Link: https://www.activistpost.com/2017/11/judge-rules-seattles-income-tax-on-wealthy-is-illegal.html

A Seattle King County Superior Court ruled that a controversial piece of legislation meant to tax wealthy households is illegal, Seattle Times reported. In a judgment, Judge John R. Ruhl said the city ordinance adopted in July is not authorized under state law. Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes and Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess said in a joint statement that their goal is to eliminate the state’s “over-reliance on regressive sales taxes” and ensure the wealthy pay their fair share and the ruling was “disappointing,” but they would continue their efforts and appeal the decision.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/410970-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-breaks-9000-barrier/

The world's most valuable digital currency has smashed another all-time high. Bitcoin has surpassed the $9,000 level on Sunday on growing signs of mainstream adoption. The price of bitcoin has jumped nearly nine times in value this year amid increased interest from institutional investors.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/411007-police-spying-imsi-stingray/

Dozens of police departments across the US are using special devices to track suspects without warrants. However, the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers also capture data from regular people on the street.

The technology, which was developed for the military, mimics cell phone towers and tricks phones into routing signals through them. This allows police to a track suspect's location. The machines even allow police to get the location of a phone without the user making a call or sending a text.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/410956-fbi-black-friday-record-gun-checks/

Bargain hunting weapons enthusiasts were out in force on Black Friday with the FBI receiving over 200,000 requests for background checks in a single day.

That figure smashes the previous two years, both also record showings for checks in a single day, as trigger-happy Americans flocked to pick up their bargain basement weapon of choice.

Link: http://www.france24.com/en/20140207-french-inmate-freed-after-fax-runs-out-ink

A suspect in the 2011 lynching of a young DJ in a Paris suburb has been released because a fax machine ran out of ink, prosecutors confirmed on Thursday.

The man was reportedly freed because staff at a Paris court of appeal were unable to read a fax containing his appeal before the legal deadline expired.

Claudy Elisor, a 33-year-old DJ, was beaten to death in the early hours of January 1, 2011, by a group of people he had refused to let into his New Year’s Eve party.

His widow, Fabienne Elisor, said on Thursday she was outraged by the blunder.

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/las-vegas-pot-dispensaries-offer-black-friday-deals-51350354

Big-box stores won't be the only ones offering discounts to shoppers in Las Vegas this Black Friday. Marijuana dispensaries are rolling out deals, too.

More than 40 dispensaries in the Sin City area will offer discounts on marijuana flower products, edibles such as chocolates, and concentrates, the Las Vegas Sun reported Wednesday. This will be the first Black Friday since legal sales of recreation marijuana began in Nevada.

"It's a great stocking-stuffer, you can treat it like alcohol in that regard," said state Sen. Tick Segerblom, who helped legalize recreational pot in the state. "As long as no kids can get to it. It's for adults only."

Some dispensaries will offer an eighth of an ounce of select flower products for $35, down from $53. One dispensary will gift shoppers a 10-pack of fruit chew edibles with any purchase, while another one will have a buy-one-get-one-free special on edibles.

Legal sales of recreational marijuana began in the state July 1. Those 21 and older with a valid ID can buy up to an ounce of pot. People can only use the drug in a private home as it remains illegal to consume it in public

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/14/adventurer-declares-himself-king-unclaimed-land-in-north-africa.html

An Indian adventurer dodged terrorists in the barren desert to stake ownership to a strip of land between Sudan and Egypt that neither country has claimed.

Syash Dixit, a computer coder from Indore, India, undertook a perilous six-hour drive and declared himself king of the Kingdom of Dixit in Bir Tawil, an 800-square mile tract that Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings said in a 2011 article was there for the taking if anyone was up to the challenge. The land is believed to be the largest area unclaimed by any recognized nation. Bir Tawil's existence is the result of a border drawn up by the British at the end of the 19th century.

“The route that I took is under Egyptian military (it is an international border) and is an area of terrorists so military have 'shoot at sight' orders,” Dixit said on Facebook, Dixit has also created a website, encouraging others to apply for citizenship.

Link: http://tass.com/science/976276

Pharmacologists from southern Russia are launching clinical tests for a new painkiller that outperforms morphine in effectiveness but does not cause addiction. Department head of the Volgograd State Medical University, and RAS Member Alexander Spasov told TASS about this innovative medical breakthrough on Friday in Pyatigorsk.Together with our colleagues from the South Federal University, we created a drug which still has no specific name but is only referred to as RU-1205. Based on its effect, it outperforms such well-known painkillers as morphine and promedol and does not cause addictive side effects.

Link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-21/psychology-desperate-people-15-dead-40-injured-food-stampede-morocco

Food was being distributed in a rural market in Sidi Boulaalam, a poor village. Women had come to the market with baskets to get food for their families, when suddenly, what could only be described as a stampede erupted.

At least 15 women died and five were wounded in a stampede during a food distribution operation on Sunday morning in rural Morocco, government officials said.

