NOVEMBER 2016
Wednesday - November
30, 2016
Today In History:
1782 - The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles
in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
1803 - Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France.
1804 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial accused of
political bias. He was later acquitted by the U.S. Senate.
1838 - Three days after the French occupation of Vera Cruz Mexico
declared war on France.
1853 - During the Crimean War, the Russian fleet attacked and destroyed
the Turkish fleet at the battle of Sinope.
1858 - John Landis Mason received a patent for the first pepper shaker
with a screw-on cap.
1897 - Thomas Edison's own motion picture projector had its first
commercial exhibition.
1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking.
1954 - In Sylacauga, AL, Elizabeth Hodges was injured when a meteorite
crashed through the roof of her house. The rock weighed 8½-pounds.
1956 - CBS replayed the program "Douglas Edward and the News" three
hours after it was received on the West Coast. It was the world's first
broadcast via videotape.
1962 - U Thant of Burma was elected secretary-general of the United
Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold.
1971 - ABC-TV aired "Brian's Song." The movie was about Chicago Bears'
Brian Picolo and his friendship with Gale Sayers.
1981 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva that
were aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.
1982 - The motion picture "Ghandi" had its world premiere in New Delhi.
1986 - "Time" magazine published an interview with U.S. President
Reagan. In the article, Reagan described fired national security staffer
Oliver North as a "national hero."
1989 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat was refused a visa to enter the United
States in order to address the U.N. General Assebly in New York City.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill. The bill
required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background
checks of prospective buyers.
1995 - President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit
Northern Ireland.
2010 - Pentagon leaders called for scrapping the 17-year-old "don't ask,
don't tell" ban after releasing a survey about the prospect of openly
gay troops.
Syrian Army Prevents Major Terrorist Attack in Christian
District of Aleppo
Sputnik News - The Syrian army forces on Tuesday managed to
prevent a major terrorist attack in the residential areas of
Aleppo, plotted by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham militants, media
reported. According to Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen news channel,
the military forces discovered a mine-studded underground
tunnel, leading to one of the churches located in a Christian
quarter of Aleppo. The total length of the tunnel was about 200
meters (0.12 miles), while the explosive device was placed
directly underneath the church building. Tens of civilians could
have been injured in case of a blast.... On Tuesday, the Russian
Defense Ministry said that Syrian government forces had cleared
almost half of Aleppo from militant strongholds, liberating some
80,000 residents.
Erdogan: Turkish forces are in Syria to end Assad's rule
RT - “We entered [Syria] to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad
who terrorizes with state terror. [We didn’t enter] for any
other reason,” the Turkish president said at the first
Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul, as
quoted by Hurriyet daily. Erdogan said that Turkey has no
territorial claims in Syria, but instead wants to hand over
power to the Syrian population, adding that Ankara is seeking to
restore “justice.”.... Erdogan said that Turkey could not
“endure” the unending killing of civilians and “had to enter
Syria together with the Free Syrian Army.”.... Turkish troops
entered Syria on August 24, launching operation Euphrates
Shield. Turkey deployed ground troops and air power to northern
parts of its neighboring country, with the stated goal of
retaking areas held by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
However, many observers have said that Ankara aims to suppress
Kurdish forces in Syria and prevent them from connecting three
de facto autonomous Kurdish areas into one enclave south of the
Turkish border. In October, Turkey’s air forces killed between
160 and 200 fighters of the Kurdish YPG militia group in 26
airstrikes conducted in just one night.... Ankara was forced to
halt air support for its ground incursion into Syria on October
22, after Damascus vowed to shoot down Turkish Air Force planes
in Syrian skies, accusing Turkey of violating its national
sovereignty.
Filipino troops battle Islamic State-loyal forces for town
Long War Journal - The group, dubbed the “Maute Group” in local
media, is also called the Islamic State in Lanao. The jihadist
group captured the town of Butig on Nov. 24 after raising its
flag over the town hall. The Filipino military has stated that
around 300 fighters are occupying the town. Over the weekend, up
to 35 members of the jihadist group and several troops were
purportedly killed in clashes near the town. According to local
reports, troops from the Philippines’ elite Joint Special
Operations Group have been deployed near Butig to assist regular
army troops in battling the jihadist forces for control over the
town.... Earlier today, a convoy containing Philippines
President Rodrigo Duterte was struck by an improvised explosive
device in Marawi, the capital of Lanao del Sur. 11 people,
including nine within Duterte’s security team, were wounded in
the attack. Filipino authorities have stated that this attack
was likely a diversionary tactic by the so-called “Maute
Group.”.... Videos and reports of Filipino groups pledging bayah
(allegiance) to the Islamic State have emerged since 2014,
shortly after Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic
State, claimed the creation of a “caliphate”.
Syria: Egypt Joins the Fray to Support Russia-Backed Coalition
Strategic Culture - Speaking on the Portuguese TV network RTP on
November 22, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi publicly
affirmed his support for the forces of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad. In response to the question of whether Egypt will send
troops to Syria or not he stated: "Our priority is to support
our Army in issues such as controlling some parts of Libya and
dealing with extremist forces for establishing peace, including
in Syria and Iraq." President al-Sisi restored diplomatic
relations with Syria after coming to power in 2013.... Egypt’s
open support of the Russia-backed coalition in Syria is a game
changing event of fundamental importance. In the West, the war
in Syria has been widely believed to be a conflict between Sunni
and Shia forces - the 1400 old Islam schism. Now the largest
Arab Sunni state has taken the side of the Syria’s government to
become a coalition ally with Russia. The sectarian
interpretation of the conflict is not valid anymore. The
conflict is about fighting terrorists. As the Egyptian president
noted he believes that the national army the Syrian government
forces are best positioned to combat extremists and restore
stability in the war-torn nation.
German Intelligence Officer "Arrested In Islamist Plot" To Blow
Up Spy Headquarters
Zero Hedge - In the latest scandal set to rock Germany, Spiegel
reports that a German intelligence officer has been arrested
over a suspected Islamist plot to bomb the agency's headquarters
in Cologne, raising fears that the spy agency itself has been
infiltrated. The 51-year-old official had made a "partial
confession" to the plot, Spiegel reports. The suspect attempted
to pass on "sensitive information about the BfV (Germany's
domestic security agency), which could lead to a threat to the
office", an official told the newspaper. The spy agency first
became aware of the man's activities about four weeks ago
according to Der Spiegel. A spokesman for the
Bundesverfassungsschutz (BfV) declined to provide details on the
man's position at the agency or say when he joined. He also
declined to comment on a report in Die Welt newspaper that the
51-year-old had planned to explode a bomb at the agency's
central office in Cologne. "The man is accused of making
Islamist remarks online under a false name, and offering
internal information during chats," the spokeswoman told AFP....
The alleged mole also offered to share sensitive data about the
BfV which could have endangered the agency's work, the spokesman
said.... Online chats were apparently found between the suspect
and other Islamists in which he attempted to recruit them to the
intelligence agency to mount an attack on "non-believers".
Afghan Taliban offer security for copper, gas projects
Daily Mail - The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday offered to protect
major government projects, such as the mining of a big copper
deposit and an international natural gas pipeline project, to
allow them to get off the ground after years of delay. The
Taliban have been behind much of the violence over the last 15
years that has frightened off investors, leaving Afghanistan
unable to tap natural resources and build the infrastructure
necessary to wean itself off foreign aid. The militants, who
calls themselves the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, maintain
their fight is against foreign forces and the foreign-backed
government, not ordinary Afghans.... The militants identified
the $3 billion Mes Aynak copper deposit in Logar province, near
Kabul, as one project they would protect. A Chinese company was
awarded the mining contract nine years ago but has yet to start
production because of poor security and a lack of transport
infrastructure. The Taliban also mentioned the $10-billion
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas
pipeline project and a regional electricity generation project
linking Central Asia and South Asia, known as CASA-1000.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Pentagon Plans to Replace Afghan Air Force With US-Made
Helicopters
Antiwar.com - Having dumped hundreds of millions of dollars over
the last decade-plus creating an air force for Afghanistan, the
Pentagon is looking to virtually re-do the entire scheme,
proposing another $814 million to replace the Russian-made
helicopters the US bought with American-made Black Hawk
helicopters.... With Afghanistan’s limited pilots more
experienced at flying Soviet planes, the US bought a number of
Mi-17 helicopters from Russia and the Czech Republic, forming
the backbone of the Afghan Air Force to this day. The Pentagon
is now arguing that they should replace the entire fleet of
helicopters with UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, citing “legal
barriers” in the acquisition of additional Russian-made
helicopters and parts over the past couple years of hostility.
