Infowars – by Wayne Madsen

The purge of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie loyalists from the Donald Trump presidential transition team has little to do with Christie’s Bridgegate scandal and everything to do with a battle between Bush-era neoconservatives and national security realists for control over key departments of the Trump administration.

It appears that Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the publisher of the New York Observer and someone who is aligned with the Likud Party of Israel, is now the de facto chair of the Trump transition team, especially when it comes to national security matters.   Continue reading “Neocon Invasion of Team Trump Fully Underway”

New York Post – by Daniel Harper

So much for Swiss neutrality.

An agency overseen by the Swiss foreign ministry made a hefty donation to the Clinton Foundation — at the same time the US and Switzerland were in the midst of a diplomatic struggle over tax evasion.

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation shelled out about $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2011, money earmarked for a program that sought to lower mortality for mothers and infants in Liberia, the Schweiz am Sonntag newspaper discovered on Sunday, according to The Local.   Continue reading “Switzerland not so neutral with Clinton Foundation donation”

Fox News Latino

During fiscal year 2016, which ended Sept. 30, border patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas apprehended about 500 undocumented immigrants per day.

“McAllen station is actually the busiest station in the whole country for illegal entries,” said Supervisor Border Patrol Agent Marlene Castro during a ride-along with Fox 7.

Castro is one of the border patrol agents securing the 1,254-mile border in Texas.   Continue reading “In their patrols, agents find many border crossers who want to be apprehended”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Houston, TX — An eye-opening video of a judge making a callous admission of how his job is dependent upon police extracting wealth from poor people for traffic ‘offenses’ exposes an underlying problem within America’s ‘justice’ system. From the bailiff to the judge — their careers depend upon police preying on the poor.

It is no question, criminals do not like the police. But to stop critical thought at this point is entirely irresponsible.   Continue reading “Judge Admits Arresting Poor People for Traffic Tickets Gives Him ‘Job Security’”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

In 2015, as a guest on Ron Paul’s Liberty Report, Economics Professor Joseph Salerno warned of a coming war on cash. Apparently, now, that time has come. Governments loathe cash transactions because they’re private and hard to tax. As a result, some countries are taking drastic measures to reclaim their bank notes.

Salerno said, “The French premier last year (2014) drew a parallel between the war on terror and the war on cash,” and warned the world’s economic elite are now “using the war on terror as a cover to get at cash.” The Mises Institute professor and VP predicted to Paul, “I think this could come in the next couple of years. If they have to bail out the financial system again…they’ll block the cash in the banks to prevent it from escaping and destabilizing these fractional reserve banks,” Salerno said.   Continue reading “War On Cash Goes into Full Effect — Citibank Stops Accepting Cash at Multiple Branches”

Reuters

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced his resignation on Thursday and said it “felt pretty good” to step down, ending a six-year tenure as the top U.S. spy that included a sometimes rocky relationship with Congress.

Clapper, 75, a retired three-star U.S. Air Force general, will stay on until Democratic President Barack Obama leaves office in January. He has said for months he intended to leave when Obama departed and his replacement will be chosen by Republican President-elect Donald Trump.   Continue reading “U.S. spy chief says has submitted letter of resignation”

Breitbart – by Pam Key

Wednesday at the University of Michigan, civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson called on outgoing President Barack Obama to pardon Hillary Clinton.

Jackson said, “President Lincoln pardoned Jefferson Davis and other confederates who engaged in treason against the United States of America in an effort to bind up and heal wounds after the Civil War. President Ford did the same thing with respect to Richard Nixon after Watergate even though he had violated, dishonored and debased the Constitution. While it was clear that he would have been impeached and convicted and driven from office, legally and technically he was never indicted, tried, nor convicted of anything. Unique to Ford and Nixon was that Nixon was never officially accused, tried or even saw the pardon. President Ford was simply determined to stop the potential harm, restrain the hemorrhaging and heal the wound.”   Continue reading “Jesse Jackson: ‘It Would Be Wise in the Name of Justice’ for Obama to Pardon Hillary”

ZD Net – by Zack Whittaker for Zero Day

It’s 2016 going on 1984.

The UK has just passed a massive expansion in surveillance powers, which critics have called “terrifying” and “dangerous”.

The new law, dubbed the “snoopers’ charter”, was introduced by then-home secretary Theresa May in 2012, and took two attempts to get passed into law following breakdowns in the previous coalition government.   Continue reading “Britain has passed the ‘most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy’”

Daily Mail

These incredible photographs show how New Zealand‘s 7.8 magnitude earthquake lifted the seabed two metres – and exploded through the sand.

Dramatic aerial pictures reveal the scale of the devastation caused on the coastline north of Kaikoura, on the country’s South Island.

