Instead of increasing the national debt to pay for the havoc caused by Hurricane Harvey, Rand Paul suggested cutting foreign aid where it is being wasted. (TFTP) As estimates to fix the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey reach over $100 billion, the U.S. Congress has pushed for a bill that would raise the national debt Read More…
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Media Blackout: Syrian Government Has ISIS Almost Completely Defeated In Syria
Amid a host of fresh criminal accusations against the Assad government in Syria, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is making significant gains against ISIS’ last major stronghold in the country, paving the way for the group’s inevitable fall. As the Guardian reported, Syrian state media is applauding the military’s recent advance, which broke a years-long ISIS siege on the Read More…
Media Silence: North Korea Has Repeatedly Offered To Give Up Their Nukes
As the mass media and the establishment figures who keep mainstream outlets afloat continue to beat the drums of war against North Korea, little attention is being paid to one crucial detail regarding the current crisis engulfing the Korean peninsula. You wouldn’t know it if you were to turn on your television every day or simply skim the Read More…
Woman Stopped For Broken Tail Lights, Instead Of Ticket, Officer Fixes Them—This is Public Service
A Richmond, Va police officer just set the bar by helping a woman fix her tail lights instead of giving her a ticket, extorting her, or harassing her. Richmond, VA — (TFTP) Richmond resident Chy-Niece Thacker didn’t know what to expect when she was pulled over Friday for having two tail lights out on her car. As Read More…
Two Florida Nuclear Plants Are In Irma’s Projected Path — And One Is Already Leaking
Two nuclear sites in Florida are in the path of Hurricane Irma. Though the plants’ owners are confident they can withstand the storm and the facilities have withstood previous hurricanes, concerns are being raised about their durability as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the Atlantic approaches. The two plants in question Read More…
MSNBC ‘Loses Connection’ Right As Reporter Exposes Oil Industry For Robbing Locals Of Infrastructure Funding
Hurricane Harvey has been making headlines all over due to the scale of destruction it has caused in Texas. While covering Harvey for Al Jazeera, reporter Shihab Rattansi told MSNBC host Ali Velshi last week that fossil fuel companies have been robbing locals in the Texas, Louisiana, and Gulf Coast area of infrastructure funds that Read More…