March 17, 2018

Iranian official warns Europeans against imposing sanctions to ‘please’ Trump
Any new European sanctions against Iran will have a direct effect on the nuclear deal struck between world powers and Tehran, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said Friday, according to state media. “In case some European countries are following steps to put non-nuclear sanctions against Iran in order to please the American president, they will be making a big mistake and they will see the direct result of that on the nuclear deal,” Abbas Araqchi said…

Syria war: Thousands flee offensives in Afrin and Ghouta
More than 60,000 people have fled two separate offensives in Syria in recent days, the UN says. Up to 16,000 people have fled Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, where Russian air strikes are supporting Syrian government attempts to retake the area. Nearly 50,000 fled the northern town of Afrin, where Turkey is fighting a US-backed Kurdish militia that it considers a terrorist group.

FBI ex-deputy director Andrew McCabe sacked days before retirement
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has been sacked days before he could retire with pension rights. He was fired by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who said an internal review found he leaked information and misled investigators. Mr McCabe denied the claims and said he was being targeted because of his involvement in the inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Egyptian jamming of ISIS terrorists disrupts phones in Israel
IDF officers and Defense Ministry representatives met earlier this week with their counterparts in Egypt in an effort to halt disruptions to mobile phone services in southern Israel, a result of Egyptian jamming against ISIS-affiliated terrorists in Sinai. Egyptian military officials reportedly told their Israeli counterparts at the Sharm El Sheikh meeting that their electronic warfare will continue as long as the fighting…continues.

Fight over U.S. spending bill rekindles immigration debate
As another U.S. government funding deadline looms, a huge spending bill is ground zero in the latest battle between Republicans and Democrats in Congress over President Donald Trump’s push to toughen immigration policy. Lawmakers have until March 23 to work out how to fund an array of government agencies for the next six months. But their behind-the-scenes negotiations are complicated by the immigration issue.

Russian Nuclear Sub “Quietly” Traveled To US Coastline Undetected
As Russia weighs retaliating against the UK over its decision to expel a cadre of Russian diplomats after determining that senior Russian leaders (perhaps Putin himself) were responsible for a nerve-gas attack on a former Russian spy, RT revealed that a nuclear-powered submarine recently completed a clandestine exercise that brought it all the way to the US coast.

IRS Documented 1.3M Identity Thefts by Illegal Aliens; Can’t Say It Referred Any for Prosecution
The Internal Revenue Service in 2011 through 2016 documented more than 1.3 million cases of identity theft perpetrated by illegal aliens whom the IRS had given Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN), which are only given to people who are ineligible to work in the United States or receive Social Security Numbers, according to information published by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration(TIGTA).

Palestinians call for ‘day of rage’ Friday to mark US Jerusalem recognition
Factions urge protesters to clash with troops and settlers immediately after prayers in renewal of demonstrations 100 days after Trump announcement

CDC: Americans Binge Over 17B Drinks a Year
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Americans’ drinking habits reported that people who identify as binge drinkers are consuming quite a bit of alcohol, CBS News reported Friday.

United Methodist Clergy Woman Loses License for Officiating Same-Sex ‘Wedding’
A United Methodist clergy woman in Tennessee has had her ministerial license revoked for officiating a same-sex “wedding” in violation of the UMC’s Book of Discipline.

Obama’s ‘civilian army’: It was the students all along
Now we know what that “civilian army” that President Obama was always telling us about consisted of.  We saw them in force all over the country not too long ago.

Russia Blamed For Attacks On US Power Grid Starting In 2016
The Trump administration has blamed the Russian government for a series of cyber attacks targeting American and European nuclear power plants and other critical utilities dating back at least two years – raising fears that the Kremlin could disrupt the West’s critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict.

BOMBSHELL: GOP Officials: PA Special Election Voting Machines ‘Miscalibrated’, Votes ‘Switched’Republicans are now claiming that voting machines ‘miscalibrated,’ giving Lamb votes that should’ve gone Saccone’s way.

