Month: July 2018

Sky News – by Bethany Minelle

London mayor Sadiq Khan’s Greater London Authority has approved a request for the flight after thousands signed a petition and a crowdfunding campaign raised more than £16,000 to get the six-metre inflatable off the ground.

Strict rules are in place for the flight from Parliament Square Gardens, with the balloon being tethered to the ground and restricted from floating higher than 30m (98ft).  Continue reading “Trump ‘angry baby’ blimp gets green light to fly over London during president’s visit”

Yahoo News

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the U.S. Army has moved in recent weeks to discharge immigrant recruits and reservists who enlisted through a program that promised them a path to citizenship.

Some of these service members say they weren’t told why they were being discharged. Others say the Army told them they’d been labeled as security risks because they have relatives abroad or because their background checks were pending.  Continue reading “US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Grif

The 2017 Tax Act (formerly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act), signed into law late last year, was welcomed by wage earners and business alike that saw it as the fulfillment of President Trump’s campaign pledge to ease the burden of federal income tax. The law reduced the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, and created new income brackets that generally reduce the amount of federal income tax levied on wage earners. And yet, the new tax law has a darker, and for some, a more sinister side.

As of January 1, 2018, all non-profit 501(C)( 3) charitable organizations, including churches, which for decades were exempt from paying income tax, are no longer tax exempt.   Continue reading “Churches & Other Non-Profits to Pay Income Tax on Employee Benefits under New Law”

The Daily Sheeple

When a vehicle thief refused to stop a mother’s SUV after she demanded he do so, she opened fire on him, shooting him in the head.  The mother’s two toddlers were still in the back of the car at the time of the attempted carjacking and kidnapping.

The incident took place at about 10 pm in Dallas, Texas outside a Shell service station in the 100 block of West Camp Wisdom Road. The mother had gone into the gas station when a man climbed into the driver’s seat and tried to drive away, according to reporting done by NBCDFW5. Continue reading “Mom Open Fires On Man Stealing Her Car With Her Kids Inside”

The Daily Caller – by Evie Fordham

A woman in Texas was arrested Friday for allegedly selling her 7-year-old son to two men.

Texas Department of Public Safety officials took Esmeralda Garza, 29, into custody while she was allegedly in the process of selling two other children, her 2-year-old and 3-year-old daughters, officials said according to KIII-TV. Authorities were in her home with a warrant to search for drugs when they came upon the alleged sales of children.  Continue reading “Texas Mother in Custody For Selling Young Children”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to drain the swamp in Washington, DC and claims to be for the people, so much so that he just encouraged imposing yet another tax on American citizens’ backs which will result in raising corporate retail prices online. A new Internet collection tax will allow states to collect — (steal, rob, plunder) [taxation is theft] you get the point — from any retailer across the U.S. who sells products online. In short, the newly approved law will kill small businesses.   Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court Silently Passes Law — Internet Tax Collection — Will Kill Small Businesses”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

The United States Postal Service has been hit with a $3.5 million judgment for putting an image of the wrong Statue of Liberty on a postage stamp, a report says.

Federal Judge Eric Bruggink, of the Washington DC-based United States Court of Federal Claims, sided with Las Vegas sculptor Robert Davidson who charged the Post Office with using an image of his homage to the Statue of Liberty on its 2011 Forever stamp, according to the New York Times.   Continue reading “U.S. Post Office Hit with $3.5 Million Fine for Putting Wrong Statue of Liberty on Stamp”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In its latest push to contain a recent surge in violent crime in the Bronx and other outerboroughs, New York City is spending nearly $2 million to deploy “mobile trauma units” featuring counselors and peacekeepers – or what the city calls “violence interrupters” – to try and calm worried locals and work with local gangs to try and reduce incidences of violence, according to the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading “NYC Is Sending Buses Of ‘Peacekeepers’ To Crime-Plagued Neighborhoods”

ATT.net

July 05– WASHINGTON-Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, one of the most scandal-plagued Cabinet officials in U.S. history, is leaving the agency, President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday.

“I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,” Trump said in a tweet. “Within the agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this.”   Continue reading “Embattled EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid Scandals”

The Hill

In the ongoing saga between the United States and Chinese telecom giant ZTE, President Donald Trump has directed Secretary Wilbur Ross and the U.S. Department of Commerce to grant a temporary, 30-day reprieve for ZTE, enabling it to procure vital American parts and software so it may resume its operations.

In essence, this latest action is nothing less than a stay of execution. The seven-year export ban imposed by the Commerce Department’s Security and Enforcement Bureau on April 18 plunged the company into crisis resulting in the immediate shutdown of its assembly lines and curtailment of its operations.   Continue reading “Trump gave the giant Chinese cellphone maker a stay of execution”

Antonius Aquinas

Two recent articles* have again demonstrated that the greatest “terrorist” entity on earth is not the bogymen – Russia, China, Iran, North Korea – so often portrayed by Western presstitudes and the American government, but the United States itself!  Ever since World War II, the US has been the most militaristic, far surpassing all of the Communist and dictatorial regimes combined.   Continue reading “The United States of Terror!”

Thomas Paine National Historical Association

If by “socialist” we mean a state-supported welfare system to ensure the poor and working poor lead comfortable lives, then yes. Paine supported a social welfare state.

If by “socialist” we mean that wealth is produced by the working classes (in his day the farmers and the mechanics) and that they should reap the benefits of that wealth, then yes as well. (Paine had a labor-theory of value).   Continue reading “Was Thomas Paine a socialist?”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

Actor James Dean of Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden and Giant, died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, when he was only 24 years old.

Dean’s untimely death romanticized him into a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement. Hollywood celebrated him by making him the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list.  Continue reading “James Dean faked his death? – died at age 95 in Canada”