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SAN ANTONIO – Twenty-four Bexar County Sheriff’s Office staffers have now been arrested this year, more than double the total from 2017. And there are still four weeks left in the year..
With 1,374 deputies in the county, that is an arrest rate of 1.7 percent. Continue reading “Astounding Bexar County Sheriff’s deputy arrest rate continues to skyrocket”
Both sides of I-41/94 have been closed in Mount Pleasant in Racine County after an explosion of a semi-truck.
It happened around 11 a.m. Wednesday on the overpass at County Highway K.
There was no initial word on the severity of any injuries. Continue reading “Semi-truck explosion leads to closure of both directions of I-41/94 in Mount Pleasant”
Courthouse News – by Martin Macias Jr
(CN) – California lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday to allow judges to restrict someone’s access to guns if they pose a danger to themselves or others, despite concerns from community groups that the bill may violate civil rights.
Under current law, police officers or the immediate family members of someone who poses a threat can petition a court to issue a gun violence restraining order which, if granted, requires the gun owner to surrender all weapons and ammunition for 21 days. Continue reading “Tougher Gun Violence Restraining Order Bill Advances in California”
American evangelicals, who revere Israel as the “Holy Land” and as the home of God’s Chosen, may want to reconsider their diseased theology. In fact, Israel is home to some of the world’s most energetic and active gays and lesbians—men and women who not only have same sex but regularly mock and despise our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Apostle Paul, who warned against sexual uncleanness, lewdness, and fornication, would be appalled if he were to return to Israel today. Continue reading “Homosexuals In Israel’s Armed Forces”
At the start of World Refugee Week, Sajid Javid confirmed the UK plans to resettle in the region of 5,000 of the world’s most vulnerable refugees in the first year of the new scheme, once the flagship Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme concludes next year.
The UK will aim to resettle refugees at current levels, adding to the nearly 16,000 refugees who have already found safety here since 2015 under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and the many thousands resettled under other routes. Continue reading “New global resettlement scheme for the most vulnerable refugees announced”
Another Day in the Empire – by Kurt Nimmo
After a tsunami of skepticism swept over the media following the Pentagon’s release of a dubious video supposedly showing Iranians removing a mine from the hull of a tanker, the generals followed up with a color version of basically the same video. Like the first video, the second color video doesn’t show much of anything.
But no matter. It will serve as a catalyst for war, along with the Iranians declaring they will exceed a limit imposed on the production of enriched uranium. The limit is part of the 2015 nuclear deal trashed by Trump. Continue reading “Iran: The Technicolor War”
Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith
The system is broken, and the managerial elite will keep it broken because it serves their interests to keep it broken.
America’s managerial elite came to do good and stayed to do well–at the expense of everyone beneath them. Now that they’ve entrenched themselves at the top of the status quo, there’s no way to dislodge them, even as their failure to address what’s broken, much less actually fix what’s broken, insures systemic breakdown. Continue reading “America’s Managerial Elite Has Failed, But We Can’t Get Rid of Them”
Thousands of European activists plan to blockade a large German lignite mine this week, the latest protest of a growing “climate civil disobedience” movement.
While school students have held “Fridays for Future” rallies for months, protesters of the “Extinction Rebellion” group launched in Britain have risked arrest with more confrontational protests. Continue reading “Europe’s growing ‘climate civil disobedience’ movement”
Google on Tuesday pledged to commit more than $1 billion to help address the severe housing crisis it has been blamed for for years.
CEO Sundar Pichai announced the initiative, saying the internet colossus wants to be ‘a good neighbor’ in the area bursting with technology companies. Continue reading “Google vows to spend $1BILLION to fight Bay Area housing crisis by building at least 15,000 homes”
Press Herald – by Randy Billings
Portland City Manager Jon Jennings said Monday that the flow of African asylum seekers coming to Maine’s largest city appears to be slowing and city officials are turning their attention to finding temporary and permanent housing for the more than 200 people now sheltered at the Portland Expo.
Jennings said only four people presented themselves at the Expo on Monday, bringing the total number since June 9 to 223 people. He said 60 families, totaling 212 people, stayed at the shelter Sunday night. Dozens of people were showing up each day last week, prompting the city to convert the sports arena into an emergency shelter Wednesday. Continue reading “Portland looks to house African migrants as councilors discuss aid”
The Broadway production of a play about Bill and Hillary Clinton talking frankly about her 2008 presidential campaign will close a month ahead of schedule, due to low ticket sales.
Starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, Hillary and Clinton was set to close on July 21 but will instead close June 23. It cost $4.2 million to produce. Continue reading “Broadway Play About Clintons to Close One Month Early”
President Trump issued a public warning Monday night, by tweet, of a mass deportation effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to start next week.
“Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” he tweeted. Continue reading “Ex-ICE officials criticize Trump’s tweet about upcoming deportation sweep”
Patrick Shanahan, the acting secretary of defense who President Donald Trump said would be tapped to take over the job permanently, is stepping down and withdrawing from consideration, Trump said Tuesday.
“Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who has done a wonderful job, has decided not to go forward with his confirmation process so that he can devote more time to his family,” Trump tweeted. Continue reading “Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan steps down, withdraws from Cabinet consideration”
They were dead wrong.
Cops and medics were so duped by a diapered doll made to look like a baby’s decomposing body near a Queens park on Tuesday that they pronounced it “dead” and spent hours at the scene before figuring out it was just a toy. Continue reading “‘Dead baby’ found in Queens park appears to be hoax”
US President Donald Trump has cryptically suggested he knows who is responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but would not name the names.
Speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in the Rose Garden of the White House this weekend, the president digressed from the subject of the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the infamous terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York and Washington in 2001. Continue reading “Trump ‘thinks he knows’ who was behind 9/11”
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus says “the technology for autonomous flying” is already here, and the only obstacles to progress are regulators – and “the traveling public,” understandably wary of pilotless planes.
Ever since two Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft went down within six months of each other due to a glitch in the plane’s computerized flight control system, killing everyone onboard, airline passengers have had good reason to be leery of placing their lives in the hands of computers. News that Boeing was aware of the problems with its MCAS system and packaged the software “fix” as an add-on to extract more money from its customers only adds to fliers’ distrust of the company. But what about Airbus, its main competitor? Continue reading “Airbus attempts to sell the world on pilotless planes – or would you rather fly Boeing?”