The administration of San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who was sharply critical of President Donald Trump after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico last year, is reportedly being investigated for alleged corruption.
In a report from El Vocero de Puerto Rico, the FBI is investigating several suppliers in a probe launched after former procurement director Yadira Molina filed a lawsuit claiming she faced punishment for reporting illegal activities to the local comptroller.
The investigation has since grown to include several contractors, the news outlet reported, according to Epoch Times.
Carlos Osorio, a spokesman for the FBI in San Juan, told Epoch Times last October the agency received several complaints of alleged corruption in the distribution of relief goods, and that it was required to look into the matter.
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Rutgers professor James Livingston is tripling-down on his remarks that his anti-white child rant wasn’t at all racist — and he even went as far as to meet someone from the internet who had reportedly been sending him death threats.
What’s a brief history?
Livingston went on a racist Facebook rant against white kids and their parents after visiting the restaurant, Harlem Shake, on May 31 in Harlem. The rant has since been deleted from his page.
(Image source: WPIX-TV video screenshot)
Livingston would later reveal that he received death threats as a result of his posting.
Days after his initial remarks, Rutgers University announced that it would be launching an investigation of the professor and his remarks.
A statement from the Rutgers University Media Relations department said, “There is no place for racial intolerance at Rutgers. This matter has been referred to the appropriate leaders at the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus, where Dr. Livingston teaches, to determine whether his comments violate university policies prohibiting discrimination and harassment.”
The owners of Harlem Shake condemned Livingston’s remarks in a scathing statement provided to TheBlaze, noting that he is no longer welcome in their restaurant.
Jelena Pasic and Dardra Coaxum told TheBlaze, “For five years and counting, we built our business on a prerogative [of] cherishing diversity within our ownership, staff and customers in our beloved Harlem COMMUNITY. We refuse to be sucked into your racist rants, so if you wish to name drop, please use names of those with similar views.”
“We ask that our name is removed from your rant because we do not want to have anything to do with you,” the women added. “And yeah, we ask that you get your burgers somewhere else. We do not tolerate ‘racism’ either. We thrive on equality and fairness and have full intentions to keep it that way!”
He initially tried to explain his comments in a blog post by saying that they were just a joke, and said that he believes “reverse racism” doesn’t exist.
Livingston concluded the post by writing, “I don’t want to be black. I just don’t want to be white.”
What did he say in a recent Facebook post?
In a Facebook post Wednesday, Livingston explained that he returned to the same restaurant — whose owners asked him not to come back — to meet with an online critic who’d reportedly served him with death threats.
“I spent an hour at Harlem Shake today, waiting to meet with one of the morons who have threatened me with bodily harm,” Livingston wrote. “‘Beefy tips,’ he called himself, and promised to f*** me up.”
“It was his idea to meet in person, I just took him up on it,” the professor explained. “But look, I knew he’d never show — these people are cowards as well as morons.”
“Besides,” he added, “I brought back-up in the form of a former student, armed with a camera. ‘Beefy’ never arrived, of course, but a TV camera crew was there all the while to record my thoughts on reverse racism, of which I stand accused.”
“No such thing as far as I’m concerned,” Livingston concluded. “Racism is about power, not hatred, although the two can go together.”
What is he saying now?
Livingston spoke to WPIX-TV, where he further expounded on his remarks.
“Why am I doing this? This is the question,” Livingston told WPIX.
Calling his Facebook post “ironic” and “facetious,” Livingston explained that he was trying to “be funny,” but added that “there’s a serious intent behind every satirical statement.”
“It was my way of … making fun of gentrification,” Livingston said, “but it’s not very funny.”
Of “Beefy Tips,” Livingston said, “F*** him. That’s why I showed up here for that a**hole who threatened me via email. He threatened my life, that f***head.”
“There’s no such thing as reverse racism,” he told WPIX. “Racism is about power. It’s not about hate. If you have power over [someone] and you’re a white person, that’s racism.”
“White people have exercised power over black people for, what, four centuries?” the professor added.
“So when I say I hate white people,” Livingston concluded, “all I’m saying is, ‘Enough already.’”
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The New York Post reported that Intuit stopped processing credit card payments — and even reversed some charges — on gun-related sales. However, Intuit fired back, saying that the report did not reveal the full story and that the policy that stopped the processing of certain gun-related sales has been in place a long time.
Several gun-related businesses were suddenly — and without warning — disrupted in recent weeks when Intuit stopped processing credit card payments because phone and internet sales were gun-related, The Post has learned.
Some of the payments stopped didn’t even involve firearms, but simply T-shirts and coffee mugs and gun safety classes, according to small business owners.
