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A US airstrike against a Taliban splinter group, which killed Mullah Raaz Mohammed Nangyalai, also killed 15 civilians, according to the Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC) of Afghanistan.
The IHRC went on to say this was a “clear violation of human rights” and issued a report calling on foreign forces to be more careful that civilians aren’t harmed in their military operations. Continue reading “US Airstrike Kills 15 Civilians in Western Afghanistan”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
New York — In the Land of the Free, if you do not pay the State in the form of a permit before you attempt to sell a product or service to a willing customer, you can and will be extorted, kidnapped and caged, with extreme prejudice. While many folks stand behind permits for selling, one permit in New York that has nothing to do with commerce, has garnered the scrutiny of the Free thought Project. If citizens of the state wish to look up at the sky and view the stars at one of New York’s public parks, they will first have to obtain a “Stargazing permit.” Seriously. Continue reading “State Forces Citizens to Pay for ‘Stargazing Permit’ to View Night Sky in Public Parks—Yes, Really”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Fairmount Heights, MD — Over the years, TFTP has reported on outrageous police crimes ranging from hiring hitmen to kill girlfriends for refusing to have an abortion to urinating on children. Crimes committed by those sworn to uphold the law seemingly know no bounds. While rape is an unfortunately common crime among police officers, a cop in Maryland was indicted this week, not only for rape but also attempting to infect a woman with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. We can now add ‘spreading HIV’ to the long list of utterly horrifying police crimes. Continue reading “Cop Arrested for Pulling Woman Over, Raping Her to Deliberately Infect Her With HIV”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Midland, TX — In the state’s relentless and often criminal and deadly pursuit to prevent citizens from participating in the voluntary exchange and consumption of prohibited substances, society’s most vulnerable often become fodder. Thanks to police raiding her home to arrest her brother for one of these substances, a little girl is now recovering in the hospital after being shot in the back by cops, according to her father. Continue reading “Cops Shoot 3yo Girl in the Back While Raiding Her Home to Arrest Her Brother for Drugs”
US President Donald Trump will finally unveil his ‘great’ plan for peace in the Middle East before Israeli leaders visit Washington next week. While the Palestinians may not like it, it will be good for them, Trump said.
Trump has long teased the existence of a plan that would resolve the long-running dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, reportedly developed by his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Its release, however, has been repeatedly delayed. Continue reading “Trump to release ‘great’ Israel peace plan ahead of Netanyahu visit, warns that Palestinians ‘may react negatively’”
Stood under an oversized sign for a village his temporary government has no authority to build, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu took his friendship with Donald Trump to a new level by inaugurating Trump Heights in the Golan.
“It is a historic day,” said Israel’s prime minister, positioned next to US ambassador David Friedman. Continue reading “Flashback: Netanyahu opens Trump Heights – a non-existent settlement in illegally-occupied Golan”
On Thursday, hundreds of Second Amendment supporters gathered for a rally at the Rhode Island State House.
This week, the Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee vote to ban 3-D “ghost” guns — untraceable 3-D printed guns, or guns that were bought in pieces, partially assembled and put together without a serial number. Continue reading “Gun Rights Rally Held at RI State House”
Ammunition sales are surging as many Virginian seek to stock up ahead of a slew of Democrat-mandated gun controls for the state.
WSET reports online ammunition seller AmmunitionToGo.com notes a 137 percent increase in ammo sales to Virginians now versus this same time last year. Continue reading “Ammo Sales Surge as Virginians Anticipate Democrat Gun Control”
A massive demonstration –called for by a prominent Shia cleric– has flooded the streets of the Iraq’s capital Baghdad, with thousands voicing their anger at the US military presence there.
Early on Friday morning, throngs of protesters – men and women, young and old – began amassing at al-Hurriya Square in central Baghdad, near the city’s main university. The anti-America rally, dubbed the “Million-man March,” was called by Moqtada al-Sadr, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric. Continue reading “‘Million-Man March’ kicks off in Baghdad to demand US troop pullout”
“Essentially, five Justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to allow themselves to change the law.” – Former US Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens.