Democrats Holding Heartland America Hostage Over Food Stamps
Democrats in the House of Representatives are stalling negotiations on the Farm Bill, the massive bill that authorizes spending agriculture programs, over potential changes to the food stamps program.

Pentagon: When U.S. Troops Engage in Combat in Africa, We May Not Tell You
U.S. troops in Niger and elsewhere in Africa are there to train and advise, but sometimes they come under hostile fire, and when that happens, Americans back home may not be told about it, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

Fallen Bridge: Toll up to 6 Dead as Officials Seek Answers
An innovative pedestrian bridge being built at Florida International University was put to a “stress test” before it collapsed over traffic, killing six people and sending 10 to a hospital, authorities said.

Australia Calls For Emergency Visas For White Farmers Facing Violent Attacks In South Africa
A top Australian official has called for emergency visas for South Africa’s white farmers, who are reportedly facing rising violence amid government calls for land expropriation in favor of black citizens.

Church Forced to Remove the Word ‘Jesus’ From Easter Advertising
A church has been forced to remove the word ‘Jesus’ from its signs ahead of Easter because it has been causing offence. Elim Church on the Central Coast in New South Wales, Australia, paid for digital signs to be displayed at Erina Fair shopping centre reading ‘the greatness of His Power.’

March 16, 2018

In a first, U.S. blames Russia for cyber attacks on energy grid
The Trump administration on Thursday blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the U.S. power grid, marking the first time the United States has publicly accused Moscow of hacking into American energy infrastructure. Beginning in March 2016, or possibly earlier, Russian government hackers sought to penetrate multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and manufacturing, according to a U.S. security alert published Thursday.

‘Jerusalem is not holy to Muslims, enough with this lie!’
“Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel, under King David 3,000 years ago,” Klein said. “It was never, ever, the capital of any other nation except Israel. When the Arabs conquered Palestine in 716, they made Ramla their capital, not Jerusalem.” “The Jewish holy books mention Jerusalem 700 times. it is never, ever mentioned in the Quran. Even about Mohammed allegedly going from Jerusalem to heaven, in the Quran…this is a dream. He simply has a dream, and it says he went ‘from the farthest place to heaven.’ … And the nearest place, in the Quran, is Palestine. So clearly, it was not from Jerusalem.”

Don’t Mess With the US: Aid Cuts Proposed For Countries Voting Against US
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is making good on her threat to cut US aid to countries that vote against the US in the United Nations. On Thursday, Foreign Policy reported on a 53-page memo issued by Haley. Titled “America First Foreign Assistance Policy”, the new policy will make good on that threat. “It is the opinion of the U.S. mission to the U.N. that all U.S. foreign assistance should be reevaluated to ensure that taxpayers dollars are spent to advance U.S. interests, not to fund foreign legacy programs that provide little or no return on investment,” the memo read.

Christian Beliefs Help Drive American Support For Israel To Record Highs: Gallup
A Gallup Poll published on Tuesday showed that support for Israel among the American population is at an all-time high, equal to the previous record reached in 1991 during the Persian Gulf War. “Americans’ stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is as strongly pro-Israel as at any time in Gallup’s three-decade trend,” the polling research company said in the report titled, “Americans Remain Staunchly in Israel’s Corner.” Sixty-four percent of respondents said that in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, their sympathies lie more with the Israelis while just 19 percent said they sympathize more with the Palestinians instead.

Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley is a ‘totalitarian place’
Silicon Valley has created an oppressive environment. “When people are unanimously on one side, that tells me not that they’ve all figured out the truth but that they are in sort of a totalitarian place, that they are in a one-party state where they are not allowed to have dissenting views,” he said.

Facing far-right challenge, minister says Islam doesn’t belong to GermanyNew Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Islam does not belong to Germany and set out hardline immigration policies in an interview published on Friday, as he sought to see off rising far-right challengers. Seehofer told Bild newspaper he would push through a “master plan for quicker deportations”, in his first major interview since he was sworn into office on Wednesday.

