Homeless America: Find Your Shelter to Sleep
USA – April 17, 2019 Over half a million Americans are homeless. Homelessness was first viewed as a national issue in the United States in the 1870s, Kenneth Kusmer writes in his book Down And Out, On the Road: The Homeless in American History. Since then, many non-profit and government programs have been created to help give more people access to a safe place to sleep. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that the number of shelters throughout the country is going to continue to grow. HUD’s 2018 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress fou...
Alabama “Red Flag Bill” Allows Courts to Remove Guns
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – April 16, 2019 On March 21, Representative Merika Coleman (D – Birmingham) introduced 2019 Alabama House Bill HB265, also known as the Gun Violence Protective Order Act, which would prohibit individuals who are found by the court to be a legitimate threat to themselves or others from owning, possessing, using, or receiving a firearm for up to one year. If passed, the bill would authorize courts to issue ex parte gun violence protective orders and one-year gun violence protective orders, which may be authorized if the court finds that the respondent,...
British Lobbyism in U.S. Politics: Myth or Reality?
Despite the common notion that the U.K. is literally the 51st state of the U.S., and no matter how close the historical, ethnic, cultural, and social ties between the two countries, there still are some organizations that portray British Americans as a minority and defend their interests in Washington. The term British American is rather wide, often referring mostly to Americans whose ancestral origins come from the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). It might surprise you, but British Americans can be counted as a minority: An American Communi...
The Suspicious Journey of Pompeo
AUSTIN, TEXAS - April 15, 2019 The tour of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Latin America is increasingly beginning to resemble either preparation for a general offensive against rebellious Venezuela or a review of the "troops" on the eve of the offensive. The US’s rhetoric, directed not so much against Nicolas Maduro as against Russia and China, which support him, is becoming more and more aggressive. Threats are increasingly overt. Did the United States decide to take extreme measures? Let's look at the facts. Pompeo rides through the capitals and countries of Lati...
Perversion Over Utah, or How LGBT Communities Attack the State’s Conservative Values
UTAH – April 15, 2019 The recent decision made by the Mormon Church authorities in Utah regarding the recognition of same-sex couples and the baptism of their adopted children poses a serious threat for the conservative and unique values the state of Utah has always stood for, and could mean that the perverts have launched another attack against one of the strongest religious organizations in the U.S. Despite having earned the reputation of a totalitarian cult (due to the extreme proselytism of the adepts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), the Mormon Ch...
Oroville Dam Under Threat of Overflow and Collapse
LOS ANGELES – April 15, 2019 From time to time, Hollywood releases films in which, for one reason or another, some big, symbolic engineering object like a dam, the White House, and so on is destroyed. The bulk of the public never attached much importance to these “ideas”, although that changed to some degree after 9/11: The 9/11 terrorist attack was preventive and shown almost exactly in at least one feature film and dozens of cartoons, comics, and posters. In 2007, another masterpiece on the subject of man-made disasters was released—Evan Almighty, in which the destruct...
World Oil Price Depends on “Marginal” Barrel
AUSTIN, TEXAS – April 15, 2019 The production and supply of American oil is a more important factor for the global market than the situation in oil-producing countries, according to the Wells Fargo Investment Institute. The growth rate of production in the US will determine the movement of oil prices until the end of the year. However, the growth of production in the country is increasingly dependent on the development of shale deposits, which extract the "marginal" barrel - oil, the production of which may be unprofitable due to fluctuations in WTI quotations. Falling i...
Unplanned: Just Anti-Abortion Propaganda or “God’s Plan”?
Censorship comes in many forms. A recent pro-life movie resonated in American society, prompting a national controversy, becoming a real problem for the pro-choice movement. And there’re some compelling reasons for it. Unplanned was theatrically released on March 29, though the preparation for a new nationwide scandal started much earlier. From the very beginning of the secret shooting of the film the creators tried, first, to hide the movie’s underlying political agenda, and, secondly, to widen the target audience of the movie, to not be limited only to “pro-lifers.” T...
The Warring Army of the Potentially Suicidal
GEORGIA – April 13, 2019 War is cruel and bloody. It’s not like Hollywood movies with the best actors, various military fictions, and contactless battles. It is a great loss—years of protracted fighting and a lack of home. Any army will inevitably suffer losses, varying in degree of seriousness. This fate cannot be avoided even by such a high-tech army as that of the US. According to the Congressional Research Service report, military losses from 2006 to 2018 amounted to 15,861 people. It’s a matter of opinion if this is a lot. On the one hand, it’s more than the number...