A ceremony held Monday afternoon at Fort Drum commemorated the signing of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, or H.R. 5515, the $717 billion bill that will fund the military for Fiscal Year 2019. President Trump signed the bill, titled the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, during the ceremony. […]
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Flight Data Recorder, Human Remains Found in Stolen Sea-Tac Plane Probe…
Federal officials announced late Sunday that they recovered the flight data recorder and human remains from the stolen commercial airplane that took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and crashed into a small island in Puget Sound. The FBI recovered the cockpit voice recorder from aircraft N449QX and the National Transportation Security Board is processing the […]
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Defense Secretary James Mattis and Vice President Mike Pence Space Force Speech…
In 2017, President Trump established his National Space Council, a body of senior officials charged with developing modern policies for commercial and international space utilization. On March 23, 2018, President Trump announced his National Space Strategy, which recognizes that America’s competitors have turned space into a warfighting domain, and charts a whole-of-government approach to maintaining […]
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U.S. Orders Chinese Company to Sell Manhattan Building Near Trump Tower…
The U.S. government has told Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co. it has to sell its majority stake in a Manhattan skyscraper whose tenants include a police precinct tasked with protecting Trump Tower, according to people familiar with the matter. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which reviews whether foreign investments in the U.S. […]
Trump Names First Woman to Lead U.S. Border Patrol…
President Trump’s proposed border wall will help federal agencies secure the U.S.-Mexico border, according to Carla Provost, the newly announced chief of U.S. border patrol. “Most certainly, it already assists my men and women,” Provost told Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton on Wednesday. “We already have many miles, over 600 miles of barrier along the border. I […]
Man Arrested At ‘Extremist Muslim’ New Mexico Compound Was Training Kids to Commit School Shootings…
The father of a missing 3-year-old who was arrested at a New Mexico compound linked to “extremist Muslims” last week was training children to commit school shootings, court documents filed on Wednesday revealed. Prosecutors allege Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, was conducting weapons training on the compound, where 11 children were found hungry and living in […]
Pentagon Restricts Use of Fitness Trackers, Othe Geo-Location Devices…
Military troops and other defense personnel at sensitive bases or certain high-risk warzone areas won’t be allowed to use fitness tracker or cellphone applications that can reveal their location, according to a new Pentagon order. The memo, obtained by The Associated Press, stops short of banning the fitness trackers or other electronic devices, which are […]
How Local Officials Allowed NXIVM Grow Into an International Crime Syndicate…
Since several recent commenters have raised questions about the lawsuit that I brought against Keith Raniere and a bunch of others associated with the NXIVM/ESP cult back in February 2012, I thought it might be worthwhile to have the original Complaint posted here so that readers could see just how much of the cult’s criminal […]
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John Lennon Assassin’s Wife Admits She Knew of Murder Plot…
John Lennon’s assassin told his wife his plans to murder the Beatle two months before shooting him dead in 1980, according to new reports. Gloria Hiroko Chapman, wife of killer Mark Chapman told The Daily Mirror that her homicidal hubby revealed his plot after returning to Hawaii from a trip New York. “He came home […]
Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor’s Blessing…
Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100-degree heat. The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had […]
The Real Maria Butina Scandal: FBI Could Have Prevented It…
This is a tale of two alleged Russian agents — one who got rolled up once her ring activated against a Democratic political figure, and the other who was allowed to roam freely across the American political landscape for years while building contacts with conservatives. The second example, Maria Butina, was a photogenic 20-something Russian […]
Declassified Records Show Extent of CIA’s Involvement in Efforts to Discredit Daniel Ellsburg…
A previously classified document that the Central Intelligence Agency provided to Congress during the investigation of the Watergate affair shows that G. Gordon Liddy used papers that CIA had provided – without authorization – while traveling to California to break into the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. This newly released document shows […]
Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo Announces End to Mandalay Bay Massacre Investigation – No Motive Found (VIDEO)…
Move along… move along… nothing to see here folks… Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo announces the end to the investigation of the Mandalay Bay Massacre with a declaration there is no known motive and there was no second shooter – In the year before Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock carried out the worst mass shooting […]
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Air Force Remains Silent After Huge Meteor Hits Near U.S. Military Base…
A meteor hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month, but the US Air Force has made no mention of the event. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometres per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometres north of an early missile warning […]
Revolving Door: How Security Clearances Perpetuate Top-Level Corruption in the United States…
President Donald Trump is threatening to take away the security clearances of a number of former senior intelligence and security officers who have been extremely critical of him. Most Americans were unaware that any ex-officials continued to hold clearances after they retired and the controversy has inevitably raised the question why that should be so. […]
The Tender, Terrifying Truth About What Happened Inside the Trader Joe’s Hostage Siege…
About halfway through the three-hour siege at Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake, the wounded gunman, Gene Atkins, looked at one of his hostages, MaryLinda Moss, and told her it was all over for him. “I just shot at a cop,” he said. Moss, a 55-year-old artist who exudes calm, feared a suicidal gunman could spark […]
One More Lawyer for Nancy Salzman–Top Criminal Defense Lawyer David Stern. NXIVM Lawyers Now Total 18 and Counting…
Well known New York City criminal defense attorney, David Stern is representing Nancy Salzman and appeared with her at her arraignment. Also representing Nancy is former US Attorney Michael Sullivan. Sullivan represented Keith Raniere prior to his arrest. He was the lawyer who, as improbable as it sounds, was unable to find out that Keith […]
Pentagon to Face Increased Operational Restrictions Under Defense Authorization Bill…
The Pentagon will face stricter operating and reporting rules under the major defense authorization bill heading to the White House for President Trump’s signature, as U.S. military leaders find themselves under fire for what critics say is a failure to account for and minimize civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes and military operations. The latest rules, […]
Keeping Funds from Sanctuary Cities Is Illegal, 9th Circuit Rules…
The Ninth Circuit handed the Trump administration a legal defeat Wednesday, ruling the Justice Department does not have the authority to withhold federal grant money from sanctuary cities. A three-judge panel said the fundamental separation of powers enshrined in the U.S. Constitution bars the executive branch from refusing to disburse grants without explicit permission from […]
U.S. Spy Agencies: North Korea Is Working on New Missiles…
U.S. spy agencies are seeing signs that North Korea is constructing new missiles at a factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, according to officials familiar with the intelligence. Newly obtained evidence, including satellite photos taken in recent weeks, indicates that work is underway on at least […]