Year: 2019

News Wars – by Dan Lyman

The Illinois House of Representatives has passed a bill mandating that all publicly-traded companies headquartered in the state will need to have a woman and an African-American sitting on its corporate board by 2021.

Failure to comply could result in fines of up to $300,000.  Continue reading “Illinois House Passes Bill Requiring Women, African-Americans on Corporate Boards”

The College Fix – by Lexi Lonas

A federal court permitted a lawsuit to proceed against an Illinois school district that allows high school boys to use girls’ locker rooms, restrooms and showers in order to accommodate transgender students.

But girls who don’t want to be seen naked by boys got bad news: The judge ruled that they have no right to “visual bodily privacy” if the government says so.  Continue reading “School district that forced girls to shower with boys can’t get out of Title IX lawsuit”

CNet  – by Katie Collins

The UK government is taking a hard line when it comes to online safety, moving to establish what it says is the world’s first independent regulator to keep social media companies in check.

Companies that fail to live up to requirements will face huge fines, and senior directors who are proven to have been negligent will be held personally liable. They may also find access to their sites blocked.  Continue reading “UK to unleash internet safety czar on Google, Facebook, Twitter”

LA Times – by George Skelton

To plagiarize T.S. Eliot, April is the cruelest month. But not for the reasons the poet wrote. Rather, for all the taxes.

And there are bills in the Legislature to make taxes sting even worse.

By April 10, Californians must pay their local property taxes. Five days later is the deadline for filing state and federal income tax returns. Also, the state and the feds want any initial pre-tax payment that’s required on current earnings.  Continue reading “Sacramento wants to tax soda, tires, guns, water, pain pills, lawyers, car batteries…”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Following former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s Sunday resignation due to her “abysmal failure” to curb the crisis at the southern border (indeed, the number of migrants and asylum seekers pouring into the US has reached unprecedented levels this year), President Trump appears to be embarking on a purge of all Nielsen’s allies and direct reports – starting with Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles. Continue reading “Trump Fires Head Of Secret Service”

Daily Mail

A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to prison for her role in a $54 million Ponzi scheme that was the biggest scam involving clean energy in U.S. history.

Amanda Knorr, 35, was one of three people charged over the green energy scheme that defrauded more than 300 investors from around the country.  Continue reading “Woman is sentenced for $54 million ‘green energy’ Ponzi scheme”

Natural News – by Ethan Huff

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel – who, for all intents and purposes, looks suspiciously like a transgender – has decided to launch a full-scale crusade against the First Amendment.

According to reports, Nessel is planning to create a “hate crime unit” as part of Michigan’s government, the purpose of which won’t necessarily be to prosecute “hate crimes” – which aren’t a real thing anyway, by the way – but to actually police the speech and thoughts of Michigan residents to make sure they align with official government ideology.  Continue reading “Michigan government to create “thought criminal” database to flag those who contradict all official lies”

RT

In response to Washington’s decision to put Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on the terrorist list, the Iranian Supreme Security Council declared the US a “terrorist government” while calling the US CENTCOM a terrorist group as well.

Following what it called an “unlawful and unreasonable action” of the US, Tehran officially declared the US “a terrorist government and the US Central Command known as CENTCOM as well as all its affiliates a terrorist group,” a statement of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme National Security Council headed by President Hassan Rouhani said. Continue reading “Iran’s Supreme Security Council puts US troops on its terrorist groups list”

RT

The US has designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a “terrorist organization,” accusing the elite force of financing and promoting terrorism in the region. Tehran is now eyeing a mirror response for the American military.

A statement from Donald Trump released Monday claimed: “This unprecedented step, led by the Department of State, recognizes the reality that Iran is not only a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but that the IRGC actively participates in, finances, and promotes terrorism as a tool of statecraft.”   Continue reading “US designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorist organization – Trump”

Common Dreams – by Jake Johnson

With a War Powers resolution that would end U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia’s assault on Yemen currently on President Donald Trump’s desk, the Saudi-led coalition on Sunday reportedly bombed a residential area in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, killing at least 11 and injuring dozens more.

According to local medical officials, most of those killed were young children after Saudi airstrikes hit a Yemeni school.  Continue reading “‘Another Horrific Attack’: US-Backed Saudi Coalition Bombs Yemen School, Killing Mostly Children”

Reuters

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A warplane attacked Tripoli’s only functioning airport on Monday as eastern forces advancing on Libya’s capital disregarded global appeals for a truce in the latest of a cycle of warfare since Muammar Gaddafi’s fall in 2011.

The fighting threatens to disrupt oil supplies, fuel migration to Europe and wreck U.N. plans for an election to end rivalries between parallel administrations in east and west. Continue reading “Battle rages for Libya’s capital, airport bombed”