It is noteworthy that the Pentagon is pushing this plan before
President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, as Trump is said to
plan a rapprochement with Russia which would likely resolve
these concerns, at least in the near term. While the Pentagon is
presenting this primarily as a one-off expense that will make it
easier to procure parts and replacement helicopters in the
future,... it ignores the substantial difficulty of retraining
the entire Afghan Air Force in using this totally different
style of helicopter. Retraining is an obstacle which was
previously seen as so insurmountable that it was why the US
bought Russian helicopters for them in the first place.
Ohio State Attacker Posted Anti-US Screed to Facebook Moments
Before Ambush…
Breitbart - Abdul Razak Ali Artan reportedly attacked students
at Ohio State University with a knife and car, leading to 11
people being hospitalized for injuries on Monday. Shortly after
Artan’s identity was revealed, many people began researching his
background, discovering that he was a Somalian refugee that had
come to the university to study. ABC News reports that Artan
posted to Facebook just minutes before the attack, saying, “I
can’t take it anymore. America! Stop interfering with other
countries, especially the Muslim Ummah. We are not weak. We are
not weak, remember that.” He also mentioned the recent trend of
“lone wolf” attacks carried out by sole Islamic terrorists. “If
you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then
make peace,” the post reads. “We will not let you sleep unless
you give peace to the Muslims.” The post also mentions by name
Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American-born al-Qaeda cleric killed in 2011
who Artan describes as a “hero.” Artan was shot and killed at
Ohio State University by police, ending the rampage.
* Related:
Islamic State Claims Credit: Abdul Razak Ali Artan Was a
‘Soldier’
Short Straw: Senior WH Aide Ben Rhodes Will Attend Fidel
Castro’s Memorial
Breitbart - A senior White House aide to President Barack Obama
will attend Cuba dictator Fidel Castro’s service, according to
the White House press secretary Josh Earnest. The White House
decided against sending an official delegation to represent the
United States at Fidel Castro’s memorial, but will allow senior
aide Ben Rhodes to attend as an informal symbol of his work to
normalize relations with the communist country…. Rhodes’ trip,
Earnest explained, would show the appropriate amount of respect
for the Cuban people, but without the honor of an official
delegation. Rhodes angered Washington reporters back in May
after he dismissed them as being ignorant about foreign policy.
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only
reporting experience consists of being around political
campaigns,” he told the New York Times Magazine. “That’s a sea
change. They literally know nothing.”
CALL TO ACTION: Oath Keepers Pledge to Protect Electors from
Terrorist Death Threats
Stewart Rhodes - Oath Keepers is hereby issuing a standing offer
of volunteer protection to any of the Electoral College Electors
who may feel threatened or in danger from leftist radicals
attempting to coerce them into changing their vote as Electors.
Any Elector who wants our assistance may contact us at:
electors@oathkeepers.org…. All communications and requests from
electors will be kept in the strictest confidence, and only
vetted, trusted, qualified Oath Keepers members will be
dispatched to provide security. That protection can be overt or
covert, or a combination of those two postures, at the
discretion of the Elector after consultation with our security
team leaders, and will consist of our unpaid volunteer retired
police officers and experienced combat veterans with personal
security detail training and experience. We can, and will,
provide this protection from now through their vote on December
19. 2016, and even thereafter if they still feel threatened by
terrorists seeking reprisal and punishment for the Electors not
bending to their will. Due to the gravity of the threat to our
Republic from terrorists attempting to steal the election
through coercion, this is also a call to action to our state and
local leaders, and in particular to our Community Preparedness
Team (CPT) leaders, to prepare security details in each of the
targeted states to be on standby for immediate deployment if a
request for protection comes in from an Elector.
Accused South Carolina church shooter, acting as own lawyer,
helps pick jurors
Reuters - The man accused of killing nine people at a historic
black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last year helped
choose jurors on Tuesday for his federal death penalty trial
after being allowed to serve as his own lawyer. Federal
prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against 22-year-old
avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof, who is charged with acts
of hate crimes, obstruction of religion and firearm use that
resulted in death. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel said he
was not inclined to let Roof's former lawyers email prosecutors
in the case on Roof's behalf despite the prisoner not having
email access. "Mr. Roof chose to represent himself and that
choice has consequences," Gergel said, adding he would give the
request more thought. The judge also said the lawyers, appointed
by him to serve as standby counsel, could no longer speak for
Roof in court. "You are not Mr. Roof's co-counsel," Gergel said.
"That is off the table. I told you, Mr. Roof, that I thought
this was a bad idea, self-representation." Roof has not said
publicly why he wants to defend himself against charges stemming
from the shooting attack, carried out during a Bible study
session at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June
2015. His lawyers previously said he wanted to plead guilty if
federal prosecutors agreed to a sentence of life in prison
without parole. They refused.
Murder charge dropped in New Mexico cop's killing of homeless
man
RT - The murder charge filed against one of two former
Albuquerque police officers accused of killing a mentally ill
homeless man has been dropped by a special prosecutor. James
Boyd was shot by police following an hour-long standoff in 2014.
Special Prosecutor Randi McGinn filed a notice to dismiss the
charge of second-degree murder against former Officer Dominique
Perez on Monday. The notice to dismiss comes more than a month
after a three-week jury trial for Perez and the other officer
ended with a judge declaring a mistrial because jurors could not
agree on a verdict…. The video on Perez’s helmet cam showed a
cop opening firing on Boyd while his back was turned to the
police in March 2014. The clip was widely circulated online and
led to protests, and caused the local police force to become the
target of widespread condemnation. Perez was charged along with
now-retired Detective Keith Sandy. Sandy was also charged with
second-degree murder. He was offered a plea deal for a lesser
count before the trial, which he declined. His attorney argued
the shooting of Boyd was justified and Sandy did not commit a
crime. It was also the first time he had fired his weapon on
duty. His retrial is tentatively scheduled for July.
Thanksgiving Weekend: 70 Shot in Gun-Controlled Chicago
Breitbart - According to the Chicago Tribune, the Thanksgiving
holiday weekend violence brings Chicago to nearly 4,000 shooting
victims for the year. That figure includes fatal and non-fatal
shootings. The number of fatal shootings alone is 710; a figure
which is even more startling when you consider that there were
492 homicides for the whole of 2015. There have 710 homicides
through the first 11 months of 2016. Chicago has long been a gun
control experiment gone awry. The city enacted a ban on handgun
ownership in 1982 and the Tribune reported that the next 10
years witnessed “murders [jump] by 41 percent, compared with an
18 percent rise in the entire United States.” And this jump made
sense. After all, when bans are enacted only the criminals
remain armed. The ban was overturned in 2010 via the Supreme
Court ruling in McDonald v Chicago, but city leaders have worked
diligently to preserve the vestiges of the ban at every turn in
road. And municipal and county limits on the number of gun
stores allowed in Chicago, together with rules on the locations
of those stores and a ridiculous amount of regulation on
acquiring and carrying guns for self-defense, have coalesced to
guarantee that criminals maintain an advantage similar to what
they enjoyed when the ban was in place.
Trump’s ‘Thank You Tour’ Said to Start in Ohio on Thursday
Bloomberg - President-elect Donald Trump will begin a "Thank You
Tour" on Thursday in Cincinnati, replicating the arena events
that powered his surprise campaign, three of his transition
officials said. The Republican has credited his rallies as a
central component of his victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The events at times drew tens of thousands of people and were
often broadcast live and in their entirety on cable news
networks, affording him a practically unfiltered channel to
voters. His post-election tour may take him to "swing states we
flipped over," George Gigicos, Trump’s director of advance, told
reporters on Nov. 17. Trump won Michigan, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania and Florida, all states President Barack Obama won
twice. He corrected reporters who called it a "victory tour.”…
The Cincinnati event will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday at US Bank
Arena, a previous venue for a Trump rally. Stops after
Cincinnati will be announced once venues are booked, the
officials said. His second event tentatively is scheduled for
Des Moines, Iowa.
