New York Post – by Daniel Halper

Elton John will perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration, claimed a key adviser, who championed the billionaire as the first president ever to enter the White House with a “pro-gay rights” stance.

“Elton John is going to be doing our concert on the mall for inauguration,” Anthony Scaramucci, a member of the presidential transition team executive committee as well as a vice chair of the presidential inaugural committee, told BBC’s “HARDtalk.”  Continue reading “Key adviser claims Elton John will play at Trump’s inauguration”

The Telegraph – by Mark Malloy

If these motorists thought setting off early would help them beat the Thanksgiving getaway rush, it appears a few others had the same idea.

ABC7 Eyewitness News captured incredible footage of what might just be the world’s worst car jam in southern California, bringing traffic to a crawl.   Continue reading “World’s worst traffic jam? Cars stuck in Thanksgiving getaway ‘gridlock’”

Newsmax – by Brian Freeman

Unaccompanied minors are being used as deportation shields in the newest strategy by illegal immigrants to sneak into the country, an expert on the subject told The Washington Times.

Internal Homeland Security documents reviewed by the newspaper show that adults trying to illegally cross into the U.S are pairing up with unrelated children to pretend to be families and fabricate heart-breaking stories in order to convince border agents to admit them.   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrants Set Record By Using Children As Deportation Shields”

RT

The FBI hacked into more than 8,000 computers in 120 countries during an investigation into a child pornography website with just one warrant, a court hearing transcript has shown. It represents the largest known law enforcement hacking campaign to date.

The hacking centers around an FBI investigation in February 2015, in which the bureau seized the Playpen child pornography website and ran it from a government server for 13 days. It used a piece of malware known as a network investigative technique (NIT) to break into the computer of anyone who visited certain child pornography threads on the website. It then sent the suspects’ IP addresses back to the FBI.   Continue reading “FBI hacked into 8k computers in 120 countries using single disputed warrant – report”

RT

Built at a cost of more than $4 billion, the high-tech USS Zumwalt only made it to the Panama Canal while on its first journey to its homeport in San Diego. A malfunction left the warship in need of tugboats so that it could reach the closest port, where it remains under maintenance.

Passing southbound through the Panama Canal on Monday evening, the USS Zumwalt crew discovered water seeping into two of the four ship’s bearings connecting the port and starboard Advanced Induction Motors, or AIMs, to the drive shafts, according to US Naval Institute News citing a defense official.   Continue reading “Not again! US Navy ‘stealth’ destroyer towed into port after another break down”

Mail.com

DETROIT (AP) — A Wayne State University police officer who was shot in the head while on patrol near campus has been released from surgery, and authorities said they were interrogating a man about the attack.

The officer was identified as 29-year-old Collin Rose, a five-year veteran of the department who works in the canine unit. Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Rose was on duty Tuesday evening when he radioed to say he was investigating possible thefts of navigation systems from cars and SUVs, and was about to speak to someone apparently on a bike.  Continue reading “Wayne State University officer recovering from shooting”

Mail.com

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition on Wednesday “disabled” the fourth bridge on the Tigris River in Mosul, leaving the northern Iraqi city with a single functioning bridge, according to the Iraqi military and the Islamic State’s media arm.

The Aamaq news agency gave no details on the airstrike, the second to target a Mosul bridge this week and the fourth since shortly before the Oct. 17 start of the Iraqi government’s campaign to retake the city from the extremist group.   Continue reading “IS claims coalition airstrike disables fourth Mosul bridge”

RT

The Knesset has preliminarily approved a bill which would exempt security forces from having to record the interrogations of terror suspects. Authorities say the move will help to counter terrorism, while critics fear possible human rights violations.

Israeli lawmakers approved the bill in its first reading on Monday, Haaretz reported.   Continue reading “Israel seeks to keep terrorism suspects’ interrogations off-record”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Between the so-called ‘Hursti Hack’, questions over Soros-linked voting machines, some peculiarities in Texas, and the media furore over Trump’s democracy-threatening questioning of the election outcome; it is perhaps ironic that, after being soundly beaten across the vast majority of counties in America, NY Mag reports, a group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers are urging the Clinton campaign to call for a recount in three swing states won by Donald Trump after allegedly finding “persuasive evidence” of vote hacking.   Continue reading “Scientists Find “Persuasive Evidence” Of Vote Hacking, Demand Clinton Recount In 3 States”

The Daily Bell

Barack Obama on fake news: ‘We have problems’ if we can’t tell the difference The US president denounced the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected. -Guardian

Is fake news the new “conspiracy theory.” We’ve read that it may be, and it seems likely to us.   Continue reading “Enter Fake News as Replacement for Conspiracy Theory?”

SuperStation95

Rampant rumors sparked by comments from Trump underlings were laid to rest this afternoon when Donald Trump explicitly told the New York Times “No” when asked if he is taking investigations of the Clintons off the table!

Web sites across the US reeled with shock and dismay earlier Tuesday after Trump underlings, appearing on an MSNBC television program, said they understood Trump would not be prosecuting any crimes involving Hillary (or Bill) Clinton.   It turns out that “their understanding” was wrong.   Continue reading ““No.” Trump PERSONALLY Tells NY Times he is NOT taking Clinton Investigations Off the Table”

This is a recipe handed down to me by my mom. It’s been in my family since I was a kid (back when dirt was new). I’ve tweaked it slightly to my own satisfaction, but will also provide the original specs. I’ve yet to come across a store-bought cookie that equals them.   Continue reading “Awesome No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies”