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BirthStrikers: meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends A movement of women have decided not to procreate in response to the coming ‘climate breakdown and civilisation collapse’. Will their protest be a catalyst for change?

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has a bold new plan for law and order in Kings County — letting criminals go free. And, he thinks, their victims will be just fine with it. “Sending someone to jail is often not what [victims] want, what they want is to make sure the person leaves them alone, doesn’t hurt them or hurt anyone else and gets the needs for what’s causing them to act out in the first place resolved,” Gonzalez told reporters Monday.

A former Florida police officer is accused of using police databases while he was on the force to find women whom he could potentially date, authorities say. Officer Leonel Marines of the Bradenton Police Department allegedly misused his access to law enforcement resources to contact around 150 women, finding their social media accounts, calling them on the telephone, and even visiting the homes of some under the guise of police business. Marines, who was a 12-year employee with the department, often targeted Hispanic women, and was sometimes successful, Bradenton Police Chief Melanie Bevan said at a press conference last week....

Actresses and chief executives are among 50 people arrested in a nationwide college admissions cheating scam, authorities announced Tuesday. According to charging documents, actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among those involved facing charges. The suspects allegedly paid bribes of up to $6 million to get their kids into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and USC. In most cases, the students did not know their admission was contingent on a bribe. University athletic coaches and administrators of college entrance exams were also among those arrested. The alleged scam centered around a man in California who ran a business...

A woman in New Jersey suffered multiple injuries on Friday after being attacked by her own bull. According to the Sparta Township Police, dispatchers were made aware of an aggressive animal that was roaming the roadway at around 3 p.m. Reports said it was a cow that was approaching vehicles in the area, but once Officer Arlene Lippencott was already on her way to the scene, a woman named Wendy McDermott called to inform deputies that the animal was actually a bull and that she was the owner. Yahoo Lifestyle was unable to reach McDermott, but police say she planned...

Video of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete for Clean Monday, the first day of Lent. The Great Canon (also known as the Canon of Repentance or the Great Canon of Repentance), is the longest canon ever composed (250 strophes). It is written primarily in the first person, and goes chronologically through the entire Old and New Testaments drawing examples (both negative and positive) which it correlates to the need of the sinful soul for repentance and a humble return to God. It is divided into four parts (called methymony) which are chanted at Great Compline on the...

A large-scale scheme to cheat on college entrance exams has been busted by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Boston, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. The alleged scheme focused on getting students admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities, and helping potential students cheat on their college exams, according to the indictment. The plot involved students who attended or were seeking to attend Georgetown University, Stanford University, UCLA, the University of San Diego, USC, University of Texas, Wake Forest, and Yale, according to federal prosecutors. There's no indication that the schools were involved in...

Jefferson built a Navy that all Americans paid for while it was the merchant class that got most of the benefits. Europe wouldn't fight to free their captured people and offered us no help. Washington(entangling alliances) wanted to pay a higher ransom and John Adams fought against the naval buildup. Is the issue settled after 200+ years? We've got our own oil. We can turn the whole muslim world into glass, something that just may be necessary at some date. The Crusades were too ragtag to engage in whack-a-mole. Tell me what Trump should do.

U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “If you post it on social media, that’s probable cause for us to come get the guns out of your house,” Democrat Florida State Senator Jason Pizzo proclaimed in a Facebook video three years ago. “That’s it. It’s now on you to explain why you have a gun in your house and why it’s on social media…” He was stumping at the time to change the law to deny the right to keep and bear arms to young adults old enough to vote, marry, sign binding contracts and serve in the military. Pending that, he wanted parents...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland hit back at some of the most visible new Democrats in Congress when asked Monday by Fox News about the push to impeach President Trump: “We’ve got 62 new (Democratic) members. Not three.” Hoyer apparently was referring to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who regularly have fought the Trump administration's policies since entering Congress. Earlier Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., revealed she’s opposed to impeachment in the absence of evidence that is “compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan.”

FBI Boston SAC Bonavolonta will join IRS-CI SAC O'Connell & MA US Attorney Lelling @11:30 am at US District Court in Boston to announce charges against dozens of individuals involved in a nationwide college admissions cheating & recruitment scheme. 7:13 AM - 12 Mar 2019

California barely made budget in February after two months of big deficits, but personal income tax collections fell short by another $137 million. When Gov. Gavin Newsom was inaugurated in the morning of January 9, he proposed a record $144.2-billion spending plan for California's 2019–2020 budget.  Having campaigned as a social justice warrior, Newsom trumpeted plans to spend another $5.2 billion for "Cradle-to-Career" education, $1 billion more for earned income tax credits for the poor, and $100 million for the caravans of Central Americans refugees supposedly fleeing violence. But later in the day, the state controller revealed that California tax collection missed...

