Daily Mail

Facebook and Instagram are still down for some users around the globe, 10 hours after the outages were first reported around 7am ET (12pm GMT) on Tuesday.

Users on both popular platforms were left unable to load the sites for hours, and thousands of people were unable to access their accounts entirely.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed outages had hit its ‘family of apps’ and that the firm is working to fix the issue.     Continue reading “Facebook and Instagram are STILL down: Firm says it’s ‘working to resolve the issue’ as users around the world have trouble logging on 10 hours later”

Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing’s municipal government will assign citizens and firms “personal trustworthiness points” by 2021, state media reported on Tuesday, pioneering China’s controversial plan for a “social credit” system to monitor citizens and businesses.

The system’s rollout has attracted international headlines, sparking comparisons to George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, with critics saying it could massively heighten the Chinese Communist Party’s already strict control over society.   Continue reading “Beijing pioneering citizens’ ‘points’ system critics brand ‘Orwellian’”

ABC News

COLTS NECK, N.J. (AP) — Two children and two adults were found dead Tuesday at a burning mansion that was intentionally set ablaze in an upscale community near the New Jersey shore, officials said.

One of the owners of the home is a technology CEO with a relative whose house not far away also caught fire Tuesday, records show. Authorities said they were investigating whether there was a link.

Continue reading “2 Kids, 2 Adults Dead in Arson Fire at Mansion”

Corbett Report

Difficult as it had been for the Round Table to maneuver the British Empire into the war with Germany, it would be that much harder for their American fellow travelers to coax the United States out of its neutrality and into World War One. The cabal was going to have to leverage its control of the press and key governmental positions to begin to shape public perception and instill pro-war sentiment. And once again, the full resources of these motivated co-conspirators were brought to bear on the task. Join The Corbett Report for Part Two of The WWI Conspiracy. Continue reading “The WWI Conspiracy – Part Two: The American Front”

Q13 Fox

The Centers for Disease Control came out Tuesday with a warning for everyone in the United States: Do not eat any romaine lettuce.

CDC officials are investigating the cause of an E. coli outbreak that has infected 32 people in 11 states. They were infected from October 8, 2018 through October 31, 2018. So far, there have been no cases in Washington State.   Continue reading “CDC: Do not eat ANY Romaine lettuce amid E. coli outbreak”

The Corbett Report

What was World War One about? How did it start? Who won? And what did they win? Now, 100 years after those final shots rang out, these questions still puzzle historians and laymen alike. But as we shall see, this confusion is not a happenstance of history but the wool that has been pulled over our eyes to stop us from seeing what WWI really was. This is the story of WWI that you didn’t read in the history books. This is The WWI Conspiracy.   Continue reading “The WWI Conspiracy – Part One: To Start A War”

Daily Mail

This is the dramatic moment a forklift operator caused an entire warehouse of goods to fall like dominoes when he bumped into a shelving unit.

The clip, filmed inside an unnamed distribution warehouse, captured the driver as he made his way down an aisle between two tall pallet racks.   Continue reading “Forklift driver causes an entire warehouse to fall like dominoes when he nudges a shelving unit”

Middle East Monitor

According to Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP), since the beginning of the year, the Israeli Occupation Forces have killed 52 children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 46 of whom in the Gaza Strip.

The international movement said in a statement on Monday that among the children the occupation forces have killed, 18 were injured in the head, nine in the chest, seven in the abdomen, and five in the neck.   Continue reading “Defence for Children International Palestine: Israeli army killed 52 Palestinian children since beginning of 2018”

Daily Mail

Killjoy council officials forced a father to scrap his daughter’s swing set in case other children play on it.

Tony Carter has had to tear down the swings in his garden on the grounds they could pose a threat to neighbourhood youngsters despite being behind a fence.

It was his second run-in with Canterbury City Council in Kent after the authority also forced him to remove a shallow paddling pool.    Continue reading “Council killjoys order father, 42, to remove his four-year-old daughter’s SWING from his garden in case other children play on it”

Yahoo News

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two men and two women were found shot and killed in a basement of a house being renovated on Monday.

Police received a call in the morning to check on the welfare of people at the house after a family member arrived to find the door ajar. Responding officers found the four in the basement, each with a single gunshot wound to the head.   Continue reading “Police: 4 people found ‘executed’ in home’s basement”

Fox News

A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday barred the Trump administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally, likely prompting a legal challenge from the White House.

Trump issued a proclamation on Nov. 9 that said anyone who crossed the southern border would be ineligible for asylum.  Continue reading “Judge bars US from enforcing Trump administration’s asylum ban”

The Organic Prepper – by Meadow Clark

Kansas City, Missouri Health Department made a national splash when their staff literally poured bleach on food intended for homeless people earlier this month. A coalition of friends called Free Hot Soup (FHS) Kansas City had formed picnic-style food gatherings to provide hot meals for homeless people, and all went according to plan until officials trashed the food and doused it in bleach to render it inedible.   Continue reading “Kansas City Promises to Stop Pouring Bleach on Food for the Homeless After Outcry. But Will They Find Other Ways to Destroy It?”

LA Times

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy assigned to handle sensitive sex abuse crimes, often involving vulnerable minors, has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl in a case he was investigating.

Neil Kimball was taken into custody Friday evening after a monthlong inquiry into the allegations by the sheriff’s criminal internal investigation bureau. He was booked on suspicion of rape by force and preventing or dissuading a victim from testifying.

Continue reading “L.A. County sheriff’s sex crimes investigator arrested on suspicion of raping minor”

AOL

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Taiwanese exchange student accused of threatening to “shoot up” his high school near Philadelphia was spared additional time in prison at his sentencing Monday, but he will be deported and barred from returning to the U.S.

A federal judge Monday after nearly two hours of testimony sentenced An-Tso Sun also known as “Edward” to time served and deportation. The judge did not impose a fine. Sun had been facing up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for his guilty plea to a firearms-related charge.   Continue reading “Taiwanese student accused of school threat to be deported”