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“This is long overdue and needed,” says Foreign Affairs Chairman Royce
Washington, D.C. – Today, the president signed into law the Taiwan Travel Act (H.R. 535). Championed by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), the bipartisan legislation encourages visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels. Continue reading “Taiwan Travel Act Becomes Law”
International pop star Lorde is scheduled to perform in Tampa, Florida on April 11th and Miami, Florida on April 12th for thousands of adoring fans.
But Florida politicians are now trying to pressure Tampa and Miami to cancel these concerts. Continue reading “Do not cancel Lorde’s Florida concerts because of anti-free speech laws!”
“Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.” (George Orwell, “1984”)
Welcome back, George. Things are playing out as you predicted. Continue reading “The London police now have a firm definition of thought-crime – And they’re going to use it”
The Mind Unleashed – by Claire Bernish
With honey bee populations still in peril from one or several of a litany of hotly debated causes — neonicotinoid insecticides, changing climate, and more — Walmart appears to have joined the race for a technological solution to a potential looming disaster, filing a patent for robotic, drone bees earlier this month.
Technically called pollination drones, Business Insider points out, the tiny bee imposters’ capabilities would theoretically include crop pollination — managed remotely through sensors and cameras allowing precision maneuverability between crops and monitor, as well as to monitor that pollination was both sufficient and successful. Continue reading “Raising Countless Eyebrows, Walmart Files Patent for Autonomous Bee Drones”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
San Luis Obispo County, CA — Terrifying video of an in-custody death has recently been released confirming police officers tortured a man for days in a restraint chair and then laughed as he spent his final moments alive suffering in agony in his jail cell.
The footage, obtained by the San Luis Obispo Tribune, not only shows the graphic death of Andrew Holland in January 2017 but it also proves cops told the public a story that did not happen.
Continue reading “Cops Torture Mentally Ill Man in Restraint Chair for 2 Days, Laugh as He Dies in Front of Them”
A 93-year-old former nurse honoured for her services to the NHS was left in a hospital corridor in urine-soaked clothes for six days.
Enid Stevens was taken to A&E in St James’s Hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire, with a spinal fracture.
After a six-hour wait, the MBE nurse was left in a cubicle on her own for another five hours in soaking wet clothes after becoming incontinent. Continue reading “Grandmother, 93, and ex-nurse is left in a hospital corridor for SIX DAYS soaked from head-to-toe in her own urine”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday required Arizona to continue to issue driver’s licenses to the so-called Dreamers immigrants and refused to hear the state’s challenge to an Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands of young adults brought into the country illegally as children.
The case centered on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created in 2012 under Democratic former President Barack Obama that Republican President Donald Trump already has sought to rescind. Those who signed up for DACA are shielded from deportation and given work permits. Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court rejects Arizona challenge to ‘Dreamers’ program”
ARVADA, Colo. — Keep your eyes peeled for hidden treasure the next time you’re in Arvada.
There are dozens of hand-painted rocks hiding all over the city waiting to be found. Continue reading “‘Cop Rocks’ hidden all over Arvada to prevent crime”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Google may be the world’s most popular search engine, but it has also been the subject of a number of accusations in recent years that it is purposefully censoring searches and influencing results. In the case of search results related to the Parkland shooting, that alleged influence is becoming even more apparent.
This week, the staff at The Free Thought Project began testing various keywords related to the Parkland shooting on different search engines, and we noticed that if our search terms were controversial, the first page of Google results was filled with entirely different information than the other search engines. The information showed on Google was often not relevant to our search, and the results always seemed to support the official narrative. Continue reading “Google Caught Red-Handed Censoring Search Results Asking Questions About Parkland Shooting”
Have you noticed the hypocritical double standard in our government and media about election interference? They boldly accuse Russia of meddling with our election process but deny any wrongdoing while they admit their own manipulations of the elections of other countries.
