My San Antonio – by Chris Quinn, Emilie Eaton, and Silvia Foster-Frau

A veteran San Antonio police was shot and killed before noon Sunday while performing a routine traffic stop near police headquarters downtown, officials said, prompting a citywide search for the gunman.

SAPD Chief William McManus said the shooting occurred on the south side of SAPD headquarters, at 11:45 a.m. where the officer, identified as Detective Benjamin Marconi, was issuing a traffic citation. As he did so, a black vehicle pulled up behind the officer’s unit.   Continue reading “SAPD officer shot, killed near police HQ downtown”

CBS Boston

BOSTON (CBS) — As the holiday bustle picks up, so does law enforcement awareness.

Sources tell CBS News the FBI is alerting police across the country about a potential terrorist attack around Thanksgiving.

It specifically warns of homegrown terrorists. Potential targets? Shopping malls, special events, crowded venues–locations in Washington, D.C. and Virginia described as target-rich zones. ISIS’s magazine called New York City’s Macy’s Parade an excellent target.   Continue reading “FBI Warns Of Thanksgiving Terror Potential; Walsh Says No Specific Threat To Boston”

Fars News Agency

TEHRAN (FNA)- Director-General of the Syria Coroner’s Office Hossein Noufel disclosed that the body organs of thousands of Syrian civilians have been sold in the international black markets over the past six years.

“We have accurate information that over 25,000 surgical operations have been conducted in the refugee camps of the neighboring countries and in the terrorist-controlled areas in Syria since 2011 to take out the body organs of 15,000 Syrians and sell them in the international black markets,” Dr. Noufel said.

Continue reading “Coroner’s Office: Body Organs of Over 15,000 Syrians Sold in 6 Years”

Global Research – by Tom Cahil

In a stunning move, President Obama has announced he won’t allow any oil and gas leases on land deemed sacred by the Blackfeet Tribe.

After the announcement, Devon Energy, which was hoping to drill on 130,000 acres in Montana — some of which housed Glacier National Park and Blackfeet land — will have all of its oil and gas leases cancelled on the disputed land. The Bureau of Land Management had previously granted 15 leases to Devon Energy in the northwestern part of the Big Sky State.   Continue reading “Obama just Cancelled Oil and Gas Drilling on sacred Blackfeet Land”

ZD Net – by Zack Whittaker for Zero Day

It’s 2016 going on 1984.

The UK has just passed a massive expansion in surveillance powers, which critics have called “terrifying” and “dangerous”.

The new law, dubbed the “snoopers’ charter”, was introduced by then-home secretary Theresa May in 2012, and took two attempts to get passed into law following breakdowns in the previous coalition government.   Continue reading “Britain has passed the ‘most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy’”

Global Research – by Ellen Brown

Donald Trump was an outsider who boldly stormed the citadel of Washington DC and won. He has promised real change, but his infrastructure plan appears to be just more of the same – privatizing public assets and delivering unearned profits to investors at the expense of the people. He needs to try something new; and for this he could look to Abraham Lincoln, whose bold solution was very similar to one now being considered in Europe: just print the money. 

In Donald Trump’s victory speech after the presidential election, he vowed:   Continue reading “Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Another Privatization Firesale? Lincoln Had a Bolder Solution”

Global Research – by Peter Koenig

The elections may have been rigged, probably by both sides, as the elusive elite, or what’s also called the ’Deep State’, may be divided. It looks like the better ‘rigger’ emerged as the winner. The final popular vote count indicates a slight advantage of Hillary over Trump. Never mind, the system was purposefully designed un-democratically in the 18th Century by the Founding Fathers, who never really had the intention to create a truly democratic United States of America of equal rights for all.

The current electoral system favors vote manipulation especially in Swing States, where popular votes can relatively easily be suppressed or switched by an electronic ‘glitch’.   Continue reading “President-Elect Donald Trump and “The Deep State”: Vote Rigging by Both Sides… Key Appointments”

WSWS – by Tom Carter

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has unleashed a series of tweets calling for a “state of emergency” to be declared and for the ongoing anti-Trump protests to be violently “quelled” by the military.

