Express – by Michael Moore

British web users will be facing unprecedented surveillance under new government legislation that comes into force today.

December 30th marks the date that the Investigatory Powers Act, also known as the ‘Snooper’s Charter’ officially comes into force, allowing the government to collect data on anyone.   Continue reading “UK: From today, the Government is RECORDING everywhere you click online”

Daisy Luther

Just hours after announcing the government intended to punish Russia for “interfering in the presidential election,” Drudge Report, a massive news aggregator with over 3 million page views per day, was hit by a massive DDoS attack. The attack occurred just minutes after people started reporting that the Russian state-run news network RT was “unavailable” in parts of the United States.   Continue reading “Were RT And Drudge Taken Down So the Government Could Control the Anti-Russia Narrative?”

Washington Examiner – by Travis Allen

Beginning on Jan. 1, prostitution by minors will be legal in California. Yes, you read that right.

SB 1322 bars law enforcement from arresting sex workers who are under the age of 18 for soliciting or engaging in prostitution, or loitering with the intent to do so. So teenage girls (and boys) in California will soon be free to have sex in exchange for money without fear of arrest or prosecution.   Continue reading “California Democrats legalize child prostitution”

AL.com – by Leada Gore

The days of common law marriage in Alabama will soon end.

A bill passed by the Alabama Legislature earlier this year abolishes common-law marriage – a union in which people present themselves as married despite not having a formal ceremony or getting a marriage license- after Jan. 1, 2017. Common-law marriage entered into before Jan. 1, 2017 will still be valid.   Continue reading “Common law marriage in Alabama ends in 2016”

Watchdog – by Kenric Ward

The Obama administration is using a taxpayer-funded program to award business grants to Salvadoran migrants deported from the United States.

Run by the nonprofit Instituto Salvadorno Del Migrante and funded through a $50,000 grant from the taxpayer-backed Inter-American Foundation, the program “facilitates [deportees’] reintegration into their communities and supports their enterprises by offering financial education, technical advice, and assistance with business plans.”  Continue reading “U.S. aids illegal immigrants, coming and going”

CBS News

New York City is preparing to welcome nearly two million people to Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

According to the NYPD, nearly 7,000 police officers will be on patrol, some in plain clothes to blend in with the crowd.    Continue reading “Massive sand trucks added to NYC’s New Year’s Eve security plans”

The Federalist – by John Daniel Davidson

In Jack London’s famous short story, “To Build A Fire,” a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in America’s far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed man—a chechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomers—is accompanied by a wolf-dog that knows the danger of the cold and is wholly indifferent to the fate of the man. “This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”
Continue reading “EPA To Alaskans In Sub-Zero Temps: Stop Burning Wood To Keep Warm”

Independent – by Jon Sharman

Bill Gates has warned that the world’s emergency response systems are not yet strong enough to cope with a deadly flu epidemic – one he is crossing his fingers will not arise in the next 10 years.

The Microsoft co-founder said the Ebola and Zika virus crises showed that global health infrastructure had room for improvement, the BBC reported.   Continue reading “Bill Gates says the world is not prepared to cope with a deadly flu epidemic”

Tulsa World

WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) — A Texas police officer shot another officer and a man he was trying to arrest during a confrontation following a traffic stop.

Police in Weatherford near Fort Worth say officer Chris Bumpas was conducting the stop Thursday evening when he discovered there was a warrant for the arrest of one of three people in the vehicle.   Continue reading “Texas officer trying to arrest suspect shot by fellow cop”

Yahoo News

Russian President Vladimir Putin today said he will not expel 35 U.S. diplomats, rejecting his own foreign minister’s recommendation to do so in response to U.S. sanctions.

Putin said he views the latest moves by the outgoing Obama administration as a provocation aimed at further undermining U.S.-Russia relations.   Continue reading “Vladimir Putin Rejects His Minister’s Proposal to Expel 35 US Diplomats”

Fox News

Shopping malls across the nation were taking additional security precautions Tuesday following a string of disturbances the day after Christmas that resulted in minor injuries, evacuations and scores of arrests.

Police were beefing up patrols and mall security guards were out in force after melees involving mostly young people erupted around malls in Elizabeth, N.J.; Fayetteville, N.C.; East Garden City, N.Y.; Aurora, Colo.; and Tempe, Ariz., among others.   Continue reading “Malls across US beef up security after brawls”

The Duran – by Alexander Mercouris

In conjunction with US President Obama’s announcement of new sanctions against Russia, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have published a 13 report into the Russian hacking allegations.

I think it is fair to say that a mountain has moved and produced a mouse.  To get a sense of the absurdity, consider that the report actually begins with a Disclaimer   Continue reading “Joint FBI-Homeland Security report fails to prove Russians behind Clinton leaks”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Harold Pease

On December 31, 2011, New Year’s Eve, President Barack Obama signed into law the most constitutionally damaging law in American history, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. 

This New Year’s Eve we note its 5th Anniversary.  Previous annual appropriations bills funding national defense were mostly procedural but it was the addition of two sections, buried deep within the over 600 page document, that potentially gutted the Bill of Rights for American citizens thought by the President to be assisting the enemy, that so upset constitutionalists and libertarians.   Continue reading “Fifth Anniversary of NDAA “Indefinite Detention””

Liberty Blitzkrieg – b y Michael Krieger

After coming under attack, the alternative media successfully appropriated and reassigned the now ubiquitous term “fake news” to a variety of disingenuous mainstream media outlets. The corporate media is not too happy about this, and is doing what it does best (aside from cheerleading for war). It’s whining about it to its readers.

Nothing more perfectly highlights the mainstream media’s instinctual response to complain than an article published on Christmas Day in The New York Times, which reinvents history by claiming alternative media is to blame for turning “fake news” into an overly expansive and thus meaningless term. Here are a few excerpts:   Continue reading “Mainstream Media is Now Whining About the “Fake News” Hysteria It Created”

CT Post – by Jim Shay

Come January 2017, a new baby will be born in the United States every eight seconds and a person will die every 11 seconds.

And every 33 seconds, a new international immigrant – legal or otherwise – will be added to the population of the US of A.     Continue reading “U.S. Adds A New Immigrant Every 33 Seconds”

Chicago Tribune – by Robert McCoppin

After Harley Busse was convicted of stealing $44 in coins from a vending machine, the judge in his case noted that he had an “egregious” criminal history as a “career thief.”

Because “nothing up to this point has made an impression on you,” Cook County Judge Michael McHale said, “maybe my 12-year sentence will make an impression on you.”
Continue reading “Appeals court calls 12-year sentence for stealing $44 in coins ‘absurd’”