One person impacted was Ken Campbell, a former Indiana sheriff and current owner of Gunsite Academy in Paulden, Arizona.
Campbell told the Post that he spoke to Intuit, who told Campbell that “it mistakenly believed firearm sales were being made directly to the customers, which it requires for such items.”
Campbell, however, said that the firearms were shipped to a local dealer who possessed a federal firearms license and complied with mandatory background checks.
He said that Intuit didn’t care and said that if he was aware of the company’s policy that gun sales must be made face to face, he would not have used them.
“It’s fine, it’s capitalism, and if you don’t want to do business with us, we don’t want to do business with you,” he told the Post.
The Post reported that Intuit issued a statement on the matter which said:
As an American company, we respect the US Constitution and all the rights contained in it … For these transactions our bank partner requires them to be done face-to-face … Our policy today requires the customer to be present to swipe their credit card.
So what’s the policy?
Heather Mclellan, a spokesperson for Intuit, told Guns.com Tuesday that the company’s policy on firearms is “not new, nor has it changed.”
Mclellan said, “Our company does NOT prohibit ANY of these regulated industries — including the firearms industry — from using QuickBooks for payment processing.”
“In fact,” she added, “many do so today.”
“However, for these transactions our bank partner requires them to be done face-to-face,” Mclellan continued. “To meet this requirement, our policy today requires the customer to be present to swipe their credit card.”
Mclellan explained that when transactions are “keyed in” by a vendor — “including online and over the phone” — Intuit is unable to verify whether or not the customer was present for the transaction.
She added that that very issue conflicts with the company’s “long-standing financial safety policies in the electronics payment industry.”
“All of our customers agree to these terms when they sign on to use our services,” Mclellan told the outlet. “When a customer of ours is unable or unwilling to meet this commitment, we reach out to them directly to explore a solution to the problem or to transition them off of our service.”
You can rest, now. You’re safe. The days, weeks, and months of terror are at an end. Diamond & Silk, those dastardly black Trump supporters, are “not dangerous.”
This is according to Mark Zuckerberg, who admits that Facebook “mishandled” their page “for months.” This is shorthand for “enough people have made enough noise that we’re reversing course.”
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign and particularly since Donald Trump’s electoral victory and subsequent inauguration, Never Trumpers across the political spectrum have been hysterically decrying the existential threat the president poses to, variously, our economy, “our American values,” the “international order” (to the extent that one may be true, it’s about time someone did!), our security alliances and democracy itself. Bill Maher, caring and wise leftist that he is, longs for a recession, as that offers the best chance of getting rid of Trump; who needs all those stinking jobs anyway? A befuddled George Soros recently observed that “everything that could go wrong” has indeed come to pass and moreover, he is certain that Donald Trump is “willing to destroy the world.” Oh, and lest you haven’t heard, Trump is a racist, sexist, xenophobe, homophobe, Hitler, fascist (a word that has lost all meaning in modern popular discourse) and the dumbest man ever to be elected president.
Yet in all of these dire warnings and assertions, precious little evidence for such eschatological claims is ever offered, even as all data to the contrary is studiously ignored. Indeed, the only proof that his critics conclusively, if inadvertently, demonstrate is that they really, really, really dislike the guy.
So the next time a liberal friend makes some variation of apocalyptic declaration about the man who has created a global high-end real estate empire; won the presidency against all odds, with 93% of the mainstream media acting as cheerleaders for his opponent; passed major tax reform and directed targeted regulatory reform that has ignited the economy and wage growth after eight stagnant years of sub-par performance. And now, he is on the verge of re-making the global order so that it works better for America, as well as the rest of the world. You might want to ask that friend, “What precisely is your basis for such a claim?” One hundred bucks says that all you will get back is some version of “because…Trump!” As annoying as that fact-free perspective may be, those of us who live in the real world may take heart: America is becoming great again, right before our eyes.
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign and particularly since Donald Trump’s electoral victory and subsequent inauguration, Never Trumpers across the political spectrum have been hysterically decrying the existential threat the president poses to, variously, our economy, “our American values,” the “international order” (to the extent that one may be true, it’s about time someone did!), our security alliances and democracy itself. Bill Maher, caring and wise leftist that he is, longs for a recession, as that offers the best chance of getting rid of Trump; who needs all those stinking jobs anyway? A befuddled George Soros recently observed that “everything that could go wrong” has indeed come to pass and moreover, he is certain that Donald Trump is “willing to destroy the world.” Oh, and lest you haven’t heard, Trump is a racist, sexist, xenophobe, homophobe, Hitler, fascist (a word that has lost all meaning in modern popular discourse) and the dumbest man ever to be elected president.
