Reuters

HOUSTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A flotilla loaded with about 7 million barrels of Venezuelan oil has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, some holding cargoes bought ahead of the latest U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and others whose buyers are weighing who to pay, according to traders, shippers and Refinitiv Eikon data.

The Trump administration’s move to impose sanctions last week was meant to undercut support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by targeting the Latin American nation’s oil exports to the United States, the source of most of its foreign revenue.  Continue reading “Armada of tankers with Venezuelan oil forms in U.S. Gulf: sources, data”

Reason – by J.D. Tuccille

Government agencies and laws have devolved into weapons to be wielded against political opponents in this country. Why wouldn’t taxes follow?

Too many Americans promote taxes as a means of hurting people they dislike, putting the raising of revenue as a secondary consideration—or dropping it entirely.   Continue reading “Taxes Are Getting Weaponized for Partisan Purposes”

The College Fix – by Maria Lencki

Students at the University of Texas at San Antonio are rallying behind a professor there after she was suspended a second time allegedly for demanding respectful conduct while in her classroom.

The school suspended biology professor Anita Moss last semester after she called the police on a black student resting her feet on a chair. Moss was known to demand respectful behavior from students in her classroom, including “keeping their feet off chairs, putting away their phones and not talking.”   Continue reading “Professor suspended a second time allegedly for requiring respectful class conduct”

KBTX TV

COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (KBTX) – Texas A&M University and Celltex are now partnering with Saudi Arabia to support a multi-year research study investigating therapies for Alzheimer’s disease.

Saudi Arabian officials say they want to diversify the country’s economy by transitioning from an oil and gas-only focus into the biotechnology industry.   Continue reading “Texas A&M, Celltex enter research agreement with Saudi Arabia”

Yahoo News

PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every city, and you’ll get an almost universal answer: Not anytime soon.

An optimistic assessment is 10 years. Many others say decades as researchers try to conquer a number of obstacles. The vehicles themselves will debut in limited, well-mapped areas within cities and spread outward.  Continue reading “5 reasons why autonomous cars aren’t coming anytime soon”

Overdrive

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents made a record seizure of the lethal opioid fentanyl recently after finding 254 pounds of the drug hidden in a tractor-trailer with a load of produce.

CBP says its agents found more than 400 packages of fentanyl and methamphetamine concealed in a special floor compartment of a trailer at the Nogales, Arizona, port of entry.  Continue reading “Border Patrol makes record fentanyl seizure from tractor-trailer at Arizona border”

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Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Cincinnati, OH — Last year, TFTP reported a disturbing story out of Cincinnati that shocked the country after a police officer tasered an 11-year-old girl after he suspected her of stealing food. Since then, officer Kevin Brown was “disciplined” by his department, but never fired. Now, he is the subject of a criminal FBI investigation that his superiors are calling a politically motivated “assault on our cops.”   Continue reading “Investigating Cop Who Tasered Little Girl in the Back is Now a “War on Cops” According to Police”

Health Impact News – by Brian Shilhavy

Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are a $100 billion-a-year industry.

Lipitor was, by far, the most profitable drug in the history of mankind among all pharmaceutical products, let alone being the most profitable cholesterol drug before its patent expired at the end of 2011. Sales to date from this one particular cholesterol-lowering statin drug have exceeded $140 billion.   Continue reading “Pharma Wants Every Senior on Statin Drugs as Corporate Media Seeks to Silence Doctors Exposing the Cholesterol Myth”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

Having drifted back and forth a few times on the US withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan, President Trump seemed solid on leaving last week, but facing growing opposition from the Senate now shows signs of backtracking once again.

Previously talking up how the wars in Afghanistan and Syria can’t last forever, Trump is now saying he wants a “smaller number” of troops to stay in Afghanistan, despite the Taliban already making it clear that was a non-starter for the peace deal.    Continue reading “Trump Backtracks on Syria, Afghan Withdrawals, Facing Growing Senate Pressure”

Weather Channel

Winter Storm Lucian will continue to bring more snow to the West early this week before turning into a wintry mess by midweek in parts of the Plains, Midwest and interior Northeast.

Lucian is colder than Winter Storm Kai, which means snow is falling at low elevations in the West. It will also bring snow and ice farther to the south across the Midwest when compared to Kai.

Continue reading “Winter Storm Lucian to Spread Snow and Ice From the West to Midwest and Interior Northeast”

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

A man’s clothes caught fire shortly after he was tasered outside a Philadelphia restaurant Friday evening, according to a video posted to Twitter on Saturday.   Continue reading “Man’s Clothes Catch Fire After Being Tased Outside Philly Restaurant”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Foreign-born workers are continuing to make significant employment gains over native-born American workers, the latest federal job data reveals.

For the month of January, foreign-born workers increased their labor participation rate year-to-year nearly nine times as much as native-born Americans. Likewise, foreign workers enjoyed nearly four times the job growth in January as American workers. While the foreign worker population increased about 3.4 percent year-to-year, the American worker population increased less than 0.9 percent over the same period.   Continue reading “Data: Foreign Workers See 4X the Job Growth of Americans in January”

Washington’s Blog – by Charles Hugh Smith

It’s not exactly news that the Alternative Media is under assault: skeptical inquiry and dissenting narratives are smeared as “fake news,” and new suspiciously corporate entities (NewsGuard et al.) claim to be “protecting” consumers from “fake news” as cover for their real agenda, which is limiting public exposure to skeptical, dissenting independent analysis.

Social Media and Search corporations are also censoring non-corporate, non-state media, again under the purported guise of stripping out “fake news.”   Continue reading “The Alt-Media Has Way More Fun than the Mainstream Media”

AP News

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia police officer was ordered to serve 3 to 12 months in county jail for killing a man while drag racing with another officer two years ago.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Adam Soto fought back tears Friday while begging for forgiveness from the victim’s family during his sentencing.   Continue reading “Ex-officer gets 3-12 months in jail for drag racing death”

Fox News

Amazon workers are now wearing safety belts to prevent the robots that prowl the tech giant’s cavernous warehouses from killing them.

The Robotic Tech Vest, which was rolled out over the course of the last year to over 25 locations, appears to be an electric utility belt attached to a pair of suspenders, reports TechCrunch, but it has built-in sensors that alert robots of a human’s presence.  Continue reading “Amazon workers get safety belts to stop robots from killing them”

Middle East Monitor

A giant billboard of a smiling Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loomed over parts of Tel Aviv on Sunday, part of the Israeli leader’s re-election campaign.

Trump is popular in Israel because of his tough policies towards the Palestinians and Iran and his transfer last May of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which he recognised as Israel’s capital in a break from long-standing US policy.   Continue reading “Netanyahu’s Likud party uses Trump photo in Israeli election billboard”