Fox News

At least three Venezuelan troops have abandoned their posts at the country’s border with Colombia as confrontations with protesters over incoming humanitarian aid grow more violent by the day.

The soldiers have abandoned their watch near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge at the Venezuela-Colombian border near Urena, where the Venezuelan National Guard fired tear gas at residents on Saturday, BBC reports.   Continue reading “Venezuelan troops abandon posts amid violent clashes with protesters at Colombian border”

Bloomberg

Average tax refunds are down 17 percent so far in the first filing season under President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul, according to the IRS, prompting the Treasury Department to caution that the data contain aberrations and could be misleading.

Direct-deposit refunds dropped for the third week in a row this filing season to $2,703, from $3,256 a year earlier, for the seven days through Feb. 15, the IRS reported late Friday. The total number of refunds was down 26.5 percent to 23.5 million, it said.   Continue reading “U.S. Tax Refunds Plunge 17% as Treasury Ratchets Up Defense”

The Weather Channel

Days of heavy rain in the Deep South flooded roads and triggered landslides and evacuations as residents prepared for what could be a very dangerous weekend of flooding.

More than 100 people were evacuated from the Mississippi town of Bruce on Friday as flooding spilled from the nearby Skuna River, city alderman Jimmy Hubbard told the Associated Press, adding that the scene near the town of 2,000 is “total chaos.”  Continue reading “Evacuations in Mississippi, Tennessee as Deep South Swamped by Heavy Rain, Flooding and Deadly Landslides”

Rolling Stone

About eight years ago, Peter Frampton started to notice that his ankles felt a little tight in the morning. He initially dismissed it as one of the many pains that comes with getting older, but as time passed, his legs began feeling weak as well. He tried to ignore the signs that something was wrong until four years ago when a fan kicked a beach ball onto the stage at one of his concerts and he fell over when he tried to kick it back. “My legs just gave out,” he says. “We all joked, ‘He’s fallen and he can’t get up.’ But I was embarrassed.”   Continue reading “Peter Frampton Talks Degenerative Muscle Disease Diagnosis, Farewell Tour”

Bloomberg

Israel hopes to be the first country to land a privately financed spacecraft on the moon as “Beresheet” — Hebrew for Genesis — lifted off aboard one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets early Friday.

The $100 million joint venture between SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. was financed mostly by Jewish philanthropists including Morris Kahn, SpaceIL’s president and a founder of Amdocs Ltd., and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. The probe ended its “ride share” on SpaceX after 38 minutes and, if all goes according to plan, will land in the Sea of Tranquility on April 11, the project’s leaders said several days before the launch.    Continue reading “Israeli Private Moon Probe Lifts Off on Space X Rocket”

American Greatness – by Conrad Black

The most immense and dangerous public scandal in American history is finally cracking open like a ripe pomegranate. The broad swath of the Trump-hating media that has participated in what has amounted to an unconstitutional attempt to overthrow the government are reduced to reporting the events and revelations of the scandal in which they have been complicit, in a po-faced ho-hum manner to impart to the misinformed public that this is as routine as stock market fluctuations or the burning of an American flag in Tehran.    Continue reading “The Greatest Constitutional Crisis Since the Civil War”

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Daily Mail

A schoolboy successfully made a nuclear fusion reactor in his family’s spare room aged just 12.

Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, now 14, is believed to be the youngest person to build a functioning nuclear fusion reactor.   Continue reading “Teenage boy becomes the youngest person to build a working nuclear fusion reactor”

The Political Insider – by Rusty

Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, two of the Democrat party’s top contenders for the White House in 2020, have expressed support for providing reparations for black Americans affected by slavery.

Harris, the Senator from California, was asked directly if she is “for some type of reparations” during a radio interview last week, to which she responded, “Yes, I am. Yes I am.”   Continue reading “Top Democrat Presidential Hopefuls Say They Support Reparations for Slavery”

Middle East Monitor

Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian revealed yesterday that the Israeli occupation authorities issues permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners, Felesteen.ps reported.