Yet in all of these dire warnings and assertions, precious little evidence for such eschatological claims is ever offered, even as all data to the contrary is studiously ignored. Indeed, the only proof that his critics conclusively, if inadvertently, demonstrate is that they really, really, really dislike the guy.
So the next time a liberal friend makes some variation of apocalyptic declaration about the man who has created a global high-end real estate empire; won the presidency against all odds, with 93% of the mainstream media acting as cheerleaders for his opponent; passed major tax reform and directed targeted regulatory reform that has ignited the economy and wage growth after eight stagnant years of sub-par performance. And now, he is on the verge of re-making the global order so that it works better for America, as well as the rest of the world. You might want to ask that friend, “What precisely is your basis for such a claim?” One hundred bucks says that all you will get back is some version of “because…Trump!” As annoying as that fact-free perspective may be, those of us who live in the real world may take heart: America is becoming great again, right before our eyes.
Actress Sam Sorbo is on a mission to help improve education, telling PureFlix.com’s “Pure Talk” that she is deeply concerned about the state of schooling in America.
Sorbo, who is a passionate homeschool mom and the wife of “Hercules” actor Kevin Sorbo, made it clear that she believes education is one of the most essential issues of the day.
“Education colors your worldview … and it colors the way you approach every problem,” she said. “Education is literally foundational.”
Sorbo warned that she believes schools are teaching kids that “life doesn’t matter,” that it is “just a series of accidents” and that evolution is true.
“We’re teaching children lies and then we wonder [why] they act out,” she said.
Watch Sorbo break it all down below:
Sorbo added that she’s a strong advocate for home education, as she has homeschooled her own kids and believes in the power of parents controlling what their children learn.
The actress and author also went on to discuss the importance of marriage, explaining how she and her husband have built a strong and long-lasting union despite working in such a challenging industry.
(Read also: 10 Bible verses that can help save — and heal — your marriage)
“We set our priorities when we got married,” Sorbo said, adding that she and Kevin committed early on to never spending more than two weeks apart.
Twenty years later, the couple is still going strong, surviving in an industry that too often creates and fosters relationship-ending pitfalls. The two recently co-wrote a devotional titled, “Share the Light: 40 World-Changing Devotions.”
“In Hollywood, careers tend to diverge,” Sorbo said, explaining that the different demands that performers face as their careers sometimes lead them to move apart from their spouse.
She recalled how, at the start of their relationship, she found herself questioning how she would pursue her entertainment career in Los Angeles while Kevin filmed his former TV show “Hercules” in New Zealand.
“I was just going, ‘I wonder what this is going to look like’ and then [Kevin] had three strokes,” she said, explaining that this posed newfound challenges. “I had to make a choice … I [needed] to give up my career in order to be there for this person that I love.”
Kevin’s health struggles eventually led Sorbo to make a major sacrifice — to put aside her career for the good of her family and marriage.
During that time she learned quite a bit, admitting that she’s not sure the marriage would have endured had both she and Kevin continued their respective careers and potentially grew apart.
“As Christians, we find in our sacrifices great gifts,” she said. “In fact, it was a gift. It was a gift to me because I don’t know that our marriage would have survived.”
Sorbo continued, “Instead, we grew together, we came together.”
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Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has warned that another “high tide” of mass migration is approaching and that financial speculators like George Soros hope to profit from the “ruination of Europe” via mass migration.
In a Kossuth Radio discussion on the growing flood of illegal migrants into Balkan countries just outside the European Union — Bosnia has seen arrivals surge by 600 to 700 per cent in recent months — Prime Minister Orbán warned Europe was “seeing signs of a new migration wave, of a rising tide following a low tide; it’s rising now, and this poses a challenge.”
“We’ve managed to ensure that now every migrant knows that they shouldn’t follow the path marked by the signpost pointing to Hungary,” he said, referring to the anti-illegal immigration ‘Stop Soros’ legislative package currently passing through the Hungarian parliament, and the robust border wall he built at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015.
Tens of thousands of migrants are simply rerouting around Hungary to reach the generous welfare states of Western and Northern Europe, however — with the new Orbán-aligned populist coalition in Austria warning that it may seal its border with Slovenia as a result. Bosnia, in turn, warns that they will respond by sealing their own borders with Serbia and Montenegro, to forestall a situation where migrants travelling through their territory en route to Austria become bottled up.
Prime Minister Orbán encouraged Serbia and neighbouring Macedonia to secure their own borders — some of the first which illegal migrants on the Balkan route cross — to prevent serious disruption, and offered them assistance to do so.
