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Ukraine Gains From Trump’s Impeachment Inquiry
[image: undefined] The controversy swirling around the phone conversation between the US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky regarding the business interests of former vice-president Joe Biden’s son is having a salutary effect on the conflict in Ukraine. The US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker has resigned from his official position once it transpired that his name appeared in the whistleblower complaint about Trump’s dealings with Zelensky. (Meanwhile, Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, also implicated Volker saying latter encouraged ... more »
Parlamento de Vietnam ratificará pronto TLC con Unión Europea
bilaterals.org - 6 hours ago
03-Oct-2019 La Asamblea Nacional de Vietnam ratificará el tratado de libre comercio con la Unión Europea (Evfta, siglas en inglés) durante su octavo período de sesiones, programado del 21 próximo al 20 de noviembre, confirmaron hoy fuentes parlamentarias.
Japanese art and homage to Yuzo Saeki via Paris: Illusion of time
Japanese art and homage to Yuzo Saeki via Paris: Illusion of time Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Japanese artist Yuzo Saeki was born in 1898 but sadly he would pass away at the tender age of 30. Yet, despite the shortness of his life, Saeki is one of the most intriguing artists to […]
Sweden Hides Its Warships In Vast Underground Bunker Amid Russia Fears
Swedish Visby-class corvette HSwMS Helsingborg. Wikipedia *The Guardian*: *Swedish navy returns to vast underground HQ amid Russia fears* *Cavernous docks can shelter warships, with miles of tunnels, offices, and a hospital* Sweden’s navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack, in what has been seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia. After a 25-year absence, the navy will once again be commanded from beneath billions of tonnes of granite as the country strives to build up its defences in response to the perceive... more »
Russia's Military Dream: A Navy Full of Aircraft Carriers (But It Won't Happen)
*Mark Episkopos* *Security, * Great powers can command the seas. *Key point:* Russia has instead procured smaller vessels. A coterie of new ships at Russia’s annual Navy Day Parade in Saint Petersburg reflects the rapidly changing face of the Russian Navy as it forges ahead with a far-reaching modernization program. First established in 1939 as an annual Soviet holiday to “mobilize the working masses around the construction of a Workers’ and Peasants’ Soviet Navy,” Navy Day was canceled in 1980 and reinstated in 2006 by presidential decree of Vladimir Putin. However, it was not ... more »
Bernie's Back! Democratic Candidate to Attend Debate Despite Health Problems
*Audrey Conklin* *Politics, Americas* [image: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) takes the stage at the New Hampshire Democratic Party state convention in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S. September 7, 2019. REUTERS/Gretchen Ertl] He's 78 and still kicking! 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders will be on the next debate stage despite his recent hospitalization, according to a campaign spokesperson. The Vermont senator, 78, will be joining the Oct. 15 Democratic primary debate stage in Westerville, Ohio, campaign... more »
CNN Doesn't Want You to See This Trump Ad Slamming Chris Cuomo
*Chris White* *Politics, Americas* [image: Crews prepare the stage for the second Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates debate presented by CNN in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson] Are they just thin-skinned? CNN is reportedly refusing to air a Trump campaign advertisement slamming former Vice President Joe Biden and the media for supposedly defending the Democratic presidential front-runner’s past activities in Ukraine. The channel won’t promote the ad because it mocks CNN personalities Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, and Jim Acosta, The Daily Beast r... more »
Trump's Peace Plight: Donald Has Shown More War Restraint than Previous Presidents
*Robert Ayson* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] Over the first thirty months of his otherwise tumultuous presidency, Trump has been reluctant to deploy in battle the vast military which is a frequent subject of his boasting. It’s easy to choke on Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s claim that the Pentagon is “working with our partners to address this unprecedented attack and defend the international rules-based order that is being undermined by Iran." Defending the rules-based order? Hasn’t the Trump administration been doing exactly the opposite? Trump has separated the United ... more »
Republican Senators Push Intelligence Inspector General on Leaks
*Chuck Ross* *Politics, Americas* [image: Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 1, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Bourg] Drip, drip, drip. Two Republican senators are asking the intelligence community’s inspector general whether he is investigating leaks of classified details of the whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump, as well as leaks for news stories published about the Trump-Russia investigation. “As you are aware, there have been a number of leaks of highly sensitive information in the past two years, arguably perpetrated to advance political or personal interests to t... more »
Why Saudi Arabia's Crisis Is a Sign that U.S. Foreign Policy Is Shifting
*Eldad Shavit, Ari Heistein* *Security, Middle East* [image: Reuters] U.S. allies may need to reassess their contingency plans. The lackluster U.S. response to Iranian strikes against Saudi Aramco facilities highlight what is becoming an increasingly important trend in U.S. foreign policy: Washington’s declining willingness to invest military and economic resources in defense of its allies’ security. While President Donald Trump provided this shift with an ideology and a slogan, it did not originate with him but with President Barack Obama’s attitude toward “freeriders.” As many ... more »
Brutal Paris Stabbing Attack Kills Four Officers
*Audrey Conklin* *Politics, Europe* [image: French police secure the area in front of the Paris Police headquarters in Paris, France, October 3, 2019. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer] The motive is unknown. A police officer shot and killed a knife-wielding attacker who murdered four people at the Paris police headquarters Thursday, according to a French union official. The attacker worked at the police headquarters located near Notre Dame Cathedral for more than 20 years as an administrative employee, Alliance Police Nationale union official Loïc Travers said, The New York Times repor... more »
Political Party Problems are Tainting the 'American Dream'
*Luke Nathan Phillips* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] The United States is entering a tumultuous period of time. *Frank J. DiStefano*, *The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling, And What Happens* *Next* (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 2019), 469 pages, $25.99. Some writers have discerned cycles in the rise and fall of American party systems. Others have observed patterns in American economic revolutions. Still, others have traced trends in American religious activism and its social effects. And a few have made the colonial “cultural hearths” the cen... more »
Scientists Warn!
Sand dunes across the Great Plains during the 1300’s. NPR would blame it on farmers in the Oklahoma Panhandle. 16 Dec 1998, Page 18 – Santa Cruz Sentinel at Newspapers.com
Musical Interlude: Deuter, “Loving Touch”
Deuter, “Loving Touch”
"A Look to the Heavens"
“What's happening to galaxy NGC 474? The multiple layers of emission appear strangely complex and unexpected given the relatively featureless appearance of the elliptical galaxy in less deep images. The cause of the shells is currently unknown, but possibly tidal tails related to debris left over from absorbing numerous small galaxies in the past billion years. Alternatively the shells may be like ripples in a pond, where the ongoing collision with the spiral galaxy just above NGC 474 is causing density waves to ripple though the galactic giant. *Click image for larger size.* Regard... more »
Chet Raymo, Trying To Be Good”
*Trying To Be Good”* by Chet Raymo “A few lines from Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese": "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." "I've quoted these lines before, if not here, then elsewhere. When I first read them back in the late 80s, they resonated with what I felt at the time. I had spent part of my earliest adulthood walking on my knees, both literally and metaphorically, seeking to tame what I took to be the animal within. Saint Augus... more »
Paulo Coelho, "The Water Pitcher"
*"The Water Pitcher"* by Paulo Coelho "A legend tells of a man who used to carry water every day to his village, using two large pitchers tied on either end of a piece of wood, which he placed across his shoulders. One of the pitchers was older than the other and was full of small cracks; every time the man came back along the path to his house, half of the water was lost. For two years, the man made the same journey. The younger pitcher was always very proud of the way it did its work and was sure that it was up to the task for which it had been created, while the other pitcher wa... more »
ABC: Extraordinary Act of Mercy: Brother of Botham Jean Hugs and Forgives Amber Guyger After 10-Year Sentence Imposed
On Wednesday, former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to serve ten years in prison for the fatal 2018 killing of an innocent man she shot when she mistakenly entered his apartment, believing it was her own. On September 6, 2018, Guyger, who had just finished a thirteen-hour shift, entered the Dallas, Texas apartment […] The post ABC: Extraordinary Act of Mercy: Brother of Botham Jean Hugs and Forgives Amber Guyger After 10-Year Sentence Imposed appeared first on Health Nut News.
"Thou Shalt Not..."
“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. And above all, Thou shalt not be a bystander.” - Yehuda Bauer
Three Lessons From the First Time a Head of State Was Impeached
Charles I in Three Positions (painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1635–36) When the Framers wrote impeachment into the Constitution, they were drawing on a long history of English common law. But situated within that history, the first impeachment of a head of state had taken place relatively recently—less than 150 years before the drafting of the Constitution. On January 1, 1649, the House of Commons impeached Charles Stuart, then King Charles I of England, for attempting “to subvert the fundamental Laws and Liberties of this Nation.” The circumstances that led Parliament to break ... more »
SALT lawsuit swept aside by a federal judge
BY E.J. McMAHON In what could rank among the least surprising federal court rulings of this or any year, a U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan has rejected New York’s constitutional challenge to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap
HUSOCK: End dependence trap with better use of public housing
BY HOWARD HUSOCK The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) operates 174,000 total units, making it, by far, the largest public housing authority in the United States. But living conditions in NYCHA units are abysmal. After decades of deferred maintenance,
Iowa voter ID law survives lawsuit claiming racial bias
A judge has upheld Iowa’s voter identification law, rejecting claims by an open borders group that the measure is unconstitutional because it makes it harder for minorities to cast ballots. When the group, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), filed the
DeBlasio returns to a New York slipping towards crime and disorder
BY MICAH MORRISON New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s withdrawal from the presidential race last week is a lost opportunity. A successful de Blasio effort in the Democratic primaries—his was anything but—could have sparked a necessary national debate over signs of
Judicial Watch sues for records on Biden’s firing of Ukrainian prosecutor
Former Vice President Joe Biden isn’t going to escape scrutiny of his demands that the Ukraine government for his son’s personal gain. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records about the firing of Ukraine’s top prosecutor after the
Is Hong Kong Really A Fight for Freedom and Democracy? What a Fraud. - LaRouchePAC Fireside Chat
Is Hong Kong Really A Fight for Freedom and Democracy? What a Fraud. - LaRouchePAC Fireside Chat Video of Is Hong Kong Really A Fight for Freedom and Democracy? What a Fraud. - LaRouchePAC Fireside Chat Once again, a major political destabilization for geopolitical purposes is conducted against a country falsely portrayed as an enemy—all in the name of “freedom” and “democracy.” Tonight, Mike Billington will lay bare the actual historical nature of Hong Kong as a libertine center of the financing of the international drug trade and much else, a monkey trap, set up by the British ... more »
"Economic Market Snapshot PM 10/3/19"
• Gregory Mannarino, "Post Market: Grey Aliens And The Communist Manifesto" - https://www.traderschoice.net/ • MarketWatch Market Summary, Live Updates - https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/marketsummary • CNN Market Data: - http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/ CNN Fear And Greed Index: - http://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/ • "Dow Collapses 1300 Points Since Cataclysmic-ISM, Oil & Bond Yields Plunge, Rate-Cut Odds Soar" "Stocks Panic-Bid - Erase PMI Plunge As Rate-Cut Odds Hit 90%"" "Don't worry - The Fed will save us all, *right?"* "The Economic Collapse is Here. It’s Happening i... more »
Boris Johnson's "New" Brexit Plan
Were it not for the fact Boris Johnson is the Prime Minister and the leader of the Conservative Party, he needn't have bothered with his speech at his party's conference. It was certainly the most vacuous pitch any leader has made on the eve of a much-expected election, ever. Policy announcements? There were none. But we heard about a battery factory and the way Johnson's mum voted in the EU referendum, so that's okay. Also missing was virtually any detail about the government's new positioning on Brexit. Yes, we know Johnson can be economical with the actualité, and facts have a te... more »
Russian Military Plane Intercepted Off Denmark By An F-16 Painted In The Style Of The Danish Banner
From above: The Russian jet, a Soviet-era IL-20M spy plane, did not enter Danish airspace after it was intercepted by Danish aircraft including the repainted F-16 (seen at the bottom of this picture). The Russian plane is designated Coot-A by Nato *Daily Mail:* *Flying the flag! Russian military plane is intercepted off of Denmark… by F-16 that had been painted in the style of the Danish banner* * The fighter jet was painted red and white to mark 800 years of the Danish flag, which was adopted in 1219 * It was sent into action on Monday to confront a Russian spy plane which had s... more »
EU Court: Facebook Can Be Forced to Remove Content Worldwide
The European Union’s highest court has ruled that individual member countries can force Facebook to remove what they regard as unlawful material from the social network all over the world.
CPPIB Bolsters Real Estate, Private Debt
PE Hub Network reports that the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Boston Properties Inc. have formed a joint venture to develop Platform 16, an urban office campus in San Jose, California: According to terms of this deal, CPPIB will have 45 percent ownership stake in Platform 16 while Boston Properties will have a 55 percent ownership stake. This is the second joint venture between Boston Properties and CPPIB following the Santa Monica Business Park campus in Santa Monica, California in 2018. Boston Properties is a developer, owner and manager of U.S. office properti... more »
New report: Impact, outlook for investors in wake of marijuana vape crisis
This report takes a closer look at the vape segment of cannabis and provides a framework to assess the downside risk and upside potential of stocks with significant exposure to the sector. New report: Impact, outlook for investors in wake of marijuana vape crisis is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
A Generation Deleted: American Bombs in Yemen Are Costing an Entire Generation Their Future
As a new school year begins in Yemen, Ahmed AbdulKareem investigates the impact that American weapons have had on the war-torn country's schoolchildren. The post A Generation Deleted: American Bombs in Yemen Are Costing an Entire Generation Their Future appeared first on MintPress News.
Rick Hess's Apologia for Child Abuser, Mike Feinberg
KIPP, Inc. would like to forget that Mike Feinberg is co-founder of KIPP, a corporate "no excuses" charter school chain made infamous by a weird macho management style that exhibits sadistic and masochistic excesses toward both students and teachers. Adults and children are commonly worked to the point of physical and mental collapse and then discarded without any signs of empathy or concern by KIPP CEOs. KIPP's discarded victims are most often brainwashed to self-blame for their failure to meet KIPP's expectations, which keeps negative PR to a minimum while insulating the perpet... more »
What the Saudi oil shock tells us about monetary policy
When I do PowerPoint presentations on monetary policy, I often explain level targeting with an analogy from the oil industry. Suppose oil output was suddenly reduced by technical problems in Saudi Arabia, but the disruption was expected to be temporary. In that case, oil prices would rise by much less than if the exact same […] The post What the Saudi oil shock tells us about monetary policy appeared first on Econlib.
The US Navy's Last F/A-18C Hornet Fighter Jet Just Made Its Last Flight
Navy Lt. Andrew Jalali prepares for the official final active-duty flight of the last Navy F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106 at Naval Air Station Oceana, October 2, 2019. US Navy/Mass Comm Specialist 3rd Class Nikita Custer *Business Insider*:* The Navy's last F/A-18C Hornet fighter jet just made its last flight* * The Navy's last F/A-18C Hornet, aircraft number 300, completed its last active-duty flight on Wednesday. * Both the F/A-18A and F/A-18C Hornet variants have been replaced by the updated F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. NORFOLK, Virginia (NNS) — The la... more »
ISIS suffers heavy losses in failed attack along key Syrian highway
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:20 P.M.) – The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) took a big risk on Wednesday when their forces attempted to attack the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops along the Deir Ezzor-Sukhnah Highway. Under the cover night, the Islamic State terrorists began their attack by storming the Syrian Army’s defenses along the part of the highway […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Russia offers to form security organization to protect Persian Gulf
Russia offers to establish an organization with the participation of Russia, the US, EU states and other countries in order to resolve the issues in the Persian Gulf, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed on Thursday during the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club. “I would like to remind you that following this logic, Russia […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Syrian Air Force unleashes heavy attack on jihadist stronghold in Latakia
BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:30 P.M.) – For the fourth time this week, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) unleashed a major assault across the northeastern countryside of the Latakia Governorate, which is mostly under the control of the jihadist rebels. According to a military source in the Latakia countryside, the Syrian Air Force launched several strikes […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Electrical Plants & Trees
Last year I proposed the idea that vegetation, in this case trees, is linked to the flow of electricity from the Earth to the ionosphere here, in the presence of ground water. The atmosphere’s thermal state is generally lower under … Continue reading →
Does Trump Want to Make Mocking Jesus a ‘Hate Crime’?
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Binge Eating Videos Find Big Audience, Even for Weight Loss
The South Korea-rooted video trend is known as “mukbang,” and it has spread to the U.S. and around the globe on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
"Poverty is 'sustainable,' prosperity is progressive." #QotD
*"Poverty is 'sustainable,' prosperity is progressive... "Sustainability" is not a good way to think about things. "'Sustainability' implies that our goal should be repetition: that we want to do something that can be repeated over and over and over. "But I think of life in terms of evolution or progress. We don't want to do the same thing over and over and over, we want to find better and better ways of doing things...If people are free, and they are free to use energy and to use technology, they can have really good lives even in places with naturally inhospitable cli... more »
Bad Administrator Field Guide
Is there a lousier job in the world than that of a school administrator. For the past twenty years, it has been all of the responsibility and none of the power. Yet a building principal (and to some extent a superintendent) have enormous control over a teacher's workplace-- how miserable is it, how safe is it, and how hard is it for teachers to do the job they signed up to do? Administrators come in all shapes and sizes these days (though they are still mostly men), especially since the last twenty years of reformy baloney has done some bad things to the hiring pool. But there are s... more »
Musical Interlude: Supertramp, "The Logical Song"
Supertramp, "The Logical Song"
The Daily "Near You?"
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Peter Schiff, "The Party Is Over. Don't Be the Last to Leave."
*Peter Schiff, * *"The Party Is Over. Don't Be the Last to Leave."* "What is driving US GDP is consumers spending borrowed money and the government spending borrowed money. That’s it. That’s the secret. Have a borrowing binge and spend a bunch of money to try to artificially boost GDP while the actual economy - the real economy - is imploding. As Peter said, at some point, you have to pay the piper." Full article here: - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/peter-schiff-party-over
Brexit Chaos: Boris Johnson Set to Prorogue Parliament Again Next Week
[image: brexit-chaos-boris-johnson-set-to-prorogue-parliament-again-next-week] After the U.K.’s Supreme Court ruled last week that Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament for five weeks was unlawful, Johnson announced plans to do so again, but for a much shorter duration.
Sweden: Somali Muslim Assaults 21 People, Mainly Women — Motive “Unclear”
[image: sweden-somali-muslim-assaults-21-people-mainly-women-motive-unclear] Maybe they can blame his “assault” bicycle. A Somali Muslim living in Sweden and dubbed “the bicycle man” has recently been arrested for attacking 21 random people, mostly women, in the Swedish city of Eskilstuna. Prosecutors say they have reason to fear that the migrant will continue committing crimes. Yet three-monkeys style — which is fashionable among Western authorities and media — they say the man’s motives “remain unclear.”
U.K. Court Rules Against Doctor Fired for Refusing to Acknowledge Transgender as a Sex
[image: u-k-court-rules-against-doctor-fired-for-refusing-to-acknowledge-transgender-as-a-sex] A Christian doctor in the United Kingdom was fired after he refused to use transgender pronouns, and has lost a lawsuit against the government after a court declared his belief in the Bible to be “incompatible with human dignity.”
'My dream job': Alex ditched a traditional career to earn a full-time income posting videos online
Alex Hockings is one of a growing number of Australians ditching traditional career pathways and turning to online platforms to make money — earning a full-time income — leaving schools scrambling to keep up with new career options.
The fires of the future are here, but we might not be ready for them
Ben Deacon, Kathleen Ferguson, Meredith Griffiths, Liz Keen, Meghna Bali And Scott Mitchell at Just In - 8 hours ago
Firefighting experts and senior scientists tell Background Briefing they're concerned the Federal Government is refusing to guarantee funding for the only national research body for bushfires beyond 2021.
Gunman who threatened woman before being shot by police 'suffered stroke after football injury'
The man shot dead outside Penrith police station this week had a promising rugby league career ahead of him when he suffered a massive stroke which left him unable to walk, talk or eat without his mother's help.
Raiders need to ignore pre-match noise to have any hope in grand final
Viking claps, giant horns and nostalgic tales of the great 'Green Machine' must be ignored by the underdog Canberra Raiders if they are to have any chance of beating the heavily favoured Roosters in Sunday's NRL grand final, writes Richard Hinds.
Skye Bogenhuber didn't have a scratch on her, but her accident put her to sleep for two days
It is the most dangerous land-based job in the world, but that doesn't stop jockey Skye Bogenhuber from getting in the saddle, even after nearly dying in a heavy fall.
The pros and cons of contributing to your super early
It might be no surprise to you that you need to be regularly putting money into your super. But you might be overlooking other factors that can help make a healthy super account: compound interest and time.
Syria Sitrep: Constitutional Talks,Turkey, Russia, Iran & Iraq Colour Revolution 3.0?
