RT

A registered child sex offender from Illinois has been given two-years’ probation for playing Santa Claus at a Christmas event. The man was banned from activities involving young kids, with dressing as Santa specifically mentioned.

On Wednesday, McHenry County Court imposed the sentence on 33-year-old Taylor Blaul from Crystal Lake for violating sex-offender laws. It’s after he sported a Santa Claus costume at a Christmas fundraiser at a local animal shelter, the Chicago Tribune reports.  Continue reading “Bad Santa: Illinois child molester sentenced again for playing Santa and posing with children”

RT

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has threatened attacks in the United States in retaliation for Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to one of the terrorist group’s social media accounts.

The message was relayed on an account on the Telegram instant message service. In that message, IS said it would carry out operations in the US, showing photos of New York’s Times Square and what appeared to be an explosive belt and detonator.   Continue reading “ISIS threatens attacks on US soil over Trump’s Jerusalem decision”

Mail.com

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More than a half-century after a Louisiana teen was sent to prison for killing a sheriff’s deputy and nearly a year after the nation’s highest court ruled in his favor, the now 71-year-old inmate will have to wait up to two months longer for his first chance at parole.

Louisiana’s parole board on Thursday postponed its scheduled hearing for Henry Montgomery, who was 17 when he shot and killed East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy Charles Hurt in 1963. Jim Wise, vice-chairman of the Louisiana Board of Pardons and Committee on Parole, said the board needs a legal opinion from Louisiana’s attorney general to resolve an apparent conflict between two laws governing parole hearings: One says a three-member panel must decide parole for juvenile offenders, while another says anyone convicted of crimes against a law enforcement officer must face a panel of five members or more.   Continue reading “Louisiana delays parole hearing for 71-year-old inmate”

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — The question of whether federal agents display racial bias by staging phony drug stash-house stings overwhelmingly in black neighborhoods is the focus of hearings in Chicago that could determine whether agencies curtail or even abandon their use nationwide.

A first-of-its-kind panel of federal trial judges on Thursday began two days of hearings on the stings. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives oversees the stings that typically involve agents posing as cartel couriers who talk suspects into agreeing to rob drugs that don’t exist from what they are told are guarded stash houses that are also fictitious.   Continue reading “Judges consider if racial bias in drug stash-house stings”

Daily Mail

Nasa is set to make a major announcement about a breakthrough in its alien-planet-hunting project.

The space agency is holding a live-stream event today at 1:00pm ET (6:00pm GMT) to reveal a discovery about potentially habitable worlds made by its Kepler telescope.

The satellite has been searching the stars for distant worlds using Google‘s AI system, which is helping Nasa find planets that may host alien life.   Continue reading “Has Nasa found alien life? Space agency to make a ‘major’ announcement TODAY after teaming up with Google’s AI in the search for habitable planets”

Fox 2 News

ST. LOUIS, MO — Two police officers were shot at Thursday around 7:30am in north St. Louis County. They were hit in the chest. Their bulletproof vest may have saved their lives.  The officers are conscious and speaking.

The incident occurred in Bellefontaine Neighbors at the intersection of Chambers and Bellefontaine roads.  One suspect is barricaded in a home in the 10100 block of Bellefontaine.  He may be armed with an AR-15 rifle.  Police appear to be negotiating with him.   Continue reading “Two police officers shot in north St. Louis County; Suspect barricaded”

Courthouse News – by Matt Reynolds

ST. LOUIS (CN) – A St. Louis suburb’s bid to dismiss allegations that it repeatedly jails low-income residents when they cannot pay traffic fines faltered Monday when a federal judge ruled that five former detainees can proceed with civil rights claims against the city.

In an 18-page ruling, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nannette Baker found that five former detainees at the city of Florissant’s jail pleaded sufficient facts to establish that their civil rights were violated, and that the city enacted a scheme that some have likened to a modern-day debtors’ prison.   Continue reading “St. Louis Suburb Must Face Class-Action Claims of Debtors’ Prison”

Siskiyou Daily News – by Danielle Jester

On Tuesday afternoon, in a meeting continued from Nov. 16, the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a resolution certifying an Environmental Impact Report for Crystal Geyser’s planned bottling plant in the Mount Shasta area and approving the company’s use permit to construct a caretaker’s residence near the bottling plant.

[Crystal Geyser Water Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical company, Otsuka Holdings.]   Continue reading “Siskiyou supervisors approve Japanese company Crystal Geyser’s proposed bottling plant”

Vigilant Citizen

Disturbing paintings depicting various scenes of ritual abuse are on display near the entrance of the Lloyd George Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas. 

The official website of the United States District Court of Nevada states:

“The cornerstone of the Amercian judicial system is the trial courts … in which witnesses testify, juries deliberate and justice is done.”
– William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States

Continue reading “Why Are There Paintings Depicting Ritual Abuse On Display at the Las Vegas Courthouse?”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

I’m going to assume the readers who make it to this article are well informed enough that I don’t have to go into the history of the global money changers and their desire for a one world currency. (If you don’t yet understand the goal of the globalist banking empire and the coming engineered collapse of the fiat currency system, you’re already about 5,000 posts behind the curve.)