Scientists say the seabed lifted an estimated two metres on the foreshore and admit they have never seen anything like it.    Continue reading “New Zealand’s earthquake was so powerful the sea floor lifted TWO METRES and exploded through the sand”

Global Research – by Ellen Brown

Donald Trump was an outsider who boldly stormed the citadel of Washington DC and won. He has promised real change, but his infrastructure plan appears to be just more of the same – privatizing public assets and delivering unearned profits to investors at the expense of the people. He needs to try something new; and for this he could look to Abraham Lincoln, whose bold solution was very similar to one now being considered in Europe: just print the money. 

In Donald Trump’s victory speech after the presidential election, he vowed:   Continue reading “Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Another Privatization Firesale? Lincoln Had a Bolder Solution”

Global Research – by Peter Koenig

The elections may have been rigged, probably by both sides, as the elusive elite, or what’s also called the ’Deep State’, may be divided. It looks like the better ‘rigger’ emerged as the winner. The final popular vote count indicates a slight advantage of Hillary over Trump. Never mind, the system was purposefully designed un-democratically in the 18th Century by the Founding Fathers, who never really had the intention to create a truly democratic United States of America of equal rights for all.

The current electoral system favors vote manipulation especially in Swing States, where popular votes can relatively easily be suppressed or switched by an electronic ‘glitch’.   Continue reading “President-Elect Donald Trump and “The Deep State”: Vote Rigging by Both Sides… Key Appointments”

WSWS – by Tom Carter

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has unleashed a series of tweets calling for a “state of emergency” to be declared and for the ongoing anti-Trump protests to be violently “quelled” by the military.

On Friday, Clarke wrote on Twitter: “How to stop riots. 1) Declare state of emergency. 2) Impose early curfew. 3) Mobilize Nat Guard. 4) Authorize ALL non lethal force. 5) Tear gas [sic].”   Continue reading “Trump’s candidate for Homeland Security chief calls for suppression of anti-Trump protests”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Kelli Sladick

The USA Freedom Act was sold as pledge to end NSA’s bulk collection program concerning of metadata. However, this law didn’t end bulk collection of metadata. It shifted the responsibility to telecommunications providers. The result of this law, has actually increased the spying efficiency of the NSA.

In other words, the promised “reform” made NSA spying worse.   Continue reading “Congressional “Reforms” Made NSA Spying Worse”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

The Trump transition team brought a little order to the media coverage of power shift Wednesday night, offering in their first media conference call a list of those the president-elect is meeting with, and interviewing for top Cabinet posts.

Aides Sean Spicer and Jason Miller did not differentiate who was advising and who is being interviewed for jobs, but the list is a who’s who of Washington and conservatives.   Continue reading “The Trump Cabinet, adviser list: Kissinger, Sessions, Haley”

New York Daily News – by PETER SBLENDORIO

They threw the book at her.

Actress Tika Sumpter says her mother was arrested Monday — all because of a $10 late fee at her local library.

“Make sure you turn in your library books North Carolina,” the actress began a lengthy Twitter missive. “My mom was just arrested for having a late fee of 10 dollars on an overdue book!”   Continue reading “Actress Tika Sumpter says her mother was arrested for $10 library late fee”

Business Insider – by Akin Oyedele

The US Geological Survey said Tuesday that it found what could be the largest deposit of untapped oil ever discovered in America.

An estimated average of 20 billion barrels of oil and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids are available for the taking in the Wolfcamp shale, which is in the Midland Basin portion of Texas’ Permian Basin.   Continue reading “The largest oil deposit ever found in America was just discovered in Texas”

RT

A ruling out of Missouri’s Court of Appeals found that frozen embryos have the same rights as any other marital property, but not children. The case was the result of a woman who wanted to use frozen embryos from her and her ex-husband against his wishes.

Corporations are still people under the eyes of justice, but embryos are not, according to a ruling out of Kansas City’s Court of Appeals. This will come as bad news to Jalesia “Jasha” McQueen, 44, and as great news to her ex-husband, Justin Gadberry, 34.   Continue reading “Frozen embryos are property, not people – court ruling”

Mail.com

TANQUIAN DE ESCOBEDO, Mexico (AP) — When Juan Carlos Soni Bulos heard his front door being smashed in one November morning, he frantically scrolled through his phone to call for help. Outside the human rights activist’s bedroom window, a Mexican marine in a black mask and helmet trained a rifle on him. “Drop the phone or I’ll shoot,” he said.

The marines blindfolded him, bound him and took him with four relatives and friends to a dimly lit, windowless warehouse. Then hours of torture began, Soni says — beatings, electric shocks, asphyxiation, sexual abuse. He heard his teenage nephew scream as they applied electric shocks to the boy’s ribs.   Continue reading “Torture haunts Mexico despite laws meant to eliminate it”