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Update: On Saturday, September 5th, 2020, the founder, administrator, and head moderator of this forum, Valerie S., went Home to be with the Lord.  Her obituary can be found on https://memorials.demarcofuneralhomes.com/valerie-skrzyniak/4321619/index.php.

This posting is dedicated to the forever memory and honor of Valerie, who was the founder of, and the inspiration for, this Web site.  The Web site will continue to operate in Valerie's remembrance, as requested by her family.  God bless!

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1 Thessalonians 4:15-18

   For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.     

​​​​​​​2 Timothy 4:7-8
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing
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Earthquake 6.0, 10 km deep strikes off Northern Mariana islands, no tsunami warning
An earthquake magnitude 6.0 has struck 10 kilometres deep off the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Monday. The has been no immediate tsunami warning from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre as yet.

Tonga declares state of emergency ahead of Tropical Cyclone Gita
The storm was forecast to make landfall later on Monday and into Tuesday, with “very destructive hurricane force winds”, “very rough to high seas”, and “a heavy southeast damaging swell on coastal areas”. Gita was a lesser category 1 cyclone when it passed over Samoa on Saturday, causing widespread flooding and loss of electricity. Many models are predicting it would hit New Zealand, but not until the middle of next week.

The open war with Iran has begun
The “Shadow War” between Israel and Iran has been going on for years, bringing us closer and closer to today’s events and what is to come. What happened in northern Israel on Saturday is the beginning of the overt and direct war between Israel and Iran. The infiltration and interception of an Iranian drone over Israel, the downing of an Israeli F-16 and Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Syrian and Iranian targets that followed, are apparently just the opening scenes of a potentially wider conflict that could erupt if Iran continues trying to fortify its presence in the new Syria.

Trump: Obama was ‘absolutely terrible’ for Israel
“But I feel much better if we can actually make a deal in terms of peace. I mean you certainly weren’t very close with Obama, he gave you the Iran deal, which basically is a deal that says let’s ultimately do bad things to Israel. Obama was terrible. He was absolutely terrible for Israel. I think our relationships are very good. I think they are probably as good as they have ever been.”

Trump warns Israel that settlements ‘complicate’ peace hopes
US President Donald Trump has said Israeli settlements “complicate” the peace process with Palestinians and urged “care” over the issue. He also told an Israeli newspaper that he did not believe the Palestinians, and possibly Israel as well, were ready to make peace. President Trump angered Palestinians in December when he recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Hackers hijack government websites to mine crypto-cash
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) took down its website after a warning that hackers were taking control of visitors’ computers to mine cryptocurrency. Security researcher Scott Helme said more than 4,000 websites, including many government ones, were affected. He said the affected code had now been disabled and visitors were no longer at risk.

Explosion, fire at power plant cause blackout in northern Puerto Rico
An explosion and fire at an electric substation threw much of northern Puerto Rico into darkness late Sunday in a setback for the U.S. territory’s efforts to fully restore power more than five months after Hurricane Maria started the longest blackout in U.S. history. The island’s Electric Power Authority said several municipalities were without power…but they were optimistic it could be restored within a day…

Is America having second thoughts about free speech?
The free speech wars are getting worse, but it seems that none of the warring factions quite grasp the character of the dispute — or precisely what’s at stake…On many college campuses, groups of left-leaning students insist that free speech should be conditional on speakers adhering to explicit standards of diversity and avoiding the infliction of emotional harm on the members of marginalized groups through the spreading of “hate.”

U.S. Secretary of State says Washington backs Egypt in fight against terrorism
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday the United States supports Egypt’s fight against Islamic State but reiterated that it advocated free and fair elections in the Arab country. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Egyptian counterpart, Tillerson also said that Washington remained committed to achieving a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, despite President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Putin to host Abbas to settle peace deal with Israel in new peacemaker role
Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday for talks on achieving a peace settlement with Israel, as Russia tries to promote itself increasingly as a peacemaker in international conflicts. Putin met Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu exactly two weeks ago in Moscow. Russia has managed to maintain robust relations with both Israel and the Palestinian Authority government, as well as Israeli rivals Syria and Iran.

Security Cabinet mulls action against Iran
The 12-member security cabinet met Sunday to discuss the volatile situation in the North, with some of the ministers already having advocated taking military action – not only against Iranian proxies for attacks on Israel, but against Iran itself. The ministers heard briefings from the security establishment, but no operative decisions were announced even as Israeli officials made clear throughout the day that Jerusalem was interested in de-escalating the situation.

Cruz: America stands with Israel in wake of Iran’s aggression
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday condemned Iran’s attack on Israel and urged the world “to take decisive action to stop Iran’s expanding terrorist activities.” “This weekend, Iran committed an unprecedented, blatant act of aggression against our close friend and ally, Israel. Previously, Iranian proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas have used Iranian-provided resources to target Israel, but this escalation was a direct operation by the Iranian military against Israeli territory. This is utterly unacceptable. America stands with Israel, and resolutely against Iran’s unprovoked act of war,” Cruz said in a statement.

Republicans moving forward with Trump’s immigration framework
a group of Republican senators on Sunday evening announced their intention to offer the president’s framework as legislation during the immigration debate. The proposal would offer a pathway to citizenship to 1.8 million young immigrants eligible for the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, in return for $25 billion in border security and wall money as well as cuts to family based-immigration.

Israel Dispatches Missile Defense Batteries in North After Operation in Syria
The Israel Defense Forces is reinforcing missile defense systems along the border with Syria following a major military confrontation between Israel, Syria and Iran which culminated in the first battle loss of an Israeli fighter jet in 35 years.

False Teacher Rob Bell Claims in New Documentary ‘The Heretic’: ‘Jesus Would Be Mortified Someone Started a Religion in His Name’
A new documentary called “The Heretic,” which centers on false teacher Rob Bell, is set to be released on March 1, and features a number of statements that are already raising concern, such as, “The Bible has caused so much damage” and “Jesus would be absolutely mortified that someone started a religion in His name.”

Hijabbed Muslim singer retools Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” with Islamic proselytizing lyrics on THE VOICE
She seemed to be the embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of French multiculturalist Leftists: a hijab-wearing Muslima singing a song written by a famous Jewish poet. But, as seems always to be the case, there was a catch: she sang altered lyrics in Arabic that turned the song into one that proselytized for Islam:

Game Over – Judge Jeanine Interview With HPSCI Rep. Chris Stewart…
The game is over. The jig is up. Victory is certain… the trench was ignited… the enemy funneled themselves into the valley… all bait was taken… everything from here on out is simply mopping up the details. All suspicions confirmed.

Preparing for war in the north, Israel boosts air defenses – Arab-Israeli Conflict
Some 20 Syrian air defense missiles were fired towards Israeli jets during missions over Syria.

Israeli Ambassador to UN: 82,000 Syrian Fighters Under Iranian Control
Israel on Sunday said 82,000 fighters are “directly under Iranian authority in Syria,” and warned of Iran’s potential to “terrorize the entire free world,” CNN reports.

Legislators unveil legislation to protect babies with Down syndrome
House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, and Rep. Judy Ward, R-Blair, this week introduced House Bill 2050, which would prohibit the abortion of a child due solely to a diagnosis of possible Down syndrome.

FINALLY: This State Considers Banning Schools From Teaching About Gender Identity
A South Dakota Republican lawmaker proposed a bill calling for a ban on teaching gender identity in public schools, drawing the ire of various gay and transgender organizations.

Jesus statue decapitated in church sword attack
Indonesian police shot and wounded a man wielding a one-meter-long sword who attacked a Catholic Church service Sunday, seriously injuring four, including a priest, and decapitating a statue of Jesus.

A WARDROBE TO DIE FOR: Macy’s to launch line geared toward Muslims, including hijabs
When is Macy’s launching its clothing line geared toward Jews? Christians? Hindus? Buddhists?

New York Times Accuses Jewish Billionaires of Dragging United States Into War With Iran
The New York Times op-ed page carries an article by Lawrence Wilkerson headlined “A Familiar Road to War.” It warns, with zero factual basis, that the Trump administration is about to invade Iran the same way the George W. Bush administration invaded Iraq.

Shock: CNN Literally Fawns Over Sister Of North Korean Dictator As Millions In Country Are Starving To Death, Tortured In Slave Labor Camps
CNN has sparked widespread backlash throughout the country after running what amounted to a direct propaganda piece for the North Korean dictatorship that literally fawned over the sister of dictator Kim Jong Un despite the fact that her and her family have been involved in the horrific abuse of their own people as well as directly threatening to destroy the United States


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Don’t Use Facebook’s Onavo VPN: It’s Designed to Spy On You
You may have seen a new button in Facebook’s mobile app lately: under the Settings menu, a “Protect” option leads you to download an app called Onavo Protect. Don’t do it.

Expert: Sweden Has Become a ‘Base’ for International Radical Islamic Extremist Networks
Swedish researcher Peder Hyllengren of the Swedish Defence College has claimed that Sweden has become a hub of international Islamic extremism and that hundreds of Swedish residents have built up a vast network of jihadi contacts.

UK unveils extremism blocking tool
The UK government has unveiled a tool it says can accurately detect jihadist content and block it from being viewed. Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the BBC she would not rule out forcing technology companies to use it by law. Ms Rudd is visiting the US to meet tech companies to discuss the idea, as well as other efforts to tackle extremism.

Iran Unveils New Homemade Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missiles Amid Massive War Celebrations
Iran unveiled a series of new homemade nuclear-capable ballistic missiles during military parades held over the weekend… On the heels of an encounter between an Iranian drone and Israeli forces, Iranian leaders showcased their ballistic missile capabilities, which includes a nuclear-capable medium-range missile that appears to share similarities with North Korean technology, according to experts.

A.I. will be ‘billions of times’ smarter than humans and man needs to merge with it
Artificial intelligence could be “billions of times smarter” than humans and people may need to merge with computers to survive… Speaking on a panel …at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Futurizon’s Ian Pearson’s comments mirrored ideas put forward by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “The fact is that AI can go further than humans, it could be billions of times smarter than humans at this point,” Pearson said. “So we really do need to make sure that we have some means of keeping up.

Trump not following through on threat to cut aid over Jerusalem vote
US President Donald Trump threatened in December to cut funding for countries voting at the UN against his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but…not a single country lost funding for that reason. According to Buzzfeed, countries such as Zimbabwe, Somalia, and Nigeria, which were among the 128 nations that voted in favor of a UN resolution cancelling the American recognition, are still set to receive aid as part of next year’s budget.

Either Former FBI Director Comey or Former NatSec Advisor Susan Rice is Lying Based on Yesterday’s Email Released by Senator Grassley
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley uncovered an unusual email former NatSec Advisor to Barack Obama, Susan Rice sent herself on January 20th 2017–Donald Trump’s inauguration day. The email clearly implicates either Susan Rice or shamed former FBI Director James Comey in a lie!

Dry, hot California winter closes ski resorts, stalls wildflower blooms and revives drought fears
In the Sierra Nevada, snowpack levels are running below even the darkest days of the drought, with cross-country ski resorts closed and mountain biking becoming the sport of choice until the snow returns. In the Bay Area, cities like San Francisco, San Jose and Santa Rosa are experiencing the hottest starts to a year on record. And Southern California remains in the grip of unprecedented dry and hot conditions, despite a weak storm that moved in Monday. February is historically a wet month, but not this year. And the long-term forecast offers little hope for relief.

California now suing to shut up Christian speech
The state of California’s lawsuit against a Christian who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple on religious grounds is a frivolous case meant to chill the baker’s free-speech rights, contends a petition to dismiss the case.

Damascus warns Israel of ‘more surprises’ in Syria
Syrian anti-aircraft fire downed the F-16 as it returned from a retaliatory bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria after the incursion of an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace early on Saturday. Both Iran and Russia are supporting President Bashar Assad in Syria’s near seven-year civil war.

Trump proposes cutting all federal funds for NPR, PBS
The 2019 federal budget that the White House unveiled Monday again proposes cutting all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels money to NPR and PBS.

‘The world must know: We will apply sovereignty’
According to Shaked, Israel must act in accordance with its own interests. “Begin did not hold talks with the White House about imposing sovereignty over the Golan. He simply did it. It’s clear that all the countries of the world, as well as the United States, will not accept the application of sovereignty easily.”

France: Migrant Crisis Spirals Out of Control
Hundreds of Africans and Asians armed with knives and iron rods fought running street battles in the northern port city of Calais on February 1, less than two weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron visited the area and pledged to crack down on illegal immigration. The clashes plunged Calais — emblematic of Europe’s failure to control mass migration — into a war zone and reinforced the perception that French authorities have lost control of the country’s security situation.

US Finally Admits “No Evidence” Assad Used Sarin Gas
Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated on or about February 2nd, 2018 that the United States has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people in attacks in 2013 and 2017.

Social Media Giants Meet For Orwellian Control
Reps from Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube faced a British Parliamentary committee on U.S. soil at George Washington University. They were reminded of their own unchecked power to gather their users’ data. Oddly enough, after demonizing the social media giant’s reach, the Orwellian panel dove headfirst into the need to control free speech.

Top Uranium One Executive Killed in Russian Plane Crash
The passenger death list for the Russian AN-148 passenger plane carrying 71 people that crashed yesterday, has been released revealing Ivanov Vyacheslav, the top CFO of Rosatom/RuaniumOne, amongst the dead. Vyacheslav was involved in Hillary Clinton’s Uranium One deal with Russia back in 2009 under Obama.

Islamic Republic of Iran has used $1,700,000,000 Obama gave it to finance jihad terrorists
Obama paid billions to a regime that requires its citizens to chant “Death to America.” That regime has used the money to finance jihad terrorists who want to see America’s destruction and are actively working against American interests. Treason is defined as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Obama ought to be charged with treason.

Evidence Suggests Former FBI Head of Counter Intelligence, Bill Priestap, is Obamagate’s ‘Deep Throat’!
More and more evidence is beginning to suggest the Former FBI Head of Counter Intelligence, Bill Priestap, is Obamagate’s ‘deep throat’ – the insider providing information to government investigators about the Obama crime syndicate!

Obama policy helped create No. 1 African threat
…Newsweek asked whether the “role the Obama administration played in the North African country’s instability” could be blamed for the newly developing slave trade there. Now, a new report from the Congressional Research Service warns that it’s even worse

Feds to give all your health data to researchers
The federal government has just launched a 10-year, $1.5 billion project for which researchers want your information. All of it. Medical records, mental-health records, lifestyle details, personal habits, physical measurements, blood pressure, height, weight, blood and urine samples, details on health-care visits, procedures, medications, and electronic health records, among others. Oh, and DNA, too. It’s called All of Us and scientists say they want at least one million people to be under observation on an ongoing basis.

Trump orders US military to shoot down North Korean missiles
US President Donald Trump has ordered military to shoot down any missile launched from North Korea and heading toward Guam or the United States. Sources close to the White House national security team told the media on Thursday the order was issued to the US military in the wake of last month’s threat by North Korea to fire a ballistic missile toward Guam, a US territory.

Intel’s New “Smart Glasses” Shoot Laser Beam Directly Into Your Retina
For anyone who wanted a pair of Google glasses but didn’t want to look like a lazy Borg cosplay, Intel may have just what you need. Just one catch; you have to be OK with a laser firing photons directly into your retina.

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Giant lava dome confirmed in Japan’s Kikai Caldera
The composition of this lava dome is different from the magma that caused the giant caldera to erupt — it shows the same chemical characteristics as the current post-caldera volcano on the nearby Satsuma Iwo-jima Island. It is possible that currently a giant magma buildup may exist under the Kikai Caldera.

Top FBI, CIA, and NSA officials all agree: Stay away from Huawei phones
When the CIA, FBI, and NSA reach the same conclusion, you should probably listen. The intelligence community has been warning about the risk of Huawei for years, but the timing of the message here is clear: buy the Mate 10 Pro at your own risk. Ever since a 2012 investigative report—in which Huawei was wholly uncooperative….the intelligence community seemingly has ample reason to suspect Huawei of cyber espionage, and it is stopping at nothing to ensure the Mate 10 Pro isn’t a big seller in the U.S.

Hungary submits anti-immigration ‘Stop Soros’ bill to parliament
The bill, submitted to parliament late on Tuesday, is a key part of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s anti-immigration campaign targeting U.S. financier George Soros whose philanthropy aims to bolster liberal and open-border values in eastern Europe. The government says the bill, which would also impose a 25 percent tax on foreign donations to NGOs that back migration in Hungary, is meant to deter illegal immigration Orban says is eroding European stability and has been stoked in part by Soros

Declassified: Comey Had Secret Russia Meeting With Obama Amid “Unmaskings”
the fifth participant in the Jan 5, 2017 meeting was none other than former FBI Director James Brien Comey Jr., also known as “Boyscoutish” Jim. What’s notable about Comey’s attendance in the meeting is that it appears he misled Congress about his contact with President Obama. Comey’s prepared statement to congress deliberately omits the January 5 meeting, and qualifies his meetings with Obama as “alone.” In other words, since the Jan 5 meeting wasn’t “alone,” Comey didn’t include it – thus, it appears he deliberately mislead Congress about his communications with President Obama.

The director of the FBI says the whole of Chinese society is a threat to the US — and Americans must step up as a society to defend themselves
“One of the things we’re trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole of government threat, but a whole of society threat on their end,” Wray said, “and I think it’s going to take a whole-of-society response by us.”

Trump Will Veto Democrats’ Senate Amnesty Bills
A senior administration official said Tuesday night that President Trump “will veto any bill that doesn’t advance his common-sense immigration reforms” — a hardening of the White House bargaining position as the Senate begins an epic debate … In discussing the White House’s strategic thinking, the administration official asserted confidence on immigration, saying Democrats who resist Trump’s approach will “be walking into a political suicide march.”

