Jun 13, 2017
A top armed services Democrat proposed legislation Tuesday requiring the Pentagon to put together a strategy to counter Russia’s military capabilities. Washington Democratic Rep. Adam Smith’s bill would require the Department of Defense to develop and implement a plan...
Jun 13, 2017
Donald Trump will present his first Medal of Honor to veteran from the Vietnam War who risked his life to rescue fellow soldiers. The White House announced Tuesday that the president will bestow the nation’s highest military award on former Specialist Five James C....
Jun 13, 2017
Far-right protesters have been accused of abusing Sikh volunteers as they tried to feed the homeless in Manchester. Members of the Sikh Sewa Organisation said they had to flee from Piccadilly Gardens for “their own safety” after “EDL members” became...
Jun 13, 2017
The U.S. military’s competitive edge is “eroding” thanks to nearly 16 years of war and uncertain defense spending, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford warned both the House and Senate Committees on Armed Services...
Jun 13, 2017
House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy blasted the media for fueling rumors that President Donald Trump may fire Robert Mueller as special counsel to the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election during a press conference...
Jun 13, 2017
You’ve probably seen the headlines about McDonald’s forgoing the long-held practice of feeding their chickens a never-ending stream of antibiotics. In fact, the massive food corporation has even been praised for dumping antibiotics from their chicken. While even the...
Jun 13, 2017
Often touted as a “silent killer,” hypertension or high blood pressure affects some 1.13 billion people worldwide — that’s around one in three adults in the United States. If you are on blood pressure medication, then chances are you are being overdosed. A new...
Jun 13, 2017
Scientists have stumbled upon an astonishing discovery of an ancient tribe living on a remote Pacific island that ritually poisons its own food and trashes its food-producing ecosystems. According to Dr. Eugene Navaroski from the Technical Institute of Ancient People,...
Jun 13, 2017
Jun 13, 2017
A white professor at a predominantly black university was fired “because of the colour of her skin”, a court ruled. “Rarely have we seen such manifest and open evidence of racial discrimination“, a three-judge panel at the Missouri Court of...
Jun 13, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions petitioned lawmakers to scale back legal protections for medical marijuana in May, according to a letter leaked Tuesday. In the letter sent to Congress, Sessions asked that they dismantle rules that bar the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
Jun 13, 2017
The White House is seeking to recast the US president as a world statesman, but critics say his confidence in his own persuasive powers is simply delusional Donald Trump is embarking on a week of diplomacy and preparation for his first foreign trip as president, aimed...
Jun 13, 2017
THE QUEEN’S speech will be delayed while Democratic Unionists and Tories debate whether cats help witches cast spells against Christians. DUP leader Arlene Foster has refused to support the government until they commit to a crackdown on witchcraft, including a...
Jun 13, 2017
Donald Trump just held his first cabinet meeting and in usual fashion it was both bizarre and embarrassing. Those in attendance were forced to listen to Trump ramble on about his accomplishments for several minutes, during which he made an absurd claim:...
Jun 12, 2017
The dome of St. Peters Basilica was cast in a remonstration early Wednesday aimed at President Donald Trumpjust hours before his visit to the Vatican. Greenpeaces Italian and German offices teamed up to project a message in lights on the Vatican to criticize the...
Jun 12, 2017
The Conservatives are preparing to form a government with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), after shock election losses saw Theresa May’s party fall short of a Commons majority. Tory officials took part in “extensive talks” with Northern Ireland’s largest unionist...
Jun 12, 2017
Monsanto has become infamous for covering up the connection between glyphosate – which constitutes 50 percent of its Roundup weed killer product – and cancer, particularly non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. When the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research...
Jun 12, 2017
Children across the UK are confused about the origins of key foods, a new poll suggests, with one in five believing fish fingers are made from chicken. When five- to seven-year-olds were asked where cheese came from, nearly one third said they thought it was made from...
Jun 12, 2017
Attorneys general for the District of Columbia (DC) and the state of Maryland have said they will sue President Donald Trump, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign...
Jun 12, 2017
The head of Greater Manchester police has said his force is under “real strain” as a result of major cuts. Ian Hopkins, the chief constable of GMP, made the remarks three weeks after the Manchester Arena bombing in which 22 were killed and more than 200 injured. He...
Jun 12, 2017
Theresa May is doing her finest to win over the DUP by handing responsibility for the environment to a complete bellend.Michael Gove has actually been made environment secretary as part of Theresa Might’s cabinet reshuffle, in a relocation designed to soothe the...
Jun 12, 2017
The shocking election result in the United Kingdom – the Conservatives losing their majority and the creation of a hung Parliament; and Jeremy Corbyn being more successful than any recent Labor candidate – cutting a 20 point Theresa May lead down to a near tie – gives...
Jun 12, 2017
The Conservative government largely avoided being blamed during the election campaign for its failure to stop the terrorist attacks. It appealed to British communal solidarity in defiance of those who carried out the atrocities, which was a perfectly reasonable...
Jun 12, 2017
It’s a Great Time to Sell and a Bad Time to Buy, they think. Americans have been gung-ho in recent years about the housing market, bidding up prices with gusto as they went. The election helped. By February, the Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) had shot...
Jun 12, 2017
Benjamin Netanyahu has said there is a need to tighten Israel‘s laws to prevent foreign governments from funding Israeli human rights organisations. The Prime Minister said the current law requiring some non-profit groups to disclose the funding they receive...