*This post has been a long time comin' We'll get up to speed on the constitutional talks. US and PKK not pleased. Turkey and US at odds over the safe zone... Not that they ever agreed. Rob Ford appears. Lavrov talks. The US continues to arm the PKK/YPG. Ansar al Islam is a Kurdish salafist terror group- as has been previously mentioned here- Looks like Israel may be employing them in a new paramilitary aka terror force in Syria- 10 news articles below* *1- Israel behind new paramilitary force in Syria* *Personally, I do not doubt this news. Since I’ve dozens and dozens of articles ... more »
A Look Inside A Startup That Is Building AI-Powered Military Technology
*NBC: **Inside Anduril, the startup that is building AI-powered military technology* *"The technology companies that should be solving these problems refuse to do so," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey told NBC News.* On a blazing day in the scrublands just outside Irvine, California, Brian Schimpf watched as a man walked into a distant valley wearing a long-sleeved shirt and a hat to protect against the sun. Within moments, sensors in towers on a nearby hillside used pattern-recognition algorithms to spot the man, and remote cameras found and tracked him. A large helicopter-like ... more »
New Data Shows Aborted Fetal Cells in Vaccines
By The Corvelva Team The Italian vaccine research and advocacy organization Corvelva recently released new data regarding the use of aborted fetal cells in vaccines. The research reports the results produced from the MRC 5 cell line analysis, particularly the one contained in GlaxoSmithKline’s tetravalent measles-mumps-rubella-chickenpox (MMRV) vaccine. The Corvelva team summarized their findings as […] The post New Data Shows Aborted Fetal Cells in Vaccines appeared first on Children's Health Defense.
Trump Is Abandoning Family Farms. Will Family Farmers Abandon Trump?
Trump doesn't own a dog; he doesn't understand that relationship. In fact, he hates animals. And he laughs at farmers-- even if was, after all, rural counties that made him president. The AP reported that on Tuesday Trump's Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, a longtime wealthy exploiter of family farmers, went to a town hall type of event at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin where he told reporters that the government isn't interested in propping up small family famers any longer. "In America," he said, "the big get bigger and the small go out. I don't think in Americ... more »
President Trump Impromptu Remarks Departing White House – Video and Transcript…
Chopper pressers are the best pressers. President Trump pauses to hold an impromptu press conference departing the White House for a trip to Florida. [Video and Transcript below] . [Transcript] – THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. We’re going to The Villages … Continue reading →
Peter Navarro Discusses Major WTO Victory for Trump Trade Program…
White House trade and manufacturing policy advisor Peter Navarro appears on Fox Business to discusses the World Trade Organization ruling granting the U.S. $7.5 billion in annual tariff countermeasures against the EU.
Pencelensky!
(By Cyril Blubberpuss, Conservative-American) *T*hat Mike Pence is a criminal genius!" I said as I just axed health care for everyone under the Board of Directors today. Why, behind that flat, shaved orangutan face of his that's perfectly suited to mold itself into whatever expression his superiors need at any second lies a political Al Capone! What else is there to say about a man who essentially strong-armed his way to Poland so Donald Trump was cheated out of another chance to ask Zelensky to dig up some dirt on Joe Biden? That was Pence who'd spoken to Zelensky on July 25th... more »
Support for impeachment said to grow!
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2019But apparently not Over There:* Friend, do you support impeachment, even removal from office? If so, you've been heartened by many reports which have said that support for impeachment has been growing. One such report appeared in yesterday's New York Times, In print editions, the report appeared beneath this headline: *Support for Impeachment Is Growing, Polls Indicate* It doesn't get more straightforward than that. That said, the basic numbers remained a bit underwhelming: RUSSONELLO (10/2/19): A majority of registered voters now approve of the House’... more »
Canopy cannabis woes drives huge loss at alcohol giant Constellation
Constellation Brands, the New York-state based alcohol giant, on Thursday reported a net loss of $525.2 million in its most recent quarter, with most of the loss coming from its 38% stake in cannabis company, Canopy Growth. The red ink underscores the uncertainties mainstream companies face when partnering with a business involved in the emerging […] Canopy cannabis woes drives huge loss at alcohol giant Constellation is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
Michigan expands social equity areas as adult-use marijuana program nears
Michigan cannabis regulators more than doubled the number of communities eligible for social equity assistance, which will mean reduced application fees for potentially dozens of additional recreational marijuana business applicants. The expansion from 19 to 41 communities occurred after the staff from the Marijuana Regulatory Agency continued researching available data, state officials said. Michigan will start […] Michigan expands social equity areas as adult-use marijuana program nears is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis ... more »
Sanders to Be at Democratic Debate Following Heart Procedure
Bernie Sanders will participate in the upcoming Democratic presidential debate after being hospitalized because of a blocked artery in his heart.
Biden to Trump: 'You’re Not Going to Destroy Me, and You’re Not Going to Destroy My Family'
*Shelby Talcott* *Politics, Americas* [image: Former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden makes a statement during an event in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Bastiaan Slabbers] The former veep hits back. Former Vice President Joe Biden hit back at President Donald Trump Wednesday, letting the president know that he won’t be destroyed and isn’t “going anywhere.” Trump has gone after the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate in recent weeks over his son Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine. This follows an August whistleblower c... more »
A-10 Warthog: Pilots Who Fly Them Love Them (And They Told Us Why)
*Kris Osborn* *Security, * A killer that just won't go away. *Key Point* (This first appeared in 2017 and is being reposted due to reader interest): Although the continued existence of the A-10 is assured well into the next decade, the debate about what, if anything, might be able to replace it is quite likely to continue. Known for an ability to keep flying after taking multiple rounds of enemy machine gun fire, land and operate in rugged terrain, destroy groups of enemy fighters with a 30mm cannon and unleash a wide arsenal of attack weapons, the A-10 is described by pilots a... more »
1,500 People and Counting: The Trump Administration Is In Love with Sanctions
*Daniel R. DePetris* *Security, * By the end of 2018, approximately 1,500 individuals and entities were included on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list, a significant increase over the previous year. There is no activity policymakers and lawmakers in Washington, DC enjoy more than enacting sanctions on the bad guys. If somebody, somewhere, is behaving in a less than ideal way or is challenging U.S. policy objectives, stepping up the sanctions pressure is likely the very first policy tool the U.S. government will reach for. The Trump administration has take... more »
NATO Had Only 1 Cold War Plan To Stop a Russian Invasion: Nuclear War
*Robert Farley* *Security, * NATO expected to liberally use tactical nuclear weapons to slow the Soviet advance... *Bottom Line*: NATO expected to liberally use tactical nuclear weapons to slow the Soviet advance... A RAND wargame several years ago on a potential Russian offensive into the Baltics brought talk of a “new Cold War” into sharp focus. The game made clear that NATO would struggle to prevent Russian forces from occupying the Baltics if it relied on the conventional forces now available. These wargames have great value in demonstrating tactical and operational reality... more »
I Negotiated with North Korea for 13 Years. Here Is What I Learned.
