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Flu season arrived early, the virus is now active across the country and 2.6 million people have already fallen ill, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday.
The CDC now expects that the season will peak in late December – unusually early for the annual pandemic. Continue reading “Flu sweeps the US early: 1,300 have already died as a ‘weird’ strain of the virus could signal a dangerous season for kids that will last longer than usual”
The exodus of people from Venezuela is about to surpass the gravity of that of Syrians, becoming the “largest and most underfunded” refugee crisis in modern history, according to a study the Brookings Institute published this week.
In one of the most authoritative studies on the issue, the institute found that a staggering 4.6 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2015, equivalent to around 16 percent of the country’s population. Continue reading “Venezuela’s Refugee Crisis to Surpass Syria, ‘Largest in Modern History’”
WASHINGTON — The American government secretly expelled two Chinese Embassy officials this fall after they drove on to a sensitive military base in Virginia, according to people with knowledge of the episode. The expulsions appear to be the first of Chinese diplomats suspected of espionage in more than 30 years. Continue reading “U.S. Secretly Expelled Chinese Officials Suspected of Spying After Breach of Military Base”
New Orleans is the latest city to fall victim to a cyberattack, although it appears to have fared better than some of its peers. The city both declared a state of emergency and shut down most of its computers after detecting suspicious activity, including ransomware and a flurry of phishing emails. It’s not clear if the ransomware compromised any systems, although Mayor LaToya Cantrell said that there had been no ransom requests or evidence of employees being tricked into handing over login details. Continue reading “New Orleans declares state of emergency following cyberattack”
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, hotel clerk Joe Luis Rubio never thought he’d be trying to communicate in Portuguese on a daily basis.
But with hundreds of Brazilians crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, each week, the Motel 6 by the airport has become a stepping stone for thousands of the Portuguese speakers on a 6,000-mile (9,500 km) journey from Brazil to El Paso to America’s East Coast. Continue reading “Brazilians arrive in waves at the US-Mexico border”
National Justice – by Paul Mieczysław
The history of PiS (Law & Justice party) is almost entirely unknown outside of Poland. During the final year of communism the “round table talks” were held at Magdalenka, a small village near Warsaw, in 1989. The participants have controlled Poland since, regardless of whether they are on the right or on the left. Many Poles believe they conspired at these talks to share power over the country indefinitely while excluding nationalistic right-wing parties like Konfederacja. There are rumors that many of these participants, including the Kaczyńskis, are freemasons, but this is largely speculation. Continue reading “Law & Justice: The Zionist Offensive Against Poland”
Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins
Kentucky Democrats are pushing gun and magazine bans, and numerous other gun controls, for Gov.-elect Andy Beshear (D) to sign upon assuming office.
The various gun controls are listed as prefilings on the Kentucky General Assembly website, and include a ban on the possession of “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines. The controls also include gun storage requirements, criminalization of private gun sales via universal background checks, and a repeal of permitless carry. Continue reading “KY Democrats File Gun Bans, Carry Restrictions for Incoming Gov. to Sign”
Michael Cohen says he has been left disbarred, financially crushed, and personally embarrassed and humiliated after being sentenced to three years in prison for bank fraud and other crimes. He says he regrets that he thought “being Donald Trump’s lawyer made him a ‘big man.’”
Cohen, the disgraced former lawyer and fixer for Trump, made the comments in a letter to a federal judge Wednesday in which he portrayed himself as a broken man and asked the court to allow him to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement. Continue reading “Michael Cohen, Broken and Humiliated, Asks for Leniency From Prison”
Nearly all House Democrats, plus a group of 34 Republicans, voted Wednesday to approve an amnesty for illegal farmworkers and to outsource more of the nation’s farm workforce to cheap H-2A visa workers.
The bill, H.R. 5038, would likely amnesty more than a million illegal aliens, and it also subsidizes farm companies that hire more H-2A visa workers instead of hiring Americans. Continue reading “House Approves Farmworker Amnesty, Promotes Visa Workers over Americans”
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials report a recent increase in the number of migrants from Africa being apprehended after illegally crossing from Mexico.
“During last summer, Del Rio Sector experienced an increase in arrests of people from countries in Africa,” Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Raul L. Ortiz said in a written statement. “These arrests decreased beginning in about August, but starting this fiscal year we have seen a resurgence in this demographic.” Continue reading “African Migrant Apprehensions at Texas Border on Rise”
Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard
Illegal and visiting immigrants give birth to enough children in the United States every year to top the populations of St. Louis, Pittsburgh, or Anaheim, and at least 33,000 are considered “birth tourists” eager to win their children birthright citizenship and themselves a quick ticket in, according to two new reports out Thursday. Continue reading “372,000 born to immigrants every year, 33,000 to ‘tourists’”
The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton
Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say local police who do not enforce gun control measures likely to pass in Virginia should face prosecution and even threats of the National Guard.
After November’s Virginia Legislature elections that led to Democrats taking control of both chambers, the gun control legislation proposed by some Democrats moved forward, including universal background checks, an “assault weapons” ban, and a red flag law. Continue reading “VA Democrats threaten prosecution and National Guard for police who fail to enforce pending gun control legislation”
Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive over to make Jews on college campuses a “protected class” and allow the federal government to pull funding from colleges who don’t “love Israel” enough. Continue reading “Trump Signs Executive Order to Punish Critics Of Israel With Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyer By His Side”
Two Navy instructor pilots told Fox News the December 6, 2019, Pensacola attacker had 10 minutes without armed resistance in which to carry out his horrific work.
Fox News reports those pilots are among a group of instructors who are asking military brass to allow them to carry guns for self-defense. Continue reading “Sources: Pensacola Attacker Had 10 Minutes Without Armed Resistance”
Only six guns were surrendered on the first day of a Philadelphia “no questions asked” gun turn-in program over the weekend — yet KYW-TV said organizers are pleased with the results. Continue reading “Only six guns surrendered on first day of Philly gun turn-in program — yet organizers are reportedly pleased”
The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered a broad review of vetting procedures for international students who participate in training on U.S. military installations and demanded the process be strengthened, in direct reaction to last week’s deadly shooting at a Pensacola Navy base by a Saudi aviation student.
The memo signed by Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist also suspends flight and other operational training for all Saudi Arabian students in U.S. military programs. It follows a decision by the U.S. Navy to halt flight training for more than 300 Saudi Arabian students at the Pensacola Naval Air Station and two other bases in Florida. Continue reading “Pentagon orders review of international student vetting”
The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notice after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and killed three people last week at a base in Florida.
The decision will have far-reaching impacts on visiting Saudi personnel, including grounding more than 300 Saudi Arabian military aviation students as part of a “safety stand-down,” first reported by Reuters earlier on Monday. Continue reading “US grounds Saudi pilots, halts military training after base shooting”
A naval air station in Texas was locked down Wednesday after an armed person who was later taken into custody was reported on base, officials said.
Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi was locked down Wednesday morning and those on base were told to shelter in place, but that order was lifted later in the morning. Spokeswoman Francoise “Fifi” Kieschnick told the Corpus Christi Caller Times that an armed suspect was reported to be near building 8 on the base. Continue reading “Suspect Arrested After Lockdown at Naval Station in Corpus Christi”