On Friday, Clarke wrote on Twitter: “How to stop riots. 1) Declare state of emergency. 2) Impose early curfew. 3) Mobilize Nat Guard. 4) Authorize ALL non lethal force. 5) Tear gas [sic].”   Continue reading “Trump’s candidate for Homeland Security chief calls for suppression of anti-Trump protests”

Reuters

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for greater cooperation among nations in developing and governing the internet, while reiterating the need to respect so-called “cyber sovereignty”.

Speaking at an internet conference in Wuzhen, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, Xi and propaganda chief Liu Yunshan signaled a willingness to step up China’s role in global internet governance, seeking to rectify “imbalances” in the way standards across cyberspace are set.   Continue reading “China’s Xi urges cooperation among nations in governance of global internet”

Dissident Voice – by Mina Hamilton

Two days after the election, the New York Times ran a feel-good editorial.  It was called “Being American in the Trump Years.”  The basic message?  Let’s bury our hatchets, all work together and assure a peaceful transfer of power.  Hey, it’s a democracy.  Way down in the text were the words: “Trump owes nothing to the traditional powers in his party — not the Koch brothers, not the leadership in Congress.”

Really?  Trump owes nothing to the Koch brothers?  That’s a statement the veracity of which can’t be tested – unless Donald releases his tax returns (which, of course, is not going to happen).  The assertion also rests on the words of Charles and David Koch and those of Donald Trump.  Not words one can necessarily trust.   Continue reading “Keep Your Eyes on Pence”

Press TV

Thousands of students across the United States have marched out of their schools to protest against Donald Trump and his election as the 45th American president.

Leaving their classrooms by the hundreds on Monday, the students took to the streets across several cities in California, Maryland and Oregon while carrying anti-Trump signs and flags.   Continue reading “US Students Leave Schools To Join Anti-Trump Protests”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

Illegal immigrants are preparing to ask President Obama to pardon some 750,000 illegal immigrant Dreamers, saying it’s their last, best hope to stave off what they fear will be a wave of deportations once Donald Trump takes office.

Community leaders have planned a rally in New York on Wednesday to make the request.   Continue reading “Illegals demand Obama issue mass pardons, last-ditch effort to stop Trump deportations”

Washington Post – by Juliet Eilperin and Greg Jaffe

ATHENS — President Obama warned Tuesday that Americans and people around the world “are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism, or ethnic identity, or tribalism” taking root amid the populist movements that are gaining currency around the world.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras by his side, Obama refrained from criticizing President-elect Donald Trump directly as he discussed the impact of his electoral victory last week. But the president made it clear that he sees a dark side to the kind of populist movements Trump’s campaign embodied — ideals that other conservative leaders are advocating in Europe and elsewhere.   Continue reading “Obama warns against ‘a crude sort of nationalism’ taking root in the U.S.”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady on Tuesday said Republicans should defend free trade and the party should defend the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the new Congress.

“Republicans are going to continue to support the freedom to trade,” the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said.   Continue reading “Top tax-writing Republican says TPP trade deal not dead in Congress”

KGW – by Kyle Iboshi

PORTLAND, Ore. — More than half of the anti-Trump protesters arrested in Portland didn’t vote in Oregon, according to state election records.

At least sixty-nine demonstrators either didn’t turn in a ballot or weren’t registered to vote in the state.   Continue reading “More than half of arrested anti-Trump protesters didn’t vote in Oregon”

This article provides a great breakdown of voter numbers.

Anti-Media – by Nick Bernabe

“Nobody for President, that’s my campaign slogan,” Nick Cannon asserted in “Too Broke to Vote,” his viral criticism of the American electoral process from March of this year. Now, it turns out nobody for president won the 2016 election in a landslide.

According to new voter turnout statistics from the 2016 election, 47 percent of Americans voted for nobody, far outweighing the votes cast for Trump (25.5 percent) and Hillary (25.6 percent) by eligible voters.   Continue reading “Actually, ‘Nobody’ Won the 2016 Presidential Election — and It Was a Landslide”