This week almost all media failed in their duties, as did the US Supreme court a decade ago, to bring you the true and most important- and unreported- story of this generation in American election politics. Continue reading “Happy 10th Birthday Corporations! Or…How The US Supreme Court Forever Sold Its Gavel.”
The Guardian has learned the true identity of the leader and founder of the US-based neo-Nazi terror network the Base, which was recently the target of raids by the FBI after an investigation into domestic terrorism uncovered their plans to start a race war.
Members of the group stand accused of federal hate crimes, murder plots and firearms offenses, and have harbored international fugitives in recent months. Continue reading “Revealed: the true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group”
Fifty-four years after illegally crossing the U.S. border in a Pontiac hearse, Neil Young has become an American citizen.
“I’m happy to report I’m in!” the Canadian-born musician wrote on his website after months of struggle to obtain his dual citizenship. Young explained to fans that the process had been delayed because of the “good moral character” provision on the immigrant application — meaning he admitted to smoking weed. Continue reading “54 Years After Moving to America, Neil Young Is Now a U.S. Citizen”
A worker remains missing after a large explosion at an apparent industrial building in Houston early Friday scattered debris across the area, shattered windows and sent another person to the hospital.
At about 4:30 a.m., many people reported hearing a loud explosion and felt buildings shake in the Northwest Houston neighborhood. Police and fire crews responding to the scene went house-to-house to let about 300 residents know to shelter in place, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a news conference. Continue reading “Worker Unaccounted for, 1 Other Person Hurt After Large Explosion in Houston”
More than a dozen homes in a Northern California neighborhood were evacuated Thursday after emergency responders found hundreds of military explosives inside the residence of a 70-year-old man who died of apparent natural causes.
Investigators in Stockton didn’t immediately know how the man came to possess the explosives, FOX 40 of Sacramento reported. Continue reading “California homes evacuated after ‘hundreds’ of military explosives found in residence where 70-year-old man died”
(Reuters) – Twenty U.S. states sued the Trump administration on Thursday to block what they called its latest effort to allow blueprints for making guns from 3-D printers to be released on the internet, threatening a proliferation of “ghost guns” that spread violence.
Led by Washington state and controlled primarily by Democrats, the states, along with the District of Columbia, said they sued in federal court in Seattle, after the government published final agency rules earlier in the day allowing the necessary files to be posted. Continue reading “U.S. states sue to block White House from allowing 3-D printed guns”
Mustafa al-Imam, a 47-year-old Libyan national, was sentenced today to 236 months in prison on federal terrorism charges and other offenses stemming from the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty died in the attack. Continue reading “Mustafa Al-Imam Sentenced to More than 19 Years in Prison for September 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, Libya”
Strategic Culture – by Wayne Madsen
The crowing by Donald Trump that he “terminated” the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force, Major General Qaseem Soleimani, simply because Trump believed, mobster-style, that he had it coming, should remind the world that the United States government stands as the world’s record-holder in either directly carrying out or coordinating with other parties the assassination of political leaders, American and foreign. Continue reading “The United States: a Record-Holder in Political Assassinations”
(AP) – On Thursday, a Texas A&M student who had recently traveled to Wuhan, China was examined for a suspected case of coronavirus, The New York Times reported.
University officials said the immediate health risk to people on campus was low. The student is isolated at his home while additional testing is done to confirm the respiratory illness. Continue reading “Suspected coronavirus case in Texas; China expands lockdowns to 25M people”
Left-wing billionaire George Soros on Thursday reportedly warned that the 2020 election will determine the “fate of the world” and lashed out at President Donald Trump during a private dinner event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Soros, the 89-year-old founder of the progressive advocacy organization Open Society Foundations, accused the president of being a “con man” and a “narcissist” who wants the world to “revolve around him,” according to CNBC. Continue reading “George Soros in Davos: 2020 Election Will Determine ‘Fate of the World’”