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Global Actions Follow Record Turnout at Palestinian National BDS Conference

The 15th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), the largest global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) mobilization for Palestinian rights, opens today with more than 80 events in 40 cities across Europe, North America and Palestine, featuring protests, lectures, film screenings, and cultural events. IAW is expected to be held in more than 200 cities worldwide. IAW officially kicked off Saturday the 16th in the occupied Palestinian city of Al-Bireh, where the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) convened the Sixth National BDS Conference – a grassroots, civil society gathering with over 900 participants.  Continue reading “Israeli Apartheid Week Opens Worldwide, As Netanyahu Confirms Discriminatory Regime”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

With everyone still reeling at the announcement of the $750 billion proposed military budget for 2020, a huge increase, the Trump Administration is now offering a proposed spying budget that is similarly looking for a substantial increase over the previous year.

The proposal stands at $86 billion, and is a six percent increase over the previous year. As with the military proposal, it rests heavily on the administration playing up the threat posed by Russia and China.  Continue reading “Trump Proposes $86 Billion Spy Budget”

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Archive: TWFTT 3-19-19

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Chesapeake, VA — A mother is grieving and also crying foul after police say her 19-year-old daughter killed herself during a routine traffic stop. According to the mother, police told her that her daughter was handcuffed when she somehow got a gun and shot herself. Now, after “investigating themselves” police have officially closed the case despite witnesses and a video telling a different story.

Sarah Wilson committed suicide on July 25, 2018, during a traffic stop near the intersection of Berkley Avenue and Wilson Road, according to the Chesapeake Police Department. According to police, while handcuffed with her hands behind her back, Wilson was able to acquire a gun, place it in her mouth, and pull the trigger.  Continue reading “Police Claim Teen Shot Herself in the Mouth With Hands Cuffed Behind Her Back During Traffic Stop”

Anchorage Daily News

JUNEAU — The Alaska Permanent Fund has surpassed the oil industry and all other taxes combined as the cornerstone of the state budget, according to an updated forecast from the Alaska Department of Revenue.

According to the figures released Friday and presented Monday to the Senate Finance Committee, the Permanent Fund will deliver $2.7 billion to the state treasury this fiscal year. The oil industry will pay $2.1 billion in taxes and royalties. The state will collect another $548 million in other revenue, according to the latest forecast.

Continue reading “Permanent Fund revenue tops oil and taxes as Alaska’s budget foundation”

Anchorage Daily News

Two Rivers musher Richie Beattie said he thought his 5-year-old sled dog named Oshi was just tired on Thursday on the way to the Iditarod finish line in Nome. Two days later, Oshi died.

“We’re devastated,” Beattie said in an interview on Monday. “Losing her is no different than losing a family member.”

Continue reading “‘We’re devastated’: Iditarod rookie thought his dog was tired heading into Nome. It died 2 days later.”

Activist Post – by John Whitehead

“In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force, in this case at the expense of a 4-year-old girl. And this isn’t the first time. In January, an Iowa cop shot and killed a woman by mistake while trying to kill her dog. Other cops have shot other kids, other bystanders, their partners, their supervisors and even themselves while firing their guns at a dog. That mind-set is then, of course, all the more problematic when it comes to using force against people.”—Journalist Radley Balko

Continue reading “Don’t Shoot The Dogs: The Growing Epidemic Of Cops Shooting Family Dogs”

Bearing Arms – by Tom Knighton

An Oregon bill wanted to impose draconian restrictions on gun owners. For example, it would limit round capacity to just five rounds. That would have made most revolvers illegal.

As progressive as Oregon is, it sounded like something lawmakers would consider. Amazingly, better sense prevailed.  Continue reading “Oregon Lawmakers Effectively Kill Ridiculous Gun Control Bill”

WGME 13 News

AUGUSTA (WGME) — Gun control advocates along with law enforcement officials and medical professionals will hold a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Augusta to urge Maine lawmakers to pass a “red flag bill” this session.

The bill LD 1312 would create a new kind of court order known as an “Extreme Risk Protection Order,” which temporarily restricts a person’s access to firearms when they pose a danger to themselves or others.  Continue reading “Gun control advocates to urge Maine lawmakers to pass ‘red flag’bill”

Breitbart – by Joshua Caplan

Donna Brazile, the former acting chair of the Democratic National Committee, has joined the Fox News Channel as a contributor, the network announced Monday.

Brazile, a longtime Democrat operative, will provide political commentary on the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network and makes her debut appearance on The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino this week.  Continue reading “Donna Brazile Hired as Fox News Contributor”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As New Zealand reels from Friday’s Christchurch mosque attack that left 50 dead and 50 wounded, Kiwis have started voluntarily surrendering their legally-owned semiautomatic firearms for destruction ahead of reforms promised over the next several days, according to New Zealand news outlet Stuff.

The reports of citizens disarming themselves come amid a Monday announcement by Prime minister Jacinda Ardern that several “in principle decisions” on gun control have been made by Cabinet ministers, and has praised residents who have surrendered their guns to police.  Continue reading “New Zealanders Voluntarily Handing In Semi-Automatic Weapons After Terror Attack”

MassPrivateI

I hope you enjoyed America’s favorite pastime because by the end of this year, nearly every Major League Baseball (MLB) team will be using facial recognition.

Last year, their were only nine MLB teams using CLEAR’s facial recognition to spy on fans. But all of that is about to change.  Continue reading “MLB Going Full-Blown TSA: As Teams Prepare To Scan Millions Of Fans Faces”

Sputnik

Pennsylvania’s Chester Police Department recently announced an investigation would be launched into a weekend altercation after video footage surfaced showing a responding officer striking a woman with the side of his stun gun.

Chester police explained in a Sunday statement that responding officers were dispatched on Saturday at roughly 5 p.m. local time to a residential area near Widener University on the 900 block of E. 15th St. “for what was described to them as a riot.” Continue reading “Pennsylvania Cop Smacks Woman With Stun Gun During St. Paddy’s Day Melee”

End of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder

Last week, when a deranged lunatic gunned down dozens of Muslims at two mosques in New Zealand it suddenly became the biggest news story in the world, and rightly so.

It was a major news event, and it needed to be reported.  But shouldn’t mass killings of Christians be given the same sort of media coverage?  Sadly, we all know that doesn’t happen.  Whenever there is a mass killing of Christians, it is usually entirely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States, and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why this is happening.  Those that control the mainstream media consider Christians to be one of the main obstacles to “progress” in this country, and so any story that would put Christians in a positive or sympathetic light simply does not fit any of the narratives that they are pushing.

Continue reading “Why Does The Mainstream Media Purposely Ignore Mass Killings Of Christians Across The Globe?”

Press TV

US President Donald Trump is the “insidious inspiration guiding the hand that pulled the trigger of the guns used to commit the mass slaying of Muslims in New Zealand,” according to Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs.

Trump has said he doesn’t view white extremism as a rising threat even though many blame the terrorist massacre in New Zealand on Friday on his demonization of Muslims. Continue reading “Trump is the guiding hand behind the mass slaying of Muslims in New Zealand: Analyst”