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A US F-35A has carried out a pair of airstrikes against targets inside northern Iraq. They say the strikes were against ISIS, claiming to have hit a tunnel network and a weapons cache.
This marks the first time the F-35A has been used in combat. This was widely expected, with the jets deployed into the region on April 15, and officials hotly anticipating the first use of them. Continue reading “US Carries Out First Airstrikes With F-35 in Iraq”
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Archive: TWFTT 5-1-19
Armstrong Economics – by Martin Armstrong
Socialism is dying because governments have made promises they cannot keep. Now when people expect that they will be there, they suddenly find the promises have been constantly revised. They always point to the rich and how they will make them pay. Everything who thinks they cannot possibly be the rich cheer, but at the end of the day, their taxes never decline and the promised-land seems further and further away. Continue reading “The Death of Socialism”
The Department of Homeland Security will start a DNA testing pilot program next week to help identify and prosecute individuals posing as families in an effort to target human smuggling, two department officials confirmed to CNN.
The Rapid DNA testing, as it’s known, involves a cheek swab and can, on average, provide results in about 90 minutes, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said. Continue reading “DHS to start DNA testing to establish family relationships on the border”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Venice, FL — The ACLU is speaking out in defense of an innocent man who was wrongfully accused of breaking into his own hotel room and then attacked by raging cops. Officers with the Venice police department are now in the spotlight after video of the incident was released this week.
The incident unfolded on December 21 outside a Motel 6 in Venice, Florida. Although the attack happened last year, the dash camera footage was only just released. Now we know why the police held onto it for so long. Continue reading “Cops Accuse Innocent Man of Breaking Into His Own Hotel Room and Beat Him”
Poynter Institute claims on its “About” page that “it champions freedom of expression.” And yet, on another page, Poynter published a list of 515 media sites, including Breitbart News, that it wants blacklisted and shut down.
Poynter calls this list an “index of unreliable news sites” and is openly calling for advertisers to stop sponsoring these sites, to pull their sponsorship, to put these sites out of business. Continue reading “Poynter Institute Wants 515 Outlets Blacklisted, Including Breitbart News”
Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
CBS News released a propaganda segment on Monday featuring New York Times tech reporter Cecilia Kang where they suggested the US government could do an end run around the First Amendment through strict “regulations” in order to suppress “hate speech” and “misinformation” online.
Both the CBS News host and NYT reporter Cecilia Kang said the US should look to countries like Australia, New Zealand, Germany and India — which do not have free speech — as models for suppressing free speech on the internet. Continue reading “CBS News, NYT Reporter Suggest U.S. Scrap Free Speech In Favor Of New Zealand-Style Censorship”
A high level Pentagon official has admitted that US forces will be in Syria for “the long haul” and coupled his statement by declaring the territory contains “a lot of the oil resources and arable land.”
The unusually frank remarks were made this week by Michael Mulroy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, while addressing a conference at the D.C. based Center for a New American Security (CNAS), months after President Trump appeared to have caved to his advisers, reversing course earlier this year from his stated goal of a full and rapid US troop exit from Syria. Continue reading “US Troops In Syria For “Long Haul” Atop “A Lot Of Oil Resources”: Pentagon Official”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
As TFTP previously reported, horrifying surveillance footage was released showing multiple police officers aggressively assaulting and torturing a disabled man in his front yard after they dragged him from his home during a welfare check. That footage has led to the arrest of three police officers, one of whom was arrested again for beating a teenager as well.
The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IABC) charged officers Brad McLeod, John Patrick Edney, and Florian Hilgar for unlawful assault and assault with a weapon for beating the disabled man. Continue reading “Cops Charged After Video Shows Them Pull Disabled Man From His Home, Torture Him in Front Yard”
The year 2019 has seen a significant increase in the number of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem who have had to demolish their own home, or part of it, after having built it without a permit. The residents elect this path in order to avoid paying the city thousands of dollars they would have been billed, had municipal authorities carried out the demolition. Fifteen residential homes were demolished by their owners in East Jerusalem from the beginning of the year until 31 March 2019, along with parts of two other homes, a store, and a car repair shop. The demolitions left 69 people, 40 of them minors, homeless. Continue reading ““Self-destruction”: Palestinians in East Jerusalem forced to demolish own homes”
Federal prosecutors have been dropping child pornography cases for years in an effort to avoid scrutiny of the software used to bring the charges, a report by ProPublica has found. The Department of Justice’s actions raise questions about the accuracy and legality of their methods.
ProPublica has “found more than a dozen cases since 2011 that were dismissed either because of challenges to the software’s findings, or the refusal by the government or the maker to share the computer programs with defense attorneys, or both,” according to an April 3 report. Continue reading “US Prosecutors Dropping Child Porn Cases to Protect Monitoring Software”
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a television interview on Wednesday that the United States was prepared to take military action to stem the ongoing turmoil in Venezuela.
“Military action is possible. If that’s what’s required, that’s what the United States will do,” Mr Pompeo said in an interview with Fox Business Network, but added that the United States would prefer a peaceful transition of power in Venezuela. Continue reading “US says military intervention ‘possible’ in Venezuela as Guaido calls for massive May Day protest”
The United States and Israel are reportedly set to supply anti-aircraft missiles to Kurdish militants in northern Syria amid tensions between Ankara and Washington over the latter’s support for the militants, which the Turkish government views as terrorists.
Citing local sources, Turkey’s Yeni Safak daily reported that the US is set to deliver shipments of Stinger Man Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) to militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Continue reading “US, Israel to supply anti-aircraft missiles to Kurdish militants in Syria: Report”
Common Dreams – by Jake Johnson
As the Trump administration enthusiastically endorsed the so-called “military uprising” led by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido but refused to call it a coup attempt, progressive critics and anti-war voices made clear that is precisely what took place Tuesday as violent clashes erupted throughout the Latin American nation. Continue reading ““If This Isn’t an ‘Armed Coup,’ Then What the Hell Is?” US Denounced for Backing Attempted Overthrow in Venezuela”
Five of New Zealand’s biggest news organizations say they’ll limit their reporting on the trial of the Christchurch mosque shooting suspect in an unprecedented step to curb the spread of white supremacy ideology.
Australian Brenton Tarrant is charged with the murder of 50, and attempted murder of 39, Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15. Continue reading “New Zealand media ban reporting of Christchurch shooter’s white supremacist statements at trial”
Black Lives Matter and other anti-Trump groups held a rally on the grounds of the Capitol on Tuesday to call for President Donald Trump to be censured for what he said about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) controversial statement that “somebody did something” on 9-11.
People chanted ‘“Hands off Ilhan” and in a series of speeches blamed the president and Republicans for the rise of “white supremacy masked as white nationalism.” Continue reading “Ilhan Omar: ‘This Is Not Going to Be the Country of White People’”
SAN DIEGO – Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of life without parole or the death penalty for John T. Earnest, the 19-year-old man accused of killing a woman and wounding three others in a synagogue attack outside San Diego on Saturday.
At his first court hearing Tuesday, Earnest pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder with a special circumstance of a hate crime. He also faces three charges of attempted murder. Continue reading “Prosecutors seek life without parole or death penalty for teen accused in San Diego synagogue attack”
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A man armed with a pistol opened fire on students at a North Carolina university during the last day of classes Tuesday, killing two people and wounding four, police said. Officers who had gathered ahead of a campus concert raced over and disarmed the suspect.
The shooting prompted a lockdown at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and caused widespread panic across campus as students scrambled to take shelter. Continue reading “2 dead, 4 injured in North Carolina campus shooting”