Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

The United States Postal Service has been hit with a $3.5 million judgment for putting an image of the wrong Statue of Liberty on a postage stamp, a report says.

Federal Judge Eric Bruggink, of the Washington DC-based United States Court of Federal Claims, sided with Las Vegas sculptor Robert Davidson who charged the Post Office with using an image of his homage to the Statue of Liberty on its 2011 Forever stamp, according to the New York Times.   Continue reading “U.S. Post Office Hit with $3.5 Million Fine for Putting Wrong Statue of Liberty on Stamp”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In its latest push to contain a recent surge in violent crime in the Bronx and other outerboroughs, New York City is spending nearly $2 million to deploy “mobile trauma units” featuring counselors and peacekeepers – or what the city calls “violence interrupters” – to try and calm worried locals and work with local gangs to try and reduce incidences of violence, according to the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading “NYC Is Sending Buses Of ‘Peacekeepers’ To Crime-Plagued Neighborhoods”

ATT.net

July 05– WASHINGTON-Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, one of the most scandal-plagued Cabinet officials in U.S. history, is leaving the agency, President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday.

“I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,” Trump said in a tweet. “Within the agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this.”   Continue reading “Embattled EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid Scandals”

The Hill

In the ongoing saga between the United States and Chinese telecom giant ZTE, President Donald Trump has directed Secretary Wilbur Ross and the U.S. Department of Commerce to grant a temporary, 30-day reprieve for ZTE, enabling it to procure vital American parts and software so it may resume its operations.

In essence, this latest action is nothing less than a stay of execution. The seven-year export ban imposed by the Commerce Department’s Security and Enforcement Bureau on April 18 plunged the company into crisis resulting in the immediate shutdown of its assembly lines and curtailment of its operations.   Continue reading “Trump gave the giant Chinese cellphone maker a stay of execution”

Antonius Aquinas

Two recent articles* have again demonstrated that the greatest “terrorist” entity on earth is not the bogymen – Russia, China, Iran, North Korea – so often portrayed by Western presstitudes and the American government, but the United States itself!  Ever since World War II, the US has been the most militaristic, far surpassing all of the Communist and dictatorial regimes combined.   Continue reading “The United States of Terror!”

Thomas Paine National Historical Association

If by “socialist” we mean a state-supported welfare system to ensure the poor and working poor lead comfortable lives, then yes. Paine supported a social welfare state.

If by “socialist” we mean that wealth is produced by the working classes (in his day the farmers and the mechanics) and that they should reap the benefits of that wealth, then yes as well. (Paine had a labor-theory of value).   Continue reading “Was Thomas Paine a socialist?”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

Actor James Dean of Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden and Giant, died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, when he was only 24 years old.

Dean’s untimely death romanticized him into a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement. Hollywood celebrated him by making him the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list.  Continue reading “James Dean faked his death? – died at age 95 in Canada”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

Tulsa, OK – A man who never returned the copy of the movie “Ted” he rented for $5 from a local store in 2014 was contacted by police and threatened with jail time if he did not pay the hefty fine that has accumulated over the last four years.

Lonnie Perry said he vaguely remembers renting the movie, watching it and then forgetting to return it—but he became homeless around that time, and he believes the DVD copy of “Ted” was just another one of the possessions he packed into a box when he moved to a neighboring town.   Continue reading “Police State Defined—Man Facing Jail Time For Overdue $5 Movie Rental”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Austin, TX — A video from July 4 in downtown Austin has sparked outrage and an internal investigation after it showed two Austin police officers holding a man down and punching him in the head during a violent arrest.

The video was taken by Patrick King who described the incident as disturbing and pointed out noted that this was his first time seeing police brutality. King said that he was out with some friends when all of the sudden these two officers took down a man half their size.   Continue reading “Cop Holds Small Man Down As His Partner Smashes in His Face”

New York Post

A Rockland County woman was caught on camera going on a racist rant — spewing the N-word at passengers on a local bus.

“I hope you all got your motherf–king papers,” the unidentified woman yells to Transport of Rockland passengers on Saturday, according to video that rider Zoe Mac posted on Facebook. Continue reading “Woman unleashes on bus passengers in racist rant”

Telegraph

Illegal immigrants, now estimated to make up a fifth of the population of Seine-Saint-Denis, north-east of Paris, are severely straining public services and creating social tensions, according to a parliamentary report.

Seine-Saint-Denis has long been the French department with the highest proportion of immigrants, but the report warns that the number of illegal migrants may have risen as high as 400,000.   Continue reading “Illegal migrants in Paris suburb soar to 400,000 as hundreds of migrant children sleep on streets”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Across the US, cities are independently passing measures to implement a $15 minimum wage – or mandating higher wages with an eye toward one day achieving that goal. But low-wage workers who are celebrating their fatter paychecks should enjoy the feeling while it lasts…because the more expensive workers become, the faster employers will work to replace those human workers with robots who can do the same job for a fraction of the cost.   Continue reading “Meet Hadrian, The Brick Laying Robot That Will Make Construction Workers Obsolete”

RT

Tehran will close the Strait of Hormuz, effectively blocking all the oil shipments from the Persian Gulf if Washington succeeds in its attempts to reduce Iranian oil exports, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said.

“Any hostile attempt by the US [to impede Iran’s oil trade] will be followed by an exorbitant cost for them,” Esmail Kowsari, a deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Sarollah base in Tehran told the Iranian Young Journalists Club, which is linked to the national broadcaster controlled by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  Continue reading “Iran threatens to block Strait of Hormuz in response to US attempts to stop its oil exports”

Reuters

JAKARTA (Reuters) – The captain of a sinking Indonesian ferry managed to steer his ship onto a reef to enable the evacuation of more than 100 passengers, but 31 people drowned as the vessel floundered in stormy seas, officials said on Wednesday.

The latest ferry disaster in Indonesia, which happened on Tuesday near Sulawesi island, came two weeks after an overcrowded ferry sank on Lake Toba in Sumatra, one of the world’s deepest volcanic lakes, with the death of more than 200 people.   Continue reading “Captain of sinking Indonesian ferry sails onto reef; 31 dead”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: You have to go back to Chapter 2 of “The Timeline of the Tribulation“, “The Ram and the He Goat” to understand some of this. While the world is merging together, we see some of it continuing to fracture, even in our present time. This will continue until the prophecy of Daniel is fulfilled…

The agenda against Iran continues each and every day. You have nations who are siding with Iran like China and even the Euro nations as this article, “U.S. Sidelined as Five Powers Set to Give Iran New Assurance” explains.
Continue reading “Iran And China Call US ‘Biggest Threat To Humanity’ As They Boost Military Ties”

Orthodoxy Today – by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn penned this essay in 1974 and it circulated among Moscow’s intellectuals at the time. It is dated Feb. 12, the same day that secret police broke into his apartment and arrested him. The next day he was exiled to West Germany. The essay is a call to moral courage and serves as light to all who value truth.

At one time we dared not even to whisper. Now we write and read samizdat, and sometimes when we gather in the smoking room at the Science Institute we complain frankly to one another: What kind of tricks are they playing on us, and where are they dragging us? Gratuitous boasting of cosmic achievements while there is poverty and destruction at home. Propping up remote, uncivilized regimes. Fanning up civil war. And we recklessly fostered Mao Tse-tung at our expense—and it will be we who are sent to war against him, and will have to go. Is there any way out? And they put on trial anybody they want and they put sane people in asylums—always they, and we are powerless.   Continue reading “Live Not By Lies”