AUGUST 2016
Wednesday - August
31, 2016 - Today In History:
1852 - The first pre-stamped envelopes were created with legislation of
the U.S. Congress.
1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The
station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.
1920 - John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for "Toy-Cabin
Construction," which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086)
1935 - The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by
an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1940 - Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh were married.
1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.
1965 - The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created by
the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
1990 - U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with Iraqi
Foreign Minister Aziz to try and negotiate a solution to the crisis in
the Persian Gulf.
1990 - East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing
of political and legal systems.
1991 - In a "Solidarity Day" protest hundreds of thousands of union
members marched in Washington, DC.
1994 - A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25
years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
1994 - Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East
Germany and the Baltics after a half-century.
1997 - Britain's Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris at age 36.
1998 - A ballistic missile was fired over Japan by North Korea. The
missile landed in stages in the waters around Japan. There was no known
target.
2005 - Some 1,000 people were killed when a religious procession across
a Baghdad bridge was engulfed in panic over rumors of a suicide bomber.
2006 - Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium.
2010 - President Barack Obama ended the U.S. combat mission in Iraq,
declaring no victory after seven years of bloodshed.
ISIS says top-tier leader Abu Mohammed al-Adnani killed in
Aleppo
RT - Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, Islamic State spokesman and its
leader in Syria, has been killed in Aleppo province, according
to ISIS’ own news agency Amaq. Pentagon told Reuters that it had
carried out an air strike against a "senior IS official" but did
not confirm that it was behind al-Adnani's death. One of the
longest-serving Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS / ISIL)
figureheads, al-Adnani was reportedly killed “while surveying
the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo.”
The Syrian province in the midst of a multiple-way battle
between the Syrian government, assorted militants and Islamic
State. Despite a lengthy tribute, dated August 29, Amaq made no
mention of who was responsible for killing al-Adnani, or whether
he was killed from the air or from the ground. The US confirmed
that it targeted the town of al-Bab, outside the city of Aleppo,
in a recent air strike, and a rebel source told Reuters that
this was also the last known whereabouts of al-Adnani.
Washington said it was still reviewing the results of its
operation, and was not prepared to issue a public statement….
Al-Adnani, a Syrian citizen in his late 30s, had a $5 million US
Department of State bounty on his head – the second biggest for
any IS official after the movement’s leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi.
Israel’s ‘only real existential threat’ is potential civil war –
fmr Mossad chief
RT - Potential civil war is the number one threat to Israel’s
national security, a former Mossad chief said in his first
public appearance since leaving office. Tamir Pardo named
divisions within society and the triumph of hatred as the main
driving forces of internal conflict. “There is no outside
existential threat to Israel, the only real existential threat
is internal division,” Pardo said at an annual event to honor
fallen Druse soldiers in the north. “Internal division…can lead
us to civil war.” Claiming that Israel is already on the path
towards civil war, the former chief of the national Israeli
intelligence agency warned that soon Israelis could cross a
“certain line in its division and hatred” that could spill over
into “a phenomenon like a civil war.” The State of Israel had a
population of over 8,500,000 inhabitants as of May 2016. Some
74.8 percent of them are Jews, 20.8 percent Arab, while the
remaining 4.4 percent are defined as "other". While Jews and
Arabs are technically afforded equal rights under the Israeli
law, in many ways, the two sectors live in separate societies –
attending different schools, living in different cities, reading
different newspapers and pursuing different political goals. To
aid the state of society Pardo called for a diplomatic solution
to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying without it “we will
never be able to achieve normalization with our Arab neighbors.”
“The prime minister has said there will be two states between
the [Mediterranean] Sea and the [River] Jordan and he’s right,”
Pardo said. "In my opinion, we won't be able to reach any
agreement with any country beyond what we have now if we don't
solve the Palestinian issue."
Muslim Man Stabs Female Cop Because She “Represented France,”
Police Blame “Psychiatric Disorder”
Paul Joseph Watson - The stabbing occurred earlier today in the
Rempart Saint-Etienne area when a 31-year-old man Algerian man
entered a police station under the pretext of making a
complaint. After failing in his attempt to grab the officer’s
gun, the assailant repeatedly stabbed her in the throat. “The
woman is in a serious condition and the area around the police
station is in lockdown,” reports the Express. According to
reports, the man attacked the officer because she “represented
France,” although despite this obviously political motive,
authorities almost immediately concluded that the attack was
driven by the attacker’s “psychiatric disorder”. Meanwhile, in
another incident in France today, a man was arrested after he
began shooting a gun out of a window while shouting “Allahu
Akbar”. As we have documented, virtually every recent Islamist
attack in Europe has been dismissed by authorities as either
drug-fueled or caused by mental illness, despite in almost every
case the attacker chanting “Allahu Akbar” or making political
statements.
No questions asked’: Frenchman returning from Syria exposes
‘porous’ border control
RT - Despite a string terrorist attacks across France and
increased numbers of ISIS fighters returning home from the
battlefields, it could take potential terrorists mere minutes to
cross the French border using E-passport gates at the airports,
a French journalist told RT. Damien Rieu captured his brief
experience crossing the French border at Paris’ Charles de
Gaulle Airport earlier this month. Filming the ease of entering
the Schengen Zone, a gatehouse to 26 European countries that
have abolished passport and any other type of border controls,
Rieu said that his experience took less than three minutes.
Posting the video, Rieu said that he was “amazed” how quickly he
was allowed to enter France using his biometric passport,
considering that he has just returned from Syria, a breeding
ground for jihadists, whose fervent followers have continued to
carry out atrocities in France for over a year.
More than 300,000 refugees in Germany work illegally, pay
kickbacks to asylum center staff - reports
RT - Up to 30 percent of the 1.1 million asylum seekers who
arrived in Germany in 2015 may be working illegally, German
broadcaster NDR said, citing experts. It added that refugee
shelter employees often help migrants find illegal jobs in
return for kickbacks…. According to NDR’s own estimates, at
least 100,000 refugees living in Germany are working illicitly
while experts at the universities of Tuebingen and Linz say
their share could reach 30 percent of the 1.1 million asylum
seekers who came to Germany in 2015. At the same time, activists
and social workers in Lower Saxony and Berlin put this number at
50 percent of all refugees in Germany.
Norway Raids Sovereign Wealth Fund To Cover Government Expenses
Zero Hedge - Saudi Arabia isn't the only oil-dependent nation
struggling to make ends meet in the wake of weak oil prices. For
the first time since its establishment in 1996, the Norwegian
government is starting to withdraw money from its sovereign
wealth fund to cover government expenses. In fact, in the first
half of 2016 the government has withdrawn $5.4 billion.
Moreover, withdrawals are expected to accelerate in 2H 2016
reaching nearly $20 billion, a run-rate that would have them
exceeding the fiscal limits imposed on fund withdrawals of 4% of
assets, or $36 billion. To put those withdrawals into
perspective, Norway's economy is roughly $375 billion and
federal spending accounts for roughly 60% or $225BN. Therefore,
a $20BN withdrawal in 2H 2016 represents roughly 18% of total
government spending.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
U.S. Gov’t. Says It’s No Longer Against Al Qaeda
Strategic Culture - «We’re not focused on the former al-Nusra
Front [al-Qaeda in Syria]. We’re focused on Daesh [ISIS]. And
that’s what we’re fighting and that’s where therefore we look
and where we target». US Defense Department press briefing, 16
August 2016. Basic to America’s war against terrorism was Al
Qaeda as being the specific target, but, on August 16th, a U.S.
Defense Department spokesperson said that Al Qaeda is no longer
an enemy of the United States at all, and that only ISIS is
America’s enemy in the war against terrorism. However, Congress
never authorized anything but Al Qaeda to be the enemy in the
war against terrorism. Consequently, President Obama is now
violating the law by his no longer targeting Al Qaeda at all,
and he is also ignoring the law by his targeting ISIS (as he has
long been doing) without requesting a new authorization from
Congress to do so — an authorization that both Democrats and
Republicans in Congress would be virtually certain to grant
immediately. This new war-authorization would need to rectify a
key failing of the original war-authorization, by naming
“jihadism” specifically as America’s enemy, so that regardless
of what a particular jihadist group is, it can legally be a
target to eliminate. Under the existing resolution, only Al
Qaeda can be targeted, because that was the group which was
ultimately determined to have caused 9/11, and because the
existing war-authorization is restricted to only the
organization that perpetrated that specific jihadist act. This
new war-authorization would thus need to replace, instead of
modify, the existing authorization, so that U.S. military action
can legally be taken against any jihadist group, and not only
(as at present) against Al Qaeda.
The State Department finds 30 deleted Clinton emails on Benghazi
Washington Examiner - State Department attorneys said Tuesday
the agency had discovered 30 Benghazi-related emails among the
records recovered from Hillary Clinton's private server. A judge
asked the agency to hasten its review of the documents in
preparation for release to Judicial Watch, the
conservative-leaning group that filed the Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit. The emails were included among the roughly 15,000
emails FBI agents said they pulled from Clinton's server in the
course of a year-long probe. Others were deleted beyond recovery
after the Democratic nominee's team used a digital tool called
BleachBit to scrub the hardware that was eventually confiscated
by law enforcement agents. Agency lawyers said during the
hearing Tuesday before Judge Amit Mehta of U.S. District Court
that they had not yet determined how many of the
Benghazi-related emails had already been disclosed in the batch
of 55,000 pages of emails Clinton turned over in late 2014.
Judicial Watch attorneys had asked the State Department to
examine the deleted records in order to determine whether any
fell under to its FOIA request for emails that mentioned
Benghazi.
Hillary Has Until September 29 To Respond - Under Oath - To
These 25 Questions
Zero Hedge - Judicial Watch announced on its website today that
it has submitted a list of 25 questions to Hillary Clinton
regarding her email practices while serving as Secretary of
State. Pursuant to a decision by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet
G. Sullivan, Hillary has 30 days to respond, under oath, to the
questions. Per federal law, Judicial Watch was limited to a
total of 25 questions. All 25 questions are included in their
entirety below (we've highlighted some of the particularly
amusing ones): 1. Describe the creation of the clintonemail.com
system, including who decided to create the system, the date it
was decided to create the system, why it was created, who set it
up, and when it became operational. 2. Describe the creation of
your clintonemail.com email account, including who decided to
create it, when it was created, why it was created, and, if you
did not set up the account yourself, who set it up for you. 3.
When did you decide to use a clintonemail.com email account to
conduct official State Department business and whom did you
consult in making this decision? 4. Identify all communications
in which you participated concerning or relating to your
decision to use a clintonemail.com email account to conduct
official State Department business and, for each communication,
identify the time, date, place, manner (e.g., in person, in
writing, by telephone, or by electronic or other means), persons
present or participating, and content of the communication. 5.
In a 60 Minutes interview aired on July 24, 2016, you stated
that it was “recommended” you use a personal email account to
conduct official State Department business. What recommendations
were you given about using or not using a personal email account
to conduct official State Department business, who made any such
recommendations, and when were any such recommendations made?…
Obama Admits 10,000 Syrian Refugees: This Is Where They Are
Headed
Zero Hedge - [Monday,] the White House announced that the US had
met President Obama’s goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees
into the country; it did so ahead of schedule…. With many
Americans curious where these refugees will land, a map we first
posted last September shows a wide dispersion. More details can
be found in a document from the Refugee Processing Center.
According to NBC, the top destination for Syrian refugees
arriving in the U.S. is the state of Michigan. More than a 10th
of the 10,000 Syrians admitted this fiscal year at the urging of
the Obama administration are headed there, according to State
Department figures. Most of the 1,036 new arrivals are likely to
settle in and around Detroit, which has long been a magnet for
Arab immigrants. This despite the fact that Michigan's
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder suspended efforts last November to
bring more long-suffering Syrians to his state after the deadly
terrorist attacks in Paris…. Close on Michigan's heels is
California, which has taken in 1,030 Syrians between Oct. 1 of
last year and Aug. 29, the federal figures show. Arizona and
Texas, two red states led by Republican governors who have
flat-out said they don't want Syrian refugees because they
supposedly pose a security risk, are next on the list having
taken in 766 and 735 people, respectively, the figures show.
Those states were followed by Pennsylvania (600), Illinois
(569), Florida (542) and New York (538), the figures show.
* Related:
DHS Tweets ‘Refugees Welcome’ After Obama Successfully Imports
10,000 Syrians Ahead of Schedule
Leaked Memo Reveals Soros Plan for Federally Controlled Police
Breitbart - The document identifies an opportunity in the police
killings of African-American men in Ferguson, Staten Island,
North Charleston, and Baltimore. It relates that the U.S.
contingent of Open Society held a planning meeting titled,
“Police Reform: How to Take Advantage of the Crisis of the
Moment and Drive Long-Term Institutional Change in
Police-Community Practice.” The extensive memo further documents
that Soros-financed groups and personalities influenced
President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, which
last May released a final report consisting of 60
recommendations providing guidance to localities on how to
modify policing practices. The information was contained in a
59-page report on an Open Society Foundations’ U.S. Programs
board meeting in New York from May 7-9 of last year. The
document states that the Foundations’ U.S. Programs (USP) was
seeking to use “this moment” – meaning the so-called crisis in
policing following high profile shootings and charges of racism
– to “create a national movement” for police reform.
Obama Admin Wants to Take Over Jurisdiction of US Elections –
Form Central Election System
The Gateway Pundit - The Washington Examiner reported: DHS has a
vital security role in 16 areas of critical infrastructure and
they provide a model for what the department and Johnson could
have in mind for the election. DHS describes it this way on
their website: “There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors
whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or
virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their
incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect
on security, national economic security, national public health
or safety, or any combination thereof.” A White House policy
directive adds, “The federal government also has a
responsibility to strengthen the security and resilience of its
own critical infrastructure, for the continuity of national
essential functions, and to organize itself to partner
effectively with and add value to the security and resilience
efforts of critical infrastructure owners and operators.” At the
time, Johnson did not mention specific security issues, but the
FBI has since cited one hack and another attempt. Johnson also
said that the big issue at hand is that there isn’t a central
election system since the states run elections. “There’s no one
federal election system. There are some 9,000 jurisdictions
involved in the election process,” Johnson said.
A Candidate's Death Could Delay or Eliminate the Presidential
Election
US News - The presidential election could be delayed or scrapped
altogether if conspiracy theories become predictive and a
candidate dies or drops out before Nov. 8. The perhaps equally
startling alternative, if there's enough time: Small groups of
people hand-picking a replacement pursuant to obscure party
rules. The scenarios have been seriously considered by few
outside of the legal community and likely are too morbid for
polite discussion in politically mixed company. But prominent
law professors have pondered the effects and possible ways to
address a late-date vacancy. "There's nothing in the
Constitution which requires a popular election for the electors
serving in the Electoral College," says John Nagle, a law
professor at the University of Notre Dame, meaning the body that
officially elects presidents could convene without the general
public voting. "It's up to each state legislature to decide how
they want to choose the state's electors," Nagle says. "It may
be a situation in which the fact that we have an Electoral
College, rather than direct voting for presidential candidates,
may prove to be helpful.”’ [Read more]
Establishment Already Preparing to Blame “October Surprise” on
Vladimir Putin
Paul Joseph Watson - The Washington Post reports that the much
anticipated “October surprise” could take the form of new
revelations about Hillary Clinton’s ill health. However, the
pro-Hillary publication asserts that any such information will
almost certainly be doctored and leaked by the Russian
government. The Post’s Dana Milbank asks, “Are Vladimir Putin’s
operatives planning to dump edited DNC documents on the eve of
the presidential election?” before going on to suggest that this
contrived October surprise could “show that (Hillary) really did
lose most of her brain function in that fall several years ago.”
“Perhaps they’ll show that the Clinton Foundation has been
funding the Islamic State, or they’ll have Hillary Clinton
admitting that she didn’t care about those Americans who died in
Benghazi after all,” he adds, claiming that any such damaging
leaks will be the outcome of Russian “dezinformatsiya”
campaigns. The October surprise is almost certainly going to
come from Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, who has repeatedly
challenged those who accuse him of using Russian sources to
provide proof. By trying to entrench the narrative that any and
all negative leaks about Hillary are based on fake documents
released by a hostile foreign government, the establishment is
trying to discredit the October surprise weeks before it even
emerges.
1999: Jesse Jackson Praises Trump’s Commitment To Minorities,
‘Under-Served Communities’ (Video)
Daily Caller - In both 1998 and 1999, Trump was an honored guest
at the annual Wall Street Conference hosted by the Rainbow PUSH
Coalition, Jackson’ DC-based “multi-racial, multi-issue,
progressive, international membership organization fighting for
social change.” In 1998, Jackson introduced Trump ahead of his
speech at the conference. “We need your building skills, your
gusto,” Jackson told the real estate mogul before stating Trump
is a model for “people on Wall Street to represent diversity.”
You can watch Trump’s 1998 speech over at C-SPAN’s website.
Jackson introduced his Trump — whom he called a “friend” — at
the same conference in 1999, where this time he was invited to
speak on the “challenges and opportunities to embrace
under-served communities.” “He is deceptive in that his social
style is of such, one can miss his seriousness and commitment to
success, which is beyond argument,” Jackson said Trump. “When we
opened this Wall Street project,” he continued. “He gave us
space at 40 Wall Street, which was to make a statement about our
having a presence there.”… “Beyond that, in terms of reaching
out and being inclusive, he’s done that too,” Jackson added. “He
has this sense of the curious and a will to make things better.”
“Aside from all of his style, and his pizazz, he’s a serious
person who is an effective builder of people.”
Gold Withdrawals From The NY Fed Accelerate, Hit 388 Tons Since
2014
Zero Hedge - First it was Germany who redeemed 120 tons of
physical gold from the NY Fed in 2014; then it was the
Netherlands who "secretly" redomiciled 122 tons of gold; then
last May, we learned that Austria would be the third "core"
European nation to repatriate most of its offshore gold, held
primarily in the Bank of England, redepositing it in Vienna and
Switzerland. That was just the beginning. Thanks to the latest
NY Fed data, we now know that beginning in 2014 and continuing
through yesterday, the gold "bleeding" from the vault located 90
feet below street level at 33 Liberty Street is not only
continuing but accelerating…. According to the Ny Fed, in the
seven months ended July 2016, there were a total of 87 tons of
gold withdrawals, 25% more than the 69 tons withdrawn in the
same period in 2015, and 60% more than the 55 tons withdrawn in
2014. As of July 31, the NY Fed held 5,807 tons of gold in
custody, well below the 6,606 "old normal" that was parked at
the Fed until withdrawals started in early 2007. Just as
remarkable, since the current round of monthly withdraws from
the NY Fed started in February of 2014, there has been a total
of 388 tons of gold redeemed by foreign central bank holders
over a span of 30 months, which is just 20 tons shy of the
previous burst of withdrawals which started in March of 2007,
with the emergence of the subprime crisis, and culminating in
November 2008 with the bailout of AIG.
Food Deflation Driving "Least Profitable Year In 20 Years" As
Farmers And Grocers Get Crushed
Zero Hedge - Sinking food prices, while good for the consumer,
is devastating for almost everyone else in the supply chain from
the farmer all the way to the grocers. Farmers suffer as their
key input cost, labor, is actually increasing in many states
from the rash of minimum wage hikes around the country while
fuel seems to move wildly with any number of daily rumors about
production freezes in the middle east. Meanwhile, grocers suffer
as already thin margins get compressed even further as existing
inventories get marked down. Food prices have come under extreme
pressure in 2016 due primarily to lower Chinese consumption
resulting from a weak Chinese economy and a strong U.S. dollar.
This slack in demand has resulted in massive supply gluts for
several commodities as producers failed to adjust supply quickly
enough to meet new levels of demand. In fact, the USDA recently
provided a $20mm "bailout" to cheese producers and reports have
surfaced that milk producers have been dumping excess milk on
fields.
5 Things You Better Get Off The Internet Before The Grid Goes Down
Off the Grid News - Even a few days without [the internet] could cripple
American society’s ability to manage money, practice commerce, and
communicate. Because of that, it is a good idea to reduce your
dependence on the Internet by moving more of your needs offline. Here’s
five areas to get your started: 1. Banking. Out of convenience, most
Americans do at least a portion of their banking online. There’s no harm
in using an online account to manage some of your bill payments and
financial transactions. Just don’t rely on it to maintain your records.
Monthly or quarterly, download a paper statement from your bank, print
it, and file it away. Additionally, make sure you have paper records for
all of the accounts you hold. Do the same thing for any stocks or
important records of assets; record them on paper. Better still, do most
of your bank transactions in person, at a local bank; you’ll have
greater security and get better customer service. 2. Maps. Purchase or
download updated local maps and keep them where they can be easily
referenced or found in case of emergency. GPS won’t be a reliable source
of navigation if the power grid is compromised. 3. Reference materials.
Whether you read books on a Kindle or tablet, follow websites relevant
to your interests, or just get the news delivered digitally, it is
important to keep a paper trail for the information you’ll need in the
future. 4. Email. Create a personal file of email correspondence for
each family member and for your business activities. When agreements are
solidified by email, print the message and file it accordingly….
Facebook fires human editors, algorithm immediately posts fake news
Ars Technica - Earlier this year, Facebook denied criticisms that its
Trending feature was surfacing news stories that were biased against
conservatives. But in an abrupt reversal, the company fired all the
human editors for Trending on Friday afternoon, replacing them with an
algorithm that promotes stories based entirely on what Facebook users
are talking about. Within 72 hours, according to the Washington Post,
the top story on Trending was about how Fox News icon Megyn Kelly was a
pro-Clinton "traitor" who had been fired (she wasn't). The original
accusations of bias came from a disgruntled ex-editor at Facebook, who
leaked internal Trending training materials to Gizmodo. The training
package offered tips on, among other things, how to curate news from an
RSS feed of reputable sources when the stories provided by Facebook
users were false or repetitive. Though the human editors were always
expendable—they were mostly there to train the Trending algorithm—they
were still engaging in quality control to weed out blatant falsehoods
and non-news… And after Trending latched on to the fake Kelly scoop, it
appears that human intervention might still be required to make
Facebook's algorithms a legitimate source of news after all.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
11 Unusual Uses For Milk That Can Revolutionize Homestead Life
Off the Grid News - What you may not realize, however, is that
milk can provide other benefits beyond its use as a beverage.
Here are 11 unusual uses for milk that make a big difference if
you’re a homesteader: 1. Relieve burns. You can experience quick
pain relief and promote the healing of minor burns, including
sunburn, by applying milk to the affected area. Soak a washcloth
in whole milk and apply to the area for about 15 minutes. Repeat
every few hours…. 2. Take the itch out of insect bites. Milk
also can ease the pain, swelling and itchiness of insect bites.
Create a paste with milk, water and salt, and place it on the
bites. After a few minutes, redness and itching will be
significantly reduced. 3. Repair china. Did you know you could
use milk to fix cracks in your fine china? Fill a cooking pot
with enough fresh milk or reconstituted powdered milk to cover a
damaged cup or plate. Submerge the china in the milk and then
bring the milk to a boil. Lower the heat and let it simmer for
45 minutes. When you remove the china, the milk proteins will
have diminished the appearance of fine cracks and lines (See
below video). 4. Skin moisturizer. Try applying cold milk to
calluses or other hard, dry areas of your skin three times a
day. Another way to moisturize the skin with milk is to take a
milk bath…. 5. Polish silver. You can clean your tarnished
silver with the help of sour milk. Mix a cup of milk with a
tablespoon of white vinegar. Soak the silver in the sour milk
for 30 minutes. After rinsing with warm soapy water, buff the
silver with a dry, soft cloth….
The Day The Lights Go Out And The Trucks Stop Running
Economic Collapse - Earlier today, I came across a quote from
Alice Friedemann that detailed what we would be facing during a
major national transportation disruption very nicely… “Within a
week, in roughly this order, grocery stores would be out of
dairy and other items that are delivered many times a day. And
by the week, the shelves would be empty. Hospitals, pharmacies,
factories, and many other businesses also get several deliveries
a day, and they’d be running out of stuff the first day. And the
second day, there’s be panic and hoarding. And restaurants,
pharmacies would close. ATM’s would be out of money.
Construction would stop. There’d be increasing layoffs.
Increasing enormous amounts of trash not getting picked up,
685,000 tons a day. Service stations would be closed. Very few
people would be working. And the livestock would start to be
hungry from lack of feed deliveries. Then within two weeks,
clean water supplies would run out. Within four weeks to eight
weeks, there wouldn’t be coal delivered to power plants and
electricity would start shutting down. And when that happened,
about a quarter of our pipelines use electricity, and so natural
gas plants wouldn’t be fed natural gas and they’d start shutting
down.” There is so much infrastructure that we take for granted
that would suddenly become very vulnerable in this type of
scenario…. At some point a major national emergency will strike,
and when that day arrives we could suddenly be facing major
power grid and transportation disruptions. Are you prepared for
that? If not, you might want to do so while you still have time.
Under fire, Mylan to offer generic EpiPen for 50% less
USA Today - Drugmaker Mylan said Monday that it will offer a
generic version of the life-saving allergy treatment EpiPen for
half the list price of the brand-name treatment after it became
the center of a national controversy over skyrocketing drug
prices. The move marks a sharp shift in Mylan's position after
it vigorously defended multiple increases over the years that
resulted in a list price of about $600 for a two-pack of the
emergency injection treatment, up from about $100 in 2009. The
generic version of EpiPen "will be identical to the branded
product, including device functionality and drug formulation,"
Mylan said in a statement…. Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz,
R-Utah, and ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., requested a
slew of documents from Mylan, including details of EpiPen
profits and sales, lobbying data, internal cost figures and
federal health reimbursement numbers. Mylan has "a virtual
monopoly over the epinephrine auto-injector market," the
lawmakers said in a letter to Bresch. "While families and
schools are struggling to keep up with your company's
unreasonable price increases, Mylan has profited richly from its
pricing strategy." he committee's letter, which requested a
briefing by Sept. 6 and documents by Sept. 12, paves the way for
a potential congressional hearing on the matter…. Mylan's
generic version will hit shelves within several weeks at a list
price of $300 for a two-pack carton in dosages of either 0.15
milligrams or 0.30 mg, the company said. Mylan will continue to
sell EpiPen and continue to offer a $300 discount to certain
families that qualify for assistance based on their income
levels, a solution the company announced last week to assuage
the firestorm that had erupted over the dramatic increase in
price.
New Drug-Resistant Killer
Alliance for Natural Health - Once again, US public health
officials have issued a warning concerning a multiple
drug-resistant infection, but this time, it isn’t bacteria that
are the problem—it’s yeast…. The emerging strain of yeast,
Candida auris, has been found in nine countries and possibly the
US, and has sickened hundreds of people. Fungal infections
aren’t a new problem, but this particular strain is especially
deadly, with only one-third of patients surviving the infection.
The resistant yeast can also jump from patient to patient within
a hospital. Nor is this the only drug-resistant fungal threat:
before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
heard reports about the threat of C. auris, the agency had been
tracking a different drug-resistant yeast species, C. glabrata.
Researchers say that drug-resistant fungi have arisen largely as
a result of the use of fungicides on crops…. There are, of
course, natural treatments for yeast. Many in the natural health
community know of the numerous health benefits of supplementing
with bacterial probiotics—beneficial organisms that aid in the
health and diversity of the gut microbiota, and compete with
both bad bacteria and yeast.
DEA Adds Kratom to Schedule 1 List Alongside Heroin
Brandon Turbeville - Fresh on the heels of the CDC labeling
kratom as an emerging “public health threat” the notoriously
fascistic U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has filed a notice of
intent to not only list it as a controlled substance, but the
DEA is planning to add it to the most restrictive classification
possible. Mitragyna speciosa, aka kratom, and its two primary
constituents, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine are going to
be placed onto schedule 1 temporarily beginning on September
30th. This information comes from a filing from the DEA on
August 30th, but the full announcement is scheduled to be
published in the Federal Register on August 31st. Kratom is not
an opiate but functions in a similar manner, i.e. attaching to
activating opoid receptors. The substance has been shown to
alleviate chronic pain and anxiety as well as aid in overcoming
addiction despite its own “euphoric effects.” Studies in mice
have actually demonstrated impressive results in overcoming
addiction to cocaine. Many Kratom users have also sung the
plant’s praises in regards to heroin addiction. Kratom users
claim that the substance is an excellent substitute for
prescription pain medication as well as the addiction that comes
with prescribed opiates. The DEA is making its move after a few
states toyed with the idea of placing kratom on their own
controlled substances lists statewide, but failing to do so
after public outcry got in the way.
Synthetic Cannabis Extremely Dangerous Vs. Marijuana, Driving
Study Reveals
Green Med Info - A revealing new study published in the journal
Clinical Toxicology shows that people under the influence of
synthetic cannabinoids (also known as "spice") undergo far
greater impairments than those using marijuana. In the study,
entitled “Differential physiological and behavioral cues
observed in individuals smoking botanical marijuana versus
synthetic cannabinoid drugs,” researchers sought to measure
performance and behavior by reviewing arrest reports generated
by law enforcement drug recognition experts (DRE) to evaluate
motorists arrested for impaired driving. The researchers
concluded: Drivers under the influence of synthetic cannabinoids
were more frequently impaired with confusion, disorientation,
and incoherent, slurred speech than drivers under the influence
of marijuana in this population evaluated by drug recognition
experts."
Dog brains don't just hear what we're saying, but how we're saying it
ScienceAlert - A new study by researchers in Hungary suggests that dogs
can understand both the words we say and the way we say them to a
certain degree, using the same parts of the brain as humans do to
recognize spoken language…. During the experiment, 13 dogs listened to
recordings of their trainers' voices as they spoke to the animals using
different combinations of vocabulary and intonation, speaking both
praise and neutral language. Sometimes the speech the dogs heard was
praise spoken in neutral way, or praise spoken with a matching
intonation. They also heard neutral language delivered with a praising
intonation, and neutral words spoken in a neutral voice. But regardless
of how the trainers delivered praise, the dogs' brain activity suggested
that they were actually able to recognize the words as praise, meaning
dogs can process vocabulary independently of how it's said, recognising
particular words as distinct. According to the researchers, the brain
activity shows that they do this in a similar way to humans, using the
left hemisphere to process the meaning of words, and separately
processing intonation in the right hemisphere. Interestingly, while
these processes are distinct, the team found that praise only activates
the canine brain's reward centre if it is spoken in a praising way.
Tuesday - August
30, 2016 - Today In History:
1780 - General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West
Point fort to the British army.
1806 - New York City's second daily newspaper, the "Daily Advertiser,"
was published for the last time.
1862 - The Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of
Bull Run in Manassas, VA.
1941 - During World War II, the Nazis severed the last railroad link
between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union.
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters
in Japan.
1956 - In Louisiana, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opened.
1960 - A partial blockade was imposed on West Berlin by East Germany.
1963 - The "Hotline" between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into
operation.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme
Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the
Supreme Court.
1983 - The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford
Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space.
1984 - The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the first time. On the
voyage three communications satellites were deployed.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted
into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
1991 - The Soviet republic of Azerbaijan declared its independence.
1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was
known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which
sparked the civil rights movement.
1994 - The largest U.S. defense contractor was created when the Lockheed
and Martin Marietta corporations agreed to a merger.
1996 - An expedition to raise part of the Titanic failed when the nylon
lines being used to raise part of the hull snapped.
1999 - The residents of East Timor overwhelmingly voted for independence
from Indonesia. The U.N. announced the result on September 4.
2002 - Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum merged to create
ConocoPhillips. The new company was the third largest integrated energy
company and the second largest refining company in the U.S.
2006 - California Senate passes Global Warming Solutions Act
US Slams Turkish Bombing Of American Coalition Partners As
"Unacceptable And A Source Of Deep Concern"
Zero Hedge - Concerned by Turkey's recent overtures toward
Russia, which even hinted at military cooperation between Moscow
and Ankara, Biden arrived in Turkey last Wednesday.... Meeting
with Erdogan and Turkey's prime minister in Ankara, Biden
delivered a message of alliance and conciliation.... That is all
Erdogan needed to hear as he then proceeded to launch a bombing
campaign not against Islamic State holdouts in proximity to the
Turkish border - the stated reason for the Turkish incursion -
but against his legacy foes, the Kurdish militia, the YPG, which
problematically for the US, is part of the broader U.S.-backed
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition.... As a result of
today's verbal condemnation by the US, we expect Erdogan - who
continues to hold all the Trump cards over Europe's future with
some 2 million Syrian refugees housed within its borders, and
which can be released into Europe on a moment's notice - to
unleash another verbal assault on the US and its western allies,
coupled with another Russian pivot threat, to show the Obama
administration who is and remains in charge of the latest
escalation in the 5 year old Syrian conflict.
Two US-backed groups clash in northern Syria
The Long War Journal - Jaysh al Tahrir, a rebel group that
operates under the auspices of the Free Syrian Army and has
received several TOW anti-tank missiles from the US, claims to
have captured two villages from the Kurdish-led Syrian
Democratic Forces (SDF) south of Jarabulus. The SDF has received
considerable US-support, including airstrikes and special
operations forces embedded within the group.... The US is now
engaged in a balancing act between keeping close relations with
Turkey and its main partner in the fight against the Islamic
State.... this puts the US in an awkward position as the Kurds
may see this, as well as tacit support of the Turkish
intervention, as a betrayal. This also comes after US Vice
President Joe Biden told the YPG portion of the SDF to retreat
back to the eastern side of the Euphrates River, which was also
likely seen as an insult by the US-ally.
Banks Warn: Economic Nuclear Winter to Hit World
Kit Daniels - Central banks are expecting an economic
catastrophe to strike the world this winter, and will try to
blame Brexit for their wrongdoings which triggered the crisis.
Investors are dumping stocks in major European banks in
particular, with the Royal Bank of Scotland losing 30% of its
market value since June. The banks are “preparing for an
economic nuclear winter situation,” an insider told CNBC. “This
could mean triggering Article 50, referendum in other European
nations leading to a break-up of the euro or sterling hitting
below $1.20 or lower.”… The global economy is so dependent on
China in particular that if the country were to completely
implode, a world-wide recession would likely result – and right
now China’s trajectory resembles the one that led to the Great
Depression, with ever-expanding credit lines combined with
widespread delusion that asset prices will never fall. “China
grew too fast,” said economist Andy Xie. “The government is
using its power to stop the unraveling but not address the
issue.” “It is just buying more time.” But time is running out.
’No skirts’: India’s tourism minister warns female foreigners
RT - Women planning on travelling to India have been warned to
not wear short dresses or skirts, or walk alone at night, “for
their own safety.” The warning came from India’s Minister for
Tourism, Mahesh Sharma.... Sharma said female tourists have been
issued with a safety guidelines “kit” upon arriving into the
country since last year. "The kit includes a card with do’s and
don’ts – such as, do not venture out alone at night in small
towns, do not wear skirts; take a picture of the registration
number of the vehicle you use and send it to a friend," said
Sharma, as cited by The Indian Express. “For their own safety,
women foreign tourists should not wear short dresses and
skirts,” he added, according to The Times of India. “Indian
culture is different from the western.” Sharma went on to
clarify that India is not issuing a dress code for women, but
rather asking them to “take precaution while going on a night
out”.... Sharma’s comments have been slammed for reflecting “the
syndrome of blaming women” by Ranjana Kumari, the director of
the Delhi-based Centre for Social Research, in a country where a
reported 92 women are raped each day.
Iceland's Katla volcano hit by unusually large earthquakes
Reuters - Two unusually large earthquakes hit one of Iceland's
biggest volcanoes early on Monday, raising concerns of a
possible eruption, the Icelandic Met Office said. The Katla
volcano has not erupted properly since 1918 and scientists say
it is overdue to do so, although an eruption could still be
decades away.... The volcano sustained similar movements in
2011. The volcano is covered by an ice cap, which should, in the
event of an eruption, typically contain the lava for around 60
to 90 minutes, giving time to alert the population and
international air traffic, [a natural hazards scientist at the
Icelandic Met Office, Matthew] Roberts said.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
President Obama Plans Lame Duck Passage of Trans-Pacific
Partnership
Breitbart - President Barack Obama still intends to pass the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the “lame duck session” after
the November election, the New York Times reports, despite
opposition from both major party presidential nominees. Research
by economist Josh Bivens demonstrates that from the time Bill
Clinton became President in 1992, imported goods from third
world low-wage countries almost tripled from 3.1 to 8.4 percent
of GDP by 2011. The vast majority of that increase in U.S.
imports is directly related to Clinton’s negotiation of the
North American Free Trade Agreement and the granting of Most
Favored Nation status to China. Bivens calculates that the
impact on the after-inflation wage for a typical non-college
educated American worker from 1992 to 2011 was negative “5.5
percent, or by roughly $1,800 — for a full-time, full year
worker.” With about 100 million American workers without a
4-year degree, that was a major blow.
Huma Abedin announces separation from Anthony Weiner after
latest sexting scandal
McClatchy DC - Huma Abedin announced she will separate from her
husband Anthony Weiner on Monday, after fresh allegations of
sexting revealed the former congressman had sent an explicit
photo to another woman with their child in the background....
Abedin, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, stood by her
husband’s side when the former congressman resigned in 2011
after his habit of sending sexually explicit photos first became
public. Weiner ran in 2013 for New York City mayor, but his bid
was derailed when he admitted that he had continued sexting
other women even after his resignation from Congress. Weiner had
not sought political office since and stayed home to take care
of the couple’s son while Abedin joined Clinton on the campaign
trail.
As Obamacare choices dwindle, feds face consumer, political
backlash
USA Today - Up to 2.1 million people will likely have to change
plans for 2017 due to insurers leaving states' Affordable Care
Act marketplaces, up from more than 1.2 million who had to find
new insurers last year...The new estimates, from data expert
Charles Gaba of ACASignups.net, come as another analysis shows
five states are expected to have just one company selling
insurance on the 2017 Obamacare exchanges. Consumers in most
counties in nine other states won't find any competition for
their exchange business either, according to the Kaiser Family
Foundation.
Video: Bill Clinton: Rebuild Detroit with Syrian Refugees
Breitbart - In a previously little-noticed video from February
at the Clinton Global Initiative, former President Bill Clinton
suggested that the U.S. use Syrian refugees to rebuild Detroit.
“The truth is that the big loser in this over the long run is
going to be Syria. This is an enormous opportunity for
Americans,” Bill Clinton said about the Syrian migrant crisis.
Detroit has 10,000 empty, structurally sound houses—10,000. And
lot of jobs to be had repairing those houses. Detroit just came
out of bankruptcy and the mayor’s trying to do an innovative
sort of urban homesteading program there. But it just gives you
an example of what could be done. And I think any of us who have
ever had any personal experience with either Syrian Americans or
Syrian refugees think it’s a pretty good deal. It is unclear
from the video why Clinton seems to think it would be better to
fill these Detroit jobs with imported foreign migrants rather
than unemployed Americans already living there, who could
perhaps benefit from good-paying jobs. In the video, Clinton
discusses the migrant crisis with billionaire and mass migration
enthusiast Hamdi Ulukaya of the Chobani yogurt empire. Ulukaya
has become a figure of controversy for his decision to fill his
yogurt plants with foreign refugees rather than unemployed
Americans. At the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this
year, Ulukaya encouraged other global elites to follow his lead.
Louisiana Officials Demand That Self-Reliant Locals Stop
Surviving the Flood Without Permission
DC Clothesline - The southern state has been hit with the worst
flooding in over 500 years.... This massive disaster was all but
ignored by the mainstream media, since it didn’t fit the current
agenda of divisiveness and racial tension. So what did the folks
in Louisiana do? They rolled up their sleeves and took care of
business.... And that is when the government said, “Oh, no. We
can’t have that.” .... Like a horde of modern-day carpetbaggers,
they began “helping” by forcing people who were struggling to
rebuild to purchase permits. That’s right. They forced people to
ask for permission for the right to repair their own
property.... But that isn’t the worst of it. They also decided
to charge fees to the Cajun Navy before they were “allowed” to
continue rescuing people.... Louisiana State Senator Jonathan
Perry is the engineer of the licensing requirements. “Perry said
that if members of the Cajun Navy continue on without his
legislation, they will be stopped by law enforcement officials
from rescuing residents past police barricades… Under current
state law, citizens who cross police perimeters are breaking the
law and could face punishment.”
PEW Poll: 44 Percent of All Households Now Have a Gun
Breitbart - This same poll showed that 58 percent of respondents
viewed gun ownership as something that brings safety, versus 37
percent who believe such ownership increases risk. The Pew poll
follows more than a year of mainstream media contention that the
breadth of gun ownership was actually shrinking, even as gun
sales were soaring. For example, a March 2015 CBS report used a
General Social Survey to suggest gun ownership had fallen to a
point where only 32 percent of Americans lived in a household
with a gun. The CBS report was followed by an October 2015
Washington Post report that sought to explain the record number
of background checks by suggesting the same gun owners were
simply buying more guns. At the same time, other polls focused
on the attitudes of Americans–regarding more gun control versus
less–substantiated the position that Americans’ appreciation of
gun ownership was expanding, rather than declining. Moreover,
high profile firearms-based attacks appeared to drive more
Americans toward gun ownership, not gun control. For example, a
CNN poll taken three weeks after the October 1 Umpqua Community
College attack showed that three percent more Americans opposed
gun control after the attack than had opposed gun control prior.
Why Did George Soros' Son Meet Over The Weekend With The New
York Attorney General Suing Trump?
Vessel News - George Soros’ son Alex Soros posted a picture to
Instagram yesterday of him hanging out with New York Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman.... Schneiderman is heading up a
lawsuit against Donald Trump, alleging Trump University scammed
participants out of tens of thousands of dollars. During a
sit-down with George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America”,
the New York Attorney General said “We have a law against
running an illegal unlicensed university. This never was a
university. The fraud started with the name of the organization,
and you can’t just go around saying this is the George
Stephanopoulos Law Firm/Hospital/University without actually
qualifying and registering, so it was really a fraud from
beginning to end.” The suit which was brought in 2013, is
nothing but a ploy to blunt the real estate billionaire’s
presidential ambitions, say critics of the case. The New York
Democrat denies such claims. Trump believes the motive behind
the suit stems from the New York developer’s refusal to donate
to Schneiderman’s re-election campaign. The subject of the
meeting between Soros and Schneiderman is unknown.
Huffington Post Bans Journalist For Writing About Hillary’s
Health, Deletes Article
Paul Joseph Watson - David Seaman penned a commentary piece
discussing questions surrounding Hillary’s health problems on
Sunday. The story included a link to my viral video about the
subject, which now has over 3.5 million views. The post, which
had been trending at number 3 on the website, was deleted within
hours and Seaman’s posting rights were completely revoked. The
link now just contains an editor’s note stating, “This post is
no longer available on the Huffington Post.” The Huff Post
deleted the article despite the fact that pieces questioning
John McCain’s health were heavily featured on the website in
2008. The left-wing news outlet also posted an article today
speculating on Donald Trump contracting cancer, but its author
was not banned. The double standard is brazen…. In a related
development, Donald Trump officially challenged Hillary Clinton
to release her full medical records, but the Clinton campaign
almost immediately refused to do so.
UN-Linked “Elections Monitors” To Oversee U.S. Election
New American - A swarm of hundreds of United Nations-linked
“international election monitors,” many of them hailing from
nations ruled by repressive dictatorships, will descend on the
United States this year to supervise and “monitor” America’s
elections. The horde of international bureaucrats for the
November elections will be 10 times larger — and probably even
more controversial — than the smaller “monitoring” mission that
sparked a national uproar in 2012. Last time around, Texas even
threatened to arrest them, and for good reason. The mission by
the international outfit, founded in large part by Yugoslavian
and Soviet communists, is supposedly to combat alleged “voter
suppression” by conservatives.
NBC Affiliate Posts "Election Results" For Florida Race That
Hasn't Happened Yet
Zero Hedge - Republican candidate for Florida House District 86,
Laurel Bennett, was a bit shocked over the weekend when she
discovered that a local West Palm Beach NBC affiliate, WPTV,
reported that she had lost a race even though votes hadn't been
cast yet. Why do we need voters when it's far easier to just
skip straight to the results? The note from WPTV showed Laurel
getting 12,189 votes or 45%.... According to Bizpac Review, the
station claims they were just "testing their election page" in
an effort to "bring you fast and accurate election results on
election day." “In order to make sure we bring you fast and
accurate election results on election day, we are testing our
election page ahead of time with test data. On election day,
this message will be removed and the actual election results
will be displayed on this page.”
FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
(Video)
Yahoo News - The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers
penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks,
prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the
country to take new steps to enhance the security of their
computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement
officials.... The bulletin does not identify the states in
question, but sources familiar with the document say it refers
to the targeting by suspected foreign hackers of voter
registration databases in Arizona and Illinois. In the Illinois
case, officials were forced to shut down the state’s voter
registration system for 10 days in late July, after the hackers
managed to download personal data on up to 200,000 state voters,
Ken Menzel, the general counsel of the Illinois Board of
Elections, said in an interview. The Arizona attack was more
limited, involving malicious software that was introduced into
its voter registration system but no successful exfiltration of
data, a state official said.
Trump Recruiting Army Of ‘Observers’ To Prevent ‘Rigged’
Election
Steve Watson - GOP nominee Donald Trump is actively recruiting
supporters in order to form an army of ‘Election Observers’ to
monitor polls on Election Day and ensure that voter fraud is
prevented and exposed. A section has been added to Trump’s
campaign website describing how supporters can get more
information and sign up to be a “volunteer Trump Election
Observer.” “Help Me Stop Crooked Hillary From Rigging This
Election!” the page reads. “I hope you people can sort of not
just vote on the 8th — go around and look and watch other
polling places and make sure that it’s 100 percent fine,” Mr.
Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month, adding
that the only way he can lose to Hillary Clinton in stronghold
states is if there is ‘cheating’. Trump has warned supporters
several times that the election could be ‘rigged’, prompting the
media and the Clinton campaign to label him a ‘pathetic,
dangerous, reflexive conspiracy theorist’…. Trump has
specifically pointed to the fact that in the past fortnight,
five courts in five states have ruled against voter ID and
proof-of-citizenship laws. Trump said he is worried that the
decisions will lead to widespread voter fraud.
Video: MSNBC plays fried chicken ad instead of Hillary racism
speech clip
The American Mirror - MSNBC host Alex Witt wanted to play a clip
of Hillary Clinton accusing Donald Trump of being a racist, but
instead aired a Kentucky Fried Chicken ad. Witt was talking to
Cornell Williams Brooks of the NAACP on Saturday when he teed up
a portion of Clinton’s speech. “As you know, Hillary Clinton
says that Trump’s campaign is appealing to a fringe in the
Republican Party that is racist. I want to listen to part of her
speech with you and get your reaction. So here it is,” Witt
said. Inexplicably, the KFC ad aired with the MSNBC graphics
still on the screen. “I am the extra crispy colonel,” Colonel
Sanders actor George Hamilton said in the ad. “Absolutely not
what we were going to play,” Witt said as they moved on.
Clinton News Network (CNN) Cuts ‘Crooked Hillary’ Reference from
Trump Tweet
Breitbart - Sunday, CNN’s “Newsroom” highlighted a tweet from
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sent out calling on
his opponent Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to
release her medical records. However, the CNN version scrubbed
the “Crooked” moniker from the tweet in it’s report, which was
displayed on screen and read on air by anchor Jim Sciutto.
25 Year-Old Scam Artist Raises $1 Million in Bogus Dinner with
Trump Contest
The Gateway Pundit - LawNewz reported: A Maryland man is
offering contest participants a chance to have dinner with
Donald Trump. Or is he? 25-year-old Ian Hawes of Maryland set up
dinnerwithtrump.org, a site that at first glance looks an awful
lot like a Trump campaign page, until you read the fine print.
The homepage tells visitors to “Enter for a chance for you and a
guest to have dinner with Donald Trump. The flight, food & stay
are on us.” It allows people to enter their name, email address,
and zip code. Upon doing so, the next page says that people can
double their chances of winning by donating, giving options for
people to give different amounts. Hawes’ organization, American
Horizons PAC, took out ads on Facebook to promote the site,
according to a Politico report, drawing social media users to
the site. They reportedly raised more than $1 million. But the
small print on the bottom of the site tells people what they’re
actually getting, and it’s not a private dinner with the
Republican Presidential nominee. “Prize is for winner & guest to
attend a Donald Trump fundraising event with other attendees,”
it says, adding that it includes airfare and hotel
accommodations, with a total approximate retail value of $3,600.
The "Devastating" Truth Behind America's Record Household Net
Worth
Zero Hedge - Here are the CBO report's summary findings: In
2013, aggregate family wealth in the United States was $67
trillion (or about four times the nation’s gross domestic
product) and the median family (the one at the midpoint of the
wealth distribution) held approximately $81,000, the
Congressional Budget Office estimates.... But to get to the
stunning punchline, one has to read The section on How Is the
Nation’s Wealth Distributed?.... The distribution of wealth
among the nation’s families was more unequal in 2013 than it had
been in 1989. For instance, the difference in wealth held by
families at the 90th percentile and the wealth of those in the
middle widened from $532,000 to $861,000 over the period (in
2013 dollars). The share of wealth held by families in the top
10 percent of the wealth distribution increased from 67 percent
to 76 percent, whereas the share of wealth held by families in
the bottom half of the distribution declined from 3 percent to 1
percent. And there is your recovery: the wealthy have never been
wealthier, while for half of America, some 50% of households,
now own just 1% of the country's wealth, down from 3% in 1989.
First GMO ever produced by genetic engineering poisoned thousands of
Americans
(NaturalNews) The first edible product produced by genetic engineering
killed dozens of people, and caused thousands more to become seriously
ill, with many of them ending up permanently disabled. The product in
question was a food supplement made of the essential amino acid
L-tryptophan derived from bacteria that had been genetically altered.
Despite meeting pharmacological purity standards, it contained trace
amounts of impurities, one of which turned out to be highly toxic, even
at low levels. The genetic engineering is believed to be responsible for
the formation of the toxic substance behind the epidemic. No tryptophan
supplements that were produced with non-engineered bacteria had ever
previously been linked to the disease. Not surprisingly, the FDA issued
a slew of deceptive statements trying to shift the blame away from the
technology, and their efforts seem to have worked. Most people familiar
with the situation seem to be satisfied with their explanations that GE
was not responsible, even though the evidence paints the opposite
picture. The majority of people, however, don't even realize this
incident ever took place…. The tryptophan supplement disaster was
followed by the first-ever whole food to be produced using GE, the "FlavrSavr"
tomato from Calgene. In the company's voluntary feeding studies, there
was a disturbing pattern of stomach lesions…. However, this was swept
under the rug when they announced that the tomato was every bit as safe
as other tomatoes, and that all safety questions had been resolved!
How to Treat Digestive Disorders with Lemon Juice and Flax Seeds
Natural News Blogs - When you’re suffering from digestive problems, you
may have some bad symptoms: bloating and gas, acid reflux, upset
stomach, heartburn, abdominal pain…. There are many effective and safe
remedies for the digestive problems to help treat your unset stomach and
improve the digestive functions. The combination of lemon juice and flax
seeds is one of the most effective ways to relieve the disorders. Lemon
is one of the healthiest fruits we can eat, it’s a natural remedy for
many ailments, including digestive problems…. Flax seeds are loaded with
fiber, which has been associated to reduce the symptoms of digestive
problems. Besides, the omega-3 fatty acids in them act as a natural
anti-inflammatory agents, which can reduce the stomach aches. The recipe
for lemon juice with flax seeds for treating indigestion: Half of a
small lemon, 1 teaspoon of ground flax seeds [and] 1 cup of boiling
water…. It’s recommended to consume the juice in the morning to
stimulate your digestion for a whole day.
Homemade
Lotion with Frankincense, Lavender & Peppermint Oils
Dr. Axe - Did you know that almost anything you put on your skin can
seep right through and into your bloodstream? Yes, that includes
parabens and other dangerous chemicals in skin products. So while many
of you have taken the clean eating movement seriously (and that is
fantastic!), many are forgetting about the products that they are
slathering on their bodies. Unfortunately, too many of these products
are littered with chemicals and preservatives that head right into the
bloodstream and travel throughout our bodies, wreaking havoc by causing
inflammation and more. But it doesn’t have to be that way with natural
skin care, including my homemade lotion for your face and body….
Ingredients: ¼ cup olive oil, 3 tablespoons coconut oil, 1 tablespoons
beeswax, 1 tablespoon shea butter, 10 drops frankincense essential oil,
10 drops lavender essential oil [and] 5 drops peppermint essential oil.
Satisfying Gluten-Free Coconut Macaroons Recipe
Healthy Holistic Living - Here’s a quick and easy gluten-free coconut
macaroons recipe from Healthy Holistic Living. Try it, and an appetizing
batch of these macaroons can be yours in less than half an hour!
Ingredients: 1 cup shredded, unsweetened coconut, ½ cup plus 2 Tbsp.
coconut milk, 3 Tbsp. raw honey [and] ¼ tsp. pure vanilla extract.
Monday - August
29, 2016 - Today In History:
1833 - The "Factory Act" was passed in England to settle child labor
laws.
1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese.
The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to
Britain.
1944 - During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France
from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees
in Paris.
1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially
accept the surrender of the Japanese.
1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the
first time to treat cancer patients.
1957 - Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record
in the U.S. when he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
1962 - The lower level of the George Washington Bridge opened.
1965 - Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete")
Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after eight days in space.
1971 - Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National
League to hit 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.
1983 - Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal
when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.
1983 - The anchor of the USS Monitor, from the U.S. Civil War, was
retrieved by divers.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview,
declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
1991 - The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had its bank accounts
frozen and activities were suspended because of the Party's role in the
failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 - The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay
in the Soviet Union.
1992 - The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to
guard the shipments of food.
1998 - Northwest Airlines pilots went on strike after their union
rejected a last-minute company offer.
2004 - India test-launched a nuclear-capable missile able to carry a
one-ton warhead. The weapon had a range of 1,560 miles.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast
Rebranded Al Qaeda Group In Syria Receiving US Weapons
Shadowproof - Though many scoffed when the Al Qaeda affiliate in
Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra, rebranded itself Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham,
that cosmetic change was apparently enough to convince the US
government to start sending them arms. In the recent push by
rebels in the city of Aleppo, Al-Nusra /Al-Sham took a leading
role and was reportedly among the rebels groups who received US
weapons. Those weapons will first be used to kill Syrian
government troops and after that, well, who knows?... If Al-Sham
and fellow Sunni jihadists prevail over Syrian government
forces, a genocide will likely commence against religious
minorities in Syria, starting with the Alawites and moving on to
other Shiites.... While it would be a mistake to say this is the
first time the US gave assistance to Al Qaeda-linked rebels in
Syria, it is a pretty stunning digression from earlier claims
from US officials that assisting Al Qaeda and ISIS was
completely off limits.
World seeking power shift towards Iran-Russia alliance
Mehr News Agency - A former US army psychological operation
officer and counter-terrorism analyst calls Iran-Russia
cooperation plan to save Syria the greatest thing that has
happened to the world in over 25 years. Scott Bennett asserted
that Iran-Russia cooperation to fight terrorist extremists would
not allow the reckless wars of American imperialism to spread
any further, and gloriously China is also coming along side Iran
and Russia in full agreement and assistance in this effort. The
world is becoming aware of its mistakes towards the Middle East,
with "Turkey’s President Erdogan seems to have come to
understand that the power shift away from the US influence and
towards the Russian-Iran-China alliance is something that he
must adapt to," Bennett said in an exclusive interview with Mehr
News Agency.
Doctors Without Borders Refused to Help American ISIS Hostage
Kayla Mueller
Yahoo News August 24, 2016 - Even though she was kidnapped by
ISIS from a Doctors Without Borders vehicle, and had helped a
friend install equipment at a Doctors Without Borders hospital
in Syria, the prestigious humanitarian group refused to help
negotiate for the freedom of American hostage Kayla Mueller, her
parents tell ABC News. Marsha and Carl Mueller of Prescott,
Arizona, said the group refused to speak with them for months
and then withheld critical information provided by freed Doctors
Without Borders hostages -- information that directly concerned
their daughter and was needed in order to begin negotiations for
her release. In a phone conversation recorded by the Muellers 10
months after their daughter's kidnapping and provided to ABC
News, they asked the group if it would help negotiate for their
daughter. "No," the senior official replied. "So, the crisis
management team that we have installed for our five people and
that managed the case for our people will be closed down in the
next week. Yeah? ... Because our case is closed." "They're a
fabulous organization, and they do wonderful work," Carl Mueller
told ABC News' "20/20" in an interview to be broadcast this
Friday, "but somewhere in a boardroom, they decided to leave our
daughter there to be tortured and raped and ultimately
murdered."
Permanent ceasefire in Columbia by FARC rebels ends one of the
world's longest running conflicts
The Independent - The ceasefire ends a half-century of political
violence which has claimed more than 220,000 lives and driven
more than 5 million people from their homes.... The commander of
Colombia's biggest rebel movement has said its fighters will
permanently cease hostilities with the government as a result of
their peace accord. Rodrigo Londono, leader of the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), made the announcement in
Havana, where the two sides negotiated for four years before
announcing the peace deal last week.... Colombian President Juan
Manuel Santos announced on Friday his military would cease
attacks on the FARC beginning Monday. The announcement
formalised a truce which has been in place in effect for several
months.... After the agreement is signed, FARC guerrillas will
begin handing their weapons over to UN-sponsored monitors. The
final peace agreement will be signed in the coming weeks.
Theresa May will trigger Brexit negotiations without Commons
vote
The Telegraph - Theresa May will not hold a parliamentary vote
on Brexit before opening negotiations to formally trigger
Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, The Telegraph has
learned.... It had been suggested - by Tony Blair, the former
Labour Prime Minister, and Owen Smith, the Labour leadership
candidate, among others - that Remain-supporting MPs could use a
Parliamentary vote to stop Brexit. But sources say that because
Mrs May believes that “Brexit means Brexit” she will not offer
opponents the opportunity to stall Britain's withdrawal from the
EU.... Mrs May has consulted Government lawyers who have told
the Prime Minister she has the executive power to invoke Article
50 and begin the formal process of exiting the European Union
without a vote in Parliament.... The majority of MPs in the
Commons, a total of around 480, campaigned for Britain to stay
in the European Union at the last election. The House of Lords
is also overwhelmingly in favour of Britain staying in the EU,
meaning that obtaining formal parliamentary approval for Brexit
could take years.
TTIP Dead: Massive US-EU Trade Deal Falls Apart Says German
Vice-Chancellor
Sputnik News - Free trade negotiations between the European
Union and the United States have fallen apart in recent weeks
with Europe reticent to open its agricultural industry to
low-cost American “frankenfruits” in addition to concerns over
the depletion of labor standards and worries that an unelected
cabal will be able to dictate policy over the sovereign
objections of participating countries.... The deal began to fall
apart beginning in May when France first threatened to block the
deal. At the time, President Francois Hollande said that he
would "never accept" the deal because it abridges the
sovereignty of France and the rest of Europe while
disproportionately favoring US agro-business.... The deal has
fallen under increased pressure in the wake of Britain’s
historic vote to exit the European Union changing the dimensions
and calculations of the trade pact while creating concern among
US leaders that a TTIP deal without British involvement would
actually diminish US-UK economic ties.... On Sunday Sigmar
Gabriel, who is also Germany’s Economy Minister, said: "In my
opinion, the negotiations with the United States have de facto
failed."
Central Italy rocked by new 4.4 aftershock following deadly
earthquake
RT- new 4.4-magnitude aftershock with a depth of about 9 km has
rattled the region not far from the town of Arquata del Tronto
in central Italy, the European Mediterranean Seismological
Centre reported. The area suffered a deadly earthquake four days
ago. The aftershock’s center is located nearly 7 km from Arquata
del Tronto. The tremor was felt in Rome, situated more than 150
kilometers south of the town, according to local broadcaster
RaiNews24. A powerful earthquake hit central Italy on Wednesday
night, leaving at least 290 people dead with the death toll
still rising.... As many as 2,500 people have lost their homes
to the earthquake, according to the data released by the Italian
civil defense authorities. More than 1,800 aftershocks have
rocked the region since Wednesday’s quake with Saturday night
being the first one without any major tremors.
Italian Health Ministry Puts Strict Restrictions on Glyphosate
Herbicides
Sustainable Pulse - Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe stated
that the Italian restrictions ban the use of Glyphosate in areas
frequented by the public or by “vulnerable groups” including
children and the elderly. The list of banned areas includes
parks, gardens and courtyards, the edges of roads and railways,
urban areas, sports fields and recreational areas, playgrounds
and green areas within the school buildings, and areas adjacent
to health facilities. In addition, the pre-harvest use of
Glyphosate – a process known as desiccation- has been banned.
The desiccation of crops by spraying glyphosate is a primary
source for residual pesticide contamination at the consumer
level. Finally, the non-agricultural use of glyphosate is banned
on soils composed 80% or more of sand–a measure designed to
protect groundwater from contamination. This package of
restrictions is significant as it marks one of the largest bans
on both consumer and agricultural use of the controversial
substance glyphosate.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Bill Clinton bombed Saddam to distract from the Monica Lewinsky
scandal - what Huma Abedin's Muslim journal claimed about her
boss's husband
Daily Mail - The claim made made in an article published in the
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, where [Houma] Abedin was a
member of the editorial board - the group of people who decide
what is published in the academic journal. It is the latest
bombshell to emerge from the archives of the journal, whose
editor-in-chief is Abedin's mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, an
academic in Saudi Arabia. Abedin, who is not an academic, has
been Hillary Clinton's closest aide since spending time as an
intern at the White House, at exactly the time the Monica
Lewinsky scandal was unfolding.... Clinton's bombing of Iraq in
December 1998 was widely mocked as 'Monica's war'. He ordered
four days of strikes by bombers and cruise missiles at the
height of his impeachment trial, brought in the wake of his
admission that he had had a 'not appropriate' relationship with
Monica Lewinsky. The strikes - known as Operation Desert Fox-
were ordered the day after the House of Representatives issued a
report accusing the president of 'high crimes and misdemeanors'
and ended on the day the articles of impeachment were passed.
Previous strikes in 1996, Operation Desert Strike, were ordered
during a campaign finance scandal.
Another Dead Clinton Crimes Truth Teller: Wikileaks Julian
Assange Lawyer Found Dead, After Being Struck By Train
SGT Report - John Jones 48, one of Britain’s top human rights
lawyers, who represented Julian Assange was killed last Monday,
when he was run over by a commuter train. The death is being
called a suicide. British Transport Police were called to the
West Hampstead train station in North London at 7:07 AM on
Monday April 18, 2016 after a man was struck by a train. He was
reportedly pronounced dead at the scene and his death is not
being treated as suspicious. The event occurred almost one month
to the day that the first batch of Clinton emails were released
by his client from WikiLeaks.
DCLeaks Website Down, Twitter Suspended After Releasing Soros
Docs
The Daily Caller - DCLeaks, a website that releases information
on powerful political figures, has had part of its website taken
offline after releasing a cache of documents on billionaire
donor George Soros. The @DCLeaks Twitter account has also been
suspended from Twitter for reasons unknown. The website had
previously released 2,500 internal Open Society Foundation (OSF)
documents in order to “shed light on one of the most influential
networks operating worldwide.” OSF is one of Soros’ networks of
organizations. The leaked documents had resulted in several
damaging reports about the organization. OSF had previously
confirmed that the documents were legitimate. Before the website
went offline, an OSF spokesperson had called the leaks “a
symptom of an aggressive assault on civil society and human
rights activists that is taking place globally” in a statement
released to The Daily Caller.
Recent Louisiana disaster spurs association with Agenda 21;
mayor claims floods were 'man-made'
(NaturalNews) [The] mayor of Walker, Louisiana, another area
slammed with heavy flooding, says the entire disaster could
easily have been prevented. Mayor Rick Ramsey even went so far
to say that the event was "man-made," adding that he intends to
take legal action against the state of Louisiana and the federal
government, as reported by WAFB. The mayor said "a six-foot tall
concrete barrier that was put along I-12 when the interstate was
expanded last year essentially put the city of Walker 'into a
bowl,'" a barrier he says prevented water from draining out of
the town. "When the Amite River went up, it hit that wall," said
Ramsey. "We have video evidence that shows the concrete barrier
and water lapping over the north shore of the interstate and
bone dry on the south of the interstate. They basically built a
dam for Walker.”… The mayor's comments sparked controversy,
leading some to speculate whether or not the ordeal may have
ties to Agenda 21, a comprehensive, global plan drafted by the
United Nations…. Private property or private land ownership does
not exist under Agenda 21, which has been adopted by hundreds of
nations, all of which have pledged to implement the plan's
sweeping goals.
Judges Give ‘Defacto Amnesty’ To 1/3 Of Illegals Charged With
Crimes
Daily Caller - America’s immigration court judges allow one in
three illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes — like rape
and drunk driving — roam free in the U.S. The judges released
32.9 percent of 5,530 illegal aliens charged with crimes since
Oct. 1, 2015. That’s the highest percentage since at least 1998,
according to Executive Office of Immigration Review data
obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Syracuse
University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
“They’re not giving them a legal status, but they’re letting
them stay,” Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), told The Daily Caller News
Foundation. “So it’s like a de facto amnesty.” If an immigration
judge decides not to order a person’s deportation, the illegal
immigrant may stay in the U.S. after serving any prison time
determined in a criminal court.
Unlicensed Bus Driver in Crash That Killed 2 in U.S. Illegally,
Cops Say
Yahoo News - Two people were killed and 41 were injured when a
charter bus driven by a man without a license who is in the U.S.
illegally crashed into vehicles at the scene of a previous minor
accident on Interstate 10 near La Place, according to the
Louisiana State Police…. The bus driver, Denis Yasmir Amaya
Rodriguez, is from the Honduras and is in the U.S. illegally,
[Louisiana State Police Trooper Melissa] Matey said. The people
on the bus, which is owned by AM Party Bus/Christina’s
Transportation, were "daily hires" who were in the area to do
construction and rebuild following the devastating flooding that
hit Louisiana, she said. It is not known who hired the workers,
but police believe they are in the U.S. illegally, Matey said.
A Single Police Dept Costs Taxpayers Nearly $2K a Day to Keep
Bad Cops on Paid Vacations
The Free Thought Project - Broward County, FL — A sizeable chunk
of the Free Thought Project archives is devoted solely to a
single department in Florida. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is
notorious for its rapists, child molesting stalkers, sadistic
dog siccing torturers, and woman battering deputies. Many of
these cops are never fired, and, even if they are, they are
likely all given paid vacations first — some of them for months,
or longer. Deputy Gerald “Gerry” Wengert, the sadistic cop who
forced his K-9 to tear into a teenager for suspicion of spray
painting a train car, is one of those cops who was given an
extended paid vacation. According to a report in the Broward New
Times, for the past 440 days, Wengert has been on paid leave.
Since his annual salary is $72,735.22 a year, he’s cost
taxpayers $87,680.81 so far for not showing up to work…. Broward
Sheriff’s Office is one department of thousands that employ the
same tactics of paid vacation for bad cops. Across the country,
problem officers on paid vacations are likely costing taxpayers
tens of thousands a day, if not more, and there is no sign of
this insane practice being reined in.
The EpiPen Scandal Is Worse Than You Think: What You're Not
Being Told
The AntiMedia - Though the EpiPen is not covered by patent
protection, [Mylan CEO and Sen. Joe Manchin's daughter, Heather]
Bresch’s close relationship with Washington may have helped her
company ensure competition wasn’t an issue. In an article for
the Mises Institute, Jonathan Newman writes that “Mylan has been
repeatedly protected from competition, and it has repeatedly
(and predictably) increased the price of EpiPens in response.”
According to Bloomberg, Mylan has been aggressive in its
approach to regulators. For the past seven years, Bresch has
been “[turning] to Washington for help. Along with patient
groups, Mylan pushed for federal legislation encouraging states
to stock epinephrine devices in schools.”.... “Epinephrine is
extremely cheap,” .... In a free market scenario, “[a] firm
cannot just willy-nilly raise their prices without a competing
firm leaping in to give consumers what they want at a lower
price,” Newman explains. But in the real world, “Mylan has a
great friend who keeps would-be competitors out of the market,
or at least makes it so difficult for them that they eventually
go out of business.” Mylan’s friend, in this case, is the FDA —
a government agency.
Barney Frank to Fed: Don’t raise rates before election
The Hill - Frank advised the Fed board not to risk destabilizing
markets and perhaps the broader economy a few weeks before
Election Day. “I think it would be a mistake to do it this close
to the election,” Frank told The Hill.... “What the Fed should
do this close to the election is make no waves,” he added.
“Unless there was some totally off-the-charts jobs number, doing
something this close to the election I think roils the waters
unnecessarily.” .... It is generally thought that a rate hike
before the election could be risky for Clinton, who is seeking a
third term for Democrats in the White House. A rate hike could
make it more expensive to borrow money and could slow the
economy and cause stocks to fall. Frank said a blockbuster jobs
report showing the creation of something on the order of 400,000
new jobs might justify action but anything in line with recent
job gains would argue in favor of keeping rates level. While the
unemployment rate stands at a healthy 4.9 percent, participation
in the job market is only 63 percent — well below norms of the
1990s and 2000s – and earnings for S&P 500 companies have shrunk
for six straight quarters.
ACLU Loses Court Ruling In Fight Against Wisconsin's Voter ID
Law
Western Journalism - A federal appeals court on Friday declined
to soften Wisconsin’s strict voter ID law, ending several weeks
of legal jousting over the measure first approved by lawmakers
in 2011.... In July, a federal district court had ruled against
the law, saying that voters who did not have the required ID
could sign an affidavit attesting to their identity. Wisconsin
appealed that ruling. Initially, a three-judge panel of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit overturned the lower court.
On Friday, the full court upheld the panel, rejecting an appeal
from groups opposed to the law. In a separate challenge to the
law, Wisconsin had been ordered to make it easy for potential
voters to obtain IDs. One way the state would accomplish that
was to give out temporary IDs at state Department of Motor
Vehicles offices.... Because that requirement was in place, the
appeals court said the affidavit process was not necessary....
The American Civil Liberties Union was unhappy with the ruling.
Video: Hacking Democracy - The Hack
This is the hack that proved America's elections can be stolen
using a few lines of computer code. The 'Hursti Hack' in this
video is an excerpt from the feature length Emmy nominated
documentary 'Hacking Democracy'. The hack of the Diebold voting
system in Leon County, Florida, is real. It was verified by
computer scientists at UC Berkeley.
Watch The Full HD Movie On Vimeo
Poor Tired Hillary Gets Only 4,000 Likes and 17,000 Dislikes for
her YouTube KKK Speech – Now She’s Exhausted, Has No More
Rallies Scheduled
The Gateway Pundit - Hillary Clinton’s campaign speech in Reno
on Thursday is her last campaign event scheduled on her
calendar. She does have the presidential debates scheduled but
there are no more Clinton campaign rallies scheduled anytime in
the future. It is really no wonder. Hillary’s ‘Racist Pepe’
speech in Reno was horrible for all involved. For starters, it
almost didn’t start – it was actually 2 hours late in starting.
It is unknown if Hillary was ill or whether she was waiting for
more people to show up. Finally, someone had the courage to tell
her that the show must go on. Fortunately, the local union had a
few members attend or the numbers would have been worse.
Eventually her speech got under way and to the horror of most in
the audience it was full of racist name calling and angry
contempt. … The speech will go down in history as one of the
most racist and paranoid speeches of all time. The live stream
of the speech was hijacked by Trump supporters. To date it has
received 4,000 ‘likes’ on YouTube but more than 17,000
‘dislikes’. It was nasty.
* Related:
Dishonest CNN Says Trump is Spreading “Claim” That Hillary’s
Mentor [Senator Robert Byrd] Was in the KKK
Video: KKK Grand Dragon Endorses Hillary Clinton
Gateway Pundit - For some reason this didn’t make it into her
racism speech yesterday in Reno. This interview took place after
a KKK rally in California in March. Reporter: Who do you like
for president, sir. Will Quigg: Hillary Clinton. Reporter: Do
you think whites are superior to Blacks and Latinos? Will Quigg:
Well we are God’s chosen people….
Veteran Kills Himself in VA Parking Lot After Being Denied
Treatment
The AntiMedia - He was reportedly seeking help for mental health
issues at the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center but was
turned away, an unfortunately common experience plaguing
veterans seeking healthcare in recent years. According to the
New York Times, two people connected to the hospital spoke about
the incident on the condition of anonymity. They explained “he
had been frustrated that he was unable to see an emergency-room
physician for reasons related to his mental health,” the Times
reported. “He went to the E.R. and was denied service,” one
anonymous source said. “And then he went to his car and shot
himself.”.... One of the Times’ anonymous sources questioned why
Kaisen had not been referred to Building 64, the mental health
center at Northport. “The staff member said that while there was
normally no psychologist at the ready in the E.R., one was
always on call, and that the mental health building was open
‘24/7,’” the Times reported. “Someone dropped the ball. They
should not have turned him away,” the source said. Christopher
Goodman, a spokesman for the hospital, said there “was no
indication that he presented to the E.R. prior to the incident,”
and the Times was unable to determine whether there was an
official record of his visit to the VA on Sunday.
Illinois Governor Furious After Pension Fund Cuts Returns
Forecast, Sticking Taxpayers With "Crippling" Tax Hike
Zero Hedge - Despite tremendous political pressure, on Friday
afternoon, the Board of Trustees for the Illinois Teachers’
Retirement System, which serves almost 400,000 teachers, voted
to cut the assumed rate of return to 7% from 7.5%.... Gov. Bruce
Rauner wanted TRS [Teachers’ Retirement System] to delay the
decision... "With less than two hours' notice, Illinois
taxpayers including our social service providers and small
business owners were just handed a bill for nearly a
half-billion dollars," [Rauner spokesman Lance] Trover said in a
statement.... Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Illinois
politicians decided on a short-term hit, despite knowing that by
deciding to make pensioners whole on legacy funding promises,
they put their own careers in jeopardy as the taxpayer blowback
would be swift and merciless to the existing administration....
For now, however, the "hit" will end up as a new line item to
local tax bills, first in Illinois then everywhere else, as the
gradual bailout of pension funds by taxpayers across the nation
(and then, the world) begins.
Another Canary in The Coal Mine...
EPautos - Sales of Chevy’s Camaro muscle car and its two rivals,
the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger, have stalled.... This
after several years of double digit increases. Now, the reverse
is happening. Camaro is down an ominous 15.4 percent for the
year to date (January to July) despite the current model
benefitting from an update that few, if any people could find
fault with.... Same thing over at Ford and Dodge. Both of their
muscle cars have been improved recently and neither has lost any
of the attributes that made them successful… until now.... So
what’s up? The better question is, what’s down? How about the
financial ability of the middle class buyer (this is the
demographic that buys cars like these) to afford them? Or –
perhaps more to the point – their willingness to buy them?
Interest rates are still low; gas is still cheap. But such
things don’t matter when you can’t afford the car itself. Or
begin to fear not being able to afford other, more important
things – like the monthly mortgage. Or (more coming) your
Obamacare premium.
AT&T doesn’t want to repay money it got from alleged overcharges
Ars Technica - Last month, the FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability
(NAL) that says AT&T overcharged the Florida school districts of Orange
and Dixie by nearly 400 percent.... The phone service in question is
paid for by US citizens through surcharges on phone bills. Those
surcharges fund the E-rate program that subsidizes telecommunications
for schools and libraries. Under this program, the FCC says AT&T is
required to charge schools and libraries the lowest available rates. The
commission says AT&T should repay $63,760 it improperly received from
the FCC in subsidies and pay an additional fine of $106,425. AT&T argues
that it wasn't actually required to charge the school districts the
lowest available price, because the school districts decided to buy
service on a month-to-month basis instead of signing one-year
contracts.... The company is also fighting a $100 million fine the FCC
proposed after accusing AT&T of throttling the wireless Internet
connections of customers with unlimited data plans without adequately
notifying the customers about the reduced speeds.
