The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), along with similarly heavy-handed regimes such as California’s Consumer Privacy Act, entrenches established platforms that have the resources to meet their onerous compliance requirements. Since the GDPR’s implementation in May, the rank and market share of small- and medium-sized ad tech companies has declined by 18 to 32 percent in the EU, while […]

Deutsche Bank and Commerce Bank have announced that they will begin merger talks after the government has finally approved that they can lay off workers. For those unfamiliar with the real world behind the curtain, you must realize the extent of socialism in Europe. A major telecom company in Germany called me and asked me to attend an emergency board […]

Written by  C. Mitchell Shaw As details of Friday afternoon’s shootings in New Zealand have begun to emerge, the mainstream liberal media are tying the shootings to President Donald Trump and his supporters. But their allegations are disconnected from reality. Early Friday afternoon local time, a lone gunman, identified as Brenton Tarrant, targeted two mosques in the New Zealand city of […]

The U.S. military is putting together plans to keep 1,000 American service members in Syria, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing U.S. officials. The preparations mark a shift from President Trump’s announcement three months ago that he had ordered a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from the war-torn country. The U.S. has been trying to negotiate a safe zone […]

Preliminary data from the flight recorders of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 plane that crashed a week ago, killing 157 people, show “clear similarities” to the deadly crash of a Lion Air 737 Max 8 in October, Ethiopia’s transport minister, Dagmawit Moges, said Sunday. Moges did not discuss the similarities. Both planes were new, and crashed shortly after […]

The CIA is the main suspect in the military style raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid. It now launched a somewhat hapless effort to deflect from it. The Spanish report in which Spanish government sources accuse the CIA said: At least two of the 10 assailants who broke into the embassy and interrogated diplomatic staff have been identified and have connections […]

Written by  William F. Jasper A series of confusing votes and a chaotic welter of parliamentary maneuvers over the past several days have left a muddled picture concerning where Britain now stands on Brexit. After voting to reject Prime Minister Theresa May’s treaty deal with the European Union, which was widely viewed as a sellout of Brexit, Parliament then turned around and voted […]

By  Julio Severo  |  Barbwire To defeat a homosexual curriculum in a public school in the West is virtually impossible today, especially if you are a Christian parent concerned about the moral, spiritual and psychological well-being of your children. Try as hard as you can, any kind of civilized protest by you will face accusations such as “anti-gay,” “homophobic,” “intolerant,” […]

Independent Journalist Eva Bartlett (Canadian) sets mainstream media journalist Kristoffer Rønneberg (Norwegian) straight about what’s really going on in Syria and why the mainstream media are generally lying.  

President Trump on Wednesday announced that the U.S. was grounding Boeing 737 Max jets like the ones that crashed Sunday in Ethiopia and in the Java Sea five months earlier. Both crashes killed everybody on board.   The Federal Aviation Administration had resisted calls to bar the popular Boeing planes from flying until an investigation was completed, saying it had […]

U.S. Customs and Immigration Services reportedly told its staff Tuesday that it would shut down all 21 of its foreign offices by the end of this year. The move could delay processing of paperwork the offices handle, including family visa applications, foreign adoptions by U.S. citizens, and citizenship petitions from members of the military. The offices also investigate visa fraud. […]

Britain’s Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for the U.K.’s exit from the European Union in the latest in a series of embarrassing defeats for the British leader. Lawmakers voted 391-242 against the deal despite last-minute concessions May got from the EU to guarantee that the U.K. wouldn’t be indefinitely bound by EU regulations under provisions […]

The U.S. will withdraw its remaining diplomatic staff from Venezuela, the State Department announced late Monday. The U.S. brought home dependents and reduced embassy staff in January. The State Department said the latest decision “reflects the deteriorating situation in Venezuela,” and concern that keeping diplomatic staff in the country constrained U.S. policy. The crisis in Venezuela deepened on Monday when […]

Witnesses said Monday that the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed a day earlier, killing 157 people, made a loud rattling sound and emitted smoke as it tried to climb, then banked and crashed into a farmer’s field minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa. “It was a loud rattling sound. Like straining and shaking metal,” said Turn Buzuna, a 26-year-old […]

by Peter Heck  |  The Resurgent For those who have thought that it will take an outrage of global proportions to restore sanity to this spectacle of “feelings-over-science” that is transgenderism, I can’t help but think we are on the cusp of that very moment. Last week I wrote about how it was beginning to dawn on an increasing number of gay […]

North Korea has started rebuilding a key rocket site it partially dismantled last year after Kim Jong Un’s first summit with President Trump in Singapore, analysts said in reports published Tuesday. The North Korean leader offered to destroy the facility, the Sohei Satellite Launching Station, when he met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in September. But satellite photos reportedly […]

The Trump administration’s asylum policy is prompting more migrants to try their luck at crossing illegally rather than seeking out legal ports of entry, Customs and Border Protection data suggest. The proportion of foreign nationals attempting to cross the border illegally rather than reporting to legal ports of entry has risen in the past year, according to the data. Those crossing illegally […]

Pakistan on Friday moved an Indian pilot captured from a warplane shot down in the disputed Kashmir region to a border crossing, where he was to be handed over to India. Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has said his country was returning the pilot, identified as Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, as a peace gesture following clashes that have escalated tensions […]

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday announced his intention to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery, fraud, and breach of trust charges. The decision came after a two-year investigation into whether Netanyahu and wealthy business leaders traded official favors for valuable gifts. Netanyahu, who will be the country’s first sitting prime minister to be indicted if the case […]

The U.S. and North Korea on Thursday gave conflicting accounts on why President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cut short their denuclearization summit without a deal. Trump said the talks collapsed because Kim demanded that the U.S. lift all economic sanctions without a commitment from Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear arsenal. North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Yong […]