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President Obama made a foolish decision to not welcome China in the formation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
It was ludicrous for Obama to leave China out of things. China is the second biggest economy in the world, third if you treat the EU as a block. Continue reading “Australia Snubs Obama, Dumps TPP, Opts for China-Sponsored Trade Deal”
York Daily Record – by Ted Czech, Teresa Boeckel, and Gordon Rago
York County Coroner Pam Gay has conducted an autopsy of the driver who attempted to crush a Pennsylvania State Trooper on I-83 on Tuesday.
Rasheem Singletary, a 25-year-old male from Petersburg, Virginia, was killed after he fled from the trooper, who stopped him on I-38 South near mile marker 24, the Emigsville exit, for a traffic violation around 1:15 p.m. Continue reading “Trooper dragged, kills suspect on I-83”
Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — A California school district recently sent a letter to homeschooling parents implying that they must use the controversial Common Core curriculum in order to comply with state law.
The letter originated from the Morongo Unified School District’s child welfare and attendance coordinator. Continue reading “School District Pressures Homeschoolers To Teach Common Core”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Macomb County, MI — A local news company’s investigation into a young mother’s tragic in-custody death has uncovered disturbing details and exposes, at best, criminal negligence, and, at worst, deliberate torture.
When she was thrown in jail, 37-year-old Jennifer Meyers hadn’t physically hurt anyone. Meyers had fallen behind on her child support payments and instead of allowing this mother to keep working to actually help her children, a judge threw her in a cage for 30 days. She would only last 12 of those days. Continue reading “Deputies Do Nothing as Young Mother Dies in Jail Begging for Help — Serving 30-Days for Late Payments”
Cannabis is now legal in a majority of states in the US, but the federal agencies are still doing what they can to limit the freedoms of cannabis users.
Even though the US Department of Health and Human Services holds a patent on the the use of cannabinoids for medical treatment, Patent No. 6630507: “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants”, cannabis is still classified as a Schedule 1 controlled substance which, according to the FDA and DEA, means that it has no approved medical use and has a high potential for abuse. Continue reading “Feds Warn Gun Dealers to Stop Sales to Suspected Cannabis Users”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is looking forward to working with President-elect Donald Trump on “the twin interests of peace and security.”
“I, for one, find great encouragement in the fact that there’s this continuity of friendship,” Netanyahu said. Continue reading “Netanyahu: Looking Forward To Working With Trump On Twin Interests Of Peace, Security”
Authorities have arrested a man accused of dragging a woman out of her car after their vehicles crashed in northern Virginia and raping her during a two-hour attack.
Roberto Carlos Flores Sibrian, 26, was arrested last Thursday at a construction site in Sanford, North Carolina, the Stafford County Sherriff’s Office said in a statement. Continue reading “Woman ‘raped after an illegal immigrant crashed his car into her vehicle and ran her off the road’”
New York Post – by Marisa Schultz
WASHINGTON – Sen. Charles Schumer was elected Senate Minority Leader Wednesday and pledged Democrats have heard the message of the American people that it’s time to change a “rigged” system.
In one of his first moves, Schumer promoted independent Sen. Bernie Sanders to join the leadership team to continue championing his progressive revolt against income equality and special interests. Continue reading “Democrats elect Chuck Schumer as Senate minority leader”
Bloomberg – by Jennifer Jacobs
President-elect Donald Trump is considering nominating Texas Senator Ted Cruz to serve as U.S. attorney general, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Cruz, 45, was at Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday. When approached by reporters on his way out, Cruz said the election was a mandate for change but didn’t say he was under consideration for a job. Continue reading “Ted Cruz Considered by Trump for Attorney General”
The establishment media is dying. This is not a biased view coming from “alternative media,” it is a fact borne out by metrics and opinion polls from within the establishment itself. It was true before the recent election, and is guaranteed to accelerate after their shameless defense of non-reality which refused to accept any discontent among the American population with standard politics.
Now, with egg on their face after the botched election coverage, and a wobbling uncertainty about how they can maintain multiple threads of a narrative so fundamentally disproven, they appear to be resorting to their nuclear option: a full shut down of dissent. Continue reading “Establishment Media Declares War On Their Competition As “Fake News””
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Aleppo, Syria – Many Americans have a hard time understanding how sanctions are an act of war, since they are guarded from the consequences of sanctions that their government carries out against other nations.
