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NEED TO KNOW NEWS Iowa: Judicial Watch found eight counties with registration rates over 100% of the voting age population and nearly three dozen counties with a registration rate over 95%, which is extraordinarily high. […]
As top officials reassure their Palestinian counterparts annexation is coming no time soon, everyone is banking on Israel’s March elections By Yossi Melman | 29 January 2020 MIDDLE EAST EYE — From a strict security point […]
3 February 2020 SOUTH FRONT — The Houthis’ media wing continues showcasing devastating losses of Saudi-backed forces in the Yemeni conflict.
Black Swan Event: An unpredictable event that has potentially severe consequences. Characterized by its extreme rarity and its severe impact. Can cause catastrophic damage to an economy and, because they cannot be predicted, can only […]
By Sharon Bernstein | 22 October 2018 REUTERS — A New Hampshire judge on Monday put on hold a law requiring some voters to present proof of residency when they register, saying it would lengthen lines at […]
By Ryan Gallagher | 12 October 2018 THE INTERCEPT — Google CEO Sundar Pichai has refused to answer a list of questions from U.S. lawmakers about the company’s secretive plan for a censored search engine […]
By Tyler Durden | 2 February 2020 ZERO HEDGE — A BuzzFeed senior reporter who accused Zero Hedge of ‘doxing’ a Chinese scientist has reportedly left a disturbing internet footprint rife with pedophilia and rape jokes […]
Not to get all old-timey on you or anything, but do you remember back when the Super Bowl was about football? And at Super Bowl parties, debates focused on the increasingly inflated value of player […]
Russ on Friday participated in another monthly podcast with intrepid stalwart Eric Gajewski of TradCatKnight. If you haven’t tuned in to these podcasts, you’re missing something. These are all short in length (approx. 40 minutes […]
By Elise Ehrhard | 31 January 2020 NEWS BUSTERS — PBS once provided children with happy thoughts of a fatherly Mr. Roger’s talking to us about our day or adorable Ernie singing about his rubber ducky on Sesame Street. But for the LGBTQXYZ […]
PM rescinds immunity ahead of Knesset vote By Yonah Jeremy Bob and Gil Hoffman | 28 January 2020 JERUSALEM POST — On Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu became the first sitting prime minister in Israel’s history to be […]
By Morgan Philips | 27 January 2020 FOX NEWS — The head of San Francisco Public Works, which is in charge of cleaning up the city’s feces-filled streets, has been arrested by the FBI on […]
Also Read: Winter Watch post- The Case of James Forrestal and the Take Downs of Real America Firsters By Laurent Guyenot | 27 January 2020 THE UNZ REPORT — In the 1990s, a couple of bestsellers […]
‘In the previous epidemics, which turned out to be duds — West Nile, SARS, bird flu, Swine Flu, MERS, Zika, Ebola — there were people claiming the virus had been diabolically weaponized, it was spreading […]
By Eric Striker | 23 January 2020 NATIONAL JUSTICE — Nationalists are on the rise in Slovakia. The People’s Party – Our Slovakia, led by charismatic rebel Marian Kotleba, is polling at 14% ahead of parliamentary elections next […]
Lamine N’Diaye is being reassigned to a leadership role at FCI Fort Dix The low-security ‘Club Fed’ prison is in Burlington County, New Jersey N’Diaye was warden at MCC Manhattan when Epstein died in his […]
18 January 2020 PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS — The first thing to understand is that it is not a trade deal. It is Trump backing off his tariffs when he discovered that the tarrifs fall on US […]
Thomas Bowers, who worked above Trump’s personal banker, was 55 By Ian Spiegelman | 27 November 2019 LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE — A former Deutsche Bank executive who reportedly signed off on some of the institution’s unorthodox […]
By A.J. Naddaff | 22 January 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS — Before picking up cash from a downtown bank in Lebanon’s capital, Mey Al Sayegh mentally braces herself for what would have been a routine trip before […]
22 January 2020 YAHOO! NEWS (AFP) — Thousands of residents on Greek islands hosting large migrant camps on Wednesday kicked off a day of protests, demanding the immediate removal of asylum-seekers. The islands of Lesbos, Samos […]
LGBT community viewed Sgt. Byun’s fate as a test case for the role of gay and transgender people in the conservative country By Dasl Yoon | 22 January 2019 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL — A transgender soldier […]
By Rebecca Klar | 22 January 2020 THE HILL — Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is suing Hillary Clinton for defamation over the former secretary of State’s remarks on a podcast characterizing the Democratic presidential candidate as […]
Donald Trump is a dark triad personality. The triad wraps up in one person narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. The Donald does little to restrain this. We suggest all readers become familiar with dark triads. The […]
Man stabs, kills pro-Trump boss, drapes American flag over him, deputies say Mason Trever Toney faces murder charge in death of William Knight By Daniel Dahm | 21 January 2020 CLICK ORLANDO (GRAHAM MEDIA GROUP) […]
‘There are only two sexes, identified by an XX or XY chromosome’ By Alex Griswold | 20 January 2020 THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON — A Denver Post columnist says he was fired after disputing the idea that there are […]
By David Chazan | 18 January 2020 YAHOO (THE TELEGRAPH) — Emmanuel Macron’s Friday night theatre outing came to a disagreeable end when police had to rescue the president and his wife from dozens of protesters […]
The Second Amendment (2A) movement is planning a demonstration at Capital Square at the State Capital in Richmond, Virginia. It’s called the Virginia Capitol Protest Against Gun Control, and it’s to be held on Monday, […]
By Jon Schwarz | 16 January 2020 THE INTERCEPT — David Wurmser was a longtime advocate of war with Iraq in the Bush administration. Eventually, he got what he wanted, and it was a total […]
If you followed the bouncing ball at all during the 2008-2011 financial crisis, I hope you had the opportunity to hear former FDIC member (2006-2010) Elizabeth Warren lay bare the systematic banking fraud, Wall Street […]