Salon – by ANTOANETA ROUSSI

Well, let’s face it, we were all awaiting this one. A new online dating site is parading that it will “Make Dating Great Again” by bringing together Americans frightened of living under a President Trump, with matches across the northern border.

Maple Match, the brainchild of 25-year-old Texan, Joe Goldman, was inspired after repeated proclamations from Goldman’s circle of friends that they would move to Canada if the likely GOP frontrunner became president in November, according to NBC News.  Continue reading ““Make Dating Great Again”: Site vows to match Trump-hating Americans With Canadians”

March Against Monsanto – by Nick Meyer

While more and more people are becoming educated about the true history of Monsanto and genetically engineered foods, most still don’t realize one extremely important piece of information: the FDA’s surprising lack of safety testing.

In regards to GMOs, the FDA’s declaration of “substantial equivalence” means that there is no long-term, independent safety testing of new foods and crops that have been genetically engineered.   Continue reading “FDA Approves New GMO Pineapple WITHOUT Independent Safety Testing: Here’s What You Need to Know”

NBC News

Jewish community centers around the country were again targeted with bomb threats Wednesday morning, a week after a spate of similar threats against many centers.

Centers in Miami, Newton, Massachusetts, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, California’s Bay Area, and Portland, Maine, were targeted. Two centers in Connecticut, one at the JCC of Greater New Haven in Woodbridge and another at The Mandell JCC West Hartford, also reported receiving bomb threats.   Continue reading “New Bomb Threats Against Jewish Community Centers Across US Raise Alarms”

AU News

HEAVY explosions and damaging gunfire are no longer the answer to modern warfare, with the armed forces developing a new weapon capable of crippling an entire enemy city.

The US Army is currently working on a non-explosive electromagnetic pulse artillery shell, which would be capable of rendering a wide range of electronics, critical infrastructure, and computer-based systems as useless.   Continue reading “America’s scary new secret weapon could cripple an entire enemy city without any physical damage”

Yahoo News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s upgraded ballistic missile shield became operational on Wednesday, in a “Star Wars”-like extension of its capabilities to outer space where incoming missiles can be safely destroyed.

The Defence Ministry said the U.S.-funded Arrow 3 system, jointly developed by state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries and U.S. firm Boeing Co. , was handed over the Israeli Air Force.   Continue reading “Israel deploys ‘Star Wars’ missile killer system”

AOL

Days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, the State Department has announced a $500 million donation to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund.

The Green Climate Fund helps the world develop clean energy technologies as it adjusts to climate change and works to reverse effects of global warming.   Continue reading “Days before Trump’s inauguration, State Dept. sends $500 million to United Nations climate fund”

Liberty Fight

I’ve been following Rand Paul’s statements on “repealing and replacing Obamacare” for some time. Several of those earlier videos are below.

But one fundamental point that none of the politicians or pundits had directly answered: I would like to know whether or not Trump and these republicans who keep saying “replace” obamacare are going to keep health insurance compulsory in America? No one is being direct and honest about this.   Continue reading “Rand Paul’s Squirrely Answer On Removing Obamacare Mandate & Penalties”

New York Times – by LEO H. CARNEY, June 29, 1986

OCEAN GROVE— THIS seaside hamlet is in transition, trying to incorporate century-old spiritual and civic patterns into the fabric being woven by newcomers.

In 1979, the State Supreme Court found Ocean Grove’s blue laws and form of government unconstitutional. People here called it the ”opening of the gates” and it was, literally and figuratively: A ban on Sunday vehicular traffic was lifted and the chains that had tried to keep the 20th century at bay were removed.   Continue reading “Flashback: Ocean Grove Tries To Keep Old Charm In New Times”

Independent – by Andrew Griffin

Julian Assange will not hand himself in despite a promise to do so if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency, according to one of his lawyers.

WikiLeaks had pledged in a tweet that its founder would agree to be extradited to the US if Barack Obama granted clemency to Ms Manning, which he did in the final hours of his presidency. Mr Assange’s lawyers initially seemed to suggest that promise would be carried through – telling reporters that he stood by his earlier comments – but it appears now that Mr Assange will stay inside the embassy.   Continue reading “Julian Assange will not hand himself in because Chelsea Manning’s release won’t happen immediately, lawyer says”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Oklahoma City, OK — Police officers assaulting or even killing deaf people for being unable to hear their commands is a tragic reality. Pearl Pearson Jr. has learned that reality the hard way. For nearly seven minutes, Pearson, 64-years-old at the time and diabetic was beaten and arrested by police officers as they yelled at him to stop resisting.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers, Eric Foster and Kelton Hayes were the two officers that were involved in what an affidavit claims was a 7-minute altercation.   Continue reading “Elderly Deaf Man Beaten by Cops for 7 Minutes for Not Responding to Their Yelling”

Daily Sheeple – True Activist

Editor’s Note: This woman was not just evicted from any apartment but specifically from a low-income housing complex for senior citizens. Come on. We’re sitting in a country with hundreds of thousands if not millions of empty homes and this woman died over $300 bucks she couldn’t afford to pay for her already low-income housing for seniors in a country where cops arrest people for feeding the homeless and throw their food away???

Sick. This is sick.   Continue reading “Oregon Woman Freezes to Death After Being Evicted for a Measly $338 in Back Rent”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

Multiple studies are finding that trust in central governments and their institutions (including the establishment media) is at an all-time low around the world.

Regarding a recently released global survey titled Leader’s Report: The Future of Government Communications, the Guardian reports:   Continue reading “Surveys Show Global Trust In Government At All-Time Low, Losing Control Worldwide”

CNN

Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, former First Lady Barbara Bush, have both been hospitalized, his spokesman said Wednesday.

Jim McGrath told CNN that the 41st president has been hospitalized at Houston Methodist Hospital since Saturday, and later said in a statement the cause was “an acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia. Doctors performed a procedure to protect and clear his airway that required sedation.”   Continue reading “George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush both hospitalized, spokesman says”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump may take four or five executive actions on Friday, the day he is sworn into office, spokesman Sean Spicer said.

“He’s got a few of them probably in the area of four or five that we’re looking at for Friday,” some of them logistical, Spicer said Wednesday at a news briefing. “Then there are some other ones that I expect him to sign with respect to a couple of issues that have been high on his priority list.”   Continue reading “Trump to take handful of executive actions on Day One: transition”

Daisy Luther

Amid the screaming and wailing of the anti-Trump activists, it’s easy to lose sight of the possible changes that the United States – and even the world – could see when Donald J Trump officially becomes the President of the United States on Friday. Most people want to see the changes as either black or white, but there are many shades of gray in each of them.

Here are nine changes we could see, presented without judgment.   Continue reading “Bane or Blessing? 9 Ways Trump Could Change the World”