Sputnik

Despite China being notorious for its pervasive trademark squatting, the move has sparked an ethical debate about the Trump family’s overall business ambitions and the balance of power in trade talks.

China has granted another five trademarks to Ivanka Trump as trade talks with her father’s administration are in full swing, while the previous ones, approved earlier in January, cover a whole range of products and services from wedding dresses to brokerages. Four trademarks, including child care centres, sunglasses and chic party outfits, were approved on Sunday, while a fifth, dealing with brokerage services, charitable fundraising and art valuation, were approved earlier, on January 6, according to online trademark records.   Continue reading “China Greenlights Five New Trademarks for Ivanka Trump Amid Ongoing Trade Talks”

The Globe and Mail

A schizophrenic man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus was granted an absolute discharge Friday.

That means he will no longer be subject to any conditions or monitoring to ensure he takes his medication.   Continue reading “Man who beheaded passenger on Greyhound bus granted freedom”

NBC 4 News

A tractor-trailer that came apart struck the entrance to the subway station on 6th Avenue and 23rd Street Monday morning — prompting a partial street closure in Lower Manhattan.

According to NYPD, the trailer detached from the truck’s cab.    Continue reading “Tractor-Trailer Comes Apart, Strikes Subway Entrance in Lower Manhattan”

Mises – by Ryan McMaken

During this partial government shutdown, it’s become nearly impossible to avoid news articles, and segments on television and radio outlining the many ways that federal employees are apparently suffering financially as a result of the partial government shutdown. Continue reading “Imagine if the Media Had as Much Sympathy for Small Business Owners as it Does for Federal Employees”

The Weather Channel

Frigid air is expected to plunge into the East and Midwest for the final full month of winter, and those cold temperatures may linger into March as well, according to the latest outlook from The Weather Company, an IBM Business.

Below-average temperatures are forecast from the South to the Midwest and mid-Atlantic during the three-month period spanning February through April. Near-average or slightly colder conditions may be found from the Southwest to the central Plains, upper Midwest and Northeast when averaged over the next three months.   Continue reading “Late-Winter to Early-Spring Temperature Outlook: Frigid February in East, Midwest as the West Stays Mild”

The Organic Prepper

In these days of tight budgets and arctic blasts, staying warm without spending several hundred dollars a month on utilities is a major point of concern. Luckily, there are all sorts of low-tech ways to stay warm using less heat.

Not many people can afford an astronomical heat bill and the prices of utilities are only going up from here. We’ll need to use other methods for staying warm aside from cranking up the thermostat if we want to stay cozy without going broke.   Continue reading “20 Low-Tech Ways to Stay Warm with Less Heat”

Houston Chronicle – by Sergio Chapa

A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers is seeking to strengthen the ties of the U.S. energy sector to Mexico even as the political battle over the border wall partially shut down the federal government.

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, has filed House Resolution 132, which seeks to boost U.S. funding for the North American Development Bank, or NADBank, and give the binational financial institution authority to fund cross-border natural gas pipelines and natural gas-fired power plants.   Continue reading “Bipartisan group aims to boost natural gas exports to Mexico”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

Israel and Iran are edging dangerously close to a state of all-out war.  On Sunday night, Israeli forces rained missiles down on Iranian forces based in the Damascus area “for nearly an hour”.  According to the IDF, this was a response to “dozens” of missiles that were fired by Iranian forces in Syria toward targets in Israel earlier that day.  The Israelis were able to intercept the Iranian missiles, but if any of them had gotten through they could have caused a tremendous amount of damage.  Some of the missiles that Israel fired at the Iranians were reportedly intercepted, but quite a few of them did hit their intended targets. If the violence continues to escalate, we could potentially soon be talking about an all-out war between Israel and Iran in which both sides use their weapons of mass destruction.   Continue reading “World War 3 Alert: Iranian Forces Fire Rockets Into Israel, And The IDF Responds With “Waves Of Guided Missiles””

Natural News – by Tracy Watson

Every new parent feels some measure of anxiety about their newborn. Babies don’t come with instruction manuals, and ensuring that they are well fed, safe and happy can feel overwhelming at times. For this reason, many families get help from parents, in-laws or others in the early days, as the new little family settles into a good routine. Ultimately, within a few weeks, taking care of a baby feels simple, easy and natural and, despite the lack of instructions, parents do figure things out.   Continue reading “Oregon about to pass a law that would mandate government surveillance of your newborn baby in your own home”

Gov’t Slaves – by Jolly Roger

I think it would be prudent for me to recount a few things we already know to help this story knit itself together sensibly, so please bear with me while I bring a little “old news” back to the surface as reminders, because it may help with the knitting process.

We’ve had conclusive proof that the elections are rigged for the last sixteen years, so no one should be putting too much faith in that process, or its chosen candidate. We’re encouraged to vote, we’re told that it matters, after which we’re presented with a politician who’s been trained to repeat what the average American wants to hear. If it’s not what any particular American wants to hear, he has an opposing party to blame. That fraudulent process gives the “consent of the governed” to the criminal enterprise now running this country (into the ground).   Continue reading “The Rise of Trump”

American Thinker – by Frank Miniter

Do we want to live in an America where credit card companies watch our buying habits and then block purchases for ideological reasons?

Not long ago, the left side of the American electorate would have shouted “hell no” the loudest.

Not anymore.   Continue reading “Credit Card Companies Have No Business Playing Second Amendment Censors”

F. William Engdahl

Not surprising, Monsanto, today hidden behind the Bayer logo, as the world leader in patented GMO seeds and the probable carcinogenic Roundup herbicide with glyphosate, is attempting to quietly patent genetically modified or GMO varieties of fruits using controversial gene-editing. The “beauty” of this for Monsanto/Bayer is that in the USA, according to a recent ruling by the US Department of Agriculture, gene-edited agriculture needs no special independent testing. The developments are not good for human health or safety, nor will it do anything to give the world better nutrition.    Continue reading “Monsanto/Bayer Moving to Genome Edit Fruits and More”

Daily Mail

A bank was attacked, a government building was vandalised and rioting broke out next to Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb as 84,000 anti-government Yellow Vests demonstrated all over France for the 10th weekend in a row.

Protesters threw firecrackers, bottles and stones at police who used tear gas, water cannon, flash ball guns and baton charges to push them back at Les Invalides, where the body of the former French emperor and military leader lies in a sarcophagus underneath a golden dome.   Continue reading “Yellow Vest violence breaks out beside Paris tomb of Napoleon”

Press TV

Yemeni army snipers have killed 14 Saudi troops and injured two others in retaliatory operations in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan.

Video footage released on Saturday by the military media of the Yemeni army showed the moment when the Saudi-backed militants were killed and injured in the attacks that targeted several sites of the southern border front of Jizan.   Continue reading “Yemeni snipers kill 14 Saudi troops in retaliatory attack”