Microsoft Excel blamed for gene study errors
BBC News - Researchers trying to raise awareness of the issue claim that
the spreadsheet software automatically converts the names of certain
genes into dates. Gene symbols like SEPT2 (Septin 2) were found to be
altered to "September 2".... The researchers claimed the problem is
present in "approximately one-fifth of papers" that collated data in
Excel documents. The trio, writing for the Melbourne-based academic
institute Baker IDI, scanned 3,597 published scientific papers to
conduct their study. They found 704 of those papers contained gene name
errors created by Excel. Ewan Birney, director of the European
Bioinformatics Institute, does not blame Excel and told the BBC: "What
frustrates me is researchers are relying on Excel spreadsheets for
clinical trials." The Excel gene renaming issue has been known among the
scientific community for more than a decade, Birney added. He
recommended that the program should only be considered for "lightweight
scientific analysis".... Excel's automatic renaming of certain genes was
first cited by the scientific community back in 2004, the Baker IDI
study claims. Since then the problem has "increased at an annual rate of
15%" over the past five years.
Spotted: A Self-Driving Uber in Pittsburgh
Gizmodo - Pictures of self-driving Ubers are starting to emerge from
Pittsburgh. Uber announced the launch earlier this month. While the cars
do indeed drive themselves, there’s still going to be a human at the
wheel. Which is probably a good idea! Uber is partnering with Volvo to
roll out these self-driving cars.
New research links excessive oxalates to breast cancer
(NaturalHealth365) …in reality, oxalates are neither good nor
bad. They can become problematic, however, when too many of them
accumulate in the body. When there’s too many oxalates – they
can overwhelm the kidneys and lead to kidney stones and immune
deficiency. Plus, according to a recent study, high levels of
oxalate in the mammary area has been linked to breast cancer
tumor growth as well. Oxalates (COOH), or oxalic acid, are
strongly acidic substances that help both plants and animals in
metabolization. About 60% to 80% of oxalates are formed by the
body’s functions themselves. The other 20 to 40% of oxalates
come from food…. The following foods contain a high amount of
oxalates overall: Rhubarb, Chocolate, Spinach, Beet greens,
Swiss chard, Some nuts, especially almonds, cashews and peanuts,
Some berries, especially gooseberries, Lemon and lime peel, Some
grains and pastas (except brown rice), Some legumes, especially
navy beans, black beans and soybeans, Okra [and] Parsley…. Three
ways to reduce your oxalate levels: 1. Obtain calcium from
natural foods - When calcium is combined with foods that are
high in oxalates within the intestines, the two together form an
oxalate-calcium crystal that the body cannot absorb. When this
happens, a “stone” is formed that will make its way to the
kidneys to eventually be eliminated in the urine. 2. Be aware of
your protein intake… 3. Maintain good intestinal flora…
Ingenious First Aid Blanket Is Covered With Instructions To Save
Lives
Natural Blaze - You never know when disaster might strike. And,
not everyone is CPR-certified or capable of thinking clearly
during tense situations. Fortunately, researchers of Zhejiang
University in China have developed a first-aid blanket which may
help save lives. The clever blanket is covered with instructions
describing what to do in an emergency situation. From correctly
administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to helping
unblock airways, the blanket is encrypted with knowledge average
citizens may rely on as they wait for paramedics to arrive and
take over. or understandable reasons, the blanket won the
prestigious Red Dot Award for conceptual design in 2014. Little
is known about when the blanket might be available for purchase,
but Ippinka relays that it is more than likely the life-saving
invention will be sold in stores in the near future.
NYC allows doctors to prescribe fresh fruit and vegetables as
treatment for obesity; FDA declares veggies 'unapproved drugs'
(NaturalNews) …a program embraced by New York City is
newsworthy. Dubbed the "Fruit and Vegetables Prescription
Program," it allows doctors to "prescribe" fresh fruit and
vegetables to overweight or obese patients by giving them
"Health Bucks" that are redeemable at local farmer's markets….
This program makes New York City the largest U.S. city to
officially acknowledge that fruits and vegetables have a role to
play in preventing chronic degenerative disease -- an idea that
the FDA insists is delusional. According to the FDA, there is no
such thing as any fruit, vegetable, supplement or superfood that
has any ability whatsoever to prevent, treat or cure any
disease. And according to the FDA, the mere "prescribing" of a
food as something to prevent obesity automatically transforms
that food into a "drug." Under current FDA regulations, then,
NYC is guilty of promoting "unapproved drugs" which are really
just fruits and vegetables. But that's how FDA logic works.
4 Reasons Why You Should Wash Your Face With Apple Cider Vinegar
David Wolfe - #1 – Age Spot Removal - The alpha hydroxy acids in
apple cider vinegar work away old, dead skin that’s overstayed
its welcome. Place a dab of apple cider vinegar on a cotton ball
and apply it directly to the spot. Let the vinegar sit there for
about 30 minutes, then wash the spot and dry it. Repeat this
twice a day. You should notice significant changes within a
matter of weeks. #2 – Acne Treatment - It will remove harmful
bacteria as well as excess dirt and debris from your pores. Get
yourself some apple cider vinegar and dilute it in water at a
ratio of one part ACV to three parts water. Then, soak a cotton
pad in this mixture and apply it directly to your face after
you’ve washed it. Do this twice daily. #3 – Wrinkle Reduction -
Apple cider vinegar contains beta-carotene – an antioxidant that
combats the free radical damage behind wrinkles and other signs
of aging. When applied to skin, it restores a youthful, healthy
appearance. Dilute your ACV as per the instructions in the last
point. Get yourself a cotton pad, soak it in the mixture and
apply this directly to the wrinkles. #4 – Toxin Removal - Apple
cider vinegar is a diuretic; it promotes the excretion of toxins
and waste…. If you’ve got particularly sensitive skin, using an
apple cider vinegar mixture that’s too strong can burn you.
After you’ve diluted it, test the mixture on a small area of
your hand. If it feels fine, go on to test it on a small area of
your face. If you feel uncomfortable burning, add more water and
try again until it no longer hurts.
5 Natural Remedies for Your Pet's Nausea
Dr. Becker - If your pet tends to suffer with sporadic bouts of nausea
and vomiting, the first thing you should do, if you haven’t already, is
make an appointment with your veterinarian…. Once Fido or Tiger has
received a clean bill of health from your vet, you can start
experimenting with natural remedies to relieve his occasional upset
stomach. As always, I highly recommend that you consult with a holistic
or integrative veterinarian on the most appropriate remedies and dosing
for your individual pet. 1. Herbs - Catnip is a very effective herb for
calming a pet with an upset stomach. I recommend using a glycerine
tincture, about 12 to 20 drops for every 20 pounds of body weight. You
can also combine fennel with catnip to treat your pet’s nausea. Other
herbs that help with indigestion and nausea include peppermint, dill,
and one of my personal favorites, ginger. I recommend using fresh ground
ginger or the dry herb, in the following amounts mixed into a delectable
meatball… 2. Kefir - Some pet parents swear by the benefits of kefir to
soothe their dog’s or cat’s indigestion. Kefir is a fermented milk
beverage that contains beneficial probiotics. Although regular,
pasteurized cow's milk can be irritating to pets' GI tracts, fermented
milk is different. 3. Flower Essences - Many pet parents have good luck
treating their pet’s nervous nausea with Bach Flower essences such as
Scleranthus, Rock Rose, or Rescue Remedy.
Friday - August
26, 2016 - Today In History:
1842 - The first fiscal year was established by the U.S. Congress to
start on July 1st.
1847 - Liberia was proclaimed as an independent republic.
1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S.
public kindergarten.
1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The
amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting
booth.
1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to
Germany.
1937 - All Chinese shipping was blockaded by Japan.
1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S.
battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.
1957 - It was announced that an intercontinental ballistic missile was
successfully tested by the Soviet Union.
1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the
assembly line.
1973 - A U.S. Presidential Proclamation was declared that made August
26th Women's Equality Day.
1981 - The U.S. claimed that North Korea fired an antiaircraft missile
at a U.S. Surveillance plane while it was over South Korea.
1990 - The 55 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by
car and headed for the Turkish border.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised that national
elections would be held.
1992 - A "no-fly zone" was imposed on the southern 1/3 of Iraq. The move
by the U.S., France and Britain was aimed at protecting Iraqi Shiite
Muslims.
1998 - The U.S. government announced that they were investigating
Microsoft in an attempt to discover if they "bullied" Intel into
delaying new technology.
2003 - Investigators concluded that NASA's overconfident management and
inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as
damage to the craft did.
Turkey sends more tanks to Syria, town of Jarablus ‘being
cleansed’ of ISIS
RT - More Turkish tanks have crossed the border into Syria in a
military operation ostensibly aimed at taking the border town of
Jarablus from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Damascus
has called the move “a blatant violation of sovereignty.”
According to a witness cited by Reuters, at least nine Turkish
tanks entered northern Syria on Thursday morning. AFP and
Haberturk TV also reported that more Turkish tanks and machinery
had entered Syria. Some 20 tanks are already inside the country,
a Turkish official confirmed to Reuters, adding that additional
tanks and machinery would be sent in as required.,,, US
Secretary of State John Kerry told Turkish Foreign Minister
Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday that the People’s Protection Units
(YPG) are moving back to the east side of the Euphrates River,
Turkish Foreign Ministry sources told Reuters. YPG, a Kurdish
militia that claims to be fighting Islamic State, is considered
a terrorist organization by Ankara, but is backed by the US.
Russia urges ‘caution’ on UN’s Syria chemical weapons report,
will talk to US
RT - Russia’s UN envoy has called on the international community
not to draw “hasty conclusions” from a year-long UN
investigation that blames the Syrian government for carrying out
two chemical weapons attacks in the past two years, and Islamic
State for one. “We shouldn’t come to hasty conclusions. We need
to step very carefully here,” Vitaly Churkin told the Russian
media in New York, saying Russia needs more time to study the
95-page report. The UN Security Council-backed investigation was
conducted by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons (OPCW) and the UN’s Joint Investigative Mechanism, a
body known as JIM that investigated nine separate chemical
weapons attacks that had been previously verified by the OPCW.
All incidents occurred after 2013, when Syria handed over its
chemical weapons arsenal to international monitors. In six
instances, JIM was not able to definitively apportion blame, in
two cases, in Idlib in 2014 and 2015, the report said that
government forces had used chlorine gas – which was not removed
in 2013 due to its civilian uses, but is forbidden on the
battlefield. In one case, Islamic State appeared to have used
mustard gas in Marea in August of 2015. Churkin said that the
findings were notable, as “usually all blame gets assigned to
the Syrian government.”
The Death Toll in Yemen Is So High the Red Cross Has Started
Donating Morgues to Hospitals
Blacklisted News - Almost a year and a half into Saudi Arabia’s
U.S.-backed bombing campaign in Yemen, the humanitarian toll has
become so extensive that the International Committee of the Red
Cross has taken the unusual step of donating entire morgue units
to Yemeni hospitals. “The hospitals were not able to cope,” said
Rima Kamal, a Yemen-based spokesperson for the Red Cross. “You
could have more than 20 dead people brought into one hospital on
one single day. The morgue capacity at a regular hospital is not
equipped to handle this influx of dead bodies.”
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Judge orders search of new Clinton emails for
release by September 13
Reuters - A U.S. judge ordered the State Department on Thursday
to release by Sept. 13 any emails it finds between Hillary
Clinton and the White House from the week of the 2012 attack in
Benghazi, Libya, among the thousands of additional emails
uncovered by federal investigators. The order came after the
Federal Bureau of Investigation gave the department a disc
earlier this month containing 14,900 emails to and from Clinton
and other documents it said it had recovered that she did not
return to the government…. Judge William Dimitrouleas of the
U.S. District Court in southern Florida made his order in
response to a request by the conservative watchdog group
Judicial Watch, which is suing the State Department for
Clinton-era records under freedom of information laws.
FBI Admits Clinton Used Software Designed To "Prevent Recovery"
And "Hide Traces Of" Deleted Emails (Video)
Zero Hedge - South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy appeared
on Fox News today and disclosed new details about the Clinton
email scandal that seem to indicate intent to destroy evidence.
Gowdy reveals that Clinton used "BleachBit" to erase the
"personal" emails from her private server. For those not
familiar with the software, BleachBit is intended to help users
delete files in a way to "prevent recovery" and "hide traces of
files deleted." Per the BleachBit website: Beyond simply
deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as
shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to
hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and
vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. During his appearance on
Fox, Gowdy clearly indicates that Clinton's use of BleachBit
undermines her claims that she only deleted innocuous "personal"
emails from her private server. Gowdy also questioned whether
Hillary considered "Clinton Foundation" emails to be "personal"
and, if not, asked why the FBI's investigation revealed minimal
emails about Foundation-related topics.
1/3 of Abedin emails 100% redacted
WND - Judicial Watch’s release this week of 725 pages of State
Department emails involving Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin
demonstrates the Obama administration considers a large
percentage of the emails sent through Clinton’s private server
too sensitive for Congress or the American public to read. Of
the 725 pages, more than 250 pages were 100 percent redacted,
many with “PAGE DENIED” stamped in bold. Judicial Watch said the
new cache includes previously unreleased email exchanges in
which former Abedin “provided influential Clinton Foundation
donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state.”
Judicial Watch added that in many instances, the preferential
treatment provided to donors was at the specific request of
Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band…. “The Abedin emails
reveal that the longtime Clinton aide apparently served as a
conduit between Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton
while Clinton served as secretary of state. In more than a dozen
email exchanges, Abedin provided expedited, direct access to
Clinton for donors who had contributed from $25,000 to $10
million to the Clinton Foundation,” Judicial Watch said in a
statement announcing the release.
FBI reports regarding Hillary Clinton & Vince Foster that have
gone missing (Video)
David Knight - In an exclusive interview with InfoWars, Roger
Stone reviewed, in detail, how physical evidence contradicted
the official story that Vince Foster committed suicide in the
park. Stone said whether it was murder or suicide, “Hillary
Clinton was the one who ordered this body moved. In her book,
Hard Choices — which you can find in the fiction section at
Barnes & Noble — she specifically says that upon hearing of
Vince’s death, her immediate concern was that his office would
become a crime scene and that federal investigators into his
demise would have access to their most sensitive personal
records. Which is precisely why Hillary ordered a guy named
Livingston and a guy named Kennedy — by the way if you boys are
out there and you want to sue me, bring it on — they moved the
body.” According to testimony from former FBI agent Jim Clemente
and his supervisory agent Coy Copeland, the missing National
Archive documents had testimony recalling Hillary humiliating
Foster and essentially saying you’ll never work in this town
again.
Boston Police Department remains tight-lipped about helicopter
exercise with defense department
Fox 25 - For several days this week, people in Boston and the
surrounding area have heard large helicopters flying around the
area. FOX25 found a video posted on YouTube showing several
helicopters flying low above the high rise buildings in Boston.
Boston police sent out a community advisory to alert residents
about a planned training exercise in conjunction with the
defense department. The advisory said the training is not in
response to any world events. FOX25 reached out to the Boston
Police Department and was told “specifics are kept mysterious
for good reason.”… The exercise is expected to continue until
Friday, and FOX25 is told the Boston Police Department will
release more information after it ends.
Police use 'Pay-By-Plate' to "hotlist" motorists across the
country
MassPrivateI - Police State America has devised a new way to
track dissidents or person's of interest, they're calling it
Pay-By-Plate. Raytheon's Pay-By-Plate system will allow police
to "hotlist" motorists across the country. What are vehicle
"hotlists"? Page 6, of the Cincinnati Police Dept.'s, "Success
in Automated License Plate Recognition Technology" report,
reveals what vehicle "hotlists" actually mean. Terrorist Watch
Alerts, Amber Alerts, Part 1 Crimes, Drug Trafficking, NCIC
National Crime Center), LEADS (Law Enforcement Agencies Data
System), RCIC and other regional wanted vehicles (Regional Crime
Information Center), Warrants, Stolen, Delinquent, Etc…. The
nature of the LPR collected from private sources tends to be
stationary vehicles and/or vehicles entering into parking and/or
other access controlled locations…providing law enforcement with
detailed precise and targeted historical location information
for vehicles of interest…. According to a Boston Globe article,
'detailed precise' toll transactions are being stored
indefinitely by the MassDOT. The MassDOT claims, they don't have
any plans to use the information to ticket speeding motorists
yet!… [The] Feds claim they're only taking pictures of our
license plates [but] If you look closely at the above picture,
you can see two surveillance cameras, one that takes a picture
of the front of the vehicle, and one that's aimed at the rear of
the vehicle. Raytheon's Vigilant Solutions, ' National Vehicle
Location Service' cameras can identify drivers and passengers
faces in "near real time", flagging any 'person of interest’….
Raytheon's surveillance cameras can be found everywhere, from
traffic intersections to store fronts and inside businesses
across the country.
Pennsylvania Children with Genetic Disorder Medically Kidnapped,
Mother Falsely Accused of Abuse
Health Impact News - Pennsylvania mother Jessica Battiato has
been diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome - a rare inherited
connective tissue disorder which can cause brittle bones which
may be easily broken. When she took her first-born son to the
doctor more than a year ago for a swollen leg, she was shocked
to learn that he had 18 to 20 fractures in his body. Cesar was
seized by child protective services. Since that time, experts
have diagnosed him with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, low vitamin D,
and infantile rickets. However, after more than a year, the
state has still not released Cesar back to his parents. In
April, Jessica gave birth to another baby. Jessica hid her
pregnancy from Berks County social workers out of fear that they
would take her baby from her as soon as he was born. This fear
appears justified, as social workers around the country often
seize babies, even breastfeeding babies, right from the
hospital, especially if another child in the family is already
in the system. Jessica was afraid, so she sought prenatal care
and gave birth on April 27 in another county. She and the boys'
father Cosme were able to bond and spend those very important
early weeks bonding together. Then, when baby Julius was 7 weeks
old, Jessica says that she applied for Medicaid for him. That
was when their family time ended. Their new baby was taken by
Berks County Children and Family Services, and Jessica is once
again being accused of child abuse.
Assange: New Hillary Info Could Swing Election “If it Catches
Fire” (Video)
Paul Joseph Watson - Asked by Fox News host Megyn Kelly if he
thought the information in Wikileaks’ possession could be a
“game-changer” in the U.S. election given that Hillary is
currently ahead in the polls, Assange responded in the
affirmative…. Elsewhere in the interview, Assange vowed that the
information would be released before November 8 and that there
was “thousands of pages of material” which would be released in
staged batches. “People have a right to understand who it is
they’re electing,” said Assange, adding that the information
comprised of “a variety of different types of documents, from
different types of institutions that are associated with the
election campaign, some quite unexpected angles that are quite
interesting, some even entertaining.”… Other leaks could come
from the additional 14,900 emails in the possession of the FBI.
On Tuesday, Wikileaks tweeted that it would be releasing some of
this “bombshell” information.
Hillary Defines The Enemy: You! Clinton Calls 31M Breitbart
Readers ‘Racists,’ White Supremacists, Ku Klux Klan Members…
Breitbart - Amid a deafening chorus calling for the closure of
her corrupt foundation to stop bagging foreign cash for favors,
embattled Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has
decided to label 31 million people as racists, simply because
they don’t agree with her: The Clinton campaign attack ad
targeting Donald Trump portrays Breitbart News employees and
readers as racists, white supremacists, and members of the Ku
Klux Klan. The ad includes shots of men dressed in Ku Klux Klan
robes followed by footage of crowded Trump rallies. One shot
shows Stephen K. Bannon, who temporarily stepped down as
executive chairman of Breitbart News, standing in front of a
mural depicting the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Paranoid Hillary Smears Alex Jones During Conspiracy-Obsessed
Rant (Video)
Paul Joseph Watson - The speech in Reno was billed as Hillary’s
moment to demonize Trump by equating him with racist, white
supremacist conspiracy theorists, but she ended up weaving a
giant fairytale of her own, reinvoking the vast “right wing
conspiracy” that she has been ridiculed for hammering on in the
past. Except this time it’s former KGB agent and Russian
President Vladimir Putin who is somehow the evil genius secretly
controlling Infowars, Breitbart, Nigel Farage and the entire
Alt-Right. Hillary said Putin is, “The godfather of this global
brand of extreme nationalism.”… Hillary also accused Trump of
“taking hate groups mainstream,” the very thing that her and
Barack Obama have done by supporting ‘Black Lives Matter’ – a
group that has inspired the murder of police officers and whose
ideological inspiration is a convicted cop killer on the FBI’s
Most Wanted Domestic Terrorists list. Clinton attacked Trump for
appearing on the Alex Jones Show, claiming that Jones “said the
victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one
was actually killed there.” In reality, Jones has never claimed
that nobody died at Sandy Hook. As Infowars Editor-at-Large,
I’ve been attacked repeatedly for saying the very opposite.
Hillary also savaged Trump for becoming embroiled in 9/11
conspiracy theories for saying that Muslims celebrated on 9/11.
As we have documented, reports from the day itself clearly
suggest that yes Muslims in New Jersey did indeed celebrate the
9/11 attacks.
Hillary Slams ‘KKK’ Trump But Her “Friend and Mentor” Was KKK
Leader Robert Byrd
Paul Joseph Watson - Hillary Clinton’s new campaign strategy is
to claim that Donald Trump is the candidate of the KKK,
conveniently leaving out the fact that Hillary herself described
Robert Byrd – a KKK leader who once called black people
“mongrels,” as her “friend and mentor”. Earlier today, the
Clinton campaign released a video which “makes the case that
Donald Trump is the candidate of racists, white supremacists and
neo-Nazis.” “The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump
is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in,” says a
robed KKK Imperial Wizard in the clip. Hillary is also set to
give a speech today in which she will attack the
Trump-supporting “Alt-Right” by demonizing it as racist and
misogynistic. However, Hillary’s attempt to denounce Trump by
linking him with the KKK is laced with hypocrisy because Hillary
herself called once praised ex-KKK kingpin Robert Byrd as her
“friend and mentor”. Byrd became the leader of a KKK chapter
when he was 24-years-old because he didn’t want to fight
alongside “race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen
from the wilds,” during World War II. “I shall never fight in
the armed forces with a negro by my side,” vowed Byrd in a 1944
letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS). Byrd subsequently wrote
another letter in 1946 in which he asserted that, “The Klan is
needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its
rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.
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Clinton ad ties Trump to KKK, white supremacists
Corruption: Did Hillary Just Manipulate Stock Prices Using
Twitter?
Kit Daniels - Hillary Clinton’s recent tweet attacking biotech
firms lowered their stocks significantly, but not before an
insider made a 2900% profit by “predicting” biotech stocks would
collapse. On Aug. 24, Hillary blasted the biotech sector over
recent price hikes for autoinjectors – which she reportedly uses
herself to prevent seizures – but roughly three hours before
Hillary sent out her tweet, a stock trader placed an usual “put
option” that the biotechnology index would collapse within two
days. The put option, which gives the owner the right – but not
the obligation – to sell an asset at a “strike” price (in this
case $290 – far below the trading price), was set to expire on
Aug. 26 and would have been completely worthless unless Hillary
sent out her tweet. “These puts for IBB [the biotech sector
index] 290.00 strike with an expiration date of August 26th were
worthless before [Hillary’s] tweet,” a diagram uploaded to Imgur
revealed. “Roughly three hours before the tweet goes out, an
usual block order worth $1900 is executed.” “Far above normal
volume for a worthless strike price.” But once Hillary sent out
the tweet, the stock did collapse below $290 per share, and
whoever made the “prediction” just made a ton of money.
"Things Are Worse" - Dollar Stores' Startling Admission: Half Of
US Consumers Are In Dire Straits
Zero Hedge - Discount retailer Dollar General said it was
cutting prices on its most popular items such as bread, eggs and
milk, intensifying a price war among already commoditized
products with retail giant Wal-Mart Stores to win back falling
market share. It shares fell the most on record, plunging by 18%
after the company missed on revenue, blaming aggressive
competition, lower food prices and reduction in SNAP, or food
stamp, coverage in 20 key states…. But the biggest factor by far
impacting the performance of both dollar stores was the sharp,
adverse turn in the purchasing power of the lower half of US
consumers. Both Dollar General and Dollar Tree said pressures on
their core lower-income shoppers contributed to the same-store
sales misses that both retailers reported. On today's conference
call, Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos said that he was surprised
to admit that while on the surface things are supposed to be
getting better, the reality is vastly different for low-income
US consumers: ”I know that when we look at globally the overall
U.S. population, it seems like things are getting better. But
when you really start breaking it down and you look at that core
consumer that we serve on the lower economic scale that's out
there, that demographic, things have not gotten any better for
her, and arguably, they're worse. And they're worse, because
rents are accelerating, healthcare is accelerating."
GM cleared in second U.S. verdict over crash blamed on ignition
switch
Reuters - A Texas jury said on Thursday a General Motors Co
ignition switch, linked to nearly 400 injuries and deaths, was
not to blame for a fatal 2011 crash, according to a company
statement. The verdict in Harris County, Texas, was the second
in favor of GM this year in lawsuits over the now recalled
ignition switch. Plaintiff Zachary Stevens alleged that a
defective switch caused him to lose control of his 2007 Saturn
Sky and crash into another vehicle, killing the other driver. GM
said his reckless driving was at fault. During the trial, which
opened on Aug. 9, Stevens’ lawyers pushed back against GM and
noted their client suffered a severe head wound in the crash.
Manslaughter charges initially filed against him were dropped
after GM recalled 2.6 million vehicles with the switch in 2014,
according to his lawsuit…. The case was the third involving the
switch to go to trial since the beginning of the year. The first
was voluntarily dismissed by plaintiffs during the trial, and
the second resulted in a verdict clearing GM of liability for a
2014 crash in New Orleans.
Nuclear waste accident 2 years ago may cost more than $2 billion to
clean up
Ars Technica - According to the LA Times, the 2014 explosion at the WIPP
was downplayed by the federal government, with the Department of Energy
(DoE) putting out statements indicating that cleanup was progressing
quickly. Indeed, a 2015 Recovery Plan insisted that "limited waste
disposal operations" would resume in the first quarter of 2016. Instead,
two years have passed since the incident without any indication that
smaller nuclear waste cleanup programs around the US will be able to
deliver their waste to the New Mexico facility any time soon. The 2014
explosion apparently occurred when engineers at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory were preparing a drum of plutonium and americium
waste—usually packed with kitty litter (yes, kitty litter)—and decided
to "substitute an organic material for a mineral one." "The new material
caused a complex chemical reaction that blew the lid off a drum, sending
mounds of white, radioactive foam into the air and contaminating 35
percent of the underground area," the LA Times wrote. The dump's
filtration system, which was supposed to "prevent any radioactive
releases," subsequently failed.
New Study Finds Living Near a Fracking Site Is Tied to Migraines and
Fatigue
Natural Blaze - New research indicates that living near a natural gas
hydraulic fracturing site is associated with increased rates of sinus
problems, migraines and fatigue in Pennsylvania residents – a state that
has over 9,700 fracking wells. This study is the latest in mounting
scientific evidence and research proving that fracking has severe health
risks. It follows a July 2016 Johns Hopkins study showing that fracking
is linked to increased asthma attacks in Pennsylvania, a recent analysis
of over 680 peer-reviewed studies that indicate ‘concerns for public
health, air quality and water quality,’ and a compendium of
peer-reviewed scientific papers, numerous government reports and
findings, demonstrating the risks of fracking to public health, air and
water quality, birth and infant health, the environment, and climate
change.
ZigBee Radio Transmitter: How Many Do You Have?
Natural Blaze - Every “smart” appliance in your home has what’s called a
“ZigBee radio transmitter” installed by the manufacturer, which spies on
your usage and reports back to Big Brother, i.e., the utility company
for now, but will tie into the Internet of Things in the very near
future. The ZigBee chip allows each appliance’s electronic signature to
be recorded so utilities and others, who track your data, can determine
which appliance is being used, length of time, etc. thereby providing a
profile of when you are home or someone’s in the house using appliances,
plus the awful realization that your information relay can be HACKED by
any two-bit hacker for any nefarious reason: burglary, surveillance, or
whatever…. The ZigBee is a combined chip device containing a
transmitter, receiver and antenna radio circuit that sends back to the
utility the consumer’s usage data, plus is capable of receiving
instructions from the utility company too. Think forced “brown outs”
during peak summer air conditioner usage or turning off your utility
service for whatever reason the utility elects. The ZigBee radio
transmitter NEVER sleeps; constantly produces EMFs; and you can’t turn
it off, like you can your cell phone or computer. Basically, with your
AMI Smart Meter ZigBee you’re living inside a microwave-oven-like
atmosphere, since the AMI Smart Meter ZigBee operates at 2.4 GHz
microwave frequency and radiates out for 250 to 300 feet! Plus all the
added ZigBees’ radiation from your appliances!… The sad fact about the
ZigBee chip is that manufacturers protect it indefinitely by tying it
into the smart appliance warranty. If you remove the ZigBee chip, the
appliance warranty becomes null and void.
Doctors Disciplined for Misconduct Remain on Industry Payroll as
Consultants and Speakers
AllGov -The analysis identified at least 2,300 doctors who
received industry payments between Aug. 2013 and Dec. 2015
despite histories of misconduct. Hundreds of doctors were
disciplined for severe offenses, including providing poor care,
inappropriately prescribing medications, bilking insurance
programs, even sexual misconduct. At least 40 physicians had
their licenses revoked, in most cases permanently. More than 180
had their licenses restricted. Almost 250 were placed on
probation.
HRT can triple breast cancer risk
What Doctors Don't Tell You - If you’re suffering through the
menopause, think twice before you turn to HRT (hormone
replacement therapy): it really does increase your risk of
breast cancer. Women who take it for a long time triple their
risk, a major new study has discovered. The risk is twice as bad
as previous studies had warned, and it increases the longer
women take it. By the time a woman has taken it for 15 years or
more, her risk has more than trebled, but the average time women
take HRT is five or so years, and for them the risk is slightly
under three times. The risk seems to be only with the combined
estrogen plus progestogen HRT, and there’s no risk associated
with the estrogen-only version. The risk also recedes rapidly
once a woman stops taking it, say researchers from the Institute
of Cancer Research…. Although most studies for the past 15 years
have seen an association with breast cancer, the latest one has
discovered that the risk is twice as high. Previous studies
hadn’t kept on top of the data, the researchers say, which would
explain why the risk has been under-stated.
General Mills Sued over Glyphosate Contamination in ‘Natural’
Nature Valley Snack
Sustainable Pulse - Three U.S. based non profit organizations
filed a lawsuit against General Mills on Thursday for misleading
the public by labeling their Nature Valley brand granola bars
“Made with 100% NATURAL whole grain OATS.” It was recently
discovered that the herbicide chemical glyphosate, an ingredient
in Roundup and hundreds of other glyphosate-based herbicides, is
present in the Nature Valley granola bars, which consumers
expect to be natural and free of toxins. Moms Across America,
Beyond Pesticides and Organic Consumers Association with The
Richman Law Group filed jointly on behalf of the non profit
members in Washington DC under the District of Columbia’s
Consumer Protection Procedures Act…. Proponents of glyphosate
herbicide use may claim that the residue levels found in many
foods and beverages in America recently are below the EPA
allowable levels established in 2014, and therefore consumers
have no reason to be concerned. However, a 2015 study published
in the journal Environmental Health finds that chronic, low-dose
exposure to glyphosate as low as .1 parts per billion (ppb)
leads to adverse effects on liver and kidney health.
Balance your blood sugar without toxic drugs
(NaturalHealth365) As we know, an unhealthy diet – high in
processed foods and sugars – is one of the key villains that
help to create the vicious cycle of insulin resistance. Insulin
resistance typically follows a period of excessively high
insulin secretion, which in turn is the result of eating – you
guessed it – excessive amounts of processed carbohydrates. In
this vicious cycle, excess weight – especially around the belly
– leads to more insulin resistance and inflammation, which in
turn lead to greater amount of insulin resistance…. Chia seeds,
the seeds of the desert plant Salvia hispanica, are true heavy
hitters when it comes to warding off blood sugar imbalances.
Because of their tendency to become gelatinous in the stomach,
these tiny seeds slow the digestion of carbohydrates, delaying
the process of turning them into a simple sugar – making chia
seeds a perfect food for people with insulin resistance. In
addition, chia seeds help to curb the appetite and reduce the
urge to overeat – which can elevate blood sugar. Plus, when it
comes to the ideal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids, chia
seeds are perfect. A true ‘anti-inflammatory superfood.’ Dr.
Loscalzo recommends that we eat a tablespoon or two of chia
seeds with meals. Of course, use only organic chia seeds and
you’ll reap the rewards of better blood sugar control. Bottom
line, you don’t need drugs to balance blood sugar levels.
Homemade Hemp Milk Recipe
David Wolfe - Hemp milk is a nutritious and delicious plant-milk
that contains about 7g of plant-protein per cup, plus a variety
of vitamins, mineral and healthy fats, including omega-3s. In
addition to being creamier than store-bought hemp milk, it is a
higher quality option. Store-bought hemp milk often contains a
variety of preservatives, thickeners, and fillers, not to
mention added sugar. . Requiring only 2 minutes to prepare,
whipping this up is a lot faster than a trip to the grocery
store! This homemade hemp milk should last about 5 days in the
refrigerator in a covered container. Ingredients: 4 cups water,
1 cup hemp seed, 8 pitted medjool dates (or more depending on
desired sweetness) [and] 1/4 tsp. vanilla (optional), Place all
ingredients in a high speed blender*, and blend on high for 1
minute, or until completely smooth. Pour into sealable glass
jars and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.
Bugs and Pesticides in the Pet Food, Shared by an Employee
Susan Thixton - They are afraid of losing their job, so most will not
talk. But when the brave few do, what we learn is horrifying. The
following is what was just shared with me by a pet food manufacturing
employee. This information (with further details) has been reported to
FDA, the specific State Department of Agriculture, the specific state
OSHA office, and the specific state pesticide compliance office. Batches
of pet food have been recently shipped out that are below protein levels
required by regulation and that do not meet the protein percentage
stated on the Guaranteed Analysis on the pet food label. I was told the
pet food manufacturer was well aware of the low protein, but instructed
employees to ship the pet food anyway. Of more significant concern is
the recent use of “bad grains”. Recent shipments of grains were “very
buggy” (bug infested grain). Pesticides were applied to the grains at
the pet food plant, and then the pesticide contaminated, bug infested
grains were processed into pet food. The employee I spoke with was very
concerned not only to the condition of the pet food, but for employee
exposure to pesticides as well. The name of the pet food company and the
exact brand name cannot be disclosed publicly (authorities are aware)….
My suggestion to all, know your pet food company well. Ask lots of
questions and if your gut tells you the answer didn’t sound right,
listen to your gut. There are good companies that would never use bug
infested, pesticide contaminated ingredients. But please know there are
some who don’t think twice about it. Know your pet food company well.
Thursday - August
25, 2016 - Today In History:
1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France arrived
in Louisiana. Some settled in present-day New Orleans.
1814 - The U.S. Library of Congress was destroyed by British forces.
1875 - Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France
making him the first person to swim the English Channel.
1916 - The National Park Service was established as part of the U.S.
Department of the Interior.
1920 - The first airplane to fly from New York to Alaska arrived in
Nome.
1921 - The U.S. signed a peace treaty with Germany.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill appropriating
funds for construction of the Pentagon.
1944 - Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years
of German occupation.
1944 - Romania declared war on Germany.
1950 - U.S. President Truman ordered the seizure of U.S. railroads to
avert a strike.
1972 - In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was
introduced.
1988 - Iran and Iraq began talks in Geneva after ending their eight
years of war.
1990 - Military action was authorized by the United Nations to enforce
the trade embargo that had been placed on Iraq after their invasion of
Kuwait.
1991 - Byelorussia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
1997 - The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with
the state of Florida.
1998 - A survey released said that 1/3 of Americans use the Internet.
‘Blatant violation of sovereignty’: Damascus condemns Turkish
operation in Jarablus
RT - Damascus denounced Turkey’s joint military operation with
the Syrian rebels aimed at re-taking the Syrian border town of
Jarablus from Islamic State militants (IS, former ISIS/ISIL).
Damascus said it considers Turkish troops’ incursion into Syria
a violation of its sovereignty. Damascus condemned Turkish
incursion into the Syrian territory after Turkey’s tanks and
Special Forces supported by the Turkish and US aircraft and
Syrian rebels launched an offensive on the Syrian northern
border town of Jarablus, calling it “a national security issue.”
Syrian government officials said that any side willing to fight
terrorism on the Syrian territory should cooperate with the
authorities and the Syrian Army, “which has been fighting
terrorism for over five years,” as reported by SANA news agency.
Syrian government called the Turkish operation a “blatant
violation of the sovereignty” of Syria, adding that “replacing”
Islamic State with “other terrorist organizations backed
directly by Turkey” cannot be regarded as a fight against
terrorism…. The Syrian UN envoy also said Wednesday that the
Syrian government did not request any such aid from Turkey and
stressed that all foreign forces fighting terrorism in Syria
should coordinate their actions with the Syrian Army.
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US airstrike against ISIS ‘may have’ killed civilians – CENTCOM
RT - American jets targeting Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria may
have killed an unknown number of civilians during an airstrike
Tuesday, the US Central Command has said. “Reports indicate that
what appeared to be a non-military vehicle drove into the target
area after the weapon was released from the aircraft,” CENTCOM
said in a statement Wednesday, referring to Tuesday’s airstrike
near the self-proclaimed capital of Islamic State (IS, formerly
ISIS/ISIL).“The vehicle's occupants may have perished as a
result of the strike.” US bombers were targeting a “weapons
facility” outside of Raqqa, CENTCOM said, adding that officials
at joint task force level will review the incident and decide
whether it warrants an investigation. Raqqa, under control of
jihadist rebels since March 2013, was declared the capital of
the self-proclaimed Caliphate in January 2014. In October that
year, Washington launched a campaign against IS, eventually
named “Inherent Resolve.” The US war effort is coordinated by
CENTCOM, from its headquarters in Tampa, Florida.
US Destroyer Intercepted at High Speed by Iranian Vessels Near
Strait of Hormuz (VIDEO)
Sputnik News - According to US defense officials, the guided
missile destroyer USS Nitze was intercepted by four Iranian
vessels near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. The American
destroyer was operating in international waters alongside the
USS Mason when officials say four Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Corps vessels performed a "high-speed intercept" of the Nitze.
"These sorts of unsafe and unprofessional actions can lead to
escalation and miscalculation, which may necessitate additional
defensive measures," said Cmdr. Bill Urban, public affairs
officer for US Naval Forces Central Command, according to Stars
and Stripes. He added that over the past year and a half,
roughly 10 percent of Iran’s interactions with the US Navy were
deemed unprofessional. The US destroyer allegedly attempted to
make radio contact with the vessels, but received no response.
Crewmembers then sounded the Nitze’s ship whistle, a naval
signal meant to express that the ship is unclear about another
vessel’s intentions. The destroyer then fired ten flares toward
the Revolution Guard vessels, still without response. According
to the statement, the Revolutionary Guard forced the Nitze to
change course in order to avoid a potential collision. After
coming within 300 yards of the Nitze, the Iranian vessels left.
50 U.S. Nuclear Bombs Are Housed At A Base 70 Miles From ISIS —
‘The Warning Bells Are Ringing’
Off the Grid News - Thousands of Turks tried to take control of
a US Air Force base this summer, where at least 50 nuclear bombs
are stored, raising the possibility that radical Islamists could
take control of dozens of America’s most dangerous weapons. The
facility, Incirlik Air Force Base, is just 70 miles from Syria,
where ISIS is fighting. Adding to the tension, Turkey Wednesday
sent tanks into Syria to battle ISIS. Some estimates put the
number of bombs at the facility as high as 90.
State Dept urges US citizens to leave Gaza 'as soon as possible'
RT - The US State Department has urged Americans in the Gaza
Strip to leave the area “as soon as possible.” The announcement
follows an escalation between Palestinian militants and the
Israeli military over the weekend. “Gaza is under the control of
Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization. The security
environment within Gaza and on its borders is dangerous and
volatile,” the travel warning statement reads. The State
Department warned Americans against “all travel” to Gaza and
urged those present to “depart as soon as possible when border
crossings open.” The warning follows a flare-up Sunday, which
began when a rocket was fired from the Strip on the Israeli
border town of Sderot. In response, Israel launched dozes of
strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza. Four people were wounded
by the Israeli strikes, according to Palestinian medical
officials. No injuries were reported from the rocket fired by
Palestinian militants.
'Threat is real': France to deploy 3k troops, prepare students
for terror attacks on schools
RT - France will deploy around 3,000 reserve troops to provide
security to schools, education and security ministers have
announced. Anti-terror drills aimed at preparing students for
potential attacks will also be ramped up…. All students aged
13-14 will be adding basic life-saving measures to their
portfolio of skills, in case they need to provide assistance to
classmates in a worse-case scenario…. Around 500 school
administrators will also be trained each year at the national
gendarme training center to manage crisis centers and act as
liaisons with security officials. Vallaud-Belkacem said during
the press conference that the new plans are “not about ceding to
panic or paranoia,” but conceded that “the threat is high, it is
real.” In addition […] security forces have been ordered to be
particularly vigilant around schools, and some 3,000 gendarme
reservists will be deployed to provide reinforcement for local
authorities, including police, Reuters reported…. The government
has decided to provide 50 million euros ($56.2 million) to local
councils to help them pay for security equipment such as video
door phones and new alarm systems.
Norway to build fence on border with Russia to curb refugee
inflow
Rt - Norway is planning to build a steel fence at its only
border crossing point with Russia, citing the necessity to deter
refugees, after thousands for asylum seekers entered the Nordic
country through the “Arctic route.” The new fence will be 200
meters long and 3.5 meters high and will stretch from the
Storskog-Borisoglebsk border crossing that will also be equipped
with new gates, Reuters reports, citing sources in the Norwegian
government. The construction of the fence will be finished in
the coming weeks before winter frosts set in to make it harder
for illegal migrants to cross into Norway via the forest. At the
same time, the move provoked criticism from some Norwegian
politicians and activist groups that said a fence prevent people
fleeing war and persecution from coming to Norway. "We've an
obligation to be a country people can flee to," said Linn Landro,
of the Refugees Welcome group in Norway, as quoted by Reuters.
"The fence sends a very negative signal, including to Russia
because it says that 'we don't trust you,'" he added.
'This used to be my home': Italians in shock after devastating
earthquake (Videos, Photos)
The Guardian - At least 159 people died and dozens more were
injured, or feared still trapped in debris, after a powerful
pre-dawn earthquake devastated a string of remote hilltop towns
and villages across a swath of central Italy on Wednesday. The
6.2-magnitude quake struck at 3.36am when most were still
asleep, razing homes, buckling roads and burying residents under
mounds of masonry in the hardest-hit towns of Amatrice, Accumoli
and Arquata del Tronto…. Italy’s civil protection agency,
coordinating the rescue operation, said the death toll from the
quake, which was felt in Rome more than 93 miles (150km) away,
was provisional and likely to rise.
*Related:
Before and after pictures of Italian towns devastated by deadly
earthquake
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
2 days after cash delivery, US paid $1.3 billion to Iran
AP - The Obama administration said Wednesday it paid $1.3
billion in interest to Iran in January to resolve a decades-old
dispute over an undelivered military sale, two days after
allowing $400 million in cash to fly to Tehran. State Department
spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau says the U.S. couldn't say more
about the Jan. 19 payments because of diplomatic sensitivities.
They involved 13 separate payments of $99,999,999.99 and final
payment of about $10 million. There was no explanation for the
Treasury Department keeping the individual transactions under
$100 million. The money settles a dispute over a $400 million
payment made in the 1970s by the U.S.-backed shah's government
for military equipment. The equipment was never delivered
because of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew the shah
and ended diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran.
New revelations show a nation for sale under Hillary Clinton
New York Post - An Associated Press investigation finds that
more than half the private citizens who met or spoke with
Clinton while she was secretary of state also happened to donate
to her foundation. What are the odds? It’s implausible that a
majority of the 154 citizens — people who’d kicked in at least
$156 million to her charity — would also happen to catch
Clinton’s ear as she toiled away at State. It’s also worth
remembering this list doesn’t even include officials from the 16
governments — many of them autocrats — who threw the foundation
another $170 million. Recently, the foundation announced it
would ban donations from corporations and foreign countries if
Hillary is elected president. The question is: If it’s a
conflict of interest when Hillary will be president, why wasn’t
it a problem when she was secretary of state? Let’s also not
forget that during Clinton’s tenure at State, she failed to
disclose that regimes across the world were giving her charity
hundreds of millions. Because she needed to hide this, she ended
up sending 110 emails containing classified information — eight
of which had “top secret” information, according to the FBI.
US Army Pulls Training Slide Listing Hillary Clinton As A
Security "Threat"
Zero Hedge - Perhaps it was the ultimate Freudian slip. On
Monday, a leaked Army operational security brief showed
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former CIA
Director David Petraeus listed as two key examples of potential
insider threats. As the Daily Caller reported at the time,
admins of the Facebook page “U.S. Army W.T.F! moments” told The
Daily Caller News Foundation this is the second time they’ve
received a picture of this particular slide in the last six
months. They posted the slide to their page Sunday. The brief,
marked unclassified, lists servicemembers Nidal Hassan, Chelsea
Manning, Edward Snowden and Aaron Alexis as examples of threats.
On the second row, the brief pictures Clinton and Petraeus. The
text of “careless or disgruntled employees” echoes FBI Director
James Comey’s description, “extremely careless,” of Clinton’s
handling of top secret and classified information when she
served as Secretary of State. Following vocal public outcry,
with some wondering if this was a joke, while others jumping on
the army's suggestion that Hillary is one of the bigger threats
to nation's security, moments ago the US Army said it was a
mistake for a local unit to identify Hillary Clinton as a
potential threat during a training presentation and has halted
the practice.
As Congress Prepares To Crackdown On Epipen Price Increases, A
Problem Has Emerged
Zero Hedge - So far, this year's melodrama has culminated with
[Senator Chuck] Grassley sending an angry letter to Mylan CEO
Heather Bresch, in which he said that "the substantial price
increase could limit access to a much-needed medication."....
However, a problem has emerged if Congress plans to follow the
usual script and call Bresch to Capitol Hill next month to
explain her company’s justification for raising the price on the
life-saving allergy shot. As Bloomberg writes this morning, that
could be awkward, since she’s the daughter of Democratic Senator
Joe Manchin of West Virginia. This means that any hearing would
likely reveal that close lobby ties between pharma companies and
the US government: as Bloomberg adds, congressional anger may be
fueled by the company’s tactics in pushing legislation that
helped boost the use of EpiPens. Mylan spent about $4 million in
2012 and 2013 on lobbying for access to EpiPens generally and
for legislation, including the 2013 School Access to Emergency
Epinephrine Act, according to lobbying disclosure forms filed
with the Office of the Clerk for the House of Representatives.
Mylan also was the top corporate sponsor of a group called Food
Allergy Research & Education that was the key lobbyist pushing
for the bill encouraging schools to stock epinephrine
auto-injectors, of which EpiPen is by far the leading product.
Pew: Americans giving up on God, miracles
Washington Examiner - Half of Americans who have left their
church no longer believe in God, leading a surge of nearly one
quarter of the nation who have no affiliation with any religion,
according to a new survey. Pew Research Center said Wednesday
that 49 percent of what they term "nones" left their church and
religion because they "don't believe." Another 20 percent said
they don't like organized religion. Other reasons included
"common sense" and a lack of belief in miracles. The survey is
the latest from Pew that demonstrates a growing trend in
America: more and more people are junking religion and many are
giving up on God.
Video: Animated map shows how religion spread around the world
Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of
the biggest religions in the world. Over the last few thousand
years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history
and had a profound influence on the trajectory of the human
race. Through countless conflicts, conquests, missions abroad,
and simple word of mouth, these religions spread around the
globe and forever molded the huge geographic regions.
Nigel Farage To Tell 'Brexit Story' At Trump Rally In
Mississippi
Sky News - Mr Farage is expected to talk about how the
"anti-establishment beat the establishment" to bring about
Brexit. Raheem Kassam, a former UKIP adviser, told the Press
Association that Mr Farage will not endorse the Republican
candidate. "As I understand it," Mr Kassam said, "I think the
plan is for him to speak ahead of Trump's speech, and basically
just to walk the audience through the Brexit campaign and how
the anti-establishment beat the establishment. Ahead of the
appearance, Mr Farage appeared on the radio show SuperTalk
Mississippi. He railed against the political classes and
compared Mr Trump's popularity with the "silent majority" of the
British people who voted for Brexit. He said that just as
Brexiteers mobilised a "people's army", so too can Mr Trump in
the United States. Mr Farage told the show: "I'm telling a story
about Brexit, and it's a story that if the grassroots
Republicans pick up, and if they understand that what they've
got to do is not just sit in their armchairs, they've got to get
out, put their walking boots on, deliver leaflets, go out and
meet these people in the communities. "In a sense what I'm
saying is that we mobilised a people's army in the United
Kingdom that went out and spoke to everybody and got them down
the polls, the same thing can happen here."
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Trump: Hillary Wants ‘Massive Amnesty’ And ‘Totally Open Border’
Steve Watson - In a rally Tuesday night, GOP nominee Donald
Trump slammed Hillary Clinton on immigration policy…. Hillary
Clinton wants a totally open border. She wants catch and
release. She wants Obamacare and other things for illegal
immigrants. In many cases, more than our great veterans get,”
Trump said during the appearance in Austin, Texas. “She has said
she’s going to give massive amnesty in her first 100 days. She
wants to gut immigration enforcement. The immigration people do
such a great job, but they have no leadership at the top.” Trump
added. Trump also stated that Hillary plans to flout the law by
allowing immigrants to overstay visas without being deported. He
described Clinton’s policy on immigration as “One lawless order
after another.” Trump also knocked Clinton for supporting
sanctuary cities, gesturing to the crowd with a throat cutting
motion. “We must not let that happen. We are going to vote for
President Donald Trump and we’re going to stop it,” Trump
declared to a thunderous ovation.
TRUMP Donates $100,000 to LA Flood Victims – Hillary Takes
Selfies with Justin Timberlake
The Gateway Pundit - Republican Donald Trump donated a truckload
of supplies to Louisiana flood victims. Trump also donated
$100,000 to Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, which lies to the
northeast of Baton Rouge, in a zone affected by floods. Clinton
surrogate James Carville thanked Donald Trump for his donations
and visit to the region. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton took selfies
with Justin Timberlake in Hollywood.
Commercial flights are too ‘burdensome’ for Clinton
NY Post - An exchange from May 4, 2009, between Clinton and her
closest aide, Huma Abedin, show the former secretary of state
trying to figure out how to avoid the “burdensome” shuttle. The
shuttle refers to hourly commercial plane service between New
York and Washington, DC. “Do you think we could get a plane for
Westchester flight back tonight?” Clinton wrote in an email
released this week as part of an ongoing Judicial Watch Freedom
of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department. “It’s
going to rain all day and I still don’t feel great so the idea
of playing a guessing game w the shuttle is really burdensome to
me. What do you think? Could be anytime that works for the Air
Force,” she added…. It’s unclear if Clinton hitched a ride on an
Air Force plane — but the exchange highlights the perks of being
the nation’s top diplomat.
Commissioner's Office: Obamacare Near Collapse In Tennessee
The Daily Caller - Even though [Tennessee’s insurance regulator,
Commissioner Julie] McPeak has stated her main goal is getting
as many insurers that are in the marketplace as possible,
[director of communications for the Tennessee Department of
Commerce and Insurance, Kevin] Walters noted that by
2017,”Tennessee will be going from zero counties with only one
insurer on the exchange participating to 57 counties with one,”
according to statements released to TheDCNF [Daily Caller News
Foundation]. This lack of competition in the marketplace isn’t
just relegated to those counties. Walters told TheDCNF that the
state “will go from 57 counties with 2 insurers in 2016 to 24
counties with two insurers in 2017,” and will have “38 counties
with three insurers on the ACA exchange in 2016 to 14 counties
with three insurers in 2017.” The percentage rates for insurance
have increased substantially over the past three years. For
example, Blue Cross Blue Shield experienced a 19 percent
increase in 2015, a 36.3 percent increase in 2016, and a
projected 62 percent increase in rates by 2017, Walters told
TheDCNF.
D.C. Restaurants Lose Eight Jobs A Day As Wage Hikes Take Effect
Free Beacon - Employment in the food service industry fell in
Washington, D.C. even as it continued to increase in the region.
Restaurants shed 1,400 jobs in the first six months of 2016, a
three percent decrease and the largest loss of jobs since the
2001 recession, according to an analysis from American
Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Perry. The steep drop was
isolated to D.C. Neighboring suburbs in Virginia and Maryland
added nearly 3,000 jobs over the same period, a 1.6 percent
increase in hiring. Perry said the hiring slowdown can be tied
to recent minimum wage hikes in the city. Washington, D.C. began
the year with a higher-than-average wage for tipped employees in
the restaurant industry. Tipped employees in the nation’s
capital earn a base wage of $2.77, almost 30 percent above the
federal minimum of $2.13 that is used by Virginia. The city also
mandated a $10.50 minimum hourly wage for non-tipped employees
in January—higher than Virginia’s $7.25 and Maryland’s $8.75
rate.
Officials Pull Water Supply as Dakota Access Protest Swells in
Number and Spirit
Common Dreams - Growing in number and spirit, the Standing Rock
Sioux protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline is swiftly
gaining strength ahead of a federal hearing on the controversial
project. Support has spread across the country, and thousands
have descended on the peaceful “prayer camps” in recent days,
prompting state officials on Monday to remove the demonstrators’
drinking water supply. North Dakota homeland security director
Greg Wilz ordered the removal of state-owned trailers and water
tanks from the protest encampment, despite the sweltering heat,
because of alleged disorderly conduct, according to the Bismarck
Tribune, including reports of laser pointers aimed at
surveillance aircraft…. Tribal activists say the state’s
response, which includes surveillance, road blockades with
military checkpoints, and a state of emergency declaration, has
been overly aggressive and manipulative. “It is deeply ironic
that the Governor would release emergency funds under the guise
of public health and safety, but then remove the infrastructure
that helps ensure health and safety in the camp,” said Tara
Houska, national campaigns director for Honor the Earth…. The
tribe says that the pipeline—which will carry up to 570,000
barrels of fracked Bakken oil daily across four states to a
market hub in Illinois—puts the sacred waters of the Missouri
River at great risk.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Natural, Off-Grid Cures For Spider Bites
Off the Grid News - All spiders are venomous, meaning that they
inject venom when biting another subject, but how individuals
react to the spider’s venom varies greatly. In North America,
the most severe reactions are caused by the venom of a black
widow spider or that of a brown recluse spider, but any type of
spider venom can cause painful symptoms…. If ice is available,
apply it to the location of the bite while waiting to begin
alternative treatments. Ice will decrease the amount of swelling
at the site…. Applying a poultice or paste that draws out the
venom is the next step in naturally treating a spider bite.
There are many herbal poultices that are useful in natural
healing. Below are a few of the best for healing venomous
wounds. Activated charcoal, or active carbon… a paste of active
carbon and water is applied to a spider bite, it will trap the
venom and allow it to be washed away while contained in the
carbon. Creating a thick paste that is applied to the affected
area for up to four hours is the most effective way to use
activated charcoal. Bentonite clay can be used in a similar
manner as the active carbon. Bentonite clay, made of volcanic
ash, absorbs toxins, heavy metals and other impurities when used
in conjunction with a liquid. Create a poultice with plain water
and bentonite clay…. A plantain poultice is also helpful in
treating spider bites. Since plantain grows readily in most
areas, it is the most likely ingredient to have available in an
emergency…. Used as a standalone poultice, as part of an herbal
poultice, or as a medicinal wash, slippery elm is valuable in
treating spider bites naturally. The inner bark can be used to
create a poultice to reduce swelling and help manage pain.
It wasn’t just Subway using the ‘yoga mat chemical’ in their
food
Well and Good - Remember that dark day when you learned that,
unbeknownst to customers, Subway was dyeing its veggies and
baking bread made with azodicarbonamide (AKA an ingredient used
to make yoga mats)? Well, today’s about to get downright bleak
because it turns out that it wasn’t just Subway adding ADA to
its foods. Bloomberg reports that McDonald’s, Jack in the Box,
Wendy’s, White Castle, and Chick-fil-A all used the chemical
too…. The good news is, all the chains called out above have
phased out the harmful azo-laced foods. As Vani Hari (AKA
Foodbabe) originally called out back in 2012, the chemical is
used to make bread “stay fresh” for up to two weeks, and has
been linked to causing asthma, respiratory problems, and
allergies, according to the World Health Organization. Oh, and
it also could cause cancer. After Subway got called out big
time, other major chains realized they wouldn’t be able to get
away with using the sneaky chemical for long and quietly phased
it out before it was their name making headlines. And ADA’s not
completely off the menu for good. Dunkin’ Donuts still uses it
in their Texas toast (although Bloomberg reports that the
company is currently testing an azo-free version), and it’s used
in Burger King’s French toast sticks.
Thyme Oil
Kills Infections, Increases Circulation & Balances Hormones
Dr. Axe - Thyme oil is one of the strongest antioxidants known,
and it has been used as a medicinal herb since ancient times.
Thyme supports the immune, respiratory, digestive, nervous and
other body systems.… 9 Thyme Oil Benefits: 1. Treats Respiratory
Conditions - Thyme oil drains congestion and cures infections in
the chest and throat that cause the common cold or cough…. 2.
Kills Bacteria and Infections - Due to thyme components like
caryophyllene and camphene, the oil is antiseptic and kills
infections on the skin and within the body. Thyme oil is also
antibacterial and inhibits bacterial growth; this means that
thyme oil is able to treat intestinal infections, bacteria
infections in the genitals and urethra, bacteria that builds up
in the respiratory system, and heals cuts or wounds that are
exposed to harmful bacteria…. 3. Promotes Skin Health - Thyme
oil protects the skin from harmful bacteria and fungal
infections; it also works as a home remedy for acne; heals
sores, wounds, cuts and scars; relieves burns; and naturally
remedies rashes…. 4. Promotes Teeth Health - Thyme oil is known
to treat oral problems like tooth decay, gingivitis, plaque and
bad breath. With its antiseptic and antibacterial properties,
thyme oil is a natural way to kill germs in the mouth so you can
avoid oral infections, so it works as a gum disease natural
remedy and cures bad breath….
Wednesday - August
24, 2016 - Today In History:
1814 - Washington, DC, was invaded by British forces that set fire to
the White House and Capitol.
1912 - A four-pound limit was set for parcels sent through the U.S. Post
Office mail system.
1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the U.S.
non-stop. The trip from Los Angeles, CA to Newark, NJ, took about 19
hours.
1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) went into effect.
The agreement was that an attack against on one of the parties would be
considered "an attack against them all."
1954 - The Communist Party was virtually outlawed in the U.S. when the
Communist Control Act went into effect.
1959 - Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in
as the first Chinese-American U.S. senator while Daniel K. Inouye was
sworn in as the first Japanese-American U.S. representative.
1968 - France became the 5th thermonuclear power when they exploded a
hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
1990 - Iraqi troops surrounded foreign missions in Kuwait.
1991 - Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the head of the
Communist Party.
1998 - U.S. officials cited a soil sample as part of the evidence that a
Sudan plant was producing precursors to the VX nerve gas. And, therefore
made it a target for U.S. missiles on August 20, 1998.
2001 - In McAllen, TX, Bridgestone/Firestone agreed to settle out of
court and pay a reported $7.5 million to a family in a rollover accident
in their Ford Explorer.
2001 - The remains of nine American servicemen killed in the Korean War
were returned to the U.S. The bodies were found about 60 miles north of
Pyongyang. It was estimated that it would be a year before the
identities of the soldiers would be known.
2011 - Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple Inc.
Turkey evacuates border town ahead of potential military
incursion into Syria
Deutsche Welle - Turkey has pledged to push jihadi fighters
belonging to the so-called "Islamic State" out of the Syrian
town of Jarablus near the Turkish border. The announcement came
as Turkey evacuated a town caught in crossfire. Turkish police
instructed residents to leave the town of Karkamis near the
Syrian border after it was hit by shelling, according to reports
on CNN Turk. Minibuses were reportedly being made available for
people needing transportation to escape the beleaguered town.
Situated just across the border from the Syrian town of Jarablus,
Karkamis was hit by two mortar shells earlier on Tuesday.
Turkish military retaliated by returning fire at IS targets in
northern Syria.
‘NO’ German Girls Given Temporary Tattoos To Help Prevent
Swimming Pool Sex Attacks
UK Express - The small press-on designs also sport angel-like
wings and are part of a new prevention campaign launched in the
Bodensee district in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Veronika
Wascher-Goggerle, the Women’s and Family representative of the
district, is behind the launch and said the press-on tattoos
would also help raise awareness over the growing issue of sex
attacks in swimming pools. The Bodenseekreis is famous for its
bathing and boasts numerous indoor and outdoor swimming pools.
Alleged sex attacks by migrants have caused heated debate in the
area over the last few months and some pools are hiring extra
security – or even banning asylum seekers altogether. However,
Wascher-Goggerle does not want to associate her campaign with
any problems with migrants, stating that there have always been
sexual abuse problems at swimming pools, even before the start
of the refugee crisis.
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile From Submarine
Sputnik News - The test comes one day after the United States
and South Korea launched joint military exercises on the
peninsula. Pyongyang had warned against the drills, threatening
to launch a preemptive nuclear strike. The DPRK has test fired a
number of ballistic missiles in recent months, and has also
conducted nuclear tests. Condemned by the international
community, these resulted in the implementation of harsh new
sanctions by the United Nations.
14 arrested for smuggling Fukushima-irradiated seafood in
Shandong
Global Times - Customs authorities in Qingdao, East China's
Shandong Province, detained 14 people for smuggling frozen
seafood from Japan, including irradiated high-end seafood from
waters near Fukushima prefecture, China Central Television (CCTV)
reported on Monday. The group has smuggled over 5,000 tons of
frozen seafood - including shrimp and king crab - valued at
$34.5 million - into China over the past two years, according to
an announcement by the Qingdao Customs District (QCD) posted on
its official website on Monday. Some of the high-end products
were from Fukushima, one of 12 Japanese prefectures from which
China has banned any seafood imports due to the contamination of
their waters after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011,
according to CCTV.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
State Department Has No Idea Where $400 Million Iran Money Went
Steve Watson - In an unbelievable exchange with reporters, State
Department spokesman Mark Toner admitted that he has no idea who
picked up the $400 million in cash that was put on a plane to
Iran. Toner claimed that the Obama administration knows where
the money went…. Toner added that he also had no idea whether
the information would ever be made public. Critics have
previously noted that the money could easily have ended up in
the hands of terrorist groups actively supported by elements of
the Iranian government.
Emails: Huma Abedin Left Classified Material Unsecured In The
Front Seat Of Her Car
Daily Caller - Emails released on Monday show that Hillary
Clinton’s top State Department aide, Huma Abedin, left
classified government information that needed to be burned in
the front seat of her vehicle. “Favor” is the subject of
Abedin’s July 20, 2009 email to Lauren Jiloty, Clinton’s
personal assistant. Judicial Watch obtained the records and
hundreds more pages of Abedin emails as part of its ongoing
Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department.
“I’m going to have ambassador ride on next drive,” wrote Abedin.
“There’s a bunch of burn stuff in the pocket of my front seat.”
And seemingly realizing the significance of her error, Abedin
asked Jiloty to move the documents to a more secure location.
“Can u put in trunk?” she asked.
Condi Rice Also Has No Recollection Of Hillary’s Email Convo
With Colin Powell
Daily Caller - Rice’s inability to recall the conversation makes
her the second person to publicly undercut Clinton’s claim. Both
NBC News and The New York Times reported last week that Clinton
told the FBI that Powell offered her the email advice during a
dinner party at former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright’s home.
Rice and another Henry Kissinger, another former secretary of
state, were present at the dinner party, where the former
diplomats were asked to provide Clinton with advice to help her
tackle her new job.
Wikileaks E-Mails: Hillary Looked Into Parkinson’s Drug After
Suffering From “Decision Fatigue”
Paul Joseph Watson - Emails released by Wikileaks show that
Hillary Clinton looked into a drug used to treat sleepiness and
Parkinson’s disease after she apparently began suffering from
“decision fatigue” back in 2011. Clinton sent an email to close
confidante and advisor Cheryl D. Mills on August 19, 2011
featuring the text of an article entitled Do You Suffer From
Decision Fatigue? The article talks about how people in
positions of power and influence can suffer from “decision
fatigue” that causes them to be “low on mental energy” and
prompts the sufferer to “become reckless” and “act impulsively”.
The article also explains how “decision fatigue” could explain
why “ordinarily sensible people get angry at colleagues,” which
is possibly a nod to Clinton’s infamous temper tantrums that
have left her staffers in tears. “Wow that is spooky
descriptive,” wrote Hillary in response to the article. In a
separate email sent two months later, Hillary received
information from her top foreign policy advisor Jacob Sullivan
about a drug called Provigil (Modafinil), which is used to treat
“excessive sleepiness in patients with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s,
and multiple sclerosis,” as well as “excessive sleepiness caused
by narcolepsy”.
The Film VAXXED Could Be Outlawed In California, If This Bill
Passes…
Jon Rappoport - The shocking film Vaxxed (trailer) is drawing
audiences all over the country. It details the confessions of a
CDC researcher, William Thompson, who states that he and his
colleagues buried data in a key study on the MMR vaccine. In the
study, the vaccine was given a free pass, with assurances that
it didn’t increase the risk of autism in children—when, in fact,
the data showed it did increase that risk. ***The key moments in
Vaxxed are audio recordings of CDC researcher Thompson
confessing his sins. But wait. Now we have a bill, AB 1671, up
before the California legislature. If it passes, it could make
it a crime to screen Vaxxed or even write an article about it.
Furthermore, AB 1671 specifically seeks to protect “healthcare
providers” from “exposure” via “undercover recordings”
documenting their crimes. […] AB 1671 isn’t just targeting
people who make the undercover recordings. Its focus is on
reporters who receive those recordings and then use them, post
them, and write about them.
Md. school district: Don’t tell parents if transgender males
bunk with daughters on field trips
Washington Times - A Maryland school district is instructing
teachers and administrators not to tell parents if their
daughters are bunking with male transgender students on
overnight field trips. Bob Mosier, chief communications officer
for the Anne Arundel County public school system, says in a
training video on how to accommodate transgender students that
privacy issues prevent the district from informing parents about
such arrangements. “So, many of you might be asking yourselves,
‘So I’m at an overnight field trip, and I have student who’s
biologically a male, identifies as a female, and we’ve worked
with that student and her family, and that student wants to
sleep in the dorms, or whatever sleeping arrangements are, with
the females,’” Mr. Mosier says in a video of the training
session. “‘They don’t want to sleep in a room by themselves,
they want to sleep with the rest of the females. So what do we
do?’”
Trump Calls For Independent Investigation Of ‘Clinton Email
Crimes’ (Video)
Steve Watson - During a campaign rally in Ohio, Trump called the
DOJ a “political arm” of the White House, and said “After the
FBI and Department of Justice whitewash of the Clinton email
crimes, they certainly cannot be trusted to quickly or
impartially investigate Hillary Clinton’s crimes.” Trump’s
renewed calls for action over Clinton’s emails came following
the discovery of 15,000 more emails by the FBI, which contain
more evidence of Hillary abusing her position as Secretary of
State by mixing official affairs with Clinton Foundation
activity.
AP: Many Donors to Clinton Foundation Met with Hillary at State
Breitbart - At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who
met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she
led the State Department donated to her family charity or
pledged commitments to its international programs, according to
a review of State Department calendars released so far to The
Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as
$156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and
20 gave more than $1 million. Donors who were granted time with
Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked
for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to
resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who
sought Clinton’s help with a visa problem and Estee Lauder
executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her
department worked with the firm’s corporate charity to counter
gender-based violence in South Africa…. The 154 did not include
U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives.
Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign
governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton
charity, but they were not included in AP’s calculations because
such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic
duties. Last week, the Clinton Foundation moved to head off
ethics concerns about future donations by announcing changes
planned if Clinton is elected.
* Related:
Matthews: New Emails Show Clinton Fdn Donors ‘Getting What
Appears To Be Special Access,’ ‘They Are Admitting There’s a
Conflict’
Hillary Skips Louisiana, Collects Hollywood Cash at Beverly
Hills Mansion
Breitbart - Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, Chernin Group founder
Peter Chernin, MarketShare CEO Jon Vein, former DreamWorks
Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, CAA agent Michael Kives and
Los Angeles 2024 Olympics bid chief Casey Wasserman served as
event co-chairs, according to Variety. Actors Will Ferrell and
Tony Goldwyn and Hewlett-Packard CEO and former California
gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman were also reportedly in
attendance. Attendees told Variety that Clinton discussed policy
issues at the event, including infrastructure, education and the
Clinton Foundation, reportedly emphasizing the good works the
organization has done and reminding attendees that all recent
presidents have set up charitable foundations. Tickets for the
event reportedly went for $100,000 per couple. Around 80 people
attended, according to the outlet.
Hooray! Hillary Clinton Announces She Will Visit Louisiana Flood
Victims After All (Video)
The Gateway Pundit - Last week Donald Trump visited Louisiana to
speak with flood victims who were suffering through the worst
natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast in
2012. Donald Trump helped hand out supplies to flood victims.
The Democratic governor and former Democratic Senator Mary
Landrieu praised Trump for bringing attention to this horrible
disaster. And the flood victims cheered Donald Trump. On Tuesday
the Hillary campaign finally announced she will make a trip to
visit the flood zone [eventually].
UPI Poll: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in Virtual Tie
The Gateway Pundit - The UPI reported: The UPI/CVoter daily
presidential tracking poll released Tuesday shows Hillary
Clinton leading Donald Trump by less than 1 percentage point for
a second consecutive day. The online poll shows 47.98 for
Clinton, compared to 47.24 for Trump. Each candidate dropped
two-tenths of a point in Tuesday’s poll, with the percentage of
“others” increasing by four-tenths. “Others” in the poll are
defined as respondents who decline to pick either Clinton or
Trump. The UPI/CVoter online tracking poll surveys about 200
people each day, leading to a sample size of roughly 1,400
people during any seven-day span.
Video: Trump Talks Border Security to Packed House in Texas’
Most Liberal City
Breitbart - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will
talk to a packed house in Texas most liberal city, Austin,
Texas, on Tuesday night. He is expected to discuss border
security, the impact of illegal immigration on wages, trade
issues that impact farmers, and support for law and order….
Earlier in the afternoon, Mr. Trump appeared on a Sean Hannity
Town Hall event that was taped for broadcast later Tuesday
night. That show will be broadcast on Fox News Channel at 9 p.m.
CDT. Mr. Trump is expected to talk about border security and
will be supported by members of the National Border Patrol
Council. Texas Governor Rick Perry was also scheduled to appear
with Mr. Trump according to his spokesman, Stanley Gerdes. The
crowd is so large in Austin, the Austin Police Department just
tweeted out that there is no more parking available.
Neiman Marcus Blames 81% Profit Loss On Lack Of Tourists
Government Slaves - It’s been 10 months since Neiman Marcus laid
off 500 employees, or about 3 percent of its workforce, and last
week the luxury retailer was forced to further trim its
headcount. Roughly 80 positions were purged Thursday—50 of which
were in the Dallas area—as Neiman Marcus continues to combine
online and store operations, Dallas News reported. The layoffs
followed a hefty 81 percent decline in profits in the third
quarter, as revenues dropped 4.2% to $1.17 billion and
comparable store sales slipped by 5 percent. CEO Karen Katz
called the quarter “challenging” and attributed the poor
performance to a trifecta of complications: the strong dollar,
falling foot traffic and decreasing oil prices.
Flint 2.0? Indiana residents suddenly evicted after decades of lead,
arsenic contamination
RT - After decades of nearby industrial pollution, residents of the West
Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Indiana, were abruptly warned
that they must vacate their homes for demolition given hazardous levels
of lead and arsenic in the soil. More than 1,000 residents of the
346-unit public housing complex were told last month by the city of East
Chicago that they must find new housing, as the city planned to demolish
all dwellings in the complex. Just days before, the city said residents
would only have to temporarily relocate based on a US Environmental
Protection Agency finding that soil around the complex contained toxic
levels of lead and arsenic since at least 2014. Plans to remove the soil
dated back to 2012. The housing complex, home to mostly African-American
and Hispanic residents, is located near the former site of a plant that
melted lead and copper, tossing toxic matter into the air throughout the
area. The U.S. Smelter and Lead Refinery, Inc. plant was one of several
industrial facilitates that likely contributed to the current
contamination, AP reported. The lead plant closed in 1985, yet the
housing complex and nearby areas were not added to the EPA's cleanup
priority list until 2009. In 2012, the EPA had devised a plan to haul
away much of the soil around the housing complex, but it was not until
this May that the agency told the city that it wanted to begin digging.
That notice triggered signs in the neighborhood warning residents to
keep their children out of the soil.
6 Power Grid Problems That Should Terrify You
Off the Grid News - It’s clear that damage to the power grid, whether
the work of enemies or due to some natural disaster, would be disastrous
to our country. According to the report of the congressionally funded
EMP Commission, loss of the power grid for one year would result in the
death of nine out of every 10 Americans. Here are six reasons all of us
should be concerned about the power grid: 1. The age of the grid. Our
electrical grid is old. Originally designed to last 50 years, many parts
have already surpassed that. There are even parts that are about 100
years old. Yet little is being done to replace the aged parts. This has
resulted in the American Society of Civil Engineers giving the power
grid a D+ for reliability…. 2. Increased blackouts. According to
statistics gathered by the Department of Energy, major blackouts are on
the upswing. Incredibly, over the past two decades, blackouts impacting
at least 50,000 customers have increased 124 percent, according to DOE
data. This is mostly the result of our aging grid; with equipment
staying online longer than its programmed life, chances of problems
increase. 3. The war on electricity. Most people have heard of President
Obama’s war on coal – which Hillary Clinton supports — but the liberal
war on power is much older than that…. 4. Risk of an EMP or solar storm.
One of the biggest dangers our power grid faces today is that of an EMP
attack or solar storm. A high-altitude EMP, created by a nuclear device
exploded 300 miles over the center of the country, could kill the entire
grid, as well as destroying the vast majority of our electronics. Almost
nothing has been done to prepare for this threat…. 5. Possibility of
cyber-warfare. It is believed at the highest levels of our intelligence
community that China could shut down our power grid at any time. This
has already been done in other countries; one example was when Russia
shut down the grid in the Ukraine. If they can do it, you can be sure
that China can, as well. They started the idea of cyber-warfare…. 6.
Direct terrorist attacks against the grid….
Your 'Smart' Power Outlets Are Now Botnets Thanks To The
Internet Of Broken Things
Tech Dirt - Thermostats that fail to heat your home. Door locks
that don't protect you. Refrigerators that leak Gmail
credentials. Children's toys that listen to your kids' prattle,
then (poorly) secure said prattle in the cloud. Cars that could,
potentially, result in your death. The list goes on and on, and
it grows exponentially by the week. The latest gift of the
Internet of Things industry, revealed last week by security
researchers at Bitdefender, is smart electrical sockets that can
be hacked to hand over e-mail credentials, create a botnet, or
(potentially) burn your house down by firing up connected
appliances. The devices are sold as an amazing new tool to help
create a connected home, allowing users to manage any device
plugged into them via a smartphone and/or the internet. The
problem, as usual, is an (unspecified) company that treated
security as an afterthought…. And while security is a big part
of the problem, equally troubling is the rise of "smart"
products that stop working once the company's manufacturer gets
bored or sold. Like, you know, connected light bulbs that no
longer really connect to much of anything:
Hundreds Of CA Children Sent Home On First Day Of School Due To
New Vaccination Law
CBS News - Scores of California students may be sent home on
their first day of school because of a new vaccine law that took
effect this year. The new state law took effect July 1. Now,
parents can no longer use personal or religious beliefs as a
reason not to have their kids immunized. This school year,
kindergartners and seventh graders must show proof of
immunizations…. Young children who got their personal belief
exemptions approved before January 2016, will be grandfathered
in. According to the new law, they still must get immunized when
they reach seventh grade.
Insurance Companies Use Bait-and-Switch Tactics to Maintain the
Status Quo of Mercury Amalgams
Dr. Mercola - Many people buy dental insurance believing their
dental fillings are covered under their policies. But buried in
the fine print of those policies are many restrictions that
limit the insured's access to mercury-free dentistry. For
example: Many insurance policies only pay for amalgam in molar
teeth; if you want composite, you have to pay out-of-pocket.
Many insurance policies that do pay for composite fillings in
molar teeth only cover them up to the cost of an amalgam, then
leave you to pay the difference. Many insurance policies claim
to cover "silver fillings," but don't tell unsuspecting
customers that there is no such thing as a "silver filling" —
they are in fact mostly mercury. Many insurance policies will
not pay for the removal of old amalgams and replacement with
composite fillings — even if your dentist believes this is the
best treatment…. the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
the American Dental Association (ADA) and the State dental
boards — conspired to make sure consumers were told that amalgam
is "silver." Hardly any of us outside dentistry had any idea
that dentists were plowing our mouths full of mercury.
Do NOT Throw Away Strawberry Leaves. The are the Highest Source
of Vitamin C
Living Traditionally - Strawberry leaf has a mild, fruity flavor
[…] rich in tannins, contains vitamin C and other vitamins and
trace minerals; along with antioxidant flavonoids, caffeic acid,
iron and calcium…. The ellagitannin content of strawberries has
actually been associated with decreased rates of cancer death.
In one study, strawberries topped a list of eight foods most
linked to lower rates of cancer deaths among a group of over
1,000 elderly people. Those eating the most strawberries were
three times less likely to develop cancer compared to those
eating few or no strawberries. It has been found that strawberry
leaves contain antioxidant property and phenolic compound, which
makes it an ideal ingredient used in home remedies for
gastritis…. Add a tablespoon of strawberry leaves in a cup of
hot water. Let it steep for some minutes then strain. Use the
solution to consume 2-3 times daily. Help with Arthritis and
Rheumatism: It is said that caffeic acid, being a natural
diuretic, helps to pull water from your joints, which can
alleviate the pain and swelling caused by arthritis and
rheumatism.
The Official Unofficial Dumping Ground
Susan Thixton - Flood damaged crops? Sell it to pet food. As we have
seen on the news, Louisiana is suffering from damaging floods. The
August floods not only left residents homeless, the floods damaged
crops. From DeltaFarmPress.com “About 75 percent of our rice is located
in southwest Louisiana,” says Dustin Harrell, LSU AgCenter rice
specialist. “A lot of the area got 18 to 24 – even more than 24 – inches
of rain. That caused a lot of flooding, including rice fields. Water
from many of the initial rains actually did begin to recede before
backwater flooding moved in from bayous, streams and rivers.” Of concern
to pet food consumers (bold added): “Water that goes over the headed
rice, or rice that lodges and lays over in the water, can definitely
cause economic damage. If it’s mature, it won’t take long for the grain
in the heads to sprout. If it drains early enough, the rice can still be
harvested even though the quality will suffer. There is a market for at
least some of that type of rice – things like pet food. Rice that’s
submerged for an extended period will rot, become rancid.” Pet food is
the Official Unofficial Dumping Ground for all things waste. ‘Official’
because of statements like the above and FDA Compliance Policies;
regulatory authorities openly allow waste to be dumped into pet food.
‘Unofficial’ because pet food consumers are NEVER warned.
Tuesday - August
23, 2016 - Today In History:
1838 - The first class graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in
South Hadley, MA. It was one of the first colleges for women.
1839 - Hong Kong was taken by the British in a war with China.
1914 - Tsingtao, China, was bombarded as Japan declared war on Germany
in World War I.
1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
1944 - During World War II, Romanian prime minister Ion Antonescue was
dismissed. Soon after the country would abandon the Axis and join the
Allies.
1944 - Marseilles was captured by Allied troops during World War II.
1982 - The parliament of Lebanon elected Bashir Bemayel president. He
was assassinated three weeks later.
1983 - The U.S. announced that it was nearly ready for a test flight of
an anti-satellite missile.
1990 - President Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with
a group of Western detainees that he referred to as "guests." He told
the group that they were being held "to prevent the scourge of war."
1998 - Protestors in Sudan carried a sign that bore the resemblance of
Monica Lewinsky and the words "No War for Monika." The anti-U.S.
demonstration was in Khartoum, Sudan.
1998 - Boris Yeltsin dismissed the Russian government again.
2003 - Former Roman Catholic priest John Geoghan, a convicted child
molester, was killed by a fellow inmate in a Massachusetts prison.
2005 - Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish
settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and
part of the West Bank.
2008 - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduced his
choice of running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.
MI5 ‘blocked’ arrest of ISIS-supporting radical preacher
Choudary ‘for years’
RT - Counterterrorism officers were repeatedly blocked by
British security service MI5 from pursuing criminal
investigations against Britain’s highest-profile radical
preacher, Anjem Choudary, it has been claimed. Last week,
Choudary was found guilty of supporting Islamic State (IS,
formerly ISIS, ISIL).... Following his conviction, it was
revealed that the 49-year-old former lawyer had been linked to
at least 15 terrorist plots since 2001. Police also believe he
has connections to as many as 500 of the 850 young British
Muslims who have traveled abroad to join IS. According to the
Telegraph, counter-terrorism officers often felt they had enough
evidence to build a case against the cleric, only to be told to
hang fire by MI5 because he was crucial to one of their ongoing
investigations. The situation led to a build-up of tension
between the two sides, with police feeling “frustrated” that
Choudary was not being brought to justice, a source told the
newspaper. He was eventually prosecuted after swearing an oath
of allegiance to IS and posting YouTube videos in which he
praised the group.
Pre-Teen Suicide Bomber Ignites Rage At ISIS
Vocativ - The sight of a boy barely in his teens being stripped
of an explosive vest before being led away by Kurdish police has
ignited rage against the Islamic State, in whose name the boy
planned to blow himself up. According to the local Kurdish Rudaw
news, the boy, said to be between 12 and 13 years of age, was
arrested in Kirkuk late on Sunday. They found him wearing a vest
rigged with explosives, hidden under a Barcelona Football Club
jersey. Rudaw reported that some hours before this incident,
another suicide bomber managed to detonate himself in front of a
Shiite shrine in Kirkuk, wounding three people. Social media
users shared images of the boy, saying “this is how children
grow up under ISIS’ ideology. Even childhood is lost.” Others
shared images of the boy sitting handcuffed after the arrest,
writing: “It breaks my heart to see a boy who is supposed to be
in school uniform removing instead a suicide vest because he’s
in the wrong environment. ISIS has destroyed a whole
generation.”
As Muslim World Suffers 2 Major Terror Attacks, Islamic Bloc
Silent, Except for Blast at Israel
CNS News - The Muslim world suffered two major terrorist attacks
over the weekend – in Turkey and Somalia – but the bloc of
Islamic states found just one subject worthy of commenting on on
Sunday – the “painful occasion” of the anniversary of a failed
arson attempt at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque almost half a
century ago. By the end of the weekend, the Saudi-based
secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) had
issued no public reaction to deadly suicide bombings targeting a
wedding party in southeastern Turkey and a government building
and market in central Somalia. Fifty-one people were killed and
69 wounded in the bombing in Gaziantep, which Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said had been carried out by a suicide
bomber aged between 12 and 14-years-old. In Somalia, at least 20
people were killed and more than 80 injured in twin bombings for
which al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.... The OIC did,
however, release a statement on Sunday, marking the 47th
anniversary of “the wanton arson attack on the blessed al-Aqsa
mosque” in Jerusalem’s Old City, which Muslims revere as the
third-holiest in Islam after mosques in Mecca and Medina.
Yemen Offers Russia Use Of Its Airports And Ports In "Fight
Against Terrorism"
Zero Hedge - While Obama was golfing in the midst of another
Louisiana natural disaster, and is set to end his vacation so he
can do what is truly important, support Hillary Clinton in the
presidential race, Putin has been busy making new friends: first
he did the seemingly impossible, having rekindled relations with
Turkey to the point where Ankara itself is warning it may quit
NATO to seek "military cooperation" with Russia, followed
quickly by strengthening relations with Iran so that Moscow can
now use an Iranian airbase to strike ISIS, much to the angry
dismay of the US and the United Nations, the latest stunning
pivot toward Russia comes from yet another civil war-torn
nation, Yemen, whose former president, Abdullah Saleh, said its
newly-formed governing council could work with Russia to "fight
terrorism" by allowing Moscow use of the war-torn country's
military bases. What makes the announcement even more striking
is that Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's ex-president who was toppled
by mass protests in 2011 as part of the Arab Spring launched by
none other than the US when it "intervened" in Libya and Egypt,
was a former staunch counter-terrorism ally of the US; it is
this former US ally who told state-owned channel Russia 24 that
Yemen was ready to grant Moscow access to air and naval bases.
National Borders Politicians' 'Worst' Invention - EC President
Sputnik News - "Borders are the worst invention ever made by
politicians," Juncker said at the European Forum Alpbach (EFA)
in Austria, as quoted by the United Kingdom's ITV news channel.
The forum discussion was focused on the refugee influx that
Europe is currently struggling with. The top EU official
stressed the necessity of showing solidarity with refugees,
especially children, as well as expressing regret at the United
Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union. Juncker's words
reportedly triggered a response from UK Prime Minister Theresa
May, who expressed disagreement and said that the people of the
United Kingdom consider the control over their country's borders
to be important. The remarks come as the leaders of Italy,
Germany and France are meeting on Italian island of Ventotene to
discuss the future of the European Union in the light of
Britain's vote to the leave the bloc. The meeting is being held
in preparation for an informal EU summit, which is to be held
without Britain in Bratislava, Slovakia on September 16.
After Confiscating Their Guns, Venezuela's Maduro Has Another
Warning For Coup Plotters
Zero Hedge - To be sure, Venezuela does indeed have a high
murder rate.... However, the real reason for the crackdown on
guns was different: after last month's failed Turkish coup, the
socialist ruler is worried - with good reason - that he may be
next. So in order to preempt "next steps", and just in case gun
confiscations are insufficient to prevent the inevitable, the
Venezuela ruler took to direct threats, warning his countrymen
that Erdogan's purge would look like child's play compared with
the action he would take if opposition tried something similar
in the OPEC nation.... The opposition plans a big march in
Caracas on Sept. 1 to demand a recall referendum aimed at
cutting short Maduro's six-year term, due to end in 2019. After
gathering more than 200,000 signatures for the effort, the
opposition is waiting for clearance from the National Electoral
Council to get 20 percent of the 20 million person electorate to
sign in order to move forward. Sadly for the Venezuelan people,
the referendum will not happen for one simple reason: as
Bloomberg reported earlier, "in a replay of one of the ugliest
chapters in the two-decade rule of the socialist party in
Venezuela, a top government official said Thursday that a list
of those who signed a petition seeking to recall President
Nicolas Maduro will be handed over to government ministries and
state-run companies."
Nestle continues to extract water from Ontario town despite
drought: activists
The Globe and Mail - Wellington Water Watchers says the permit
for Nestle Waters in Aberfoyle, Ont., expired on July 31, but
the company has been allowed to keep extracting water from a
local well even in the midst of a severe drought. The group says
the Ministry of Environment did not post Nestle’s renewal
application for the usual 30 days of public comment, and instead
granted the company an automatic extension without consulting
people who live in the area. But the ministry says a
water-taking permit remains in force if a renewal application is
made at least 90 days before it expires, and it plans to post
Nestle’s application for comment once the supporting documents
have been reviewed.... Documents on a ministry website show
Nestle Canada has three permits to take up to 8.3 million litres
of water every day for bottling, while Nestle Waters Canada — a
division of Nestle Canada — has a half dozen Ontario permits
allowing it to take an additional 12 million litres a day....
Ontario charges companies just $3.71 for every million litres of
water, after they pay a permit fee of $750 for low- or
medium-risk water takings, or $3,000 for those considered a high
risk to cause an adverse environmental impact.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
FBI Uncovers Over 15,000 More Emails In Clinton Probe
Zero Hedge - in yet another incident pointing to Hillary's
'above the law' persistent lies, [Washington Post] WaPo reports
The FBI’s year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private
email server uncovered tens of thousands more documents from her
time as secretary of state that were not previously disclosed by
her attorneys. Worse still, as Judicial Watch details, “it looks
like the State Department is trying to slow roll the release of
the records." Having suffered blowback from throwing Colin
Powell under the bus over the weekend, the Clinton campaign is
likely back in panic mode as The Washington Post reports the
number of emails to be released is nearly 50 percent more than
the 30,000-plus that Clinton’s lawyers deemed work-related and
returned to the department in December 2014... Judicial Watch
president Tom Fitton tweeted Monday morning that..."FBI found
almost 15,000 new Clinton documents. When will State release
them? Court hearing today.".... The pre-emptive excuse already
being pitched by FBI Director Comey is just as disgusting as his
previous statement that investigators found no evidence that the
emails it found “were intentionally deleted in an effort to
conceal them.” Clinton's lawyers also may have deleted some of
the emails as "personal," Comey said, noting their review relied
on header information and search terms, not a line-by-line
reading as the FBI conducted.
Colin Powell Throws Hillary Clinton Under the Bus over Email
Scandal
Breitbart - Her people have been trying to pin it on me,” Powell
told PEOPLE magazine in the Hamptons this weekend. Powell was
referring to Clinton’s interview with FBI interrogators, in
which she claimed that Powell told her in a memo that he used a
private email server as Secretary of State and that she could
too. But Powell made clear to PEOPLE that he is not involved in
Clinton’s mess. “The truth is, she was using [the private email
server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I
did,” Powell stated.... Powell’s representatives recently put
out a statement saying that Powell only used his private AOL
account for “unclassified” communications. Even the Washington
Post thought Clinton’s claim to the FBI was “just plain wrong.”
The Post‘s Chris Cillizza wrote: The attempt to - again - equate
what Powell did with what Clinton did is yet more evidence that
either the candidate, her senior advisers or both simply don’t
get it. No, Clinton wasn’t indicted by the Justice Department
for her email setup. But she was badly reprimanded by FBI
Director James Comey for her email practices; it was an
unequivocal condemnation of her conduct in relation to her
approach to electronic communications while serving as the
country’s top diplomat.
New Abedin Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton State Department Gave
Special Access to Top Clinton Foundation Donors
Judicial Watch - The Abedin emails reveal that the longtime
Clinton aide apparently served as a conduit between Clinton
Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton while Clinton served as
secretary of state. In more than a dozen email exchanges, Abedin
provided expedited, direct access to Clinton for donors who had
contributed from $25,000 to $10 million to the Clinton
Foundation. In many instances, Clinton Foundation top executive
Doug Band, who worked with the Foundation throughout Hillary
Clinton’s tenure at State, coordinated closely with Abedin. In
Abedin’s June deposition to Judicial Watch, she conceded that
part of her job at the State Department was taking care of
“Clinton family matters.” Included among the Abedin-Band emails
is an exchange revealing that when Crown Prince Salman of
Bahrain requested a meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, he
was forced to go through the Clinton Foundation for an
appointment. Abedin advised Band that when she went through
“normal channels” at State, Clinton declined to meet. After Band
intervened, however, the meeting was set up within forty-eight
hours.
Obama Readies Big September Push for TPP Corporate Takeover
NY Times - President Obama is readying one final push for
approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest regional
trade agreement ever, between the United States and 11 other
Pacific Rim nations. And though the odds may be long, a
presidency defined by partisan stalemate may yet secure one last
legacy -- only because of Mr. Obama's delicate alliance with the
Republicans who control Congress... Although the
administration's push will begin in September, no vote on the
accord will occur before the election.
Judge in Texas temporarily blocks Obama's transgender rules
CNS News - In a temporary injunction signed Sunday, U.S.
District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that the federal education
law known as Title IX "is not ambiguous" about sex being defined
as "the biological and anatomical differences between male and
female students as determined at their birth." The judge said
the order would apply nationwide. The ruling, he said, was not
about the policy issues of transgender rights but about his
conclusion that federal officials simply did not follow rules
that required an opportunity for comment before such directives
are issued. "This case presents the difficult issue of balancing
the protection of students' rights and that of personal privacy
... while ensuring that no student is unnecessarily marginalized
while attending school," he wrote. The ruling was the second
recent setback for transgender advocates. Earlier this month,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia school board can
block for now a transgender male from using the boys' restroom
while justices decide whether to fully intervene.
Congress Demand An Explanation For Epipen Price Increases; Mylan
Slides
Zero Hedge - In a rerun of last summer's political interference
in pharmaceutical pricing spearheaded by both Bernie Sanders and
Hillary Clinton... over the past few days much of the media's
attention has focused on the ongoing cost increases of Mylan's
Epipen.... In 2007, a two-pack of the epinephrine-filled devices
went for $56.64 wholesale, according to data gathered by
Connecture, a health insurance technology and data analytics
company. Now it's jumped to $365.16, an increase of 544.77
percent. Since the end of 2013, the price has gone up by 15
percent every other quarter. And, echoring the public outcry
following Turing's 2015 price increase for its toxoplasmosis
drug Daraprim, doctors, parents, patients, and a former
presidential candidate are speaking out on social media — and
negative comments are filling up Mylan's Facebook page following
an NBC story.... The biggest irony, however, just like last
year, is that it is the permissive government regulations and
the US reimbursement system that allows pharma companies like
Mylan to charge as much as they want, and - mostly - get away
with it. However, since that particular system is too big, and
too unwieldy to change, it appears that Mylan will be this
year's sacrificial distraction, meant to placate the public,
even as the underlying problem with the US healthcare system
remain largely unchanged.
State trooper shoots dead an unarmed deaf mute father who was
trying to communicate via sign language after being pulled over
for a speeding violation
Daily Mail - Daniel Kevin Harris, 29, a father to a
four-year-old boy, was killed just feet from his home in
Charlotte by trooper Jermaine Saunders on Thursday evening.
Police say Saunders tried to pull Harris over for a speeding
violation on Interstate 485 at around 6.15pm, but the driver led
authorities on a brief pursuit before stopping. Officials said
that's when the driver got out of his car and an encounter took
place between the driver and the trooper, causing a shot to be
fired. Harris died at the scene. But witnesses said Harris – who
was unarmed – was shot ‘almost immediately’ after he exited his
vehicle, WCNC reports. They also say he appeared to be trying to
communicate with the trooper using sign language.
The NYPD's Third 'Forfeiture' Option: Call Seized Items
'Evidence;' Never Give Them Back
Techdirt - Kaveh Waddell of The Atlantic is highlighting another
way law enforcement agencies are taking possession of property:
by calling it "evidence" and playing keep away with former
defendants who've had their cases dismissed or have been
acquitted.... Not only is the process labyrinthine, frustrating,
and nonsensical, but there's a clock ticking the whole time. A
person has 120 days from the point the criminal case has ended
to demand return of their items from the NYPD. If their case has
been dismissed, they have 270 days to secure the elusive release
form from the DA's office -- something that explains the
office's disinterest in answering phone calls, emails or letters
asking for this piece of paper. Once the clock runs out, the
city is free to auction off the seized property. If the DA's
office wants to put seized items into indefinite limbo, all it
has to do is classify them as "investigatory evidence," which
means they might be used at some point in future to further a
criminal investigation. The DA's office has every reason to put
seized items out of reach of their owners and very little
compelling it to relinquish control of property that can
eventually be used to (indirectly) fund its office.
Govt Officials Furious at Drop in Revenue as Cops Write Less
Tickets to Stop Actual Crimes
The Free Thought Project - Beginning in 2011, Bergen County saw
a sharp decline in the number of tickets written.... While there
are multiple inputs contributing to this decline, Sheriff
Michael Saudino noted, according to North Jersey.com, that he
had asked officers to use more discretion when stopping
landscapers and other small truckers.... Former County Police
Chief Brian Higgins said that the decline in tickets was also
due to police patrolling for actual crime and responding to more
allegations of assault.... After county officials noted the
decline, they began to squeeze the department.... Although
ticket quotas have been specifically outlawed in New Jersey
since 2000, pressure from officials coupled with veiled threats
of disbanding the department and losing out on pay increases has
had an apparent effect on ticket numbers. Since January of this
year, the number of tickets written has skyrocketed by nearly
450 percent, from a mere 700 tickets written in January to 3,100
tickets written in June.
Top Doctor: Concerns Over Hillary’s Health ‘Not a Conspiracy
Theory’
Paul Joseph Watson - Top doctor and Rutgers University Professor
of Medicine Bob Lahita says that concerns over Hillary Clinton’s
health are not a conspiracy theory and that Clinton should be
assessed by an impartial panel of physicians. Lahita told Fox
Business that he agreed with Dr. Drew on several points about
Hillary’s health. Last week, Drew told KABC that he is “gravely
concerned” about Hillary Clinton’s health, noting that the
treatment she has received is “bizarre”…. Asked whether the
concerns over Hillary’s health were objectively authentic
regardless of politics or whether the leftist media were right
to label the issue a conspiracy theory, Lahita responded, “I
don’t think it’s a conspiracy.” “You go back to the history of
our presidents and we’ve had many presidents up until Lyndon
Johnson who’ve concealed their health during their campaigns and
it had dire effects for our country, going from Kennedy to
Roosevelt, to Woodrow Wilson whose wife ran the White House for
some time – so we have issues here and I think both candidates
should be very forthcoming and perhaps have an impartial panel
of physicians review the data and make that kind of decision
before Americans go to the polls,” remarked Lahita.
US Army Slide Lists Hillary Clinton as Security Threat (Video)
Joe Biggs - Alleged OPSEC brief lists Democrat nominee a
"insider threat”. An alleged U.S. Army training slide is
circulating online with an image of Hillary Clinton and David
Petraeus listed as “Insider Security Threats” along with Edward
Snowden and Chelsea Manning. According to the “U.S. Army W.T.F!
moments” Facebook page, who posted a photo of the slide Sunday,
the image originally came from a servicemember stationed at
Missouri’s Fort Leonard Wood. Admins for the page told the Daily
Caller that they have now received two photographs of the slide
in the last 6 months. The images bares resemblance to a 2015
Justice Department slide that similarly listed Snowden and
fellow NSA whistleblower Thomas Drank as “those that have done
us harm.” The Army has thus far not responded to questions
concerning the slide’s legitimacy.
Hillary has No Campaign Rallies Scheduled on her Calendar
Gateway Pundit - No campaign rallies are scheduled for the next
month! A list of her upcoming events shows a fundraiser she is
expected to participate in Sunday August 21st with Cher and then
no campaign rallies scheduled into the foreseeable future. The
only other event in August that she is currently scheduled to
participate in is on August 31st at the American Legion National
Convention. Donald Trump on the other hand continues to outpace
Hillary Clinton in rallies and in attendance at campaign events
through the first three weeks of August. Trump now has more than
doubled the number of events that Clinton has held.... Clinton
took the weekend of August 6th and 7th off, three days off the
following weekend, August 12th through 14th, and has not held
any campaign rallies since Wednesday, August 17th.... When
Clinton had a similar pattern in the primaries, mainstream media
came to the rescue and implied that Clinton’s strategy was
“going small”.
Puerto Rico’s $70 Billion Defaulted Debt Jumps to $113 Billion
Breitbart - With a Congressionally appointed federal control
board about to take over Puerto Rico’s finances, the U.S.
territory just admitted that its massively spiked public pension
plan owes another $43 billion..... In the newest disaster for
Puerto Rico, a recent audit revealed that the Puerto Rico
Employees’ Retirement System and two smaller public pension
plans only have about $1.8 billion in assets to pay $45 billion
in pension liabilities. About one in 10 Puerto Ricans are either
government public employees, retirees, or beneficiaries,
according to the retirement system. But even more challenging,
there are 120,169 retirees and beneficiaries, compared to just
118,780 public employees still working.... Rather than paying
anything to the defaulted bondholders, Puerto Rico’s Governor
Alejandro Garcia Padilla increased the island’s annual cash
contribution to the pension plans in July to $747.3 million, up
from about $400 million in 2015. The vulture capitalists holding
Puerto Rico’s general-obligation debt immediately filed a
lawsuit against the governor, claiming his administration was
diverting cash for debt payments to pension contributions in
violation of its Commonwealth’s Constitution.
1,690-Page ‘Climate Change’ Reg Increases Cost of Tractor-Trailer Up to
$15,119
CNS News - A “regulatory impact analysis” published by EPA and NHTSA
estimates the regulation will add an average of as much as $13,749 to
the cost of a tractor truck and $1,370 to a trailer, making some
tractor-trailer combinations $15,119 more expensive in 2027 than they
would be under current regulations. While admitting that the regulation
will increase the cost of trucks and the other vehicles it effects, the
administration argues that the owners of these vehicles will actually
save money by using less fuel and that the regulation “will result in up
to $230 billion in net benefits to society.”.... “The typical buyer of a
new long-haul truck in 2027 could recoup the extra cost of the
technology in under two years through fuel savings,” says the fact
sheet. “The program will also benefit consumers and businesses by
reducing the costs for transporting goods,” says the EPA fact sheet. “In
total, the program will result in up to $230 billion in net benefits to
society over the lifetime of vehicles sold under the program. This
includes fuel savings, carbon reductions, health benefits, energy
security benefits, along with travel benefits, and refueling benefits.”
The US Air Force reveals radical plan to 'bomb the sky' to improve radio
reception
Daily Mail - A fleet of tiny satellites could one day be used to
detonate plasma bombs in Earth’s upper atmosphere to improve the range
of radio communications. The US Air Force has granted contracts to three
research teams to develop the technology needed to do this, with hopes
that CubeSats could carry massive amounts of ionized gas to the
ionosphere to create radio-reflecting plasma. The ionosphere begins
roughly 40 miles above the surface and becomes denser with charged
particles at night, allowing signals to travel much farther.
Ground-based radio signals are limited by the curvature of Earth’s
surface, and those travelling more than about 44 miles are typically
stopped if they aren’t given a boost, according to New Scientist. These
communications can be improved by bouncing the radio signals between the
ionosphere and the ground, allowing them to zigzag over greater
distances. In one of the USAF-backed projects, researchers with General
Science and Drexel University in Pennsylvania are working to develop a
way to vaporize metal by heating it beyond its boiling point. This would
allow it to react with atmospheric oxygen to produce radio-reflecting
plasma. Another project from a team at Enig Associates and the
University of Maryland plans to heat metal by detonating a small bomb,
and converting the blast into electrical energy.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
First Hemp Crop Planted in Maine; A Step Toward Nullifying
Federal Prohibition in Effect
Tenth Amendment Center - A Maine grower has planted the state’s
first hemp crop, ignoring federal prohibition and taking another
step toward effectively nullifying the fed’s ban…. Last summer,
the Maine legislature overrode a Gov. LePage’s veto to authorize
hemp farming in the state without gaining any federal
permission. Rep. Deborah Sanderson (R-Chelsea) sponsored LD-4.
She said despite legislative action, the the state has been
“very slow” in getting the crop going. Glenn Lane’s late wife
was instrumental in grassroots efforts to get the bill
introduced. He accused the Department of Agriculture,
Conservation and Forestry of prolonging the rule-making process.
He said the state has not advocated for hemp aggressively
enough. Despite apparent state foot-dragging, the efforts of
individuals like Zeno and Passamaquoddy tribal leaders have
created a toehold for the fledgling hemp industry in Maine. If
Vermont and Colorado serve as any indication, it will ultimately
take root and grow….While a single acre of hemp may not seem all
that significant, It’s important to put things into a broader
context. The federal government considers all of this illegal.
Nevertheless, by simply removing a layer of law – state
prohibition – and creating a structure to grow hemp, Maine has
kick-started an industry that will undoubtedly continue to grow.
As more growers see the economic opportunities in hemp farming,
they will take the plunge.
Acid Blockers Shut Down More than Stomach Acid
Alliance for Natural Health - Recent research warns that they
also shut off production of acid inside the mitochondria every
cell in our bodies! Sometimes our cells need more acid and
sometimes the opposite…. Each cell may have hundreds or even
thousands of mitochondria. As if this news is not scary enough,
in his most recent newsletter (Second Opinion, August 2016), Dr.
Frank Shallenberger discusses a brand new study showing that
acid blockers do not simply cause acute kidney disease (acute
interstitial nephritis)—they may also be associated with chronic
kidney disease…. The study also found that the risk was
dose-related—the more acid blockers patients took, the higher
the incidence of this kidney disease. Kidney disease is only one
among many known health problems caused by acid blockers,
including higher risks for dementia, heart attacks, pneumonia,
heart palpitations, muscle cramps, convulsions, weak bones, and
more…. As we’ve pointed out before, too little stomach acid is
more often than not the culprit behind indigestion and stomach
pain. Taking acid blockers in these cases offers temporary
relief but over time just makes the problem much worse. Low
stomach acid—also called hypochlorhydria—affects about half of
the population, especially middle-aged and older people, the
ones who typically develop stomach issues.
Avoid inflammation: Top 5 anti-inflammatory foods everyone
should eat
(NaturalHealth365) In a recent article published in the
psychoneuroimmunology journal, Dr. George Slavich discloses that
inflammation is involved in 8 out of 10 leading causes of death
seen in the United States today! Without a lifestyle change,
inflammation will continue to wreak havoc for millions of
people…. These foods will help you reduce inflammation and avoid
health problems… #1: Beets: Not only are beets a
beautiful addition to any plate, they work wonders at help to
repair cell damage caused by systemic inflammation. #2:
Blueberries: Blueberries have been known to help slow down
cognitive decline, and improve memory function by protecting the
body from inflammation and combating oxidative damage, and
stress. #3: Walnuts: Walnuts are actually excellent for
brain health, and rich in omega 3 fatty-acids. For those who
don’t get enough omega 3’s from fatty fish, walnuts are an
excellent option. #4: Leafy Greens: Leafy greens are
packed full of powerful minerals to nourish your body while also
being high in antioxidants and flavonoids to help fight free
radicals in the body, and reduce overall inflammation. #5:
Pineapple: Pineapple is high in bromelain which not only packs
in a nice dose of anti-inflammatory benefits but it helps assist
with digestion as well. Pineapple is also high in vitamin C,
which can help the body fight against germs, and illness.
Fluoride consumption linked to diabetes using mathematical
models
ScienceDaily - A recent study published in the Journal of Water
and Health examined links between water fluoridation and
diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a growing epidemic in the United
States. Incidence rates have nearly quadrupled in the past 32
years and show no signs of stopping. According to the study,
fluoridation with sodium fluoride could be a contributing factor
to diabetes rates in the United States, as the chemical is a
known preservative of blood glucose…. In the study, [Kyle
Fluegge, PhD] used mathematical models to analyze publicly
available data on fluoride water levels and diabetes incidence
and prevalence rates across 22 states…. Fluegge reported that a
one milligram increase in average county fluoride levels
predicted a 0.17% increase in age-adjusted diabetes prevalence.
Hepatitis A Linked to Strawberry Smoothies
Natural Society - A string of cases of Hepatitis A outbreaks in
Virginia may actually be linked to strawberry smoothies from a
certain cafe, officials have stated. The outbreak could be
linked to the chain Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Virginia. Genetic
testing reveals that the disease is the same that caused past
issues via Egyptian strawberries. The chain has recalled them
and has found another source for their fruit. The chain, which
also operates outside of Virginia, has asked that all of their
cafes nationally cease using the Egyptian strawberries
immediately. They maintain that their food handling practices is
in no way a cause of the outbreak, and that the outbreak is all
down to the problematic strawberries.
Monday - August
22, 2016 - Today In History:
1642 - The English Civil War began when Charles I called Parliament and
its soldiers traitors.
1762 - Ann Franklin became the editor of the Mercury of Newport in Rhode
Island. She was the first female editor of an American newspaper.
1770 - Australia was claimed under the British crown when Captain James
Cook landed there.
1775 - The American colonies were proclaimed to be in a state of open
rebellion by England's King George III.
1846 - The U.S. annexed New Mexico.
1902 - In Hartford, CT, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the
first president of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to
manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold
for $200.
1910 - Japan formally annexed Korea.
1941 - Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War
II.
1968 - Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the
first papal visit to Latin America.
1973 - Henry Kissinger was named Secretary of State by U.S. President
Nixon. Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year.
1984 - The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in New
Stanton, PA.
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed an order for calling
reservists to aid in the build up of troops in the Persian Gulf.
1990 - The U.S. State Department announced that the U.S. Embassy in
Kuwait would not be closed under President Saddam Hussein's demand.
1991 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned to Moscow after the collapse of the
hard-liners' coup. On the same day he purged the men that had tried to
oust him.
1996 - U.S. President Clinton signed legislation that ended guaranteed
cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.
2003 - Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his
refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments
monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.
2005 - The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending
decades of Israel's turbulent occupation.
Erdoğan blames Isis for suspected suicide attack at wedding in
Gaziantep
The Guardian - At least 50 people were killed and nearly 70
injured in the blast, which Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan, blamed on Islamic State and said had been carried out
by a child of between 12 and 14 years old “who either detonated
[the bomb] or others detonated it”.... Mahmut Toğrul, a local
MP, said the wedding guests were largely supporters of his
pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic party (HDP). “This was not a
random target and not just any wedding,” he told the Guardian.
“Most of the people celebrating at the wedding were HDP
supporters. People came together to celebrate, they were
defenceless. [Isis] has always targeted civilians, but we need
to see this attack as a revenge attack on Kurds.” Isis, which
has not claimed the attack – historically it has not claimed
attacks in Turkey – has recently lost swaths of territory in
northern Syria to Syrian-Kurdish fighters. Some analysts as well
as locals have pointed to this as possible motivation for
attacks against Kurds.
Footage Of Boy In Aleppo Is Opportunistic, Vile Propaganda From
Western Media
Brandon Turbeville - The picture of a little boy, seemingly
injured in some type of bombing incident, sitting alone in an
orange chair in the back of an ambulance, blood stains on his
face and covered in dust from cracked concrete also comes in
video form, footage that lasts for about two minutes, showing
the boy being carried to a well-equipped ambulance (with English
writing on some of the equipment). The boy’s story is also
accompanied by “heart wrenching” stories from “activists” in
east Aleppo alleging the crimes of the Syrian government and the
horrific situation in the area…. It is rather clear that the
child is being used as a stage prop. After being passed to the
medical “attendants,” little Omran is placed in an orange chair
facing the camera and immediately left alone. He is not treated,
no one else is being lifted into the ambulance, and no one is
even in the vehicle with him. Instead, he is left to face the
“activists” outside the vehicle and their cameras for what seems
like too long a time to be anything other than a photo op for
the “activists” videotaping him. While some more discerning
alternative media outlets are questioning the credibility of the
footage – suggesting that the entire affair was simply staged by
“activists” (meaning terrorists and terrorist supporters like
the White Helmets) for propaganda purposes – one need not go so
far in order to destroy the narrative being pushed by Western
outlets.
UK: Migrants to be offered FREE degrees at top university
Daily Express - Russell Group member Bristol University has
offered scholarships and softened the application process for
refugees and asylum seekers as part of a scheme to integrate
those escaping conflict into education. Professor Hugh Brady,
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol, said: "We know
there are factors that make it difficult for people from refugee
and asylum-seeking communities to apply to university. “Their
previous studies may have been interrupted, they might not have
evidence of their previous qualifications or their
qualifications are not transferable. “Our scheme has been
designed to accommodate these factors, so please don't let them
stop you from applying.” It comes as many working class students
are put off the idea of going to university due to the huge
debts incurred – with many leaving higher education after taking
on more £40,000 of debt. For six out of 10, cost is the main
thing stopping them from going to university or dropping out
when they get there, according to new research from
NotGoingToUni.co.uk.
Germany Tells Citizens To Stockpile Food In Case Of Attacks
Breitbart - For the first time since the end of the Cold War,
the German government plans to tell citizens to stockpile food
and water in case of an attack or catastrophe, the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported on Sunday.... “The
population will be obliged to hold an individual supply of food
for ten days,” the newspaper quoted the government’s “Concept
for Civil Defence” – which has been prepared by the Interior
Ministry – as saying.... A spokesman for the Interior Ministry
said the plan would be discussed by the cabinet on Wednesday and
presented by the minister that afternoon. He declined to give
any details on the content. People will be required to stockpile
enough drinking water to last for five days, according to the
plan, the paper said. The 69-page report does not see an attack
on Germany’s territory, which would require a conventional style
of national defence, as likely. However, the precautionary
measures demand that people “prepare appropriately for a
development that could threaten our existence and cannot be
categorically ruled out in the future,” the paper cited the
report as saying.
Samsung Slave Factories Caught Covering Up Cancer Deaths
The Star - An Associated Press investigation has found South
Korean authorities have repeatedly withheld from workers and
their bereaved families crucial information about chemicals they
were exposed to at Samsung’s computer chip and liquid crystal
display factories. Sick workers need access to such data through
the government or the courts to apply for workers’ compensation
from the state. Without it, government officials commonly reject
their cases. In at least six cases involving 10 workers, the
justification for withholding the information was trade secrets.
South Korean law bars government agencies from withholding
public health and safety-related information because of
trade-secrets concerns, but there are no penalties for
violations. Samsung no longer omits lists of chemicals used on
production lines from reports on workplace safety.... But
officials have withheld details about exposure levels and how
the company’s chemicals are managed.
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Families from El Salvador flee violence to U.S.
Fusion - Salvadorans are fleeing to the United States in massive
numbers, and now they’re bringing the whole family along. Though
the number of unaccompanied Salvadoran minors crossing the
border has not returned to the surge numbers seen in 2014, the
number of Salvadoran family units apprehended on the southern
border has increased by a whopping 96% over the past year....
the timing of the new surge might seem strange considering that
the country’s murder rate, which was the highest in the world in
2015, has dropped significantly during the first half of this
year.... But behind the numbers there could be a gathering storm
that’s hard to see from the outside, but one that Salvadorans
can feel in the air.... The headlines in El Salvador suggest
something’s brewing—possibly a war. The attorney general’s
office last week announced that state security forces recently
foiled a dangerous terrorist plot by the MS-13 (Salvatrucha)
that could have escalated the country’s gang war into something
more akin to a guerrilla insurrection.
Video: Bill Still Report #1128 – Clinton Gets Rapist Off
In 1975, a young lawyer helped get a sex offender off with time
served who had brutally raped a 12-year girl. Her name was
Hillary Rodham…. Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and
publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening
Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has
also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has
written 22 books and two documentary videos.
Nail in the Coffin: Huffington Post Calls for End to Clinton
Foundation: 'Just Shut it Down'
Breitbart - The left-wing outlet’s front page banner linked to a
New York Times article, which highlights, among other things,
that Bill and Hillary Clinton’s billion dollar nonprofit has
“accepted tens of millions of dollars from countries that the
State Department - before, during and after Mrs. Clinton’s time
as secretary - criticized for their records on sex
discrimination and other human-rights issues.” The Huffington
Post is just the latest outlet to acknowledge that the explosive
research... has inspired a massive movement of journalists and
political figures - on the left, right, and center - calling on
the Clintons to dismantle their problematic nonprofit..... Bill
Clinton told a room full of the foundation’s staff on Thursday
that he will resign from the Clinton Foundation board if Hillary
Clinton wins the White House in November.... Bill Clinton’s
announcement followed former Democratic Pennsylvania Governor
and longtime Clinton ally Ed Rendell’s remarks that the
foundation should shutdown if Hillary Clinton became
president.... On Tuesday, the Boston Globe, which endorsed
Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, called for the “shut down”
of the Clinton Foundation, should Hillary win.
Obama offends Louisiana flood victims with memo warning them not
to discriminate
Washington Times - In a 16-page guidance issued Tuesday, the
Obama administration, led by the Justice Department, warned
Louisiana recipients of federal disaster assistance against
engaging in “unlawful discrimination on the basis of race,
color, or national origin (including limited English
proficiency).”.... Needless to say, some Louisiana residents
were offended, including the American Conservative’s Rod Dreher,
who took umbrage at receiving an anti-discrimination lecture
from Washington, D.C., as locals struggle to rescue, house and
feed their neighbors. “[E]verywhere you look you can find black
folks and white folks loving on each other, helping each other
through this crisis,” Mr. Dreher said in a Thursday post. He
referred to the guidance as a “long bureaucratic memo” issued by
the “Department of Justice and many other agencies of the
executive branch overseen by He Who Cannot Be Troubled to Leave
Martha’s Vineyard.”
Vacation Obama Squeezes in Tenth Round of Golf Before Louisiana
Trip
Breitbart - President Barack Obama headed out for another round
of golf Sunday prior to ending his 16 day Martha’s Vineyard
vacation on schedule. Obama hit the links with investor Glenn
Hutchins, Robert Wolf, the former CEO of UBS investment bank and
Washington lawyer Cy Walker this afternoon, at Farm Neck Golf
Club. This is the tenth and final round of golf for the
president as he wraps up his vacation. Obama drew criticism for
refusing to end his vacation prematurely to visit the
devastation caused by historic flooding in Louisiana. After
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump drew attention to
the area by visiting on Friday, the White House announced that
the president would also visit the disaster area on Tuesday —
once his vacation was over. Hillary Clinton has also spent the
weekend on Martha’s Vineyard attending fundraisers and hosting a
birthday party for her husband Bill Clinton.
The Man Behind the ‘Cajun Navy’ Speaks Out About Saving
Thousands in Louisiana Floods
Independent Journal Review - [Point man for the Cajun Navy, Bob]
Gaudet explains that the Cajun Navy is comprised of dozens of
volunteers from Louisiana and Mississippi, with about 60 boats
to help rescue those in need.... Through tears, Gaudet says the
first people to respond in Louisiana were victims of Hurricane
Katrina. He explains though he was in Shreveport, Louisiana,
when the historic hurricane hit New Orleans, he and his family
took in some evacuees. They lived with them until they could get
back on their feet. He sees the same thing happening in Baton
Rouge — neighbors helping neighbors... Gaudet says the Cajun
Navy even came across a woman and her family sitting in lawn
chairs that were submerged in six inches of water, under a
canopy. They had every reason to be sad, frustrated, and upset,
but instead they greeted everyone with a warm smile and pot of
gumbo.... Though he doesn’t have exact numbers, Gaudet tells
Independent Journal Review that the Cajun Navy has likely
rescued 20 percent of those who’ve been rescued so far. In fact,
he says one man single-handedly saved one thousand people out of
houses in just 24 hours, which is just another story Gaudet
believes you won’t see on your evening news.
Federal Judge Recommends Criminal Charges Against AZ Sheriff
Arpaio
Western Journalism - On Friday, federal Judge G. Murray Snow
ordered the U.S. Attorney’s Office determine if Arpaio and Chief
Deputy Jerry Sheridan should be held in criminal contempt of
court for ignoring court orders to stop racially profiling
Latinos. This stems from a 2007 lawsuit that was filed against
Arpaio, alleging that his Maricopa County deputies
systematically targeted Latinos in traffic stops to catch those
who were in the country illegally. Snow presided over the case
and ruled in 2011 that deputies were to change their training
and modify routine procedures. But in May, Snow found Arpaio and
three members of his office to be in civil contempt because of
continued failure to follow the previous ruling of the court....
In the midst of this controversy, Arpaio is also running for
re-election.... [Arpaio’s campaign manager, Chad Wilhems] also
noted that he wasn’t surprised by the referral, claiming “the
judge has made it clear that this was the direction he was going
to go in,” and the campaign was “somewhat relieved that this
process is out of the judge’s hands and will go to an
independent review for an unbiased look at the case and the law.
N.C. Pregnancy Center Sues City of Raleigh for Right to Open
Next Door to Abortion Clinic
CNS News - A Hand of Hope bought property next door to the
Preferred Women’s Health Center of Raleigh abortion clinic last
year for $309,000. The pro-life group obtained zoning approval
in May from Raleigh’s Planning Commission and Citizen Advisory
Council to use it for a not-for-profit pregnancy help center to
share “God’s love and free resources with women facing the
challenges of an unplanned pregnancy.”.... “The Planning
Commission found that the requested rezoning was consistent with
Raleigh’s Comprehensive Plan and Raleigh’s Future Land Use Map
and that it was not inconsistent with any of Raleigh’s
policies,” the lawsuit noted. “The Planning Commission also
found that Hand of Hope’s proposal was reasonable and in the
public interest…[and] compatible with the surrounding area.”
However, the Raleigh City Council unanimously voted to deny Hand
of Hope’s zoning approval request on July 5th, with council
member Kay Crowder telling the News & Observer that the property
should be rezoned later as part of a larger commercial
project.... Raleigh’s City Council and the city attorney
“defended their decision by citing their power and ‘wide
discretion’ to decide what is the best use for Hand of Hope’s
property,” according to the pro-life group.
Hillary Campaign Vows To Destroy Opposition Website
The Daily Caller - Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook
made the Sunday show rounds to vaguely defend his boss on the
Clinton Foundation scandals tearing away at the embattled
Democrat’s campaign. “We’ve had a conservative media in this
country for a while,” says the email, sent Thursday and signed
by deputy communications director Christina Reynolds. “I don’t
always like what they have to say, but I respect their role and
their right to exist Reynolds’ acknowledgment that the regular
conservative media has a “right to exist,” though, is used to
contrast it with Breitbart, which apparently has no such right.
“Breitbart is something different,” she says. “They make Fox
News look like a Democratic Party pamphlet. They’re a different
breed altogether — not just conservative but radical, bigoted,
anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic conspiracy peddlers who never have
been and never should be anywhere near the levers of power in
this country.” One of the goals of Clinton’s campaign, Reynolds
says, is to ensure Breitbart is destroyed.
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Louisiana Governor Changes His Opinion of Trump's Visit
Townhall - Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards was skeptical of
Donald Trump's visit to the flooded regions of his state. If the
GOP nominee was simply coming to Louisiana for a "photo-op," he
may as well stay away, the governor warned. Yet, after seeing
Trump and his running mate Mike Pence meeting with families and
handing out resources, Edwards appears to have changed his tune,
telling CNN the two were "helpful." "Because it helped to shine
a spotlight on Louisiana and on the dire situation that we have
here ... it was helpful," Edwards said. Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton offered a phone call to Gov. Edwards and
President Obama, after much criticism for deciding to remain on
vacation at Martha's Vineyard instead of immediately flying to
Louisiana, will be booking a flight there on Tuesday, according
to the White House.
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Leftist Activists Crash Trump Fundraiser, Attack Motorcade,
Assault Trump Supporters in Violent 'Gauntlet'
Breitbart - Video shows dozens of anti-Trump activists shouting
obscenities and throwing debris as they surround Donald Trump
supporters attempting to exit the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Trump fundraiser attendees attempting to exit the building were
forced through a gauntlet of punches, with one protester seen
violently attacking an elderly man as another man and a woman
caught the brunt of the brutal beating. Some attendees
attempting to leave the event were also spit on as they left the
convention center, the [Minneapolis] Star Tribune reports.
Jaime DeLage of the St. Paul Pioneer Press captured video of
Trump supporters being forced to run a “gauntlet” to get into
the fundraiser.
Hillary Clinton Campaign Attacks Trump for Not Releasing Health
Records
Breitbart - Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook made
the Sunday show rounds to vaguely defend his boss on the Clinton
Foundation scandals tearing away at the embattled Democrat’s
campaign. Though he remained characteristically guarded, Mook
slipped at one point while trying to pivot to Donald Trump.
“Trump hasn’t released a serious health letter yet,” Mook said.
This is not the line of attack the Clinton campaign wants to go
with.
RICH: Hillary flies 20 miles in private jet from Martha’s
Vineyard to Nantucket
American Mirror - Hillary Clinton is very important, and she
can’t be bogged down by pesky things such as boats or waiting.
The presidential candidate, who is endlessly trying to tell
factory workers in Ohio and Pennsylvania that she’s one of them,
jetted approximately 20 miles from Martha’s Vineyard — where she
was last night partying with President Obama — to Nantucket for
a fundraiser on Saturday.
Clinton campaign halfway to $1 billion fundraising goal
CNS News - Her campaign has resisted publicizing a fundraising
target for the general election, fearing it would draw attention
to big donors at a time when voters angry about the role of
money in politics. She aimed to raise $100 million for her
primary bid. Clinton raised $90 million for her campaign and
Democratic party committees in July, according to finance
reports released on Saturday. She's maintained a staff of about
700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already
spent $67 million on general election ads. This week, she'll
spend at least $10 million more on ads. GOP rival Donald Trump
raised $80 million for his campaign and the Republican party,
including a $2 million contribution from Trump himself. He's
kept his payroll to about 70 employees, only began airing ads in
recent days and has not undertaken a significant operational
buildout across the country. Instead, nearly half the money he
spent in July went to one web design firm, whose president is
the campaign's director of digital marketing.
FelonsVotesMatter: Virginia Governor To Announce 13,000 Ex-Cons
Have Been Registered To Vote (For Hillary)
Zero Hedge - Back in July, Virginia's Supreme Court blocked
McAuliffe's effort to restore voting rights to 200,000 ex-felons
all at one time saying that he would instead have to restore
each person's voting right individually. Proving his
determination and willingness to devote unlimited taxpayer funds
to the effort, the Washington Post is reporting that McAuliffe
will announce on Monday that he has restored efforts to the
first 13,000 ex felons on a "case-by-case" basis. He is expected
to continue the effort until the voting rights for all 200,000
ex-felons have been restored. Not everyone is happy with the
efforts, of course. According to the Washington Post,
Republicans have questioned how thoroughly the list of ex-felons
is being vetted noting that the Governor's previous efforts
mistakenly restored voting rights to 132 sex offenders still in
custody among other criminals that were still incarcerated.
Does all voting happen on Election Day? Think again
Associated Press - Election officials begin mailing ballots
Sept. 9 to any registered voter in North Carolina who formally
requested one. That's the earliest in the country and 60 days
before the Nov. 8 election. A few other battleground states
start mailing absentee ballots two weeks later. An array of
states follows with differing forms of early in-person voting in
the campaign's final weeks. It's for that reason that North
Carolina provides campaigns with an early test. People don't
have to give a reason to vote by mail in North Carolina, such as
out-of-town Election Day traveling or being too sick to leave
the house. A little over 200,000 mailed ballots were collected
in 2012, which amounted to less than 5 percent of the state's
4.5 million voter turnout. Republicans historically have favored
mail-in ballots and could be critical to who gets the state's 15
electoral votes. Republican Mitt Romney won the state by 92,000
votes in 2012, while Democrat Barack Obama won by 14,000 votes
in 2008.
The Biggest American Layoff Queens in 2016 “So Far”
Wolf Street - 24/7 Wall St. interviewed John Challenger, CEO of
Challenger, Gray. And digging into additional data, it came up
with its list of the biggest layoff announcements in 2016 so far
– “so far” because the year isn’t over yet.... Wal-Mart Stores:
17,500 job cuts; Halliburton: 15,200 job cuts; Intel: 12,000 job
cuts; Schlumberger: 10,000 job cuts; Seagate Technology: 8,100
job cuts; Bank of America: 8,000 job cuts, plus; Weatherford
International: 8,000 job cuts; DuPont Pioneer: 6,000 job cuts,
plus; National Oilwell Varco: 6,000 job cuts; Cisco: 5,500 job
cuts; Microsoft: 4,700 job cuts; Hancock Fabrics: 4,500 job
cuts; Macy’s: 4,350 job cuts, plus.... What stands out among
these announcements? They’re company or industry specific:
oil-and-gas, brick-and-mortar retail, and tech – all three of
them deeply troubled. Well, OK, a bank too. Smaller companies in
these and other sectors often lay their workers off quietly, and
unless you’re working there, or know some who is, you’ll never
hear about it.
Johns
Hopkins prof: Don’t have kids if you want to save the planet from
climate change
The College Fix - In a Thursday story at NPR.org, Travis Rieder of Johns
Hopkins’ Berman Institute of Bioethics says “[m]aybe we should protect
our kids by not having them” in this precarious era of climate change.
The “tweedy jacket and tennis shoe-wearing” Rieder uses the year 2036 as
a potential “tipping point” for “cataclysmic” climate change where the
average global temperature will have increased by two degrees Celsius.
By that time, or perhaps a bit after, “the world is expected to add
several billion people […] each one producing more [greenhouse gas]
emissions.” But if the global fertility rate could be slimmed to a
half-child per woman, that “could be the thing that saves us,” the
professor says…. Ethically, Rieder says poor nations get some slack
because they’re still developing, and because their per capita emissions
are a sliver of the developed world’s. Plus, it just doesn’t look good
for rich, Western nations to tell people in poor ones not to have kids.
He suggests things like paying poor women to refill their birth control
and — something that’s had proven success — widespread media campaigns….
Rieder proposes that richer nations do away with tax breaks for having
children and actually penalize new parents. He says the penalty should
be progressive, based on income, and could increase with each additional
child.
Forget Solar Panels, Tesla Announces Plans to Build Stunning Solar Roofs
Natural Blaze - When SolarCity’s merger with Tesla will complete by the
end of this year, electric car maker Tesla Motors will start selling a
new type of roof that isn’t covered with solar panels. Instead, it’s
seamlessly integrated with Tesla’s home battery storage technology,
allowing homeowners to use solar power even at night. The idea is to
sell an entire roof with the solar power capabilities built into it,
rather than selling solar panels that can be placed on someone’s
existing roof…. These solar roof modules will be made at SolarCity’s
$750 million manufacturing plant in Buffalo, New York…. The announcement
comes as good news for homeowners looking at replacing their roofs, as
well as produce their own electricity: they will now have an option of
buying roofs with solar panels embedded into it.
The NSA Built a Secret, Warrantless, Shadow 'Social Network' and You're
Already On It
The Free Thought Project - This time, their unscrupulous spying involves
a shadow “social network” that combs data from all social networks and
your online data to create a graph of everyone and everyone they
know.... NSA even has a website for this network on which they gladly
display all the information they collect. It’s called GETPRSM.... While
they originally claimed this information was only being collected on
foreigners, a shift in their policy showed that this was not the case.
According to a scathing report in the NY Times, the NSA no longer cares
if the data they collect is foreign as they no longer check for these
constraints.... now they’re arguing that they can look at anything else
so long as they claim that there’s a “foreign intelligence
justification.” That means they have no limits. They just have to come
up with some wacky reason to claim that so-and-so might have foreign
connections that are important to know about, and voila, their life is
open for the NSA to dig in, all without any oversight or a warrant.
The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm
The Intercept - The evidence that ties the ShadowBrokers dump to the NSA
comes in an agency manual for implanting malware, classified top secret,
provided by Snowden, and not previously available to the public. The
draft manual instructs NSA operators to track their use of one malware
program using a specific 16-character string, “ace02468bdf13579.” That
exact same string appears throughout the ShadowBrokers leak in code
associated with the same program, SECONDDATE.... But malicious software
of this sophistication doesn’t just pose a threat to foreign
governments, Johns Hopkins University cryptographer Matthew Green told
The Intercept: The danger of these exploits is that they can be used to
target anyone who is using a vulnerable router.... It’s worse, in fact,
because many of these exploits are not available through any other
means, so they’re just now coming to the attention of the firewall and
router manufacturers that need to fix them, as well as the customers
that are vulnerable.... So the risk is twofold: first, that the person
or persons who stole this information might have used them against us.
If this is indeed Russia, then one assumes that they probably have their
own exploits, but there’s no need to give them any more. And now that
the exploits have been released, we run the risk that ordinary criminals
will use them against corporate targets.
Blogger Criticizes Sheriff, So Sheriff Raids Home And Takes Computers
Off the Grid News - The deputies were trying to identify the person
behind a blog called ExposeDAT. ExposeDAT accused a number of local
officials, including Sheriff Jerry Larpenter, Parish President Gordon
Dove and District Attorney Joe Waitz, of various forms of corruption,
according to WWL-TV. One of the last entries on the blog, dated July 31,
accused officials of helping a company called Baby Oil and Environmental
Equipment Inc. avoid paying $400,000 in taxes to the parish. On August
2, Larpenter’s deputies went to the home of Houma, Louisiana, Police
Officer Wayne Anderson and executed a search warrant. The deputies
seized computers and Facebook information in an attempt to determine who
is behind ExposeDAT. The warrant is part of Waitz’s attempt to prosecute
Anderson for a crime called criminal defamation…. Attorney Mary Ellen
Roy told WWL that the U.S. Supreme Court found the law unconstitutional
when it is used “…to punish public expression and publication concerning
public officials, public figures and private individuals who are engaged
in public affairs.” But that hasn’t stopped the sheriff. “If you’re
gonna lie about me and make it under a fictitious name, I’m gonna come
after you,” Larpenter told the TV station.
Essential Oils With These Frequencies Might Stop Cancer In Its
Tracks
Natural Blaze - Even scientists now recognize the power agents
that exist within some essential oils which stops cancer
spreading, and which induces cancerous cells to close themselves
down. Their disease-preventing ability is no longer doubted,
especially for cancer. A healthy body, from head to foot,
typically has a frequency ranging from 62 to 78 MHz, while
disease begins at 58Hz. During some testing with frequency and
the frequency of essential oils it was measured that: Holding a
cup of coffee dropped one man’s frequency from 66 Hz to 58 MHz
in just 3 seconds. It took three days for his frequency to
return to normal. Other studies show that: Negative thoughts
lower our frequency on average 12 MHz. Positive thoughts raises
our frequency on average 10 MHz. Studying some of the most
popular essential oils in current use, such as mint, ginger,
lemon, grapefruit, jasmine, lavender, chamomile, thyme, rose,
and cinnamon, researchers sought out to discover how these oils
may combat cancer. They did so by testing antibacterial potency
as well as in vitro toxicology against human cancer cell lines….
“Cancer starts when the DNA code within the cell’s nucleus
becomes corrupted,” says Immunologist Mahmoud Suhail. It seems
some essential oils have a re-set function. It can tell the cell
what the right DNA code should be.
Don’t believe the hype: Sugar alcohols like Xylitol are neither
sugar nor alcohol and may increase your risk of breast cancer
(NaturalHealth365) Sugar alcohols like xylitol are also known as
polyols. They can be found in processed foods such as chewing
gum, candy, ice cream, baked goods, fruit spreads, frostings,
yogurts, tabletop sweeteners and increasingly in the multitude
of “diet” and so-called “vitamin infused” beverages on the
market today…. It is true that they are very low in calories and
rank low on the glycemic index. The reason for this, however, is
that they are highly-refined, processed chemical substances that
the body simply cannot absorb… Although the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has determined that sugar alcohols are “GRAS”
(Generally Recognized as Safe), the evidence is mounting that
connects these mysterious substances to many disease
conditions…. The most noticeable side effect of consuming sugar
alcohols is how they affect your gut. Sugar alcohols interfere
with the functioning of the gut lining, the very area where
immune cells reside. Because they are not able to be digested,
sugar alcohols will pass through the stomach and land in the
small intestine fully intact. After that, a process of “passive
diffusion” occurs; the end result is unmetabolized portions
which remain in the gut indefinitely. These particles will
eventually begin to rot, creating an environment ripe for bad
bacteria and other pathogens to grow. The chemical materials in
the gut will also affect the enterocyte cells that line the
intestinal wall…. This entire process leads to what is known as
leaky gut, the primary health issue that studies show is
connected to dozens of other disease conditions including:
autoimmune disease, thyroid disease, metabolic issues,
neurological issues and breast cancer.
Ginger fights inflammatory bowel disease
STEPin2 - According to Healthline: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
represents a group of intestinal disorders that cause prolonged
inflammation of the digestive tract. The digestive tract is
composed of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and
large intestine. It’s responsible for breaking down food,
extracting the nutrients, and removing any unusable material and
waste products. Inflammation anywhere along the digestive tract
disrupts this normal process. IBD can be very painful and
disruptive, and in some cases, may even be life-threatening. The
research team led by Dr. Didier Merlin started their experiment
by juicing fresh ginger from the local farmer’s market. Next,
they used a high speed centrifuge to form the ginger juice into
particles. They found that the ginger particles helped to repair
the intestines by encouraging the survival of good cells in the
lining of the colon. They also helped to lower proteins that
cause inflammation, and increased proteins that fight
inflammation. The researchers believe that these particles could
be used to treat IBD and cancer that is linked to colitis.
One of the Most Important Pet 'Survival Skills' You Could Learn
Dr. Becker - Knowing how to perform basic CPR on your pet is one of the
most important skills you can learn. No one expects to find their dog
unconscious and in need of urgent medical care — but if the unthinkable
happens, knowing CPR can save your pet's life…. I recommend all dog
owners become familiar with the CPR guidelines above now, before your
dog needs them. When an emergency occurs, you won't have time to start
reading through the instructions, and you'll likely be shaken and
possibly panicked. If you already have a firm grasp on how to perform
CPR, you can move right into action, as mentioned, preferably in a car
while someone drives you and your dog to an emergency animal hospital.
You should not, however, practice CPR on a healthy dog, as this can lead
to injury.
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Safe Herbs & Spices
The Canine Chef Cookbook - Holistic veterinarians consider these herbs &
spices to be safe for healthy dogs with no underlying health issues.
Before using any herb or spice consult with your veterinarian for any
cautions, possible side effects or conventional drug interactions. Not
all herbs and spices are safe for pregnant or lactating dogs or
puppies…. Chia Seeds contain large quantities of protein, five times the
calcium of milk, boron (a trace mineral that aids in the absorption of
calcium into the bones), Omega oils 3 and 6, and can help regulate blood
sugar levels and aid in maintaining a healthy weight…. Flaxseed, also
known as linseeds, plays a significant role in canine cardiovascular
health and skin and coat health since it is an important source of fiber
and antioxidants, and it may have anti-tumor properties as well. omega-3
fatty acid and B vitamins, and ground flaxseed may be added in place of
oils in the diet. It not only improves the shine of the pet’s coat but
aids in the movement of food through the digestive system…. Milk Thistle
is well known as a "liver herb" both for humans and pets. It contains a
flavonoid compound called "silymarin" which itself is a combination of
several other active compounds. Extensive studies around the world have
found that silymarin is safe and effective in treating a variety of
liver diseases and other conditions, from kidney disease to mushroom or
lead poisoning….
Friday - August
19, 2016 - Today In History:
1812 - "Old Ironsides" (the USS Constitution) won a battle against the
British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia.
1848 - The discovery of gold in California was reported by the New York
Herald.
1919 - Afghanistan gained independence from Britain.
1934 - Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as
Fuehrer.
1940 - The new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license
#1 to Orville Wright.
1942 - About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a raid against
the Germans at Dieppe, France. They suffered about 50 percent
casualties.
1960 - Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot, was convicted of
espionage in Moscow.
1960 - Two dogs were launched in a satellite into Earth's orbit by the
Soviet Union.
1974 - During an anti-American protest in Nicosia, Cyprus, U.S.
Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet while in the
American embassy.
1981 - Two Libyan SU-22s were shot down by two U.S. Navy F-14 fighters
in the Gulf of Sidra.
1991 - Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had
been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.
1998 - The first piece of the 351 foot bronze statue of Christopher
Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2004 - The Internet search engine Google went public.
2005 - Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the
death of a man who'd taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx.
2010 - The last American combat brigade exited Iraq, seven years and
five months after the U.S.-led invasion began.
Report: US Moving Nukes Closer to Ukraine
Kit Daniels - The US is reportedly moving nukes from Turkey to
Romania amid rising tensions in Ukraine – and after a recent
report warned that ISIS could steal the nukes in Turkey. At
least 50 tactical nukes are stored at the Incirlik Air Base
about 70 miles from the Syrian border, and according to EurActiv,
the US is moving at least 20 of them to Romania, which shares a
border with Ukraine. US officials have denied the claim, but
recent developments reveal there’s credibility to the reported
nuke transfer. For one thing, Turkey is now considering military
ties with Russia due to its deteriorating relationship with
NATO…. Additionally, the Pentagon is claiming that nearly 40,000
Russian troops are massing on Russia’s border with Ukraine,
including armored vehicles, tanks and fighter jets. And the
nukes stored in Turkey are at risk of being stolen by ISIS,
according to a report by the Stimson Center. “From a security
point of view, it’s a roll of the dice to continue to have
approximately 50 of America’s nuclear weapons stationed at
Incirlik Air Base in Turkey,” said report co-author Laicie
Heeley. “There are significant safeguards in place… but
safeguards are just that, they don’t eliminate risk.” “In the
event of a coup, we can’t say for certain that we would have
been able to maintain control.”
Turkey considering military ties with Russia as NATO shows
unwillingness to cooperate – Ankara
RT - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has lashed out at
NATO, saying the alliance is not fully cooperating with Ankara.
In an interview with Sputnik, he hinted that Turkey would
consider military cooperation with Russia. Cavusoglu says that
Ankara has become alarmed at the lack of willingness shown by
NATO to cooperate with Turkey, which is a member of the
alliance. "It seems to us that NATO members behave in an evasive
fashion on issues such as the exchange of technology and joint
investments. Turkey intends to develop its own defense industry
and strengthen its defense system,” he said in an interview with
Sputnik. “In this sense, if Russia were to treat this with
interest, we are ready to consider the possibility of
cooperation in this sector," Cavusoglu said when asked about the
possibility of working with Russia in the defense sphere.
US: Russia’s Use of Iran Bases Could Violate UN Resolution
Antiwar - The US State Department is claiming that the Russian
use of an Iranian air base for strikes against ISIS in Syria
could violate UN Security Council Resolution 2231, and claims to
be consulting “our lawyers” to decide if it amounts to a
violation. Resolution 2231 bans Iran from obtaining
nuclear-capable ballistic missiles or combat aircraft, though
the State Department claims it can be used to do a lot of other
things, and that Russia having military assets inside Iran might
amount to the “transfer of military technologies” to them.
Russian officials are pointing out that’s obviously not the
case, and that no aircraft or supplies are being transferred to
Iran, they’re just using an Iranian base. The language of the
resolution does not suggest any ban on Iran allowing the use of
their air bases.
'Not one single convoy' reached besieged Syrians this month,
says UN envoy
Deutsche Welle - Citing "deep unhappiness," UN envoy Staffan de
Mistura abruptly cut short Thursday's meeting of the UN's
humanitarian task force for Syria because new fighting in the
five-year war has impeded aid convoys to the more than 590,000
people living in besieged cities and towns. De Mistura said
convoys had not reached any besieged areas of Syria in August
and that Madaya, Zabadani, Foah and Kafraya had had no aid for
110 days…. De Mistura has attempted to increase pressure on the
United States and Russia, the 17-nation task force's co-chairs,
to help produce a 48-hour ceasefire in the northern city of
Aleppo in the face of a recent government offensive…. The
Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday it was ready to support
weekly 48-hour "humanitarian pauses" that would go into effect
around Aleppo "next week." Moscow also said it was ready to
guarantee safety to aid convoys in cooperation with the Syrian
regime. However, the Russian army added that it expects similar
guarantees from the United States in the areas controlled by the
"moderate opposition," Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
Asia & Pacific‘False’ Reuters Report on Vietnam Rocket Launchers
Sparked Chaos in South China
Sputnik News - A Reuters report citing unnamed Western officials
that Vietnam had deployed rocket launchers to the Spratly
Islands and pointed them toward Chinese facilities led Beijing
to call on Hanoi to “remember” the 1979 War that led to 137,000
Vietnamese deaths. On Thursday, Vietnam again refuted a Reuters
report that it allegedly deployed rocket launchers to bases in
the Spratly islands — allegations that led Beijing this weekend
to remind Hanoi about previous wars which many view as a
not-so-veiled threat to attack Vietnam. The diplomatic row began
following an August 10 Reuters report suggesting that "Vietnam
has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed
South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers," in recent
months. Reuters also reported that Vietnam’s foreign ministry
said the information about the deployment of rocket launchers,
based on unnamed Western officials, was "inaccurate." Despite
the countervailing statement by Vietnam and the lack of
satellite photography or other tangible evidence to substantiate
the report, the news outlet chose to run the story, sparking an
international incident.
US Air Force Flies B-52 Bombers in Afghanistan for First Time in
Decade
Sputnik News - US Air Force Chief of Staff General David L.
Golden announced in a media release Tuesday that Boeing B-52H
Stratofortress strategic bombers have completed airstrikes
against targets in Afghanistan for the first time in ten years.
He stated, "We got the B-52 back in the fight in Afghanistan and
Iraq," adding, "We have the B-52 contributing to a significant
ground effort and employing weapons in close proximity of
friendly troops who are under attack [and] who are preparing the
battlefield in new ways. The aging bomber also flew two sorties
in Afghanistan recently, dropping 27 bombs in two
counter-terrorism strikes. The Air Force did not specify when
B-52H operations resumed in Afghanistan. The USAF has conducted
more than 140 strikes and flown over 800 sorties since June,
when US President Barack Obama ordered air power to be used more
proactively in the country.
Taliban active in more parts of Afghanistan than before US
invasion – intel agency
RT - Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan are now operating in more
territories than they were prior to the 2001 US campaign, a
report by private intelligence agency Stratfor cautions. The
paper also warns of the Taliban’s closer ties with Islamic
State. Despite partial success by the Afghan military, their
action is being “overshadowed by the Taliban's much larger gains
elsewhere,” Stratfor says in its latest assessment. The agency
warns that the “Taliban now operates in more territories in
Afghanistan than it has in 2001” when the US started its
military campaign in the country to drive the group out. A major
point of concern is Afghanistan’s largest province of Helmand,
which is almost completely under the control of insurgents.
“Despite heavy U.S. airstrikes in the area, the Taliban – who
already control 80 percent of the region – have steadily
encroached on the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah,” Stratfor
warns. The group is now engaged in a large-scale offensive to
seize the remaining territories in Helmand. Despite joint
efforts by the Afghan army and US Air Force, insurgents continue
to push forward in other provinces. On August 15 the Taliban
seized a key district in northern Baghlan province, just 100
kilometers away from the country’s capital Kabul.
US Has Nearly 30,000 Defense Contractors in Afghanistan
Antiwar - While the Obama Administration has presented its
(already-stalled) drawdown in Afghanistan as “ending” the war
and bringing the number of US forces down in the country to very
small levels, they rarely discuss the substantial number of
American defense contractors still in the country. While the US
officially has just 9,000 troops in Afghanistan, they also have
some 29,000 contractors stationed around the country. Two-thirds
of the contractors are said to be foreign nationals, with the
Pentagon saying they are mostly involved in logistics and
maintenance for the ongoing war. The US has long used large
numbers of contractors as a way to have more boots on the ground
than the officially publicized figures. This has tended to be
rough parity between the two forces, however. At the peak of the
Afghan War, the US had 88,000 troops and 117,000 contractors.
Terrified British Motorist Is Attacked In Calais By Gang Of
Chainsaw-wielding Migrants Who Hurled Concrete Boulders At His
Car
Daily Mail - Rhys Williams, 53, was approaching the French port
in the early hours when migrants from the sprawling jungle camp
smashed his windows, causing up to £3,000 of damage. They ran
onto the road brandishing chainsaws and throwing Molotov
cocktails at the police and passing traffic in scenes that he
said ‘resembled a war zone’. The attack is the latest in a
string of incidents where migrants have attacked cars in a bid
to block roads so they can access lorries bound for the UK.
Venezuela Confiscates Guns As Murder Rates Soar
Zero Hedge - Just to prove the US isn't the only place where
governments seek to cure symptoms rather than diseases for
political benefit, Venezuela's Interior Minister, Nestor Reverol,
launched a campaign in Caracas to "disarm" citizens in an effort
to curb rampant violence. Venezuela has the world's second
highest murder rate which Reverol attributes, at least in part,
to heavily armed gangs roaming the streets with guns that they
apparently acquire from "corrupt" police officers. To address
the violent crime issue, Venezueala has decided to chop up over
2,000 shotguns and pistols and laser tag ammunition as
apparently the majority of ammunition used for violent crime in
the country is manufactured by the state and "sold by corrupt
police" as well. We're noticing a trend here.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
State Dept.: $400M to Iran was contingent on US prisoners’
release
NY Post - The State Department admitted Thursday that the US
would not hand over $400 million in cash to Iran until it
released four American hostages — two weeks after President
Obama insisted the payment was not a “ransom.” State Department
spokesman John Kirby was asked at Thursday’s press briefing: “In
basic English, you’re saying you wouldn’t give them $400 million
in cash until the prisoners were released, correct?” “That’s
correct,” Kirby replied. In an Aug. 4 press conference,
President Obama said the opposite. “We do not pay ransom. We
didn’t here, and we won’t in the future,” the president told
reporters, speaking of the Jan. 17 payment and hostage release….
The US claims the money — delivered in cash stacked aboard an
unmarked cargo plane — was part of a settlement of a
longstanding dispute with the Iranian regime over a
never-completed arms deal from the 1970s. Kirby continued to
maintain Thursday that “the two negotiations were separate,”
referring to the hostage release and arms deal. Kirby spoke
after the Wall Street Journal reported that the departures of
the crisscrossing planes — the one with the $400 million and the
one with the four Americans — were linked.
Defective Combat Helmets Made by US Prisoners Cost Taxpayers
Millions
Sputnik News - According to a new watchdog report, prison
inmates used crude, makeshift tools to fashion faulty Kevlar
helmets worn by US troops on the battlefield. Construction
implements included a screw shoved through a piece of wood and
makeshift hatchets. Under a government contract, more than
126,000 helmets made at a Texas prison in 2010 were recalled
when major defects were discovered by inspectors, according to a
report issued Wednesday by the Justice Department’s Office of
the Inspector General (OIG). ArmorSource, the company
responsible for the faulty gear, was awarded additional
government contracts even as the OIG conducted its probe,
although taxpayers and the government lost some $19 million on
the unsound helmets. The helmets were made as then-President
George W. Bush ordered a US military surge in an effort to beat
back Al-Qaeda…. Officials at [the Federal Prisons Industries]
FPI "pre-selected" helmets for quality checks that were
supposedly random, but the IG report found that staff instructed
inmates to doctor documents "to falsely indicate that helmets
passed inspection and met contract specifications."
Seth Rich Disappeared For Almost Two Hours Before He Was
Murdered
Paul Joseph Watson - Rich was shot in the back in Washington
D.C. on July 10, the apparent victim of an attempted “robbery”
despite the fact that no possessions were taken. Last week,
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange appeared on Dutch television and
implied that Rich was one of the sources of the DNC email leak.
A Daily Mail article that set out to debunk “conspiracy
theories” surrounding Rich’s murder only served to throw up
fresh questions. It reveals that Rich was visibly upset and
bothered by something in the hours before his death, although
the piece speculates that this was due to an argument with his
girlfriend. Rich visited Lou’s City Bar on the evening before
his death and began drinking heavily. He left at 1:45am and
headed to another bar called Wonderland, which closed at 2:30am
that night. No other bars are clubs were open after this time.
The one mile walk from Wonderland to Rich’s Bloomingdale home
would normally have taken around 30 minutes, possibly a little
longer if he was drunk. However, police didn’t hear the gunshots
that led to his death until 4:19am, leaving a gap of nearly two
hours between when Rich would have left Wonderland and when he
was shot dead.
Justice Dept Announces it Will End Use of For-Profit Prisons —
Prison Stocks Plummet
The Free Thought Project - In a stunning turn of events, the
U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it will no longer
use private prisons to incarcerate federal prisoners, deeming
the notorious for-profit facilities both less safe and less
effective in providing correctional services than those operated
by the government…. This announcement comes on the heels of a
rather scathing report from the DOJ’s inspector general last
week which found the nefarious privately-run facilities had a
greater number of safety and security incidents than those run
by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. According to that report,
various disturbances in private prison facilities in recent
years led to “extensive property damage, bodily injury, and the
death of a Correctional Officer.”mmm As soon as the news broke
the DOJ would be abandoning for-profit prisons, stock value
crashed for both Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO
Group, as Zero Hedge reported, the latter evaporating 35 percent
of its value in record time.
The Princeton University Human Resources department has banned
the word “man” from its offices. It might be offensive
The Gateway Pundit - The College Fix reported: “The Princeton
University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from
its vocabulary. The relatively new policy in effect at the Ivy
League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo
that aims to make the department more gender inclusive. Instead
of using “man,” employees are told to use words such as human
beings, individuals or people. Other guidelines? Instead of “man
and wife” use spouses or partners. Switch out “man made” with
artificial, handmade or manufactured. Don’t use the verb “to
man,” as in to work something, instead use to operate or to
staff. Throw out workmanlike and replace it with skillful. The
memo goes on to list a variety of occupations that typically
include the word “man” in them and offers replacements: business
person instead of businessman, firefighter instead of fireman,
ancestors instead of forefathers, and so on.
Trump hires 'street fighter' in new shakeup of White House
campaign
Reuters - U.S. Republican Donald Trump overhauled his
presidential campaign team on Wednesday for the second time in
less than two months, hiring the head of a conservative news
website to bolster his combative image and try to reverse poor
opinion poll numbers. Trump named Steve Bannon, head of the
Breitbart News website, as campaign chief executive officer, a
new position. He also promoted senior adviser Kellyanne Conway
to the post of campaign manager. The latest shake-up combines
Bannon, a conservative flamethrower, with Conway, a measured,
data-driven analyst who might be able to broaden Trump's appeal
to women and independent voters. It offers Trump's team a chance
to return to the "let Trump be Trump" style practiced by former
campaign manager Corey Lewandowski that helped Trump, who has
never held elective office, win the Republican presidential
nomination for the Nov. 8 election…. A Trump campaign statement
announcing the changes touted a Bloomberg Politics article that
branded Bannon "the most dangerous political operative in
America.”… On Wednesday afternoon, Trump received his first
intelligence briefing from the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence. Retired U.S. Lieutenant General Michael
Flynn, a Trump adviser who attended the briefing at the New York
field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the
officials who conducted the two-hour session were "absolutely
professional" and that it was "a great conversation."
Intelligence officials brief the major-party U.S. presidential
candidates on foreign policy and national security issues but do
not disclose ultra-sensitive information about ongoing U.S.
undercover operations, methods or the identities of intelligence
sources.
Shock Poll: Trump’s Black Support Grows 6X in Week
Breitbart - When the “Daybreak” poll began July 10, Trump‘s
support among black voters was 4.6 percent and he fluctuated
between 5.4 percent Aug. 1 and 2.5 percent Aug. 11. The upswing
in support for Trump–more than 500 percent above his low less
than a week previous–comes after the New York City developer’s
address Tuesday in the Milwaukee suburb of West Bend, Wisconsin.
In that speech, Trump made his most direct play for
African-American support in the campaign: We reject the bigotry
of Hillary Clinton which panders to and talks down to
communities of color and sees them only as votes, not as
individual human beings worthy of a better future. She doesn’t
care at all about the hurting people of this country, or the
suffering she has caused them. The African-American community
has been taken for granted for decades by the Democratic Party.
It’s time to break with the failures of the past – I want to
offer Americans a new future. The speech itself was a risk
because the Trump campaign had planned the event before Sunday’s
riots less than an hour south in the black neighborhoods of
Wisconsin’s largest city.
Hillary Clinton Picks TPP and Fracking Advocate to Set Up Her
White House
The Intercept - Two big issues dogged Hillary Clinton during the
Democratic primary: the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade
agreement (TPP) and fracking...In two of the most significant
personnel moves she will ever make, she has signaled a lack of
sincerity. She chose as her vice presidential running mate Tim
Kaine, who voted to authorize fast-track powers for the TPP and
praised the agreement just two days before he was chosen. And
now she has named former Colorado Democratic Senator and
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to be the chair of her
presidential transition team -- the group tasked with helping
set up the new administration should she win in November...As a
senator, Salazar was widely considered a reliable friend to the
oil, gas, ranching and mining industries. As interior secretary,
he opened the Arctic Ocean for oil drilling, and oversaw the
botched response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Since returning to the private sector, he has been an ardent
supporter of the TPP, while pushing back against curbs on
fracking.
Expert: Hillary Clinton ‘Doesn’t Get’ Death Tax; It Hurts
Regular People More than Billionaires
Breitbart - Steve Moore, an advisor on Donald Trump’s tax plan
and a distinguished visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s
Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, laughed at
Hillary Clinton’s charge that Trump’s plan to terminate the
federal estate tax — also called the death tax — would save his
family $4 billion dollars. “She says we’re going to get $4
billion from Donald Trump on the death tax? No you’re not,
you’re not going to get anywhere near that,” he chuckled,
dismissing the claim Clinton made while campaigning in Ohio on
Wednesday. “The people who tend to get killed by the death tax
are not people like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Donald Trump
— they have tax advisors.” “Think of what we could do with $4
billion in Ohio,” Clinton stated while campaigning… “We could
build 280 new elementary schools. We could eliminate the
outstanding student loan of 166,000 Ohioans. We could provide
healthcare to 370,000 veterans. And we could sure rebuild every
crumbing bridge in this state and fix a lot of the highways that
are causing folks trouble.” The Tax Foundation found that
although the U.S. has one of the highest death taxes, it only
makes up less than one percent of the federal revenue.
Texas State Gold Depository Another Step Closer To Reality
Tenth Amendment Center - Gov. Greg Abbot signed legislation
creating the state gold bullion and precious metal depository in
June of 2015. The facility will not only provide a secure place
for individuals, business, cities, counties, government agencies
and even other countries to to store gold and other precious
metals, the law also creates a mechanism to facilitate the
everyday use of gold and silver in business transactions. In
short, a person will be able to deposit gold or silver – and pay
other people through electronic means or checks – in sound
money. The state issued a formal Request for Proposals last
month. Companies interested in building and running the facility
must have their plans submitted by Sept. 30. According to an
article in the Star-Telegram,” state officials want a facility
‘with an e-commerce component that also provides for secure
physical storage for Bullion in an existing facility or a newly
constructed facility.’ Officials say plans for a depository
should include online services that would let customers accept,
transfer and withdraw bullion deposits and related fees. By
making gold and silver available for regular, daily transactions
by the general public, the new law has the potential for
wide-reaching effect. Professor William Greene is an expert on
constitutional tender and said in a paper for the Mises
Institute that when people in multiple states actually start
using gold and silver instead of Federal Reserve notes, it would
effectively nullify the Federal Reserve and end the federal
government’s monopoly on money.
Tech Wreck: 100+K Jobs Gone and More Cuts Coming
Fox Business - At the same time it announced a fiscal
fourth-quarter earnings beat on Wednesday, Cisco (CSCO), the
world’s largest networking giant, said it was cutting 5,500 jobs
or 7% of its global workforce. Mark Havanas, of tech news
website CRNOpens a New Window., which earlier in the day
reported Cisco would eliminate potentially as many as 14,000
jobs, told FOX Business the tech industry is cutting the dead
weight…. Microsoft (MSFT), Hewlett-Packard Enterprises (HPE) and
Intel (INTC) have already slashed more than 100,000 jobs over
the past 12 to 14 months, according to data from Challenger,
Gray & Christmas, and that number is rising.
Uber buys self-driving truck startup Otto; teams with Volvo
Reuters - Ride service Uber Technologies Inc said on Thursday it
acquired self-driving trucks startup Otto and formed a $300 million
alliance with Volvo Car Group to develop self-driving cars. Uber's moves
reflect its eagerness to advance self-driving technology. If its
ambitions are realized, these vehicles could over time reduce its
biggest cost, paying drivers. Uber would also be positioned to expand
into the trucking industry, which had revenue of about $726.4 billion in
the United States in 2015, according to trade data…. Uber, which has a
research center in Pittsburgh, will by the end of this month begin a
pilot program in which trusted Uber customers will be able to use their
phones to summon a self-driving car for use in a downtown Pittsburgh,
according to a source with knowledge of Uber's plans. It will be the
first time members of the public will be able to use self-driving
vehicles. A driver trained to handle the autonomous cars will be behind
the wheel to step in if needed.
13 Year Old Boy Becomes Paralyzed from Neck Down After Gardasil
HPV Vaccine
Health Impact News - The film VAXXED continues to be shown in
new cities across the U.S., with the film crew also traveling to
these cities to sponsor Q&A sessions after the filming. Producer
Del Bigtree states that the story of the CDC whistleblower and
cover-up told in the film is "Bigger than Watergate." The film
crew also often films parents of vaccine damaged or vaccine
killed children who turn out to view the film and tell their own
stories. The story in the video below is about Colton Berrett,
who received the Gardasil HPV vaccine at 13 years old, and soon
afterwards became paralyzed from the neck down. After many
months of recovery, he still needs a breathing apparatus and
still suffers some paralysis. His mother states in the interview
that they are still seeing the same pediatrician, who reported
the vaccine to VAERS, and no longer gives the vaccine to boys,
and cautions girls as well. Colton has regained his speech, and
also speaks during the interview.
How to Clean Up and Detox Your Lungs in just 3 Days
Natural Blaze - Whether you smoke or not, your lungs need
regular cleansing; since second hand smoking, industrial and
vehicular pollution can also cause damage to your lungs and
airways. Over time, toxins from mold and bacteria can destroy
the health of your lungs and even lead to fatal conditions, such
as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease…. Regular
detoxification helps in smooth functioning of lungs and quick
expulsion of toxins. However, to help your body prepare for this
short detox, it is important that you must get rid of all the
dairy products two days before you begin your detox.
Additionally an evening before the purification process, drink a
cup of your favorite herbal green tea before going to bed to
release toxins from the intestines. Once you are ready, follow
these steps each day for three days: 1. In a 300 ml glass
of warm water, add a quarter cup of lemon juice (juice of about
two lemons) and drink it before breakfast. 2. During
breakfast, drink 300 ml of pineapple or grapefruit juice. These
juices contain natural antioxidants that help improve the
respiratory system and clean your lungs. 3. To alkalize
your body for the detox, drink at least 300 ml of freshly
squeezed carrot juice between breakfast and lunch. 4.
During lunch, drink 400 ml of juice rich in potassium such as
beets, parsley, oranges, banana, tomatoes, dates, and figs.
5. In the evening, before going to bed, drink 400 ml of
cranberry juice to fight infection causing bacteria in the
lungs….
Grape Seed Extract Lowers Blood Pressure In Double-Blind Study
Green Med Info - A simple dietary supplement has once again been
shown to produce valuable health benefits. Specifically, a new
study published in the British Journal of Nutrition has
validated the effects of a previous study showing grape seed
extract can effectively and safely normalize blood pressure in
many subjects. This new study is very good news for the 74
million Americans with high blood pressure as it offers a safe
alternative to the use of drugs to lower blood pressure, all of
which carry a significant risk for side effect.
Kentucky Pharmacies Now Selling Naloxone Without Prescription
Natural Society - To combat opioid overdoses, Kentucky will
begin selling the drug Naloxone over the counter without a
prescription in 96 Kroger outlets across the state. Naloxone is
a drug that can reverse an overdose of opioid drugs and often is
only administered in the emergency room. However, due to the
fact that Kentucky is one of five states with the highest rates
of opioid overdoses, a decision has been made to make Naloxone
available quickly and easily to anyone who needs it.
Huge Win for Dogs: New Anti-Tethering Law Passed in Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Becker - A tether can provide a safe way for a dog to enjoy the
outdoors, provided it’s a tether that gives the dog plenty of room to
romp, and it’s used only for short periods of time and under close owner
supervision. Sadly, some dog owners use tethers or chains as a means of
permanent restraint. Many dogs are tethered outdoors without access to
food, water or shelter. Dogs trapped at the end of a tether or chain
suffer immensely, both physically and emotionally. In addition to being
exposed to the elements, including extreme heat and cold, tethered dogs
are vulnerable to other people and animals, as they have no way to
escape. As a result, tethered dogs may become aggressive and are far
more likely to bite than dogs living in a healthy environment. Because
the practice of tethering or chaining is a form of animal cruelty that
also poses a public safety hazard, many U.S. cities have enacted
legislation against it. Phoenix, Arizona is among them. In June 2016,
city officials passed a tethering ordinance to protect dogs.
Thursday - August
18, 2016 - Today In History:
1735 - The "Evening Post" of Boston, MA, was published for the first
time.
1840 - The American Society of Dental Surgeons was founded in New York
City, NY.
1846 - Gen. Stephen W. Kearney and his U.S. forces captured Santa Fe,
NM.
1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress.
1914 - The "Proclamation of Neutrality" was issued by U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson. It was aimed at keeping the U.S. out of World War I.
1916 - Abraham Lincoln's birthplace was made into a national shrine.
1920 - Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Amendment guaranteed the right of all American women to vote.
1938 - The Thousand Islands Bridge was dedicated by U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The bridge connects the U.S. and Canada.
1940 - Canada and the U.S. established a joint defense plan against the
possible enemy attacks during World War II.
1963 - James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. He
was the first black man to accomplish this feat.
1966 - The first pictures of earth taken from moon orbit were sent back
to the U.S.
1981 - Herschel Walker of the University of Georgia took out an
insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London. The all-American was insured
for one million dollars.
1990 - The first shots were fired by the U.S. in the Persian Gulf Crisis
when a U.S. frigate fired rounds across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker.
1991 - An unsuccessful coup was attempted in against President Mikhail
S. Gorbachev. The Soviet hard-liners were responsible. Gorbechev and his
family were effectively imprisoned for three days while vacationing in
Crimea.
2004 - Donald Trump unveiled his board game (TRUMP the Game) where
players bid on real estate, buy big ticket items and make billion-dollar
business deals.
Russia Conducts “Armored Train Drills For First Time In 15
Years”
Mac Slavo - These drills appear to be very serious training for
the mobilization of a major force that intends to bring in vast
numbers and superior equipment under cover from fire. The
Russians have been flaunting their latest equipment for
communications jamming, which allows them to literally dominate
and control an area; they have been flexing their ICBM mobile
trucks and they have been giving every sign that they will not
be pushed around by NATO, rightly or wrongly. They will be
rolling out their carefully regulated, exercised and trained
21st century army ready to engage in electronic warfare. Ukraine
and Syria are both still open proxies, and attempts to bring
Ukraine into NATO could provoke open war: Much of this comes as
NATO and the IMF continue to attempt to garner Ukraine into the
EU and make the country a full-fledged NATO member. Such an
action will not come without a price, however, and an excellent
example of this can be found in an article entitled “Ukraine
joining NATO would be trigger for war with Russia,” by Debra
Killalea of news.com.au. “The red line in the sand is if NATO
makes Ukraine a member. That will be seen as a call for war.”
Dibbs also added that a nuclear war with Russia was “not an
impossibility.”
US-backed forces give hundreds of ISIS fighters safe passage
RT - Several hundred vehicles containing 100 to 200 Islamic
State fighters were given safe passage by US-based forces, out
of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, after surrendering their
weapons, according to defense officials. US Army Col. Carver, a
spokesman for the US-led coalition fighters, told Pentagon
reporters the decision to let Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)
convoys leave the city was made by commanders of the Syrian
Democratic Force. Col. Carver described how IS had civilians in
each of the vehicles, and the military wanted to avoid
casualties. He didn’t know how many of the civilians had been in
the cars voluntarily but said some were likely hostages. The 100
to 200 fighters left the city of Manbij last Friday under watch
of coalition drones to ensure the militants didn’t regroup and
try to return to the city. It was the first such agreement with
the terror group. IS fighters were allegedly using civilians as
human shields to escape.
ISIS Has A New Focus: Killing Christians And Bombing Churches
Wherever They Can Find Them
Michael Snyder - … ISIS has a new focus. They are very clear
about the fact that they intend to kill as many “citizens of the
cross” as they possibly can, and they plan to bomb churches
wherever they can find them. In a previous article, I explained
how an entire church in the U.S. ended up on an ISIS kill list,
and we just saw in France that they are willing to strike
anywhere and at any time. Religious targets now appear to be a
top priority for ISIS, and that means that every church and
every Christian in the western world needs to start thinking
differently about security…. Thousands of American Christians
have already been put on ISIS kill lists, and ISIS has already
instructed their operatives to kill those that they can. The
following comes from an excellent article by Bethany Blankley…
According to a report recently made public, early this year,
ISIS specifically identified 15,000 Christian Americans for
death and instructed jihadists already in America to begin
widespread murder. The Kill List report comes in the wake of
ISIS already publicly warning American and British Christians
that “they were next.” British police last week publicly warned
its 5.4 million Christians to be on alert and in some areas
increased security.
Refugees did not bring terrorism to Germany, says Angela Merkel
The Guardian - Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that refugees had
not brought terrorism to Germany, and that Islam belonged in the
country as long as it was practised in a way that respected the
constitution. More than a million people fleeing war and poverty
in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere arrived in Germany last
year. The mood towards them has soured after a spate of attacks
on civilians last month, including three carried out by
migrants. Two of the attacks were claimed by Islamic State. “The
phenomenon of Islamist terrorism, of Islamic State, is not a
phenomenon that came to us with the refugees,” Merkel said at an
election campaign event for her Christian Democrats in the
eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ahead of a regional vote
on 4 September. She said many people had travelled from Germany
to Syria for training with Islamist militants. In June, the
country’s interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, said more than
800 were believed to have gone to Syria and Iraq.
What Brexit? UK jobless rate falls to 11-yr low
RT - The number of unemployed Britons fell by 52,000 to 1.64
million in July as the country’s labor market showed no signs of
adverse effects from the vote to leave the European Union. The
unemployment rate remained at 4.9 percent in the three months to
June, according to official data released by the Office for
National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday. Average earnings grew
2.4 percent compared with a year earlier, with total pay
excluding bonuses rising 2.3 percent, the ONS reports. The
latest data also shows that the claimant count – which measures
the number of people claiming for unemployment-related benefits
– fell by 8,600 against a previously projected 9,500 increase.
Overall, 172,000 people joined the workforce during the period
covered.... Data published by the agency last month showed the
unemployment rate in the UK was lower in the three months to
May, reaching 4.9 percent – the lowest since 2005 with average
wages rising 2.3 percent year-on-year.
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Israel, Pakistan To Join Nevada War Games As US Prepares For
Large-Scale Space & Cyber Wars
Mint Press - International war games being fought this week in
the Nevada desert suggest the U.S. military is preparing for
new, large-scale warfare against powerful enemies. This year
marks the 41st year of the Red Flag military exercises, which
are considered among the most important training exercises
carried out in the United States. A grab bag of international
troops are also invited to participate in the Air Force drill,
including Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Pakistan,
according to an Aug. 3 report from The Times Of Israel. The
report, which cites unnamed U.S. and Israeli military officials
and an amateur aviation blog as its sources, emphasizes that
U.S. forces remain in charge of the drills, with other countries
treated as “guests.” But it also suggests the exercises can be
interpreted as a sign of strengthening ties between countries’
troops in an increasingly volatile world.
HUGE VICTORY! Federal Court Bans Govt from Prosecuting Medical
Pot Users and Growers
The Free Thought Project - Last week, the tyrannical DEA doubled
down on their asinine and immoral decision to classify marijuana
as having no medical value — promising to continue to kidnap,
cage, and kill people for possessing it. However, in a major
victory, and a well-deserved slap to the face of the DEA, a
federal appeals court just ruled that prosecuting medical
marijuana users and growers is now banned. The Ninth US Circuit
Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel has ruled that the
Department of Justice (DOJ) cannot spend budget money to
prosecute people who grow, sell or use medical marijuana — if
they comply with state law. The 25 states who’ve found
themselves subject to continuous raids — in spite of medical pot
being legal — will now have solace in the fact that the DOJ can
no longer throw money at the futile and immoral practice of
arresting people for a plant. “If the federal government
prosecutes such individuals, it has prevented the state from
giving practical effect to its law,” Circuit Judge Diarmuid
O’Scannlain wrote for the court.
Here’s How Much Michael Phelps Might Have to Pay the IRS for
Winning Olympic Medals
The Anti-Media - “You didn’t win that” might as well be the U.S.
government’s official congratulatory platitude to American
Olympians who succeed in Rio this summer. This year, the IRS
will impose a nearly 40% “victory” tax on athletes who take home
gold, silver, and bronze medals for the United States. American
Olympians earn $25,000 for gold medals, $15,000 for silver, and
$10,000 for bronze, paid for by the U.S. Olympic Committee. But
according to the non-profit advocacy group Americans for Tax
Reform, “a gold medalist from Team USA could end up facing a tax
bill of $9,900 per gold medal, $5,940 per silver medal, and
$3,960 per bronze medal.”… Michael Phelps [this year] won five
gold medals and one silver, making the total he could owe the
government as high as $55,000.
North Carolina Teachers Ordered to Avoid Calling Students ‘boys
and girls’
Adan Salazar - Educators at a North Carolina public school
district have been ordered to avoid using gender-specific
pronouns when addressing pupils, according to a recently
published training manual. A slideshow presentation, entitled
“Supporting Transgender Students,” provides guidance for the
upcoming school year to K-12 teachers of the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, directing them how to
properly handle students with gender identity issues.
“Transgendered,” “transsexual,” “transvestite,” “MtF or FtM,”
“Cross Dresser,” and “Drag Queen/King,” are all terms teachers
are instructed to avoid in order to “maximize academic
achievement for every child.” Instead, the slideshow suggests,
teachers should familiarize themselves with terms such as
“Questioning,” “Cisgender,” “Non-binary,” “Genderqueer,’ and
“Gender nonconforming.” A worksheet with a purple unicorn
appears amid the instructional, which students are intended to
fill out with their own gender identities. Among techniques to
“avoid gender specific classroom management,” the slideshow
tells teachers to line students up by birth month, favorite
color, or alphabetized, rather than “boy/girl.” Children should
also be addressed as “scholars or students vs. boys and girls,”
the guidance recommends. Additionally, faculty should “allow
students to dress in accordance with their gender identity”
(emphasis theirs), and “students must have access to the
restroom/changing facilities that correspond to their gender
identity,” in accordance with a recent Fourth Circuit court
ruling.
Target To Spend $20 Million On Private Bathrooms After Customer
Revolt
Government Slaves - Target Corp. said it will spend $20 million
to add a private bathroom to each of its stores by next year,
following customer protests over its policy allowing transgender
individuals to use whichever restroom corresponds with their
gender identity. Most of Target’s 1,797 locations already have
single-occupancy or unisex restrooms, but it will add the option
to 277 stores by November and to about 20 remaining stores by
March 2017, the company said on Wednesday. Target’s finance
chief Cathy Smith said the move is a response to feedback from
customers voicing displeasure over the company’s bathroom
policy. She added the customer discontent hadn’t had a material
impact on sales. CEO Brian Cornell had promised to roll out
family restrooms earlier this year and defended the company’s
stance on diversity.
Executive Disorder
Snopes.com - Umimaginative fake news publishers have recycled an
old hoax about President Obama's banning the Pledge of
Allegiance. Apparently having run out of anything remotely
approaching an original thought, in August 2016 fake news
publishers fell back on the old chestnut of reporting that
President Obama had issued an executive order banning the Pledge
of Allegiance in U.S. schools (for the umpteenth time): Early
this morning, President Obama made what could very well prove to
be the most controversial move of his presidency with the
signing of Executive Order 13738, which revokes the federal
government’s official recognition of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Under the new order, it is now illegal for any federally funded
agency to display the pledge or for any federal employee to
recite, or encourage others to recite, the pledge while on duty.
This law also applies to federal contractors and other
institutions that receive federal funding such as public
schools. Individuals who violate this order can face fines of up
to $10,000 and up to one year in federal prison. During the
press conference, the President explained his decision was based
on a personal belief that the language used in the pledge is
“divisive” and “contrary to America’s deepest held values.”
Political Science Prof: Trump Has 87% Chance of Winning the
Election
Paul Joseph Watson - Political science professor Helmut Norpoth,
whose election model has accurately predicted the outcome of the
popular vote five times in a row, asserts that Donald Trump has
an 87% chance of winning the presidency. Appearing on Fox
Business with Lou Dobbs, Norpoth said his forecast confounded
the poll numbers…. Norpoth’s model has correctly predicted the
outcome of the popular vote for every election since 1996,
including the 2000 race where Al Gore won the popular vote but
George W. Bush took the presidency. One of the factors the model
takes into account is the unlikely scenario of an incumbent
party remaining in power after two terms. The accuracy of the
model built by Norpoth stands at 96.1%… Norpoth’s confidence in
Trump winning has slipped since February, when he predicted a
97% chance of a Trump victory, but his analysis still stands in
stark contrast to the mainstream media narrative that the New
York billionaire’s campaign is collapsing. While online polls
like that released by Zogby yesterday show Clinton and Trump
almost tied, other polls show Hillary enjoying a significant
lead.
Firefighters Union Abandons Hillary Clinton – Refuses
Endorsement
The Gateway Pundit - Via California Firefighters News: The
International Association of Fire Fighters, a politically
powerful labor union, has abandoned its initial plans to endorse
Democrat Hillary Clinton for U.S. president, the New York Times
reported on Friday. Citing union sources, the Times said the
Clinton campaign was told on Monday by IAFF President Harold
Schaitberger that there was not enough support on the union’s
board or its rank-and-file members for an endorsement of the
Democratic front-runner. Support from labor unions is an
important source of strength for Democratic candidates and their
endorsements are eagerly sought by campaigns.
Poll: Three out of five Texans who support Trump want secession
if Hillary becomes president
Chron - If anyone needs proof that the presidential race between
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton truly is dividing the country,
they should look to Texas. According to poll results from Public
Policy Polling released Tuesday, three out of five Texans who
support Donald Trump said they would support seceding from
America if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
New Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway: This Isn’t A
Shakeup
Breitbart - Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s
Newsroom,” new campaign manager to Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump Kellyanne Conway said the changes in
Trump’s staff are not a shake-up, just an attempt to “expand the
senior team that allows us to meet the needs.”… “We just need to
sort of beef up the senior level roles in a way that we are,
dividing and conquering. There is great deal to do. I think Paul
Manafort as chairman and Rick Gates as deputy have done a
phenomenal job building our campaign over last five or six
months to put it in a competitive place going into the fall. So
I look forward to continuing to work with both of them. I think
my role will be TV, but also flying on the plane with Mr. Trump
more. Certainly working with our many different messaging
partners in our coalitions, just to make sure that we are all
coordinating and doing it together.
Dr. Drew “Gravely Concerned” About Hillary Clinton’s Health
Paul Joseph Watson - Appearing on KABC’s McIntyre in the
Morning, the hosts of the show were expecting [Dr. Drew Pinsky,
known as “America’s most trusted physician,” to debunk claims
that Hillary is having significant health problems, but Pinsky
instead dropped several bombshells. Pinsky said he and his
colleague Dr. Robert Huizenga had already analyzed what medical
records on Hillary had been released and were “gravely
concerned….not just about her health but her health care.”
Pinsky noted that after her fall, Hillary suffered from a
“transverse sinus thrombosis,” an “exceedingly rare clot” that
“virtually guarantees somebody has something wrong with their
coagulation system.” “What’s wrong with her coagulation system,
has that been evaluated?” asked Dr. Drew, adding, that Hillary
was being given “weird” medication that could be exacerbating
her health problems. “So the very medicine doctors are using may
be causing this problem and they’re using an old fashioned
medicine to treat it – what is going on with her health care?”
asked Pinsky…. Dr. Drew also highlighted when Hillary had to
wear prism glasses after her fall, declaring, “that is brain
damage, and so that’s affecting her balance…” Pinsky pointed out
that the treatment for Hillary’s hypothyroidism – Armour Thyroid
– was also “unconventional” and that it has “weird
side-effects”. According to RXList.com, those side-effects
include “severe dizziness,” while WebMD lists another
side-effect as “tiredness”.
Photos: Hillary Clinton Has To Be Propped Up With Pillows
Heat Street - Hillary Clinton doesn’t like reporters, so she did
an interview last week on a podcast hosted by her own
presidential campaign. Notice anything about the image? Hillary
is being propped up by a pillow, and it’s hardly the first time
this has happened. In fact, the former secretary of state used
to include propping cushions on her list of demands during her
lucrative time on the paid celebrity speaking circuit. According
to the Washington Post, for one speech at UCLA, a public
university that she graciously offered a discounted rate of
$300,000, Hillary demanded that “chairs be outfitted with two
long, rectangular pillows — and that two cushions be kept
backstage in case the chair was too deep and she needed
additional back support.”
Video: Joe Biden Welcomed to Serbia with massive rally for Trump
The Gateway Pundit - Joe Biden flew to Serbia today [Aug 17th].
He was greeted by a massive protest for Trump!
Overwhelmed By Debt, Nearly 1 In 5 Young Adults Live With Their
Parents Or Grandparents
Economic Collapse - In America today, more than 60 million
people live in multi-generational households…. According to the
Pew Research Center, 12 percent of the U.S. population was
living in multi-generational households back in 1980. Today,
that number is up to 19 percent. That means nearly one out of
every five U.S. adults now live with their parents or their
grandparents. One of the big culprits, of course, is student
loan debt. According to CNN, approximately 70 percent of all
college graduates will have student loan debt to pay off once
they leave school, and the average loan balance for those
graduates is about $28,950. But there are many that run up
$50,000 or $100,000 in debt at high end schools…. We are also
seeing other forms of debt rise to frightening levels in this
nation. The following comes from the New York Times… Over all,
Americans’ use of credit cards has recently been creeping up
again: Household debt in the United States increased by $35
billion, to $12.29 trillion, during the second quarter of 2016,
a 0.3 percent rise from the previous quarter that was driven by
credit cards and auto loans, according to a report released on
Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. We often
criticize the federal government for being 19.4 trillion dollars
in debt, and rightly so, but let us not forget that U.S.
households are 12.2 trillion dollars in debt.
Radioactive Waste Leak at New York Nuke Plant Left Unrepaired for Years
Sputnik News - According to a quarterly inspection report by the US
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the leak at the Fitzpatrick plant
is of "very low safety significance” in the immediate future, as it is
in a contained area, but regulators warn that it will make the site far
more difficult to decontaminate when the reactor is shut down. The NRC
has stated that plant owner Entergy Corp. has not repaired the leak,
despite knowing about it for four years and considering the uncontrolled
radioactivity to be a "more than minor significance.” "The bottom line
is, we have been aware of this issue for some time, but it poses no
immediate risks to any residents or the environment,'' NRC spokesman
Neil Sheehan told Syracuse.com. Entergy claims that they have not
cleaned up the spill because they do not want to expose their workers to
radiation, reportedly implementing a robot to perform the task. The
report does not detail how much waste has been spilled, but does
indicate that it consists of beads and powdered resin from filters used
to clean reactor coolant. The NRC is treating the leak as a “non-cited
violation,” meaning that Entergy will not face increased oversight or
penalties for the four-year leak. The NRC rated the plant’s safety
performance as “green,” the highest rating available.
IRS Tax Loophole Can Reward Excessive Water Use in Drought-stricken West
Pro Publica - Here’s how it works: Farmers — or anyone who uses water in
a business — can ask the Internal Revenue Service for a tax write-off
for what’s called a “depleted asset.” In certain places, water counts as
an asset, just like oil, or minerals like copper. The more water gets
used, the more cash credit farmers can claim against their income tax.
And that’s just what almost 3,000 Texas landowners in just one water
district appear to have done last year — a year in which nearly half of
Texas was in a state of “severe” or “extreme” drought.”…. We talked to
an accountant in Levelland, Texas. He had a client who wrote off
$10,000. “Whenever you buy land, you’re getting the dirt … and of course
you are getting the water,” said Sham Myatt, the accountant. And the
idea is that that water is part of what you paid for in the land deal.
If the aquifer was 50 feet deep at the time of the land sale, and it
drops 10 feet in a dry year, then the farmer can deduct one-fifth of the
value, and so on, until all the water is gone…. A farmer who tries to
use less water because of the drought, say, by switching to really
efficient irrigation techniques, could actually make less money. His
water might last longer, but producing his crop would get a lot more
expensive…. We asked [the IRS] for clarification… The deduction is only
available for one small part of the country — an area that includes
parts of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota,
Wyoming and Colorado. And it should only apply if people are using water
from a source that is running dry anyway.
America to hand off Internet in under two months
Washington Examiner - The Department of Commerce is set to hand
off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to
international authorities in less than two months, officials
have confirmed. The department will finalize the transition
effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling wrote
on Tuesday, barring what he called “any significant impediment.”
The move means the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which is
responsible for interpreting numerical addresses on the Web to a
readable language, will move from U.S. control to the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a multistakeholder
body that includes countries like China and Russia. Critics of
the move, most prominently Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, have
pointed out the agency could be used by totalitarian governments
to shut down the Web around the globe, either in whole or in
part. "The proposal will significantly increase the power of
foreign governments over the Internet, expand ICANN's historical
core mission by creating a gateway to content regulation, and
embolden [its] leadership to act without any real
accountability," Cruz wrote in a letter sent to Commerce and
signed by two fellow Republicans, Sen. James Lankford of
Oklahoma and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. In the event any facilities
are relocated to China, senators noted, they could go in the
same building as the agency responsible for censoring that
country's Internet.
This 85-Year-Old Woman Had A Hunchback For Decades. THIS Fixed
It! (Video)
David Wolfe - For decades, [Anna Pesce ] had been living with a
herniated disc, scoliosis and osteoporosis – all of which meant
the 85-year-old grandmother walked around with a hunchback. And
then, in 2014, Anna nearly collapsed trying to climb a set of
stairs while visiting her children. “I had this horrible pain
shooting up my back,” she told the New York Post. “I had to be
carried up the stairs and put into a wheelchair for the rest of
my stay.” At that point, enough was enough for Anna. She had
tried acupuncture and visited a chiropractor to no avail. This
time she decided to enlist the help of certified yoga instructor
Rachel Jesien. Once a week, the two met. Rachel taught Anna
restorative poses like the child’s pose and chair savasana.
Within a month, Anna could walk again…. Four months into yoga,
Anna was able to do a modified headstand! Keep in mind, this was
an 85-year-old who, just months prior, couldn’t walk on her own.
According to Rachel, yoga – with proper guidance and certified
instruction – can increase bone density, strengthen muscles and
relieve back pain…. Two years after meeting, Anna and Rachel
continue to work together on a weekly basis.
Banana Ice Cream
David Wolfe - If you’re looking for a healthier way to satisfy
your sweet tooth, you have to try banana ice cream, sometimes
also called nana ice cream or n’ice cream. All you need is
frozen bananas and a high speed blender. It’s so rich, creamy,
sweet, and decadent, you seriously won’t even realize there’s no
dairy or added sugar. Ingredients: Banana N’ice Cream Base - 2
frozen bananas*l, 1/4 tsp vanilla. Add Ins: (choose a favorite)
Chocolate: 2 -3 tsp. cacao powder. Chocolate Almond Butter: 2-3
tsp. cacao powder + 1 Tbsp. almond butter. Carob: 2-3 tsp. carob
powder. Date: 3-4 pitted dates + 1/4 tsp cinnamon. Strawberry
Mint: 1 cup frozen strawberries + 6 mint leaves. Coconut: 1
Tbsp. coconut butter or shredded coconut. Almond Ginger: 1 Tbsp
almond butter or 1 Tbsp. almonds + 1/2 inch piece peeled
ginger…. Place all ingredients (banana base plus the add in
ingredients of your choice) into a high speed blender and blend
on high until soft serve ice cream consistency is reached, which
should be about 30-60 seconds.
They Saved THIS Dog So He Could Die In Peace. Then He Recovered! (Video)
David Wolfe - Valia Orfanidou has spent many years volunteering as an
animal rescuer and trainer in Greece. She’s fostered many, many dogs in
her life. She had seen so many dogs in grave conditions that she’d just
about become desensitized. But nothing could have prepared Valia for the
experience she’d have upon meeting Billy. Billy was abandoned and left
to die in the city. He had a bad case of mange and was severely
emaciated. Valia and her fellow rescue workers weren’t entirely sure if
Billy would survive; the most they were hoping to do was provide him
with a peaceful place to die in. In addition to his severe physical
condition, it was obvious that Billy had a hard time trusting people.
And how could he not? Just imagine the conditions he must have endured
throughout his harsh life. But still, Valia was determined. She took
Billy into her own home and gave him a quiet place to eat, sleep and
recover in…. In a matter of two months, Billy showed Valia and her
rescue team the true meaning of resilience. He overcame not only his
physical damage but his mental scars as well. Check out the video of
Billy’s transformation below. I guarantee it will warm your heart and
put a smile on your face.
Wednesday - August
17, 2016 - Today In History:
1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York
City.
1863 - Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston,
SC, harbor during the Civil War.
1896 - The Klondike gold rush was set off by George Carmack discovering
gold on Rabbit Creek in Alaska.
1961 - The Communist East German government completed the construction
of the Berlin Wall.
1969 - Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing 248
people.
1977 - Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) reported that in one day the
number of orders for flowers to be delivered to Graceland had surpassed
the number for any other event in the company's history.
1982 - The Senate approved an immigration bill that granted permanent
resident status to illegal aliens who had arrived in the United States
before 1977.
1985 - A year-long strike began when 1,400 Geo. A. Hormel and Co. meat
packers walked off the job.
1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential
candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton admitted to having an improper
relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
2005 - Israeli security forces began the forcible removal of Jews from
four settlements in the Gaza Strip.
2010 - A mistrial was declared on 23 corruption charges against ousted
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (He was convicted of 17 counts of
corruption in a retrial.)
US Troops Fighting on the Ground in Libya
Libyan War The Truth by Jimmy and JoAnne Moriarty - US has put
troops on the ground in Libya. The authority to put troops on
the ground in Libya is non existent. The excuse being spewed out
by the Pentagon and the lame stream media is that the UN "Unity"
Government has invited them into Libya.
Russia bombs IS targets from Iranian air base
Deutsche Welle - Russia has said it launched strikes against the
so-called "Islamic State" from air bases in Iran. It's a
noticeable change of strategy for Moscow as it continues to aid
the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Moscow announced on
Tuesday that it had widened its bombing campaign in Syria by
using Iran as a base to launch air strikes against militant
targets. A statement released by Russia's defense ministry said
that a fleet of long-range and frontline bombers had taken off
from the Hamedan air base in Iran to conduct air strikes against
members of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) and al-Nusra
terrorist groups. The ministry said the bombing campaigns had
destroyed five warehouses used to store weapons and ammunition,
as well as jihadist training camps in the provinces of Aleppo,
Deir Ezzor and Idlib. In addition to this, a number of militants
were killed when Russian planes struck command centers in the
targeted areas. The campaign is the first time Russia has used a
foreign power's military base to conduct air strikes in the
Middle East, having normally flown planes out of its own air
bases in Moscow and also in Syria. It's also virtually
unprecedented for Iran to allow another world power to use its
territory for military strikes.
China Sides With Russia In Syrian War, Will Provide "Aid And
Military Training" To Assad
Zero Hedge - Beijing and Damascus have agreed that the Chinese
military will have closer ties with Syria, and provide
humanitarian aid to the civil war torn nation, a high-ranking
People's Liberation Army officer said, adding that the training
of Syrian personnel by Chinese instructors has also been
discussed, according to Xinhua. As has been historically the
case, China tends to leave Middle Eastern diplomacy to the other
permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, namely the
United States, Britain, France and Russia, while relying on the
region for oil supplies. But lately, for unknown reasons, China
has been trying to get more involved, including sending envoys
to help push for a diplomatic resolution to the violence there
and hosting Syrian government and opposition figures according
to Reuters.
US Scrambles for New Weapons to Counter ‘Revolutionary’ Russian,
Chinese Hypersonic Missiles
Sputnik News - In April, Russia successfully carried out the
first test flight of a hypersonic Yu-71 glider launched with the
use of an RS-18A strategic ballistic missile in the Orenburg
Region in the Ural Mountains. The missile accelerated up to
7,000 MPH. Defense analyst Bill Gertz labeled the glider
"revolutionary." Three days later, China conducted a similar
experiment, launching its DF-ZF hypersonic glider from atop a
missile traveling at speeds up to 7,672 miles per hour.
Commenting on the tests, Pentagon strategic forces policymaker
Mark Schneider, conceded that "US programs involving hypersonic
vehicles are modest by comparison.” Calls quickly followed to
boost the US defense budget. The director of the Pentagon's
Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Vice Adm. James Syring, urged
Congress to allocate at least $23 million for laser
interceptors. Lawmakers were also encouraged to fund the
development of “a defensive system to defeat boost-glide and
maneuvering ballistic missiles.”
US Defense Firms Profit By Saudi Arabia’s Slaughter Of Yemen
Shadowproof - It is not secret that Saudi Arabia has been
carrying out ghastly war crimes on the people of Yemen using US
weapons and support. Despite the US’ endless (and largely
hypocritical) complaining about civilian deaths in Syria, the
Saudis have deployed unprecedented violence on civilians in
Yemen with no audible opposition from the US. One of the US
weapons making an appearance in Yemen are widely banned cluster
bombs, specifically the CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapon from Textron
Systems of Wilmington, Massachusetts. The bombs are not only
lethal upon initial use but often the parts of the bomb do not
explode as planned and spontaneously detonate later or by
accident when scavengers stumble upon them while looking for
scrap metal. Each cluster bomb costs the Saudis $360,000, and
they have so purchased $641 million worth, but, as a new article
in Harpers shows, Textron Systems is hardly the only US defense
contractor making a killing in Yemen. A new arms deal between
the US and Saudi Arabia, worth $60 billion and negotiated by
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, became the largest in
history. The deal included 84 Boeing F-15 jets and an estimated
170 helicopters, in addition to the cluster bombs. As if that
was not enough of a payday, the US also has a lucrative contract
to service the weapons.
Rampaging South Sudan troops raped foreigners, killed local
Washington Times - On July 11, South Sudanese troops, fresh from
winning a battle in the capital, Juba, over opposition forces,
went on a nearly four-hour rampage through a residential
compound popular with foreigners, in one of the worst targeted
attacks on aid workers in South Sudan’s three-year civil war....
For hours throughout the assault, the U.N. peacekeeping force
stationed less than a mile away refused to respond to desperate
calls for help. Neither did embassies, including the U.S.
Embassy.... The accounts highlight, in raw detail, the failure
of the U.N. peacekeeping force to uphold its core mandate of
protecting civilians, notably those just a few minutes’ drive
away.... The American who was released early in the assault and
made it to the U.N. base said he also alerted U.N. staff. At
around dusk, a U.N. worker he knew requested three different
battalions to send a Quick Reaction Force. “Everyone refused to
go. Ethiopia, China, and Nepal. All refused to go,” he said.
Eventually, South Sudanese security forces entered the Terrain
and rescued all but three Western women and around 16 Terrain
[the compound] staff. No one else was sent that night to find
them. The U.N. timeline said a patrol would go in the morning,
but this “was cancelled due to priority.” A private security
firm rescued the three Western women [and] the staffers the next
morning.
‘It makes no sense’: Australians pay over 60% more for their gas
than Japanese, survey shows
RT - A lack of competition and cartel-like behavior has hiked
the gas price for Australians, according to analysts. For the
Japanese, Australian gas comes with a 60 percent lower price
tag. In a matter of the several months since May, the wholesale
gas price on Australia’s east coast has surpassed that in Japan
by as much as 65 percent, reports News.com.au, based on a survey
by Australia’s Institute for Energy Economics and Financial
Analysis. The analysis was made ahead of a meeting of state and
federal energy ministers at the Coag Energy Council on Friday.
The situation looks even more irrational considering the fact
that Australia has large-scale gas deposits and its citizens
could actually “swim in gas,” while Japan has low gas deposits
and has to import large volumes of liquefied gas from as far
away as Australia.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
State Department To Release All Of Hillary's Deleted Emails
The Hill - The State Department will release all of the
work-related emails that the FBI recovered from Hillary
Clinton’s private system, the department confirmed in a recent
court filing, eliminating the possibility that the messages will
remain secret. However, it remains unsettled whether the full
set of emails will be out before the presidential election on
Nov. 8. The thousands of messages will be released to Judicial
Watch, a conservative watchdog group that has filed numerous
legal complaints over the former secretary of State’s email
setup while in office, the department said. Judicial Watch,
which routinely releases documents it obtains via open-records
lawsuits, is expected to make the emails public. The State
Department has declined to set a timeline for releasing the
emails, and a court conference to discuss the matter has been
scheduled for Aug. 22. Reince Priebus, the chairman of the
Republican National Committee, has urged the department to
release the emails before the November elections.
House Republicans Pursue Perjury Charges Against Hillary
Adan Salazar - Members of the House Oversight Committee and
Judiciary Committee are pointing out evidence taken directly
from sworn testimony which may lead to perjury charges against
Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Republicans
Jason Chaffetz and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte
penned a letter to the US attorney for the District of Columbia
presenting key pieces of information showing Clinton willfully
lied during an October 22, 2015, interrogation regarding the
Benghazi debacle, in which she also answered questions
concerning her illegal private email server. “The four pieces of
sworn testimony by Secretary Clinton described herein are
incompatible with the FBI’s findings,” the letter to US Attorney
Channing D. Phillips says. A representative for the Justice
Department responded to the request on Aug. 2 saying they would
“take appropriate action as necessary,” however no timeline was
offered.
Hacked Soros Memo: $650,000 to Black Lives Matter
Breitbart - George Soros’s Open Society Institute viewed the
2015 Baltimore unrest following the death of Freddie Gray as
opening a “unique opportunity” to create “accountability” for
the Baltimore police while aiding activists in reforming the
city, according to hacked documents reviewed by Breitbart
Jerusalem. The documents further confirm that the Open Society
last year approved $650,000 to “invest in technical assistance
and support for the groups at the core of the burgeoning #BlackLivesMatter
movement.” The information was contained in a detailed 69-page
Open Society report on the agenda of an Open Society U.S.
Programs board meeting held in New York October 1 to October 2,
2015. The report directly states the Open Society views the
Baltimore unrest last year as a crisis that can be utilized to
carry out the organization’s agenda.
California Bill Criminalizing Media Reporting of Undercover
Videos Alarms Free Speech Advocates
AllGov - Controversy surrounding secretly recorded videos
showing Planned Parenthood employees discussing fetal tissue
sales has morphed into a California proposal that would punish
media companies for reporting on certain undercover videos....
Born from the 2015 hidden-camera footage released by the
anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood is
pushing Assembly Bill 1671 which it claims will protect abortion
clinics and other health care providers from similar malicious
sting operations. The bill would criminalize publishing
undercover video footage of "health care providers" and subject
third parties, including journalists, to penalties for reporting
and distributing the illegally recorded footage. Under AB 1671,
a journalist receiving and posting footage from an anonymous
source could be punished by the state as well as be opened up to
potential civil lawsuits. Whistleblowers would not be exempt
from the proposal either, regardless of how they obtained the
illegal footage. First-time offenders could be fined up to
$2,500 while repeat offenders could face up to a year in prison.
Error-filled state gang database lists 42 people less than 1
year old
Ars Technica - An internal database used by California's police
agencies chronicles some 150,000 suspected gang members.
However, the CalGang database is so riddled with errors that its
authenticity, and its ability to help the authorities fight gang
violence, is now being questioned by the state's auditor.
Consider that an audit of the crime-fighting database—which
points to gang member booking photographs, birth dates, race,
gender, known addresses, tattoos, convictions, interactions with
police, and so on—listed 42 people under the age of one as
suspected gang members…. The 109-page report found that the
California policing agencies have wrongly used the database,
implemented in 1997, for employment screening purposes, and that
it has also been used in court to help bolster support that a
defendant was a gang member. The report found there was little
to no oversight of the database as well—a fact that has led to
it being prone to errors.
Dallas PD Asks Attorney General For Permission To Withhold
'Embarrassing' Documents About Its Bomb Robot
Tech Dirt - The unprecedented deployment of a bomb-defusing
robot by Dallas police to kill an armed suspect raised several
questions. While these robots have sometimes acted as part of a
negotiation team in the past, no police department had
previously rigged one up with an explosive device to take a
suspect out. One question that remains unanswered is whether
this use of the Dallas PD's robot violated its own policies.
Gawker's Andy Cush filed a public records request for PD
policies on using robots to kill and discovered Dallas law
enforcement was basically making things up as it went along.
Diagnoses of 9/11-linked cancers have tripled in less than 3
years
New York Post - More than 5,400 Ground Zero responders and
others who lived, worked or went to school near the fallen Twin
Towers have come down with 9/11-linked cancers, a grim tally
that has tripled in the past 2¹/₂ years. As of June 30, 5,441
people enrolled in the WTC Health Program have been diagnosed
with 6,378 separate cancers, with some struck by more than one
type, officials said. That’s up from 1,822 victims in January
2014.... The program now monitors more than 48,000 cops,
hardhats, volunteer firefighters, utility workers and others who
toiled at Ground Zero. The FDNY has its own 9/11 health program
with 16,000 members. In all, at least 1,140 have died, officials
said. The feds have listed more than 50 types of cancer believed
to be related to the toxic smoke and dust of 9/11.... So far,
scientists have found five cancers hitting the 9/11 community at
a significantly higher rate than expected in the normal
population — prostate, thyroid, leukemia, lymphoma and multiple
myeloma.
Obama to issue transgender bathroom order for federal
facilities: Report
Washington Times - BuzzFeed News reported Monday that the
regulation will be posted in the Federal Register at some point
this week, opening up thousands of federally operated restrooms
to transgender people who wish to use the facilities
corresponding with their gender identity rather than biological
sex. The rule will apply to roughly 9,200 properties operated by
the General Services Administration and will not be limited to
employees. GSA spokesperson Ashley Nash-Hahn said anyone
visiting a federally operated property, including courthouses
and various agencies, will be allowed to use the restroom
consistent with their gender identity…. The directive builds on
other orders handed down by the Obama administration integrating
intimate facilities on the basis of gender identity. The
administration issued an edict in May compelling public schools
nationwide to permit access to bathrooms, locker rooms and
showers on the basis of gender identity. Two coalitions of
states have sued the administration over that order, saying it
constitutes federal overreach and misinterprets Title IX, which
bars sex discrimination in education but specifically allows
intimate facilities to be regulated on the basis of biological
sex.
* Related:
Chicago parents seek injunction from transgender bathroom
directive as school starts
Grade school kids to be given 'social and emotional mindset
assessments'
MassPrivateI - According to the [The National Assessment
Governing Board] NAGB, school kids from 4th-12th., grades will
be given 'mindset assessments.’… Each NAGB assessment scenario
takes between 10-30 minutes to complete, one task can cover a
range of assessment areas and difficulty levels. Assessing a
students mindset will allow the gov't to determine a child’s
moral and religious beliefs. It should come as no surprise that
Google, the NSA's right hand is involved in student mindset
assessments. Google, provides a student assessment tool,
Chromebooks, Apps. and forms to schools nationwide…. Assessments
violate the government's Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA).
According to the PPRA, student assessments are illegal, no
“student shall be required, as part of any applicable program,
to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation that reveals
information concerning..." (1) political affiliations or beliefs
of the student or the student's parent; (2) mental or
psychological problems of the student or the student's family;
(3) sex behavior or attitudes; (4) illegal, anti-social,
self-incriminating, or demeaning behavior; (5) critical
appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close
family relationships; (6) legally recognized privileged or
analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians,
and ministers; (7) religious practices, affiliations, or beliefs
of the student or student's parent…. Individual student data may
be released without consent to organizations and entities that
have “legitimate educational interests,” which basically means
for any reason that a state or the federal governments or
researchers or corporations want to use the data in conjunction
with any state or federal program.
More than 120 Republicans tell RNC to cut off funds to Donald
Trump
CBS News - A letter that urges the Republican National Committee
to cut off funds to Donald Trump has collected more than 120
signatures from current and former elected officials, according
to the final version obtained by CBS News. The letter, which
will be delivered to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Tuesday,
includes two sitting members of Congress and 27 former RNC
staffers, among many others. "...[W]e urge you to immediately
suspend all discretionary RNC support for Trump and focus the
entirety of the RNC's available resources on preserving the
GOP's congressional majorities," says the letter, whose draft
CBS reported on last week when there were already 70
signatures…. "We believe that Donald Trump's divisiveness,
recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity
risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only
the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable
Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a
Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck," the letter says. The
group added that every dollar the RNC spends on Trump's campaign
"is a dollar of donor money wasted on the losing effort of a
candidate who has actively undermined the GOP at every turn."
At Least Six Swing States Face Double-Digit Premium Hikes under
Obamacare
Breitbart - Double-digit Obamacare premium hikes projected in
2017 may bode in Donald Trump’s favor, as several swing states
are being impacted by double-digit increases under the law and
consumers are expected to see the hikes around Nov. 1 — one week
before heading to the polls…. The Heritage Foundation found
dramatic increases on premiums in Wisconsin and Florida as well
as Michigan, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina under
the law in comparison to before Obamacare went into effect.
Currently, insurers in the Obamacare marketplace in North
Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois are wanting
double-digit hikes on premiums. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
North Carolina is reportedly requesting to increase rates by
more than 18 percent, while in Ohio, the average requested hike
is around 10 percent. In Pennsylvania, companies want hikes
averaging 23.6 percent, according to the Pennsylvania Insurance
Department. The next president may face the meltdown of
Obamacare, as Aetna announced on Tuesday that it’s pulling back
coverage in 15 states and will only remain in four states due to
a $200 million dollar loss.
Website Offers $1 Million Bounty For Hillary’s Medical Records
(Video)
Paul Joseph Watson - After promising a $50,000 dollar reward for
Clinton’s health history, TruePundit.com has now upped its offer
to a cool million…. The website claims it has assembled a group
of individual donors who are willing to put up the money to
encourage the release of the records…. Questions over the
presidential candidate’s health came under focus again yesterday
after Clinton almost fell over after giving a speech in
Scranton, Pennsylvania, forcing Joe Biden to hold her arm. It
was also revealed that an exhausted Hillary is taking off most
weekends despite being in the midst of a political dogfight with
Donald Trump. Suspicions over Hillary’s health have been
swirling all year but they picked up again at the start of the
month after our viral video spotlighted Clinton’s bizarre
behavior while taking questions from reporters and at the DNC.
Whether the $1 million bounty is serious or merely a ploy for
web traffic remains to be seen – it’s probably the latter – but
the offer at least serves to illustrate the intense interest in
Hillary’s health despite the best efforts of the establishment
media to dismiss the entire issue as a conspiracy theory.
Feds Hide $25 Million In Payments To Lawyers Suing Under Environmental
Laws
Daily Caller - Groups concealed by the government have raked in $25
million in legal fees from federal agencies through lawsuits under three
environmental laws The Department of Treasury’s Judgment Fund database
tracks how much federal agencies have paid out for lawsuits and court
settlements, but doesn’t track the names of the individuals or groups
that are actually suing the government. More than $49 million in
taxpayer funds was paid to lawyers suing the Obama administration under
three major environmental statutes, TheDCNF found. Environmental
activists have gotten millions from taxpayers suing the government to
expand federal regulation.
Navajo Nation announces lawsuit against EPA for 'unprecedented' Gold
King Mine 'disaster'
Washington Times - The New Mexico-based nation is scheduled to hold a
press conference Tuesday on its reservation near the San Juan River,
which was contaminated after an EPA-led crew accidentally uncorked 3
million gallons of toxic sludge from an inactive mine upstream near
Silverton, Colorado.... The Navajo lawsuit comes as the latest
litigation stemming from the August 2015 contamination: In May, New
Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas filed a complaint in federal
court against the mine’s owners and the EPA, arguing that the agency’s
response was inadequate. Mr. Balderas also sued the state of Colorado
for what he described as its “reckless” management and lax oversight of
the mine.... So far, Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman has
taken no legal action against the EPA.... The EPA already has awarded
$602,000 in reimbursements to the Navajo Nation for costs incurred for
“various activities associated with the release response, including
field evaluations, water quality sampling, laboratory analyses, and
personnel,” according to an Aug. 6 update.... EPA Administrator Gina
McCarthy promised to take responsibility for the clean-up shortly after
the spill, although House Republicans have accused the agency of holding
itself to a lower standard than that expected of private companies.
Fuchsia: Google is Building a New Operating System, But No One Knows
What it's For
Futurism - Google appears to have started building a new OS. They
quietly posted the pile of code under the name ‘Fuchsia’ in their code
depository and on Github… The odd part is that, while this OS can run on
both phones and PCs, it isn’t related to Android or Chrome OS. With
Fuchsia, the company seems to finally be parting ways with their
long-term partner Linux, since the new OS does not rely on the Linux
kernel, the core basic code running both Android and Chrome OS. Instead,
the new OS uses Magenta, an in-house project created by Google that
seems to be aimed more towards exploring the possibilities of machine
learning and intelligence.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
20 Creative Ways To Use Mason Jars to Cut Waste
Natural Blaze - Mason jars were originally created for canning
food to be stored and used at a much later date. They’re good
for making preservatives and jams, but they have more every day
uses as well…. Drinking glass - The most obvious first choice!
The edges of a mason jar are smooth and the jars come in many
different sizes. The lid is water-tight as well, and doesn’t
break easily if you toss it in your bag and bring it along with
you. Smoothies - The mason jar’s clear, thick glass keeps in the
cold and refrigerates easily if you want to save it for later.
You can also buy a super cool coffee lid to put on your mason
jar! Coffee/tea - Your best bet here is iced coffee or tea, but
the mason jar can handle heat like a pro too. Cereal - You can
toss some cereal in a mason jar and put the milk in a separate
container, or fill the glass half full with milk so the cereal
at the top doesn’t get too mushy. Salads - Mason jars are ideal
for holding a mixed salad, and you can choose to either layer it
or mix it all together. Your best bet if you want to keep a
salad for a few days, put the dressing at the very bottom layer
and put the dry ingredients at the top so they won’t soak….
Alert: FDA Attempting to Halt Creation of New Supplements
Natural Blaze - In 2011, the FDA created a troublesome revision
of how the supplement industry could comply with the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). DSHEA had
successfully replaced an Act that would have blocked consumer
rights in a major way and tightly restrict natural supplements.
Essentially, DSHEA is why we currently enjoy consumer access to
natural health products of all kinds. According to natural
health advocacy groups, the FDA’s 2011 revisions were a thinly
veiled reversal of the consumer rights that were so hard to keep
to begin with. In other words, it was an attempt to block the
natural health industry and clamp down on consumer access once
again. After some outcry, the FDA went back to revise, and now,
this is the draft the ANH-USA has been waiting for.
Unfortunately, aside from a couple “crumbs” of improvement, the
draft appears to reverse the relative freedom of consumer and
industry under DSHEA. Furthermore, it already appears to be
incredibly confusing. The 2011 draft put forth the FDA’s
approach on how companies should comply with DSHEA’s NDI
requirements. I.e., how and when a NDI notification should be
submitted, what info was required, what is an NDI, among other
things. ANH-USA expresses some startling information on the new
draft below. Essentially, the requirements for new supplements,
even within the same company are so rigorous as to break them.
Furthermore, it appears the companies can be easily run out by
Big Pharma.
11 Amazing Health Benefits of Bergamot Essential Oil
Natural Blaze - Bergamot fruit is a time-honored, exquisitely
fragranced orange that now comes mainly from Italy and the Ivory
Coast of Africa. The word bergamot may have meant “the prince of
pears,” or the “prince’s pear,” a label originating from the
Turkish labels beg-armudi or beg armut. The small fruit growing
from small trees resembles either a round lime or small orange
and it is sour and very bitter. It is the fragrance and flavor
that have been used extensively throughout history in trade. You
may know the familiar flavor of bergamot from drinking Earl Grey
tea. It is rumored that Britain allowed the use of bergamot as a
way to mask cheap tea in order to imitate high quality Chinese
teas…. Here is a list of 11 research-backed reasons to embrace
Bergamot Essential Oil… Depression and Anxiety – When combined
with lavender essential oil and massaged into the skin, it was
found to significantly decrease pulse rate, cystolic and
diastolic blood pressure…. Inhaling bergamot reduces
psychological stress responses and serum cortisol levels as well
as blood pressure for people who have essential hypertension.
Anxiety – In another study pointing toward bergamot’s abilities
to help with anxiety, both bergamot and diazepam helped reduce
the corticosterone response to stress in rats as well as their
anxiety-based behavior. Cancer – Bergamot essential oil and its
fractions have been found to exhibit anti-cancer properties in
vitro….
Obama Administration's DEA Ignores Marijuana Therapeutic
Research – Keeps Status Illegal to Protect Big Pharma
Health Impact News - The recent 2016 DEA decision to keep
cannabis as a controlled substance Schedule I drug came amidst
high hopes that it would be placed as Schedule II or below.
Schedule I means the substance is dangerous, addictive, and has
no medical merit. Marijuana or cannabis is therefore still
ranked with heroin, and LSD. Heroin is an addictive and
dangerous opiate that in other opioid forms such as morphine is
used to suppress pain with legal prescriptions. Yet on the
federal level, doctors cannot prescribe marijuana, in spite of
so much evidence of its therapeutic value. At the same time,
however, in what appears as an obvious hypocritical move that
benefits only Big Pharma, the DEA, while not removing the
criminal legal status on marijuana, did relax the laws regarding
medical research on marijuana which will soon benefit drug
companies looking to patent drugs that mimic what the plant
already does.
How Does Your Shelter Rate?
Animal Place - Food for Thought Shelter Report Card: Curious about how
much your local animal shelter really cares about animals? Check out
this Shelter Report card from our Food for Thought program. It’s a
working list of animal shelters across North America that ranks the
animal-friendliness of their menu policies for events and fundraisers.
More than 1,000 animal organizations are ranked from A+ (Formal Vegan)
to F (No Policy or No Response) so their communities can see exactly
where they stand on compassion for farmed animals as well as companion
animals. Ethical animal rescues and shelters are increasingly adopting
plant-based menu policies to align with their missions and address
critical public concerns such as environmental sustainability and human
health. Food for Thought has reached out to organizations in the
following regions…
Tuesday - August
16, 2016 - Today In History:
1777 - During the American Revolutionary War,
the Battle of Bennington took place. New England's minutemen routed the
British regulars.
1812 - Detroit fell to Indian and British troops in the War of 1812.
1829 - The "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston, MA.
They had come to the Western world to be exhibited. They were 18 years
old and joined at the waist.
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln prohibited the Union states from trading
with the states of the Confederacy.
1923 - Carnegie Steel Corporation put into place the eight-hour workday
for its employees.
1930 - The first British Empire Games were held at Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada. The event is now called the British Commonwealth Games.
1937 - Harvard University became the first school to have graduate
courses in traffic engineering and administration.
1999 - In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by
the lower house of parliament.
2000 - Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles
nominated Vice President Al Gore for president.
2002 - Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in
Baghdad, Iraq.
2007 - Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3-1/2 years as an enemy
combatant, was convicted in Miami of helping Islamic extremists and
plotting overseas attacks. (He was sentenced to 17 years, four months in
prison.)
2010 - China eclipsed Japan as the world's second biggest economy after
three decades of blistering growth.
At least 11 dead after Saudi-led coalition bombs Yemen hospital
The Guardian - At least 11 people have been killed and 19
injured in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a Yemeni
hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières as the conflict
escalates following the collapse of peace talks. The strike on
Monday, in which a member of MSF staff died, was the latest in
an increasing number of attacks targeting places commonly used
by civilians, including hospitals where MSF doctors and nurses
work. It followed similar airstrikes on a food factory and a
school in the course of the last week.
US-Trained Army Rapidly Losing Ground in Southern Afghanistan
Townhall - According to a New York Times report, the regular
police and army forces have failed to stand firm, raising the
possibility that the Taliban could overrun the capitol city in
the area. “The police, as soon as they were inflicted with some
casualties, gave up about 27 posts one after another without a
fight, and our posts were surrounded by surprise,” said Col.
Nematullah Khalil, the commander of the Afghan Army’s Third
Regiment, 215 Corps. But don't worry America, the U.S. has
donated nearly $1 billion worth of real property to the Afghan
government over the last five years to help solve the
problem.... Congress has appropriated nearly $113 billion for
reconstruction since 2001 when U.S.-led forces invaded the
country and toppled the Taliban. About 60 percent of the $113
billion Congress has appropriated has gone to train and equip
Afghan security forces.... And to make things worse, according
to the Department of Defense in the Report to Congress, ISIS is
expanding into Afghanistan.... So what is the answer to the
problem? Well, Barack Obama has announced that there is
effectively no new plan in Afghanistan and that the 16-year-long
war will be handed off the the next president.
Calais Locals Warned to Stay Away from Main Roads As Migrants
Smash Vehicles
Breitbart - Migrants wielding bats and knives have been smashing
up vehicles on roads near Calais as their owners sit in traffic,
reportedly “just for fun”. Local residents are warning others to
avoid the area, saying that the migrants are not even checking
to see whether children are in the vehicles before they set upon
them…. Despite French politicians repeatedly promising to cap
the population of the nearby Jungle migrant camp at 2,000
people, including around 400 children, the camp has now
spiralled to a population of nearly 9,000 migrants, making the
encampment the third largest ‘town’ in the region. Thousands
more are camped at nearby Dunkirk in a bid to make the crossing
into England without falling foul of local authorities. As the
population has grown, tensions within the camp have also risen.
Sami, an Eritrean migrant who has been living in The Jungle for
six months, told local paper Nord Littoral: “There are people
who come from different countries who do not speak the same
language. That creates tensions, particularly in the queues for
food. I have seen conflicts start there; you’re more likely to
get meal if you’re big and strong.” Three weeks ago an Eritrean
man was hacked to death and six others badly wounded as migrants
ran riot throughout the camp, staging running battles fought
with knives and bats between gangs of Afghans and Africans
throughout the night.
Swiss Central Bank Holds $5.3 Billion in Amazon, Apple, Google,
Facebook and Microsoft Stocks
Wall Street On Parade - The Swiss National Bank is just one of
more than a dozen central banks that are now investing in
publicly traded stocks.... We checked SEC filings for other
central banks that are known to be buying stocks but could find
only one other listing: the Bank of Israel.... Another major
central bank plowing into stocks is the Bank of Japan.... If one
adds the stock holdings of massive sovereign wealth funds, which
are also deploying government money, to the growing stock market
participation of central banks, alarm bells start to go off.
Forbes contributor Adam Sarhan wrote the following earlier this
year: Over the past 7 years, we have seen unprecedented action
from global central banks all aimed at keeping stock prices up.
It’s normal to see global central banks adjust monetary policy,
up or down, based on economic conditions. But it is not normal
to see global central banks print gobs of money every day to
stimulate markets and it is definitely not normal to see them
buy stocks outright. I’m not a lawyer but it raises the
question: Is it even legal? I’m sure the BOJ [Bank of Japan] is
not alone in this questionable activity. The U.S. Fed refuses to
be audited. One is compelled to ask: Why?”
After Diverting Zika Money to UN Slush Fund, Obama Demands More
The New American - The Obama administration is demanding that
Congress immediately approve new tax funding for Zika research,
but has so far failed to mention that Obama already diverted
$500 million worth of infectious disease research funds to
illegally finance the United Nations “climate” bureaucracy’s
slush fund. In the meantime, to deal with the alleged budget
shortfall caused by the previous illegal diversion of funds, the
White House has diverted tax money from other programs to pay
for Zika research. But the supposed problem is entirely
self-inflicted. In March, after Congress refused to approve
funding for the UN’s global-warming agenda — funding that is now
officially illegal under federal law — Obama illegally raided
the funds previously approved by Congress for use in battling
infectious diseases such as Zika. Instead of using those funds
for the Zika research that Obama now claims is so crucial,
though, he sent the half of a billion U.S. tax dollars to a UN
“Green Climate [slush] Fund” (GCF) controlled by brutal
dictators and other unsavory regimes.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Shrinking Gitmo: 15 prisoners transferred in largest Obama-era
release
RT- Only 61 captives remain in the Guantanamo Bay detention
camp, following the largest single transfer out of the notorious
facility under the Obama administration. Fifteen men were sent
to the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the Guardian reported,
citing an anonymous Obama administration official ahead of the
formal announcement from the Pentagon. The Emirates have
accepted former inmates of the facility in the past. Though
President Barack Obama vowed to close down the infamous camp,
established by the Bush administration in 2002, he has been
unable to do so, due to opposition from Congress and the
military. Instead, he has pushed to transfer out detainees
cleared for release by the federal Periodic Review Board…. So
far this year, Obama has released a total of 31 prisoners. In
January, 10 Yemenis were accepted by Oman, and another two were
released to Ghana. Gitmo’s last Kuwaiti was also released that
month, along with a Saudi prisoner. Following that wave of
releases, an Egyptian was transferred to Bosnia, and one more
Yemeni was handed over to Montenegro at the end of January. In
April, two Libyan prisoners left Gitmo to Senegal, while nine
Yemenis were moved to Saudi Arabia. The last two times prisoners
were released were in June and July, when a total of four people
were let go to three foreign countries, Montenegro, Italy and
Serbia.
FBI To Hand Over Clinton Email Probe Files To Congress
Zero Hedge - In what may be some overdue, and much needed
transparency, the WSJ [Wall Street Journal] reports that the FBI
will "hand over" its Clinton email probe files to Congress....
Actually, in retrospect, don't hold your breath for any new
revelations for one simple reason: there will be no actual
testimony. As CNN reported overnight, the FBI does not have a
complete transcript of the interview, FBI Director James Comey
told Congress in long testimony earlier this summer, as Hillary
was not under oath at the time. Which means members of Congress
will have be content with the FBI's notes taken during the
interview.... According to the WSJ, the FBI will provide
interview notes from its probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails, as
well as a summary of all the evidence uncovered by agents and
copies of the classified emails at the heart of the case,
according to people familiar with the decision.... And the
punchline: "There could be significant redactions from those
documents, these people said." In other words, fluff.... In
short, expect a scrubbed, carefully doctored release which will
provide absolutely no new information.
Citing Clinton, sailor seeks leniency in submarine photos case
Politico - Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier, 29, is
set to be sentenced Friday on a single felony charge of
retaining national defense information without permission. In
May, Saucier pleaded guilty in federal court in Bridgeport,
Conn., admitting that while working on the U.S.S. Alexandria in
2009 he took and kept six photos showing parts of the sub's
propulsion system he knew to be classified. The defense and
prosecutors agree that sentencing guidelines in the case call
for a prison term of 63 to 78 months, but defense attorney
Derrick Hogan cited the treatment of Clinton as he argued in a
filing last week that Saucier should get probation instead....
"In our case, Mr. Saucier possessed six (6) photographs
classified as 'confidential/restricted,' far less than Clinton's
110 emails," Hogan wrote. "It will be unjust and unfair for Mr.
Saucier to receive any sentence other than probation for a crime
those more powerful than him will likely avoid.".... Saucier
remains in the Navy, but expects to be dismissed from the
service with an "other than honorable" discharge, the defense
filing said.
Mayor issues curfew after Milwaukee unrest
USA Today - After the second night of unrest in Milwaukee, the
city's mayor announced a 10 p.m. curfew for teens this week
starting Monday.... An 18-year-old Milwaukee man was shot and
seriously injured during the unrest, according to Milwaukee
police. Officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve him and
take him to a hospital. Police continue to look for suspects.
There were multiple reports of shots fired, as well as reports
of a car fire.... According to the Milwaukee Police Department,
14 arrests were made, three squad cars were damaged and one
store had broken windows from the riots and protests Sunday
night. Four Milwaukee police officers and four Milwaukee County
deputies were injured overnight during the clash with
demonstrators. Sheriff's spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin said Monday
the deputies were hit by concrete or rocks and that two of them
haven't returned to duty, according to the Associated Press.
Sylville Smith's father, Patrick: We have to 'be better role
models'
Washington Times - The father of Sylville Smith, an armed black
man who was fatally shot by Milwaukee police, sparking a wave of
violent protests over the weekend, says his son was a product of
bad parenting.... Mr. Smith blamed himself for being a bad role
model for his 23-year-old son, who was shot by a black police
officer after refusing orders to drop a loaded handgun, which
turned out to be stolen, during a traffic stop in Milwaukee’s
north side. “I had to blame myself for a lot of things, too,
because your hero is your dad and I played a very big part in my
family’s role model for them,” Mr. Smith said. “Being on the
street, doing things of the street life: Entertaining, drug
dealing and pimping, and they’re looking at their dad like,
‘He’s doing all these things.’ I got out of jail two months ago,
but I’ve been going back and forth in jail and they see those
things. So I’d like to apologize to my kids because this is the
role model they look up to. When they see the wrong role model,
this is what you get.”.... “I don’t know when we’re gonna start
moving. I’ve gotta start with my kids and we gotta change our
ways, to be better role models,” he continued. “And we gotta
change ourselves. We’ve gotta talk to them, put some sense into
them."
Milwaukee Black Lives Matter Ignores 52 Shot in Nearby Chicago
Kit Daniels - The violent unrest targeting whites in Milwaukee
was somehow sparked by the death of Sylville K. Smith, 23, who
reportedly aimed a gun at police before he was killed by an
African-American cop. At the same time Chicago, which is only
100 miles away, experienced one of its most violent weekends
ever with 52 shot and at least nine dead, but Black Lives Matter
doesn’t protest the deaths of Chicago blacks who make up a large
portion of the 2,600 shot in Chicago this year alone. “Three
people were shot to death and at least seven others were wounded
on the first night of the weekend, between 9 p.m. Friday and
early Saturday,” the Chicago Tribune reported. “At least 16
people were shot Sunday into early Monday.” “One of the victims
was a 6-year-old girl who was shot in the arm around 9:10 p.m.
outside her home in the 12300 block of South Perry Avenue.”
Unfortunately for the victims, they weren’t shot by police so
apparently their lives don’t matter quite as much.
Wall Street is buying 911 emergency services and giving homes
color-coded threat ratings
MassPrivateI - Since the 2008 mortgage crisis, private equity
firms have increasingly taken over a wide array of emergency
services like 911. They also own two of the biggest ambulance
companies in the country, according to the article they own at
least 10 more ambulance companies. States like KY, NC, DC, MO,
CA, FL, KS, IL, IA and UT have or are considering privatizing
their ambulances services…. “These are very sophisticated
investors, and they’re not just looking for ways to get bigger,”
says David White, CEO of New York-based TransCare, the largest
privately owned ambulance service in the mid-Atlantic states.
“They’re looking for ways to create more value when they put
everything together he said. Wall Street firms also own,
healthcare groups and anesthesiology companies…. Companies like
Intrado Communications which is run by two former deputies are
in charge of our country's 911 services. Intrado Communications
assigns every home a threat rating. "... Smart911 is a national
system that provides citizens with the ability to create safety
profiles online holding personal data that is automatically
displayed to 9-1-1 only during emergency calls. Information can
include children’s photos, medical conditions, disabilities,
home addresses of cellphone callers, or other rescue-related
information…”… Any high-priority 911 calls, defined as
in-progress or life-threatening crimes, will now be filtered
through a database to assess any possible threats an officer may
encounter while responding. "The database goes through all
public information for the call’s location — from arrest records
to pizza deliveries — and gives the address a rating. Green
means minimal threat, yellow a possible threat and red a major
threat." Alarm bells should be going off across the country. Why
are private equity firms allowed to run 911 emergency services?…
Numerous private equity firms are owned by foreign investors,
which means foreigners are giving American homes threat ratings!
Agriculture Department's new SNAP standards could be impossible
McClatchy - The standards proposed by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture would require retailers that accept food stamps to
stock more and fresher varieties of food. But many convenience
stores won’t be able to meet the requirements and will be forced
from the the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
commonly known as SNAP, or food stamps, critics say.... USDA
drafted its proposal to codify language in the 2014 Farm Bill
that required stores that accept SNAP to offer seven varieties
of food items in each of four staple food categories.... meat,
poultry or fish; bread or cereal; vegetables or fruits; and
dairy. The law states stores must include at least one
perishable item in three of those categories. This more than
doubles the varieties of foods stores will have to stock to 28,
a change convenience store owners say they do not oppose.... In
particular, convenience store owners object to a new definition
of what constitutes a staple food. Under the USDA’s proposal,
products with more than two ingredients, such as soups or frozen
dinners, no longer count. Another major concern with USDA’s
proposal is the requirement that six items from each of the
seven food varieties must be displayed on a shelf at all times.
Death Toll Rises to 7 in Historic Louisiana Flooding; 20,000
Rescued (Video)
The Weather Channel - Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said
Sunday that more than 20,000 people had been rescued by all
participating agencies and volunteers since the flooding
outbreak began. "This is a serious event," Edwards said. "It is
ongoing. It is not over." The governor said in a press
conference Sunday that as many as 10,000 people were in shelters
as a result of the widespread flooding. The downpours have sent
at least six river gauges to record levels in Louisiana. This
includes the Amite River, which exceeded its previous record by
over 6 feet in Magnolia, and by over 4 feet in Denham Springs.
Another Mysterious Death: Anti-Clinton Author Found Dead at 54
(Video)
The Gateway Pundit - Anti Clinton author Scott Robert Makufka,
better known as his penname Victor Thorn, was found dead this
past week….. Victor Thorn spoke with Texe Marrs about ‘The
Clinton Body-Count’ a few months before being found dead on his
birthday, 1st August, apparently from a self inflicted gunshot
wound. The Political Insider reported: American Free Press
contributor Victor Thorn, 54, a long-time researcher and critic
of Hillary and Bill Clinton, has been found dead. Police reports
indicate he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The author
of more than 20 books, he was best known for the Clinton
trilogy, “three definitive works that delved into the history of
the power couple including their sordid scandals, Bill Clinton’s
sexual assaults of multiple women, and the drug running out of
Mena, Arkansas while Clinton was governor of the state.”
AMERICAN FREE PRESS contacted the State College [Pa.] Police
Department this morning for any news on the suicide of Victor
Thorn, whose birth name was Scott Robert Makufka. AFP asked the
policeman who answered the phone if the department could provide
any updates. “There was something that occurred on Monday
morning, but I don’t know if we’ve released any identities or
any details about it at this time.” AFP asked if he knew when
the release might happen. “I don’t. I don’t know what the status
of the investigation is. I have not seen the detective that’s in
charge of that today yet. They’ll release it as soon as they
can. I don’t know what the holdup is or the details are at this
point.” Thorn’s most recent book is “CROWNING CLINTON: Why
Hillary Shouldn’t Be in the White House” and is described as a
serious prosecution of Hillary Clinton’s criminal activity.
Anti-Trump letter reveals jittery band of Republican
establishment power brokers
Washington Times - An anti-Trump letter signed by 50 national
security Republicans provided a look inside at Washington’s
shadow power structure — the largely unseen roster of former
officials who have exchanged their government jobs for the
capital’s lucrative corporate landscape.... “The national
security establishment is scared of Trump, not necessarily
because he’s largely unknown to them, but because he doesn’t
care one bit who’s who,” said Rep. Duncan Hunter, California
Republican and one of the first members of Congress to endorse
the real estate mogul. “As president, Trump won’t care who did
what, or who’s selling what weapons system, and that can have an
effect on business and standing, and the defense establishment
doesn’t like it.”.... The total makeup: 15 consultants and/or
lobbyists, four investors, eight lawyers who advise corporate
clients, 14 think tank analysts who also can advise businesses
and governments, and nine professors. Among them, six are
affiliated with the Council on Foreign Relations, a large
collection of foreign and defense policy analysts whom some have
likened to a semi-official government advisory board.... Mr.
Trump thanked the 50 for underscoring his campaign against
Washington’s elite.
Trump Calls For 'Extreme Vetting' to Screen 'Hostile Attitudes'
NBC News - Donald Trump on Monday promised "extreme vetting" of
immigrants, including ideological screening that that will allow
only those who "share our values and respect our people" into
the United States. Among the traits that Trump would screen for
are those who have "hostile attitudes" toward the U.S., those
who believe "Sharia law should supplant American law," people
who "don't believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry
and hatred." Those who Trump will allow in are "only those who
we expect to flourish in our country." The Republican nominee
did not disavow his prior proposal to temporarily ban all
Muslims from the United States "until our country's
representatives can figure out what is going on." The position,
released in December 2015, is still on the nominee's website. He
did, however, call for a temporary suspension "from some of the
most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a
history of exporting terrorism" in order to succeed in the goal
of extreme ideological vetting.
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Video: Crazy Uncle Joe Biden Gives Away Agent Holding Nuclear
Codes at Hillary Rally
The Gateway Pundit - Hillary Clinton took Joe Biden with her on
the campaign trail today after a weekend of rest. Biden took to
the stage to bash businessman Donald Trump. Then he gave away
the Secret Service agent who was holding the nuclear codes.
“Donald Trump… He cannot be trusted. There’s a guy that follows
me [pointing to him], has the nuclear codes. So, God forbid
anything happen to the president and I had to make a decision
the codes are with me… He is not qualified.
Clinton Campaign Looking To Illegal Immigrants To Drum Up Votes
Western Journalism - The so-called DREAMers- a group of about
730,000 young people who were brought to the United States
illegally as children and attended school here - are not allowed
to vote in the upcoming election, but have been recruited to
assist the Clinton campaign. In a program known as “Mi Sueno, Tu
Voto/My Dream, Your Vote,” Clinton’s campaign will have the
DREAMers knocking on doors and attempting to persuade the more
than 27 million eligible Latino voters to vote for her. The
announcement of the new program was strategically made on the
fourth anniversary of enrollment in the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program, announced in a 2012 executive order
by President Obama.... The Clinton campaign plans to send many
of the DREAMers to states such as North Carolina, Florida,
Nevada and Colorado where a large number of Latino immigrants
are registered to vote. Clinton hopes that by having the
DREAMers knocking on doors and speaking to voters, those
reluctant voters will decide to go to the polls in November in
support of her campaign.
Exhausted Hillary Is Taking Off Weekends — And Media Is Covering
It Up
The Gateway Pundit - Clinton took the weekend of August 6th and
7th off and she decided to take three days off this past weekend
August 12th through 14th. She also has no events scheduled to
participate in this coming Thursday through Saturday August 18th
through 20th. This in essence would mean another three days off
after three days of events scheduled starting today. In total
Clinton has taken 7 days off in August out of the first 14 days
and is scheduled to continue with this approach through at least
this coming Saturday. Donald Trump on the other hand has taken
only two days off in August, Sunday August 7th and Sunday the
14th. Trump has 7 days where he has participated in more than
one campaign event. As previously noted, Trump has more than ten
times the number of people at his campaign events than Hillary
has at hers since August 1st. More than 100,000 people have
shown up for Trump events since the beginning of August (with
many more turned away due to the events reaching capacity).
Hillary on the other hand hasn’t even had one tenth of that or
not even 10,000 show up at her events since August 1st. rump’s
largest event was in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, where it was
estimated that the massive crowd there to see him was near
20,000. The largest crowd Clinton spoke at was in Washington, DC
but this was a NABJ/NAHJ Event which had an estimated 4,000 in
attendance. Hillary’s largest event held by her campaign in
August was back on August 1st in Omaha, NE when businessman
Warren Buffett joined her and an estimated 3,000 locals. In
total when looking at just the Clinton campaign events, barely
8,000 people showed up to the seven campaign events since August
1st.
California Freeways Will Soon Generate Electricity
EcoWatch - The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved a pilot
program in which piezoelectric crystals will be installed on several
freeways…. Piezoelectric crystals, about the size of watch batteries,
give off an electrical discharge when they're mechanically stressed,
such as when a vehicle drives over them. Multiply that by thousands of
vehicles and it creates an electric current that can be harvested to
feed the grid. In fact, scientists estimate the energy generated from
piezoelectric crystals on a 10-mile stretch of freeway could provide
power for the entire city of Burbank (population: more than 105,000)….
Piezoelectric-based energy‐harvesting technology is already being used
in other countries. Since 2009, all the displays in the East Japan
Railway Company's Tokyo station have been powered by people walking on
the piezoelectric flooring. Italy has signed a contract that will
install this technology in a portion of the Venice-to-Trieste Autostrada.
Israel is already using this technology on some highways… Piezoelectric
technology has been used for years in electric guitars and sonar. The
crystals are "in effect the reverse of sonar: a vibration comes in and
an electric pulse comes out," according to the press release. After
California Gov. Brown vetoed an assembly bill Gatto introduced in 2011
that would have launched two piezoelectric pilot programs in California,
Gatto asked the CEC to study the technology. Five years later, the CEC
has agreed to fund pilot projects around the state.
Mysterious Group Hacks The NSA
Zero Hedge - ... a mysterious hacker group by the name “The
Shadow Brokers” claims to have hacked the Equation Group - a
government cyberattack hacking group associated with the NSA,
and released a bunch of the organization's hacking tools. The
hackers are also asking for 1 million bitcoin (around $568
million) in an auction to release more files.... In February
2015, Ars Technical dubbed The Equation Group "the most advanced
hacking operation ever uncovered." According to Kasperky, the
"Equation Group" is a threat actor that surpasses anything known
in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques, and
that has been active for almost two decades." While Kaspersky
Lab stopped short of saying it’s the NSA, its researchers laid
out extensive evidence pointing to the American spy agency.... A
review of the files revealed what appear to be vulnerabilities
and exploits for some widely-used firewalls — network security
technologies that aim to block digital snoops from entering....
Alongside those alleged exploits were implants — malware that is
covertly dropped on the network once the firewall and other
security mechanisms have been bypassed. There were also some
scripts and basic instructions for the malware’s usage. While it
was initially unclear if the data is legitimate, some security
experts agree that it likely is.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Federal Court Slams EPA for 9-Year Delay in Banning Dangerous
Pesticide
The Ninth Circuit scoffed Friday at the latest attempt by the
Environmental Protection Agency to drag its heels on banning a
dangerous pesticide. "EPA's nine-year delay in taking action was
'objectively extreme' when we received [the] petition for
mandamus, and nothing has changed that would justify EPA's
continued failure to respond to the pressing health concerns
presented by chlorpyrifos," the 4-page order states.
Chlorpyrifos, introduced in 1965, is widely used to control
pests that threaten more than 60 crops including almonds,
walnuts, oranges, cotton and grapes. The EPA barred the
pesticide from homes in 2000, saying then that the action was
"good news for the protection of our country's public health,"
but this rule did nothing to bar the chemical's application in
agricultural settings….In 2007, the Pesticide Action Network
North America and Natural Resources Defense Council petitioned
the EPA to cancel pesticide's registration. The groups noted
that the chemical has poisoned many workers, children and rural
families, and is linked to neurological impairments in
children…. The Ninth Circuit directed the EPA to take final
action by Dec. 30, 2016, but still the agency waffled. Friday's
order notes that the EPA cited "extraordinary circumstances" in
requesting a six-month extension. CropLife America and other
industry groups meanwhile wanted a year-long delay, the court
found…. Final action by the EPA is due on March 31, 2017.
21 Home Remedies for a Toothache
Survival Life - You can’t schedule a toothache, and it never
fails that a major toothache hits when it’s late at night and
your dentist’s office is closed, or you’re somewhere remote and
getting to a dentist any time soon is just not an option….
Although in most cases only a doctor can cure the source of the
problem, this list of treatments and pain relief remedies should
get you through until you can visit the dentist…. Salt Water:
Mix a heaping tablespoon full of salt in a small glass of warm
water; swirl around inside your mouth for as long as you can,
spit out. Repeat as needed. Hydrogen Peroxide: Swoosh a bit of
hydrogen peroxide. If the taste is too horrid for you, try
diluting with a bit of water. Alcohol: Swoosh a bit of whiskey,
scotch, brandy or vodka. A strong mouthwash that contains
alcohol will do the trick too. Vanilla Extract: Saturate a
cotton ball with vanilla and hold in place. Can also use a
cotton swab dipped in extract. Other extracts that have the same
effect are: Almond Extract, Peppermint Extract & Lemon Extract.
Tea Tree Oil: Just a drop or two will do the trick. You can also
add some to a cotton swab and hold in place or add a few drops
of tea tree oil to a small glass of lukewarm to warm water and
rinse your mouth with it. Oil Of Oregano: Mix a few drops with a
bit of olive oil, then saturate a cotton ball with mixture. Can
replace the olive oil with lukewarm water if preferred. Apple
Cider Vinegar: Soak a cotton ball with apple cider vinegar (ACV)
and hold it in place. Can also try regular household vinegar.
Ginger Root: Take a fresh piece of ginger and chew it a bit.
Garlic: Take a clove of garlic, smash it and apply (settle it
inside cheek). You can also mash some garlic with salt….
CDC Launches War on Kratom; Evidence Who Needs It?
Brandon Turbeville - As kratom, a natural pain reliever that has
also been known to assist in breaking addiction becomes more and
more popular, the Police State and the Nanny State are doing
their best to tag-team yet another plant and the concept of
individual rights. Demonstrating how so much “science” in modern
America isn’t scientific at all, the CDC has now released a
report claiming that kratom is “an emerging public health
threat.”… The CDC cites a number of alleged kratom-related
deaths in the United States as well as DEA hysteria to show that
kratom is a becoming potentially dangerous health issue and to
justify the flurry of laws dedicated to banning the substance in
various states. The NIDA alleges that kratom can cause
psychosis, seizures and death…. As for the death attributed to
kratom, the individual in question was also exposed to
anti-convulsion and anti-depressant medications meaning that the
death could have been caused by either of the pharmaceuticals or
a combination. Is the CDC now going to label Prozac as an
emerging public health threat? With so much violence and suicide
connected to SSRIs, the answer should clearly be yes if the CDC
is going to follow its own logic and principles.
6 Plants Other Than Cannabis That are High in Healing
Cannabinoids
Wake Up World - Cannabis is not the only plant that contains
medically beneficial cannabinoids, although it has driven the
research to understand the powerful therapeutic properties of
these plant compounds. In actuality, there are several plants
that are also rich in cannabinoids and benefit the body’s
endocannabinoid system, which is responsible for helping the
body maintain internal balance, or homeostasis, which is needed
for attaining optimum health…. 1. Coneflower – Echinacea
- This plant is well-known for its ability to help the body
fight off the common cold. It is also used to relieve anxiety,
fatigue, migraines, and arthritis. Echinacea is a bit different
than cannabis because it uses cannabimimetics instead of
cannabinoids to engage the endocannabinoid system, particularly
the CB2 receptor. Similar to THC in cannabis, the N-alkyl amides
(NAAs) in echinacea are responsible for regulating the immune
system, pain and inflammation. 2. Electric Daisy –
Acmella oleracea - Native to the Amazon region, the electric
daisy is used to create a painkilling gel. It successfully
blocks pain receptors at nerve endings, as per trials conducted
by Cambridge University. The compounds found the the electric
daisy are called N-Isobutylamides, and similarly to other
connabinoid-like compounds they regulate pain and inflammation.
This natural remedy is emerging as a dental remedy for ailments
such as impacted wisdom teeth. 3. Helichrysum umbraculigerum
- Native to South Africa, this daisy has a strong
mood-stabilizing and anti-depressant affect due to a large
amounts of cannabigerol (CBG), also found in the cannabis
plant….
Top 18 Things Amazingly Treated By Acidophilus
Brandon Turbeville - Lactobacillus acidophilus is a probiotic,
i.e., “friendly bacteria” that naturally occurs inside the human
body – especially in the intestines, female reproductive system
and mouth. It serves a very important purpose in keeping gut
microbes in check… Once again, we are providing only those
claims of acidophilus backed by research… 1. Cholesterol – a
combination of lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium
bifidum decreased serum total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and
HDL cholesterol levels in hypercholesterolemic patients over a
period of six weeks. 2. Allergies – subjects who were given
acidophilus showed statistically significant improvement in
their allergy symptoms both in their nose and eyes. 3. Diarrhea
as a result of antibiotics – research is showing a proprietary
blend of probiotics that included lactobacillus acidophilus was
shown to be effective for reducing the risk of AAD as well as
CDAD which is clostridium difficile associated diarrhea in
patients who have been hospitalized and on antibiotics. 4.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) – four weeks of treatment with
acidophilus reduced the amount of pain and discomfort. There was
a significant reduction in abdominal pain and discomfort. 5.
Eczema – acidophilus is an effective approach in preventing
eczema in infants in the first year of life. 6. MRSA
Antibacterial Activity – After the direct application of L.
Acidophilus to methicillin-resistant staphylcoccus aurus (MRSA)
a multi-drug resistant bacteria, 99% of the bacteria were
eliminated within 24 hours….
Homemade Raw Blueberry Jam
STEPin2 - Blueberries are fast becoming champions when it comes
to their antioxidant and cancer preventing properties. Combine
them with chia seeds and you have a potent recipe!… This recipe
is a fast one and once you have all the ingredients it will take
less than 10 minutes to make…. Ingredients: 4 cup fresh blue, 2
Tbsp of raw honey [and] 2 Tbsp chia seeds. Soak the chia seeds
in 4 Tbsp of filtered water for 1o minutes. Mix all the
ingredients for 3 to 4 minutes using a blender. The chia gel
will give the jam texture. Keep refrigerated: Good for up to 2
weeks.
Hundreds of pets rescued from deadly Louisiana flooding
Fox News - The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries had
rescued 566 animals by early Monday, according to spokesman Adam Einck.
“It does present a lot of challenges, but our agents have been trained
for this,” he told FoxNews.com. “What our guys do is very heroic - they
are going into these neighborhoods, the terrain is very treacherous,
they work throughout the night.” Some 99 percent of the animals rescued
are pets, according to Einck…. The state’s Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries is working closely with animal shelters and the humane society
to ensure that pets are taken care of when rescuers get them to high
ground, Einck added.
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Woman, dog rescued from raging Louisiana floodwaters
Monday - August
15, 2016 - Today In History:
1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in
Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more
appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone.
1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as
an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The
first vessel to pass through the canal was the American cargo and
passenger ship SS Ancon.
1918 - Diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Russia were severed.
1944 - The Allied forces of World War II landed in southern France.
1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to
surrender unconditionally.
1948 - CBS-TV inaugurated the first nightly news broadcast with
anchorman Douglas Edwards.
1961 - East German workers began construction of the Berlin Wall.
1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents
and prices.
1986 - The U.S. Senate approved a package of economic sanctions against
South Africa. The ban included the importing of steel, uranium,
textiles, coal, and produce from South Africa.
1992 - Vietnam blamed Hollywood for creating the "myth" concerning the
issue of U.S. servicemen still being held prisoner in Indochina.
1997 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI
officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho.
The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up.
2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system
outside our own. They had discovered two planets orbiting a star in the
Big Dipper.
2006 - Israel began withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon.
2011 - Google announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for
$12.5 billion.
Brexit could be delayed to late-2019 as government not ready:
Sunday Times
Reuters - Prime Minister Theresa May, who campaigned for Britain
to remain in the EU and leads a cabinet of ministers from either
side of the debate, has said she will not trigger Brexit talks
this year as Britain needs time to prepare. But British
government ministers have warned senior figures in the City of
London, London's financial district, that Article 50 was
unlikely to be triggered early in 2017 because the situation in
government was "chaotic", the Sunday Times reported on
Sunday.... Elections in France in May, and Germany in September,
could also push back the timing of Brexit.... Any delay to the
process, however, is likely to draw criticism from the pro-leave
side of May's Conservative party, with senior members such as
John Redwood calling for a quick departure from the bloc.
Soros hacked, thousands of Open Society Foundations files
released online
RT - More than 2,500 files from the raft of organizations run by
billionaire George Soros have been leaked by hackers. Saturday’s
leak, published by DC Leaks, includes hundreds of internal
documents from multiple departments of Soros’ groups,
predominantly the Open Society Foundations. The files are
grouped into sections such as geographical region, the World
Bank and the President’s Office, and cover the period from 2008
up until 2016, according to The Daily Caller. They reveal work
plans, strategies, priorities and other activities by Soros, and
include reports on European elections, migration and asylum in
Europe.... An email leaked by WikiLeaks earlier this week showed
Soros had advised Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary
of State on how to handle unrest in Albania – advice she acted
on. Soros’ Open Society Foundations provides funding to the
International Consortium for Investigative Journalists, which
came under the spotlight earlier this year after the release of
the Panama Papers, which included millions of records from law
firm Mossack Fonseca showing how the wealthy are using tax
havens. The Panama Papers leak came under criticism from
WikiLeaks, who claimed the US government and Soros funded the
project to attack Russia and President Vladimir Putin.
German President Joachim Gauck says "elites are not the problem,
people are the problem”. Gets booed and spit on (Video)
TheDuran - In a recent TV interview, German President Joachim
Gauck said… “The elites are not the problem, the people are the
problem.”.... Germans did not take kindly to the President’s
statements, and let him have it with boos and spit.... Official
German State TV and State Radio reported that “a handful of
right wing extremists” have attacked the president and disturbed
the otherwise peaceful and welcoming reception of the President.
This is simply not the case, as seen in the video… The people
repeatedly shouted “Traitor!”, “Get out!”, “We don’t want STASI
Pigs” and “We are the people!”. One man, carrying his young son
on his shoulders, appears to have spit on him whilst exclaiming
insults. Other citizens were heard saying “You killed our
children” and “What have you done to us?”. They were blocked by
police in riot gear, to whom they said “You are protecting
warmongers, shame on you!” The situation escalated and the riot
police was forced to use pepper spray.
Report: More Than 1,000 Known Child Marriages in Germany
Bretibart - The girls are usually married to older men, and the
trend is being linked to the new wave of migrants who entered
the country over the past 18 months. The state has logged over
1,000 child marriages, but [the website] N24.de reports that the
number of unreported cases may dwarf this number.... And
officials are also contemplating a change in law to refuse to
accept an underage marriage that took place in a different
country before the migrants arrived.... “These marriages have
been recognized in Germany, although they violate our rights,”
said Interior Committee Bundestag spokesman Armin Schuster....
In February, Breitbart London reported that dozens of child
brides had arrived in Norway, with the youngest being just
11-years of age. The phenomenon has also caused concern in the
Netherlands, prompted by the disappearance of the nine-month
pregnant 14-year-old girl Fatema Alkasem and her 24-year-old
husband. Last month the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia,
which has seen 188 marriages of migrants who are underage, saw
calls grow for the government to intervene and stop the
practice.
SOCIALISM IN REAL TIME: Venezuela's Economic Turmoil Has Brought
Malaria Back
Economic Policy Journal - With Venezuela’s economy in tatters,
at least 70,000 people from all walks of life have been
streaming into a mining region to hunt for gold in watery pits.
It is a perfect breeding ground for the mosquitoes that spread
malaria. Then, with the disease in their blood, the miners
return home to cities where there is often no medicine and
little fumigation, and they have passed the disease on to tens
of thousands more people and left entire towns desperate for
help. Venezuela was the first nation in the world to be
certified by the World Health Organization for eradicating
malaria in its most populated areas, beating the United States
and other developed countries to that milestone in 1961. In the
first six months of the year, malaria cases rose 72 percent, to
a total of 125,000, according to the figures. The disease cut a
wide path through the country, with cases present in more than
half of its 23 states. And among the malaria strains present
here is Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes the most
fatal form of the disease.
The Vatican Has Paid Close To $4 Billion To Settle Child
Molestation Lawsuits
Collective Evolution - According to Jack and Diane Ruhl of the
National Catholic Reporter, who decided to research this
particular topic, since 1950, the Vatican has spent a disgusting
$3,994,797,060.10. That’s nearly $4 billion to keep things hush
hush. That number may even be a bit conservative, as we cannot
know for sure the agreed upon “under the table” amount. The
figure is based on a three-month investigation of data, which
includes a review of over 7,800 articles from LexisNexis
Academic and NCR databases and information from
BishopAccountability.org. Reports from the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops were also used…. In the early nineties, a monk
who worked at the Vatican opened up to The New Yorker,
admitting: “You wouldn’t believe the amounts of money the church
is spending to settle these priestly sexual-abuse cases.” By
1992, U.S. Catholic dioceses had given 400 million dollars to
settle hundreds of molestation cases. That was a shocking chunk
of change then, and that figure has only risen exponentially
since. The men running the Vatican are well aware of the
problem, and yet they refuse to provide justice.
Ryan Lochte, 3 other Olympic swimmers robbed at gunpoint in Rio
Oregon Live - Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were
robbed at gunpoint early Sunday by thieves posing as police
officers who stopped their taxi and took their money and
belongings, the U.S. Olympic Committee said. In the latest
security incident to hit the Rio de Janeiro Games, Lochte told
NBC that one of the robbers put a gun to his forehead before
taking his wallet. No one was injured.... Word of the robbery
touched off a chain of confusion between Olympic and U.S.
officials. An International Olympic Committee spokesman said
reports of the robbery were "absolutely not true," then reversed
himself, apologized and said he was relying on initial
information from the USOC that was wrong. Street crime was a
major concern of Olympic organizers going into the games. Brazil
deployed 85,000 soldiers and police to secure the games, twice
as many as Britain used during the 2012 London Olympics. Last
week, a Brazilian security officer was fatally shot after taking
a wrong turn into a dangerous favela, or slum. Two Australian
rowing coaches were attacked and robbed by two assailants in
Ipanema, and Portugal's education minister was held up at
knifepoint on a busy street.
Italy threatens jail time for parents raising vegan children;
but toxic vaccines and cancer-causing junk food are still legal
(NaturalNews) Italian parents who force a vegan or vegetarian
diet on to their children under 16 could face up to four years
in jail if the Italian parliament passes the new controversial
bill. The proposal comes from Elvira Savino, from the
conservative Forza Italia party, who claims that these
restrictive diets jeopardize the health of young children and
leave them malnourished. According to Savino and some health
experts, a vegetarian or vegan diet may lack sufficient amounts
of zinc, iron, vitamin D, vitamin B12, omega-3, and protein
which are all essential nutrients for growth and overall health.
She told Reuters that she doesn't have a problem with vegans or
veganism, as long as it is a free choice that is being made by
adults. However, she did go on to say, "I just find it absurd
that parents are allowed to impose their will on children in an
almost fanatical, religious way, often without proper scientific
knowledge or medical advice.”… Unfortunately, not all parents
that make the decision to feed their little one a strict
plant-based diet have done their homework. In the past eighteen
months, several Italian children have had to undergo
hospitalizations, due to the effects of nutritionally
insufficient, poorly planned vegan diets.
Bombshell: Zika Fraud Leads to Toxic Mosquito Spraying and
Autism
Jon Rappoport - The title of this piece could have been, “When
the cure for a problem causes the problem.” Naled, the
organophosphate pesticide now being sprayed on Miami to kill
“Zika mosquitoes,” has dire effects. Reference: a 2014 study,
“Neurodevelopmental disorders and prenatal residential proximity
to agricultural pesticides: the CHARGE study.” [Environmental
Health Perspectives, 2014 Oct;122(10):1103-9.] Key quotes from
the study: “Gestational exposure to several common agricultural
pesticides can induce developmental neurotoxicity in humans, and
has been associated with developmental delay and autism.”
[Emphasis added] “We evaluated whether residential proximity to
agricultural pesticides during pregnancy is associated with
autism spectrum disorders (ASD) or developmental delay (DD)…”
“Approximately one-third of CHARGE study mothers lived, during
pregnancy, within 1.5 km (just under 1 mile) of an agricultural
pesticide application. Proximity to organophosphates at some
point during gestation was associated with a 60% increased risk
for ASD [Autism Spectrum Disorders], higher for third-trimester
exposures…and second-trimester chlorpyrifos [an organophosphate
pesticide] applications…” “This study of ASD strengthens the
evidence linking neurodevelopmental disorders with gestational
pesticide exposures, particularly organophosphates…”
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Govt Task Force Confirms US Intelligence Faked Reports to
Manipulate Public About ISIS
The Free Thought Project - A scathing government task force
report released on Thursday, shows that intelligence generated
by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) was deliberately skewed.
Last year a senior analytst came forward noting that classified
intelligence was being withheld. The whistleblower’s complaint
is what led to the intitial investigation by the Defense
Department inspector general.... The task force confirmed that
both classified and public information was being manipulated by
high-level officials.... According to the unclassified report,
much of what was presented to the public was false.... While the
Obama administration is attempting to maintain that they knew
nothing about this intelligence manipulation, the nature of this
report and the high-level officials involved, implies otherwise.
“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence
command,” one defense official told The Daily Beast in
September. “There’s enormous evidence about how this information
from talented career professionals inside the analytic arm at
CENTCOM did their job and accurately depicted what was going on
on the ground, but when it got to very senior levels, that
information was changed,” [Congressman Mike] Pompeo said.
* Related:
Ten Most Troubling Finds Inside House Probe of Pentagon’s
‘Distorted’ Intel on Islamic State
"Russian" Hacker Guccifer 2.0 Publishes Complete Personal
Information Of All Congressional Democrats
Zero Hedge - According to so-called experts, the Romanian (as he
described himself) [Full Transcript of Our Interview With DNC
Hacker] hacker Guccifer 2.0 is really a Russian (even though
there is still not a shred of evidence to confirm this) who
several weeks ago provided a trove of 20,000 emails to Wikileaks,
which exposed the corruption at the Democratic National
Committee as it rigged the primary election on behalf of
Hillary, further revealing just how deeply in bed the DNC and
the "independent" media were. As of this afternoon, the
"Russian" has made it possible for millions of American to
contact their Democratic representative instantly, after he
released an excel spreadsheet on his blog - obtained from
hacking the DNCC - which includes the personal cell phone
number, physical and email address as well as full personal
information for some 200 congressional Democrats…. In addition
to the Excel file, the alleged Russian hacker also uploaded
documents that include the account names and passwords for an
assortment of subscription services used by the DCCC, from
Lexis-Nexis to Glenn Beck’s web site (password: nutbag). While "Guccifer
2.0" has claimed to be a foe of "all the illuminati and rich
clans which try to rule the governments," cyber investigators
are busy trying to convince the American public that he is just
serving as the media liaison for the Russian government hacking
teams suspected of breaching the Democratic Party's computer
systems.
Gov. Walker activates National Guard; Milwaukee shooting victim
identified
Oregon Live - Wisconsin's governor put the National Guard on
standby Sunday in case of another outbreak of violence in
Milwaukee, after a deadly police shooting touched off a night of
arson and rock-throwing in a mostly black neighborhood. At least
four businesses were burned and an officer was hurt by a thrown
brick in the unrest that erupted on the city's north side
Saturday night a few hours after the killing of a black man who
authorities say was armed and fleeing a traffic stop.... The
weekend shooting in Milwaukee is under investigation. The mayor
said the officer was wearing a body camera. Mayor Tom Barrett
said police stopped the motorist for what the mayor described
only as "suspicious activity." Police said the man was carrying
a gun that had been stolen in a burglary in March.... At one
point Saturday evening, as many as 100 protesters massed at 44th
Street and Auer Avenue, surging against a line of 20 to 30
officers. The Journal Sentinel reported that some in the crowd
started smashing a squad car's windows. Another police car was
set on fire. The newspaper said one of its reporters was shoved
to the ground and punched. In addition to the gas station, a
bank, an auto parts store and a beauty supply shop were burned.
Firefighters held back from the gas station blaze because of
gunfire.
Republican Lawmakers Block Promised Visas for At-Risk Afghan
Translators Who Aided U.S.
AllGov - For more than eight years, the State Department has
offered a visa program designated for many of those who face an
“ongoing serious threat” as a result of having provided critical
linguistic support — whether in oral interpretation or written
translation — in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the last 2 1/2 years,
officials say, they have issued visas to more than 8,000 Afghans
and their immediate families.... As of July 10, fewer than 3,000
of those visas remained, but about 12,000 individuals have at
least started the application process, according to the State
Department. Applicants must apply by Dec. 31 in order to be
considered. Then this year, something changed: A few Republicans
said no, asking whether more visas were necessary when the State
Department still had thousands of visas from previous years yet
to be distributed.... The government has struggled to keep pace
with the influx of Afghan and Iraqi applications for special
visas and changes to the eligibility rules made by lawmakers,
mistakenly disqualifying some applicants and trapping others in
a holding pattern that lasts months or even years. That is time,
several translators and interpreters said, that the applicants
cannot afford to waste as they face serious threats to their
lives every day.
National Guard Helicopters To Drop Supplies To 1,500 Stranded
Motorists As "Historic" Floods Cover Louisiana
Zero Hedge - The heavy rain began on Friday, with between 6 and
10 inches of rain falling on parts of southeast Louisiana.
Several more inches fell Saturday, according to the National
Weather Service. "The water's going to rise in many areas. It's
no time to let the guard down." In a 24-hour period, Baton Rouge
had as much as 11 inches, according to The Associated Press....
"It's not over," said Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Sunday
cited by NBC, who previously declared a state of emergency and
called the floods "unprecedented" and "historic.".... Edwards
said crews had already rescued 7,000 people from their deluged
homes. More than 5,000 people stayed in Red Cross and
government-run shelters Saturday night, Department of Children &
Family Services Secretary Marketa Garner Walters added....
residents in affected areas were warned to stay in their homes —
unless they're told to evacuate — and off the roads. The
warning, however, came too late for over one thousand cars who
have been caught in the flood on I-12. As a result, the
Louisiana National Guard troops are preparing to drop water and
other supplies from helicopters Sunday morning to more than
1,500 motorists who have been stranded on Interstate 12 for
almost 24 hours.
Dad and his 7-year-old daughter held at gunpoint in terrifying
encounter with out-of-control AZ cop
Raw Story - A California man and his 7-year-old daughter had a
terrifying run-in with the Arizona Highway Patrol Friday night
on their way to visit the Grand Canyon. In a lengthy Facebook
post, Ken Walton described the experience, in which he and his
daughter were held at gunpoint by an out-of-control highway
patrolman. Late Friday night, Walton wrote, “Tonight, I was
arrested at gunpoint by an Arizona highway patrol officer who
threatened to shoot me in the back (twice) in front of my
7-year-old daughter. For a moment, I was certain he was going to
kill me for no reason. I’m alive, and I need to share the story.
PLEASE SHARE IT, because I have an important reason for staying
up past 1AM to write it down.”
Secret Service Leaks Hillary’s Health to Press
Kit Daniels - Hillary Clinton apparently suffers from
Parkinson’s or a similar disease and experiences seizures from
flashing lights, such as camera flashes at press conferences,
the Secret Service told Infowars. Additionally, the federal
government has reportedly spent nearly a quarter-million dollars
to add handicap steps on government vehicles because Hillary
struggles with balance, a fact already established by a Reuters
photo showing two men helping Hillary up stairs. The revelations
explain her odd, epileptic behavior on camera and why she avoids
press conferences in general. Her health is deteriorating badly;
over the past several months Hillary has suffered several
seizures and near-comatose freeze-ups during speeches which,
combined with her previous blood clot, concussions and severe
coughing fits, reveal she’s hiding serious medical issues that
jeopardize her ability to hold public office.
Trump Brought Down House Last Night, Then Walked Outside & Got
Surprise Of A Lifetime!(Video)
Liberty Writers News - Trump held one of the biggest rallies yet
in Kissimmee, Florida. This is the same town that Hillary held a
rally in and invited the father of the Orlando terrorist. She
only got like 20 people to show up. Trump sold out the Silver
Spurs Arena. That arena can fit 8,000 people. And there was
overflow. And everyone there was excited actually to see him….
And, then Trump walked outside. … Police from all around
Kissimmee heard that Donald Trump was coming and escorted him
back to his plane.
6 Million Americans in 33 States Are Drinking Toxic 'Teflon Chemicals'
With Their Water
EcoWatch - At least 6 million Americans in 33 states are being exposed
to unsafe levels of industrial perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) chemicals
in their drinking water, found a study published Tuesday in the journal
Environmental Science and Technology Letters…. The Washington Post
details the researchers' findings: 194 of 4,864 water supplies across
nearly three dozen states had detectable levels of the chemicals.
Sixty-six of those water supplies, serving about six million people, had
at least one sample that exceeded the EPA's [Environmental Protection
Agency] recommended safety limit of 70 parts per trillion for two types
of chemicals—perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic
acid (PFOA)…. Moreover, the study also notes that research suggests
"that exposure to these chemicals can make people sick, even at or below
the concentration recommended as acceptable under the EPA health
advisory," according to the Gazette-Mail.
Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung
wide open
Ars Technica - Microsoft has inadvertently demonstrated the
intrinsic security problem of including a universal backdoor in
its software after it accidentally leaked its so-called "golden
key"—which allows users to unlock any device that's supposedly
protected by Secure Boot, such as phones and tablets....
researchers note that this snafu is a real-world demonstration
of the lack of wisdom in the FBI's recent demands for universal
backdoors in Apple's devices.... The golden key policy seems to
have been designed for internal debugging purposes, to allow OS
[operating system] signature checks to be disabled, apparently
so programmers can test new builds. In practice, it could well
open up Microsoft's tablets and phones to serious attacks. At
first, Microsoft apparently dismissed the find as a non-issue,
before changing its mind, and then slowly applying a patch. The
software giant eventually awarded a bug bounty in June, and has
since released two patches... with a third on the way. It's
understood that none of them are able to directly shut the back
door, and there's a distinct possibility that the hole opened by
the golden keys may not be truly closable.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Remove Mold FAST With Tea Tree Essential Oil!
Mold is a lot more than just annoying little growth in your
bathroom. It can actually pose significant risks to your health.
You could wind up with nasal stuffiness, throat irritation and
even a severe allergic reaction…. Tea tree oil has traditionally
been used as an antifungal and antiseptic treatment for
everything from toenail fungus to acne. It even works for strong
types of mold. All you’ve gotta do is mix one teaspoon of tea
tree oil with one cup of water. Put this mixture in a spray
bottle and have a go at any mold-ridden areas in your home.
Leave the liquid to work on the area for a while before wiping
it off with a cloth. Is your mold problem a bit on the larger
side? The next solution is for you. While a small bottle of tea
tree oil can get pricey (keep in mind, though, it does have a
number of uses besides mold), a large bottle of distilled
vinegar should cost you next to nothing. Vinegar is mildly
acidic and kills up to 82% of all mold species. Attack the mold
in full force by pouring straight vinegar into a spray bottle
and having a go at any growth. Let the vinegar sit for an hour
and then wipe the surface with clean water. If the vinegar smell
doesn’t go away after several hours, just place a bowl of lemon
water around the area.
Ginger: The Enemy of Type 2 Diabetes
Green Med Info - While ginger is widely used as a spice today,
its role as a healing agent is often overlooked in modern
society despite its thousands of years of documented use as a
powerful medicine. Modern science, however, is finally catching
up to the wisdom of the ancients. For instance, there are over
2100 published studies on the medicinal properties of ginger in
the scientific literature, and the Greenmedinfo database
contains evidence that it has value in over 170 different health
conditions, and has over 50 different beneficial physiological
effects. Notably, of all the conditions the research on ginger
we have indexed reveals its therapeutic value for, type 2
diabetes is top on the list, with seven studies on our database
providing proof of its efficacy…. A new study published in the
journal Complementary and Integrative Medicine, "The effect of
ginger (Zingiber officinale) on glycemic markers in patients
with type 2 diabetes," confirms that ginger is a serious
contender for addressing some of the root causes underlying this
devastating condition.
These 7 Turmeric Brands are Being Recalled Due to Lead
Contamination
Natural Society - There are now 6 more brands of turmeric being
recalled due to lead contamination. So far, there have been no
illnesses or injuries reported from the high lead levels in the
turmeric, but Gel Spice, Inc., the company expanding the recall,
is taking precautions. The FDA lists the following products as
being recalled due to potential lead contamination:… Spice
Select, Market Pantry, Gel, Clear Value, Leiber’s, Spice
Supreme. The FDA’s website also provides pictures of the
products for those who are unsure whether or not one that they
own is on the list. Those who are concerned or have questions
about the recall can contact Gel Spice, Inc. at (201) 564-0435.
They are available to speak to consumers from 8am to 4pm Eastern
Standard Time (EST).
Over-the-counter cold medicine linked to dementia
(NaturalHealth365) Recent research shows certain medications may
be bad for your brain. Some of the ones to be concerned about
include a group of medications called anticholinergics, with
brand names including Benadryl, Demerol, and Pamine. One study
looked at 451 individuals with an average age 73. Those whose
regular medications included one or more anticholinergics had a
higher risk of dementia and poorer performance on cognitive
tests. They also had smaller brain volumes, compared to people
who were not using these types of medicines. The result can be
an increased risk for cognitive problems including memory loss.
Another concern with these anticholinergic medications is that
they also appear to slow brain glucose metabolism. Your brain
uses glucose as a fuel source, and slower glucose metabolism is
linked to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The change occurs in
parts of your brain that are used for memory, and lower
metabolism in these areas can cause memory loss and dementia as
you get older.
WATCH: Dog Sobs With Relief When She’s Finally Rescued From Well
Dogington Post - When rescuers from Animal Aid Unlimited, a rescue
center, animal hospital, and sanctuary for street animals in India,
received a call that a dog had fallen deep into a well in a village
outside of Udaipur, they didn’t hesistate to rush to her aid. … Rescuers
from Animal Aid Unlimited described Ruby’s rescue on Facebook: We have
no idea how Ruby could have survived this incredibly long fall. From the
bottom of a 50 foot hole (a dry well) rose up the most plaintive cries
for help. When our rescue crew arrived she literally sobs she’s so
beside herself with emotion, as if she needed to share behind tears the
whole of her terrible ordeal, the fear she must have felt while falling,
the disastrous realization that she couldn’t get out…and above her, she
weeps almost in disbelief, may be–…yes–it is help! Watch the strain on
our rescuer Ganpat’s face in the final moments before Ruby is lifted
from his shaking arms after he is rope lifted some 50 feet.
Friday - August
12, 2016 - Today In History:
1865 - Disinfectant was used for the first time during surgery by Joseph
Lister.
1867 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him when
he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
1877 - Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and made the first sound
recording.
1898 - The Spanish-American War was ended with the signing of the peace
protocol. The U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
Hawaii was also annexed.
1953 - The Soviet Union secretly tested its first hydrogen bomb.
1977 - The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test.
1981 - IBM unveiled its first PC.
1986 - It was announced by NASA that they had selected a new rocket
design for the space shuttle. The move was made in an effort at
correcting the flaws that were believed to have been responsible for the
Challenger disaster.
1992 - The U.S., Canada, and Mexico announced that the North American
Free Trade Agreement had been created after 14 months of negotiations.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton lifted the ban on rehiring air traffic
controllers that had been fired for going on strike in 1981.
1994 - Major league baseball players went on strike rather than allow
team owners to limit their salaries. The strike lasted for 232 days. As
a result, the World Series was wiped out for the first time in 90 years.
1998 - Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to World
War II Holocaust victims.
2000 - The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank and its 118-man crew
died during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.
2004 - The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex
marriages that had been sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.
2008 - Russia halted its five-day assault on Georgia.
Russia Is Not The Aggressor In Ukraine
Steven DeNoon - On July the 8th we reported that Ukraine was
moving tanks, some 30 plus tanks to the contact line line with
Donetsk region – the self proclaimed Peoples Republic, “New
Russia”. Not a single national media group even covered this
breaking news. Alex Jones the day before published his news
report on Info Wars that Putin was at his final straw, trying to
get journalists to warn the world that we were moving closer to
global conflict. A conflict that could become nuclear. Still
International news like CNN, BBC, were silent. There were scant
reports that the OSCE had mentioned troop buildup by Ukraine
forces near the contact line of Donetsk, but International media
ignored these reports as well. Eleven days later I broke the
news that Russian tanks are on the streets of Donetsk – BBC
reporters circulated my Broadcast on Twitter wondering if this
was true. “This could be big” However they were afraid to source
us because we exposed the start of tensions. Russia now facing
Ukraine terrorism threats is forced to move massive troops to
its northern border of Crimea, or at least that is what the
world believes Russia’s troop movement is for. Yet on tonight’s
broadcast we reminded our viewers of a report we shared back in
March where Russian media revealed the conversation between
Petro Poroshenko and President Erdogan. The plans included the
joint effort to retake Crimea.
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Fighting Breaks Out On Crimean Ukraine Border
Putin Prepares For War As Ukraine Infiltrates Crimea
Infowars - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine is
“playing a dangerous game” following a reported incursion by
Ukrainian special forces into Crimea that left two Russian
personnel dead…. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)
announced it had thwarted two attempts by Ukrainian special
forces to infiltrate Crimea and target critical infrastructure
with explosive devices. Ammunition used by the Ukrainian Army’s
special forces was reportedly discovered along the
Crimea/Ukraine border, and clashes killed one Russian soldier
and one FSB employee. The FSB reported the attempts by Ukrainian
forces to cross the border “were accompanied by massive covering
fire from the neighboring state and from Ukrainian armored
vehicles.” After a meeting in Moscow with Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan, Putin warned that Russia “will not walk past
something like this,” following the death of two Russian
soldiers in a cross border raid by Ukrainian special forces in
Crimea, and called the Ukrainian government’s actions “stupid
and criminal.” “I think it’s obvious that Kiev’s current
authorities are not seeking for ways to solve problems through
negotiations but have turned to terrorism,” Putin added, warning
Ukraine was “playing a dangerous game.” Online activists
recently published videos on social media of Russian trains
carrying army vehicles to the Kerch Strait, which lies directly
between Crimea and southern Russia. Western media was quick to
suggest Putin was preparing to use the cross border attack as
justification for an all out invasion of Ukraine.
Erdogan Threatens To Abandon US Dollar In Trade With Russia
Zero Hedge - The unexpectedly sharp antagonism between Turkey
and the west accelerated today, and one day after NATO
preemptively reminded Turkey that it is still a NATO alliance
member and advising Ankara that "Turkey’s NATO membership is not
in question", Turkey had some more choice words for its military
allies. Cited by Reuters, Turkey foreign minister Mevlut
Cavusoglu told Turkish's NTV television on Thursday that the
country "may seek other options outside NATO for defense
industry cooperation, although its first option is always
cooperation with its NATO allies." Translation: if Russia
(and/or China) gives us a better "defensive" offer, we just may
take it. The sharply worded retort came on the same day that
Turkey said it will resume airstrikes on Islamic State targets
in Syria, and asked Russia to carry out joint operations against
its “common enemy.” Ankara halted strikes after the downing of a
Russian plane by Turkish forces last year. In the same
interview, Cavusolgu said that Ankara “will again, in an active
manner, with its planes take part in operations” against Islamic
State targets. Cavusolgu also said that Ankara has called on
Moscow to carry out joint operations against the “common enemy”
of IS. "Let's fight against the terrorist group together, so
that we can clear it out as soon as possible," Cavusolgu said,
adding that otherwise IS will continue to expand and spread into
other countries.
US Nuclear-Bomber in Pacific for First Time as China Reaches
Boiling Point
Sputnik News - The United States has dispatched its three
strategic bomber types to the Pacific region for the first time,
in a bid to reassure allies amid growing aggression from China
in the wake of the Hague-based Court of Arbitration ruling
against Beijing’s claim to territories in the South China Sea,
and the deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system. Announced
Wednesday, the US Air Force will dispatch a Boeing B-52H
Stratofortress, a Rockwell B-1B Lancer, and a Northrup Grumman
B-2A Spirit bomber to operate concurrently in the US Pacific
Command region in support of the Continuous Bomber Presence (CBP)
and Bomber Assurance and Deterrence (BAAD) missions. The US Air
Force announcement cited the need to ward off potential
adversaries but refused to explicitly name China, whose growing
military strength puts Beijing on other side of the American
nuclear barrel, though the connection is "clear," according to
IHS Jane’s Defence. Additionally, the region has become
increasingly unstable due to a proliferation of nuclear weapons
and ballistic missiles at the hand of the unstable regime of Kim
Jong-Un in North Korea…. The movement of US B-1Bs, B-2As, and
B-52Hs to the Pacific region has not only incensed of China, but
has left North Korea feeling cornered, accusing the US of
planning a preemptive nuclear strike against Pyongyang,
according to a report by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
ISIS sleepers ‘arrived as refugees’ in Germany, ready for action
– top intel official
RT - Hit squads linked with ISIS terrorists have infiltrated
Germany camouflaged as refugees, the head of Bavaria’s
intelligence service warns. citing “irrefutable evidence” of
planned attacks in the country in the wake of recent assaults by
migrants. “We have to accept that we got hit squads and sleeper
cells here in Germany,” Manfred Hauser, vice-president of
Bavaria’s department of the Office for the Protection of
Constitution (BfV) told BBC Radio 4. His agency is now looking
into hundreds of potential cases of terrorists who made their
way to Germany disguised as refugees. "We have substantial
reports that among the refugees are hit squads," Hauser claimed.
BfV is getting the information from various sources, he added,
including from interviews with asylum seekers arriving in the
country. The risk of terror attacks by the sleepers is “very
high” according to the official. The BfV has “irrefutable
evidence that there is an ISIS command structure that makes an
attack in Germany highly possible.”… Last month Germany’s
Federal Criminal Police (BKA) revealed that the body has
information on 410 leads on possible terrorists among asylum
seekers in Germany. "Given the ongoing immigration to Germany,
we must assume that there could be active and former members,
supporters and sympathizers of terrorist organizations or
Islamist-motivated war criminals among the refugees,” the BKA
told the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung.
France calls on public to house refugees as asylum centers reach
bursting point
RT - The French government wants members of the public to take
in refugees because there is no room left at the country’s
asylum centers. The authorities are even offering financial
handouts to charities which actively engage in finding
accommodation. The sheer numbers of migrants entering France has
forced many to sleep out on the streets because refugee centers
do not have enough beds to house everyone. That has led the
government to come up with a plan to try and get members of the
public to take in refugees who have nowhere to go. The idea is
being championed by Housing Minister Emmanuelle Cosse, who
understands that something needs to be done given the sheer
number of refugees in need of accommodation. “By the end of
September, we will more than double the capacity of the refugee
centers, from 2,000 to 5,000 beds,” she told Le Monde, adding
that all major cities across the country had accepted the move….
The number of refugees in France is expected to rise to 30,000
by 2017 as the country takes its share of the quota set by the
EU.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Hillary Clinton Email Archive
WikiLeaks - On March 16, 2016 WikiLeaks launched a searchable
archive for 30,322 emails & email attachments sent to and from
Hillary Clinton's private email server while she was Secretary
of State. The 50,547 pages of documents span from 30 June 2010
to 12 August 2014. 7,570 of the documents were sent by Hillary
Clinton. The emails were made available in the form of thousands
of PDFs by the US State Department as a result of a Freedom of
Information Act request. The final PDFs were made available on
February 29, 2016.
‘Several
FBI Field Offices’ Pushed DOJ to Probe Clinton Foundation After
‘Clinton Cash’
Breitbart - While the federal investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was Secretary
of State was underway, “several FBI field offices” asked the
Justice Department to investigate the murky connections between
the State Department and the Clinton Foundation, but were
shutdown, according to a report by CNN. “Several FBI field
offices approached the Justice Department asking to open a case
regarding the relationship between the State Department and the
Clinton Foundation, according to a law enforcement official,”
CNN said late Wednesday. “At the time, DOJ declined because it
had looked into allegations surrounding the Clinton Foundation
around a year earlier and found there wasn’t sufficient evidence
to open a case,” the report continued.
Obamacare On "Verge Of Collapse" As Premiums Set To Soar Again
In 2017
Zero Hedge - If Obamacare enrollments continue their current
trend and insurers continue to hike premiums at alarming rates
then Republicans may not have to worry about "repealing and
replacing Obamacare" as it might just work itself out
"naturally". The 4th open enrollment period for Obamacare begins
on November 1, 2016 and industry experts are warning that
another year of tepid demand from "young and healthy" Americans
could force more insurers out of the exchanges effectively
marking the end of Obamacare as we know it. According to a story
published by The Hill, 11 million people bought health insurance
through the exchanges for 2016 which was drastically below the
Congressional Budget Office's initial projection of 21 million….
With America's youth continuing to shun health insurance,
insurers are all racking up massive losses on the exchanges. For
many insurers the losses will simply result in massive premium
hikes but others have decided to withdraw from the exchanges all
together. In fact, UnitedHealthCare recently announced plans to
exit most state exchanges by 2017.
DEA regularly mines Americans’ travel records to seize millions
in cash
USA Today - Federal drug agents regularly mine Americans’ travel
information to profile people who might be ferrying money for
narcotics traffickers — though they almost never use what they
learn to make arrests or build criminal cases. Instead, that
targeting has helped the Drug Enforcement Administration seize a
small fortune in cash. DEA agents have profiled passengers on
Amtrak trains and nearly every major U.S. airline, drawing on
reports from a network of travel-industry informants that
extends from ticket counters to back offices, a USA TODAY
investigation has found. Agents assigned to airports and train
stations singled out passengers for questioning or searches for
reasons as seemingly benign as traveling one-way to California
or having paid for a ticket in cash. The DEA surveillance is
separate from the vast and widely-known anti-terrorism apparatus
that now surrounds air travel, which is rarely used for routine
law enforcement. It has been carried out largely without the
airlines’ knowledge. It is a lucrative endeavor, and one that
remains largely unknown outside the drug agency. DEA units
assigned to patrol 15 of the nation’s busiest airports seized
more than $209 million in cash from at least 5,200 people over
the past decade after concluding the money was linked to drug
trafficking, according to Justice Department records. Most of
the money was passed on to local police departments that lend
officers to assist the drug agency…. In most cases, records show
the agents gave the suspected couriers a receipt for the cash —
sometimes totaling $50,000 or more, stuffed into suitcases or
socks — and sent them on their way without ever charging them
with a crime.
Democratic ‘Crisis Communications’ PR Agent Hired to Shut Down
Seth Rich “Conspiracy Theories” (Video)
Paul Joseph Watson - The man hired to shut down “conspiracy
theories” surrounding the mysterious murder of former DNC
staffer Seth Rich is a public relations manager who specializes
in “crisis communications” for the Democratic Party. 27-year-old
Rich was shot in the back in Washington D.C. on July 10, the
apparent victim of an attempted “robbery” despite the fact that
no possessions were taken. Earlier this week, Julian Assange
appeared on Dutch television and implied that Rich was one of
the sources of the DNC email link. Wikileaks then offered a
$20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of his
killer. It has since emerged that Rich’s family is now being
represented by Brad Bauman, whose LinkedIn page lists his roles
as, “Managing a crisis communications and full service public
relations firm,” and “Providing strategic communications advice
to Democratic candidates and labor unions.” Earlier today,
Wikileaks tweeted, “Seth Rich’s new “family spokesman” is Brad
Bauman a professional Democrat crisis PR consultant with the
Pastorum Group.”… Wikileaks, which yesterday published tweets
suggesting that Assange himself might be a target of
assassination, clearly thinks that something sinister is afoot,
otherwise it wouldn’t keep drawing attention to the issue. Why
did Seth Rich’s family apparently hire someone who, according to
his own LinkedIn page, specializes in crafting messages to
manipulate media coverage? The family seemed to be communicating
with the media perfectly adequately before Bauman arrived on the
scene. As the video below documents, Seth Rich may not be the
only recent mysterious death connected to Hillary Clinton and
the DNC leaks.
Wikileaks Proves Trump Is Right: Hacked Emails Include Info On
Hillary’s Arming Of Jihadists, Including ISIS
The Gateway Pundit - Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke to
the National Association of Home Builders on Thursday morning.
Trump repeated his line that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
created ISIS. He even went further and said Hillary Clinton was
the MVP of ISIS. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew that
the US was sending arms from Libya to Syria back in 2011, a year
before the Benghazi consulate attacks. Hillary Clinton denied
she knew about the weapons shipments during public testimony
(under oath) in early 2013 after the Benghazi terrorist attack….
On Tuesday Julian Assange told Democracy Now that the Wikileaks
DNC emails contains information on the weapons shipments to
Syria. Julian Assange: So, those Hillary Clinton emails, they
connect together with the cables that we have published of
Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of how Hillary Clinton
performs in office, but, more broadly, how the U.S. Department
of State operates. So, for example, the disastrous, absolutely
disastrous intervention in Libya, the destruction of the Gaddafi
government, which led to the occupation of ISIS of large
segments of that country, weapons flows going over to Syria,
being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within Syria,
including ISIS, that’s there in those emails. There’s more than
1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection, that we have
released, just about Libya alone. This is another brilliant move
for Donald Trump to bring this up now knowing that Wikileaks is
going to release more documents in the coming weeks tying
Hillary Clinton to ISIS.
In Michigan, Hillary Clinton Promises To Oppose TPP As President
Breitbart - Hillary Clinton is reassuring supporters in Warren,
Michigan that her anti-trade position on Obama’s Trans-Pacific
Partnership is not simply political positioning. “I oppose it
now, I’ll oppose it after the election and I’ll oppose it as
president,” she said. Clinton famously lost Michigan’s primary
to Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had stronger anti-trade credentials.
Her position on trade has evolved since she served as Secretary
of State in the Obama administration, praising Obama’s trade
plan 45 times before eventually turning against the president
during the Democratic presidential primary. Questions were
raised about Clinton’s position on trade after her close
confidant Gov. Terry McAuliffe asserted that she would change
her mind after she was elected.
Federal Court Punishes US Marine for Posting Bible Verse On Her
Desk
The Gateway Pundit - The Becket Fund reported: The military’s
highest court ruled yesterday that men and women serving in the
U.S. Armed Forces can be punished for exercising their religion
if judges deem the practice not religiously “important.” The
ruling upholds the government’s criminal prosecution of a U.S.
Marine for refusing to discard personal notes that had Bible
verses on them. The case may now be appealed to the U.S. Supreme
Court. In 2014, Marine Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling was
ordered to remove from her workstation three pieces of paper
with a paraphrase from the Book of Isaiah, “No weapon formed
against me shall prosper,” even though co-workers were permitted
to keep nonreligious messages on their desks. She declined and
was court-martialed. A lower court upheld Sterling’s court
martial, rejecting her argument that her faith was protected by
the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. “This is a real-life
example of why judges shouldn’t play theologians,” said Daniel
Blomberg, legal counsel of the Becket Fund, which filed a
friend-of-the-court brief supporting the Lance Corporal. “Here,
a few judges concluded that keeping scripture nearby isn’t
‘important,’ even though more than half of the world’s
population belong to religions that teach the exact opposite.
Avoiding obvious errors like this is why RFRA protects all
religious beliefs, not just beliefs that government officials
deem ‘important.’”
Obama's Administration Collected $20 Trillion In Taxes And Still
Increased National Debt $9 Trillion
Zero Hedge - During the 90 months that President Obama has been
in office, the federal government collected a total of
$19,966,110,000,000 in tax revenues (in non-inflation-adjusted
dollars) and still managed to drag the country into almost 9
trillion dollars of new debt, according to the Monthly Treasury
Statements…. From CNS: During those same 90 months, the federal
debt rose from $10,632,005,246,736.97 to
$19,427,694,579,786.64—an increase of $8,795,689,333,049.67. In
July, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released
today, the federal government took in $209,998,000,000 in taxes
and spent $322,813,000,000—running a one-month deficit of
$112,815,000,000. So far in fiscal 2016, according the Treasury
statement, the federal government has collected approximately
$2,678,824,000,000 in taxes and spent approximately
$3,192,487,000,000—running a deficit of $513,662,000,000 for the
first ten months of the fiscal year. If the Bureau of Labor
Statistics is correct when they reported there were 151,517,000
people employed in the United States in July, the amount of
taxes the Treasury has collected during Obama’s first 90 full
months in office would amount to $131,775 per worker.
All major US stock indexes post record closes; oil rallies
CNBC News - Stocks closed higher Thursday, with the three major
indexes closing at new record highs, amid sharp gains in oil
prices and strong quarterly results from retailers. "I think
there are two main drivers here. One of them is oil," said
Mariann Montagne, senior investment analyst at Gradient
Investments. "The other part is this retail rally." Thursday
also marked the first time since 1999 the Dow, S&P and the
Nasdaq posted record closing highs on the same day, according to
Bespoke. The Dow Jones industrial average closed about 115
points higher, with 3M contributing the most gains. The 30-stock
index also traded above a previous record high of 18,622.01. The
benchmark S&P 500 advanced about 0.5 percent, with energy rising
more than 1 percent. The index also briefly traded above its
previous all-time intraday high of 2,187.66.
What Do They Know That We Don’t? World’s Billionaires Are
Stockpiling Cash: “Taking Money Off the Table”
Mac Slavo - via CNBC: The world’s billionaires are holding more
than $1.7 trillion in cash — the highest amount since one firm
began recording the measure in 2010. Because of what they
perceive to be growing risks in the economy and world, the
world’s 2,473 billionaires are keeping 22.2 percent of their
total net worth in cash, according to the Wealth-X Billionaire
Census. The group has also benefited from the recent surge in
so-called liquidity events from corporate acquisitions and
mergers. Altogether, their cash hoard is now roughly the size of
the Brazil’s GDP. “Billionaires are taking money off the table
where available, while uncertainties in the economy and the
historical highs found in deals have resulted in cash-flush
portfolios,” the report said. The firm’s findings are in line
with those from other recent surveys. A study released by UBS
last month said wealthy Americans are keeping around 20 percent
of their portfolios in cash, in line with their post-2008
average. More are considering reducing their exposure to the
markets because of uncertainty over the presidential election,
UBS said.
Wall Street bankers’ bonuses expected to decline
Reuters - Bankers, traders, and dealmakers on Wall Street will
face significant cuts in their bonuses, according to a report
from compensation consultant Johnson Associates. Year-end
compensation will fall 5-15 percent for investment bankers
consulting on mergers and acquisitions, the report said. Bankers
who help companies raise equity and debt are likely to lose up
to 25 percent of their bonuses. Both stock and bond traders
could have their compensation cut by as much as 15 percent. Wall
Street companies have seen bond trading revenue contracting for
about seven years, as new trading regulations are cutting
profits. Banks are also preparing to cut salaries and staff.
Citigroup, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs have cut staff in
order to maintain profit levels.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
America's farm animals could undergo mass vaccination as
producers move away from antibiotics
(NaturalNews) Recognizing that the future of antibiotics as an
adjunct to commercial animal husbandry is just one "superbug"
mutation away from an utter and catastrophic breakdown, the
pharmaceutical industry is busy developing the next phase of
drug-based "healthcare" for livestock: mass vaccination with an
ever-evolving pipeline of new vaccines. Elanco LLC, a unit of
drug giant Eli Lilly & Co., recently opened the doors to a new
48,000-square-foot facility located about 23 miles outside of
Indianapolis that's dedicated entirely to developing new
vaccines for the world's 70 billion farm animals, many of which
are currently fed huge amounts of antibiotics to make them
bigger and fatter prior to slaughter. Livestock animals account
for the bulk of antibiotic use, consuming some 80 percent of all
antibiotics currently in production. This is a multi-billion
dollar business for drug companies, especially in the U.S.,
which is why Big Pharma is now scrambling for an alternative as
the era of antibiotic misuse and abuse comes to a bitter end.
7 Reasons Why You Should Drink Green Tea Every Day!
David Wolfe - For thousands of years, cultures have been relying
on green tea to cure a number of ailments, both physical and
mental. Today, we know for a fact that they were onto something.
Let’s dive right into 7 proven benefits of drinking green tea
regularly. #1 – Brain Power - According to researchers at the
University of Basel in Switzerland, regular green tea drinkers
have increased activity in the parts of the brain that handle
memory. Specifically, green tea was found to increase the
communication between the frontal lobe and parietal lobe. #2 –
Diabetes Prevention/Treatment - According to the Pacific College
of Oriental Medicine, green tea contains polyphenols and
polysaccharides that lower blood sugar. #3 – Oral Health -
According to a study published in the Journal of Periodontology,
regular intake of green tea goes a long way towards promoting
healthy teeth and gums. The study reports that one’s risk of any
sort of oral disease decreases with each cup of green tea
consumed per day. What do we have to thank for this? A green tea
antioxidant called catechin. It works by warding off harmful
periodontal bacteria and reducing inflammation in the mouth. #4
– Body Weight Maintenance - According to a study published in
Physiology & Behavior, green tea can be a valuable part of any
weight loss plan. …epigallocatechin-3-gallate is responsible for
this; it increases your body’s amount of norepinephrine, a
hormone that instructs fat cells to break down fat. This broken
down fat is then, in turn, pushed into the bloodstream where it
becomes energy….
The truth comes out: Even low doses of BPA can damage your
reproductive health and nervous system
(NaturalNews) For years, the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) –
commonly found in plastic bottles, can linings and other
products – has been linked to a number of negative health
consequences, and now a new study has indicated that even in
small doses BPA can cause significant changes in metabolism as
well as affect the reproductive and nervous systems. Researchers
from the National Food Institute, Technical University of
Denmark found "reduced sperm count, obesity and changes to
breast development and behaviour" in rats who were given small
amounts of BPA, and believe that similar effects may occur in
humans. These effects were observed in low doses – in roughly
equivalent levels to what humans are exposed to on a daily
basis. From a university press release accompanying the study:
The results show that particularly low doses of bisphenol A
affect the development of the animals. The female rats that were
exposed to the lowest dose weighed more as adults, and their
behaviour had changed in a direction that resembled male
behaviour. This could indicate masculinization of the females'
brains. Male rats that were exposed to the lowest dose had
increased growth of mammary gland tissue, and decreased sperm
count as adults. These effects were not observed at the higher
bisphenol A doses. Mammary gland changes that could be
indicative of an early stage of breast cancer were observed in
aging rats exposed to the second lowest dose of bisphenol A.
Just How Gross is Double Dipping?
Natural Society - Double-dipping, for those unaware, is when one
dips a chip, takes a bite, and then dips their chip again. […]
Harvard researchers turn to a 2009 study at Clemson University
in which dip is carefully studied before and after someone dips
their chips into it. They found: “Bacterial counts in the dip
increased significantly after a person took a bite from a chip
and then dipped again. The number of bacteria contaminating the
dip varied depending on the dip – salsa had more bacteria after
double-dipping compared with chocolate or cheese dips (perhaps
due to differences in thickness and acidity of the dips).”… So
does this mean you’ll spread all of your nasty germs to other
party goers by double dipping? Harvard’s Healthbeat does say
that it can spread illness for sure, especially if the
double-dipping offender is sick or is about to get sick. This
means you’re better off with your own vat of salsa, or carefully
watching others to ensure that they don’t commit the cardinal
party sin.
Thursday - August
11, 2016 - Today In History:
1860 - The first successful silver mill in America began operations. The
mill was in Virginia City, NV.
1896 - Harvey Hubbell received a patent for the electric light bulb
socket with a pull-chain.
1909 - The American ship Arapahoe became the first to ever use the SOS
distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
1934 - Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, received federal prisoners for
the first time.
1941 - The Atlantic Charter was signed by U.S. President Franklin
Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1942 - During World War II, Pierre Laval publicly announced "the hour of
liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war."
1945 - The Allies informed Japan that they would determine Emperor
Hirohito's future status after Japan's surrender.
1965 - The U.S. conducted a second launch of "Surveyor-SD 2" for a
landing on the Moon surface test.
1975 - The U.S. vetoed the proposed admission of North and South Vietnam
to the United Nations. The Security Counsel had already refused to
consider South Korea's application.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio
broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of
the Soviet Union, "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I
just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin
bombing in five minutes."
1990 - Egyptian and Moroccan troops joined U.S. forces in Saudia Arabia
to help protect from a possible Iraqi attack.
1991 - The space shuttle Atlantis ended its nine-day journey by landing
safely.
1992 - In Bloomington, MN, the Mall of America opened. It was the
largest shopping mall in the United States.
1995 - All U.S. nuclear tests were banned by President Clinton.
1997 - U.S. President Clinton made the first use of the line-item veto
approved by Congress, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills.
1998 - British Petroleum became No. 3 among oil companies with the $49
billion purchase of Amoco. It was the largest foreign takeover of a U.S.
company.
2003 - In Kabul, NATO took command of the 5,000-strong peacekeeping
force in Afghanistan.
Russia Is Not The Aggressor In Ukraine
IsraeliNewsLive - Russia now facing Ukraine terrorism threats is
forced to move massive troops to its northern border of Crimea,
or at least that is what the world believes Russia’s troop
movement is for. Yet on tonight’s broadcast we reminded our
viewers of a report we shared back in March where Russian media
revealed the conversation between Petro Poroshenko and President
Erdogan. The plans included the joint effort to retake
Crimea.Perhaps Putin’s meeting with Erdogan discussed the
details and the sign for this preemptive strike. This may be the
real reason for such a mass troop movement. Pay attention BBC,
and CNN
Red Flag: Israel to Play in US War Games Alongside Pakistan, UAE
Sputnik News - In preparation for upcoming joint military
exercises at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, Israel has sent a
fleet of fighters and refueling jets to fly alongside US,
Pakistani, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) aircraft. Each year,
the US and its allies conduct a series of joint aerial combat
exercises known as Red Flag. Divided into two teams, a wide
range of fighter jets perform simulated dogfights over Nellis
Air Force Base. Israel isn’t the only Middle Eastern country
participating, as Pakistan and the UAE will join, along with the
United Kingdom, Australia, Turkey, Italy, and Spain. In addition
to air-to-air combat, exercises will also involve anti-aircraft
equipment. Speaking to the Times of Israel earlier this year, a
senior IAF official stressed that the benefits of international
drills are about diplomacy as much as military readiness. While
Israel maintains strong ties with the US, it has no formal
relationship with Pakistan and the UAE. Red Flag will also give
Washington a chance to showcase its F-35 Lightning II fighter,
deemed combat-ready earlier this month. This week, however,
reports surfaced that the US Air Force is still attempting to
fix the aircraft’s faulty ejection seat, which could put the
lives of pilots at risk.
Vietnam Secretly Moves israeli Rocket Launchers To Disputed
Islands To Counter China
Zero Hedge - ... Reuters reports that in a move that is likely
to substantially "raise tensions with Beijing", Vietnam has
secretly fortified several of its islands in the disputed
territory with Israeli-made EXTRA mobile rocket launchers
'capable of striking China's runways and military installations
across the vital trade route.".... The move, which analysts say
"is the most significant defensive move Vietnam has made on its
holdings in the South China Sea in decades", is designed to
counter China's build-up on its seven reclaimed islands in the
Spratlys archipelago.... Vietnam's concern is understandable:
China took its first Spratlys possessions after a sea battle
against Vietnam's then weak navy in 1988. After the battle,
Vietnam said 64 soldiers with little protection were killed as
they tried to protect a flag on South Johnson reef - an incident
still acutely felt in Hanoi.... And now that China has a
"credible" reason to further build up its military on the
various reefs and inslands in the contested territory, it will
do just that, making the likelihood of an all out military
conflict, whether intentional or accidental, that much higher,
further rising the possibility of an armed conflict in the
region involving not just the Pacific Rim nations, but the US on
one side, and Russia - as documented previously - on China's.
Photos Confirm U.K. Special Forces Protecting Terrorists In
Syria
Brandon Turbeville - On August 8, 2016 the BBC published
photographs and reported on yet another illegal incursion into
Syria by Western NATO forces and yet another violation of Syrian
national sovereignty by the United Kingdom. This time, the
photographs show British Special Forces operating on the ground
inside Syria in al-Tanf, near the Syrian-Iraq border, an area
that is also near the Jordanian border. The pictures themselves
date back to June of this year and appear to have been taken
shortly after a battle at al-Tanf between the New Syrian Army
and ISIS, both Western-backed terrorist organizations. The
British soldiers are photographed allegedly setting up a
perimeter in order to guard the NSA base from further incursion
by ISIS.
Over 6,000 Migrants Sue Germany For Taking Too Long With Asylum
Claims
Breitbart - After receiving over one million new migrants
looking to claim asylum in 2015, the German Federal Office for
Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has been unable to shift a
significant backlog of cases to process. The agency has long
been troubled with extended waiting periods to deal with asylum
claims, with the average waiting time being around five to six
months. Complex cases in which migrants do not have passports or
identification can take even longer. Now many migrants are
dissatisfied with the wait and are looking to lawyers to bring
suits against the government, reports German magazine Focus
Online. Over 6,000 migrants have made formal complaints to BAMF
over the speed with which their asylum claims have been handled,
and they are actively suing the government body over what they
are calling “inactivity” on the agency’s part.
Swedish Church Wants to Drop Bibles in Daesh Territory by Drone
Middle East
Sputnik News - In a questionable strategy for missionary work, a
Swedish evangelical church plans to use military UAVs to airdrop
thousands of electronic copies of the Christian Bible over
Syria…. The Bibles will be “pillbox”-size and battery-powered.
They will be dropped by a private contractor that, presumably,
has clearance to operate in Syrian airspace. Critics have
pointed out that using military drones doesn’t exactly send a
welcoming message. For those on the ground, being unable to
differentiate the Bible from a Hellfire missile doesn’t bode
well for a successful promotional pitch.
Argentina Has a “City of Death” Thanks to Monsanto
Natural Blaze - Monte Maíz, a city in Argentina, has five times
the rates of miscarriages and cancer than among half the world’s
population – all eyes are on glyphosate. Here’s the scary part –
they only have a population of around 8,500 people. Furthermore,
lung cancer accounts for 40% of the deaths there, and Monsanto’s
glyphosate-based herbicide is said to be the direct cause…. In
Monte Maíz, dubbed “the city of death,” where, tucked within,
are 22 hangars with equipment for spraying pesticides. Herbicide
spray vehicles apparently drive through the city streets
polluting the city air. Argentine pharmacist Carlos Vicente
described the spraying saying “this is the worst…” and called
for the removal of the hangars and reconsideration of this
toxicity…. As of 2014, cancer deaths had doubled in Argentine
agro-cities. It looks like Monsanto has gone much too far in
Argentina, since reports of death are now visible after profuse
spraying – meaning that the retort of “correlation doesn’t equal
causation” simply won’t cut it here. Additionally, the people of
Argentina are making a lot of noise – they are not going
quietly. Protests of various forms have been going on for a few
years. Monsanto has foolishly lashed back and wants royalties,
but the people aren’t having it. Furthermore, the government
appears to be on the people’s side.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
The murder of 27-year-old Seth Rich - suspected of leaking the
20,000 DNC emails - takes a sinister turn as anti-Clinton forces
suggest Bill and Hillary were involved
The Daily Mail - The mystery surrounding the murder of rising
Democrat star Seth Rich took a sudden sinister turn Wednesday
with claims that he was responsible for the email dump that
brought down close Hillary Clinton ally Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz. Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks, the
organization that released the emails, announced a $20,000
reward for information leading to Rich's July 10 death, hinting
that Rich was responsible for leaking the documents. Assange's
offer has also added fuel to the flames of conspiracy theories
sweeping the Internet that the Democratic presidential candidate
and her husband Bill were somehow involved in Rich's death….
Hillary Clinton has suggested that Russia was responsible for
hacking party computers and leaking the documents. But the new
theory suggests Rich, who was murdered in what looked like a
botched robbery, was behind the leak… Rich's body was found on
the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW, but he still had his watch,
cell phone and wallet on him. 'There had been a struggle. His
hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised,
and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took
anything,' his mother Mary told Washington's NBC affiliate.
* Related:
The Clinton Body-Count
Latest Hillary Email Scandal Reveals State Department "Favors"
To Clinton Foundation
Zero Hedge - …Judicial Watch released 296 pages of new emails
from Hillary's personal server, most of which were not handed
over as part of the 30,000 emails originally provided to the
FBI. The emails were provided to Judicial Watch pursuant to a
FOIA request. These new emails, among other things, demonstrate
how the Clinton Foundation and it's top donors sought favors
from the State Department within 3 months of Hillary taking the
Secretary of State position…. The first request for a "favor"
came in April 2009, just 3 months after Hillary was confirmed as
Secretary of State on January 21, 2009. The request came from
Doug Band, a long-time adviser to Bill Clinton who helped him
setup the Clinton Foundation after his Presidency. Per the email
exchange, Mr. Band reached out the State Department to ask a
"favor" on behalf of a person who the Clinton Foundation had
recently setup with a trip to Haiti which he found "eye-opening"
(the name of the person seeking the favor was redacted from the
email exchange). Another request came from Gilbert Chagoury, a
long-time associate of the Clintons with a checkered past….
Chagoury is known for his ties to Nigeria’s military dictator,
Sani Abacha, who was instrumental in helping him secure some
lucrative construction contracts in the mid-90s. In 2003,
Chagoury helped organize a trip to the Caribbean where former
President Bill Clinton was "paid" $100,000 for a speech.
Chagoury has also made contributions to the Clinton Foundation
of between $1-$5 million…. In yet another email, Clinton chief
of staff Cheryl Mills wrote to Hillary to inform her that the
NSA was working on a modified blackberry that could be used for
personal emails while working in restricted State Department
offices. Even though Clinton thought this was "good news" she
continued to just use her personal server anyway.
