Fox News

The Trump administration announced Friday that it is proposing to increase fees on immigrants filing applications in the U.S., including a controversial $50 fee on asylum applications that quickly drew Democratic opposition.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposed rule that would adjust fees in what it says is a move to meet operational needs. It says the average increase is 21 percent. If left at their current level, USCIS would be underfunded by $1.3 billion a year, the agency said.  Continue reading “Trump administration proposes fees on asylum applications, DACA renewals”

Reuters

DALLAS (Reuters) – As the U.S.-China trade war drags on, more farmers are expected to take out debt against the land they own – their collateral of last resort – to keep their operations going, according to a survey of lenders.

The survey found that bankers are increasingly worried about farmers facing cash-flow problems: 46% of bankers expect an increase in loans secured by farmland for the 2019/20 growing year, up from 37% for the previous period.  Continue reading “U.S. farmers to leverage land as farm economy deteriorates: survey”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

There has been a lot of talk the past year about a civil war in the US, so much so that even the mainstream media is pushing the concept lately. A poll from Rasmussen in 2018 claimed that 31% of US voters believed that America would see a second civil war within the next five years. A more recent poll from The Institute Of Politics And Public Service shows that 7 out of 10 voters believe the US is two-thirds of the way towards civil war.  Continue reading “Trump Impeachment And The Civil War Scenario”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Suppose people are talking about Medicare for All which some call Single Payer and you want a short but powerful counter argument. Try this:

If you take five annual flu shots, your chances of getting Early Onset Alzheimer’s just went up 1,000 %.  Continue reading “Take The Adversary Down With Short, Powerful Arguments”

It Happened to Us

We purchased a property and increased our equity.
We bought a property in 2002. We bought the property to have a place to share with others. It was a ranch parcel with a rustic log home and a few outbuildings. Our family worked hard, developed the property, increased our equity, and built a ranch we could be proud of. Our note was on time and in good standing with Coldwell Banker Mortgage for six years. In 2008, as our IHTU The Battle Begins In Idaho music video illustrates, Chase took over our loan, messed up our records, and acted rude on the phone.  Continue reading “It Happened To Us In Idaho – The Nick and Donna Nickerson Family”

Natural Blaze

Tiny threads of plastics are showing up in Pacific oysters and razor clams along the Oregon coast — and the yoga pants, fleece jackets, and sweat-wicking clothing that Pacific Northwesterners love to wear are a source of that pollution, according to a new Portland State University study.

Britta Baechler, a Ph.D. student in PSU’s Earth, Environment and Society program, and Elise Granek, a professor of environmental science and management, looked at what variables predict microplastic concentrations in Pacific oysters and razor clams — organisms that have commercial, recreational and cultural importance in Oregon.  Continue reading “Microplastics Found In Oysters And Clams On Oregon Coast”

Middle East Eye

The Israeli government has called up several hundred reserve soldiers, as the Israeli army continues to strike the Gaza Strip following the assassination of a senior Islamic Jihad military leader in the besieged Palestinian territory.

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and 45 others wounded in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip that began early on Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. Continue reading “Israel calls up reserve soldiers as Gaza death toll mounts”

Breitbart – by Penny Starr

Protesters gathered at the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday as oral arguments were taking place inside the chamber about the fate of Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA). They vowed to stay in the United States no matter what the High Court decides next summer.

Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, told protesters that they should not have to leave regardless of the court’s ruling.   Continue reading “DACA Protesters in Country Illegally Promise to Stay in U.S. Regardless of High Court Decision”

Independent – by Andrew Buncombe

She is frequently described as the woman who brought Donald Trump to God.

She offered a blessing at his inauguration, said prayers at the launch of his re-election campaign, and recently claimed while publicising a new book that he once wanted to construct a vast, glass cathedral, telling her “let’s build this before we’re too old”. Others have called her a fraud.  Continue reading “Charlatan or saviour: What will Trump’s controversial new pastor bring to the White House?”

Common Dreams – by Eoin Higgins

The Sunday military coup in Bolivia has put in place a government which appears likely to reverse a decision by just-resigned President Evo Morales to cancel an agreement with a German company for developing lithium deposits in the Latin American country for batteries like those in electric cars.

“Bolivia’s lithium belongs to the Bolivian people,” tweeted Washington Monthly contributor David Atkins. “Not to multinational corporate cabals.”  Continue reading “Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm’s Lithium Deal”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

During a campaign stop in Charles City, Iowa, Democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders denounced mandatory gun buybacks as “unconstitutional.”

Fox News reports Sanders was asked about “mandatory buybacks of AR15s and AK47s,” and he responded:  Continue reading “Bernie Sanders: Mandatory AR-15 Buybacks Are ‘Unconstitutional’”

Yahoo News

(Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the Trump administration’s effort to allow blueprints for making guns from 3-D printers to be posted online.

U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik said the State Department violated federal law by letting Defense Distributed, a Texas-based nonprofit, publish downloadable blueprints for the untraceable, undetectable, mainly plastic firearms, as part of a June 2018 legal settlement.  Continue reading “Judge blocks White House from allowing downloads of 3-D printed gun blueprints”

Breitbart – by Lucas Nolan

Former Google senior software developer and whistleblower Zach Vorhies appeared on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour Friday to discuss Google’s relationship with Communist China and the company’s artificial intelligence project DeepMind, which has been called the “AI Manhattan Project.” DeepMind disputed Vorhies’ comments in a statement to Breitbart News, saying it does not have operations in China.  Continue reading “Whistleblower: Google Is Developing AI for ‘Planetary Surveillance’”

Awakin – by Peggy Dulany

Somewhere along the line of human evolution, fears caused many of us (especially those who lost their link to the natural environment and came to live in crowded, stressful living conditions) to shrink into a smaller way of understanding — and living — our existence. We needed to feel safe. And the unknown made us fearful. So we shrank the unknown into manageable bits that took much of the meaning — and the magic — out of it.  Continue reading “Staying Small To Stay Safe”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Pensacola, FL — The numbers do not lie. Police in America are the deadliest throughout the entire world. American cops kill far more than their counterparts in the rest of the world and these numbers are indisputable. One indicator that the problem has gotten out of hand is the fact that cops are killing cops. In a tragic case out of Florida this week, a police officer killed his own police chief.  Continue reading “Cop Arrested in Florida for Murdering His Own Police Chief in a Hotel”