End of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder

It looks like global food production could be well below expectations in 2019, and that could spell big trouble in the months ahead.  In recent weeks, I have written extensively about the problems that we have been experiencing here in the United States.  As many as a million calves were lost to the flooding that hit the state of Nebraska in March, farmers have planted less than half of the corn that is normally in the ground by this time of the year, and a lot of the crops that have been planted in the middle of the country are really struggling due to extremely wet soil.  Continue reading “Floods And Drought Devastate Crops All Over The Planet – Could A Global Food Crisis Be Coming?”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Some 500 Nusra-front militants, accompanied by seven tanks and about 30 pickup trucks armed with mounted heavy machine guns launched three major offensives against government troops in Idlib province on Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The counterattack focused on the town of Kafr Nabudah, which was recently captured by the Syrian government.  Continue reading “Syrian Rebels Attack Russian Air Base In Major Offensive”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Two illegal alien members of the violent MS-13 gang have been charged with the murder of a 14-year-old girl in Maryland after previously being released from custody by a sanctuary city.

Last week, illegal alien MS-13 gang members Josue Rafael Fuentes-Ponce, 16-years-old, and Joel Ernesto Escobar, 17-years-old, were charged with first-degree murder — along with 14-year-old Cynthia Hernandez-Nucamendi — in the death of 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz in Prince George’s County, Maryland.  Continue reading “MS-13 Illegal Aliens Charged with Murdering Teen Girl After Being Released by Sanctuary City”

In mid-January 2018, the Turkish General Staff announced the beginning of Olive Branch Operation. The goal was to oust the Kurds from the outskirts of Afrin, as well as to create a buffer zone along the Syrian-Turkish border.

These steps were sharply criticized by the world community, but Ankara hastened to declare that the presence of its troops in Syria was temporary. Erdogan promised to return these territories to Syrians. Indeed, the fighting stopped on March 20 2018, after capturing Afrin when several hundred Kurds were killed and wounded. However, now it looks like Turkey is not going to leave the occupied territory.  Continue reading “Turkish army pullout will bring peace to Northern Syria”

CBS 7

MIDLAND COUNTY, Tx. (KOSA) — New details have been released on today’s train crash involving a Midland County Sheriff’s Office deputy.

According to Sheriff Gary Painter, the deputy was responding to a call of an infant having breathing issues when the accident happened.  Continue reading “Midland County Sheriff’s deputy hit by train; Drove around lowered crossing gate”

Lew Rockwell – by Mark Nestmann

In the last few years, banks have been falling over themselves to get rid of “undesirable” customers. Basically, if your bank isn’t making enough profit servicing your account, it will close it.

Of course, banks won’t admit they’re doing this. Instead, they’ll blame laws and regulations. Compliance with money laundering rules is their favorite excuse.  Continue reading “Your Bank Might Lock You Out of Your Own Account”

Daily Mail

From wearing designer clothes and relaxing on yachts to driving the latest sports car, Rich Kids of Instagram are an envy-inducing tribe who boast about the best of their posh lifestyles online.

Taking to Instagram, social media users from around the world have shared pictures, under hashtags #NotARichKidOfInstagram and #BudgetLife, of their inventive methods to replicate the luxury lifestyle. Continue reading “The ANTI-Rich kids of Instagram show off the highs and lows of growing up without money”

KSFY

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KSFY) UPDATED: 5:52 p.m. Tuesday

A 44-year-old man was shot by a Minnehaha County sheriff’s deputy after authorities say he charged officers with a knife Tuesday afternoon at the Minnehaha County Jail.

Authorities said the subject entered the Minnehaha County Jail’s front lobby, creating a disturbance. Deputies and corrections officers were dispatched to address the situation. Shortly after, authorities said the suspect began hitting the glass door of the lobby with an object, and an officer attempted to keep the doors shut. The door shatters in the process, causing the officer to suffer minor injuries.  Continue reading “Subject shot in deputy involved shooting at Minnehaha County Jail”

Government Financial Officers Association

GFOA Advisories identify specific policies and procedures necessary to minimize a government’s exposure to potential loss in connection with its financial management activities. It is not to be interpreted as GFOA sanctioning the underlying activity that gives rise to the exposure.  