The Hebrew University lecturer also revealed that the Israeli military firms are testing weapons on Palestinian children and carry out these tests in the Palestinian neighbourhoods of occupied Jerusalem.   Continue reading “Israel pharmaceutical firms test medicines on Palestinian prisoners”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Iowa state lawmakers are looking to crack down on businesses hiring illegal aliens in the wake of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts’ alleged murder by an illegal alien.

A measure by 26 Iowa state Senate Republicans would strip businesses who knowingly hire illegal aliens of their business licenses and would mandate that employers use the E-Verify system — which weeds out illegal aliens from taking American jobs — before receiving any Iowa tax dollars in the form of economic development incentives.   Continue reading “Iowa Looks to Punish Businesses Hiring Illegals After Mollie Tibbetts Death”

South Front – by J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, Edwin Watson

There has been considerable speculation in recent months concerning reasons why the S-300 air defense systems supplied to the Syrian Arab Army by the Russian Federation have yet to fire a shot in anger at Israeli aircraft encroaching on its airspace and launching ordnance against a variety of targets on Syria’s territory. This video attempts to explore a reasonably complete range of explanations. On the one hand, the S-300 batteries in Syria operate under a handicap of operational and political restrictions. However, it would be a mistake to believe that just because missiles are not being launched, that the weapons in question are ineffective.   Continue reading “Why S-300 In Syria Not Being Used Against Israeli Aircraft”

Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman cemented a $10 billion deal for a refining and petrochemical complex in China on Friday, meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping who urged joint efforts to counter extremism and terror.

The Saudi delegation, including top executives from state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco, arrived on Thursday on an Asia tour that has already seen the kingdom pledge investment of $20 billion in Pakistan and seek to make additional investments in India’s refining industry.   Continue reading “Saudi Arabia strikes $10 billion China deal, talks de-radicalisation with Xi”

KRQE

SAN JUAN COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Three more counties have declared themselves Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties. San Juan, Lincoln and Eddy Counties have all adopted the resolutions, Tuesday.

At the San Juan County meeting, hundreds of people filled the room. These counties now join Quay, Curry, Union and Socorro Counties who pledge not to enforce certain new gun laws if they pass the state legislature.    Continue reading “Additional counties declare themselves ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties’”

USA Today – by Chris Woodyard

After years of seeing posted highway speeds creep up around the country, perhaps it’s no surprise that a California legislator would propose the ultimate in motoring freedom: No limits at all.

State Sen. John Moorlach’s vision for a Golden State version of Germany’s famed Autobahn — a stretch of pavement where you can drive as fast you want — is just the latest in a series of moves by states to put the pedal to the metal when it comes to speed limits.  Continue reading “Is the American Autobahn next? How states are pushing highway speeds past the limit”

The Organic Prepper – by Daisy Luther and J. G. Martinez D.

If you want a totalitarian regime, you have to take extra steps to control the populace. And that’s just what Venezuela has done with the advent of a biometric ID called Carnet, loosely translated as The Fatherland Card. Carnet is closely related to the dystopian Chinese social credit program and in fact, uses much of the same technology to track and spy on citizens.

And it’s been in the works for a long time.   Continue reading “The Brutal Truth About the CARNET: The Venezuelan Biometric ID Also Known as the Fatherland Card”

Buzz Feed News

The family of a woman who left the US to join ISIS is now suing President Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Attorney General William Barr to prove that she is an American citizen and has the right to return home.

Hoda Muthana secretly traveled from her home in Alabama to Syria when she was 19, and BuzzFeed News exclusively profiled her journey to radicalism in 2015. Now 24 and the mother of a toddler, Muthana has fled ISIS, and she told the Guardian on Sunday she regrets the ignorance she had about the terrorist group. She wants to return home, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday, and she’s prepared to surrender to authorities for criminal prosecution if she does. Continue reading “A Woman Who Left The US As A Teen To Join ISIS Is Suing Trump To Come Home”