RT

China has signed a contract to buy 24 Sukhoi Su-35 multipurpose fighter jets from Russia, becoming the first foreign buyer of the advanced warplane, according to manufacturer Rostec. The deal, estimated to be worth $2 billion, is a significant boost to Russia’s arms exports.

“The long negotiation on the Su-35 sale to China has been completed. We have signed a contract,” Sergey Chemezov, the head of the Russian state-owned high-tech giant Rostec, told Kommersant business daily.   Continue reading “China buys 24 advanced Russian Su-35 warplanes in estimated $2bn landmark deal”

RT

Newly released CCTV footage of the terrorist attack on one of the restaurants in Paris has revealed the level of horror and devastation faced by the victims. One woman is seen miraculously escaping from immediately in front of the gunman’s possibly jammed rifle.

The video, released by the Daily Mail, shows a bombardment of bullets flying through the restaurant as people are seated on the patio as well as inside the building.    Continue reading “New Paris attack footage shows restaurant spattered with bullets, woman’s lucky escape”

The Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

According to witness testimony that has been mostly overlooked by the international media, the attackers were described as clean-shaven white men who were driving a brand-new black Mercedes-Benz.

According to the UK’s Mirror, an eyewitness by the name of Mahoud Admo said that he witnessed the initial drive by shooting, and saw the attackers without masks as they passed by in Mercedes-Benz calmly firing machine guns into the crowd.   Continue reading “Witness Says Paris Attackers Were Clean Shaven White Men In A New Mercedes-Benz”

The Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

South Carolina — The Free Thought Project has been covering the murder of 19-year-old Zachary Hammond by Officer Mark Tiller since the incident occurred on July 26th. Three weeks ago the heartbreaking dashcam video was finally released, which shows a maniacal Tiller ruthlessly take the life of this teenager over a suspected bag of weed.

According to the Post and Courier, “the Hammond case was far from unusual” in South Carolina.   Continue reading “Investigation After Cops Kill Unarmed Teen Reveals Epidemic of Motorists Killed by Police”

Reuters

State officials on Wednesday identified the two Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man that has sparked protests and dozens of arrests.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said Minneapolis Police Department Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze were involved in the shooting of Jamar Clark, 24, early Sunday. Both men, on administrative leave during an investigation of the incident, have been police officers for seven years, including 13 months with the city.   Continue reading “Police officers identified in Minneapolis shooting of black man”

RT

Around 500 fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing have been destroyed by Russia’s Air Forces, the General Staff said.

“In recent years, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and other extremist groups have organized the operations of the so-called ‘pipeline on wheels’ on the territories they control,” Russian General Staff spokesman Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov said.   Continue reading “Russian warplanes disrupt ISIS oil sales channels; destroy 500 terrorist oil trucks in Syria”

Free Beacon – by Daniel Wiser

Cuban migrants are inundating Mexico and southern Texas in order to obtain asylum, an indication that Cubans still desire to flee their country after Havana’s normalization of relations with the United States.

Nearly 30,000 Cubans sought asylum in Texas during a one-year period that ended in September, an increase of 80 percent from the previous year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The migrants fear that, as part of the rapprochement between Washington and Havana, U.S. lawmakers and the Obama administration will soon end a longstanding policy—known as the dry foot provision—that offers Cubans a fast track process to securing legal residency and a green card if they enter the United States by land.   Continue reading “Cubans Surge Into Mexico, Southern United States”

CNS News – by Barbara Hollingsworth

“The Common Core is supposed to be improving state standards in education, but its bigger effect has been a comprehensive dumbing down of American education at every level, from kindergarten through graduate school,” Peter Wood, president of theNational Association of  Scholars, said in an interview with CNSNews.com.

Wood is a co-author of Drilling Through the Core: Why Common Core is Bad for American Education,published in September by Pioneer Press. The book includes Wood’s history of the Common Core controversy and critical essays by more than a dozen mathematicians and English scholars.   Continue reading “Author on Common Core: ‘A Comprehensive Dumbing Down of American Education at Every Level’”

RT

Armed officers were deployed to London’s Wembley Stadium during the England v France match in the wake of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, suggesting a new norm in overt, militarized policing.

