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Tickets for the last stop on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s 13-city speaking tour are selling for less than $10 on the secondary market. Continue reading “Tickets To See The Clintons Offered For Less Than $10”
The College Fix – by Graham Piro
‘Glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, manifest destiny’
A Northern California public school district may remove a mural of George Washington from the halls of George Washington High School due to concerns that it’s offensive and demeaning to Native Americans and African-Americans. Continue reading “High school may erase mural of George Washington: ‘traumatizes students’”
The White House has proclaimed April 28 to May 5 Holocaust Remembrance Week, US President Donald Trump announced last weekend.
“On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and during this week of solemn remembrance, we honor the six million Jewish men, women, and children who were brutally murdered by the Nazi regime,” Trump said in a declaration. “We also remember the Roma and Sinti, persons with disabilities, Poles and Slavic ethnic groups, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and persons who were targeted based on their sexual orientation, all of whom were targeted and killed by the Nazis and their collaborators.” Continue reading “White House proclaims Holocaust Remembrance Week”
Seattle Times – by Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — From Baja California to Puget Sound, scientists are seeing signs that gray whales are in distress. And they have no idea why.
Thirty-one dead gray whales have been spotted along the West Coast since January, the most for this time of year since 2000, when 86 whales died. Dozens more have shown visible signs of malnourishment, and sightings of mother-calf pairs are down sharply. Continue reading “Gray whales starving to death in the Pacific, and scientists want to know why”
Chabad of Poway, where one woman was killed and three injured in an anti-Semitic shooting last Saturday, had applied for and received a grant to update its security from the federal government, the AP reported.
The synagogue only received the $150,000 federal grant in late March, and reportedly had not had enough time to implement the security updates proposed before the shooting ocurred. Continue reading “Poway Synagogue Received Government Security Grant A Month Before Shooting”
PORTLAND, Ore. — A new bill that would allow dentists to administer vaccinations just passed the Oregon Legislature.
Next year, Oregon dentists will be allowed to give their patients immunization shots. House Bill 2220 will allow dentists to give any vaccinations — from measles to HPV and annual flu shots. Continue reading “New law will allow Oregon dentists to vaccinate patients”
As an outcry over Florida’s new censorship law sweeps across the nation, the state’s students prepare for the dilemma of facing racism charges if they say anything negative about Jews or Israel.
The bill passed by the Florida Senate this week mandates students adhere to the severe restrictions on their conversation that Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to take to Israel and sign there on his upcoming visit. Continue reading “Florida goes totalitarian”
Police appear to be paying close attention to and even visiting the homes of “false flag” conspiracy theorists who spread “bogus narratives” online about the Christchurch mosque shootings:
One Auckland man, who described the March 15 terror attack as a “state-sponsored false flag”, said he had been visited by officers five times since the attack happened. Continue reading “NZ Police Harass Citizens Who Doubt Official Version of Christchurch Mosque Shooting”
Before US Vice President Mike Pence took the podium to address the sailors of the USS Harry S. Truman Tuesday, the members of the armed forces were reportedly given particularly puzzling instruction on how to welcome the VP.
On Tuesday afternoon, Pence traveled to Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, to deliver a message from US President Donald Trump while also recognizing the 2,000-plus missions the USS Harry S. Truman and its 7,500 sailors have been a part of in the past year. Continue reading “US Navy Sailors Told to Clap Like They’re ‘at a Strip Club’ for Pence”
This is the Dayenu for President Trump, based on the simple realization that there has never been a president as pro-Israel as Trump, and it is almost unthinkable that there will ever be another.
Let us count the ways, individual acts for which alone we would sing Dayenu, “it would have been enough:” Continue reading “The Trump “Dayenu””
The original exhibition copy of the US’ declaration of Israel as a state, complete with former President Harry S. Truman’s signature, can now be yours for an estimated $300,000.