Jun 12, 2017
We just saw a major rift open in the US stock market that we haven’t seen since the dot-com bust in 1999. While the Dow rose by almost half a percent to a new all-time high, the NASDAQ, because it is heavier tech stocks, plunged almost 2%. Tech stocks nosedived while...
Jun 12, 2017
The pound is dipping back towards $1.27, down 0.2% today, as investors analyse these warnings from Moody’s and S&P and wait for developments in Westminster. Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG, says the drop in business confidence, and the slowdown in household...
Jun 12, 2017
Jun 12, 2017
Jeremy Corbyn has declared “we changed the face of British politics”. This may seem just a bit hyperbolic coming from the leader of the Party who came in second place. Yet in this case it is justified. More than just revive a moribund Labour Party and social...
Jun 12, 2017
Theresa May launched her election campaign warning about a coalition of chaos and now she is leading one. It won’t work and can’t last. After the election result we have just had, we can’t return to politics as usual with a May-led Tory government. So three things...
Jun 12, 2017
Following US Pull out of Paris the following has come to light: Energy experts, the domestic media, research organizations and even representatives of other governments seem pretty sure that India is the next green-energy giant in the making (U.S. President Donald...
Jun 12, 2017
The University of Oxford faces fresh allegations of sexism, after its history department announced it would allow students to sit exams from home in order to help close the gender gap. As of next term, students will be able to replace one of their five final-year...
Jun 12, 2017
A key function of BBC propaganda is to present the perspective of ‘the West’ on the wars and conflicts of the world. Thus, in a recent online report, BBC News once again gave prominence to the Pentagon propaganda version of yet more US killings in Yemen....
Jun 12, 2017
The unexpected electoral success of the Labour Party has put to shame the predominant cynical wisdom of the connoisseurs, even those who pretended to sympathise with Corbyn and whose preferred excuse was: “Yes, I would vote for him, but he is unelectable, the people...
Jun 12, 2017
A Capita man working in a Telefonica call centre has won a sex discrimination lawsuit against the outsourcing giant after bosses threatened him with a pay cut if he took paternity leave. Madasar Ali wanted to take paternity leave to care for his new daughter, Yasmin,...
Jun 12, 2017
In 2017, tweets by politicians and government officials make headlines. Recently, when President Donald Trump sent a tweet with a typo in it, the media seemed to come unglued. CNN even sent a report out into Manhattan to ask passersby what “covfefe” meant...
Jun 12, 2017
If Northern Ireland were a normal democracy, the election campaign would be dominated by a single question: how did the Democratic Unionist Party end up advancing the cause of a united Ireland through its support for Brexit? More specifically: what role did dark money...
Jun 11, 2017
So despite an uneasy election in the UK and many other factors the Queen is still holding her hand out to the most powerful man in the World. President Trump told British Prime Minister Theresa May that he wants to postpone his state visit to the United Kingdom if...
Jun 9, 2017
Two men from Michigan and New York City were tasked by a terrorist organization with looking for potential terrorism targets in New York and Panama, U.S. authorities said Thursday as they announced the suspects’ recent arrests. Samer El Debek, 37, of Dearborn,...
Jun 9, 2017
Twitter users have reacted with surprise and fury over excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book It Takes A Village. On June 6, Jeanette Jing, an activist with over 33,000 followers on Twitter who supports Clinton’s Democratic opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders, shared two...
Jun 9, 2017
Is the fixation on the Russia election hacking hoax diverting the public’s attention from a real financial storm? Today on TRUNEWS, Rick Wiles analyzes the prediction from billionaire Jim Rogers that a major economic crash will happen by late 2017 or in 2018....
Jun 9, 2017
There were 771 words in NPR.org‘s lead day-after story (6/9/17) on the results of the British elections. None of them were “Jeremy” or “Corbyn.” That’s odd, because surely one of the most noteworthy aspects of the election was the surprisingly strong showing of the...
Jun 9, 2017
Violent crimes using firearms is down in the United States and though The Washington Post cites several reasons why, they overlooked the obvious: the rise in gun ownership. That’s no surprise as it would violate the anti-gun narrative of the mainstream media and no...
Jun 9, 2017
I have argued for well over a year, if not two years, that while a lot of analyst insist that China is going to “crash and burn because of their debt load”, while ignoring the U.S. debt load – with no way out or payoff – I have been saying China at least has “stuff” –...
Jun 9, 2017
Moscow registers daily cyberattacks emanating from the territory of the United States, but does not make ludicrous accusations that it is orchestrated by the White House or US intelligence agencies, Kremlin press-secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. “Hacking attacks,...
Jun 9, 2017
Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, “We had no relationship at all…. I never met him…. Have you all lost your senses over there?” Yes, Vlad, we have. Consider the questions that have...
Jun 9, 2017
The 10 elected members of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from Northern Ireland may have a disproportionate word in Brexit negotiations after the ruling Conservative Party lost its majority in Parliament Thursday. May’s Conservative Party came just a few votes shy...
Jun 9, 2017
After the Manchester suicide bombing only two weeks ago I warned my readers that the repetition of terror attacks is breeding complacency within the public, in Europe most acutely. It is not uncommon now for attacks killing dozens to be forgotten within a week of the...
Jun 9, 2017
So one thing that has become abundantly clear is that an allied Europe has had a lot of time to prepare for the up and coming BREXIT negotiations. Teams of people have come together and been formed as clever and informed groups to negotiate with the UK on behalf of...
Jun 9, 2017
Homeless people are the ultimate survivors, and understanding how they live on the streets can teach people a thing or two about staying alive even in the worst conditions. When disaster strikes, you could very well end up homeless yourself. When that happens, keep in...