The presence of armed police signals a sharp rise in the number of officers carrying firearms throughout London as senior officers have expressed concern there are not enough guns in the country to counter a similar terror threat.   Continue reading “UK: ‘Police need more guns,’ say chief officers amid Paris attack security crackdown”

ABC News

Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal has dropped out of the race for the White House, ending a campaign plagued by low polling numbers both nationally and in Iowa, where he had focused most of his 2016 bid.

“I am suspending my campaign for president of the United States,” the Louisiana Governor told Fox News’ Bret Baier. “The reality though is, they told me as a young child, Americans can do anything. I believed them then, I believe them now. But you know, this is not my time. I’ve come to the realization this is not my time.”   Continue reading “Bobby Jindal Drops Out of 2016 Republican Presidential Race”

Reuters

Federal agencies including the Department of Justice will announce on Tuesday criminal and civil actions related to unlawful advertising and sale of dietary supplements.

Shares of dietary supplement makers GNC Holdings Inc were down 24 percent in afternoon trading, while those of Vitamin Shoppe fell nearly 8 percent and Herbalife Ltd 2.5 percent.   Continue reading “DoJ to announce actions against dietary supplement makers”

RT

Israel wants to quash an arrest warrant prepared by a Spanish judge for Benjamin Netanyahu over the deadly 2010 IDF attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that killed ten people.

The Israeli PM and six other former ministers would be arrested if they set foot on Spanish soil.   Continue reading “‘Provocation’: Israel outraged over Spain’s Netanyahu arrest warrant”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Here we go again. 

Count us incredulous at this point (and we’re sure we aren’t the only ones), but it looks as though there has been yet another explosion at a Chinese chemical facility, this time in Liaoning.    Continue reading “Explosion, Fire Reported At Chinese Chemical Factory (Again)”

More Monmouth Musings – by Alex Napoliello

HOWELL — Mayor William Gotto isn’t happy about “absolutely disgusting” comments he said were made on social media about a controversial affordable housing project owned by an Orthodox Jewish group.

In fact, he made his disdain publicly known when he bemoaned at a council meeting on Nov. 9 and in a subsequent letter to residents, riling them even more.     Continue reading “Howell mayor accuses township residents of anti-Semitism”

Armstrong Economics – by Martin Armstrong

Between 1989 and 2010, U.S. attorneys seized an estimated $12.6 billion in asset forfeiture cases. The growth rate during that time averaged +19.4% annually. In 2010 alone, the value of assets seized grew by +52.8% from 2009 and was six times greater than the total for 1989. Then by 2014, that number had ballooned to roughly $4.5 billion for the year, making this 35% of the entire number of assets collected from 1989 to 2010 in a single year. According to the FBI, the total amount of goods stolen by criminals in 2014 burglary offenses suffered an estimated $3.9 billion in property losses. This means that the police are now taking more assets than the criminals.   Continue reading “Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Marksville, LA — More information is coming to light about the two Marksville City Marshals, who ruthlessly shot to death a 6-year-old boy as he was buckled into the back seat of a vehicle.

Officers Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse, Jr. are currently being held, each with a $1 million bail for the murder of Jeremy Mardis and the attempted murder of his father, Chris Few.   Continue reading “Cop Had Been Stalking Man’s Fiancée Before Murdering His 6-year old Son”

Reuters – by Paul Taylor

France and Russia both staged air strikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday as Paris formally requested European Union assistance in its fight against the group behind last Friday’s bloody attacks on the French capital.

French warplanes targeted a command post and a recruitment center for jihadists in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in the second consecutive night of strikes ordered by President Francois Hollande, a military command spokesman told Reuters.   Continue reading “France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked”

Reuters

Six people were killed over the weekend at an east Texas campsite and a suspect has been taken into custody for suspected murder, the Anderson County Sheriff’s office said on Monday.

A man and a woman were found dead in a travel trailer at the crime scene near Palestine, about 170 miles northeast of Austin.   Continue reading “Six killed in Texas campsite incident, suspect in custody”

RT

The Russian plane crash in Sinai, Egypt, was caused by a terrorist attack as traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of the plane, Federal Security Service director Aleksandr Bortnikov told President Vladimir Putin.

“We can say that that [Sinai plane crash] was a terror act,” Bortnikov told Putin. According to the FSB chief, experts analyzed passengers’ belongings as well as the parts of the plane. “After the examination on all these objects, we have found traces of a foreign-made explosive substance,” Bortnikov said.   Continue reading “Russian plane crash in Sinai a terrorist attack – Russian Security Service”