CNBC News – by Jeff Cox

Layoffs hit their highest level for a first quarter in 10 years as 2019′s job market got off to a shaky start, according to a report Thursday from outplacement firm Challenger, Gary & Christmas.

Total announced cuts hit 190,410, a 10.3 percent increase from the fourth quarter and 35.6 percent jump from the same period a year ago. The level was worst period overall since the third quarter of 2015 and the highest level for a first quarter since 2009 as the economy was still mired in the financial crisis.  Continue reading “Job layoffs surge 35% to highest level to start a year in a decade”

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Archive: TWFTT 4-4-19

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

President Trump has punted on his plans for closing the southern border, telling a group of reporters on Thursday that he will give Mexico a year to stop the flow of migrants and drugs into the US. If they fail on either count, Trump will either slap tariffs on Mexican-made cars or close the border entirely.  Continue reading “Trump Punts On Border Closure, Gives Mexico A Year To Stop Flow Of Drugs & Immigrants Into US”

Bloomberg – by Michelle Davis

BB&T Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. are among the biggest financiers to the firearms industry and should sever ties with gunmakers and trade groups, according to advocacy organization Guns Down America.  Continue reading “BB&T, Wells Fargo Get Failing Grades From Gun-Control Advocates”

Texas Tribune – by Alex Samuels

After a brief debate, the Texas Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would allow local school boards to let their marshals carry their concealed guns on campuses.

The legislation — Senate Bill 406 by Republican state Sen. Brian Birdwell of Granbury — would eliminate the mandate that trained school marshals, whose identities are kept secret from all but a few local officials, keep their firearms under lock and key.  Continue reading “Texas Senate passes bill allowing school marshals to carry, not lock up, their guns”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Hazel Township, PA — A disturbing video was shared with the Free Thought Project earlier this year showing a school cop punch and pull the hair of a teen girl as guards held her arms behind her back. The community and parents of children at Hazleton Area High School have been furious since the video went viral and they’ve been demanding justice—although they have yet to see any.

The video was uploaded to Facebook by a student at Hazelton Area High School in February. It has been nearly two months since this incident and not only has the officer not been fired, but he is still working in the school.  Continue reading “Cop Still Working at School Despite Video of Him Smashing School Girl’s Head into a Table”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The Army has selected its first subcompact weapon in more than 50-years.

Brügger & Thomet’s APC9-K (Advanced Police Carbine) was chosen over Sig Sauer and four other firearm manufactures that submitted their prototypes last year to the Prototype Opportunity Notice (PON), which asked companies for a “highly concealable [Sub Compact Weapon] system capable of engaging threat personnel with a high volume of lethal force while accurately firing at close range with minimal collateral damage.”   Continue reading “Army Awards First Submachine Gun Contract In Over 50-Years”

End of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder

An absolutely devastating disease is wiping out herds of pigs all over Asia, and most people in the western world don’t even realize what is happening.  Since it was first detected last August, there have been 116 officially reported outbreaks of African Swine Fever in China, and since that time it has rapidly spread to surrounding nations such as Cambodia and Vietnam.  African Swine Fever is not harmful to humans, but the vast majority of the pigs that catch it end up dead.  It spreads very quickly and there is no cure, and this outbreak has already driven global pork prices through the roof.  If this crisis continues to escalate, we are potentially talking about a crippling blow to global food production.  Continue reading “Food Crisis 2019: An Outbreak Of African Swine Fever Is Devastating The Global Pig Population, And Pork Prices Are Skyrocketing”

Natural News – by Vicki Batts

Leftist policies are reaching new levels of insanity in Massachusetts, as Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins pushes her highly contested “no-prosecute” list into action. The “list” gives a green light to a number of arrest-worthy offenses — including trespassing, shoplifting, disorderly conduct, and “wanton or malicious destruction of property.” In other words, local law enforcement is being directed by the district attorney to stand idly by while miscreants steal and destroy property. The directive from Rollins also orders police to refuse to cooperate with ICE in the arresting of illegal immigrants at the courthouse — no matter the severity of their crimes. What could go wrong?  Continue reading “Left-wing cities going LAWLESS as Boston orders police to stop arresting criminals for breaking and entering, destruction of property or shoplifting”

Epoch Times – by Michael Wing

A University of California Irvine student may have stumbled upon an invention to end your phone-charging woes for good. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of where that could take us as a society. Forget about your phone; the world would be a different place without ever having to worry about replacing car batteries, and imagine the uses that it could have in space exploration. Technology is the ultimate wildcard.  Continue reading “UCI Student ‘Accidentally’ Invents a Rechargeable Battery That Lasts 400 Years”

Mondoweiss – by Philip Weiss

Yesterday the Intercept published a secret recording of Senator Cory Booker meeting with a New Jersey delegation at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington last week — AIPAC is the leading Israel lobby organization — and the speech is so over the top it’s hard to fathom. It ends with Booker consecrating Israel and the U.S. as one in the name of Martin Luther King and his murder in Memphis, a sermon by the senator you will have to read to believe.  Continue reading “Cory Booker says there’s no ‘greater moral vandalism’ than abandoning Israel (and he’ll cut off his hand first)”

The Oregonian – by Maxine Bernstein

While the Portland Police Bureau struggles to recruit officers to fill dozens of vacancies, its effort to hire new civilian public safety specialists to respond to low-level calls also has hit a big snag.

Of more than 100 applicants, the bureau did background checks on 61 prospective candidates — and only three passed, Assistant Chief Chris Davis reported to the City Council this week.  Continue reading “Only 3 of 61 applicants pass background checks for new Portland public safety specialist jobs”

WITN 7 News

WILMINGTON, NC (WITN) – A New Hanover County man faces animal cruelty charges after he allegedly abandoned a pet fish after he was evicted from his home last month.

Michael Ray Hinson, 53, was charged Wednesday with three counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals and one count of abandonment of an animal. He was released on a $4,000 unsecured bond.  Continue reading “Man faces animal cruelty charges after he allegedly abandoned a pet fish”

MassPrivateI

Is there no end to Big Brother’s desire to turn America into a mirror image of China?

An article in Go Erie, revealed how the Feds are classifying parts of cities as “Opportunity Zones” or as I call them “Opportunity Surveillance Zones” (OPS ).

The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service are using Opportunity Zones to help law enforcement turn sections of cities into Federally-funded surveillance zones.  Continue reading “The Feds 9,000 Opportunity Surveillance Zones Will Allow Law Enforcement To Spy On 35 Million People”

CNet – by Claire Reilly

Executives at Facebook, YouTube and 4Chan could face jail time under new “world-first” laws designed to stop the sharing of violent videos and images on social networks.

The legislation, developed in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shooting and passed in the Australian parliament on Thursday local time, targets social networks with hefty fines and even jail terms for company executives if they fail to take down “abhorrent violent material” shared on their platforms.  Continue reading “Instagram, Youtube and Facebook could face fines (and jail time) under new Australian laws”

Veterans Today – by Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer Live Science

Four people in Oregon were infected with a rare tick-borne virus, known as Colorado tick fever, in a single month, according to a new report.

That’s an unusually high number of cases for the state, which typically sees one or fewer cases of Colorado tick fever per year, according to the report, published today (March 28) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  Continue reading “Oregon Is Seeing Spike in Rare Colorado Tick Fever”

The Organic Prepper

I love the relief I get from using Organica Naturals CBD oil. I sleep better (I’m a chronic insomniac) and find that a dropper full works for me just as well as taking ibuprofen.  But you know what I don’t love?

The taste.  Continue reading “How to Use CBD Oil When You Absolutely HATE the Taste”

Fox News

Immigration officials on Wednesday arrested some 280 employees of a North Texas tech company suspected of knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, the largest such single-company sweep in 11 years.

More than 200 law enforcement personnel took part in the operation at CVE Technology Group in Allen, north of Dallas. Officials said the company refurbishes and repairs telecommunications equipment, including cellphones.  Continue reading “Immigration operation at Texas tech firm brings almost 300 worker arrests”

Campus Reform – by Victoria Snitsar

The George Washington University student body voted Thursday to “remove and replace” its mascot, the George the Colonial.

According to the GWU Joint Elections Commission, 54 percent of students who voted in this spring’s Student Association elections supported the removal of the Colonial as the school’s mascot. It was not immediately clear what students plan to replace the Colonial mascot with or even if school administrators will act on the results of the referendum. Continue reading “Goodbye George: GW students vote to ‘remove and replace’ mascot”