Daily Mail

A startling image purportedly showing one of Houston’s two major airports underwater in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, complete with Delta jetliners floating on a flooded tarmac, has been making the rounds on social media.

But all is not as it seems.

As Houston and other parts of Texas continued dealing with devastating flooding Monday, it emerged that the dramatic image of the inundated airport was a mock-up depicting New York City’s LaGuardia Airport.   Continue reading “Jaw-dropping photo of planes floating on flooded tarmac at Houston airport during Hurricane Harvey is revealed as a HOAX”

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Archive: TWFTT 8-28-17

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Wildwood, GA — Talking back to a cop, raising your voice to a cop, even swearing in the face of a cop are all poor decisions—but all 100% legal. However, the fact that you aren’t breaking the law is no guarantee that a police officer will not react to your speech and take you out. Kiersten Elise Quick learned this the hard way after her daughter was arrested for a suspended license last year.

On Nov. 23, Jessica Gaha, 31, lost control of her Honda Civic and crashed it into a tree. When Deputy Denny Reyes and Georgia State Patrol Trooper Joseph Geddie responded to the crash, they realized Gaha was driving under a suspended license so they arrested her.  Continue reading “Video Shows “Bully” Cop Tackle Innocent Mom, Smash Her Head Into the Ground”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

After six years of propaganda, false narratives, and hysteria by Western governments and their media mouthpieces regarding the push for direct war with Syria, it seems the Western narrative is now shifting to the tried-and-true method that proved itself during the second invasion of Iraq in 2003. That is, that Syria still has chemical weapons even after allowing inspectors into the country and that its “weapons of mass destruction” are being used against civilians. It’s a tired bit of propaganda but, unfortunately, like most propaganda narratives, it works on many Americans.   Continue reading “MSM Repeats Same WMD Lies As In Iraq To Lay Groundwork For Military Action In Syria”

Natural News – by Jayson Veley

Just days after the events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, an outspoken leftist who has found himself surrounded by controversy on multiple occasions, took to Twitter and revealed to the entire world just how ignorant he really is. “I know we’re better than this,” the Starbucks Twitter page quoted Schultz as saying. “The bigotry, hatred, and senseless violence against people who are not white cannot stand.”   Continue reading “Starbucks CEO implies it’s perfectly okay to commit violence against Whites, but not non-Whites”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Moments ago, in response to the devastation from hurricane Harvey, Texas Governor Abbott announced he is activating the entire Texas National Guard, bringing the total number of deployed guardsman to roughly 12,000. These National Guardsman will assist in the ongoing search and rescue effort for any Texans in immediate danger, and will be heavily involved in the extensive recovery effort in the aftermath of the storm.   Continue reading “Texas Activates All 12,000 National Guardsmen “In Response To Harvey Devastation””

The Mercury News – by Katy Murphy

SACRAMENTO — For the first time Californians would pay a tax on drinking water — 95 cents per month — under legislation aimed at fixing hundreds of public water systems with unsafe tap water.

Senate Bill 623, backed by a strange-bedfellows coalition of the agricultural lobby and environmental groups but opposed by water districts, would generate $2 billion over the next 15 years to clean up contaminated groundwater and improve faulty water systems and wells. The problem is most pervasive in rural areas with agricultural runoff.   Continue reading “First-ever water tax proposed to tackle unsafe drinking water in California”

Pew Research Center – by D’Vera Cohn, September 30, 2015

The United States began regulating immigration soon after it won independence from Great Britain, and the laws since enacted have reflected the politics and migrant flows of the times. Early legislation tended to impose limits that favored Europeans, but a sweeping 1965 law opened doors to immigrants from other parts of the world. In more recent years, laws and presidential actions have been shaped by concerns about refugees, unauthorized immigration and terrorism.   Continue reading “How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history”

Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was of even greater significance in the war than either the first or the second Battle of Bull Run. It remains the bloodiest single day of conflict in American history, a day when more than 3,600 Americans died.

George W. Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks

Deadly Lessons: The Last Time China and America Went to War

In November 1950, China and the United States went to war. Thirty-six thousand Americans died, along with upwards of a quarter million Chinese, and half a million or more Koreans. If the United States was deeply surprised to find itself at war with the People’s Republic of China, a country that hadn’t even existed the year before, it was even more surprised to find itself losing that war. The opening Chinese offensive, launched from deep within North Korea, took U.S. forces by complete operational surprise. The U.S.-led United Nations offensive into North Korea was thrown back, with the U.S. Army handed its worst defeat since the American Civil War.   Continue reading “Try to Remember September, War”

Weather Channel

Tropical Storm Harvey’s multi-day siege on Texas and the Gulf Coast has killed at least five, prompted thousands of rescues and triggered catastrophic flooding across the Houston metro. Now, swollen waterways are prompting evacuations in surrounding areas.

New mandatory and voluntary evacuations were ordered in Fort Bend County, Texas, southwest of downtown Houston, over fears and expectations that water levels in the Brazos River will reach record levels, threatening to overtop local levees and inundate homes and businesses.   Continue reading “Harvey Forces New Evacuations in Texas as Waterways Burst Banks in Houston-Area Flood”

RT

Ten crude refineries around Houston and Corpus Christi in Texas are closed in the wake of torrential rains, and devastating flooding brought about by Hurricane Harvey during the weekend.

The shut refineries normally have a daily capacity of nearly two million barrels of crude, according to a report by S&P Global Platts.

There are dozens of refineries along the US Gulf Coast as well as other plants turning oil into gas, diesel, and other petrochemicals. Nearly one-third of the nation’s energy capacity is centralized in the region.   Continue reading “Hurricane damage shuts down major US oil refineries”

Mail.com

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s dormant congressional campaign committee recently sold a 2004 motor home at a steep discount to an old friend in the Montana Legislature. But a seemingly ordinary transaction between friends, when seen through the optics of stringent campaign finance laws, can raise a bevy of questions – especially when those friends are politically high-powered and well-connected.

After learning about the transaction, campaign finance watchdogs are raising a $25,000 question: Why would Zinke’s campaign committee sell the Kountry Star Freightliner for half the price of its apparent $50,000 market value?   Continue reading “Sale of Interior secretary’s motor home raises $25K question”

Mail.com

BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb ripped through a busy market area in eastern Baghdad on Monday morning, killing at least 12 people, Iraqi officials said. The explosives-laden car went off at the wholesale Jamila market in Baghdad’s Shiite district of Sadr City, a police officer said. The explosion also wounded 28 other people, he added, saying the death toll was expected to rise further.

A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists. A plume of thick black smoke billowed from the area and people were running away in panic. At the site, twisted metal and shards of glass littered the pavement, along with vegetables and other goods sold at the market.   Continue reading “Iraq: Car bombing at busy Baghdad market kills 12 people”