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A high school teacher in Virginia has been fired after refusing to refer to one of his students using his preferred pronoun.
Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point High School, was fired after the School Board voted 5-0 in favor of terminating his role. Continue reading “Virginia Teacher Fired For Refusing To Use Transgender Student’s New Pronoun: ‘I Miss The Female Version Of The Student’”
Drivers in parts of the South face another day of dangerous road conditions and black ice after a wintry snowstorm walloped several Southern states, officials have warned.
While sunny skies helped North Carolina thaw on Tuesday, temperatures dropped again overnight, putting a winter weather advisory in effect for western parts of the state through late Wednesday morning. Continue reading “Deadly black ice still threatens drivers in the wake of Winter Storm Diego”
WASHINGTON – D.C. police are investigating a deadly crash that happened along Suitland Parkway Sunday night.
Kyree Payne of Northeast D.C. died when the car he was driving sped off the road and crashed into a tree.
A Maryland man, who says he risked his life to save a passenger in that car, has now had his car confiscated by police. Continue reading “Maryland man says he saved passenger in deadly crash, had his own vehicle seized by police”
Natural News – by Tracey Watson
No longer content to tinker with the genetic design of crops and humans, scientists – at the behest of the U.S. Military – are now turning their attention to the world’s oceans. As reported by Defense One, the Pentagon is looking at various ways in which to genetically engineer marine microorganisms into living surveillance equipment capable of detecting enemy submarines, divers and other suspicious underwater traffic.
The Military is also looking at using genetic engineering to create living camouflage in which creatures react to their surroundings to avoid detection, along with a host of other potentially nefarious applications. Continue reading “U.S. Navy to release genetically engineered organisms into the ocean, unleashing mass genetic pollution with devastating consequences”
A 4.4-magnitude earthquake was reported in Tennessee early Wednesday, officials said.
The quake hit about six miles north of Decatur around 4:15 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The shaking was felt by residents as far away as Atlanta — about 149 miles south of the epicenter. Continue reading “Earthquake, magnitude 4.4, rattles Tennessee, Georgia”
Two groups of Central American migrants marched to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana on Tuesday with a list of demands, with one group delivering an ultimatum to the Trump administration: either let them in the U.S. or pay them $50,000 each to go home, a report said.
Among other demands were that deportations be halted and that asylum seekers be processed faster and in greater numbers, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Continue reading “Migrant group demand Trump either let them in or pay them each $50G to turn around: report”
The Organic Prepper – by Meadow Clark
More than 1,400 Google staff, many journalists, and human rights organizations are calling on Google to halt its controversial project called Dragonfly. Continue reading “DRAGONFLY: Google Employees Publicly Rebel Against Building a Dystopian New Search Engine”
The Mises Institute – by José Niño
James Bovard notes the threat to private gun ownership posed by the “deep state,” the “officials who secretly wield power permanently in Washington, often in federal agencies with vast sway and little accountability.” Continue reading “The Deep State Wants Your Guns”
South African lawmakers passed a proposal to change the country’s constitution to make land grabs legal.
The government voted in agreement to take land from white farmers without compensation.
This same plan turned South Africa’s neighbor Zimbabwe from a state of plenty to a starving state. Continue reading “South African Government Sets Date for White Farmers to Give Up Land without Compensation”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would intervene in the Justice Department’s case against a top executive at China’s Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] if it would serve national security interests or help close a trade deal with China.
Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada Dec. 1 and has been accused by the United States of misleading multinational banks about Iran-linked transactions, putting the banks at risk of violating U.S. sanctions. Continue reading “Trump says he could intervene in U.S. case against Huawei CFO”
Minot Daily News – by Jill Schramm
The regional cloud-seeding project saw a busy June, although it had an overall average season and came in under budget, according to information provided the Ward County Commission Tuesday.
Darin Langerud, director of the North Dakota Cloud Modification Project, told commissioners the program flew just over 444 hours in District 2, which is similar to the 10-year average for flight hours during the June through August season. Continue reading “Cloud-seeding season sees average year after busy start”
The Israeli government discussed Sunday its readiness to accept a new wave of immigrants amid an increase of antisemitism in France, Ynet reported.
Following the outcome of a government meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the creation of a national program to encourage the repatriation to Israel of Jewish refugees from France. According to local media, this blueprint program will also be introduced to an inter-governmental commission on integration. Continue reading “Israel Will Accept 200,000 Refugees From France – Reports”
A sheriff’s deputy and two officials from the Texas attorney general’s office were shot while trying to serve a felony warrant at a home in Houston, authorities said.
The three victims were hospitalized but are “are awake and alert” and expected to survive, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted. Continue reading “3 law enforcement officers shot while trying to serve warrant: Sheriff”
Business Insider – by Kieran Corcoran
A senior former Google employee who quit over its controversial plans to launch a search engine in China painted a picture of a company whose upper echelons are obsessed with stopping leaks, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
Jack Poulson, a former researcher at the company, said that senior managers consider the prevention of leaks to be their “number one priority.” Continue reading “A former senior Google employee says a frantic quest to stop internal info getting out is now management’s ‘number one priority’”
Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard
In a new report that warns that the electric grid is the “prime target” of terrorists, Americans are being urged prepare for the up to six months without electricity, transportation, fuel, money, and healthcare.
“People no longer keep enough essentials within their homes, reducing their ability to sustain themselves during an extended, prolonged outage. We need to improve individual preparedness,” said a just-published report to President Trump. Continue reading “Start prepping! Electric grid ‘prime target’ of terrorists, ‘profound threat,’ says council”
The network is suspected of operating in a spate of Colombian cities, including the capital Bogota, the second-largest city of Medellin as well as Cartagena and Santa Marta. All of the suspects were wanted by Interpol on suspicion of pimping and soliciting minors for prostitution.
Six Israel citizens have been arrested after they were suspected of running a child sex trafficking ring in Colombia, according to the Latin American country’s attorney general’s office. Continue reading “Police Nab Israeli Suspects in Colombia Child Sex Trafficking Ring”
For drivers traveling on northwestern Vermont’s Route 128 through Westford, it’d be hard not to notice a rather outsized, impolite gesture.
But don’t worry, Ted Pelkey says the 700-pound wooden middle finger sculpture on his front lawn isn’t for them. Rather, Pelkey says the sculpture — which sits on top of a 16-foot pole — is the product of an “uphill battle” more than 10 years in the making with local town officials over a garage he wants to build on his property. Continue reading “Here’s why a Vermont man put up a giant, illuminated middle finger sculpture on his front lawn”
One of the world’s largest silver producing countries, China, has announced the discovery of a huge deposit with estimated reserves of at least 1,500 tons.
The deposit was discovered by geologists in Henan Province. It is part of the Zhonghe deposit area, which boasts 280,000 tons of lead and 320,000 tons of zinc, according to the Henan Bureau of Geo-exploration and Mineral Development. Continue reading “Large silver deposit discovered in central China”
ESSEX, Vt. — Andrew Robert Black, 23, died Thursday, Dec. 6, in his home in Essex, Vermont.
His mother, Alyssa Hughes Black, told NBC5 he purchased a firearm earlier that day and took his own life hours later. Continue reading “Family calls for ‘cooling off period’ law after son buys gun, ends his life”
WASHINGTON, December 11. /TASS/. Russia calls on Washington not to turn a blind eye on active military buildup by the Ukrainian forces and right-wing extremists along the contact line in Donbass that could trigger the implementation of a bloody scenario, the Russian Embassy to the US said. Continue reading “Russia calls on US not to turn a blind eye on Kiev’s preparations for Donbass offensive”