A training seminar at Reed College this year included a graphic that suggests that the phrase “Make America Great Again” is an example of “covert white supremacy.” According to a report from The College Fix, Reed College in Portland, Oregon, is teaching students that the phrase “Make America Great Again” is an example of “covert white supremacy.” A graphic provided to student residential assistants on campus made the case that the “Make America Great Again” phrase is “white supremacist.” The graphic also included phrases like “But we’re just one human family,” “I never owned slaves,” and “it is just a...

If a third-rate political hack of limited intelligence can claim to be Spartacus, the leader of a Roman slave revolt, I can claim to be Roger Stone. In fact, all patriotic Americans concerned about the First Amendment should declare themselves to be Roger Stone. The attack on freedom of speech is a worldwide effort. Nothing reveals the global Deep State's agenda like the simultaneous attacks on Roger Stone and Tommy Robinson. They are only the most prominent members of the right who are being silenced. One of the reasons Stone faces jail time is an Instagram he posted to raise...

Crusade of Tears--this is what lies ahead of the younger generations of the West Last summer, a group of young people travelled to Tajikistan. They wanted to prove to themselves and to the whole world that evil does not exist, that all people are good and that the stories about Muslim terrorists are only a scarecrow for stupid children. They were riding bicycles when a car crashed into them at full speed. Those who did not die immediately were murdered by people shouting “Allah Akbar”. In December of the same year, two young Scandinavian girls travelled to Morocco where local...

Because the Left knows that it loses the argument anytime the merits of its policies are discussed, it has weaponized selective outrage in order to silence the most effective voices against it. Sunday night, timed to make headlines and generate Twitter storms as the new week began, Media Matters, the Soros-funded nonprofit whose donors receive tax deductions, launched an attack intended to drive advertisers away from Tucker Carlson’s prime time show on Fox News Channel. Their purported evidence: Between 2006 and 2011, Tucker Carlson spent approximately an hour a week calling in to Bubba the Love Sponge, a popular shock...

Left-wing pop icon Cher suggested in a recent social media post that women create laws over men’s bodies like banning the use of Viagra and giving the death penalty for those men who use massage parlors. “REPUBLICANS BELIEVE THEY’VE GOT GOD GIVEN RIGHT 2 DICTATE WHAT WE DO WITH OUR BODIES,” Cher exclaimed. “WOMEN MUST MAKE LAWS 2 CONTROL MENS BODIES. NO VIAGRA, ROGAIN, TESTOSTERONE‼️ALL MEN MUST BE CIRCUMCISED,& SHOW PAPERS OR PENIS 2 PROVE IT.MASSAGE PARLORS PUNISHABLE BY [Death]. MEN MUST TAKE THE [Pill].” Cher has been on a roll with deranged social media posts recently. She suggested earlier...

If you really want to find out who Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) really isn’t, you have to climb down deep into the swamp slime without worrying about the muck oozing up between your toes. It is only when you make it down to rock bottom that you can find out who AOC really isn’t. There is no such persona as AOC, who grew up as “Sandy”. In short, AOC is not herself, but representative of a group of political hucksters spewing their un-American mantra through her.

To the casual moralist, you don’t slap sanctions on a country on its knees while minding its own business. Never mind the country has a government of looters who campaign on a ticket of lies about Israel and fete Hamas terror leaders and a plane-highjacker on home soil. South Africa is not neighbouring Zimbabwe, on which President Trump already has slapped sanctions, although the Cato Institute warned him that South Africa is on the Zimbabwean road to hell. For now, South Africa remains afloat. The problem (call it the exemplar effect) is somewhat different. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe escaped reckoning for...

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — It’s a green big deal for a tiny sliver of a country. Costa Rica, population 5 million, wants to wean itself from fossil fuels by 2050, and the chief evangelist of the idea is a 38-year-old urban planner named Claudia Dobles who also happens to be the first lady. Every country will have to aspire to something similar, scientists say, if the world is to avert the most dire consequences of global warming. And while Costa Rica’s carbon footprint is tiny compared to other countries, Ms. Dobles has a higher goal in mind: Getting rid...