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Archive: TWFTT 4-17-18
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
As the United States military and its allies continue to escalate conflicts in Syria and throughout the Middle East, an anti-war group is carrying out nationwide protests on Tax Day to oppose war funding.
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC), made a statement last week calling for an end to war and proposing a massive movement of tax resistance. The organization has coordinated Tax Day protests since 1983 and their message is more important now than it has ever been. Continue reading “Thousands Refuse to Pay Up on Tax Day Because it Funds War—Give Money to Charity Instead”
Democratic state lawmakers have a new target as they aim to tighten New Jersey’s already strict firearms laws: “ghost guns.”
A new bill that began advancing in the Democrat-controlled state Legislature on Monday would prohibit the purchase of firearm parts used to make these untraceable homemade guns. Continue reading “Now New Jersey is looking to ban ‘ghost guns’”
A King County sheriff’s detective who was captured on video pointing a handgun at a motorcyclist during a traffic confrontation last summer has been suspended for five days without pay.
But the punishment announced by Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht during a news conference Monday at Sheriff’s Office headquarters didn’t result from pulling the gun, but stemmed from the detective’s lack of courtesy and unbecoming conduct. Continue reading “King County sheriff’s detective who pulled gun on motorcyclist is suspended”
The Times of Israel reports: Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday told the army’s top brass to prepare for an Iran-led threat coalescing on Israel’s northern border, which he said includes the Lebanese Armed Forces. Continue reading “Israel: Lebanese Army Cooperating with Hezbollah, Threatens Jewish State”
Update (10:30 pm ET): Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on local TV Tuesday that Saudi Arabia would consider sending troops to Syria if they were part of a coalition, per Sputnik.
“We’ve proposed America to send forces of the Islamic Coalition to Syria in order to fight against terrorism,” he said. Continue reading “Saudi Arabia Would Send Troops To Syria As Part Of “Islamic Coalition””
Update: Interfax reports that the Russian military has discovered a rebel-owned chemical weapons lab in Douma.
The Russian Defense Ministry says that components for Mustard Gas production were discovered along with cylinders of chlorine at a alb belonging to militants in Douma. Continue reading “US Says Russia ‘Hacked’ Syrian Attack Evidence As Russia Finds Rebel Chemical Weapon Lab”
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
Well, I can say they are at least being consistent, though very stupid. Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced that they will be destroying their inventory of semi-automatic rifles that they refer to as “assault weapons” due to their new policy change.
Previously, Dick’s removed the Bushmaster Ar-15 from their website following the Sandy Hook shooting. Continue reading “Stupid Is As Stupid Does: Dick’s Sporting Goods To Destroy Their AR-15 Semi-Automatic Rifles Inventory”
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre have sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation, accusing him and his website InfoWars of engaging in a campaign of “false, cruel, and dangerous assertions.”
The two lawsuits filed on Monday in Travis County, Texas, where Jones resides, are likely the first defamation cases concerning Sandy Hook brought against Jones, who has called the shooting a hoax, said Mark Bankston, a Houston-based lawyer for the parents. Continue reading “Sandy Hook parents sue conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation”
A while back, I asked you to tell me your favorite non-fiction prepping books. (Here’s the list of books that were recommended for the Reader’s Choice Survival and Preparedness Library.) But since life can still be productive with a little entertainment, some readers also recommended prepper fiction that they had learned from. Continue reading “The Reader’s Choice Library: Prepper Fiction You’ve Gotta Read”
Durham City Council, North Carolina, has voted to abolish international exchanges with Israel, under which officers receive “military-style training.” The council wants to prevent the “militarization” of law enforcement.
Late on Monday, after a heated debate in the city council, the members voted 6 to 0 in what one of the activist groups, Jewish Voice for Peace, described as “the first city to prohibit police exchanges with Israel.” The group was one of those which pushed forward the move together with the Durham2Palestine coalition – a movement opposing police militarization in the US and calling to stop supporting human rights abuses in Israel. The activists launched a petition in fall of last year demanding that the city authorities “immediately halt” any such partnerships with Israeli forces. Continue reading “‘Military-style training’ ban: Durham becomes ‘first US city’ to halt police exchanges with Israel”
Use of the term ‘false flag’ is often met with raised eyebrows and accusations of conspiracism. But false flags are a very real and very present feature of geopolitics — and denying that is simply denying reality.
Last week, the United States, along with the United Kingdom and France, bombed Syrian government targets, ostensibly in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack which was carried out one week before in the city of Douma. Continue reading “False flags are real – US has a long history of lying to start wars”
Veteran UK reporter Robert Fisk went to Syria’s Douma and heard that residents shown in notorious “gas attack footage” actually suffered from oxygen loss due to hiding in trash-filled shelters, and not from chemicals.
If you feel overwhelmed by MSM coverage of the “chemical attack” in Douma, here’s your voice in the wilderness. Robert Fisk, a veteran UK foreign correspondent with the Independent, and one of the few Western reporters to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, went to Douma to go beyond what the Western media portrayed in early April as the “Bashar Assad regime’s chemical attack.” Continue reading “‘Oxygen starvation, not gas’: Veteran UK reporter Fisk doubts MSM narrative on Douma ‘chem attack’”
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is criticizing the California governor for rejecting proposed border duties for the National Guard. The Trump administration said Monday that Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown rejected terms of the guard’s initial deployment to the Mexican border; a state official said nothing was decided. Continue reading “Trump criticizes California governor on troops at border”
The banks of the Shikma stream in the northwestern Negev is particularly beautiful in the short section that crosses the dunes. On the bank of the stream is a wall of golden wreath wattle, now blooming in intense yellow. Continue reading “Total Rubbish: Why Is Israel So Filthy?”
New York Times – by Maya Salam
Harry Anderson, an actor who starred as the kindhearted, zany Judge Harry Stone on the long-running NBC comedy “Night Court,” was found dead early Monday at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 65.
The Asheville Police Department, which confirmed the death, did not release a cause but said no foul play was suspected.
North and South Korea are in talks to announce a permanent end to the officially declared military conflict between the two countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official.
Ahead of a summit next week between North Korean premier Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, lawmakers from the neighboring states were thought to be negotiating the details of a joint statement that could outline an end to the confrontation. Continue reading “North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war”
Earlier this month Courthouse News reported that retailers across the country are being sued for using a “corrective education” program that is tantamount to extortion.
Retailers like Walmart, DSW, Bloomingdale’s, Kroger and Abercrombie & Fitch use the Corrective Education Company’s (CEC) restorative justice program to “reform generations” of accused shoplifters. Continue reading “Law enforcement and retail theft company profit from 50 billion record database”
The Jewish lobby in America has forced through more than 11,000 changes to US school textbooks issued by National Geographic, Prentice Hall, Five Ponds Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and McGraw-Hill over the past several years, it has emerged. Continue reading “Jews Force 11,000 Pro-Israel Changes to US School Textbooks”