Enforce our Bill of Rights
At least 207 people have died after suspected suicide bombers blew up churches and five-star hotels in an Easter Sunday terror attack in Sri Lanka.
The eight blasts today ripped through landmarks around Colombo and on Sri Lanka’s east coast, targeting Christians, hotel guests and foreign tourists and leaving at least 450 people wounded. Continue reading “Hundreds hurt as blasts hit Sri Lanka churches, hotels”
TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – The FBI on Saturday said it had arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of an armed group that is stopping undocumented migrants after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border into New Mexico.
The arrest came two days after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused the group of illegally detaining migrants and New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered an investigation. Continue reading “FBI arrests leader of armed group stopping migrants in New Mexico”
Local California authorities were left bewildered on Thursday by a large illegal cannabis farm that took them an entire day to seize and contained some 40,000 pot plants, valued at a staggering $20million.
The illicit farm – located on the 2500 block of McCallister Street in Riverside – reportedly emitted a strong odor that prompted an anonymous source to contact authorities, Riverside Police Department Officer Ryan Railsback explained to KTLA. Continue reading “California authorities discover a MASSIVE illegal pot farm”
The liberal world order, which lasted from the end of World War 2 until today, is rapidly collapsing. The center of gravity is shifting from west to east where China and India are experiencing explosive growth and where a revitalized Russia has restored its former stature as a credible global superpower. These developments, coupled with America’s imperial overreach and chronic economic stagnation, have severely hampered US ability to shape events or to successfully pursue its own strategic objectives. Continue reading “Brzezinski’s Warning to America”
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel is a “disgusting murderous criminal” who was promoted to CIA chief for her role in inflicting torture on terror suspects, an American scholar and political commentator says.
“She tortured people; she was a torture specialist; I guess that’s how you rise to the top of the CIA these days; is by specializing in inflicting horrific suffering on your fellow human beings, and in this case on innocent ones,” said Kevin Barrett, an author, journalist and radio host in Madison, Wisconsin. Continue reading “CIA chief Gina Haspel is ‘disgusting murderous criminal’: Scholar”
As more states vote to legalize marijuana, either for recreation purposes, medicinal or both, 4/20, once a counter-culture holiday only observed by stoners and deadheads, has become big businesses. It has been embraced by brands, from Lyft, to Totino’s to Ben & Jerry’s, as the AP reports. And although they still step up their enforcement of driving while high around the holiday, police departments, too, have become much more willing to treat the subject with frivolity. Continue reading “Police Departments Have Started Treating ‘420 Day’ Like A Joke”
The times are changing, and so is the marble. Arkansas is leaving behind statues of the old guard and sending a few new faces to the U.S. Capitol.
Civil rights icon Daisy Gatson Bates and musician Johnny Cash will join the Statuary Hall collection in D.C., replacing 19th-century attorney Uriah Milton Rose and statesman James Paul Clarke. The governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, made the plan official by signing a bill last week. Continue reading “Johnny Cash is replacing one of the Capitol’s Civil War statues”
“Know that we have taken into our hand, custody, and protection Leo the Jew our goldsmith and all his affairs. And therefore we command that you keep ward and defend the said Leo and all his affairs, doing no hurt or injury to him.”
Proclamation of King John of England, 10 Nov. 1199
An Ohio mother demanded action on Friday after her two young daughters were removed from their private Christian school because she ‘committed adultery.’
Summer Grant, 30, told WYKC that her daughters – fourth grader Summara and second grader Summaia – have attended the Chapel Hill Christian Schools for years. Continue reading “Ohio mom learns daughters were banned from Christian private school because she ‘committed adultry’”
El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley are less than two weeks away from the scheduled opening of temporary detention centers that will each house up to 500 migrants who have crossed the border to seek asylum.
The facilities, commonly referred to as a “tent cities,” are the federal government’s response to the ongoing crush of migrants, mainly from Central America, who continue to cross into Texas after traveling through Mexico. Continue reading “Temporary immigration detention facilities to open in El Paso, Rio Grande Valley”
Yellow Vests protests brought clashes and tear gas back to the streets of Paris, despite politicians’ calls for “unity” in the wake of the Notre Dame fire. For protesters, the response to the fire only showed more inequality.
Saturday’s protests mark the 23rd straight weekend of anti-government demonstrations, but the first since Notre Dame de Paris went up in flames on Monday. Officials were quick to criticize the protesters for returning to the streets so soon after the disaster. Continue reading “1st since Notre Dame fire: Yellow Vests back in action despite ‘unifying’ disaster & they are angry”
New York Post – by Larry Celona and Ben Feuerherd
Five high-ranking NYPD cops who were forced to resign amidst a bribery scandal in the department in 2016 were awarded more than $1 million for vacation and overtime they were owed, law-enforcement sources told The Post Friday.
The cops — ex-Inspector Peter DeBlasio (no relation to the mayor) and former deputy chiefs Andrew Capul, David Colon, Eric Rodriguez and John Sprague — finalized the settlement this week after a labor-relations arbiter determined last year they were owed the compensation. Continue reading “Ex-cops who resigned amidst bribery scandal awarded over $1M”
Note: I have couched this piece in FICTION, which is a convenient way to pinpoint hidden trends…
While the cathedral of Notre Dame burned and grabbed headlines all over the world, a little noticed development took place along the Texas-Mexico border in a town called Twin. A reporter for the Twin Clarion wrote the following: Continue reading “If hidden technology were exposed for all to see”
Continue reading “List of 24 Points Pressing Hard toward Recession”
The United States owes the world $1 trillion because of the damage it has caused the global economy with carbon emissions.
Foreign Policy magazine reported: Continue reading “Report: U.S. Owes the World $1 Trillion for Carbon Emissions”