Year: 2018
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles city prosecutors have charged two men with unlawful firearms storage following investigations into separate gun violence threats allegedly made last month by their teenage sons at two high schools.
City Attorney Mike Feuer announced the filings Monday, saying that locking up firearms not only saves lives, it’s the law. Continue reading “2 California parents charged with unlawful gun storage”
NBC Connecticut – by Heather Burian
Students across the nation walked out of school Wednesday in honor of the victims of the Parkland shooting last month, including a group of New London kindergarteners.
“We love school! We love school,” children in New London are chanting in a video posted on Facebook.
While people involved in the walkout involving a group of 5-year-olds at Harbor Elementary School said the demonstration was about school safety, student safety and parent permission have been called into question. Continue reading “New London Kindergartners Walkout Drums Up Concerns”
LONDON — As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem.
The firm had secured a $15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed his political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior. But it did not have the data to make its new products work.
Continue reading “How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions”
Europeans Are Waking Up! | How Even Ordinary People Are Beginning to Take Action Against Immigration
Most people who live in cities are stunningly unprepared for almost any kind of disruption, and the situation has grown far worse in recent years. Although I usually stay out of large cities, I just finished some travel that took me through several cities (and a few suburban areas, too), giving me a fresh new look at the situation. My conclusion? Red alert alarms are going off about the exploding problem of homelessness, lawlessness, gang activity, open drug use and what seems to be a bizarre lack of self-reliance now demonstrated in the cities I visited. Continue reading “Chaos is a certainty: The lack of preparedness among city people is truly horrifying”
Caterpillar Inc. could layoff nearly 900 employees through closures of two facilities in Texas and Panama and a possible third shutdown of a manufacturing plant in Illinois, in a corporate restructuring that company officials said has been in the works for months.
The closure of the work tools facility in Waco, Texas, and a demonstration center in Panama would affect a total of about 280 full-time and contract jobs. Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail is also “contemplating the closure” of an engine manufacturing facility in LaGrange, Illinois. Continue reading “Caterpillar could lay off 900 workers amid facility closures”
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NEW YORK (AP) — When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.
But that’s exactly what the company then run by Jared Kushner did, and with remarkable speed. Two years later, it sold all three buildings for $60 million, nearly 50 percent more than it paid. Continue reading “Kushner Cos. filed false NYC housing paperwork”
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A local lawmaker in Washington, DC, has apologised for sharing a video based on a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather.
Councilman Trayon White Sr posted a video of snow flurries on Friday and warned of “climate manipulation”.
He blamed the Rothschilds, a famous Jewish business dynasty, who are a target of anti-Semitic conspiracies. Continue reading “Lawmaker sorry for spreading anti-Semitic weather conspiracy”
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in a Phoenix suburb say one of Uber’s self-driving vehicles has struck and killed a pedestrian.
Police in the city of Tempe said Monday that the vehicle was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel when the woman walking outside of a crosswalk was hit. Continue reading “Uber self-driving vehicle hits, kills pedestrian in Arizona”
“This is long overdue and needed,” says Foreign Affairs Chairman Royce
Washington, D.C. – Today, the president signed into law the Taiwan Travel Act (H.R. 535). Championed by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), the bipartisan legislation encourages visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels. Continue reading “Taiwan Travel Act Becomes Law”
International pop star Lorde is scheduled to perform in Tampa, Florida on April 11th and Miami, Florida on April 12th for thousands of adoring fans.
But Florida politicians are now trying to pressure Tampa and Miami to cancel these concerts. Continue reading “Do not cancel Lorde’s Florida concerts because of anti-free speech laws!”
“Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.” (George Orwell, “1984”)
Welcome back, George. Things are playing out as you predicted. Continue reading “The London police now have a firm definition of thought-crime – And they’re going to use it”
The Mind Unleashed – by Claire Bernish
With honey bee populations still in peril from one or several of a litany of hotly debated causes — neonicotinoid insecticides, changing climate, and more — Walmart appears to have joined the race for a technological solution to a potential looming disaster, filing a patent for robotic, drone bees earlier this month.
Technically called pollination drones, Business Insider points out, the tiny bee imposters’ capabilities would theoretically include crop pollination — managed remotely through sensors and cameras allowing precision maneuverability between crops and monitor, as well as to monitor that pollination was both sufficient and successful. Continue reading “Raising Countless Eyebrows, Walmart Files Patent for Autonomous Bee Drones”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
San Luis Obispo County, CA — Terrifying video of an in-custody death has recently been released confirming police officers tortured a man for days in a restraint chair and then laughed as he spent his final moments alive suffering in agony in his jail cell.
The footage, obtained by the San Luis Obispo Tribune, not only shows the graphic death of Andrew Holland in January 2017 but it also proves cops told the public a story that did not happen.
Continue reading “Cops Torture Mentally Ill Man in Restraint Chair for 2 Days, Laugh as He Dies in Front of Them”
A 93-year-old former nurse honoured for her services to the NHS was left in a hospital corridor in urine-soaked clothes for six days.
Enid Stevens was taken to A&E in St James’s Hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire, with a spinal fracture.
After a six-hour wait, the MBE nurse was left in a cubicle on her own for another five hours in soaking wet clothes after becoming incontinent. Continue reading “Grandmother, 93, and ex-nurse is left in a hospital corridor for SIX DAYS soaked from head-to-toe in her own urine”