MSN

The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook that could end an investigation into its privacy practices, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on the record, a deal that could result in unprecedented government oversight of the company.

The settlement — adopted with the FTC’s three Republicans supporting it and two Democrats against it — could end a wide-ranging probe into Facebook’s mishandling of users’ personal information that began more than a year ago.  Continue reading “FTC votes to approve $5 billion settlement with Facebook in privacy probe”

Fox News

Authorities in Colorado restored an American flag to its place Friday evening after protesters demonstrating outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility pulled down the star-spangled banner and flew the flag of Mexico in its place.

The protesters also removed a “Blue Lives Matter” flag, honoring law enforcement, spray-painted it with the words “Abolish ICE,” then raised the flag upside-down, on a pole next to the Mexican flag, according to local media.  Continue reading “Anti-ICE protesters pull down American flag, raise Mexico flag, vandalize ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag”

Collective Evolution – by Arjun Walia

It’s very confusing as to why poison is still being sprayed in our environment, and how anybody could ever justify the use of these poisons. Justification has come from mass brainwashing, marketing campaigns, and just downright deception. There are many examples of deception when it comes to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. A great example comes from Europe, where the product was recently re-licensed and approved by European Parliament. However, MEPs found the science given to them was plagiarized, full of industry science written by Monsanto. You can read more about that here.  Continue reading “A List of Children’s Foods That Are Contaminated With Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide”

KCRG

PHILADELPHIA (Gray News) – If not for heavy traffic, 54-year-old Eric Hood might have gotten away with a carjacking Thursday night.

Around 9 p.m., a mother of three pulled up outside of a Philadelphia pizza shop. She left the car running with her 7-month-old and 1 and 5-year-olds still on the inside while she went to see their father, who works at the restaurant.  Continue reading “A man stole a car with kids inside, so the dad and bystanders beat him to death, cops say”

Brooklyn Daily Eagle – by Jeffery Harrell

The NYPD is failing to provide body cam footage in instances of police misconduct, according to a new report from a city watchdog agency.

The report, released by the Citizens Complaint Review Board, found that around 40 percent of its requests for the release of body camera footage were not fulfilled in 2019.  Continue reading “Body cam backlog: NYPD lags on making footage public, report finds”

Abel Danger

Ed.’s note: The social control weapon of being charged with “antisemitism” has essentially neutralized opposition to Jewish behavior in the US made apparent by the recent assault on Adam Kelly in Portland, Oregon on June 29, 2019. Once again, we see Jews at the forefront of social agitation with their usual ferocity just as they exact on Palestinians, and this fact is not reported by the complicit media.  Continue reading “Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization”

Human Rights Campaign – by Viet Tran

HRC responds to the U.S. House passage of the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA includes an amendment offered by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) that would codify non-discrimination protections in the military and end the ban on transgender military service.  Continue reading “House Passes National Defense Authorization Act with Amendment to End Trans Military Ban”

AP

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Almost three dozen cannabis plants have been found growing in the flower beds in front of the Vermont Statehouse, police said Friday.

A visitor to the Statehouse alerted police to what turned out to be 34 plants found by officers this week among the cultivated flowers that line the walkway in front of the building in Montpelier.  Continue reading “A Capitol offense? Cannabis found in Statehouse flower beds”

AOL

Accused child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein wired a total of $350,000 to a pair of co-conspirators just days after the publication of a newspaper story alleging he sexually abused dozens of underage girls, federal prosecutors said Friday.

The prosecutors said the payments, which were made after the publication of a bombshell Miami Herald story last November, demonstrate Epstein’s willingness to tamper with witnesses.  Continue reading “Jeffrey Epstein tampered with witnesses: prosecutors”

Mondoweiss

The “Philistine-Palestinian” debate  has been brought to the forefront again, this time by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Seemingly triggered — along with the rest of Twitter — by Linda Sarsour’s comments that “Jesus was Palestinian,” Netanyahu took to the social media platform to highlight what he said was proof that Palestinians were not as connected to the land of Israel and Palestine as Jews are.  Continue reading “Archaeologists on Twitter tear down Netanyahu’s claims that Palestinians have ‘no connection’ to homeland”

LA Times

With dirt, they can weigh hundreds of pounds. The makeshift planter boxes are Peter Mozgo’s creations — roughly 140 of them lined up on the sidewalk to prevent homeless people from pitching tents outside his business.

Mozgo acquires the boxes from a Bell Gardens company that imports ginger, paints them firetruck red, pays $120 per cubic yard for dirt and then uses a $900 trailer to haul it all back to his neighborhood on the south end of downtown Los Angeles.

Continue reading “Desperate to get rid of homeless people, some are using prickly plants, fences, barriers”

Times of Israel

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has dismissed accusations that his country’s ties with Iran are fostering anti-Semitism in Latin America, explaining that Caracas is critical of Israel’s policies, not the Jewish people.

In an interesting twist, Maduro, the political successor of the late president Hugo Chávez, told the press last week that he himself was descended from Sephardic Jewish ancestors. Maduro and his predecessor, Chávez, have widely been regarded as anti-Semitic, in part for their close relations to Iran, vocal criticism of Israel, and rough treatment of Venezuela’s Jewish population.  Continue reading “Venezuela’s ‘anti-Semitic’ leader admits Jewish ancestry”

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Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The Democrat-led House voted Friday to block President Trump from taking military actions against Iran without first seeking Congressional approval – a vote which had the support of more than two dozen Republicans, much to John Bolton’s chagrin.

According to the Washington Post, the vote will likely ensure a showdown with the GOP-controlled Senate over whether the restriction will be included in the final bill negotiated between the two chambers. Of note, the House version contains an exception for cases of self-defense.  Continue reading “House Votes To Block Trump From Iran War As Senate Showdown Looms”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Democrat presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is promising to import at least 700 percent more foreign refugees into the United States if she becomes president.

In her national immigration plan released this week, Warren broke from her economic patriotism agenda wherein she has committed to holding multinational corporations accountable for outsourcing American jobs overseas and shifting to a permanent nationalist trade policy that puts the needs of American workers first.  Continue reading “Warren Promises to Import at Least 700 Percent More Refugees to U.S.”

Middle East Monitor

Former Israeli defence minister Avigdor Lieberman, a possible kingmaker in September’s elections, renewed his incitement against Palestinian citizens on Monday, as reported by the Times of Israel.

Speaking at a campaign trail meeting in Kiryat Ono, the Yisrael Beiteinu chair described the “conflict” as “three-dimensional” – “with the Arab countries, with the Palestinians and Israeli Arabs”, adding that “the third conflict, with Israeli Arabs, is the most difficult”. Continue reading “Lieberman: ‘Our conflict is with the entire Muslim world, with the entire Arab world’”

Gatestone Institute – by Judith Bergman

In January, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, tasked his Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, to “present a global plan of action against hate speech and hate crimes on a fast-track basis”. Speaking at a press conference about the UN’s challenges for 2019, Guterres maintained, “The biggest challenge that governments and institutions face today is to show that we care — and to mobilize solutions that respond to people’s fears and anxieties with answers…” Continue reading “UN Launches All-out War on Free Speech”