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Two Pittsburgh bridges closed after 26 barges break loose on Ohio River

8 days ago -

City responders were alerted around 11:30 p.m. to the situation, involving 26 barges drifting downriver. Twenty-three of the barges were carrying cargoes like coal and fertilizer, while the other three were empty, as stated by the Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety and U.S. Coast Guard officials in a news release. (Related: Cargo ship that hit Baltimore Bridge was also involved in Belgium collision in 2016.)

One coal-laden barge is still missing and presumed to have sunk ...

Texas to place FLOATING BARRIERS along Rio Grande River to block border crossers

June 12, 2023 -

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed the move during a June 8 press conference. According to him, the deployment of the new floating line of buoys will begin "pretty much immediately" in Eagle Pass, Texas. Abbott made the announcement while signing a series of border security bills passed by the Texas Legislature, which approved $5.1 billion in funding to the state.

"What we're doing right now [is that] we're securing the border at the border. What these buoys will allow us ...

Amazon selling hidden SPY CAMERAS disguised as home accessories

December 19, 2023 -

Several reports have revealed that what seems like home decor could have spy cameras concealed in them. Some recording devices have been built into common items like clothes hooks, which you normally wouldn't worry about since it's just something to hang your clothes or towels on.Amazon offers different home decor items with hidden cameras

Searching on the Amazon website brings up different variations of hidden cameras built into clothes hooks, with many of the products ...

Amazon begins testing drone delivery of medications in Texas

October 24, 2023 -

The company announced on Wednesday, Oct. 18 in a blog post that customers in the small city of College Station, Texas will be eligible to get their prescriptions delivered by a drone within an hour of placing their order. (Related: Amazon to begin testing Digit – a six-foot-tall humanoid robot that might end up REPLACING human warehouse workers.)

Amazon Pharmacy is a full-service pharmacy Amazon launched in 2020 following its acquisition of the pharmaceutical startup ...

Over 100 faculty rip Harvard president’s condemnation of slogan ‘from the river to the sea’

November 17, 2023 -

(Article by Dave Huber republished from TheCollegeFix.com)

On November 9, Gay wrote in an email that the phrase “bear[s] specific historical meanings that to a great many people imply the eradication of Jews from Israel.”

The Crimson reports the faculty letter says “from the river to the sea” has a “long and complicated history,” and that Gay’s singling out of one meaning is “imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership....

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos invests $1 billion to DESTROY FARMING

a month ago -

This investment came in the form of the Bezos Earth Fund's (BEF) $1 billion commitment to "food transformation." BEF Vice Chair Lauren Sanchez, also the tech bigwig's current partner, announced an initial $60 million commitment to establish Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein (BCSPs) as part of the bigger endowment.

She announced this endeavor during the second day of the Aspen Ideas Climate Conference, held from March 11 to 13 in Miami. Sanchez's 10-minute speech on March ...

Amazon prepares army of 750,000 ROBOTS to eliminate HUMAN workers

October 30, 2023 -

In a blog post on Oct. 18, Amazon revealed that its robotics team has begun testing "Digit," a bipedal robot that has started carrying around and stacking boxes at a site south of Seattle.

The company explained that Digit "can move, grasp, and handle items in spaces and corners of warehouses in novel ways." Additionally, the robot's size and shape are suited for buildings that are designed for humans, with Amazon saying that "there is a big opportunity to scale a mobile ...

In the past week, California and Nevada experienced 945 earthquakes in post-atmospheric river shaking phenomenon

February 15, 2024 -

The Southern California Earthquake Data Center reported a total of 945 earthquakes over a recent seven-day period immediately following the rain storm – check out this map to see for yourself where all that movement is taking place.

The sheer weight and movement of heavy rainfall can, we now know, impact fault lines to the point that it triggers an earthquake. This appears to be what California is now experiencing due to the storm and likely other factors.

In ...

Train carrying paint and lithium ion batteries derails in Wisconsin, sending two cars into Mississippi River

May 03, 2023 -

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation said the cars "floated downstream soon after the derailment and passed under the WIS 82/Lansing Causeway before becoming mired along the shore." The train derailed in Crawford County at about 12:15 p.m.

BNSF Railway spokesperson Lena Kent said two of the train's three locomotives and an "unknown number of cars carrying freight of all kinds" derailed on the eastern edge of the river. All crew members were accounted for, with one ...

Amazon delivery drivers stage first-ever WALKOUT as part of strike

June 16, 2023 -

According to reports, the 84 employees currently on strike have held picket lines before. The drivers who work for the Palmdale, California-based Amazon delivery service partner (DSP) Battle-Tested Strategies LLC unionized with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in late April. They have negotiated and ratified a contract with Battle-Tested Strategies, which voluntarily recognized their union.

The drivers, joined by delivery dispatchers, walked out of their delivery ...

Amazon workers in Seattle planning PROTEST against layoffs, return to office orders

May 30, 2023 -

ABC News reported that the protest is planned for May 31, two days after Memorial Day and a week after the tech giant's annual meeting. Plans for the lunchtime walkout were drafted after an RTO mandate requiring employees to show up three days per week. However, the outlet added that the protest is "contingent on at least 1,000 Amazon employees from the company's Seattle headquarters agreeing to participate."

According to the report, more than 20,000 workers have signed ...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces plans to house THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS on an island in the East River

August 16, 2023 -

In October 2022, officials set up a migrant center on Randalls Island in the East River, between Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. Three weeks later, the city announced that the tent complex would be shut down after the number of people being bused to the city from southern border states decreased. Now, Adams is looking to restart the Randalls Island complex.

According to Adams, the number of asylum seekers in the city continues to increase by the hundreds daily, which ...

ORWELLIAN: Amazon CENSORED books critical of COVID-19 injection at Biden admin’s behest

February 07, 2024 -

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (House WFG Subcommmittee), disclosed this in a thread on the X platform. His committee had reportedly discovered this censorship effort following the release of emails subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee (HJC), which Jordan also chairs.

"Never-before-released internal emails subpoenaed by [the HJC] reveal that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to ...

FTC sues Amazon for illegal conduct and a long list of monopolistic practices

September 27, 2023 -

The FTC is asking the court to consider forcing the online retailing giant to sell some of its assets as the federal government accuses Amazon and other Big Tech companies of monopolizing the most lucrative parts of the internet. (Related: Senators call for FTC investigation into Google over YouTube ads that violate children's privacy.)

Amazon, a company started by Jeff Bezos in 1994 with the help of a nearly $250,000 loan from his parents, is now worth around $1.3 ...

Starbucks teams up with Amazon to launch BIOMETRIC payment system in certain locations

May 17, 2023 -

According to Reclaim the Net, the program will be launched in selected Starbucks stores in the city of Edmonds in Washington state. The pilot of the Amazon One system will serve as a bellwether to determine whether older people will embrace the new technology.

As of writing, the use of the biometric payment system at Starbucks locations remains voluntary and other payment options are still available. But reception of Amazon One has been mixed so far, with attendants reporting ...

END OF THE ROAD: Digital freight startup founded by ex-Amazon execs suspends operations

October 23, 2023 -

Despite raising an impressive $260 million in a funding round just last year, which valued the company at a significant $3.8 billion, Convoy has been grappling with the impacts of a dwindling demand in the freight industry over the past year.

This has prompted the company to explore alternative paths, potentially including the sale of its cutting-edge technology.

In an email sent to its employees on a Wednesday, Convoy conveyed its decision to halt the acceptance ...

Netanyahu REJECTS call for creation of a Palestinian state, says Israel must control EVERYTHING “from the river to the sea”

January 22, 2024 -

Media outlets that reported on Netanyahu's speech heavily focused on this statement because this phrase was originally used by Palestinians to demand a free Palestine from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Disingenuous and extremist supporters of Israel have wrongly argued that this statement is a call by Palestinians to genocide all Jewish people in Israel.

The statement is so controversial that when Palestinian American Rep. Rashida ...

Biden regime told Amazon to CENSOR books critical of COVID jabs, government weaponization committee finds

February 16, 2024 -

Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Oh.) relayed the findings on X, explaining that "never-before-released internal emails subpoenaed by [the judiciary committee] reveal that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of."

On March 2, 2021, Slavitt "fired off an email demanding to know who he and his White House colleagues could talk to at the company about 'the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation ...

Amazon shuts down man’s “smart” home after automated doorbell allegedly committed an act of “racism”

June 16, 2023 -

The Amazon Ring doorbell device locked Jackson out of his own home after the Amazon device, and possibly several others, caught him saying something that the company found to be "offensive" and "politically incorrect." Jackson wrote the following in a piece for Medium:

"On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly a week, from Thursday, May 25. This wasn't just a simple inconvenience, ...