The top 12 porn-peddling mainstream companies that facilitate sexual exploitation
The list calls out mainstream corporations “which the American people use and interact with every day on a mass scale” but “simultaneously promote or profit from messages of incest, the dehumanization of women, sexual violence, and even racism and child exploitation,”

Did the War of Gog and Magog Begin on Saturday?
Israel and Iran made direct military contact on Saturday for the first time, signaling a significant escalation in the multinational entanglement in Syria. This development contains unique elements that several end-of-days experts say presages the Messianic war of Gog and Magog. The confrontation on Saturday marks a serious escalation in an already volatile region that brings the armies of many nations in closer proximity with one another.

Arrests by Israeli Security Reveal Connection Between Turkey and Hamas
The Israel Security Agency (ISA), also known as the Shin Bet, announced on Monday the arrest of a Turkish national and an Arab-Israeli both of whom were suspected of engaging in activities for the Hamas terrorist organization. The arrests suggest a nefarious connection between the Turkish government and Hamas.

1,000 Ethiopian Jews to be Approved for Aliyah ‘Within One Month’
“The positive result of today’s meeting is that we received a very clear commitment to bring those 1,000 Jews to Israel,” said Chairperson of the State Control Committee, Member of Knesset (MK) Shelly Yachimovich of the Zionist Union list.

Wait–The FBI Agents Who Interviewed Michael Flynn Didn’t Think He Lied To Them?
Attorney General Sally Yates felt that the Flynn-Kislyak conversations were possibly illegal, prompting two FBI agents to interview Flynn on January 24, 2017. They reported back to then-FBI Director James Comey and noted that they felt Flynn did not lie to them. Flynn would resign on February 13. So, what happened? The Washington Examiner’s Byron York had a lengthy piece explaining the whole timeline of the Flynn fiasco that eventually led to him pleading guilty to making false statements to the FBI. But many questions remain, specifically whether the Obama holdovers at DOJ railroaded Flynn.

Very shallow minor earthquake swarm below Sao Miguel, Azores Islands, Portugal
At least 300 earthquakes of medium magnitude were recorded in the Azores Islands on Monday morning.

Got an accusation? New ruling puts you on notice
There’s a new court decision that puts on notice anyone who might be tempted to make an allegation. You need evidence. The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reinstated a defamation suit against a non-profit that assists victims of domestic violence, ruling that a woman’s claim that she is a survivor of domestic violence — for which evidence is absent — has been determined to be “defamatory per se.”

Introducing the IDF’s new ‘missile corps’
Defense Minister Lieberman has decided—in full agreement with Chief of Staff Eisenkot—to build a surface-to-surface missile arsenal in the Ground Forces; within two years, Israel Military Industries will supply missiles with a range of 150 kilometers and the ability to destroy any target within five minutes, which will later be joined by missiles covering all of Lebanon and reaching deep into Syria as well.

Iranian ‘winter’ coming to northern border, analyst warns
Three days after Israel’s first direct confrontation with Iran on its northern border, concern remains over the growing danger posed by the Islamic Republic’s growing foothold in the neighborhood. “Winter is coming from the north where we have a concrete threat,” Orit Perlov, a social media analyst for the Institute for National Security Studies, told The Jerusalem Post…days before an Israeli F16I was downed over the country by Syrian air defenses.

Series of tremors shake Pacific plate as Ring of Fire activity returns
STRONG tremors have struck near Guam, Japan and Alaska within the Pacific plate as fears of Ring of Fire activity return. The US island territory of Guam was struck by four earthquakes in the early hours of Tuesday as magnitude 5.7, 5.6, 5.4 and 4.9 quakes shook the region. Alaska was hit by more but weaker tremors, measuring at magnitudes of 4.2, 4.0, 3.9, 3.6, 3.5 and 3.3 while a 4.5 magnitude quake shook Japan.

Yellowstone ERUPTION: Supervolcano under ‘STRAIN’ – experts find magma chamber pressure
YELLOWSTONE is “under strain” according to a group of seismologists who are monitoring the potentially catastrophic volcano, prompting fears an eruption is imminent. A process known as deformation, where subsurface rocks subtly change shapes, is occurring beneath the surface of Yellowstone which alerts experts.

Coalition members back Netanyahu, blast police and Lapid
The police and Yesh Atid Chairman MK Yair Lapid came under fire Tuesday night following the publication of the police’s recommendations to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in two separate cases. Coalition Chairman David Amsalem (Likud) insisted that “There is nothing new here.” He claimed the police had “marked” Netanyahu two years ago and have been doing everything in their power to “hit their mark,”…

Israeli tech firm undercuts facial recognition to bolster privacy
Big brother is watching…Riding the wave of a global push to comply with new privacy standards, a small Israeli company believes it can help you, and your face, stay anonymous in a hyper-connected world. The startup, called D-ID, says it has developed a “firewall” to block facial recognition, the ubiquitous technology that can now unlock smartphones, tag friends on Facebook, or help police pick out an individual hiding in a crowd.

U.N.’s 2nd attempt at including abortion in ‘right to life’
The United Nations, for the second time in months, is being criticized for trying to redefine the “right to life” to include a right to abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Omarosa, whoever that is, freaked out because Mike Pence hears from Jesus
…Now like I said, I have scarcely any idea who this woman even is or where she came from. If her claim to fame is from the reality TV world, then that would explain it. But let me address her contention that she’s a Christian but she finds Mike Pence scary. A lot of people think that when someone claims to be a Christian you should always take them at their word. I don’t. I look at their fruit.

Seattle To Remove Massive Spying Network After Public Backlash
After rejecting a massive network of surveillance cameras and tracking devices, Seattle residents are now being forced to pay for the removal of the invasive equipment.

Mass Exodus Begins: 1000s Flee Venezuela’s Socialist Starvation Across Bridge To Colombia
People are fleeing the socialism forced on them in Venezuela by the hundreds of thousands. Starving, and facing violence over crumbs of food, many have no choice but to flee the wasteland which used the authority of government to destroy the lives of its citizens.

Damascus warns Israel of “more surprises” in Syria
The Syrian government said on Tuesday that Israel would face “more surprises” in future attacks on Syria’s territory, after Syrian air defences shot down an Israeli F-16 jet. Syrian anti-aircraft fire downed the F-16 as it returned from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria early on Saturday. Both Iran and Russia are supporting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s near seven-year civil war.

US jet destroys Russian T-72 battle tank in ‘self-defense’ in Syria
A US jet operating in Syria destroyed a Russian-made T-72 battle tank near Al Tabiyeh, Syria, on Saturday, a Pentagon representative confirmed to Business Insider on Tuesday.

DHS Debunks NBC Fake News Claiming Russia ‘Penetrated’ Election
The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement Monday pushing back against NBC’s assertion the Russians hacked the 2016 U.S. election.

California Gov’t Caught Building Housing on Contaminated Nuclear Test Sites
As a city prepares to spend $8 billion building government housing, the $1 billion it paid contractors to clean up the contamination from the former nuclear test site, appears to have been wasted. As the city of San Francisco attempts to build new government housing on a former nuclear test site, an investigation has revealed that the contractors who were supposed to clean up the area intentionally botched the work, even going as far as to swap soil samples from contaminated sites with clean ones.

Flush with pallets of cash from Obama, Iran is taking aim at Israel
Lee Kuan Yew, the great statesman of Singapore, once warned the U.S. that if Iran gets a nuclear bomb, “It will travel.” Something like that is happening. It’s not very visible in the news, but based on Saturday’s deliberate Iranian drone attack on Israel, and the subsequent Israeli retaliation, it’s obvious that Iran is gearing up to start a war with Israel.

ISRAEL TO BE KEY PLAYER IN THE NEXT CHAPTER OF SYRIA’S WAR
For Israel, the next chapter in Syria’s war will be a nightmare scenario. The incident on Israel’s northern border on Saturday was not only a significant event for Israel, but a serious incident that shows how the disastrous war in Syria is far from over, A new chapter in fact is just beginning, with Israel poised to be a central character.

Self-important network that speaks truth to power or something announcing 50 layoffs
Let’s not make too much of this, CNN has more than 4,000 employees. But apparently the honchos in Atlanta have decided that’s about 50 more than they need to peddle anti-Trump narratives on a 24/7 basis. Oh, and some of their new “digital initiatives” are not working out, so it’s time to swing the axe:

US Strikes Kill 100 Russian Fighters In Syria
Following up to last night’s bombshell report that at least two Russian mercenary fighters in Syria had been killed by US-led coalition forces, this morning Bloomberg is out with an exclusive, according to which the body count is far greater than had been disclosed: U.S. forces reportedly killed “scores” of Russian contract soldiers in Syria last week “in what may be the deadliest clash between citizens of the former foes since the Cold War”, Bloomberg reported.

Report: Israel Boosts Air Defenses Amid War Fears
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel has boosted its air defense in the North following a significant confrontation between the Jewish state, Syria and Iran that led to the loss of an F-16i fighter jet.

Oxfam Faces Fresh Child Sex Abuse, ‘Sex For Aid’ Accusations
Scandal-hit British charity Oxfam was reeling Tuesday after fresh claims of sexual assault and rape, this time between aid workers in South Sudan.

Vatican: China Best Example of Church’s Social Doctrine
Conservative Catholics are expressing shock at Pope Francis’ zeal in embracing the totalitarian government of China by first agreeing to replace underground church leaders with state-chosen hacks and now with a top Vatican official saying “those who best realize the social doctrine of the church are the Chinese.”

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Muslims outraged as the Coliseum in Rome to be lit up in red February 24th, to draw attention to Islamic persecution of Christians around the world
How about lighting up the Vatican in red, to draw attention to the fact that Pope Francis keeps encouraging non-Muslim countries to take in even more Muslim invaders whose religion advocates the killing or enslavement of Christians who refuse to convert to Islam?

END OF TIMES: Did the Final War of Gog and Magog Just Begin in Syria?
Israel and Iran made direct military contact on Saturday for the first time, signaling a significant escalation in the multinational entanglement in Syria. This development contains unique elements that several end-of-days experts say presages the Messianic war of Gog and Magog.

Gen. Jerry Boykin: Obama ‘Weaponized’ US Intelligence
Gen. Jerry Boykin, a U.S. Delta Force commander who served as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, tells Newsmax that the Obama administration “weaponized the intelligence community against our own people.”

Video: Second Shooter Reported in Florida Massacre
Eyewitness says she heard shots fired down hall while talking to suspect!

6th Graders Asked: How Comfortable Are You At A Gay Bar?
A teacher is under fire after giving a quiz to 6th-grade students asking how comfortable they are in situations such as meeting a “female-to-male transsexual.”

Alleged Shooter “On Meds”: Why SSRIs Are Suicide Murder Pills
Mainstream media will never talk about THIS aspect of virtually every shooting because Big Pharma is their sponsor. Buried in a local report on the background of the alleged Parkland shooter is a family member saying he was on meds for his emotional/mental issues.

Broward Sheriff: Give Police the Power to Involuntarily Commit People Who Raise ‘Red Flags’
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel on Thursday called for more first responders, more mental health treatment, and more power for police to involuntarily commit people who raise what he called “red flags.”

Strange: Responders Throw BODY BAG in Back of Truck Amid Florida Shooting
What’s in the bag? Footage shows possible violation of protocol

Why The Media Stopped Reporting The Russia Collusion Story
The media stopped reporting The Russia Collusion story because they helped create it. The press has played an active role in the Trump-Russia collusion story since its inception. It helped birth it.

IT’S COMING: Iran is on the march to Israel’s northern border
Iran has created a foothold in Syria that only stands to grow stronger, warns Orit Perlov, an analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies.

Florida mass shooting: Another deranged Democrat obsessed with guns, violence and “resistance”
…it’s important that you know the real facts about this shooter. In summary, the shooter (“Nicolas de Jesus Cruz”) is another deranged Democrat who is obsessed with guns, violence and “resistance.” Here are the facts you need to know:

Hijab Compulsory In Around 150 UK Schools, Government Too ‘Politically Correct’ to Step In
Around 150 schools have made it compulsory for children to wear the hijab and the government is too politically correct to step in and do anything about it, according to the former head of Ofsted.

The Chinese Military Is Surpassing the American Forces
…Under Obama, US military spending decreased. China’s military spending increased by 120%. The importance of this spending gap cannot be overstated…Where have we seen this before? Building an economy based on military spending is how Hitler revived the post-World War I German economy which had descended into hyperinflation and utter chaos, and we know how this turned out.

In Jordan, Tillerson notes progress in Mideast peace plan
The Trump administration’s plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at an advanced stage, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday in Jordan as part of his weeklong regional visit. “It’ll be up to the president to decide when he feels it’s time and he’s ready to put that plan forward,” he said. “I will say it’s fairly well advanced.”

SUNSPOT EXPLODES, HURLS CME AT EARTH
On Feb. 12th, the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2699 exploded–for more than 6 hours. The slow-motion blast produced a C1-class solar flare and hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) almost directly toward Earth. The CME is expected to reach Earth on Feb. 15th. NOAA forecasters say there is a 60% chance of G1-class geomagnetic storms with isolated periods of stronger G2 storming. The effectiveness of the CME could be enhanced by a stream of solar wind that was already en route to Earth when the sunspot exploded.

Trump’s ‘Influential’ Faith Advisory Team Coming to Israel
The Ministry of Tourism has confirmed that a group of US President Donald Trump’s faith advisers will be in Israel February 17 through 21. The mission, being organized by the ministry’s US office “comprises some of the America’s foremost leaders of the Evangelical Christian community,” said L. Marc Zell, chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel and a vice president of Republicans Overseas, Inc.

Macron Vows to Reform Islam in France – “It is Time to Bring in a New Generation.”
Emmanuel Macron, in a declared effort to “fight fundamentalism” and “preserve national cohesion,” has promised to “lay the groundwork for the entire reorganization of Islam in France.” According to Macron, the plan, similar in ambition to Austria’s Islam Law, is aimed at seeking to “better integrate” Islam in France in order to “place it in a more peaceful relationship with the state.” A key priority is to reduce outside interference by restricting foreign funding for mosques, imams and Muslim organizations in France. The plan’s overall objective is to ensure that French law takes precedence over Islamic law for Muslims living in the country.

Turkey rejects Israel’s claim Ankara helps Hamas
Turkey has rejected Israel’s accusations that it helped Hamas gain in military strength, calling them “incompatible with reality,” after a Turkish citizen was arrested and deported. “We reject the allegations, apparently out of reality and seriousness, which were introduced on the basis of some statements obtained from our detained citizen under ambiguous circumstances,” Turkey’s Anadolu Agency quoted the Turkish Foreign Ministry as saying.

France’s Macron threatens Syria strikes if chemical weapon use proven
French President Emmanuel Macron has threatened to “strike” Syria if proof emerges that its government is using chemical weapons against civilians. “We will strike the place where these launches are made or where they are organised,” he told reporters. But Mr Macron said French intelligence had so far found no evidence that banned chemical weapons had been used.

UK blames Russia for ‘malicious’ NotPetya cyber-attack
The Russian military was directly behind a “malicious” cyber-attack on Ukraine last summer that spread across Europe, British ministers have said. The UK government has taken the unusual step of publicly accusing Russia of June’s NotPetya ransomware attack. Reckitt Benckiser – maker of Dettol, Durex and Strepsils – was among the UK firms whose sales were affected.

Quantum computers ‘one step closer’
Quantum computing has taken a step forward with the development of a programmable quantum processor made with silicon. The team used microwave energy to align two electron particles suspended in silicon, then used them to perform a set of test calculations. By using silicon, the scientists hope that quantum computers will be more easy to control and manufacture.

Mysterious Radioactive Substance Reportedly Detected in Alaska
A “highly unusual aerosol particle containing a very small amount of enriched uranium” was tracked at an altitude of seven kilometers above Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, according to a US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study published by the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.

NASA to investigate 10,000-year-old mystery rock that ‘shows paintings of UFOs and aliens’
A NUMBER of prehistoric drawings have sparked a local government to seek the help of NASA after the images appeared to depict extraterrestrial life. In the footage, a narrator explains how a number of art pieces have been revealed. Discovered in Charama, India, the images appear to show aliens and UFOs, similar to scenes of a sci-fi movie.

Reported Florida Shooter Dressed as Communist, Supported ISIS
Alleged photos of the suspected Florida high school shooter make reference to various ideologies including communism and perhaps ISIS, and voter records suggest 19-year-old Nicolas Cruz was a Democratic voter.

Dead Male Prostitute, Piles of Meth Found in Clinton Mega-Donor’s Home—NO ARRESTS
The family and friends of Gemmel Moore, 26, are fighting an uphill battle to bring the man they say is responsible for his death to justice. Not surprisingly, the fact that Moore, who worked as a male escort, was found dead at the home of 63-year-old Ed Buck—who’s donated hundreds of thousands to Hillary Clinton—has received very little media coverage.

Politico’s New Pitch For Open Borders: ‘What If You Could Get Your Own Immigrant?’
Politico has unveiled a new pitch for open borders and mass immigration: what if everyone could get their “own immigrant” to serve them and pay them less than minimum wage?

Parent Kicked Out Of Classroom By PP
…A teacher at Ferndale High School in Washington State sent a letter home to all the parents in November, informing them that his health class would be beginning sex ed class and that several of the lessons would be taught by Whatcom Teen Council members. The letter did not note, however, that Whatcom Teen Council is an arm of Planned Parenthood.

Olympics Norovirus Cover Up? VIRUS Linked To Contaminated Water Blamed On BACTERIA
The 194 staff members and volunteers sickened by the norovirus at the Winter Olympics in South Korea now know what caused their violent infection. Contaminated water used in food preparation is said to be the blame for horrible vomiting spells many have experienced.

