Winter Watch original articles and aggregated US news.
More than 7 million Americans are at least 90 days behind on their auto loans, according to the New York Fed. That’s higher than the peak in 2010 as the country was still reeling from […]
By Eric Garris | 10 February 2019 ANTIWAR — Rep. Walter Jones, one of the most consistently antiwar members of Congress, has died at age 75 after an extended illness. The Republican lawmaker had battled a series of […]
Suddenly, during the last two weeks, there have been a number of reports of “large booming sounds, being accompanied by massive flashes of light.” The Sun is reporting that the frequency of these “mystery booms” appears “to […]
By Monica Showalter | 8 February 2019 AMERICAN THINKER — At the Yale Daily News, East Germany had nothing on the paper’s opinion editor, Isis Davis-Marks. The Nazi SS had nothing. The Castroite Cuban turbas had nothing. Mao’s […]
Plan to pay 1,000 residents $1,000 a month — no strings attached — pitched by panel By Fran Speilman | 7 February 2019 CHICAGO SUN TIMES — Each month, 1,000 struggling Chicagoans would get $1,000, no […]
Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018 YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are the most popular online platforms among teens. Fully 95% of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online ‘almost constantly’ […]
By Tyler Durden | 2 February 2019 ZERO HEDGE — The Farm Belt helped cement President Trump’s historic electoral triumph over Hillary Clinton. But even before Trump started his trade war with China nearly one year […]
By Bryan MacDonald | 17 November 2018 GEOPOLITICS — Most consumers are unaware of the mainstream media’s dirty little secret. Think tanks are increasingly taking advantage of tight news budgets to influence the press agenda in favour […]
This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called ‘independence’ of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the […]
By Matt Novak | 7 February 2018 GIZMODO — Facebook was slapped with a ruling in Germany today that limits how the social media giant can collect data across its multiple platforms, like WhatsApp and Instagram. And […]
Trump Nominates Critic of Global Institutions to Lead World Bank By David Lawder | 6 February 2019 REUTERS — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the World Bank Group should be led by U.S. Treasury […]
By Kyle Rempfer | 6 February 2019 MILITARY TIMES — The Defense Department wants U.S. Special Operations Command to do more than the traditional leaflets-and-loudspeakers approach to information warfare, a senior Pentagon official said this week. “We need to […]
By Susannah Black, Matt Loftus and Jake Meador | 13 February 2018 MERE ORTHODOXY — 2017 was the year of the deep state, a year when the inner workings of the American system were exposed to the […]
By Aaron Franz | June 2009 THE AGE OF TRANSITIONS — The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) recently posted a white paper written by two of its members: George Dvorsky, and James Hughes. The […]
By Glenn Greenwald | 3 February 2019 THE INTERCEPT — NBC News published a predictably viral story Friday, claiming that “experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of […]
The head of the CDC has been forced to resign after her potentially illegal ties to big pharma and big tobacco were just exposed in a scathing report. By Matt Agorist | 1 February 2018 THE […]
Researchers found that 77 percent of Wikipedia articles are written by 1 percent of Wikipedia editors, and they think this is probably for the best. By Daniel Oberhaus | 7 November 2017 MOTHERBOARD — When Wikipedia was […]
By Ronan Manly | 2 February 2019 ZERO HEDGE (BULLION STAR) — In early November 2018, it first came to light that the Bank of England in London was delaying and blocking the withdrawal of 14 […]
More than 600 women around the world have already accused John of God of sexually abusing them during healing sessions with the medium By Matt Roper | 30 January 2019 MIRROR — He was Brazil’s […]
With Notes on Its Academy Awards Snub in Favor of The Best Years of Our Lives; and the Film’s Striking Parallels to Another Inspiring Classic 9 January 2019 JAMES PERLOFF — Although the holiday season is […]
By Adam Epstein | 30 January 2019 QUARTZY — Netflix says it wants people to stop lusting after Ted Bundy, because that’s what it has to say. But make no mistake, the streaming service is loving […]
By Mikael Thalen | 30 January 2019 THE DAILY DOT — While the nation grapples with concerns over the spread of inaccurate and deceptive information online, deepfakes — videos in which an individual’s face is superimposed onto another […]
Robert Miller, president of the Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees, said that the board would no longer be reciting the pledge, claiming that it was ‘steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism.’ […]
By Tyler O’Neil | 28 January 2019 PJ MEDIA — In recent years, the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has faced a slew of lawsuits regarding its deceptive practice of branding mainstream conservative and Christian […]
By David Brennan | 12 April 2018 NEWSWEEK — One-third of Americans think “substantially less” than 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a new survey that highlights a worrying lack of basic […]
By Todd Haselton | 28 January 2019 A bug in FaceTime lets you listen in to the audio if you try to call someone — even if they don’t pick up. You first video call […]
Even after losing roughly a third of its market cap, it still may prove one of the great shorts of all time. By Tyler Durden | 27 January 2019 ZERO HEDGE (13D RESEARCH) — “There’s […]
Directed by Mads Brügger, ‘Cold Case Hammarskjold’ looks into the suspicious circumstances of the 1961 plane crash that killed the UN Secretary General The film talks to Alexander Jones, an ex-member of a militia that […]
Turner Broadcasting (TNT) on Sunday launched “I Am the Night,” a television miniseries “inspired by true events” that presents Hollywood gynecologist Dr. George Hill Hodel as the Black Dahlia killer. The story is reportedly draws […]
Editor’s Note: Kay Stevenson is a guest contributor to Winter Watch who lives four miles from the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. By Kay Stevenson The federal government has not paid U.S. Border Patrol agents since the […]