According to a survey conducted in the midst of the first war in Iraq, it was determined that 4% of Iraq’s population, a total of roughly a half million people, died as a result of US sanctions. The sanctions made it impossible for people to get clean water and decent food, creating a body count that seems “natural” and is not often considered an official casualty of war. Continue reading “US Sanctions Forcing Syrian Children with Cancer to Suffer and Die By Denying them Food & Medicine”
Two members of the US Electoral College are openly campaigning against President-elect Donald Trump, trying to persuade other presidential electors to keep him from entering the White House, according to a new report.
State electors Bret Chiafolo of Washington and Michael Baca of Colorado have launched what they call “Moral Electors” movement, a last-ditch effort against the New York billionaire, Politico reported on Monday. Continue reading “Members of US Electoral College lobbying against Trump: Report”
The Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish
Julian Assange cautioned all of us a while back, in the vein of revelations similar to those provided by Edward Snowden, that Google — the insidious search engine with a reputation for powering humanity’s research — plays the dark hand role in furthering U.S. imperialism and foreign policy agendas.
Now, as the Wikileaks founder faces days of questioning by a Swedish special prosecutor over rape allegations inside his Ecuadorian Embassy haven in London today — and particularly in wake of the presidential election — Assange’s warning Google “is not what it seems” must be revisited. Continue reading “Julian Assange — ‘Google is Not What it Seems’ — They ‘Do Things the CIA Cannot’”
The elite are building a massive underground city being referred to as a “luxury community” outside Dallas, Texas called “Trident Lakes”.
Via the local CBS affiliate there:
An investor group is planning for a doomsday scenario by building a $300 million luxury community replete with underground homes. There will also be air-lock blast doors designed for people worried about a dirty bomb or other disaster and off-grid energy and water production.
Continue reading “Elites Are Building a Massive Underground City, Ahem “Luxury Community,” in Texas”
One of the more perplexing theories to emerge explaining the failure of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, is that popular news curators and aggregators such as Google and Facebook had distributed news created by “fake” and “false” websites, thus influencing public opinion. So, in an attempt to curb such websites, a move some consider tantamount to censorship, Google and Facebook announced measures aimed at halting the spread of “fake news” on the internet by targeting how the creators of this alleged “phony content” make money: advertising. Continue reading “Google Will Punish “Fake News” Websites By Halting Ads”
GrubHub CEO Matt Maloney recently caused a stir over an email to employees expressing his opinions on the 2016 US presidential election.
As Matt Weinberger previously reported for Business Insider, Maloney wrote: “While demeaning, insulting and ridiculing minorities, immigrants and the physically/mentally disabled worked for Mr. Trump, I want to be clear that this behavior — and these views, have no place at GrubHub. Had he worked here, many of his comments would have resulted in his immediate termination.” Continue reading “Yes, you can be fired for expressing your political views at work”
An Israeli ministerial committee has approved a draft bill to allow settlers in the occupied West Bank to remain in homes built on private Palestinian land. The country’s attorney-general said the bill is legally flawed.
The bill was okayed unanimously on Sunday, and states that the Israeli government could confiscate land in exchange for compensation.
The vote is believed to be aimed at avoiding the evacuation of the Amona settlement in the West Bank by December 25 ordered by the country’s Supreme Court. Continue reading “Israeli ministers okay draft bill to legalize Jewish settlements on private Palestinian land”
While Donald Trump was winning the day nationally on November 8, voters in Kansas and Indiana were enshrining that hunting and fishing are constitutional rights.
The Wichita Eagle reports that an overwhelming majority of voters supported amending the Kansas constitution to include a right to hunt and fish. The push to do so arose after lawmakers watched anti-hunting activists in other states use lawsuits to diminish hunting or do away with certain hunts altogether. Continue reading “Hunting, Fishing Recognized as Constitutional Rights in Kansas, Indiana”
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- It was winter, and our 2 year old had an earache. Even though both my wife and I are doctors, she’s always insisted that our children see the pediatrician when they’re sick.
I was working the swing shift, so daytime sick call fell to me.
Fortunately, the pediatrician was able to see him right away, and neither of us were surprised when her exam revealed an ear infection. I thanked her for her time, and after a brief chat, headed over to the pharmacy with my son in tow to pick up the antibiotic she had prescribed. Continue reading “Universal Background Checks for Everything!”
Hillary Clinton blamed FBI director James Comey for her stunning defeat in Tuesday’s presidential election in a conference call with her top campaign funders on Saturday, according to two participants who were on the call.
Clinton was projected by nearly every national public opinion poll as the heavy favorite going into Tuesday’s race. Instead, Republican Donald Trump won the election, shocking many throughout the nation and prompting widespread protests. Continue reading “Clinton blames FBI’s Comey for her defeat in call with donors”