Arkansas sheriff's deputy shot dead responding to disturbance
call, suspect arrested
Fox News - Sebastian County Deputy Bill Cooper, who had been
shot in the neck, was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon at
Sparks Hospital in Fort Smith.... Hackett Chief of Police
Darrell Spells earlier was treated and released from the
hospital after being grazed in the forehead by a bullet....
Billy Monroe Jones, 34, was identified as the accused gunman and
taken into custody shortly before noon, nearly five hours after
the shooting at Jones' home east of Hackett, near the Oklahoma
border"We have limited information as to why this has happened,"
Hollenbeck said, adding that investigators are "looking into"
the possibility that this was a planned attack. [Sebastian
County Sheriff Bill ] Hollenbeck said Jones had gone to his
father's house earlier Wednesday to take some tools. At some
point, Jones pointed a gun at his father, who called 911. The
sheriff added that Jones was due to appear in court today for a
hearing on whether a previous suspended sentence should be
revoked. "Jones wanted to cause what was told to us as a
'ruckus,'" Hollenbeck said. Cooper and Spells were among
officers who found Jones with a rifle and body armor when they
went to his home.
Baltimore officials, Justice Department promise sweeping
overhaul of city police
Washington Post - Baltimore’s top law enforcement and political
leaders on Wednesday vowed a sweeping overhaul of the city
Police Department after a searing rebuke of the agency’s
practices, which the Justice Department said regularly
discriminated against black residents in poor communities.
Officials promised improved community relations, a purge of
race-based policing and a modernized department that better
trains officers and holds them accountable. But they warned that
reforming an agency entrenched in a culture of unconstitutional
policing would be a slow process and could cost millions of
dollars.
Ten Year Study Finds Nearly 7,000 People Died in Texas Jails and
Police Custody
Activist Post - A new report on Texas in-custody deaths,
released by the Texas Justice Initiative, showed that nearly
7,000 inmates died between 2005 and 2015. The study compiled
data reported by law enforcement and jail officials. It looked
at totals by suicide, homicide, natural causes and illness.
Texas has an unusually high number of in-custody deaths;
unfortunately, it is not outside the norm nationally…. Texas
averaged over 623 deaths per day over the ten-year period. The
number of in-custody deaths peaked in 2015, when there were 683
deaths. The number of pre-booking deaths – meaning between the
time the person is arrested and when they are checked into jail
– rose by 84%.
'He is the founder of ISIS, okay?' Now Trump repeatedly claims
Obama deserves credit for creating the terror army and calls
Hillary its 'co-founder' - as he deploys an array of new signs
in Florida
The Daily Mail - Donald Trump claimed Wednesday night during a
raucous south Florida campaign rally that President Barack Obama
and his first secretary of state Hillary Clinton were the
'founder' and 'co-founder' of the ISIS terror army.
His stunning claim came at the end of a pointed lecture
recounting the conditions that led the regional militant group
called al-Qaeda in Iraq to grow its ambitions – and blaming the
president for creating the power vacuum that terrorists rushed
in to fill.
House Speaker Paul Ryan Wins His Primary
Breitbart - The Associated Press called the race at around 8:30
p.m. — just half an hour after the polls closed. With 28.4
percent reporting, Ryan was leading 85 percent to Nehlen’s 15
percent. Nehlen was expected to lose the race against Ryan but
experienced a surge of interest after Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump praised the long-shot candidate. The final
point margin between the two candidates remains unclear.
Nehlen’s campaign gathered interest around the nation for his
anti-globalist, anti-establishment message, similar to that of
Donald Trump. Trump, however, endorsed Ryan last Friday to
signal party unity.
Photo: Hillary Clinton Propped Up by Man to Keep From Falling
Over While Making Campaign Speech
The Gateway Pundit - A photo from April shows now-Democratic
Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton being firmly held up
by a man on her right side to keep her from falling over as she
addressed an overflow crowd during a campaign stop in Los
Angeles, while a man on her left side is seen urgently extending
his arm to aid in propping up Clinton. The man holding Clinton
up has one hand clasping her right hand and his other hand
grasping her bicep. Clinton is leaning forward speaking to the
crowd using a microphone held in her left hand…. Another photo
taken by Ralston from the same perspective shows Clinton was
standing on a large, square concrete platform meant for sitting
that was wide enough to hold several standing people. Clinton is
seen standing alone and unaided in that photo. It is not clear
what made Clinton lose her balance such that two men had to rush
to keep her from falling down.
Fresh Off His Campaign to Make Socialism Great Again, Bernie
Sanders Buys $600,000 Summer House
Independent Journal Review - After losing to Hillary Clinton,
Bernie Sanders is back to his day job as a US Senator for
Vermont. Sanders campaigned against the 1%, promising to bring
America closer to his Democratic Socialist ideal and to take
corporations and rich people down a peg or two. But now that his
campaign is over, he’s picking up a sweet new pad. According to
Seven Days, a news publication in Vermont, the Democratic
Socialist from Vermont shelled out 600 grand for a lake
house.... Sanders’ new waterfront crib has four bedrooms and 500
feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island
— facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in
Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.... Congrats to
Senator Sanders. The lake house looks lovely, especially as a
third home.
Detroit VA Hospital Spent $300,000 On Never-Used Televisions
The New American - A new report from the Detroit Department of
Veterans Affairs inspector general (IG) reveals that the Detroit
VA hospital spent over $300,000 on televisions that were
ultimately placed in storage and never used. This is just one of
many revelations related to the VA’s abuse of funds that have
been exposed following the initial VA scandal…. The IG’s August
9 report substantiates the allegation and finds that the
televisions were purchased simply because funds were
“available.” Furthermore, the warranties have all now lapsed.
The televisions were to be used for a new patient area that had
not even been built at the time — and indeed, has still not been
built. Further, the IG learned that the wrong TVs were ordered.
Though the contractor and officials at the VA agreed to have
Ethernet hookups in the patient area, the VA ordered TVs with
cable hook-ups instead…. Rather than returning the TVs,
officials at the VA decided to pay the contractors to install
cable. The IG stated, “The TVs and related accessories should
have been purchased closer to the award date of the construction
contract…. Despite claims by VA facilities that they do not have
the necessary funding to provide appropriate care for their
patients, this report’s findings accentuate that the real
problem is a brazen indifference toward the use of taxpayer
dollars that could be better spent elsewhere. And the 300
televisions are just one example.
20 Months, 90 Bankruptcies In North-American Oil & Gas
OilPrice.com - A report published earlier this month by Haynes
and Boone found that ninety gas and oil producers in the United
States (US) and Canada have filed for bankruptcy from 3 January,
2015 to 1 August, 2016. Approximately US$66.5 billion in
aggregate debt has been declared in dozens of bankruptcy cases
including Chapter 7, Chapter 11 and Chapter 15, based on the
analysis from the international corporate law firm. Texas leads
the number of bankruptcy filings with 44 during the time period
measured by Haynes and Boone, and also has the largest number of
debt declared in courts with around US$29.5 billion. Forty-two
energy companies filed bankruptcy in 2015 and declared
approximately US$17.85 billion in defaulted debt. The costliest
bankruptcy filing last year occurred in September when Samson
Resources filed for Chapter 11 protection with an accumulated
debt of roughly US$4.2 billion…. The main factors behind the
rise in bankruptcies is the fall in the price of oil, hurting
companies that over expanded with cheap debt. Haynes and Boone
researchers expect the number to bankruptcies to keep increasing
in the months ahead due to the low price of oil.The main factors
behind the rise in bankruptcies is the fall in the price of oil,
hurting companies that over expanded with cheap debt. Haynes and
Boone researchers expect the number to bankruptcies to keep
increasing in the months ahead due to the low price of oil.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Just "Revised" Away Obama's
"Fastest" Wage Growth Since The Crisis
Zero Hedge - Back February 2016, Obama took to the stage at a
press conference to boast about job growth and "most
importantly" how the stronger job market was "finally starting
to translate into bigger paychecks." He also took the
opportunity to jab at Republicans saying the strong jobs data
was "inconvenient for Republican stump speeches" as they
continued their "doom and despair tour.".... In yet another
stunning tribute to the "accuracy" and "consistency" of economic
data being reported by our government agencies, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics yesterday reported a massive downward revision
of the 1Q 2016 YoY [Year over Year] real wage growth from +4.2%
to -0.4% (a 4.6% swing). But we wouldn't worry much about it
because the revisions resulted in only "small" changes in the
underlying data according to the BLS.... Revisions to
manufacturing wages and durable manufacturing wages were even
worse. Real manufacturing YoY wage growth was revised from +2.8%
to -4.3% (a 7.1% swing) while real durable manufacturing YoY
wage growth was revised from +1.9% to -5.6% (a 7.5% swing)....
Adding to the "inconvenience," 2Q 2016 real wage growth didn't
look much better declining -1.1% QoQ [Quarter over Quarter].
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Farmer Forced By USDA Board To Dump Cherry Crop On Ground
Off the Grid News - The Michigan farmer, Marc Santucci, posted a
picture to Facebook July 26 showing thousands of cherries on the
ground, hours from rotting, because of an order from a board
that is overseen by the US Department of Agriculture. He said he
was forced to dump 14 percent of his crop, and other farmers as
much as 30 percent…. “These cherries are beautiful,” Santucci
wrote on his Facebook page. “But, we have to dump 14 percent of
our tart cherry crop on the ground to rot. Why? So we can allow
the import of 200 million pounds of cherries from overseas! It
just doesn’t seem right.” At issue is something called the
Cherry Industry Administrative Board (CIAB), which determines
the percentage of cherry crops that can be placed in the market.
The board’s order has the force of law, and farmers are
prohibited from selling more than the percentage that is set….
Supporters of the board say the rules keep prices stable…. “Last
year the cherry farmer received between $.32 and $.37 for a
pound of cherries,” Santucci wrote. “This year it looks like it
will be between $.16 and $.20 of the cherries we are allowed to
sell. How stable does that look? And assuming next year we have
a normal harvest, the situation will not get any better. “The
reality is that as long as imports are allowed to come into the
market freely any attempt to support prices above the cost of
the foreign producer will be futile,” he added.
Illegal spraying of Monsanto's new glyphosate-dicamba cocktail
is destroying crops on neighboring farms
(NaturalNews) Farmers throughout the Midwest are having to
battle a new pest that's not a weed or an insect, but an illegal
chemical manufactured by the Monsanto Company as a pairing for
"2 Xtend," the next generation of genetically-modified organism
(GMO) that requires even more and harsher chemicals than first
generation Roundup Ready crops. Known as dicamba, the new
chemical hasn't been approved by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) for use with glyphosate on Monsanto's Roundup Ready
2.0 seeds. But because the multinational corporation has already
begun selling 2 Xtend seeds to farmers, some of them are
bootlegging older versions of dicamba to keep their crops in
check, and many of their neighbors are suffering as a result.
That's because the type of dicamba farmers are mixing with
glyphosate to try to match the glyphosate-dicamba cocktail that
Monsanto hopes to eventually release, pending EPA approval, is a
heavy drifter, meaning it easily spreads to nearby crop fields.
Monsanto claims that its patented formula doesn't do this, but
the old one does, and it's wreaking havoc all over the place.
More than 100 complaints have been filed thus far by farmers in
both Missouri and Arkansas, claiming that dicamba drift from
nearby farms is destroying their crops. Dicamba is an
ultra-potent herbicide, and unless a crop has been
genetically-engineered to resist it, it kills almost anything
with which it comes into contact.
350,000 People Call on Gov. Brown to Stop Irrigating Crops With
Oil Wastewater
EcoWatch -The wastewater, sold by Chevron and California
Resources Corporation, is now being used to irrigate more than
90,000 acres in the Cawelo Irrigation District and the North
Kern Water Management District and is slated to expand in the
near future to other districts. The group, which included
Assemblymember Mike Gatto, UCSF nurse practitioner Lisa
Hartmayer, Center for Biological Diversity scientist John
Fleming and California consumers, delivered a petition with more
than 350,000 signatures, gathered around the state and nation,
calling for an immediate halt to the practice. California
produces almost half of the fruits, nuts and vegetables that
feed the U.S. and more than 100 farms in the Central Valley use
oil wastewater for irrigation. Some of the U.S.' most popular
brands grow food in the Cawelo and North Kern water districts,
including Trinchero Family Estates (makers of Sutter Home
wines), Halos Mandarins (formerly known as Cuties) and The Wine
Group (makers of Cupcake and Fish Eye wines)…. Some of the
chemicals used in oil operations are linked to cancer, kidney
failure, reproductive issues and liver damage. No comprehensive
and independent analysis has been conducted to assess the safety
of the wastewater. Oil-industry wastewater can contain high
levels of benzene and other cancer-causing chemicals. State oil
officials' own study detected benzene levels in oil wastewater
at thousands of times the federal limits for drinking water.
New Study: Sandalwood has DNA-destroying abilities against
breast cancer
(NaturalHealth365) Research published just a few months ago
points to how sandalwood heals breast cancer cells at the
deepest level. The research is stunning… In the published
report, the researchers named three proteins in particular –
Ku70, Ku80, EPHX1, and 14-3-3 – as producing “single and double
strand breaks” in the MCF-7 breast cancer cells. This was the
first study to claim that sandalwood has not only “cytotoxic”
effects, but also a “genotoxic” effects as well and the first to
name the specific molecular pathways through which this
genotoxicity could be expressed…. Although the University of
Texas study is considered groundbreaking, it is actually not the
first to point to the unique way sandalwood effects cancer. The
study dovetails on a previous project that occurred at the
University of Oklahoma in 2014 which compared the different ways
that sandalwood and frankincense oils affected human bladder
cancer cells. The U of O researchers acknowledged that both were
potent against cancer in general, but in drastically different
ways…. “While frankincense essential oil elicited selective
cancer cell death via … oxidative stress, sandalwood essential
oil induced non-selective cell death via DNA damage and cell
cycle arrest.”
The Benefits of Organic Hemp Milk and How to Make Your Own
Natural News Blogs - There is a reason why so many health nuts
are going – well, nutty – over hemp milk. The number of
nutrients and other healthful compounds in a single glass is
amazing. This dairy alternative will provide the body with:
Vitamins like Vitamin A, E, B-12, folate and riboflavinMinerals
like calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, iron and zincAll 10
essential amino acidsProtein (4 grams per serving)Omega-3 and
Omega-6 fatty acids Being this nutrient-rich, it is no wonder
that hemp milk provides so many health benefits as well! Because
of these nutrients, hemp milk can help to strengthen the body’s
immune system, develop glowing skin as well as strong and
healthy hair and nails, a healthy heart and sharper cognitive
skills, including learning and memory…. Ingredients : 1 cup
shelled organic hemp seeds, 5-6 cups purified water [and] raw
organic honey to taste. Directions: Add shelled seeds and the
water to a blender and process together until smooth. It is okay
to use more or less water than the amount given, depending on
the desired texture: more water will make the drink lighter,
while less will give it a smoother and creamier taste. After
this is done, add the honey to taste and process again. Decant
into a pitcher and refrigerate. This will keep up to 3 days.
Be Aware: This Popular Landscape Plant Can Kill Pets in Minutes
Dr. Becker - Many pet parents don't realize how deadly the oleander
plant can be if ingested by humans, dogs, cats, birds, horses, cows, and
other animals…. The common oleander (Nerium oleander) and the yellow
oleander (Thevetia peruviana) belong to the dogbane family of plants.
The common oleander (which I'll refer to hereafter as simply the
oleander) is the prevalent species in the U.S., and is found primarily
in warm regions of the south and southwest, California, and Hawaii….
Every part of the oleander plant, including the roots, stems, leaves,
flowers, seeds, fruit, sap and nectar, contains naturally-occurring
cardiac glycosides, which are toxins that directly affect the
electrolyte balance within the heart muscle. Even water in which
oleander leaves are floating contains these toxins. The roots and stems
of the plant contain the highest amount of cardiac glycosides, followed
by the leaves and flowers…. Other plants known to contain glycosides
include dogbane, giant milkweed, foxglove (from which the human drug
digoxin is extracted), kalanchoe, lily of the valley, milkweed, and Star
of Bethlehem…. If you happen to live in Texas, Arizona, Nevada, or
California, where oleander grows wild and is also a popular landscape
plant, you should watch off-leash pets carefully. One of my clients who
runs an animal shelter in Austin tells me she keeps very high potency
homeopathic Nux vomica on hand, which has proven to be very beneficial
in cases of oleander poisoning. She gives the remedy immediately —
usually en route to the emergency animal hospital.
Signs Your Pet May Be Dehydrated
Dr. Becker - One of the simplest ways to determine if your pet needs to
drink more water is to lift some skin at the back of her neck, then let
it go. In a well-hydrated animal, the skin will quickly fall back into
place. If your pet is dehydrated, however, the skin will fall slower and
may stay in a tent formation. You can also check your pet’s gums; they
should be moist and slick. If your pet’s gums are dry or sticky, she
probably needs more water. Also, if you press on your pet’s gums, they
should turn white and then quickly turn back to pink when you remove
your finger. If the gums take awhile to regain their pink color, your
pet may be dehydrated. Other signs of dehydration include: Fatigue, Loss
of appetite. Panting (dogs), Sunken or dry eyes, dry nose and gums,
Constipation. Signs of severe dehydration include weakness and
difficulty walking. If your pet is severely dehydrated, get to an
emergency veterinary center right away, as your pet will need to be
given fluids intravenously or subcutaneously.
Wednesday - August
10, 2016 - Today In History:
1821 - Missouri became the 24th state to join the Union.
1846 - The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress.
The "Nation's Attic" was made possible by $500,000 given by scientist
Joseph Smithson.
1859 - In Boston, MA, the first milk inspectors were appointed.
1881 - Thomas Edison's exhibit opened the Paris Electrical Exhibition.
1885 - The first electric streetcar, to be used commercially, was
operated in Baltimore, MD, by Leo Daft.
1914 - Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.
1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.
1927 - Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of
the presidents were dedicated later.
1944 - U.S. forces defeated the remaining Japanese resistance on Guam.
1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced
they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor
Hirohito would remain unchanged.
1949 - In the U.S., the National Military Establishment had its name
changed to the Department of Defense.
1954 - Construction began on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed a measure that provided $20,000
payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government
during World War II.
1993 - A massive deficit-reduction bill was signed into law by U.S.
President Bill Clinton.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he
asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual
harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 - Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court
decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the
anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
US sends $50mn worth of weapons to Lebanon as aid against
terrorism
RT - The US has delivered a new shipment of weapons and military
equipment to Lebanon in an attempt to bolster the Middle Eastern
nation in countering extremists and militant groups from
neighboring war-torn Syria. The shipment provided to the
Lebanese army by the US includes 50 armored vehicles, 40
artillery pieces, and 50 grenade launchers. This new $50 million
package brings US military aid to Lebanon to $220 million this
year, Reuters reports, citing the US ambassador to Lebanon,
Elizabeth Richard. The US handed three military helicopters over
to the Lebanese army in March, while the UK promised to provide
training for Lebanon’s Land Border Regiments. The UK is to spend
$30 million to train Lebanese troops in special “urban
counterterrorism” techniques over three years. In the meantime,
Saudi Arabia, a traditional financial supporter of Lebanon, has
announced that it is suspending a $3 billion aid package for
Lebanese security forces because of what it called Beirut’s
failure to condemn attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran
in January. The move has raised concerns in the US, prompting it
to discuss the issue with the Saudis in early March.
U.S. Approves $1.15 Billion Sale of Tanks, Other Equipment to
Saudi Arabia
Reuters - The U.S. State Department has approved the potential
sale of more than 130 Abrams battle tanks, 20 armored recovery
vehicles and other equipment, worth about $1.15 billion, to
Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The approval for
land force equipment comes at a time when Saudi Arabia is
leading a military coalition in support of Yemeni forces loyal
to the exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi who
are trying to oust Iran-allied Houthi forces from the capital,
Sanaa. The coalition’s air strikes have come under criticism
from rights groups for the deaths of civilians. The U.S. Defense
Security Cooperation Agency, which oversees foreign arms sales,
said that General Dynamics will be the principal contractor for
the sale, adding it would contribute to U.S. national security
by improving the security of a regional partner. “This sale will
increase the Royal Saudi Land Force’s (RSLF) interoperability
with U.S. forces and conveys U.S. commitment to Saudi Arabia’s
security and armed forces modernization,” the agency said in a
notice to lawmakers posted on its website.
Hungarian Voters Get Wage Increases By Blocking Arab Migration
Breitbart - Broad public opposition in Hungary to Arab migration
is boosting Hungarians’ take-home wages because employers are
facing a shortage of workers amid good economic growth. With no
migration, and “with unemployment at a record low …
[Hungarians’] average monthly salaries after taxes rose 8.4
percent in January-May compared with last year,” according to
Bloomberg‘s coverage of the small country, which is wedged
between Serbia and Austria in southeastern Europe. More pay
increases are pending…. That’s a huge contrast from the United
States, where both political parties support immigration
policies that annually import roughly one new foreign worker for
every two Americans who turn 18. That yearly flood of extra
workers lowers Americans’ lifetime wages — while also raising
profits for corporate donors.
Suicide bomber kills at least 70 at Pakistan hospital, ISIS
claims responsibility
Reuters - A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people
and wounded more than 100 on Monday in an attack on mourners
gathered at a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta, and
Islamic State claimed responsibility. The bomber struck as a
crowd of mostly lawyers and journalists crammed into the
emergency department to accompany the body of a prominent lawyer
who had been shot and killed in the city earlier in the day,
Faridullah, a reporter who was among the wounded, told Reuters.
Abdul Rehman Miankhel, a senior official at the government-run
Civil Hospital, where the explosion occurred, told reporters
that at least 70 people had been killed, with more than 112
wounded.
Germany's Migrant Rape Crisis Spirals Out Of Control
Gatestone Institute - Sexual violence in Germany has reached
epidemic proportions since Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed into
the country more than one million mostly male migrants from
Africa, Asia and the Middle East…. Germany's migrant rape crisis
has now spread to cities and towns in all 16 of Germany's
federal states. Germany is effectively under siege; public
spaces are becoming increasingly perilous. Police have warned
about a potential breakdown of public order this summer, when
young male migrants are likely to see women lightly dressed.
During the month of July 2016, hundreds of German women and
children were sexually assaulted by migrants (see Appendix
below). The youngest victim was nine; the oldest, 79. Attacks
occurred at beaches, bike trails, cemeteries, discotheques,
grocery stores, music festivals, parking garages, playgrounds,
schools, shopping malls, taxis, public transportation (buses,
trams, intercity express trains and subways), public parks,
public squares, public swimming pools and public restrooms.
Predators are lurking everywhere; safety nowhere.
Texas Confirms Its First Zika Fatality
Breitbart - The State of Texas confirmed its first Zika-related
fatality in Harris County, shortly after an infant was born
whose mother recently traveled to Latin America. This marks the
second death in the United States…. Harris County Public Health
(HCPH) officials stated the baby girl died shortly after being
born. The baby tested positive for the virus and exhibited Zika-linked
birth defects including microcephaly, the condition where babies
are born with small heads and deformed brains.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Obama’s Offering of Largest Military Aid Package
Ever Is Not Enough for Israel
Sputnik News - Last week, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Joseph Dunford met with his Israeli counterpart at the
Pentagon to discuss the new multi-billion-dollar military
assistance package currently in negotiation between the Obama
and Netanyahu administrations. The package, proposed by the
White House, calls for an unprecedented $40 billion in military
aid over the next ten years, the single largest appropriation of
foreign financial aid in world history, and significantly higher
than the previous $30-billion agreement signed 10 years ago. The
Netanyahu Administration remains adamant that they will hold out
for the best possible deal in light of geopolitical developments
in Turkey and Syria that have resulted in a winnowing of
America’s regional allies and its subsequent ability to project
influence into the Middle East. The Israeli PM expressed
unwillingness earlier in the year to accept anything less than
$50 billion over the next ten years.
Missile Defense Program Accused of Wasting $40 Billion
AllGov - The development of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense
missile system began in 2002 with an initial goal of operational
capability by late 2004. Today, the system has a pitiful test
record and no demonstrated ability to stop an incoming missile.
Ultimately, the taxpayer funded program has resulted in an
excessive expenditure with no recorded operational capacity.
Fifteen years and $40 billion later, we are left with an
unreliable anti-ballistic missile system and a gaping hole in
our pockets.
Two Benghazi Parents Sue Hillary Clinton for Wrongful Death,
Defamation
NBC News - The parents of two Americans killed in the 2012
terrorist attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi,
Libya, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court Monday
against Hillary Clinton. In the suit, Patricia Smith and Charles
Woods, the parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, claim that
Clinton's use of a private e-mail server contributed to the
attacks. They also accuse her of defaming them in public
statements. Smith was an information management officer and
Woods was a security officer, both stationed in Benghazi.
Creative Masterminds Behind ‘Batman,’ ‘The Hulk,’ and ‘Suicide
Squad’ Join Forces with ‘Clinton Cash’ for Graphic Novel
Breitbart - Inspired by Schweizer’s New York Times bestseller
Clinton Cash, Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel—adapted by Chuck
Dixon and Brett R. Smith—retells in high-definition detail how
Bill and Hillary Clinton auctioned U.S. policies to foreign
companies and Clinton Foundation donors in exchange for hundreds
of millions of dollars in donations and public speaking fees.
Comic book legend Chuck Dixon said he was attracted to the
Clinton Cash project because of the book’s important
investigative revelations. “[Clinton Cash] was a story that
needed to be told, and I thought I could bring my talents to
bear to reach a larger audience in new media,” Dixon told
SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday.
Donald Trump 'dangerous' say 50 Republican major US national
security figures
The Telegraph - Fifty senior US Republican national security
officials have said Donald Trump would be "the most reckless
president in American history" as the billionaire's opponents
within the party launched a former CIA officer as an alternative
candidate. In a letter to the New York Times a group including
people who served in George W Bush's cabinet, said Mr. Trump
lacked the "character, values and experience" needed for the
White House and would "put at risk our country’s national
security and well-being."
Trump Blasts RINOs who Attacked Him: ‘They are the ones who
allowed rise of ISIS’
Adan Salazar - Former national security officials, including
desperate remnants of the George W. Bush administration, wrote a
letter opposing a Trump presidency, declaring, “None of us will
vote for Donald Trump.” “From a foreign policy perspective,
Donald Trump is not qualified to be President and
Commander-in-Chief,” the letter reads. “Indeed, we are convinced
that he would be a dangerous President and would put at risk our
country’s national security and well-being.” “We are convinced
that in the Oval Office, he would be the most reckless President
in American history.” Rather than attacking them outright, the
Trump campaign instead thanked the 50 Republicans for coming out
of the woodworks and exposing themselves to the American people.
“The names on this letter are the ones the American people
should look to for answers on why the world is a mess, and we
thank them for coming forward so everyone in the country knows
who deserves the blame for making the world such a dangerous
place,” the Trump camp responded. “They are nothing more than
the failed Washington elite looking to hold onto their power,
and it’s time they are held accountable for their actions.”
Fed and State Raid on Union IBEW & Hillary Campaign Office
(Video)
The Political Insider - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
agents have sized a massive truckload of financial records from
a large Philadelphia-area labor union which supports Hillary
Clinton. As the video shows (below) the entire raid was
conducted in front of their large “Hillary for President”
campaign sign for the 2016 presidential election. It appears the
suspects in question have close ties to Hillary Clinton: Video
of the raid posted to YouTube shows FBI agents carrying the
boxes from the front door of the union hall, right below a huge
“Hillary for President” sign. The national IBEW union endorsed
Clinton’s presidential bid in June. According to NBC
Philadelphia’s report, the raids also targeted “two rowhouses, a
pub, … and the political offices of a City Councilman.” A common
link for all the search sites became clear immediately: the
city’s most influential labor union, IBEW Local 98, and its
powerful leader known by the moniker Johnny Doc. The FBI
confirmed by mid-morning that the searches and subsequent
seizures of enough boxes to fill an actual rental truck were
part of an “ongoing investigation,” apparently into the
Philadelphia local for the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers. John Dougherty, who played a major role in
getting Mayor Jim Kenney elected last year and at the same time
helped his brother Kevin win a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court, paced outside his home as agents searched inside.
Dougherty and Kenney both attended “a very private meeting with
Secretary Clinton” in April, Dougherty said in a statement at
the time. “We talked with Ms. Clinton for 20 minutes about her
support of Pre-Apprenticeship Programs, diversity in the
workforce, and Project Labor Agreements,” he revealed. “It was a
quick but great meeting and we appreciated Secretary Clinton’s
time and attention to our issues.”
Orlando Terrorist’s Father Cheers at Hillary Clinton Rally;
Calls For Gun Control
Breitbart - Seddique Mateen, the father of the Orlando nightclub
shooter, attended a Hillary Clinton rally in Kissimmee, Florida,
placing himself prominently behind the presidential candidate as
she spoke to supporters…. When reporters asked Mateen why he
supported Clinton, he replied, “Hillary Clinton is good for
United States versus Donald Trump, who has no solutions. He
showed reporters a sign he made in support of Clinton, calling
for more gun control laws.
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Adviser to Pro-Hillary Super PAC: Campaign Needs To
Disavow Mateen and ‘Fire the Advance Person’
Media Photoshops Hillary Crowd to Make Her Audience Look Bigger
Paul Joseph Watson - A tweet entitled ‘WATCH LIVE: Clinton holds
Fla. rally after major Trump speech’ was illustrated by a
picture of Hillary giving a speech surrounded by a large crowd
of people. However, the image is obviously a mock up, with
groups of people layered into the shot. The real crowd at the
event looked somewhat less sizeable and a lot less enthusiastic.
“A couple of hundred people showed up [door count puts the
number at 171] within a St. Petersburg venue capable of holding
in excess of 4,000 without seating,” points out the Conservative
Treehouse. The media’s apparent effort to artificially inflate
the size of Hillary’s crowds is noteworthy given that Donald
Trump has consistently accused the press of refusing to show the
huge attendances at his own rallies, as seen in the footage
below.
Social Security’s looming $32 trillion shortfall
CNBC News - A projection, known as the "infinite horizon," takes
into account all the program's future liabilities, even those
beyond the 75-year period that Social Security actuaries
typically use in their calculations. Under the infinite horizon,
Social Security will have $32.1 trillion in unfunded liabilities
by 2090, $6.3 trillion more than last year's projection. The
infinite horizon calculation is the most important part of the
trustees' annual report, said Laurence Kotlikoff, a Boston
University economics professor and co-author of "Get What's
Yours," a best-seller about how to maximize claiming Social
Security retirement benefits. "We're not broke in 20 years to 30
years, we're broke now," Kotlikoff said. "All the bills have
been kept off the books by Congress and presidential
administrations for six decades."
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Genetically engineered coconuts now invading U.S.
(NaturalNews) Biotechnology firms have already begun to work
their evil in laboratories to create agronomic traits for
coconuts so that they are resistant to insect pests,
particularly the larvae of moths and butterflies. Right now, in
Vietnam, genetically modified coconuts are being rolled out to
change the characteristics of the composition of the fatty acids
(the oil). Not only are field trials underway, but somehow, GM
coconuts have found their way into American foods, including
dessert items. Research projects are claiming that the
genetically mutated coconuts are limited to the laboratory and
greenhouses, but that's a big lie. One dessert called flan,
which is sold in America, lists the genetically modified coconut
right on the label, and says the product is made in Bedford,
Illinois. The product is Raymundo's Homestyle Classics Caramel
Flan. The ingredients list on the front of the product lists
milk, water, sugar, modified food starch, eggs, corn syrup, and
"coconut produced with genetic engineering."
As Bad as Glyphosate?
ANH USA - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required
to review pesticides and herbicides approved for use in the US
every fifteen years. The agency just completed its updated
environmental impact assessment of atrazine, the second most
widely used herbicide. Atrazine is a chlorine-based chemical
just like DDT—the once-popular insecticide—and PCBs
(polychlorinated biphenyl). It can persist in soil for
twenty-two years. Lots of evidence shows the extent to which
atrazine is contaminating our food supply, which is little
surprise given that as much as 70 million pounds of the stuff is
used by farmers each year, mostly on corn. In its 500-page draft
report, the EPA found that atrazine, which is produced by
biotech giant Syngenta, can be dangerous to animals and fish—and
leaves behind a troubling amount of residue. According to the
report, atrazine exceeds the agency’s “levels of concern” for
chronic risks to animals and fish by 198 times and 62 times,
respectively. Despite the length of the report, the EPA found it
convenient to omit all discussion of atrazine’s risk to humans,
promising to return to that subject in the future.
US Department of Monsanto (a.k.a. USDA)
ANH USA - We think of Monsanto and other companies as developers
and promoters of GMOs. But thanks to passage of the Federal
Technology Transfer Act of 1986, as well as President Reagan’s
Executive Order #12591—“Facilitating Access to Science and
Technology”—the USDA is also directly in the business of
developing, patenting, and promoting biotechnology inventions.
The difference is that the USDA slips the patents, developed
from government research and paid for by US taxpayers, into the
hands of private companies such as Monsanto and Syngenta. You
read that right. According to the USDA’s own Agricultural
Research Service (ARS), about sixty new patents are issued for
USDA inventions each year. These patents are then transferred
through licenses to the private sector—mostly to biotech
companies. ARS has released more than 400 new crop germplasm
lines since 2000, and the USDA spends about $220 million
taxpayer dollars on biotechnology research each year. A cursory
search through the recent inventions of the USDA reveals nearly
two dozen inventions in the “plant genes” and “crop protection”
categories. These patents range from the use of RNA interference
to control gypsy moth populations, to genetically altered citrus
plants that protect the plant from citrus greening and citrus
canker. The USDA’s research into plant genes includes isolating
genes in peach, plum, almond, and apricot trees that can be
manipulated to affect tree shape with “desired branch angles.”
Another patent uses double-stranded RNA constructs to inhibit
the expression of certain proteins and kill aphids. There are
many more such examples.
Consumer Reports Joins Pharma Campaign Against Dietary
Supplements
Dr. Mercola - Consumer Reports article claims dietary
supplements put your health at risk simply because they’re not
regulated as drugs. The article contains the same talking points
and is supported by the same “experts” as other hit pieces
against supplements, making it obvious that it is part and
parcel of the pro-pharma campaign to eliminate supplements. Data
shows that adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs are 62,000
times more likely to kill you than food supplements.
Key studies cited to 'prove' vaccines are safe were funded
almost entirely by vaccine manufacturers
(NaturalNews) In this critical review of the scientific
literature on vaccines, ANH-USA and Brian Hooker carefully
scrutinize the gross scientific flaws and blatant financial
conflicts of interests that undermine the most commonly cited
scientific studies which "prove" vaccines don't cause autism. In
a startling percentage of these studies, the "scientists" were
either directly funded by vaccine manufacturers who stood to
profit from vaccine safety whitewashing or served as highly paid
expert witnesses to defend vaccine makers against lawsuits. What
we really see in this critical review is a systemic pattern of
scientific fraud, criminal corruption and the complete
abandonment of research ethics in the relentless quest to
"prove" vaccines are safe (and thereby sell more of them to more
vaccine victims).
Here is Why You Should Take a Ginger Shot a Few Minutes Prior to
Eating
Living Traditionally - A “ginger shot” or ginger elixir is a
fantastic digestive system aid. Simply take about one ounce (a
shot) of this Aryurvedic formula a few minutes prior to eating.
The lemon/ginger combination delivers quite a punch which is
perfectly tempered by the raw honey used in the formulation.
This addictive elixir has components which both warm and sooth
the stomach as well as stimulate the release of gastric juices….
[Ingredients:] Five lemons, 3 pieces of ginger root, 1/4 cup of
raw organic honey, 1/4 teaspoonful of Black pepper, 1 cup of
purified water [and a] Juicer for the ginger.
Tuesday - August
9, 2016 - Today In History:
1790 - The Columbia returned to Boston Harbor after a three-year voyage.
It was the first ship to carry the American flag around the world.
1831 - The first steam locomotive began its first trip between
Schenectady and Albany, NY.
1848 - Martin Van Buren was nominated for president by the Free-Soil
Party in Buffalo, NY.
1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created
"Smokey the Bear."
1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came
three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were
killed. Japan surrendered August 14.
1945 - The first network television broadcast occurred in Washington,
DC. The program announced the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan.
1973 - The U.S. Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair
filed suit against President Richard Nixon.
1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford
took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S.
1975 - The New Orleans Superdome (which cost $163 million) opened when
the Saints played the Houston Oilers in exhibition football.
1985 - Arthur J. Walker, a retired Navy officer, was found guilty of
seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union.
1996 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as president of Russia for the second
time.
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Sergei
Stepashin and his entire cabinet for the fourth time in 17 months.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would support federal
funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells.
2004 - Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 consecutive life sentences on
state murder charges in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2010 - Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, 86, the longest serving
Republican in the U.S. Senate, was killed in a plane crash in
southwestern Alaska.
Suicide bombing at Pakistani hospital in Quetta kills 63
Washington Times - A suicide bomber killed at least 63 people
and wounded dozens in an attack that struck a gathering of
Pakistani lawyers on the grounds of a government-run hospital in
the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, police and doctors
said.... Nearly 100 lawyers had come to the hospital in the
heart of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, after the
body of their colleague, prominent attorney Bilal Kasi was
brought there. Kasi, the chief of the province’s bar
association, was shot and killed by gunmen earlier on Monday as
he was on his way to his office. The lawyers gathered at the
Quetta Civil Hospital to express their grief as is common with
public figures.... Quetta and the rest of Baluchistan province
have long been hit by insurgency. There are several ethnic
Baluch separatist groups operating in the resource-rich
province, but al-Qaida and other militant groups also have a
presence here.
American, Australian kidnapped in Afghan capital: officials
Reuters - Afghan authorities are searching for an Australian and
an American who were kidnapped by gunmen in the capital, Kabul,
officials said on Monday. The pair, believed to be affiliated
with a Kabul university, was taken by four or five gunmen from a
nearby road late on Sunday, said an official with the Ministry
of Interior who spoke on condition of anonymity.... Kidnapping
is a major problem in Afghanistan with Afghans the most
affected, although a number of foreigners have also been
abducted in recent years.... In June, police began advising
foreigners living in the capital that they should travel with
guards or avoid leaving their homes.
Google Ignites International Outrage After Wiping Palestine Off
the Map, Replacing it with Israel
The Free Thought Project - Internet giant Google has come under
fire from around the world this week, after removing the name
Palestine from Google Maps and replacing it with Israel.... This
marks a dramatic reversal of course for Google, as it was only
in May 2013, that Google “recognized” Palestine by changing the
text of its Palestinian homepage from “Palestinian territories,”
to “Palestine”.... As of September 2015, 136 (70.5%) of the 193
member states of the United Nations and two non-member states
have recognized the State of Palestine. Many of the countries
that do not recognize a State of Palestine nevertheless
recognize the PLO as the “representative of the Palestinian
people.”
Muggings, stray bullet, gridlock mark first Olympic weekend
McClatchy - Many Olympic events were half empty, with ticket
prices out of reach for many Brazilians. But those who did come
to the Olympic park and other venues faced long lines to get in
and wait times of two hours or more.... Leaving the venues has
also proved challenging, with the main roads largely closed off
to traffic and taxis because of security concerns.... Felipe
Seixas, a senior federal lawman and head of security for the
Opening Ceremonies at Maracana Stadium, was the target in an
attempted mugging outside the stadium early Saturday in which
his police escort shot and killed a would-be attacker. Also
Saturday, Portuguese education minister Tiago Brandao Rodrigues
was mugged in Ipanema by knife-wielding attackers.... Both
events happened even as more than 85,000 soldiers and police
have been dispatched to Rio to provide security for the
Games.... The most serious incident of the weekend was confirmed
at a news conference Sunday.... a bullet tore through the roof
of the Olympic equestrian center’s media room.... Rio Olympic
spokesman Mario Andrada at first quickly dismissed the incident
as a stray bullet and not an attack on the center, but did not
say how that was determined.
Refugee team welcomed but Olympics displace 77,000 people in Rio
RT - The Rio 2016 Games are the first to have a team of refugees
compete, in recognition of the 60 million refugees around the
world. Athletes from Syria, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and the
Democratic Republic of Congo were chosen to represent the
refugee team, which has been handed a group of coaches and
support staff to help them during the Games.... Although the
Olympics may offer a handful of refugees a temporary home in
Brazil, the event itself has directly forced around 77,000
Brazilian natives from their homes to make way for
infrastructure. As was the case in the football World Cup in
2014, protesters opposed the hosting of a major sporting event
in Brazil – mainly due to the country’s dire economic situation
and the social issues that ravage the nation. One of the main
reasons for opposition to the 2016 Olympics has been the
creation of IDPs, internally displaced persons, in Brazil. Among
the worst-affected areas was the poverty-stricken Rio suburb of
Vila Autodromo, where residents were forcibly removed from their
homes. The infrastructure upgrade to Vila Autodromo will drive
development projects including plush apartment buildings, but
serves as a sardonic reminder to poor families that they have
been forced out of their homes.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Bush Administration Official: Saudi Ties to 9/11
Hidden to Protect Iraq War Narrative
28Pages.org - As former State Department official Lawrence
Wilkerson tells 28Pages.org, to a White House bent on selling an
invasion of Iraq, compelling evidence of Saudi complicity in the
attacks was an unwelcome distraction.... “They wanted to go to
war with Iraq. Anything that supported al Qaeda connections with
Baghdad, therefore, was good. Saudi Arabia just confused things
so keep that out of it,” says Wilkerson, who served in the Bush
administration as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin
Powell. “That wasn’t so much an effort to protect the Saudis, I
don’t think, as it was an effort to justify the war with
Iraq.”.... To Wilkerson, the 28 pages—which detail direct and
indirect links from the hijackers and other al Qaeda members to
various Saudi government employees and even the Saudi ambassador
to the United States—point to at least some degree of Saudi
government attachment to the 9/11 attack.... Regardless of how
strong the evidence pointing toward Saudi Arabia, Wilkerson says
Cheney effectively dampened discussion of it—even within the
intelligence community that was charged with rooting out those
who enabled 9/11.
Video: Camera Man Goes Inside WTC 7 Before The Second Tower
Falls
Blacklisted News - Inside 7 World Trade Center Moments Before
Collapse. Building 7 collapse was and still remains a mystery,
as to why it even collapsed. Leave your thoughts on the mystery
behind building 7 collapse, and what you think caused it to
smash to the ground. This is a rare 9/11 WTC attack footage that
will knock you completely out of your seat.
Pamela Geller–Undercover FBI Agent Told Garland Jihadist: ‘Tear
Up Texas’
Breitbart - [Pamela Geller is the President of the American
Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com
and author] The Daily Beast recently reported that “days before
an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland,
Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. ‘Tear up
Texas,’ the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened
fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit
(filed in federal court Thursday.”… While I do believe that
undercover FBI agents have to play along with the jihadis
they’re dealing with, because in order to be in an informant you
have to have credibility, it’s a whole other thing if you’re
encouraging and cheering on the proposed murder of Americans who
are standing in defense of the freedom of speech, and then not
doing anything about it.... Now we find they were in on the
planning of the jihad attack, and did nothing about it. If you
recall, the FBI only got around to alerting Garland police about
Simpson’s jihad plans three hours before our event. It was
Garland police, not the FBI, that coordinated all the super
security efforts with our own security team.... They knew about
the attack, yet they didn’t have a team there in case the
jihadis started shooting? It’s hard to escape the conclusion
that the Obama FBI wanted me and the other speakers at the event
dead.... If people had died at our Garland event, the murders
would have had a blood-chilling effect on the freedom of speech
in America. That, in my view, appears to have been what the
Obama administration wanted — and certainly that’s what the
enemedia wanted in the wake of our event, as it gleefully and
relentlessly blamed us for violating Sharia blasphemy laws and
getting shot at.
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Complaint And Arrest Warrant
Audit Reveals the Pentagon Doesn't Know Where $6.5 Trillion
Dollars Has Gone
Free Thought Project - A new Department of Defense Inspector
General’s report, released last week.... report revealed the
Pentagon couldn’t account for $6.5 trillion dollars worth of
Army general fund transactions and data, according to a report
by the Fiscal Times.... According to the report by the Fiscal
Times: The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), the
behemoth Indianapolis-based agency that provides finance and
accounting services for the Pentagon’s civilian and military
members, could not provide adequate documentation for $6.5
trillion worth of year-end adjustments to Army general fund
transactions and data. The DFAS has the sole responsibility for
paying all DOD military and personnel, retirees and annuitants,
along with Pentagon contractors and vendors. The agency is also
in charge of electronic government initiatives, including within
the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Energy
and the Departing of Veterans Affairs.”.... While many of the
problems occurred due to bookkeeping errors rather than actual
financial losses, the DFAS has failed to provide the necessary
tracking information essential to performing an accurate audit
of Pentagon spending and obligations, according to the IG’s
report.
Snowden alive and well: Lawyer quashes 'dead man switch'
theories
RT - After Snowden issued two mysterious tweets last week, both
of which were then deleted and no further tweets sent, theories
began circulating suggesting he had been kidnapped or killed.
Speaking Monday, Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said such
theories were nothing new but they were false.... Last
Wednesday, the 33-year-old posted this message on Twitter: “Did
you work with me? Have we talked since 2013? Please recontact me
securely. It’s time." Then, on Friday, he tweeted a seemingly
random 64 digit code, which some theorized was a “dead man’s
switch” – a message which would automatically send if there is
no activity on his account for a certain period of time so
people would know something was amiss. Others have suggested
that the code may have been a decryption key and the lack of
activity on Twitter since is due to an upcoming WikiLeaks dump,
with some thinking it may relate to Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton.
15 cool new military weapons joining the fight
Washington Examiner - Now more than ever, the Defense Department
is placing a premium on innovation.... With that in mind, here
are 15 of the coolest, most cutting-edge weapons that defense
firms and the Pentagon itself are developing for the near
future. LITSABR: this new technology will allow sailors at sea
to spot lasers before they are in the line of target. LOCUST:
drones that can navigate off each other, mirroring the swarm
behavior of birds, fish and insects. TERN: an unmanned aerial
vehicle that can take off and land on smaller decks and in rough
seas. ACTUV: DARPA christened its first "ghost ship" this year
that can sail for months at a time without any crew on board
Railgun: This high-speed weapon can launch projectiles at speeds
greater than Mach 6 with no gun powder JAGM: a catch-all system
that will replace the TOW, Hellfire and Maverick missiles. Pike:
a hand-held precision missile for soldiers, is 17 inches long
and weighs two pounds, small enough to fit in a gun-mounted
grenade launcher HEL Photon Cannon: a "death ray on wheels,"
Boeing's High Energy Laser is a solid-state laser capable of
destroying mortars, missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. Pyros:
a small, lightweight air-to-ground precision weapon built to be
used against insurgents. Carl Gustav: Saab M4 Carl Gustav is a
multi-role, shoulder-fired weapon optimized by Saab for use in
cities and can launch programmable anti-personnel, anti-tank,
smoke and illumination missiles. CHAMP: a non-lethal missile
that aims a microwave at a target and shuts down all electronics
inside. HELLADS: a High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense
System... will give Air Force special operators the capability
to attack more quietly than conventional weapons Phantom Eye:
Boeing's latest hydrogen-fueled, high-altitude, long-range
unmanned aircraft capable of staying airborne for four days at
65,000 feet SR-72: the unmanned successor to the Cold War-era
SR-71. Small Diameter Bomb II: an all-weather, GPS-guided
precision bomb.
'Clock Boy' Ahmed Files Lawsuit Alleging 'Discrimination'
Against Texas School, City
Breitbart - The lawsuit claims Ahmed Mohamed’s rights were
violated when he was arrested last year after the 14-year-old
brought to school a clock device that resembled a hoax bomb....
No charges were ever filed against the teen once the situation
sorted itself out, but Mohamed served three days of suspension
before his family withdrew him from Irving ISD [Independent
School District] and relocated to Qatar where Mohamed accepted a
full scholarship to attend a Qatar Foundation school.... The
suit alleges a violation of the teen’s civil rights. During the
press conference, [attorney Susan] Hutchison asserted “there was
no cause” for the Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest last year and accused
the Irving school district of “paranoia” towards Muslims. She
said the only remedy to this matter is “money” and they are
“suing for justice.”.... The family has had several lawyers
represent them along the way, including a west Texas personal
injury attorney Kelly Hollinsgworth demanded a total of $15
million last November — $10 million from the City of Irving, and
$5 million, from the Irving school district.... In June, Mohamed
told news media he returned to Texas for a summer internship
with Twitter, although, CBS DFW reported the family returned to
visit family.
‘Pokemon Go’ Players Blamed For Damage At Historic Massachusetts
Fort
CBS Boston - Caretakers of Fort Phoenix in Massachusetts say
players of the popular smartphone game are damaging the historic
site. Gary Lavalette, volunteer caretaker at the fort in
Fairhaven, near the Rhode Island state line, says people have
been leaving trash, vandalizing historic structures and publicly
urinating. He told WLNE-TV that a stone wall was taken apart
with a crowbar and parts of the property look like a “minefield”
because people are digging up the ground.... The Fairhaven
Historical Commission says hundreds of “Pokemon Go” players have
been flocking to the fort, often at night, because it’s where a
rare Pokemon can be found. Lavalette said that some visitors
were searching for “buried treasure” at the site because they
didn’t understand its history. The fort was destroyed by the
British in 1778 but later rebuilt.
DHS to run elections, wants voting classified as “critical
infrastructure"
MassPrivateI - According to a NY Times article, the Obama
administration wants DHS to run our electronic ballot casting
system. DHS wants to classify our election process as “critical
infrastructure."…. According to USA Today article, DHS's
secretary plays a central role in deciding what public and
private sectors should receive the “critical
infrastructure" designation. Critical infrastructure is defined
by DHS as "sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether
physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United
States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a
debilitating effect on security, national economic security,
national public health or safety.”…. The president is on DHS'S
Board of Directors… Think about what happened last week, Obama
and his wife tried to sway American voters to vote for Hillary
Clinton. Ask yourselves, what would happen, if a sitting
President had access to our voting process. The President and
DHS, could decide the outcome of any election.
Paul Ryan to Headline #NeverTrump Conference 3 Days After
Primary
Gateway Pundit - Paul Ryan hopes to survive his primary contest
against conservative businessman Paul Nehlen on Tuesday. Then on
Friday he will headline the #NeverTrump Redstate Gathering in
Denver, Colorado. Speaker Paul Ryan, TV host Glenn Beck, and
Lyin Ted Cruz will headline the August Redstate #NeverTrump
conference in Denver... Other notables speaking at the
conference include #NeverTrumpers Senator Ben Sasse, Governor
Nikki Haley, Carly Fiorina, Ken Cuccinelli, Katie Pavlich, Guy
Benson, Hugh Hewitt and Erick Erickson are the featured speakers
at the annual RedState gathering in Denver in August....
Redstate blog devotes their entire website to defeating Donald
Trump in November.
Khizr Khan Bashes Trump on Pro-Taliban TV Network
Wayne Madsen - Hillary Clinton’s chief Muslim surrogate, Khizr
Khan, the celebrated Gold Star father whose son, U.S. Army
Captain Humayun Khan was killed in Iraq in 2004, appeared
recently on a pro-Taliban Pakistani television network to bash
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Khizr Khan
appeared on Pakistan’s Dunya News TV network on August 4. Khan
said during the interview, “Allah makes people like Trump make
mistakes to discredit them in public eyes forever.” Khan held up
a pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution to accuse Trump of
violating it. However, by invoking the name of Allah to
criticize Trump, Khan, himself, was violating the constitutional
spirit of the separation of church (or mosque) and state.
Video: The Clinton Foundation is a FRAUD
By Peter Schweizer author of Clinton Cash.
Hillary's Handler Carries DIAZEPAM Pen for Patients Who
Experience Recurrent Seizures!
Gateway Pundit - In a recent campaign stop in a Union Hall in
front of a sparse crowd, at about the time when some liberal
protesters began to protest, Hillary Clinton suddenly froze. She
looked dazed and lost. Seeing this, a group of men rushed to
assist the candidate on the stage. One man however gently pats
the candidate’s back and then says, “Keep Talking.” An expert on
Secret Service tactics told TGP Secret Service agents would not
touch a candidate in the manner that this individual did and
especially Hillary Clinton. It has been widely reported on
Hillary’s disdain for the agents who work to protect her. The
man who touches Hillary may be a member of Hillary’s close staff
– but he is NOT a Secret Service agent. Now this… Mike Cernovich
pointed out that Hillary’s handler carries a Diazepam pen.
Diazepam auto-injector pens are used for for Acute Repetitive
Seizures. Diazepam is prescribed for patients who experience
recurrent seizures!.... Hillary’s handler was definitely
carrying an auto-syringe at the DNC Convention on Hillary’s big
night. [Photo]
CNN Bashes “Conspiratorial” Questions About Hillary’s Health
Paul Joseph Watson - CNN is attempting to dismiss questions
about Hillary Clinton’s health by asserting that photos which
appear to show her struggling to climb some steps are old and
merely show the aftermath of her slipping. However, the news
network conveniently fails to mention the fact that both federal
and NYPD sources have blown the whistle on Hillary’s
difficulties with balance and walking in the past. Under the
headline ‘Drudge Report misleads readers with Hillary Clinton
photo’, CNN’s Brian Stelter writes that news aggregator Matt
Drudge is “taking a six-month-old photo out of context,” adding
that Drudge was “wrong” to imply that Clinton has a hard time
walking. Stelter claims that the images merely show Hillary
being aided after a slip and dismisses concerns about Hillary’s
health by blaming “conspiratorial corners of the conservative
media” for pushing a “fringe issue”. Stelter fails to explain
why it’s unreasonable to ask whether or not someone slipping as
they walk up some steps is related to that person having walking
difficulties. In addition, the claims of John Cardillo, a former
police officer who provided VIP security detail for the NYPD,
are not mentioned. Cardillo told Breitbart about two different
individuals, one a federal agent and another an NYPD officer
worked security at a Hillary event in New York City, who both
personally witnessed Hillary’s walking difficulties.
Gun Control Doesn’t Stop Anti-Trump Shooter
Kit Daniels - The suspect, Darnell Hall, has been charged with
felonious assault over the July 25 shooting in which a
60-year-old was shot in the leg for believing Donald Trump will
make a good president. Hall pulled a pistol from his pants and
shot the 60-year-old man in the right thigh, police said,”
cleveland.com reported. “Hall then ran out the bar’s front door,
jumped into a Cadillac truck and drove off, according to
police.” A photo of the bar reveals the “No Guns” sign posted on
the door, which didn’t stop the shooter despite reassurances
from anti-Second Amendment groups that gun control works. “An
analysis of mass shootings in the United States since the year
2002 shows that gun-wielding mass killers are more likely to
strike where the Second Amendment right to bear arms has been
supplanted by ‘gun-free zone’ ordinances, be they federal,
local, or specified by the owner of the property,” Patrick
Tyrrell of the Daily Signal revealed.
Trump Statue Set Ablaze on Homeowner’s Property
Adan Salazar - Staten Island resident Sam Pirozzolo had a
12-foot, custom-made capital letter “T” emblazoned with the
American flag displayed on the front lawn of his Castleton
Corners property as a show of his support for the GOP nominee.
Early Sunday morning, the sign was reportedly set ablaze by an
unknown arsonist…. The fire marshall is still investigating the
cause of the fire, but Pirozzolo as well as his attorney believe
a Trump hater is responsible. Pirozzolo told CBS he fears other
members of his community could be targeted for exercising their
First Amendment rights…. The homeowner’s attorney, Richard
Luthman, says they will press charges if the offender is caught.
Spooked by obesity trends, the U.S. military is redefining its
basic fitness standards
Military Times - For the first time in 14 years, the military is
rewriting its body composition standards and the methods used to
determine whether troops are too fat to serve.... The review
comes amid rising concern about obesity. Among civilians, it is
shrinking the pool of qualified prospective recruits. And in the
active-duty force, a rising number of overweight troops poses
risks to readiness and health care costs.... The current policy
requires service members to maintain body fat levels below a key
threshold — 26 percent for men and 36 percent for women. And for
years the Pentagon has required the services to enforce that
using a notoriously low-tech “tape test.”.... Today, new
research and technology is available, enabling the military's
health experts to reassess the value, practicality and fairness
of those rules. The objective now is to identify and leverage
the best, most financially feasible way to distinguish between
troops who are truly unhealthy and those who have nontraditional
body types but are otherwise fit.
Lockheed Martin may move production of F-16 from Fort Worth to
India
The Star-Telegram - The defense giant has offered India
exclusive rights to produce and export F-16s, said Ken Ross, a
spokesman for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth....
Lockheed acknowledged in February that the company had offered
to build F-16s in India last year at a meeting between
Lockheed’s CEO Marillyn Hewson and Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. India is looking to replace many of its air
force’s 650 planes and wants to become a hub for defense
manufacturing.... Work on the F-16, which has been built since
the 1970s, has been winding down in Fort Worth as the program
matured and attention turned to building the next-generation
F-35. Several hundred workers continue to build about one F-16 a
month for Iraq at the Fort Worth plant, with orders in place to
last through October 2017. Over the life of the program,
Lockheed has delivered more than 4,500 F-16s.... Lockheed is
beginning to ramp up production of the F-35 fighter jet. The
company is on track to deliver 53 F-35s this year and expects to
more than double output to 120 aircraft by 2019.
Acupuncture Beats Injected Morphine for Pain: Groundbreaking
Study
Green Med Info - A truly groundbreaking study published in the
American Journal of Emergency Medicine titled, “Acupuncture vs
intravenous morphine in the management of acute pain in the ED,”
reveals that acupuncture -- one of the oldest techniques to
treat pain -- is more effective, faster in relieving pain, and
with less adverse effects, than intravenous morphine….
Acupuncture happens to be one of the most extensively supported
alternative modalities, with clinical trial data supporting its
value in over 100 different conditions. If you do a pubmed.gov
search you'll find over 6,700 published studies related to the
keywords "pain" and "acupuncture."
Fat cells found to promote breast cancer growth
(NaturalHealth365) For the last 50 years, research has shown
links between being overweight and having a higher risk of
breast cancer. Leptin and adiponectin (substances produced by
fat cells) in particular seem to increase risk, decrease the
effectiveness of cancer treatment, and lead to higher death
rates! Conversely, those who work toward a healthy weight
through good nutritional habits and exercising regularly are
able to beat cancer more effectively. The value of regular
exercise to overcome cancer has been substantiated by many
scientific studies…. Researchers have now discovered that fat
cells are active cells that create over 400 types of hormones (adipokines)
– which can easily enter the bloodstream. These fat cell
hormones have been linked with breast cancer growth in obese
persons; however, in lean people, a smaller amount of stored fat
gives off hormones that inhibit cancer cell growth.
10 Benefits of Himalayan Salt for Health and Beauty
Natural News Blogs - Himalayan salt is distinctive and famous
for its nutritional value because it consists of a large amount
of essential minerals. Himalayan salt is majorly extracted from
the Himalayan belt, also known as “White gold”. Often called
“pink salt”, Himalayan salt contains chloride, sulfate,
magnesium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, selenium, copper,
zinc, and fluoride. Because the majority of minerals available
in this salt exist in the colloidal form, they can easily be
absorbed by the human cells. Besides, because of its rich
content of minerals, Himalayan salt offers a wide range of
healing and therapeutic uses for both physical and mental
health. The following list introduces 10 out of benefits of
Himalayan salt for health and beauty…. 1. It Helps Maintain
Fluid Balance… 2. It Can Detoxify The Body… 3. It Supports The
Process Of Digestive Tract Cleansing… 4. It Maintains A Balanced
pH Level…
Flossing your teeth is a waste of time, health advisers admit
What Doctors Don't Tell You - The UK’s Public Health England is
now reviewing the findings, and may well add its voice to the
advice. The British Dental Association has already said that
flossing is ineffective and a waste of time. Its scientific
adviser, Prof Damien Walmsley, says: “Small inter-dental brushes
are preferable for cleaning the area in between the teeth, where
there is space to do so. Floss is of little value unless the
spaces between your teeth are too tight for the inter-dental
brushes to fit without hurting or causing harm. It’s important
to tell people to do the basics. Flossing is not part of the
basics.” The new announcement came about after journalists at
the AP news agency asked America’s health agencies for evidence
that flossing did any good. Eventually, the agencies admitted
that flossing had never been properly researched, and the
recommendation to floss was quietly removed from the latest
health advice. And what research is out there suggests that
flossing could even be doing more harm than good. Careless
flossing can damage the gums and teeth, and even dislodge
fillings.
Could This Potentially Cancer-Causing Microchip Law Happen Here?
Cats & Dogs Naturally - If you adopted your dog from a shelter or
rescue, he’s highly likely to have a microchip. If your dog didn’t come
to you already micro-chipped, then you can choose whether to get him one
or not. But in some countries, dog owners don’t have a choice. ALL dogs
are required, by law, to be micro-chipped. The UK is one recent example.
Many dog owners there are up in arms because, starting in April 2016,
the government has mandated compulsory micro-chipping for all dogs…. You
don’t microchip your dog and you’re caught? You’re up for a £500 fine
(about US$665). That’s a pretty steep fine…. With the controversy about
the UK legislation, there are increasing reports of pets developing
fatal tumors at the microchip site – and in many cases the micro-chip is
found embedded at the base of the tumor. Dogs Monthly Magazine in the UK
gathered several anecdotes about pet owners who had microchips implanted
without knowing the risks beforehand … and they were horrified when
their animals developed cancer…. Cancer isn’t the only problem with
microchips. Some vets use a local anesthetic to implant microchips – and
they should. Dr Karen Becker says implantation uses a really large
12-gauge needle to implant the chips and that, no matter what you’ve
been told, the procedure hurts!… There are horror stories of chips being
implanted incorrectly into the spinal canal, causing paralysis or other
neurological damage. Other animals have bled to death after blood
vessels were punctured when the chip was implanted. A kitten died when a
chip was inserted into its brain stem. So if you do decide to microchip
your dog, make sure the procedure is done by an experienced
veterinarian, not by a technician or even a shelter employee…. The plain
truth is that microchips don’t always work and aren’t always found by
the scanners.
Monday - August
8, 2016 - Today In History:
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South
Atlantic. The remainder of his life was spent there in exile.
1900 - In Boston, the first Davis Cup series began. The U.S. team
defeated Great Britain three matches to zero.
1911 - The number of representatives in the U.S. House of Rep. was
established at 435. There was one member of Congress for every 211,877
residents.
1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on
Great Britain.
1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed by U.S. President Truman.
1945 - During World War II, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.
1966 - Michael DeBakey became the first surgeon to install an artificial
heart pump in a patient.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced that he would resign the following
day.
1978 - The U.S. launched Pioneer Venus II, which carried scientific
probes to study the atmosphere of Venus.
1988 - It was announced that a cease-fire between Iraq and Iran had
begun.
1990 - American forces began positioning in Saudia Arabia.
1991 - John McCarthy, a British TV producer, was released by his
Lebanese kidnappers. He had been held captive for more than five years.
A rival group abducted Jerome Leyraud in retaliation and threatened to
kill him if any more hostages were released.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council approved North and South Korea for
membership.
1995 - Saddam Hussein's two eldest daughters, their husbands, and
several senior army officers defected.
2005 - Iran resumed work at a uranium conversion facility after
suspending activities for nine months to avoid U.N. sanctions.
2008 - The Summer Olympic Games opened in Beijing.
2008 - Former Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards admitted
having had an extramarital affair.
Christian Charity Loses Two Top Donors After Israel Charges
Director With Funding Hamas
Haaretz.com - After giving World Vision over $3.8 million
dollars, Australia suspends funding to projects in the
Palestinian territories; Germany freezes payments totaling $1.66
million.
Iran executes nuclear scientist accused of spying for the US
The Journal - “Shahram Amiri was hanged for revealing the
country’s top secrets to the enemy,” Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie
was quoted as saying by the Mizan Online news site. Amiri
disappeared in Saudi Arabia in June 2009 and resurfaced a year
later in the United States. Iranian officials welcomed him back
to Iran but there has been little information released since.
Amiri said after returning to the Islamic republic that he had
been held in the US for more than a year after being “kidnapped”
at gunpoint by two Farsi-speaking CIA agents in the Saudi city
of Medina.... “This person, having access to confidential and
highly confidential information of the regime, had established a
connection to our number one enemy, America, and had provided
the enemy with Iran’s confidential and vital information,” Ejeie
said. “Shram Amiri was tried in accordance with law and in the
presence of his lawyer. He appealed his death sentence based on
judicial process. The Supreme Court… confirmed it after
meticulous reviews,” he added. The spokesman dispelled a
“rumour” by Amiri’s family that he had received a 10-year prison
term.
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Cotton: Clinton discussed executed Iranian scientist on email
Islamic (Welfare) State: ‘Belgium taxpayers paid for terrorist
attack’
RT - ... most of the Syrian fighters returning to Belgium get
allowances after proving that they are not able to get work.
This is a general phenomenon, Gerolf Annemans, Vlaams Belang
Party, told RT. Belgian investigators revealed at least five of
the suspects behind the terror attacks on Paris and Brussels
were receiving welfare benefits prior to the atrocities....
"People must know that Belgium is one of the most Islamised
countries of Western Europe. My party especially concentrates on
Jihadi fighters coming back from Syria and what they are still
receiving after they’ve gone to Syria. Some of them received
health care; we repaired their legs, etc. We discovered also
that most of these Syrian fighters get allowances after proving
that they are not able to get work. So this is a general
phenomenon. Now we are very glad, because the Belgium press put
this aside, never focused on it and never mentioned it."....
"First of all, we have to choose other leaders, elect other
leaders; leaders that have steel teeth, and can bite and can
fight against Islamization of our society, and for instance
blocking the social security. It is an enormous tragedy that we
are in this paradox that the Belgium taxpayers paid for this
Islamic attacks.".... "These people, the people that are here,
and are peaceful, and are not radicalizing, or are not promoting
Muslim society on Western Europe soil, these people should get
the message from our politicians, from our political regimes
that they should adapt to our culture of our society. And for
the rest we should close the borders that the EU opened widely."
Cashless banking best solution for black money problem: Modi
India Today - Pitching for greater cashless banking
transactions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said this
can be the best solution for the problem of black money [funds
earned on the black market], even as he asked banks to look for
ways to discourage people from investing huge amounts in
gold.... He said banks in India should compete for achieving
maximum cashless transactions, as this would be the "best
solution" to the problem of black money.... Modi also said
Indians have a good habit of savings, but these savings have
diverted to gold over the time as a measure of security and
banks have a challenge to look into ways to discourage huge
amounts of money being kept in gold.... The government has been
trying to dissuade people from investing huge amounts in gold
and put their savings into more productive financial market
assets. "Banking sector has a challenge in developing
credibility among the common mass to get the habit of a bank
account, instead of buying gold... This way, people can be
deterred from buying gold," Modi said.
What Venezuelans Make An Hour Under Socialism Is Appalling–And
There’s Another Issue That Strikes Close To Home
Townhall - Alejandro Toro, who you may have seen on Fox’s
MasterChef, described what’s going on in his home country....
His identification number is 20.227.668, which means that if he
lived in his home country, he could only buy groceries on
Fridays. The minimum salary is $33.30 a month, which comes out
to $0.20 an hour. Toro also says having enough food, enough
money, and the simple question of can we survive dominate the
national consciousness. The inflation rate in the country is set
to soar to 700 percent and the economy is projected to contract
by 10 percent this year. Yet, Toro hits on something close to
home. He says that the biggest problem that's arisen since the
left-wingers took power was dividing people into groups. “They
fed the country hatred, so they separated into two types of
people. We stopped being one group of people—and we became
either red or blue,” he said. Does that sound familiar? It
should.
The First "Bitcoin Bail-In": All Bitfinex Users To Lose 36% In
"Shared Loss" After Historic Hack
Zero Hedge - Last week's sharp, 30% plunge in the price of
bitcoin ... after news hit that 119,756 bitcoins, or about $70
million, had been stolen from the Hong Kong-based bitcoin
exchange Bitfinex, demonstrated once again the biggest risk with
digital currencies.... Now, adding insult to injury for those
who "held" their BTC at the hacked exchange, Bitfinex announced
it would pull a page right out of Europe's bank resolution
mechanism, saying that all of its users will lose 36% of their
deposits after it concluded its review the massive hack, in what
is set to be the first ever "bitcoin bail-in." And, in pulling
another page out of Europe, Bloomberg adds that to compensate
its customers, Bitfinex users would receive (largely worthless)
tokens that may later be redeemed or exchanged for shares in its
parent company.... According to Bloomberg, a representative of
the exchange wrote on Reddit that the 36% loss “applies to all
assets across the site, so everyone.” The exchange previously
said losses would only apply to users who either had bitcoin
deposited at the exchange or who were in the process of lending
U.S. dollars for margin trading.
Local Residents Force Monsanto to Tear Down GMO Seed Plant in
Argentina
Sustainable Pulse - Local Malvinas citizens and GMO Free
campaigners from across Argentina forced Monsanto to stop the
construction of their GMO seed plant in 2014, through
well-coordinated protests at the construction site. Sources from
the head office of Monsanto in Latin America told local
Argentinian media that the decision has been made to dismantle
the controversial seed plant; the unnamed Monsanto spokesman
stated; “The plant was designed to treat 3.5 million hectares of
maize, however last year only 2.5 million hectares were sown.”
Thus, he stated added “an investment of almost 1500 million
makes no sense.” The Monsanto spokesman also conceded that the
local pressure and blockade of the construction site by Malvinas
residents and environmentalists had been a factor in the
company’s decision.
Florida Spraying Residents with Neurotoxic Pesticide Banned in
Other Countries to Combat Zika
Free Thought Project - Areas of Miami, Florida, are now being
sprayed with the insecticide naled in an attempt to eradicate
the Aedes aegypti mosquito — carrier of the zika virus. Naled, a
potent neurotoxin that kills mosquitoes on contact, is perfectly
safe, or so the Environmental Protection Agency insists, despite
Puerto Rico’s rejection of its use to combat the spread of zika
there — due to concerns about its safety. To keep naled airborne
where it would be most effective, the agent is sprayed in very
fine aerosol droplets — about two tablespoons can be dispersed
to cover an area the equivalent of two football fields, a local
CBS affiliate reported. If a ‘far greater’ amount of naled were
employed, according to the Florida Department of Health, ‘it
could cause a person to salivate more, feel numbness, headaches,
dizziness, tremors, nausea, abdominal cramps, sweating, blurred
vision, difficulty breathing and a slowed heartbeat.’… [Toxipedia]
notes the EPA, itself, classified a component of naled as a
“possible carcinogen,” because mice developed lung tumors.
Following protests by residents concerned for their health and
potential effects on wildlife — and despite the CDC having
controversially sent advanced supply to officials, which was
subsequently returned — Puerto Rico opted to spray an organic
larvicide known as Bti.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Clinton’s Former Employer, LaFarge, Faces Allegations of Funding
ISIS
The Observer - One of the most troubling revelations exposed by
Wikileaks has been completely ignored by mainstream media. On
August 1, Wikileaks shared an article on Twitter from a French
publication which outlined the connections between LaFarge, a
French company linked to funding ISIS in Syria, and Hillary
Clinton. “Apart from being a regular donor to the Clinton
Foundation, Clinton herself was a director of Lafarge in the
early 1990s, and did legal work for the firm in the 1980s,” The
Canary reported on July 29. In June 2016, one of France’s most
well-known publications, Le Monde, released an investigative
report accusing LaFarge of making payments to ISIS. The
connection was first made in February 2016, when a Syrian
opposition publication revealed emails and documents it obtained
from LaFarge, implicating CEO Frederic Jolibois negotiated with
ISIS in order for the company to continue doing business in
Syria. Between 1990 and 1992, Clinton served on Lafarge’s Board
of Directors. “Shortly before Bill Clinton was elected president
in 1992, Lafarge was fined $1.8 million by the Environmental
Protection Agency for pollution violations at its Alabama plant.
A year later, the Clinton administration reduced that fine to
less than $600,000,” reported The Washington Post in 2007. While
Clinton served on the board for Lafarge, the company was
embroiled in controversy over its use of hazardous waste to fuel
its U.S. cement plants.
Mysterious Tweet Sparks Fears Edward Snowden Is Missing Or Dead
Your News Wire - Edward Snowden tweeted a cryptic 64 character
code on Friday evening that was deleted minutes later, sparking
fears the message was a ‘dead man’s switch’ meaning Snowden is
either dead or missing. A dead man’s switch is a message set up
to be automatically sent if the holder of the account does not
perform a regular check-in. In Snowden’s case, his dead man’s
switch would be the key to the encrypted files he distributed
among journalists and associates.... Two days ago Snowden sent
an equally cryptic tweet, addressed to his former NSA
colleagues, with the message “It’s time.” It is understood with
Friday’s 64 character tweet that he may have just released the
key to the encrypted files.... Reports have surfaced that at
least eight popular torrent sites used for distributing large
files were immediately taken offline after Snowden’s tweet,
suggesting the distribution of files is being suppressed, or at
least slowed down, adding to the speculation that Snowden has
been killed and the key to his sensitive insurance files has
been released. Until the former NSA contractor turned
whistleblower tweets again – and we can verify that it is
actually him tweeting – question marks will remain regarding his
situation.
Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of Tea Party In IRS Suit
Western Journalism - The IRS had asked that the lawsuit be
dropped, because the organization said it had “voluntarily”
stopped the targeting. Federal Appeals Court Judge David B.
Sentelle rejected the notion, citing that some tea party groups
were still awaiting approval for tax-exempt status despite
having applied years earlier. Sentelle went on to point out that
the IRS’s claims that the groups’ requests could not be
processed because they were suing the IRS for not processing the
requests created a classic catch-22. I“The IRS is telling the
applicants in these cases that ‘we have been violating your
rights and not properly processing your applications. You are
entitled to have your applications processed. But if you ask for
that processing by way of a lawsuit, then you can’t have it,'”
Sentelle wrote. “We would advise the IRS: If you haven’t ceased
to violate the rights of the taxpayers, then there is no
cessation. You have not carried your burden, be it heavy or
light.”
FBI Finally Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage of Freddie Gray
Protests
Counter Current News - According to Nathan Freed Wessler of
ACLU, “In response to an ACLU Freedom of Information Act
request, the FBI has released more than 18 hours of video from
surveillance cameras installed on FBI aircraft that flew over
Baltimore in the days after the death of Freddie Gray in police
custody in 2015..." .... Wessler states, “Records from the
Federal Aviation Administration showed that the FBI’s aircraft,
which were registered to front companies to conceal their
ownership, carried sophisticated camera systems on board,
complete with night-vision capabilities. FBI evidence logs
showed that the agency had retained copies of surveillance
videos and perhaps other electronic surveillance information
from the flights, but the agency initially declined to release
the actual videos.” Fortunately, the FBI reconsidered their
surveillance secrecy in this case, and the footage has been
released and is now public record. [link to FBI site with videos
in article]
John McCain’s 1969 “Tokyo Rose” Propaganda Recording Released
TRUNEWS - The 1969 North Vietnamese radio broadcast has never
been heard in the United States of America. In fact, there has
never been any knowledge that such a recording existed. The
audio recording was found in a misplaced file in the National
Archives in Washington, D.C. The broadcast was recorded by the
Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a branch of the CIA that
monitored international shortwave and foreign radio broadcasts….
In the propaganda recording, Lt. Commander McCain said he was
“guilty of crimes against the Vietnamese country and people.” He
confessed that he bombed “their cities, towns, and villages and
caused many injuries, even deaths, for the people of Vietnam.”
He praised the medical care and kindness of his communist
captors even though he came to North Vietnam as “an aggressor.”
McCain said he wished to express his “deep gratitude” for their
“kind treatment” and that he “will never forget” the kindness
extended to him by the communist North Vietnamese.
Massachusetts Family Group: Why Is Legislature Kicking Predators
Off ‘Pokemon Go,’ But Allowing Them in Women’s Restrooms?
Townhall - Keep MA Safe, a group that was created out of a need
to preserve family structure in Massachusetts, is noticing a
tinge of hypocrisy in the state legislature. Democratic Rep.