*Joseph R. DeTrani* *Security, * These are important lessons that can help guide negotiators through the thicket of obstacles they will confront in achieving U.S. goals with North Korea. The thirteen years (2003-2016) I invested in negotiations with North Korea in different capacities—Special Envoy, Associate Director of National Intelligence and as a private citizen—have made me guardedly optimistic that a peaceful resolution of issues with North Korea is possible. The US has successfully concluded agreements during the past twenty-five years of on-and-off negotiations with Nor... more »
Oct. 3: Is it too late?
Note to our correspondent who was an administrator at McGill and who I taught when the world and I were young. You can reach me at --- graemedecarie1@gmail.com https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/key-moments-french-language-debate-1.5306941 Canadians, like all the peoples of this planet, face a horrible extinction. Can it be prevented? Nobody cares. How much time to we have to act? Canadian political parties don't care. We, the Canadian people, are worse. The election shows that the Canadian people don't care.No. They're concentrating on the big issues like SNC Lavalin, and whether we ... more »
Dear True Environmentalists: Fight Corporate Criminality, not Atmospheric Gases
by Denis Rancourt / October 3rd, 2019 Published at Dissident Voice. Dear true environmentalists: I am with you.1 Corporate pollution and releasing of toxic substances should be treated as a criminal act, with full power to seize assets for reparations, actual reparations, not just punitive fines. I would apply the same standard of prosecution to the “medical”/pharma2 and agri-food
Piketty and Saez Revisited
This paper by Gerald Auten (Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department) and David Splinter (Joint Committee on Taxation) seems important. The abstract (emphasis added): Top income share estimates based only on individual tax returns, such as Piketty and Saez (2003) are biased by tax-base changes, major social changes, and missing income sources. Addressing these issues requires numerous assumptions, especially for broadening income beyond that reported on tax returns. This paper shows the effects of adjusting for technical tax issues and the sensitivity to alternative assumpt... more »
The Impeachment Farce: Will The 'Smoking Gun' Backfire?
No wonder the Democrats wanted a really fast House impeachment vote. As more information comes out about the "whistleblower" and the role of House Democratic leadership to husband the gossip into a complaint - and from there to impeachment - the more it looks like another Steele Dossier. Will this farce blow up in their faces, or will their allies in the mainstream media be capable of keeping any counter-evidence from the screens of mainstream media watching America? Tune in to today's Liberty Report:
Incredible And Crazy – Incompetent Journalists And Climate Scientists
A few weeks ago, during mid-winter, experts announced that rapidly growing Antarctic sea ice had “shrunk to record lows.” Antarctic sea ice: Shrinks to record low levels, study says Antarctic sea ice extent is right at the 1981-2010 mean. Charctic … Continue reading →
Proving Irony Isn’t Dead, World’s Largest Military Fears Joker Film Will Inspire Mass Shootings
The U.S. Army has warned its soldiers away from screenings of the new movie The Joker, citing “disturbing and very specific chatter in the dark web” about a mass shooting planned for a movie theater—seemingly validating the concerns of the media establishment’s film critics, who have been shrieking for weeks that the film will inspire real-life gun violence. But if the Pentagon is truly concerned about the cause of mass shootings, it would do well… The post Proving Irony Isn’t Dead, World’s Largest Military Fears Joker Film Will Inspire Mass Shootings appeared first on The Ghion J... more »
Trump's Privatization Plan for Medicare
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 *Contact*: Linda Benesch, lbenesch@socialsecurityworks.org *Trump’s Executive Order is Backdoor Privatization of Medicare**(Washington, DC) —* The following is a statement from *Nancy Altman*, President of Social Security Works, on the Medicare executive order Donald Trump is signed today: “Medicare Advantage is a hustle designed to allow for-profit corporations to suck up public dollars. For years, Republicans have shoveled money into Medicare Advantage plans and allowed them to offer benefits that traditional Medicare is forbidde... more »
He Knows Nothing!
The *WaPo* dropped this bombshell last night essentially proving that Pence also committed an impeachable crime in Poland. This was the trip that Trump had skipped and sent Pence in his stead with the ridiculous excuse that he needed to watch Hurricane Dorian (He played golf, instead). Pence's defense? I know nothing, I see nothing. Except one of his top advisors (Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg*) *was in on the July 25th call to Zelensky. And that Pence was given a briefing on the call the very next day. And that he was given a packet that he took to Warsaw that again in... more »
Iran Claims It Thwarted An Arab-Israeli Plot To Assassinate IRGC QudsCommander General Soleimani
Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot) *Times of Israel:** Iran says it foiled ‘Israel-Arab’ plot to assassinate top military commander* Three arrested in plan that allegedly involved blowing up Qassem Soleimani during a memorial service for his father. Iran thwarted what it described as an “Israel-Arab” plot to assassinate General Qassem Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds Force in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian media reported Thursday. The Guard’s intelligence chief, Hossein Taeb, told an annual co... more »
Almost-Emergency Fundraiser Appeal
*Almost Emergency Fundraiser Appeal* My deepest apologies, but a quite unexpected situation has arisen that isn't an "emergency", not *quite* yet anyway, but does require immediate attention, so I'm tossing this appeal out as a "fundraiser", the very first and last time it'll ever happen. If you're able to, would you please consider a donation to the blog- and me- at the PayPal donation sidebar. It would be very greatly appreciated! And, as always, thanks for stopping by! - CP On a much more positive note, I'm delighted to report that we went over 8 million page views! Since August ... more »
"Sometimes..."
