Новости за 13.04.2019

(Yahoo News!) A President Trump supporter was assaulted in a post office for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, turning a camera on her harasser. On Friday, Paloma Zuniga, a Mexican-American businesswoman was mailing a package at a post office in San Diego, Calif. when, according to her, a woman ahead of her in […]

(ZeroHedge) Earth’s magnetic field is getting significantly weaker, the magnetic north pole is shifting at an accelerating pace, and scientists readily admit that a sudden pole shift could potentially cause “trillions of dollars” in damage. Today, most of us take the protection provided by Earth’s magnetic field completely for granted. It is essentially a colossal […]

A fight is brewing in Pennsylvania over laws allowing authorities to confiscate property without filing criminal charges. Civil forfeiture is not a well-known process, even though the Supreme Court recently ruled against Indiana’s plan to confiscate a $40,000 Land Rover for a minor drug offense. The Institute for Justice announced it is teaming up with a newspaper […]

(The Hill) The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of President Trump Friday when it determined that the government can at least temporarily continue to send asylum seekers back to Mexico. The asylum program was scheduled to be shut down at midnight under an order from District Court Judge Richard Seeborg, but […]

(BBC News) Veteran stand-up comedian Ian Cognito has died on stage during a performance. The 60-year-old comic sat down on a stool while breathing heavily, before falling silent for five minutes during his show on Thursday. Compere Andrew Bird said the crowd at the The Atic bar in Bicester had thought it was a joke, […]

(Wired) Here’s how you test your intracranial pressure in space. First, you collect baseline samples of your blood, saliva, and urine, and take ultrasound images of the vessels in your heart, neck, head, and eyes, lining up the scanning device on black dots tattooed on your body before you left Earth. Then, you clamber into […]

Takes gamble. Editor’s note: Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: The doctor answered the phone and heard the familiar voice of […]

A free-speech advocate is calling on Wake Forest to drop its “witch hunt” investigation of a social-media parody that proposed building a wall between Wake Forest University and nearby Winston-Salem State University. The First Amendment, after all, protects offensive speech, not just speech with which everyone agrees, argues the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE. The […]

Put this one in the category where other California outrages reside: A court fight has erupted because Marin County is demanding that in return for a building permit for a farmhouse, the occupant must promise to farm his land … forever. At least that’s what “perpetuity” usually means. The Pacific Legal Foundation is helping Arron and […]

A new scandal has erupted in Washington, according to Newsweek. Apparently, “while serving as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt was gifted multiple copies of ‘Global Warming for Dummies’ and a number of climate denial texts.” One of the books was “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change,” and author Marc Morano said, […]

An arms company is suing the federal government over its new ban on bump stocks for the cost of the 73,000 units it turned over to federal agents to avoid being prosecuted. The Daily Wire reported the Fort Worth, Texas, company, RW Arms, turned over its entire inventory of bump stocks to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, […]

You refuse to cosponsor the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, yet have the audacity to drum resentment towards Ilhan w/completely out-of-context quotes. In 2018, right-wing extremists were behind almost ALL US domestic terrorist killings. Why don’t you go do something about that? https://t.co/rkb92IxkKX — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 11, 2019 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., didn’t seem […]

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

(The Hill) Georgetown University students voted overwhelmingly on Thursday in favor of creating a $27.20 tuition increase to benefit the descendants of slaves sold by the university in the 1800s. More than 66 percent voted in favor of creating the tuition increase, which would be steered into a reparation fund for descendants of slaves the […]

(BBC News) Ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage has launched his new Brexit Party, saying he wants a “democratic revolution” in UK politics. Speaking in Coventry, he said May’s expected European elections were the party’s “first step” but its “first task” was to “change politics”. “I said that if I did come back into the political fray […]

(South China Morning Post) China’s main state pension fund will run out of money by 2035 due to a decline in the available work force, according to new research. The urban worker pension fund, the backbone of the country’s state pension system, held a reserve of 4.8 trillion yuan (US$714 billion) at the end of […]

(MSN) The latest 11-year cycle of the sun is almost over and scientists have just released predictions for the next one. Based on the number of sunspots that formed, scientists considered the last solar cycle, No. 24, “weak.” They predict that the upcoming cycle, No. 25, will be a little more intense but still in […]

(London Guardian) China is planning to send millions of youth “volunteers” back to villages, raising fears of a return to the methods of Chairman Mao’s brutal Cultural Revolution of 50 years ago. The Communist Youth League (CYL) has promised to despatch more than 10 million students to “rural zones” by 2022 in order to “increase […]

(NetImperative) Facebook has filed a patent for a new system that passes user’s personal photos to advertisers, making users the stars of online ads. The patent, first reported by the Daily Telegraph, can detect photos people have uploaded that feature items such as alcoholic drinks and snacks. The company would then pass those images to […]

(Moscow Times) Russia’s state space agency plans to send “outstanding citizens” to the International Space Station (ISS) at no cost in exchange for their achievements, the agency’s head announced on Thursday. The Roscosmos space agency plans to send tourists to the ISS in late 2021 under a deal signed with the U.S. tourism firm Space […]

A friend was researching a story, and the more questions she asked the more she felt she really didn’t know anything about the subject. She discovered neither did anyone else she was asking. That reminded me of Apple founder Steve Jobs’ epiphany, which goes something like this: When you grow up you tend to get […]