WITN 7 News

PENDER COUNTY, NC (WITN) – A county official says that a malfunctioning water heater at Topsail High School may be to blame for an active shooter call.

News outlets report that Pender County Emergency Management Director Tom Collins said noise from the water heater was taken for the sound of gunfire at Topsail High School on Friday morning. The earlier report of shots fired provoked a massive response by law enforcement and caused the school district to reroute buses and put schools on lockdown.  Continue reading “Malfunctioning water heater possibly to blame for active shooter call at Topsail High School”

The Hill – by Timothy Cama

A federal judge blocked the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline Thursday, saying the Trump administration’s justification for approving it last year was incomplete.

In a major victory for environmentalists and indigenous rights groups, Judge Brian Morris of the District Court for the District of Montana overturned President Trump’s permit for the Canada-to-Texas pipeline, which the president signed shortly after taking office last year.   Continue reading “Judge blocks Keystone XL pipeline”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Police was responding on Friday to active shooter situation at the Topsail High School, near Wilmington according to WECT, a local television station. Law enforcement sources say the scene is “still active.”

Based on live pictures from WECT-TV, there is a heavy law enforcement presence at the school, which is located at 245 N. Saint Johns Church Road in Hampstead.   Continue reading “Police Respond To Active Shooter Situation At North Carolina High School”

Mother Jones – by Kara Voght

Gun control advocates are planning an aggressive legislative strategy when Congress reconvenes in January. Working closely with key lawmakers, they hope to use the new Democratic House majority to force votes on a raft of reforms that have been blocked repeatedly by Republicans—including expanded background checks, funding for research on gun violence, and a so-called “red flag” law designed to keep firearms out of the hands of people who pose a danger to themselves or others.   Continue reading “Gun Control Advocates Have a Majority in Congress. Here’s How They Plan to Use It.”

RT

14 sailors working in the nuclear reactor department aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan face disciplinary action for using and distributing LSD, the latest embarrassment for the Navy’s scandal-ridden 7th Fleet.

Ten of the sailors have already been disciplined on “LSD related charges,” a 7th Fleet spokesman told Navy Times. Two sailors are in more serious trouble, and are heading to court-martial for using, possessing, and distributing the hallucinogenic drug, while the Navy is considering charging another three as well.   Continue reading “Navy disciplines sailors for LSD ring aboard nuclear-powered aircraft carrier”

Daily Caller – by Will Racke

Dozens of patrons at the Thousand Oaks, California bar where a gunman killed 12 people late Wednesday are survivors of the massacre at a country music festival in Las Vegas last year, according to witnesses.

Nicholas Champion told CBS News that he and “probably 50 or 60 others” inside the Borderline Bar & Grill had also attended the Route 91 Harvest festival in October 2017, where a gunman killed 58 people and wounded nearly 500 others in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.   Continue reading “Witness: ’50 Or 60′ People At Thousand Oaks Bar Shooting Also Survived Las Vegas Massacre”

Health Nut News – by Erin Elizabeth

About a week ago at The Hague, many birds died spontaneously, falling dead in a park. You likely haven’t heard a lot about this because it seems keeping it quiet was the plan all along. However, when about 150 more suddenly died- bringing the death toll to 297- some started to take notice.

And if you are looking around that park you might have seen what is on the corner of the roof across the street from where they died: a new 5G mast, where they had done a test, in connection with the Dutch railway station, to see how large the range was and whether no harmful equipment would occur on and around the station.   Continue reading “Hundreds of birds dead during 5G experiment in The Hague, The Netherlands”

Fredricksburg – by Scott Shenk

A Spotsylvania County family that has battled the Department of Social Services for nearly two years to get their son back apparently has regained custody.

“It’s official. The judge has signed the orders! We do not need to appear in court this Friday. God is good. Juan Antonio is coming home no later than December 24th!” Alma Buckley posted on the family’s Facebook page on Oct. 3.

Continue reading “Spotsylvania family regains custody of son after two years”

Common Dreams – by Jake Johnson

While the social media universe was full of well wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery after news broke that 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suffered a fall in her office Wednesday night and was hospitalized with three fractured ribs, no one could avoid discussing the horrifying political reality that—if Ginsburg is, goodness forbid, unable to return to work—President Donald Trump will get to nominate a third right-wing judge to the Supreme Court.   Continue reading “After Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized, Horrified Americans Offer to Donate Ribs, Organs as Needed”

The Silver Doctors

No gold for you! The Bank of England has refused to give Venezuela its gold back. Wait until you read the reason why…

Earlier in the week I reported on Venezuela’s request to repatriate its 14 tons of gold held in Bank of England vaults.   Continue reading “Venezuela Denied Its Gold (Wait Until You Read The Reason Why)”

The New Yorker – by David Armstrong

In September, 2016, Jenn Thompson and her boyfriend, Robbie Ray, discovered that she was pregnant. They had met just over a month earlier, through the dating app Tinder, and quickly became inseparable. Robbie would stay at Jenn’s place several nights a week, and on the weekends they tailgated at football games. The pregnancy was unplanned, but both had recently turned thirty and were ready to start a family. When they went in for an ultrasound appointment, a technician pointed out two tiny circles on the screen: twins. They bought a baby Doppler and Robbie would hold the monitor on Jenn’s stomach so they could listen to the two hearts beating in tandem.   Continue reading “The Child-Abuse Contrarian”

American Action News

The niece of former Fox News correspondent Adam Housely died in the California bar shooting Wednesday, according to a statement from the family. (Fox News)

Alaina Housley, 18, was killed after suspected gunman Ian David Long, 28, opened fire on a crowd at Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif., authorities said. It is believed that Long killed himself after the shooting and his body was found in an office near the entrance of the bar. Continue reading “Niece of Fmr Fox News Star Horribly Murdered”

Activist Post – by Nicholas West

Biometric identification has quietly rolled out at several U.S. airports and various locations around the world. In some cases, it has been sprung upon the general traveling public without warning, leaving some to question how optional this will be as travelers become acclimatized to the new boarding process.

According to a new announcement from the World Travel & Tourism Council, it appears that the roll out is set to accelerate and begin a much louder PR push to prepare the public for a new world of integrated biometrics for every phase of travel. A new public-private partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection seems to widen the scope of the U.S. government mandate that is 15 years in the making to require biometric ID.   Continue reading “Biometric ID For Travel Goes Global With New CBP Tourism Partnership”

CBC news

Central American migrants in a caravan that has stopped in Mexico City demanded buses Thursday to take them to the U.S. border, saying it is too cold and dangerous to continue walking and hitchhiking.

Mexico City authorities say that of the 4,841 registered migrants receiving shelter in a sports complex, 1,726 are under the age of 18, including 310 children under five.   Continue reading “Central American migrant caravan reaches Mexico City, demands buses to U.S.”