Year: 2019

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn on Tuesday in response to a measles outbreak, requiring unvaccinated people living in the affected areas to get the vaccine or face fines.

The city’s largest measles outbreak since 1991 has mainly been confined to the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, with 285 cases confirmed since October, de Blasio said at a news conference.  Continue reading “NYC mayor orders mandatory measles vaccinations after Brooklyn outbreak”

The Week – by Joel Mathis

Did you know there are socialists in the Midwest?

Americans are used to the country’s vast rural hinterlands being depicted as Trump Territory — and variants on socialism attributed to East Coast intellectuals and pointy-headed Vermonters. But the socialist movement has deep historical roots in “flyover country”: In the early 20th century, the tiny town of Girard, Kansas was a hub of American socialism, as was Madison, Wisconsin. These days, as The Atlantic outlines, a growing number of young adults in Iowa are at the forefront of the movement.  Continue reading “3 reasons why socialism is gaining popularity in America”

Global Research – by Philip Giraldi

One of the more interesting aspects of the relentless march of the Israel Lobby in the United States is the extent to which it has expanded its reach down into the state and even local level. Previously, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the hundreds of other Jewish and Christian Zionist organization dedicated to promoting Israeli interests had concentrated on the federal government level and the media, believing correctly that those were the key players in benefiting Israel while also making sure that its public image was highly favorable. The media was the easy part as American Jews were already well placed in the industry and inclined to be helpful. It also turned out that many Congressmen and the political parties themselves had their hands out and were just waiting to be bought, so “Mission Accomplished” turned out to be a lot easier than had been anticipated.   Continue reading “There’s Something Rotten in Virginia: Israel Is a Malignant Force in Local Politics”

Yahoo News

The robots are coming to the world’s largest big-box retailer.

This year, Walmart (WMT) plans an aggressive expansion of technology that will automate a range of low-level tasks within its fleet of U.S. stores, freeing up its associates to do more specialized work.  Continue reading “Walmart plans to add thousands of robot helpers to U.S. stores”

Daily Mail

Five whistleblowing workers at the only NHS transgender clinic in Britain have quit over fears children as young as three are going through unnecessary gender reassignment treatment.

The clinicians from the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic based in London and Leeds left over concerns children were being incorrectly diagnosed with gender dysphoria.  Continue reading “End the transgender ‘unregulated live experiment on children’ say whistleblowing workers who have quit clinic treating patients as young as THREE”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Los Angeles, CA — As active readers of the Free Thought Project know, police sexual misconduct is a widespread problem. Second only to police brutality complaints, sexual misconduct complaints are rampant throughout all 50 states. Tragically, many of these crimes are committed against society’s most vulnerable—children. As the following case out of Los Angeles illustrates, even the daughters of police officers are not off limits when it comes to predator cops.  Continue reading “LAPD Cop Guilty of Raping Fellow Cop’s 13-year-old Daughter In Their Home”

The Telegraph – by Katie Morely

Waitrose has apologised over “racist” Easter ducks after customers complained that the dark brown one was labelled as “ugly”.

An £8 trio of white, milk and dark chocolate Easter ducklings caused offence among a “small number” of customers for being labelled as “fluffy”, “crispy” and “ugly”. Continue reading “Waitrose pulls chocolate ducklings from sale after complaints of racism”

MassPrivateI

How often do police officers use the excuse that they smelled marijuana to justify searching people and cars?

If you get into a car accident in Texas would you expect the police to order a “forced blood draw” because they claimed to smell marijuana?  Continue reading “Chief Deputy Claims Airbag Deployment Smelled Like Marijuana”

Reason – by C.J. Ciaramella

When two Nashville police officers responded to a home burglary report in 2014, they found Alexander Baxter hiding in a basement. Baxter put his hands in the air. Nevertheless, the police unleashed a K-9 unit, which bit Baxter under his armpit.

Baxter sued the officers for excessive force, but in 2018 the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, whether or not Baxter’s rights were violated, the officers were immune from his lawsuit. It wasn’t clearly established, the court said, that using a police dog to apprehend him while his hands were raised was unconstitutional.  Continue reading “Police Sicced a Dog on a Surrendering Man. Will the Supreme Court Review the Doctrine That Gave Them Immunity?”

Splinter – by Sophie Weiner

A lawsuit brought by people incarcerated in California’s prison system alleges harrowing conditions that include mice and maggots falling from the ceiling in prison cafeterias, according to NBC.

The lawsuit also alleges that holes in the ceiling of state prisons allow rain and bird excrement into the buildings, leading to a build up of mold.  Continue reading “Mice and Maggots Are Reportedly Falling From the Ceiling in California Prisons”

Texas Tribune – by Alex Samuels

After news broke that an activist pushing a “constitutional carry” gun proposal tried to visit the homes of several Texas House leaders, state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, declared his bill on the matter dead and wrote in a statement Friday he’s “officially canceling” his request for a committee hearing.  Continue reading “After gun activist shows up at lawmakers’ houses, Texas representative declares his “constitutional carry” bill dead”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

Federal authorities charged a DC-area suspect Monday with a plot to use a stolen truck to run down pedestrians on the National Harbor waterfront, a popular tourist site along the Potomac River near Washington.

“Federal authorities have charged a man they believe was plotting to ram a stolen truck into pedestrians at the National Harbor waterfront development in Maryland, just outside the nation’s capital,” reports ABC News.  Continue reading “Terrorist attack thwarted near DC”

Washington Examiner – by Susan Ferrechio

The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a travel advisory for “immigrants and people of color to use extreme caution” in Florida because of a pending immigration bill the state legislature is considering that would ban so-called sanctuary cities.

The Florida Legislature has advanced legislation that would require local law enforcement to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in detaining undocumented immigrants.  Continue reading “ACLU warns ‘immigrants and people of color,’ against travel in Florida”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

Two migrants are dead after an alleged human smuggler led El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents on a pursuit Saturday evening. Agents apprehended 10 migrants who survived the crash and the U.S. citizen driver.

El Paso Sector agents received information about suspicious behavior involving a minivan near mile marker 131 on Highway 9 in New Mexico. As the agents arrived on the scene, they attempted to stop the minivan by using their emergency lights and siren. The driver failed to yield and drove away, according to information obtained from El Paso Sector Border Patrol officials.  Continue reading “Two Migrants Dead as Vehicle Chase Ends in Roll-Over Crash”

Reuters

A U.S. judge on Monday halted the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a program the government planned to expand to stem a recent flood of migrants.

The ruling is slated to take effect on Friday, according to the order by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco. The preliminary injunction will apply nationwide.  Continue reading “U.S. judge halts Trump policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico”