Thursday, September 13, 2018

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Labour antisemitism row was created by Israel to distract from 'atrocities', trade union boss suggests

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 minutes ago
From The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ comes this: 'The leader of one of Britain's main trade unions has suggested that Israel created the antisemitism row that has engulfed Labour over the summer. Mark Serwotka, who leads the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and is a staunch supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, told a fringe event at the Trades Union Congress conference that the Jewish state could have "created a story that does not exist" in order to distract attention from "atrocities" he said it has committed.' They walk amongst us. Don't expect a... more »

September 14th – 2018 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day #603

sundance at The Last Refuge - 3 minutes ago
In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and … Continue reading →

Friday September 14th – Open Thread

sundance at The Last Refuge - 3 minutes ago
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those … Continue reading →

US-backed forces break into ISIL’s last Euphrates stronghold – map

Leith Aboufadel at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 5 minutes ago
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 A.M.) – The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) scored a major advance in the Deir Ezzor Governorate this week after restarting their operations in the Euphrates River Valley. “On September 10th, the SDF began to advance from 4 different fronts towards the areas controlled by the ISIS terrorist organization such an as […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source

Saudi-led coalition taking steps to reduce harm to civilians – State Dept.

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 5 minutes ago
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:30 A.M.) – Spokesperson for the United States Department of State Heather Nauert commented on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent certification to Congress that the Saudi-led coalition were implementing measures to protect civilians in Yemen, while speaking at a press briefing in Washington DC on Thursday. “The secretary, in line with 1290, […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source

Russian Iskander missile launchers flex muscles at Vostok-2018 (video)

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 5 minutes ago
BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:00 A.M.) – The 9K720 Iskander short-range ballistic missile system conducted test launches of cruise missiles at Zabaikalsky Krai’s Tsugol firing range as part of the Vostok-2018 drills on Thursday. The Iskander-M has been used by the Russian Armed Forces since 2006. The system is highly mobile and can be deployed in combat within […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source

Militants launch unprovoked attack on Aleppo city, one child kille

Leith Aboufadel at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 5 minutes ago
Terrorists have shelled the Syrian city of Aleppo with projectiles, a source in the city’s militia told Sputnik. “Several rockets exploded on the outskirts of the Nile Street. A child has died. A total of 13 people were injured,” the source said. The Russian Center for Syrian reconciliation said Thursday that multiple ceasefire violations had […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source

Picture Of The Day

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 28 minutes ago
Air Force One prepares to depart for travel to Pennsylvania with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump onboard from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, September 11, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis *WNU Editor:* Not the large jumbo jet Air Force One that we are accustomed to seeing. The above picture is from this photo-gallery .... *Photos of the week* (Reuters).

Five Moons

tonyheller at The Deplorable Climate Science Blog - 38 minutes ago

Pentagon's Nightmare Scenario For Africa - Large Parts Of Africa Controlled By ISIS, Al Qaeda, And Boko Haram

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 59 minutes ago
*Nick Turse, The Intercept*:* U.S. Military’s Worst-Case Scenario: Large Parts of Africa Seized by ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Boko Haram* What keeps U.S. Africa Command chief Gen. Thomas Waldhauser up at night? That remains unknown, but the analysts under his command are worried about terrorist organizations like the Islamic State, Al Qaeda, and Boko Haram combining forces and destabilizing large swaths of the African continent. Planning documents issued in October 2017 and classified by Waldhauser detail the worst-case scenarios imagined by the command. The forecasts, which are an updat... more »

What If Blind People Decided Not To Vote For Trump?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 59 minutes ago
*The Dark Triad by Chip Proser* Señor T alienated another group of voters: blind people. There are 7,297,100 blind people living in the U.S. Before we get into *how* Trump alienated blind people, let's look at a few states. The first number is approximately how many blind people live there. The second number is the margin of Trump's win over Hillary: *•* Arizona- 161,400 (91,234) *•* Florida 486,400 (112,911) *•* Georgia- 262,800 (203,441) *•* Michigan- 221,400 (10,704) *•* North Carolina- 269,600 (173,315) *•* Pennsylvania- 300,000 (44,492) *•* Wisconsin- 97,300 (22,748) That's 117... more »

Nuclear Catastrophe Bonds: A Losing Best for Everyone

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour ago
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that "insurers face unique threat from storm" (Paul Davies Sep 13 2018 p. B12) because Hurricane Florence is anticipated to produce huge storm surges, significant flooding and destructive winds. The WSJ article is addressing the insurance and re-insurance markets for flooding, which is increasingly financed by catastrophe bonds. Insurance companies sell these bonds to investors, who purchase catastrophe bonds hoping no catastrophe will occur because if it does, they lose their investment, which goes to the insurance or re-insurance company issui... more »

Ron Paul on Syrian Tensions: ‘US Playing Too Many Games Supporting Al-Qaeda’

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
RT Published on Sep 13, 2018 The US effort to preserve its global dominance is a costly endeavor based on threats and keeping the American people in the dark about what is going on, told RT former US congressman and libertarian politician Ron Paul. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9ea3 end

Israeli Forces Surround Palestinian Khan al-Ahmar Village

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
PressTV Published on Sep 13, 2018 A large contingent of Israeli forces has surrounded a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied territories slated for demolition by Tel Aviv. Regime troops are razing to the ground several shacks at the entrance of Khan al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem al-Quds. Activists had built these several days ago in protest […]

Iran Calls for Timely Action by EU to Keep JCPOA Alive

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
PressTV Published on Sep 13, 2018 Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency says if the nuclear deal is to survive, more should be done to ensure Tehran’s economic benefits from it. This, as the I-A-E-A has confirmed for a 12th time Iran’s full compliance with the 20-15 nuclear agreement. From Vienna, Homa Lezgee reports. […]

The Deal of the Century May Be Just Around the Corner

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
The Deal of the Century May Be Just Around the Corner by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh, https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/ It has been over a year since Trump and Al-Sisi met in the White House and announced the deal of the century, without giving any details about it other than that it would work to stabilise the region, promote […]

Astronomers Have Detected 72 New Mysterious Radio Bursts from Space

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
nemesis maturity Published on Sep 12, 2018 San Francisco – September 10, 2018 – Breakthrough Listen – the astronomical program searching for signs of intelligent life in the Universe – has applied machine learning techniques to detect 72 new fast radio bursts (FRBs) emanating from the “repeater” FRB 121102. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are bright […]

Skripal Poisoning “Suspects” Tell Sputnik, RT Editor-in-Chief They’re Not Agents

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
Skripal Poisoning “Suspects” Tell Sputnik, RT Editor-in-Chief They’re Not Agents by https://sputniknews.com/ The statement comes following an announcement from Sputnik and RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan that the “suspects” in the Skripal poisoning case had agreed to be interviewed by RT and Sputnik. – Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov suspected by London of involvement in the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei […]

Video Footage of Israeli Military Actions Against Palestinian Children

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
Modern Ashkenazi Khazars (90+% of modern Jewry) are NOT the Jews of the Bible! Ashkenaz is not from the tribe of Shem ie. not semitic! They cannot be the descendents of Jacob/Israel who are from Shem! – Genesis 10:1-3 (New King James Version) Nations Descended from Noah 1 Now this is the genealogy of the […]

‘Resistance’ Runs Amok in the US Deep Throat War

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
‘Resistance’ Runs Amok in the US Deep Throat War by PEPE ESCOBAR, http://www.atimes.com/ Bob Woodward’s book and the ‘resistance’ op-ed look increasingly like a sophisticated psy-ops scheme and a prelude for a ‘Deep State’ coup. – We now live in a psy-ops world. The latest Deep Throat War in Washington bears all the elements of an epic […]

“Leaking Like Mad”: FBI-DOJ-MSM Collusion Went Far Deeper Than Previously Known

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
“Leaking Like Mad”: FBI-DOJ-MSM Collusion Went Far Deeper Than Previously Known by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/ The FBI’s coordination with the mainstream media surrounding the 2016 US election – a “media leak strategy” which was first first revealed Tuesday, goes far deeper than first reported, according to Fox News, which obtained “new communications between the former lovers.” – A December […]

US Destroyer Arrives in Mediterranean as Syria Tensions Rise

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
US Destroyer Arrives in Mediterranean as Syria Tensions Rise by https://www.rt.com/ With the arrival of another guided missile destroyer to the Mediterranean, the US may have 200 ‘Tomahawks’ ready for a strike on Syria, as Russia warns that jihadist groups in Idlib are planning a fake chemical attack. – The USS Bulkeley (DDG-84), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, entered the […]

Ron Paul: The Dollar Will CRASH – The Banking System Is BANKRUPT!

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
World Alternative Media Published on Sep 12, 2018 Josh Sigurdson talks with Dr. Ron Paul, former congressman, presidential candidate, author and host of The Liberty Report. Dr. Paul talks about the coming dollar crash and how it will happen. There is no escaping the fact that all fiat currencies throughout history have reverted to zero eventually. […]

9/11 War Games. False Flag Terrorism

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 1 hour ago
corbettreport Published on Sep 11, 2018 TRANSCRIPT AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/911warg… Little did we know at the time, 9/11 was not a normal day of blue sky aviation. On the contrary, it was one of the busiest days in the history of American aviation, a dense forest of live fly exercises, drills, simulations, fake radar injects and […]

Musical Interlude: 2002, “Children in Time”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
2002, “Children in Time” -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBHM1mf33M8

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
“Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. Located a mere 60 million light-years away toward the chemical constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is a dominant member of the well-studied Fornax galaxy cluster. *Click image for larger size.* This impressively sharp color image shows intense star forming regions at the ends of the bar and along the spiral arms, and details of dust lanes cutting across the galaxy's bright core. At the core lies a supermassive black hole. Astronomers think NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role in ... more »

Free Download: Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*Free Download: Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"* *○* *"A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus on Our Search for * *Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation”* by Maria Popova “To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) wrote in his 119-page philosophical essay "The Myth of Sisyphus" in 1942. “Everything else… is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.” One of the most famous opening lines of the twentieth century captures one of humanity’s most enduring philosop... more »

UPDATE 11:00pm Hurricane Florence: Hunkering Down – Maximum Winds Dropped to 90mph – With Overnight Livestream…

sundance at The Last Refuge - 1 hour ago
Here’s the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center. At 1100 PM EDT (0300 UTC), the center of the eye of Hurricane Florence was located by NOAA Doppler radar and an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft near latitude 34.0 … Continue reading →

“7 Best Shakespeare Insults”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*“7 Best Shakespeare Insults”* by The Huffington Post *1.* "You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so." Shakespeare employs this biting insult in "Macbeth" to establish the complete and utter repulsiveness of the three witches. Their "withered and wild" features cause Macbeth and Banquo to question if the sisters are even human beings. *2.* "Methinks thou art a general offense, and every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon you." In "All's Well That Ends Well," Lafeu hits infamous liar and coward Por... more »

Chet Raymo, “We Are Such Stuff...”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*“We Are Such Stuff...”* by Chet Raymo “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again.” "Caliban is talking to Stephano and Trinculo in Shakespeare's “Tempest”, telling them not to be "afeard" of the mysterious place they find themselves, an island seemingly beset with magic, strangeness, ineffable presences. And you and I, and, yes, all of us, find ourselves inexplicably th... more »

The Poet: Galway Kinnell, "Another Night in the Ruins"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*"Another Night in the Ruins"* "How many nights must it take one such as me to learn that we aren't, after all, made from that bird that flies out of its ashes, that for us as we go up in flames, our one work is to open ourselves, to *be* the flames?" ~ Galway Kinnell

"Proper Perspective..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
“Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning. Does our being alive matter?” - Harold S. Kushner “All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. Remember, it is always later than you think.” - Og Mandino “Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will... more »

Bulk Data Collection By NSA and GCHQ Violated Human Rights Charter, European Court Rules

Aaron at Activist Post - 1 hour ago
By Aaron Kesel GCHQ surveillance revealed by Snowden breached privacy rights, according to Strasbourg judges. GCHQ’s methods for bulk interception of various online communications violated privacy... more »

Understanding The Tactics Of Subversive Globalism

Activist Post at Activist Post - 1 hour ago
By Brandon Smith When the ideology of globalism is discussed in liberty movement circles there are often misunderstandings as to the source of the threat... more »

A Brief History of Repressive Regimes and Their Gun Laws

Activist Post at Activist Post - 1 hour ago
By José Niño Arguably one of the rights that has seen less government encroachment in the US — in contrast to other activities such as... more »

Paradigm Shift: Instead of Jailing People, New York Drops Thousands of Arrest Warrants for Marijuana

Activist Post at Activist Post - 1 hour ago
By Matt Agorist Manhattan, NY — As TFTP reported earlier this year, after multiple district attorneys in the state announced that they will refuse to... more »

NSA Intelligence Analyst Addresses New York Times Schizophrenic Coverage of Energy Weapons

Activist Post at Activist Post - 1 hour ago
By Karen Melton Stewart This is an open letter to the media, but especially the New York Times. I will be addressing your schizophrenic coverage... more »

My Goodness, What Is Happening to Platinum?

Activist Post at Activist Post - 1 hour ago
By Clint Siegner The bearish price action in platinum has some of our clients wondering just what to expect. We are always happy to give... more »

W.O.O.D. – 14 September 2018

E.M.Smith at Musings from the Chiefio - 1 hour ago
W.O.O.D. for 14 September 2018 Continue reading →

Afghans Are Force To Leave Iran As The Economy Worsens

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 hour ago
*IRIN: **Why economic turmoil in Iran is causing big problems in Afghanistan* *Afghans forced out of Iran or migrating back “for survival” find little assistance to start anew* A stumbling economy and a strict system of deportation are forcing Afghans out of Iran in droves, shrinking valuable foreign remittances and deepening the humanitarian crisis across the border in war-torn Afghanistan. Since the beginning of the year, more than 522,000 Afghans have returned home from neighbouring Iran, according to the International Organisation for Migration. More than half were deported. ... more »

Lee Smith Outlines How FBI Used Allied Media to Become “Sources and Methods”…

sundance at The Last Refuge - 1 hour ago
Lee Smith has an excellent article for Real Clear Investigations where he outlines two strategic phases of the media and FBI/DOJ officials collaborating to create, and later defend, the ‘Trump Russia Narrative’. It is well worth reading: [Via Lee Smith] … Continue reading →

Four Reasons Why Interventionism In Syria Is Crazy And Stupid

Caitlin Johnstone at Caitlin Johnstone - 2 hours ago
As tensions continue to mount around the Al-Qaeda-held province of Idlib in Syria, the New York Times has published an op-ed by virulent neoconservative war whore Bret Stephens explaining that the US should intervene militarily in order to thwart the geopolitical agendas of Iran. He […]

Has China Stopped Buying Oil From Iran?

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 2 hours ago
*OilPrice.com: **Iran Suffers Longest Gap In Oil Shipments To China Since 2015* Two supertankers left Iran’s oil terminal Kharg Island en route to China late on Wednesday—the first Iranian oil shipment to its single biggest oil customer in 18 days, which was the longest gap between crude-laden tankers departing for China in three years, according to tanker-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. Bloomberg started compiling ship tracking data in July 2015, and the period between August 25 and September 12 this year was the longest period without tankers leaving Iran and heading to Ch... more »

Supreme Court nominee qualified and capable to serve

drinkingwateradvisor at The Drinking Water Advisor - 2 hours ago
“The White House reminded critics the FBI had vetted Kavanaugh throughout his 25-year career, he had sat through 65 meetings with senators, 30 hours of testimony, and addressed over 2,000 questions, throwing into question the timing of the new information.” … Continue reading →

The Five Levels of White Folks Feelings About Black Folks in America Today

WakingTimes at Waking Times - 2 hours ago
*Dylan Charles* - Talking about racism in America today is quite an uncomfortable thing for many people to do.

Barely Coherent: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes an Appearance…

sundance at The Last Refuge - 2 hours ago
A few weeks ago American media began heavily promoting a generally odd video of Supreme Court Justice doing a workout. It seemed weird. Today, the motive of putting out that video becomes transparent. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears at an … Continue reading →

Icebreaker encounters most difficult ice conditions in 15 years

Hifast at Climate Collections - 3 hours ago
The Swedish icebreaker Oden on its way to the North Pole in August 2018. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Mario Hoppmann, meereisportal.de) From High North News 22/08/2018 av Kathrin Stephen A Swedish icebreaker on the way to the North Pole has encountered heavy ice conditions and had to stop just before the North Pole. The Swedish […]

Iowa Teen Dies Three Weeks After Being Injected with HPV Gardasil Vaccine

AdminM at Health Impact News - 3 hours ago
Christopher Bunch, 14 years old, died on Aug. 14, 2018 of complications from a rare neurological disease called Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM). The teenager began experiencing symptoms, including headaches, nausea and vomiting, on Aug. 6. He spent much of the next two days sleeping. Christopher had apparently received the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine Gardasil three weeks prior to his death. ADEM is a reported side effect of Gardasil. It is listed in the Gardasil package insert.

Our Civic Religion

Gerard N. Magliocca at Balkinization - 3 hours ago
In this age of polarization (exemplified by Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings) is there any constitutional issue that could unite the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the ACLU, the Chamber of Commerce, the Pacific Legal Foundation, Judicial Watch, the Brennan Center, and the Constitutional Accountability Center (among others)? The answer is yes. These groups have all filed amicus briefs asking the Supreme Court to incorporate the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment. *Timbs v. Indiana *presents that issue in the next Term in the context of aggressive state and local civil f... more »

The Royal Navy Is About to Test F-35s on Its New Aircraft Carrier

Dave Majumdar at Test Feed Using Fields - 3 hours ago
*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * Under current plans, the F-35 IFT and Royal Navy will conduct two back-to-back FOCFT (FW) phases this fall. The F-35 program’s Patuxent River Integrated Test Force (ITF) is gearing up to test the stealthy new jump jet onboard the new British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth later this year. As part of the effort, two F-35B short takeoff vertical landing (STOVL) variant Joint Strike Fighters along with more than 200 American and British personnel will embark on the British vessel for what the Royal Navy calls First of Class Flight Trials (Fixed Wi... more »

China Generates Most of Its Power from Coal

IER at IER - 3 hours ago
Some people falsely surmise that because China’s capacity addition of wind and solar power is the largest in the world… The post China Generates Most of Its Power from Coal appeared first on IER.

Socialism in India

Norma at Collecting My Thoughts - 3 hours ago
Amol Kaikini in the WSJ Best of the Web column wonders why journalists never mention that between 1947-1991, India was socialist. He comments on his life. “Mr. Kaikini reports that after graduating from a top engineering school in India he landed what was considered a good job in the Indian economy of the early 1970s. But he and his wife could take little for granted. Mr. Kaikini writes that “when our son was born we increased our daily milk ration. We were spending 70-75% of our take-home pay for food. This is modest food, all cooked from scratch, maybe fish or meat once in two ... more »

Archeological find shows that northwest Canada has been warmer than today

Robert at Ice Age Now - 3 hours ago
Fully intact atlatl spear nearly two meters long (more than 5 feet) discovered beneath the ice. ________________ “The feathers, the sinew, the sap they would have used as, like, a glue to attach the stone point to the wood shaft — all of it is completely intact,” said Jennifer Herkes, heritage manager for the Carcross/Tagish First Nation ... Read moreArcheological find shows that northwest Canada has been warmer than today The post Archeological find shows that northwest Canada has been warmer than today appeared first on Ice Age Now.

Did Pope Francis Say ‘Exposing Pedophile Priests Is Satan’s Work’?

Dan MacGuill at Snopes.com - 3 hours ago
A disreputable web site chose to over-simplify and sensationalize a real homily delivered by the pope in September 2018.

Can Mobile Phone Users Update Their Voicemail Greetings Without Cellular Service?

