Month: September 2018

LA Times

Gavin Newsom wasn’t born rich, but he was born connected — and those alliances have paid handsome dividends throughout his career.

A coterie of San Francisco’s wealthiest families has backed him at every step of his political rise, which in November could lead next to his election as governor of California.

San Francisco society’s “first families” — whose names grace museum galleries, charity ball invitations and hospital wards — settled on Newsom, 50, as their favored candidate two decades ago, said Willie Brown, former state Assembly speaker and former mayor of the city.   Continue reading “How eight elite San Francisco families funded Gavin Newsom’s political ascent”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

While the Free Thought Project often reports on the megacorp Nestle and their rampant abuse and exploitation of drinking water supplies across the nation, few are aware that the company has been found using slave labor. What’s more, as governments across the world attempt to crack down the use of slave labor by requiring companies to report on its use, Nestle is fighting it, saying that it will end up costing consumers at the register.

Late last month, Nestle issued a warning against proposed legislation that would require them to report on their efforts to weed out slavery within their company. The company says the cost of checking to see if they are forcing people to work against their will end up being passed on to the consumer.   Continue reading “Nestle Says Requirement to Report Use of Slave Labor Would Cost Consumers More Money”

Breitbart – by John Binder

American construction workers are seeing their wages rise in the blue collar industry as President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” tightened labor market forces business to find and employ disenfranchised U.S. workers, rather than importing foreign workers.

A recent report by the Miami Herald chronicled the rise in wages and business having to adapt to an economy with a tight labor market as immigration enforcement has been increased and unemployment has hit record lows.   Continue reading “Trump’s Tight Labor Market Wins U.S. Construction Workers Higher Wages”

AP

SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) — California is taking a financial wallop from unrelenting wildfires that have drained its firefighting budget and prompted nearly $1 billion in property claims even before the start of the dangerous fall fire season, officials said Thursday.

The disclosures came as a roaring blaze in a rural area near the Oregon state line closed 45 miles (72 kilometers) of heavily traveled Interstate 5, the main highway from Mexico to Canada.   Continue reading “California takes financial wallop from unrelenting wildfires”

ABC News

A Dallas police officer shot and killed a 26-year-old man Thursday night upon returning home from her shift and entering an apartment she apparently thought was her own, authorities said.

Preliminary information suggests the off-duty officer, who has not been publicly identified, was still wearing her police uniform after working a full shift when she arrived that night at the apartment complex where she lives south of downtown Dallas, according to a statement released Friday by the Dallas Police Department.   Continue reading “Officer fatally shoots man after entering wrong apartment ‘believing that it was her own’: Police”

Gun Owners of America – by Michael Hammond

If Democrat Senators Dick Durbin (IL) and Chuck Schumer (NY) get their way, gun owners could go to jail — for a MINIMUM of five years — simply for posting a file that will allow honest citizens to print their own 3D-guns.

These Senators are trying to sucker Republicans into supporting this gun control by helping them pass prison reform legislation.

But for gun owners across America, this should be a non-starter!  Continue reading “Talking About Certain Guns Online to be Punished with FIVE Years in Prison!”

The Jamestown Sun

The newly minted junior at Liberty Preparatory School was perhaps still on summer break schedule during class last week. His teacher couldn’t wake him up. Even summoning the interim principal wasn’t enough to get the teenager to open his eyes.

So the Smithville, Ohio, educators called for the school resource officer, a part-time member of the local police named Maryssa Boskoski, whose idea of an impromptu alarm could cost her job and maybe even her freedom.   Continue reading “A sleeping student in Ohio wouldn’t wake up in class, so an officer pulled out her Taser”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While Syria seemed to have dropped from the Western media’s radar over the past months as the Syrian Army and its Russian and Iranian allies made rapid gains, multiple huge developments this week have returned the war to center stage in Washington and the dangerous rhetoric of escalation.

In just the last 24 hours alone, we’ve learned:   Continue reading “Top US Envoy Says “Lots Of Evidence” Assad Prepping Chemical Weapons; Russia Threatens Attack On US Base”

Daily Mail

A transgender prisoner has been accused of sexually assaulting four female inmates after being sent to a women’s prison, despite not having had reassignment surgery.

It is alleged the first attack took place within days of the inmate arriving at New Hall jail in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.   Continue reading “Transgender prisoner put in female jail ‘assaulted four women’”

Boing Boing – by Cory Doctorow

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up — Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.

This is a glimpse of the near future. In one week, the European Parliament will vote on a proposal to force all online services to implement Content ID-style censorship, but not just for videos — for audio, text, stills, code, everything.   Continue reading “The future is here today: you can’t play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions”

Independent Sentinel – by Linda Goudsmit

On January 26, 2018, Daniel Greenfield gave a brilliant speech in South Carolina in which he argued that politics make civil wars – not guns. “Guns are how a civil war ends. Politics is how it begins.” What does that mean?

“Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.”   Continue reading “Countdown to Civil War”

Fox News

Johnny Bobbitt, the homeless military veteran who had $400,000 raised for him by well-wishers, will receive the full amount of money even though those behind the fundraiser allegedly squandered it.

GoFundMe, along with law firm Cozen O’Connor, said Thursday that Bobbitt will receive the balance of what he was not given of the hundreds of thousands raised for him in late 2017, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.   Continue reading “Homeless Philadelphia man Johnny Bobbitt will get his $400G, GoFundMe says”

Fox News

PHILADELPHIA –  Authorities say 12 passengers on two flights from Europe were evaluated for sore throats and coughs upon arrival at Philadelphia International Airport, but none were considered severely ill.

A federal Customs and Border Protection spokesman says the sick passengers had been attending the hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.   Continue reading “Passengers on 2 flights from Europe arrive sick in Philly”