Democrats Announce Plan to Protect US Elections: Does Not include Voter ID, Includes Move to Soros-Linked Voting Machines
House Democrats produced their report and plan on how to protect future US elections.

Exclusive: ESPN Admits to Watching YOU Through Your TV
Ultimate Big Brother technology rolled out on unsuspecting fans

MEDIA SILENCE: Heartbreaking Footage Of Africans Being Sold At Open-Air Slave Markets In Libya
It’s 2018, and horrifying footage has emerged of African people being sold at auction at Libyan open-air slave markets. Tens of thousands of defenseless African migrants and refugees risk everything to reach Libya’s coast and next across the Mediterranean into Europe – which is considered to be the most dangerous route on Earth. According to reports, the migrants who end up in business detention centers are sold off like goods.

Got an accusation? New ruling puts you on notice
…There’s a new court decision that puts on notice anyone who might be tempted to make an allegation. You need evidence.

Swedish Bishop Welcomes Muslim Call to Prayer as “Good” For Society
Endorses application for “Allahu Akbar” refrain to be broadcast via loudspeakers in Swedish suburb

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Sanhedrin Mints Silver Half Shekel With Images of Trump and Cyrus
In gratitude to US President Donald Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Jerusalem, the nascent Sanhedrin and the Mikdash (Temple) Educational Center are minting a replica of the silver half-shekel Biblically mandated to be donated by every Jewish male to the Temple. An image of President Trump will be engraved alongside an image of the ancient Persian King Cyrus, who facilitated the building of the Second Temple that ended the Babylonian Exile in 538 BCE. “Trump’s political agenda can only succeed if it is focused on building the Third Temple on the place that God chose: the Temple Mount. He must not advance any two-state solution or this will lead to his downfall.”

US and Israel Stand United Against Iranian Aggression: Ambassador Danon
“The US & Israel will always stand together in the face of Iran’s aggression and provocations as it attempts to destabilize the region,” Danon wrote on Twitter. “The international community mustn’t stand idly by as the Iranian threat grows rampant.” Danon made his statement shortly after his US counterpart, Nikki Haley addressed the UN Security Council regarding the developments in Syria. Haley slammed Iran while defending the Israeli downing of an Iranian drone that penetrated Israeli airspace.

Rabbi Levenstein: Eradicate homosexuality just like we did AIDS
The fiercely anti-liberal rabbi reiterated his objections to any acceptance of homosexuals as normative people.
In his latest incendiary lecture delivered in January, the fiercely anti-liberal rabbi reiterated his objections to any acceptance of homosexuals as normative people, decried the inability to refer gay men and women to conversion therapy, and generally described acceptance of homosexuality as madness. “They’ve taken a tragedy of men and a tragedy of women and turned it into an ideology,” railed Levenstein during one of several lessons on the issue of sexuality…Problems we eliminate, defects can be eliminated,” he averred.

US rejects ‘Communist Chinese’ takeover of Chicago Stock Exchange
The top US regulator of the financial markets has blocked the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) to a Chinese-led investor group due to concerns over the would-be buyers’ ability to supervise the bourse after the deal. The decision by the SEC has put an end to a two-year battle for an approval of the sale and emphasizes once again zero tolerance by Donald Trump’ s administration toward Chinese buyers. During the election campaign the 45th US president pointed to the CHX deal as an example of how American jobs and wealth were leaving the country.

Flu kills up to 4,000 Americans a week, causing 1 in 10 deaths
The amount of influenza ravaging the U.S. this year rivals levels normally seen when an altogether new virus emerges, decimating a vulnerable population that hasn’t had a chance to develop any defenses. It’s an unexpected phenomenon that public health experts are still trying to decode. “This is a difficult season, and we can’t predict how much longer the severe season will last,” she said. “I wish there was better news, but everything we are looking at is bad news.”

Attorney-General: I will indict Netanyahu without hesitation if necessary
If he must indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he will do it without hesitation, Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit said on Thursday night, two days after the country was turned upside down by the possibility of another prime minister on trial. Speaking at a conference at Tel Aviv University, he said it was unpleasant to probe or indict any minister, but he is bound to do what is right.

Sources: Russian toll in Syria battle was 300 killed and wounded
About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were either killed or injured in Syria last week, according to three sources familiar with the matter. A Russian military doctor said around 100 had been killed, and a source who knows several of the fighters said the death toll was in excess of 80 men.

Syria conflict: US and Turkey agree to avert Manbij clash
The US and Turkey, whose forces are at loggerheads in northern Syria, have agreed to try to defuse the crisis. The Nato allies said joint teams would meet shortly to work through their diplomatic differences, including a dispute over the city of Manbij. Turkey has threatened to attack US-allied Kurdish forces in Manbij, whom they regard as terrorists.

White House: New bipartisan DACA plan “giant amnesty”
…The White House has been very clear on the terms it will accept for granting a path to citizenship for DACA recipients and normalization of the program. They want a border wall and an end to broad family-unification or “chain migration” practices in order to keep the problem from recurring. Donald Trump went so far as to issue a veto threat for anything that doesn’t fully resolve the issue.

SEC blocks Chicago Stock Exchange sale to China-based investors
U.S. regulators on Thursday killed the politically sensitive sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) to a group led by China-based investors, saying a lack of information on the would-be buyers threatened the ability to properly monitor the exchange after the deal. The move…ends a two-year battle to gain approval for the sale and underscores the more hostile environment facing Chinese buyers…

Egypt halts deliveries of diesel into Gaza
Egypt stopped allowing diesel shipments to enter the Gaza Strip Wednesday, causing the strip’s power station to cease operations. As a result, residents have been limited to three hours of electricity a day. A meeting was thus called by Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in light of the dire situation…

Muslims outraged as the Coliseum in Rome to be lit up in red February 24th, to draw attention to Islamic persecution of Christians around the world
How about lighting up the Vatican in red, to draw attention to the fact that Pope Francis keeps encouraging non-Muslim countries to take in even more Muslim invaders whose religion advocates the killing or enslavement of Christians who refuse to convert to Islam?

END OF TIMES: Did the Final War of Gog and Magog Just Begin in Syria?
Israel and Iran made direct military contact on Saturday for the first time, signaling a significant escalation in the multinational entanglement in Syria. This development contains unique elements that several end-of-days experts say presages the Messianic war of Gog and Magog.

Gen. Jerry Boykin: Obama ‘Weaponized’ US Intelligence
Gen. Jerry Boykin, a U.S. Delta Force commander who served as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, tells Newsmax that the Obama administration “weaponized the intelligence community against our own people.”

Video: Second Shooter Reported in Florida Massacre
Eyewitness says she heard shots fired down hall while talking to suspect!

6th Graders Asked: How Comfortable Are You At A Gay Bar?
A teacher is under fire after giving a quiz to 6th-grade students asking how comfortable they are in situations such as meeting a “female-to-male transsexual.”

Alleged Shooter “On Meds”: Why SSRIs Are Suicide Murder Pills
Mainstream media will never talk about THIS aspect of virtually every shooting because Big Pharma is their sponsor. Buried in a local report on the background of the alleged Parkland shooter is a family member saying he was on meds for his emotional/mental issues.

Broward Sheriff: Give Police the Power to Involuntarily Commit People Who Raise ‘Red Flags’
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel on Thursday called for more first responders, more mental health treatment, and more power for police to involuntarily commit people who raise what he called “red flags.”

Strange: Responders Throw BODY BAG in Back of Truck Amid Florida Shooting
What’s in the bag? Footage shows possible violation of protocol

Why The Media Stopped Reporting The Russia Collusion Story
The media stopped reporting The Russia Collusion story because they helped create it. The press has played an active role in the Trump-Russia collusion story since its inception. It helped birth it.

IT’S COMING: Iran is on the march to Israel’s northern border
Iran has created a foothold in Syria that only stands to grow stronger, warns Orit Perlov, an analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies.

Florida mass shooting: Another deranged Democrat obsessed with guns, violence and “resistance”
…it’s important that you know the real facts about this shooter. In summary, the shooter (“Nicolas de Jesus Cruz”) is another deranged Democrat who is obsessed with guns, violence and “resistance.” Here are the facts you need to know:

Hijab Compulsory In Around 150 UK Schools, Government Too ‘Politically Correct’ to Step In
Around 150 schools have made it compulsory for children to wear the hijab and the government is too politically correct to step in and do anything about it, according to the former head of Ofsted.

The Chinese Military Is Surpassing the American Forces
…Under Obama, US military spending decreased. China’s military spending increased by 120%. The importance of this spending gap cannot be overstated…Where have we seen this before? Building an economy based on military spending is how Hitler revived the post-World War I German economy which had descended into hyperinflation and utter chaos, and we know how this turned out.

In Jordan, Tillerson notes progress in Mideast peace plan
The Trump administration’s plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at an advanced stage, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday in Jordan as part of his weeklong regional visit. “It’ll be up to the president to decide when he feels it’s time and he’s ready to put that plan forward,” he said. “I will say it’s fairly well advanced.”

SUNSPOT EXPLODES, HURLS CME AT EARTH
On Feb. 12th, the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2699 exploded–for more than 6 hours. The slow-motion blast produced a C1-class solar flare and hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) almost directly toward Earth. The CME is expected to reach Earth on Feb. 15th. NOAA forecasters say there is a 60% chance of G1-class geomagnetic storms with isolated periods of stronger G2 storming. The effectiveness of the CME could be enhanced by a stream of solar wind that was already en route to Earth when the sunspot exploded.

Trump’s ‘Influential’ Faith Advisory Team Coming to Israel
The Ministry of Tourism has confirmed that a group of US President Donald Trump’s faith advisers will be in Israel February 17 through 21. The mission, being organized by the ministry’s US office “comprises some of the America’s foremost leaders of the Evangelical Christian community,” said L. Marc Zell, chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel and a vice president of Republicans Overseas, Inc.

Macron Vows to Reform Islam in France – “It is Time to Bring in a New Generation.”
Emmanuel Macron, in a declared effort to “fight fundamentalism” and “preserve national cohesion,” has promised to “lay the groundwork for the entire reorganization of Islam in France.” According to Macron, the plan, similar in ambition to Austria’s Islam Law, is aimed at seeking to “better integrate” Islam in France in order to “place it in a more peaceful relationship with the state.” A key priority is to reduce outside interference by restricting foreign funding for mosques, imams and Muslim organizations in France. The plan’s overall objective is to ensure that French law takes precedence over Islamic law for Muslims living in the country.

Turkey rejects Israel’s claim Ankara helps Hamas
Turkey has rejected Israel’s accusations that it helped Hamas gain in military strength, calling them “incompatible with reality,” after a Turkish citizen was arrested and deported. “We reject the allegations, apparently out of reality and seriousness, which were introduced on the basis of some statements obtained from our detained citizen under ambiguous circumstances,” Turkey’s Anadolu Agency quoted the Turkish Foreign Ministry as saying.

France’s Macron threatens Syria strikes if chemical weapon use proven
French President Emmanuel Macron has threatened to “strike” Syria if proof emerges that its government is using chemical weapons against civilians. “We will strike the place where these launches are made or where they are organised,” he told reporters. But Mr Macron said French intelligence had so far found no evidence that banned chemical weapons had been used.

UK blames Russia for ‘malicious’ NotPetya cyber-attack
The Russian military was directly behind a “malicious” cyber-attack on Ukraine last summer that spread across Europe, British ministers have said. The UK government has taken the unusual step of publicly accusing Russia of June’s NotPetya ransomware attack. Reckitt Benckiser – maker of Dettol, Durex and Strepsils – was among the UK firms whose sales were affected.

Quantum computers ‘one step closer’
Quantum computing has taken a step forward with the development of a programmable quantum processor made with silicon. The team used microwave energy to align two electron particles suspended in silicon, then used them to perform a set of test calculations. By using silicon, the scientists hope that quantum computers will be more easy to control and manufacture.

Mysterious Radioactive Substance Reportedly Detected in Alaska
A “highly unusual aerosol particle containing a very small amount of enriched uranium” was tracked at an altitude of seven kilometers above Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, according to a US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study published by the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.

NASA to investigate 10,000-year-old mystery rock that ‘shows paintings of UFOs and aliens’
A NUMBER of prehistoric drawings have sparked a local government to seek the help of NASA after the images appeared to depict extraterrestrial life. In the footage, a narrator explains how a number of art pieces have been revealed. Discovered in Charama, India, the images appear to show aliens and UFOs, similar to scenes of a sci-fi movie.

Reported Florida Shooter Dressed as Communist, Supported ISIS
Alleged photos of the suspected Florida high school shooter make reference to various ideologies including communism and perhaps ISIS, and voter records suggest 19-year-old Nicolas Cruz was a Democratic voter.

Dead Male Prostitute, Piles of Meth Found in Clinton Mega-Donor’s Home—NO ARRESTS
The family and friends of Gemmel Moore, 26, are fighting an uphill battle to bring the man they say is responsible for his death to justice. Not surprisingly, the fact that Moore, who worked as a male escort, was found dead at the home of 63-year-old Ed Buck—who’s donated hundreds of thousands to Hillary Clinton—has received very little media coverage.

Politico’s New Pitch For Open Borders: ‘What If You Could Get Your Own Immigrant?’
Politico has unveiled a new pitch for open borders and mass immigration: what if everyone could get their “own immigrant” to serve them and pay them less than minimum wage?

Parent Kicked Out Of Classroom By PP
…A teacher at Ferndale High School in Washington State sent a letter home to all the parents in November, informing them that his health class would be beginning sex ed class and that several of the lessons would be taught by Whatcom Teen Council members. The letter did not note, however, that Whatcom Teen Council is an arm of Planned Parenthood.

Olympics Norovirus Cover Up? VIRUS Linked To Contaminated Water Blamed On BACTERIA
The 194 staff members and volunteers sickened by the norovirus at the Winter Olympics in South Korea now know what caused their violent infection. Contaminated water used in food preparation is said to be the blame for horrible vomiting spells many have experienced.

Democrats Announce Plan to Protect US Elections: Does Not include Voter ID, Includes Move to Soros-Linked Voting Machines
House Democrats produced their report and plan on how to protect future US elections.

Exclusive: ESPN Admits to Watching YOU Through Your TV
Ultimate Big Brother technology rolled out on unsuspecting fans

MEDIA SILENCE: Heartbreaking Footage Of Africans Being Sold At Open-Air Slave Markets In Libya
It’s 2018, and horrifying footage has emerged of African people being sold at auction at Libyan open-air slave markets. Tens of thousands of defenseless African migrants and refugees risk everything to reach Libya’s coast and next across the Mediterranean into Europe – which is considered to be the most dangerous route on Earth. According to reports, the migrants who end up in business detention centers are sold off like goods.

Got an accusation? New ruling puts you on notice
…There’s a new court decision that puts on notice anyone who might be tempted to make an allegation. You need evidence.

Swedish Bishop Welcomes Muslim Call to Prayer as “Good” For Society
Endorses application for “Allahu Akbar” refrain to be broadcast via loudspeakers in Swedish suburb

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Brazil Military Takes Control of Rio de Janeiro’s Security
Brazil’s President Michel Temer justified putting an Army general in charge of Rio de Janeiro’s security forces to contain a rising tide of violence by saying that the circumstances required extreme measures.

Anti-Semitic hate speech incidents at all time high in Austria
A watchdog on anti-Semitism in Austria reported an increase in hate speech incidents and a decrease in physical assaults last year over 2016.

Netanyahu tells UN chief: Golan will remain Israel’s forever
Reiterating past comments, Netanyahu added that Israel would act against any Iranian attempt to build bases in Syria

LGBT community irate as US Education Secretary says bathroom segregation is by gender, NOT gender identity
…In May 2016, then-US President Barack Obama ordered US public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their preferred gender identity…On Tuesday, Education Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill explained that decision, saying that “Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, not gender identity.”

District caught altering evidence to ban Christian club
A school district in Kentucky is being accused of altering evidence to prevent a Christian childrens’ club from meeting in school facilities like other organizations.

Scientists create first human-sheep hybrids
Scientists have created the first ever human-sheep hybrids, paving the way for organs to be grown in animals which can be transplanted into humans.

Medical establishment BAFFLED over why so many healthy, vaccinated people keep dying from the flu
…What is of grave concern to medical experts is the fact that thousands of otherwise healthy people across 42 states, who theoretically are not at risk of flu complications, have become dangerously ill from influenza this year…And, of even more concern to the mainstream medical establishment is the fact that many of these formerly healthy people were vaccinated against the disease before becoming ill.

Former military meteorologist admits military aircraft spray aluminum into the atmosphere
…A few years ago, if you questioned the white lines streaking across the sky and theorized they were chemicals, you would be mocked; now, you are expected to believe that injecting aerosols into the atmosphere can save the planet.

Shock: Preachers Harassed And Arrested For Speaking About Christianity Without The States Permission
Two street preachers are targeted, confronted and eventually arrested by transit officers who insist that they stop talking about their Christian beliefs without getting the agency’s permission first, and the courts say that’s all right.

Over a million children under the age of six are currently on psychiatric drugs in America
…Antidepressants and antipsychotics put forth some surprising figures, but the biggest category of psychotic drugs given to children appears to be anti-anxiety drugs. Just over 227,132 babies under one and nearly 248,000 of those aged four to five take these medications.

London’s ‘Modest’ Fashion Show Celebrates Sharia-Compliant Clothing Weeks After Women Burn Hijabs in Iran
London Modest Fashion Week will “celebrate” Britain’s growing sharia-compliant fashion industry — less than two weeks after women living under Islamic fundamentalist regimes risked imprisonment when they burnt their hijabs on No Hijab Day.