Arturo Garcia at Snopes.com - 3 hours ago
A "hurricane tip" circulating online would not, in fact, help everyone who might be affected by Hurricane Florence.

In City That Once Banned Drones, Evanston Police Crafted A Secret Drone Policy

Will Pierce at Shadowproof - 3 hours ago
Evanston police quietly maintained an unreleased internal policy regarding the use of drones, according to a document obtained by Lucy Parsons Labs. The document [PDF], entitled “Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Operations” and dated July 25, 2018, lays out departmental guidelines for the use of drones. It is included in the The post In City That Once Banned Drones, Evanston Police Crafted A Secret Drone Policy appeared first on Shadowproof.

The U.S. - China Trade War Is Hammering The Chinese Stock Market

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 3 hours ago
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)* *Reuters*: *Chinese stock markets battered by trade war fears* (Reuters) - Chinese stocks have lost more than a fifth of their value in dollar terms this year on concerns that rising U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports would hurt corporate earnings. The world’s two biggest economies have applied tariffs to $50 billion of each other’s goods. As U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to impose further tariffs on all the roughly $500 billion of Chinese imports, which could spell further downside for mainland shares, here’s a rundown of how much damage has be... more »

Leaked Google Video Shows Collective Ideology Behind Worlds Largest Internet Influence Agent…

sundance at The Last Refuge - 4 hours ago
Google is the primary hub through which 90% of all internet activity transpires. Google controls 75% of on-line ad revenue. Googles algorithms manipulate the way information travels within the internet; and in actuality, Google can stop and shut down information … Continue reading →

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"The Pure And Simple Truth..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde

"The Cult of the Plausible Lie"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
*"The Cult of the Plausible Lie"* by Laura Knight-Jadczyk "Never ascribe to malice those things which may be explained by stupidity." That is an important phrase, and a necessary one; it keeps people from being paranoid. However, it has a corollary most people don't know: "One MAY ascribe to malice those things which stupidity cannot explain." - Robert Canup "Richard Dolan has pointed out that those at the top will ALWAYS take whatever measures necessary to stay at the top, and when knowledge is power, that means that they will make sure that they are in control of what people kno... more »

Panelists at CBCF Slam White House Education Policies

LaMont Jones at Diverse - 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON – Trump administration education policies are hostile to civil rights and are intentionally dismantling protections intended to help students, and the efforts must be countered by voting and other civic involvement.

Conversations Continue on the State of Free College

Tiffany Pennamon at Diverse - 4 hours ago
As conversations continue about the benefits and challenges surrounding free college programs throughout the nation, institutions, states and the federal government have an opportunity to improve college affordability and move towards equitable free college programs, according to education policy experts and college completion leaders featured on “The State of Free College” panel hosted by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP).

French FM warns Syrian govt against use of chemical weapons (video)

Leith Aboufadel at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 4 hours ago
BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:20 A.M.) – The Syrian government will face ‘consequences’ if they launch a chemical weapons attack on Idlib, warned French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian at joint press conference with his Chinese counterpart Wang Li in Beijing on Tursday. The warning comes after Syrian regime forces amassed around Idlib in the past few weeks […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago

"A Front-row Seat..."

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
A gigantic lunatic asylum... lol

X22 Report, "The Economic Crisis Is On Schedule"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
X22 Report, "The Economic Crisis Is On Schedule" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCMOHv3eJ7A

Gregory Mannarino, “Post Market Wrap-up 9/13/18: Alert! US Dollar Plunges. Stocks, Gold, Silver, Crypto, Higher”

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
Gregory Mannarino, “Post Market Wrap-up 9/13/18: Alert! US Dollar Plunges. Stocks, Gold, Silver, Crypto, Higher” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-Ahzn70kM - https://www.traderschoice.net/

Hurricane Florence could flood North Carolina’s hog manure pits, taint drinking water

Erin Elizabeth at Health Nut News - 4 hours ago
Hog farmers all over North Carolina are racing to drain thousands of toxic manure lagoons, some the size of lakes, before Hurricane Florence comes through and causes those pits to overflow into drinking water and the growing “dead zone” off the North Carolina coast. The North Carolina Pork Council says its members have pumped down lagoon […] The post Hurricane Florence could flood North Carolina’s hog manure pits, taint drinking water appeared first on Health Nut News.

Weed stocks are going nuts after one of the largest marijuana companies strikes a deal for lab-made THC

Erin Elizabeth at Health Nut News - 4 hours ago
Last week, Cronos Group, one of the largest publicly traded medical-marijuana companies, announced a $122 million deal with Ginkgo Bioworks of Boston, to genetically engineer THC. And with that announcement, “weed stocks” went crazy. RELATED STORY: Cannabis extract fights ‘incurable form’ of Leukemia Cronos said in a press release: “Many pharmaceutically relevant cannabinoids are present only […] The post Weed stocks are going nuts after one of the largest marijuana companies strikes a deal for lab-made THC appeared first on Health Nut News.

Gulf states would get a bigger share of offshore revenue, under bill that advanced in House

Mark Schleifstein at Louisiana Environment and Flood Control - 4 hours ago
Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and Mississippi to share 50 percent of Gulf revenue, use it for restoration, hurricane and flood protection

Jefferson Parish landfill will have new engineering oversight

Drew Broach at Louisiana Environment and Flood Control - 4 hours ago
Government's staff engineer resigned amid odor outcry; three companies want the job

Germany's Spy Chief Under Fire For Remarks On Right-Wing Extremists Hounding Migrants

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 4 hours ago
Hans-Georg Maassen (L), President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer attend a parliamentary committee hearing of the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, September 12, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo *Reuters: **Divided German leaders to meet next week over spymaster's future* BERLIN (Reuters) - The leaders of Germany’s ruling parties said they would meet on Tuesday to try to agree whether the embattled head of the domestic intelligence agency should keep his job, coalition sources tol... more »

Despite Dire Forecasts Consumer Prices Reflect Low Inflation Even With Tariffs…

sundance at The Last Refuge - 4 hours ago
The MAGAnomic Tri-fecta: Jobs growing; wages growing; inflation stable. When President Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced tariffs on Steel and Aluminum, in combination with Round #1 tariffs on imported Chinese products, the Wall Street financial media went bananas … Continue reading →

What Do DCCC Corruption, M83, Beating Steve King In Iowa And Running A Modern Congressional Campaign All Have In Common?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago
Above is a first rate long-form video done this week by Brave New Films on J.D. Scholten, the former baseball player-- and progressive Democrat-- running against Iowa bigot and neo-fascist Steve King. It's unlikely the ad will ever be seen on television, although it's very likely it will be seen by lots of IA-04 voters. The video and shorter excerpts from it show start appearing on social media very soon. Does that count? Oh, I think so. A campaign manager contacted me about an ad recently. She needed a small bit of a "hit song." I suggested "Outro" by a French electronic duo livi... more »

Native American Tribes Are Suing the Trump Administration to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

White Wolf at White Wolf - 5 hours ago
The tribes are seeking to block any further construction on the pipeline operated by TransCanada. They also want the court to rescind a presidential 2017 permit granted by the State Department and blessed by Donald Trump. Less than a month after a Montana federal judge’s August 15 order that the U.S. State Department conduct a full environmental review of a revised path for the Keystone pipeline before construction can begin, the Fort Belknap Indian Community of Montana and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for failing to, as NPR reported, ... more »

Can Wilmington Rebuild?

tonyheller at The Deplorable Climate Science Blog - 5 hours ago
Will Wilmington, North Carolina be able to recover from the two foot storm surge and 32 MPH winds? Wilmington, NC Forecast | Weather Underground Station Home Page – NOAA Tides & Currents

LIVE: ANU Indonesia Update 2018

New Mandala at New Mandala - 5 hours ago
Livestream the annual in-depth updates on Indonesia's politics and economy. The post LIVE: ANU Indonesia Update 2018 appeared first on New Mandala.

Alexander Ioannidis Walks away from the Democrats—Congratulations

Norma at Collecting My Thoughts - 5 hours ago
[image: Alexander walk away] Here is my #WalkAway moment. The top picture is one of me in April of 2016 phone banking for the Sanders campaign. I was a pro-life socialist because my faith tells me to care for poor people. The way Bernie pitched socialism was appealing. I agreed with him and I fell in love. I thought the left held a moral high ground. One thing that struck me during that campaign was a comment someone made to me that she would never vote for me in the future unless I respected a woman’s “right” to have an abortion. That comment meant nothing to me at the time, tho... more »

Hidden from Public View

Content Multimedia - 5 hours ago
By Bill Peacock, Cutter González

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 13, 2018

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 5 hours ago
*Srinivas Mazumdaru, DW: **Are we about to face a new Asian financial crisis?* Emerging market economies and their currencies have come under severe stress in recent weeks, as rising US interest rates and trade fears prompt investors worldwide to shun their assets and move money to the US. A strengthening American economy, a strong US dollar and growing trade tensions have led to a rout in emerging markets over the past several weeks, as investors are increasingly shifting their money to the US. Inflows of foreign investment into emerging economies shriveled to $2.2 billion (€1.9... more »

Corruption Is China's Friend in Its Quest to Dominate Africa

Wes Martin at Test Feed Using Fields - 5 hours ago
*Wes Martin* *Security, Africa* [image: China's President Xi Jinping (C) attends the bilateral meeting with President of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi (not pictured) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, 31 August 2018. Roman Pilipey/Pool via Reuters] China doesn't care about how business is done as long as it is China's business. China’s economic expansion into Africa has benefited Beijing tremendously by allowing access to natural resources. Yet it forced the continent’s national governments to borrow heavily for infrastructure projects. Moreover, with China’s expans... more »

High-profile health policy researcher Gilbert Welch out at Dartmouth after plagiarism charge

Adam Marcus at Retraction Watch - 5 hours ago
H. Gilbert Welch, a leading researcher in the field of health policy, has resigned from his faculty post at Dartmouth College after the institution concluded that he had plagiarized from a colleague in a 2016 paper. As we reported in STAT earlier this summer, a Dartmouth committee found that Welch had misused a figure from … Continue reading High-profile health policy researcher Gilbert Welch out at Dartmouth after plagiarism charge

Anti-Trust; Force Opensource Search Algorithms

co2islife at CO2 is Life - 5 hours ago
THE GOOGLE TAPE: Google Executives Applauded Employee’s Rant About ‘White Privilege’ (Source) BTW, why wasn’t that “hate” speech? And where were his friends? Friends don’t let friends make such fools of themselves. My bet is that this was a hazing ritual gone very very wrong…I hope. A Constitutional Republic based upon Freedom simply can not … Continue reading "Anti-Trust; Force Opensource Search Algorithms"

Panicked Boston Neighborhoods Evacuate as Gas Blasts Destroy Homes

Associated Press at Snopes.com - 5 hours ago
A series of gas explosions caused fires at more than 20 homes across three communities north of Boston, forcing entire neighborhoods to evacuate.

Trump Turns Back to Hurricane Maria, Falsely Says Democrats Inflated Death Toll

Associated Press at Snopes.com - 5 hours ago
Trump's jarring comments, coming as the East Coast braced for a massive storm, offered fresh evidence of his resistance to criticism.

Elizabeth Smart Urges Authorities to Reconsider Kidnapper’s Release

Associated Press at Snopes.com - 5 hours ago
Elizabeth Smart appealed to authorities to reconsider the planned release of one of her kidnappers, saying Wanda Barzee remains a danger to her, and the community.

Explosions Near Boston Damage So Many Homes ‘You Can’t Even See the Sky’

Associated Press at Snopes.com - 5 hours ago
Emergency crews are responding to what they believe is a series of gas explosions that have damaged homes across three communities north of Boston.

Did a Clerk Refuse to Sell Gas to a Man Fleeing a Hurricane Over a Trump Bumper Sticker?

Dan Evon at Snopes.com - 5 hours ago
"*junk*" -- *noun*: "old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value"

Did Billy Graham’s Daughter Say 9/11 Was ‘God’s Punishment’ for Trans People, Evolution, and Secularism?

David Emery at Snopes.com - 5 hours ago
During a 2016 radio interview, Anne Graham Lotz said 'God allows bad things to happen' like the September 11 attacks 'to show us that we need Him.'

Lendman: ‘Lights, Camera, Action, False Flag in Syria’

21wire at 21st Century Wire - 5 hours ago
*Stephen Lendman* | It’s one of the oldest most despicable dirty tricks in the book, used to launch wars based on Big Lies or escalate them.

WTO Hopes to Get Stronger Via High Number of Disputes

Steve Byas at rss - 5 hours ago
[image: wto-hopes-to-get-stronger-via-high-number-of-disputes] It appears that more and more nations, including the United States, are willing to surrender an increasing amount of their national sovereignty to unelected bureacrats of the WTO.

Democrats Pull Last-Minute Stunt to Derail Kavanaugh

R. Cort Kirkwood at rss - 5 hours ago
[image: democrats-pull-last-minute-stunt-to-derail-kavanaugh] Not content with lying to derail the elevation of federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held hearings on Kavanaugh all last week, launched a final desperate salvo at the eminently qualified jurist.

Obama Brazenly Tried to take Credit for Better Economy Under Trump

Steve Byas at rss - 5 hours ago
[image: obama-brazenly-tried-to-take-credit-for-better-economy-under-trump] Obama told the college students at the University of Illinois that the booming economy we are now experiencing is his work, not Trump's. But as John Adams once said, "Facts are stubborn things," and the facts contradict Obama's brazen claim.

2018 Hurricanes – Especially Florence

E.M.Smith at Musings from the Chiefio - 6 hours ago
There's a passel of hurricanes starting to hit land, or on their way. Here's an open thread to talk about them, and their aftermath. Continue reading →

About that Puerto Rican hurricane death toll . . .

Peter at Bayou Renaissance Man - 6 hours ago
I can't help but agree with President Trump when he cast aspersions on the newly increased death toll attributed to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year. In a tweet, Trump said: “3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000.” * . . .* That number was produced by public health experts at George Washington University in Washington in a report commis... more »

The 1% Will Own Two-Thirds of World Wealth Within the Next Decade

WakingTimes at Waking Times - 6 hours ago
*Isaac Davis* - Wealth inequality is a rising tide that will consume us all within a generation or two.

World News Briefs -- September 13, 2018 (Evening Edition)

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 6 hours ago
*Daily Mail:* *Florence begins dumping heavy rain on North Carolina as forecasters predict 10 TRILLION gallons will lash the state as the 'monster' Category 2 hurricane takes aim at the U.S. threatening 10 million people and sparking tornado fears* * Outer bands of wind and rain from Hurricane Florence started lashing North Carolina on Thursday morning * The huge storm weakened to a Category 2 hurricane overnight with 110 mph winds * The center of Florence is expected to hit North Carolina's southern coast Friday, then drift southwest before moving inland on Saturday * It is for... more »

Research Design Flaws Identified in Study Suggesting That Chief Diversity Officers “Hurt” Diversity

cmaadmin at Diverse - 6 hours ago
Last week, numerous media outlets highlighted a working paper submitted to the National Bureau of Economic Research contending that Chief Diversity Officers have no influence on faculty diversification and that their presence inversely influences the diversity of tenured faculty. The articles were widely shared in social media and received a visceral response from diversity experts who questioned the motivation for the study, analytic approach, its theoretical underpinnings, and interpretation of the results.

Pragmatic Canadians Discuss Justin and Chrystia’s Intentional Strategy to Scuttle any U.S-Mexico Trade Deal…

sundance at The Last Refuge - 6 hours ago
A column written by journalist John Ivison yesterday reflected how Justin and Chrystia from Canada appeared to be intentionally politicizing their trade negotiations in an effort to gain favor from domestic left-wing supporters. In essence, Justin made a decision to … Continue reading →

Deep State “Voice of America” California climate story a creative fabrication, nonsense

drinkingwateradvisor at The Drinking Water Advisor - 7 hours ago
“Mr. O’Sullivan cited a pamphlet that wasn’t a report, wasn’t from the State of California and documented no relationship between climate change and fires. He then goes on to babble…” click here

Google censored search engine “a forfeiture of our values”

drinkingwateradvisor at The Drinking Water Advisor - 7 hours ago
Jack Poulson, a senior research scientist at Google, has quit the company in protest over the tech titan’s development of a censored search engine for China, claiming it represents a “forfeiture of our values.” click here

MacBook buying guide: Everything you should know before buying one.

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 7 hours ago
https://m.timesofindia.com/best-products/electronics/buying-guide/macbook-buying-guide-everything-you-should-know-before-buying-one/amp_articleshow/65780218.cms?__twitter_impression=true Advertisements

John Kerry’s shadow diplomacy

Norma at Collecting My Thoughts - 7 hours ago
[image: image] https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/politics/john-kerry-iran-deal/index.html https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/john-kerry-deserves-jail-for-secret-iran-diplomacy https://nypost.com/2018/09/08/john-kerrys-pathetic-ode-to-himself/

Petroteq Believes its Technology Is the Key to Utah Oil Sands

IER at IER - 7 hours ago
Oil sands are a type of unconventional oil that is a mixture of sand and dense, viscous bitumen. Utah contains… The post Petroteq Believes its Technology Is the Key to Utah Oil Sands appeared first on IER.

Japan Is Holding Wild Dolphins Hostage For the 2020 Olympics

White Wolf at White Wolf - 7 hours ago
In this latest case of senseless dolphin cruelty, Japan held a “pre-Olympics test event” in which live dolphins were forced to perform tricks for a crowd. And as if confining dolphins in inappropriately small cages and making them entertain humans for endless hours wasn’t bad enough, the way in which these dolphins were brought into captivity makes the situation even more upsetting. During the nation’s infamously inhumane annual “tradition” known as the Taiji dolphin hunt, these poor creatures were chased into a cove by hunters so that they couldn’t escape capture. While thousands ... more »

San Francisco to remove statue showing Native American at feet of Spanish cowboy

White Wolf at White Wolf - 7 hours ago
A San Francisco board decided Wednesday to remove a 19th century statue that activists say is racist and demeaning to indigenous people. The decision by the San Francisco Board of Appeals involves the “Early Days” statue, which depicts a Native American at the feet of a Spanish cowboy and Catholic missionary. It is part of a cluster near City Hall regarding the founding of California. Tom DeCaigny, the Arts Commission’s director of cultural affairs, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the commission would begin working to take the statue down immediately. Native American activi... more »

N. Atlantic Cooling in 2018

Hifast at Climate Collections - 7 hours ago
Originally posted on Science Matters: RAPID Array measuring North Atlantic SSTs. For the last few years, observers have been speculating about when the North Atlantic will start the next phase shift from warm to cold. Source: Energy and Education Canada An example is this report in May 2015 The Atlantic is entering a cool phase…

EU climate law could cause ‘catastrophic’ deforestation

Hifast at Climate Collections - 7 hours ago
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? From the I told you so dept. The Guardian reports: ? Senior climate scientists say that the world’s carbon sinks could be facing a grave threat from a wholly unexpected source: the EU’s renewable energy directive. The climate law could suck…

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 255 – 2018

Hifast at Climate Collections - 7 hours ago
Originally posted on sunshine hours: South / North

Sept. 13:The fall of New Brunswick

Graeme Decarie at The Decarie Report - 7 hours ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-bishops-february-abuse-prevention-summit-1.4819974 _____________________________________________________________ American governments had decided there would be a World War Three even as World War Two ended in 1945. That's what the Korean war was supposed to be - the launching point of a war on China. But that and other wars to that end did not go well. Vietnam, for example, was a disaster. Then came 9/11. That seemed a golden door to opening the way to the U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria..... But this time, China and Russia are ready to block... more »

Venezuelan President Maduro Is Traveling To China To Raise Money For His Government

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 7 hours ago
*Reuters: **Venezuela's Maduro travels to China in search of fresh funds* CARACAS/BEIJING (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is traveling to China to discuss economic agreements, as the crisis-struck OPEC nation seeks to convince its key Asian financier to disburse fresh loans. “I am going with great expectations and we will see each other again in a few days with big achievements,” the leftist leader said on Wednesday in a state broadcast from the airport, without providing details. Venezuela’s Information Ministry did not respond to a request for comment. China’s ... more »

Hope for major social security ‘brutality’ campaign after ‘breakthrough’ Labour meeting

John Pring at Disability News Service - 7 hours ago
Many of the disabled activists who have played a key role in exposing the harm caused by the government’s social security cuts and reforms have come together for a “breakthrough” campaign meeting attended by five Labour shadow ministers. Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who chaired the meeting, said afterwards that he believed that it could [...]

