ABC 7 News

The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude of Tuesday’s quake at 7.0 and said it had a depth of 53 miles (87 kilometers). Its epicenter was 13 miles (22 kilometers southwest of Irapa, Venezuela.   Continue reading “7.0 earthquake strikes coast of Venezuela, buildings evacuated in capital”

Health Nut News – by Erin Elizabeth

Coconut oil has been used by people for thousands of years both externally and internally. But last year, it got some negative press. However recently, Harvard professor Karin Michels, a professor at the department of epidemiology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, took her feelings about the little fruit to a whole new level.  Continue reading “CBS: Coconut oil is “pure poison,” says Harvard professor”

Mercury News – by Ethan Baron

Federal investigators found San Jose tech giant Cisco discriminated against American workers by favoring visa-carrying foreign nationals, according to a new report.

The U.S. Department of Labor concluded that Cisco “secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens for certain jobs and paid the visa holders at a lower rate than their American counterparts,” legal-news website Bloomberg Law reported Monday, citing unnamed sources said to be familiar with the probe.   Continue reading “H-1B visa-reliant Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens’: report”

True Pundit

According to the Washington Times, the Crime Prevention Research Center’s John Lott has produced a study that offers some “facts” that the far-left will probably despise.

97.8 percent of mass shootings happen in gun-free zones, Lott’s latest report finds.   Continue reading “Script Flipped: 97.8% of Mass Shootings Happen in Gun-Free Zones”

RT

A plane is stuck in mid air over New Jersey, attempting to land after blowing two of its tires off during takeoff.

The plane reportedly took off around 10.50 am on Tuesday from New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, bound for London Luton Airport in the UK. Two of the aircraft’s tires blew off, and the plane is now circling Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport in Massachusetts, preparing to make an emergency landing, ABC7 reportedContinue reading “Plane blows tires at New Jersey airport, prepares for emergency landing”

The New Observer

The Jewish-lobby controlled media in America and Europe have completely blacked out news of a new $5.5 billion “aid package” signed into law last week by US President Donald Trump, even though news of the handout was greeted triumphantly and prominently in the Israeli media.   Continue reading “Another $5.5bn to Israel; Billions More Coming—But Jewish-Controlled US Media Hushes it Up”

Fox News

The destruction of a Confederate statue in the heart of North Carolina’s flagship university by hundreds of protesters on Monday night was “unlawful and dangerous,” university leaders said.

Carol L. Folt, chancellor of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, condemned the actions of a crowd of protestors who took down the memorial known as “Silent Sam,” which was erected in 1913.   Continue reading “UNC calls out protesters’ ‘unlawful and dangerous’ actions after Silent Sam statue taken down”

Times of Israel

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman met Monday with US President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton in Jerusalem, and praised the Trump administration for giving Israel “significant maneuvering room” to operate against its enemies.

The two met in Jerusalem following Bolton’s meeting earlier in the day with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which the two bemoaned the “wretched” Iran nuclear deal and called for stepped-up global pressure on Tehran to curb its military activities.   Continue reading “Liberman thanks US for giving Israel ‘room to maneuver’ against enemies”

Medium – by Caitlin Johnstone

Are you as sick and tired as I am of all those tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy nutters who express skepticism whenever the kind and beneficent US intelligence agencies bestow us with urgent information about a new country in need of regime change? Do you want to get rid of that kooky fringe 74 percent of Americans who believe in a “Deep State” which controls the elected government?

Well you’re in luck, bucko! I happen to have compiled right here a list of six simple steps that our compassionate government and fearless media can take to rid America of these looney toon paranoid conspiracy theorists once and for all:   Continue reading “How To Get Rid Of Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists”

Breitbart – by Kristina Wong

HALL OF HEROES, Pentagon — Brandon Ray Seabolt, 53, said as soon as the team of U.S. and Afghan commandos stepped into the courtyard of a compound that December 17, 2015 night in Helmand, Afghanistan, he knew something was wrong.

There was an open door in front of them. “There’s never an open door” in Afghanistan, he said.   Continue reading “Civilian Contractor Awarded Medal of Valor After He and Another Fought Off Taliban”

Breitbart – by Charlie Nash

Citizens of Gainesville, VA, are reportedly being made to pay for Amazon’s $172 million power line installation, after local protesters successfully fought the lines being installed through their properties and a Civil War battlefield.

“For a little while earlier this year, it seemed as though 87-year-old Rosie Thomas and her neighbors in the small town of Gainesville, Va., had beaten Amazon. Virginia’s largest utility, Dominion Energy Inc., had planned to run an above ground power line straight through a Civil War battlefield—and Thomas’s property—to reach a nearby data center run by an Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary,” reported Bloomberg. “After three years of petitions and protests in front of the gated data center, skirmishes punctuated by barking dogs and shooing police, Dominion agreed to bury that part of the line along a nearby highway, at an estimated cost of $172 million.”   Continue reading “Virginians Will Pay for Amazon’s Power Lines”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Amidst a tightening economic noose and now nearly weekly war of words with the Trump administration, Iran has just rolled out with its first 100% domestically-produced fighter jet.

Iranian state television aired footage of President Hassan Rouhani sitting in the ‘Kowsar’ fighter aircraft, according to Tasnim News Agency, in an unveiling ceremony held after the jet completed a successful test flight in Tehran on Tuesday, which is National Defense Industry Day in the country.   Continue reading “Iran Unveils New Domestic-Made Fighter Jet Amid Rising Military Tensions”

Reuters

Hackers linked to Russia’s government tried to target the websites of two right-wing U.S. think-tanks, suggesting they were broadening their attacks in the build-up to November elections, Microsoft said.

The software giant said it thwarted the attempts last week by taking control of sites that hackers had designed to mimic the pages of The International Republican Institute and The Hudson Institute. Users were redirected to fake addresses where they were asked to enter usernames and passwords.   Continue reading “Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Activist David Hogg talks of his generation of gun controllers in a NYMag cover story, then thinks of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and says, “Move the f**k off the plate and let us take control.”

NYMag indicates Hogg is wearied by the “old” Democrats who keep hanging onto their offices. He mentioned Pelosi in particular, and said pointedly, “Nancy Pelosi is old.”  Continue reading “David Hogg to ‘Old’ Nancy Pelosi: ‘Move the F**k off the Plate and Let Us Take Control’”

Yahoo News

A police officer in Argentina is being called “beautiful” for breastfeeding a malnourished baby while working at a children’s hospital.

A photo of officer Celeste Jaqueline Ayala nursing the distressed infant while on duty at the Sister Maria Ludovica Children’s Hospital in Buenos Aires on Aug. 14 caught fire on Facebook, racking up 110,000 shares after it was posted by witness Marcos Heredia.  Continue reading “Police officer who breastfed crying baby in a hospital is hailed a hero”