When Vladimir Putin was interviewed on NBC by Megyn Kelly, he talked about how the US meddled in elections in other countries, but how the American government was outraged when Russia was accused of doing it. This was cut from the interview that was aired but you can watch it here. Continue reading “Hypocrisy: Why Is It OK When the US Meddles in Elections but Not When Russia Does It?”
Incumbent Russian leader Vladimir Putin has secured a landslide victory in the presidential election with over 99% of the ballots counted.
Vladimir Putin is now leading with 76,6 percent of the vote, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Russian Central Election Commission. Pamfilova announced the preliminary results during a news conference on Monday morning. Continue reading “Vladimir Putin decisively re-elected as Russian president after 99% of votes counted”
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was feted in Australia with a military honor guard and 19-gun salute Monday as part of a state visit that has provoked protests over her response to her country’s violent campaign against Rohingya Muslims.
Suu Kyi arrived in Sydney over the weekend for a summit of Southeast Asian leaders and her state visit officially began Monday, when she was welcomed to Parliament House in Canberra. Her visit comes as she faces international criticism over what has become Asia’s worst refugee crisis in decades. Continue reading “Myanmar’s Suu Kyi welcomed to Australia amid protests”
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Two freight trains collided and derailed shortly before midnight, injuring four people and igniting a fire that forced nearby residents to evacuate, authorities said Monday. Nearby residents were evacuated “out of an abundance of caution after the crash was reported at 11:14 p.m., Lexington Fire Lt. Jessica Bowman told The Associated Press. Bowman said she couldn’t confirm what substance had spilled and was burning, but the people were allowed to return home once safety risks were ruled out.
Police told the Scott County School superintendent, Kevin Hub, to open schools as emergency shelters, and buses were sent to the neighborhood to collect people without transportation. Hub said he could see smoke billowing from the scene and they were prepared to receive hundreds of people. The Red Cross even arrived with snacks. Shortly after many residents arrived, they were able to return home. Continue reading “4 people injured when trains collide, derail in Kentucky”
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania teenager who was missing for almost two weeks along with the 45-year-old man who frequently signed her out of school without her parents’ permission was returned home and the man was in custody after the two were found in Mexico, authorities said.
Federal agents and Mexican authorities found 16-year-old Amy Yu and Kevin Esterly in Playa del Carmen on Saturday and they were flown to Miami, authorities said. Police said the girl, who was in good health, arrived on Sunday in Philadelphia and was taken home to Allentown, 60 miles (97 kilometers) northwest of the city. Esterly was awaiting processing in Miami. The married father of four will face a charge of child custody interference when he arrives in Pennsylvania. Continue reading “Teen girl home, man in custody after both located in Mexico”
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.
People who would be put on the restricted lists included those found to have committed acts like spreading false information about terrorism and causing trouble on flights, as well as those who used expired tickets or smoked on trains, according to two statements issued on the National Development and Reform Commission’s website on Friday. Continue reading “China to bar people with bad ‘social credit’ from planes, trains”
Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
Parkland students are rallying in Israel and Dubai to demand stricter gun control laws in America.
“If we can get the international body on our side then that will make it so much easier to make change back at home,” one student said. Continue reading “Parkland Students Rally in Israel and Dubai to Demand Gun Control in America”
An explosion that injured two men Sunday night could’ve been triggered by a tripwire, said Austin Police Chief Brian Manley, after a fourth blast in the Texas city in little over two weeks.
Authorities are working under the belief that the latest incident is connected to the previous three explosions in the city, Manley said. At this point, information is preliminary, he said early Monday morning, and police have yet to fully process the scene.
Continue reading “4th Austin explosion may have been triggered by tripwire, police say”
Waking Times – by Phillip Schneider
In 2010, it was found that roughly 100,000 Americans die each year from prescription drugs alone. When it comes to opioids, the number of deaths is in the tens of thousands while a quarter of patients who were given a short-term prescription transitioned to long-term use.
Now, according to a recent Harvard University analysis, doctors who prescribe these pain-killers are being paid huge sums of money from their manufacturers. Continue reading “Harvard Investigation Shows Doctors are Paid Huge Sums to Prescribe Addictive Opiods”