Daily Kos – by Walter Einenkel

“I need somebody to come through here please, ASAP. Now. There’s about eight people in a van, and they’ve been in the store for about an hour. They keep going back and forth to the bathrooms by my back door.” That’s the 911 call—obtained by WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News—from a Subway employee on a family of 6, Felicia and Othniel Dobson and their four children, ages 8, 12, 13, and 19. The family had stopped at the Subway in Coweta County, Georgia, on their trip back from South Georgia to their home state of North Carolina. They had been attending a grandparent’s birthday party for the weekend.  Continue reading “Subway employee calls police on two parents and their four kids eating dinner”

AOL

Hundreds of thousands of Americans with unpaid tax debts will not be able to apply for or renew passports until their debts are settled, as federal officials step up enforcement of a law passed by Congress in 2015.

The law requires the Internal Revenue Service and the State Department to deny or revoke passports for people who have an overdue tax debt of $51,000 or more, according to the IRS.   Continue reading “Hundreds of thousands at risk for passport denial because of tax debt”

Washington Post – by Abha Bhattarai

Just after she turned 70, Leslie Botts became a lifeguard.

Botts, a longtime swimmer from Austin, was looking for a way to stay active while supplementing her income. After retiring in 2007 from her 30-year career as a special-education teacher, she taught yoga at a Caribbean resort for a year, then worked as a substitute high school teacher, making just over $10 an hour. But she was frustrated by the unpredictable hours and low pay.   Continue reading “Why your pool’s lifeguard is more likely to be a senior citizen”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While the headline prints in today’s jobs report were solid with the exception of hourly earnings, which disappointed consensus expectations on both a monthly and annual basis, however not too dramatically earning the report a “goldilocks” name, a look below the surface reveals at least one ugly side to today’s jobs report: all the job gains were for part-time workers, while full-time employment dipped modestly.

In June, the number of part-time workers rose by 145K to 27.028MM, while the full-time workers declined by a modest 89K to 128.658MM.   Continue reading “June Jobs Increase: All Part-Time Workers As Full-Time Jobs Drop”

The Organic Prepper

In a move straight out of the Soviet Union handbook, PG&E has warned they may cut electrical power to some California residents during “extreme weather” to help prevent wildfires.

This comes after some poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric power lines have been determined to have started last year’s deadly wildfires in the Napa Valley wine country area.   Continue reading “PG&E Plans to Cut Electricity to Some California Residents to Prevent Wildfires”

LMT Online – by Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post

Seventy may be the new sixty, eighty may be the new seventy, but 85 is still pretty old to work in America. Yet, in some ways, it is the era of the very-old-worker in America.

Overall, 255,000 Americans, 85-years-old and over, were working over the past 12 months. That’s 4.4 percent of Americans that age, up from 2.6 percent in 2006, before the recession. It’s the highest number on record.   Continue reading “A record number of folks age 85 and older are working. Here’s what they’re doing.”

NewsWars

Over 16,000 complaints have been logged with the City of San Francisco regarding ‘feces’ in the last seven days.

A website and related app that allows local residents to request maintenance or non-emergency services from the city has received 16,015 complaints with the keyword ‘feces’ in the last week at the time of this writing, and many pertain to human waste in public places.   Continue reading “San Francisco Logs Over 16,000 Feces Complaints in One Week”

The Smoking Gun

A Florida man who tussled with a cop trying to arrest him for disorderly conduct later said that he “really enjoyed resisting” because it was like being on “Live PD,” a cable program that chronicles the mayhem police officers encounter on the night shift.

A patrolman was dispatched yesterday to a home in Sebastian, a city near Vero Beach, after a 911 caller reported that a man wielding a golf club was chasing a woman.  Continue reading “Man Tells Cop He “Really Enjoyed” Resisting Arrest Because It Was Like Being On A TV Show”

RT – by John Wight

The US has long sought to deny its hegemonic character while emphasizing its democratic character. It now seems all such pretense has been abandoned.

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know,” Shakespeare writes, in words that for time immemorial should have sat pride of place under the Great Seal of the United States on front of the podium whenever any president, cabinet member, congressman, or indeed any US official proclaimed their country a champion of democracy.  Continue reading “The Pentagon’s new mission statement: Neo-colonialism & hegemony unmasked”

AOL

When Crystal Reynolds Fisher’s 18-year-old son ended up on life support for a 104-degree fever, she did what any working mom would do: she called out of work so she could be with him. But when she contacted her manager to let her know, she was not prepared for such a cruel, heartless reaction, Buzzfeed reports.

