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Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As another “migrant caravan” has swelled to more than 4,000 hopeful “asylum seekers” marching toward the US’s southern border, recently prompting the Mexican government to dispatch 500 additional border guards to its border with Guatemala, President Trump threatened to send in the military and close the US’s southern border with Mexico in a tweet Thursday morning, after threatening to withhold aid from Honduras earlier in the week.   Continue reading “Trump Vows To Send Millitary, Close Southern Border To Block Migrants”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

An estimated 2,500 – 3,000 Honduran migrants crossed into Guatemala on Monday for a second northbound trek to the US border in six months, following a tense standoff with police in riot gear.   Continue reading “3,000 Hondurans Make New Run For US Border; Trump Threatens To Cut Aid If Not Stopped”

Boing Boing

Christopher Sadowski is, his lawyers submit, a most accomplished photographer of… Hitler admirer Heath Campbell? The New York-based shooter is threatening to sue the website Something Awful over a photo of the nazi spotted in its forums unless they pay $6750.    Continue reading “Something Awful receives legal threat over hotlinked image of Hitler fan”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Thousands of demonstrators, including celebrity “feminists” like Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski, descended on Capitol Hill Thursday to protest Trump SCOTUS pick Judge Brett Kavanaugh after the FBI once again found no evidence of sexual misconduct in the SCOTUS nominee’s past. Their concerns were promptly ignored by the Senate, which is planning to hold a confirmation vote for Kavanaugh as soon as tomorrow. But in response to the revelation that several of the professional activists, including the two young women who accosted Senator Jeff Flake last week, were exposed as “employees” of a non-profit organization funded by George Soros, President Trump has weighed in on Twitter, blasting the “elevator screamers” in a tweet that was essentially red meat for his base.  Continue reading “Trump Slams Protesting “Elevator Screamers”: ‘They’re Paid For By Soros’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The Associated Press (AP) has revealed a troubling story of the largest ever homeless encampment site mostly made up of Native Americans has quickly erected just south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

City officials are scrambling to contain the situation as two deaths in recent weeks, concerns about disease and infection, illicit drug use and the coming winter season, have sounded the alarm of a developing public health crisis.  Continue reading ““Largest Ever Homeless Camp” Suddenly Appears In Minneapolis”

The New Observer

More than 754,700 immigrants became U.S. citizens during President Donald Trump’s second year in office, the highest number since 2013—and the vast majority of them come from just three countries, Mexico, India, and China.

According to a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) quoted by the SFGate news service, the latest figures “followed slumping citizenship numbers during fiscal 2017, a period that includes the president’s first nine months in office, and mounting frustration from advocates who fear that the government’s ‘extreme vetting’ will prevent people from becoming citizens in time to vote in the November midterms.”  Continue reading “US Gains 754,700 New Citizens in 2017—Majority from Mexico, India, and China”

The New Observer

In what has been described as an “unprecedented gift of executive power to Israel,” the US Congress has passed for the very first time a law that forces the American president to give Israel a minimum of $3.8 billion per year—without limitation and no matter what Israel does.

Passed by the House of Representatives on September 12, 2018, the “United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018” rolls back any limitations that the US places on the amount of “aid” American taxpayers must hand over to Israel.   Continue reading “New US Law Obliges Americans to Pay Unlimited Billions to Israel”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Less than an hour after CNN reported that two envelopes tainted with the deadly poison ricin had been intercepted at a Pentagon Mail Facility (the pieces of mail were addressed to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Navy Admiral John Richardson), the Weekly Standard reported that an envelope containing a “white powdery substance” was received by Ted Cruz’s Houston campaign headquarters.

Multiple fire trucks and at least one hazmat truck responded to the scene after the letter was opened by campaign staff, who promptly reported it to authorities.   Continue reading “2 Hospitalized After ‘White Powdery Substance’ Discovered At Ted Cruz Campaign Office”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The FBI has refused to declassify 37 pages of materials related to the Uranium One deal, citing national security and the privacy issues, reports The Hill‘s John Solomon. The documents are thought to contain information regarding then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s involvement, as well as the Obama administration’s knowledge of the controversial deal.

The existence of the documents became known after a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) release of related material contained an entry entitled “Uranium One Transaction.” The publicly available portion includes benign material, such as public letters from members of Congress who demanded information on the Uranium One approval.    Continue reading “Uranium One: FBI Refuses To Release Three-Dozen Secret Memos Involving Clintons, Russia And Obama”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While Trump wasted no time in taking a victory lap for his “historic” new trade deal between Canada and the US, which was (literally) struck in the 11th hour on September 30 to save the North American Free Trade Agreement, henceforth called USMCA (even though it is called NAFTA 2018 in the legal document), and which saw Canada joining the previously reached US-Mexico agreement, there has been some confusion about what’s in it.  Continue reading “Here’s What Inside Trump’s “Historic” Trade Deal With Canada And Mexico”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told Vanity Fair last month. “I was devastated” he said while going through a litany of harmful and dangerous developments of the past three decades of the web.

That’s why “the Father of the World Wide Web” has launched a start-up that intends to end the dominance of Facebook, Google, and Amazon, while in the process letting individuals take back control of their own data.   Continue reading “Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet”

Conservative Review – by Daniel Horowitz

Republicans have controlled the House of Representatives, the body closest to the people and the one that is run with a simple majority, for 20 of the past 24 years. Yet they’ve done nothing with it. Now, in the waning days of their control of the House, alongside a Republican president, they are spending their time passing dozens of banal “suspension” bills, agreeing to the liberal lie on the opioid crisis, and passing a budget with priorities on abortion, immigration, and spending that are indistinguishable from anything that would be signed into law by a President Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, or, yes, Michael Avenatti.  Continue reading “What your GOP Congress did while you were distracted”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Roughly a week after Axios published a leak claiming that President Trump was preparing to launch a new “broadside” against China that would tie “Russia and China” together, the substance of this mysterious hint has finally been revealed.

During remarks before the UN Security Council (the US, one of five permanent members, assumed the chairmanship this year) Trump accused China of launching election interference efforts similar to those purportedly orchestrated by Russia. China’s goal, Trump said, was to stop him from winning reelection in 2020.   Continue reading “Trump Accuses China Of Interfering With US Election”