Arrested Dozens More Investigated For Running Massive Prostitution Ring”
Just as the U.S. in typical fashion continues lecturing countries like Syria, Russia, and Iran over severe human rights violations, including allegations of everything from launching barrel bomb strikes on civilian areas in Idlib to chemical weapons attacks to sensational spy poisoning ops in the U.K., the Saudi-US coalition in Yemen has attacked another bus full of children and civilians in Yemen. Continue reading “Another Coalition Strike On Yemen Civilian Bus Occurs The Same Day US Affirms It Stands By Saudis”
The Forest Service plans to submit a rule that would make it easier to explore oil and gas drilling, as well as mineral mining, in National Forests.
The Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees the Forest Service, is planning to revise the contents of the agency’s oil and gas resources regulations, according to one advance notice of proposed rule-making submitted to the Federal Register on Wednesday. Continue reading “Administration announces plan to streamline oil and gas extraction in national forests”