Government’s response to ‘human catastrophe’ UN report is ‘deeply unsatisfying’

John Pring at Disability News Service - 7 hours ago
The government has been accused of publishing a “deeply unsatisfying” response to a devastating report by a UN committee that concluded last year that the UK had been “going backwards” on independent living. One disabled people’s organisation (DPO) said the government had been “clutching at straws” in the response in an attempt to persuade the [...]

Hundreds of thousands more PIP claimants would challenge awards… if they could

John Pring at Disability News Service - 7 hours ago
New government research shows that hundreds of thousands more claimants of personal independence payment (PIP) would have taken further steps to challenge the results of their claims if the system had been less stressful and more accessible. The research, carried out for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by Ipsos MORI, has cast fresh [...]

Autistic MP calls for change in equality laws to make parliament less hostile

John Pring at Disability News Service - 7 hours ago
An autistic MP who has only been able to make two speeches in the main Commons chamber since being elected is calling for a change in equality laws to force the authorities to make parliament a more accessible place to work. Jared O’Mara has had a series of requests rejected by the authorities that he [...]

Disability Labour set for fresh start after angry scenes at agm

John Pring at Disability News Service - 7 hours ago
Disabled Labour activists have succeeded in a takeover of the organisation set up to build links between the party and the disability movement. During a heated annual general meeting (agm) of Disability Labour at a Leeds hotel on Saturday, the entire 15-strong slate of candidates from the Disability Equality Act Labour (DEAL) campaign group secured [...]

Train companies could face court over inaccessible rail replacement buses

John Pring at Disability News Service - 7 hours ago
Train companies are facing possible legal action over their failure to ensure that replacement bus services are accessible to wheelchair-users and other rail passengers with mobility impairments. A leading disabled campaigner believes that access and equality laws mean most rail replacement buses – used when companies scrap train services because of engineering works or other [...]

The Twin Dangers That Threaten a U.S. Space Force

John Grover, Kathryn Waldron at Test Feed Using Fields - 7 hours ago
*John Grover, Kathryn Waldron* *Security, Americas* [image: The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle waits in the encapsulation cell of the Evolved Expendable Launch vehicle at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Florida in this April,2010 handout photo provided by the U.S. Air Force. The X-37B is the U.S.'s newest and mo] Learning from past boondoggles and having a narrow, clear mission are the only way a U.S. Space Force will thrive. On September 5, U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced she had come around to President Donald Trump’s proposal to create a Space Force. But W... more »

Tratado UE-Mercosur amenaza bosques y selvas

bilaterals.org - 8 hours ago
13-Sep-2018 Un tratado de libre comercio de la UE con los países del Mercosur inundará el mercado europeo con carne de vaca de Sudamérica. Selvas y bosques sacrificados para establecer grandes extensiones de pasto a cambio de que la industria pueda vender más coches en el mercado sudamericano. Firma la petición en contra.

Skripal poisoning hoax takes strange turn with RT’s exclusive interview of UK “suspects” (Video)

Alex Christoforou at The Duran - 8 hours ago
UK’s suspects in the Skripal case: "Our lives turned into a nightmare!" The post Skripal poisoning hoax takes strange turn with RT’s exclusive interview of UK “suspects” (Video) appeared first on The Duran.

This Is How Donald Trump Can Win in the Balkans

Petrit Selimi at Test Feed Using Fields - 8 hours ago
*Petrit Selimi* *Security, Europe* [image: A boy looks at the sky near an orthodox church and a mosque in Prizren, southwest from capital Pristina August 20, 2014. Under a starry sky, young Kosovars take their seats alongside tourists on a platform rising from the shallow Bistrica River that cuts] Kosovo's foreign minister of foreign affairs is hopeful about resolving the country's bilateral disputes. The Balkans appeared on President Donald Trump’s foreign-policy radar for the first time late last month, and that’s a good thing for southeastern Europe. John Bolton, the preside... more »

Illinois Department Of Corrections Sued For Censoring Book On Attica Uprising

Kevin Gosztola at Shadowproof - 8 hours ago
Illinois Department of Corrections was sued for allegedly censoring "Blood In The Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy." The post Illinois Department Of Corrections Sued For Censoring Book On Attica Uprising appeared first on Shadowproof.

Kim Jong Un's Strategy: Smile and Stall

Gordon G. Chang at Test Feed Using Fields - 8 hours ago
*Gordon G. Chang* *Security, Asia* [image: U.S. and North Korean national flags are seen during the meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst] And all the more reason why President Trump should forget about a second summit. “It was a very warm, very positive letter,” said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders on Monday, referring to a hand-delivered note President Trump received from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. “The primary purpose of the letter was to ... more »

Brexit: We Asked 18 of the World's Leading Experts What Happens Next

Mitchell Blatt at Test Feed Using Fields - 8 hours ago
*Mitchell Blatt* *Security, Europe* [image: Pro-EU supporters wave flags outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, Britain, July 4, 2018.REUTERS/Simon Dawson] A National Interest Symposium. Westminster and Brussels have just half a year left before they must agree on a deal for the UK to leave the EU. Resignations of Foreign Minister Boris Johnson and chief negotiator David Davis in July signaled the difficulty of getting a deal done. The People’s Vote campaign is calling for a second referendum, while strong ‘leavers’ are decrying even a ‘soft Brexit’ as a “crisi... more »

QotD: "Psychologising consists in condemning or excusing specific individuals on the grounds of their psychological problems, real or invented, in the absence of or contrary to factual evidence."

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 8 hours ago
*"Psychologising consists in condemning or excusing specific individuals on the grounds of their psychological problems, real or invented, in the absence of or contrary to factual evidence.** "Armed with a smattering, not of knowledge, but of undigested slogans, they rush, unsolicited, to diagnose the problems of their friends and acquaintances. Pretentiousness and presumptuousness are the psychologiser’s invariable characteristics: he not merely invades the privacy of his victims’ minds, he claims to understand their minds better than they do, to know more than they do about t... more »

Struggles of the Rich and Famous

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 8 hours ago
It's no longer enough for the superstars of the media-political-entertainment complex to flaunt their hedonistic lifestyles on TV. Even the queen of conspicuous consumption herself, Kim Kardashian, has flaunted her political capital by recently orchestrating the release from prison of a woman sentenced to a draconian term under harsh American drug laws, before pot-smoking became P.C. Turn on the cable or click on any number of cool liberal news sites, and you'll learn all about how the rich and powerful are "fighting back" against Trump via the #Resistance, Inc. franchise. Either th... more »

Red States Will Vote on Measure to Expand Medicaid

R. Cort Kirkwood at rss - 8 hours ago
[image: red-states-will-vote-on-measure-to-expand-medicaid] The states have been expanding the number of residents eligible for Medicaid ever since ObamaCare created the regulatory ability to do so, and even so-called Red States are moving to put more people on the dole.

Deep State Guards Its Own: Consider Dianne Feinstein

John F. McManus at rss - 8 hours ago
[image: deep-state-guards-its-own-consider-dianne-feinstein] A hardcore leftist, Feinstein can be counted on by socialists and liberals to support legislation that ignores the Constitution she has so frequently sworn to uphold.

Were Inmates Abandoned at Orleans Parish Prison During Hurricane Katrina?

Dan Evon at Snopes.com - 8 hours ago
Inmates at Orleans Parish Prison reported that they spent several days in flooded cells without food or water while awaiting rescue after Hurricane Katrina.

Russian Suspects in Poisoning: We Were in UK as Tourists

Associated Press at Snopes.com - 8 hours ago
The two Russian men spun an unlikely tale of hapless tourists defeated by grim British weather.

The Apple Watch is Inching Toward Becoming a Medical Device

Associated Press at Snopes.com - 8 hours ago
Since the Apple Watch launched in April 2015 , most people haven't figured out why they need to buy one.

If My Office Is Closed Due to Hurricane Florence, Do I Get Paid?

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 8 hours ago
It's time, unfortunately, to re-run this popular and necessary column. I hope you make out okay in Hurricane Florence and suffer no damage. However, you may be wondering if you're getting paid. Whether you’re entitled to be paid when the office is closed depends on whether you are “exempt” salaried or not. Just being salaried doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t entitled to overtime. It’s possible to be salaried and still non-exempt from the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Many employers misclassify employees as exempt to avoid paying overtime. If you work more than fort... more »

In the Projected Pathway of Hurricane Florence, the Lumbee Tribe is Bracing for

White Wolf at White Wolf - 8 hours ago
With Hurricane Florence stilll hanging out at sea, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is bracing for the powerful hurricane. The Lumbee Tribe is working with the Robeson County Government and Robeson County Emergency Management to prepare our area for Hurricane Florence. The designated Emergency Shelters for Robeson County are: Lumberton High School 3901 Fayetteville Road Lumberton, NC 28358 Purnell Swett High School 11244 Deep Branch Road Maxton, NC 28364 Hurricane Florence is on a path of destruction that will put millions of people at risk and threaten billions of dollars in p... more »

Turkey Raises Interest Rates To 24% To Put A Stop To The Downward Spiral Of Its Currency

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 8 hours ago
*CNBC: **Lira jumps after Turkish central bank hikes rates in a bid to save tumbling currency* * The Turkish lira jumped more than 5 percent on the Central Bank of Turkey's decision to raise interest rates to 24 percent. * The last few months have seen a massive sell-off in Turkish assets thanks to investor fears over the central bank's independence and a political spat between President Recep Erdogan and Washington. * The lira has fallen some 40 percent in value against the dollar since the year's start, prompting fears of contagion amid a wider emerging markets shakeup. The Cent... more »

Michigan Department of Health Tracking Student Vaccination Status in Violation of Federal Law

AdminM at Health Impact News - 9 hours ago
The group Michigan for Vaccine Choice has sent a letter to parents in Michigan informing them that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) are violating federal law (FERPA) by transferring private medical records about minor children, without the consent of their parents, regarding each student's vaccination status into a vaccine tracking database.

