Year: 2018

Natural News – by Ethan Huff

In order to ensure that college students are completely insulated from ever having their feelings hurt, a pair of social workers believes that everyone involved with the educational system should be required to wear name tags once a week for the entirety of a semester that clearly indicates their “preferred gender pronouns.”

University of Washington lecturer Justin Lerner and Simmons College professor Dr. Anjali Fulambarker published their manifesto on this topic in a recent issue of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work, in which they argue that forcing all students to wear gender pronoun name tags will help to sanitize classrooms of “microaggressions” while helping students to “avoid being mislabeled.”   Continue reading “Social Justice Warriors want students to wear name tags that describe their “preferred gender pronoun””

ABC News

Chelsea Manning on Sunday confirmed via Twitter that she is a candidate for U.S. Senate.

Three days after making her intention known to federal election officials, Manning tweeted “yup, we’re running for senate” with an attached campaign video indicating her intention to run in the 2018 Maryland Democratic primary. She sent a subsequent tweet seeking donations to her campaign.

The 71-second video weaves together images of white supremacists holding tiki torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as protesters clashing with police elsewhere.
Continue reading “Chelsea Manning confirms US Senate run”

Daily Mail

A Hong Kong architect has invented what he believed to be the solution of overcrowded cities by turning concrete water pipes into tiny homes.

The OPod Tube Housing system aims to re-purpose concrete tubes measuring just over eight feet in diameter, and turn them into ‘micro-homes’ with 100 square feet of living space.   Continue reading “Is buying a house just a pipe dream? Concrete tubes just over eight feet wide, with a bench that turns into a bed, could be your solution”

PJ Media – by Michael Walsh

This just in from what was once the best state in the Union:

Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearlyone out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income. Continue reading “What’s the Matter with California?”

Zero Hedge – by Sovereign Man

The government is like a poorly trained dog. If you let one bad behavior go, it just escalates until they bite.

The government has been searching electronics like cell phones and laptops at the border since early in the Bush administration. But because the 9/11 attacks were fresh, and because the practice was not widespread, it went largely unnoticed.   Continue reading “Customs And Border Protection Clarifies: You Have No Rights While Traveling”

San Diego Union Tribune – by Lindsey Winkley

El Cajon police officers arrested about a dozen people for feeding the homeless at a city park Sunday afternoon.

The event was organized by a group called Break the Ban, which formed after the El Cajon City Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance in October prohibiting the distribution of food on any city-owned property.

City officials said the ordinance was a way to protect the public from hepatitis A, but critics have called it a punitive measure to dehumanize and criminalize the homeless.  Continue reading “About a dozen people arrested for feeding the homeless in El Cajon park”

RT

US President Donald Trump has denied being “racist” in the wake of a scandal and wide condemnation triggered by his alleged reference to Haiti and African nations as “s***holes” amid attempts to reach a deal on immigrant children.

“I’m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that I can tell you,” Trump told reporters on Sunday in Florida, where he was having dinner with Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.   Continue reading “‘I’m not a racist’: Trump says he’s willing to make immigration deal, but Democrats killing it”

RT

Hardly anyone will buy President Donald Trump’s explanation for his abruptly canceled visit to London next month. The real reason, no doubt, was to avoid embarrassing scenes of mass street protests marring his official welcome.

Whatever has become of the so-called “special relationship”?

Nigel Farage, the former UKIP leader and one of the few British politicians who has openly befriended Trump, expressed embarrassment: “It’s disappointing. He’s been to countries all over the world and yet he’s not been to the one with whom he’s closest. I think it’s disappointing,” Farage told the BBC on the back of news over Trump’s cancelation.   Continue reading “Trump cancels UK visit… so much for the ‘special relationship’”

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — Few people running for public office have been more personally affected by gun violence than Chris Kennedy, who was a child when his father and uncle, Sen. Robert Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy, were assassinated.

Now the 54-year-old Democrat has made the issue a centerpiece of his campaign for Illinois governor, talking often about growing up without a father and family trips to Arlington National Cemetery, and saying too many people in Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois are dealing with the same kind of pain.   Continue reading “Kennedy targets gun violence in Illinois governor campaign”

Mail.com

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Anti-poverty activists in Albuquerque and a groundbreaking Cherokee Nation declaration about the tribe’s role in promoting equality after years of fighting to exclude descendants of slaves from its rolls are part of the focus of Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations.

At gatherings across the nation Monday, activists, residents and teachers are honoring the late civil rights leader ahead of the 50th anniversary of his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. In Atlanta, King’s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, will be the keynote speaker at a commemorative service honoring her father at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he once preached.   Continue reading “Poverty, past linked to Native Americans focus on MLK Day”

Argus

Houston, 12 January (Argus) — Landowners are contesting Nebraska’s approval of TransCanada’s 830,000 b/d Keystone XL pipeline route, shifting the case to a state appeals court.

The move adds uncertainty to the future of the project which has already faced years of delay.

Dozens of Nebraska landowners filed a notice of appeal to the Nebraska Court of Appeals. They are planning to contest a 20 November decision by the Nebraska Public Service Commission to approve a route through the state for Keystone XL.   Continue reading “Keystone XL route faces landowner challenge”

WhoWhatWhy – by Russ Baker, C. Collins, Jonathan Z. Larsen

The Federal Bureau of Investigation cannot tell us what we need to know about Donald Trump’s contacts with Russia. Why? Because doing so would jeopardize a long-running, ultra-sensitive operation targeting mobsters tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin — and to Trump.

But the Feds’ stonewalling risks something far more dangerous: Failing to resolve a crisis of trust in America’s president. WhoWhatWhy provides the details of a two-month investigation in this 6,500-word exposé.   Continue reading “Why FBI Can’t Tell All on Trump, Russia”

Yahoo News – by Jon Fingas, Engadget

It’s not just state officials who are investigating Hawaii’s false alarm over a (thankfully non-existent) missile attack. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has confirmed that the regulator’s investigation into the error is “well underway.” While Pai shied away from making many definitive statements early on, he said that early findings suggested Hawaii didn’t have “reasonable safeguards or process controls” to prevent a mistaken alert.

Not surprisingly, Pai labeled the alarm as “absolutely unacceptable.” It wasn’t just that it triggered panic for the 38 minutes between the initial alert and the correction, according to the Chairman — it’s that this reduced confidence in the alert system and may have hurt its effectiveness in a real crisis.   Continue reading “FCC investigates Hawaii’s false missile alert”

RT

Russian President Vladimir Putin has likened communism to Christianity and Vladimir Lenin’s mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square to the veneration of the relics of saints.

Maybe I’ll say something that someone might dislike, but that’s the way I see it,” Putin said in an interview for the documentary Valaam, an excerpt of which was broadcast on Russia 1. “First of all, faith has always accompanied us, becoming stronger every time our country, our people, have been through hard times.   Continue reading “Putin: Communist ideology similar to Christianity, Lenin’s body like saintly relics”