With that as a starting point, it’s now becoming increasingly evident that Bitcoin may be a creation of the NSA and was rolled out as a “normalization” experiment to get the public familiar with digital currency. Once this is established, the world’s fiat currencies will be obliterated in an engineered debt collapse (see below for the sequence of events), then replaced with a government approved cryptocurrency with tracking of all transactions and digital wallets by the world’s western governments.   Continue reading “Evidence points to Bitcoin being an NSA-engineered psyop to roll out one-world digital currency”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

California’s war on guns will soon broaden to a war on ammunition as a ban on the possession of bullets purchased out-of-state takes effect January 1, 2018.

This is one of many steps going into effect which will quickly place ammunition under controls similar to those which Democrat lawmakers have placed on firearms.   Continue reading “California’s War on Guns Broadens to a War on Ammunition Beginning January 1, 2018”

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

A Ghanian national who pleaded guilty Thursday to conducting nearly $300,000 worth of food stamp fraud may face deportation.

Prosecutors say that Esther Acquaye, 49, who owned Esther’s Fashion Paradise in Worcester, Massachusetts, allowed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients to trade their benefits for cash, paying them 50 cents for every SNAP dollar redeemed.   Continue reading “Ghanian National Who Pleaded Guilty to Nearly $300,000 Worth of Food Stamp Fraud May Face Deportation”

Miami Herald – by Linda Robertson

Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll may grow fruit trees and flowers in the front yard of their Miami Shores house. They may park a boat or jet ski in their driveway. They may place statues, fountains, gnomes, pink flamingoes or Santa in a Speedo on their property.

Vegetables, however, are not allowed.   Continue reading “Court upholds ban of vegetable garden in the front yard of Miami Shores home”

NCPR – by Lorne Matalon

Dec 13, 2017 — Washington has ended a temporary residency program for almost 60,000 Haitians allowed to legally enter the United States following an earthquake in 2010. The affected Haitians will have to leave the U.S. by 2019. The program has also been revoked for 2,000 Nicaraguans and it’s unclear if other groups including 300,000 Salvadorans will be allowed to remain. The net result is a continued flow of people crossing the border into Canada by foot.

They are taking advantage of a footnote in a Canada-U.S. treaty that says foot crossers won’t be turned back from Canada until their case is heard.  Continue reading “The other side of Roxham Road: Canada grapples with border refugees”

Vermont Public Radio – by Steve Zind

After considerable debate and numerous drafts, a new Vermont Fair and Impartial Policing Policy has been adopted.

The policy was approved by the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council.

Its purpose is to require that Vermont law enforcement agencies “conduct policing in a fair and impartial manner.” The policy also seeks to, “clarify the circumstances in which officers can consider personal characteristics, or immigration status, when making law enforcement decisions…”   Continue reading “Prohibition On Reporting Immigration Status Not Part Of New Policing Policy”

WDRB 41 News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Kentucky State Rep. Dan Johnson, who was under investigation for alleged sexual molestation, died of a “probable suicide,” the Bullitt County coroner said.

Bullitt County Sheriff Donnie Tinnell said Johnson drove onto the bridge over the Salt River on Greenwell Ford Road in Mt. Washington, parked on the north side of it and shot himself in front of his car. His body was found on the bank of the river, just past the bridge.   Continue reading “Kentucky State Rep. Dan Johnson dies of ‘probable suicide’ in Mt. Washington”

Business Insider – by Tara Francis Chan

Authorities in the Chinese province of Xinjiang have begun collecting DNA and biometrics from all its residents, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday.

All residents between 12 and 65 are having DNA samples, fingerprints, iris scans, and blood types collected.

Called The Population Registration Program, police will be collecting iris scans and fingerprints during home visits or by creating centralized collection points. Medical authorities will collect DNA samples and blood type information during yearly physicals that are then sent to police bureaus “for profiling.”   Continue reading “A Chinese province is collecting DNA and iris scans from all its residents”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internet service providers clashed with Democrats and celebrities like “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill ahead of a vote on the Trump administration’s plan to revoke net neutrality rules barring the blocking or slowing of internet traffic.

The Federal Communications Commission is due to vote on Thursday on chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to rescind so-called net neutrality rules championed by Democratic former President Barack Obama that treated internet service providers like public utilities.  Continue reading “U.S. agency to vote on net neutrality rules despite outcry”

CBC News

The Liberal cabinet has given the green light for Canadian defence contractors to sell weapons to Ukraine in a watershed decision which a senior official of that country hopes will influence the Trump administration to follow suit.

The embattled eastern European country has been added to Canada’s automatic firearms country control list.

The decision was made on Nov. 23, according to a cabinet order posted online.  Continue reading “Canadian arms makers get OK to sell to Ukraine”