When Will The Hollow Trump Economy Crash?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
Yesterday, Rachel Feintzeig reported for the *Wall Street Journal* that the Republican tax scam has specifically helped executives afford even fancier airplanes. "The recent changes to the tax code," she wrote, "are giving business executives a new perk: the opportunity to deduct the entirety of a corporate-jet purchase. A 100% tax write off was one of the GOP changes to the tax code. Maybe something will trickle down. The write-off does allow some buyers to splurge on bigger, faster jets that cost between $7 million and $10 million that they otherwise might not afford, Ms. Mein... more »

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Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
The BBC News Press Team is on manoeuvres this evening: To make the pie chart easier to see you can click on the image below and it will make it larger (or, as we say on blogs: Click to enlarge!): I've looked at such things myself (very closely) and don't doubt that it's correct. Showing party political balance over time - party-politician-wise - is something programmes like *Question Time *are good at. (How they treat those party politicians is, of course, a different matter). So what are the Twitter responses to this BBC tweet? Well, guess what? Nearly all of them are from lef... more »

Scholars Believe Supreme Court Likely to End Affirmative Action with Kavanaugh

cmaadmin at Diverse - 9 hours ago
Scholars from coast to coast expect the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh – and they expect him to help end affirmative action by ruling against it in cases that reach the high court.

Family of Late UMD Football Player File Possible Lawsuit Notice

Monica Levitan at Diverse - 9 hours ago
Parents of the late University of Maryland (UMD) football athlete Jordan McNair, who collapsed during a May preseason practice and died of heatstroke two weeks later, have sent a notice to Maryland officials, saying they might sue. After McNair collapsed, Maryland’s athletic training staff didn’t monitor his temperature or overall health through a popular cold-water […]

Black Smith College Student Says Trauma is Ongoing After Police Were Contacted Because She Reportedly Looked Out of Place on Campus

Jamie Rogers at Diverse - 9 hours ago
Oumou Kanoute, a Smith College student, spoke to Refinery29 about her ongoing emotional trauma stemming from a July incident involving campus police. An employee of the Massachusetts-based college reportedly called police on Kanoute, because she looked out of place as she was eating and using her iPad in a campus dining hall. As a result Kanoute, […]

$50 Million Commitment Fuels Detroit Cradle-Career Partnership

Jamie Rogers at Diverse - 9 hours ago
A $50 million commitment from the Kresge Foundation is propelling an all new cradle-to-career education collaborative that will benefit some 1,000 students in a Detroit neighborhood. Beginning in 2019, the P-20 Partnership will benefit children in Livernoise-McNichols, a Detroit district undergoing revitalization. The foundation collaborated with the University of Michigan, Detroit Public Schools Community District, Starfish […]

Turkey works with Russia, Iran to prevent humanitarian disaster in Idlib: Turkish minister

Zen Adra at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 9 hours ago
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (6:00 P.M.) – Turkey is joining efforts with Russian and Iran to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Idlib, Turkish Minister for national Defense, Hulusi Akar, said. “Any military actions in Idlib will lead to a disaster in a region that is already experiencing difficulties. We’re cooperating with Russia and Iran to prevent a […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source

WATCH: Innocent College Student Blows Up On Cops As They Kick in His Door Assault Him with AR-15s

Jack Burns at The Free Thought Project - 9 hours ago
[image: cops] An innocent Topeka college student was the victim of a violent no-knock SWAT raid which cops conducted without a warrant due to "exigent" circumstances. The post WATCH: Innocent College Student Blows Up On Cops As They Kick in His Door Assault Him with AR-15s appeared first on The Free Thought Project.

Grassley Schedules Kavanaugh Vote for Sept. 20th – Feinstein Pulls Stunt Sending High School Harassment Allegation to Federal Authorities…

sundance at The Last Refuge - 9 hours ago
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has scheduled the committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh for Thursday September 20th. A full senate vote is anticipated prior to the end of this month. SCOTUS session begins October 1st. In a … Continue reading →

"The Greatest Financial Crime of the 21st Century"

noreply@blogger.com (Coyote Prime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*"The Greatest Financial Crime of the 21st Century"* by Bill Bonner "The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. The nineteenth autumn has come upon me Since I first made my count; I saw, before I had well finished, All suddenly mount And scatter wheeling in great broken rings Upon their clamorous wings." – “The Wild Swans at Coole,” William Butler Yeats LOUGH ESKE CASTLE, DONEGAL, IRELAND – "On the table today is a question of characte... more »

Snowing in Alberta

Robert at Ice Age Now - 9 hours ago
“Weather that is decidedly more like winter than summer,” says Environment Canada. (Even though it is technically still summer for another 10 days.) _______________ 12 Sep 2018 – Snow has begun to blanket parts of northern Alberta, including in Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie. Environment Canada issued a special weather statement on Monday, saying a cool ... Read moreSnowing in Alberta The post Snowing in Alberta appeared first on Ice Age Now.

Landowners sue Bayou Bridge Pipeline over land seizure

Tristan Baurick at Louisiana Environment and Flood Control - 9 hours ago
St. Mary Parish landowners say the oil pipeline crossed property illegally.

US Destroyer Enters Mediterranean As Syria Tensions Build; Carrier On Standby

Tyler Durden at 9 hours ago
[image: undefined] An American battleship, the USS Bulkeley destroyer, has reportedly entered the Mediterranean and is headed for Syria, equipped with over 50 Tomahawk missiles. This deployment comes after previous reports of the attack submarine USS Newport News (SSN-750) arriving in the Mediterranean, and after the arrival Tuesday of A U.S. Marine Corps small attack carrier full of F-35B stealth jets, the USS Essex, in the Middle East region as detailed by the military website, Task and Purpose. The Russian news agency Interfax now reports that American forces in the region posse... more »

Pompeo Green-Lights More Saudi Slaughter In Yemen

Daniel McAdams at 9 hours ago
On the very day we heard that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certified that the Saudi/UAE coalition was doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties in its war on Yemen, yet another Saudi airstrike hit a civilian bus and killed at least 15 people. Congressional efforts to address the unconstitutional US involvement in the Yemen war have been toothless. The hypocrisy of US foreign policy is laid bare in Washington's Yemen policy. More in today's Liberty Report:

Digging For Insects

tonyheller at The Deplorable Climate Science Blog - 9 hours ago
Democrats (who recently nominated the second biggest liar in US history for president) are desperately digging to find anything they can call dishonest in Judge Kavanaugh’s past.

DEMOCRATS SNEAKILY THWART TRUMP/GOP MIDTERM STRATEGY BY BEING IN FAVOR OF LOW UNEMPLOYMENT

Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog - 9 hours ago
Politico reports: In an alternate universe, President Donald Trump would be heading into the midterms relentlessly touting his stewardship of a strong economy with results that include historically low unemployment, solid economic growth, sky-high enthusiasm among small businesses and shattered records for job openings. Instead, the president is repeatedly muddling that message with easily debunked falsehoods or hyperbole about the state of the economy while pressing on with unpopular trade wars that frustrate establishment Republicans and business groups worried about price increa... more »

Space week flyer to share

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 9 hours ago

Trump Tweets on Investigation Don’t Undercut Glomar, Senate Democrats to file FOIA Suit for Kavanaugh Docs, and More: FRNFORMSUM 9/13/2018

Lauren Harper at UNREDACTED - 9 hours ago
DC Circuit: Trump Tweets on Investigation Don’t Undercut Glomar The District Court for the DC Circuit is upholding the DOJ’s Glomar response – in which an agency claims it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records – to FOIA requests seeking information about a DOJ investigation into President Trump. The plaintiffs – the […]

Friends, Family Remember Man Killed by Dallas Police Officer

Associated Press at Snopes.com - 9 hours ago
Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall were in attendance at the funeral.

Former Construction Executive Claims President Trump Ordered Braille Removed from Trump Tower Elevators

Dan MacGuill at Snopes.com - 9 hours ago
Barbara Res, who oversaw construction of the Trump Tower and is now a vocal critic of the president, recounted the alleged incident in a September 2018 op-ed.

Who Left a Huge Stockpile of Bottled Water Sitting on a Puerto Rico Landing Strip?

David Mikkelson at Snopes.com - 9 hours ago
An estimated 20,000 pallets of water bottles have been sitting on a landing strip in Puerto Rico since after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September 2017.

HOW TO BUILD PROGRESSIVE POWEREven in these dark times, I am...

Robert Reich - 9 hours ago
*HOW TO BUILD PROGRESSIVE POWER* Even in these dark times, I am confident that we can defeat Donald Trump and all he stands for. But it will require building a multiracial, middle, and working class coalition dedicated to renewing our democracy and creating an economy that works for all, not just the privileged few. Here’s how: *First: At the heart of this coalition must be deep and abiding commitment to the democratic principles of political equality, equal opportunity, and justice for all.* These same ideals that animated many of us—both white and black Americans—to fight for ... more »

Three buses a day now connect Halifax and the South Shore. Let’s make sure the service works.

