Year: 2019

Breitbart – by John Binder

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a leading 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidate, is vowing to “fight” for back pay for illegal aliens.

As part of Warren’s “Empowering American Workers and Raising Wages” plan, illegal aliens who have worked illegally in the United States — sometimes by stealing Americans’ identities and Social Security numbers — would become eligible to receive back pay for their previous work by amending the National Labor Relations Act. Continue reading “Elizabeth Warren’s Workers Plan Will Provide Back Pay to Illegal Aliens”

ProPublica

Every week, thousands of Mexicans cross the border into the U.S. on temporary visas to sell their blood plasma to profit-making pharmaceutical companies that lure them with Facebook ads and colorful flyers promising hefty cash rewards.

The donors, including some who say the payments are their only income, may take home up to $400 a month if they donate twice a week and earn various incentives, including “buddy bonuses” for recruiting friends or family. Continue reading “Pharmaceutical Companies Are Luring Mexicans Across the U.S. Border to Donate Blood Plasma”

CBS News

A Philadelphia jury has ordered medical company Johnson & Johnson to pay $8 billion in punitive damages in the case of a man who said he developed breasts after taking the company’s anti-psychotic drug Risperdal as a child. The case is unrelated to a string of big-money lawsuits the company is facing over its signature baby powder.

In the Risperdal case, a jury found that Johnson & Johnson failed to warn 26-year-old Nicholas Murray of the drug’s side effects. Murray claimed that taking the Risperdal as a child caused him to develop breasts, an incurable condition known as gynecomastia. Thousands of others have filed lawsuits alleging the same. Continue reading “Johnson & Johnson hit with $8 billion verdict over drug linked to boy growing breasts”

The Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” –Albert Einstein  

Continue reading “Student Suspended for 5 Days Over ‘Taxation is Theft’ Hat, ‘End the Drug War’ Flyer”

New York Times

Edward W. Stack, the chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods, said in an interview this week that his company had destroyed over $5 million in military-style, semiautomatic rifles and was reviewing whether it would continue to sell guns in its more than 720 stores.

Mr. Stack was speaking with “CBS Sunday Morning” while promoting his new book, “It’s How We Play the Game.”

Continue reading “Dick’s Sporting Goods Destroyed $5 Million Worth of Guns”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

West Palm Beach, FL — Jury duty, like voting, is considered by many Americans as one’s civic duty. But as one young man from Florida would learn, jury duty is anything but voluntary. He overslept, missed jury duty, and a judge threw the book at him, sentencing him to 10 days in jail and one year of probation. However, this man’s story now has a happy ending thanks to his situation garnering national attention and a hefty dose of backlash.  Continue reading “After Viral Backlash, Judge Rescinds Jail Sentence For Man Who Missed Jury Duty”

RT

Police have confirmed one person has been detained after a shooting in Halle which left two people dead and others injured. A grenade was also thrown into the Jewish cemetery.

A picture of the alleged shooter has appeared on social media, but cannot be verified yet. Continue reading “One person detained after shooting outside German synagogue left 2 people dead”

Yahoo News

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the United Nations is facing its “worst cash crisis” in nearly a decade because 64 of its 193 members have not paid their annual dues — including the United States, its largest contributor.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the secretary-general has written to all members saying “the organization runs the risk of depleting its liquidity reserves by the end of the month and defaulting on payments to staff and vendors.”  Continue reading “United Nations could run out of money in a few weeks, Secretary General warns”

MassPrivateI

In New England, undercover Federal agents are following people into stores and interrogating them simply because they are speaking a foreign language.

Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit claiming that the U.S. Border Patrol is sending undercover agents into stores to interrogate and arrest suspected illegal immigrants because they were speaking Spanish.  Continue reading “Border Patrol Entering Stores And Interrogating People Who Speak Spanish (Updated)”

Fox News

A planned Turkish military operation in northern Syria has now begun, the country’s president announced Wednesday, as Kurdish fighters say warplanes are already bombing civilian areas in the region.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tweeted that the maneuvers being carried out against Syrian Kurdish forces –which Ankara considers terrorists allied with a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey – are part of Operation Peace Spring.  Continue reading “Turkey launches military assault in Syria as Kurdish fighters say warplanes are bombing region”

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”