Month: October 2019

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Lousiville, KY – A serial rapist police officer, who admitted to using his badge and cruiser to prey on innocent women — by raping them while on duty — was handed down an insultingly low sentence this week. After pleading guilty to five counts of sexual misconduct against multiple victims, and possession of child porn former Louisville Metro Police officer Pablo Cano, received just five years behind bars.  Continue reading “Serial Rapist Cop, Admits to Raping Multiple Women and Having Child Porn, Gets Just 5 Years”

Yahoo News

AVENTURA, Fla. (AP) — When David Schaecter was a child in Slovakia in the 1930s, he counted more than 100 people in his extended family. By the end of World War II, he alone survived. The rest had been killed in Nazi concentration camps or by roving SS death squads.

Schaecter lost not only his family, but all they owned, including life insurance covering his murdered relatives. And as time runs out on aging Holocaust survivors, some are trying to recover insurance policies that were not honored by Nazi-era companies, which could be worth at least $25 billion altogether in today’s dollars, according to the Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA.  Continue reading “Aging Holocaust survivors try to sue over Nazi-era insurance”

SG Examiner

Two years to the day after the start of the deadly, wind-fueled 2017 North Bay fires, PG&E on Tuesday said it was preparing to shut down power to large portions of the state in anticipation of a wind event just as severe but more widespread.

The shutdown, which will affect nearly 800,000 customers across 34 counties, was set to begin as soon as midnight in some areas, and could last up to five days in some areas, depending how quickly PG&E can inspect lines and equipment and bring its system back online.  Continue reading “PG&E: Wind storm prompting massive power shutdown could be worst since 2017 North Bay fires”

Newsweek

A Harvard psychologist questioned President Donald Trump’s mental health after the U.S. leader’s claim to have unmatched wisdom and his threat to destroy Turkey’s economy.

Trump made the comments amid bipartisan criticism of his military withdrawal from Syria, paving the way for Turkey to invade and attack the armed Kurdish groups that the U.S. had allied with against the Islamic State terror outfit. Turkey views Kurdish fighters as terrorists.  Continue reading “Harvard Psychologist Says Donald Trump’s Claims About Destroying Turkey’s Economy Would ‘Normally Trigger A Mental Health Hold’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In what looks like a dry run of the looming pension crisis facing corporate America, GE said on Monday that it would freeze pension plan benefits for 20,000 American employees with salaried benefits, WSJ reports. The company also plans to freeze supplementary benefits for roughly 700 employees who became executives before 2011 in an attempt to shave as much as $8 billion off its long-term pension deficit.  Continue reading “GE Freezes Pension Benefits For 20,000 Employees To Lower Debt Burden”

Breitbart – by Frances Martel

The Chinese government newspaper Global Times warned “global brands” to “make their members speak cautiously” on Chinese political issues Monday in response to an ongoing controversy following an NBA executive lending support to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey triggered a Communist Party-fabricated firestorm this weekend by simply tweeting “fight for freedom; stand with Hong Kong,” a message intended to lend support to the peaceful anti-communist movement that has held regular protests there since June.  Continue reading “China Warns Brands to Accept Communism, Freedom of Speech ‘Ridiculous’”

Breitbart – by Charlie Spiering

A Senior White House official clarified Monday that President Donald Trump was not immediately withdrawing troops from Syria, after Trump’s phone call with the Turkish president.

“This does not constitute a withdrawal from Syria. We’re talking about a small number of troops that will move to other bases within Syria,” the official noted, citing 50-100 troops in the region.  Continue reading “White House Clarifies: Donald Trump Moving 50 Troops Within Syria, Not Out of the Country”

Washington Examiner – by Anna Giaritelli

Nearly 1 million people arrived at the U.S. border with Mexico and were encountered by law enforcement over the past 12 months, marking a major spike from any year in the past decade, the country’s top border official announced Tuesday.

Just under 980,000 people were encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2019, which ran from Oct. 1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2019, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which handles all border and trade affairs. A total 521,090 people were encountered along the southern border in fiscal 2018.  Continue reading “Nearly 1 million people encountered at Mexican border over past 12 months”

The Blaze – by Leon Wolf

De’andre Sommervile made a mistake that a lot of 21-year-olds have probably made at one point or another: He overslept for an important appointment.

Unlike most 21-year-olds, Sommerville got sentenced to jail for his mistake, and will now have a criminal record.  Continue reading “21-year-old Florida man sentenced to ten days in prison after he overslept for jury duty in a civil trial, causing a 45-minute delay”

Technology Review – by Sharon Weinberger

In July, when President Donald Trump was in the Oval Office with the Dutch prime minister, he took a few moments to answer questions from reporters. His comments, in typical fashion, covered disparate subjects—from job creation to the “squad” of congresswomen he attacks regularly to sanctions against Turkey. Then a reporter asked him about an obscure Pentagon contract called JEDI, and whether he planned to intervene in it.  Continue reading “Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon”

Mises Institute – by Ryan McMaken

As 2018 came to an end, politicians and media pundits insisted that ” gun violence ” was growing and hitting crisis levels .

While a homicide rate of anything greater than zero is an measure of very-real human misery, it nonetheless turns out that fewer people were murdered in 2018 than in the year before. Moreover, 2018 was the second year in a row during which the homicide rate declined.  Continue reading “Homicides in the US Fall for Second Year as Murder Rate Drops in 38 States”