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“It’s worth fighting against a force that is stronger than us – against a force like George Soros and his army,” he declared, after the topic of the billionaire’s activities in the Balkans was broached.
“We’ve played a role in this network being exposed, as we brought it out into the open, and now they have to openly state their goals. They want immigration. The replacement of populations and peoples is underway in Europe, partly because speculators like George Soros can make large financial profits. They are set on the ruination of Europe, because they’re hoping for large profits,” he said.
“That is just what financial speculators are like, and we shouldn’t be surprised at that – but we must not accept it.”
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The Hungarian also insisted that, with movements rooted in populism, civic nationalism, and traditional conservatism now on the rise in countries such as Austria and Italy, the European establishment would soon find that his government is the least of their problems.
“The origin of Europe’s problems today – its political problems – is that what the people want and what they want to do is different from what their leaders want and what they do,” explained the Fidesz leader.
“As regards politics, current developments are to my liking, and they are in our interests. Tough guys have emerged in European politics. Many people think that we’re a little coarser or tougher than is customary in the EU, but now they’ll really learn the meaning of those words,” he predicted.
“They’ll find that compared with the new leaders who have now spoken out – and who say things that surprise even straight-talking Hungarians – we are sociable little gentlefolk. I see this both in Austria and Italy.”
On Wednesday, once again, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley fearlessly spoke the truth about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, squarely putting the blame for the conditions in Gaza on the terrorist group that runs the area: Hamas.
Haley spoke before the U.N. General Assembly voted for a resolution introduced by Algeria, Turkey and the Palestinians that condemned Israel for “excessive, indiscriminate force by the Israeli forces” against the Palestinians.
Haley, who attempted to include an amendment that would have condemned Hamas, started by noting that the “Special Session on the Situation In Gaza” was only being held to vilify Israel, pointing out that over 146 peaceful Nicaraguans have been killed by their own government in the past two months as they protested, that thousands of peaceful Iranian protestors have been arrested, with over 25 dead, that the world’s worst humanitarian crisis was going on right now in Yemen, with millions are at risk for starvation, and in Burma, almost a million innocent people have been driven from their homes in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Yet the UN was not interested in talking about that.
Why the focus on Gaza? Haley asked. She answered, “What makes Gaza different for some is that attacking Israel is their favorite political sport. That’s why we’re here today.”
She ripped the resolution being offered, noting, “It is totally one-sided. It makes not one mention of Hamas, who routinely initiates violence in Gaza. Such one-sided resolutions at the UN do nothing to advance peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Everyone recognizes that. But advancing peace is not the goal of this resolution.”
She pointed out the UN was doing a disservice to the people of Gaza, asserting, “It feeds a narrative to the desperate people of Gaza that their leaders are not responsible for their predicament. It stokes hatred. It sacrifices honesty, accuracy, compromise, and reconciliation in favor of the advancement of a narrow political agenda,” and adding, “I wish everyone supporting this one sided resolution would put as much energy into encouraging President Abbas to come to the negotiating table, as you do to falsely imply to your people back home that you’re doing something.”
Haley correctly noted, “Israel withdrew completely from Gaza in 2005. Hamas has been the de facto government in Gaza since 2007. This strip of land along the Mediterranean coast has enormous potential. And yet, after 11 years of Hamas rule, Gaza has electricity for only a few hours a day. It has enormous unemployment and poverty. It is a haven for terrorist activity. At what point will the UN actually hold accountable those who are in charge of Gaza and running it into the ground?”
Haley commented that the resolution holds Hamas completely unaccountable for most of the recent unrest, entirely blaming Israel. Then she went after Hamas:
It is Hamas and its allies that have fired over a hundred rockets into Israel in the past month, hoping to cause death to as many civilians and as much destruction as possible. It is Hamas that has used Palestinian civilians as human shields at the boundary fence, seeking to incite violence and overrun the border. It is Hamas that refuses to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority to unite in the pursuit of peace. It is Hamas that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel within any borders. And yet the resolution before us not only fails to blame Hamas for these actions, it fails to even mention Hamas. This is the dangerous, counter-productive decision the General Assembly is about to take.
She said, “The United States is offering an amendment that provides a small step in the direction of balance. Our amendment rightly condemns Hamas’s indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israeli civilian communities. It accurately condemns the diversion of aid and resources from civilian needs into military infrastructure, including terror tunnels used to attack Israeli citizens. It justly expresses our grave concerns about damage done to border crossings that are hindering the delivery of desperately needed food and fuel to the people of Gaza. This is a modest amendment that reflects the minimum truth of what is going on in Gaza. It is the least that any self-respecting international organization or nation can do for the cause of peace.”
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