China launches new campaign against Christianity
Amid an ongoing surge in Christianity that developed as communism created a spiritual vacuum in people’s lives, China has launched a new crackdown, including rules introduced last month that further restrict the activities of unregistered house churches, according to a new report.

Horrible development: Abortions based on chromosomes
The debate over life has intensified in recent days as pro-abortion activists push back against a series of new state laws banning the procedure based on a pre-natal diagnosis of Down Syndrome, but a leading pro-life voice says such abortions are nothing more than “genetic discrimination” and a disturbing sign for our culture.

California pushes abortion by depicting pregnant women as stupid}
California has a reason for its requirement that pro-life crisis pregnancy centers promote local abortionists: It thinks women are stupid.

U.N. to U.S.: You need to write check for Palestinians
United Nations officials are publicly berating the United States for not paying much more than its fair share of costs for a refugee program whose support was cut by President Trump as a way to incentivize Palestinians to be serious about negotiating for peace with Israel.

South Africa: Genocide or Civil War? Is This America’s Fate?
As bad as apartheid is, what is going on inside of South Africa is worse. Presently there is a murderous purge transpiring in South Africa and white people are the victims and they are increasingly hiring private security when they can as the country moves closer to civil war, which seems to be the only option left for whites to avoid racially motivated genocide.

Venezuela Faces The Return Of Forgotten Diseases
…I am talking about serious stuff: Tuberculosis, Diptheria, Leishmaniasis. There have been adults and children who died because of these things. The diseases themselves, under normal conditions can be healed. But without the appropriate medications and proper nutrition, they become deadly.

Did School Book Fair Try to Indoctrinate First Graders?
…Avid Bookshop accused Athens Academy of “discrimination, censorship and homophobia” after they were told to remove a copy of “The Best Man” from the March 7th book fair.

Lawmaker’s tweet after physicist Stephen Hawking’s death draws criticism
A Texas state representative came under fire on social media Wednesday over a tweet about famed British physicist Stephen Hawking that some found insensitive.

MIAMI HORROR: University Bridge COLLAPSES, Multiple Casualties Reported
Multiple fatalities were reported Thursday after a recently constructed pedestrian footbridge collapsed at Florida International University; injuring scores as the wreckage rained-down on the roadway below.

Subpoenas Issued Against CAIR
Pressure is mounting against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for its controversial partnership with the San Diego Unified School District in developing an anti-Islamophobia bullying initiative that was enacted last April.

First NK, Now the Middle East? Israeli, Arab Leaders Show up at White House for Huge Talks
…According to Axios, that historical occurrence was a White House meeting which involved national security officials from Israel along with their counterparts from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.Representatives of the Palestinian Authority were invited to participate but declined to attend the important meeting.

Lamb’s Win Points to GOP Losing 60 House Seats, Senate Control
The apparent win of Democrat Conor Lamb for Pennsylvania’s 18th District has shaken the Republican establishment to its foundations and points to a “wave election” in the coming midterms that will end Republican control of both the House and the Senate.

Oxford University Will ‘Feminise’ Its Philosophy Reading Lists to Appeal More to Women 
Oxford University will ‘feminise’ its philosophy curriculum in order to appeal to more female students and boost writers profiles.

March 15, 2018

World War 3: Saudi Arabia to develop NUCLEAR BOMB in defence of IRAN – Crown Prince says
“Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible,” Prince Mohammed bin Salman told CBS in an interview that will air on Sunday.Saudi Arabia previously warned it will not hesitate to defend itself against Iran amid warnings the region is being pushed into a “dangerous abyss”. Fears of World War 3 have increased in recent months amid a spiralling fallout between the Saudi monarchy and Tehran.

Haley: Russia must account for its use of chemical weapons
“Let me make one thing clear from the very beginning: the United States stands in absolute solidarity with Great Britain,” Haley said. “The United States believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the United Kingdom using a military-grade nerve agent.”

