New York Times

France will keep its promise to take in 30,000 refugees over the next two years, President François Hollande said on Wednesday. But he said they would be checked thoroughly to make sure they do not pose a threat.

“Our country has the duty to respect this commitment,” Mr. Hollande said, noting that those fleeing areas of Syria and Iraq controlled by the Islamic State were being “tormented” by the “very same people who are attacking us today.”   Continue reading “France Still Planning to Accept 30,000 Refugees, Hollande Says”

Chron – by Dylan Baddour

Recent months have seen a dramatic uptick in the number of children trying to trek across Texas’ southern border alone, according to new data from the U.S. Border Patrol.

After a months-long decrease in solo child arrivals after the surge in summer 2014, the numbers are back up to their highest levels for early fall in at least six years.   Continue reading “Throngs of children are trying to cross the Texas border again”

Mint Press News – by Sarah Lazare, Common Dreams

The Pentagon announced on Monday that the U.S. has approved a $1.29 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, despite mounting evidence of the country’s mass atrocities and possible war crimes in neighboring Yemen.

The U.S. State Department on Friday approved the sale of over 10,000 bombs, munitions, and weapons parts produced by Boeing and Raytheon. This includes 5,200 Paveway II “laser guided” and 12,000 “general purpose” bombs. “Bunker Busters,” also included in the deal, are designed to destroy concrete structures.   Continue reading “Despite Atrocities, US Approves $1.29 Billion Deal To Re-Arm Saudi Arabia”

The New American – by C. Mitchell Shaw

After the deadly attacks in Paris last week in which nearly 500 people were either killed or injured by ISIS terrorists, CIA director John Brennan wasted no time in using the horrific attack as a pretense for criticizing what little reform has already taken place in the area of government surveillance. Claiming that the lack of intelligence about ISIS activities and plans was due to too little surveillance, the director followed the status quo of never letting a good crisis go to waste.   Continue reading “CIA Director: Paris Attacks Result of Too Little Gov’t Surveillance”

The Daily Sheeple

A former Texas teacher has filed a federal lawsuit for discrimination after being fired from her job in Katy, Texas after she exhibited non-government approved behavior when she refused to refer to a six-year-old girl as a “boy”.

The child’s two homosexual dads insist the little girl is a transgender boy and requested the school call her a boy and refer to her with a boy’s name, but even the media is reporting that the female-born six-year-old was often “confused” at school, referring to herself at different times as a girl, sometimes using the girl’s restroom and sometimes the boy’s restroom.   Continue reading “Teacher Fired for Calling 6-yr-old “Transgender Boy” Student a Girl”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (INTELLIHUB) — Glen Casada, the Tennessee state House GOP Caucus Chairman, told the press Tuesday that he doesn’t care what bureaucrats in Washington think and said that all Syrian refugees already inside of the United States should be rounded up and sent back to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This comes just as more than half of all U.S. State Governors have agreed to stop taking in Syrian refugees after witnessing the grim results of Friday’s attacks in Paris leaving which left 129 dead.   Continue reading “Tenn. GOP Caucus Chair: ‘We need to activate the National Guard to round up Syrian refugees already here’”

CBS New York – by Christine Slone

LINDEN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — The FBI and local police are investigating after a drone fell out of the sky and crashed into a truck in New Jersey on Wednesday morning.

As CBS2’s Christine Sloan reported, of particular concern to authorities is that the incident happened on a road just outside a Phillips 66 refinery in Linden.   Continue reading “Drone Slams Into Truck Outside New Jersey Refinery”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

On Saturday, the day after the massacre in France which turned the streets of Paris into a warzone and left some 130 civilians dead, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had a message for the West.

While condemning the attacks and branding the perpetrators “savages”, he was also quick to note that Syria has been dealing with this brand of terrorism for nearly five years straight. In what amounted to an “I told you so” moment, Assad also said the following: “We said, don’t take what is happening in Syria lightly. Unfortunately, European officials did not listen.”    Continue reading ““There’s No Such Thing As ISIS”: Journalist Destroys West’s Terror Narrative, Warns Of Crackdown On “Dissidents””

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

Charlie Sheen’s announcement that he is HIV positive has created a huge uproar as critics attack him from every direction, but the truth is that Charlie Sheen is simply a reflection of our society as a whole.  You see, the truth is that it isn’t just big Hollywood stars that are engaged in insanely risky sexual behavior.  According to the CDC, there are 110 million cases of sexually-transmitted disease in America today, and another 20 million STD cases are added to that total every year.  The United States has the highest STD infection rate in the entire industrialized world, and more than half of all Americans will have a sexually-transmitted disease at some point during their lives.  Approximately one out of every four teen girls in the U.S. has at least one sexually transmitted disease, and our nation spends $16,000,000,000 a year treating STDs.  So go ahead and point a finger at Charlie Sheen if you want, but just remember that he is only a very small part of a raging national epidemic.   Continue reading “America Is Charlie Sheen: CDC “Alarmed” At 20 Million New STD Cases Spike”

White House Office of the Press Secretary

We, the Leaders of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam, met today to mark the conclusion of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. We congratulate our Ministers and negotiating teams, after more than five years of negotiations, on delivering a result that achieves the goal set out in 2011 of a comprehensive, balanced, and transformational regional agreement – one that spans the Pacific, touches three continents, and unites 800 million people.       Continue reading “Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders Statement”

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’”

News for the Blind

BOSTON (JTA) – The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority approved the display of an anti-Israel ad it had previously rejected.

The poster, which features a large photograph of a child and the word “violence” in large, bold letters, accuses Israel’s military of using U.S. tax dollars to kill 2,000 Palestinian children since September 2000, and calls for the end of U.S. military aid to Israel.   Continue reading “Anti-Israel ads OK’d to run in Boston subways”