Erica Butler at Halifax Examiner - 9 hours ago
Well, I’ll be darned. While Saskatchewan mourns the loss of its extensive regional bus service (shut down by an austerity budget in 2017), and while Greyhound pulls out what remains of its routes in western Canada, Nova Scotia is testing out subsidized regional bus transit. That’s a very good thing. If we learned anything from […]

Argentina: "This Could Be A Paranormal Case"

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 10 hours ago
*Source: Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía (FAO)Date: 09.13.2018* *Breaking News - Startling New Mutilations in Ojo de Agua, Santiago del Estero.* *By Luis Burgos, FAO* The situation is reaching historic proportions. The Justice department intervenes in an Argentinean cattle mutilation case. Statements made by Dr. Renzo Capellini of SENASA (National Food Safety and Quality Service). Full text of the complaint filed with the police: "I hereby make you aware that on this day at 10:30 hours, a formal complaint was made before the police department by citizen BAEZ, RAUL GUSTAVO, age ... more »

Has Twitter Banned The Phrase 'Illegal Alien' For Paid Promotion Posts?

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 10 hours ago
Twitter just rejected paid promotion of the tweet below, saying: "This determination is based on the following Twitter Ads policy: Hateful Content". It's because it contains the phrase "illegal alien", which @TwitterAdsHelp deems unacceptable. https://t.co/1X7aDSLmo5 — Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) September 11, 2018 *FOX News:* *Twitter wouldn't allow promotion of 'illegal aliens' tweet, immigration group claims* The executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is claiming that Twitter blocked the group from promoting a tweet that included the words "illegal... more »

Secretary Wilbur Ross Discusses Florence and the Economy….

sundance at The Last Refuge - 10 hours ago
Secretary Wilbur Ross is in North Carolina today touring the NOAA facility and listening to projections of how long Hurricane Florence may disrupt rail, road and shipping transport. Mr. Ross then calculates the economic impact.

2:00pm Update: Hurricane Florence – Weakened Category 2 Still On Forecast Track for Evening Arrival…

sundance at The Last Refuge - 10 hours ago
There will be a 2:00pm interim update soon. As of the 11:00am update this morning Florence had dropped wind speed to 105mph (Cat2) but remained on the previously forecast track. Florence is located approximately 145 miles east-southeast of Wilmington and … Continue reading →

Trump Seeks Third Round of Trade Talks With China, Sensing Their Vulnerability

Bob Adelmann at rss - 10 hours ago
[image: trump-seeks-third-round-of-trade-talks-with-china-sensing-their-vulnerability] Will the third round of trade talks go any better than the first two?

Leftists Threaten $1.3M Donation for Sen. Collins’ Next Opponent if She Votes to Confirm Kavanaugh

Warren Mass at rss - 10 hours ago
[image: leftists-threaten-1-3m-donation-for-sen-collins-next-opponent-if-she-votes-to-confirm-kavanaugh] An online campaign plans to donate over $1 million to Senator Susan Collins’ 2020 reelection opponent — if she votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.

Pelosi: I Want To Be Speaker Again When Democrats Retake House

R. Cort Kirkwood at rss - 10 hours ago
[image: pelosi-i-wanna-be-speaker-again-when-democrats-retake-house] If Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vow to hang on until they carry her remains out of the U.S. Supreme Court on a shingle scared you, the words from Nancy Pelosi won’t make you feel any better.

Google's Connection to Hillary Clinton and the 2016 Election

A Political Junkie at Viable Opposition - 10 hours ago
During the 2016 election, I posted this missive on October 14, 2015 on how search engines could be used to influence election outcomes. This is well before the so-called Russian interference narrative that erupted in the last few weeks of the 2016 presidential election. Little did I realize that the world's foremost search engine was going well beyond the mechanism that I described in my posting to influence America's voting public into casting their ballot for Google's preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton. Thanks to leaked videos from Google as can be found here, we now have a ve... more »

Big Pharma's pollution linked to superbugs by EU politicians

Ben Stockton at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - 10 hours ago
MEPs call for fresh action to tackle the rising tide of superbugs, but face criticism as the strategy omits pollution by Big Pharma

Leaked Google Video Shows Google Executives Upset Over Trump Presidential Win

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 10 hours ago
*Daily Mail:* *Leaked video shows Google co-founder Sergey Brin comparing Trump voters to 'fascists' as he vows to thwart rise of populism in the aftermath of the 2016 Presidential Election* * Footage obtained by Breitbart shows Google leadership discussing the result * They were filmed at their first conference of 2016 after the election took place * Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he feels 'deeply offended' by the result * Brin later says data shows a correlation between 'boredom' and voting for Trump * He then goes on to argue that there is a link between 'boredom' and 'fasc... more »

A challenging rescue

Peter at Bayou Renaissance Man - 10 hours ago
Reader Ed C. e-mailed me the link to this video clip after reading my previous post. Thanks, Ed! It depicts a hazardous helicopter rescue in Washington state in 2010. From an article about the rescue: At about 1830 HRS, after a quick 20-minute flight from Whidbey Island, the helo crew began looking for the rescue site. They had the scene coordinates, but this was a very rugged and forested area. They had been told that the patient was “near the bridge.” However, they were quite surprised to learn that she was actually under the bridge. Flying under any bridge can be a dodgy ... more »

Congresswoman Calls Out Trump for Claiming to Fight Terrorism, As He Supports the Group Behind 9/11

The Free Thought Project at The Free Thought Project - 10 hours ago
[image: al-qaeda] Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard minced no words when she called out the hypocrisy of the Trump admin for claiming to care about 9/11 victims while supporting the group who allegedly carried it out, Al-Qaeda. The post Congresswoman Calls Out Trump for Claiming to Fight Terrorism, As He Supports the Group Behind 9/11 appeared first on The Free Thought Project .

A Look At China's Participation In The Vostok 2018 Military Exercise

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 11 hours ago
*Defense Blog*:* Russian and Chinese defense ministers inspects command posts at Vostok 2018* Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu held a meeting with his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe during his visit to the Vostok 2018 maneuvers at the Tsugol training ground. Having held the closed meeting, the defense ministers inspected an auxiliary command post of the Eastern Military District, command post of the 29th Army and command post of the PLA combined formation. Minister of National Defence of China General Wei Fenghe highly appreciated the operation... more »

Report: Guided Pathways are Working in Tennessee’s Community Colleges

Tiffany Pennamon at Diverse - 11 hours ago
Early indicators about the comprehensive guided pathways model implemented by the 13 community colleges in the Tennessee Board of Regents system show that it is helping the state’s students earn more credits, pass key courses and move towards graduation, according to a new report from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College. In […]

Russian President Putin Inspects War Games In Far Eastern Siberia

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 11 hours ago
*Daily Mail:** Putin personally inspects his military's huge war games exercise alongside Chinese troops and pledges to beef up Russia's army with the latest generation of weapons* * President Putin attended third day of Vostok 2018 joint military exercises in far eastern Siberia on Thursday * Russian leader watched as 300,000 troops, 36,000 tanks and 1,000 aircraft went on manoeuvres * He pledged to strengthen country's military though added that Russia is a predominantly 'peaceful' nation * Exercises are the largest to take place since the fall of the Soviet Union and are taking... more »

Nikki Haley Threatens US Strikes Over Any Attack On Idlib- Updated!

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours ago
* ➱* *U.S. Tells Russia and Iran Not to Attack in Syria, Conducts Major Military Drills in Syria around Al Tanf* The U.S. military has conducted rare, large-scale exercises with allied Syrian rebels at a time when Washington was urging Russia and Iran to restrain their ally from pursuing a major operation against an Islamist-led insurgency elsewhere in the country. Colonel Muhanad al-Talaa, commander of the Pentagon-sponsored Maghawir al-Thawra rebel group, told Reuters on Thursday that his forces had just completed the first training of its kind with the U.S. military, which over... more »

“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This”: Meteorologists Expect Florence To Stall And Hammer The East Coast “For Days”

Activist Post at Activist Post - 11 hours ago
By Michael Snyder The bizarre story of Hurricane Florence just keeps becoming even more strange. The good news is that meteorologists are telling us that... more »

People Are “Fighting For Food” As Authorities Warn Florence “Could Produce A Disaster Comparable” To Hurricane Katrina

Activist Post at Activist Post - 11 hours ago
By Michael Snyder Hurricane Florence is about to make a “direct hit” on the East Coast, and public officials are making one ominous declaration after... more »

Hurricane Florence, Geoengineering Mass Destruction And Distraction

Activist Post at Activist Post - 11 hours ago
By Dane Wigington, Geoengineering Watch Will Hurricane Florence inflict the level of catastrophic damage that is being forecasted? Or will a last hour change of... more »

Three California City Councils Vote to Stop Installing 5G Small Cell Towers!

Activist Post at Activist Post - 11 hours ago
By B.N. Frank Hooray for Mill Valley, San Anselmo, and Ross, CA: The city council of Mill Valley, CA, a wealthy city north of San... more »

An Easy Do-It-Yourself Way To Detect Electromagnetic Fields In Your Home

Activist Post at Activist Post - 11 hours ago
By Catherine J. Frompovich With all the electromagnetic fields from just about everything that makes modern life “modern,” we humans, who basically are electrical-chemical beings,...more »

Denver International Airport Trolls Conspiracy Theorists in New Ad Campaign

Activist Post at Activist Post - 11 hours ago
By Buck Rogers We live in a culture cartooned in memes. Symbolic imagery that once held power in the minds of the masses can now... more »

Judicial Watch Update Regarding FBI’s Contempt For Rule Of Law

Activist Post at Activist Post - 11 hours ago
By Catherine J. Frompovich “The FBI is covering up for Mueller,” according to Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. Fitton discusses newly-released Strzok – Page texts,... more »

Families Managing Media Event Hosted by Comedienne, Paula Poundstone. Experts Discuss How Screen-Time Affects Kids’ Developing Brains

Activist Post at Activist Post - 11 hours ago
By B.N. Frank Research keeps indicating that there should be limits on how much time kids spend using screens for a variety of reasons. Families... more »

“Catastrophic”: EU Passes Copyright Directive Including Internet “Link Tax” and “Upload Filter”

Activist Post at Activist Post - 11 hours ago
By Joseph Jankowski The European Parliament has passed a controversial copyright directive that contains provisions which force tech giants to install content filters and sets... more »

Avoiding the words 'climate change'?