Jerusalem Anti-Terror Measures ‘Change Muslim Character of City,’ Palestinians Claim
Yousef Natsheh, a senior official with the Islamic Waqf Department, denounced the installation of the watchtower as an “assault on Islamic heritage and an attempt to change our history.” He accused Israel of using security as an excuse to “distort” Damascus Gate and alter the Arab and Islamic character of Jerusalem.

McMaster: Reports ‘clearly show’ Assad’s continuing use of chemical weapons
US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Saturday that, despite denials, public reports showed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons, and added that it was time for the international community to hold the Syrian government accountable. “Public accounts and photos clearly show that Assad’s chemical weapons use is continuing,” McMaster said at a major international security conference taking place in Munich.

How Israel could take the fight directly to Iran
The conflagration this past weekend between Israeli and Iranian forces is being billed as a new stage in the longstanding, albeit to date largely covert, war between the two adversaries. For the first time, Iranian troops perpetrated a direct attack on Israel….

Photons entangled to make new form of light
Photons, the elementary particles that make up light, are known to be fast, weightless and to not interact with each other. But in new experiments, physicists at MIT and Harvard have now created a new form of light, demonstrating that groups of photons can be made to interact with each other, slow down and gain mass.

‘NO COLLUSION:’ Trump says vindicated by Russia meddling indictments
Trump, who was briefed on the indictments, was “glad to see the Special Counsel’s investigation further indicates – that there was NO COLLUSION between the Trump campaign and Russia and that the outcome of the election was not changed or affected,” the White House said in a statement.

Armed gangs WIPE OUT 15 villages in mass Christian slaughter in Nigeria
Dozens of people have been killed after the gangs ransacked towns and villages to clear them of all aspects of the Christian faith. Houses belonging to believers have also been razed with authorities doing little to help, an anti-persecution watchdog claimed.

Trump aide urges action on Iran IMMEDIATELY as missile development threatens World War 3
Mr McMaster addressed the issue of nuclear weapons development and propagations by the hands of rogue states like North Korea, Syria and Iran. The US National Security Advisor said it was time to act internationally against the Iranian regime fomenting violence in the Middle East. He said: “Now it’s time to address Syria’s flaws in the Iran deal and counter Iran’s destabilising activities, including its development and proliferation of missiles and its support for terrorist proxies and militants that fuel a destructive conflict across the Middle East.

‘Big One’ fears mount as earthquake ‘cluster’ strikes Pacific Ring of Fire
EARTHQUAKES and volcano eruptions around the Pacific’s ‘Ring of Fire’ have sparked fears that a ‘Big One’ quake is on the way. Scientists in California have analysed 101 major earthquakes around the Pacific Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped geological disaster zone, between 1990 and 2016. They believe a cluster of tremors around the area could indicate a “big one” is due to hit.

Syria conflict: US and Turkey agree to avert Manbij clash
The US and Turkey, whose forces are at loggerheads in northern Syria, have agreed to try to defuse the crisis. The Nato allies said joint teams would meet shortly to work through their diplomatic differences, including a dispute over the city of Manbij. Turkey has threatened to attack US-allied Kurdish forces in Manbij, whom they regard as terrorists.

Ethiopia declares national state of emergency
A national state of emergency has been declared in Ethiopia just one day after the unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.
A statement by the state broadcaster said the move was necessary to stem a wave of anti-government protests. Hundreds of people have died in three years of unrest in the country.

Six Turkish journalists jailed for life for ‘coup links’
A Turkish court has sentenced six journalists to life in jail for alleged links to the July 2016 coup plotters. The judgement came as another Turkish court decided to release German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel, who has been held for a year without charge. The six were found guilty of links to US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed over the failed coup.

Mexico earthquake: Strong tremor hits Oaxaca state
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has hit south-western Mexico, causing buildings to shake in the capital Mexico City, about 350km (217 miles) away. The epicentre of the powerful tremor was near Pinotepa de Don Luis in Oaxaca state, the US Geological Survey said. Friday’s quake was 24.6km underground. Some buildings were damaged in Oaxaca, but no deaths were reported.

Soros Calls on EU to Regulate Social Media to Fight Populism
Billionaire open-borders activist George Soros has demanded the European Union (EU) regulate social media because voters’ minds are being controlled and “manipulated”. He claimed the size of social media firms made them a “public menace” and argued they had led people to vote against globalist causes, including electing President Donald J. Trump, in an article for The Guardian published Thursday.

Heavy rainfall, flooding hit Israel on a stormy Saturday
Heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and hail hit Israel Friday night, continuing into Saturday morning. The Israel Police’s Ein Gedi rescue unit, with the help of the Arad Police, extracted a bus with some 50 tourists from Ukraine around 5:30am after it got stuck in the Tze’elim Stream. No one was hurt.

Trump to host Netanyahu at White House next month
President Donald Trump will host Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on March 5, White House spokesman Raj Shah confirmed. The pair met last month in Davos, Switzerland weeks after the Trump administration rejected international criticism of its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and its announcement to begin preparations for moving the US embassy there.

Hezbollah: US dishonest broker in Israel-Lebanon gas dispute
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah is urging fellow politicians not to let the US administration divide their ranks while it mediates a dispute with Israel over an Israeli border wall and offshore gas drilling rights in a disputed patch of water. Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said…the US administration…is not an honest broker. Instead, Nasrallah called the Americans “the devils,”…

California Scrambles to Contain Infestation of 20-Pound Rodents
Officials in California are spreading the word about a 20-pound, invasive species of rodent that’s been located in wetlands across the state.

Magnitude-7.2 Earthquake Slams South, Central Mexico
A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook south and central Mexico Friday, causing people to flee swaying buildings and office towers in the country’s capital, where residents were still jittery after a deadly quake five months ago.

Water use climbs in California enclaves as drought returns
Overall water use is climbing in Southern California as that part of the state plunges back into drought, driving state and regional water managers as they consider permanently reinstating some watering bans and conservation programs.

Mom Jailed For Baptizing Her Daughter
A North Carolina judge threw a mother in jail for seven days for having her daughter baptized without the father’s presence and consent.

Report Finds UN Employees 3,300 Pedophiles, Responsible for 60,000 Rapes in Last 10 Years
An outright frightening dossier released by a former senior United Nations official reveals that United Nations employees have carried out over 60,000 rapes in just the last decade. What’s more, the dosser estimates that the organization currently employs at least 3,300 pedophiles.

Florida Mass Shooting Witness: ‘Secret Service Was Present, Changed School Security Policy Several Weeks Before Shooting’
According to a senior at Stoneman Douglas High School who appeared on The Alex Jones Show Thursday, United States Secret Service personnel were on the ground at the school several weeks before the shooting to change security protocols.

Parkland School Shooting Survivor: “We Were Told The Police Would Do A Fake Code Red, With Fake Guns”
Many credible sources, including students, parents, and teachers of the school have openly admitted on camera that they were told at one point or another prior to the Valentine’s Day shooting that a “code red” active shooter drill would be taking place.

Mind-Altering Drug Makers Fund Anti-Gun Media
It isn’t surprising the mainstream media – and late night entertainers – focus on guns instead of SSRIs linked to mass shootings given that they’re well-funded by drug makers.

Have Sodom and Gomorrah been found?
Is the Bible’s account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah just a myth? Not likely, says an archaeologist who believes, following 12 years of sifting sand near the Dead Sea in Jordan, that he has found the ruins of the largest twin cities in the area, one that fits all the criteria of the Bible account.

Sharyl Attkisson: The “Fake News” Campaign Was a Pre-Planned Political Operation By Google’s Schmidt and Democrats
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IDF strikes 18 terror targets in Gaza amid heaviest fighting in years
IDF forces struck 18 Hamas targets Saturday night, the IDF spokesperson’s office reported. Among these targets were two Hamas outposts and weapons manufacturing facilities. The attack was carried out by the Israeli Air Force as well as other army units, and the figure includes the targets struck earlier in the day.

Iranian foreign minister: Israel’s ‘myth of invincibility’ has crumbled
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday the shooting down of an Israeli jet after bombing an Iranian site in Syria had shattered Israel’s “so-called invincibility”, reacting to a critical speech delivered earlier by Israel’s premier. “Israel uses aggression as a policy against its neighbours,” Zarif told the Munich Security Conference, accusing Israel of “mass reprisals against its neighbours and daily incursions into Syria, Lebanon.”

Loophole-laden bill to cut PA funds over terrorist salaries approved
A Defense Ministry proposal to combat the Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying terrorists and their families that was criticized by MKs for being too weak was approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday. The proposed legislation would have the security cabinet decide each month whether to dock the amount the PA paid terrorists from tax and tariffs that Israel collects for the Authority.

Israel’s Netanyahu attacks ‘dangerous Iranian tiger’
Israel’s prime minister has launched a stinging attack on Iran, telling a security conference in Munich it is the “greatest threat to our world”. Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would “not allow Iran’s regime to put a noose of terror around our neck”. Mr Netanyahu drew a parallel between the 1938 Munich Agreement, seen as a failed attempt to appease Nazi Germany, and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Scientists create first human-sheep hybrids…
Scientists have created the first ever human-sheep hybrids, paving the way for organs to be grown in animals which can be transplanted into humans. The successful Stanford University project could even open the door to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes by creating healthy pancreases to regulate blood sugar.

Human speech will be replaced by thought communication by 2050
The Hybrid Intelligence Biometric Avatar (HIBA), will understand the feelings of people connected to it, take on their personas, exchange information with them and even become part of the fabric of their brains. Mr Karjnovic, who has produced the exhibit, explained: “It is very similar to the work of Elon Musk – it is an open source platform for humanity…He suggested the technology would enable people to use “brain to brain communication” anywhere on the planet.

Brazil Military Takes Control of Rio de Janeiro’s Security
Brazil’s President Michel Temer justified putting an Army general in charge of Rio de Janeiro’s security forces to contain a rising tide of violence by saying that the circumstances required extreme measures.

Anti-Semitic hate speech incidents at all time high in Austria
A watchdog on anti-Semitism in Austria reported an increase in hate speech incidents and a decrease in physical assaults last year over 2016.

Netanyahu tells UN chief: Golan will remain Israel’s forever
Reiterating past comments, Netanyahu added that Israel would act against any Iranian attempt to build bases in Syria

LGBT community irate as US Education Secretary says bathroom segregation is by gender, NOT gender identity
…In May 2016, then-US President Barack Obama ordered US public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their preferred gender identity…On Tuesday, Education Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill explained that decision, saying that “Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, not gender identity.”

District caught altering evidence to ban Christian club
A school district in Kentucky is being accused of altering evidence to prevent a Christian childrens’ club from meeting in school facilities like other organizations.

Scientists create first human-sheep hybrids
Scientists have created the first ever human-sheep hybrids, paving the way for organs to be grown in animals which can be transplanted into humans.

Medical establishment BAFFLED over why so many healthy, vaccinated people keep dying from the flu
…What is of grave concern to medical experts is the fact that thousands of otherwise healthy people across 42 states, who theoretically are not at risk of flu complications, have become dangerously ill from influenza this year…And, of even more concern to the mainstream medical establishment is the fact that many of these formerly healthy people were vaccinated against the disease before becoming ill.

Former military meteorologist admits military aircraft spray aluminum into the atmosphere
…A few years ago, if you questioned the white lines streaking across the sky and theorized they were chemicals, you would be mocked; now, you are expected to believe that injecting aerosols into the atmosphere can save the planet.

Shock: Preachers Harassed And Arrested For Speaking About Christianity Without The States Permission
Two street preachers are targeted, confronted and eventually arrested by transit officers who insist that they stop talking about their Christian beliefs without getting the agency’s permission first, and the courts say that’s all right.

Over a million children under the age of six are currently on psychiatric drugs in America
…Antidepressants and antipsychotics put forth some surprising figures, but the biggest category of psychotic drugs given to children appears to be anti-anxiety drugs. Just over 227,132 babies under one and nearly 248,000 of those aged four to five take these medications.

London’s ‘Modest’ Fashion Show Celebrates Sharia-Compliant Clothing Weeks After Women Burn Hijabs in Iran
London Modest Fashion Week will “celebrate” Britain’s growing sharia-compliant fashion industry — less than two weeks after women living under Islamic fundamentalist regimes risked imprisonment when they burnt their hijabs on No Hijab Day.

Jerusalem Anti-Terror Measures ‘Change Muslim Character of City,’ Palestinians Claim
Yousef Natsheh, a senior official with the Islamic Waqf Department, denounced the installation of the watchtower as an “assault on Islamic heritage and an attempt to change our history.” He accused Israel of using security as an excuse to “distort” Damascus Gate and alter the Arab and Islamic character of Jerusalem.

McMaster: Reports ‘clearly show’ Assad’s continuing use of chemical weapons
US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Saturday that, despite denials, public reports showed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons, and added that it was time for the international community to hold the Syrian government accountable. “Public accounts and photos clearly show that Assad’s chemical weapons use is continuing,” McMaster said at a major international security conference taking place in Munich.

How Israel could take the fight directly to Iran
The conflagration this past weekend between Israeli and Iranian forces is being billed as a new stage in the longstanding, albeit to date largely covert, war between the two adversaries. For the first time, Iranian troops perpetrated a direct attack on Israel….

Photons entangled to make new form of light
Photons, the elementary particles that make up light, are known to be fast, weightless and to not interact with each other. But in new experiments, physicists at MIT and Harvard have now created a new form of light, demonstrating that groups of photons can be made to interact with each other, slow down and gain mass.

‘NO COLLUSION:’ Trump says vindicated by Russia meddling indictments
Trump, who was briefed on the indictments, was “glad to see the Special Counsel’s investigation further indicates – that there was NO COLLUSION between the Trump campaign and Russia and that the outcome of the election was not changed or affected,” the White House said in a statement.

Armed gangs WIPE OUT 15 villages in mass Christian slaughter in Nigeria
Dozens of people have been killed after the gangs ransacked towns and villages to clear them of all aspects of the Christian faith. Houses belonging to believers have also been razed with authorities doing little to help, an anti-persecution watchdog claimed.

Trump aide urges action on Iran IMMEDIATELY as missile development threatens World War 3
Mr McMaster addressed the issue of nuclear weapons development and propagations by the hands of rogue states like North Korea, Syria and Iran. The US National Security Advisor said it was time to act internationally against the Iranian regime fomenting violence in the Middle East. He said: “Now it’s time to address Syria’s flaws in the Iran deal and counter Iran’s destabilising activities, including its development and proliferation of missiles and its support for terrorist proxies and militants that fuel a destructive conflict across the Middle East.

‘Big One’ fears mount as earthquake ‘cluster’ strikes Pacific Ring of Fire
EARTHQUAKES and volcano eruptions around the Pacific’s ‘Ring of Fire’ have sparked fears that a ‘Big One’ quake is on the way. Scientists in California have analysed 101 major earthquakes around the Pacific Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped geological disaster zone, between 1990 and 2016. They believe a cluster of tremors around the area could indicate a “big one” is due to hit.

Syria conflict: US and Turkey agree to avert Manbij clash
The US and Turkey, whose forces are at loggerheads in northern Syria, have agreed to try to defuse the crisis. The Nato allies said joint teams would meet shortly to work through their diplomatic differences, including a dispute over the city of Manbij. Turkey has threatened to attack US-allied Kurdish forces in Manbij, whom they regard as terrorists.

Ethiopia declares national state of emergency
A national state of emergency has been declared in Ethiopia just one day after the unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.
A statement by the state broadcaster said the move was necessary to stem a wave of anti-government protests. Hundreds of people have died in three years of unrest in the country.

Six Turkish journalists jailed for life for ‘coup links’
A Turkish court has sentenced six journalists to life in jail for alleged links to the July 2016 coup plotters. The judgement came as another Turkish court decided to release German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel, who has been held for a year without charge. The six were found guilty of links to US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed over the failed coup.

Mexico earthquake: Strong tremor hits Oaxaca state
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has hit south-western Mexico, causing buildings to shake in the capital Mexico City, about 350km (217 miles) away. The epicentre of the powerful tremor was near Pinotepa de Don Luis in Oaxaca state, the US Geological Survey said. Friday’s quake was 24.6km underground. Some buildings were damaged in Oaxaca, but no deaths were reported.

Soros Calls on EU to Regulate Social Media to Fight Populism
Billionaire open-borders activist George Soros has demanded the European Union (EU) regulate social media because voters’ minds are being controlled and “manipulated”. He claimed the size of social media firms made them a “public menace” and argued they had led people to vote against globalist causes, including electing President Donald J. Trump, in an article for The Guardian published Thursday.

Heavy rainfall, flooding hit Israel on a stormy Saturday
Heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and hail hit Israel Friday night, continuing into Saturday morning. The Israel Police’s Ein Gedi rescue unit, with the help of the Arad Police, extracted a bus with some 50 tourists from Ukraine around 5:30am after it got stuck in the Tze’elim Stream. No one was hurt.

Trump to host Netanyahu at White House next month
President Donald Trump will host Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on March 5, White House spokesman Raj Shah confirmed. The pair met last month in Davos, Switzerland weeks after the Trump administration rejected international criticism of its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and its announcement to begin preparations for moving the US embassy there.

Hezbollah: US dishonest broker in Israel-Lebanon gas dispute
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah is urging fellow politicians not to let the US administration divide their ranks while it mediates a dispute with Israel over an Israeli border wall and offshore gas drilling rights in a disputed patch of water. Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said…the US administration…is not an honest broker. Instead, Nasrallah called the Americans “the devils,”…

California Scrambles to Contain Infestation of 20-Pound Rodents
Officials in California are spreading the word about a 20-pound, invasive species of rodent that’s been located in wetlands across the state.

