Mail.com

BEIRUT (AP) — As Damascus reverses military losses in much of the country’s strategically important west, and foreign states cut support for rebel forces, diplomats from Washington to Riyadh are asking representatives of Syria’s opposition to come to terms with President Bashar Assad’s political survival.

The country’s civil war has crossed the halfway point of its seventh year and Assad and his allies are now in control of Syria’s four largest cities and its Mediterranean coast. With the help of Russian air power and Iranian-sponsored militias, pro-government forces are marching steadily across the energy-rich Homs province to reach the Euphrates River valley.   Continue reading “Syria opposition told to come to terms with Assad’s survival”

Mail.com

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge who has compared Texas’ voter ID requirements to a “poll tax” on minorities once again blocked the law Wednesday, rejecting a weakened version backed by the Trump administration and dealing Texas Republicans another court defeat over voting rights.

U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos rejected changes signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott this summer as not only lacking but also potentially chilling to voters because of new criminal penalties. The new version didn’t expand the list of acceptable photo identifications — meaning gun licenses remained sufficient proof to vote, but not college student IDs.   Continue reading “Federal judge again tosses out Texas voter ID law”

Mail.com

9:20 a.m. President Donald Trump is attacking Republican congressional leaders on debt ceiling negotiations.

On Twitter Thursday, Trump says he asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to attach legislation to increase the country’s borrowing limit to a bill related to veterans. Trump said they didn’t do it and “now we have a big deal with Dems holding them up.”   Continue reading “The Latest: Trump says GOP botched debt ceiling negotiations”

Washington Post – by Melissa Byrne

Like many events that end up with a person in handcuffs, my story begins in a bar. I was in Atlanta earlier this month for Netroots Nation, the annual meeting of progressive organizers and writers, when I overheard friends discussing how to resist President Trump’s first visit to Trump Tower. I jumped into the conversation: “Well, you call me, of course.” Twenty minutes later, we had a rough plan that we would unfurl a banner inside Trump Tower the following week. I have been to many protests since the inauguration, and I was proud to do my part.   Continue reading “I was detained for protesting Trump. Here’s what the Secret Service asked me.”

Daily Mail

After days of feverish anticipation, the second-biggest jackpot in US lottery history has been won.

One lucky ticket matching all five numbers –  6, 7, 16, 23 and 26 – and the Powerball, 14, was bought at the Pride Station and Store in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

The person with that ticket may now walk away with up to $758.7million – having beaten the one-in-292.2million odds to win the jackpot.    Continue reading “One player in Massachusetts wins $758.7 MILLION Powerball jackpot – the second biggest US lottery prize EVER”

Express

The German Chancellor faced a barrage of loud protestors during her pre-election tour, as she stopped to give a speech to crowds of around 4,000 people at Bergisch-Gladbach.

For about 40 minutes the CDU boss talked freely about her vision of a Germany, where everyone can “live comfortably again.”

In her speech she said: ”This is what makes united Germany what it is today.   Continue reading “German election 2017 latest shock: Angela Merkel booed as voters tell her to ‘get lost!’”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

Transgender Kiwi Herring was shot dead by a St. Louis police officer this week after she cut the officer during a domestic disturbance call.

Kiwi Herring was the 19th transsexual killed this year.   Continue reading “Trans Lives Matter Protesters Mowed Down by Car During St. Louis Street Rally”

LA Times – by Richard Winton

San Francisco police will be out in force Saturday for a rally that is expected to draw white supremacists and counter-protesters who have clashed violently in the past.

San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said he hopes a large police presence can prevent the kind of violence seen in Virginia and elsewhere.

While San Francisco officials cannot stop the permitted gathering at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area by the Patriot Prayer group, Scott said his officers would work to keep the peace.   Continue reading “Police vow to ‘stamp out’ violence at San Francisco rally expected to draw white supremacists”

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The Voice of Idaho – by Vicky Davis

On August 21, 2017, Donald Trump gave an address on U.S. Policy in Afghanistan AND South Asia.  After 17 years of being in Afghanistan, he said the U.S. needs to go back in and stay in there until the country is under control.  Then he pandered to the soldiers.. telling them how great they are for their sacrifice.   I wonder … do they really know what they are fighting for?   They are fighting to serve the wealthy and oppress the poor.

The target country is NOT Afghanistan… it’s Pakistan – and possibly India.   And the objective is a G– D— road with police state surveillance, command and control technology – just like the NAFTA Superhighway.   The so-called “terrorists” they will be fighting will be the Pakistani’s who live on the corridor routes who will have their property stolen from them just like our government has done to people on our corridor routes – people like Cliven Bundy, the Hammonds, David Koresh and others I can’t name – but that I know exist.   There is no doubt that Trump will get a couple of golf courses out of it at the transportation hubs (inland ports).
Continue reading “Dying for Global Systems of Technocratic Tyranny”

Courthouse News – by Kevin Lessmiller

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CN) – A former Tennessee sheriff was sentenced Wednesday to nearly three years in prison after admitting to giving female inmates certain benefits in exchange for sex.

