Weather Channel

An 86-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was closed for much of Sunday after a deadly crash involving a tour bus, three tractor-trailers and a passenger vehicle.

Five people were killed in the crash, Westmoreland County Coroner Ken Bacha told the Tribune-Review. About 60 people were injured and taken to three area hospitals, turnpike spokesman Carl DeFebo tweeted. Continue reading “Pennsylvania Turnpike Crash Kills Five and Injures 60; Tour Bus and Tractor-Trailers Involved; Turnpike Closed”

The Mind Unleashed – by Emma Fiala

The United States and Iran are currently engaged in a tit-for-tat conflict in which attacks conducted every couple of days injure and kill each other’s nationals, a situation that is not so unusual for the two countries.

However, the U.S. significantly escalated tensions when, on January 2, Iran’s most powerful and well respected military leader, General Qassem Soleimani, was assassinated in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport.  Continue reading “No, Iran Didn’t Attack the US Embassy in Baghdad”

LA Times

JERUSALEM — Israel had advance notice of the U.S. plan to kill Iranian military leader Gen. Qassem Suleimani, Israeli military and diplomatic analysts reported Friday night while refraining from providing further details due to heavy military censorship.

“Our assessment is that the United States informed Israel about this operation in Iraq, apparently a few days ago,” Barak Ravid, a journalist and commentator with deep sources in the Israeli security establishment, said on Channel 13.  Continue reading “Israel had advance notice of U.S. plan to kill Iranian general Suleimani, report says”

KMOV 4

Turns out, things aren’t always what they seem … or what they sound like.

That’s the lesson Florida police officers learned earlier this week after they responded to a call that turned out to be much different than what they thought.

Deputies in Lake Worth Beach arrived at a home to help “someone screaming for help,” the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook.  Continue reading “Florida deputies came to the rescue of someone apparently screaming for help. It was a parrot”

Mint Press News – by Whitney Webb

Election Day 2020: 32 Americans dead, over 200 injured, martial law declared and the election itself is canceled. While this horrific scenario seems more like the plot of a Hollywood film, such was the end result of a recent simulation examining the preparedness of U.S. officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Secret Service against “bad actors” seeking to undermine the upcoming presidential election. Continue reading “Why a Shadowy Tech Firm With Ties to Israeli Intelligence Is Running Doomsday Election Simulations”

Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson

The President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard N. Haass says that “the world will be the battlefield” following a dramatic escalation in tensions between the United States and Iran.

Fears of a wider war are rising after Iran’s Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani was killed during an airstrike near Baghdad’s airport.  Continue reading “CFR President Says “The World Will be the Battlefield” After Iran Escalation”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update (1545ET): The US State Department has expressed its “disappointment” at the Iraqi parliament’s vote to expel US forces. However, as Axios’ Jonathan Swan notes in a tweet, that he just spoke with a senior Iraqi government official, who explained that people should be very cautious about drawing certain conclusions from Iraq’s parliamentary vote to expel the U.S.   Continue reading “Iraq Votes To Expel US Troops As Iranian MPs Chant “Death To America””

American Mirror – by Kyle Olson

Californians who like to be clean and wear clean clothes can now face a daily $1,000 fine, thanks to a new state law.

Residents are restricted to only using 55 gallons of water per day, attorney Richard Lee told KTLA when reviewing laws taking effect Jan. 1.  Continue reading “CA residents now face daily $1,000 fine for showering, doing laundry on same day”

Fox News

NAIROBI, Kenya — The U.S. military said the security situation was “fluid” at a Kenyan airfield used by U.S. forces after a pre-dawn attack Sunday by the al-Shabab extremist group. The attack destroyed U.S. aircraft and vehicles, Kenyan authorities said, and at least four attackers were killed.  Continue reading “US military aircraft, vehicles destroyed in Kenya attack linked to al-Shabab extremists; 5 attackers arrested, 4 dead”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is urging its members to attend a January 13, 2020, Senate meeting and let their pro-gun voices be heard.

The NRA sent Breitbart News a press release saying: Continue reading “NRA Urges Members to Attend Virginia Senate Meeting, Drown Out Gun Grabbers”

Breitbart – by Penny Starr

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) wants to end the circulation of the state-run China Daily to members of Congress, a vehicle used to spread propaganda about the country’s communist regime and its ongoing human rights abuses.

