"The FBI estimates that some 400 swatting incidents occur each year across the country. Each incident costs first responders approximately $10,000, and diverts important resources away from actual emergencies."
"The third trial of Cliven Bundy has ended in a mistrial. The prosecution failed to turn over documents that would have helped the defense. Two earlier trials ended in hung juries. On January 8th, a judge will decide if the case will be dismissed 'with prejudice,' meaning that it cannot be once again brought to trial. It is beginning to look like this is yet another case of government harassment. The prosecution is supposed to turn over all evidence that might help the defense, yet they failed to do so. A memo from a BLM investigator became public on December 15th, exposing the vast misconduct."
"Is it just a coincidence that the biggest protests since 2009 have hit Iran shortly after a secret agreement was revealed between Washington, Tel Aviv, and Riyadh to destabilize Iran? And shortly after a new Executive Order was issued by President Trump allowing him to seize US assets of anyone he deems a 'human rights abuser' ...or anyone who aids a designated 'human rights abuser'?"
"It just might be that the two Koreas are figuring out a way to avoid war, much to the anger and chagrin of President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment, who are obviously increasingly viewing war as inevitable and even in the best interests of the United States."
"The process for launching a nuclear strike is secret and complex and involves the use of a nuclear 'football,' which is carried by a rotating group of military officers everywhere the president goes and is equipped with communication tools and a book with prepared war plans. If the president were to order a strike, he would identify himself to military officials at the Pentagon with codes unique to him. Those codes are recorded on a card known as the 'biscuit' that is carried by the president at all times. He would then transmit the launch order to the Pentagon and Strategic Command."
"The New York Times reported that China will temporarily allow foreign companies to not pay tax on their earnings. The exemption will 'promote the growth of foreign investment, improve the quality of foreign investment and encourage overseas investors to continuously expand their investment in China,' China’s Finance Ministry said in a statement Thursday. However, those companies must invest those earnings from the exemption in areas being promoted by the Chinese government, like technology and mining. The exemption is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2017."
"These aren’t predictions at all. These are all stories that took place in 2017."
"When the ostensible protectors of our even more ostensible freedoms are nearly 100 times more deadly than the people we are told 'hate our freedoms,' something is definitely wrong."
"Six-year-old Kameron was just 'collateral damage' in America’s militarized police war on the public — killed inadvertently by a deputy’s bullet which had missed its intended target (an unarmed woman), instead penetrating the flimsy wall of the trailer and the soft abdomen of the little kid who was playing peacefully by himself inside."
"Adding to the already controversial killing of Myers is the fact that after Brewer shot, all the other officers began turning their cameras off too."