NBC News

Iraq has asked the United States to begin the process of planning the withdrawal of its troops from the country, five days after the Iraqi Parliament voted to end the longstanding American military presence there in the wake of the U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said in a statement Friday that he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a phone call “to send a delegation to Iraq to put a mechanism [in place] for implementing the Iraqi parliament decision to safely withdraw troops from Iraq.”  Continue reading “Iraq asks U.S. to make plans to withdraw forces”

AP

BEIRUT (AP) — Unidentified planes struck targets in Syria near the border with Iraq on Friday, killing eight Iran-backed Iraqi militiamen, Syrian activists and two Iraqi officials said, an attack that comes amid soaring tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the planes targeted positions belonging to pro-Iran militias in the Boukamal area, near the border with Iraq. The Britain-based organization, which documents the war in Syria through a network of activists on the ground, said the planes struck, among other targets, weapons depots and vehicles belonging to the militias.  Continue reading “Unidentified planes hit Iraqi militiamen in Syria, killing 8”

SRSrocco Report

Funny, no one seemed to consider what to do with the massive amount of wind turbine blades once they reached the end of their lifespan.  Thus, the irony of the present-day Green Energy Movement is the dumping of thousands of tons of “non-recyclable” supposedly renewable wind turbine blades in the country’s landfills.  Continue reading “50,000 Tons Of Non-Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades Dumped In The Landfill”

Yahoo News

A Department of Justice inquiry into Hillary Clinton that began after conservatives demanded more investigations into the former Democratic presidential candidate is reportedly ending with no actual results.

Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed U.S. Attorney John Huber in 2018 to look into concerns raised by President Donald Trump and his Republican allies that the FBI did not properly look into Clinton’s involvement in a uranium deal while she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.  Continue reading “Justice Department Effectively Ends Clinton Investigation After Finding Nothing: Report”

Daily Mail

President Donald Trump has revealed that the United States is currently developing ‘many’ super-fast hypersonic missiles and boasted that the American weapons were ‘big, powerful, lethal and fast’.

It comes after the U.S Army awarded a $2.5 billion contract to aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin to build them with the aim of having at least one ready by the end of next year.    Continue reading “The ‘big, powerful and lethal’ hypersonic weapons that Trump boasted the U.S. is currently building that can travel more than five times the speed of sound”

Daily Mail

Israel has unveiled a ‘laser sword’ defence system that can stop rockets and drones as tensions in the region continue to simmer.

The technological breakthrough, announced by the country’s Ministry of Defence, means lasers can hit targets with a greater degree of accuracy, over longer distances, and through clouds and dust storms.  Continue reading “Israel unveils ‘laser sword’ defence system”

Lew Rockwell – by David Stockman

By the twisted logic of Imperial Washington you could say the Iranians were asking for it. After all, they had the nerve to locate their country right in the middle of 35 U.S. military bases!

Then again, your saner angels may ask: What in the hell is Washington doing with a massive military footprint in a region and in a string of backwater countries that have virtually no bearing on homeland security, safety and liberty?  Continue reading “How the Donald Assassinated America First”

NBC Philadelphia – by Rudy Chinchilla

A man armed with a shotgun was apparently killed by police after opening fire and forcing officers to hide behind walls, cruisers and nearby cars Thursday afternoon in Northeast Philadelphia.

The man barricaded himself inside a row home on the 4600 block of Hawthorne Street, in the city’s Frankford section, just after 1 p.m., Philadelphia police said. The man was armed with a shotgun, but no officers immediately reported being struck.  Continue reading “Gunman Killed After Firing at Officers in Northeast Philadelphia”

KSFY

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – We’ve been telling you for weeks, if not months – more than a year, actually, that the KDLT and KSFY newsrooms are merging. Gray Television, in September, formally purchased KDLT and now owns both local stations.

The deal took over a year to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission, largely because this is literally the first merger of its kind in the nation. Continue reading “KSFY, KDLT debut Dakota News Now”

ABC News

One burglar may have been too full to make a quick getaway after he broke in and ate some late night snacks at Taco Bell.

The Gwinnett County Police Department in Lawrenceville, Georgia shared photos and surveillance video of a suspect who broke into the fast food restaurant around 12:15 a.m. on Dec. 25, in hopes of tracking down the hungry, sleepy thief.  Continue reading “Police search for man who broke into Taco Bell, made a meal and took a nap”

Yahoo News

A police detective who fabricated a fake assault and lied under oath in order to imprison an innocent man has been spared jail time.

Former NYPD officer Michael Bergmann, 34, filed a criminal complaint claiming that a burglary suspect – whose car he had reportedly been pulling over for months in order to find grounds for his arrest – had tried to run him over in such a manner that the offending vehicle left skid marks on the ground.  Continue reading “Police detective convicted of inventing a crime to imprison innocent man is allowed to walk free by judge”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Another day, another rocket (alleged) rocket attack on a US airbase in Iraq.

Al-Sumaria reports that rockets hit the Balad Air Base, about 40 miles north of Baghdad, where US troops are stationed.  Continue reading “Rockets Reportedly Hit Near US Base North Of Baghdad (Again)”

Daily Caller – by Peter Hasson

An NAACP official in New Jersey was removed from his position following backlash to comments he made about Jewish people.

The Montclair, New Jersey, branch of the NAACP voted Monday night for education chair James Harris to step down for six months. The vote came after Harris said at a Dec. 30, 2019, meeting that the “Jewish community controls the Board of Education and the City Council but they spend huge amounts of money sending their kids to the yeshivahs, and they’ve gutted the budget for the black and Latino students who are left in public schools.” Continue reading “‘The Jewish’: NAACP Official Suspended Over Comments About Jewish People”