Furious Democrats Blast Stein's Recount Effort As Nothing But A
"Scam"
Zero Hedge - Now, even prominent democratic strategists are
turning on Stein as Joe Trippi described her efforts as a "waste
of time and money." Worse, in an accusation that may have more
substantial consequences, some Democrats have gone so far as to
echo Trump’s charge that re-tallying votes from the presidential
race is just a “scam” being advanced by Stein, who has raised
more than $6 million to fund potential recounts in Wisconsin,
Michigan and Pennsylvania, three states critical to the
Republican nominee’s win.... Meanwhile, the practical and
logistical hurdles to success are starting to mount for Stein.
In order to get a state-wide recount in Pennsylvania, Stein
needed affidavits from three residents in each of Pennsylvania's
9,000 precincts to be filed by 5pm EST...something she
apparently just thought about earlier today. Moreover, this
afternoon the state of Wisconsin released their official
"Presidential Election Recount Cost Estimate" which came in at
$3.5mm, or a mere 3x more that the $1.1mm that Stein had
originally estimated and more than half of the $6.4mm she's
raised so far.
Trump Reaches Deal To Keep 1,000 Jobs In US
The Daily Caller - The incoming Trump administration has reached
a deal with Carrier to keep about 1,000 jobs in the U.S. rather
than outsourcing them to Mexico, CNBC reported Tuesday night....
President-elect Donald Trump specifically pledged to reverse
Carrier’s outsourcing plan if he were elected.... On
Thanksgiving, Trump announced he was negotiating with Carrier to
keep at least some of its jobs in the United States. Now, those
negotiations appear to have borne fruit. CNBC reported Tuesday
night that a deal has been struck to keep about 1,000 jobs in
the U.S., representing about half of the 2000 Carrier jobs that
were to be outsourced from two different facilities. The deal,
CNBC said, was spearheaded by vice president-elect and outgoing
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, and will be officially announced
Thursday during a visit by Trump to the state.... It’s not clear
how extensive the public inducements will be, but United
Technologies has ample reason to please Trump. The company is a
major defense contractor, and could lose billions of dollars if
the Trump administration took a hostile position toward it.
North Dakota Police To Block Supplies From Entering Camp of Pipeline
Protesters
Sputnik News - North Dakota law enforcement announced Tuesday that they
will be blocking supplies from entering the Standing Rock Camp at Cannon
Ball, where protesters have been attempting to halt construction on the
$3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline. However, Governor Jack Dalrymple's
office said that no blockade is planned for the camp. The move comes
after Dalrymple gave an "emergency evacuation" order that will
effectively expel protesters from the site. The Army Corps of Engineers,
who have given demonstrators until December 5 to leave the camp, has
said that it does not intend to remove the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and
their supporters by force, but rather hopes to facilitate a "peaceful
and orderly transition to a safer location.".... Phyllis Young, Standing
Rock Sioux spokeswoman, told a news conference Monday that "We have
lived for generations in this setting. That is our camp. We will
continue to provide for our people there…This is Lakota territory. This
is treaty territory, and no one else has jurisdiction there."
Wildfire sweeps through Tennessee resort town with a population of 4,000
that's next to Dollywood as residents evacuate
Daily Mail - Thousands of residents and visitors in the Gatlinburg area
were evacuated from the Great Smoky Mountains, and hundreds of
structures have been damaged and destroyed by the fire which is the
worse to hit the area in decades as of Tuesday.... 'The center of
Gatlinburg looks good for now,' Newmansville Volunteer Fire Department
Lt. Bobby Balding told the Knoxville News Sentinel on Tuesday. 'It's the
apocalypse on both sides (of downtown).'.... He [Gatlinburg Fire Chief
Greg Miller] added that about 14 buildings remain ablaze in the city, as
most of them are smoldering. Firefighters are going door to door in the
city to make sure no one has been overlooked. Officials say about 14,000
residents and visitors were evacuated from Gatlinburg alone, and
portions of Dollywood have been evacuated as wind speeds top 70 miles
per hour in some parts of Tennessee, which has been hit by the worst
drought in nearly a decade.... The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency
(TEMA) says hundreds of firefighters as well as local and state
personnel and National Guard troops have been sent in to help fight the
blaze and check on people. TEMA estimates that more than 150 homes and
structures have also been destroyed or damaged by flames, as they say
there is 'little hope' for relief anytime soon.... Storms approaching
the the nearly 28,000-acre Rough Ridge Fire in north Georgia and the
nearly 25,000-acre Rock Mountain Fire burning on both sides of the
Georgia-North Carolina line have signaled some hope for firefighters who
are trying to put the blaze out Tuesday.
Elite Prepare to Hole Up in Luxury Underground Bunkers: "They
Know Something The Rest of Us Do Not"
Michael Snyder - Without a doubt, something is going on among
the elite. Earlier today, WND published an article that
discussed the fact that wealthy people “are quietly moving away
from major cities” all over the globe because of concerns about
security.... And just a few weeks ago a Hollywood Reporter
article entitled “Panic, Anxiety Spark Rush to Build Luxury
Bunkers for L.A.’s Superrich” talked about how “Oscar winners,
sports stars and Bill Gates are building lavish bunkers” because
of their anxiety about what is coming next.... This is all very
odd, because among the general population interest in “prepping”
has hit a multi-year low. In fact, sales of emergency food and
supplies are way down at the moment across the entire
industry.... I really like what Carl Gallups had to say about
this. Carl is the author of Be Thou Prepared, and this is what
he told WND about the preparations that the elite are making...
“I think that the rich and elite are becoming increasingly aware
of the dangerous and potentially unstable world in which we now
reside,” he warned.... Gallups noted “the rich usually have
deeper connections to reliable information and prediction
sources, and most of them have the means to take immediate
action.” I believe that Carl Gallups is right on the money.
The Throwaway Organ You Can't Live Without
Green Med Info - The gallbladder is a muscular pear-shaped organ
located just beneath your liver whose purpose is to store,
concentrate and eject bile when needed. Without this infusion of
bile, you can’t absorb your fat-soluble nutrients, vitamins A,
D, E and K, and those all-important essential fatty acids…. The
problem is, many gallbladders have become lazy, congested, and
even blocked with sludge and bile stones. When bile stagnates in
an underworked gallbladder, it thickens and begins to stick to
itself and form gallstones. Decades of processed foods and
nutritionally bankrupt low-fat and non-fat diets, compounded by
increased toxic exposures, have created a gallstone epidemic.
Quite literally, your gallbladder is a use-it-or-lose-it organ.
Cholecystectomy (surgical gallbladder removal) is now the most
common “elective” abdominal surgery in America with more than
750,000 operations performed each year…. If you have symptoms of
poor fat digestion such as nausea, bloating, constipation or
pale stools, or if you’ve had your gallbladder removed, then
it’s wise—I might even say critical—to increase your intake of
bile-building foods… 1.Beets - Beets contain betaine which thins
the bile and helps prevent gallstones. Betaine is also a rich
source of hydrochloric acid, which is critical for digestion and
triggers your gallbladder to release bile. Beetroot protects
your liver from chemical toxicity. 3.Bitters - Bitter greens
such as arugula, endive, dandelion and radicchio offer wonderful
benefits—as well as horseradish, which is also anti-cancer.
Orange peel, gentian root, bitter artichoke and Angelica root
are also excellent bitters. 4.Choline - Choline is an essential
nutrient that acts as an emulsifier, assists fat digestion,
reduces cellulite, decongests the liver, improves nerve and
brain function, and builds hormones. Ninety percent of us are
choline deficient. 5.Lecithin - Lecithin is one of the primary
emulsifying agents in bile, containing significant choline.
Lecithin breaks down fats making them more digestible. 6.Apple
Cider Vinegar - I call apple cider vinegar a “miracle in a
bottle!” ACV contains malic acid, which helps your body digest
protein and thins the bile. Take one tablespoon of raw ACV in a
glass of water before meals….
The Best Natural Remedies for Hypothyroidism (#3 Is a Must)
Natural News Blogs - There are lots of different factors that
can cause hypothyroidism. Autoimmune disease, certain
medications, and even nutrient deficiencies can be to blame….
