Month: June 2017

Mail.com

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Iran’s parliament and the shrine of its revolutionary leader on Wednesday, killing at least two people, wounding dozens and igniting an hours-long siege at the legislature that ended with four attackers dead.

The Islamic State group claimed the attacks, marking the first time the Sunni extremists have taken responsibility for an assault in Shiite-majority Iran. The militants are at war with Iranian-backed forces in Syria and Iraq, and view Shiites as apostates.   Continue reading “Islamic State claims attacks on Iran’s parliament, shrine”

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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Banco Santander is paying the symbolic sum of 1 euro to take over local rival Banco Popular, a long-troubled lender whose shares lost more than half of their value over the past week.

In a statement on Wednesday, Santander said it will take over all the stock in Banco Popular, which had 305,152 shareholders as of the end of March. It will raise around 7 billion euros ($7.9 billion) in a share issue “to reinforce the balance sheet of Banco Popular.”   Continue reading “Spain’s Santander bank buys failing local rival for 1 euro”

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BERLIN (AP) — A civil rights group is asking German authorities to issue an arrest warrant for the recently appointed deputy director of the CIA over claims she oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects 15 years ago.

The nonprofit European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights submitted a legal brief to German federal prosecutors Tuesday, alleging that Gina Haspel allowed the waterboarding of prisoners at a secret U.S. detention center in Thailand.   Continue reading “Rights group asks Germany to arrest CIA deputy director”

Yahoo News

NEW YORK (AP) — A crackdown on illegal immigration under President Donald Trump has driven some poor people to take a drastic step: opt out of federal food assistance because they are fearful of deportation, activists and immigrants say.

People who are not legal residents of the U.S. are not eligible to take part in what is formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.   Continue reading “Fear of deportation drives people off food stamps in US”

Waking Times – by Isaac Davis

In a world where defense budgets are astronomical and wars of occupation and destabilization never end, political leaders in the UK and in Europe want you accept street level terror as the new everyday normal. The attacks are unstoppable, they say, and the world must embrace this hopelessness with faith that the government is doing all it can to create a better, safer world. Run, hide, and call the authorities, for you are helpless in this reality, so they say. But who creates and sustains this reality?   Continue reading “3 Questions You’re Never Supposed To Ask After A Terrorist Attack”

The Daily Caller – by Ryan Pickrell

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has instructed the North Korean air force to be ready to bomb enemy aircraft carriers.

North Korea recently held a combat flight contest for the commanding officers of the Korean People’s Army Air and Anti-Air Force, an event designed to make “all the flight commanding officers a match for a hundred fighters capable of destroying any targets, including enemy aircraft carriers,” according to the Korean Central News Agency.   Continue reading “Kim Jong-Un Tells Air Force To Be Ready To Bomb US Aircraft Carriers”

The Daily Caller – by Susan Smith

One cannot help but experience a bit of schadenfreude what with major parts of England being destroyed all around the country, over and over again.  One thinks automatically, that every time it happens there, it doesn’t happen here.

I wonder, though, if there is a reason why it keeps happening over there, and not here with quite so much frequency.  What if one of the tourists walking along the Westminster Bridge, just one person, had a gun, or on the London Bridge, or at the concern in Manchester, (just to name a very few recent terrorist attacks), what a difference it would have made.   Continue reading “How To Disarm Your Citizens: A Brief History Of Gun Control In England”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Shortly after imposing a naval blockade in the immediate  aftermath of the Qatar diplomatic crisis, one which left the small Gulf nation not only politically isolated and with severed ties to its neighbors but potentially locked out of maritime trade and crippling its oil and LNG exports, on Tuesday SkyNews Arabia reported that Saudi Arabia has given Qatar a 24 hours ultimatum, starting tonight, to fulfill 10 conditions that have been conveyed to Kuwait, which is currently involved in the role of a mediator between Saudi and Qatar.   Continue reading “Saudi Arabia Gives Qatar 24 Hour Ultimatum As Analysts Warn Of “Military Confrontation””

Breitbart – by John Binder

A new proposal by a Republican lawmaker would sell United States citizenship to foreign nationals to fund the building of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

In a new plan by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), current legal immigration policy would be changed to fund President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall construction plans.   Continue reading “GOP Proposal Would Sell Green Cards to Pay for Border Wall”

Breitbart – by Thomas D Williams, PhD

The Canadian government may legally remove children from families that refuse to accept their child’s chosen “gender identity” thanks to new legislation passed by the Ontario province.

Bill 89, “Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017,” was approved on June 1 by a vote of 63 to 23.   Continue reading “New Ontario Law Enables Gov’t to Seize Children from Parents Opposing Gender Transition”

Natural News – by Isabelle Z

Are there any bad memories in your life that you wish you could simply erase? Researchers might have found a way to do exactly that thanks to the discovery of the enzyme in the brain that plays a pivotal role in storing long-term memories. They believe that this enzyme could be targeted in order to essentially wipe distressing memories out of the minds of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, like many things that sound too good to be true, this development is raising red flags left and right.   Continue reading “U.S. scientists have developed a “memory wipe” enzyme that can erase memories forever”

The New York Times – by Natasha Singer

In San Francisco’s public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders and less like bureaucrats.

In Maryland, Texas, Virginia and other states, Netflix’s chief, Reed Hastings, is championing a popular math-teaching program where Netflix-like algorithms determine which lessons students see.   Continue reading “The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools”

Reuters

Russia scrambled a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet on Tuesday to intercept a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber which it said was flying close to its border over the Baltic Sea, Russia’s Defence Ministry said.

Russian air defense systems detected the bomber at around 1000 Moscow time as it was flying over neutral waters parallel to the Russian border, the ministry said in a statement.  Continue reading “Russia scrambles jet fighter to intercept U.S. bomber over Baltics”

Reuters

Standing on the bluffs of Roma, Texas on a May afternoon two border patrol agents look out over the meandering Rio Grande River that separates Mexico from the United States and recall a time when the scene was far less tranquil.

Last fall, during the waning months of the Obama administration, hundreds of immigrants crossed the river on rafts at this point each day, many willingly handing themselves over to immigration authorities in hopes of being released into the United States to await court proceedings that would decide their fate.   Continue reading “Despite Trump vow to end catch and release, he is still freeing thousands of migrants”