Kyle Schmidlin

bernie sanders|Donald Trump|Jesse Ventura

Jesse Ventura Opens The Door On A Third-Party Presidential Run Ahead Of Super Tuesday

Jesse “The Body” Ventura announced yesterday that if Bernie Sanders fails to secure the Democratic nomination for president, he will mount a third-party campaign to run against Hillary Clinton and likely GOP nominee Donald Trump. “They’re setting the groundwork for me because if Bernie loses, by the time we get to June, how sick are […]

8y ago

iran|Isis|Saudi Arabia|syria|turkey

Saudi Arabia Proposal To Fight ISIS In Syria Rebuffed By Iran And Assad

Saudi Arabia has offered to deploy thousands of special forces in Syria to combat ISIS, according to The Guardian. The kingdom has faced international criticism, including from leading U.S. politicians, for supporting terror financially and ideologically. A decision to land ground troops in Syria would be intended to counter the narrative that Saudi Arabia has […]

9y ago

Martin Shkreli

Martin Shkreli’s New Attorney Gave Him Some Good Legal Advice: Stop Talking

Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, was in a federal court Wednesday and is set to appear before a congressional hearing today. Perhaps owing to Shkreli’s flippant, enemy-making tongue, his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, has encouraged his client to heed some sage advice during the legal proceedings: quit talking. According to the New York […]

9y ago

Crime|italy

Mafia Honchos Arrested At Bunker In Italy

Two mafia bosses who had been fugitives from the law for years were captured by Italian police on Friday. They were discovered holed up in an underground bunker in the southern region of Calabria. According to Reuters, the bunker was dug deep into the ground and camouflaged by vines and shrubbery. Italian police donned flak […]

9y ago

oregon

Ammon Bundy To Five Remaining Oregon Occupiers: ‘Please Stand Down’

“Go home and hug your families,” was the message Ammon Bundy had for the five people continuing to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. After a spate of arrests and one fatality Tuesday and Wednesday, Bundy — along with most of the rest of the occupiers – are in federal custody. Despite the instructions from […]

9y ago

Flint

Kwame Kilpatrick, Convicted Former Detroit Mayor, Blasts Gov. Snyder Over Flint Crisis In Letter From Prison

Kwame Kilpatrick, who was once the mayor of Detroit, has joined a growing list of politicians, media personalities, and celebrities calling out Michigan Governor Rick Snyder over Flint’s poisoned water crisis. Unlike most of Snyder’s other critics, however, Kilpatrick’s criticism came in the form of a letter written from prison, where Kilpatrick is serving a […]

9y ago

guantanamo bay|human rights

Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Released, But One Willingly Stays Behind

Two Guantánamo Bay detainees were released on Wednesday, destined for new homes in the Balkans. A third man was also slated to leave the controversial prison for suspected terrorists, operated by the United States at a naval base in Guantánamo Province, Cuba, since 2002, but he chose to remain rather than be relocated to a […]

9y ago

FBI|Isis|San Francisco|terrorism

Super Bowl 50 Terror Threats: Federal Authorities Keeping Close Eye On Feb. 7 Event

Security at Super Bowl 50 is being looked at closely by law enforcement as agencies share information on potential attacks, according to The Daily Mail. Following a series of attacks on fiber optic cables in the San Francisco area, authorities at the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the potential for terror […]

9y ago

Ted Cruz

Cruz’s Populist Image Compromised By Million-Dollar Campaign Loan From Wife’s Employer, Goldman Sachs

Ted Cruz, a frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination and a Tea Party darling, is under fire for allegedly failing to disclose a bank loan made out to him for his 2012 Senate campaign. According to the New York Times, Cruz claimed to have liquidated his assets in order to fund the campaign, but actually […]

9y ago

Donald Trump|glenn beck|Ted Cruz

Glenn Beck Questions Donald Trump’s Conservative Bonafides, Trump Calls Him ‘Dopey’

Former FOX News host and conservative personality Glenn Beck made a conservative case against Donald Trump during an appearance Friday night on The O’Reilly Factor. In the interview, Beck accused Trump of voting for Barack Obama in 2008, a claim which appears to be based on a fake tweet from the website faketrumptweet.com, according to […]

