Across the city, hotels like the Roosevelt are being transformed into emergency shelters, many of them within walking distance from Times Square, the World Trade Center memorial site, and the Empire State Building. Source
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NYC Converts Hotels To Shelters To Accommodate Expected Influx Of Illegal Immigrants


Biden’s Migrants Are Displacing Americans from Homeless Shelters


Tens of thousands of economic migrants invited by the nation’s border chief are displacing Americans from homeless shelters pre-Christmas, according to the Wall Street Journal. Source
Fire guts shelters in Rohingya camp in Bangladesh


A huge fire blazed through a section of the crowded Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh. According to Save the Children, more than 300 temporary shelters made from bamboo and tarpaulin were gutted overnight, rendering more than 1,500 refugees, including 750 children, homeless. Four temporary learning centers were also destroyed. Bangladeshi Fire Service, local law […]
Advocates Rally Against NYC’s Moving Homeless From Hotels To Shelters


New York City — A march and rally against New York City’s decision to move about 8,000 homeless individuals from hotels to shelters was held Saturday. The process has been put on hold, but many say it shouldn’t have happened to begin with. Homeless advocates blasted the city for pushing those sheltered in hotels back to congregate living. […]
Citizens rushed to shelters as India braces for Cyclone Yaas


A powerful cyclone headed for eastern India Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of nearly two million people just a week after another huge storm claimed at least 155 lives on the west coast. Cyclone Yaas in the Bay of Bengal is expected to slam into West Bengal and Odisha states around midday on Wednesday, the India […]
Middle Easterners Run For Bomb Shelters After Learning U.S. Suffering Oil Shortages


Middle Easterners Run For Bomb Shelters After Learning U.S. Suffering Oil Shortages MIDDLE EAST—Innocent civilians around the Middle East scrambled for their bomb shelters after hearing the news of a gasoline crisis in the United States. “They’re running out of gasoline? We’re in danger! Ruuuun!!!” shouted one man in Syria as he grabbed his wife’s […]
US scraps Trump-era proposal allowing homeless shelters to discriminate against transgender people


The US government has withdrawn a Trump-era proposal which would have given homeless shelters the right to refuse transgender people. The suggested policy – which would have been for taxpayer-funded shelters – was still being debated last autumn when Donald Trump was voted out of office. But on Thursday, the Department of Housing and Urban […]
Fire At Rohingya Refugee Camp Destroys Hundreds Of Shelters


COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — A devastating fire raced through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Monday, destroying hundreds of shelters and leaving thousands homeless, officials and witnesses said. The fire at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district broke out in the late afternoon and spread quickly through at least four blocks, […]
The View From Inside America’s Child Immigrant Detention Shelters


Above photo: The interior of a CBP facility in McAllen, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP. NOTE: This article was originally published by WSWS in 2018, but given the rise of migrant youth being imprisoned at the border, it seems appropriate to remind ourselves of the brutal treatment they […]
Will Sexual Predators Pretend to Be Transgenders? They Do in Canada and Rape Women in Shelters; Protections For Woman/Children Against Rapists is Being Removed-Satanists [Rothschilds] Running U.S. Love Rape/Murder/Violence


By Joanna Williams, the founder of the think tank Cieo. She is the author of Women vs Feminism, Why We All Need Liberating From the Gender Wars and is a regular columnist for Spiked. Follow her on Twitter @jowilliams293Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done more damage to women’s rights in one day than Donald Trump managed […]
Across the globe, Covid-19 puts animal shelters in crisis


While pet foster and adoption rates have soared in New York and many parts of the United States, globally, the situation is much direr. In the face of COVID-19, these shelters are continually facing critical challenges, including food shortages, spikes in pet abandonment with a plummeting and near-zero rate of adoptions, overcrowding, and fears of […]
Aboriginal Rock Shelters Could Have Been Saved from Blasting



Two culturally and archaeologically significant rock shelters were destroyed by a mining company in Western Australia. The caves were ruined by blasting carried out by Rio Tinto, who remarkably did it with the full backing of the law. But new information reveals that there were alternative mining plans, that were hidden from the land’s traditional […]
Suit Claims Sheriff Misused Emergency Shelters ‘As Unlawful Pedestrian Checkpoints’


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Florida Sheriff Will Check For Warrants At Hurricane Shelters


