Month: August 2019

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Late Monday President Trump signed an executive order imposing a full economic embargo against Venezuela after a week ago the White House began signaling it could seek to “quarantine” and fully “blockade” the Maduro regime if the president doesn’t immediately hand over power of his own accord.

The executive order freezes all government assets in the United States and prohibits all transactions by any Venezuelan officials, in what constitutes the first major expansion of sanctions targeting a nation in the western hemisphere in over three decades.  Continue reading “Trump Imposes Total Economic Embargo On Venezuela”

Washington Times – by Mark Meckler

A new survey conducted by The Washington Post and Mexico’s Reforma newspaper shows that Mexicans are sick and tired of migrants traveling through their nation in an attempt to get to the United States. As people from Central America flood their nation, more than 6-in-10 Mexicans complain these migrants are stealing jobs and benefits from Mexicans. A majority wants to deport them.  Continue reading “Migrant troubles in Mexico”

Breaking Israel News

Two shootings, one in Ohio and another in Texas, left at least 31 people dead and at least 50 more wounded. A total of four mass shootings in one week left the country reeling, asking difficult questions about this horrifying epidemic of violence.  Continue reading “Sanhedrin Attributes Mass Shooting Epidemic to Lack of Adherence to Noahide Laws”

Yahoo News

(Bloomberg) — As mass shootings revive the U.S. debate over gun policy, the Supreme Court is weighing whether to go forward with a Second Amendment showdown for the first time in a decade.

The justices in January said they would hear a challenge to New York City rules that sharply limited where licensed handguns could be taken while locked and unloaded. Three city handgun owners said the regulations were the most extreme firearm-transportation restrictions in the country.  Continue reading “Supreme Court Weighs Second Amendment Showdown After Mass Shootings”

KTLA 5

A San Diego Police Department sergeant arrested by fellow officers last week on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex was found dead in his Carmel Valley home after missing a court appearance, authorities said.

Joseph Ruvido, 49, was found unresponsive about 4:24 p.m. and ultimately pronounced dead, the San Diego Police Department said in a written statement.  Continue reading “San Diego Police Sergeant Accused of Soliciting Minor for Sex Found Dead in Home, Suicide Suspected”

Middle East Monitor

Two Israeli ministers will speak at a conference this week which will also honour a notorious right-wing rabbi who praised a 1994 massacre of Palestinian worshippers in Hebron, reported Haaretz.

Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich will speak at the event on Thursday, during which a prize will be awarded to Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh.  Continue reading “Israel ministers to speak at event honouring far-right rabbi”

AOL

The Galveston Police Department issued an apology on Monday evening after an image was circulated on social media showing two mounted officers, both white, leading a handcuffed black man behind their horses, attached by what looked like a rope or leash.

Adrienne Bell, a Democratic candidate running for Congress in Texas’ 14th District, posted the image to Facebook, saying the scene had invoked “anger, disgust and questions from the community.”  Continue reading “Texas Mounted Officers Apologize For ‘Poor Judgment’ After Leading Man Behind Horse By Leash”

IJR – by Houston Keene

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced that he would “limit” his work in August after having surgery to remove a part of his lung damaged in the 2017 assault on him by his neighbor.

In a tweet published on Monday morning, Paul revealed that he had lung surgery over the weekend to remove a part that was damaged when he was assaulted by his neighbor — Rene Boucher — two years ago.  Continue reading “Rand Paul to Limit August Senate Activities After Partial Lung Removal Surgery Stemming from 2017 Assault”

Breitbart – by John Binder

The idling of General Motors’ (GM) transmission plant in Warren, Michigan, is expected to cost about 16,000 jobs in the state over the next two years, analysis finds, as hundreds of laid-off American workers have already been uprooted.

Last week, GM CEO Mary Barra idled the 78-year-old Warren Transmission plant, leaving about 335 American workers laid off from their jobs and forcing them to either find new work in the area or uproot their lives to take jobs at the automaker’s other plants.  Continue reading “GM Michigan Plant Closure Projected to Leave 16K Americans Jobless”

BuzzFeed News – by Ryan Broderick

Less than an hour before killing at least 20 people and injuring some 26 more in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, the suspected shooter posted a hate-filled manifesto to the anonymous message board 8chan.

The El Paso suspect is the third shooter this year to post such a screed to the site before carrying out an act of horrific violence. And as the nation reels from another in a string of mass shootings this year, calls to shut down 8chan have never been louder.  Continue reading “The Problem Isn’t 8chan. It’s Americans.”

American Partisan – by NC Scout

Originally written a year ago, I continue to return to the piece due to its importance as well as prophetic warning. Leftist militias are not only on the rise but currently incredibly active in both an underground function and an overt direct action phase. But that said, again, I wrote it a year ago, and encountered a bit of flak from guy in the ‘militia’ crowd who said I was wrong.    Continue reading “So, What Role Will Militias Play In The ‘Upcoming Unpleasantness’, Anyway?”

Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration froze all Venezuelan government assets Monday after he cited foreign involvement in supporting the illegitimate socialist administration of Nicolás Maduro by Russia and China on Aug. 1 and hinted at further action.

The ban blocking American companies and individuals from doing business with the Maduro regime and its top supporters, which takes effect immediately, is the first of its kind in the western hemisphere in over three decades, following an asset freeze against Gen. Manuel Noriega’s government in Panama and a trade embargo on the Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua in the 1980s.  Continue reading “Trump Moves Ahead to Freeze Maduro Regime’s Assets After Citing Billions from Russia, China”

Epoch Times – by Rick Fisher

While some experts assume that China and Russia would never enter a formal military alliance against the United States and its friends and allies, the two nuclear neighbors are now actively increasing the depth and scope of their military cooperation in ways that are improving their joint capacity to threaten U.S. security.

In less than a year, China and Russia have engaged in ground force, naval, and aerial exercises, that while relatively small in scale, have established the basis for more sophisticated joint-force exercises in the future.  Continue reading “Chinese-Russian Military Cooperation Targets US Security”