Business Insider – by Bob Bryan

As President-elect’s Donald Trump’s transition rolls on, more and more attention is being paid to possible selections for a variety of high-ranking positions and meetings that might help decide these appointments.

On Monday, Trump will meet with John Allison, the former CEO of the bank BB&T and of the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute.

There have been reports that Allison is being considered for Treasury secretary.   Continue reading “Trump Is Meeting with an Ex-bank Ceo Who Wants to Abolish the Federal Reserve and Return to the Gold Standard”

Haaretz – by Amos Harel

Sunday’s cabinet decision to approve the acquisition of 17 F-35s for the Israel Air Force is a belated, necessary result to the partial decision the previous government made nearly three years ago. Then, only a partial equipping was approved in an unusual step that would have left the IAF at the end of the acquisition process with a squadron and a half. It would have been an operational hybrid, which would likely not allow long-term planning and conducting of missions on an ongoing basis. According to the decision, the IAF will have a full complement of two squadrons by 2021 or 2022.   Continue reading “F-35 Deal: As Always – Israeli Air Force Got What It Wanted, Despite Costs and Concerns”

RT

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Turkish Army entered Syria to end the rule of President Bashar Assad, whom he accused of terrorism and causing the deaths of thousands.

“We entered [Syria] to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror. [We didn’t enter] for any other reason,” the Turkish president said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul, as quoted by Hurriyet daily.   Continue reading “Erdogan: Turkish forces are in Syria to end Assad’s rule”

Truthstream Media – by Melissa Dykes

Some people still aren’t sure on this point, so just for the record, yes: US government domestic propaganda use against American citizens has been fully made legal.

Looking around at what’s going on in “the news” today, that certainly explains a lot, doesn’t it?   Continue reading “Yes, US Government Propaganda Use Against American Citizens Is Officially Legal Now”

Express

James King, 31, who changed his name from Robin Hollyson, was jailed for 24 years for filming himself raping a three month-old tot.

Prisoner John Denham told an inquest that fellow inmates at HMP Bristol quickly took out contracts on King to burn him or give him a “black eye or two”.   Continue reading “Paedophile baby rapist found dead in his cell after inmates took contracts out on him”

Bloomberg – by Jennifer Jacobs

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney were meeting Tuesday with Donald Trump as the president-elect and his team consider candidates to fill out key roles in the administration.

Cohn arrived at Trump Tower in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon for a meeting with Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Trump was then scheduled to go to dinner with Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who’s a contender for secretary of state. Another potential choice for the nation’s top diplomat, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, met with Trump earlier in the day.   Continue reading “Trump Meets With Goldman’s Cohn as Dinner Set With Critic Romney”

By the act entitled, “An act to establish the flag of the United States,” passed April 4, 1818, 3 Story’s L. U. S., 1667, it is enacted: § 1. That from and after the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be twenty stars, white in a blue field. § 2. That, on the admission of every new state into the Union, one star be added to the union of the flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July the next succeeding such admission. Cf. Title 4 U.S.C. § 1; 68 Am.Jur.2d § 247 (Flag, Salute and Pledge of Allegiance in Schools); Hostility; Neutral property; Standard; Visit; Army Reg. 840-10 Ch. 8; 36 U.S.C. Ch. 10 § 176(g); British East India Company (Betsy Ross Flag);   Continue reading “Flag of the United States”

Jon Rappoport

Drugs to transform individuals…and even, by implication, society.

Drug research going far beyond the usual brief descriptions of MKULTRA.

The intention is there, in the record:

A CIA document was included in the transcript of the 1977 US Senate Hearings on MKULTRA, the CIA’s mind-control program.   Continue reading “CIA MKULTRA: drugs to take down the nation”

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

In an interview with Democracy Now, award-winning national security journalist Jeremy Scahill revealed stunning connections between a private security firm called TigerSwan, operated by a former Delta Force operative, and law enforcement intelligence operations at Standing Rock.

Co-founder of the Intercept, Scahill, has spent years reporting on private security contractors such as the private security firm TigerSwan. In these most recent revelations, Scahill exposes how TigerSwan has links to the now-defunct mercenary firm Blackwater and is in charge of coordinating intelligence for the Dakota Access pipeline company.   Continue reading “Blackwater-Linked Private Military Firm Exposed Coordinating Intel for Police at Standing Rock”

Town Hall – by Cortney O’Brien

President-elect Donald Trump has apparently made another addition to his White House administration. The role of Health and Human Services Secretary has been given to Republican Rep. Tom Price from Georgia, reports The Washington Post.

Price, an orthopedic surgeon, has been a longtime opponent of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Recently, he said that under Obamacare, “The American people are paying more for health care and getting less – less access, less quality, and fewer choices.”   Continue reading “Trump Picks Very Vocal Obamacare Critic For HHS Secretary”

Buffalo News – by Jay Rey

The two young Somali sisters sat at a table in the central registration center signing up for what would become their next big challenge in their journey to America – school.

They came to enroll in the Buffalo Public Schools at an old building on Ash Street, an Ellis Island of sorts for thousands of immigrants and refugees entering an education system that has struggled over the years to keep up with their growing numbers.   Continue reading “85 languages spoken in Buffalo schools as ‘New Americans’ enter classrooms”

USA Today

An Ohio State University student has been identified as the suspect behind the gruesome attack Monday on the school’s campus.

The alleged attacker, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, was killed by police, but not before driving a car into a group of people and then attacking victims with a butcher’s knife, said Monica Moll, public safety director at Ohio State. FBI agents had joined local police in investigating the incident. Eleven people were injured; all are expected to survive.   Continue reading “Accused Ohio State attacker reportedly posted rant online”

Strategic Culture – by Eric Zuesse

Many news-reports indicate that President-Elect Donald Trump’s Israel policy is in accord with that of his Orthodox Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner, who allegedly allies himself with Israel’s Jewish Home Party, which favors Israel’s absorbing both the West Bank and the Gaza strip and imposing upon Palestinians the full rule by Israel’s government, regardless whether they accept it or not.   Continue reading “Trump Allies with Israel’s Justice Minister Who Advocated Exterminating Palestinians”

Yahoo News

One suspect is reportedly dead and at least nine people are being treated for non-life-threatening injuries after a male attacker reportedly drove his car into a crowd of pedestrians and then stabbed them with a butcher knife on the Columbus campus of Ohio State University Monday morning. School officials initially reported the incident as a shooting but later stated that “injuries include stab wounds, injury by motor vehicle and other injuries that are being evaluated.”

Ohio is one of the most gun-friendly states in the country, with both concealed and open carry permitted under state law (PDF); however, restrictions apply to colleges and universities.   Continue reading “Early reports of shooter at OSU spur look at Ohio gun laws”

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. 

Wikipedia

Elaine Lan Chao born March 26, 1953) is an American politician who served as the 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, and Deputy Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush. She was announced as the nominee for United States Secretary of Transportation by President-elect Donald Trump on November 29, 2016. Born in Taiwan to mainland Chinese parents, she was the first Asian American woman and the first Taiwanese American in U.S. history to be appointed to a U.S. president’s cabinet. She is married to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

 

KSFY

A number of law enforcement agencies around South Dakota are planning to cut back on the amount of information they release due to a new voter-approved law in the state.

Both the Department of Public Safety and the Sioux Falls Police Department have notified media organizations Amendment S, also known as “Marsy’s Law”, limits the amount of information they can release to the public.   Continue reading “Law enforcement agencies to release less information due to new law”