While some social media users wished Ivanka happy holidays, others went on to slam and mock both her and her presidential father. The beginning of this year’s Hanukkah celebrations did not seem to start all that well for US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka who got her fair share of bashing online following what appeared to be some fairly innocuous well-wishing. “Happy Hanukkah! May your... 

An outbreak of the highly contagious whooping cough has forced one school in Houston, Texas, to close its doors early for the Christmas break: St. Theresa Catholic School in Memorial Park will be closed until Jan. 6 due to the outbreak, which has affected students and staff alike. Some children have been hospitalized as a result, the Houston Chronicle reports. The first case was confirmed on Dec.... 

Russia aims to ready its own web to both survive a global internet shutdown and defend against foreign cyber-attacks and intrusion on its data infrastructure On Monday a key initiative undertaken by the Russian government for over the past year to establish a ‘sovereign internet’ will face a major test. That’s when the country and its information systems will be intentionally disconnected from... 

The European Parliament has finally taken a largely symbolic stand against rising state-backed ‘homophobia’ in Poland, where more than 80 towns have now declared themselves “LGBTQ-free zones” amid a heated culture war over so-called ‘gay rights’: MEPs voted by 463 votes to 107 Wednesday in favor of a resolution condemning discrimination against LGBTQ people in Poland, and explicitly calling... 

A gay ‘Christian church’ has helped prosecutors jail a 30 year old man named Adolfo Martinez to 16 years for stealing a gay flag from the heretical “Ames United Church of Christ” and setting it on fire and the story of this gross miscarriage of justice is barely to be found on mainstream media. Martinez admitted to burning the flag and was found guilty last month. He was sentenced... 

Six Nigerian migrants have been convicted of gang raping a 25-year-old woman at the CARA asylum center in the southern Italian city of Bari in 2017. Olatunde Opaleye, 38 Uche Oliver, 22, Henry Sule, 26, Semiu Oguntade, 22, Emmanuel Ohenhen, 23, and Otaniyen Sunday, 35, were all handed prison terms ranging from five to nine years by an Italian court earlier this month, ANSA news reports. Bari police... 

In the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, Tel Aviv organised several large-scale operations to get over 23,000 Jews out of Ethiopia, a country plagued by hunger, civil unrest, and Cold War conflict. However, in mid-1986, one of those secret missions ended in disaster. For over three decades, details on ‘Operation Djibouti’, a Mossad extraction mission so secret that not even the Israeli foreign... 

Two Netflix comedy specials feature Jesus Christ as a presumably gay man and a drunken partier, and Catholic and Christian communities are not happy with the satirical treatments — and they have good reason not to be. Two million people have called for the removal of Netflix’s ‘The First Temptation of Christ’, a 46-minute special from the YouTube comedy group Porta Dos Fundos. The special... 

Millions of Americans are walking around with phones that have, unknowingly, created one of the most disturbing and unintentional “surveillance states” to ever exist. A explosive new opinion piece in the NY Times aims to demonstrate that detailed smartphone tracking is far more ubiquitous than many think, despite the ongoing claims by companies that people’s data is “anonymous”. Paul Ohm,... 

The left-leaning Polish Supreme Court has warned that the country could have to leave the European Union over its judicial reform proposals. The new proposals that have been put forth by Poland’s ruling national-conservative Law & Justice Party are said to tighten the disciplinary responsibility of judges while changing the rules for choosing the first president of the Supreme Court, Do Rzeczy... 

China might soon shift the world naval balance and unseat the US as the modern master of the seas. The process appears to already be under way, and there is little that Washington can do about stopping it. Visibly shaken by what it has seen on a photo showing just one of China’s military shipyards near Shanghai, the business magazine Forbes recently told its readers an alarming story about the... 

The 2017 ban on public ‘cat calling’ of women in Rotterdam, which was enacted because Muslim and African migrants that had flooded the city were constantly harassing Dutch women on the streets, has now been struck down by a court in The Hague on the grounds that the ban violates the migrants’ right to ‘freedom of expression’: It is not up to municipalities to restrict this freedom, only... 

Not only do the defectors regard these phenomenons as having been “rammed down workers’ throats” by the establishment, but they also want to discard the name “Communist” as “drawn down to the dirt”. Now this is what we’re talking about! This is real communism! Many in the alt-right movement down-talk all this modern mass schizophrenia as “communism”, they say antifas,... 

A 12-year-old child believed to have been born in the “wrong body” is set to receive hormone blockers from a National Health Service (NHS) clinic. Ashley Lamin, a Kent resident who claims to be a girl born in a boy’s body, is one of the youngest UK citizens to begin the sex change process, the Metro UK reports. Ashley – whose name has been changed legally by a deed poll – says that she eventually... 

Finding the Ark of the Covenant – described in Biblical lore as a gold-covered wooden chest containing the two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments handed from God to Moses – has long inspired treasure hunters and historians alike. It is believed to have disappeared around 587 BC when Jerusalem was destroyed by invading Babylonians. Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University claim to...