Courthouse News – by Helen Christophi

Dealing a blow to vaccine opponents, a California appellate court upheld a 2016 state law repealing the personal belief exemption to California’s immunization requirements for schoolchildren.

Four California parents and a California anti-vaccine group called A Voice for Choice, Inc. sued the state’s education department over the statute last year, claiming it violated their rights to due process, privacy, a public education and free exercise of religion under the California Constitution.   Continue reading “California Appeals Court Upholds Vaccination Law”

RT

Police brutality across the US is now bad enough that the federal government is finally willing to look at the statistics – if the cops don’t mind. The FBI is starting a data collection effort, based on voluntary self-reports.

Federal investigators will soon begin actively tracking police use-of-force incidents on a national level, the FBI announced in a press release Tuesday. Following 2017’s pilot version of the program, the agency now says it will begin taking reports from forces on the Local, State, tribal and federal level starting January of next year.  Continue reading “Rampant US police violence prompts nationwide FBI inquiry”

ABC News

A shooting Thursday night at a mall in Alabama left one person dead and two teens hospitalized with bullet wounds, police said.

The shooting happened around 9:52 p.m. local time after a 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old man got into a physical altercation near the Footaction store at Riverchase Galleria mall, according to Capt. Gregg Rector of the Hoover Police Department.   Continue reading “1 dead, 2 injured in Alabama mall shooting”

TownHall – by Beth Baumann

TOMS shoe company plans to donate $5 million to various gun control groups. The company also launched a campaign to mobilize their customers to support the gun control agenda.

One of TOMS’ campaigns includes a postcard campaign. Customers can input their name and address on their website and the company will send a postcard to their representative.  Continue reading “TOMS Shoe Company Donated a Whopping $5 Million to Various Gun Control Groups”

Fox News

A group of about 150 migrants carrying white flags that read, “La paz y Dios,” or “Peace and God are With Us,” separated from the larger caravan near Southern California and inched within 500 feet of the U.S., a report Thursday said.

The migrants said they are carrying the white flags to show that they are peaceful, and will attempt to present themselves as asylum seekers near Baja, Calif., The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Continue reading “Small group breaks from caravan, within 500 feet of US border, report says”

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BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) Burlington Police are using new equipment to aid in their response to emergencies.

The department’s Emergency Response Vehicle or ERV is custom-designed and one of the only vehicles of its kind used on the local police level in Vermont. It’s used almost daily for a variety of calls.   Continue reading “ERV makes emergency responses easier for Burlington police”

Direct Expose – by Michael Berdy

An elderly man guards a North American mystery. Decades ago, he fled across the border from his home, and began to amass a collection of old school buses. Acting mostly alone, and fed by impulse and fear, he said he needed them on account of their reinforced steel roofs — and he began to dig. In a massive pit in the ground, he began to form a mysterious labyrinth that few have ever been able to see. But this is no mere hoarder. So why did he take on this colossal project, and what is he hiding inside? Read on to find out what exactly Bruce Beach is up to.   Continue reading “This 83-Year-Old Decided to Stash 42 Buses Underground”

Yahoo News

Washington (AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Wednesday ignored criticism that he gave Saudi Arabia a free pass on the murder of a dissident journalist, instead praising the Islamic kingdom for keeping oil prices low.

Trump, on holiday at his Florida Mar-a-Lago Club, doubled down on an unusually worded statement from Tuesday that he was essentially ignoring the killing of Jamal Khashoggi because of what he said were more important US strategic and commercial interests.   Continue reading “Trump thanks Saudi Arabia for lower oil prices”

Fox News

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday that the Garden State would set aside more than $2 million to provide legal aid for low-income immigrants facing deportation.

The first-year Democrat announced the allocation in the current fiscal year’s budget hours before a federal judge barred the Trump administration from enforcing a recently enacted rule denying asylum to anyone who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.   Continue reading “NJ to allocate $2.1M in aid for illegal immigrants facing deportation, governor says”

Fortune

Black Friday 2018 could be the last one for hundreds of Gap stores at malls around the country.

Art Peck, CEO of Gap Inc., says the retailer is considering the shutdown of hundreds of underperforming stores “with urgency”. Included among those are some of Gap’s “flagship” locations.   Continue reading “Gap Considers Closing Hundreds of Stores ‘With Urgency’”

Bloomberg

It was just after 10 p.m. on an overcast September night in Los Angeles, and L. was tired from a long day of class prep, teaching, and grading papers. So the 57-year-old anthropology professor fed her Chihuahua-dachshund mix a freeze-dried chicken strip, swapped her cigarette trousers for stretchy black yoga pants, and began to unfold a set of white sheets and a beige cotton blanket to make up her bed.   Continue reading “The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities”

Press TV

Former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has said that “the Pentagon’s lost trillions have nothing to do with defense, adding that the “money propping up the high lifestyles of those connected to the military-industrial complex.”

Dr. Paul, a three-time American presidential candidate and the founder of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, made the remarks in an article published by his website on Monday.   Continue reading “Pentagon’s ‘lost’ trillions went to people connected to US military-industrial complex: Ron Paul”

International Organization for Migration

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM)

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is expected to be the first, intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, to cover all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner. It presents a significant opportunity to improve the governance on migration, to address the challenges associated with today’s migration, and to strengthen the contribution of migrants and migration to sustainable development.  The process to develop this Global Compact for Migration started in April 2017. The General Assembly will then hold an intergovernmental conference on international migration in December 2018 with a view to adopting the Global Compact.    Continue reading “Global Compact for Migration”

Patriot Rising

I can’t take it anymore.  I have heard so much mindless propaganda urging us to vote that I was forced to push back.  This is like shooting fish in a barrel.

First, if voting is so great, why we do have to be constantly harangued, bullied, hectored and bribed into engaging in this marvelous activity?  Why do only half or less of the population vote in any given election?  Let’s ask the question a different way.  What percentage of kids fail to show up when Mom says, “breakfast is ready”?  They show up because they expect to receive a major benefit from showing up, especially when weighed against the minimal costs of running downstairs and grabbing a chair.   Continue reading “What’s So Great About Voting?”