Fatigue, dry skin, thinning hair, sensitivity to cold,
constipation, weight gain, muscle weakness, and joint pain are
just a few of the things that result from hypothyroidism. 1.
Take a probiotic - Studies have found that supplementing with
probiotics can prevent immune-mediated diseases by stimulating
and strengthening the immune system…. Fermented foods like
sauerkraut or dairy-free yogurts with added probiotics are great
ways to enhance your gut health. Or, try adding a probiotic
supplement into your daily routine to see the thyroid-boosting
benefits for yourself. 2. De-stress - When we get stressed out,
our stress hormones – like cortisol – can shoot up. When
cortisol is elevated, it can cause another hormone known as
thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) to increase too. High levels
of TSH coupled with reduced thyroid hormone levels can signify
hypothyroidism. 3. Go gluten-free - The problem is that the
proteins in gluten have a very similar protein structure to that
of thyroid tissue. When you eat lots of gluten from refined
carbs, cereals, and pastas, it can set off an immune response
and basically cause your own immune system to target and attack
your thyroid gland…. 4. Get in enough nutrients - The two big
ones are iodine and selenium, both of which are required by the
thyroid gland to produce enough of the hormones needed by our
body. Iodine is found in seaweed, eggs, potatoes, cranberries,
and navy beans while selenium is plentiful in fish, chicken,
turkey, beef, and Brazil nuts…. 5. Ditch the dairy - Much like
gluten, loading up on the dairy products can set off an immune
response, diminishing thyroid function, and intensifying the
negative symptoms that come with hypothyroidism….
Your Body Needs These Minerals if You Crave These Kinds of Junk
Food
Natural News Blogs - Most folks don’t realize that mineral
deficiencies make them crave junk food. They’re only aware of
the common causes of food cravings like hunger, food addiction
and low blood glucose levels. If your cravings don’t end after
eating the foods you crave, you may have mineral deficiencies.
And different deficiencies trigger cravings for different foods.
Below are foods most people crave and the mineral deficiencies
that cause these cravings. 1. Chocolate cravings: If you find
yourself craving chocolate all the time your body probably needs
magnesium. Research shows that low magnesium levels cause
chocolate cravings. Eat magnesium-rich foods like spinach,
citrus fruits, and nuts. 2. High-fat or oily food cravings:
Calcium deficiency makes us crave high-fat foods. Milk, cheese,
broccoli, and turnip greens are great sources of calcium. 3.
Sugar cravings: Sugar or sweet cravings can be triggered by
different deficiencies. They include, Sulphur, carbon, chromium,
phosphorus, and tryptophan deficiency. Foods rich in these
minerals include fish, broccoli, poultry, liver, raisins, eggs,
sweet potatoes and cranberries. 4. Bread cravings: Nitrogen
deficiency is known to cause bread or toast cravings. You can
fight these cravings by eating nuts, fish, and nuts….
What one food vegetarians should avoid when battling Lyme
Lyme Disease Research Database - You may be a vegan or
vegetarian who eats soy products to increase your protein. Nurse
Jean Reist has treated Lyme patients in her Pennsylvania clinic.
She explains the importance of protein in the diet. Think of it
as your weekly tasks of stocking your fridge with healthy foods
and taking out the garbage. That’s similar to what occurs inside
the lymph nodes on a regularly basis. Critical trace minerals
are transported by protein through the lymph system. If the
patient’s diet lacks protein, the lymph system cannot properly
do its job of delivering nutrients to the cells and taking out
the toxins. So she suggests vegetarians help out by adding a
small amount of animal protein to their diet while battling the
Lyme bacteria. Eggs, whey, fish okay — but not soy. Reist
cautions against soy products because soy is high in copper.
Lyme patients must also try to rid our bodies of an overload of
metals, among them lead, aluminum, mercury, and copper.
Video: Follow Up After The Bombing - This Guy Is Saving Cats In War-Torn
Syria
The Dodo - When everyone left war-torn Syria, this guy stayed to take
care of their cats. Now his sanctuary's been bombed, and he is doing all
he can to get the animals to a safer place
Better Than Black Friday: ASPCA Sees ‘Record-Breaking’ Number Of Cat
Friday Adoptions!
The Catington Post - The organization held its sixth annual “Cat Friday”
event on Friday [Nov. 25th] in Manhattan. On this special day, the ASPCA
Adoption Center waived all fees for cat adoptions! Every kitty adopted
from the ASPCA comes spayed or neutered, up-to-date on vaccines and
microchipped. Plus, any new pet parents who adopted a cat over
one-year-old on “Cat Friday” also got a free hard carrier! Needless to
say, the event was a HUGE hit – resulting in what the ASPCA says is a
“record-breaking number of adoptions” in a single day. This was the
rescue’s 6th annual event, and the most popular to date. On Friday, 89
cats, plus a dog, found homes, and 44 animals who aren’t ready to go
home yet were placed on adoption holds…. While lots of cats got homes in
time for the holidays, there are still many that are still available and
looking for their own humans. See the ASPCA’s available cats and dogs
here.
Tuesday - November
29, 2016 - Today In History:
1864 - The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado when a militia led
by Colonel John Chivington, killed at least 400 peaceful Cheyenne and
Arapaho Indians who had surrendered and had been given permission to
camp.
1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy
football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.
1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S.
Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.
1939 - The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland prior to a
Soviet attack.
1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the
division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1963 - U.S. President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren
to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
1967 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced that he
was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World
Bank.
1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul
Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.
1982 - The U.N. General Assembly voted that the Soviet Union should
withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1987 - A Korean jetliner disappeared off Burma, with 115 people aboard.
1987 - Cuban detainees released 26 hostages they'd been holding for more
than a week at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, LA.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action if
Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign
hostages by January 15, 1991.
1996 - A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic
to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims. The
sentence was the first international war crimes sentence since World War
II.
1998 - Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing heroin and other
narcotics.
2001 - Rock musician George Harrison of the Beatles died at age 58
following a battle with cancer.
2008 - In China, construction on the Shanghai Tower began.
IDF strikes ISIS compound in Syria after militants’ 1st
cross-border attack
RT - On Sunday, an IDF [Israel Defense Forces] patrol came under
small arms and mortar fire from across the border on Israeli
part of the Golan Heights at around 8:30am local time, according
to the Jerusalem Post. The gunmen were said to be from the
IS-affiliated grouping called ‘Shuhada al-Yarmouk’. None of the
soldiers, all members of IDF’s elite Golani Brigade, was
injured, the Israeli military said. In retaliation, the Israeli
Air Force scrambled aircraft which spotted and then destroyed a
car on the other side of the border, armed with a heavy machine
gun.... The clash is the first of its kind between Israel and
IS-linked militants located in Syria, Israeli media report. The
fact that the terrorist group has not staged attacks against
Israeli before has given birth to numerous speculations about
alleged links between the two sides. In March, the Times of
Israel quoted an article published by IS-run newspaper Al-Naba,
which strongly rejected prospect of attacking Israel and
lambasted an idea that Palestine was “the Muslims’ primary
cause.” The stunning article argued that “jihad in Palestine is
equal to jihad elsewhere,” suggesting there is nothing
outstanding in the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the
West Bank. Instead, the IS mouthpiece pointed out to the
necessity to capture two holy Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina
governed by the “tyrannical” Saudi royal family.
Obama Just Expanded the Global War on Terror to Somalia
The AntiMedia - With just over a month left in office, President
Obama has once again expanded America’s global war on terror,
announcing that he has formally added Somali militant faction
al-Shabaab into the “perpetrators of 9/11” war authorization
from back in 2001. Passed on September 14 of 2001, the
Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) was intended to
authorize the war against al-Qaeda, but officials have used as
the legal justification of myriad unrelated American wars around
the world, of which al-Shabaab is just the latest. The AUMF
authorized war against any nations or organizations involved in
9/11. Al-Shabaab didn’t exist until years later, with the group
forming in 2007 and becoming a US-listed terror group in 2008.
