Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona said Monday on YouTube that Bank of America shut down all the bank accounts of his church.

“This morning, I found out that Bank of America shut down all of our bank accounts froze our accounts without notice and we can’t even get our money out,” Anderson said on YouTube. “We can’t even walk into the bank and withdraw our money they just froze everything, shut everything down.”  Continue reading “Baptist Pastor Says Bank of America Shut Down All Of His Church’s Bank Accounts”

CNBC – by Ashley Turner

The Department of Homeland Security is considering classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, or WMD, according to an internal memo attained by military news outlet Task & Purpose.

The memo said the painkiller would be labeled a WMD “when certain criteria are met,” and that federal officials have “long regarded fentanyl as a chemical weapons threat.” Continue reading “Homeland Security is reportedly considering labeling fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction”

Breitbart – by Kristina Wong

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio threatened to sue the Trump administration if it sends illegal immigrants to New York City, a “sanctuary city.”

“It’s illegal. It is just plain illegal. We will meet him in court. We will beat him in court,” de Blasio said, according to the New York Post.  Continue reading “De Blasio Threatens to Sue if Trump Sends Immigrants to Sanctuary City NYC”

LA Times

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday released 10 years of his long-anticipated tax returns as he campaigns for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

His 2018 return reveals that he and his wife, Jane, earned more than $550,000, including $133,000 in income from his Senate salary and $391,000 in sales of his book, “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.”

Continue reading “Bernie Sanders releases tax returns, which show he’s in top 1%”

RT

The Trump administration has released a controversial new US government map of Israel that shows the Golan Heights in Syria as being part of Israel, much to the outrage of many online.

Special envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, shared the updated map on Twitter on Tuesday. Israel occupied the Syrian region in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed it in 1981 in a move that was not recognized by the international community or the UN Security Council.  Continue reading “‘Unlawful & unrecognized’: Twitter heaps criticism as US maps show Golan Heights as part of Israel”

The Truth Seeker

As these words are being key-punched on the evening of April 15th, the fire at Paris’s historic, iconic and spectacular Cathédrale Notre-Dame (Our Lady) is still raging. And already the Fake News, backed by “experts,” is pumping out the manure-mantra: “accident — accident — accident.” Without a shred of observable data, one such “expert” has already stated that the centuries-old cathedral was like “a forest fire waiting to happen.”    Continue reading “A Symbol of Stone, Faith and Frenchness Goes Up in Smoke”

By Firas Samuri

The mass media has been widely covering the details of the disastrous humanitarian situation in Rukban refugee camp over recent months. By the way, the crisis in other sites deserves more considerable attention. Al-Hol refugee camp located in Al-Hasakah province and run by the Syria Democratic Forces is one of them.

Every single day from 10 to 20 people, mainly women and children die due to the lack of drinking water, essential goods, and medicine. Only for the past two months, 250 children passed away in the camp. According to estimates, now more than 50,000 refugees reside there, although initially it was designed only for 25,000.  Continue reading “U.S. Continues Supplying Kurds to Counteract Turkey”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

On Tuesday, President Trump capped off months of effort in Congress to pass a War Powers Act challenge to the US involvement in the war in Yemen, vetoing the bill and claiming it was a “dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities.”

The bill, SJ Res 7, was a straightforward bill under the War Powers Act of 1973. The bill noted that Congress never authorized the US war in Yemen, and demanded an end to it. The US Constitution grants sole power to declare wars to the Congress, and by extension the power to order an end to illegal wars.  Continue reading “Trump Vetoes Congressional Resolution to End Yemen War”

ABC News

Colorado authorities are searching for a woman they say is “infatuated” with the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and made threats to schools in the Denver metropolitan area.

The 18-year-old woman, Sol Pais, traveled to Colorado Monday night and is considered armed and dangerous, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.  Continue reading “Colorado authorities searching for Columbine-obsessed woman who threatened Denver schools”

Surveillance News – by JD Heyes

There aren’t many institutions that a majority of Americans trust anymore, including the “mainstream” media, government, and even clergy. Soon, that list will likely include pediatricians.

That’s because more and more of them believe they have the right to pry into whether a child’s parents are supporters of one of our most fundamental civil rights: The right to keep and bear arms.  Continue reading “Pediatricians now covertly interrogating children to find out if their parents own guns”

ABC 7 NY

RIDGEWOOD, New Jersey (WABC) — A New Jersey police officer was accused of attempting to lure and sexually assault a 15-year-old girl.

Police said 28-year-old Peter Tuchol, Jr., of Waldwick, was charged with attempted endangering the welfare of a child, luring, attempted sexual assault and possession of a controlled dangerous substance, among other charges.  Continue reading “Ridgewood police officer accused of attempting to sexually assault 15-year-old girl”

New York Daily News

New York City taxpayers spent a whopping $230 million to pay off 6,472 lawsuits settled against the NYPD in the last fiscal year, according to an annual report released Monday by Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office.

The amount reflects settlements made from July 2017 through June 2018, and marks a 32% decrease from the prior year, when the city paid out $335 million for lawsuits against the police department.

Continue reading “NYC spent $230M on NYPD settlements last year: report”

PIX 11

LONG ISLAND — A retired NYPD officer was scammed out of more than $22,000: the total amount taken was nearly all of his life savings.

The 80-year-old man, who lives in Nassau County where police are investigating, thought he was familiar enough with phone scams and thought he would never fall for one.  Continue reading “Retired NYPD officer scammed out of $22k”

CNN

New York (CNN Business)America has too many stores.

This year, US retailers have announced that 5,994 stores will close. That number already exceeds last year’s total of 5,864 closure announcements, according to a recent report from Coresight Research.  Continue reading “American retailers already announced 6,000 store closures this year. That’s more than all of last year”