Source: Mac Slavo If you have a warrant out for your arrest and manage to safely make it to a Florida hurricane shelter while Hurricane Irma barrels down on the state, a Florida sheriff will make sure you’re escorted right to jail. As Hurricane Irma approaches his state, a county sheriff […]
Now Even The Shelters Are Flooding In Texas


Even the shelters are flooding. The catastrophic downpours in Port Arthur, Texas, have been so severe that a major shelter is becoming submerged — with shocking images showing waterlogged cots and evacuees cowering in the bleachers. The photos by Beulah Johnson capture the nightmarish conditions at the Bowers Civic Center, which was inundated overnight, leaving […]
One dead after car crashes into Marseille bus shelters


Police have arrested a driver following an incident in the Old Port area of Marseille in which one person died when a car crashed into two bus shelters. The incident is not believed to be terrorism-related. A 35-year-old was arrested following the woman’s death, after he hit two bus shelters in the area. At […]
Hawaii Calls For Evacuation Plan, Opens Fallout Shelters After North Korea Threat


Hawaii lawmakers have urgently ordered repairs to hundreds of Cold War-era nuclear fallout shelters and have begun restocking them with medical supplies, food and water. As tensions with North Korea escalate, Hawaii residents – some old enough to remember the last time their state was in the nuclear crosshairs – are mobilizing to protect themselves from a threatened nuclear strike. […]
Hawaii Calls For Evacuation Plan, Opens Fallout Shelters After North Korea Threat


Hawaii lawmakers have urgently ordered repairs to hundreds of Cold War-era nuclear fallout shelters and have begun restocking them with medical supplies, food and water. As tensions with North Korea escalate, Hawaii residents – some old enough to remember the last time their state was in the nuclear crosshairs – are mobilizing to protect themselves from a threatened nuclear strike. […]
Hawaii Calls For Evacuation Plan, Opens Fallout Shelters After North Korea Threat


Hawaii lawmakers have urgently ordered repairs to hundreds of Cold War-era nuclear fallout shelters and have begun restocking them with medical supplies, food and water. As tensions with North Korea escalate, Hawaii residents – some old enough to remember the last time their state was in the nuclear crosshairs – are mobilizing to protect themselves from a threatened nuclear strike. […]
Hawaii Calls For Evacuation Plan, Opens Fallout Shelters After North Korea Threat


Hawaii lawmakers have urgently ordered repairs to hundreds of Cold War-era nuclear fallout shelters and have begun restocking them with medical supplies, food and water. As tensions with North Korea escalate, Hawaii residents – some old enough to remember the last time their state was in the nuclear crosshairs – are mobilizing to protect themselves from a threatened nuclear strike. […]
Hawaii Calls For Evacuation Plan, Opens Fallout Shelters After North Korea Threat


Hawaii lawmakers have urgently ordered repairs to hundreds of Cold War-era nuclear fallout shelters and have begun restocking them with medical supplies, food and water. As tensions with North Korea escalate, Hawaii residents – some old enough to remember the last time their state was in the nuclear crosshairs – are mobilizing to protect themselves from a threatened nuclear strike. […]
Some Psychologists Say ADHD Sufferers Are Actually ‘Indigo Children’


A rising number of American psychologists have suggested that children who are diagnosed as suffering from ADHD or ADD may actually be “Indigo Children” who possess special psychic powers. Since the 1990’s, a growing number of medical professionals have dismissed the traditional ADHD diagnoses associated with long-term social and behavioral health problems, and have instead […]
UFO sightings: For Canadian cities Edmonton ranks fourth


Edmonton’s fascination with flat, round objects doesn’t stop with pizzas. Sure, the city came in eighth in the battle for the world’s best pizza, but the Canadian UFO Survey released this week says Edmonton had the fourth-highest sightings of UFOs of any city in Canada. The city followed Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Among the […]
Germany’s secret service warns the country ‘is importing Islamic extremism’


From: dailymail.co.uk Germany’s intelligence agencies have expressed serious concerns over the huge influx of migrants harbouring extremist views, it has been reported. A security document has warned of the damaging consequences of Berlin’s open-door policy which is expected to see around one million refugees enter the country this year alone. […]
Spectacular Orionid meteor shower 2015 – photos


The peak of the 2015 Orionid meteor shower has passed now. Here are some awesome photos from the Earthsky community! Barry Simmons said: “Caught this Orionid fireball on the morning of October 22. It’s the BEST meteor shot I’ve gotten since I started shooting meteors several years ago.” Captured at Lake Martin, Alabama. Thank […]