CNBC

Oil prices could soon skyrocket to more than $100 a barrel amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, one oil analyst told CNBC Friday.

Crude futures surged to highs not seen since December 2014 earlier in the week, underpinned by greater geopolitical uncertainty in Syria and elevated concerns over the prospect of imminent military action by Western powers.   Continue reading “Oil prices could rally to $100 a barrel if Middle East tensions ‘really kick off,’ analyst says”

Herb.com

As of Thursday, April 5th, 89 people have been hospitalized in the city of Chicago and surrounding neighborhoods after ingesting synthetic cannabis known as K2 or Spice, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH).

Among the patients admitted for treatment, the largest numbers came from Chicago (24) and Peoria County (24) all of which experienced severe bleeding when they were admitted. The IDPH has reported two deaths since March 30th, with the first reports of poisoning beginning on March 10th.   Continue reading “89 hospitalized and 2 dead in Illinois after using synthetic marijuana”

AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s pardon of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney (all times local):

1:25 a.m. President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says in a statement Friday that Trump has issued the pardon.   Continue reading “Trump pardons Cheney aide Scooter Libby”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

A federal judge sentenced a Jamaican man with a lengthy history of criminal convictions and deportations to more than 12 years in prison following his conviction for aggravated illegal re-entry. The sentence follows the man’s conviction in a New York court for attempted murder of a police officer.

A federal court judge in New York sentenced Ronald Greenland, 55, to 151 months in federal custody. Of that, 100 months of the sentence is ordered to be served consecutively to his recent sentence from a New York state court. The state court sentenced Greenland to 40 years to life following his conviction for attempting to kill a police officer, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  Continue reading “Jamaican Gets 12 Years for Illegal Re-Entry and 40-to-Life for Attempted Cop Killing”

Breitbart – by John Nolte

To protect their students from mass-shooters, a Pennsylvania school district spent $1,800 to arm all 500 of its teachers with a tiny, 16-inch baseball bat.

“It is the last resort,” Millcreek Schools Superintendent William Hall told CBS, “but it is an option and something we want people to be aware of.”

Hall admits the bats are primarily “symbolic,” but that they were handed out in reaction to the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting.  Continue reading “School Arms Teachers with Tiny Baseball Bats to Defend Against Mass Shooters”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

Wolfgang Halbig and Professor James Fetzer have teamed together to organize a class-action law suit for the truth on the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Here’s the description on the lawsuit’s website, Truth Be Told:  Continue reading “Join a class-action law suit for truth of Parkland school shooting!”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Just days after the US deployed its Truman Carrier Strike Group (and 7 warships) to The Mediterranean, The Pentagon reports that
the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston Churchill entered the Navy’s area of operations that includes the Mediterranean as tensions remains high over a possible military strike against Syria.

The Winston S. Churchill departed Naval Station Norfolk April 5, 2018, for what The Pentagon stresses was “a routine deployment.”  Continue reading “A Second US Tomahawk-Capable Destroyer Enters The Mediterranean”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As the blame game over the alleged chemical attack in Syria escalates ahead of what is expected to be an imminent, if contained, air strike campaign by the US, UK and/or France against Syria, on Friday morning, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow had “irrefutable evidence” that the attack – which allegedly killed more than 40 people in an April 7 chemical weapons strike on the former rebel outpost of Douma  -was staged with the help of a foreign secret service.  Continue reading “Russia Has “Irrefutable Evidence” UK Staged Syrian Chemical Attack”

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

Washington, D.C. — An environmental activist, Milagra de Mier, known as Mila, who had traveled from Key-West, Florida to Washington D.C. to drop off an anti-GMO mosquito petition with nearly 200,000 signatures to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was found dead in her hotel pool on Tuesday morning. Authorities arrived at the Cambria Hotel & Suites Washington, D.C. Convention Center on Tuesday morning after a witness found an unconscious woman floating face down inside the rooftop pool and called 911, according to Fox 5.  Continue reading “Anti-GMO Mosquito Activist in DC to Deliver Petition to EPA Found Floating Dead in Hotel Pool”

RT

A Palestinian is dead and more than 150, including a Red Crescent volunteer, have been injured at protests at the Gaza border. The Great Return March has now seen 35 Palestinians killed and more than 1,000 wounded by Israeli fire.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society reports that 153 people have been injured, with 63 of those hit by live ammunition. Fifty-nine have been treated for tear gas inhalation, and 24 hit directly by tear gas canisters. Seven people have also been wounded by shrapnel. A Red Crescent volunteer was shot in the knee in Rafah.   Continue reading “1 dead, more than 150 injured as IDF fires on Palestinians at #GreatReturnMarch”

Breaking Israel News

The organizations that created the original Trump-Cyrus Coin are now minting a special edition “70 Year Redemption Coin” focused on generating an international effort to build the Third Temple. The timing, coming just before Israel’s 70th birthday, is essential, and the organizers see the Temple as the only hope in averting the developing multinational conflict looming on Israel’s northern border.   Continue reading “New Special Edition Trump-Temple Coin Minted for Israel’s 70th Anniversary-The End of the Exile”

CNN

The 911 recordings are gut-wrenching.

“I probably don’t have much time left.  Tell my mom I love her, if I die,” the caller, a 16-year-old teen, tells police dispatchers.

The boy was inside a gold 2002 Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of his school, pinned under the third-row folding seat.   Continue reading “Trapped and dying in a minivan, desperate Ohio teen calls 911 for help that doesn’t find him”

USA Today

California’s effort to get 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote has now enlisted 100,000 teenagers, according to information released on Friday by Secretary of State Alex Padilla.

“This is a big milestone,” Padilla said. “I’m optimistic it’s going to translate into action at the ballot box.”   Continue reading “100,000 California teenagers are now pre-registered to vote”