Archive for December, 2017

Apple’s ill designed Chicago store: bird poop, falling ice and cracking windows

     For all of its fancy engineering and architectural accolades earned since opening in October, Michigan Avenue’s glassy new Apple store is struggling with an apparently unexpected adversary: Chicago’s wintery climate. According to a report by The Verge, frozen chunks of snow and icicles sliding off the riverfront building’s gutter-less, laptop-esque roof pose a serious […]

Déja vu: Trump’s approval rating exactly matches Obama’s at the end of first year

     Let me begin with a rare tweet, courtesy of Matt Drudge, a guy who doesn’t tweet much and also the owner of world’s biggest news-aggregator, the Drudge Report obviously: Rasmussen Poll shows Trump at 46% APPROVE this morning, with 53% DISAPPROVE… What about Obama at same exact date first year in presidency?? 46% APPROVE, […]

Iran to shift focus to policing crime rather than women who violate dress code

     One of the more notorious images that often comes out of Iran is that of chador-clad women with police armbands and male police officers rounding up loosely veiled, and often young, women into minivans to be taken to police stations. These officers, known as Gasht-e Ershad, or Guidance Patrol, roam busy avenues, especially during […]

Puerto Rico: 1 million still without power 100 days after hurricane Maria

     Though some basic necessities have returned to the island, residents are angry that they are still in “recovery mode.” Puerto Rico is now in its 100th day since Category 4 Hurricane Maria struck the island, damaging vast amounts of infrastructure and nearly eliminating its electrical and running water systems. Though some of these basic […]

False Flags — American as Apple Pie

  December 30, 2017 Source Article from https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/12/american-as-apple-pie.html Views: 0

Harassment Rules Herald Orwell’s 1984

  December 29, 2017 (We are asked to be informers.) Source Article from https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/12/harassment-rules-herald.html Views: 0

Charlottesville – A Marcher’s Perspective

  December 27, 2017 Thanks for the response, sir. To be honest, I wasn’t an organizer, so I have no idea about that. Even guys like Cantwell and Enoch, even Duke, were just invited speakers along for the ride. They weren’t involved in any planning: that was mainly Spencer and Kessler, who we ran into […]

World’s richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1tn this year

The world’s 500 richest people have increased their wealth by $1tn (£745bn) so far this year due to a huge increase in the value of global stock markets, which are likely to finish 2017 at record highs. The big increase in the fortunes of the ultra-wealthy comes as billions of poorer people across […]

Housing Bubble 2.0: U.S. Homeowners Made $2 Trillion On Their Houses In 2017

Americans who are lucky enough to own their own little slice of the ‘American Dream’ are about $2 trillion wealthier this year courtesy of Janet Yellen’s efforts to recreate all the same asset bubbles that Alan Greenspan first blew in the early 2000’s. After surging 6.5% in 2017, the highest pace in 4 years […]

Federal Programs are Helping Local Police Buy Surveillance Drones

Source: Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey Local law enforcement agencies around the country are acquiring drones at a dizzying pace, often with financing from the federal government, asset forfeiture, and in some cases, private grants. According to a report released last spring by the Center for the Study of the Drone […]

Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers On The Backs Of The Young

The advantages of slavery by debt over “chattel” slavery – ownership of humans as a property right – were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War. It read in part: Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power and chattel slavery destroyed. This, I and my European friends are glad of, for slavery is […]

Banksters Are Developing Their Own E-Currency That Could Destroy the Value of Bitcoin and Control Us All!

[A] digital currency that uses blockchain technology that is called ‘Utility Settlement Coin’ is actually very real, and it is currently being jointly developed by four of the largest banking giants on the entire planet.  The following was recently reported by Wolf Richter: UBS, BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Santander, the market operator ICAP, […]

‘They would charge us with the crime of being born Palestinian’: a report from the latest Tamimi court hearing

On the evening of Thursday, December 28th, family members and friends of Nariman, Ahed and Nour Tamimi gathered in the courtroom at Ofer military camp waiting to hear the latest verdict in regards to the three Tamimi women. Ahed and Nour, were arrested by Israeli forces after a video of them slapping and pushing armed […]

Smart, sophisticated and strategic: less than 60 hours left to join Mondoweiss’s Thousand Voices for Truth

We have less than 60 hours left to claim $60,000 for essential journalism on Palestine. As you know, Mondoweiss has been issued a challenge: raise $100,000 by the end of 2017 in order to receive an additional $60,000 from four visionary supporters. As of right now, we have less than $23,000  left to raise—but only […]

Why liberal Zionists have nothing to say about Ahed Tamimi’s slap and arrest

The Ahed Tamimi case is one of the most important events we have covered because it exposes to the eyes of the world the difference in moral tone between the two sides of the conflict. Consider the optics of the case. On December 15 in the tiny occupied village of Nabi Saleh, a 16-year-old girl […]

Where is the #MeToo movement for Ahed Tamimi

Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi was back in court yesterday, with the judge ruling for the third time that her detention is extended, this time for another five days. Over the past week and a half, Ahed has been shuffled between numerous Israeli prisons and police stations. She has been held in painfully cold isolation cells with […]

No, Rachael Ray, hummus is not Israeli: How and why Palestinian culture gets erased

Rachael Ray, an American celebrity chef and television personality, posted a tweet claiming hummus to be an Israeli dish, alongside tabbouleh, meze stuffed grape leaves, and an assortment of dips familiar to the Arab world. So, here’s the thing: the state of Israel was created in 1948, but the indigenous Arab occupants of what is […]

Remembering Father Feeney…A true warrior for Christ

Remembering Father Feeney…A true warrior for Christ Leonard Feeney (1897-1978) was a Roman Catholic priest. He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on 15 February 1897. In 1914 he became a Jesuit Novitiate of Saint Andrew in New York, with whom he studied for 14 years before taking religious vows as a son of Saint Ignatius, […]

Probe into police slaying of Palestinian math teacher to close

Maureen Clare Murphy Rights and Accountability 29 December 2017 Israel’s justice ministry intends to close a probe into the January killing of a Palestinian citizen by police in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in southern Israel. For a second time the ministry’s police investigations unit has recommended to state prosecutors that no charges be […]

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