Middle East Eye

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning legislation that would hamstring the Supreme Court and allow the prime minister to secure immunity from prosecution over corruption charges, Israeli daily Haaretz reports.

The proposed law would allow Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, and ministers to disregard the court’s decisions in administrative matters, according to Haaretz, allowing it to annul any decision to strip Netanyahu of immunity from prosecution.  Continue reading “Judiciary to be made toothless as Netanyahu seeks protection”

WPBF 12 News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — U.S. Border Patrol will begin transporting more than 1,000 migrants a month to South Florida — split between Palm Beach and Broward counties — from the southern border within two weeks, according to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and sheriffs from both counties.

Rubio was first to reveal the plans Thursday afternoon on Twitter. The sheriffs — Ric Bradshaw in Palm Beach County and Gregory Tony in Broward County — then announced they have been told to each expect 135 migrants seeking asylum to be flown into Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport every week.  Continue reading “More than 500 migrants per month to be transported to Palm Beach County”

Fox News

It may be May, but Spring has not quite sprung in the Golden State.

Parts of California still resemble a scene out of winter, with a series of storms bringing several feet of snow to mountain areas, ahead of a “significant” severe weather threat across the nation’s midsection.  Continue reading “California braces for feet of snow from storms; ‘significant severe weather event’ to impact Plains”

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Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened urgent consultations with Israel’s security chiefs this week amid the escalating tensions between Iran and the United States, and reportedly urged them to do their utmost to ensure that Israel is not dragged into the fraught situation.  Continue reading “PM said to tell his defense chiefs to keep Israel out of Iran-US tensions”

KTVZ 21 News – by Sarah Zimmerman

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Critics blasted a decision by Oregon lawmakers that killed a bill aimed at getting more children vaccinated for measles and other preventable diseases in order pass a tax on large businesses, saying it jeopardized public health.

Despite passing the House and having the necessary votes in the Senate, the measure to make it harder for families to opt out of required vaccinations was nixed as part of a deal announced Monday to end a week-long Republican walkout over a multibillion school funding tax.  Continue reading “Oregon vaccine bill dead as US measles count soars”

Wall Street Journal – by Eric Morath

The share of U.S. workers born outside the country rose again last year, hitting the highest level in decades, boosted by steady immigration and a drop in the native-born birthrate.

Foreign-born workers — those not born in the U.S. nor have U.S. citizens as parents — accounted for 17.5% of all U.S. employees in 2018, up from 17.1% in 2017, the Labor Department said Thursday. The category includes people born abroad who are now U.S. citizens, immigrants and those in the U.S. temporarily.  Continue reading “Foreign-Born Workers Make Up Highest Percentage of U.S. Employment Since 1996”

American Mirror – by Victor Skinner

The overwhelming surge of illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border is drawing agents away from the northern border, where apprehensions are also increasing significantly.

Sault Ste. Marie Border Patrol Agent in Charge Henry Laxdal told WJFW apprehensions in the Detroit sector increased 42 percent between 2017 and 2018, though the numbers pale in comparison to the southern border crisis.  Continue reading “Apprehensions up 42% on NORTHERN border as Mexicans, Central Americans try to enter US from Canada”

Campus Reform – by Adam Sabes

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has indicated that he will sign a bill aimed at combating anti-Semitism in public education, and it could occur during his planned trip to Israel later in the month.

DeSantis made this statement during a trip in Miami Gardens, Fla. The bill would bar discrimination on the basis of religion in the Florida public education system, including at state-funded institutions of higher education, and specifically hone in on anti-Semitism.  Continue reading “Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign campus anti-Semitism bill, possibly on trip to Israel”

Daily Mail

Police fined a pedestrian £90 for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face when he saw a controversial facial recognition camera on a street in London.

Officers set up the camera on a van in Romford, East London, which then cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against a database of wanted criminals. Continue reading “Police FINE pedestrian £90 for disorderly behaviour after he tries to cover his face from facial recognition camera on the streets of London”

YNet News

A state-aligned Saudi newspaper is calling for “surgical” U.S. strikes in retaliation against alleged threats from Iran.

The Arab News published an editorial in English on Thursday, arguing that after incidents this week against Saudi energy targets, the next logical step “should be surgical strikes.” Continue reading “Saudi paper urges US ‘surgical strikes’ on Iran”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Red Bluff, CA — Henry Lane, 42, was in need of serious mental health help last month as he was seen banging on the door of a closed store. However, instead of mental health help, Lane got several Red Bluff police officers who chased him down and killed him. Body camera footage showing the cops execute the mentally ill man was just released this week.  Continue reading “Horrific Body Cam Shows Cops Publicly Execute Man for Holding a Flimsy Stick”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Albuquerque, NM — All too often we hear the police state apologist crowd tell those who advocate for police accountability that if people “don’t do anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about.” However, all too often, this is proven wrong as entirely innocent people are beaten, shot, or killed by cops and they did nothing wrong. As the following case illustrates, being entirely innocent is no defense from police kicking in your door and forcing their K-9 to tear you to shreds. Continue reading “Cops Break Into Innocent Man’s Home, Hold Him at Gunpoint, Force K-9 to Shred Him”

Chuck Baldwin

It is undoubtedly true that the vast majority of politicians are liars. Some, however, are more prolific liars than others. And any honest, objective, even semi-intelligent person knows that Donald Trump takes the blue ribbon in the lying game. He lies so much, he can’t even play a game of golf without cheating.

In a column dated August 10, 2017, I wrote a piece entitled The Truth About Donald Trump. In the column I documented the truth about Trump’s lifetime conduct. In short: Continue reading “TRUMP LIED!”

NBC DFW

A video that shows a man getting arrested Wednesday for selling ice cream outside West Mesquite High School has gone viral on social media.

“The officer pulled my arm and he immediately arrested me without asking any questions. When I was inside the car, I told him that my arm was hurting, but he told me to remain silent,” said Victor Salgado, during an interview with our sister station, Telemundo 39. Continue reading “Man Arrested for Selling Ice Cream Outside Mesquite School”

New York Daily News – by Chris Sommerfeldt

The Trump administration has forked over more than $62 million — taxpayer cash that was supposed to be earmarked for struggling American farmers — to a massive meatpacking company owned by a couple of corrupt Brazilian brothers.

The Department of Agriculture cut a contract in January to purchase $22.3 million worth of pork from plants operated by JBS USA, a Colorado-based subsidiary of Brazil’s JBS SA, which ranks as the largest meatpacker in the world.

Continue reading “Trump administration showers Brazilian crooks with $62M bailout money meant for struggling U.S. farmers”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Houston, TX — The murder of an innocent Houston couple made national headlinesearlier this year as police took to smearing their names and threatening those who didn’t believe their official narrative. As the months passed, we learned that the Houston police department’s raid on the home of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas was based on lies and they were murdered for no reason. Now, the case has reached turning point after the family hired a forensics expert to examine the home and found that there is no evidence the officers encountered gunfire.  Continue reading “Forensics Investigation Finds Cops Shot Each Other, Then Murdered Houston Couple”

Breitbart – by John Binder

The Koch brothers’ — the billionaire plutocrats and GOP mega-donors — network of organizations are railing against President Trump’s tariffs on China to protect American workers and U.S. industry.

This month, Trump hiked tariffs to 25 percent on about $200 billion worth of Chinese manufactured goods. Trump has also ordered trade officials to begin reviewing the process of increasing tariffs to 25 percent on an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese goods. Continue reading “Billionaire Koch Brothers Rail Against Trump: U.S. Must Eliminate All Tariffs”