Author: Galen

Daily Mail

Violent attacks against the Jewish community in the United States doubled last year compared to 2016, while overall attacks, including vandalism and harassment remained near record-high levels, according to new data from the Anti-Defamation League.

The Jewish civil rights group released its annual census of anti-Semitic incidents three days after a gunman opened fire at a Southern California synagogue, killing a woman and wounding a rabbi and two others.  Continue reading “Anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S. remain at a near-record high”

NBC 12 – by Courteney Stuart

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) — A big decision in the lawsuit over confederate statues in downtown Charlottesville is likely bad news for the city.

Charlottesville Circuit Judge Richard Moore has ruled that the statues are war monuments, which are protected under state law. That likely means the city doesn’t have the legal right to take them down.  Continue reading “Judges rules Confederate statues are war monuments”

Business Insider – by Aria Bendix

American cities are divided. While a few large, coastal cities have seen their populations grow, economies skyrocket, and major industries expand, other cities in the northeast and Midwest look increasingly like ghost towns.

Go back more than a few decades and that divide wasn’t nearly as stark.  Continue reading “Cities across the US are selling abandoned homes for $1, and it’s a sign that the wealth gap is getting worse”

News Wars – by Dan Lyman

A Los Angeles business owner says she is at her wits’ end as local streets are piled with garbage and flooded with “raw sewage” by homeless people and squatters while lawmakers turn a blind eye.

Karen Hix, a lifelong resident of the area whose family has owned a business in the same location for over 100 years, says transients are being allowed to create a “health crisis” by officials in the sanctuary city.  Continue reading “Los Angeles Business Owner: “Raw Sewage” in Streets Creating “Health Crisis””

Washington Examiner – by Anna Giaritelli

A massive caravan of approximately 10,000 migrants traveling through Mexico in hopes of reaching the United States is expected to arrive in Mexico City this week, according to local media reports on the group’s movements.

The group has been described by Mexico’s Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero as “caravana madre,” which has been widely referred to as the “mother of all caravans” in American media.  Continue reading “‘Mother of all caravans’ heads north: 10K migrants due in Mexico City any day”

This is Tara, she’s an 8 week-old German Shepherd.

I bought Tara as a surprise for my wife, but it turns out she is allergic to dogs so we are now looking to find her a new home.  Continue reading “Great Dog Story”

Press TV

Twenty filmmakers, screenwriters, actors, and film critics have urged film theaters in the United Kingdom to boycott the Israeli film festival Seret, co-organized by the Tel Aviv government, in protest at the Zionist regime’s atrocities against Palestinians.

“We’re shocked and dismayed to see how many mainstream cinemas … are hosting this year’s Israeli film festival, Seret, whose funders and supporters include the Israeli government and a clutch of pro-Israel advocacy organizations,” the cinema professionals said in a letter published by The Guardian on Thursday.  Continue reading “UK cinemas urged to boycott Israeli film festival”

Press TV

British authorities are planning a massive wall at the site of a World War ll memorial to protect US President Donald Trump during his state visit to the location in June as public outrage about the controversial trip continues to grow.

The leader of the local council in the southern English city of Portsmouth revealed on Thursday that authorities will encircle the location of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in the city with two steel layers of security fencing to prevent the public from reaching the site where Trump will be present along the British queen to attend the memorial. Continue reading “UK to build steel wall to protect Trump during visit: Report”

CBC News

The Jewish family that owns a Winnipeg restaurant deny police allegations that they staged an anti-Semitic attack at the establishment last week.

Often in tears and struggling to speak, BerMax Caffé and Bistro owner Oxana Berent pleaded with members of her community not to judge her and her family after police announced they had charged them with public mischief. Continue reading “‘We didn’t do it,’ BerMax Caffé owners insist after police charge them with staging hate crime”

Big League Politics – by Peter D’Abrosca

Catherine Pugh, the Democrat mayor of Baltimore has reportedly fled the state of Maryland amid FBI and IRS raids on her home, and her office in City Hall.

“[N]o one has seen the mayor and her own spokesperson doesn’t know where she is even though she’s supposed to be recovering from pneumonia,” according to WJZ13. “However, a source tells WJZ however Pugh was at her home when the raid began, but has since left the state.”  Continue reading “Baltimore Mayor Flees State Amid Federal Criminal Raids, Report Says”

Times of Israel

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden, a born and raised Roman Catholic who likes to cross himself when making a point, knows what faith he would be if he were ever overcome with doubt about his own.

“If I’m going to switch, I know where I’m going,” the former vice president said in 2016 at an Ohio political event when someone in the audience called him a “mensch.” Biden went on to describe the pile of yarmulkes he had accumulated from attending Jewish events. Continue reading “5 Jewish things to know about Joe Biden”

Global News – by Sam Thompson

An incident at a Corydon Avenue cafe that was originally reported as one of Winnipeg’s worst-ever hate crimes was apparently staged, said police.

Three owners of the BerMax Caffé were arrested Wednesday and charged with public mischief, which involves intent to mislead and causing an officer to investigate an incident based on false information.  Continue reading “‘Worst’ anti-Semitic hate crime at Winnipeg cafe was allegedly faked by owners, say police”

Collective Evolution – by Arjun Walia

Agent Orange studies were mandated by Congress in the 1980s. These studies were headed by Dr. Frank DeStefano, and Dr. Coleen Boyle of the CDC, who are now in charge of vaccine safety studies at the agency.  Frank and Coleen ended the Agent Orange studies two years early, emphasizing that “no link” would be found between illnesses being reported by injured veterans and Agent Orange. The early termination of the study is what allowed the US Department of Veterans Affairs to deny any connection between Agent Orange and medical problems, preventing veterans and their families from qualifying for fair compensation. The Boyle/DeStefano team’s deception was outed by Admiral Zumwalt, who went to the President and laid out the science in a classified report (which has now been declassified):  Continue reading “Vietnam Demands Monsanto Pay Victims of Agent Orange For Cancer & Birth Defects”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It’s being described as “the largest mass execution of Shiites in the kingdom’s history” — and it didn’t take place in an official US enemy country like Assad’s Syria or Putin’s Russia or even North Korea. On Tuesday Saudi Arabia (where else?) beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, the vast majority of which have been identified as minority Shiites in yet another sectarian-driven mass execution.  Continue reading “Saudis Conduct Mass Beheadings Of 37, Mostly Shiites, With Two Crucified”