RT

A small Italian town has taken to covering crucifixes in the local cemetery and chapel, apparently so as not to offend people of other faiths, Il Giornale reported. Political outrage has ensued.

Pieve di Cento is a town of around 7,000 people, located just north of Bologna in Northern Italy. Although Bologna and the surrounding region is home to a small but growing number of Muslims, the Catholic Church still reigns supreme, with nine out of ten residents calling themselves Catholics.  Continue reading “‘Beyond fanaticism’: Crosses in Italian cemetery covered to avoid offending other religions”

Fox 5

AUSTIN, Texas – State legislators stayed up well into the morning hearing emotional testimony about a proposed abortion ban.

House Bill 896 would criminalize abortion and classify it as a homicide. Women who have abortions could be sentenced to the death penalty.  Continue reading “Texas lawmakers consider the death penalty for abortion”

Visual Capitalist – by Jenna Ross

As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”

While this quote was penned in 1789, his words still ring true today. U.S. taxation has changed over time, but it has always existed in some shape or form for over 250 years.  Continue reading “A History of Revolution in U.S. Taxation”

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BorderPac – by Brian Hayes

The White House is planning on targeting the tens of billions of dollars in “remittance payments” sent by illegal immigrants back to their home countries, in the wake of an ongoing migrant flood at the U.S. Southern border, a senior administration official told reporters Tuesday.

The plans to target remittance payments come amid a broader shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and future executive actions designed to curb illegal immigration. The situation at the southern border has escalated in recent weeks, with thousands of migrants arriving daily to claim asylum.  Continue reading “White House To TARGET Illegal Alien Money Transfers Out of U.S.”

NBC News

Illinois health officials announced Monday that since 2016 they have seen 154 cases of a fast moving, often life-threatening fungus, adding concern about the fungus’ spread.

Monday’s number makes Illinois the state with the second-highest occurrence of Candida auris, an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast that can cause infection and, in some cases, death. New York has had 309 reported cases of the fungus, and New Jersey 104.  Continue reading “154 cases of fast-moving and multidrug-resistant deadly fungus in Illinois”

Yahoo News

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A gas explosion that partially collapsed a North Carolina building and set it ablaze Wednesday morning killed one person and injured more than a dozen others, police said.

Police cars blocked the streets near the explosion in downtown Durham and a thick, acrid smoke hung over the shopping district created from remodeled tobacco warehouses. At least two ladder trucks sprayed blasts of water into the smoldering rubble nearly two hours after the explosion.  Continue reading “Police: 1 dead, 15 injured in North Carolina gas explosion”

Intellihub – by John W. Whitehead

“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has itself become a monster. Continue reading “The making of a monster: We’re all lab rats in the government’s secret experiments”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we’re buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services that help companies guard against credit-card and other forms of fraud, according to the Wall Street Journal.

More than 16,000 signals are analyzed by a service called Sift, which generates a “Sift score” ranging from 1 – 100. The score is used to flag devices, credit cards and accounts that a vendor may want to block based on a person or entity’s overall “trustworthiness” score, according to a company spokeswoman.  Continue reading “We’re All Being Judged By A Secret ‘Trustworthiness’ Score”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

In lieu of the Darwin Award (since the perpetrator did not die), this qualifies as a candidate for the 2019 Stupid Award.

Some bright bulb at Ridgefield High School, a public high school in Ridgefield, Connecticut, had the ingenious idea of setting fire to the school’s rain-soaked baseball field, Tiger Hollow, with 24 gallons of gasoline so as to dry and warm it up before a game. Continue reading “2019 Stupid Award: Connecticut high school sets baseball field on fire to dry it from the rain”

Time – by Steve McMorran

(WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — New Zealand’s Parliament on Wednesday passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military style weapons, less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch left 50 people dead and dozens wounded.

A bill outlawing most automatic and semi-automatic weapons and banning components that modify existing weapons was passed by a vote of 119 to 1 in the House of Representatives after an accelerated process of debate and public submission. Continue reading “New Zealand Has Passed Sweeping Gun Laws Banning Most Semi-Automatic Weapons”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

The FBI is abusing ancestry genealogy websites by tapping into their DNA data. What’s worse, these companies are giving up users’ data under presumed consent that is buried in their terms and conditions, according to several reports.

FamilyTreeDNA is the first company known to be cooperating directly with the FBI to give its agents access to its genealogy database, according to a BuzzFeed report.  Continue reading “Ancestry Websites Giving FBI Access to DNA Data; WikiLeaks Reveals CODIS Database Gifted To Other Countries; DHS Rolling Out Rapid DNA Nationwide”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Martinsburg, WV — Last month, one of the most disturbing videos we’ve ever reported on involving the savage beating of a handcuffed 16-year-old boy was released. Though the incident happened in November of 2018, authorities refused to release it until now because the officer responsible for the most egregious abuse is now headed to court after being indicted.

Former officer Michael Kennedy, 29, of Morgantown, is charged with one count of deprivation of rights under color of law. He is accused of using force so excessive that it resulted in severe bodily injury of the 16-year-old.  Continue reading “Cop Facing 10 Years After Horrifying Video Shows Him Try to Beat Handcuffed 16yo Boy to Death”

RT

In a much heralded scientific breakthrough a group of astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope have unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole.

The major announcement was made in simultaneous news conferences in Washington, Brussels, Santiago, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo as the European Commission, European Research Council, and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project detailed the findings of their mission.  Continue reading “Scientists reveal first ever IMAGE of black hole”

The American Mirror – by Martin Walsh

The crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has gotten so bad that smugglers are bragging to the media about how much money they are making by sneaking illegal aliens into America.

While speaking with The Guardian, Germán, a client recruiter for human smugglers in Guatemala, boasted about how he has been making tens of thousands of dollars by smuggling illegal aliens into the U.S.  Continue reading “SMUGGLER BRAGS: ‘Never been easier’ to sneak illegals into US”

The New Observer

The recently-completed American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Jewish lobby has just completed its annual summit in Washington—and was packed full of lies and liars, according to president of the Council for the National Interest Philip Giradi.

Writing in an article on the Unz Review, Giraldi—who heads up the non-profit, non-partisan advocacy group aligned with The Council for the National Interest Foundation, founded in 1989 by former Congressmen Paul Findley and Pete McCloskey—said that “numerous American politicians addressed the gathering and it is completely reasonable to observe that the meeting constituted the most powerful gathering of people dedicated to promoting the interests of a foreign nation ever witnessed in any country in the history of the world.”  Continue reading “AIPAC Jewish Lobby “Full of Lies and Liars” Says Council for the National Interest”

Daily Mail

Officials in east China are forcing its street cleaners to wear GPS-tracking bracelets in order to monitor idle workers.

More than 500 sanitation workers in Nanjing, Jiangsu province have been required to wear the smart bracelets, which would track their location in real time and send out an audio alert if the wearer stopped moving for more than 20 minutes.  Continue reading “Chinese officials force street cleaners to wear GPS-tracking bracelets while on duty to make sure they are not slacking off”