President Obama, however, seems comfortable continuing to abuse
the AUMF for any war that strikes his fancy. The timing is
particularly unusual, with Obama previously saying he didn’t
want to start any new wars this late in his term to leave for
the next president. While Obama has been attacking al-Shabaab
for years anyhow, the reason behind the official declaration is
unknown.
Iraq Sending Shia Militias to Mosul, Directly Violating Promise
to Turkey
Breitbart - Iraq’s parliament on Saturday voted overwhelmingly
to allow Iran-backed Shia militias to take part in the military
operation to recapture Mosul from the so-called Islamic State
(IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). The vote was apparently 208 to
zero. That is because all the Sunni lawmakers boycotted the vote
in protest, while all the Shia lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in
favor. The parliament has 328 seats. Mosul is a city of close to
a million people, mostly Sunni Muslims. They’re well aware that
Shia militias are accused of atrocities committed against Sunni
residents of towns that Shia militias have previously liberated
from ISIS.... For this reason, Turkey has predicted a sectarian
war if Shia militias are part of the force sent to liberate
Mosul, and has demanded that the Iraqi army alone liberate
Mosul, a condition to which Iraq has previously agreed. But now
Iraq has apparently reneged on that commitment. Mosul is a
historically Sunni city and was part of the Ottoman empire, and
any attempt to change is demographic composition would be a
direct threat to Turkey’s security. The concern is that the
population would be diluted by Kurds or by Shia Muslims coming
from Iran. Turkey would consider that to be a threat to its
security.
Netanyahu Thanks Abbas For Help Battling Blazes Across Israel
Breitbart - The Palestinian Authority sent 40 firefighters and
eight fire trucks to help douse the fires, alongside
firefighting equipment sent by Israel’s neighboring Arab allies.
The prime minister also told Abbas of his appreciation for the
cooperation between Jews and Arabs on the ground, many of whom
opened their homes to those in need of temporary shelter. Jordan
and Egypt joined Croatia, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Cyprus,
Bulgaria and the U.S. in the firefighting efforts, sending
trucks and helicopters. The Muslim-majority nation of Azerbaijan
announced over the weekend that it sent BE-200CS amphibious
aircraft to Israel. The solidarity came as a welcome counter to
multiple reports alleging that many of the fires were
nationalistically-motivated arson and the celebratory battle
cries sweeping Arabic-language social media in which “Israel is
burning” became the highest trending hashtag in recent days....
Palestinian firefighter Muhammad Amayra praised his Israeli
peers for their response to the help. “The Israeli firefighters
welcomed us very nicely,” Amayra told Army radio. “They helped
us with everything, and always asked if we needed anything.
Israeli firefighters are excellent firefighters. Maybe they lack
big things like planes or supertankers but they are excellent
firefighters.” Amayra said he was moved when Israeli parents
with children came out to shake hands with the firefighters,
thanking them for their efforts “in Hebrew and Arabic and all
the languages.” “That gave us a great feeling and it gave me
hope that in the future we will be alright,” he said.
Russia launching new 'nuclear trains' that can fire SIX
ballistic missiles which are hidden inside carriages
The Mirror - Russia is strengthening its military arsenal by
bringing back "nuclear trains" which can launch intercontinental
missiles that are hidden in carriages. Plans for the Barguzin
"railway-based combat rocket system" are moving to the next
stage as escalating tensions between Russia and Nato countries
have sparked fears of a new war. Military sources told Russian
news agencies that the trains will be able to carry up to six
Yars or Yars-M thermonuclear ballistic missiles and launchers.
Once the system is fully operational the roof of a carriage will
open and a missile will be raised vertically into the air before
it is fired at its target. Once the system is fully operational
the roof of a carriage will open and a missile will be raised
vertically into the air before it is fired at its target. Plans
for the mobile missile system were announced around two years
ago, and early testing has been hailed as a success. The missile
trains could enter service as early as 2018 once further tests
are completed…. Last year the government-owned daily newspaper
Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that the trains could travel up to
600 miles a day and be hidden in tunnels so they couldn't be
detected by planes or satellites.
Victory for hardline Fillon is not all bad news for Le Pen
The Local - ... opinion polls, granted they are not that
reliable these days, ... suggest that given the lack of an
outstanding, unifying candidate on the French left, Le Pen will
probably face François Fillon after he beat Alain Juppé in the
second round of the rightwing primary on Sunday. In the
post-Trump, post-Brexit world, experts say a Le Pen victory in
next year's presidential election is no longer a far-fetched
idea.... Le Pen’s team have openly admitted that they had not
even planned for the scenario of facing Fillon, but they will
have to now.... Many analysts believe next year's election
campaign will revolve around the issues of French identity and
security where Le Pen may struggle to differentiate herself from
a hardline Fillon.... Just like Le Pen, Fillon promotes a
hardline on political or totalitarian Islam in France.... And on
the hot-button issue of security, Fillon’s desire to strip
jihadists of their French nationality has long been the
preferred policy of Le Pen’s party.... He voted against gay
marriage when it was introduced by Socialist President Francois
Hollande and has said he wants to amend the 2013 law.... Le Pen
will be buoyed by the fact Fillon's planned free-market liberal
economic reforms are the kind have been credited for the
popularity of Donald Trump among disaffected and disadvantaged
American working class voters as well as the anti-EU feeling in
the UK that drove many poor working class voters to buy into
Brexit. The populist will try to persuade French voters that
Fillon will simply lead France, where globalization has also
created losers and lost communities, down the same path as
Britain and US and it will end in tears. After Fillon's victory
on Sunday Le Pen wasted no time to attack him arguing: "Never
has any candidate gone so far in submitting to the ultra-liberal
demands of the European Union."
Jean-Claude Juncker pleads with EU leaders not to hold 'in-out'
referendums
Daily Mail - Jean-Claude Juncker has urged EU leaders not to
hold referendums on their membership of the bloc because he
fears their voters will also choose to leave. The European
Commission president said giving people a vote would be 'unwise'
as they could seek to replicate Brexit. His remarks come as one
of the contenders to become Austrian president has threatened to
hold a referendum if the EU integrates further.... Mr. Juncker,
who has faced blame for the Brexit vote, insisted 'the existence
of the EU is not in doubt'. He claimed the EU's weakness was a
'lack of love' rather than because of the actions of
Brussels.... Asked about whether Britain would be made an
example of to discourage other countries from leaving the EU,
Mr. Juncker said: 'It is not really a question of that. I am not
looking for revenge when it comes to the UK.
Australia to pay women’s prison operator $11k for every inmate
who avoids reoffending for 2yrs
RT - The program is focused on western Australia’s newest
women's prison, which is one of three private prisons in the
state and is run by international conglomerate Sodexo. The
company has a two-decade record of providing detention services
for the UK government. The operator will receive 15,000
Australian dollars (US$11,000) for every inmate who stays on the
right side of the law for two years after release, provided that
the number of such women is above a specified level. At present,
a third of all women prisoners in Australia end up reoffending.
According to Rebecca Hamilton, director of strategic policy at
western Australia’s Department of Corrective Services, the
initiative may solve overcrowding issues in the state
penitentiary.... She says the UK has had notable success with a
similar program, and Australia aims to follow its lead. "So
basically what we're saying to Sodexo is if you can successfully
provide programs for a woman so she doesn't reoffend then we'll
pay you more for that than we will for a woman who comes back
into the system,” she explains.... Sodexo won the contract to
run the 256-bed facility in June.... The government’s pick of
yet another private operator over a public sector bid was
criticized by trade unions at the time, which claimed the
decision was partially motivated by ideology, according to
Business News Western Australia.
6 Dead and 8500 Hospitalized in Australia Due to "Rare
Thunderstorm Asthma"
The Daily Sheeple - The official story on this just sounds
totally made up. More than 8,500 people were hospitalized last
week and six have now died in Australia due to what is being
reported as a rare phenomenon known as “thunderstorm asthma”....
Here’s the “official story”. What officials are suggesting
happened is that pollen grains from rye grass fields surrounding
Melboune were blown across the city just before a sudden
downpour. Once the rain hit, the pollen grains absorbed the
moisture and burst in the air, releasing thousands of much
smaller allergen nanoparticles that were inhaled and became
trapped in people’s lungs. Once the rain stopped, thousands of
people began suffering asthma symptoms all at once, everything
from breathing issues to cardiac problems. Some people suffered
heart attacks. Six people have died so far. One girl died in her
family’s arms in their front lawn after waiting more than half
an hour for an ambulance. The system was completely overloaded.