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago

Paradigm Shift: Instead of Jailing People, New York Drops Thousands of Arrest Warrants for Weed

Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project - 11 hours ago
[image: marijuana] Forced to confirm to a shift in the paradigm on locking people up for marijuana, New York announced they will be dropping thousands of active arrest warrants. The post Paradigm Shift: Instead of Jailing People, New York Drops Thousands of Arrest Warrants for Weed appeared first on The Free Thought Project.

EU climate law could cause ‘catastrophic’ deforestation

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 11 hours ago
By Paul Homewood From the I told you so dept. The Guardian reports: Senior climate scientists say that the world’s carbon sinks could be facing a grave threat from a wholly unexpected source: the EU’s renewable energy directive. The climate law could suck in as much imported wood as Europe harvests each year […]

How Democrats change American English

Norma at Collecting My Thoughts - 11 hours ago
Here's how it works, how the anti-American Democrats redefine our language and values. 1) Proud American = xenophobic, Nazi. 2) Make America Great Again slogan = anti-immigrant. 3) Safe restrooms = transphobic. 4) MS-13 infiltrating junior high schools in DC suburbs = racist, anti-immigrant, xenophobic. 5) Merit promotion, hard work, skill level (except in sports) = white supremacist. 6) Male and female God created them = homophobic, transphobic, Trump voter. 7) Constitutionalist, textualist = anti-woman, misogyny. 8) Trump voter = deplorable, stupid, uneducated, hater, bigot,... more »

Crisis in the Archives

David Pozen at Balkinization - 11 hours ago
Critics of the executive branch’s information control practices tend to focus on the here and now. They argue that overclassification of national security–related documents undermines democratic self-rule. They inveigh against delays and denials in the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. They condemn regulations that “incorporate by reference” materials developed by industry groups. They worry about the growing use of black box algorithms, criminal leak investigations, and secret waivers for former lobbyists turned political appointees. All of these critiques raise im... more »

Actor Kevin Hart Principal for Day at Dallas School

Associated Press at Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
Hart was in town promoting his new movie, Night School.

Busting the “100 Percent Renewable” Myth

IER at IER - 11 hours ago
Facebook and Sony are just the most recent companies to pledge the transition to running on 100 percent renewable energy. Many companies… The post Busting the “100 Percent Renewable” Myth appeared first on IER.

U.K. Responds To Suspects In Skripal Case Talking Exclusively With RT

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 11 hours ago
*(Click on Image to Enlarge) * One of the spies admitted they may have got lost and accidentally ended up near Skripal's house and said their trip to Salisbury as tourists was hampered by snow so they 'left early' on March 4 - the day the Skripals fell ill *Daily Mail: **'Lies and blatant fabrication': Theresa May dismisses novichok suspects' bizarre claims as an 'insult to the public's intelligence' after pair insist they visited Salisbury as tourists and demand an APOLOGY for being named as Skripal hitmen* * Britain says Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov are aliases for 2 GRU ... more »

French Special Ops Outed by the US

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours ago
*Link * A French army vehicle was visible in photos of the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor released by the US on Wednesday, raising questions about the nature of French involvement in the region. *Pretty certain anyone paying attention to the destabilization of Syria- Since day 1.* *Is acutely aware that France is deeply involved in the destruction of Syria*

Japan's Motegi, USTR Lighthizer likely to hold trade talks on September 21: source

bilaterals.org - 12 hours ago
13-Sep-2018 Japanese Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will likely hold a second round of trade talks.

More than 300 Republican and Democratic state legislators from all 50 states urge end of investor-state dispute settlement system in NAFTA

bilaterals.org - 12 hours ago
13-Sep-2018 In letter to US Trade Representative, lawmakers say ISDS undermines state sovereignty and lawmaking.

Latvia is seeking annulment of an arbitral award rendered by the ICSID arbitral tribunal

bilaterals.org - 12 hours ago
13-Sep-2018 Latvia has made an application for annulment of an arbitral award in the case of UAB “E energija” (Lithuania) v. Republic of Latvia.

Remembering our Heroes as Censored News Celebrates its 13th Birthday of Publishing

Brenda Norrell at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago
Photo Jim Main of Fort Belknap; Chief Johnny Jackson, fishing rights champion on Columbia River, Celilo Falls, Oregon, and Hopi Spiritual Leader Thomas Banyacya at Dine CARE' gathering on Navajo Nation 1990. Remembering our Heroes as Censored News Celebrates its 13th Birthday of Publishing By Brenda Norrell Censored News This month, Censored News celebrates our 13th birthday, with nearly

UK’s Suspects In Skripal Case Talk Exclusively With RT

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 12 hours ago
*RT:* *‘We’re not agents’: UK’s suspects in Skripal case talk exclusively with RT’s editor-in-chief (VIDEO) * Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov told RT’s editor-in-chief they had nothing to do with the Skripals’ poisoning and are now scared to go outside, after the UK pointed to them as Russian intelligence agents on a kill mission. UK prosecutors claimed their names were not real, but Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov have confirmed their identities in an interview with RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan. Both men said emphatically that they were not Russian intelligen... more »

Why China's Stealth Fighter Can't Touch an F-22 or F-35 in Battle

Dave Majumdar at Test Feed Using Fields - 12 hours ago
*Dave Majumdar* *Security, Asia* We explain. *While Goldfein used the Nighthawk as a comparison—he probably did not intend to suggest that the J-20’s systems are quite as basic as the 1980s-era F-117. While accurate information about the J-20 is scarce, there are indications that the Chinese aircraft is equipped with a phased array radar, a robust electronic warfare systems and an electro-optical/infrared sensor that is similar in concept to the F-35’s systems. However, while it is possible that the Chinese aircraft might have decent sensors—Air Force officials have suggested t... more »

Coming to an Aircraft Carrier Near You: Robot Sailors

Michael Peck at Test Feed Using Fields - 12 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, * The thought of machines running one of the most dangerous weapons in the world is not necessarily reassuring. But that day may be coming. *These robots are still in the development phase. But given the expense of human sailors, and the exhausting nature of their work, it seems inevitable that robots will become a fixture on aircraft carrier flight decks.* There are few places more busy and stressful than the deck of an aircraft carrier. That's because a carrier is an airport planted on top of a ship. A U.S. *Nimitz*-class carrier is longer than three ... more »

Common Sense; Guilty People Don’t Demand Evidence Get Released to the Public

co2islife at CO2 is Life - 12 hours ago
I’ve heard no Democrat demand President Trump declassify the documents that will ultimately prove his innocence. In fact, I’ve seen the Democrats arguing against it on National Security Reasons. Democrats are falling all over themselves to protect the FBI and others that worked to undermine President Trump and negate the voice of the American people. … Continue reading "Common Sense; Guilty People Don’t Demand Evidence Get Released to the Public"

NOAA is Tampering with the Data; Time for an Investigation

co2islife at CO2 is Life - 12 hours ago
In any real and natural system, errors occur randomly. The NOAA “adjustments” occur conveniently. This graph shows the magnitude of the tampering. Older years are made progressively cooler, and recent years are made progressively warmer. (Source) Worse yet, when the adjustments don’t do the job, NOAA just makes up the data. Most of this data … Continue reading "NOAA is Tampering with the Data; Time for an Investigation"

"60 Minutes" Chief Fired After Texting Threat to Reporter

R. Cort Kirkwood at rss - 12 hours ago
[image: 60-minutes-chief-fired-after-text-threat-to-reporter] The blade fell again at CBS, this time on the neck of veteran Jeff Fager, the executive producer of *60 Minutes*. CBS fired Fager, also under investigation for sex shenanigans on the job, because he sent a threatening text message to a reporter covering that story.

AI Just Detected 72 Radio Bursts That Could Come From Aliens

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
https://futurism.com/ai-radio-aliens/ Advertisements

Scientists Just Found a Way to Control a Single Molecule For a Millionth of a Billionth of a Second

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-control-single-molecule-for-millionth-billionth-of-a-second

UK mass surveillance programme violates human rights, European court rules.

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-mass-surveillance-gchq-eu-human-rights-echr-edward-snowden-a8535571.html?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1536829711

Six irrefutable pieces of evidence that prove climate change is real.

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
https://www.popsci.com/evidence-climate-change-is-real?con=TrueAnthem&dom=fb&lnk=TA&src=SOC&utm_campaign=&utm_content=5b99e7dd9ebbef000198a4d7&utm_medium=&utm_source=

I Know It’s Hard, But When Someone Decides You’re Not ‘The One’, You Move On

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
https://thepowerofsilence.co/i-know-its-hard-but-when-someone-decides-youre-not-the-one-you-move-on/

Trying To Quit Smoking? These 8 Natural Ways Kill Nicotine Craving

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
https://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2017/06/8-natural-ways-kill-nicotine-cravings-for-anyone-who-trying-quit-smoking.html?m=1

Placebos Can Work Even When You Know You’re Taking a Dummy Pill.

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
http://anupamghose.com/2018/09/13/placebos-can-work-even-when-you-know-youre-taking-a-dummy-pill/

It’s quantum, baby | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/special_reports/1713/#/enter-your-quantum-state/explore/grasping-the-spooky-in-quantum?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story

Why Can’t We Stop A Hurricane Before It Hits Us? | Popular Science

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/why-can%E2%80%99t-we-stop-hurricane-it-hits-us?src=SOC&dom=fb

FDA calls teen vaping an “epidemic,” threatens to pull products off the market.

zedie at SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 12 hours ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-warns-juul-e-cigarettes-teen-vaping-epidemic/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5b9a27899ac5640001f06ebf&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

Discriminatory School Discipline is a Crisis! We Must Lead.

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig at Cloaking Inequity - 12 hours ago
When I was teaching at UT Austin, school discipline was a dissertation topic that students wanted to investigate, but there weren’t available faculty at the institution that were conducting research in the area at the time. As a result, student interest in the disparate and unequal discipline practices occurring in schools began to drive my own interest in the area.

UK claims men in RT interview were GRU intelligence agents despite their denial

wmw_admin at The Truthseeker - 12 hours ago
Despite the men coming forward, the UK has reiterated claims that they were "officers of the Russian military intelligence service"

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