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Archive: TWFTT 6-4-19

Yahoo News

(Reuters) – U.S. border agents shot and killed an 23-year-old American man who pulled out a gun and started shooting while trying to drive a truck through a U.S.-Mexican border inspection point at San Diego, police said on Tuesday.

The shooting late Monday sparked panic at the crowded San Ysidro port of entry, where people and vehicles enter the United States from Tijuana, social media video showed.  Continue reading “U.S. border agents kill American in gunfight at U.S.-Mexico crossing”

WSAZ News

COAL GROVE, Ohio (WSAZ) — UPDATE 6/3/19 @ 10:53 a.m.
The Village of Coal Grove has lifted a do not drink order after pink water ran through the water system.

Hundreds of people woke up to pink water in their taps and toilets Monday morning. Officials said the water was not dangerous for people, but possibly bad for clothing. Continue reading “Do not drink order lifted as village works on pink water issue”

NBC 3 LV

Nevada lawmakers have given final approval to a firearm safety bill offering a way to take guns away from a person considered to be at risk for violence.

The Assembly on Saturday approved the legislation mostly along party lines, sending it to the desk of Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who campaigned on tougher gun laws last year. Continue reading “Nevada Legislature gives final approval for ‘red flag’ gun bill”

LA Times

The Energy Department’s most environmentally important and technically ambitious project to clean up Cold War nuclear weapons waste has stalled, putting at jeopardy an already long-delayed effort to protect the Columbia River in central Washington.

In a terse letter last week, state officials said the environmental project is at risk of violating key federal court orders that established deadlines after past ones were repeatedly missed.

Continue reading “Nation’s most ambitious project to clean up nuclear weapons waste has stalled at Hanford”

The Hill, September 29, 2015

These words, from Section One of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution rank along with the Constitution’s Bill of Rights as — in these precincts — the most important in world and American history:

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.  Continue reading “2015: Yes, illegal aliens have constitutional rights”

Fast Company – by Michael Grothaus

If you’re a Google user, you probably noticed some trouble last night when trying to access Google-owned services. Last night, Google reported several issues with its Cloud Platform, which made several Google sites slow or inoperable. Because of this, many of Google’s sites and services–including Gmail, G Suite, and YouTube–were slow or completely down for users in the U.S. and Europe.

Continue reading “That major Google outage meant some Nest users couldn’t unlock doors or use the AC”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A new lawsuit by the Center for Inquiry (CFI) alleges Walmart is “committing wide-scale consumer fraud and endangering the health of its customers through its sale and marketing of homeopathic medicines.”

The lawsuit was filed in the District of Columbia last month. CFI is also involved in a similar suit against CVS, which has been ongoing since June 2018.  Continue reading ““Wide-Scale Consumer Fraud:” Walmart Sued For Selling Fake Medicine”

MassPrivateI

Have you ever had too much to drink at a bar or nightclub and been asked to leave? Have you or your friends ever mouthed off to the staff or been hit on by a bartender? Have you ever Yelped or Tweeted about bad food or service?

If you answered yes, to any of those questions, then you will be mortified to learn that Big Brother knows exactly who you are.  Continue reading “Bars & Nightclubs Use A Secret Biometric Blacklist To Ban Customers”

On June 2, Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Israeli aggression on the T4 airbase, located in the eastern countryside of Homs province. It’s recognized that the Syrian Air Defense System managed to destroy two missiles. The remaining rockets hit targets on the territory of the base, resulting in one martyr, two injured servicemen, and damage to an arms depot and other equipment.  Continue reading “Israel Continues Its Interference in the Syrian Crisis”

NZ Herald

America’s manufacturing industry suffered the sharpest slowdown last month since the depths of the global financial crisis, prompting calls for emergency rate cuts to avert a spiral into recession.

IHS Markit’s momentum gauge fell to the lowest since September 2009 as America’s fortress economy succumbed to fading fiscal stimulus and mounting damage from trade wars with China, Europe, and Mexico.  Continue reading “Trump’s economy is now on full recession alert”

The Sun

IT’S simply not enough for billionaires to have everything they’ve ever wanted – they need eternity to enjoy it, too.

At least a dozen of the world’s richest men have ploughed millions into bizarre ways to live forever. Here are five of the weirdest.  Continue reading “From ‘young blood’ transfusions to apocalypse insurance – weird ways tech billionaires are trying to live forever”

New York Post – by Lee Brown

A Virginia Beach city worker was confronted by gunman DeWayne Craddock three heart-stopping times during the workplace slaughter — but was spared each time.

Ned Carlstrom said he assumed it was an active-shooter drill when he first came face to face with his co-worker carrying an “obnoxious-looking gun” during Craddock’s slaughter of 12 people on Friday.  Continue reading “Virginia Beach shooting survivor was spared three times during massacre”

Overdrive – by Matt Cole

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is now accepting applications for its pilot program for 18-to-21-year-old military truck drivers.

The pilot program will allow a limited number of under-21 drivers with the military equivalent of a CDL to operate across state lines. Currently, drivers between the ages of 18 and 20 are forbidden from operating interstate, but can operate intrastate.  Continue reading “Under-21 interstate pilot program for military vets enters next phase”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Only 11 employers and no businesses were prosecuted for hiring illegal aliens over American citizens for U.S. jobs last year, federal data finds.

Although President Donald Trump’s administration has increased interior immigration enforcement by increasing the total number of arrests and deportations of illegal aliens — results that have lifted the wages of millions of working and middle-class Americans — little-to-no progress has been made in terms of increasing the prosecution of businesses and employers that knowingly hire illegal aliens over American citizens.  Continue reading “Feds: Only 11 Employers Prosecuted for Hiring Illegal Aliens in Last Year”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

Facebook and Amazon’s insanity only seems to continue with no sign of slowing down anytime soon. Now, the two big conglomerate giants want to move into the uncharted territory of reading human emotions, both in their own ways.

Facebook wants a robot that has five senses which can read human emotions. Facebook wants “emotionally sensitive” robots that can explore the world, identify objects and people and enable its users to make more friends, Dailymail reportedContinue reading “CREEPY: Amazon and Facebook Both Want To Read Human Emotions”

Brain Pickings – by Maria Popova

“I work like a gardener,” the great painter Joan Miró wrote in his meditation on the proper pace for creative work. It is hardly a coincidence that Virginia Woolf had her electrifying epiphany about what it means to be an artist while walking amid the flower beds in the garden at St. Ives. Indeed, to garden — even merely to be in a garden — is nothing less than a triumph of resistance against the merciless race of modern life, so compulsively focused on productivity at the cost of creativity, of lucidity, of sanity; a reminder that we are creatures enmeshed with the great web of being, in which, as the great naturalist John Muir observed long ago, “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”; a return to what is noblest, which means most natural, in us. Continue reading “The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature”