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Hudson River polluted by 100,000 gallons of raw sewage, baby wipes float down the river

March 28, 2017 -

Recently, New York's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) revealed that thousands of gallons of raw, untreated sewage mysteriously spilled into the Hudson. The flow of wastewater is thought to have begun at around 4:00p.m. on Sunday, March 19. According to the DEC, the untreated sewage gushed into the river for an entire hour, and officials believe that some 100,000 gallons of wastewater was released into the waterway. The spill took place near the state's capital city, ...

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

3 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 ...

My Earth Day message to America

April 26, 2023 -

(Article republished from Kennedy24.com)

On Earth Day 2023, I join the millions of people around the world celebrating our Earth, and I recommit to the solemn responsibility of caring for and defending the precious planet we call home.

Our sacred obligation as a civilization, a nation, a generation is to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment, prosperity, and good health as the communities that ...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

REPORT: Combined wealth of American billionaires has skyrocketed by 87.6% since the COVID-19 pandemic

25 days ago -

A recent Inequality.org report reveals that the combined wealth of American billionaires has skyrocketed by 87.6 percent since the onset of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in March 2020.

According to the report, the total wealth of American billionaires has reached a staggering $5.53 trillion as of March 18. The windfall has primarily benefited titans of the tech industry, with luminaries such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg ...

Congress orders telecommunications companies to clean up TOXIC lead cables

July 17, 2023 -

Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wrote in a letter to USTelecom, an industry group that represents telecommunications giants like AT&T and Verizon, that the telecom industry must act now to clear the ground of these cables to avoid a public health disaster.

"The telecommunications companies responsible for these phone lines must act swiftly and responsibly to ensure the mitigation of any environmental and public health effects," Markey said.

"The members of USTelecom ...

CONFIRMED: Hunter Biden demanded money from CCP-linked businessman via WhatsApp while “sitting” next to dad Joe

June 28, 2023 -

This was confirmed by Chris Clark, Hunter attorney, just one day after the House Ways and Means Committee released Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower testimony that Hunter used his close proximity to Joe as a cudgel to get what he wanted from the Chinese businessman.

Clark released a carefully crafted statement that aims to distance Joe from his son's scandal by framing Hunter as some kind of victim in all this.

"The DOJ investigation covered a period which ...

It’s time to boycott Doritos for hiring transgender activist who posted about sexually abusing children

a month ago -

The person in question, Samantha Hudson, is a man masquerading as a woman whose previous posts on X expressed his desire to sexually assault children. This sick individual, whose birth name is Ivan Gonzalez Ranedo, appeared in a video for Doritos Spain called “Crunch Talks.”

It was revealed that the self-described “anti-capitalist” and “Marxist” had made a slew of unsettling posts, including a desire to do “depraved things” to minors that are too disturbing to recount here, ...

British official wants to prohibit pro-Arab chants and criminalize waving of the Palestinian flag

October 16, 2023 -

According to Braverman, the cops should also not restrict themselves to potential offenses related to the promotion of Hamas, a proscribed organization. "It is not just explicit pro-Hamas symbols and chants that are cause for concern. I would encourage police to consider whether chants such as: 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' should be understood as an expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world and whether its use in certain contexts ...

Taliban fighters attack Iranian border using American weapons left behind during withdrawal from Afghanistan – that may be the PLAN all along

June 02, 2023 -

The clashes are taking place in the Nimruz Province in southwestern Afghanistan over much of the country's border with Iran. At least three people have been killed – two Iranian and one Taliban – and several others wounded. (Related: The government spent BILLIONS to equip Afghan forces, only for American military hardware to end up in Taliban hands.)

Reports indicate that the tensions escalated into conflict after the Taliban prevented the construction of a road and the ...

Report: Border crossers are secretly receiving GPS coordinates of assembly points before entering Texas

November 30, 2023 -

Efrain Gonzalez of Border Hawk News disclosed this development while embedded with a large group that moved from Piedras Negras in Mexico to the Rio Grande. According to him, the migrants receive GPS coordinates to gather at specific locations for mass crossings. While the masterminds behind the scheme remain unclear, some migrants suggest that Mexican authorities may be involved.

"We accompanied this caravan that walked for an hour in the darkness to reach the crossing ...

Biden’s federal border patrol agents sabotage Texas Gov. Abbott’s efforts to keep illegal migrants out

July 21, 2023 -

The sprawling ranch, owned by Hugo and Magaly Urbina, lies on the banks of the Rio Grande and has become a battleground between the federal Border Patrol agents of President Joe Biden and the Department of Public Safety (DPS) of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

According to the Daily Mail, Border Patrol agents process illegal migrants in a white tent on the farm before transporting them to a nearby facility. From there, migrants are typically released into the U.S. to wait for ...

Anti-nuclear weapons group: Return of U.S. nuclear weapons to the U.K. would “make Britain a guaranteed target”

February 07, 2024 -

Nuclear weapon activists sounded the alarm last Friday, Feb. 2, in reaction to recent evidence that the U.S. is planning to station nukes in the United Kingdom for the first time in more than 15 years, a move that government critics said would only intensify the danger of a nuclear war.

The U.S. pulled out more than 100 nuclear bombs from the Royal Air Force base in Lakenheath (RAF Lakenheath) in western Suffolk in 2008 after continuous protests from U.K.-based anti-nuclear ...