Survival Update

Gunmen from a narco-terrorist cartel burned off the face of a rival and recorded the man’s agony as he begged for death. The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) members burned the man’s face off as a way to mock his nickname, “Ghost Rider.” The gory act of torture took place over the weekend ...

On the signboard of our local church, all reference to Sunday Service and accompanying Bible texts have vanished. In their place we read the homily: Fewer Faces and Open Spaces, attributed not to the minister Gordon K. Brownmiller, but to British Columbia’s Provincial Health Officer Bonnie ...

Rumor, innuendo, and conspiracy theories spread on the internet like wildfire. And the latest have to do with the real life wildfires that are decimating California and other areas of the West Coast. As the fires rage unchecked, posts have lit up social media that accuse Antifa, the well-known ...

The picture is stunning, right out of a dystopian novel. Youngsters in a kindergarten there that has reopened under COVID guidelines are completely enclosed in clear plastic boxes. Despite the physical barrier, these kids have to wear face masks. I don’t know about you, but I would never ...

Ralph Santillan, a merchant seaman from the Philippines, hasn’t had shore leave in half a year. It has been 18 months since he reported for duty on his ship, which hauls corn, barley and other commodities around the world. It has been even longer since he saw his wife and son. “There’s nothing ...

According to recent statistics, California and Florida are the U.S. states that boast the highest numbers of reported sightings, with 10,015 and 5,602, respectively. Perhaps that is why it was Florida’s Republican Senator, Marco Rubio, who, in his role as the Senate Intelligence Committee ...

A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison guard’s finger during an altercation, an Italian news report said on Tuesday. Guiseppe Fanara, 60, who was serving a life sentence at Rome’s Rebibbia prison, attacked seven guards in June when they came to ...

The specter of QAnon now looms large over the impending November election. But, it is not the first time that a “secret society” tied to “conspiracy theories” played a role in American politics. Long before anyone heard of “Q,” the Freemasons and the so-called “Illuminati” influenced many an ...

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden (D) has abandoned the campaign trail once again, with the election just 55 days away. “Hi from Wilmington, where there’s nothing to report but a lid. 🙂 Have a great day!” read an update from the Boston Globe’s Jazmine Ulloa: A lid from Biden land today, ...

One of the great grifter movies, aside from the Clinton and Obama presidencies, is The Sting. Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) and Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford} team up, “to pull off a complicated scheme known simple as the Big Con,” a racket to crush Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) and his empire. ...