Las Vegas Sun – by Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian

U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown said Friday she’ll work to ensure the transfer of Ammon Bundy and Ryan Payne from Nevada to testify at next month’s trial of seven defendants charged in the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

“I’m convinced it would be error for the court not to facilitate them as witnesses,” the judge said.

But Brown wants both Bundy and Payne, who face federal prosecution in Nevada this spring, to personally consent to their brief transfer. She also wants their assurances that they won’t argue that the move will hurt their ability to prepare for their upcoming trial in Nevada.   Continue reading “Judge to allow Ammon Bundy to testify in second refuge takeover trial”

PNN – by Munjed Jadou

A group of Palestinian activist in the city of Bethlehem in the west bank burned Friday 20/1/2017 pictures of the new US President Donald Trump in the first day of taking office because of his support to Israel especially his promises, to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem which it has not implemented by any previous US administration.

The Palestinian activist Gathered at the northern entrance of Bethlehem city, where the apartheid wall which surrounded the Christian holy city to remained Trump and show him how much are the Palestinian people are suffering under the Israeli occupations as they said.
Continue reading “Palestinians burn Donald Trump pictures in Bethlehem Because of his support to Israel”

Off the Grid News – by Kevin Danielsen

When Windows 10 was released, the tech world was abuzz with glee. But then, we all started to take a gander under the hood of this software sportscar, only to discover a rather horrifying sight. It seems this ride tracks every … little … thing … you … do, and then quickly reports this data to the James-Bond-villain headquarters, otherwise known as Microsoft.

“It’s for your own convenience,” they said.   Continue reading “How To Stop Windows 10 From Tracking Your Every Move”

PNN

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Monday have embarked on uprooting about 2,000 trees planted on privately owned land east of Qalqilia city, northern West Bank, in order to open a new settlement road.

IOF this morning have announced the area as a closed military zone, and arrested international activists protesting that uprooting.   Continue reading “IOF embark on uprooting 2000 trees for settlement road, Qalqilia”

The Mirror

Alien hunters have claimed astronauts on board the International Space Station are deliberately hiding evidence of UFO’s.

In video uploaded by UFO experts Secure 10 and apparently filmed from the ISS, an astronaut can be seen filming the view from outer space. with the earth lit up in the background.
Continue reading “Mystery flashing lights speed past International Space Station – before astronaut ‘hides evidence from camera with HAND’”

Gulf News

Photographs recently released by the Australian government show that light anti-armour weapons seized from a smuggling vessel near Yemen’s coast appear to have been manufactured in Iran, further suggesting that Tehran has had a hand in a high seas gunrunning operation to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.   Continue reading “Arms seized off coast of Yemen appear to have been made in Iran”

Alalam

Iraq’s armed forces operating in the liberated areas of Anbar province uncovered documents confirming that Daesh militants were marrying underage girls.

The documents were found in the vicinity of Al-Khalidiya, which was recently freed from the clutches of Daesh (ISIL/ISIS). The so called ‘marriage certificates’ – all of them signed in 2015 – contain information about the terrorists’ ‘wives’ and the children they’ve given birth to.

Continue reading “Documents Revealed: Daesh Militants Marrying Kids Because of Monetary Incentives”

Yahoo News – by Martin Abbugao

US President Barack Obama urged Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte Thursday to conduct his crime war “the right way”, as the pair clashed at an Asian summit over the crackdown that has claimed 3,000 lives.

The showdown was a fitting climax to a brutal few days of diplomacy that began with the famously acid-tongued Duterte branding Obama a “son of a whore”.   Continue reading “Obama, Duterte clash over brutal crime war”

The Register – by Shaun Nichols

Facebook is facing an FTC probe after snatching millions of people’s phone numbers from its WhatsApp subsidiary.

Privacy rights warriors at EPIC have asked the US watchdog to investigate the personal data grab – and the commission says it will look into the matter.   Continue reading “What’s up, Zuck? FTC to probe Facebook for WhatsApp phone number mega-slurp”

New York Daily News – by Chris Sommerfeldt

A Mississippi police chief killed himself moments after he was suspended without pay, leaving fellow officers stunned and wondering why.

Police Chief Mike DeNardo fatally shot himself in the chest after walking out of the Bay St. Louis police station around 3 p.m. Thursday. He was rushed to an area hospital but could not be saved.   Continue reading “Mississippi police chief kills self moments after getting suspended”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

For years we have wondered why Wells Fargo, America’s largest mortgage lender, is also Warren Buffett’s favorite bank. Now we know why.

On Thursday, Wells Fargo was fined $185 million, (including a $100 million penalty from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the largest penalty the agency has ever issued) for engaging in pervasive fraud over the years which included opening credit cards secretly without a customer’s consent, creating fake email accounts to sign up customers for online banking services, and forcing customers to accumulate late fees on accounts they never even knew they had. Regulators said such illegal sales practices had been going on since at least 2011.   Continue reading “Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 For Engaging In Massive Fraud, Creating Over 2 Million Fake Accounts”

Off the Grid News

California is poised to vote in some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation when voters go to the polls in November.

The ballot initiative, Proposition 63, would ban magazines larger than 10 rounds, which critics say would lead to house-to-house confiscation by police statewide.   Continue reading “‘House-To-House Confiscation’ Of Guns Will Be On California Ballot”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

Unintended consequences. Glitches in the system. Shady agendas. Contracts and personal gain. Failures of management.

There are many reasons not to trust government, or to put too much power into its hands.

This time, a false alarm issued by incompetents manning the FEMA alert system nearly panicked millions of people into fleeing a long, thin island that is already clogged with traffic during summer and which only has two major highways and access to the mainland only through New York City’s toll bridges, or ferries.   Continue reading “Oops! FEMA Emergency Alert System “Wrongly Orders Evacuation” Of Congested, Isolated Long Island”

The Sun – by Emma Lake

A GROUP of hardcore Christians has claimed a solar eclipse due to hit the UK and America next year, will bring about an apocalypse.

The eclipse will plunge countries into darkness and spark the end of the world, doomsayers from Christian website Unsealed have alleged.

A total eclipse is expected to spread across America on August 21 2017, with western Europe experiencing a partial eclipse.   Continue reading “World predicted to end in 2017 thanks to a total solar eclipse hitting America and the UK”

PNN

BDS/
The Green Party of Canada has adopted a policy of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel into its official platform after a hard-fought resolution successfully passed at the party’s annual convention over the weekend.

Despite pressure from pro-Israel lobby groups, supporters of the BDS resolution within the party say they hope it will break down the stigma in Canada around using BDS to fight for Palestinian human rights.   Continue reading “Canadian Green Party adopts BDS”