Magnitude-7.2 Earthquake Slams South, Central Mexico
A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook south and central Mexico Friday, causing people to flee swaying buildings and office towers in the country’s capital, where residents were still jittery after a deadly quake five months ago.

Water use climbs in California enclaves as drought returns
Overall water use is climbing in Southern California as that part of the state plunges back into drought, driving state and regional water managers as they consider permanently reinstating some watering bans and conservation programs.

Mom Jailed For Baptizing Her Daughter
A North Carolina judge threw a mother in jail for seven days for having her daughter baptized without the father’s presence and consent.

Report Finds UN Employees 3,300 Pedophiles, Responsible for 60,000 Rapes in Last 10 Years
An outright frightening dossier released by a former senior United Nations official reveals that United Nations employees have carried out over 60,000 rapes in just the last decade. What’s more, the dosser estimates that the organization currently employs at least 3,300 pedophiles.

Florida Mass Shooting Witness: ‘Secret Service Was Present, Changed School Security Policy Several Weeks Before Shooting’
According to a senior at Stoneman Douglas High School who appeared on The Alex Jones Show Thursday, United States Secret Service personnel were on the ground at the school several weeks before the shooting to change security protocols.

Parkland School Shooting Survivor: “We Were Told The Police Would Do A Fake Code Red, With Fake Guns”
Many credible sources, including students, parents, and teachers of the school have openly admitted on camera that they were told at one point or another prior to the Valentine’s Day shooting that a “code red” active shooter drill would be taking place.

Mind-Altering Drug Makers Fund Anti-Gun Media
It isn’t surprising the mainstream media – and late night entertainers – focus on guns instead of SSRIs linked to mass shootings given that they’re well-funded by drug makers.

Have Sodom and Gomorrah been found?
Is the Bible’s account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah just a myth? Not likely, says an archaeologist who believes, following 12 years of sifting sand near the Dead Sea in Jordan, that he has found the ruins of the largest twin cities in the area, one that fits all the criteria of the Bible account.

Sharyl Attkisson: The “Fake News” Campaign Was a Pre-Planned Political Operation By Google’s Schmidt and Democrats
Google, Facebook and Twitter are currently working overtime to silence conservative voices online. Day after day we learn of another conservative voice that has been silenced or shadow-banned by the tech giants.

Sanhedrin puts Trump image on half shekel coin
When President Trump in December recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, two decades after Congress authorized it, he drew the wrath of Arab nations and their allies. Now Israel’s recently re-constituted Sanhedrin is honoring Trump for the move by putting his image on a privately minted half-shekel coin.

CIA: We get to pick which media receives classified info
Argues in court that selective distribution of secrets appropriate

Why Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Now Prepping For The Coming Apocalypse In New Zealand
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story fascinates me. From a Christian perspective we know what’s going to happen. But the unsaved lost people in this world, while they use terms like ‘being saved”, ‘salvation’ and others, they really have no idea what’s coming. Even a baby Christian understands that, for those who will go through the time of Jacob’s trouble after the Rapture of the Church, there will be no safe hiding place in New Zealand or any other country in the world. With the exception of the Jews who flee to the Red Rock City of Selah, Petra, that is. Flock to New Zealand all you like and build the biggest underground bunkers your billions will buy you, but here is what God has to say about that…

Exclusive — Jeff Sessions: We Are Ending ‘Executive Branch Legal Activism’
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the Department of Justice was ending the “executive branch legal activism” of the previous administration, while also fighting the judicial activism of liberal judges.

DISGRACEFUL: Christians Outraged as Baptists Agree to Start Hiring Homosexuals for Mission Service
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), a denomination which splintered from the SBC in 1991 over theological differences, has agreed to start hiring homosexuals for denominational staffing positions. There are a number of churches that affiliate both with the CBF and the SBC. The CBF will continue to take into consideration the sexual orientation of some of its position hiring, but not all. The new hiring policy was announced by the CBF on February 9

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First Conference to Connect with Millions of Pashtun Claiming to be Lost Tribes of Israel
At a groundbreaking conference on Thursday, experts will gather in Jerusalem to discuss the status of Pashtun, a tribal nation of tens of millions of Afghani and Pakistani Muslims who believe they are descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The experts will discuss how reconnecting Israel to the Pashtun will have enormous consequences, most notably as their prophesied return. “From their side, every Pashtun knows their roots are in Israel,” Nadav Sofy, spokesman for The Association of the Bani Israel of Afghanistan told Breaking Israel News. “At this point, we are just trying to raise this awareness among the Jews and to build bridges.”

Successful AI Will Usher in a New Era of Theology
by computers thinking thoughts and developing models that we can’t ourselves process. Sociology and psychology will be radically transformed and applied by the Singularity through the use of more data, and more complex data sets, than we’ll be able to understand. Mathematics will be conducted at a level where just expressing and understanding the problems will be a stretch of the human mind.

5.9 quake hits southern Mexico, days after more powerful one
The US Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 has struck the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, days after a more powerful temblor hit the same area.

Islamic State kills 25 Iraqi militiamen near Kirkuk
Islamic State militants ambushed a convoy of government-backed militia fighters near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk late on Sunday, killing at least 25 of them, police and militia commanders said on Monday.

Mount Sinabung update: Huge eruption in pictures of the Indonesian volcano eruption
Mount Sinabung volcano in Indonesia erupted on February 19, sending a cloud of ash approximately 5,000 meters into the air. The Indonesian volcano burst back into action in 2010 and has been highly active ever since. It was previously dormant for 400 years.

END OF MERKEL: Corbyn-inspired SPD youth leader could CRUSH Germany coalition
A JEREMY Corbyn-inspired youth leader of the German Social Democrats (SPD) could end German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hopes of forming a coalition government at the final hurdle in two weeks. Mr Kühnert, who has been a member of the SPD since he was 15, said he was inspired by the Momentum movement that supports Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn because of the way it brought disenfranchised people into politics.

‘Gov’t working on alternative Western Wall plan’
Hanegbi told American Jewish leaders that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu still endorses the position he laid out in his 2009 Bar Ilan address, in which he agreed to the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state following negotiations conditioned on the Palestinian Authority’s recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Nevertheless, Hanegbi pointed out that practically, little could be done with Mahmoud Abbas leading the PA.

Trump’s ‘Influential’ Faith Advisory Team in the Land of Israel
The faith advisers are Trump’s own evangelical advisory board, a loose band of around 20 conservative Christian pastors and advocates from around the United States who have advised the president since his campaign days. The delegation of faith advisers is being lead by Michael (Mike) Evans, an evangelical Christian author who in 2015 founded the Friends of Zion Heritage Center in Jerusalem.

Flare-ups in Israel’s north and south: An Iranian butterfly effect?
Connecting the dots between Saturday’s conflagration with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and last weekend’s flare-up along the northern border with Syria has many analysts drawing a direct line to Tehran. The latest exchange began when an explosive device injured four Israeli soldiers—two seriously—who were investigating a suspicious flag along the border fence with the Palestinian enclave.

Turkey warns Syrian regime as northern Syria crises deepens
On Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned the Syrian regime against entering Afrin province in northern Syria. Syrian State Media reported that Syrian “popular forces” would enter Afrin to support the “Steadfastness of their people in the face of aggression carried out by the forces of the Turkish regime.”

U.S. seeks European commitment to ‘improve’ Iran nuclear deal
State Department officials are seeking a commitment from their European counterparts that they will work to “improve” the Iran nuclear deal over an undetermined period of time…In January, Trump announced that he was waiving nuclear-related sanctions on Iran for the “last time,” and that he would allow them to enter back into effect in 120 days if Europe fails to adopt a dramatically new posture on the nuclear agreement.

Earthquake shakes southern Mexico for second time in three days
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck southern Mexico early on Monday, sending frightened residents into the streets as seismic alarms echoed across the capital, although there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit 32 km (20 miles) east of Santa Catarina Mechoacan in the state of Oaxaca at a depth of 40 km at 12.57am (6.57am GMT), the US Geological Survey said, revising its strength down slightly from an initial 6.1 magnitude.

Saudi women to start own busines without male permission
Women in Saudi Arabia can now open their own businesses without the consent of a husband or male relative, as the kingdom pushes to expand a fast-growing private sector. The policy change, announced by the Saudi government on Thursday, also marks a major step away from the strict guardianship system that has ruled the country for decades.

Congress sets sights on federal cryptocurrency rules
Jolted by the global investment craze over bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, U.S. lawmakers are moving to consider new rules that could impose stricter federal oversight on the emerging asset class, several top lawmakers told Reuters. Bipartisan momentum is growing in the Senate and House of Representatives for action to address the risks posed by virtual currencies to investors and the financial system, they said.

Trump promotes Jordan, downgrades PLO and defunds UNRWA
US Secretary of State—Rex Tillerson—was in Jordan this week delivering some very good news for Jordan – but not for the PLO and UNRWA. Tillerson announced America’s commitment to fund Jordan to the tune of $1.275 billion per annum for the next five years – an increase of $275 million per annum over the previous annual commitment of $1 billion per annum during 2015-2017.

Gallup: Majority of Americans Are Not Protestants
“About half of Americans (48 percent) identify as Protestants or other Christians who are not Catholic or Mormon,” said Gallup in its analysis of its polling.

DECLARATION OF WAR: Iranian General calls for Israel’s destruction by uprooting ‘baby-killing Zionist regime’
On 10th anniversary of slaying of Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, Iran’s Quds Force chief Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani says appropriate revenge is “not launching one missile or killing one person, but the dismantling and uprooting” of Israel.

BOMBSHELL UN DOSSIER UN aid workers raped 60,000 people as it’s claimed organisation employs 3,300 paedophiles
The dossier claims United Nations aid workers have raped 60,000 people and estimate that the organisation employs 3,300 paedophiles

Papyrus With Oldest-Known Hebrew Reference to Jerusalem Proves City Jewish 1,300 Years Before Birth of Islam
A 2,700-year-old papyrus that is the oldest known non-Biblical Hebrew reference to Jerusalem has been found, announced the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) on Wednesday. The papyrus, originally stolen by antiquities thieves, was put on display in Jerusalem on Wednesday, coinciding with the second UNESCO resolution attempting to deny Judaism’s connection to its most holy city – a connection this ancient artifact so graphically proves.

WW3 RED ALERT: US Navy says it won’t be deterred by Chinese-built military islands, will continue patrolling South China Sea
U.S. forces are undeterred by China’s military buildup on man-made islands in the South China Sea and will continue patrolling the strategic, disputed waters wherever “international law allows us,” said a Navy officer aboard a mammoth U.S. aircraft carrier brimming with F-18 fighter jets.

Trial to expose radical Islamic agents embedded in U.S.
…CAIR filed suit in 2009 against former Air Force special agent David Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, after their findings were published in “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America.”

Largest UK earthquake for a decade hits Wales and west of England
The largest earthquake to hit the UK for a decade has struck in Wales and been felt as far away as Birmingham, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has confirmed.

Fire danger to increase across US southern High Plains after extreme drought shatters 100-year-old records
Gusty winds will raise the fire danger across the southern High Plains of the United States into Monday, a region largely starved of meaningful rainfall since fall of 2017.

Nikolas Cruz’s Younger Brother Forcibly Committed To A Mental Hospital After Shooting
…Zachary, who turns 18 next week, was involuntarily committed to the mental health facility under Florida’s Baker Act, which allows the hospital to forcibly hold someone for a psychiatric exam for up to 12 hours. It is unknown if the boy has been released by now.

Five women killed in shooting outside Russian church
The gunman is shot dead by police after opening fire on a Russian Orthodox service in the Muslim-majority province of Dagestan.

Turkey’s outreach hints at Ottoman revival
Ankara’s growing deployments and initiatives in the Middle East and Africa are cheered and feared in near equal measure


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Justice Thomas RIPS Supreme Court For Ignoring Second Amendment: ‘The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Is … This Court’s Constitutional Orphan’
On Tuesday, Justice Clarence Thomas issued a blistering rebuke to his Supreme Court colleagues, as well as to lower courts that have refused to treat the Second Amendment with the same level of honor as other rights enshrined in the Constitution.

42 Million Babies Born to Unmarried Mothers Over Last 30 Years
The percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers dipped below 40 percent for the first time in 9 years in 2016, dropping to 39.8 percent, according to the final birth-data report for that year published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Data from license-plate readers goes where?
It’s not something that gets a lot of attention, but there are ALPRs all over the place.The automated license plate readers are technology systems that capture plate numbers and add them to a database, along with the time and the location. The information is used to track down fugitives and much more. And it’s that “much more” that has privacy advocates alarmed.

Nikki Haley dresses down Mahmoud Abbas
The Palestinians have not been pleased with the Trump administration’s new tone at the United Nations. Where the Obama administration often acquiesced to the Palestinians demands, the new attitude is that America’s greatest Middle East ally, Israel, deserves some respect. And will get it.

Stunning list: Cops stop dozens of school attacks before they happen
‘Only by the grace of God … did we avert a horrific outcome’

Muh Russia: Barack Obama Spent Three Times As Much Interfering in Israeli Election Than Russians Spent on Facebook Ads
The 13 indicted Russian internet trolls have NOTHING on Barack Obama. On Friday the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced that a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3 Russian entities for ID fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud from 2014 through the 2016 elections.

BOMBSHELL REPORT: Twitter Employees Admit To Censoring Conservatives, Banning Them For Political Reasons
“If it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump… I banned his whole account.”

American Center for Law and Justice Files Lawsuits Against ‘Deep State’ Over Clinton Investigation and Uranium One
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has filed lawsuits against the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the FBI and the US Treasury over the sham Hillary Clinton investigation and the Uranium One scandal.

DHS to Publish Proof of Massive Dem Voter Fraud in 2016 – QAnon
Reported: several million illegals voted, while legitimate ballots were thrown away

HRW suspends official with Tinder profile suggesting Auschwitz hair room is funny
Human Rights Watch said it is investigating one of its officials after a complaint from a pro-Israeli group, which said the man’s Tinder dating service account had a crude joke about the Holocaust.

BOMBSHELL DEAL: $15 Billion in Israeli Natural Gas to be Sold to Egypt
Delek Drilling, along with Texas-based Noble Energy, has signed a deal worth potentially $15 billion to sell natural gas from its Leviathan and Tamar fields to Egypt’s Dolphinus Holdings Ltd.

The 3 Step Process to Sovietize the United States
There are three stages that are being employed to take-down our country and plunge it into the modern-day version of the Soviet Union. 1. Stifle all conservative speech. This is what we are witnessing all across America in places like our universities, Youtube, Google, Twitter and Facebook. The attempt to ban Bannon is the present poster-child of this movement.

Proposal to Outlaw Circumcision Stokes Debate, Religious Freedom Concerns
Male circumcision has long been a controversial topic, and a proposal by lawmakers in Iceland to criminalize the practice – apparently for the first time anywhere in modern history – is making waves far from the small North Atlantic island nation.

California Weighs Permanent Restrictions for Water Wasters
That sign in hotel rooms asking guests if they really need their towels and sheets washed each day would become the rule in California, enforced with a $500 fine, if water officials vote to make a series of smaller-scale conservation measures permanent in the drought-prone state.

Parents Lose Custody of Daughter for Opposing Transgender Medical Treatments
Parents of a 17-year-old girl lost custody of their daughter for opposing her wish for transgender medical treatments.

White Helmets Ready for ‘False-Flag’ Chemical Attack in Syria
….The White Helmets group, which claims to be an impartial humanitarian NGO saving lives in Syria, has reportedly distributed masks in Eastern Ghouta to protect civilians from a chemical gas attack. The group, also known as Syrian Civil Defense, has allegedly been creating a new plot to blame another chemical attack on the Syrian government, al-Manar reported.

Hacker doubles down: It WAS Seth Rich who took DNC files
The hacker, Kim Dotcom, said in a tweet Monday that “the DNC hack wasn’t even a hack,” reported Tyler Durden at the Zerohedge blog. “It was an insider with a memory stick. I know this because I know who did it and why. Special Counsel Mueller is not interested in my evidence. My lawyers wrote to him twice. He never replied.

Limbaugh: ‘Russia investigation’ designed to protect Obama
While Hillary Clinton also is being protected, Obama “is the primary person being protected here, because all of this spying and all of his collusion to destroy Trump happened with his knowledge and probably encouragement,” he said on his nationally syndicated show Monday. Limbaugh pointed out that “the only collusion that we know of – that could actually be established – is that between Hillary Clinton and the Russians, through Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS.”

CNN and MSNBC Helped Russia Sow Discord by Promoting Fake Anti-Trump Rally
One of the revelations in Friday’s indictment handed down by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was that alleged Russian attempts to sow disunity in 2016 included the organization of both pro- and anti-Trump rallies in New York City on the Saturday after Election Day. A check of their November 12 coverage showed both CNN and MSNBC gave enthusiastic coverage to the Russian-organized anti-Trump rally that day, with live reports every hour. …their … helpers on CNN and MSNBC certainly gave them plenty of assistance…

Iranian Official Threatens to ‘Level’ Israel to the Ground
A senior Iranian official threatened to “level” Israel to the ground on Monday in an interview with the Arabic languages news outlet, al-Manar. “About Netanyahu’s unwise words, I should say that if they carry out the slightest unwise move against Iran, we will level Tel Aviv to the ground and will not give any opportunity to Netanyahu to flee,”

Israel’s ‘Deep State’ Targets Netanyahu with Bogus Charge
The Israeli police investigation against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows remarkable similarities with the Special Counsel probe against President Donald Trump in the United States. But it also raises an equal, if not greater, number of questions about the purity of the police service’s intentions and its trustworthiness

First Conference to Connect with Millions of Pashtun Claiming to be Lost Tribes of Israel
At a groundbreaking conference on Thursday, experts will gather in Jerusalem to discuss the status of Pashtun, a tribal nation of tens of millions of Afghani and Pakistani Muslims who believe they are descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The experts will discuss how reconnecting Israel to the Pashtun will have enormous consequences, most notably as their prophesied return.