Trump’s Win is the Reichstag Fire of Internet Censorship
It’s no coincidence that the central conspiracy theory surrounding the 2016 election involves free speech or that the solution is internet censorship. The claim that Russian trolls and bots rigged the election has zero actual evidence behind it. But it’s a convenient tool for not only delegitimizing Trump but the very idea of a free and open internet where anyone can say anything they choose. It’s not Russia they want to crack down on, it’s us.

Russia says U.S. plans to strike Damascus, pledges military response
Russia said on Tuesday it had information that the United States planned to bomb the government quarter in Damascus on an invented pretext, and said it would respond militarily if it felt Russian lives were threatened by such an attack.

One Small Step: A Win For Medical Freedom; 4 Vaccine Bills Defeated…According to Green Med Info, the two identical bills submitted to the Florida Senate and the House of Representatives in January mandating HPV vaccines for school children have been defeated. Two other bills released the same month which would have forced those who opt out of vaccines for their children to be entered into a centralized database which would track their whereabouts (and make possible State-mandated “home visits” to coerce and force vaccine compliance), have also been withdrawn from the Florida Senate and House. All four bills were permanently withdrawn on 3/10/2018.

Make a Church Post Satan’s Phone Number?
..Making a pro-life center post a phone number so women can get referrals for tax-funded abortions is akin to making a church — or one of Mother Teresa’s shelters — post Satan’s phone number. As a previous iteration of Jerry Brown might have said: It is crazy.

University of Minnesota Students Narrowly Pass Pro-BDS Referendum That ‘Fuels Discrimination’ Against Jewish Peers 
University of Minnesota students have narrowly approved a divestment referendum targeting Israel, which has been condemned for exacerbating divisions on campus, the school elections commission announced on Sunday.

This 3-D-printed house costs $10,000 and can be built in 24 hours
…the innovation isn’t in the structure or materials — it’s in the design and building. ICON, the company that builds the 650-square-foot house, claims it costs just $10,000 to build and can be 3-D-printed by a Vulcan printer in 12 to 24 hours using the most common building material on Earth.

Radical Atheist Who Trashed Billy Graham after His Death Is Set to Become a Navy “Chaplain”
Radical atheist Jason Heap is hoping to become a Navy chaplain. The US Navy is seriously considering the approval of this anti-Christian activist for a spot in its Chaplain Corps.

What Stephen Hawking said about God, his atheism and his own death
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking schmoozed with popes during his lifetime, even though he was an avowed atheist. The famous scientist, who died Wednesday in England at 76, was often asked to explain his views on faith and God. During interviews, he explained his belief that there was no need for a creator.

Iranian official on TV: ‘Liberation of Jerusalem is the most important thing’
Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi of the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution said in a lecture that aired on IRIB Ofogh TV on March 2 that the West was trying to prevent Iraq from becoming the leader of the Arab world.

Searching souls with brain imaging
In the March issue of Scientific American, brain-imaging expert John Gabrieli says that we can now use functional magnetic-resonance-imaging (fMRI) technology to predict whether depressed patients will benefit from certain therapies, whether smokers will be able to quit, and whether criminals will land back in jail soon.  But he leaves unanswered some questions he raises—namely, if we find that we can reliably obtain this kind of information, what should we do with it?

Did President Trump give Israel the greatest gift possible
‘President Trump finally killed idea of making Jerusalem an international city,’ says former Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold.

Leftism and Degeneracy: A Beautiful Thing
…In a nutshell, leftists are using government to make the weird and freaky mainstream while trampling traditional principles and values underfoot – declaring them hateful, intolerant, and laughable.

March 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking, famed physicist, dead at 76
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

An Israel-Hezbollah war could draw in Iran, U.S. intelligence warns
“What if a war between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah that emerges is not solely between them but becomes a northern war that embroils more of the Levant in that?” Cattler asked. “What if Iran becomes a party to that war more directly and overtly rather than clandestinely or covertly, and that becomes a conflict that doesn’t just embroil Israel and potentially us by extension but also many of our other allies in the region? “It is a real potential that’s out there.

