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Yahoo News

(Reuters) – Conspiracy promoter and right-wing media personality Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $100,000 in court costs and legal fees stemming from a lawsuit over his claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre of school children was a hoax, court records show.

Jones, founder of the Infowars radio show and webcast, has claimed the mainstream media and gun-control proponents conspired to fabricate the tragedy in which 20 school children and six school staff were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012.  Continue reading “Infowars founder who claimed Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax ordered to pay $100,000”

Fox News

One day after Colorado and western Nebraska counties reported a series of mysterious, nocturnal drone flights, the Federal Aviation Administration is promoting a rule change last week that requires most drones to be identifiable remotely, a report said Monday.

The rule change, announced Thursday, have been in works for more than a year, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said in an email to the Denver Post Monday.  Continue reading “FAA proposes rule change to force identification of Colorado, Nebraska drones”

As presented by Mark Koernke.

Ingredients:

1 cup Curry Powder
1 lb. Fresh Jalapeno (or if preferred) Habenaro Peppers chopped fine.
3 cups 80,000 BTU Cayenne Pepper.
3 heads garlic, fresh, chopped fine.
1 cup Red Hot Pepper seeds.
2 cups Myrrh Gum Powder- Dissolved.
2 gallons Brandy (Vodka should work as well it must be at least 80 proof)
½ gallon (2 bottles) Water OZ silver mineral water (colloidal silver water will also work though not as well)
¼ cup Celtic Salt (Sea salt was recommended by a local health food store for a substitute.)   Continue reading “Recipe for De-Tox Mix”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

After US fighter jets bombed five facilities controlled by the Kataib Hezbollah militia group in Iraq and Syria on Sunday in response to the killing of a U.S. civilian contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base — which in turn killed at least 24 people and injured at least 50 — Iraqi militias are warning a “strong response” is coming.  Continue reading “Iraqi Militias Vow “Strong Response” To US ‘Occupiers’ Imminent After Airstrikes”

Yahoo News

At least one victim was killed and four others were injured when a gunman opened fire inside a crowded Texas church on Sunday morning before he was shot to death by two armed parishioners, including a security guard, officials told ABC News.

The shooting occurred at 10:57 a.m. at the West Freeway Church of Christ in the Fort Worth suburb of White Settlement and was captured on the church’s livestream of the service, officials said.  Continue reading “2 dead including suspect in shooting at Texas church”

Market Watch

HOUSTON (AP) — Three years into Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall.

Trump’s signature campaign promise has consistently faced political, legal, and environmental obstacles in Texas, which has the largest section of the U.S.-Mexico border, most of it without fencing. And much of the land along the Rio Grande, the river that forms the border in Texas, is privately held and environmentally sensitive. Continue reading “Trump Justice Department sues to seize private property for border-wall construction”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A few days ago, Morgan Stanley laid out why 2019 was an “unusual”, bizarre year for equity markets, which hit all time highs around the globe even as bullish strategies underperformed, crippling countless hedge funds who failed to get the mix of assets just right and suffered another round of gut-wrenching redemptions which culminated in the longest streak of hedge fund outflows since the financial crisis. Continue reading “Banks Celebrate Record High Stocks With Most Layoffs Since 2015”

Navy Times

Continue reading “Iran to conduct naval drills with China and Russia”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Last week we reported that something strange was going on at the same time that central banks are injecting $100 billion each month in electronic money to crush volatility and ramp markets: a similar amount in physical currency and precious metals was literally disappearing.   Continue reading “Steven Mnuchin Explains Why $1.5 Trillion In $100 Bills Have Disappeared”

The Oregonian – by Maxine Bernstein

A federal judge on Friday revoked the grazing permit for Hammond Ranches Inc., finding that former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s order renewing it early this year was an “abuse of discretion.”

Dwight Hammond Jr. and his youngest son, Steven Hammond, can reapply for a new permit and go through the proper process to obtain one, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon said.  Continue reading “Judge revokes federal grazing permit for Hammond Ranches Inc.”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

At least 61 US special operations forces who were deployed to a former Soviet base just a few hundred miles from the Afghanistan border have either died or have cancer, according to a new report by McClatchy DC’s Tara Copp.

The deployment, which began shortly after the 9/11 attacks, were to a military site in Uzbekistan called Karshi-Khanabad, known as K2. It was leased by the United States from the Uzbek government weeks after the 2001 terrorist incident, as it was in close proximity to al Qaeda and Taliban targets.  Continue reading “At Least 61 US Veterans Who Guarded ‘Contaminated’ Ex-Russian Base Died Or Have Cancer”

S & P Global – by Brian Scheid

Washington — The US Securities and Exchange Commission agreed by a 3-2 vote to release a new proposal requiring multinational oil and gas companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.

The rule, initially mandated by Section 1504 of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, has been twice adopted by the SEC, overturned by a federal court, and rolled back by Congress and President Donald Trump.  Continue reading “US SEC proposes new oil, natural gas disclosure rules with new exceptions”

Courthouse News – by Matthew Renda

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will open 1.2 million acres in California to fracking, ending a five-year moratorium on the controversial method of oil and gas extraction in the Golden State.

The Bureau of Land Management said it found no undue environmental harm from hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking, and would entertain oil and gas leases in BLM-managed lands throughout the southern part of the state.  Continue reading “Feds to Open 1.2 Million Acres in California to Fracking Leases”

Houston Chronicle

Houston pipeline operator Enterprise Products Partners and Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge have signed an agreement to develop an offshore crude oil export terminal in the Gulf of Mexico about 30 miles south of Brazoria County.

The companies agreed to jointly develop Enterprise’s proposed Sea Port Oil Terminal, an offshore export terminal that will be able to accommodate supertankers known as Very Large Crude Carriers, or VLCCs, capable of hauling 2 million barrels of crude oil in a single shipment.  Continue reading “Enterprise, Enbridge join forces to develop offshore crude oil export terminal”

Daily Signal – by Kevin Mooney

No one told Jack LaPant that he could be in violation of the Clean Water Act for farming his own land.

That’s mostly because the federal law includes a clear exemption for “normal” farming activities. But it’s also because the government officials LaPant consulted didn’t view overturned dirt that has been tilled and plowed as pollution.  Continue reading “Feds Sue California Farmer For Growing Wheat”

CNBC

The jobs market turned in a stellar performance in November, with nonfarm payrolls surging by 266,000 and the unemployment rate falling to 3.5%, according to Labor Department numbers released Friday.

Those totals easily beat the Wall Street consensus. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for solid job growth of 187,000 and saw the unemployment rate holding steady from October’s 3.6%. The decline in November’s jobless rate came amid a corresponding 0.1 percentage point drop in the labor force participation rate, to 63.2%. Continue reading “Jobs growth soars in November as payrolls surge by 266,000”