Catalonia is gearing up for an independence referendum on Sunday despite attempts to hinder the process by the government in Madrid, which considers it illegal. Police trying to seal polling stations have faced resistance from occupiers keen to vote. Catalans have staged numerous protests and occupied polling stations to secure their right to vote. Over six thousand ballot boxes will be used, and... 

On the threshold of the independence referendum in Catalonia, as tensions around the upcoming event are mounting Spanish authorities continue to take measures to prevent the vote. Spain’s Civil Guard on Thursday seized 100 ballot boxes and 2.5 million ballots prepared for the Catalan independence referendum, which the Spanish government does not recognize. The boxes and the ballots were found... 

European MPs agreed that lobbyists representing controversial US-based agricultural giant Monsanto should be barred from the European Parliament after the company refused to attend a hearing on allegations that it influenced studies on the safety of its products. The measure includes meeting MEPs, attending parliamentary committee meetings and using the parliament’s digital resources in Brussels... 

White House aides are blocking President Trump from knowing he can pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in exchange for information on the DNC leaks according to Congressman Rohrabacher. President Trump told reporters on Sunday that he “never heard” of any potential deal with Julian Assange. After helping Trump win the elections with his leaks this is what he gets from HIS administration. Nice… California... 

Google has gone mad. Many simple queries no longer make sense. A simple query of “White Couples” on Google results in pictures of predominantly mixed couples – couples where one of the two individuals is black. Not what you think of when you think of white couples but these are new times. Another query of “American Inventors” on Google results in a list of predominantly black American inventors.... 

Nine ultra-Orthodox Jews have been arrested following violent clashes with security forces in Jerusalem during protests against conscription into the armed forces. Last week, the Israeli Supreme Court annulled a law which exempted ultra-Orthodox believers from the draft. On Tuesday, Israel’s Supreme Court nullified the law that exempted ultra-Orthodox Jews from being conscripted into the armed forces,... 

On any given day, there are at least 40 million nonwhite slaves around the world—the vast majority enslaved by other nonwhites, a new report by the United Nations’s International Labor Organization (ILO), and the Walk Free Foundation, an international NGO working to end modern slavery, has found. The largest number of offenders and victims are concentrated in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific—and... 

Sexual assaults have been marring Sweden’s summer festivals for several years in a row, and the country has decided to weed out this problem with determined efforts. The concept of a “man-free” festival, aptly named Statement, proposed by a Swedish comedian is taking shape with the help of a crowd-funding campaign. In the wake of a massive influx of mostly-Islamic newcomers, Sweden,... 

Gab, an ad-free social network centered around free speech & personal liberty has been under fire from the corporatized mainstream media lately, after the startup announced a lawsuit against Google. Gab received an email from their domain registrar late Sunday night about a “domain violation” regarding the violation of Australian federal and state anti-discrimination laws. It is unclear what... 

Israel’s Supreme Court has annulled a law which exempted ultra-Orthodox Jews from being conscripted into the army, drawing furious responses from community leaders and some politicians. The decision to repeal the law was made Tuesday. Eight of the nine-judge panel ruled that parts of the conscription law were “unreasonable and unconstitutional.” The measure will take effect within a year. Members... 

Today, a 15-year-old asylum seeker suspected of a murder at Friskis & Svettis in Ängelholm this weekend should have been arrested. But there will be no detention because no interpreter can be found, reports Sydsvenskan. – Two district court employees have spent the entire day seeking for an interpreter, but we have simply not managed to find an interpreter, said Martin Persson, counselor at... 

British Red Cross chief Mike Adamson has claimed the charity struggled to deal with the Grenfell disaster because staff and volunteers are too white. “There is a risk that in a very diverse community like Grenfell, an organisation with the words ‘British’ and ‘Cross’ in its title is confused with a Christian establishment organisation,” he wrote, in a blog for the New Philanthropy Capital... 

GOP members are NOT happy with the Department of Justice after notifying Congress on Friday that it will not charge IRS Lois Lerner over her alleged involvement in targeting Conservative groups. Washington Examiner reports: “[T]he Department determined that reopening the criminal investigation would not be appropriate based on the available evidence,” Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote... 

Former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano sued the Trump administration to keep the current DACA program in place. At least 2.1 million illegal alien children in the US are potentially eligible for DACA—with 1.2 million having immediately met the age, education, length of residence, and other criteria when the initiative launched in 2012. That’s a lot of potential Democrat voters. The Democrat party... 

Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world’s largest search engine is a left-leaning company with an ax to grind. Let’s face it, deep down in our heart of hearts we knew the honeymoon wouldn’t last forever. Our willingness to place eternal...