“Xi Jinping hopes China Daily will muddy American lawmakers’ understanding of his policies,” Banks told Breitbart News. “All of Congress must fully grasp the way the Chinese Communist Party’s brutalizes its own citizens and subverts the U.S.” Continue reading “Lawmaker Urges Hearing on Circulation of Communist Propaganda Vehicle ‘China Daily’ to Congress”

Yahoo News

For decades, American men over the age of 18 have gone through the ritual of registering with the government in case of a military draft. In recent years, this action has felt more like going through the motions, simply checking a box.

But Friday, after a U.S. drone strike in Iraq killed Iran’s top security and intelligence commander, prompting concerns about the possibility of a new war in the Middle East, that oft-forgotten paperwork became a reason for spiking anxiety among many Americans. Continue reading “Will There Be a Draft? Young People Worry After Military Strike”

Natural News – by Ethan Huff

With Russia’s help, communist China has convinced the United Nations to pass a new resolution that threatens to further restrict online free speech in the name of fighting “cybercrime.”

The General Assembly has agreed to set up a new committee of “international experts” in 2020, the job of which will be to establish “a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes.”  Continue reading “RED ALERT: Internet to be “policed” by communist China under new UN crackdown targeting online speech”

Detroit Free Press – by Bisma Parvez

A 26-year-old man faked his own stabbing at the West Bloomfield synagogue where he worked and then reported he was attacked because of his Jewish faith, authorities say.

Now Sean Samitt is facing a felony charge of filing a false police report, according to West Bloomfield Police.  Continue reading “He told police he was stabbed for being Jewish. Then his Apple Watch caught him in a lie.”

Counter Punch – by Bruce E Levine

Getting rid of Trump means taking seriously “shit-life syndrome”—and its resulting misery, which includes suicide, drug overdose death, and trauma for surviving communities.

My state of Ohio is home to many shit-life syndrome sufferers. In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton lost Ohio’s 18 electoral votes to Trump. She got clobbered by over 400,000 votes (more than 8%). She lost 80 of Ohio’s 88 counties. Trump won rural poorer counties, several by whopping margins. Trump got the shit-life syndrome vote. Continue reading ““Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems”

Guardian – by Carole Cadwalladr

An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million Facebook profiles.

More than 100,000 documents relating to work in 68 countries that will lay bare the global infrastructure of an operation used to manipulate voters on “an industrial scale” is set to be released over the next months.  Continue reading “Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

The nation’s Military-Industrial Complex needs to import at least 600 million immigrants to counter the growing push by China for world power, says a forthcoming book by Matthew Yglesias, the top editor at the influential progressive website, Vox.com.

The One Billion Americans book is “a bold case for massive population growth in the name of national greatness,” says the blurb from the publisher, Penguin Random House. The press release continues:  Continue reading “Vox Editor Says U.S. Needs 600 Million Migrants to Counter China”

CNN

This is probably not the way motorists in Washington state wanted to spend their New Year’s Eve.

Several people got trapped in their cars Tuesday after strong winds blew a thicket of tumbleweeds into a portion of a state highway, according to Washington State Patrol Trooper Chris Thorson.  Continue reading “Tumbleweeds blocked a Washington state highway, trapping people in their cars”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Nobody knows where they are coming from, or why they are there.

Back on Christmas we wrote about large, non-governmental drones flying in mysterious patterns in Colorado. Since then, sightings have only increased, despite there being no explanation as to why.   Continue reading ““Creepy”, Mysterious, Unexplained Drones Are Flying In Precise Formations Over Colorado, Nebraska”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

Virginia’s second amendment gun sanctuary movement has turned its attention to fighting the governor’s call for a $4.8 million, 18-officer team to enforce his proposed “assault weapons” ban.

Two key groups issued an alert this week to push gun owners to four budget hearings Thursday around the state, asking them to quiz state legislators if they will vote to ban or confiscate weapons.  Continue reading “Push back on VA governor’s plan to hire 18-officer team to enforce proposed gun ban”