Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Seattle’s city council and mayor seriously considered getting rid of traditional neighborhoods of single family homes in an effort to encourage or pressure people to live in apartments and other types of multi-family housing.

A rejected change to the city’s zoning regulations would have allowed the construction of multi-family housing such as apartments and duplexes in all of the city’s neighborhoods.   Continue reading “A Ban On Single-Family Homes?”

The New American – by Warren Mass

FBI Director James Comey and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson have both expressed concerns about the American SAFE Act of 2015 (H.R. 4038) introduced by the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Representative Mike McCaul (R-Texas). The bill, which would require that background investigations be completed prior to the admission of “certain aliens as refugees,” was passed by the House by a vote of 289-137 on November 19 and sent to the Senate.   Continue reading “FBI Director, DHS Secretary, Oppose House-passed Refugee Screening Bill”

NEO

This was definitely not supposed to happen. It seems that an Israeli military man with the rank of colonel was “caught with IS pants down.” By that I mean he was captured amid a gaggle of so-called IS–or Islamic State or ISIS or DAESH depending on your preference–terrorists, by soldiers of the Iraqi army. Under interrogation by the Iraqi intelligence he apparently said a lot regarding the role of Netanyahu’s IDF in supporting IS.   Continue reading “Israeli Colonel Caught with IS Pants Down”

Sputnik

While authorities in Ankara have insisted that it shot down the Russian Su-24 bomber after the aircraft entered Turkish airspace, the Russian Defense Ministry has released video proving that the plane never left Syrian airspace.

According to a leaked letter written to the UN Security Council by the Turkish Ambassador, Turkey’s military justified the shooting down of a Russian bomber by claiming that the aircraft had entered Turkish airspace for 17 seconds. Continue reading “Russian Defense Ministry Video Proves Su-24 Never Entered Turkish Airspace”

The Saker

SitRep, Auslander goes behind enemy lines

I have just returned from a trip to USA. It matters not why I had to go, it simply suffices to say it was not my choice and it will in all probability be my last journey west baring an emergency that requires my presence. I am getting old and such long journeys are pretty hard in regards to the time and strain of so many hours in flight.   Continue reading “USA SitRep November 21 by Auslander”

Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest discussed “Enhancing National Security” today, and the White House tweeted a video of his comments. The 40-year old Rice University graduate criticized Republicans and insisted that anyone on a terror list should be forbidden from owing guns. He fails to mention the fact that millions of Americans are fraudulently placed on these so-called ‘terrorist lists’ including millions of gun-owning Americans who have never even been charged, much less convicted, of any crime whatsoever.   Continue reading “White House: “There’s no law on the books that prevents someone on a terror list from buying a weapon. It’s time to change that.””

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

Give me liberty, or give me death! 

– Partrick Henry, American Founding Father, 1775

They value their civil liberties more than they value life. I disagree with that. You want to be free and dead? I’d rather be not free and alive

– Billionaire Hillary Clinton donor Haim Saban, 2015   Continue reading ““You Want to Be Free and Dead?” – Billionaire Hillary Clinton Donor Says to Sacrifice Civil Liberties for “Safety””

Op Ed News – by Michael Stumo

The Obama Administration continues its misguided focus on poorly negotiated trade deals, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), while ignoring market distorting factors that are harming U.S. economic growth.

Magnetization, an iron ore producer in Minnesota, announced that it will layoff workers. Cliffs Natural Resources, another Minnesota iron ore producer, will shut down a plant. Alcoa is idling or closing two plants in Washington and New York states due to a recent thirty percent price drop for aluminum. The steel industry in the U.S. is operating at a fraction of its full capacity. However, Alcoa’s production in China and elsewhere will continue.   Continue reading “More U.S. Plants Closing Thanks to Washington’s Trade Negotiators”

Raw Story – Reuters

President Barack Obama launched a defense on Friday of a signature Pacific trade pact kept largely under wraps and said the public would get its say before legislators in each country debate the full details.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a “mega-regional accord” covering four-tenths of global GDP, was so complex it would not have materialized if all interest groups were involved in the protracted talks, he said.   Continue reading “Obama: Now that TPP agreement has been reached — there’s plenty of time for public debate”

Salon – by JARED FLANERY AND BEN NORTON

The State Department devoted itself to, in its own words, “deferring” U.N. action on Israeli war crimes, “reframing the debate” about the atrocities, and “moving away from the U.N.”, according to numerous emails from former Secretary of State HillaryClinton. The messages, some of which are written by high-level State Department officials, expose the role of the U.S. government in undermining the international response to the 2009 United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report — which the U.S. admitted was only “moderate,” but still opposed.   Continue reading “Deferring Justice: Clinton emails show how State Dept. undermined U.N. action on Israeli war crimes”

Stephen Lendman

Netanyahu is taking full advantage of the Paris false flag his government likely was involved in orchestrating.

He and fascist coalition partners are waging terror war on Palestinians, blaming victims like they always do – and now equating defenseless Palestinian men, women, youths and children to ISIS, his latest despicable claim most gullible Israelis likely believe.   Continue reading “Netanyahu Equates Heroic Palestinian Resistance to ISIS Terrorism”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

The US Supreme Court could grant prosecutors the power to stop you from using your own money to hire a defense attorney in a major case the justices are considering.

In Luis v. US, the federal government is arguing it has the power to freeze all of a defendant’s assets, including those not earned through crime.   Continue reading “This Supreme Court Case Soon May Remove Your Right To Hire A Lawyer”

Daily Mail

A man who was convicted of poisoning children on his son’s youth football team in 2000 is now in charge of an entire city’s water supply in Nevada.

Jerome M. Breland is the interim utilities operations manager for North Las Vegas, but state officials are investigating a complaint against him.

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the complaint sent to the Division of Environmental Protection argues that Breland should not have a water operator’s certificate because of the nature of the crime he committed.    Continue reading “Jerome Breland who poisoned son’s football team now oversees water and sewers in Las Vegas”

Sputnik

A Sputnik correspondent filmed a massive police raid in the Saint Denis suburb of Paris on Wednesday. The operation reportedly targeted Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist acts, previously thought to have been in Syria, as well as Salah Abdeslam and a potential ninth assailant.

Continue reading “Reporter Films Massive Police Raid in Paris”

The Stream – by  Jonah Bennett

France made history by being the first country in the European Union to invoke the mutual defense clause following the brutal attacks in Paris.

The French defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian invoked article 42.7 of the Treaty on European Union while in Brussels, USA Today reports.   Continue reading “France Just Became the First Country to Invoke the EU’s ‘Mutual Defense’ Clause”