The contest for Afrin province has become dangerous and deadly
The Kurds of Afrin in northwest Syria find themselves in the midst of an increasingly deadly and dangerous interchange of agendas. Over the last month the province has been plunged into war by a Turkish operation whose stated aim is removing the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, from the area. Turkey has spoken of a 30-km. buffer zone. There have also been statements about settling 500,000 or more Syrian refugees who fled Syria to Turkey, in Afrin.

UN issues blank statement on Syria, says it has run out of words
“No words will do justice to the children killed, their mothers, their fathers and their loved ones,” the release from UNICEF’s regional director Geert Cappalaere began. There followed 10 empty lines with quote marks indicating missing text, and an explanatory footnote. “UNICEF is issuing this blank statement. We no longer have the words to describe children’s suffering and our outrage,” it said.

Defeats in Middle East driving Islamic State fighters to Philippines
Foreign Islamic State fighters forced out of Syria and Iraq have been arriving in the Philippines with the intent of recruiting, and they have plans to attack two Philippine towns, the head of the country’s largest Muslim rebel group said on Tuesday.

Yesha envoy: Time to change ‘peace’ narrative in Washington
Envoy meets with American congressmen. ‘The Ottomans and British aren’t coming back, so why do we still have their laws in Judea, Samaria?’ Oded Revivi told Congressmen Scott Tipton and Congressman David B. McKinley that Israel’s supporters in Washington need to change the narrative for peace by advocating full implementation of Israeli law in Judea and Samaria.

Michael Moore participated in anti-Trump rally allegedly organized by Russians
Michael Moore, the polemical filmmaker who has long accused President Trump of colluding with Russians, posted videos and pictures of himself participating in a protest in Manhattan that was allegedly organized by Russians in November 2016. Prosecutors said Friday that the Russians indicted for meddling in the presidential campaign were also behind anti-Trump rallies that occured after the election.

Abbas to urge international involvement in peace process at the UN
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will urge world powers at the UN Security Council on Tuesday to stand up to the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and establish a revamped peace process.

‘We will level Tel Aviv to the ground’ senior Iranian official warns Israel
Any attacks carried out against Iran will result in the destruction of Tel Aviv, Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, warned Israel on Monday…Rezaei, in response to Netanyahu’s comments at the Munich Security Conference, asserted that “If they carry out the slightest unwise move against Iran, we will level Tel Aviv to the ground and will not give any opportunity to Netanyahu to flee.”

Lebanon army chief vows to battle ‘Israeli aggression’ no matter the cost
Lebanon’s army will use use every available means to confront any potential “Israeli aggression” no matter the cost, its commander said on Monday. “I affirm again our categorical rejection of the Israeli enemy infringing on Lebanon’s sovereignty and its sacred right to exploit all its economic resources,” the Lebanese army quoted General Joseph Aoun as saying on Twitter.

Ex-Cyclone Gita: Christchurch declares state of emergency
Christchurch and two other districts on New Zealand’s South Island have declared a state of emergency as former cyclone Gita hit the country. Dozens of schools have been shut and roads closed on the South Island as the storm made landfall on Tuesday. New Zealand’s national airline has cancelled all flights in and out of the capital, Wellington, on North Island.

WHO warns of soaring rates of measles in Europe
Europe has seen a massive surge in measles cases in 2017, which the World Health Organization says is a tragedy after a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016. Cases increased by 400%, with more than 20,000 people affected and 35 deaths. Fifteen European region countries, including the UK, had large outbreaks. Measles cases were highest in Romania, Italy and Ukraine.

Syria war: Scores of civilians killed in Eastern Ghouta strikes
Bombardments by Syrian government forces have killed at least 100 people including 20 children in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside Damascus, rescue teams and monitors say. This would make Monday one of the deadliest days for the district since it came under siege in 2013. The Syria Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, said bombs were continuing to fall on Tuesday morning.

Exposed Amazon cloud storage clients get tip-off alerts
Security researchers have posted “friendly warnings” to users of Amazon’s cloud data storage service whose private content has been made public, the BBC has learned. The BBC found almost 50 warnings posted to the firm’s servers. Many had more than one warning uploaded to them. The messages urged owners to secure their information before it was stolen by malicious hackers.

EU warns it will retaliate if hit by U.S. trade curbs
The European Commission said on Tuesday it had expressed its concern to Washington about possible measures to curb imports of steel and aluminum and warned that it was ready to react if its industry was hit. “We have made it clear to the U.S. administration at the highest level that we would be deeply concerned about measures that affect the EU industry,” Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas told a news conference.

Revealed: Cash eclipsed as Britain turns to digital payments
Britain will move beyond “peak cash” this year, according to data gathered by the Guardian that suggests notes and coins are rapidly being supplanted as the favoured payment method, particularly in cities.

Wild weather: Record cold West, record warm East, flooding in the center
Wild, weird weather is coming to the U.S. this week with snow and record cold in the West, record warmth in the East, and a threat of heavy flooding rain in the central part of the USA.

L.A. County’s homeless problem is worsening despite billions from tax measures
Los Angeles County’s homeless population is increasing faster than the supply of new housing, even with the addition of thousands of beds in the last two years and millions of dollars beginning to flow in from two ballot measures targeting the crisis, according to a long-awaited report by the region’s homelessness agency.

Amazon Employee Wristband Patents Light Fire Under Privacy Advocates
Amazon swears it doesn’t want to turn its warehouse workers into “fleshy robots,” as alleged by writer Matt Novak in Gizmodo. Amazon was granted two patents in January for the wristbands that are intended to show an employee how to use his hands most efficiently.

Survey of Downtown San Francisco Reveals Trash on Every Block, 303 Piles of Feces and 100 Drug Needles
An NBC Bay Area Investigation reveals a dangerous concoction of drug needles, garbage, and feces lining the streets of downtown San Francisco. The Investigative Unit surveyed more than 150 blocks, including some of the city’s top tourist destinations, and discovered conditions that are now being compared to some of the worst slums in the world.

U.S. Still Unsure Who Directed Syria Attack, Despite Russian Dead
The United States is still unsure who directed a Feb. 7 attack on U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday, even as he acknowledged accounts that Russian civilian contractors were involved.

Trump to host PM Netanyahu at White House next month
“The president has a great relationship with the prime minister and looks forward to meeting with him” on March 5, says White House official • Administration has put controversy over so-called “annexation bill” behind it, official tells Israel Hayom.

Sheriffs Thank Trump for Sending Them Military Gear
A group of sheriffs praised Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday for his role in helping reverse an Obama-era ban on transferring military hardware – including armored vehicles – to police departments around the country.

Video: NBC Calls For Abolishing Second Amendment
This weekend’s news shows were dominated by calls for stricter gun control in the wake of the latest school shooting, but none advocated more radical action than NBC’s Chuck Todd, who openly called for abolishing the Second Amendment.



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Billy Graham, ‘America’s Pastor’ And Noted Evangelist, Dead At 99
Billy Graham, the famed evangelist who became known as “America’s Pastor,” has died at the age of 99, The Associated Press reported. Graham died at his home Wednesday morning from natural causes, a family spokesman told ABC News.

The Power to Upgrade Our Own Biology Is in Sight—But Is Society Ready for Human Enhancement?
In recent decades, we have developed a wide array of powerful methods, such as genetic engineering and brain-machine interfaces, that are redefining our humanity. In the short run, such enhancement technologies have medical applications and may be used to treat many diseases and disabilities. Additionally, in the coming decades, they could allow us to boost our physical abilities or even digitize human consciousness.

Nikki Haley dresses down Mahmoud Abbas
Apparently still under the impression Obama was in charge, a Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, recently demanded that U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley “needs to shut up and realize the Palestinian leadership is not the problem.” Oh, but it is, she made clear. Her statement Tuesday followed a demand from Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas for a peace conference later this year. He then left, before Haley spoke. “I will not shut up rather I will respectfully speak some hard truths,” Haley said. Her comments, she said, were addressed to Abbas even though he had fled. “Our negotiators are sitting right behind me, ready to talk,” she told Abbas. “But we will not chase after you.

Feds face new demands to probe Hillary Clinton
Two new lawsuits have been filed demanding answers from the “deep state bureaucracy” to questions about what went on under the Obama administration. The lawsuits, one against the FBI and the Department of Justice, and another against the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of State, the FBI and the Treasury Department, were filed by the public interest American Center for Law and Justice.

In Unexpected Twist, Judge In Flynn Case Asks Mueller For “Exculpatory Evidence”
The federal judge assigned to the criminal case against Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller to turn over any “exculpatory evidence” to Flynn’s defense team. Oddly, however, Flynn’s legal team did not make this request. Instead, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued the order “sua sponte,” or at his discretion, invoking the “Brady Rule”

Trump team briefs Security Council on Mideast peace plan
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace team briefed members of the UN Security Council on their plan to jumpstart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday. Two sources…told The Jerusalem Post that Jared Kushner…, Jason Greenblatt, his special representative for international negotiations, and Nikki Haley, US envoy to the UN, fielded questions from diplomats for roughly an hour after a public session of the council concluded.

Conflicting interests: Iran confronts Turkey in Syria’s Afrin region
On Monday night, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan phoned Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. Sources fed local rosy statements to media about “cooperation in the fight against terrorist elements” and Rouhani said the two leaders discussed “plots to disintegrate regional states.” But behind the scenes Iran is quietly opposing Turkey’s operation in the mostly Kurdish Afrin region in northwest Syria.

Pro-Brexit Tory MPs set out demands in letter to Theresa May
More than 60 Brexit-supporting Tory MPs have written to Theresa May to insist the UK make a clean break with the EU. The MPs say the UK must not be stopped from negotiating trade deals with other countries, once it leaves the EU, and must gain full “regulatory autonomy”. The letter was sent by the European Research Group of Tory backbenchers, headed by Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Venezuela launches oil cryptocurrency
Venezuela has launched a cryptocurrency in an attempt to bypass tough economic sanctions imposed by the US government. The “Petro” is intended to bolster the country’s crumbling economy, which has been suffering from hyperinflation and devaluation for years. Venezuela claims it is the world’s first sovereign cryptocurrency.

Syria war: Eastern Ghouta bombing ‘catastrophic’
A doctor working in the Syrian rebel enclave of the Eastern Ghouta says the situation is “catastrophic” – and he believes the international community has abandoned the people living there. “We don’t have anything – no food, no medicine, no shelter,” Dr Bassam told the BBC. “We don’t have bread. We don’t have anything.” “Maybe every minute we have 10 or 20 air strikes,” Dr Bassam said.

Palestinian leader Abbas calls for international role in seeking peace
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas made a rare appearance before the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday and called for an international peace conference by mid-year — something especially needed, he said, since the U.S. can no longer be counted on as the lone mediator. It is “essential,” Abbas said, that a “multilateral international mechanism” be established to broker peace.

Report: Iran already entrenched in Syria, ready to confront Israel
A New York Times investigative report published Monday revealed the scope and depth of Iranian entrenchment in Syria. Iran, through its presence in Syria, was “redrawing the strategic map of the region,” as per the paper. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned this week that Iran was “trying to take over Syria” and “moving its army into Israel’s backyard.”

Japan to buy at least 20 more F-35A stealth fighters – sources
Japan plans to buy at least 20 additional F-35A stealth fighters over the next six years, some or all of which it may purchase directly from Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) in the United States rather than assemble locally, three sources said. “In view of budgets and production schedules a new acquisition of around 25 planes is appropriate,” said one of the sources with knowledge of the plan.

Abbas Calls For ‘Multilateral’ Effort to Establish Palestinian State
Mahmoud Abbas called for a multilateral initiative from the international community to bring about the establishment of a Palestinian state, during an address to the United Nations (UN) Security Council on Tuesday. “To solve the Palestine question, it is essential to establish a multilateral international mechanism emanating from an international conference and in line with international law and the relevant resolutions,” Abbas claimed. Effectively, Abbas was calling for the international community to replace the United States as the primary mediator between Israel and the Palestinians.

Christians and Jews Kick Off Joint Bible Study at The Knesset
Nearly 200 Jews and Christians gathered at the Knesset on Tuesday for the event, which was co-sponsored by the Knesset Caucus for the Encouragement of Bible Study and Israel365. Knesset Members Yehudah Glick (Likud), Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beiteinu) and Sharren Haskel (Likud) attended.

Y’stone quake swarm isn’t a deadly warning
Recent rumblings of the Earth near West Yellowstone, Montana, are likely the extension of an “earthquake swarm” that has been taking seismometers for a ride since June. That’s the take of seasonal Moose resident and University of Utah geophysicist Bob Smith, who hypothesizes that the seismic activity is decades-later aftershocks of the deadly, damaging 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake.

Paratroopers prepared and ready for next war
After arduous ‘War Week’ including hours of live-fire exercises in built-up and open areas, paratroopers to receive prestigious Red Beret. Impressive endurance.

Syria’s Ghouta residents ‘wait to die’ as bombs fall
Residents of Syria’s eastern Ghouta said they were “waiting their turn to die” early on Wednesday, after more pro-government rockets and barrel bombs fell on the besieged rebel enclave. Five died and over 200 were injured early on Wednesday in the area, hammered by one of the heaviest bombardments in seven years of war that has killed at least 250 people in 48 hours, a war monitor said.

U.S. ‘finalizing’ peace plan despite Abbas vow for international efforts
“You don’t have to like that decision,” she said, of Trump’s Jerusalem move. “You don’t have to praise it. You don’t even have to accept it. But know this: That decision will not change.” Haley said that Abbas faced two paths: one of anger toward the Americans and incitement of Palestinians to violence against Israelis, or one of direct negotiations with both. Of the first, she warned: “I assure you that path will get the Palestinian people exactly nowhere toward the achievement of their aspirations.”




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Egypt’s Christians Suffer from “Very High Persecution”
For another consecutive year in a row, Egypt has proven to be an inhospitable place for Christians, namely its most indigenous inhabitants, the Copts. According to Open Doors, a human rights organization that closely follows the treatment of Christians around the world, Egypt is the 17th worst nation (out of nearly 200) wherein to be Christian; there, Christians experience “very high” level of “persecution.” “Islamic oppression” is the premier driving force of this persecution.

Jewish Leaders Mourn the Passing of Reverend Billy Graham, Friend of Israel
In particular, Reverend Graham is remembered for his efforts at healing the rift that has separated Jews and Christians for the last millennium. After the Six Day War in 1967, Reverend Graham spoke about his support for the Jewish People in an interview saying, “the Jews are God’s chosen people. We cannot place ourselves in opposition to Israel without detriment to ourselves.”

Syrian conflict 101: A 2018 guide to the main factions
So what does 2018 hold? The slow consolidation of regime gains. The defeat of the Syrian rebels and their becoming clients of Turkey and Jordan. The cementing of the US presence in the east. The occupation of Afrin by Turkey and some of the Kurds being forced to seek a deal with the regime.

‘Patriotic alliance’ against Soros and Europe’s Islamization
Viktor Orbán has called for “patriotic” EU countries to assist Hungary’s fight against globalism, reported Brietbart’s Virginia Hale.“Dark clouds are gathering over Europe because of immigration,” Hungary’s Prime Minister warned in Budapest on Sunday, at the nation’s annual State of the Union Address. “Nations will cease to exist, the West will fall, while Europe won’t even realize it’s been invaded,” he said, declaring that “Christianity is Europe’s last hope” against rising Islamization taking place on the continent.

Florida, California, Nevada top ‘sinful ‘ list
Florida, California and Nevada claimed the top three spots in the overall “sinful” category, while Maine, North Dakota and Vermont rounded out the bottom of the list for “2018’s Most Sinful States in America.” The report “compared the 50 states across 38 key indicators of immorality” that included: anger/hatred, jealousy, excesses/vices, greed, lust, vanity and laziness to reach its results.

Abbas threatens U.S. with ‘terrorists’
President Trump hasn’t been pleased with the Palestinians’ refusal to consider compromises to achieve Middle East peace. So he’s decided to withhold tens of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding from the Palestinian Authority. And what answer does he get? The threat of terrorism. Bloomberg reported the recent threat to the United Nations Security Council from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who also demanded that Trump designate Jerusalem, which the president recognized in December as Israel’s capital, as a capital for “Palestine.”

U.N. brings back image of 3rd pagan god
Religious leaders in Israel are concerned that the United Nations’ is promoting idolatry after word was released that the organization is helping fund a reproduction of a third pagan god – the goddess of “extra-marital relations.” First, the global body was part of the funding of the re-creation of the Roman triumphal arch that once welcomed travelers to the Temple of Baal. Then it was the re-creation of a statue of the goddess Athena that once stood in Palmyra. Now, Breaking Israel News reports a third project is nearing completion, and it again has a theme of pagan gods.

Researches believe they dug up 2,700-year-old Seal of doomsday prophet Isaiah
The Ophel excavations, located at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount compound, may have unearthed the seal impression of doomsday prophet Isaiah, who advised King Hezekiah in the Kingdom of Judah during the 8th century BCE, 2,700 years ago. The discovery of the oval 1 cm. bulla (type of seal) was made by Dr. Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem…

Venezuela’s Maduro wants ‘mega-election’ amid opposition boycott
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has proposed holding a “mega-election” after the opposition coalition said it would boycott a planned presidential poll in April. Mr Maduro said he wanted to add legislative, state and municipal votes to provide “democratic renewal”. Opposition parties say the presidential election will be “fraudulent and illegitimate”.

Explosion at US embassy in Montenegro
There has been an explosion at the US embassy in Montenegro, officials say. An attacker threw an explosive device into the compound in the capital Podgorica at around midnight (23:00 GMT), before killing himself, the government announced. Local media have named a Serbian-born local resident as a suspect, but this is unconfirmed by authorities.

