Wikimedia CommonsNew Zeal – by Renee Nal

The beloved holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” was released in 1946. Despite it’s popularity today, it did not fare well at the box office, and it was given poor reviews by cynical movie critics at the time.

Jimmy Stewart said that out of all the movies he had made, “It’s a Wonderful Life” was his favorite. The Director, Frank Capra described the film’s theme as “the individual’s belief in himself” and that he made it “to combat a modern trend toward atheism.”   Continue reading “The amazing story behind the Christmas classic, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’”

Project Chesapeake – by Tom Chatham

The events of the past few months seem astounding when taken in all at once. The plan to destroy the U.S. dollar and the American middle class is moving at an ever increasing speed.

At the recent G20 meeting the nations agreed that bank deposits would no longer be considered money. These bank deposits become the property of the banking institution and as such can be used any way the bank wants. This means that any money you deposit in a bank now is no longer yours but makes you an investor in the bank and subject to lose that money if a banking crisis takes down the bank.   Continue reading “The Destruction Of The Middle Class Is Nearing The Final Stages”

mediaNatural News – by Mike Adams

The pro-pharma, anti-nutrition mainstream media is engaged in an all-out panic over the success of Dr. Oz in teaching nutrition and disease prevention to the American public. Not surprisingly, all the usual suspects — media outlets funded by Big Pharma advertising money — have unleashed a wave of hit pieces against Dr. Oz, claiming his advice is “unproven.”   Continue reading “Mainstream media panics over Dr. Oz teaching disease prevention and nutritional self-care”

IMRA

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Ministry of the Interior in the Gaza Strip is deploying security forces on the border with Israel and intensifying its presence in the area in order to prevent Palestinians from crossing into Israel from Gaza without documents.

The statement from the interior ministry comes just hours after a gunfight
erupted on the border with Israeli soldiers, after the Israeli military said
a soldier was wounded by sniper fire from inside Gaza.   Continue reading “Gaza security forces deployed at border to prevent illegal crossing”

Ben Swann – by Zach McAuliffe

A man in Sycamore, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, has been told to remove his zombie-themed Nativity scene from his front yard after complaints were filed against him.

Jasen Dixon is the owner of the zombie Nativity scene as well as a haunted house, called 13 Rooms of Doom, in Indiana.  Rather than go out and buy a whole new Nativity scene, Dixon told FOX 19 he wanted to work with what he had available.  The end result is a manger complete with a pale baby Jesus and skeletal Mary, Joseph, and wise men.   Continue reading “An Ohio homeowner has been told to remove his unconventional Nativity scene”

UPI – by Ed Adamczyk

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) — Alan Gross, freed from imprisonment in Cuba last week, will receive a $3.2 million settlement from a U.S. government agency.

Gross, 65, was arrested in 2009 and accused of subversion for providing communications equipment to Cuba’s Jewish population. He was working for a company contracted to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The U.S. government maintained he was helping Cubans access the Internet in a democracy-building effort.   Continue reading “Freed from Cuban prison, Alan Gross to get $3.2 million settlement”

Reuters

A gunman opened fire inside a New Orleans-area mall still busy with shoppers on Christmas eve, killing a man before he was taken into custody, police said on Wednesday.

Gary François, 25, fired multiple shots at 24-year-old James Vaughn, who had just made a purchase at a Foot Locker store inside the Oakwood Center in Gretna on Wednesday afternoon, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.   Continue reading “Shooter kills man in Louisiana mall on Christmas Eve”

Reuters

A shooting at a downtown St. Louis convenience store on Wednesday left one person dead and three others badly wounded, police said.

Police said no suspects were in custody some five hours after the shooting, which was reported shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time.

A St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman, Schron Jackson, said she was unable to provide any details about the victims, any assailants or circumstances of the shooting.   Continue reading “Four shot, one fatally, in downtown St. Louis”

Spread Eagle Patriot

Twas the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, In a one bedroom house made of plaster & stone.

I had come down the chimney, with presents to give and to see just who in this home did live

As I looked all about, a strange sight I did see, no tinsel, no presents, not even a tree. No stocking by the fire, just boots filled with sand. On the wall hung pictures of a far distant land.   Continue reading “Merry Christmas, By Marine Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt, 1986”

Yahoo News – by Jennifer Peltz

NEW YORK (AP) — Police have increased security at some station houses and made at least four arrests over threats made since the deadly shootings of two officers last weekend, and the mayor vowed Wednesday to protect officers.

Emergency Services Unit officers were providing additional protection at two Brooklyn precincts, where they were stationed starting Tuesday. Police said Wednesday they were remaining vigilant while investigating the origin of the threats, which they didn’t detail.   Continue reading “Threats to NYPD prompt arrests, precinct security”

Israel's parliament buildingGuardian

Israel’s police have said they are investigating dozens of public figures and politicians in a major corruption case that could affect upcoming elections.

The politicians involved were not named in Wednesday’s announcement, but after a year-long covert operation, police said they are investigating 30 suspects including a deputy minister, a former minister, mayors and others.   Continue reading “Israel police reveal huge political corruption investigation”

Investment Watchblog

This is pretty crazy and scary. The banks know what’s coming and it’s not good. I just got a Life Insurance offer in the mail from my bank and listen to how chilling the exclusion section reads:

This coverage does not cover loss by or resulting from:
“…undeclared war or war-like act by “a government,” sovereign power, regular or IRREGULAR military force, or agent or authority of any of them, including but not limited to INSURRECTION, REBELLION OR REVOLUTION, the use of weapons of mass destruction, chemical or biological weapons….” Continue reading “New Life Insurance Exclusions: Martial Law, Revolution injuries NOT COVERED”

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Washington Post – by Lena H. Sun

As many as a dozen scientists may have been exposed to the Ebola virus at a lab of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, agency officials said Wednesday.

The potential exposure took place Monday when scientists conducting research on the virus at a high-security lab mistakenly put a sample containing the potentially infectious virus in a place where it was transferred for processing to another CDC lab, also in Atlanta on the CDC campus.   Continue reading “CDC reports potential Ebola exposure in Atlanta lab”