Year: 2019

Center for Immigration Studies – by Todd Bensman

Like the proverbial “bulge in the belly of the snake,” unusually high numbers of non-Latino migrants, obviously not from Central America, are now reportedly passing from Colombia through Panama on their way to the U.S. southern border. Their numbers range to the tens of thousands, whose vanguards we have already seen at the U.S. Southwest Border in recent months: Cameroonians, Ghanaians, Congolese, Haitians, Cubans, and some from the Middle East.  Continue reading “The Next Influx: The Entire World’s Poor and Dispossessed”

Yahoo News

A man who gained media attention after claiming he saved students from a mass shooting while working as a substitute teacher never worked at the school, officials say.

David Briscoe had spoken to numerous news organisations in the wake of the May 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas, which left 10 people dead and thirteen others wounded.  Continue reading “Man who claimed to have protected students during school shooting revealed to be a hoax”

New York Times

Lee A. Iacocca, the visionary automaker who ran the Ford Motor Company and then the Chrysler Corporation and came to personify Detroit as the dream factory of America’s postwar love affair with the automobile, died on Tuesday at his home in Bel Air, Calif. He was 94.

He had complications from Parkinson’s disease, a family spokeswoman said. Continue reading “Lee Iacocca, Visionary Automaker Who Led Both Ford and Chrysler, Is Dead at 94”

The Guardian

Chinese border police are secretly installing surveillance apps on the phones of visitors and downloading personal information as part of the government’s intensive scrutiny of the remote Xinjiang region, the Guardian can reveal.

The Chinese government has curbed freedoms in the province for the local Muslim population, installing facial recognition cameras on streets and in mosques and reportedly forcing residents to download software that searches their phones.  Continue reading “Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists’ phones”

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BRYAN, Tex. (KBTX) – More Americans than ever recorded by AAA, nearly 49 million, will hit the road this weekend for holiday travel, making for higher traffic volume and a greater risk for crashes.

Some of those drivers are operating big rigs, and critics say a new federal regulation could increase the number of accidents involving those truck drivers.  Continue reading “Rules limiting truck drivers’ drive time could be relaxed”

Press TV

Iran is commemorating the 31st anniversary of the downing of its passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf waters.

A memorial ceremony was held at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport on Tuesday, with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, Minister of Road and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami and Touraj Dehghani-Zangeneh, the CEO of Iran’s flag carrier, Iran Air, in attendance.  Continue reading “Iran marks 31st anniversary of US downing of passenger plane”

WCTV

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AP/WCTV) – The Air Force says it’s investigating after a fighter jet from Moody AFB struck a bird and dropped three dummy bombs used for training over North Florida.

Moody Air Force Base north of Valdosta said in a news release there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage after the 25-pound nonexplosive training munitions were dropped Monday afternoon by an A-10C Thunderbolt II jet.  Continue reading “Moody jet hits bird, drops 3 dummy bombs over N. Florida”

Daily Mail

A non-profit organization has scraped more than 40 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from a region of the Pacific Ocean that’s home to a massive debris field known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The haul includes everything from beer bottles and children’s toys to enormous ‘ghost nets’ – the abandoned fishing gear that can drift at sea for decades, trapping more garbage and marine wildlife in its path.  Continue reading “Ocean cleanup effort drags 5-TON ‘ghost net’ of abandoned fishing gear from the Pacific ‘garbage patch’ as part of huge plastic haul”

Overdrive

A box truck driver will receive nearly $200,000 from a Kentucky-based trucking company who fired the driver after he refused to drive in bad weather.

According to a press release, the DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), ordered Freight Rite, based in Florence, Kentucky, to reinstate an unnamed box truck driver who was fired after he refused to operate in hazardous road conditions caused by inclement winter weather.  Continue reading “Trucker ordered to receive nearly $200,000 after being fired for refusing to drive in bad weather”

Bleeping Computer – by Sergiu Gatlan

Cloudfare experienced a worldwide outage today for about 30 minutes, with network performance issues that brought down a multitude of websites and web services all around the world, and triggered “502 Bad Gateway” errors.

While various speculations said that the provider of content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services was being under attack, Cloudfare’s John Graham-Cumming says that the 502 errors seen by visitors of Cloudfare sites were actually caused by a spike in CPU utilization on the provider’s network.  Continue reading “Cloudflare Worldwide Outage Caused by Bad Software Deployment”

Big League Politics – by Tom Rappert

The Proud Boys and conservatives are planning a large “End Domestic Terrorism” rally to push back against Portland Antifa following a weekend of violence that saw journalist Andy Ngo brutally beaten and attacked with milkshakes, and an elderly man’s skull fractured after being attacked with a metal bar.

Enrique Tarrio, Chairman of the Proud Boys and co-organizer of the D.C. “Demand Free Speech” rally that has been threatened with acid attacks from Antifa, is planning a large rally to push back against what he considers “domestic terrorism” on behalf of the far left organization responsible for brutally beating Ngo last weekend.  Continue reading “Conservatives Plan MASSIVE ‘End Domestic Terrorism’ Rally Against Portland Antifa”

Breitbart – by Frances Martel

Hundreds of anti-communist protesters in Hong Kong destroyed the legislative council (LegCo) building in the city late Monday, shattering its glass exterior, spray-painting anti-China slogans over its walls, and rendering it unusable, according to city officials.

Many protesters had spent much of the day trying to break into the building using metal bars and succeeded late into the night. Upon entering, they chanted slogans against China, waved the flag of the United Kingdom (to which they belonged until 1997), and vandalized the legislative chamber. Continue reading “Protesters Destroy Hong Kong Legislature on Anniversary of Handover to China”

The New Observer

Violent white German resistance to the Third World invasion of that country is at an all-time high, and invader centers are being attacked at the rate of one every two days, according to newly-released official figures.

According to the latest report issued by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (“Verfassungschutz,” or BfV) titled “Verfassungsschutzbericht 2018,” the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) reported that the number of attacks carried out by Germans against invaders and those supporting the invasion rose by 3.2 percent. Continue reading “German Resistance to Third World Invasion at All-Time High: Invader Centers Attacked Every 2 Days”

Breitbart – by Michelle Moons

Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke campaigned in Mexico Sunday with migrants not admitted to the U.S. at the southern border.

O’Rourke called the Trump administration’s policies “unlawful and inhumane” in a post about crossing into Mexico on Sunday to meet with migrants waiting there for U.S. court dates. He used the visit to promote his own immigration plan. Continue reading “‘Beto’ O’Rourke Campaigns in Mexico”

The Sun

VLADIMIR Putin today called an urgent meeting with defence chiefs hours after 14 sailors died in a mystery submarine blast.

The Russian leader cancelled his schedule for a meeting with his defence minster Sergei Shoigu.

It came as US Vice President Mike Pence was called back to Washington for an “undisclosed emergency”.  Continue reading “Vladimir Putin calls urgent meeting with defence chiefs after 14 Russian sailors die in submarine fire”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

Federal authorities are warning that political radicals may attack people celebrating on July 4th.

A bulletin to law enforcement around the country states that domestic terrorists “have attacked perceived oppressors, opponents, or enemies engaged in outdoor First Amendment-protected rallies or protests during past summers.” Continue reading “Federal agents warn of possible terror attacks targeting the Fourth of July”