Breitbart – by Penny Starr

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) wants to end the circulation of the state-run China Daily to members of Congress, a vehicle used to spread propaganda about the country’s communist regime and its ongoing human rights abuses.

“Xi Jinping hopes China Daily will muddy American lawmakers’ understanding of his policies,” Banks told Breitbart News. “All of Congress must fully grasp the way the Chinese Communist Party’s brutalizes its own citizens and subverts the U.S.” Continue reading “Lawmaker Urges Hearing on Circulation of Communist Propaganda Vehicle ‘China Daily’ to Congress”

Guardian – by Carole Cadwalladr

An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million Facebook profiles.

More than 100,000 documents relating to work in 68 countries that will lay bare the global infrastructure of an operation used to manipulate voters on “an industrial scale” is set to be released over the next months.  Continue reading “Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’”

Breitbart – by John Binder

No one country has sent more of its nationals to the United States over the last decade than China, newly released Census Bureau data reveals.

Between 2018 and 2019, China replaced Mexico as the largest sending country of foreign-born immigrants to the U.S. over the last decade. In 2006, more Mexican nationals arrived in the U.S. than Chinese, Indians, and Canadians combined.  Continue reading “Census: China Sending More Immigrants to U.S. than Any Other Country”

Breitbart – by Kurt Zindulka

In its annual list of ‘Heroes and Villains’, a UK based polling company found that a plurality of people in Britain think United States President Donald Trump is the world’s biggest villain, beating out the likes of Jeremy Corbyn and Jeffrey Epstein.

For the fourth consecutive year, President Donald Trump has topped a poll of the UK public’s list top ‘villains’, with 39 per cent of those surveyed saying that the American president is the world’s biggest villain, though that is eight points down from last year.  Continue reading “Poll: Brits List Trump as 2019’s Top ‘Villain’ over Corbyn and Jeffrey Epstein”

Breitbart – by Deborah Danan

TEL AVIV — Israel, Greece, and Cyprus signed a historic agreement Thursday for the Eastern Mediterranean project that will see Israeli gas delivered to Europe via an undersea pipeline, overturning Turkey’s efforts to thwart the deal.

The accord was signed in Athens at a trilateral summit between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades. Continue reading “Netanyahu Signs Pipeline Deal: ‘Israel Is Becoming an Energy Superpower’”

Breitbart – by Joshua Caplan

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed legislation aimed at ending the backlog of rape kits nationwide.

Presently, at least 100,000 rape kits are untested in the U.S. and are likely to remain so without adequate funding to test DNA in a timely fashion.  Continue reading “Donald Trump Signs Law to End Rape Kit Testing Backlog”

Caitlin Johnstone

Start over in the new year. Also, start over at any other time during the rest of the year, whenever you want, as often as you like. Time is an illusion anyway.

I cannot assure you that things will get better in the ’20s. I can’t assure you that they’ll get worse, either. What I can absolutely guarantee is that things are going to keep getting weirder and weirder. At this point in time the only reliable pattern is the disintegration of patterns.  Continue reading “Happy 2020: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

Border Patrol agents apprehended more than four million migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico during the past 10 fiscal years. If these migrants were placed into a single city, it would be larger than Los Angeles by population.

During the past 10 fiscal years, October 1, 2009, through September 30, 2019, U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the nine sectors that make up the United States’ southwest border with Mexico apprehended 4,318,200 migrants. The highest year during that decade for apprehensions occurred during Fiscal Year 2019 when agents apprehended 851,553 — including 76,020 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and 473,682 Family Unit Aliens (FMUA), according to reports obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Continue reading “4.3M Migrants Caught at SW Border in Decade — More Than Los Angeles Population”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Columnist and George Mason economics Professor Walter E. Williams is warning Virginia residents about Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) gun registry plan.

Northam has been pushing an all-out ban on AR-15s and similar rifles for some time, but he recently changed the scope of the ban in the face of the growing Second Amendment Sanctuary movement. Continue reading “Walter E. Williams Warns Virginia About Gov. Ralph Northam’s Gun Registry Plan”

Breitbart

(AFP) — The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom.

The General Assembly approved the resolution sponsored by Russia and backed by China, which would set up a committee of international experts in 2020.  Continue reading “U.N. Approves China-Backed Internet Convention, Alarming Rights Advocates”

Breitbart – by Kurt Zindulka

In an Orwellian twist of fate, surveillance cameras have been installed at the London gravesite of Karl Marx.

CCTV cameras have been installed in Highgate cemetery around the tomb of the revolutionary socialist writer and author of the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx, in order to protect the grave from vandalism.  Continue reading “Big Brother: Surveillance Cameras Installed at the Grave of Karl Marx”

Daily Mail

A 19-year-old man has been arrested for killing a suspected paedophile priest by ramming a crucifix down his throat and suffocating him.

Alexandre V., who is alleged to have been abused by the priest, attacked the 91-year-old Catholic Roger Matassoli while working at the holy figure’s home in Agnetz, Oise, northern France. Continue reading “Teenager, 19, kills ‘paedophile priest who abused him’ by ramming a crucifix down his throat and suffocating him in France”

Breitbart

Jerusalem (AFP) – Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a “huge” victory Friday, after winning a leadership primary that ensures he will lead his right-wing Likud party into March elections.

Israel’s longest-serving premier, who faces a corruption indictment and a third general election in twelve months, was expected to beat rival Gideon Saar but the convincing margin of victory strengthened his position in the party he has dominated for 20 years. Continue reading “Israel’s Netanyahu wins ruling party leadership vote”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

A report from the NRA-ILA says $250,000 in gun control funding has been added to Virginia’s 2020 Budget Bill.

The NRA-ILA report notes, “Budget Bill HB30 includes an appropriation of a quarter million dollars to carry out a host of gun control measures that Northam and his anti-gun allies hope to enact.” Continue reading “Report: $250,000 in Gun Control Funding Added to Virginia Budget Bill”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency—already accused of being “pesticide cheerleader”—threw its weight behind chemical company Bayer AG on Friday when the agency asked a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court’s ruling in favor of a man who said the company’s Roundup weedkiller was responsible for his cancer.

The case centers on Edwin Hardeman of California, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2015 after using the glyphosate-based pesticide, made by Monsanto, for years on his property. Bayer acquired Monsanto last year. Continue reading “Trump’s EPA Goes to Bat for Bayer as Company Fights $25 Million Verdict in Roundup Cancer Case”