Ahead of Israel Independence Day on May 14, Pennsylvania-based historical autograph and document dealer Raab Collection announced Tuesday that the only known, signed copy of the recognition of the Jewish state of Israel’s existence would be posted for sale. Continue reading “Sole Copy of US Recognition of Israel Signed by Truman Listed for $300K”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Venice, FL — The ACLU is speaking out in defense of an innocent man who was wrongfully accused of breaking into his own hotel room and then attacked by raging cops. Officers with the Venice police department are now in the spotlight after video of the incident was released this week.
The incident unfolded on December 21 outside a Motel 6 in Venice, Florida. Although the attack happened last year, the dash camera footage was only just released. Now we know why the police held onto it for so long. Continue reading “Cops Accuse Innocent Man of Breaking Into His Own Hotel Room and Beat Him”
Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
CBS News released a propaganda segment on Monday featuring New York Times tech reporter Cecilia Kang where they suggested the US government could do an end run around the First Amendment through strict “regulations” in order to suppress “hate speech” and “misinformation” online.
Both the CBS News host and NYT reporter Cecilia Kang said the US should look to countries like Australia, New Zealand, Germany and India — which do not have free speech — as models for suppressing free speech on the internet. Continue reading “CBS News, NYT Reporter Suggest U.S. Scrap Free Speech In Favor Of New Zealand-Style Censorship”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
As TFTP previously reported, horrifying surveillance footage was released showing multiple police officers aggressively assaulting and torturing a disabled man in his front yard after they dragged him from his home during a welfare check. That footage has led to the arrest of three police officers, one of whom was arrested again for beating a teenager as well.
The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IABC) charged officers Brad McLeod, John Patrick Edney, and Florian Hilgar for unlawful assault and assault with a weapon for beating the disabled man. Continue reading “Cops Charged After Video Shows Them Pull Disabled Man From His Home, Torture Him in Front Yard”
The year 2019 has seen a significant increase in the number of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem who have had to demolish their own home, or part of it, after having built it without a permit. The residents elect this path in order to avoid paying the city thousands of dollars they would have been billed, had municipal authorities carried out the demolition. Fifteen residential homes were demolished by their owners in East Jerusalem from the beginning of the year until 31 March 2019, along with parts of two other homes, a store, and a car repair shop. The demolitions left 69 people, 40 of them minors, homeless. Continue reading ““Self-destruction”: Palestinians in East Jerusalem forced to demolish own homes”
Federal prosecutors have been dropping child pornography cases for years in an effort to avoid scrutiny of the software used to bring the charges, a report by ProPublica has found. The Department of Justice’s actions raise questions about the accuracy and legality of their methods.
ProPublica has “found more than a dozen cases since 2011 that were dismissed either because of challenges to the software’s findings, or the refusal by the government or the maker to share the computer programs with defense attorneys, or both,” according to an April 3 report. Continue reading “US Prosecutors Dropping Child Porn Cases to Protect Monitoring Software”
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a television interview on Wednesday that the United States was prepared to take military action to stem the ongoing turmoil in Venezuela.
“Military action is possible. If that’s what’s required, that’s what the United States will do,” Mr Pompeo said in an interview with Fox Business Network, but added that the United States would prefer a peaceful transition of power in Venezuela. Continue reading “US says military intervention ‘possible’ in Venezuela as Guaido calls for massive May Day protest”
The Vaccine Reaction – by Barbara Loe Fisher
Today, parents whose children have been injured by vaccines are being demonized and discriminated against for speaking publicly about what happened to their children after vaccination.1 There is no other minority in America being subjected to public humiliation and censorship for simply speaking the truth.2 Continue reading “No Mercy for Mothers Or Their Vaccine Injured Children”
At Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on his visit to Israel, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said America’s gun problem and rising anti-Semitism must be dealt with simultaneously and head on:
Four months after his city experienced the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history, in which a gunman killed 11 congregants and wounded six during Saturday prayers at the Tree of Life Synagogue, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto says city residents and the local Jewish community will not be broken, but warns a similar incident could happen again in the future. Continue reading “Pittsburgh Mayor Conflates Gun Control with Stopping Antisemitism”