Trump gave Israel the greatest gift possible’
‘President Trump finally killed idea of making Jerusalem an international city,’ says former Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold. “When President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he gave backing to Ben-Gurion’s declaration, and effectively put to rest the internationalization idea,”

UNRWA in urgent search for cash at global gatheringGlobal powers will gather in Rome on Thursday to discuss the future of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which faces an unprecedented crisis after the US froze tens of millions of dollars in funding. US President Donald Trump’s administration has so far committed only $60 million to the agency this year, down from $360 million in 2017.

Did Geologists Discover ‘Fountains of the Deep’ From Genesis Flood?
A team of scientists studying diamonds found as far as 500 miles underground has discovered a form of crystallized ice that has never been observed in nature before. The discovery indicates that huge water reserves flow through the earth’s mantle in a manner that very much resembles the “Fountains of the Deep” mentioned in the book of Genesis. The findings were published Thursday in the journal, Science.

Will Turkey Lead An End-of-Days Global Islamic Jihad Against Israel And The US?
the Turkish president’s call for 57 nations to join together to form an anti-Israel army of Islam could create the most formidable military force on the planet. One Israeli expert on Islam stated emphatically, “make no mistake; this is war,” and lest the message is missed, he also emphasized that this call for jihad includes a direct threat against the US. Once warm, relations between Turkey and Israel have been shaky in the last decade. But this call for a religious war against Israel is a relatively new development.

The third nor’easter in less than two weeks is on the horizon
The Northeast is bracing for its third nor’easter in less than two weeks, while some people are still feeling the effects of the last storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow in some areas and left hundreds of thousands of customers without power.

CIA Whistleblower Exposes Global Crime Syndicate Run By Clinton, Obama, Soros
…The Russia collusion narrative always stank, and as Obama and his officers and appointees are being exposed for their involvement in illegal wiretapping and campaign tampering, everything is starting to add up.

Report: Trump administration ready to present peace plan
Plan to solve Arab-Israeli conflict reportedly does not mention Two-State Solution

Scientists Now Resort To Calling Christians Crazy – ‘New Study’ Attempts to establish a link between religious fundamentalism and brain damage
Scientists from Northwestern University published a study in the journal Neuropsychologia attempting to establish a link between religious fundamentalism and brain impairment.

He went ‘rogue’! Real reason Trump fired Tillerson
Even though tensions had been mounting between President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for months, a new report indicates the president abruptly fired Tillerson because he went “rogue” and tried to save the Iran nuclear deal.

The Ongoing Plight of Christians
…The following is a small sampling of what Christians are facing, and the sad truth is that no one seems to be stopping the oppressors and punishing them.

Nerve Gas Scientist: 100s Of Britons At Risk, More Could Be Affected For Years
According to a Russian ‘chemical weapons’ scientist, the deadly nerve gas agent which was used to poison Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, UK, last week could endanger Britons to developing symptoms in years to come.

Human DNA found in hot dogs… 10% of veggie dogs made with meat… but private genomics lab censors brand names to appease food industry
…For starters, it found human DNA in hot dogs. “Two percent of all samples were found to have traces of human DNA in them. Veggie dogs were the worst off, accounting for 67 percent of the hygiene issues and two-thirds of the human DNA found,” reports Yahoo News.

Netflix Stock is Plummeting in Response To Obama Show
Last week, Big League Politics exposed how former President Barack Obama is in advance negotiations with video streaming service Netflix to have his own show. In response, Trump supporters across the country began boycotting Netflix by canceling their memberships.

Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.

March 13, 2018

Trump Fires Rex Tillerson; Replaces Him With CIA Chief Mike Pompeo
According to WaPo, the president — who has long clashed will Tillerson, who he believes is “too establishment” in his thinking — felt it was important to make the change now, as he prepares for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as well as upcoming trade negotiations, three White House officials said.

