Weekly News-April 19-2024

Here are our top 5 stories of the week.

#1 – Iran Threatens Larger Attack if Israel Doesn’t Cease Aggression

By Ethan Huff | Natural News

If Israel proceeds with another attack on Iran, Tehran is promising to launch an even greater retaliation than the one that occurred over the weekend, new reports indicate.

“Our response will be much larger than tonight’s military action if Israel retaliates against Iran,” stated Iranian armed forces chief of staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri to state television.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to achieve victory in his endeavors against Israel’s neighbors, Iran is warning the United States that American military bases will be targeted if Washington backs any Israeli retaliation against Iran. Read full article >

#2 – US House Passes Bill Renewing Warrantless Surveillance Under FISA Section 702 Amid Privacy Concerns

By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net

Ignoring rising privacy concerns, the US House of Representatives gave the green light on Friday to a bill renewing the warrantless surveillance program under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Section 702, for the next two years. However, the vote witnessed the piecing together of conservative resistance that had stalled a prior chance at its approval. A shorter renewal period, as opposed to an initially proposed five-year term, was agreed upon in an attempt to win over Republican dissenters, culminating in a 273-147 vote in favor of the bill. Read full article >

#3 – This Is The Uniparty ‘Reveal’: Speaker Johnson To Pass $95.3 Billion Foreign Aid Package Using Democrats

By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is scrambling – both to keep his job, and to pass several bills to devote billions in US taxpayer funds to foreign entanglements that Johnson’s conservative base has little-to-no appetite for. The bills would provide around $60.8 billion for Ukraine, $26.4 billion for Israel, and $8.1 billion for Ukraine. Meanwhile, following Republican outcry – Johnson included a fifth bill which would revive the Secure Border Act – so US border security is essentially an afterthought. Read full article >

#4 – WHO Official Admits Vaccine Passports May Have Been a Scam

By Patricia Harrity | The Daily Exposé

Testifying in a lawsuit, WHO’s leading vaccine expert said she advised against COVID vaccine passports as the vaccines did not stop transmission and gave a false sense of security. The World Health Organization’s Dr. Hanna Nohynek testified in court that she advised her government that vaccine passports were not needed but was ignored, despite explaining that the COVID vaccines did not stop virus transmission and the passports gave a false sense of security (source– Paul D. Thacker)

By Investigative reporter Paul D. Thacker and published in the Disinformation Chronicle. Read full article >

#5 – Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

By Didi Rankovich | Reclaim The Net

Bank of America is facing serious accusations of involvement in discrimination based on politics, religion, and ideology (i.e., speech expressing this), with the targets of “debanking” allegedly being some Christian churches as well as supporters of Donald Trump.

These suspicions are expressed by over a dozen attorney-generals from Republican states who are behind a letter sent to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, looking for answers – and documents – related to the accusations.

The initiative follows revelations that Bank of America was turning over financial data belonging to clients to the FBI and the Treasury, as they investigated January 6 suspects. Read full article >

Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.

#1 – First Southwest, Now American: U.S. Airlines Seeing Massive SPIKE in Safety Problems as Planes Fall Apart in the Skies

By Ethan Huff | Natural News

Safety issues are on the rise at airlines in the United States, which are increasingly seeing their airplanes fall apart in the skies without warning or apparent cause.

Many of the reported problems started with Southwest Airlines and United Airlines but have since expanded to include American Airlines, a pilot group from which says it is seeing a “significant spike” in both safety- and maintenance-related problems at the carrier.

The Allied Pilots Association (APA) reported “problematic trends” in an April 13 memo to the airline, including instances of hammers and other tools being left in airplane wheel wells, as well as an increasing number of collisions between aircraft while they are being towed across the runways. Read full article >

#2 – The Left’s Plan to Sabotage Talk Radio and Local News

By Gateway Pundit

For its nearly universal control over the news-industrial complex, the left has failed to penetrate the one and only media format dominated by conservatives: talk radio.

Despite repeated liberal incursions into the medium, from Mario Cuomo to Tom Daschle to Air America, the left cannot make a showing. Now, it has launched a series of deceptive websites and bought up talk radio outlets — apparently in hopes that, where persuasion failed, cold hard cash may prevail.

Enter George Soros — and his bank account. Read full article >

#3 – Bill Maher ‘Respects’ Absolutist Position, Says Abortion is Murder and He’s ‘OK’ With That’

By Jon Brown | Christian Post

HBO host Bill Maher prompted silence from his audience on Friday’s episode of “Real Time” when he acknowledged that abortion is murder while suggesting he’s “OK” with it because there are enough people on the planet.

Speaking during a panel discussion with British journalists Piers Morgan and Gillian Tett, Maher conceded the consistency of the “absolutist” argument that abortion is always wrong, and that attempts to draw the line at various stages of gestation make little sense. Read full article >

#4 – Knife Attack During Livestreamed Worship Service in Australian Deemed Terrorist Act

By Persecution.org

Australian authorities have determined a knife attack that took place during the evening of Monday, April 15, at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Sydney was an act of terrorism.  

Since the incident occurred during a live-streamed worship service, footage of the stabbing that injured Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, Father Isaac Royel, and two worshippers quickly went viral on social media. Police arrested a 16-year-old boy who later indicated he had a religious motive for the attack at the Assyrian Orthodox Church. Read full article >

#5 – Naked Man Claiming to be Trans at Planet Fitness Arrested for Indecent Exposure

By Samantha Kamman | Christian Post

A man who claimed to identify as a woman was arrested for indecent exposure to a minor after he walked around naked in the women’s locker room at a Planet Fitness location and asked a woman to rub lotion on him and take a shower together.

Christopher Allan Miller, 38, was reported to police as harassing women at the Gastonia Planet Fitness in North Carolina prior to entering the locker room.

A woman who called 911 told the dispatcher that the man who entered the locker room was “completely naked.” Miller allegedly asked a woman to shower with him and rub lotion on his body, WSOC-TV reported. Read full article >