Enforce our Bill of Rights
The price of crude has edged up on Monday due to the first fall in US drilling activity since January.
Brent crude futures were trading at $48.97 per barrel, a rise of 0.4 percent, at 9:20 GMT following last week’s jump of 5.2 percent in their first weekly gain in six weeks.
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 0.52 percent to $46.21 per barrel, adding to last week’s seven percent gain. Continue reading “Oil price up on first US production decline in months”
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — With the fight for Mosul in its final stage Monday, Islamic State militants sent female suicide bombers hidden among fleeing civilians, while Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led coalition unleashed punishing airstrikes and artillery fire that set dozens of buildings ablaze.
At least one Iraqi soldier was killed and five were wounded in the two separate suicide attacks, the military said. On Sunday, a bomber in women’s clothing killed 14 people at a camp for displaced residents in Anbar province, a provincial official said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Continue reading “With fight for Mosul in final stage, militants strike back”
PARIS (AP) — The Latest on Europe’s migration crisis (all times local): 8:10 p.m. Italy’s interior ministry says the number of migrant arrivals so far this year is nearly 20 percent higher than at the same time in 2016.
The interior ministry released figures showing that by Monday morning, 85,183 migrants had reached Italian shores after rescue in the central Mediterranean, compared with 71,279 at this time last year. Continue reading “The Latest: Italy says migrant arrivals up 20 pct this year”
ROME (AP) — Doctors and nurses at the Vatican’s showcase pediatric hospital were angry: Corners were being cut. Safety protocols were being ignored. And sick children were suffering. The Vatican’s response was swift. A secret three-month Vatican-authorized investigation in early 2014 gathered testimony and documentation from dozens of current and former staff members and confirmed that the mission of “the pope’s hospital” had been lost and was “today more aimed at profit than on caring for children.”
What happened next surprised many involved: The report was never made public. While some of the recommendations were carried out, others were not. And the Vatican commissioned a second inquiry in 2015 that — after a three-day hospital visit — concluded nothing was amiss after all. Continue reading “‘Pope’s hospital’ put children at risk as it chased profits”
Nineteen cartel gunmen and two others died in a series of fierce firefights near the Mexican beach resort town of Mazatlan, Sinaloa.
The violence began on Friday night in the village of Villa Union located near the famed resort town of Mazatlan, information provided to Breitbart Texas by Mexican Military officials revealed. In that village, a team of gunmen executed two men outside of a house along a road that leads to the nearby town of Mapa. Continue reading “19 Cartel Gunmen Killed in Firefight near Mexican Beach Resort Town”
A horrifying video shows the moment a man traveling down Interstate 80E in California lost control of his motorcycle in a death wobble.
In a hard-to-watch video posted online by Erica Hoff, the man had just merged onto the Sacramento highway when his motorcycle started shaking.
Hoff wrote in the caption of the video that she was driving in the fast lane with her kids at the time of the incident. Continue reading “Heart-stopping moment a biker loses control of his motorcycle in a death wobble on a highway in California”
The Charlotte Observer – by DAMIAN MANN
WILLIAMS, ORE.
Williams is known as one of Oregon’s pot-growing capitals, but longtime residents have raised alarms over industrialized grows they say are ruining the character of this remote but close-knit rural community.
“People are pissed off,” said Michael Johnson, chief operating officer of Siskiyou Sungrown Farms. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Small artisan cannabis farmers find themselves pitted against giant marijuana greenhouse conglomerates, said Johnson, whose outdoor cannabis grow, which relies on sunlight and native soil, is often cited by locals as a responsible operation.
Community organizers are drafting a September ballot initiative they hope will lead to a moratorium on activities associated with future large-scale grows until regulations addressing the community’s concerns can be implemented.
“This is not about marijuana, it’s about bringing industry into a rural-residential area,” said Sha’ana Fineberg, co-chair of the Williams Town Council and Citizens Advisory Committee. “It’s asking for a moratorium on the activities that are negatively impacting the community.” Continue reading “Rural Oregon residents at odds with large marijuana grows”
The Daily Sheeple – by Joe Joseph
In this News Shot, Joe discusses new warnings about sunscreen – swimming in chlorinated pools after applying the products may increase risk of cancer and infertility, according to a new study.
Daily Mail – by Sanchez Manning And Stephen Adams For The Mail On Sunday
Transgender women who were born male should be given womb transplants so that they can have children, leading NHS doctors have told The Mail on Sunday.
And fertility experts say taxpayers should fund such transplants for those who identify as women, on the basis of ‘equality enshrined in law’.
Leading the debate on the controversial procedure is medical ethics lawyer Dr Amel Alghrani, who is pressing for a talks on whether womb transplants for trans-women should be publicly funded.
The Washington Post – by John Sullivan, Reis Thebault, Julie Tate and Jennifer Jenkins
Police nationwide shot and killed 492 people in the first six months of this year, a number nearly identical to the count for the same period in each of the prior two years.
Fatal shootings by police in 2017 have so closely tracked last year’s numbers that on June 16, the tally was the same. Although the number of unarmed people killed by police dropped slightly, the overall pace for 2017 through Friday was on track to approach 1,000 killed for a third year in row.