Report: Trump’s Mideast Peace Plan is Almost Finished
According to senior American officials who spoke to The New York Times, the Trump White House is currently putting the final touches on its Middle East peace proposal. Unlike past proposals from presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Trump’s plan will reportedly eschew broad (read: vague) suggestions and predetermined outcomes. Rather, it will take head-on the very specific issues currently preventing an agreement and offer very specific solutions to them.

Uh-oh. A.I. is actually hallucinating
A new report at Wired is raising the specter of a huge problem that has appeared in Artificial Intelligence programs and projects. It hallucinates. The systems, according to the report, can see things that aren’t there. “That could be a big problem for products dependent on machine learning, particularly for vision, such as self-driving cars. Leading researchers are trying to develop defenses against such attacks – but that’s proving to be a challenge,”

House intel panel concludes: No collusion with Russia
Amid an expansion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, House Intelligence Committee Republicans announced they have finished the interview phase of their own probe and have found no evidence Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

ISIS’s new insurgency in Kirkuk and Hawija in Iraq
Dozens of civilians and members of the Iraqi Security Forces have been killed along with a similar number of ISIS fighters, according to numerous reports. The US-led coalition is still carrying out air strikes against ISIS targets, even though the country was supposed to have transitioned to stabilization in the run-up to elections in May.

Hamas condemns assassination attempt on Palestinian Prime Minister
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and PA General Intelligence Services Chief Majid Faraj survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday after entering the Gaza Strip, the official PA news site Wafa reported. Hamdallah and Faraj’s motorcade was targeted by an explosion and came under gunfire in the Beit Hanoun area in northern Gaza, according to the Wafa report.

Third Temple Calendar Launches This Saturday, On The ‘New Year Of Kings’
As part of his passion for the Temple, Prager decided 36 years ago that he wanted to create a calendar for the Third Temple. But the project was so complicated and requires so much research that the first calendar is only coming out now. The King’s Calendar tracks all the activities that took place in the First and Second Temples and which will be performed again when the Third Temple is built.

Guns Don’t Kill People, Ideas Do
That does not mean that we ought to push the 1st Amendment under the train, the way that the media has been trying to do to the 2nd Amendment, but it does call for soul-searching and responsibility not by the people who make guns or defend the right to carry them, as the media insists, but by the people who make school shootings and subway suicides. The people who insist that everyone must search their souls, but them.

Abbas: Hamas responsible for assassination attempt on Prime Minister 
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and PA General Intelligence Services Chief Majid Faraj survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday after entering the Gaza Strip, the official PA news site Wafa reported. Hamdallah and Faraj’s motorcade was targeted by an explosion and came under gunfire in the Beit Hanoun area in northern Gaza, according to the Wafa report.

With Red Sea mega-city, Saudis eye economic unity with Egypt, Jordan 
To observers, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud’s flagship idea may seem overly ambitious – to build a mega-city known as Neom along the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea that extends across the borders to Jordan and Egypt. Indeed, its proponents are describing the planned 26,500 square kilometer city in almost messianic terms.

Kushner and Greenblatt to host session on Gaza crisis
The Trump administration will host a “brainstorming session” at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. According to Jason Greenblatt, the US special representative for international negotiations, the administration “believes that deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza require immediate attention.”

Afrin: Turkish forces ‘encircle’ Syrian Kurdish city
The Turkish military says it has surrounded the Kurdish-held city of Afrin in northern Syria, the focus of an offensive against a Kurdish militia. A statement said troops and allied Syrian rebels had also captured “critically important areas”. Kurdish sources said all roads into Afrin were being targeted by shellfire, but denied that it was encircled.

Saudi crown prince to visit White House on March 20
US President Donald Trump will host Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on March 20, the White House said Monday. “The president looks forward to discussing ways to strengthen ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia,” spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in announcing the meeting. The hugely influential Saudi prince is visiting Egypt, Britain and the United States as part of a long foreign trip, his first as crown prince.

