Category: Pontiac Tribune

Wisconsin (PT) – Heavy rainfall blanketed Wisconsin as August ended, including Milwaukee. Some areas were overwhelmed after 9 inches of rain fell over a single weekend. Widespread flooding offered Wisconsinites a glimpse into the Badger State’s damper future. For Milwaukee, this creates a slew of new flood management. Especially with more rains on their way, according to recent forecasts. The Milwaukee Metro Sewage District (MMSD) has been forced to release sewage overflow into the Milwaukee river five times this year. “I wouldn’t call it ‘run of the mill’”, said MMSD’s…

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Washington, DC (Sputnik) – The Israeli government is lobbying in Washington, DC for $900 million in US financial aid, a lobbying registration form revealed. “We will lobby the United States federal government, including the White House, the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, the United States Department of State, the United States Department of the Treasury, the United States Department of Commerce and the USAID to provide more than $900 million in financial aid to Israel,” the registration form by the Israeli government said on Friday. The Israeli government said it has hired the American Federal…

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Washington, DC (HRW) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people planning on fostering or adopting children in the US have a victory to celebrate. The US House of Representatives approved an appropriations package for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Defense on Wednesday – but only after a  discriminatory amendment was removed. That amendment would have allowed child welfare providers to refuse to place children with LGBT parents. The “Aderholt Amendment,” introduced by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), would have forced the federal government to fund adoption and foster…

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Webb County, TX (TT) – A South Texas U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of killing four people appeared to be preparing for a shoot-out with law enforcement after a would-be victim broke free and alerted police, authorities said Monday. Border Patrol officer Juan David Ortiz, accused of murdering four people and abducting a fifth. – Webb Co. Sheriff’s Office Juan David Ortiz, 35, was arrested early Saturday after the woman escaped from his vehicle, encountered Department of Public Safety troopers and told them Ortiz had brandished a weapon. During a press…

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Washington, DC (Sputnik) “I would anticipate — I am an optimist and a realist — that next year’s numbers will be higher than this year’s numbers,” Andrea Thompson, who oversees arms control at the State Department, told Defense News last week. Lockheed Hellfire missile. Thompson was referring to total weapons sales approved by the diplomatic corps in 2019. That’s saying a lot, considering that in the first half of fiscal year 2018, the US had already smashed its weapons sales total from the previous year, the State Department’s arms exporting agency said in July. According to the official, a new policy on conventional arms transfer…

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Dallas, Tx. (PT) – Barrett Brown, the renowned journalist, essayist, satirist, founder of Project PM, and guiding force behind the recently launched Pursuance Project, has waded into the controversial case of Amber Guyger, the Dallas police officer who allegedly shot and killed a man in an apartment unit she says she believed was her own. In a series of social media statements, posted on his Twitter handle and elsewhere on social media, Brown has stated categorically that he believes that another individual posing in a widely circulated photograph of Guyger…

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Chicago, IL (ProPublica) – One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as he waited to be released from a Chicago shelter for immigrant children. He was kept there for at least 584 days. A 17-year-old from Guinea went on a hunger strike, telling staff members he refused to eat until he saw evidence they were trying to find him a home. He was released nearly nine months after he entered a shelter. And a 10-month-old boy, forcibly separated from his father at…

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US (OW) – As wildfires rage across California, some of the people risking their lives to fight them are paid only a few dollars a day. They’re part of a 2.3 million-strong underclass of American employees making sweatshop wages: incarcerated workers. Slave wages are just one of the many reasons why incarcerated people around the U.S. on strike. The strike was organized in response to deadly violence at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina earlier this year, a result of the prison’s abysmal living conditions. Organizers have a list of 10 demands, which include the…

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New York, NY (Sputnik) – Over a dozen men who were in the vicinity of the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001, attacks destroyed the towers have acquired breast cancer – a statistical rarity for men, of whom only 1 percent nationwide will get the illness, the New York Post reported. When the two 110-story World Trade Towers collapsed after airliners smashed into them on the morning of September 11, 2001, the huge pile of rubble and building debris blew an enormous cloud of dust into the sky, and the fires at Ground Zero burned for months,…

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US (PT) – After the purchase of an ACER Chromebook 15, which came equipped with 16GB eMMC storage and 4GB of DDR3 ram. In this article I’m going to explain the benefits and versatility of this machine. General Chrome OSIn the very basics, the chrome Operating System (OS) is actually extremely effective and secure. All Chromebooks past 2016 have a bounty of 50k if you can effectively hack and install a modified APK without google catching it. Since in the first year the bounty was not claimed they doubled it. On another…

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