Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update (1545ET): The US State Department has expressed its “disappointment” at the Iraqi parliament’s vote to expel US forces. However, as Axios’ Jonathan Swan notes in a tweet, that he just spoke with a senior Iraqi government official, who explained that people should be very cautious about drawing certain conclusions from Iraq’s parliamentary vote to expel the U.S.   Continue reading “Iraq Votes To Expel US Troops As Iranian MPs Chant “Death To America””

American Mirror – by Kyle Olson

Californians who like to be clean and wear clean clothes can now face a daily $1,000 fine, thanks to a new state law.

Residents are restricted to only using 55 gallons of water per day, attorney Richard Lee told KTLA when reviewing laws taking effect Jan. 1.  Continue reading “CA residents now face daily $1,000 fine for showering, doing laundry on same day”

Fox News

NAIROBI, Kenya — The U.S. military said the security situation was “fluid” at a Kenyan airfield used by U.S. forces after a pre-dawn attack Sunday by the al-Shabab extremist group. The attack destroyed U.S. aircraft and vehicles, Kenyan authorities said, and at least four attackers were killed.  Continue reading “US military aircraft, vehicles destroyed in Kenya attack linked to al-Shabab extremists; 5 attackers arrested, 4 dead”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is urging its members to attend a January 13, 2020, Senate meeting and let their pro-gun voices be heard.

The NRA sent Breitbart News a press release saying: Continue reading “NRA Urges Members to Attend Virginia Senate Meeting, Drown Out Gun Grabbers”

Breitbart – by Penny Starr

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) wants to end the circulation of the state-run China Daily to members of Congress, a vehicle used to spread propaganda about the country’s communist regime and its ongoing human rights abuses.

“Xi Jinping hopes China Daily will muddy American lawmakers’ understanding of his policies,” Banks told Breitbart News. “All of Congress must fully grasp the way the Chinese Communist Party’s brutalizes its own citizens and subverts the U.S.” Continue reading “Lawmaker Urges Hearing on Circulation of Communist Propaganda Vehicle ‘China Daily’ to Congress”

Yahoo News

For decades, American men over the age of 18 have gone through the ritual of registering with the government in case of a military draft. In recent years, this action has felt more like going through the motions, simply checking a box.

But Friday, after a U.S. drone strike in Iraq killed Iran’s top security and intelligence commander, prompting concerns about the possibility of a new war in the Middle East, that oft-forgotten paperwork became a reason for spiking anxiety among many Americans. Continue reading “Will There Be a Draft? Young People Worry After Military Strike”

Natural News – by Ethan Huff

With Russia’s help, communist China has convinced the United Nations to pass a new resolution that threatens to further restrict online free speech in the name of fighting “cybercrime.”

The General Assembly has agreed to set up a new committee of “international experts” in 2020, the job of which will be to establish “a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes.”  Continue reading “RED ALERT: Internet to be “policed” by communist China under new UN crackdown targeting online speech”

Detroit Free Press – by Bisma Parvez

A 26-year-old man faked his own stabbing at the West Bloomfield synagogue where he worked and then reported he was attacked because of his Jewish faith, authorities say.

Now Sean Samitt is facing a felony charge of filing a false police report, according to West Bloomfield Police.  Continue reading “He told police he was stabbed for being Jewish. Then his Apple Watch caught him in a lie.”

Counter Punch – by Bruce E Levine

Getting rid of Trump means taking seriously “shit-life syndrome”—and its resulting misery, which includes suicide, drug overdose death, and trauma for surviving communities.

My state of Ohio is home to many shit-life syndrome sufferers. In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton lost Ohio’s 18 electoral votes to Trump. She got clobbered by over 400,000 votes (more than 8%). She lost 80 of Ohio’s 88 counties. Trump won rural poorer counties, several by whopping margins. Trump got the shit-life syndrome vote. Continue reading ““Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems”

Guardian – by Carole Cadwalladr

An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million Facebook profiles.

More than 100,000 documents relating to work in 68 countries that will lay bare the global infrastructure of an operation used to manipulate voters on “an industrial scale” is set to be released over the next months.  Continue reading “Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

The nation’s Military-Industrial Complex needs to import at least 600 million immigrants to counter the growing push by China for world power, says a forthcoming book by Matthew Yglesias, the top editor at the influential progressive website, Vox.com.

The One Billion Americans book is “a bold case for massive population growth in the name of national greatness,” says the blurb from the publisher, Penguin Random House. The press release continues:  Continue reading “Vox Editor Says U.S. Needs 600 Million Migrants to Counter China”

CNN

This is probably not the way motorists in Washington state wanted to spend their New Year’s Eve.

Several people got trapped in their cars Tuesday after strong winds blew a thicket of tumbleweeds into a portion of a state highway, according to Washington State Patrol Trooper Chris Thorson.  Continue reading “Tumbleweeds blocked a Washington state highway, trapping people in their cars”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Nobody knows where they are coming from, or why they are there.

Back on Christmas we wrote about large, non-governmental drones flying in mysterious patterns in Colorado. Since then, sightings have only increased, despite there being no explanation as to why.   Continue reading ““Creepy”, Mysterious, Unexplained Drones Are Flying In Precise Formations Over Colorado, Nebraska”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

Virginia’s second amendment gun sanctuary movement has turned its attention to fighting the governor’s call for a $4.8 million, 18-officer team to enforce his proposed “assault weapons” ban.

Two key groups issued an alert this week to push gun owners to four budget hearings Thursday around the state, asking them to quiz state legislators if they will vote to ban or confiscate weapons.  Continue reading “Push back on VA governor’s plan to hire 18-officer team to enforce proposed gun ban”

Sputnik

Tensions are running high in the Middle East as Iran promised a decisive retaliation against the United States following the killing of Iranian top military official Qasem Soleimani.

Two Katyusha rockets have hit the country’s Balad Air Base north of Baghdad hosting US forces, Reuters reported citing security sources. There are no immediate reports of casualties.  Continue reading “Rocket Attacks Hit Baghdad’s Green Zone, Balad Base Hosting US Troops – Reports”

Health Impact News – by Wayne Rohde

With the news of the approved Ebola vaccine by the FDA, many questions arise. Will it shed? Is it a live virus? Will we see Ebola outbreaks on our shores? While I can’t answer those questions conclusively, I do want to bring to your attention something that has been brewing in the background for several years.

It wears a black hood and cape, wants to remain anonymous and is no hero to those who fall victim to vaccine injury or death. This is another federal program, hardly known to the public. And one that I do not wish upon anyone.  Continue reading “New Ebola Vaccine to be Added to Little-Known Government Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program Along with Other Dangerous Vaccines”

National Justice – by Eric Striker

Former Jewish Defense League organizer Dov Hikind, who until recently was a Democratic assemblyman representing a heavily Orthodox Jewish part of Brooklyn, is calling on the public to march in a show of force against alleged black attacks on Jews.  Continue reading “New York: Blackface Wearing Zionist Extremist Dov Hikind Will Lead March to Put Blacks on Notice”

FEE – by Lawrence W. Reed

Exactly a hundred years ago this morning—on January 3, 1920—Americans woke up to discover just how little their own government regarded the cherished Bill of Rights. During the night, some 4,000 of their fellow citizens were rounded up and jailed for what amounted, in most cases, to no good reason at all and no due process, either.  Continue reading “The Palmer Raids: America’s Forgotten Reign of Terror”