The Anti-Media – by Darius Shahtahmasebi

Despite what even some alternative media commentators might argue, the Syrian war is about oil, gas, and money. A secret 1983 intelligence report has confirmed that America’s distaste for the Assad family in Syria has always revolved around pipeline disputes — and this alone has given the U.S. cause to go to war with Syria.

Most disturbingly, the report revealed that the United States urged Saddam Hussein to attack Hafez al-Assad in Syria because of the closure of Iraq’s oil pipeline.   Continue reading “Intelligence Report Reveals US Urged Saddam Hussein to Attack Syria”

Activist Post – by Bernie Suarez

It’s not always in life where you can narrow down the future to a simple question or two, but in the case of American politics you can do just that. It should be in our interest to enjoy life and live life with a free and healthy mind. Knowing what determines the future and having a solid foundation for predicting it is very much a part of that mental health. Just take a close look at the past 4 presidential administrations that followed Ronald Reagan’s eight years in office and you’ll understand exactly where we are historically and what roads are before us.   Continue reading “Answer This Question And You’ll Easily Understand The Next 4 Years”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The crackdown has begun.

In a blog post by Scott Spencer, director of product management for sustainable ads, posted on Wednesday, Google said it has banned 200 publishers from accessing its Adsense advertising service for posting fake news stories. Google said it had cracked down on sites which contained 1) Ads for illegal products; 2) Misleading ads; 3) Bad ads on mobile; 4) Ads trying to game the system and, 5) Promoting and profiting from bad sites. But the emphasis was on the so-called “fake news” category which has dominated media buzz for the past two months.   Continue reading “Google Permanently Bans 200 “Fake News” Sites”

Prepper Fortress – by Ronald Bailey

At first, I thought someone was making a really stupid April Fool’s joke, but apparently it is true that the Texas Distinguished Scientist of 2006, University of Texas ecologist Eric Pianka told a meeting of the Texas Academy of Science that 90 percent of his fellow human beings must die in order to save the planet. A very disturbed Forrest M. Mims III — Chairman of the Environmental Science Section of the Texas Academy of Science, writing at The Citizen Scientist — reported:   Continue reading “To Save the Planet, Kill 90 Percent of People Off, Says UT Ecologist”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

An illegal immigrant fearful Trump is going to “take him out” bit his roommate’s ear off Monday and threatened to go on a mass murder spree, saying it would make him “happy.”

The man is currently on the run.   Continue reading “Illegal Fearing Trump Presidency Bites Roommate’s Ear Off, Says ‘I Gotta Kill So Many People’”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump was to start signing directives on Wednesday to begin building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and crack down on U.S. cities that shield illegal immigrants, moving quickly on sweeping and divisive plans to curb immigration and boost national security.

The Republican president is also expected to take steps in the coming days to curb legal immigration, including executive orders restricting refugees and blocking the issuing of visas to people from several Muslim-majority Middle Eastern and North African countries including Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen.   Continue reading “Trump to act on Mexico border wall, target U.S. ‘sanctuary cities’”

Sputnik

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — If the city of Chicago cannot get its wave of killings under control, the US government will send in its own federal forces to restore law and order there, President Donald Trump announced in a Twitter message.   Continue reading “US Government Ready to Send Federal Force to Chicago to End Murder Wave”

Orrazz

Lawmakers in five states have introduced legislation that would enshrine the “Right to Repair” electronics, meaning manufacturers will have to sell replacement parts to independent repair shops and consumers and will also have to make their diagnostic and service manuals public.

The bills are squarely aimed at the “authorized repair” model that creates aftermarket monopolies dominated by the manufacturers themselves. For example, Apple has never authorized an independent company to repair iPhones, even though hundreds of companies do so every day (its authorized repair program is only for Mac computers).  Continue reading “Five States Are Considering Bills to Legalize the ‘Right to Repair’ Electronics”

RT

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the army will stop at nothing to defeat the enemy in conflicts to come, and they won’t stop until the adversary “waves a white flag.” He also slammed attempts by third parties to meddle.

