(Zero Hedge) At last count [sic] five people have been shot at a Southern California high school on Thursday, according to local law-enforcement officials.
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Animal Rights Win: California Bars Animals from Circuses, Becomes First State to Ban Fur Trade
(Elias Marat) “Ordinary people want to see animals protected, not abused,” one animal rights advocate said, greeting the new laws in the nation’s most populous state.
Communications Are DOWN in Parts of California: Radio, TV, Internet, Cell Towers Fall Victim to PG&E Blackouts As Wildfires Rage
(Dagny Taggart) California is burning, and the planned power outages initiated by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) have understandably enraged a lot of residents, particularly due to an unexpected consequence: the blackouts have cut power to many cellphone towers.
Insurers Tell California Citizens to Drop Dead: Fire Coverage Yanked from 350,000 Residents in Response to PGE Power Blackouts and ‘Fire Risk’
(JD Heyes) Why Americans continue to elect Democrats, whose policies are tyrannical and economically destructive, is a mystery.
STARTING TODAY: PG&E’s Rolling Blackouts Could Leave 1.8 Million Californians Without Power
(Zero Hedge) Parts of California are seriously starting to behave like a third world country. No, we’re not talking about the poop, homeless, and opioid crisis on the streets of San Francisco, we’re talking about rolling blackouts from the state’s electric company, PG&E Corp.
TIME: PG&E Admits It Might Be the Cause of Northern California Wildfire Despite Preventative Blackouts
(Erin Elizabeth) California’s largest utility company, PG&E, acknowledged its electrical equipment might have ignited a wildfire burning in wine country Friday, despite blackouts imposed across the region to prevent fires.
California Utility Giant PG&E Possibly Involved in 400 Fires in 2018, as Execs Got Huge Bonuses
(Elias Marat) A new investigation has found that equipment belonging to PG&E may have been at fault in contributing to over 400 fires in California last year.
“Diablo Winds” Are Ferociously Whipping “Out Of Control” Wildfires Across Vast Stretches Of California
(Michael Snyder) Why does this keep happening to California year after year? As you read this article, enormous wildfires are ravaging large portions of northern California, and Governor Gavin Newsom has already declared a statewide emergency.
California Fires Spark Massive Mandatory Evacuations; Wineries Burn As Winds Hit 93 MPH
(Zero Hedge) California’s annual wildfires are back despite a series of planned power outages aimed at preventing them – the latest of which is expected to affect as many as 3 million people across huge swaths of the state.
California Faces “Biggest Blackout Ever” As 2.5 Million PG&E Customers May Have No Power For Days
(Zero Hedge) Earlier this week we joked that with PG&E now scrambling to enforce intentional blackouts every time there are powerful winds for fears the bankrupt company’s aged infrastructure could cause a new fire, “every time the wind blows California will become Venezuela.”
California to “Solve” Homeless Problem by Throwing Homeless People in Prison
(Matt Agorist) There is no doubt that California is experiencing a homeless crisis. In certain parts of the state, the homeless problem has turned into a public health issue as well, as many homeless people struggling with addiction have resorted to using public sidewalks as personal toilets. But the only solution that government seems to want offer is more police state. Officials in Bakersfield just announced that they will be solving their homeless problem by throwing people in jail.
Journalists Are PANICKING After Democrats Pass Law Effectively ENDING Freelance Journalism
Journalists Are PANICKING After Democrats Pass Law Effectively ENDING Freelance Journalism
Victory! California Senate Votes Against Face Surveillance on Police Body Cams
(Haley Tsukayama) The California Senate listened to the many voices expressing concern about the use of face surveillance on cameras worn or carried by police officers, and has passed an important bill that will, for three years, prohibit police from turning a tool intended to foster police accountability into one that furthers mass surveillance.
240 Cubic Miles Of Magma Discovered Beneath California’s Supervolcano
(Expand Your Consciousness) The Long Valley supervolcano (LVSV) has been peacefully snoozing for about 100,00 years beneath California, but in the last four decades, the volcano has become “restless.”
Origin and Meaning of the Name California
(Robert Sepehr) In the 16th century, when Spanish explorers first discovered the Baja California peninsula, they believed it to be a large island. The name “California” was likely derived from a popular novel of the time, and eventually to the modern state of California, which obviously turned out to not be an island at all.