Mail.com

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian forces liberated the city of Raqqa on Tuesday from Islamic State militants, a senior commander said, in a major defeat for the collapsing extremist group that had proclaimed it to be the capital of its “caliphate.”

Although clashes in Raqqa have ended, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are in control, combing the city in northern Syria for land mines and searching for any IS sleeper cells, Brig. Gen. Talal Sillo told The Associated Press.   Continue reading “Syrian commander says Raqqa has been captured from militants”

Mail.com

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — As fire crews gain on wildfires burning for more than a week in Northern California’s wine country, new fires broke out in other parts of the state, including northeast of Los Angeles.

Fire fighters are battling a blaze that sprang up overnight in the southern Bay Area Santa Cruz mountains, prompting evacuation orders and threatening 100 homes. The fire has torched about 125 acres. At least one structure was destroyed, Rob Sherman, assistant chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told KNTV news.  Continue reading “New fires break out in California as wine country fires dim”

Mail.com

BOSTON (AP) — A new study inspired by Boston’s early experiments with self-driving cars finds that the technology could ease congestion, but might also lead to more cars on the road and further encourage urban sprawl.

The report, released Tuesday by the Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum, is a mostly optimistic take on how autonomous vehicles could change cities. Three companies are now testing self-driving cars in Boston’s Seaport District. One of them, NuTonomy, has also partnered with ride-hailing service Lyft to research how passengers book and route a self-driving car.   Continue reading “Self-driving cars could ease traffic, but increase sprawl”

AP

LONDON (AP) — Silicon Valley is a uniquely American creation, the product of an entrepreneurial spirit and no-holds-barred capitalism that now drives many aspects of modern life.

But the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple are increasingly facing an uncomfortable truth: it is Europe’s culture of tougher oversight of companies, not America’s laissez-faire attitude, which could soon rule their industry as governments seek to combat fake news and prevent extremists from using the internet to fan the flames of hatred.   Continue reading “US tech giants may find their future shaped by Europe”

Truth Revolt – by Trey Sanchez

The FBI has launched an investigation to find who placed a “suspicious item” at a Civil War reenactment field in Middletown, Virginia over the weekend.

On Saturday afternoon, at the annual reenactment of the Battle of Cedar Creek — a Union victory that occurred on October 19, 1864 — what looked like a pipe bomb to reenactors was discovered at the Cedar Creek battlefield. The FBI said that no one was hurt and that the device “was rendered safe by the Virginia State Police.” However, the FBI wouldn’t elaborate on the device, a spokesperson said. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Virginia State Police, the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, and the Middletown Police Department are all helping with the investigation.   Continue reading “Civil War Reenactors Targeted with Pipe Bomb”

World Events and the Bible

On October 9th at 2AM in the morning we received a call from our neighbor and friend, she told us there was a fire in our foothill community and she could see the fire from her home.

My first reaction was to go outside and see how close the fire was to our home. As I opened the front door and walked out the air was filled with smoke, far more smoke than I had ever seen during a fire. Thankfully, I could not see any light or glow in the sky from the fire, that told me it was a fair distance away.   Continue reading “Our Evacuation Experience During The Northern California Wildfires”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: So many national and state emergencies in such a short period of time. Those certainly do not sound like blessings do they….

When our Father removes blessings, that means the opposite will begin to take effect on your household or nation in this case.

As a family you stand by God and honor Him. As a nation, things are not looking good at all.

Continue reading “Trump Says He’ll Declare The US Opioid Crisis A National Emergency ‘Next Week’”

Antonius Aquinas

The promoters of crypto currencies have gushingly touted them as the mechanism by which the present central banking cabal and the system of nation states which derive much of their power from it will be brought down and replaced by digital money.  Despite their meteoric rise as speculative “assets,” there are fundamental economic reasons why they will never act as a general medium of exchange despite the wild enthusiasm for them by the crypto-currency cultists.

Money – a general medium of exchange – is the most marketable (exchangeable) commodity in an economy.  As a good, money is not sought after for its direct use – to satisfy individual wants – but to satisfy wants indirectly through exchange for other goods.  Over time, one good becomes money since it possesses qualities superior to all other goods as a money.  When gold became demanded not for its “use value,” but for its “exchange value,” it became a general medium of exchange – money.   Continue reading “Bitcoin: A Tower of Monetary Babel”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

Whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi is telling all when it comes to placing blame for the nation’s opioid crisis. He says drug distributors pumped opioids into communities in the United States knowing that people were dying and that the US government is helping.