1 in 5 Americans have more credit-card debt than savings
…One in five Americans say they have more credit-card debt than they do in emergency savings, according to a report published Thursday from the personal-finance company Bankrate. Another 12% said they had no credit card debt, but they also had no savings. Bankrate surveyed 1,000 people during early February.

Abbas threatens U.S. with ‘terrorists’
President Trump hasn’t been pleased with the Palestinians’ refusal to consider compromises to achieve Middle East peace. So he’s decided to withhold tens of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding from the Palestinian Authority. And what answer does he get? The threat of terrorism.

California claims it can’t promote abortion without pro-life centers
California has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court complaining that it cannot adequately promote abortion services without the help of a tiny number of pro-life pregnancy centers that mostly offer pregnancy tests, diapers and counseling.

Trump to Shoot Down Obama Era Plane Sale to Iran
The Trump administration appears to be executing a plan to thwart a $16.6 billion deal between Boeing and the Iranian government – a move that would critically impact a 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and international powers.

Fearing Tourist Drought, Cape Town Charts a New Relationship with Water
…Sisa Ntshona, who heads the tourism marketing arm of South Africa’s government, has the answer you’d expect: Tourists — who support an estimated 300,000 jobs in South Africa’s Western Cape province — should come but they should be prepared to help out and “Save like a local,” as the slogan goes.

Temperature in Denver plummets 72 degrees in 40 hours, officials say
…According to the National Weather Service in Boulder, after a high of 69 degrees at 2:27 p.m. Sunday, Denver’s official low hit 3 below zero just over 40 hours later Tuesday at 6:45 a.m.

WHO: Measles Outbreak Cases Quadrupled in Europe in 2017
MEASLES PLAGUED EUROPE in 2017 with 21,173 cases and 35 deaths – quadruple the number of cases from the year before, according to the World Health Organization’s latest report.

Dozens Killed In Damascus Suburb, Marking The Area’s Highest Death Toll In Years
Almost 200 have died since Sunday.

WTF: Gucci Models Carry Severed Heads In Runway Show
Gucci unveiled their Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection at Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday — with fashion models carrying replicas of their severed heads down the runway.

Abbas to UN: ‘We are the Canaanites’
PA chief claims Palestinians are direct descendants of Canaanites, says Palestine made contributions to humanity before Balfour Declaration.

Collusion-Mongers Hurt America Far Worse Than Indicted Russians Did
It appears the Russia hysteria peddlers are engaging in a more effective disinformation campaign than Russians could have ever constructed.

Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender’s orgy jet much more than previously known
Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender’s infamous jet than previously reported, with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the “Lolita Express” — even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com.

SODOM AND GEMORRAH: California Will Free 10,000 Sexual Predators
California will soon send 10,000 sexual predators pouring onto the streets and into neighborhoods where children play, and the vulnerable make easy targets.

YouTube Restricts PragerU’s Planned Parenthood Video, Then Reverses Course
… a video that is narrated by Lila Rose, president of pro-life organization Live Action, was placed in “Restricted Mode.” In the video, titled What You Need to Know about Planned Parenthood, Rose discusses “deceptions” generated by Planned Parenthood, including its claim to be a “healthcare provider,” and that abortion constitutes only three percent of its services.

New Superbug Typhoid Strain Tied to Pakistan Outbreak
An outbreak of typhoid fever in Pakistan is being caused by an extensively drug resistant “superbug” strain, a sign that treatment options for the bacterial disease are running out, scientists said on Tuesday.

Three African Men Arrested for Cannibalism in Paris Suburb
Three men have been arrested in the heavily migrant-populated Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois for attacking a man by biting at his face and then eating the pieces of flesh they had bitten off.



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ANALYSIS: How Israel is intervening in Syria to contain Iran
We will probably witness a major war between Israel and the Iranian axis this year, Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, the commander of IDF Operations, said during an interview with Galatz, Israel’s Army Radio on Monday this week. “The year 2018 has the potential for escalation, not necessarily because either side wants to initiate it, but because of a gradual deterioration. This has led us to raise the level of preparedness,” according to Alo.

Fatah denies rumors of deterioration in Abbas’s health
The rumor started on American website Jewish Insider, which reported that Abbas was hospitalized at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after a short flight from New York, where he gave a speech to the UN Security Council earlier this week. During the speech, Abbas appeared to be unwell, further fueling the rumor.

Trump threatens to yank immigration enforcement from California
President Donald Trump angrily said Thursday that he is considering withdrawing immigration and border control enforcement agencies from California because of what he called the state’s “protection of horrible criminals.” Trump said crime would explode in California if he took such an action — and predicted that the Golden State would be “begging” for the return of federal immigration authorities within two months.

Vice President Invokes Billy Graham at CPAC, Americans Must ‘Come Together to Confess our Need for God’
“… in the days ahead, as we work to advance our cause, restore our country, let us also remember to claim that hope,” he continued before paraphrasing 2 Chronicles 7:14 from the Bible. “if His people, who are called by His name, will humble themselves and pray, He’ll hear from heaven, and he’ll heal this land,” Pence said as the crowd began to clap, then rise to their feet as he continued, “This one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”

Shooting Survivor Quit CNN Town Hall After Refusing to Ask ‘Scripted’ Question
Colton Haab, a student who survived last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, refused to participate in a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night after he was told to ask a “scripted” question. Haab, a junior at the high school, told Fort Lauderdale ABC affiliate WPLG that CNN invited him to speak at the televised town hall in nearby Sunrise, Florida, and that he and his parents had dressed up for the occasion.
Haab: CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions, and it ended up being all scripted.

Wayne LaPierre: Leftists Focused on Gun Control, ‘Don’t Care One Wit About School Children’
LaPierre said, “The elites don’t care one wit about school children. If they truly cared, they would protect them.”
LaPierre said, “It’s not a safety issue, it’s a political issue. They care more about control. Their goal is to eliminate the Second Amendment and our firearms freedoms so they can eliminate all individual freedoms

Israel And Iran: Inching Toward Armed Conflict
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on the final day of the Munich Security Conference that Israel might go a step beyond striking the proxy powers and instead take direct action against Iran. He was especially concerned about the possibility of a land bridge stretching from Iran to the Mediterranean Sea. According to the PM, Iran represents an existential threat and its permanent military presence in Syria is unacceptable to Israel.

Nikki Haley says Trump’s Middle East peace plan nearly ready
United States Ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday night said that President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan is nearly ready while speaking at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. During a question-and-answer session led by the Institute’s current head, David Axelrod, she said: “They’re coming up with a plan. It won’t be loved by either side, and it won’t be hated by either side…I think they’re finishing it up.”

EU parliament politicians call for a full ban of Hezbollah
Members of the European Union parliament sent a letter on Thursday to EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, urging her to classify all of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah as a terrorist entity…The letter was signed by a cross-section of 60 members of the European Parliament. The other two co-initiators were Lars Adaktusson and Péter Niedermüller.

Israeli and American troops gear up for joint 12-day Juniper Cobra drill
Israel is gearing up for an extensive aerial drill with troops from the United States European Command set to begin in early March, the IDF announced Thursday evening. The ninth annual Juniper Cobra drill scheduled to take place from March 4-15, will be the largest IDF and US European Command joint exercise taking place this year…

Argentina foils diplomatic luggage cocaine plot
Argentina’s security ministry says it has foiled a plot to use the Russian embassy’s diplomatic courier service to smuggle cocaine to Europe. Police seized nearly 400kg of the drug from diplomatic luggage in an embassy annex after being told about it by the Russian ambassador in December 2016. They then mounted a sting operation, replacing the drugs with flour and adding tracking devices.

Syria war: Ghouta pounded as UN tussles over ceasefire
The UN Security Council is struggling to agree a resolution seeking a ceasefire in Syria as a rebel-held area has been bombarded for a sixth day. Russia wants changes to a draft that calls for a 30-day calm to allow for aid deliveries and medical evacuations. Western diplomats have accused Russia, Syria’s key ally, of stalling for time. France said failure to act may spell the end of the UN itself.

AP sources: Adelson offers to help pay for Jerusalem embassy
The Trump administration is considering an offer from Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson to pay for at least part of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, four U.S. officials told The Associated Press. Lawyers at the State Department are looking into the legality of accepting private donations to cover some or all of the embassy costs, the administration officials said.

Seeking to outsmart US, China races ahead on artificial intelligence
When a Google computer program beat the world’s best player of an ancient Chinese board game last May, it might have seemed like an incremental milestone. But for some, the success of the program known as AlphaGo marked more than a man vs. machine clash. It set up a broader race between China and the United States over artificial intelligence, a competition that could mold the future of humankind…

Trump to announce new sanctions against North Korea as South prepares for talks
The United States is due to announce its largest package of sanctions against North Korea to pressure the reclusive country to give up its nuclear and missile programs, as South Korea readies itself for more talks with the North. Tougher sanctions may jeopardize the latest detente between the two Koreas, illustrated by the North’s participation in the Winter Olympics in the South…

Global watchdog to put Pakistan back on terrorist financing watchlist: sources
A global money-laundering watchdog has decided to place Pakistan back on its terrorist financing watchlist, a government official and a diplomat said on Friday, in a likely blow to Pakistan’s economy and its strained relations with the United States. The move is part of a broader U.S. strategy to pressure Pakistan to cut alleged links to Islamist militants unleashing chaos in neighboring Afghanistan and backing attacks in India.

Fees case may enable U.S. Supreme Court to curb union power
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider…whether to choke off a critical funding stream for public-employee unions… The nine justices will hear a challenge backed by anti-union groups to the legality of fees that workers who are not members of unions representing teachers, police, firefighters and certain other government employees must pay to help cover the costs of collective bargaining with state and local governments.

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Creepy “World Government Summit” Targets America, Freedom
Top globalists, communists, and Islamists from around the globe gathered this month on the Arabian Peninsula for the World Government Summit — yes, that is the confab’s real name — to push for what they called a “new world order.” More than a few speakers made clear that liberty, self-government, and the “America First” agenda were in the crosshairs. (see https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org/annual-gathering/2018/speakers for pictures of the speakers)

US confirms Jerusalem embassy opening in May
The Trump administration will officially relocate the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May, timed with Israel’s 70th Independence Day, a State Department official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Friday.

Trump to host Arab leaders for sensitive talks
President Trump has accelerated his diplomatic efforts to broker peace among quarreling Arab monarchies, starting with an upcoming series of White House visits by leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates… Sources…hope these separate meetings — hugely consequential in their own right — will lead to a peace deal over Qatar in late spring at a summit in Washington or Camp David.

Rescuers say cannot keep up with air strikes battering Syria’s Ghouta
Rescuers in Syria’s eastern Ghouta said the bombing would not let up long enough for them to count the bodies, in one of the bloodiest air assaults of the seven-year war. Warplanes pounded the rebel enclave on Saturday, the seventh day in a row of a fierce escalation by Damascus and its allies, an emergency service, a witness and a monitoring group said.

Afghanistan: Soldiers killed in wave of attacks
A wave of attacks across Afghanistan has left more than 25 people dead, most of them soldiers, officials say. In the worst incident, Taliban militants stormed an army post in the western province of Farah, killing 22 soldiers. A suicide attack in the capital Kabul left at least three security officers dead.

FBI Tip-Line Caller Said Nikolas Cruz ‘Is Going to Explode’
A person close to the teenager accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school warned the FBI she was concerned he would “get into a school and just shoot the place up,” according to a transcript of her call with a bureau tip line operator more than a month before the massacre. The transcript…provides chilling detail about the woman’s efforts on Jan. 5 to warn authorities about Nikolas Cruz’s propensity for violence and his troubled past.

More rain, flooding in the forecast for U.S. South, Midwest
Heavy rain storms will sweep across the U.S. Southern Plains and the Midwest on Saturday and Sunday, potentially causing more flooding that has already forced hundreds to flee their homes and claimed the lives of three people, including a child. Flood advisories were in effect for parts of eastern Texas northeast through southern Illinois and Indiana and into Pennsylvania as thunderstorms packing heavy rain, large hail and strong winds were in the weekend forecast…

Trump’s Federal Reserve Pick Wants to Put Metal Chips in Cash to Track Every Dollar and Tax It
In the state’s relentless pursuit to scrutinize and control every citizen, including monitoring, tracking, and especially taxing their income, untraceable physical cash has long been a shield against such tyranny. However, thanks to Donald Trump’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, anonymous purchases, deposits, and savings with cash could soon be a thing of the past.

Gun Confiscation Center Opens In Seattle
“We don’t want to take away your guns. The government isn’t coming to confiscate your guns. We just want ‘common sense gun safety’ laws” is what we’re constantly being told by liberal anti-gun politicians and activists. But now, King County in Washington state has opened up a “weapons retrieval” center specifically for the purpose of confiscating firearms.

Breaking: Armed School Guard And 3 Broward County Sheriff’s Deputies Waited Outside Parkland HS During Shooting
…When Coral Springs police officers arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 in the midst of the school shooting crisis, many officers were surprised to find not only that Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer, had not entered the building, but that three other Broward County Sheriff’s deputies were also outside the school and had not entered, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. The deputies had their pistols drawn and were behind their vehicles, the sources said, and not one of them had gone into the school.

Mystery deepens: Armed deputy stood by and ALLOWED the Florida shooting to happen, doing nothing to intervene
It’s always fascinating to me how the “official stories” surrounding almost every mass shooting begin to unravel a few days after the event. ABC News is now reporting that an armed deputy stood by and watched as the Parkland school shooting took place, refusing to even enter the building:

Reporters Told Not To Report Obama Speech
Former President Barack Obama’s speech Friday is intended to be a secret affair, with organizers threatening to remove anyone who tweets or reports on his comments.

If I Were the Devil
Here is a very stern warning from 1965 and it is more applicable to today than ever before.

Embattled CA Dems Will Have 24-Hour Sexual Assault Hotline at Party Convention
California Democrats will have a 24-hour “sexual assault and harassment” hotline at this weekend’s party convention in San Diego as some top Democrats in the state have had to resign or come under fire because of allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment.

U.S. Border Officials Haven’t Verified Passport RFID Data in Over 10 Years
Customs and Border Protection never purchased software necessary to detect forgeries


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Major earthquake, 7.6 mag strikes near Porgera in Papua New Guinea
A major earthquake magnitude 7.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea.

European Lawmakers Call For EU to Designate All Hezbollah a Terror Organization
A total of 60 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have signed a letter that calls upon the European Union to blacklist the entire organization of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The letter was sent on Thursday to EU Foreign Policy Chief, Federica Mogherini. “Hezbollah’s growing arsenal and entanglement in regional conflicts severely destabilizes certain countries and the wider Middle East,” said Danish MEP Anders Vistisen, one of the three initiators of the letter.

Analyzing the Latest Round of Big Military Moves in the Middle East
There are lessons to be learned from Iran firing a drone into Israeli airspace and Israel’s destruction of about half of Syria’s air defense capabilities in response: Iran is testing not only its capabilities abroad but the reactions of its enemies and its security on the home front. Israel is testing as well. Russia’s appears unwilling to take on any more military activity than absolutely necessary and is unwilling to confront Iran. The US will stand by Israel, but may not be willing to push Iran out of Syria.

California Democratic Party doesn’t endorse Feinstein re-election bid
The California Democratic Party will not endorse Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s re-election bid this year, with delegates at the party’s annual convention giving the majority of votes to her top primary challenger, progressive State Sen. Kevin de Leon. De Leon got 54 percent of the vote, compared to 37 percent for the more moderate Feinstein, according to results released Sunday. But neither Democrat will receive the state party endorsement because they failed to reach the 60 percent threshold.

Defense Ministry opens pre-tender stage for new IDF base in central Israel
The Ministry of Defense has opened the pre-qualification stage for the Ofek Rahav project, in which four military bases in the center of the country will be consolidated into one new base near the city of Ramle. The Preliminary Qualification phase (PQ) for the Ofek Rahav project was opened by the defense minister on Sunday in cooperation with the IDF’s Technology and Logistics Division.

China proposes to let Xi Jinping extend presidency beyond 2023
China’s governing Communist Party has proposed removing a clause in the constitution which limits presidencies to two five-year terms. The move would allow the current President Xi Jinping to remain as leader after he is due to step down. There had been widespread speculation that Mr Xi would seek to extend his presidency beyond 2023.

Syria war: Air strikes resume hours after UN approves ceasefire
Air strikes by the Syrian government on a rebel-held enclave have continued despite a ceasefire resolution passed by the UN Security Council on Friday. Hundreds of people have been killed in a week of bombardment of the Eastern Ghouta enclave near the capital. The Security Council unanimously called for a 30-day truce “without delay”, but some areas are not covered.

Chileans lose faith as Vatican scrambles to contain sex abuse scandal
To understand why Chile…is losing faith in the Roman Catholic Church, visit Providencia, a middle-class area of Santiago coming to terms with a decades-old clergy sex abuse scandal. Providencia is home to El Bosque, the former parish of priest Fernando Karadima, who was found guilty in a Vatican investigation in 2011 of abusing teenage boys over many years…leading to this week’s visit by a Vatican investigator.

PM green lights 350 new West Bank housing units
The government unanimously approved Sunday a building plan for the Netiv Ha’avot neighborhood in the West Bank, which will include the allocation of funds for the construction of 350 new housing units. The decision comes as part of the government’s moves to regulate the Gush Etzion neighborhood, part of which was slated for evacuation next month in accordance with an order by the High Court of Justice (HCJ).