Continue reading “Evaluating the Sale and Securitization of Property Tax Liens”

The Great Recession

The graph here shows the point at which I said early last summer housing sales had turned over (for the worst) and would remain on a downtrend indefinitely, and it shows how that prediction has panned out.

Existing home sales were down again nationally (4.4%) in April (fourteenth month in a row of declining sales year on year). That is the longest stretch without a single positive month since the housing-market collapse that brought on the Great Recession.  Continue reading “Housing Collapse 2.0 Continues as Predicted Here … as does everything else!”

AOL

NEW YORK (AP) — After Eric Garner’s death following a confrontation with New York City police five years ago, one officer involved in the struggle wrote up paperwork that exaggerated the seriousness of the dead man’s suspected crime, that officer testified Tuesday.

Officer Justin Damico said that after riding in an ambulance with the dying Garner, he filled out arrest papers listing a felony tax charge that would have required prosecutors to prove Garner, a small-time street hustler, had sold 10,000 untaxed cigarettes. Continue reading “NYPD officer says he inflated charge against Eric Garner”

KBTX 3 News

CALDWELL, Tex. (KBTX)- A Somerville man remains on life-support one month after he was released from the Burleson County jail and his family is still left wondering how and why he ended up in critical condition.

Chester “CJ” Jackson, Jr., 30, was arrested by the sheriff’s office on April 19 in front of his home and booked into the county jail on one charge of public intoxication. Continue reading “Local man ends up on life support following arrest in Burleson County”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Boulder, CO — Last year, American cops killed 1,183 people. Many of these people were unarmed, innocent, and some of them were even children. Most of the police officers involved in these killings will never be held accountable due to a system that perpetuates this behavior. The disturbing video below shows just how ridiculous police interactions in the ostensible land of the free have become as eight cops surrounded a black man and nearly shot him—for picking up trash in his own front yard. Now, the cop who unlawfully detained the innocent man has resigned to avoid accountability.  Continue reading “Body Cam Shows 8 Cops Nearly Kill Innocent Student—For Picking Up Trash in His Own Yard”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Due to a surge in migrants filling California detention facilities to capacity, US Border Patrol agents in El Centro began dumping detained border crossers three hours north at the San Bernardino Greyhound Station last Wednesday, after the agency ran out of room to house them.

“It was a decision that was made because they couldn’t take any more families and obviously we cannot keep them in custody for much longer because we are at capacity,” said acting assistant chief patrol agent Miguel Garcia, according to Reuters.  Continue reading “Go Greyhound: California Border Agents Dropping Illegal Migrants At Bus Station”

Breitbart – by Tom Ciccotta

A professor at the University of California, San Diego, told his students that unborn babies are “parasites” during a class lecture. Now, a scientist from LSU is pushing back against this absurd claim.

Breitbart News reported in April that University of California San Diego Professor Pascal Gagnuex told students that fetuses are a “legitimate parasite.” The lecture then compared fetuses to a “cancer” that “rapidly grows,” and “invades” the body.  Continue reading “Scientist: Professor’s Claim that Unborn Babies Are ‘Parasites’ Is ‘Borderline Satanic’”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

The massive numbers of families crossing the southwestern border continues to pull agents from their security missions to care for migrants. The vice president of the National Border Patrol Council recently told Fox News, “We’ve lost control of the border.”

“Our Border Patrol chief has mentioned that over 50 percent of our agents are not securing the border and they’re now actually processing, transporting, and caring for some of these asylum seekers,” U.S. Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza, in his role as vice-president of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner. “But I would challenge that percentage. I would put that percentage somewhere in the range of 75 percent.”  Continue reading “Closed Immigration Checkpoints Are ‘Green Lights’ for Cartels, Says NM Sheriff”

Seattle Times –  by Brendan Kiley

On Tuesday morning, Gov. Jay Inslee signed bill 5001, titled “concerning human remains,” making Washington the first state in the U.S. to legalize human composting.

The new law, which takes effect May 1, 2020, recognizes “natural organic reduction” and alkaline hydrolysis (sometimes called “liquid cremation”) as acceptable means of disposition for human bodies. Until now, Washington code had permitted only burial and cremation.  Continue reading “Washington becomes first state to legalize human composting”