Joe Rannazzisi is a tough and blunt former DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) deputy assistant administrator with a law degree, a pharmacy degree, and a growing rage at the unrelenting death toll from opioids. Congress has often been complicit in atrocities, especially when a politician profits off of the removal of the rights of others. So it should not come as a surprise that Rannazzisi is blaming Congress and the drug industry for the opioid epidemic gripping the nation.   Continue reading “Ex-DEA Agent Blames Congress And Drug Industry For Opioid Crisis”

Philly.com – by Stephanie Farr

When asked about drugs at a Phoenixville mayoral forum, Republican nominee Dave Gautreau proposed that, if elected, he would look into getting drug-sniffing bunnies for the borough police department.

Though it seems like a harebrained idea, Gautreau was as serious as the killer rabbit of Caerbannog.

“I was dead-serious,” he said of the idea he presented at the Thursday forum. “I would not make a joke about a rabbit if I did not believe it to be true.”   Continue reading “Candidate falls for hoax, proposes drug-sniffing police bunnies”

The Daytona Beach News Journal – by Patricia G. Balona

A Volusia County sheriff’s deputy is on paid administrative leave after he was arrested for putting his son in a headlock causing him to lose consciousness, an agency spokesman said.

Sgt. Robert Rahn, 50, was charged with one count of domestic battery by strangulation and one count of child abuse without great harm after the physical encounter with his 16-year-old son, said sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant on Sunday.   Continue reading “Volusia sheriff’s sergeant arrested for assaulting son”

ABC 7 News

ATLANTA — A mother says an Atlanta hospital is unfairly endangering her 2-year-old son because of his father’s mistakes.

Carmellia Burgess told WGCL that her son, A.J., was born without kidneys and needs a transplant. The boy’s father, Anthony Dickerson, is a perfect match and wants to give this lifesaving gift to his son.   Continue reading “Toddler denied kidney transplant because father violated probation”

Fox News

A British man said he hid in the woods for 10 years to escape his wife.

Malcolm Applegate, 62, said he left his wife after she continued to argue with him over his increased work hours as a gardener, The Daily Mail reported.

“For three years it was alright, we got on with one another and the gardening got too much for her,” Applegate said.   Continue reading “British man hides in the woods for 10 years to escape wife’s nagging”

Life Site News – by Lianne Laurence

NEW YORK CITY, October 16, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The Associated Press (AP) has jumped on the gender bender bandwagon by agreeing to use transgendered-approved pronouns in its reporting.

In a series of tweets last Tuesday, the standard-setting news organization expanded on the 2017 style guidelines released earlier this year that had already mentioned the use of gender-neutral pronouns.   Continue reading “Associated Press pushes LGBT agenda, tells reporters to use ‘transgender pronouns’”

The Blaze – by Sarah Taylor

California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown wasn’t just busy keeping guns out of the hands of school officials this weekend, he also signed legislation Sunday formally recognizing a “third gender.”

What does this mean?

The new legislation will create a third gender option — “nonbinary” — for legal items such as birth certificates, identification cards, driver’s licenses, and more.   Continue reading “California becomes the first state to officially recognize a ‘third gender’”

The Daily Caller – by Justin Caruso

Infowars talk show host and king of conspiracies Alex Jones claimed Friday that he was the victim of sexual harassment in Hollywood.

Jones reportedly said, “I’ve had Hollywood producers grab me by the genitals, twice, and I’ve had them pat me on the butt many other times, and that’s why, one reason, I don’t go out there.”   Continue reading “Alex Jones Claims He Was Molested By ‘Hollywood Producers’ Multiple Times”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Today, the South Korean and U.S. navies kicked off massive combined drills off the coast of the Korean peninsula amid heightened tensions, a training exercise which North Korea has warned may prompt another ballistic missile launch potentially to coincide with the launch of the Chinese 19th Party Congress on October 18. The two allies plan to continue the Maritime Counter Special Operations Exercise (MCSOFEX) through Friday in the East Sea and the Yellow Sea.

As reported over the weekend, the drill involves the U.S. 7th Fleet’s aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) and two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers – the USS Stethem (DDG-63) and the USS Mustin (DDG-89). The carrier strike group will train with South Korean warships and other defense assets, such as the Sejong the Great Aegis ship and P-3 Orion anti-submarine aircraft in the East Sea.   Continue reading “US Deploys Special Forces “Decapitation” Team To South Korea”

Fox News

The Mandalay Bay security guard who disappeared last week moments before he was scheduled to break his silence in television interviews has not been seen since he went to a walk-in health clinic, his union president said.

David Hickey of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) told reporters Friday that he got a text the night before saying Jesus Campos was taken to a UMC Quick Care facility, though he did not specify where or whom the text came from.  Continue reading “Las Vegas guard Jesus Campos vanished after visiting urgent-care clinic, union leader says”