Jonathan Zlotnik introduced a bill this week that would ban sex
offenders from using the popular game “Pokemon Go,” arguing
these criminals could use it to seduce children. Similarly, New
York Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned 3,000 sex offenders from using the
app. While Democrats may be heralding Zlotnik’s new legislative
effort, concerned family groups are pointing out a serious case
of hypocrisy. For instance, the final version of the bill for
which Zlotnik voted allows men who identify as female to use
women’s restrooms and locker rooms. Keep MA Safe Chairwoman
Chanel Prunier responded to Zlotnik’s inconsistent voting
pattern in a new press release. “While I understand their
concern about sex offenders exploiting ‘augmented reality,’ our
lawmakers failed to address the very real loophole the
transgender law has created for predators,” Prunier said. “This
is why we have to bring the issue to a vote by the citizens.”
Video: Clinton Body Count +5 in Just 6 Weeks
Hillary will stop at nothing to claw her way into the White
House; unfortunately, people are dropping dead left and right in
her path and, in the case of the last two found dead earlier
this week, the mainstream media is pretending not to even notice
they are gone...
Hillary Refuses to Meet White Reporters in First Press
Conference of 2016
Kit Daniels - Clinton is holding a press conference at the
Washington, DC, Marriott on Friday that’s open only to members
of the National Association of Black Journalists and the
National Association of Hispanic Journalists, according to a
press release…. It’s unknown whether she’ll take questions, but
given her past hostility to the press, it’s doubtful unless the
questions are given to her ahead of time…. “She gets her message
out in ways that are completely controlled, but American
citizens deserve better,” Washington Post columnist Margaret
Sullivan once wrote, a rare admission from the anti-Trump
outlet. The Clinton campaign even physically lassoed reporters
with ropes to keep them from approaching Hillary Clinton during
a parade in July 2015. “Campaign events are carefully stage
managed, with reporters getting few opportunities to question
the candidate,” the Huffington Post admitted. “Journalists
privately met… to discuss grievances over access on the campaign
trail — from not receiving timely logistical information to
being kept too far from the candidate at public events or kept
completely out of fundraisers.”
WikiLeaks drops Hillary email labeled ‘tick tock on Libya’ –
will Rush’s prediction come true?
BizPac Review - When Hillary Clinton is asked about her plan to
invade Libya while she was secretary of state, she often passes
the buck to President Obama, saying he ultimately had to make
the final decision. But, new emails from WikiLeaks’ hack [view
at link] into Clinton’s private email server show she openly
bragged about having a “critical voice” in the invasion of
Libya, which ultimately led to the rise of the Islamic State and
the Syrian refugee crisis.... Just a few days ago, conservative
talk radio host Rush Limbaugh made a big prediction about
Clinton’s involvement in Libya and what it may reveal through
the next WikiLeaks email drop. Limbaugh said emails could expose
how Clinton was involved with running a gun-running scheme in
Libya, with that being the motive behind her toppling of
strongman Moammar Gadhafi. The gun-running scheme, according to
Limbaugh, would eventually be tied to Clinton’s State Department
selling guns to Libyan rebels, guns that eventually ended up in
the hands of Syrian ISIS members.
Melania Trump's immigration file requested
Washington Times - The Democratic Coalition Against Trump, a
political action committee, said it was filing an open-records
request for Mrs. Trump’s visa records — though it’s unlikely
they will be successful. Mrs. Trump, posting a message on
Twitter, insisted she followed all the laws in arriving in the
U.S. on a visa, obtaining a green card granting her permanent
legal residency in 2001 and then becoming a citizen in July
2006. “Let me set the record straight: I have at all times been
in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country.
Period,” she said. “Any allegation to the contrary is simply
untrue.” But one of the country’s foremost specialists said
details that have been made public so far leave plenty of
unanswered questions about Mrs. Trump’s path to citizenship.
“Unfortunately, the Trump campaign has not released her
immigration records, so no one knows for sure,” said Stephen
Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell University Law School.... The
group has targeted Mrs. Trump before, filing a complaint with
federal election officials after an employee of the Trump
Organization, the candidate’s business empire, said she wrote
Mrs. Trump’s convention speech. Mr. Cooper’s organization said
there were no records of the woman being paid by the campaign
for her work. The campaign said she was volunteering her time
and didn’t need to report it.
Princeton Professor Shows How Easy it Is to Hack an Election in
Just 7 Minutes
The Free Thought Project - Professor Andrew Appel and grad
student Alex Halderman took just seven minutes to break into the
authentic Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine Appel
purchased for $82 online — one of the oldest models, but still
in use Louisiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia,
Politico reported. After Halderman picked the hulking, 250-pound
machine’s lock in seven seconds flat, Appel wrested its four ROM
chips from a circuit board — an easy feat, considering the chips
weren’t soldered in place. Once freed, Appel could facilely
replace the ROM chips with his own version “of modified firmware
that could throw off the machine’s results, subtly altering the
tally of votes, never to betray a hint to the voter,” Politico’s
Ben Wofford explained. Appel and a team of other so-called
cyber-academics have hacked into various models of electronic
voting machines in order to prove to the public the equipment is
ridiculously bereft of security. Together with Ed Felten, Appel
and a group of Princeton students “relentlessly hacked one
voting machine after another … reprogramming one popular machine
to play Pac-Man; infecting popular models with self-duplicating
malware; [and] discovering keys to voting machine locks that
could be ordered on eBay.” Their efforts have gone largely
ignored for 15 years.
Once Again, Libertarian and Green Parties are Denied
Participation in Presidential Debates
AllGov - A federal judge on Friday shot down the Libertarian and
Green parties' claim that they have a legal right to participate
in this year's presidential debates.... U.S. District Judge
Rosemary Collyer disagreed in a 27-page ruling filed Friday
morning dismissing the case.... Green Party spokesman Scott
McLarty said the party is disappointed with Friday's ruling.
"Any candidate who has ballot lines in enough states to win, if
enough voters voted for him or her, should be admitted to the
debates," he said via email. "That should be the qualification.
In 2012, Green nominee Jill Stein was on the ballot in 37
states, enabling 82 percent of voters to vote for her if they
chose to do so.".... Ron Nielson, Johnson's campaign manager,
also expressed disappointment with the ruling and said, "From an
initial look, our legal counsel sees several serious flaws in
the court's basis and reasoning." "We are exploring our options,
with the firm resolve that this case and the larger issue of
fair debates are too important to simply allow such an arbitrary
dismissal," Nielson said in a statement. "At the same time, with
Gov. Johnson consistently polling in double-digits, we continue
to believe that the CPD should make the right and fair decision
to invite him to participate in the upcoming debates.
Video: Hah! New Trump Ad Mocks Hillary as "Short-Circuited"
Robot
Gateway Pundit - A new internet video ad by Donald Trump asks,
“Is robot Hillary melting down?”
Navy Says Sailors Will Be Allowed To Wear “Don’t Tread On Me”
Patches On Their Uniforms
Weasel Zippers - Obama’s EEOC will not like this, they ruled
this week that employees who wear the “Don’t Tread On Me”
insignia could be guilty of racial harassment. Via WAM: Along
with announcing Aug. 5 that they would soon be ditching the blue
digital camouflage Navy Working Uniform Type I, the U.S. Navy
said it will also allow the popular “Don’t Tread On Me” patches
for its uniforms and would offer new insignia for its boat
driving commandos. As of Oct. 1, any sailor wearing the woodland
digital NWU Type III duds can sport the DTOM flag patch in the
same camouflage scheme. SEALs and other Naval Special Warfare
Unit sailors, or those specifically authorized to wear the
desert digital NWU Type II, may also wear a
similarly-camouflaged DTOM patch.
Establishment Tries To Suppress "Dissident Actuaries" Explosive
Report On Public Pensions
Zero Hedge - Pensions and Investments reports: The American
Academy of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries Monday
abruptly disbanded its longtime joint Pension Finance Task
Force, objecting to a task force paper challenging the standard
actuarial practice of valuing public pension plan liabilities.
“This paper (is) being censored by the AAA and SOA”, said Edward
Bartholomew, who was a member of the former task force, in an
interview. “They didn’t want it to get out.” Others who were
members of the task force also said in interviews the two
actuarial groups are trying to suppress publication of the
paper.... There are powerful interests that don’t want public
pensions to be governed by the same kinds of accounting
principles used in the private sector because… well, because if
they were, public pensions would go from seriously underfunded
to catastrophically underfunded.
A Realistic Look at July’s Nonfarm Payrolls
Wall Street on Parade - The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
released its nonfarm payroll data this morning, showing that
255,000 jobs were created in July.... Unfortunately, drilling
down into the more granular details, a far less rosy picture
emerges.... The data for July shows that the U-6 unemployment
number is 10.7 percent of the nation’s workforce, more than
double the official number of 4.9 percent. The U-6 unemployment
rate includes the number of people unemployed; plus individuals
just marginally attached to the labor force; plus those employed
part-time for economic reasons.... But a far bigger problem with
the BLS data is what constitutes an “employed” worker to our
Federal government’s numbers crunchers. According to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, you could be an out of work MBA graduate
but if you help your brother in his deli for 15 hours in a week
while living in his home, you’re counted as employed.... Or, if
you’re not working for a family member making no money at all
but earn at least $20 working for a stranger for at least an
hour in a week – you’re counted as an employed worker.... This
helpful-to-the-administration-in-power rosy interpretation of
the unemployment rate helps to explain how the U.S. economy
could be showing a robust growth in jobs while simultaneously
reporting an abysmal labor force participation rate.
Government advises airlines to spray pesticides on passengers
(NaturalHealth365) The International Civil Aviation Organization
and World Health Organization (WHO) admit that aircraft cabins
are being sprayed with what they are calling a “fast-acting
insecticide” with passengers on board, right before takeoff.
Some airlines are instead treating aircraft interiors with a
“residual-insecticide aerosol” right before passengers get on
board…. However, all passengers exposed to these toxic chemicals
“agree” to the conditions, even if they aren’t aware of it. The
fact that spraying will occur on a flight is stated in the fine
print when the airline tickets are purchased. Passengers
implicitly agree to being sprayed just by buying a ticket for a
flight where these practices will take place.… Many airline
passengers are already reporting negative health effects from
exposure to toxic chemicals on flights. For example, flu-like
symptoms, sinus issues, rash/hives, headaches and swollen joints
are just some of the horrible effects. However, far more serious
issues like acute respiratory problems and anaphylactic shock
have occurred. Chronic issues affecting the neurological and
immune systems have also been reported. The most common aircraft
pesticides used on airplanes are synthetic pyrethroids,
specifically permethrin and d-phenothrin. Remember, they kill
insects by attacking their nervous systems…. Bottom line: Before
you take that flight – make a phone call to your airline of
choice and ask the question, “are you spraying insecticides on
this flight.”
Flaxseed Reduces Blood Pressure and Decreases Oxylipin Levels
Green Med Info - The St. Boniface and University of Manitoba
researchers gave one hundred and ten peripheral artery disease
patients a placebo or thirty grams of ground flaxseed every day
for six months. After the six months, the flaxseed group had
marked and significantly lower levels of oxylipins. Oxylipins
are known to be linked with artery damage, thrombosis,
hypertension and cardiovascular disease in general. Recent
research from Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University has
linked high oxylipin levels with diabetes as well. Oxylipins are
formed when polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) become oxidized.
This formation of oxylipins can occur in lipids such as free DHA
and EPA, along with others. The blood pressure of the St.
Boniface and University of Manitobagroup group given the
flaxseed was lowered significantly. Their systolic blood
pressure (SBP) on average was 10 mm Hg lower than at the
beginning of the study, and their diastolic blood pressure (DBP)
was lower by 7 mm Hg on average. Flaxseed contains a number of
constituents that work synergistically to reduce cholesterol and
blood pressure. These include alpha-linolenic acid, linoleic
acid, oligosaccharide-rich fiber and lignans.
Study: Eating more Plant Protein Offsets ‘Dangers of Eating
Meat’
Natural Society - A new study suggests that those who consume
animal proteins are at a higher risk for death than those who do
not. This is even true when those who do not ingest animal
proteins are heavy drinkers and smokers. The good news here is
that replacing animal proteins with plant proteins seems to
significantly reduce the mortality risk. The study was conducted
at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston where 130,000 healthcare professionals across the United
States were followed over several decades. Half of those
participating in the study were getting at least 14% of their
protein from animal products. At the end of the study,
researchers stated that each 3% increase in calories of plant
protein lowered the risk of death (in the study period) by 10%.
Video: WE’RE THE SUPERHUMANS Rio Paralympics 2016 Trailer
Channel 4 (UK Paralympic Broadcaster) is proud to present the
3-minute trailer for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Slideshow: 25 Kids Who Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
True Activist - It can be a trying task to remain optimistic
about Earth’s future, especially when one is bombarded with news
of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Brexit, ISIS, pollution, the
Syrian war, and police brutality on the daily. Thankfully, it is
a fact that while negative happenings do take place, many
positive ones do, as well. And, many of those good deeds are
conducted by none other than children. After reviewing many of
the compassionate acts kids around the world have conducted,
we’re sure you’ll agree that there is hope for humanity.
Compiled by Bored Panda, the collection inspires faith in the
prospect that things can – and will – change for the better, and
hopefully soon.
Why Your Pet's Allergies Are Getting Worse - and 7 Ways to Help Stop
Them in Their Tracks
Dr. Becker - 1. The first thing I do with a dog or cat with allergies is
review their diet and assess for the possibility of leaky gut syndrome.
Often, dysbiosis, which is also called leaky gut, is the reason seasonal
allergies get progressively worse from one year to the next…. Any pet on
routine drug therapy should be assessed for a leaky gut. There's a new
canine dysbiosis test from Texas A&M GI Lab you can use to test for this
condition if you're unsure if your pet is affected. Another trigger for
leaky gut is a processed diet containing genetically modified
ingredients. Pets with allergies should be transitioned to an
anti-inflammatory diet. Diets that create or worsen inflammation are
high in carbohydrates. 2. The second thing I recommend is boosting the
omega-3 fatty acids in your pet's diet. The best sources of these fatty
acids come from the ocean, including krill, salmon, tuna, anchovy, and
sardine oil, and other sources of fish body oils…. I also recommend
coconut oil for allergic pets because it contains lauric acid, which has
natural anti-fungal properties that can help suppress the production of
yeast in your pet's body. Omega-3 oils combined with coconut oil can
moderate or even suppress the inflammatory response in allergic pets. 3.
Because allergies are an exaggerated immune system response (the
definition of an allergy is an immune system overreaction), it's
important not to add to the problem. This means avoiding unnecessary
vaccines and veterinary drugs, including chemical pest preventives….
Incredible moment coastguard officer brings kitten back to life with
mouth-to-mouth after she nearly drowns (Video)
Mirror Online - Italian officers found the lifeless kitten in the port
of Marsala, Western Sicily, after some children attracted their
attention. They were on a training mission when they discovered the
kitten but abandoned their duties to save her. An officer dived into
water to retrieve the animal before reviving her on board the vessel.
The incredible footage shows the officer breathing into the tiny
kitten's mouth and performing cardiac massage to get her breathing
again. Things seem bleak, but water begins to come out of the cat's nose
and she is heard making a tiny 'meow' sound. An officer is then heard
saying, "She breaths, she breaths! Call the vet!" In a statement a
spokesman for the Italian coastguard confirmed the kitten later received
medical attention and is in good health.
Friday - August
5, 2016 - Today In History:
1833 - The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was
approximately 250.
1861 - The U.S. federal government levied its first income tax. The tax
was 3% of all incomes over $800. The wartime measure was rescinded in
1872.
1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Adm. David G.
Farragut were led into Mobile Bay, Alabama.
1884 - On Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor, the cornerstone for the
Statue of Liberty was laid.
1953 - During the Korean conflict prisoners were exchanged at Panmunjom.
The exchange was labeled Operation Big Switch.
1964 - U.S. aircraft bombed North Vietnam after North Vietnamese boats
attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1966 - In New York, groundbreaking for the construction of the original
World Trade Center began.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon said that he expected to be impeached. Nixon
had ordered the investigation into the Watergate break-in to halt.
1981 - The U.S. federal government started firing striking air traffic
controllers.
1989 - In Honduras, five Central American presidents began meeting to
discuss the timetable for the dismantling of the Nicaraguan Contra
bases.
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush angrily denounced the Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait.
1991 - An investigation was formally launched by Democratic
congressional leaders to find out if the release of American hostages
was delayed until after the Reagan-Bush presidential election.
1991 - Iraq admitted to misleading U.N. inspectors about secret
biological weapons.
1998 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began not cooperating with U.N.
weapons inspectors.
2011 - NASA announced that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had captured
photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm
seasons.
2011 - Juno was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a
mission to Jupiter. It was the first solar-powered spacecraft to go to
Jupiter.
2011 - Standard & Poor's Financial Services lowered the United States'
AAA credit rating by one notch to AA-plus.
ISIS wants ‘loads of attacks in England, Germany & France,’
jailed jihadist says
RT - The terrorist group is actively seeking volunteers in
Germany and the UK to carry out “loads of attacks at the same
time in England, Germany and France.” Members of the
far-reaching Islamic State’s (IS, formerly ISIS) intelligence
service, called Emni in Arabic, allegedly told Sarfo they were
first and foremost interested in waging terrorism across the
globe. In an interview with the New York Times, Sarfo, who is
currently serving a three-year term on terrorism charges at a
maximum security prison near Bremen, recalled what one masked
commander once told him. “He was speaking openly about the
situation, saying that they have loads of people living in
European countries and waiting for commands to attack the
European people. And that was before the Brussels attacks,
before the Paris attacks.”
Iran Is Cheating On The Nuclear Deal, Now What?
Zero Hedge - One year into the nuclear deal, two credible and
timely intelligence reports reveal that Iran has no intention of
honoring the terms of the deal, which, anyway, it never signed.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency revealed that the Iranian
government has pursued a "clandestine" path to obtain illicit
nuclear technology and equipment from German companies "at what
is, even by international standards, a quantitatively high
level." A secret agreement, obtained by the Associated Press,
discloses that Iran's nuclear deal would not only lift
constraints on Iran's nuclear program after the nuclear deal,
but it will also do so long before the deal expires -- including
the installation of thousands of centrifuges, five times more
than what it currently possesses, as well enriching uranium at a
much higher pace. The more the White House ignores Iran's
violations of the nuclear accord, the more Iran will be
emboldened to violate international laws and the terms of the
nuclear agreement.
Egypt says kills leader of ISIS Sinai branch suspected of
downing Russian plane
RT - The Egyptian military has claimed that it killed the leader
of the Sinai branch of Islamic State, suspected of downing a
Russian passenger jet over Sinai in October last year. Abu Duaa
al-Ansari, the leader of the ISIS Sinai Peninsula terror group,
was killed in northern Sinai, south of the coastal city of
el-Arish, Egyptian officials said on Thursday. A Facebook post
on the page of Egyptian military’s spokesperson claimed that
“accurate intelligence” allowed security forces to kill the
jihadist. Fox News cited intelligence sources confirming the
killing of al-Ansari in a targeted airstrike. The outlet
reported the man had actively been involved in organizing
attacks against the UN personnel on Sinai Peninsula. The
Egyptian military added that 45 members of the group were also
eliminated during the operation. The Egyptian branch of Islamic
State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) is suspected by the CIA of
planting a bomb on the Russian Metrojet passenger plane that
crashed on October 31, 2015, killing all 224 people on board.
Stash of US-made heavy weapons found in terrorist-held Aleppo
district (Video)
RT - Footage has emerged online allegedly showing mortars,
anti-tank missiles and grenades being uncovered along with a
quantity of western (mostly US)-made weapons and ammunition in
territories abandoned by terrorists in Syrian Aleppo.
The video appeared online on Thursday and purported to show the
discovery of a large cache of western arms and ammunition in a
house in Aleppo’s eastern Bani Zaid district. The majority of
the weapons appear to be of US origin and include US-made
anti-tank missiles system (TOW 2A), American UN0181 missiles, as
well as US-made 81mm mortars and ammunition. Some of the boxes
containing weapons are labeled with the letters ‘USA’…. The
territory in which the weapons were found was recently abandoned
by fighters from the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra).
It is considered a terrorist group by the UN and is not part of
the cessation of hostilities in Syria. The group recently
rebranded itself while breaking its ties with the global terror
network Al-Qaeda…. In October last year a Pentagon-trained group
of Syrian rebels known as Division 30, handed over their US
delivered weapons to al-Sham terrorists, the western media
widely reported citing US military sources.
Eight Billion To Assist The Terrorists?..only from Obama's White
House
Pickering Post - According to Egypt’s TV14 network, Obama had
secretly transferred eight billion dollars to the Muslim
Brotherhood, not the Egyptian Government, as payment to
guarantee that a large portion of the Sinai Peninsula would be
turned over to the terrorist organisation Hamas, an enemy of
both the United States and Israel. White House National Security
Council spokeswoman at the time Bernadette Meehan, declined to
comment on this secret directive that was discovered following
the overthrow of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Leader, Morsi. When
asked, Meehan said, “We have nothing for you on this”. The
directive outlines why the US Administration had chosen the
Muslim Brotherhood which is widely accepted as a terrorist
organisation by the US, Israel, Egypt and the United Arab
Emirates. The secret agreement was signed by deposed president
Mohammed Morsi and his second in command, Khairat el Shater.
EU hits Russian & Chinese steel with anti-dumping tariffs
RT - The European Union has imposed anti-dumping import duties
on cold-rolled flat products of iron or non-alloy steel produced
in Russia and China. The new tariffs vary from 18.7 to 36.1
percent, and are imposed for a five-year period applied
retroactively from December 2015. The EU claimed imports from
both countries were unfairly undercutting European producers
such as ThyssenKrupp and ArcelorMittal. EU-based manufacturers
suffered “material injury” as a result of dumped imports from
Russia and China, according to the investigative commission.
“This shows our continuous efforts to use to the fullest extent
the available trade defense instruments to fight unfair imports
of steel products,” said Mina Andreeva, a spokeswoman for the
European Commission…. Under World Trade Organization
regulations, the EU is authorized to impose anti-dumping duties
on goods manufactured outside the bloc if the products are
priced below fair market value and cause injury to the bloc’s
industry.
* Related:
Welcome To The Trade War - China Imposes Tariffs On EU, US And
Japanese Steel Imports
Greek parliament votes to speed up $1mn Athens mosque
construction
RT - Greek lawmakers have given the go-ahead for the first
official mosque to be built in Athens in over 180 years. The
state-funded project has faced opposition from right-wing party
Independent Greeks and the ultranationalist Golden Dawn. The
vote was passed by a landslide, with 206 members of the Greek
parliament voting to accelerate the construction on the mosque
and 24 objecting out of the 230 MPs present…. The Greek
government has been promising to build a mosque in Athens using
public money since 2006. However, the project, which will cost
€950,000 ($1 million), has been hit by numerous delays including
legal challenges. The Orthodox Church, which plays a powerful
institutional and cultural role in Greece, has also opposed its
construction. Education Minister Filis added that building an
official mosque could help stop the radicalization of local
Muslims. Around 50,000 mainly Muslim refugees are believed to be
in Greece as a result of the migrant crisis that has swept
Europe, which was triggered by wars in the Middle East.
Rio 2016: Olympic torch skirts riots and drug gang clashes in
host city
The Guardian - Police used stun grenades and tear gas to clear
protesters in the path of the Olympic torch in a poor suburb of
Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, two days before South America’s
first Olympic Games open under tight security…. Police said
anti-government protesters in Duque de Caixas, on Rio’s north
side, threw rocks and blocked the torch’s path. Police dispersed
them with pepper spray and rubber bullets. Three people were
injured by rubber bullets, including a 10-year-old girl, local
media reported. The clash, which came a day after anti-torch
protests in nearby towns and amid several days of gang violence
in northern Brazil, underscored social tension in the massive
country…. Some 85,000 police, soldiers and security personnel
are being deployed in Rio, more than double the amount in London
in 2012, to deter both violent street crime and the threat of
attacks by extremists.
Scientists edge closer to creating effective Zika virus vaccine
The Guardian - Of the three vaccines tested by Barouch and
others, the most conventional and ready for development is a
whole, killed Zika virus, which is being pursued by the Walter
Reed Army Institute of Research in Maryland. The other two
vaccines are more novel. In one, a single and harmless Zika
virus gene is stitched into a loop of DNA. When injected into
the body, cells take up the DNA loop and from it produce Zika
proteins that trigger an immune response against them. The third
and final vaccine adds the Zika virus gene to a harmless
adenovirus. This behaves like a Trojan horse and smuggles the
DNA into cells, which then produce antibodies to wipe out the
whole virus. No DNA or adenovirus vaccines have been approved
for use in humans before, but clinical trials are underway. The
vaccine based on the whole, killed virus will go into human
trials this autumn.
Texas on High Alert For Local Zika Transmission
Breitbart - Texas continues to roll out its statewide
preparations to forestall or lessen the severity of Zika when
and if it becomes local statewide. In February, Breitbart Texas
reported DSHS officials feared a “transmission cycle” could
happen in Texas as has now occurred in Florida especially
because Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that carry Zika are native to
Texas…. As of July 29, Texas reported 42 pregnant women to the
CDC’s Zika Pregnancy Registry. That number reflected three
pregnant women confirmed with Zika. It also included other
pregnant women and any newborns who tested positive for the
virus but showed no symptoms or the symptoms they exhibited
could not be specifically identified as Zika by health
professions. Texas Medicaid announced it will cover the costs of
up to two cans of mosquito repellent per month through October
31 for eligible women between the ages of 10 and 45 or pregnant.
To receive the free mosquito repellent, eligible women must be
enrolled Medicaid, CHIP, CHIP-Perinate, Healthy Texas Women, or
the Family Planning program. A doctor must prescribe the
repellent and it must be picked up at a pharmacy.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
First "Shocking" Deposition In Clinton Email Case Reveals She
Did Not Use A Password
U.S. Ambassador Lewis Lukens’s sworn testimony in the case of
Hillary Clinton’s privatization of the U.S. Secretary of State’s
email is the first evidence to be released in the Clinton email
cases, and it was published on May 26th at the website of
Judicial Watch, the organization that originally brought the
suit. Headlining "First Deposition Testimony from Clinton Email
Discovery Released”, it reported that: Judicial Watch today
released the deposition transcript of Ambassador Lewis Lukens,
former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive
director of the State Department’s executive secretariat. The
transcript is available here. Amb. Lukens was deposed last week
as part of the discovery granted to Judicial Watch by U.S.
District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in response to its
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit involving former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecured, non-government
email system (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No.
1:13-cv-01363)). Lukens is the first of seven depositions of
former Clinton top aides and State Department officials that
Judicial Watch has scheduled over the next four weeks. Also to
be deposed are Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, as well as top
State Department official Patrick Kennedy, and former State IT
employee Bryan Pagliano.
Obama will bypass Congress, seek U.N. resolution on nuclear
testing
Washington Post - President Obama has decided to seek a new
United Nations Security Council resolution that would call for
an end to nuclear testing, a move that leading lawmakers are
calling an end run around Congress. Top administration
officials, including Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, briefed
lawmakers and congressional staffers this week about President
Obama’s decision to push for the U.N. action this September, to
coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty, which was adopted in September 1996 but was never
ratified by the Senate…. The administration did not consult
Congress before making the decision, and leading Republicans,
including those who opposed Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, are
irate that the White House plans another major national security
move without their advice or consent. “This is a plan to cede
the Senate’s constitutional role to the U.N. It’s dangerous and
it’s offensive. Not only is this an affront to Congress, it’s an
affront to the American people,” Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told me. “It directly
contradicts the processes that are in place to make sure that
Congress appropriately weighs in on international agreements.”
Undercover govt group easily purchased ‘dirty bomb’ materials in
Texas says report
RT - Gathering the materials for a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’
isn’t supposed to be simple in the US. In fact, it’s supposed to
include a stringent inspection process. But an undercover
congressional group in Texas had a remarkably easy time
completing the task. […] The journey to the deadly ingredients
began in Dallas, where the group incorporated a shell company
they never intended to run. In order to have an address for the
license application, they rented an office space in an
industrial park. When asked to identify their safety officer on
the form, they created a false name and attached a fake resume.
And when they were asked what their intentions were, they said
they needed the material to power an industrial gauge used in
oil and gas exploration. The application then went to Texas
regulators who are permitted by the NRC to grant licenses
without federal review. And although the regulators did, at the
very least, fulfill the requirement of an on-site visit, they
didn't seem too alarmed when an inspector arrived at the fake
office to find it was empty and had no security precautions.
Getting around that little speed bump was incredibly easy for
the group – they simply assured the inspector that once they had
a license, they would be able to make the necessary security and
safety improvements. That was apparently all the inspector
needed to hear, as he granted the group a license on the spot.
That piece of paper allowed the group to purchase the sealed
radioactive material in an amount smaller than needed for any
kind of ‘dirty bomb’.
Federal Agency Debating Whether ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ Symbol Is
Racial Harassment
Mikael Thalen - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is
currently debating whether attire bearing the Gadsden flag
symbol can be construed as racial harassment. The case began in
2014 at a private business when a black employee filed a
complaint with the agency over a coworker who regularly wore a
hat featuring the iconic snake and the “don’t tread on me”
phrase. The complaint alleged the flag was inherently racist
because Christopher Gadsden, the flag’s designer, was “a slave
trader & owner of slaves.” Even though the hat’s owner never
made any racist comments according to the complaint, the black
employee asserted the symbol is a “historical indicator of white
resentment against blacks stemming largely from the Tea Party.”
The complainant also notes that the coworker continued wearing
the hat even after being told to stop by his superiors. Although
the EEOC’s preliminary ruling stated that the flag was not
racist, the agency is continuing to gather evidence before
coming to a final conclusion.
Deceased FBI Agent Found At Trump Tower With Silenced Pistol
Brian Michael - A source within the NYPD has reported that an
armed 62 year old man tried to sneak in to the Trump Tower late
Tuesday night. Interestingly the suspect who was found with a
semi-automatic handgun fitted with a silencer has been
identified as Barry Lee Bush, a former Newark NJ FBI agent who
has been dead since 2007. A Secret Service agent discovered Bush
after he had circumvented a security partition on the bottom
floor of the Trump Tower. Questioned by Secret Service at the
scene, Bush who initially identified himself as Barry Franklyn,
remained silent offering no explanation for why he broke
security at the Trump Tower. According to the NYPD source, Bush
was arrested for trespassing and for illegally carrying a pistol
fitted with an illegal silencer. During his booking at the NYPD
Jail, Bush’s fingerprints were submitted to the National Crime
Information Center, which immediately reported Bush’s true
identity.
Hillary: ‘We Are Going to Raise Taxes on the Middle Class’
(Video)
Breitbart - During a speech in Omaha, NE, in what may or may not
have been a Freudian slip, Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton said she would raise taxes on the “middle
class.” “Trump wants to cut taxes for the super-rich,” Clinton
said. “Well we’re not going there, my friends. I’m telling you
right now, we’re going to write fairer rules for the middle
class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class.” The
crowd in attendance cheered on Clinton after the proclamation.
Clinton Donors Push Health Tax in Texas’ Poorest Region
Breitbart - A local ballot measure supported by Hillary Clinton
donors hopes to levy a new tax on one of the poorest regions in
the country in the spirit of improved public health. This week,
the Hidalgo County Commissioners Court moved to have a
proposition included on the November General Election ballot. If
passed, the new taxing entity would collect property taxes to
reimburse a local hospital for money spent treating the indigent
population. The measure had been defeated two years before,
however local and state Democrats have pushed the ballot measure
once again…. According to the Mayor of Mission, Beto Salinas,
[County Judge Ramon] Garcia is not explaining is the fact that
the majority of the individuals who qualify as indigent health
care recipients include people living in Mexico and illegal
immigrants — leaving few viable options to collect on the money
spent.
Experts: Hillary is a Sociopath and Could Have Brain Damage
Paul Joseph Watson - Hillary’s bizarre behavior and strange
seizures: Is she having a breakdown or does she actually have
brain damage?I asked mental health experts about her strange
outbursts that have been caught on camera. They told me that the
odd manifestations and facial ticks are likely side-effects of
her blood clot. But Hillary’s conduct also strongly indicates
she is a sociopath who has a total lack of empathy for other
people. Watch the video to find out more.
Dem Launches Petition to Force Donald Trump Psychiatric Exam
Breitbart - Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) has launched an online
petition to force the Republican Party to submit presidential
nominee Donald Trump to a psychiatric evaluation. The petition
at Change.org reads, in part: Donald Trump is dangerous for our
country. His impulsiveness and lack of control over his own
emotions are of concern. It is our patriotic duty to raise the
question of his mental stability to be the commander in chief
and leader of the free world. Mr. Trump appears to exhibit all
the symptoms of the mental disorder Narcissistic Personality
Disorder (NPD). Mental health professionals need to come forward
and urge the Republican party to insist that their nominee has
an evaluation to determine his mental fitness for the job. It is
entirely possible that some individuals with NPD can
successfully function in many careers, but not the Presidency of
the United States. We deserve to have the greatest understanding
of Mr. Trump’s mental health status before we head to the polls
on November 8th, 2016.
Microsoft Pitches Technology That Can Read Facial Expressions at
Political Rallies
The Intercept - On the 21st floor of a high-rise hotel in
Cleveland, in a room full of political operatives, Microsoft’s
Research Division was advertising a technology that could read
each facial expression in a massive crowd, analyze the emotions,
and report back in real time. “You could use this at a Trump
rally,” a sales representative told me…. At one exhibit, titled
“Realtime Crowd Insights,” a small camera scanned the room,
while a monitor displayed the captured image. Every five
seconds, a new image would appear with data annotated for each
face — an assigned serial number, gender, estimated age, and any
emotions detected in the facial expression. When I approached,
the machine labeled me “b2ff” and correctly identified me as a
23-year-old male. It interpreted my facial expression as
“neutral,” with a bit of “surprise.”… Microsoft’s sales
representatives told me that political campaigns could use the
technology to measure the emotional impact of different talking
points — and political scientists could use it to study crowd
response at rallies.
U.S. Navy Sued over Environmental Devastation Expected from Warlike
Military Exercises on Mariana Islands
AllGov - Northern Mariana Island conservation groups sued the U.S. Navy
and Department of Defense over plans to conduct live-fire exercises on
Tinian and Pagan in connection with a planned military buildup on Guam.
Part of the larger "pivot to the Pacific," some 5,000 U.S. Marines are
slated to be relocated from Okinawa over the next decade and would train
on the Mariana Islands to the north using artillery, mortars, rockets,
amphibious assaults, attack helicopters and warplanes, and ship-to-shore
naval bombardment. Plaintiffs Tinian Island Women Association, Guardians
of Gani, Paganwatch and Center for Biological Diversity claim, however,
that the Navy violated the National Environmental Policy Act (pdf) by
failing to evaluate all the impacts of the their plans in a single
initial environmental impact statement. Since the plan to move 5,000
Marines to Guam "triggered" a subsequent need for a training area, both
impacts should have been considered in a single statement. Instead, the
groups say, the Navy relied on separate, deficient assessments, which
rest in turn on the larger matter of national security for their
justification.
Chip-and-PIN credit cards hacked easily, Black Hat conference proves
RT - The new credit card with a chip in it in your wallet ‒ touted as
being less vulnerable than the old magnetic swipe version ‒ isn’t as
safe as you think. Hackers at Black Hat proved once again the
chip-and-PIN cards are not as impenetrable as they seem. It only takes
small modifications to equipment to bypass the chip-and-PIN protections
and enable unauthorized payments, multiple researchers at the Black Hat
convention in Las Vegas, Nevada demonstrated on Wednesday. The new
cards, which began rolling out in the US in October 2015, use technology
‒ called Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) ‒ that has long been
standard in Europe. It’s designed to prevent the duplication of cards
and crack down on cards that have been stolen. The tech works by
inserting the chip into a card reader, then entering a personal
identification number, or PIN. However, in the US, the financial
industry only requires a signature after the chip is read, which is less
secure.
U.S. Government To Lift Ban On Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos
Zero Hedge - From an NPR article published this morning: The federal
government announced plans Thursday to lift a moratorium on funding of
controversial experiments that use human stem cells to create animal
embryos that are partly human. The National Institutes of Health is
proposing a new policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make
embryos, known as chimeras, under certain carefully monitored
conditions. The NIH imposed a moratorium on funding these experiments in
September because they could raise ethical concerns. One issue is that
scientists might inadvertently create animals that have partly human
brains, endowing them with some semblance of human consciousness or
human thinking abilities. Another is that they could develop into
animals with human sperm and eggs and breed, producing human embryos or
fetuses inside animals or hybrid creatures. But scientists have argued
that they could take steps to prevent those outcomes and that the
embryos provide invaluable tools for medical research. For example,
scientists hope to use the embryos to create animal models of human
diseases, which could lead to new ways to prevent and treat illnesses.
Researchers also hope to produce sheep, pigs and cows with human hearts,
kidneys, livers, pancreases and possibly other organs that could be used
for transplants. In addition, the NIH would even consider experiments
that could create animals with human sperm and human eggs since they may
be useful for studying human development and infertility. But in that
case steps would have to be taken to prevent the animals from breeding.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Major U.S. Poultry Producer Embraces Use of Antibiotics despite
Potential Health Threat
AllGov - In the last couple of years, the poultry industry has
sharply reduced its use of antibiotics, responding to concerns
among public health officials and regulators about the rise of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But now, one major poultry
processor is standing its ground. Sanderson Farms, the country’s
third-largest poultry producer, has started an advertising
campaign to defend its continued use of antibiotics — and calls
its competitors’ efforts in the other direction a “marketing
gimmick” aimed at charging higher prices…. Sanderson’s marketing
campaign is likely to intensify the already fierce fight over
the use of antibiotics in agriculture. Consumers, advocacy
groups and corporate customers like McDonald’s and Chick-fil-A
have said they will buy only chicken raised without the
antibiotics used to treat humans. Those commitments and others
have persuaded four of the five large U.S. poultry producers to
begin reducing their reliance on antibiotics. But not Sanderson.
FDA Enhances Warnings on Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics
Natural Society - On July 26, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) bolstered the warnings concerning a certain
class of antibiotics, called fluoroquinolones, saying they’re
too strong for bronchitis, sinus infections, and simple urinary
tract infections. Levofloxacin (brand name Levaquin) and
ciprofloxacin (brand name Cipro) are both examples of commonly
prescribed fluoroquinolones. These drugs are associated with
serious and long-lasting side effects. A good friend of mine
suffers from permanent neuropathy in her hands as a result of
taking Cipro several years ago. The FDA said in a statement:
“While these drugs are effective in treating serious bacterial
infections, an FDA safety review found that both oral and
injectable fluoroquinolones are associated with disabling side
effects involving tendons, muscles, joints, nerves and the
central nervous system. These side effects can occur hours to
weeks after exposure to fluoroquinolones and may potentially be
permanent.” Two or more of these side effects can occur
together. Fluoroquinolone injuries are so common, in fact, that
victims of the antibiotics refer to themselves as “floxies.” The
name comes from ciprofloxacin.
Thursday - August
4, 2016 - Today In History:
1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John
Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged
with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said
that "the truth is not libelous."
1753 - George Washington became a Master Mason.
1914 - Britain declared war on Germany. The U.S. proclaimed its
neutrality.
1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight
people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people
arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.
1954 - The uranium rush began in Saskatchewan, Canada.
1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the
governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.
1977 - U.S. President Carter signed the measure that established the
Department of Energy.
1989 - Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani offered to assist end the
hostage crisis in Lebanon.
1990 - The European Community imposed an embargo on oil from Iraq and
Kuwait. This was done to protest the Iraqi invasion of the oil-rich
Kuwait.
2007 - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft was launched on a space exploration
mission of Mars. The Phoenix lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008.
2009 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il pardoned two American
journalists, who had been arrested and imprisoned for illegal entry
earlier in the year.
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‘Possible terrorism’: At least 1 dead, 6 injured in London
stabbing
RT - A knife-wielding man attacked people at Russell Square,
central London, killing one and injuring at least six. Police
apprehended the suspect and are investigating the incident as a
possible act of terrorism. Police were called in response to an
ongoing attack at Russell Square, Bloomsbury, in the London
Borough of Camden at 10:33 pm local time, according to the
Metropolitan Police. Upon arrival, officers discovered six
people with wounds, with one person later dying from her
injuries. “Up to six people were found injured at the location,”
police said in a statement. “A female (no further details) was
treated at the scene but was pronounced dead a short time
later.”.... Police have also notified that they arrested the
suspect after one of the officers took him down using a Taser....
“Terrorism is one possibility being explored at this stage,” the
official statement added.
Files linking Britain to Israel’s nuclear weapons go missing
from National Archives
RT - Official documents on Britain’s relationship with Israel,
including papers on “military and nuclear collaboration” in the
1970s, have disappeared from the National Archives in the last
four years. More than 400 records have gone missing from the
repository in Kew, southwest London, including a 1947 letter
from Winston Churchill and a Home Office document on the 1910
Suffragettes “disturbances.” The Archives reassured the public
it is following a “robust” plan to find the lost files.... Among
them is a Foreign Office file titled ‘Military and nuclear
collaboration with Israel: Israeli nuclear armament,’ in which
the British government notes Israel’s intention to purchase
nuclear weapons.... This is not the only National Archives paper
to report on Anglo-Israeli nuclear agreements. A 1958 document,
made public by the BBC a decade ago, showed how Britain sold 20
tons of heavy water – one of the ingredients needed to generate
plutonium – to Israel, to be used in the country’s top secret
Dimona nuclear reactor.... Israel neither admits nor denies its
possession of nuclear weapons and has never publicly tested one.
It is universally believed to have them, however, but its
official secrecy means it is unclear exactly how many.
Archbishop Warns of Muslims’ ‘Will to Conquer’
Breitbart - One of the most important prelates in the Catholic
Church in Hungary has warned that the enormous waves of migrants
rolling into Europe are due in no small part to a Muslim “will
to conquer,” by expanding their territory into the continent.
“Jihad is a principle for Muslims that means they must expand,”
said Archbishop Gyula Marfi in an interview Wednesday. “The
earth must become dar al-Islam, that is, Islamic territory, by
introducing Shariah—Islamic law.” The archbishop of Veszprém
said that although there may be other motivations, the conquest
of European territory for Islam plays a significant role in the
unusual pressure to migrate to Europe…. Beyond the migrants
themselves, Marfi said that there has been an economic push,
with financial support from Arab banks driving the migration
from Muslim lands into Europe. “They do not let them come into
Qatar or the United Arab Emirates, but they give them money and
incite them to immigrate here,” he said…. Asked about recent
declarations from Pope Francis about welcoming migrants in
Christ’s name, Marfi said that the Pope had to be careful not to
come out strongly against Islamic violence, because otherwise
Muslims could take out their revenge on Middle Eastern
Christians.
Number of Refugees Fleeing to Europe Soars to 1.3 Million
Truth Revolt - Last year, Europe saw more asylum applicants than
in the previous peak years of 1992 and 2002 combined. Last
year’s number amounts to about one-tenth of all applications
received in the past 30 years in the European Union, Norway and
Switzerland. About half of the 1.3 million come from only three
countries: Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria – nations that have been
devastated by war and conflict…. Since 2012, Germany has been
the primary destination country for asylum seekers in Europe,
receiving 442,000 asylum applications in just 2015. Measured per
capita, Hungary, followed by Sweden and Austria, received the
highest numbers of asylum seekers in 2015. In comparison, France
and the UK received roughly the same number of applications in
2015 as in years prior to last year’s refugee surge. The number
of parent-less children has also notably increased. In 2015, the
number increased by 7 percent.
Muslims Interrupt Memorial For Munich Victims, Chant 'Allah'hu
Akbar!'
Truth Revolt - German vigil-holders were enraged and confronted
the Muslim group, some used profanity. Police attempted to quell
the escalation, but understandably those present to pay their
respects to the dead were having none of it. Last week an
Iranian-German teen named Ali Sonboly lured children to a local
MacDonald's where he carried out a massacre. He, too, screamed "Allah'hu
Akbar" before opening fire, according to a witness present (who,
by the way, identified herself as Muslim). At least nine were
killed and 16 were injured. The mainstream media and German
authorities have attempted to sell the narrative that Ali was
not motivated by Islam, nor was it an act of terrorism. They
claim, rather, that the troubled youth suffered from psychiatric
disorders.
Syrian refugee in Germany arrested after killing woman in
machete attack
Reuters - A 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested on Sunday
after killing a pregnant woman with a machete in Germany, the
fourth violent assault on civilians in western Europe in 10
days, though police said it did not appear linked to terrorism….
German police said they arrested the machete-wielding Syrian
asylum-seeker after he killed a woman and injured two other
people in the southwestern city of Reutlingen near Stuttgart.
The Syrian had been involved in previous incidents causing
injuries to others, and had apparently acted alone, a police
spokesman said. "Given the current evidence, there is no
indication that this was a terrorist attack," a police statement
said. "The attacker was completely out of his mind. He even ran
after a police car with his machete," the mass-circulation Bid
newspaper quoted a witness as saying. A motorist knocked down
the attacker soon afterward and he was then taken into custody
by police, the witness told Bid. The police spokesman said the
man was being interrogated after receiving medical treatment.
France: Water Park to Hold “Burkini” Day: Non-Muslim Swimming
Attire BANNED
Paul Joseph Watson - Speed Water Park near Marseille, a city
with a Muslim population of around 25 per cent, is advertising a
private women only day to take place on Saturday September 10th.
Visitors to the water the park on this day will be required to
wear one piece swimsuits known as “burkinis” or “bath jilbabs”
(pictured above) which cover the entire body, including the
head. Responding to pressure from incensed residents, local
council officials are attempting to nix the plan, with one
possibility being an “administrative closure for security
reasons”. Council member Romain Amaro said it was impossible
that the event should be allowed to take place “in the current
context”. Valérie Boyer, an elected official for the region,
also expressed her outrage at the event. The controversy is yet
another example of how France is becoming Islamicized even as
the country is constantly hit by Islamic terror attacks.
BBC Still Rejecting White Job Applicants
Kit Daniels - The BBC is still recruiting job applicants based
on skin color, despite the controversy over its hiring practices
that erupted earlier this year. A job advertisement posted on
July 29 states, in no uncertain terms, that the “Creative
Access” position is “only open to UK nationals from a black,
Asian or non-white ethnic minority.” Additionally, the website
for Creative Access attempts to justify the racial
discrimination by claiming that “media cannot reflect society,
if society is not reflected in the media.” In other words, the
BBC wants to reflect racism in society rather than disavow it.
Just imagine the backlash if the mainstream media discovered a
company hiring “whites only:” thousands of reporters would
condemn the company until it goes completely under.
Israeli policeman caught on video taking crying eight-year-old
Palestinian girl's bike and throwing it in bushes
The Independent - The footage, released by Israeli human rights
group B’Tselem, shows an officer running over to the girl as she
plays in the street with her siblings in Hebron. She is seen
screaming and dropping her bicycle, which the armed officer then
proceeds to step on as she starts to cry. The girl then runs
away as the police officer shouts at her, while holding his gun.
His colleague proceeds to pick up the bicycle and throw it in
nearby bushes.... She had been riding her bicycle on the paved
part of a road leading up to the Tomb of the Patriarchs/
Ibrahimi Mosque holy site, which is restricted for use by Jewish
settlers and Israelis while Palestinians are ordered to use an
unsurfaced pathway on the other side of a fence.... Tensions
frequently boil over into violent protests around Hebron's
contested Old City, where there is a heavily guarded Israeli
settlement. Hebron has been the site of massacres of both
Muslims and Jews, and has seen several attacks by Palestinians –
who have been shot dead by security forces - during a wave of
intensified violence that started last year. The conduct of
Israeli forces came under scrutiny in March after a soldier was
filmed shooting a disarmed Palestinian man in the head as he lay
injured on the ground following an attempted stabbing.
Is Zika Outbreak Blowback From the Release of GM Mosquitoes?
“Nature Finds A Way”
Brandon Turbeville - Seemingly coming out of nowhere, Zika went
from its first discovered case in 1947 and sporadic appearances
up until last year, the virus is now in outbreak stage with WHO
officials concerned that it may become a pandemic. World health
researchers seem perplexed as to the genesis of the virus or at
least, the sudden appearance and rapid spread of it in 2015.
Claire Bernish of The Anti-Media points out one possibility:
When examining a rapidly expanding potential pandemic, it’s
necessary to leave no stone unturned so possible solutions, as
well as future prevention, will be as effective as possible. In
that vein, there was another significant development in 2015.
Oxitec first unveiled its large-scale, genetically-modified
mosquito farm in Brazil in July 2012, with the goal of reducing
“the incidence of dengue fever,” as The Disease Daily reported.
Dengue fever is spread by the same Aedes mosquitoes which spread
the Zika virus — and though they “cannot fly more than 400
meters,” WHO stated, “it may inadvertently be transported by
humans from one place to another.” By July 2015, shortly after
the GM mosquitoes were first released into the wild in Juazeiro,
Brazil, Oxitec proudly announced they had “successfully
controlled the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads dengue fever,
chikungunya and zika virus, by reducing the target population by
more than 90%.”Though that might sound like an astounding
success — and, arguably, it was — there is an alarming
possibility to consider…. The mosquitoes that were released by
Oxitec OX513A, were genetically engineered to need the presence
of tetracycline in order to survive to maturity. Outside of the
presence of tetracycline, they die…. There is a massive problem
with this program, however, most notably, the fact that the
presence of tetracycline in the environment is not as rare as
one might suspect. Particularly in a place like Brazil.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Report: Obama Admin Airlifted $400,000,000 to Iran as Americans
Freed…
Breitbart - Seemingly violating the claim that America doesn’t
negotiate with terrorists and hostage takers, reports have
revealed that the Obama administration organized an airlift to
transport $400 million in cash to Tehran which coincided with
the January release of four Americans taken prisoner by Iran.
Reports say wooden pallets stacked with a variety of currencies
were loaded onto an unmarked cargo plane and flown to Iran.
American officials procured the money from banks in Switzerland
and the Netherlands, according to the The Wall Street Journal
report. The money was purportedly only the first installment of
a $1.7 billion deal the Obama administration reached with Iran
over an arms deal brokered with the Shah of Iran just before the
Mullah’s took over in 1979. But the payments also came just as
Iran was releasing Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian,
former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, Christian pastor Saeed Abedini,
and Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari in January of this year. The
administration returned seven Iranian prisoners in exchange for
the release of the Americans. Obama also dropped extradition
proceedings against another 14 Iranians as part of the deal….
However, no mention was made of the secret transfer of $400
million in cash to Iran until now. The Obama administration has
now denied that the amazing amount of cash had anything to do
with the hostage release agreement.
D.C. Area Transit Cop Busted for Supporting Islamic State
Breitbart - The accused, a 36-year-old transit police officer in
Washington, D.C. named Nicholas Young, was arrested by the FBI
on Wednesday at the Metropolitan Police Headquarters, according
to the Washington Post. Young was caught in an FBI sting
operation, in which an undercover operative for the Joint
Terrorism Task Force convinced him to provide “codes for mobile
messaging cards that Young believed would be used by Islamic
State fighters overseas to communicate,” as the Washington Post
reports. NBC News more specifically details that Young attempted
to buy 22 mobile messaging gift cards for ISIS. He had a total
of 20 meetings with an FBI informant who was posing as an
Islamic State fighter.... Wiedefeld also notified his colleagues
that Young was fired, “effective immediately.”.... Young has
been working for the D.C. Metro police since 2003 despite being
monitored by the FBI since 2010, and traveling to Libya twice in
2011 to fight alongside rebel forces against the regime of
Moammar Qaddafi.
Chicago: ‘Deadliest July in 10 Years’ — Gun Control Haven
Breitbart - July 2016 was the “deadliest July in 10 years” for
heavily gun-controlled Chicago: Sixty-five individuals were shot
and killed. Moreover, according to the Chicago Tribune, such
death figures do not set a new record — they simply tie a record
set in 2006, when 65 individuals were killed in the month of
July. This brings Chicago’s homicide total to “nearly 400” for
the first seven months of 2016 alone. The number of homicides
for the whole year of 2015 was 490…. These shootings come in
spite of the city’s “assault weapons” ban, “violence tax,”
strict rules on acquiring handguns, and micro-management of the
number of gun stores in the city, as well as of the locations of
those stores.
TRUMP ON TOP in Latest USC-LA Times Daybreak Tracking Poll – But
It Gets Even Better…
The Gateway Pundit - The poll is weighted to match demographics
from the 2012 election. Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton 45.3
to 43.7 in the latest USC-LA Times Daybreak tracking poll.
Donald Trump shattered the previous GOP primary record by 1.4
million votes this year — and that was with 17 candidates in the
race! Hillary Clinton received 1.5 million fewer votes this year
than she did in 2008 – when she lost! Trump continues to sell
out venue after venue. Hillary can’t fill a high school
gymnasium this week without hauling in high school kids to sit
in the stands.
Exclusive: Khizr Khan Founded Islamic Journal to Defend Sharia
Law
Wayne Madsen - Khizr Khan, the Muslim immigrant lawyer from
Pakistan who arrived in America by way of Dubai and pulled at
the heart strings of viewers of the Democratic National
Convention by regaling the audience with the story of the loss
of his son in Iraq, Army Captain Humayun Khan, told his son’s
story but skipped over his own. Khizr Khan entered the United
States in 1980 from Dubai to attend Harvard Law School. That
year saw the Central Intelligence Agency ramp up its operations
in Pakistan in support of the Afghan mujaheddin against the
Soviets. The Pakistan operation was shepherded by national
security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, currently an outspoken
opponent of Donald Trump and a bitter foe of Russia…. Khan
specializes in international trade law for Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan. As anyone familiar with these countries knows, trade
law for both countries involves the traditional Muslim bribe,
the baksheesh, which, depending on the value of the deal, can
involve millions of dollars. These deals are very familiar to
Trump, who could have strengthened his argument against Khan by
revealing the “Gold Star father’s” specialty in the “art of the
bribe.” Khan co-founded the Journal of Contemporary Issues in
Muslim Law, an academic periodical that seeks to defend the
arcane Sharia law to a legal system based on Western
jurisprudence. Of course, Sharia law justifies the execution of
gays, prostitutes, blasphemers, and Muslim “apostates” who
convert to other religions.
America’s Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets
Wired - The extent of vulnerability isn’t just hypothetical;
late last summer, Virginia decertified thousands of insecure
WinVote machines. As one security researcher described it,
“anyone within a half mile could have modified every vote,
undetected” without “any technical expertise.” The vendor had
gone out of business years prior.... The worst part about the
current state of voting machines is that they don’t even require
outside interference to undo an election.... “It’s impossible to
have a perfectly secure, perfectly reliable computer.” That’s
true, but in fairness, most computers aren’t quite this
imperfect, either.... So electronic voting machines aren’t
ideal. The good news is, it’s entirely possible to mitigate any
potential harm they might cause, either by malice or mistake....
Three-quarters of the country will vote on a paper ballot this
fall, says Pamela Smith, president of Verified Voting, a group
that promotes best practices at the polls. Only five
states—Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and New
Jersey—use “direct recording electronic” (DRE) machines
exclusively.... More than half of the states conduct
post-election auditing, by checking vote totals against paper
records, to ensure that the votes are accurate.... The problem
is that not every state does post-election audits. And even some
that require them by law, namely Pennsylvania and Kentucky,
don’t actually use voter-verifiable paper trails, meaning they
have no way to complete an audit.
MASSIVE LINES to See DONALD TRUMP in Daytona, Florida (Video)
The Gateway Pundit - Right Side Broadcasting has video from the
Donald J. Trump for President town hall event in Daytona Beach,
FL at the Ocean Center.
Media Exaggerates Size of Crowd at Hillary Clinton Rally
Truth Revolt - A reporter from the Washington Post tweeted a
picture of a Hillary Clinton rally describing, “Big boisterous
crowd here in Omaha for Hillary Clinton and Warren Buffet.” But
another attendee posted an image that painted a much different
picture…. Are you reporting on the 50 people who showed up to
Hillary rally in Omaha today?
Funny Trump Ad Turns Hillary into Email-Eating Pac-Man (Video)
Mikael Thalen - The latest campaign ad released by Donald Trump
Wednesday features political rival Hillary Clinton destroying
emails in the style of 80’s video game icon Pac-Man. “Crooked
Hillary is a lot like Ms. Pac-Man—she’ll keep going and going
and going until she’s cornered and caught! #MakeAmericaGreatAgain,”
Trump’s Facebook page wrote. The video shows Clinton devouring
emails while evading FBI agents before finally being caught.
Before being apprehended, Clinton is able to successfully
destroy 30,000 emails – an obvious jab at the 30,000 deleted by
the former secretary of state. The video, which has been viewed
more than a quarter-million times since its publication, is one
of several released by the Trump campaign that aims to use
popular culture against Clinton. A similar video released in
July used the extremely popular “Pokémon Go” cell phone game to
target Clinton as well. Entitled “Crookéd Hillary No,” the video
has been viewed more than 12 million times to date.
Iowa Parade Float Depicts Crooked Hillary in Orange Jump Suit in
Jail
The Gateway Pundit - BEST. FLOAT. EVER. Iowa parade goers were
treated to a depiction of Hillary Clinton in jail. Kyle Julin.
of Manilla, pulls his Hillary Clinton-masked friend Adam Corky,
of Odeboldt, through the parade during the Arcadia Fire
Department’s 100th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday. The
group received both accolades and criticisms for handing out
water ballons to throw at the candidate.
Goldman Fined 0.1% Of Revenue For "Criminal Theft" Of
Confidential Fed Information
Zero Hedge - ... the Fed announced that Goldman Sachs has agreed
to pay $36.3 million to settle allegations by the Federal
Reserve that it obtained and used confidential regulatory
materials from the central bank two years ago. This amounts to
0.1% of the firm's 2015 revenue of $33.8 billion.... The Fed
also found that "a Firm employee engaged in the criminal theft
of confidential supervisory information of the Board of
Governors and other banking regulators, and disseminated such
information to multiple employees within the Firm; ".... As a
reminder, the person who originally obtained the secrets was
former NY Fed employee, Rohit Bansal, who had since moved to
work to Goldman from where he was in 2014 and whom the Fed also
banned permanently from the banking industry last November.
Bansal received the documents from Jason Gross, a former
co-worker at the NY Fed. Gross was also fired and sentenced in
court after pleading guilty to the charges. He was fined $2,000
and sentenced to a year of probation with 200 hours of community
service.
Can Gluten Cause Depression?
Natural Blaze - Gluten is a complex two-part protein found in
grains such as wheat, rye, barley, and spelt. The two different
proteins that comprise gluten are called glutelin and gliadin.
Breads, cereals, and baked goods are obvious sources of gluten
(unless they are labeled gluten-free), but they aren’t the only
foods that contain the protein – it can be found in many items,
even those you wouldn’t expect. People who have celiac disease,
a chronic autoimmune/inflammatory disorder, must avoid the
consumption of gluten. Celiac disease originates in the gut, but
affects the entire body when untreated. In people with celiac
disease, the villi of the small intestine are damaged when
gluten is consumed. When a person with celiac disease continues
to eat gluten, serious health problems can develop, including
neurological conditions, osteoporosis, other autoimmune
disorders – and depression…. The intestinal damage gluten causes
in people with celiac disease prevents absorption of essential
nutrients that keep the brain healthy, especially zinc,
tryptophan, and the B vitamins. These nutrients are necessary
for the production of essential chemicals in the brain such as
serotonin, a deficiency of which has been linked to depression.
What Is Oil Pulling?
Dr. Mercola - The history of oil pulling dates back nearly 3,000
years. Before modern medicine, elders in India developed
Ayurveda, a form of mind-body health system. The basic tenet of
Ayurveda is that when balanced, your body has amazing powers to
heal itself. Practitioners recommend you provide your body
support through a healthy diet, adequate sleep, reduced stress,
strong digestive process and living in tune with your natural
constitution. One of the practices of Ayurveda is oil pulling,
or the act of swishing and rinsing your mouth with oil. Oil
pulling has been used in traditional Indian folk remedies to
prevent tooth decay, bad breath, bleeding gums and to strengthen
your teeth and gums…. Oil pulling is an effective mechanical
method of cleansing your teeth and the smallest crevices along
your molars that the bristles of your brush cannot reach. Your
dentist may have recommended using sealants on your teeth to
help prevent decay from forming in these tiny areas. In the
past, popular oils for pulling were sesame and sunflower oils.
However, those are high in omega-6 fats, which you likely get
enough of each day. Cold-pressed, virgin coconut oil is my oil
of choice for a couple of reasons…. Coconut oil is a
medium-chain fatty acid found to inhibit Streptococcus mutans,
the chief bacteria responsible for cavities. Coconut oil also
protects against yeast infections in the mouth, generally
referred to as thrush. This condition is more common if your
immune system is compromised, or may be experienced by infants
and nursing mothers.
Meet the Man Who Almost Died Four Times Saving Over 1,000 Dogs From
Torture
The Anti-Media - [WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT] Marc Ching recently made
headlines — and amassed a large, supportive following — for his
multi-country trips to Asia, where he rescues dogs who have been
subjected to torture. Anti-Media recently met with Ching at his
non-profit Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation just north of Los Angeles
in Sherman Oaks, California, where he helps rehabilitate the tortured
dogs he rescues, as well as other local victims of animal cruelty. He
also runs The PetStaurant next door, which offers organic foods and
homeopathic treatments for pets. Ching, who is currently on his eighth
trip to rescue dogs and just shut down his seventh slaughterhouse, spoke
with us recently about the heartbreaking experience he has had while
going undercover in China and elsewhere — and how his ragtag rescue
operation is changing the fate of countless suffering dogs…. His
emphasis on education extends to the global community, which he believes
is vital to stopping the practice: “There’s a lot of people who close
their eyes to what they see, or can’t watch, or can’t look at the
pictures, but then you enable [the slaughterhouses] to keep doing what
they’re doing. If all the people shared and talked to other people about
what’s happening, one million grows to 100 million, and without that
pressure, nothing changes. That is how people can help more than
anything.” “Another good way,” he adds, “is [people] can adopt a dog
from us.” This not only rescues the dog, but also allows its new owner
to act as an ambassador and inform others of the efforts to save other
dogs…. Visit his website
here
for more information on how to support him or adopt a dog.
VIDEO: Why are cats afraid of cucumbers?
Wednesday - August
3, 2016 - Today In History:
1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The
voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the
Bahamas on October 12.
1777 - During the Siege of Fort Stanwix the first U.S. flag was
officially flown during battle.
1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began
when Britain declared war on Germany.
1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S.
after the sudden death of President Harding.
1933 - The Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.
1936 - The U.S. State Department advised Americans to leave Spain due to
the Spanish Civil War.
1943 - Gen. George S. Patton verbally abused and slapped a private.
Later, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered him to apologize for the
incident.
1956 - Bedloe's Island had its name changed to Liberty Island.
1988 - The Iran-Contra hearings ended. No ties were made between U.S.
President Reagan and the Nicaraguan Rebels.
1992 - The U.S. Senate voted to restrict and eventually end the testing
of nuclear weapons.
1995 - Eyad Ismoil was flown from Jordan to the U.S. to face charges
that he had driven the van that blew up in New York's World Trade
Center.
2004 - In New York, the Statue of Liberty re-opened to the public. The
site had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on
September 11, 2001.
2004 - NASA launched the spacecraft Messenger. The 6 1/2 year journey
was planned to arrive at the planet Mercury in March 2011. On April 30,
2015, Messenger crashed into the surface of Mercury after sending back
more than 270,000 pictures.
2009 - Bolivia became the first South American country to declare the
right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
China Prepares For War As Navy Conducts Massive Military
Exercise
Zero Hedge - China further substantiated its displeasure with
last month’s international tribunal ruling on the East China Sea
according to which the country has no claim over the disputed
territory, by holding a large-scale “live ammunition” drill in
the East China Sea, which involved hundreds of ships and
submarines from all three fleets of the People’s Liberation
Army. The exercise involving China’s East Sea, North Sea and
South Sea fleets practiced both offensive and defensive
capabilities of the Chinese naval power. The exercise mobilized
some 300 ships, dozens of fighter planes, and involved troops
that are responsible for coastal defense radars, communications,
and electronic warfare defense, daily newspaper The China Times
reported…. China’s Defense Ministry called the drills “routine”
and not directed against any third party. The drills, however,
comes at a time of heightened tensions in East Asia after an
international arbitration tribunal last month rejected Chinese
territorial claims to the South China Sea. Beijing rejected the
decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague
calling the ruling “waste paper.”
'Unintentional Consequences': Japan Warns of Chinese Aggression
in Pacific
Sputnik News - Entitled "Defense of Japan 2016," the new report
outlines Tokyo’s defense priorities for the coming year, and
chief among its concerns is China’s growth in the Pacific.
"There has…been a noticeable trend among neighboring countries
to modernize and reinforce their military capabilities and to
intensify their military activities," the report reads. In
particular, it points to Beijing’s actions in the South China
Sea, "where the Hague-based Court of Arbitration recently ruled
against China’s territorial claims. Beijing has refused to
recognize the ruling as valid, and aims to follow through with
its land reclamation projects in the region. The Chinese Defense
Ministry has criticized the report for hyping an already tense
situation. "China’s military is extremely dissatisfied with this
and resolutely opposed to it," it said in a statement. The
United States and its Pacific allies, including Japan, have
expressed concern over Beijing’s construction of artificial
island in the South China Sea, claiming they will used to
establish an air defense zone. China maintains it has every
right to build within its own territory and that the islands
will be used primarily for humanitarian purposes. The Pentagon
has carried out a number of aggressive naval and air force
patrols near these projects, and vows to continue to do so in
the wake of the Hague ruling. Washington has also conducted
joint military exercises with regional partners, including
Japan, which has rolled back key provisions of its pacifist
constitution,” the 2015 report read.
North Korea Reportedly Launches Ballistic Missile Towards Sea of
Japan
Sputnik News - The missile was launched from the North Korean
province of Hwanghae-Namdo toward the Sea of Japan, Yonhap news
agency reports, citing the South Korean military. Pyongyang has
launched a number of missiles in recent months, and also
conducted nuclear tests. Both have been condemned by the
international community, including Russia, China, the United
States, and the United Nations. Harsh new sanctions have been
implemented against the country. The DPRK claims to have
developed a miniaturized nuclear warhead that could,
theoretically, be launched with an intercontinental missile. The
United States has used these tests as justification for the
installation of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
system on the peninsula, despite criticism from both China and
Russia that the battery threatens their own national security.
Czech President Calls For Arming Citizens to Defend Against
Terrorism
Paul Joseph Watson - Having previously been against private gun
ownership, Zeman now says “citizens should arm themselves” to
deal with the threat of terrorism…. Zeman also called for a
fence to be built along the country’s border “if there were a
large inflow of illegal migrants,” while also urging failed
asylum seekers to be deported more quickly. The Czech Republic
is not the only European country in which demand for firearms
has seen a resurgence since the spate of terror attacks and
migrant crime waves over the last year. As we reported last
month, a councilor in southern France wrote about how residents
of his town were gearing up for civil war by joining gun clubs,
which memberships having quadrupled in the last few months
alone. Meanwhile in Germany, which has been hit with several
terror attacks over the last 2 weeks as well as the mass
molestation of women by migrants in Cologne and Hamburg on New
Year’s Eve, self-defense weapons are also flying off the
shelves…. Contrast this to the situation in the United Kingdom,
where citizens are being told they should “run away as far as
possible” if Islamic State terrorists launch an attack on
London.
Dozens of French towns to arm local police as mayor says
non-lethal weapons not enough
RT - The Pau mayor has decided to give guns to some 35 municipal
police officers. Bayrou noted that 75 percent of those who will
be given the arms “were either in the police or in the national
police or in the army, and are therefore trained in handling the
weapons.” All the officers are required to undergo 57 hours of
training to obtain authorization…. As things stand, of the
approximately 20,000 municipal French police, “fewer than half
are armed,” Cedric Michel, the national president of the
municipal police defence union (SDPM), told Le Figaro last
month. In June, France relaxed gun rules for its police force,
allowing officers to carry firearms while off-duty. The policy
change came just days after a police couple was murdered by a
jihadist in a Paris suburb. France is currently under a state of
emergency, first declared by President Francois Hollande hours
after the Paris attacks in November last year. It was renewed
for the fourth time following the Nice attack last month.
France closed 20 mosques, prayer halls since December
RT - French authorities have closed around 20 mosques and prayer
halls considered to be preaching radical Islam since December,
according to the country's interior minister. He went on to
promise that “there will be others.” There is no place...in
France for those who call for and incite hatred in prayer halls
or in mosques, and who don't respect certain republican
principles, notably equality between men and women," Bernard
Cazeneuve said following a meeting with leaders of the French
Council of the Muslim Religion on Monday, as quoted by AFP.
"That is why I took the decision a few months ago to close
mosques through the state of emergency, legal measures or
administrative measures. About 20 mosques have been closed, and
there will be others,” he continued.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
FBI Agent Caught Spying For China Draws Comparisons to Hillary
Clifford Cunningham - Kun Shan Chun, a naturalized U.S. citizen
born in Guangdong, China, was accused of collecting highly
sensitive information from his post as an electronic technician
at the FBI’s Manhattan Field Office and transmitting it to
Chinese businesses and government officials. According to
prosecutors, Chun used his work computer to downloaded an FBI
organizational chart in 2013, which he provided to the Chinese.
In addition, Chun took photographs of documents that provided
details about “multiple surveillance technologies used by the
FBI” and forwarded them to a Chinese government official. While
the exact cause of their initial suspicion remains unclear, an
FBI agent posing as a Chinese-born American citizen contracted
with the Defense Department approached Chun and expressed
interest in passing sensitive information to the Chinese
government. Officials at the Justice Department claimed that
Chun and some of his relatives had maintained relationships with
several Chinese businessmen affiliated with the technology
manufacturing company Zhuhai Kolion, as well as with at least
one government official…. The idea that a relatively low-level
FBI employee would be arrested for providing sensitive
information to the Communist Chinese government while a
high-ranking Chinese agent like Hillary Clinton is allowed to
continue running for President of the United States is not
surprising. Hillary Clinton reportedly met Chinese billionaire
Wang Wenliang during a fundraiser at her Washington D.C. home in
September 2013. Barely a month later, Wenliang made a $500,000
donation to the Clinton Foundation; ultimately, he would give a
total of $2 million to the foundation.
The ATF Is Illegally Hoarding American Gun Owners’ Personal
Information
Daily Caller - The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO),
the go-to federal oversight agency, conducted an audit of ATF
[The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] and
found it does not remove certain identifiable information,
despite the law explicitly mandating it do so. GAO conducted
reviews for four data systems, and concluded at least two of
ATF’s systems violated official protocols. One of the
data-collecting systems called Multiple Sales (MS) requires that
multiple firearms purchased at once must be reported to ATF by
the federal firearms licensee (FFL). ATF policy requires that
the bureau internally removes particular data from multiple gun
sales reports after two years if the firearm has not been traced
to criminal activity. GAO found that ATF does not adhere to its
own policy. In fact, “until May 2016, MS contained over 10,000
names that were not consistently deleted within the required 2
years.”
Texas allows guns in college classrooms under new law
Reuters - A new law went into effect in Texas on Monday that
allows certain students to bring guns into classrooms, with
supporters saying it could prevent mass shootings and critics
saying the measure will endanger safety on campuses. The
so-called state "campus carry" law allows people 21 and older
with a concealed handgun license to carry pistols in classrooms
and buildings throughout public colleges, including the
University of Texas system, one of the nation's largest with an
enrollment of more than 214,000 students…. Governor Greg Abbott,
a Republican who supports campus carry, said a gunman could
already bring a firearm on to campus, and the law could prevent
mass shootings because someone with a licensed concealed weapon
could be ready to confront a gunman.
Trump Refuses to Support Republicans John McCain, Kelly Ayotte
Breitbart - Republican nominee Donald Trump refused to endorse
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), who are
both up for reelection this year. “I’ve never been there with
John McCain because I’ve always felt that he should have done a
much better job for the vets,” Trump told the Washington Post on
Tuesday. “He has not done a good job for the vets and I’ve
always felt that he should have done a much better job for the
vets. So I’ve always had a difficult time with John for that
reason, because our vets are not being treated properly. They’re
not being treated fairly.” Trump told the Post that Ayotte was
weak and disloyal. “New Hampshire is one of my favorite places,”
Trump stated about Ayotte’s state — Trump’s first primary
victory where he won big. “You have a Kelly Ayotte who doesn’t
want to talk about Trump, but I’m beating her in the polls by a
lot. You tell me. Are these people that should be representing
us, okay? You tell me.”
Trump Says It's Time To Sell Stocks, Warns Of "Very Scary
Scenarios" For Investors
Zero Hedge - Presidential candidates worry about how the stock
market might affect their political outcomes. The reason for
this is that historically, the market performance in the three
months leading up to a Presidential Election has displayed an
uncanny ability to forecast who will win the White House… the
incumbent party or the challenger. Since 1928, there have been
22 Presidential Elections. In 14 of them, the S&P 500 climbed
during the three months preceding election day. The incumbent
President or party won in 12 of those 14 instances. However, in
7 of the 8 elections where the S&P 500 fell over that three
month period, the incumbent party lost. There are only three
exceptions to this correlation: 1956, 1968, and 1980.
Statistically, the market has an 86.4% success rate in
forecasting the election!… Clearly, a rising stock market
indicates an "improving economy", something Obama has pointed
out so many times in the past several years, which means rising
confidence and increases the chances of the incumbent party’s
re-election…. Well, we are now almost exactly three months away
from the November 8 election, and if Trump wants to really boost
his chances, a market crash right now would be certainly most
welcome by his campaign. That may be why Trump on Tuesday urged
his supporters holding 401-(k) to get out of equities as
interest rates set by the Federal Reserve are inflating the
stock market. “I did invest and I got out, and it was actually
very good timing,” the Republican presidential nominee said in a
phone interview with Fox Business. “But I’ve never been a big
investor in the stock market.” “Interest rates are artificially
low,” Trump said. “The only reason the stock market is where it
is is because you get free money.” Trump also warned of "very
scary scenarios" ahead for investors.
Trump Says Fracking Bans Should Be Left To Local Voters
Daily Caller - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said
he personally supports hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, yet
believes drilling should be up to local voters to decide. “Well,
I’m in favor of fracking, but voters should have a big say in
it. Some areas maybe they don’t want to have fracking. And I
think if the voters are voting for it, that’s up to them,” Trump
told reporters Friday while at a campaign stop in Colorado.
“Fracking is something that we need. Fracking is something
that’s here whether we like it or not, but if a municipality or
a state wants to ban fracking, I can understand that,” the real
estate mogul turned presidential nominee added. Trump’s position
may not go over well in a state like Colorado, where energy
groups and others have criticized municipalities in the state
for putting the legality of fracking up to a popular vote. It
may also run smack dab against a recent court ruling prohibiting
municipalities and local areas from outright banning or
restricting natural gas development.
Senior Democratic National Committee officials resign - DNC
Reuters - Three senior officials with the Democratic National
Committee have resigned, the DNC said on Tuesday, amid a
shake-up following a hack of thousands of emails that
embarrassed the party just as it staged its national convention
last week. The resignations of DNC Chief Executive Officer Amy
Dacey, Communications Director Luis Miranda and Chief Financial
Officer Brad Marshall were announced by interim Chairwoman Donna
Brazile. Brazile, who took over the role after Debbie Wasserman
Schultz stepped down last week, did not mention the hacks or
give a reason for the resignations in a statement on the
reorganization, but cast the changes as looking ahead to the
U.S. general election on Nov. 8. The hack on the DNC emails
stirred discord at the start of the party's convention in
Philadelphia where Hillary Clinton formally accepted her party's
presidential nomination for the Nov. 8 election.
Court Denies Sea-Based Vietnam Vets’ Claim against VA over Agent
Orange Disease Benefits
AllGov - The D.C. Circuit upheld the dismissal of "blue water"
Vietnam veterans' claim that the Department of Veterans Affairs
wrongly refused to compensate them for injuries caused by Agent
Orange exposure. The U.S. military used Agent Orange as a
defoliant to clear forested areas throughout the Vietnam War,
and thousands of soldiers were exposed to the herbicide mixture.