9y ago

middle east|syria

‘An Open-Air Prison’: UN Aid Reaches Starving, Freezing, Besieged Syrian Towns

Convoys of aid trucks arrived in three Syrian towns Monday, delivering much-needed food, medicine, and clothing to regions that are besieged by competing forces in the Syrian Civil War. The towns of Madaya, Fuaa, and Kefraya all received relief from groups backed by the UN, including the Red Cross and the Syrian Red Crescent. The […]

9y ago

Gun Control|syria|Ted Cruz

Obama’s Final State Of The Union To Feature Syrian Refugee And Empty Chair For Gun Victims

Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST, President Obama will deliver the eighth and final State of the Union address of his presidency. It will air on all major networks, as well as being streamed through whitehouse.gov and other sources. The State of the Union address will include an empty chair next to First Lady Michelle Obama, […]

9y ago

bernie sanders|Donald Trump

Sanders Agrees With Trump: Running Against Him In The General Election Would Be A Dream Come True

Donald Trump made a campaign stop in Bernie Sanders’s home state of Vermont Thursday and told the crowd that running against Sanders in the general election would be a “dream come true.” Sanders quickly agreed that such a match-up would be a dream come true — for him. Trump made the statement at a rally […]

9y ago

bernie sanders|hillary clinton

Hillary Clinton And Bernie Sanders Beat Fundraising Goals For 2015, But Much Of Clinton’s Money Remains Dark

While the Republican presidential candidates continue to dominate cable news coverage, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both posted big fundraising totals for the final quarter of 2015. Clinton raised $37 million over the last three months to Sanders’s $33 million, bringing her 2015 total to $112 million and Sanders’s to $73 million, according to […]

9y ago

bureau of land management|oregon

Bundy Clan Protesting Federal Government Receives Huge Government Assistance

Ammon Bundy, the son of notorious Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and leader of the ongoing Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation near Burns, Oregon, has had enough of being pushed around by the feds. But as Mother Jones reported Monday, in 2010 Bundy had no qualms taking a $530,000 loan from that very same tyrannical government. […]

9y ago

Isis|syria

Seymour Hersh Drops New Bombshell: White House Knowingly Armed ISIS In Syria

Seymour Hersh, a veteran investigative journalist and contributor to the New Yorker, has published a shocking new report in the London Review of Books. In the piece, Hersh argues that some Pentagon leaders on the Joint Chiefs of Staff undermined President Obama in Syria, where the official administration stance has been that Syrian President Bashar […]

9y ago

belgium|brussels|terrorism

Orgy In Brussels: Police And Soldiers Allegedly Hold Sex Party With City On Terror Lockdown

Police and soldiers in Brussels allegedly engaged in a 10-person orgy while the Belgian capital was under lockdown following the November 13 terrorist attack in Paris. According to the BBC, the orgy involved eight soldiers and two policewomen. While their colleagues hunted for terrorists in Brussels, police claim, the orgy went on at a police […]

9y ago

Isis|super bowl|terrorism

Domestic ISIS Supporter Accused Of Seeking To Bomb Super Bowl XLIX

Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an ISIS supporter born and raised in Philadelphia, has been indicted on charges of plotting to bomb last season’s Super Bowl in Phoenix, according to the Daily Mail. Kareem allegedly planned to make and use explosives like pipe bombs to kill as many of Super Bowl XLIX’s 70,000 attendees as possible […]

9y ago

nasa

NASA And Department Of Energy Produce Ideal Plutonium Isotope For Powering Future Missions

Plutonium-238, a particularly useful plutonium isotope that has been used to power, among other things, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, is being produced in America for the first time since 1988, according to Popular Science. NASA plans to use plutonium-238 to power future space missions, including their planned 2020 rover mission to Mars. NASA will use […]

9y ago

Isis|oil|Saudi Arabia|terrorism

Pressure Grows For Saudi Arabia To Fight ISIS Even As It Commits Terror Of Its Own

Last week, Saudi Arabia announced plans to form a 34-member anti-terrorism bloc composed of Muslim nations, including Egypt, Afghanistan, and Syria, to combat extremists such as the Islamic State. But Saudi Arabia’s own terror-spreading activities, its exclusion of Shia states from the coalition, and its unlawful military actions in Yemen are compromising the integrity of […]

9y ago