RT

US Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is being accused of “flip-flopping” on her Syria stance and “caving” to mainstream media pressure after a combative interview on The View.

Questioned aggressively by panelist Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Senator John McCain, Gabbard said there was “no disputing the fact” that Syrian President Bashar Assad is a “brutal dictator” who “used chemical weapons against his people.”   Continue reading “Caving under MSM pressure? Tulsi Gabbard interview on The View has some supporters fuming”

CBC News – by John Paul Tasker

Canada’s most senior federal public servant says he is worried about the nation and the state of its political discourse — fearing it has sunk to such lows that it could lead to an assassination attempt during the next federal election campaign.

Michael Wernick, the clerk of the Privy Council of Canada — the man tasked with serving the prime minister and his cabinet — prefaced his testimony on the SNC-Lavalin affair with commentary on what he describes as a “vomitorium of social media” fuelled by unreasonable partisans who have been dangerously whipped up by politicians.   Continue reading “‘Somebody is going to be shot’: Top bureaucrat says partisan mudslinging has gone too far”

World Events and the Bible

Just the other day, Vice President Pence warned Iran’s mullahs are plotting a ‘new holocaust’ against Israel. When I read that, it sounded obvious, they are gearing up for another round of propaganda against Iran, I just did not expect it would escalate so soon.

We now have the Trump Administration saying Iran and Al-Qaeda are working together. That is not the first time the U.S. has made that claim, but it is the first time they are stating it is worthy of war. Continue reading “Iran-Al Qaeda Alliance May Provide Legal Rationale For U.S. Military Strikes”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Law enforcement agencies love their automatic license plate readers. ALPRs do what cops physically can’t: scan millions of plates a year and run them against a number of shared databases. The systems are black boxes. The public is often given little information about how many plate images databases store or for how long. Law enforcement agencies rarely audit the data, providing zero insight on the number of false positives ALPRs return. Non-hit photos are sometimes held indefinitely, creating databases of people’s movements.   Continue reading “Deputies Sued After False ALPR Hit Leads To Guns-Out Traffic Stop Of California Privacy Activist”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Turkey is now venting its wrath as its F-35 standoff with Washington is thrust to the next level, and after Friday President Trump signed a spending bill that blocks further F-35 transfers until November 1st of 2019, which gives the White House a window of time to evaluate if Ankara will indeed move forward with transfer of Russia’s S-400 air defense system to Turkey. Amidst the Pastor Andrew Brunson detention affair which drew widespread media attention last summer Congressional leaders demanded that the over 100 Lockheed Martin-made F-35 stealth jets purchased by Turkey be blocked from delivery. Following Brunson’s release, the bigger security issue became Turkey’s seeking the S-400.    Continue reading “Turkey To Receive Russian S-400 Delivery in July, Rejects US Patriot Systems Offer”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will leave “a small peacekeeping group” of 200 American troops in Syria for a period of time after a U.S. pullout, the White House said on Thursday, as President Donald Trump pulled back from a complete withdrawal.

Trump in December ordered a withdrawal of the 2,000 American troops in Syria on the defeat of the last remnants of the Islamic State militants there.   Continue reading “U.S. to leave 200 American peacekeepers in Syria after pullout”

Yahoo News

Spring tax refunds typically give the economy a boost as the money rolls in and people either pay down debt or go out and spend, so economists and analysts pay close attention to the size of these windfalls.

A new research note from UBS finds that net payments to households are now running below its economists’ forecast, a shortfall of $11.5 billion of the $20 billion in extra cash that the economists had expected compared to last year.   Continue reading “Tax refunds are $11.5 billion behind our forecast: UBS”

Miami Herald – by Julie K Brown

Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

While the decision marks a victory for crime victims, the federal judge, Kenneth A. Marra, stopped short of overturning Epstein’s plea deal, or issuing an order resolving the case. He instead gave federal prosecutors 15 days to confer with Epstein’s victims and their attorneys to come up with a settlement. The victims did not seek money or damages as part of the suit.   Continue reading “Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules”

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South China Morning Post – by He Huifeng

Millions of Chinese individuals and businesses have been labelled as untrustworthy on an official blacklist banning them from any number of activities, including accessing financial markets or travelling by air or train, as the use of the government’s social credit system accelerates.

The annual blacklist is part of a broader effort to boost “trustworthiness” in Chinese society and is an extension of China’s social credit system, which is expected to give each of its 1.4 billion citizens a personal score.   Continue reading “China’s social credit system shows its teeth, banning millions from taking flights, trains”

FEE – by Jon Miltimore

Via the Detroit Free Press:

Police and prosecutors would be prohibited from seizing cash and property from people accused of a crime until they are convicted on the charges under a bill passed in the state Senate on Wednesday. Continue reading “Michigan Seeks to Ban Police from Seizing Property from People Who Have Not Been Convicted of Crimes”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Body cam footage released February 20, 2019, shows a suspect shoot at a Napa County Sheriff’s deputy only to be killed as a result.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the shooting occurred on February 17, 2019, as Napa County Sheriff’s deputy Riley Jarecki checked on a parked car. Forty-three-year-old Javier Hernandez Morales was sitting in the driver’s seat when Jarecki approached and asked if she could check the vehicle.   Continue reading “Suspect Shoots at Deputy from Point-Blank Range, Gets Killed”

Daily Mail

Just 26 billionaires now own as much wealth as the poorest 3.8billion people – half the world’s population – combined, according to Oxfam.

A new report by the charity says the 26 richest men and women in the world control a combined £1.1trillion – equal to everything owned by the bottom 50 per cent of all people.   Continue reading “Who are the world’s richest people?”

RT

The Earth’s atmosphere is much bigger than previously thought, extending far beyond the Moon, a team of scientists have revealed. The amazing discovery was made thanks to data that has been sitting unexamined for over 20 years.

We now know that the atmosphere surrounding our planet stretches 630,000km (391,464 miles) away and is 50 times the diameter of Earth, thanks to the discovery and analysis of decades-old data by scientists at Russia’s Space Research Institute.   Continue reading “Staggering discovery reveals moon lies INSIDE Earth’s atmosphere”

Fox News

Forget 5G. President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to be a leader in 6G – a technology that is nowhere near ready for prime time.

Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to say that he would like 5G, a technology that allows for faster data speed transfers over telecom networks from companies like AT&T and Verizon, to be in the U.S. “as soon as possible.”   Continue reading “‘We want 6G!’ Trump takes aim at US tech firms”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

America’s foreign-born population has reached its highest level in over 100 years, driven by immigrants from Latin America, according to new Census Bureau data.

What’s more, the Pew Research Center has found that most Latinos feel the percentage of foreigners in the United States is just about right, though 14 percent said America needs more.   Continue reading “Census: Highest immigrant population in 100 years, over half Latinos”