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'” - Charles M. Schulz
Corrupt Chinese Official Found With Thirteen And A Half Tonnes Of Gold And £30Billion In His Bank Account
*Daily Mail:* *Thirteen and a half tonnes of gold worth up to £520million is found in a corrupt Chinese official's home and £30BILLION in suspected bribe money in his bank account* * Thousands of golden bars and bricks were discovered in a room during a raid * Inspectors also discovered £30 billion in suspected bribes on his account * The 58-year-old official in Haikou has been sacked and is under investigation * He would have been richer than China's richest man if charges turn out to be true A powerful Communist official in China is suspected to have received 13.5 tonnes of gol... more »
That looks infectious!
Found on Gab, the dreaded "croc-dot" disease: The cure? Winter. Peter
Lula Will Receive the Title of Honorary Citizen of Paris
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Even while in prison, Lula may receive the title of Honorary Citizen of Paris in the next few days. The mayor of Paris, the socialist Anne Hidalgo, should grant Lula the title of Honorary Citizen of the city in the coming days. She received a proposal from the Paris City […] The post Lula Will Receive the Title of Honorary Citizen of Paris appeared first on The Rio Times.
Putin: Russia Helping China To Build A Missile-Attack Warning System
The stationary Don-2-N multirole early-warning radar in the town of Sofrino in the Moscow Region helps protect Moscow from ballistic missile strikes. © Sputnik / Kirill Kallinikov *RT*: *Moscow is helping Beijing build missile-attack warning system that only Russia & US have – Putin * A missile-attack warning system that Moscow is helping Beijing put together will drastically increase China’s defense capabilities, President Vladimir Putin said, noting that only Russia and the US currently have such technology. "I don’t think I’ll open a huge secret here. It’ll become clear anyway... more »
Sweden: Christian Church Describes Teenage Climate-Change Activist Greta Thunberg as a “Successor” to Jesus Christ
The Christian Church of Limhamn tweeted, "Announcement! Jesus of Nazareth has now appointed one of his successors, Greta Thunberg.” Limhamn is a municipality in southern Sweden.
Elizabeth Warren Has Embraced AOC’s Immigration Plan for Open Borders and Full Welfare Benefits for Illegal Immigrants
Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who has already voiced support for open borders in the US, now endorses AOC's proposal to provide welfare for illegal immigrants, including free healthcare, unemployment benefits, and food stamps.
French Authorities Are Helping Human Smugglers Bring Migrants into the UK
An alleged human trafficker reported that French authorities are helping smuggle people across the channel to the UK so migrants will leave France.
New Law Proposes to Prohibit Gun Ownership from People Convicted of Misdemeanor “Hate Crimes”
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, the co-sponsor of the Senate version of the bill, says the misdemeanors that would prevent someone from owning a gun include threats and harassment.
Ruling strikes down California’s attempt to require candidates to disclose tax returns
This week a federal judge had enjoined a California law requiring presidential candidates to publicly disclose their tax returns. The injunction had been requested by Judicial Watch, President Donald Trump, and other challengers to the law. California’s Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act (“SB 27”) requires presidential candidates to disclose
Rosenstein advised Muller that ‘the boss’ doesn’t know about their communication, DOJ documents show
Rosenstein docs also show ‘off the record’ leaks to 60 Minutes, The New York Times and The Washington Post around and on the date of Mueller’s appointment. (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch released 145 pages of Rod Rosenstein’s communications that include a one-line email from Rod Rosenstein to Robert Mueller
Turing Test: Why It Still Matters
Could everything we know and do one day be reproduced by a complicated enough computer program installed in a complicated enough robot?
Bill Gates Book on Fighting Climate Change Coming Next June
Bill Gates is taking his fight against climate change to the printed page.
Alcohol Is Fertility Statistical Magic - But Not In The Way You Think
A new review of other papers claims that unless women stopped drinking alcohol a year prior to conception they probably gave their kids future congenital heart disease. The authors are not kidding. And binge drinking was correlated to 52 percent higher birth defects for males. The confounders are obvious, as they are for any exploratory paper: drinking was self-reported, congenital heart diseases are the most common birth defects, and the authors hand-selected studies that affirmed their hypothesis. read more
THE MEDIA'S TRUMP RULES ARE KILLING HIM NOW
Here are a few items from the online front page of *The Washington Post*: You know the rules of political journalism in America ever since the summer of 2015: *Everything Donald Trump does is fascinating.* Every pronouncement. Every tweet. Every feud. Every threat. Whatever Trump does drowns out everything else. There are rare exceptions -- during the 2016 campaign, reporters also liked to focus on Hillary Clinton, but only to tell us how awful they think she is. Apart from that, Trump has monopolized the media ever since he announced his candidacy. That was beneficial to h... more »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/3/2019
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The Left is Burdening Our Children
[image: dukes-take-the-left-is-burdening-our-children] VIDEO - In this episode of “Duke’s Take,” Dr. Duke shares personal stories to show how the Left is using false statistics and disturbing propaganda about climate change to scare young children. Dr. Duke says “That kind of dishonesty is the dishonesty designed to break the hearts of moms and dads…traumatize the children, and then let the children take their trauma back home to the parents.”