Apparently in Melbourne they ran out of ambulances and had to
resort to every other emergency and even non-emergency vehicles
they could find to help get people to the hospital. More than 60
people are still in the hospital, some in critical condition
fighting for their lives.... The official story sounds fishy to
say the least, which is why speculation has risen that some kind
of biological warfare agent is being tested. Sure, that’s
conspiracy talk, but for once the conspiracy sounds a hell of a
lot more plausible than the official narrative of “thunderstorm
asthma”.
Fukushima cost estimates nearly double, approaching $200 billion
Ars Technica - Yesterday, the Nikkei news service reported that
the Japanese government is expecting the aftermath of the
Fukushima nuclear meltdowns to cost nearly double its earlier
estimates. Citing government sources, the report says the total
expenses will run at least $176 billion and are likely to rise
even further in the future.... The government's previous
official estimates were generated in 2013 and continued to be
used in official statements, even though the scale of the
challenges became more widely appreciated since. The new
estimates include more than $70 billion for compensation
payments to citizens affected by the meltdowns, an increase of
nearly 50 percent. Decontamination of the region around the
Fukushima site is now pegged at over $40 billion, roughly double
the previous estimate. But the big increases come from interim
storage of radioactive materials and the decommissioning of the
reactors themselves.... Simply holding that material until it
was processed had originally been estimated to cost about $10
billion, but it's now recognized that this figure will be
woefully insufficient. Decommissioning the reactors had
originally been pegged at $18 billion, but that's now also
recognized as being inadequate. It is likely the costs of doing
so will ultimately exceed $2 billion a year, and the process is
expected to take 30 to 40 years. All of this assumes that
nothing goes wrong in the meantime.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Federal agencies push flurry of 'midnight' rule-making under
Obama
CS Monitor - The White House was reviewing as many as 98 final
regulations, as of Nov. 15, that could be implemented before Mr.
Trump takes office, including 17 with an estimated annual
economic impact of $100 million or more, Politico reported. But
lawmakers have warned agency heads to avoid rushing to finalize
rules or regulations before Obama leaves office.... Several of
the new rules slated for installation before Trump assumes
office include environmental protections that critics argue
hamper business interests and economic potential. Although some
offices had initially delayed implementation of their rules,
expecting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to win
on Election Day, the offices have pivoted to promulgate the
rules quickly after Trump's unexpected win – and faced
criticism. "We're looking at the stack of regulations and the
fact that the agencies are just as ill-prepared to make these
new regulations work as we are confused on how we can possibly
comply in such a short time," Kathleen Sgamma, vice president of
government and public affairs at the Western Energy Alliance in
Denver, told The Hill.... Republicans who hope to undo segments
of Obama's legacy have a powerful tool to do so in the
Congressional Review Act of 1996. The law will enable Congress
in January to repeal, with a simple-majority vote, any agency
rule completed after May 30, 2016, as Politico reported. After
blocking any rule with that mechanism, the agency would be
barred from enacting anything that is "substantially the same."
WikiLeaks Releases More Than 500k US Diplomatic Cables
The Daily Caller - WikiLeaks released Monday more than half a
million U.S. diplomatic cables from the year 1979. “If any year
could be said to be the ‘year zero’ of our modern era, 1979 is
it,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in a press release.
“In the Middle East, the Iranian revolution, the Saudi Islamic
uprising and the Egypt-Israel Camp David Accords led not only to
the present regional power dynamic but decisively changed the
relationship between oil, militant Islam and the world,” Assange
added. The total number of documents in the WikiLeaks’
diplomatic cable collection is now 3.3 million, with the
addition of these new 531,525 cables. Some of the events covered
in the new leaks are the Iranian Revolution, Saddam Hussein
taking power in Iraq, multiple coups, and the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan.
Terrorism Suspected in Car-and-Knife Attack at Ohio State
CNS News - A Somali-born college student plowed his car into a
group of pedestrians at Ohio State University and began stabbing
people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death
by a police officer. Police said they are investigating whether
it was a terrorist attack. Eleven people were hurt, one
critically. The attacker was identified as Ohio State student
Abdul Razak Ali Artan. He was born in Somalia and was a legal
permanent resident of the U.S.... The details emerged after a
morning of confusion and conflicting reports that began with the
university issuing a series of tweets warning that there was an
"active shooter" on campus near the engineering building and
that students should "run, hide, fight." The warning was
apparently prompted by what turned out to be police gunfire.Ohio
State Police Chief Craig Stone said that the assailant
deliberately drove over a curb outside a classroom building and
then got out and began attacking people with the knife. A campus
officer who happened to be nearby because of a gas leak arrived
on the scene and shot the driver in less than a minute, Stone
said.... Most of the injured were hurt by the car, and at least
two were stabbed, officials said. One had a fractured skull.
Asked at a news conference whether authorities were considering
the possibility it was a terrorist act, Columbus Police Chief
Kim Jacobs said: "I think we have to consider that it is."
Surveillance photos showed Artan in the car by himself just
before the attack, but investigators were looking into whether
anyone else was involved, the campus police chief said.
How Fake News Spreads: Corporate Media Run Story of “Active
Shooter” During a Knife Attack
Activist Post - For all the noise out of the mainstream
corporate media about “fake news,” it didn’t take long for a
mass knife attack at Ohio State University on Monday morning to
morph into widespread reporting of an “active shooter.” Initial
reports, echoed across the corporate media landscape, described
the attack as a shooting — when in reality law enforcement
sources later confirmed it was a knife attack. This phenomenon
highlights exactly how the “fog of war,” and rush to be the
first to report on a story, can result in a story being reported
fallaciously. Of course, the narrative sold by the mainstream is
that alternative media is unreliable and, thus, corporate media
must be relied upon as the standard bearers of “truthful and
legitimate” information. Obviously, this type of wildfire
reporting of false information across the whole of mainstream
media calls into question the veracity of the reporting and fact
checking done by these mainstream outlets that are so quick to
call independent news “fake.” Unsurprisingly, only minutes after
news broke that there was an alleged active shooter, calls
across the social media universe for stronger gun control began,
due to the false reports of an active shooter. Liberal
opportunists on Twitter were quick to blame the knife attack on
lackluster laws gun control laws.
Texas Governor Abbott to Sign Law Banning Illegal-alien
Sanctuary Cities
The New American - Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he’ll
sign a law banning sanctuary cities in the Lone Star State. In a
November 27 reply to an inquiry from a Twitter user who asked
whether he would respond to overtures from political candidates
who want Travis County to stop cooperating with ICE agents and
make Austin a sanctuary city, Abbott tweeted back: “I'm going to
sign a law that bans sanctuary cities. Also I’ve already issued
an order cutting funding to sanctuary cities.”.... On November
15, Texas State Senator Charles Perry (R-Lubbock) filed a bill (S.B.
4) to end “sanctuary cities” in Texas and force compliance with
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers. Courthouse News
Service (CN) reported on November 18 that S.B. 4 requires local
law-enforcement officers to provide notice to a judge or
magistrate that an arrested person is in the country illegally
if he or she cannot prove a legal right to be in the country
within 48 hours. The law would allow people to file complaints
with the Texas attorney general if local authorities carry out
sanctuary city policies that discourage enforcement of federal
immigration laws. The attorney general would then have authority
to pursue the alleged violations in court, and the local
municipality would be denied state grant money for the following
year.
Putin Winning TIME Person Of The Year In A Landslide
InvestmentWatch - Putin has opened up a huge lead in the 2016
poll, currently sitting on 38% of the vote. Donald Trump is in
second place with 13%, Julian Assange has 3% and Hillary Clinton
and Barack Obama both have less than 1%. The Russian president,
who has a massive 25% lead over second place, appears certain to
win the public poll in a landslide. But will the establishment
allow TIME to crown Putin as the Person of the Year for 2016 –
or will they disregard the voice of the people and choose their
own winner?... But the TIME Person of the Year poll results
shows that Americans have started to wake up and notice, and
they are not falling for the propaganda. Real people, unswayed
by mainstream media, are backing Putin in their droves.
Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline
Washington Examiner - Stein missed Pennsylvania's deadline to
file for a voter-initiated recount. That blown deadline is a
huge blow for Democrats who have pinned their hopes on recounts
in the Keystone State, Michigan and Wisconsin. "According to
Wanda Murren, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of
State," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday, "the deadline
for a voter-initiated recount was Monday, Nov. 21." Allied with
Clinton's camp, Stein can still mount a legal challenge. While
the chances of litigation are uncertain, the vote tally is
clear. Trump beat Clinton in Pennsylvania, a feat not
accomplished by a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984. While
it wasn't a landslide, it wasn't close either. Trump carried the
state with 70,000 votes, a significant margin that will be hard
to overcome. And even if Stein manages a recount in
Pennsylvania, nothing's guaranteed. Of the thousands of
statewide races in the last 15 years, only 27 have been decided
by recounts and only three challengers have pulled off an upset.
Wisconsin Insider on Recount: Expect MASSIVE DNC Voter Fraud to
be Exposed
The Gateway Pundit - The Wisconsin Elections Commission set a
timetable Monday for a recount of the presidential election but
rejected a request for a hand recount. The commission is made up
of three Democrats and three Republicans. It adopted the recount
plans unanimously. Meanwhile a Wisconsin insider on 4Chan said
to expect the recount to expose massive DNC fraud. The Anonymous
“insider” says the recount will reveal people out of state
voting, non citizens voting, people voting numerous times, and
nursing home violations. Be ready for Trump to improve his
margin of victory. Trump won Wisconsin by 27,506 votes.
McDonald’s Response to $15 Minimum Wage: Automation in Every
Store
The New American - It’s official: McDonald’s says that every one
of its 14,000 stores nationwide will be replacing cashiers with
automated touch-screen kiosks. They’re starting with stores
where minimum-wage laws mandate the highest rates, such as
Florida, New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Washington,
D.C., and Seattle.... It’s all about the math. If a store can
replace a $15 an hour employee with a robot that costs $35,000,
it will not only improve that store’s operating margins but will
actually enhance customer experience: robots don’t get sick,
they don’t have attitudes or get pregnant, they don’t go on
strike, they always show up for work on time, and, as software
improves, will provide a friendly, interactive interface with
the store. McDonald’s decision will also answer, finally and
forever, the question that economics textbooks and economics
professors have been raising and then trying to answer for
decades: What impact will raising the minimum wage have?...
Here’s the math: a worker being paid $15 an hour costs his
employer $38,500 a year, including unemployment insurance and
the employer’s part of Social Security. If [former McDonalds CEO
Ed] Rensi is right, and the average robot in a McDonald’s costs
$35,000, in less than a year that store has paid for it in
reduced wages, and eliminates that $15 an hour cost forever
after.
Army Corps Says It Won't Forcibly Evict Standing Rock Water Protectors,
But Refuse To Elaborate
The Free Thought Project - In a follow-up of its letter to leaders of
the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes, the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers issued a statement Sunday clarifying it has no plans
to forcibly evict water protectors from camps north of the Cannonball
River on December 5.... Army Corps Omaha District Commander Col. John
Henderson claims the supposedly non-forceful eviction is necessary to
protect the safety of those presently camped north of the Cannonball
River, as well as law enforcement officers.... Henderson did indeed
express concern about the violent clashes between water protectors and
police in the letter to the Tribes — but said the primary impetus was
“due to the harsh North Dakota winter conditions.” If Henderson’s honest
consideration in the choice to close the camps pertained to winter
weather, how would a new location just across the river into a
designated “free speech zone” — obviously experiencing the same bitter
conditions — alleviate worries about the weather?
Sheriffs Across US Refusing to Send Police and Equipment to DAPL as
Outrage and Costs Grow
Activist Post - In response to an increasingly furious public outcry,
sheriffs from around the country have refused to send personnel and
equipment to assist the Morton County Sheriff’s Department in guarding
construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. A massive campaign of angry
phone calls and indignant emails to departments planning to travel to
North Dakota succeeded in persuading multiple sheriffs — elected
officials — the brutal tactics used against peaceful Standing Rock Sioux
and other water protectors have been a gross abuse of power. That law
enforcement have employed disproportionate force against water
protectors is irrefutable; and while Morton County Sheriff Kyle
Kirchmeier might technically be tasked with ensuring Dakota Access can
proceed where legally permitted, he is indisputably responsible for
protecting people exercising their First Amendment rights.
Complaints grow over whites turning Dakota Access protest into hippie
festival
Washington Times - “Need to get something off my chest that I witnessed
and found very disturbing in my brief time there that I believe many
others have started to speak up about as well. White people colonizing
the camps,” said Alicia Smith on Facebook. “They are coming in, taking
food, clothing etc and occupying space without any desire to participate
in camp maintenance and without respect of tribal protocols,” she said.
“These people are treating it like it is Burning Man or The Rainbow
Gathering and I even witnessed several wandering in and out of camps
comparing it to those festivals.” Her Nov. 14 post, now making the
rounds on social media, said outsiders are “literally subsisting
entirely off the generosity of native people (AND YOUR DONATIONS if you
have been donating) who are fighting to protect their water just because
they can.”.... Standing Rock Sioux chairman David Archambault II, who is
leading the protest, raised concerns about sanitation in a Nov. 23
interview with Vice, saying activists are “digging pits out there for
their human waste.” “That’s a flood zone,” said Mr. Archambault,
referring to camps on federal land along the Cannonball River. “So when
the floodwaters come up, that waste is going to be contaminating the
water. We’re no different than the oil company, if we’re fighting for
water. What’s going to happen when people leave? Who has to clean it up?
Who has to refurbish it? It’s going to be us, the people who live here.”
As many as 3,000 people have moved in and out of the southern North
Dakota camps since Aug. 10. Some protesters belong to the Standing Rock
and other tribes, but many are students, environmental activists and
agitators with criminal records who have ignored Mr. Archambault’s
repeated calls for peaceful demonstrations. “Before this entire movement
started, that was some of the most beautiful land around,” Mr.
Archambault said. “There was a place down there where eagles, over 100
eagles would come and land. There were game down there—deer, pheasants,
elk, geese. Now, it’s occupied by people. And when masses of people come
to one place, we don’t take care of it.”
Ransomware locks up San Francisco public transportation ticket machines
Ars Technica - Black Friday was a dark day for San Francisco's Municipal
Transportation Agency, as an apparent crypto-ransomware infection spread
across the Muni system's networks, taking down ticketing for Muni's
train stations and systems used to manage the city's buses. The operator
of the ransomware demanded $73,000 in exchange for restoration of Muni's
data, according to a report from the San Francisco Examiner.... On
Friday and Saturday (November 25 and November 26), Muni train stations'
gates were open—with ticket machines displaying "out of order" messages,
passengers were allowed to ride for free. The Examiner reports that bus
drivers were given hand-written route assignments. By Sunday, many of
Muni's systems were apparently restored.... It isn't clear if SFMTA paid
the ransom demanded or if systems were restored from a backup.
Nikola Motors Receives $2.3 Billion In Pre-Order Sales For New Electric
Truck
True Activist - Earlier this year, Nikola Motors (which was named after
physicist Nikola Tesla) unveiled its new electric truck. The ‘Nikola
One’ is equipped with a 320 kWh battery pack that enables it to travel
up to 1,200 miles when combined with the natural gas range extender….
The truck is a revolutionary vehicle, which is why consumers have been
happily setting aside money to reserve their own. In fact, the electric
truck – which will be available in about three days – has already
received over $2.3 billion in pre-orders. Says Trevor Milton, CEO of
Nikola Motors: “Our technology is 10-15 years ahead of any other OEM in
fuel efficiencies, MPG and emissions. We are the only OEM to have a near
zero emission truck and still outperform diesel trucks running at 80,000
pounds. To have over 7,000 reservations totaling more than 2.3 billion
dollars, with five months remaining until our unveiling ceremony, is
unprecedented.”… The company wants to create a special lease program for
truck drivers to rent the vehicle. Truckers will be able to pay $5,000 /
month to lease the vehicle, and the contract will include unlimited
miles, unlimited fuel, warranty and maintenance. A truck driver would
also be able to trade-in his Nikola One for a new electric truck every
72 months or 1,000,000 miles at no additional cost. To ensure the
startup succeeds, the company will need to install natural gas CNG
refueling stations around the nation.
