Planned Parenthood is expanding its business model by offering transgender hormone-replacement drugs to minors, even though the majority of children who think they are transgender grow out of it when they reach puberty. Planned Parenthood received $544-million in taxpayer money from 2016 to 2017, which was used to cover the cost of 321,384 abortions. The organization spent $15-million of that tax-funding as donations to elect Democrats to office. [...]

The FBI just released the incredible results of its investigation into the death of the founder of Russia Today, a US-based media service that has a reputation of ignoring political corruption in Russia but accurately reporting political corruption in the US. The FBI says that Mikhail Lesin killed himself by repeatedly smashing his head and upper body onto the floor while he was alone and intoxicated in his Washington DC hotel room. [...]

Anthony Downs called this phenomenon "rational ignorance," and it is especially significant with government-related decision-making, or "Public Choice." Economic analysis shows us that the value of the time individuals spend informing themselves must exceed its opportunity cost. When acquiring a car through the market process, that could mean thousands of dollars. Now contemplate the ludicrous probability of a single participant swaying an entire election. There is very little individual upside to justify any significant effort to inform oneself.

(ANTIWAR.COM) — President Trump has signed an executive order that is intended to reverse President Obama’s intentions to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Details are still emerging, but a leaked cable suggests this plan was in the offing for awhile.

A Canadian chain of ice cream shops called 'Sweet Jesus' mocks Christianity and fetishizes children in advertisements and decor. Its logo features an inverted cross and a stylized S used in Satanic symbolism. The same people who support these stores would protest bitterly if they ridiculed any other religion. [For example, Canada has a law against Islamophobia but not Christianophobia.] [...]

The NSA’s recent destruction of evidence in contravention of a court order follows a long-established pattern of intelligence abuses, as Ted Snider explains. By Ted Snider Though it received disturbingly little attention – perhaps a symptom of desensitization to news…Read more →

I continue to watch my own country, Canada, allow every illegal migrant worker and "refugee" from those shitholes across the planet flood across our southern border and be allowed to come into this nation where they will get free welfare, free food and lodging, free eduation, etc, etc.. While never having to change their tribal and third world ways to conform with Canadian culture... To me, this is so disgusting and is a disaster to this nation as a whole...I also have been watching this same pattern repeated in most European nations and to the United States as well...

A senior manager of finance for the DC Public Charter School Board was suspended after he was doxxed by Antifa as a Trump supporter. John Goldman (aka Jack Murphy online), was targeted by Lacy MacAuley, one of the informal leaders of DC Antifa. MacAuley contacted Murphy’s employer and claimed that he was a white supremacist, even though he opposes the alt-right and has never given any reason for the charge of racism.

US President Trump has managed to set another narrative as he left the House Chamber during the SOTU address.
Zerohedge reports that as Trump shook hands up the aisle after his SOTU address, Rep. Jeff Duncan called out to Trump, asking him “Let’s release the memo,” referring to the House Intelligence Committee’s FISA memo.
As the below video clip shows, Trump responded instantly: “Oh yeah, don’t worry, 100%.”

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The Treasury Dept. has issued a list of some 200 Russians for sanctions, which could impact the whole Russian economy and further exacerbate U.S.-Russian tensions, Gilbert Doctorow explains. By Gilbert Doctorow January 29 had been seen as a kind of…Read more →

CNN’s poll following Trump’s SOTU was not as Democrats may have hoped with 48 percent of viewers having a ‘very positive’ reaction to Trump speech.
Nearly half of those who watched the State of the Union address reacted “very” positively to the speech, according to the snap CNN/SSRS poll.
Via The Hill…

Mainstream media rushed to fact-check US President Trump’s first State of the Union address, and then moved on to the attack, blasting Trump’s call to traditional values and love of country.
Trump touched briefly on geo-politics, deciding to place more focus on internal achievements and goals.
RT breaks down Trump’s first SOTU…

Meanwhile, the liberal media was visibly upset that Trump did not go after Russia…

An inflammatory tweet yesterday from Anthony Bordain alerted me to a shocking story in the Charleston Gazette-Mail by Eric Eyre, Drug firms shipped 20.8M pain pills to WV town with 2,900 people. Think about that for a second.

Courtesy of opendemocracy.net, here is the transcript of my speech of 29th January at the House of Commons. The theme? How should Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party secure a progressive Brexit consistent with a socialist agenda for the UK but also with DiEM25’s campaign to democratise Europe.