Seattle Schools: Math Racist, Oppressed Need Liberation From the Right Answer
[image: seattle-schools-math-racist-oppressed-need-liberation-from-the-right-answer] Students in Seattle will learn math in an “ethnic studies framework” that depicts the subject as oppressive, and that the right answer to a math question might be relative to a person’s ethnicity and culture.
Seven-year Car Loans: Invitation to Disaster?
[image: seven-year-car-loans-invitation-to-disaster] None are so blind as those who refuse to see: Longer car loans are an invitation to disaster.
Amber Guyger Gets Just 10 Years for MURDER as Man Sentenced to 99 Years for Kicking a Cop
By Matt Agorist As TFTP reported on Tuesday, the family of Botham Jean thought they were finally going to see some justice after the police... more »
U.S. Prosecutors Allege El Chapo Gave $1m In Bribes To Honduran President’s Brother
Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo *FOX News:* *'El Chapo' paid $1 million bribe to fund sitting Honduran president's campaign: prosecutors* Convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán allegedly used the brother of the current Honduran president as the go-between in a 2013 bribe scheme trading $1 million for cartel protection, U.S. federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Juan Antonio “Tony” Herná... more »
Drip, drip: Former Harvard stem cell researcher up to 18 retractions
Piero Anversa, a former star researcher at Harvard Medical School who left the institution under a cloud, is up to 18 retractions. But that’s barely half of the 31 papers by Anversa’s group that Harvard has requested journals pull over concerns about the integrity of the findings. The two articles, published in the Proceedings of … Continue reading Drip, drip: Former Harvard stem cell researcher up to 18 retractions
Natural Gas Assessment Highest in Potential Gas Committee’s History
The Potential Gas Committee announced that the amount of producible natural gas in the United States increased by about 20… The post Natural Gas Assessment Highest in Potential Gas Committee’s History appeared first on IER.
Victory! EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study How Law Enforcement Uses the Privacy Invasive Technology
San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) have reached an agreement with Los Angeles law... more »
World News Briefs -- October 3, 2019
A riot police officer fires pepper-spray projectile toward anti-government protesters demonstrating near the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong, China, September 29, 2019. Picture taken Spetember 29, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha *Reuters:* *Hong Kong set to enact emergency laws as it struggles to contain violence* HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s government is expected to discuss sweeping emergency laws on Friday that would include banning face masks at protests, two sources told Reuters, as the Chinese-ruled territory grapples with an escalating cycle of violence. ... more »
Tory conference: Disabled activists shame Tories on cost of ‘heartless’ austerity
Disabled activists have protested outside the Conservative conference in Manchester in a bid to shame party members into accepting that a decade of austerity cuts from Tory-led governments have caused poverty, despair and countless deaths. Protesters spoke of how the cuts and […]
Labour’s pledge to scrap universal credit ‘is victory for years of activism’
Disabled activists have welcomed Labour’s promise to scrap universal credit (UC) if it wins power at the next general election as a victory for years of campaigning. But they have warned the party that they still want to know how UC will […]
Months of PIP distress ‘hastened my brother’s death’
The brother of a disabled man who was denied disability benefits when he was dying has launched a petition calling on the government to scrap the outsourcing of all face-to-face assessments to private contractors. James Oliver, from Hastings – the constituency of […]
Tory conference: Universal credit damage ‘is throwback to Victorian era’
The boss of a homeless charity that provides services just a short walk from this week’s Tory party conference has told party members that universal credit is causing early deaths, addiction, mental distress and suicides, with claimants “at the end of their […]
Tory conference: Solution to social care crisis ‘may finally be within reach’
A permanent solution to the social care funding crisis may finally be within reach, with growing calls for proposals that would include free social care, according to a former adviser to the Tory health and social care secretary. Richard Sloggett, who was […]
Disabled Rebels call for ‘new blood’ as they prepare for Extinction Rebellion
A group of “Disabled Rebels” who will take part in next week’s Extinction Rebellion protests in London are calling for other disabled people to join the action and take part in the worldwide attempts to highlight the impact of climate change. Together […]
Tory conference: Leading disabled Tory ‘wouldn’t give UN the time of day’
A leading disabled Tory has defended his government’s disability policies, dismissing three highly critical reports by the UN and concerns about the impact of Brexit on social care, rights and access to medication. Barry Ginley, deputy chair of the Conservative Disability Group […]
Train companies set to be forced to act on rail replacement access after legal advice
Train companies must ensure that nearly all their rail replacement vehicles are accessible to disabled people, or risk criminal prosecution, according to legal advice obtained by the rail regulator. Train companies have reacted to the provisional legal advice by promising to comply […]
True Confessions, TrumPelosi-Style
Donnie just stole all the thunder from the Democratic Party's Ukraine-gate impeachment case. He entered a shock pre-emptive guilty plea right on the White House Lawn before heading off to Florida to sign an executive order allowing private insurance predators to profit even more blatantly from government-funded Medicare than they already do. Unlike most guilty pleas, though, Trump's admission that he did ask the president of Ukraine get dirt on the Bidens was not entered in the spirit of contrition or with the abject aim of getting off with probation or a plea deal. It was entered i... more »
Climate activists red-faced after plan to hose UK Treasury with fake blood backfires
Just In - 10 hours ago
Extinction Rebellion wanted to spray the British Treasury building with fake blood to protest against the government's lack of action on the environment, but things quickly got out of control.
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