RT

Benjamin Netanyahu’s playing the security card in an effort to stay in power. Six months as premier in a national unity government will be enough for him to annex a large swath of the West Bank… and become immune from prosecution.

The Jordan Valley, the eastern part of West Bank bordering Jordan, was targeted by Netanyahu in September ahead of Israel’s second general election this year. The embattled prime minister promised that, if he stays in power, he would annex the area as Israel’s sovereign land, because that’s what is needed for national security. Continue reading “Seeking immunity? Netanyahu vies for six more months as PM ‘only to annex Jordan Valley’”

Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Monday U.S. military ships and aircraft won’t be allowed to visit Hong Kong, and also announced sanctions against several U.S. non-government organizations for encouraging protesters to “engage in extremist, violent and criminal acts.”

The measures were announced by China’s Foreign Ministry in response to U.S. legislation passed last week supporting anti-government protesters. It said it had suspended taking requests for U.S. military visits indefinitely, and warned of further action to come.  Continue reading “China suspends U.S. military visits to Hong Kong, sanctions U.S.-based NGOs”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

A US drone strike against an Afghan village in Alisher, Khost Province destroyed a home, killing a family of six, including multiple children. The Khost Provincial council confirmed the incident, and criticized the matter.

The Pentagon had initially claimed the incident killed three Taliban fighters, but has since confirmed that they are “aware” of reports of civilian deaths, saying they are working with local officials on this. Continue reading “US Drone Strike Kills Family of Six in Afghanistan’s Khost Province”

Daily Mail

A war-like battle broke out between cops and suspected cartel gunmen, leaving 21 dead, including four officers, in a small Mexican town that was left riddled with bullet holes.

The shootout erupted around mid-day on Saturday in Villa Union, a town of about 3000 residents, near the US border, and just days after President Donald Trump raised bilateral tensions by saying he would designate the gangs as terrorists. Continue reading “Cartel and police gun battle leaves 21 dead, including four cops, and a Mexican town full of bullet holes less than 50 miles from the US border”

Health Impact News – by Brian Shilhavy

5 years in the making and black-listed in Europe, filmmaker Omar Agustoni along with co-producer Neal Sutz has just released the documentary, Trees of Shame, which premiered online November 24, 2019.

The film documents the history of child trafficking in Switzerland through Child Protective Services and the Juvenile Court system, with riveting interviews of former and current victims.  Continue reading “Black-Listed Documentary Banned in Europe on History of Child Trafficking in Switzerland Premieres Online”

Health Impact News – by John P Thomas

Electric utility companies are in the process of installing smart meters at all of their customer locations, which are making thousands of their customers sick. These meters emit microwave radiation in the 900+ megahertz frequency band, which is known to cause weakness, fatigue, sleep disturbances, heart palpitations, ringing in the ears, pain, and immune system disruption. These smart meters broadcast intense bursts of microwave radiation through the air many times per minute, 24-hours a day. [1, 2, 3, 4]  Continue reading “Smart Meters: Countdown to a National Crisis of Illness and Death”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Dr Mark Skidmore had worked on state budgets where the biggest missing money item was $300. He saw Catherine Austin Fitts talking about billions of dollars missing from federal programs. He decided she must have meant millions of dollars missing so he and his graduate students did some research. He discovered from federal government sources that a total of $21 trillion had gone missing from HUD (Housing and Urban Development) and DOD (Department of Defense) from 1998 to 2015. Continue reading “Join Catherine’s Meme War Against DC Swamp Creatures.”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

November 29, 2019, proved to be the second highest day in history for National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks.

USA Today reports a total of 202,465 background checks were performed that day, a figure bested only by the 203,086 background checks performed on Black Friday 2017. Continue reading “2019 Black Friday Firearm Background Checks Rank 2nd Highest in History”

New York Daily News

Queens residents driven from their homes by a clogged sewer line demanded answers Sunday from city officials who said they weren’t sure when the problem would be fixed.

A jam in a sewer line serving 300 homes in a swath of South Jamaica just north of Kennedy Airport backed up raw, fetid sewage into about 80 residences on Saturday.

Continue reading “No end in sight for hundreds of Queens residents left homeless by sewage flood”

New York Post – by Lee Brown

Irving Burgie, the Brooklyn-born composer of the Calypso classic “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song),” has died. He was 92.

Burgie’s death was announced by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley who called for a moment of silence for the man who also wrote the lyrics for the country’s national anthem. Continue reading “Irving Burgie, Brooklyn-born composer of ‘Day-O,’ dead at 92”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

A West Virginia Corrections Officer apparently wanted to be a part of the prison population he served so badly he allegedly raped a young girl from the time she was 9 until she turned 13. He’s now facing hundreds of charges over the incident.

For his crimes, James Cain, 48 of Salem, WV was charged with over 600 counts of child sex charges. Cain already admitted to sexually assaulting the young victim. Evidence has also been collected from the home where the sexual assaults took place which included photos of the girl’s naked body. Continue reading “High-Ranking Officer Arrested on Over 600 Counts of Child Sexual Abuse”

RT

New Zealand’s online notification platform for the firearm buy-back program has been shut down after a local gun owners association found a vulnerability that allegedly exposed the data of some 37,000 law-abiding citizens.

“We have advised the office of the Privacy Commissioner of the potential issue,” police said in a statement, sharing little additional detail and admitting they were informed of the problem by a “member of the public.”   Continue reading “New Zealand shuts down gun buyback website amid fears of massive leak of law-abiding firearm owners’ data”

Naked Capitalism – by Lambert Strether

No doubt Los Angeles County’s VSAP (“Voting Solutions for All People”) rollout will not be covered as a debacle. The real question is: If there were a debacle — like, say, a case of election fraud — would we even know? Doubtful. Just what we want in a voting system! In this post, I’ll give a brief overview of issues with electronic voting. Then I’ll look at VSAP as an institution. Next, I’ll show why the VSAP system is not only insecure, but likely to make money-in-politics even worse than it already is.  Continue reading “Los Angeles County to Intoduce VSAP E-Voting System: NOT Hand-Marked, NOT Paper, NOT Hand-Counted in Public”

Activist Post – by Tim Pool

California’s growing homeless crisis has made headlines over the past year. Diseases are rampant and state and local governments have failed to do anything to solve the problem.

A new state law would allow the state to forcefully “conserve” people with mental illness meaning that if you are homeless and determined to be not “self sufficient” the state can detain you and seize and control your finances until you prove yourself to be “self sufficient.” Continue reading “California Plans FORCED Internment And Asset Seizure To Solve Homeless Crisis”

USA Today

A shooting rampage near the famed French Quarter of New Orleans early Sunday left 10 people wounded, revelers from an annual football game scrambling for cover and police in pursuit of at least one “cowardly” gunman.

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said the shooting erupted on Canal Street near Bourbon Street, an area crowded with tourists and police officers – even at 3:20 a.m. Two of the injured were hospitalized in critical condition.  No officers were among the wounded,  he said. Continue reading “10 wounded in ‘cowardly and senseless’ shooting rampage at New Orleans French Quarter”