A list of potential health consequences posted on the VA's
website notes that exposure can lead to increased rates of acute
leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, throat
cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, Ischemic
heart disease, soft tissue sarcoma and liver cancer. Exposure to
Agent Orange was so prevalent that Congress eventually
recognized the long-term health effects of the chemical and
passed the Agent Orange Act of 1991, which creates a presumption
that veterans who served between 1962 and 1975 were exposed. If
these veterans develop diseases linked to Agent Orange, they can
receive disability compensation without proving they were
exposed to the herbicide. However, the VA does not offer such
benefits to veterans who served on ships offshore, never set
foot on Vietnamese soil, or served on ships that entered inland
waterways. Instead, these "blue-water" veterans must prove
exposure on a case-by-case basis. The Blue Water Navy Vietnam
Veterans Association unsuccessfully challenged the distinction
in a 2015 lawsuit…. On Friday, the blue-water veterans lost
their appeal of the dismissal of their case. D.C. Circuit Judge
Thomas B. Griffith acknowledged that proving individual exposure
is "an extremely difficult task," but insisted that his hands
were tied.
Seattle $15 Minimum Wage Hurts Workers & Gov’t Budgets
Breitbart - Although the City of Seattle launched the “$15 For
All” minimum wage movement in 2014 to help the poor and cut
government welfare spending, new research reveals that the
minimum wage increases unemployment and causes welfare spending
to spike higher. The Democratic Party’s platform “justified”
raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, not only as a
humanitarian effort to help low wage workers, but also
supposedly to help cut the $1 trillion federal, state and local
government welfare budget. According to the Employment Policy
Institute, each $1 increase for the minimum wage will shrink
government welfare spending by $155 a month because of the
“means-testing” requirements of the Earned Income Tax Credit,
the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit; the SNAP food
stamp program; the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program;
the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and
Children; the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program;
Medicaid; and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
program cash assistance programs.
Criminal investigation into Gold King spill confirmed; EPA’s tab reaches
$29M
Denver Post - Federal authorities have confirmed for the first time that
a criminal investigation into the 2015 Gold King Mine spill is underway,
saying their probe involves the U.S. Attorney’s Office and came at the
request of members of Congress. The announcement Monday came from the
Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) as
it released letters sent to lawmakers about the status of its work to
analyze the disaster. Documents reviewed by The Denver Post on Monday
indicate the probe has been in progress for nearly a year. Jeffrey Lagda,
spokesman for the inspector general’s office, said the OIG is working
with the U.S. Attorney’s Office on the criminal investigation. It was
“based on requests from several members of the House and Senate,” he
added…. The spill sent more than 880,000 pounds of metals cascading
through three states and American Indian land. The U.S. Department of
Interior, which conducted an independent investigation of the Gold King
disaster on the behest of the EPA, found the spill was preventable. Also
Monday, the EPA released a 23-page retrospective report on the Gold King
and its efforts since the incident to restore and protect impacted
communities. The agency said that as of July 15 it has dedicated $29
million in response efforts and for continued water quality monitoring.
Get off my lawn: New Jersey man sues Pokemon game creators over players
on his property
RT - Augmented-reality game Pokémon Go has motivated millions of its
players to hunt for pocket monsters in diverse and sometimes dangerous
places, but more often than not, on private properties. Now a man is
suing the company for the players present in his yard. A New Jersey man
is taking Niantic Labs, Nintendo and The Pokémon Co. to California’s
federal court to keep Pokémon hunters off his lawn. Jeffrey Marder, of
West Orange, claims that the companies have created a source of public
nuisance by encouraging players to trespass on private property….
Strangers have been turning up near his property ever since the game hit
the virtual shelves last month, Marder claims. At least five of the most
polite Pokémon chasers even knocked on his door, looking for a
permission to catch a cyber creature allegedly hanging out in his
backyard…. The lawsuit filed on Friday asserts that the game that uses
GPS coordinates distributes Pokémons, Pockestops – shops – and gyms,
where gamers can train their monsters, next to or at private properties
without owners’ consent…. The game has been banned in several countries,
including Egypt and Saudi Arabia while some other countries, such as
Spain, Britain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Japan and others issued safety
warnings for Pokémon Go enthusiasts. Two teenagers were shot at on a
street in the town of Chiquimula, Guatemala, at the end of July while
playing this utmost addictive game. One of the teens, aged 18, died in
hospital while the other one suffered severe wounds.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Japan Halts U.S. White Wheat Purchases Until GMO Test is Created
Natural Blaze - New purchases of Western white wheat have been
halted in Japan until some type of validated test can ensure
that no GMOs are present in U.S. wheat exports. This news
unsurprisingly follows U.S. reports of a third incidence of GMO
wheat contamination in the Pacific Northwest. Contrary to
popular belief, wheat containing GMOs are not approved for the
U.S. commercial market…. White wheat is a crossbreed from other
varieties that has a milder taste and color, making it ideal for
giving a refined feel while keeping the “whole grain” so to
speak. It is popular in Australia and Asia. With declining wheat
sales in the U.S., this Pacific Northwest breed is important to
farmers who have a market in Asia. This incident is another
example of how the carelessness of Monsanto is devastating not
only to human health and the environment, but also to farmers
and the U.S. economy.
Candy-Flavored Meth For Kids Approved By FDA, Despite Side
Effects Like Heart Attacks
Natural Blaze - An FDA-approved, candy-flavored amphetamine is
to be used to treat children six or older that have been
diagnosed with ADHD. The label itself says that the drug has a
“high potential for abuse and dependence,” which is not
something most parents want their children to be consuming
daily. Active ingredients in the drug itself make it addicting,
but the sweet, candy-flavored gummies only serve to keep kids
wanting more. Many healthcare professionals are concerned about
possible addiction-forming that could follow the children into
adulthood, but that hasn’t stopped Neos Therapeutics from
producing the drug. The Dallas-based pharmaceutical company is
pushing forward with Adzenys XR-ODT, the name give to this new
form of meth. The CEO of the company, Vipin Garg, “launching now
at full speed”—pun intended—in an effort to get “ahead of
back-to-school season.”… While lawmakers are attempting to ban
cannabis edibles that resemble sweet treats, the government is
continuing to push these addicting gummy drugs because it can
actually be controlled and turn out a profit…. To top it all
off, the side effects of these drugs range from mild to sudden
death, which has apparently happened in adults…. Other side
effects include fever, hair loss, hallucinations, psychotic
episodes, strokes, and dangerously high blood pressure, meaning
that there are no benefits for children in taking this drug over
Adderall, which may have the same active ingredients but at
least it doesn’t taste like candy.
Cannabis Oil Cures 3 Year Old Boy Of Cancer After Doctors Gave
Him 48 Hours To Live
Natural Blaze - A young boy named Landon Riddle was diagnosed
with Leukemia, and was told by his doctors that he only had an
8-10% chance of living for more than a day or two. “His whole
chest was full of leukemia tumors, which is why he couldn’t
breathe. They started him on chemo, but told us that he probably
wasn’t going to make it,” his mother, Sierra Riddle said. After
two months of Chemotherapy, Landon became sick and would refuse
to eat. According to his mother, he would vomit up to 50 times a
day, and the doctors eventually lost hope, seeing no other
solution than Chemotherapy. Then one day, Landon’s grandmother
suggested that they look into cannabis oil treatment. “We
discussed all of our concerns with his medical team in Utah and
watched Landon continue to suffer and wither away as the piled
on drug after drug. Then my mother came across cannabis oil
online,”…. The family then fled the state of Utah for Colorado,
where cannabis oil treatment was legal. In just days, Landon
began vomiting less and less each day and finally began to eat….
Now, Landon’s cancer is in remission.
Echinacea Helps With Anxiety and These 22 Other Issues
Natural Blaze - … the following are research-based
demonstrations of echinacea’s benefits in lab settings, and not
just anecdotal testimonials or website rehashings. Echinacea may
help with more issues than are included below, but we’ve
included only those claims that have studies…. Anxiety –
Echinacea is currently being recognized in health magazines for
its effects on anxiety; however, more research is anticipated….
Yeast Infections (Candida)… Swine and Avian Flu – The research
suggest that this herb is more effective when it has direct
contact with the virus prior to infection but that echinacea
continues to act as an antiviral agent even after the person is
infected…. Common Cold – Several studies have confirmed its
benefits in regards to the common cold, including the fact that
those treated with echinacea saw their symptoms alleviated more
rapidly…. Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) – Echinacea reduces the
latency rate in herpes – keeps it from going dormant so you can
continue to treat it…. Influenza – Echinacea has been shown to
eliminate the symptoms and treat the pathology of certain
influenza strains…. Leukopenia (low white blood cell count) –
Research has revealed that echinacea induces an immune response
by virtue of increasing white cell counts, improving erythrocyte
anti-oxidant defenses and altered expression of leucocyte hsp70.
The increase of white cell counts holds particular promise for
individuals suffering from leukopenia as a result of
chemotherapy….
Older Kitties Love It When You Do These Things, Even If They Won't Show
It
Dr. Becker - At around age 10, your cat is considered a senior, has
likely started to slow down a bit, and may be showing other subtle signs
of aging . A kitty at 16 is comparable to an 80 year-old human. Senior
and geriatric cats need regular health monitoring and ongoing
adjustments to their environment to enhance comfort and quality of life.
It’s important to feed cats at any age a balanced, antioxidant rich,
species-appropriate diet that includes omega-3 essential fats and is
loaded with moisture. An aging cat’s brain can benefit from a SAMe
supplement and medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) like coconut oil. It’s
also important to keep your older cat in good physical and mental
condition with regular exercise and environmental enrichment.
People Think These Pets Are Inherently Unhealthy, but That Is a Myth
Dr. Becker - Sadly, some of the pets least likely to be adopted at
animal shelters across the U.S. are kitties with feline immunodeficiency
virus (FIV). Shelter experts realize that prospective pet owners are
hesitant to adopt an FIV-positive cat, and they're hoping to change
attitudes through increased awareness…. An infected cat can transmit the
virus to another kitty, but contrary to what many people believe, it's a
rare occurrence… The virus survives for only a brief period of time
outside a cat's body, and it cannot be transmitted indirectly on food,
food bowls, toys, bedding, or human clothes, shoes, or hands (this is
not the case with feline leukemia, however)…. There is no specific
treatment for the virus itself, however, any existing secondary
infections will need to be treated. FIV-positive cats should be kept
indoors, which will prevent the spread of the virus to other cats, while
also reducing the risk that your kitty will be exposed to pathogens her
immune system may not be able to handle. FIV-positive cats should not
breed. Cats with the virus should be fed a balanced, nutritionally
complete species-appropriate diet. Unless your kitty has a low white
blood cell count — in which case I recommend cooked fresh food — a raw
diet is fine. You can also feed commercially available sterile raw food
that has been high-pressure pasteurized.
Elephant desperately trumpets for help throughout the night after its
calf falls into a well
Daily Mail - This is the dramatic moment villagers rescue a young
elephant from a construction well after its mother stood by her baby
throughout the night. The calf got trapped while a herd of more than 60
elephants passed through a stretch of the Ramgarh district in India.
Throughout Wednesday night the mother relentlessly kept trumpeting and
tried to pull the calf out…. Forest ranger Ramlakhan Paswan, who led the
rescue operation, told MailOnline: 'We widened the well's mouth with the
earth mover to make a slope and helped the calf come out of the pit
after an hour-long operation.
Tuesday - August
2, 2016 - Today In History:
1776 - Members of the Continental Congress began adding their signatures
to the Declaration of Independence.
1791 - Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. were the first
father-son pair to receive a patent - for a nail-making machine.
1824 - In New York City, Fifth Avenue was opened.
1858 - In Boston and New York City the first mailboxes were installed
along streets.
1861 - The U.S. Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were
intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never
enacted.
1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the
U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited
civil service employees from taking an active part in political
campaigns.
1943 - The U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, sank after being
attacked by a Japanese destroyer. The boat was under the command of Lt.
John F. Kennedy.
1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two North Vietnamese attacks
on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1983 - U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the
third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on
November 2.
1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that
Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by
OPEC.
1995 - China ordered the expulsion of two U.S. Air Force officers. The
two were said to have been caught spying on military sights.
Brazil sends 1,200 troops to city of Natal after gangs start
all-out war on govt
RT - The Brazilian government authorized sending 1,200 troops to
the Rio Grande do Norte capital, Natal, to quell gang uprisings,
now in their third day. Urban unrest exploded when the
government decided to jam cellular coverage in a local prison.
So far 52 arrests have been made of people suspected of
involvement in the attacks. According to Portalnoar, a total of
53 cases of debauchery and destruction of property were reported
by Sunday night. Government and other buildings also sustained
heavy gunfire. Unrest was experienced in 20 municipalities,
according to the Secretariat of Security.... The situation was
only beginning to show signs of calming down on Monday,
authorities told Brazilian media. But people were tweeting
worrying images amid confusion surrounding the hashtag #PrayForNatal,
because so few people knew what was going on.
‘He tainted Islam’: Muslim community refuses to bury French
priest killer
RT - The Muslim community in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in
northern France, where two jihadists slit Father Jacques Hamel’s
throat, is refusing to bury one of the attackers, saying that he
put a stain on Islam, the French media reported. Algerian-born
19-year-old Adel Kermiche was one of the two attackers who
killed the 85-year-old priest and seriously injured an elderly
parishioner. A French citizen, he was living in
Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray and attempted to join Islamic jihadists
in Syria back in 2015. “We’re not going to taint Islam with this
person,” Mohammed Karabila, a leader at a local mosque, told Le
Parisien newspaper, “We won’t participate in preparing the body
[for the burial] or the burial.” A Muslim worshiper, Khalid El
Amrani, supported the move, saying that the refusal to bury the
terrorist is “normal.” “What this young man did is sinful,” the
25-year-old engineer said, “He is no longer part of our
community.” Now it is up to the local authorities to decide how
to issue the burial permit for Kermiche.
Soldiers replace police as embassy guards in Vienna to help
tackle refugee crisis
RT - Starting from August 1, 110 soldiers will perform 24-hour
guard duty for 24 embassies and offices of international
organizations located in the Austrian capital, which were
previously guarded by police, Austrian media report. The move is
aimed at freeing up officers as the police force faces a staff
shortage amid the ongoing refugee crisis, Austrian Kurier daily
reports. The extra officers made available by the new measure
will deal with crime prevention, carry out patrol tasks, and
tackle the ongoing refugee situation. The soldiers, most of whom
initially served in the 13th armored infantry battalion in the
town of Ried-im-Innkreis in northern Austria, underwent a
special 10-day training course before taking up their new
posts.... In February, Austria sent extra troops to the border
to carry out checks on those arriving in the country, and also
deployed units of military police across the country to stem the
inflow of asylum seekers. In January, the Austrian defense
minister said that longer military service terms are required to
cope with the inflows of asylum seekers.
Ankara Threatens to Pull Out of EU-Turkey Migrant Deal Over
Visa-Free Travel
Sputnik News - Under the deal, the EU was due to pay Turkey,
initially, US$3.95 billion to bolster its refugees camps and
accept "irregular" migrants denied asylum in Greece in return —
on a one-for-one basis — for Syrian refugees in Turkey being
relocated in the EU. However, as part of the deal, the EU was
supposed to grant Turkish citizens visa-free access to the EU by
the end of July and accelerate its accession to becoming a full
member of the EU.... The deal had already hit the skids over
Erdogan's increasing grip on power, crackdown on opposition
parties and the media, as well as criticism of Turkey's human
rights record. Since the attempted coup, however, his massive
suppression of those associated with the coup — the judiciary,
the military and the police — has been the cause of deep
skepticism within the EU. If Turkey fails to meet the basic
benchmarks on democracy and human rights required by the EU, the
visa-free travel deal will be abandoned and — with it — the
whole migrant deal, once again leading to another flood of
migrants crossing into Europe.
Thousands Of Germans Demand Merkel's Resignation; Protest "Open
Door" Immigration Policy
Zero Hedge - Speaking at an annual summer press conference in
Berlin on July 28, a defiant Merkel ignored critics of her
refugee policies and insisted there would be no change to her
open-door migration stance.... The problem for Merkel is that
increasingly less of her countrymen share her sentiment. A
recent poll found that two-thirds of Germans oppose a fourth
term for Merkel.... It got even much worse for Merkel yesterday
when Bavaria's premier, a key coalition ally for Merkel's CDU,
whose state bore the brunt of recent attacks in Germany, took
aim at Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy on
Saturday by rejecting her "we can do this" mantra.... But worst
of all, the anger has now openly spilled over from the top
political ranks and the front pages of local newspapers to the
streets, as more than 5,000 people protested in Berlin and
thousands more throughout Germany over Merkel's 'open-door'
policy that many have blamed for the four brutal terrorist
attacks that left over a dozen dead. Indeed, the local
population appears to have finally had enough, after an axe
rampage, a shooting spree, a knife attack and a suicide bombing
in the span of a week stunned Germany.
The Looming Financial Crisis Nobody Is Talking About
The AnitMedia - Despite what establishment media narratives
push, the most dangerous threat to our way of life isn’t a
religious ideology or political divide. The real risk is a
contagion that is undermining the core of the financial
system.... Italian banks are the latest on the chopping block in
the wake of Brexit. For years, they have been acknowledged as a
weak link in the economic chain, but they now face stress tests
that could expose the scope of their internal problems. The
oldest bank in the world, Monte Dei Paschi, is at the center of
the controversy, with an expected shortfall of over 3 billion
euros. Other big names, like UniCredit, are in equally bad
shape. Wells Fargo recently found that nearly 15% of all loans
held by Italian banks could be at risk of default, a staggering
figure to attempt to unwind.... Deutsche bank is by far the most
crucial in the E.U., as it supports the union’s powerhouse
economy of Germany. In the last year alone, however, their stock
price has plummeted more than 60%, bringing the total decline to
90% since its peak in 2007. The bank also just announced its
plan to close over 188 branches and cut 3,000 jobs in the coming
months.... Germany is the last strong economy left to prop up
the crumbling trade bloc in Europe, and without its stability,
this grand experiment is doomed to fall apart at the seams.
Jamaica Is Paying Its Oil Debts To Venezuela With Food
Vice - Jamaica has announced it is going to pay off oil debts it
has with Venezuela with food, medication, and fertilizers,
instead of cash. The barter agreement comes at a time when
Venezuela is suffering from acute shortages of basic products
amid a major economic and political crisis. Jamaica’s government
announced the deal last Friday, saying that the transfers will
take place in the last quarter of this year and amount to $4
million. The oil-for-basic products exchange is taking place
within a regional agreement known as PetroCaribe that was signed
in 2005 by Venezuela and 12 Caribbean States. The deal requires
the Caribbean nations to pay for half of the oil at market
prices immediately. The remaining 50 percent can be paid up to
25 years later. A special “compensation mechanism” within the
agreement allows for cash substitutes to be used to settle that
delayed payment.
Venezuela gov’t celebrates dead Hugo Chavez’s birthday with
$100,000 cake while the people starve
Fellowship of the Minds - Nothing describes socialism more aptly
than baking a 4 feet tall cake weighing 90 kilos for Hugo
Chavez’s birthday (a dead man) while the rest of the country
starves, cannot find basic necessities. The cake is a recreation
of the “Cuartel de la Montana”, the palace that Chavez famously
stormed in 1992 as an army commander to protest Carlos Andres
Perez’s government. According to a local newspaper, the
following ingredients were used to make the cake - all in short
supply in Venezuela’s supermarkets: 720 eggs, 23 kilos of
butter, 90 kilos of flour, 90 kilos of sugar, 44 gallons of
milk. Meanwhile, hungry Venezuelans cry at the sight of food, as
the country’s economic crisis deepens. While it is true that it
was the Venezuelan people who had bought into the socialist
pipe-dream and elected Hugo Chavez and his successor Maduro,
even fools don’t deserve to starve while their president, who
can lose a few pounds, and the political élite eat cake.
Poor quality of water in Rio raises concerns for Olympic
athletes, tourists
CS Monitor - Just days ahead of the Olympic Games the waterways
of Rio de Janeiro are as filthy as ever, contaminated with raw
human sewage teeming with dangerous viruses and bacteria,
according to a 16-month-long study commissioned by The
Associated Press. The AP's survey of the aquatic Olympic and
Paralympic venues has revealed consistent and dangerously high
levels of viruses from the pollution, a major black eye on Rio's
Olympic project that has set off alarm bells among sailors,
rowers, and open-water swimmers.... The most contaminated points
are the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, where Olympic rowing will
take place, and the Gloria Marina, the starting point for the
sailing races. Sampling at the Lagoon in March 2015 revealed an
astounding 1.73 billion adenoviruses per liter. By this June,
adenovirus readings were lower but still hair-raising at 248
million adenoviruses per liter. By comparison, in California,
viral readings in the thousands per liter set off alarm
bells.... The first results of the AP study published over a
year ago showed viral levels at up to 1.7 million times what
would be considered worrisome in the United States or Europe.
*Related:
Rio's Olympic air: Dirty, deadly and no cleaner legacy from
Games
Travel Advisory issued for Florida over Zika
McClatchy - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
has issued a travel advisory warning pregnant women from
visiting an area with ongoing Zika virus transmission in Miami.
At least 14 people have been infected in the first locally
transmitted Zika outbreak in the continental United States. The
White House confirmed Monday that the Centers for Disease
Control would send an emergency response team to Miami to help
the state’s health department in its investigation of the local
cases. The local cases, which have occurred within a one-square
mile area, touch on the Wynnwood, Midtown and Design District
neighborhoods in Miami, popular with tourists. The CDC travel
advisory recommends that pregnant women who live or travel to
the area be tested for Zika. It suggests that couples who live
or travel to the areas wait at least eight weeks before
attempting to get pregnant. And men who have Zika symptoms
should wait at least six months before trying to impregnate a
partner. It said the advisory applies to anyone who has visited
the area since June 15, the earliest date any of the 14
diagnosed cases might have contracted the virus.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
What The Media Is Not Telling You About The Muslim Who Attacked
Donald Trump: He Is A Muslim Brotherhood Agent Who Wants To
Advance Sharia Law And Bring Muslims Into The United States
Shoebat.com - The Muslim who attacked Donald Trump, Khizr
Muazzam Khan, is a Muslim Brotherhood agent, working to bring
Muslims into the United States. After reading what we discovered
so far, it becomes obvious that Khan wanted to ‘trump’ Trump’s
Muslim immigration policy of limiting Muslim immigration into
the U.S. But not so fast. Trump we have your back.Khizr
Muazzam Khan graduated in Punjab University Law College, as the
New York Times confirms. He specialized in International Trade
Law in Saudi Arabia. An interest lawyer for Islamic oil
companies Khan wrote a paper, called In Defense of OPEC to
defend the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC), an intergovernmental oil company consisting of mainly
Islamic countries. But more than this...Read more.....
Pentagon Cites 15-Year-Old Military Authorization for Libyan
Anti-Daesh Strikes
Sputnik news - On Monday, the Pentagon announced it carried out
its third round of anti-Daesh airstrikes in Libya since
November. The airstrikes were requested by the internationally
recognized Libyan Government of National Accord. "The 2001
authorization for the use of military force [AUMF] , similar to
our previous airstrikes in Libya," Cook told reporters when
asked the legal basis for the latest US airstrikes. The 2001
AUMF was passed in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks and provided the authority to target any person, nation,
or organization that planned or aided the 9/11 terrorist
attacks. Since military action against Daesh began in August
2014, President Barack Obama has not been able to get a new AUMF
passed by Congress. The Obama administration has defended the
legality of using the 2001 AUMF to engage in anti-Daesh
operations.
NSA Whistleblower: Agency Has All of Clinton’s Deleted Emails
Breitbart - The National Security Agency (NSA) has “all” of
Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and the FBI could gain access
to them if they so desired, William Binney, a former highly
placed NSA official, declared in a radio interview broadcast on
Sunday. Speaking as an analyst, Binney raised the possibility
that the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s server was
done not by Russia but by a disgruntled U.S. intelligence worker
concerned about Clinton’s compromise of national security
secrets via her personal email use. Binney was an architect of
the NSA’s surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower
when he resigned on October 31, 2001, after spending more than
30 years with the agency.
Julian Assange: Hacked Emails Include Info On Hillary’s Arming
of Jihadists, Including ISIS, in Syria
The Gateway Pundit - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew
that the US was sending arms from Libya to Syria back in 2011, a
year before the Benghazi consulate attacks. Hillary Clinton
denied she knew about the weapons shipments during public
testimony (under oath) in early 2013 after the Benghazi
terrorist attack…. On Tuesday Julian Assange told Democracy Now
that the Wikileaks DNC emails contains information on the
weapons shipments to Syria…. Julian Assange: So, those Hillary
Clinton emails, they connect together with the cables that we
have published of Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of
how Hillary Clinton performs in office, but, more broadly, how
the U.S. Department of State operates. So, for example, the
disastrous, absolutely disastrous intervention in Libya, the
destruction of the Gaddafi government, which led to the
occupation of ISIS of large segments of that country, weapons
flows going over to Syria, being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into
jihadists within Syria, including ISIS, that’s there in those
emails. There’s more than 1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s
collection, that we have released, just about Libya alone.
Hillary Clinton Lies About Emails, Again
ShadowProof - In one of her first post-convention interviews,
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Fox News Anchor
Chris Wallace that “[FBI] Director Comey said my answers
[regarding the email scandal] were truthful, and what I’ve said
is consistent with what I have told the American people, that
there were decisions discussed and made to classify
retroactively certain of the emails.” This is flatly not true
and, more to the point, Hillary Clinton knows it is flatly not
true. Even the Clinton-friendly Washington Post said Clinton
lied and gave her “Four Pinocchios,” the worst rating. FBI
Director Comey made it crystal clear he did not agree with
Clinton’s statements or narrative on how she handled classified
emails, both in his press conference and before Congress....
Director Comey never said Clinton did not lie; he never even
said she did not break the law. Instead, Comey claimed he and
the FBI concluded that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a
case, an argument that drew reasonable scrutiny given that was
arguably a decision for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to make.
But, in any case, Comey never exonerated Clinton nor said she
was telling the truth about her email practices.
Frustration mounts over ObamaCare co-op failures
TheHill - Four ObamaCare co-ops have failed due to financial
problems since the beginning of the year, the latest trouble for
the struggling program. The co-ops were set up under ObamaCare
to increase competition with established insurers, but just
seven of the original 23 co-ops now remain. The latest round of
failures poses an even thornier problem than earlier cases
because enrollees’ coverage is now being disrupted in the middle
of the year. That can increase patients’ out of pocket costs and
make it harder to keep the same doctors.... Having to switch
plans in the middle of the year is a problem because it often
means that enrollees need to start over on paying their
deductibles, in effect increasing the amount they pay out of
pocket for care.... Another issue is that people can lose access
to doctors if their new plan has a different network, a problem
that Reat also cited with enrollees he works with.
Leaked Text Messages Suggest Politics Played Role In Prosecution
Of 'Baltimore Six'
Western Journalism - Now that the gag order has been lifted on
the case, lead detective Dawnyell Taylor’s case notes have been
made public. In her notes, Taylor records being uncomfortable
with the prosecutors’ account of events that they wanted her to
read to the grand jury. The detective recounts that she was
handed a narrative by prosecutors, which had “had several things
that I found to be inconsistent with our investigation.” She
adds that when jurors asked her questions, prosecutors
intervened before she could answer them. She believes the
prosecutors “did not intend for me to answer any questions,
because my answers would obviously conflict with what I had just
read to [the jury].” Mosby claimed at a press conference on
Wednesday, following her decision to drop all charges against
the remaining three officers due to be tried, that Taylor
created her notes well after her grand jury testimony as a means
to undermine the state’s case. However, a leaked text message to
the Deputy State’s Attorney in Mosby’s office, Janice Bledsoe,
the day Taylor testified before the grand jury, contains nearly
the identical language to her case notes. “I did not feel
comfortable reading that script before we discussed it and I
swore to it,” she texted.
New ATF Head Wants Computerized Database of All Gun Purchases
The New American - Deputy Director Thomas Brandon (shown on
right), head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives (ATF) appeared on CBS’s Sunday Morning television
show, complaining that his agency is “a small agency with a big
job” and that he really needs more agents and more money to do
that job. What he would really like, however, is a computerized
database of all gun purchases made by every buyer and seller in
the country: "There’s a lot of things that don’t make sense.…
Would [having such a database at the ATF] be efficient and
effective? Absolutely. Would the taxpayers benefit with
[improved] public safety? Absolutely. Are we allowed to do it?
No." Brandon took over the agency in April 2015 after Todd Jones
bailed out following the agency’s failed attempt to ban
ammunition for the popular AR-15 rifle. Jones had taken over the
agency after Kenneth Melson bailed out in 2011 following the
implosion of the ATF’s Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal.
Soros And State Dept. Funded Group Claims Most Terrorists In The
US Are White
Kurt Nimmo - A George Soros and State Department funded
organization, the New America Foundation, has released a report
that states white Americans represent the largest domestic
terror threat. The organization claims the Charleston shooting,
the murder of three police officers in Pittsburg by Robert
Poplawski, Andrew Joseph Stack’s plane crash in Austin and other
attacks constitute organized “right-wing” terror incidents
instead of individual actions by mentally disturbed
individuals….NBC News has highlighted the extremely misleading
report and insinuates that people the government has designated
as right-wing terrorists should be sent to Guantanamo Bay and
militia groups along the border attacked with Predator drones….
The claim that specific groups of white Americans are engaged in
terrorist attacks against the United States is simply untrue and
little more than propaganda designed to force the government to
act against individuals and groups opposed to the federal
government and its policies.
California Assembly Declares August ‘Muslim Appreciation Month’
Breitbart - The California State Assembly [passed unanimously] a
bill Monday declaring August “Muslim Appreciation and Awareness
Month,” in accordance with a resolution proposed by Assemblyman
Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), and supported by the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)…. CAIR was an unindicted
co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial,
and has been declared a terrorist organization by the United
Arab Emirates. After the San Bernardino terror attack in
December last year, CAIR offered assistance to the terrorists’
family, and suggested U.S. policy was partly to blame. The
resolution declares, “The history of Islam in this country dates
back to before its founding,” referring to slaves with Muslim
beliefs — though, curiously, it avoids mentioning the slave
trade in the Islamic world. The resolution also says that
Muslims have been “fighting and sacrificing in every major war
from the American Revolutionary War to present-day conflicts” —
but it fails to mention the Barbary Wars, which were fought
against Muslim potentates who kidnapped Americans for ransom,
nor does it mention the radical Muslims who launched the War on
Terror. The bill is also silent about recent Islamic terror
carried out in California itself, such as the attack in San
Bernardino, which claimed 22 innocent lives. Instead, the
resolution complains of “harassment, assault, and
discrimination” that Muslim-Americans have been “forced to
endure” since 9/11.
Report: Clinton Campaign Manager Podesta Company Bagged $35M
from Russian Govt… Putin Connection
Breitbart - Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta sat
on the board of a small energy company alongside Russian
officials that received $35 million from a Putin-connected
Russian government fund, a relationship Podesta failed to fully
disclose on his federal financial disclosures as required by
law. That’s one of the many revelations from a 56-page report
released late Sunday titled “From Russia with Money: Hillary
Clinton, the Russian Reset, and Cronyism” by the non-partisan
government watchdog group, the Government Accountability
Institute (GAI). Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon
holds the same title in GAI and Breitbart News Senior
Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer serves as GAI’s president.
US Election Shocker: Is This How The Vote Will Be Rigged?
ActivistPost - Bev Harris, at blackboxvoting.org, is exploring a
specific “cheat sheet” that has vast implications for the Trump
vs. Hillary contest. It’s a vote-counting system called GEMS. I
urge you to dive into her multi-part series, Fraction Magic
(Part-1 here). Here are key Harris quotes. They’re all shockers:
“Our testing [of GEMS] shows that one vote can be counted 25
times, another only one one-thousandth of a time, effectively
converting some votes to zero.” “This report summarizes the
results of our review of the GEMS election management system,
which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in the United
States. The results of this study demonstrate that a fractional
vote feature is embedded in each GEMS application which can be
used to invisibly, yet radically, alter election outcomes by
pre-setting desired vote percentages to redistribute votes. This
tampering is not visible to election observers, even if they are
standing in the room and watching the computer. Use of the
decimalized vote feature is unlikely to be detected by auditing
or canvass procedures, and can be applied across large
jurisdictions in less than 60 seconds.”.... “Instead of ‘1’ the
vote is allowed to be 1/2, or 1+7/8, or any other value that is
not a whole number.” “Weighting a race [through the use of GEMS]
removes the principle of ‘one person-one vote’ to allow some
votes to be counted as less than one or more than one.
Regardless of what the real votes are, candidates can receive a
set percentage of votes. Results can be controlled. For example,
Candidate A can be assigned 44% of the votes, Candidate B 51%,
and Candidate C the rest.” “All evidence that [rigged]
fractional values ever existed [in the GEMS system] can be
removed instantly even from the underlying database using a
setting in the GEMS data tables, in which case even instructing
GEMS to show the [rigged] decimals will fail to reveal they were
used.”
Hillary Clinton Loads Up Omaha Rally With High School Kids –
Still Can’t Fill It Up!
The Gateway Pundit - Hillary Clinton held a rally today at North
High School in Omaha. The gym was half empty when the rally
started. She packed the high school gym with high school kids
who are too young to vote. The kids were wearing their “Vikings”
jerseys.
Clinton’s Plan For Victory: Register 3 Million New Voters
Breitbart - “We are hiring organizers here and between now and
election day, we are going to register 3 million more people,”
she said at the close of her DNC campaign speech. “We are not
just going to register them, we are going to get them to commit
to vote.” Clinton’s plan was announced at an NAACP rally, when
she told Democrats that it was more important than ever to build
up their voting rolls for victory. She revealed that campaign
employees and volunteers would be going to minor league baseball
games, college campuses, barbershops, hair salons, and street
corners. Clinton also touted her campaign’s new voter
registration tool in both English and Spanish languages. “I
think your votes count more than ever,” Clinton said during her
NAACP speech. “That’s why we’ve got to stand up against any
attempt to roll back the clock on voting rights. Encourage
everyone, everyone we know to stand up and be counted in this
November election.”
U.S. factory activity slips; construction spending hits one-year
low
Reuters - U.S. manufacturing activity eased in July amid
shrinking order backlogs and declining employment, while an
unexpected drop in construction spending in June suggested
second-quarter economic was probably even weaker than reported
last week. The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) report on
Monday also showed manufacturers ramping up production to an
18-month high even as factories continued to draw down
inventories, which some economists said pointed to moderate
growth in the sector. Tim Quinlan, a senior economist at Wells
Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina, said it was
counterintuitive for manufacturers to step up production while
cutting payrolls and running down inventories, given that
production is a coincident indicator for the economy.... "Any
growth in manufacturing is of the hand-to-mouth variety rather
than a vibrant expansion," said Michael Montgomery, U.S.
economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts.
"With the recent strength in the dollar still not fully
reflected in imports and exports yet, we will need the data to
be more convincing to call this anything more than almost
stalled."
Nearly 1 in 3.6 Working-Age, Native-Born Americans Not in the
Labor Force
Breitbart - The report, authored by [Center for Immigration
Studies] CIS’ director of research Steven Camarota, reveals that
during the first quarter of 2016, nearly 48.5 million
working-age, native-born Americans were not in the labor force.
In other words, 28 percent of American-born citizens ages 16 to
65 years old were neither employed nor looking for work.... As
Camarota details in the report, the situation is also striking
for people without a bachelor’s degree. During the first quarter
of 2016, just 65 percent of native-born Americans ages 18-65
years old without a bachelor’s degree had a job, lower than the
69.4 percent registered in the first quarter of 2007 and 72.2
percent in 2000. “Combining those not in the labor force and
those unemployed shows 39.7 million native-born Americans
without a bachelor’s degree not working in the first quarter of
2016, compared to 31 million in the same quarter of 2000,”
Camarota reports.
Solar Storm To Hit Earth Tuesday – ‘Power Grid Fluctuations’ Possible
Off the Grid News - A solar geomagnetic storm capable of producing
“power grid fluctuations” is expected to hit earth Tuesday, Aug. 2 in
what the government’s NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center is calling a
moderate storm. The storm was sparked by a coronal mass ejection that
can be visually seen in a NASA space video. “Power grid fluctuations can
occur. High-latitude power systems may experience voltage alarms,” the
NOAA alert read. The primary impact is expected to be north of 55
degrees latitude, NOAA reported…. On NOAA’s 5-number scale, this one is
a G2, which if it is a “long-duration storm” could “cause transformer
damage.” A G5 storm, the most severe type, can cause “complete collapse
or blackouts,” NOAA says. The 1859 Carrington Event, which occurred
prior to the modern-day electrical grid, was a G5. It rendered telegraph
machines – the most advance electronics of the day – unworkable.
A Journeyman — Not an Apprentice — Electrician Explains Faulty Smart
Meters
Activist Post - From 1981 to 2008 Robert Marx of Redford, Michigan,
worked as a journeyman electrician. Obviously, he is qualified to
discuss electric meters. In the video below, he explains what he’s found
on an AMI Smart Meter that’s been removed from a meter housing/box.
Apparently, the removed AMI Smart Meter shows what happens when a Smart
Meter is retrofitted on to the former analog meter box and busbars [1]
don’t line up and cause overheating to occur. AMI Smart Meters are
dangerous for many reasons, especially what you will learn in this 10
minute educational video. Robert talks about flickering lights and
appliance interruption, which many folks experience since AMI Smart
Meters have been forced on homeowners electric services. Consumers may
want to save this information in the event you, God forbid, experience a
Smart Meter fire and have to fight with your insurance company, the
utility company or even your state public utility commission for not
providing SAFE replacements meters. One thing I’ve learned from
researching Smart Meter fires is this: If you experience a house fire
started by the retrofitted AMI Smart Meter, do everything in your power
to keep that meter as proof, as both utility company personnel and
firemen will try to remove it ASAP and destroy the evidence!
Smart Meter, Wi-Fi and Microwave Radiation Information Consumers Need to
Know (Video)
Activist Post - Cordless phones and baby monitors also are discussed. So
is electronic hypersensitivity (EHS), the real, not psychosomatic
illness, which now affects a growing number of the population. Wikipedia
claims that about 5 percent of the population suffers with EHS. AMI
Smart Meters are tested in that video, plus microwave ovens, which
everyone needs to see and hear the results of the Extech 480386 EMF
meter as it registers EMFs coming off electronics, Smart Meters in
particular! Microwaves escape microwave oven shielding, so please
remember that, and have your microwave oven checked periodically by a
qualified EMFs electronics professional.
NASA Spacecraft Set to Explore Giant Asteroid That Could Destroy
Earth
ABC News - The OSIRIS-REx Mission, headed by NASA and the
University of Arizona, plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft on
Sept. 8 of this year to reach Bennu, a large near-Earth
asteroid, in August 2018, according to a website devoted to the
mission. The spacecraft will survey Bennu, and a small
vacuumlike device capable of hovering above the asteroid will
suck up 60 to 400 grams of "gravel and soil" to bring back to
Earth in 2023, according to Dante Lauretta, a professor of
planetary science and cosmochemistry at the University of
Arizona's lunar and planetary laboratory.... "We believe Bennu
is a time capsule from the very beginnings of our solar system,"
Lauretta said. "So the sample can potentially hold answers to
the most fundamental questions human beings ask, like 'Where do
we come from?'".... Lauretta said Bennu once resided in the main
asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter.... He said that the
asteroid could strike Earth and cause tremendous destruction but
that we shouldn't be too frightened by the prospect. "Don't run
out and buy asteroid insurance," he joked. Bennu has a 1 in
2,700 chance of hitting Earth, and such an event wouldn't take
place until 2175 or 2196, he said.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
7 Common, Everyday Plants You’ll Be Shocked Are Poisonous
Off the Grid News - It’s not common for most people to walk
around a yard or garden and indiscriminately munch on plants.
But it’s a whole different story when it comes to kids and pets.
There are also plants that can cause significant skin
irritations while planting or weeding a garden. We’re going to
review some common plants that are surprisingly toxic — and in
many instances, deadly. If you have them in your garden, you may
want to think twice if young children or family pets are around.
1. Yew. A common evergreen that is popular as a landscaping
shrub, the yew has bright red berries with a dark side peeking
out at the bottom of the berry. What’s curious is that the berry
itself is not toxic, but every other part of the plant,
including the seeds in the berries, are dangerously poisonous….
2. English ivy. It decorates the walls of buildings on college
campuses across the country. Many people plant it to create a
similar look on their homes. Too bad it’s poisonous. The leaves
can cause rashing, blisters, general skin irritation and
itching. Ingesting the leaves can lead to convulsions, fever,
delirium and even hallucinations. It doesn’t sound real smart to
plant English ivy anywhere…. 3. Easter lily. A flowering plant
that’s popular and common at Easter, it is, in fact, quite
toxic, especially to small animals like cats. Humans don’t fair
much better due to an alkaloid called lycorine…. 4. Holly.
Children ingesting as few as two red berries will suffer
vomiting, drowsiness, diarrhea — and higher doses can be lethal.
Twenty holly berries could kill an adult.
New Gardasil Vaccine Guidelines From American Cancer Society
Censors All Risks to Vaccine
Health Impact News - The American Cancer Society issued a press
release recently stating that they were agreeing with the U.S.
Center for Disease Control's (CDC) recommendation to now start
vaccinating boys as well as girls with the Gardasil vaccine, and
that Gardasil vaccines can begin as young as age 9. Noticeably
absent from the press release was any warnings on Gardasil risks
and side effects, or any mention of how other countries around
the world are now investigating the vaccine due to the amount of
injuries being reported. Japan and other nations have actually
withdrawn their recommendation of the HPV vaccine. Because the
manufacturers of vaccines are not immune from liabilities due
the harm their vaccines cause in these countries, in contrast to
the United States where one cannot sue a vaccine manufacturer,
many are taking legal actions against HPV manufacturers. You
will read none of this in U.S. mainstream media…. Dr. Deirdre
Little, a pediatrician in Australia, was the first one to sound
the alarm over the HPV vaccine causing premature menopause when
she observed it in one of her 16 year old patients in 2012. Dr.
Little published a paper in the British Medical Journal warning
that the premature menopause of a healthy 16-year-old girl may
be linked to the Gardasil vaccination. Now, another study has
published in the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
documenting three more cases of “Primary Ovarian Failure,” where
three young girls stopped having periods and showed signs of
menopause. The study confirms Dr. Little’s experience, and was
conducted in Israel and Italy.
Strong link between low omega-3 blood levels and depression
(NaturalHealth365) A new Japanese study has found a significant
correlation between depression symptoms and low levels of
omega-3 fatty acids in the bloodstream. The study results also
underscore the need to reduce inflammation in order to avoid
health issues, such as depression…. The study evaluated over
2,100 persons age 40 or older who were evaluated using a
standard 20 question test for depression. Their blood then was
tested for levels of different fatty acid types. The results
showed that the persons who had the lowest omega-3 levels tended
to have the highest risk of depression. Conversely, higher
levels of omega-3s corresponded with a lowered risk of
depressive symptoms by as much as 43 percent.
Too Little Too Late: McDonald’s Will Remove Some Artificial
Preservatives
Government Slaves - McDonald’s is accelerating plans to simplify
its food and announced intentions Monday to remove artificial
preservatives from its chicken nuggets, breakfast sausage
patties and egg products. The fast food giant will also remove
high-fructose corn syrup from its buns by the end of this month.
Mike Andres, president of U.S. operations, announced the changes
at the burger chain’s Oak Brook headquarters. He said the
changes are part of an ongoing effort by McDonald’s to cater to
more health-focused customers who demand fresh, wholesome food.
Please Don't Wait for This First Symptom to Digress Into Full-Blown
Heart Failure
Dr. Becker - The mitral valve on the left side of your pet’s heart can
be defective at birth or wear out over time, such that it no longer
snaps closed to form a tight seal, which allows blood to flow backward
as the heart pumps. In symptomatic pets there is usually a low-grade
heart murmur in the early stages of the disease. Other signs develop
over time and can include a reluctance to exercise, difficulty breathing
and coughing or gagging. The traditional treatment of mitral valve
disease is to wait till the pet is symptomatic, and then prescribe one
or more drugs depending on the type and severity of the disease. This
isn’t a good approach, since by the time symptoms are apparent, most
pets have a diminished quality of life. A better approach is to
proactively begin supplementing with a high dose of ubiquinol as soon as
your pet is diagnosed, which can dramatically slow the progression of
the disease. Also critically important for dog and cat heart patients is
a balanced, species-appropriate, unprocessed meat-based diet that
provides all the essential amino acids necessary for heart muscle
function
One of the Most Vexing Problems Dog Owners Face
Dr. Becker - Separation anxiety is a common behavioral problem,
especially in shelter dogs that may have been previously abused or
neglected, that can take a serious toll on both pets and their owners….
Once you’re sure separation anxiety is the problem, begin behavior
modification right away, preferably with the help of a professional.
Separation anxiety can be very challenging to overcome and will likely
take time, determination and effort on your part to help your pet….
These recommendations may sound cold and heartless, but remember in many
cases we unknowingly feed our dog’s anxiety with how we act, so: 1.
Ignore your pet’s attention-seeking attempts. Any interactions with your
dog should be initiated by you and not by your dog. 2. Avoid interacting
with your pet in the 30 minutes prior to your departure. The idea is to
get your dog used to you not being home. The exception is that when you
leave, you can give your dog a treat-dispensing toy to help keep him
occupied. Make this a treat your dog really loves and only offer it when
you are leaving. 3. When you arrive home, ignore your dog until he is
relaxed. This helps to reinforce the relaxed behavior. 4. Get your dog
used to departure cues by doing them when you’re not really leaving. For
instance, grab your car keys and your wallet or purse. Put on your coat
and sunglasses and walk out to your car….
Bald Eagle mistakes Donald Trumps hair home, begins nesting
American Irony - While at a campaign stop a bald eagle confuses
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s hair for a nest and
proceeded to make a home on his head. Initially viewed as a threat
offers by members of the audience to shoot the bird clean off his head
were rejected by Trump, who ultimately welcomed the bird to make his
home on what he deemed to be prime real estate….
Monday - August
1, 2016 - Today In History:
1774 - Oxygen was isolated from air successfully by chemist Carl Wilhelm
and scientist Joseph Priestly.
1790 - The first U.S. census was completed with a total population of
3,929,214 recorded. The areas included were the present states of
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia
1876 - Colorado became the 38th state to join the United States.
1907 - The U.S. Army established an aeronautical division that later
became the U.S. Air Force.
1914 - Germany declared war on Russia at the beginning of World War I.
1936 - Adolf Hitler presided over the Olympic games as they opened in
Berlin.
1943 - In the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat PT-109
sank after being hit by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. The boat was
under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy. Eleven of the thirteen crew
survived.
1944 - In Warsaw, Poland, an uprising against Nazi occupation began. The
revolt continued until October 2 when Polish forces surrendered.
1946 - In the U.S., the Atomic Energy Commission was established.
1956 - The Social Security Act was amended to provide benefits to
disabled workers aged 50-64 and disabled adult children.
1957 - The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was created by the
United States and Canada.
2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia died. Crown Prince Abdullah, the king's
half-brother, became the country's new monarch.
2006 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro turned over absolute power when he gave
his brother Raul authority while he underwent an intestinal surgery.
2011 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed, 269-161, emergency
legislation to avert the nation's first-ever financial default.
Al-Nusra Front Rebrands Itself to 'Become as Powerful as Daesh'
Sputnik News - Al-Nusra Front that now calls itself Jabhat Fateh
al-Sham, or the Front for the Conquest of Syria, is trying to
paint itself as "an independent force that does not need
patronage, including ideological backing from al-Qaeda," he
[political analyst Sergei Demidenko] said. ".... The senior
lecturer... further noted that al-Nusra Front does not want to
become a global force. The group's new name points to local
territorial aspirations.... Demidenko noted that al-Nusra
Front's rebranding will not alter the balance of power on the
Syrian battlefield. Moreover, it will not affect how Russia and
the United States view the organization that has been designated
as a terrorist group by Moscow, Washington and the UN.... This
is precisely why al-Nusra Front has tried to rebrand itself,
Vladimir Sazhin, a senior expert at the Russian Academy of
Sciences' Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, told RIA Novosti.
The militants who have been trying to overthrow Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad and establish a caliphate in the war-torn
country "simply don't want to be the target of the Russian and
US-led counterterrorist campaigns," he explained.
‘Not Our Friends’: Erdogan Stokes Anti-US, Anti-NATO Fervor in
Turkey
Sputnik News - On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
condemned West for refusing to show solidarity with Ankara in
the wake of a failed attempt to overthrow the government saying
that NATO 'allies' that are more concerned about the fate of
coup supporters than the survival of Turkey are not friends of
Ankara.... The statements come in response to US National
Intelligence Director James Clapper’s statement on Thursday that
the purges were harming the fight against Daesh in Syria and
Iraq by stripping away key Turkish officers who had worked
closely with the United States. Comments made at Erdogan’s rally
on Friday follow remarks made earlier in the day blasting
four-star US General and CENTCOM commander Joseph Votel for
criticizing Turkey’s post-coup attempt purge.... The remarks
come at a troubling time only one day after over 5,000
protesters yelling "death to the US" marched towards NATO’s
critical Incirlik Air Base which houses between 50 and 90 US
tactical nuclear weapons before security officials successfully
dispersed the raging demonstrators.
Obama Touts UN Agenda as Solution to Terror
The New American - Because this particular terrorist used a
truck instead of a firearm to murder close to 100 victims,
Obama's standard propaganda pushing more gun control was
obviously inappropriate for the occasion. So, on July 15,
responding to the terror attack in Nice, France, Obama pushed a
different but related agenda, instead arguing that the solution
to terrorism, violence, and other problems is actually
globalism.... Specifically, Obama told a room full of
ambassadors that the world needed more global “institutions” to
promote “common humanity” and fight against people's “impulses”
to remain loyal to their tribes, nations, and religions ahead of
the globalist mechanisms being imposed on them. As part of the
push for what top administration officials call the "New World
Order," Obama also touted the United Nations Agenda 2030 and his
deals with communist dictatorships. The controversial remarks
came just two weeks after Obama, standing alongside fellow North
American leaders, warned yet again that the “international
order” was here to stay.
Russia says spyware found in state computer networks
Reuters - Russia's intelligence service said on Saturday that
the computer networks of 20 organizations, including state
agencies and defense companies, have been infected with spyware
in what it described as a targeted and coordinated attack. The
Federal Security Service, the FSB, said the malware and the way
the networks were infected were similar to those used in
previous cases of cyber espionage found in Russia and other
countries. The agency did not say who it suspected of being
behind the attacks.... The FSB's announcement follows reports of
cyber attacks on the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC)
and the fundraising committee for Democratic candidates for the
U.S. House of Representatives. Cyber security experts and U.S.
officials have said there was evidence that Russia engineered
the DNC hack to release sensitive party emails in order to
influence the U.S. presidential election. The Kremlin has denied
any involvement in the incident.
Ireland Jails 3 Top Bankers over 2008 Collapse
The AntiMedia - The longest-ever criminal trial in Ireland
lasted 74 days and led to convictions for former Irish Life and
Permanent Bank Chief Executive Denis Casey; former finance
director at the failed Anglo Irish Bank, Willie McAteer; and
former head of capital markets at the Anglo Irish Bank, John
Bowe. They received sentences ranging between two-and-a-half to
three-and-a-half years. As light as those sentences may seem
considering the dire effect bankers’ actions had on the Irish
economy, U.S. and English bankers have evaded convictions
altogether. Though banks in those countries have since paid out
billions of dollars in settlements to regulators for their role
in the 2008 crash, no one from those companies has been
sentenced to prison.... In spite of the questions surrounding
whether or not convictions like those issued Friday will produce
tangible change, the symbolism of bankers actually being held
accountable for the destruction caused by their schemes is sure
to resonate with Irish citizens, as well as observers from
around the world. Meanwhile, in America, the political party
vowing to end the banking oligarchy held its convention at the
Wells Fargo center for a candidate bankrolled by Goldman Sachs.
Venezuela Institutes Forced Labor, Orders Citizens to Do Farm
Work
Activist Post - In an effort to deal with the country’s food
shortages, the government has decreed that citizens who are
physically able will have to work on Venezuela’s farms for at
least 60 days per year, regardless of what their current job
entails. Workers will still be paid their normal salaries and
can’t be fired from their day jobs. The government reserves the
right to increase this farm work period if needed. Obviously
this won’t work. Venezuela doesn’t have food shortages because
people aren’t working the fields. High-yield farms require
equipment and fertilizers that can’t be made domestically
anymore, and nobody can afford to buy these supplies abroad
either. The real problem is that people can’t work these farms,
because they don’t have what they need to run them. Instead of
the solving the food crisis, the forced labor program is going
to send hundreds of thousands of urban dwellers to the farms,
where they will be paid to do nothing. And since they won’t be
doing their day jobs, more shortages and dysfunction will emerge
in other sectors of the economy.
Starving Venezuelans Break Into Zoo And Eat Equally Starving
Animals
True Activist - Last week, groups of intruders broke into
Caricuao Zoo in Caracas, Venezuela, pulled a rare black stallion
from its cage, and slaughtered him there on the spot. They left
behind only his head and ribs, which zookeepers found in the
morning when they entered to care for the lone horse. Earlier
this month, Vietnamese pigs and sheep that called the zoo their
home were stolen by citizens for food as well. If the animals
aren’t being stolen and butchered to feed the starving
Venezuelan citizens, they’re dying from starvation themselves,
as the zoos’ food shipments are few and far between.... The
zookeepers have resorted to feeding the animals food that isn’t
in their normal diet; lions and tigers are eating pumpkin rather
than meat and elephants are eating tropical fruit instead of
hay. Their situation is similar to those of the Venezuelan
citizens, who wait in long lines at supermarkets everyday hoping
to find severely overpriced meat, rice, and chicken.
After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and
uninhabitable
We Are The Mighty - Immediately after the war, the French
government quarantined much of the land subjected to the worst
of the battles. Those areas that were completely devastated and
destroyed, unsafe to farm, and impossible for human habitation
became the Zone Rouge.... An estimated 720 million shells were
fired during the Great War, with approximately 12 million
failing to detonate. At places like Verdun, the artillery
barrages were so overwhelming, 150 shells hit every square meter
of the battlefield. Concentrated barrages and driving rains
turned the battlefield into a quagmire that swallowed soldiers
and shells alike.... Further complicating the cleanup is the
soil contamination caused by the remains of humans and animals.
The grounds are also saturated with lead, mercury, and zinc from
millions of rounds of ammunition from small arms and artillery
fired in combat. In some places, the soil contains such high
levels of arsenic that nothing can grow there, leaving haunting,
desolate spaces. Though the Zone Rouge started at some 460
square miles in size, cleanup efforts reduced it to around 65
square miles. With such massive amounts of explosives left in
the ground, the French government estimates the current rate of
removal will clear the battlefields between 300 and 900 years
from now.
Officials Go Door to Door Asking for Urine Samples During U.S.
Zika Outbreak
Brandon Turbeville - According to CNN, four individuals located
in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have been infected with the
Zika virus as a result of local mosquitoes. These are the first
known cases of Zika transmission by mosquitoes in the
continental U.S. Currently there is no treatment or vaccine for
Zika and officials believe the transmission is confined to a
single zip code, an area north of downtown Miami. Despite the
fact there have been 386 cases of Zika in Florida, the
mainstream media and many health officials are treating this new
transmission as a cause for potential panic. …officials are now
going door to door asking residents for urine samples and other
information.
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Panama Papers: Will Wall Street Get Swept Up in Justice
Department’s Investigation?
Wall Street On Parade - The Wall Street Journal reported
yesterday that the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
and its U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan “have launched a
criminal investigation into whether individuals at Mossack
Fonseca & Co., the law firm at the center of the ‘Panama Papers’
scandal, knowingly helped its clients launder money or evade
taxes…” That investigation, if conducted thoroughly and without
improper interference, could turn up the heat on some powerful
Wall Street players.... Internationally known hedge fund
billionaire mogul, George Soros, turned up in the Panama
Papers.... Another hedge fund mogul, S. Donald Sussman, founder
of Paloma Partners, appears in the ICIJ offshore database from a
document leak in 2013.... Another hedge fund billionaire in the
ICIJ database is David E. Shaw.... Soros, Sussman and Shaw are
among the largest donors to the SuperPac supporting Hillary
Clinton, Priorities USA.
President Obama Just Signed the DARK Act Into Law
Natural Blaze - A brief press release by the White House simply
mentioned a list of bills and S. 764, “which directs the
Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national mandatory
bioengineered food disclosure standard,” was listed at the end.
The “disclosure standard” must be an inside joke, because the
disclosure involves the consumer having to scan a QR code on a
food product to find out about genetically modified ingredients,
or call a 1-800 number. These measures might not even happen for
another five years. The federal measure authored by Sen. Pat
Roberts (R-KS) and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and fast-tracked
by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (no committee, no
debate) has now quelled all state efforts for clear text
labeling of genetically modified organisms in food. This writer
wonders whether the state labeling initiatives purposely held
off their labeling efforts until 2018 – 2016 at the earliest –
in anticipation of this federal measure.
Hillary Clinton’s Memoir Deletions, in Detail
The Americas Blog - As was reported following the assassination
of prominent Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres in
March, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton erased all
references to the 2009 coup in Honduras in the paperback edition
of her memoirs, “Hard Choices.” Her three-page account of the
coup in the original hardcover edition, where she admitted to
having sanctioned it, was one of several lengthy sections cut
from the paperback, published in April 2015 shortly after she
had launched her presidential campaign. A short, inconspicuous
statement on the copyright page is the only indication that “a
limited number of sections” — amounting to roughly 96 pages —
had been cut “to accommodate a shorter length for this edition.”
Many of the abridgements consist of narrative and description
and are largely trivial, but there are a number of sections that
were deleted from the original that also deserve attention.
Video: Clinton Cash - Full Film
Forbidden Knowledge TV - [In case you may have missed it…]
'Clinton Cash', is a stomach-turning, very well-researched
feature documentary based on Peter Schweizer's book of the same
title, that the New York Times hailed as “The most anticipated
and feared book of a presidential cycle.”
Two Shootings in Texas Capital City Leave 1 Dead, 4 Wounded
Breitbart - One woman is dead and four others were wounded in
two separate shooting incidents in Austin, Texas. The first
shooting occurred in the heart of the city’s famous 6th Street
entertainment district while the second occurred a few blocks
away. Shortly after 2 a.m., one suspect began firing a gun into
the crowd following a disturbance. One woman was killed in this
shooting. Four others were wounded, KXAN NBC reported in Austin.
The shooting occurred on 6th Street at San Jacinto. The second
shooting took place a few blocks away in a parking garage
located in the 800 block of Trinity. The suspect in this
shooting was allegedly engaging in an aggravated robbery and
fired at his would-be victim. That suspect was wrestled to the
ground and his gun was taken from him. Police arrived and
arrested the suspect. Because of the close proximity of the two
separate shooting incidents both in terms of timing and
geography, police initially thought they were dealing with an
active shooter situation. They later determined the two
incidents were unrelated.
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Austin Shooter Still on the Run
New Law in Alaska Restores Right of Parent to Control Content,
Quality of Child's Education
The New American - Specifically, the new statute recognizes the
authority of the parents, allowing them “to object to and
withdraw the child from a standards-based assessment or test
required by the state” and “to object to and withdraw the child
from an activity, class, or program.” In other words, children
in Alaska will not be forced by the government - local, state,
or federal - to participate in standardized testing (exams which
more often than not don’t test any relevant skills and serve
merely as vehicles for qualifying for federal funds or
collecting critical personal data about the children and their
families) and they will not be forced to sit through classroom
instruction that violates or contradicts the principles of the
children’s families -sex education, for example. Shane Vander
Hart of the group Truth in American Education, praised the new
bill, while acknowledging its limitations. “This doesn’t change
Alaska’s standards which are essentially Common Core,” Vander
Hart said in a blog post, “but this is a win for parents who
were having issues opting their students out of assessments and
certain classes, like sex ed.”
Exposed: Orlando Shooting Used To Strengthen Sandy Hook Lawsuit
The Government Rag - There is quite a bit of information to
digest when it comes to the Sandy Hook lawsuit, the Orlando
shooting alleged victims families joining the lawsuit, the
manufacturer’s response to the Sandy Hook shooting, and the
introduction of the Firearms Risk Protection Act. Studying them
all closely as well as the gun haters agenda, it is quite clear
the Second Amendment is up for sale. The Firearms Risk
Protection Act alone will profit billions to insurance companies
making it mandatory gun owners have liability insurance on their
weapons. Depending on ‘your risk assessment, you may either be
considered a ‘low risk’ individual and pay lower rates or a
‘high risk’ person and pay higher rates. What they do not
specify is how they determine what risk you are. I suppose all
the tracking and databases are tied together now so who knows
what lies ahead for American gun owners. Mental health agenda is
also tied into the gun control debates. Following the Sandy Hook
shooting, the push for DNA testing and studies for the ongoing
search for the ‘evil gene’ is underway. Obama is demanding the
CDC receive millions of dollars in funding to study gun-violence
and Hillary Clinton vows to keep the guns out of the hands of
who she believes are dangerous individuals.
Trump: Clinton And Democrats Rigged The Debate Schedule!
TPM - Donald Trump raised objections to the general election
debate scheduling Friday, saying that it was rigged by the
Democrats. In a late night tweet, Trump voiced his displeasure
with the fact that two of the debates are during NFL games. “As
usual, Hillary & the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are
up against major NFL games. Same as last time w/ Bernie.
Unacceptable!” Both Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have
taken issue with debate schedules in the past. Trump planned on
skipping two debates because of scheduling conflicts and because
"we've had enough debates," though the second debate was
ultimately cancelled. Sanders took issue with Clinton's refusal
to debate in California.
Democratic Party’s congressional fundraising committee was also
hacked
Ars Technica - Yet another cyber-attack has targeted a
Democratic Party organization—or more specifically, the party's
donors. Reuters reports that the FBI is investigating a breach
of the systems of the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee. While the details of the alleged intrusion were not
revealed, visitors to the DCCC's site were apparently redirected
to a malicious lookalike website mimicking the DCCC contribution
page.... It is not clear whether the attackers were after
financial information for credit card fraud, or if they were
collecting personal data for use in directed attacks against
donors. But the attack's timing—or at least the registration of
the domain used in the attack—matches up with the recent
discovery of a Democratic National Committee breach. The DCCC
shares office space with the DNC in Washington.
*Related:
DNC Breach extended to systems used by Clinton campaign
Lapel Pin That Tim Kaine Wore Instead Of American Flag Ignites
Controversy
Western Journalism - Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine accepted the
Democrat Party’s nomination for vice president Wednesday....
While all eyes were on Kaine, people noticed something funny
about his attire. U.S. politicians usually wear American flag
lapel pins, but that was not the case with the Virginia senator
-he had a flag with a star in the center of it. Some people
immediately began tweeting that he was wearing the Honduras flag
as a desperate attempt to attract more Latino voters. The North
Carolina GOP Twitter account said, “Tim Kaine wears a Honduras
flag pin on his jacket but no American flag. Shameful.” But
others noted that the pin was the Blue Star service flag, with
the star symbol representing how many active military members
there are in your family. Kaine’s son, Nat, serves in the Marine
Corps and was deployed two days before his father accepted the
nomination.
Intelligence Chief Suffers Intelligence Failure Over His Own
Team’s Willingness to Brief Donald Trump
The Intercept - The country’s top intelligence official, James
Clapper, insisted on Thursday that there has been no hesitation
within the intelligence community when it comes to giving
classified briefings to the presidential candidates, including
Donald Trump.... But several news reports over the past several
months have indicated there was dissension in the ranks when it
comes to telling Trump secrets - culminating in a Washington
Post story Thursday night that quoted a senior intelligence
official saying, “I would refuse.” All of which raises the
question: How good can Clapper be at ferreting out secrets from
foreign adversaries if he doesn’t even know what his own staff
is thinking? Then again, he could just have been lying. He’s
done it before.... Both candidates are expected to receive
intelligence briefings as soon as next week. “There’s a long
tradition that the intelligence community at the appropriate
time — and now is the appropriate time, since both candidates
have been officially anointed — that both campaigns will be —
both camps will be reached out to and offered briefings,”
Clapper said Thursday.
Donald Trump Tells the Clinton Campaign That Things Are Going to
Change
Western Journalism - During a Colorado Springs rally, chants of
“lock her up” rang out, recalling similar chants at the
Republican National Convention when Clinton’s name was
mentioned. Since then, Trump has sought to limit the use of the
chant. Not anymore. “You know what? I’ve been saying — I’ve been
saying let’s just beat her on Nov. 8th, but you know what? No.
no. You know what? I’m starting to agree with you,” he said.
“I’ve been nice, but after watching that performance (Thursday)
night, such lies,” he said. “I don’t have to be so nice anymore.
I’m taking the gloves off, right, yes? Take the gloves off.
Right?”
Federal Courts Strike Down Voter ID Laws In Wisconsin, North
Carolina
Outside The Beltway - Federal Judges in two separate cases have
struck down Voter ID laws in North Carolina and Wisconsin on the
ground that the law impermissibly discriminates against
African-American voters.... The North Carolina ruling tossed out
the state’s requirement that voters present photo identification
at the polls and restored voters’ ability to register on
Election Day, to register before reaching the 18-year-old voting
age, and to cast early ballots, provisions the law had fully or
partly eliminated.... In the Wisconsin decision, Judge James D.
Peterson of Federal District Court ruled that parts of
Wisconsin’s 2011 voter ID law are unconstitutional. He ordered
the state to make photo IDs more easily available to voters and
to broaden the range of student IDs that are accepted at the
ballot box. The decision also threw out other rules that
lengthened the residency requirement for newly registered
voters, banned distributing absentee ballots by fax or email and
sharply restricted the locations and times at which municipal
voters, many of them Milwaukee blacks, could cast absentee
ballots in person.
Veterans Affairs Drops $20 million on Art Collection
Breitbart - “Included in the expenditures is a 27-foot
artificial Christmas tree for $21,500 delivered to Chillicothe,
Ohio and two sculptures costing $670,000 for a VA facility in
California that serves blind veterans,” according to the report
produced by the government spending watchdog Open the Books.
Open the Books was established as a legacy of Dr. Tom Coburn’s
vigilance over government spending during his Senate career.
Other examples of the VA’s art spending spree include $6.3
million in taxpayer funds expended at the Veterans Affairs Palo
Alto Health Care System. There, $483,000 went for a large
decorative rock and $807,000 was for the site preparation for
the rock outside the building. Inside the center, the VA built a
$330,000 half arc in the lobby of the mental health clinic,
spent $365,000 for a sculpture at the entrance to the pool, and
$305,000 for a sculpture in the center’s main lobby. Maybe, the
most ambitious of the health center’s art programs was the
$285,000 spent for the wall of dozens of rocks that light up to
spell out quotes by President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt–in Morse Code.
Barack Obama Is On Track To Be The Only President In History To
Never Have A Year Of 3% GDP Growth
Economic Collapse - It was being projected that U.S. GDP would
grow by 2.5 percent during the second quarter of 2016, but
instead it only grew by just 1.2 percent. In addition, the
Census Bureau announced that GDP growth for the first quarter of
2016 had been revised down from 1.1 percent to 0.8 percent. What
this means is that the U.S. economy is just barely hanging on by
its fingernails from falling into a recession.... Barack Obama
remains solidly on track to be the only president in all of U.S.
history to never have a single year when the economy grew by at
least 3 percent. Every other president in American history, even
the really bad ones, had at least one year when U.S. GDP grew by
at least 3 percent. But this has not happened under Obama even
though he has had two terms in the White House. The following
are the yearly GDP growth numbers under Obama. They come
directly from the official website of the World Bank… 2009: -2.8
percent, 2010: 2.5 percent, 2011: 1.6 percent, 2012: 2.2
percent, 2013: 1.5 percent, 2014: 2.4 percent, 2015: 2.4
percent. Does that look like a “recovery” to you?
US Government Entitlements - The Sixth Biggest Economy On Earth
Zero Hedge - Because the main street economy is failing, the
nation’s entitlement rolls have exploded. About 110 million
citizens now receive some form of means tested benefits. When
social security is included, more than 160 million citizens get
checks from Washington. The total cost is now $3 trillion per
year and rising rapidly. America’s entitlements sector, in fact,
is the sixth biggest economy in the world. Yet in a society that
is rapidly aging to the tune of 10,000 baby boom retirees per
day, this 50% dependency ratio is not even remotely
sustainable.... So the job of the central bank is to pump
reserves and credit into the macroeconomy until the resulting
incremental spending by households, business and government has
caused “full employment GDP” to be filled to the brim. In
effect, spending derived from current production and income is
supplemented with proceeds extracted from increasingly indebted
balance sheets. Needless to say, this amounts to borrowing from
future production and income.
UBS Debunks "Strong Consumer" Farce Saying Consumer Credit Cycle
Is In "Later Innings"
Zero Hedge - In a survey of 2,100 US adults over the age of 21,
UBS found that nearly 70% of the respondents, with incomes under
$40k, either couldn't cover their monthly expenses or were
breaking even each month. Moreover, a comparison of historical
results seems to imply that the financial situation of these
folks is deteriorating as the survey found QoQ and YoY increases
in "stress" levels in June. In his view, Mish believes this
deterioration in consumer health is due to the fact that costs
of living, primarily the cost of housing and healthcare, are
outpacing wage growth. When asked whether their financial
situation was getting better or worse roughly 85% said their
financial condition had stayed the same or gotten worse over the
previous 6 months. And finally, since nearly 70% of people in
the lowest earning bracket say they're either breaking even or
burning cash each month it would stand to reason that they're
probably not contributing that much to retirement savings. In
fact, the survey found that less than 20% of respondents in the
lowest quartile of earners even had a retirement account (much
less a meaningful balance in the account) and practically no one
had other savings in the form of stock/bond portfolios. Perhaps
even scarier is that the other quartiles are not fairing that
much better at saving for retirement.
New U.S. Currency Already in Our Money Supply
The Millennium Report - If you have been putting your money
under the mattress for the last few years, you will want to take
the time to read this article so that you can replace the old
fiat currency of the Federal Reserve Note (FRN) with new
currency.... Examine the new [2009 series] one-hundred-dollar
bill.... Note that the security strip is not in the exact center
of the folded bill, but just to the outside of the fold.... What
is really remarkable about the new bill is all the gold color
and shimmer on the right side of the bill, which is
conspicuously absent on the left side of the bill.... But what
you may have missed is where the phrase “This note is legal
tender for all debts, public and private” is located. It is now
on the right side of the bill. The two halves of the bills look
like two entirely different notes!... As you hold the folded new
$100 bill in your hand, it is though it has been designed to be
a redeemable “coupon” where one would tear or cut the left side
off the bill, discarding it for the worthless paper it has
become. There is even room to cut the bill in half without
damaging the 3-D security strip. This leaves the right side,
ornate with gold, to be used as transitional legal tender until
a new currency can be printed and circulated.
Much Hated, Giant “Freak” Fish, Targeted for Extermination, is Now
Valued Weapon against Carp
AllGov - It's a toothy giant that can grow longer than a horse and
heavier than a refrigerator, a fearsome-looking prehistoric fish that
plied U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico to Illinois until it
disappeared from many states a half-century ago.... Alligator gar, the
second-largest U.S. freshwater fish behind the West Coast's white
sturgeon, have shown a taste for Asian carp, which have been spreading
and out-competing native fish for food. The gar dwarf the invaders,
which themselves can grow to 4 feet and 100 pounds. The world-record
alligator gar was 8 ½ feet and 327 pounds, though they can grow
larger.... Gar now are being restocked in lakes, rivers and backwaters —
sometimes in secret locations — in several states. Earlier this year,
Illinois lawmakers passed a resolution urging state natural resources
officials to speed up its program and adopt regulations to protect all
four gar species native to the state.
Police 3D-printed a murder victim's finger to unlock his phone
The Verge - Police in Michigan have a new tool for unlocking phones: 3D
printing. According to a new report from Flash Forward creator Rose
Eveleth, law enforcement officers approached a professor at Michigan
State earlier this year to reproduce a murder victim’s fingerprint from
a prerecorded scan. Once created, the 3D model would be used to create a
false fingerprint, which could be used to unlock the phone. Because the
investigation is ongoing, details are limited, and it’s unclear whether
the technique will be successful. Still, it’s similar to techniques
researchers have used in the past to re-create working fingerprint molds
from scanned images, often in coordination with law enforcement. This
may be the first confirmed case of police using the technique to unlock
a phone in an active investigation.
Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad
AdvertisingAge - New Yorker Alison Wilson was walking down Prince Street
in SoHo last week when she heard a woman's voice right in her ear
asking, "Who's there? Who's there?" She looked around to find no one in
her immediate surroundings. Then the voice said, "It's not your
imagination." Indeed it isn't. It's an ad for "Paranormal State," a
ghost-themed series premiering on A&E this week. The billboard uses
technology manufactured by Holosonic that transmits an "audio spotlight"
from a rooftop speaker so that the sound is contained within your
cranium. The technology, ideal for museums and libraries or environments
that require a quiet atmosphere for isolated audio slideshows, has
rarely been used on such a scale before. For random passersby and
residents who have to walk unwittingly through the area where the voice
will penetrate their inner peace, it's another story. Mr. Pompei
[president and founder of Holosonics] said the company also has tested
retail deployments in grocery stores with Procter & Gamble and Kraft for
customized audio messaging. So a customer, for example, looking to buy
laundry detergent could suddenly hear the sound of gurgling water and
thus feel compelled to buy Tide as a result of the sonic experience.
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Illegal GMO Wheat Discovery in Washington State Causes Global
Export Panic
Sustainable Pulse - U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has announced Friday
that twenty two unapproved genetically modified (GMO) wheat
plants have been discovered in Washington State, sending export
markets in to panic. The South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug
Safety said it had asked APHIS to provide details on the
unapproved wheat and methods of inspection and added that it has
already suspended customs clearance for some wheat imports from
the United States. Chinese, Japanese and European Union
authorities are also set to react to the news over the weekend.
Seeds of Death: Unveiling The Lies of GMO’s – Full Movie
Natural Blaze - The world’s leading Scientists, Physicians,
Attorneys, Politicians and Environmental Activists expose the
corruption and dangers surrounding the widespread use of
Genetically Modified Organisms in the new feature length
documentary, “Seeds of Death: Unveiling the Lies of GMOs”.
10 Brain-Boosting Foods That Just Might Make You Smarter
Off the Grid News - According to Cynthia Green, PhD, an expert
on memory and brain health, key nutrients — along with exercise
and daily brain stimulation – help keep brain cells healthy and
prevent inflammation. Green writes that a person’s memory,
attention span and ability to learn all benefit from the right
food choices. Here are 10 brain-boosting foods to make a part of
your diet. 1. Fish — Salmon, mackerel, albacore tuna, trout and
sardines are packed with omega-3 fatty acids, which experts
believe are essential for healthy brain function. Nearly 40
percent of the fatty acids found in brain cell membranes are the
DHA variety, which are found in fish oil. 2. Dark green leafy
vegetables – Dark green vegetables, such as kale, collard greens
and spinach, are excellent sources of vitamin E and folate.
Folate may protect the brain by lowering levels of an amino acid
known as homocysteine in the blood. Nitrates in spinach help
increase blood flow to the brain and thereby improve mental
performance. 3. Nuts and seeds — As sources of omega 3 and omega
6 fatty acids, and vitamin B6 and vitamin E, nuts (especially
walnuts) and seeds are good for the brain and the nervous
system. 4. Berries – Dark berries, such as blueberries, cherries
and blackberries, are both good to eat and good for your brain.
They contain anthocyanins and other flavonoids that improve
memory function and cognitive function. 5. Avocados — Avocados
are a good source of monounsaturated fats, omega 3 and omega 6
fatty acids, potassium, vitamin K and vitamin E.
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