Former Fentress County Sheriff Charles Cravens, 47, was charged in April with three counts of honest services fraud and one count of deprivation of rights under color of law. He pleaded guilty the same day he was charged and resigned as sheriff.   Continue reading “Former Tennessee Sheriff Sentenced for Sex With Inmates”

The Newspaper

Police in North Carolina can pull over motorists even if they have committed no traffic violation. The state’s highest court on Friday approved the stop of a man whose pickup truck fishtailed slightly while making a left-hand turn on a snowy road.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals had reviewed the case and found the driver, James L. Johnson, had done absolutely nothing illegal. The unanimous three-judge panel struck down the traffic stop as unconstitutional, but the high court justices last week insisted on declaring the officer’s actions as legitimate, reversing the lower court’s decision.  Continue reading “North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Stopping Drivers Without A Violation”

MassPrivateI

MorphoTrust (MT) is trying to convince motorists that mobile biometric driver’s licenses (MDL) are a good thing. Two years ago MT convinced the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) to pilot their mobile driver’s license program.

MT wants you to download an image of your driver’s license to your smartphone and use that instead of a physical license. A KTVQ video revealed how the MT app uses facial recognition to verify an individual’s identity.   Continue reading “Mobile biometric driver’s licenses coming to a state near you”

Tucson.com – by David Wichner

Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a $900 million contract to develop the nation’s next-generation air-launched nuclear cruise missile.

Frequent competitor Lockheed Martin was awarded a similar, 54-month contract to develop design concepts and technologies for the new Long Range Standoff weapon, the Air Force said Wednesday.

When those contracts are completed, the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida will select a single contractor to further develop and produce the new weapon.

Continue reading “Tucson-based Raytheon wins $900M contract to develop new nuclear cruise missile”

Hindustan Times

China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely Muslim region that’s been under a security crackdown, rights observers and independent experts said on Tuesday.

Police in western China’s Xinjiang region confirmed to The Associated Press that they are in the process of purchasing at least $8.7 million in equipment to analyse DNA samples.

Observers from Human Rights Watch said they’ve seen evidence of almost $3 million in additional purchases related to DNA testing. They warned such a collection program could be used as a way for authorities to beef up their political control.   Continue reading “China buys equipment to expand DNA testing in Muslim region”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: I am starting to feel like we are walking down the yellow brick road. You never know what is going to pop out along the way. Now we have a Satanist who blames Christians. If I recall “Lucien Greaves” a made up name was or is an atheist. Big side shows going on here folks. Big side shows. So what is really going on…

Our Father has been removed from our nation as a whole. Not in our families of course, but at the national level there is no doubt. Our nation would make Sodom blush.
Continue reading “Washington Post Defends Satan, Blames Christians For Racism, Violence”

Times of Israel – by Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday as part of a US bid to find ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Speaking alongside Kushner before the start of their meeting at IDF Headquarters in the Kirya compound in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said he believed peace was “within our reach.”

“We have a lot of things to talk about. How to advance peace, stability and security in our region — prosperity too — and I think all of them are within our reach,” he said.  Continue reading “Netanyahu meets Kushner as part of US peace push”

Media Roots – by Abby Martin, January 3, 2014

Even though present-day Afghanistan flies under the news radar, it remains to be the longest military quagmire in US history. Aside from troops still occupying the country, thousands of private contractors are on the ground that the Pentagon can’t even account for. Considering how Obama’s foreign policy strategy has been to replace ground troops with drone strikes, the administration’s logic behind continuing the occupation remains unclear.

War has always been about resources and control. Alongside the supposed surprise discovery of Afghanistan’s $1 trillion wealth of untapped minerals, the Taliban had successfully eradicated the opium crop in the Golden Crescent before the US invasion. Now, more than 90% of the world’s heroin comes from the war torn country.  Continue reading “Flashback: How Opium is Keeping US in Afghanistan: CIA’s Shady History of Drug Trafficking”

New Eastern Outlook – by Ulson Gunnar

Recent murmurs across the US media have indicated increased interest in “outsourcing” the war in Afghanistan to private military contractors. National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed Erik Prince, founder of controversial military contracting firm, Blackwater, who appears to be leading lobbying efforts toward this end.

In an interview titled, “Blackwater Founder Backs Outsourcing Afghan War-Fighting to Contractors,” Prince would defend his proposal for the creation of an “American viceroy” in Afghanistan, consolidating and overseeing all US operations in the country.   Continue reading “Blackwater Founder Seeks Privatization of Afghan War”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Free speech? Personal liberty? Not in America in the year 2017. Maybe it is not your game of choice, but these guys were off-campus on their own time. No one has a right to expel them because of this. When people start telling you what is right and wrong you should not only question it, you shout it down. We already have the Bible and something called the Constitution. Continually we see it whittled down and told it is racist. Stop being politically correct. If someone has a bunch of you know what coming out of their mouth, shut them down. Call it for what it is. Calling something racist is done in order to silence you or some group of people. No one wants to be called a racist so those being called racist will tend to stand down. Do not do that, you present the facts. Facts are facts.

Continue reading “Students Suspended, Expelled For Playing ‘Jews Vs. Nazis’ Beer Pong Off Campus”

The Organic Prepper

The division in America has become so dramatic over the past year that many people can only foresee it heading one place: Civil War.

There’s a pronounced uptick in violence and protests (often going hand in hand.) Free speech is being crushed by the opposition with the mere threat of violent responses. Statues and memorials are being vandalized or defended. Protesters show up armed and armored, ready for battle. The media throws gasoline on these flames with reports solely laying the blame on one side. Some groups are openly planning sedition and no one is trying to stop them.  Continue reading “20 Preppers Speculate What Civil War 2.0 Would Look Like in America”