The victims were crushed as hundreds of people, mostly women, gathered to collect baskets of food at the market…

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/410588-boeings-sold-taobao-online/

Online shopping in China is reaching a new level after two Boeing 747 planes were sold on Alibaba’s e-commerce platform Taobao. This is the first time airliners have been purchased via an online auction.

The jets were bought by Chinese cargo airline SF Airlines for more than 320 million yuan ($48 million) from the Intermediate People’s Court in the city of Shenzhen, southeastern China, Alibaba-owned South China Morning Post reported. The court seized the Boeings after Jade Cargo International went bankrupt in 2013.

Link: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/20/french-postal-service-refuses-deliver-troubled-migrant-suburbs/

French courier Chronopost announced it will not deliver any packages to the heavily migrant-populated Seine-Saint-Denis suburb on the outskirts of Paris because the area is too dangerous. Residents of the Paris suburb will have to travel to pick up locations to get their packages. They said that the danger to their delivery drivers was simply too high in the area which has been described as a no-go zone. Last year, 51 of its delivery drivers were attacked while doing their rounds.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201711231059382105-us-military-rise-in-middleeast/

Since the beginning of July, the 40,517 troops and US Department of Defense (DoD) civilian population prosecuting war and other security missions in the Middle East has grown to 54,180, a rise of 33 percent, according to DoD personnel and workforce report data.

Link: http://tass.com/defense/977153

Demand for Russian military products shows no signs of declining, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his opening remarks at a meeting with senior Defense Ministry officials and arms manufactures on Thursday. "In 2017, Russian armaments were supplied to 59 countries," Putin said. "It is very important the books of orders for military products of Russian manufacture show no signs of dwindling."Continued improvements introduced to the military hardware on offer enabled Russia to retain the leading positions among world exporters of military products and stepping up military-technical cooperation with foreign partners.

Link: http://www.pravdareport.com/news/science/tech/13-11-2017/139162-sukhoi_artificial_intelligence-0/

The state-of-the-art Su-35 combat aircraft has been equipped with an "intelligent" unit, which is responsible for independently selecting primary targets for their destruction by a certain type of aircraft weapon systems; is outfitted with an artificial intelligence unit that may simultaneously capture and analyse six targets at once.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/50_Employees_Fired_After_Refusing_Flu_Shot/61763/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Since September, Essentia Health has told employees, volunteers, students and vendors that they have three options: get the flu shot, get an approved religious or medical exemption, or leave Essentia.
99.5 percent of employees have chosen the first two options. 50 have been terminated, with more left waiting to hear back on their exemptions.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/2017/11/mexico-raise-minimum-wage-4-70-day/

Nearly 25 million Mexicans are getting a pay raise next week. From $4.25 to $4.70 — a day. Mexican government and business leaders agreed on Tuesday to raise the country’s minimum wage starting on December 1 to 88.36 pesos from 80.04 pesos. The 10% raise is good news for 24.7 million Mexicans who work minimum wage jobs.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/2017/11/americans-eat-turkey-mainstream-media-quietly-admits-us-govt-planned-false-flags-start-ww3/

Newsweek reported on the recently declassified files associated with John f. Kennedy that prove the US planned to stage attacks on America using a Soviet aircraft to kick off a conflict with the USSR that arguably would’ve led to the beginning of World War III. CIA considered buying Soviet aircraft to stage the attacks, even getting estimates from the Air Force on how long it would take and how much it would cost to produce the planes domestically and covertly. The document also outlined the possibility of purchasing such aircraft from non-Soviet Bloc countries that had received planes from the USSR, or from pilots that had defected.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/410762-saudi-precision-weapons-raytheon-boeing/

As part of the mammoth $110-billion deal brokered by Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia is purchasing precision arms worth $7 billion from US manufacturers Raytheon and Boeing, a media report says. This is in spite of concerns over the toll on Yemen’s civilians.

Raytheon and Boeing are the two defense contractors selected to produce precision-guided munitions for the Saudi Arabian military, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The deal is part of the giant $110-billion weapons agreement inked by Trump and the Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz in May.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/410772-america-syria-occupation-russia/

Russia has criticized Washington’s disregard for international law following a report that US troops will remain in Syria after the defeat of ISIS in order to prop up local Kurdish forces and put pressure on Damascus.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that there were no legal grounds for the US to have a military presence in Syria. “They are there not only without permission from Damascus, but also in direct violation of the wishes of the Syrian government. In fact, what they are doing could be described as occupation,” the official added.

Link: http://naturalsociety.com/plastic-straws-utensils-banned-seattle-restaurants-july-2018-1009/

The city of Seattle, Washington, has already banned single-use plastic bags in an effort to reduce plastic pollution, and on July 1, 2018, a new ban on plastic straws and utensils at restaurants will go into effect.

The city is instead making a push to allow only compostable or paper utensils and straws