Daily Mail

A fascinating collection of photos have resurfaced showing the hardships faced by German-Americans at the brutal height of the First World War.

As Europe was ravaged by fighting, German immigrants in the US suffered harassment, internment, lynchings – and even the humiliation of being tarred and feathered.

Although a little-remembered part of history today, America was wracked by the fear and paranoia that swept from coast to coast during the Great War.   Continue reading “Tragic plight of Germans in America during First World War”

Consortium News – by Robert Parry

Declassified records from the Reagan presidential library show how the U.S. government enlisted civilian agencies in psychological operations designed to exploit information as a way to manipulate the behavior of targeted foreign audiences and, at least indirectly, American citizens.

A just-declassified sign-in sheet for a meeting of an inter-agency “psyops” committee on Oct. 24, 1986, shows representatives from the Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department, and the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) joining officials from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Department.   Continue reading “The Legacy of Reagan’s Civilian ‘Psyops’”

Yahoo News

It’s hard to believe that four decades have passed since one of rock’s best-known tragedies occurred. On Oct. 20, 1977, a chartered Convair CV-240 plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd — in the midst of a headlining tour and having released their fifth album, Street Survivors, three days prior — crashed in a Gillsburg, Miss., swamp after running out of fuel.

The toll was dire. Three band members (Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines, Steve’s older sister) perished; the others were all severely injured. Drummer Artimus Pyle, one of the few survivors able to walk, staggered out for help and was allegedly shot at by an alarmed farmer. Record label MCA scrambled to replace Skynyrd’s Street Survivors album cover, which eerily forecast the accident by depicting the band members engulfed in flames.   Continue reading “The legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, 40 years after plane crash tragedy”

Daily Mail

Mandalay Bay shooting hero Jesus Campos was pressured into giving his only interview to Ellen DeGeneres because the giant company that owns the Las Vegas casino feared he would spill the beans about the shooting timeline if he was grilled by real journalists, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.

MGM is worried that families of the 58 people murdered as well as many of the 546 injured  in the Mandalay Bay massacre will launch lawsuits potentially worth billions of dollars against the company, sources tell DailyMail.com.   Continue reading “Mandalay Bay owner insisted security guard Jesus Campos appear ONLY on Ellen and not be grilled by TV hardhitters fearing his answers to timeline questions could result in massive lawsuits from victims of the massacre”

The Electric Intifada – by Ali Abunimah

A city in Texas is requiring residents to verify that they do not boycott Israel in order to receive aid to rebuild from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.

Civil liberties defenders are calling the measure a violation of the US Constitution.

The Electronic Intifada has found that several major cities in Texas are also requiring similar verification from people who want to do business with them.   Continue reading “No hurricane aid if you boycott Israel, says Texas city”

Jon Rappaport

PBS Frontline (2/23/2016): “The opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis in American history…with overdoses from heroin and other opioids now killing more than 27,000 people a year…” (Note: prescription opioids are now a very significant gateway-drug leading addicts into heroin.)

CBS News (8/1/2017): “Nearly 92 million U.S. adults, or about 38 percent of the population, took a legitimately prescribed opioid like OxyContin or Percocet in 2015, according to results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.”   Continue reading “Insider reveals how the opioid crime network operates”

Reason – by C.J. Ciaramella

A news report from Alabama offers two textbook cases of how sweeping powers of civil asset forfeiture allow police to seize people’s property with near impunity.

Under civil asset forfeiture laws, police can take property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even if the owner is not charged with a crime. Law enforcement and prosecutors say the practice is a vital tool to disrupt drug trafficking and other organized crime by targeting ill-gotten gains. But in state after state, horror stories have emerged of regular people having their possessions expropriated and their lives turned upside down.  Continue reading “Alabama Police Use Asset Forfeiture to Ruin an Innocent Small Business Owner”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: If you have been a reader of a site for awhile you have seen the articles, videos and photos of the damage in Syria and the Middle East caused by the war against “terrorists“. Of course, this is a manufactured war and the terrorists are really paid mercenaries. But the results are the same…

Why destroy Syria?
Continue reading “This Is What Victory Over ISIS Looks Like”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Yes, even ol retired GW is playing a role. Trump is a globalist, that should be obvious by now for every red blooded American. Out of Trump’s own mouth he said, “Hey, I’m a nationalist and a globalist”.

Trump has kept all the wars overseas going and has increased them as well. Pre-election Trump hated the UN and NATO. After the election he loves those guys! Then let’s not forget ol Trumpie even helped create “The Global Center For Combating Extremist Ideology” which involved at least 50 other nations. So do not tell me Trump is not a globalist. He most definitely is a globalist even by his own admission.

Former President George W. Bush delivered a public repudiation of President Donald Trump’s political identity, suggesting many aspects of the current administration are fueling division in the United States and around the world.

The former president defended the ideas of globalism, free trade, and free markets as well as foreign interventionism around the world in a speech at the George W. Bush Institute.

“We cannot wish globalism away,” Bush said, noting that the United States must sustain “wise and sustained global engagement” for the future of the country.

Bush indirectly accused Trump of fueling dangerous ideologies that threatened the unity of the United States and global stability, spending a large portion of his speech complaining about social ills in the country.

Source: George W. Bush Emerges to Bash Trump, ‘Nativism’: ‘We Cannot Wish Globalism Away’ – Breitbart

Continue reading “George W. Bush Emerges To Bash Trump, ‘Nativism’: ‘We Cannot Wish Globalism Away’”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Everything is great! The sky is bluer than ever and the pump sparkles like never before. What happened? We received a new President. Now he has not done anything yet to actually change policy, but by gosh he is the reason for the improvement…

Only 222,000 Americans filed for jobless claims LAST WEEK. Forget about the pesky 94 million working age Americans who are not in the labor force, they don’t count says big brother!

Continue reading “Jobless Claims Are The Lowest Since 1973”

Daily Mail

The NYPD has told a court that it can’t reveal what happened to money seized by its officers under civil forfeiture laws because its database is broken.

Responding to a freedom of information request in Manhattan Supreme Court, city attorney Neil Giovanatti said that the PD was unable to extract the information from its Property and Evidence Tracking System (PETS).

He added that technicians can’t even figure out how to back up the database, which cost the city more than $25.5 million in 2009.    Continue reading “Judge lambasts ‘insane’ NYPD claim that they can’t reveal how much cash they’ve seized from people because their $25.5 million database is ‘broken’”

News Crux – by James Hawk

The world’s bottled water giant, Nestlé, has been allegedly extracting water from Canadian towns on expired permits. The Switzerland-based company is attempting to defend its stance, saying that the permits expired due to the changing water management rules which complicated the process.

But that’s not what the real story is.

A Canadian Government official told VICE News that Nestle is exhausting the public resource, cashing on hefty profits, while increasing plastic pollution every passing day.  Continue reading “Nestle continues extracting water from Canadian towns without renewing expired permits”