Young people are told incessantly that everything they might want to do with their lives harms the planet.

It seems to be an appropriate time to reflect upon a set of very strange circumstances that led to the rise of this loathsome terrorist group. Here are the top 10 reasons, in no particular order, as to why we should be very suspicious about this group.

Taking the Pantsir CIWS to sea makes it possible to maintain credible “sea-whiz” defenses as Russia continues to build a more agile and technologically advanced navy.

January 31, 2018 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The tentative first beginnings of a long-awaited US-backed color revolution has begun in Thailand, with a small protest of under 100 protesters in the downtown district of Thailand's capital Bangkok.Image: Media outnumbers "protesters" in downtown Bangkok nearby the scene of previous pr

If Turkey is not bluffing, U.S. troops in Manbij, Syria, could be under fire by week’s end, and NATO engulfed in the worst crisis in its history.

Apropos of today's main blog, the following tidbit was passed along by Mr. B.L.  If one doesn't know immediately why this would be apropos…
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Every now and then I get an article that is so bizarre and off-the-charts with its own inherent high octane speculation that I simply…
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In March 2013 Trump tweeted “we should leave Afghanistan immediately" and nine months later urged Americans not to “allow our very stupid leaders to sign a deal that keeps us in Afghanistan through 2024”. Who is the stupid leader, now?

Following a number of foreign-policy miscalculations, Israel and its allies in the Trump administration could be setting us up for more trouble in the Middle East, warns Alastair Crooke in this analysis.

GPS coordinates are ubiquitous and are giving away secret black site locations. Missing texts messages are found and the FBI director suspiciously steps down. Lindsey Graham is not invited and Trump can swing the sticks. …

-by NoahWe used to think this sort of thing only happened in Russia or third world banana republics.Now half of our leaders sit idly, doing nothing and thinking "It couldn't happen here," while the other half continue to busily act on the behalf of our enemies, having sold their country and what little honor they ever had to the highest bidder.

If few were ever under the illusion that Saudi Arabia could manifest its hegemonic ambitions in Yemen by sheer military force, the recent collapse in Aden of Riyadh’s tentative alliance with the UAE only serves to underscore the pending demise of the kingdom’s so-called coalition, and with it, Yemen’s war narrative and rationale.

Academics should be collaborating, not competing for pseudoscientific rankings. At a time when federal employees are prohibited from uttering the phrase “climate change,” the right routinely attempts to undermine universities’ legitimacy, and tuitions have skyrocketed alongside student debt, it seems perverse that academics would further endanger their mission to educate and enlighten. Yet by embracing a malignant form of pseudoscience,[Read More...]

  Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act in any meaningful way, thus leaving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees stranded in border camps between Myanmar and Bangladesh. While top United Nations officials are now using the term[Read More...]

“At present, virtually all schools are preparing students for a future which will be unrecognizable, not acknowledging the social or environmental ‘deadlines’ that will dominate their lives.” — One of the author’s home schooled teens Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, about 3000 children every day. Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of[Read More...]

Co-Written by Advocate Syed Mujtaba and Inamul Haq In the global world, the terminology of war on terror has triggered intense debates about the role of security and liberty. The word security is enclosed with either as a governmental or exceptional practice. While is the case of liberty has been shrouded in salience. These two terms are closely looked by[Read More...]

The Latin America Seeds Collective has just released a 40-minute film (‘Seeds: Common or Corporate Property?) which documents the resistance of peasant farmers to the corporate takeover of their agriculture. The film describes how seed has been central to agriculture for 10,000 years. Farmers have been saving, exchanging and developing seeds for millennia. Seeds have been handed down from generation to[Read More...]

  Perhaps Pogo is correct after all: We have found the enemy and we are it. Pogo understands what is real. In taking account of what is real, human, environmental and planetary health could be increasingly at risk because humankind denies scientific knowledge regarding the root cause of human population growth. Earth is finite; its ecology is frangible. Natural resources[Read More...]

In the end, we, all of us, have to ask ourselves whether we wish to have more of everything (manufactured goods, vacation homes, holidays in far away locations and so on) in the short term or do we want to stretch out our use of resources to give the Earth a break to heal and to try to help ensure[Read More...]

Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act in any meaningful way, thus leaving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees stranded in border camps between Myanmar and Bangladesh. While top United Nations officials are … Continue reading "‘Whitewashing’ Genocide in Myanmar"

Though it received disturbingly little attention – perhaps a symptom of desensitization to news that we are constantly being surveilled – it was recently revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) destroyed data about some of its surveillance activity that it was under court order to preserve. The NSA was ordered to save the data … Continue reading "Mass Surveillance and the Memory Hole"

With the House Intelligence Committee vote yesterday to release its four-page memorandum reportedly based on documentary evidence of possible crimes by top Justice Department and FBI leaders, the die is cast. Russia-gate and FBI-gate are now joined at the hip. The coming weeks will show whether the U.S. intelligence establishment (the FBI/CIA/NSA, AKA the “Deep … Continue reading "Will Congress Face Down the Deep State?"

The Republican lottery winner who already spent $243,798 and got 1 vote for his efforts (one)This is too funny to pass up. Various factions at the the DCCC have been working against each other and recruiting sundry terrible candidates to run in Orange County congressional districts. In CA-48-- Rohrabacher's district-- one goof-ball (Kyle) recruited New Dem Harley Rounda while a more powerful goof-ball recruited the other New Dem, Hans Keirstead.

Puisque nous parlons de journalisme aujourd’hui, j’ai souhaité partager cet article de Florence Rault. Non pas tant sur la partie “féminisme”, mais surtout du point de vue de la déontologie des médias
Ce qui me semble intéressant c’est la façon dont les journalistes se basant sur leurs sacro-saints faits (“Une femme a porté plainte”), ont jeté le ministre en pâture, sans s’interroger sur la fragilité du témoignage unique – contrairement à d’autres cas où la multiplicité des témoignages peut justifier un certain bruit médiatique…
Drôle d’époque…

Vancouver and its North Shores are considered among the worst congested areas in Canada. A recent column in the North Shore News by Jonathan Wilkinson, Member of Parliament for North Vancouver (“A Promising Step Forward on Congestion”, Friday, January 19th, 2018) calls for immediate action to address the ever-mounting traffic congestion on the North Shore. North Shore residents and governments[Read More...]

In this age of reality television (or televised unreality), the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was not going to miss out.  Unlike other chief spies who operate in habitual darkness and moving shadows, Mike Pompeo was very keen to get his voice and opinion across on the British Broadcasting Service. Pompeo specialises in seeing enemies everywhere, and to be[Read More...]

The Southern Poverty Pimp Center is at it again with their "hate tracker," helping to whip up moral outrage over innocuous Twitter hashtags like #MerryChristmas to drum up more business for their hate racket. Don't know about the SPLC and their hate pimping? Well get into the show notes, because, boy, do I have a story for you!

  The newly formed organization popularly called T-MASS is a registered organization under the Telangana Government’s Registration Act with a name “Telangana Mass and Social Organizations”. Under its broad umbrella many Ambedkarist, Phuleite, communist, humanist, women organizations are working with a broad philosophical framework of Mahatma Phule, Ambedkar and Karl Marx. Its banners always carry the portraits of these thinkers[Read More...]

A militia group has threatened to attack U.S. troops over a friendly fire incident that occurred on Saturday.
The post Shi’ite Militia Threatens US Troops After Friendly Fire; 15 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

  Why is there resistance to working to reduce the imbalances in earth’s systems? What is this resistance? What are these imbalances? What is earth? What are systems? What is a life that reduces imbalances? Today the world cloud, the electronic communications sector, uses much more energy than the global aviation sector. It is not possible to have a conversation[Read More...]

Source : Le Parisien, 29-01-2018
Robert Bourgi a voulu faire tomber le candidat LR qui avait, selon lui, « violé toutes les règles de l’amitié ».

  It could be truly comical, if it were not to be so dangerous for millions of people living all over the world. The Empire, once mighty, ruthless and frightening is now jumping around like a dog infected with rabies; it is salivating, barking loudly, its tale is stiff between its legs. It snaps left and right, and periodically it[Read More...]

    “It’s not just the government’s bum that NPR wipes.” — Geoff Dutton I have 101 articles in front of me which document the degree to which National Public Radio (NPR), arguably the most popular “political” station in the U.S., is a VERY poor source of news. ZNet, Black Agenda Report andCounterpunch provide three examples of decent attacks on their documentation and agenda, and[Read More...]