Speaking at a two-day security conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Lieberman, leader of the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party and long-time ally of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will fight till the bitter end and not settle for half-measures.   Continue reading “Army will go ‘full force’ in future wars, collapsing EU shouldn’t lecture – Israeli defense chief”

Tax Revolution Institute – by Alex Vidal

Let’s hope you were able to get in all your binge watching before the new year, as online streaming entertainment may very well be the next thing that we enjoy slapped with a tax.

Many cities across the country have found that taxes from utilities have taken a hit with the rise in the number of people who have decided to “cut the cord” from cable companies. During the second quarter of 2016 alone, over 812,000 people cancelled their paid television subscriptions and switched to various streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and SlingTV, which only require internet access.   Continue reading “The Netflix Tax: Coming to a Screen Near You”

New York Times – by DAVID STREITFELD and JACQUELINE WILLIAMS

SAN FRANCISCO — Peter Thiel is a billionaire, the biggest Donald J. Trump supporter in Trump-hating Silicon Valley and, above all, someone who prides himself on doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.

So it makes perfect sense that right after President Trump proclaimed that “the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America,” Mr. Thiel was revealed to have become in 2011 a citizen of a small country on the other side of the world: New Zealand.   Continue reading “Peter Thiel, Trump Adviser, Has a Backup Country: New Zealand”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: This seems to be a repeating theme now, raise your hand if you are surprised. What did you honestly expect? When you bring them into your midst they are going to fulfill their agenda. You want to talk about giving power back to the people? This would be priority number 1 and it just vanished right before your eyes.

U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin isn’t jumping on the Republican bandwagon to audit the Fed.
Continue reading “US Treasury Sec: Mnuchin Backs Fed Independence And Signals Reform Isn’t Priority”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: trump has now signed ten executive orders which are increasingly becoming the new “law of the land”. When obama did it, everyone was up in arms, when trump does it, it is okay. Where is the outrage here people? You are reeds shaking in the wind, blowing whichever way the wind blows.
Continue reading “Dictator In Chief: Trump Signs Executive Orders And “Memorandas” Establishing “Law””

Survival Dan 101

There has been endless discussion over the last few years about how we’re heading toward a cashless society and what that will mean. But never has it been as close as it is now. Numerous countries across the globe have begun actively taking steps to limit the use of currency and are rapidly initiating controls on its use.

In conjunction with government policies, some banks are beginning to charge negative interest rates, actually charging customers for depositing their money. Others have begun refusing to allow that cash be stored in safe deposit boxes. Across the board, banking institutions and government are working hand-in-hand to shut down the use of cash.  Continue reading “The Cashless Society Is Almost Upon Us”

News Observer – by Abbie Bennett

Does former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory need protection? Do all current and former public officials? At least one state senator thinks so.

After a video was posted on Facebook Friday showing a group of people following McCrory during a trip to Washington, D.C., for inaugural weekend, chanting “Shame!” and calling him a bigot, Sen. Dan Bishop of Charlotte says he’ll introduce legislation to protect public officials.   Continue reading “North Carolina wants to make it a crime to threaten, intimidate, or retaliate against politicians”

Courthouse News – by Molly Willms

MADISON, Wis. (CN) – Juvenile offenders in Wisconsin claim in court that they are treated “like dogs, in cages” by guards who liberally use pepper spray without cause and are quick to resort to solitary confinement.

In a federal class-action lawsuit filed Monday in Madison, the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin and the Juvenile Law Center claim that at least 15 to 20 percent of residents at Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls are locked in solitary confinement at any given time.   Continue reading “ACLU Decries Treatment of Wisconsin Teen Inmates”

RT

Almost two years after Jane started ‘personal development’ course Access Consciousness, she realized she was no longer “thinking for herself.” Nearly £20,000 out of pocket and horrified at the group leader’s claim “children are sexy,” although not to be abused, she cut herself loose.

Access Consciousness claims to be about self-improvement – promising to assist people with their health, weight, money, sex, relationships and anxiety by helping members, known as ‘Accessories,’ to become more “conscious.”   Continue reading “‘Scientology knock-off’: Whistleblower exposes ‘cult’ that thinks ‘children are sexy’”