Crystal, who lives in Michigan, works at a PS Food Mart, a convenience store run by the company Folk Oil. On the day she had to miss work, she texted her manager, Dawn, to explain her son’s situation, and offered to keep her updated so she “can return to work with no problems.”   Continue reading “Mom gets shamed by manager for calling out of work to care for son on life support”

Fox News

A Connecticut man who was assaulted by three juveniles while at work has been sentenced to prison for stabbing one of the attackers.

The Connecticut Post reports 21-year-old Jeffrey Sumpter of Bridgeport received 18 months in jail Monday at a Stamford courthouse.  Continue reading “Connecticut assault victim gets 18 months in jail for stabbing attacker”

BBC News

Investigators are continuing to search for the item contaminated with the nerve agent which poisoned a couple near Salisbury.

Police believe Charlie Rowley, 45, and Dawn Sturgess, 44, from Amesbury, were exposed to Novichok after handling the unknown object.

The pair remain in a critical condition in hospital.  Continue reading “Amesbury Novichok contaminated item search continues”

AP News – by Julian Hattem

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah police seized about $2.2 million in cash last year under a law allowing authorities to take someone’s property even if they aren’t charged or convicted of a crime, a state report showed.

The 2017 report on state asset forfeiture showed virtually all of the money and other assets seized by police came in drug investigations.

In 13 percent of the cases no criminal charges were filed.  Continue reading “Utah Police Seized $2.2M in Cash Under Civil Forfeiture Law”

Sky News – by Bethany Minelle

London mayor Sadiq Khan’s Greater London Authority has approved a request for the flight after thousands signed a petition and a crowdfunding campaign raised more than £16,000 to get the six-metre inflatable off the ground.

Strict rules are in place for the flight from Parliament Square Gardens, with the balloon being tethered to the ground and restricted from floating higher than 30m (98ft).  Continue reading “Trump ‘angry baby’ blimp gets green light to fly over London during president’s visit”

Yahoo News

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the U.S. Army has moved in recent weeks to discharge immigrant recruits and reservists who enlisted through a program that promised them a path to citizenship.

Some of these service members say they weren’t told why they were being discharged. Others say the Army told them they’d been labeled as security risks because they have relatives abroad or because their background checks were pending.  Continue reading “US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Grif

The 2017 Tax Act (formerly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act), signed into law late last year, was welcomed by wage earners and business alike that saw it as the fulfillment of President Trump’s campaign pledge to ease the burden of federal income tax. The law reduced the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, and created new income brackets that generally reduce the amount of federal income tax levied on wage earners. And yet, the new tax law has a darker, and for some, a more sinister side.

As of January 1, 2018, all non-profit 501(C)( 3) charitable organizations, including churches, which for decades were exempt from paying income tax, are no longer tax exempt.   Continue reading “Churches & Other Non-Profits to Pay Income Tax on Employee Benefits under New Law”

The Daily Sheeple

When a vehicle thief refused to stop a mother’s SUV after she demanded he do so, she opened fire on him, shooting him in the head.  The mother’s two toddlers were still in the back of the car at the time of the attempted carjacking and kidnapping.

The incident took place at about 10 pm in Dallas, Texas outside a Shell service station in the 100 block of West Camp Wisdom Road. The mother had gone into the gas station when a man climbed into the driver’s seat and tried to drive away, according to reporting done by NBCDFW5. Continue reading “Mom Open Fires On Man Stealing Her Car With Her Kids Inside”

The Daily Caller – by Evie Fordham

A woman in Texas was arrested Friday for allegedly selling her 7-year-old son to two men.

Texas Department of Public Safety officials took Esmeralda Garza, 29, into custody while she was allegedly in the process of selling two other children, her 2-year-old and 3-year-old daughters, officials said according to KIII-TV. Authorities were in her home with a warrant to search for drugs when they came upon the alleged sales of children.  Continue reading “Texas Mother in Custody For Selling Young Children”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to drain the swamp in Washington, DC and claims to be for the people, so much so that he just encouraged imposing yet another tax on American citizens’ backs which will result in raising corporate retail prices online. A new Internet collection tax will allow states to collect — (steal, rob, plunder) [taxation is theft] you get the point — from any retailer across the U.S. who sells products online. In short, the newly approved law will kill small businesses.   Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court Silently Passes Law — Internet Tax Collection — Will Kill Small Businesses”