Police link two deadly package bombs in Austin, Texas, to earlier attack
Two package bombs left outside homes in Austin, Texas, exploded on Monday, killing a teenager and injuring two women in attacks that police linked to a deadly blast earlier this month. The latest bombings came as the Texas capital hosted its annual South by Southwest music, technology and film festival downtown. The victims in all three cases were African-American or Hispanic, and police said they were examining the attacks as possible hate crimes.

Spring Break is on as tens of thousands descend on beaches for debauchery
The scene was one of ‘controlled chaos’: hundreds of students openly smoking drugs, shot-gunning beer and performing lewd dance moves as the first weekend of Spring Break got underway on Fort Lauderdale’s Las Olas Beach. Others could be seen swigging from bottles of vodka and whiskey or guzzling tequila hidden in water pistols while some had to be helped off the sand after becoming too drunk to stand.

Beaver County Sees Uptick In STD Numbers Among Young People
The numbers are hard to comprehend in this time of social media, advanced medicine and awareness. “I think that the younger population is more promiscuous today than probably ever before,” says Dr. Frank DiCenco…Dr. DiCenco says the numbers in a state health department alert about STD’s and HIV among 15-24 year olds in Beaver County are “quite concerning and we, in our practice, have seen an uptick in the number of Gonorrhea and Chlamydia cases.”

Opioid Crisis Drives Up Illinois ER Visits by 66 Percent
According to a new report, the opioid crisis in Illinois has driven up emergency room visits by 66 percent.

3 Package Bombs in Austin Kill 2
Police in Austin Texas said they believe three package bombs in the past 11 days are related and are warning residents not to touch any packages they were not expecting.

World health chief stokes the panic fires by warning that a catastrophic global pandemic is imminent… humanity WIPEOUT foreshadowed?
Dr. Tedros Adhanom, director-general for the World Health Organization(WHO), has said that the next outbreak that will hit us will be a “terrible” one, causing huge amounts of death all over the world. Fears of a pandemic have been hovering lately after the worst flu outbreak in recent years devastated Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Obama Cronies Form Anti-Trump National Security Think Tank
A group of nearly 50 Obama administration officials have formed a think tank called National Security Action to attack President Trump’s national security platform.

Expert: Erdogan Regime Considers Christians, Jews ‘Enemies of the State’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian government has deemed members of religious minorities, such as Christians and Jews, “enemies of the state,” an analyst tells Breitbart News, echoing the U.S. State Department.

Pence: Abortion will end in U.S. ‘in our time’
Vice President Pence predicted Tuesday that legal abortion would end in the U.S. “in our time.” “I know in my heart of hearts this will be the generation that restores life in America,” Pence said at a luncheon in Nashville hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List & Life Institute, an anti-abortion organization.

Merck Will Give Young Mothers The Most Dangerous Vaccine Of All: Trial
The University of Alabama at Birmingham recently announced a collaboration with pharmaceutical behemoth vaccine producer Merck, to perform Gardasil 9 HPV vaccine trials on postpartum mothers between the ages of 16 and 26, immediately after having their children at the UAB hospital.

Record-Breaking Crowd of 100,000 Pro-Life People Rally in Ireland Against Legalizing Abortion
Save the 8th has said that its campaign is “energised and motivated ” by the huge attendance at today’s Rally for Life in Dublin, which saw up to 100,000 people take to the streets to reject the Government’s plan for a UK-style abortion regime in Ireland.

Church of Scientology Readies to Launch a TV Network
The Church of Scientology is about to get its own television channel starting Monday. A Twitter handle, website and app for Scientology TV appeared Sunday posting updates to hype the network’s availability on DIRECTV, AppleTV, Roku, fireTV, Chromecast, iTunes and Google Play.

House Sets Vote on Bill Allowing Use of Unproven Drugs for Dying Patients
Legislation that would enable terminally ill patients to use unproven, investigational drugs will go before the House Tuesday for a vote,according to The Hill.