See how many volcanos are erupting right now
How many volcanoes would you guess are erupting right this minute? Would you guess 5? Would you guess 10?Try 25 – many of them in the Far East, but plenty in Central and South America around the so-called “ring of fire.” Check out this map from VolcanoDiscovery.com of the 25 currently erupting volcanoes today.

South Africa To Cut All Diplomatic Ties With Israel
The South African government is intending to cut diplomatic ties with Israel in protest of its treatment of the Palestinian people, the country’s Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor announced yesterday.

Cold air, snowstorms likely to make comeback in Northeast following once-in-100-year warmth
Warm air surges like the episode that sparked February records this week in the eastern United States do not mean that winter is over. The weather pattern that produced hundreds of daily record highs and dozens of record highs for the month of February is probably on the order of a once-in-100-years or perhaps 200-years event.

‘Beast from the East’ to plunge Europe into historic deep freeze
A bone-chilling, frigid air mass will soon stretch from Ireland to Siberia, as a record-shattering weather pattern establishes itself across the North Atlantic Ocean. The cold will cause temperatures to plunge well below freezing in London, where snow is likely to fall during the next 1 to 2 weeks.

FACT: Barack Obama Spent Three Times As Much Interfering in Israeli Election Than Russians Spent on Facebook Ads
The 13 indicted Russian internet trolls have NOTHING on Barack Obama.
On Friday the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced that a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3 Russian entities for ID fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud from 2014 through the 2016 elections.

EPIC BDS FAIL: Intel executives present $5 billion Israel investment plan
Senior Intel executives met with Israel’s Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen this morning and presented a plan to invest $5 billion in expanding production in Israel between 2018 and 2020.

Italians are OUTRAGED to Learn that the UN Importing African ‘Refugees’ to Italy — By Plane
UNHCR Italia posted a photo and brief announcement about the arrival of 150 ‘refugees’ landing in Italy from Libya under cover of darkness. “Happening now: 150 refugees land safely in Italy with second UNHCR evacuation flight from Libya,” read the tweet.

A NEW LIBERAL LOW: Delaware students can now choose actually their own race
Are they really going there? Yes, they apparently are. Too late for Rachel Dolezal, alas. Dolezal identifies as ‘transracial’ a belief that would have been affirmed if she were a Delaware student today

UN Security Council Unanimously Backs Syria Ceasefire
With Russia’s backing, the UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously demanded a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow for humanitarian aid deliveries and medical evacuations.

Churches tell town council: Leave our beliefs alone
…“The ordinance bars discrimination, broadly defining that term as well as public accommodation and employment decisions in ways that would severely curtail religious exercise,” the legal team said. “The only exception for religious entities like the churches and radio station is for hiring people of the same religion.”

“What Just Hit Us?” – Bay Area Rattled By Unusual Quake Swarm, Trains Delayed
Following “strained magma chamber concerns at Yellowstone, Bay Area residents have grown increasingly concerned this week as a swarm of well over 50 earthquakes has struck in recent days…

Florida Gov: All Individuals Purchasing Firearms Must Be 21 Or Older
Individuals purchasing firearms in Florida will need to be 21 or older, the state’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott has declared.


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President Trump, Congress Order Extraordinary Honors for Rev. Billy Graham
President Donald Trump and Congress are taking official action to honor the passing of Rev. Billy Graham last Wednesday, through a presidential proclamation and the announcement that Graham’s body will lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol—only the fourth private citizen in American history to receive such honors. Congress is likewise demonstrating its collective admiration of Graham by deciding that his body should lie in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol this Wednesday.

Exxon Shuts Papua New Guinea Output to Inspect Quake Damage
The U.S. oil giant closed the facilities to assess damage from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake early Monday morning, it said in a statement. Administrative buildings, living quarters and a mess hall at the Hides operations in Hela Province were damaged, it said.

Oakland mayor warns of impending ICE raid, ramping up sanctuary-city tension
Libby Schaaf, the Democratic mayor of Oakland, shared the warning — which she said she “learned from multiple credible sources” — in a press release on Saturday, “not to panic our residents but to protect them,”

Jerusalem Jewish? Yes, says 2,700-year-old relic
Papyrus find is oldest known, non-biblical reference to capital. The date places Jerusalem under the control of the Jews 1,300 years before Islam was founded, a point of interest considering Muslim leaders have challenged Israel’s historic claims to Jerusalem, prompting the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization, or UNESCO, to deny Israeli claims to Jerusalem in a vote last year.

Trump: U.S. Should Execute Major Drug Dealers
Inspired by Singapore’s policy of executing drug traffickers, President Trump is said to relish the idea of putting major dealers to death – who he is said to compare to serial killers, Axios reports. According to five sources who have spoken with Trump on the subject, it’s no joke to the President – who says that a softer approach to drug reform where you show sympathy to the offenders “will never work.”

Iran talks 2.0: Trump battles Europe on the nuclear deal
NEGOTIATIONS THAT led to a landmark nuclear deal with Iran in 2015 were lavish and public affairs. Over a two-year period, diplomats from six world powers and Tehran camped out in Europe’s finest hotels, surrounded by legions of press from all across the world eager for details from behind gilded conference room doors.

US ties any North Korea talks to nuclear arms
The United States says any dialogue with North Korea must have nuclear disarmament as the end goal. The North indicated on the last day of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang it was ready for talks, according to South Korea. North Korea has previously said it will not accept any preconditions. “We will see if Pyongyang’s message… that it is willing to hold talks, represents the first steps along the path to denuclearization,” the US said.

Turkey’s Erdogan in row over ‘girl martyr’ comment on TV
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been criticised after telling a girl in military uniform that she would be honoured if killed while fighting. “If she’s martyred, they’ll lay a flag on her,” he told the sobbing girl at a televised congress of his AK party. His supporters cheered “Chief! Take us to Afrin!”, in reference to Turkey’s operations against Kurdish fighters in Syria’s northern Afrin region.

Florida Gun Show sees ‘record number’ of attendees despite gun control debate
Thousands of gun enthusiasts — more so than ever — flocked to the Florida State Fairgrounds for the Florida Gun Show event. Organizers say they had a record number of people attend the event on Saturday, Feb. 24, almost 7,000, and expected more Sunday. The manager for the Florida Gun Show, George Fernandez, says they’ve never seen such a big crowd.

Rare snowfall blankets Rome, closing schools
Romans woke up to a rare snowfall Monday, after an Arctic storm passing over much of Europe dumped enough snow to force schools to close and public transport to reduce services. Italy’s civil protection agency decided to deploy the army to clear streets in the capital after the snowfall paralyzed Rome with just a few centimeters (inches) of snow.

Super-secret spy court raises alarm over feds’ snooping
It’s a mysterious court that hides behind a hulking vaulted door and impenetrable concrete walls – and it’s where the federal government makes some of its most secretive decisions concerning Americans’ basic liberties. If you dare ask where the secret court is located, employees at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C. – where the court reportedly relocated in 2009 – won’t tell you.

How Companies Scour Our Digital Lives for Clues to Our Health
Your digital footprint — how often you post on social media, how quickly you scroll through your contacts, how frequently you check your phone late at night — could hold clues to your physical and mental health. That at least is the theory behind an emerging field, digital phenotyping, that is trying to assess people’s well-being based on their interactions with digital devices.

Explosion In Leicester, England Video Updates
Police are currently responding to reports of a large explosion in the major British city of Leicester. The situation is being treated as an ongoing “major incident.”

Broward Sheriff Denies Mishandling Shooting
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel declined to answer when CNN’s Jake Tapper asked him if four deputies were ordered to stand down during the Parkland school shooting.

“America Uses 30x More Opioids Than Is Medically Necessary For A Population Its Size”
Perhaps America does not need Russia to “hack its democracy” and destroy “American exceptionalism”, perhaps the US is perfectly capable of unleashing social, economic and political devastation within its border without anyone’s help; perhaps the surge in mass shootings has little to do with gun availability (see homicides in Chicago and Baltimore where guns are banned), and everything to do with a creeping US social decay?

With Demonic Possessions on the Rise, Vatican Offers Courses
With demonic possessions rising, even tripling in recent years, the Vatican is reportedly setting up new training for exorcists, according to Sicilian priest Benigno Palilla.

5 Dead after Tornado, Flooding from Central US Storms
The death toll rose to at least five on Sunday after severe thunderstorms swept through the central U.S., spawning a tornado that flattened homes, gale force winds and widespread flooding from the Upper Midwest to Appalachia.

Spain Hosts Annual ‘Devils of Luzon’ Carnival in Guadalajara
Huge devil horns, soot-covered faces, and scary carved teeth; these are the “Devils of Luzon” that attend the annual Devils Carnival of Luzón in Guadalajara, Spain.

Contradicting the Jewish Torah, Episcopal Church Bans Gender Pronouns for G-d
In a move further distancing itself from accepted mainstream theology, the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Washington, D.C. voted to abolish the use of masculine pronouns for God. The change will be implemented in the newest edition of their Book of Common Prayer.

GOING BIBLICAL: Trump’s UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Presents a Blessing and a Curse to ‘Palestinian Leadership’
US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Nikki Haley told Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that his leadership must choose between a path of absolutist demands, hateful rhetoric, and incitement to violence and another path of negotiation and compromise.


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Iran says Damascus suburbs assault to continue as fighting rages
Iran said pro-Damascus forces would press ahead with attacks on an insurgent enclave near the Syrian capital, as ground fighting raged on there in defiance of a U.N. resolution demanding a 30-day truce across the country.

EU Sees ‘Eye to Eye’ With Arab League on ‘Palestine’ and Jerusalem
The European Union (EU) sees “eye to eye” with the Arab League regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state and making part of Jerusalem its capital, EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday.

Canada’s Conservatives Pledge to Recognize Jerusalem When in Power
“Canada’s Conservatives led by Andrew Scheer will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital when we form government in 2019,” the party wrote in a statement on its website. “Canada’s Conservatives recognize the obvious fact that Israel, like every other sovereign nation, has a right to determine where its capital is located.”

Shin Bet foils ISIS-inspired attack on Temple Mount
Arab citizens of Israel plotted to open fire in one of the holiest sites in the world. Three Arab citizens from the village of Um el-Fahm were indicted on Monday for plotting a terrorist attack on the Temple Mount in the name of Islamic State, the Shin Bet security agency announced.

Erdogan tells 6-year-old girl she’ll be honored if martyred
Erdogan called the girl, who was wearing a military-style outfit and a maroon beret, on stage. “We have our maroon berets here. But maroon berets never cry! She has a Turkish flag in her pocket, too. If she is martyred, they will lay a flag on her, God willing!” “She is ready for everything, isn’t she?” he asserted, to which the little girl, sobbing, responded with an emphatic “Yes!”

Trump’s tough talk nudges Europe into eyeing new Iran deal
After Europe is given ‘last chance’ by US president to fix ‘terrible flaws’ in nuclear agreement, leaders consider framing completely new arrangement, but seek White House assurances that new terms will not be overhauled in future.

Start Packing: ‘Mega Aliyah’ Fair Coming to NYC
The event, which has grown to accommodate nearly 2,000 people, follows the recent announcement by Nefesh B’Nefesh that in 2017 it assisted just under 4,000 North American Olim fulfill their Aliyah dreams. With three additional large Aliyah Fairs planned for March 2018 in Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto, the organization hopes to inspire and empower even more North American Jews to make Aliyah.

China’s Xi to Assume Greater Dictatorial Power
China’s Communist Party on Sunday moved closer to reinstituting the personality cult-like leadership under Mao Zedong by ending term limits for current supreme leader Xi Jinping. The party announced Sunday the Chinese constitution will do away with the two, five-year term limit on Xi, the party secretary general, paving the way for him to become president for life. The state-run Xinhua news agency said the requirement for China’s president and vice president to serve no more than two consecutive terms was removed from the constitution

Saudi King Replaces Top Officials, Appoints Woman, in Major Shake-Up
Tamadar bint Yousef al-Ramah was appointed the deputy minister of labor and social development, a rare senior government post for a woman in the conservative kingdom.

Meet The California Special Agents Who Are “Coming For Your Guns”
Let’s get serious. They all want to take your guns. Why? Two reasons. First, it takes power from the citizenry. Liberals love that. Second, gun rights are important to normal Americans because the fact we maintain arms means we are not mere subjects. We are citizens, with the power to defend our freedom. Liberals hate that we have that dignity; taking our guns would humiliate us, and show us who is boss.

EU foreign policy chief warns U.S. on ‘false steps’ to Israeli-Palestinian peace
European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini appeared to warn the US against putting forward its peace plan at this time, saying in Brussels on Monday that “given the region, any false step can be very dangerous.” …Mogherini said both the EU and Arab League ministers “have dealt with the conflict long enough around our common table to know what can fly and what cannot fly, and we believe it is wise to consider…avoiding any false steps.”

Britain may join U.S. strikes against Syria if chemical weapon use proven
Britain would consider joining US military strikes against the Syrian government if there is evidence chemical weapons are being used against civilians, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday. Johnson said he hoped Britain and other Western nations would not stand by in the event of a chemical attack, voicing support for limited strikes if there is “incontrovertible evidence” of the Syrian’s government involvement.

Syria war: Shelling and strikes despite Eastern Ghouta ‘pause’
Fighting has continued in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area in Syria, despite a five-hour “pause” ordered by the government’s ally Russia. Activists said the government carried out a number air and artillery strikes, while state media accused rebels of shelling a “humanitarian corridor” meant to allow civilians to leave. As a result, there were no UN aid deliveries or medical evacuations.

Diesel ban approved for German cities to cut pollution
German cities will be allowed to ban older diesel vehicles from some areas following a landmark court ruling. The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig said the cities of Stuttgart and Duesseldorf could legally ban more older, more polluting diesel cars from zones worst affected by pollution. Both the government and the car industry have opposed the bans, which set a precedent for the whole country.

Syria conflict: Women ‘sexually exploited in return for aid’
Women in Syria have been sexually exploited by men delivering aid on behalf of the UN and international charities, the BBC has learned. Aid workers said the men would trade food and lifts for sexual favours. Despite warnings about the abuse three years ago, a new report shows it is continuing in the south of the country.

UK weather: Heavy snow causes UK-wide disruption
Heavy snowfall is hitting parts of the UK, causing road and rail disruption. Police say driving conditions are treacherous in places as a band of wintry weather and very low temperatures sweeps westwards. Hundreds of trains are cancelled, many schools are shut and forecasters say some rural communities may be cut off.

More storms threaten sodden central U.S., where at least 70 rivers are in flood stage
A new storm is expected to bring additional weather misery this week to areas struggling to recover from a relentless series of weekend storms and tornadoes. On Tuesday, downpours and gusty thunderstorms will drench areas from central Texas to central Arkansas and southern Tennessee, AccuWeather said. The new weather system will further soak sodden areas through Thursday, weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce said.

More Americans now support a universal basic income
Political philosopher and economist Karl Widerquist, an associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, remembers a poll from 10 years ago that showed just 12 percent of Americans approved of a universal basic income. That’s changed — and quickly. Today, 48 percent of Americans support it, according to a new Northeastern University/Gallup survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults.

Barack Obama’s ‘Secret’ Speech Leaks — And He’s More Delusional Than Ever
Details of former President Barack Obama’s ‘secret,’ speech on sports policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology leaked Monday.

Sheriff Scott Israel Linked To Terror-Supporting Islamic Groups!
…Shocking footage has been released of Sheriff Israel, arabic-speaking deputies in tow, speaking to the radical Islamic interest group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and being praised for all the work he’s done for local Muslims in Broward County.

UN Chief Calls for World Governments to Disarm Nuclear Weapons
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on world governments for a new global effort to get rid of nuclear weapons.

8 Incredible Technologies Used by the IDF
The very first of the ten fundamental of the Israel Defense Forces is the defense of the state, its citizens and its residents. In order to achieve this goal, the IDF utilizes a vast array of modern tools, a few of them so new, it’s hard to believe they exist. Today we invite you to take a look at some of the amazing equipment that assists the soldiers of the IDF at fulfilling their missions. Sit back and find out more about eight incredible technologies used by the IDF.

SILENCE! Twitter, YouTube scrubbing all content and banning all users who question the official (false) narrative on the Florida school shooting
A few years from now, looking back on why Twitter collapsed and YouTube was abandoned by every intelligent person, we’ll remember what these totalitarian tech giants did in February, 2018. Starting a few days ago, both Twitter and YouTube began scrubbing all videos and tweets that don’t follow the “official narrative” on the Florida school shooting.

This ‘Catholic’ University Deemed The Words ‘Husband’ And ‘Wife’ Too Triggering
Aside from Thomas Aquinas College and Christendom College, most Catholic universities in the United States have become a shell of their former glorious selves. From Notre Dame to Georgetown, the Catholic identity has been jettisoned in favor of modern liberalism.

Meet The California Special Agents Who Are “Coming For Your Guns”
…As The Washington Post reports today, there is a group of California cops whose sole job is just that – confiscating your guns. A broad, bald Tennessean, Special Agent Sam Richardson runs a six-person team of California Justice Department agents who are coming for your guns, but only if you no longer have the legal authority to own one in this state that has tightened firearm laws in increments over the years.

Parkland First Responder: I was Told to Stand Down, ‘I could have saved lives’
A first responder to the Parkland school shooting claims he was told to stand down and not enter the building to recover victims, which he believes would have saved lives.

Kansas GOP Drops Bombshell Transgender Resolution
The transgender movement is about so much more than equality-it’s about limiting religious liberty and preventing parents from making choices about their own children! One of the ways the left most resembles the master propagandists of great totalitarian governments like China, North Korea, and the Soviet Union is their masterful denial of reality.

Surveillance Camera Footage from Inside Schools Found Streaming Online
Live footage from improperly configured surveillance cameras is currently being streamed online, exposing numerous U.K. schools in

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