All About The Health Benefits Of Watercress
Natural News Blogs - Watercress, also known as common cress or
garden cress, is a dark, leafy and aquatic plant grown in the
natural spring water or the slow – moving streams. As of being a
brassica member of plant genus (along with broccoli, arugula,
and Brussel sprouts), watercress’ health benefits are inherited
from another Brassica…. Watercress contains a high level of
dietary nitrate which has been shown to lower the blood
pressures, decrease the amount of oxygen needed during exercise
and enhance the athletic performance. Moreover, according to the
scientists, watercress consists of a higher amount of vitamin C
than orange, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach and
more folate than a banana. Watercress has a low level of
calories but comprises phytonutrients like isothiocyanates and
antioxidants with a plethora of disease-preventive properties
which are all required for a healthy body. It is shown by the
studies that a compound of cruciferous vegetables known as 3,3′-diindolylmethane
(DIM) has protective effects against cancer; however, these
recent studies provide hope for cancer patients for using it as
a shield to defend the healthy tissues all along the cancer
treatment. Cruciferous vegetables are shown to lower the risk of
lung and colon cancer…. Watercress also consists of a great
amount of chlorophyll, which might be beneficial at impeding the
carcinogenic effects of heterocyclic amines generated while
grilling foods at a high temperature. Those who consume diets
which have a low level of magnesium, calcium, and other mineral
elements might bear a higher chance of having high blood
pressure. By releasing the sodium out of the body and helping
the arteries dilate, these mineral are thought to bring the
blood pressure down…. It is proved that low intake of vitamin K
is one of the highest likely reason leading to bone fracture.
With approximately 212% of vitamin K in two cups of watercress,
it is highly recommended to take adequate vitamin K which acts
as a modifier of bone matrix proteins, to improve bone health,
calcium absorption and lowering urinary excretion of calcium.
21 Simple Tricks You Had No Idea Could Get Rid Of A Cough
Healthy Holistic Living - Here are some home remedies that seem
to be effective at reducing or eliminating coughing…. 1. Salt
Water Gargle - To make a disinfectant solution that soothes an
inflamed throat and relieves a cough, just dissolve a half
teaspoon of salt in a cup of warm water. 2. Steam Inhalation -
Inhaling steam before bed clears up nasal and chest congestion…
Eucalyptus oil or menthol is sometimes added to the boiling
water for extra effect, but it’s not necessary. Just plain water
brought to a rolling boil can provide enough steam for the next
10-15 minutes. Cover your head with a towel and inhale the
vapors from a safe distance to avoid burns….3. Fresh Ginger -
The strong anti-inflammatory action of ginger helps relieve a
sore throat and airway inflammation whether it’s from allergens
or infections. You can extract ginger juice from a fresh rhizome
and mix it with an equal amount of honey to make a cough syrup.
Take just a few drops at a time to soothe the throat and
suppress a cough… 4. Lemon and Honey - Mix in the juice of a
small lemon and two tablespoons of honey in warm water and drink
it. It helps lighten the mucus and makes it easy to bring it up.
Make several cups of this drink and use it as and when you need
it. 5. Dry Ginger and Pepper - Dry ginger and black pepper
powdered together is a traditional Ayurvedic remedy for a cough.
It’s a handy mixture to carry about for instant relief…. You
need only a tiny pinch of the mixture on your tongue, but it is
extremely spicy and pungent…. 6. Turmeric Milk - Since turmeric
can fight both bacteria and viruses, besides relieving
inflammation, it is very effective in treating coughs due to a
throat and respiratory tract infection. To make turmeric milk
mix one to two teaspoons of turmeric powder in a cup of hot milk
and drink it twice a day. Traditionally, goat’s milk is
recommended as cow’s milk is thought to increase phlegm.
Alternatively, you can boil turmeric in water and add a tsp
butter or coconut oil since fat enhances the bioavailability of
curcumin.
Monday - November
28, 2016 - Today In History:
1919 - American-born Lady Astor was elected the first female member of
the British Parliament.
1922 - Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public
exhibition of skywriting. He spelled out, "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt
7200" over New York's Times Square.
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry made its radio debut on station WSM.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map
out strategy concerning World War II.
1963 - U.S. President Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral would be
renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of his assassinated predecessor. The name
was changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973 by a vote of residents.
1964 - The U.S. launched the space probe Mariner IV from Cape Kennedy on
a course set for Mars.
1983 - The space shuttle Columbia took off with the STS-9 Spacelab in
its cargo bay.
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after
escaping her homeland through Hungary.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain.
1992 - In Bosnia-Herzegovina, 137 tons of food and supplies were to be
delivered to the isolated town of Srebrenica.
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, was clubbed to death
in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that ended
the federal 55 mph speed limit.
2010 - WikiLeaks released to the public more than 250,000 U.S.
diplomatic cables. About 100,000 were marked "secret" or "confidential."
First U.S. service member killed in Syria fighting the Islamic
State
Washington Post - A U.S. Navy bomb disposal technician was
killed by an improvised explosive device in northern Syria on
Thursday, the Pentagon announced in a statement. Senior Chief
Petty Officer Scott C. Dayton, 42, of Woodbridge, Va., was
killed near Ain Issa, a town roughly 35 miles northwest of the
Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa. The death
marks the first time a U.S. service member has been killed in
the country since a contingent of Special Operations forces was
deployed there in October 2015 to go after the extremist group….
Dayton entered the Navy on Feb. 17, 1993, and received 19
awards, including the Bronze Star and the Combat Action Ribbon,
during his time in the service, according to a Navy release. He
also served multiple previous deployments to Iraq…. Dayton was
assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 based in
Virginia Beach and was also a qualified surface warfare
specialist. While Dayton was the first American to die fighting
against the Islamic State in Syria, he is the fifth U.S. service
member killed in combat since the U.S.-led campaign to rid the
region of the Islamic State began in 2014…. There are roughly
500 U.S. troops in Syria, mostly operating in a support role to
a coalition of Arab and Kurdish fighters fighting the Islamic
State and known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF. Earlier
this month, Carter announced that the SDF had begun initial
operations to isolate and eventually retake Raqqa.
Russia tells US 'If you cannot fight ISIS don’t get in the way'
Daily Mail Online - The US has been accused of hampering efforts
to tackle ISIS in Syria, as a war of words broke out between
Washington and Moscow. Russia's military reacted with fury after
the US State Department urged other nations to deny port access
to its oil tankers. Major General Igor Konashenkov said the call
was an attempt to hamper Russia's efforts to 'fight
international terrorism in Syria'. The remark came after US
State Department Mark Toner said countries in the region should
not support Russian tanker ships carrying fuel to be used in
airstrikes on civilians. He said yesterday: 'While the decision
to allow a port call is a national determination, we believe
that states in the region should not support any Russian tanker
ship carrying fuel to be used in ongoing air strikes on
civilians and civilian infrastructure in Syria.' Konashenkov
said the US call was intended to 'conceal the failures of the US
policy' in Syria. He said Russia has achieved much more with its
air campaign in Syria than the US-led coalition fighting the
Islamic State group. Konashenkov added: 'So if you cannot or do
not want to fight Daesh and al-Nusra Front — do not get in the
way, at least. 'Our air group is Syria is sufficiently equipped
to fight international terrorism in this region.' And he said:
'Such statements, unfortunately, only confirm our earlier
estimates that fighting terrorism in Syria has never been on the
outgoing administration's agenda.'
Japan scrambles jets as Chinese warplanes fly near Okinawa
RT - On Friday, Chinese military planes flew through the Bashi
Channel that separates Taiwan and the Philippines. Later on
Saturday, the planes passed through the Miyako Strait near
Japan's Okinawa island, which hosts a large portion of the US
military troops stationed in the country. The Chinese Air Force
said the annual drills went as scheduled and “are not aimed at
any specific country, region or target.” “Organizing the air
corps to carry out exercises far at sea is a normal thing to do
for the air forces of countries which border the ocean,” the
Chinese military statement said.... According to the Japanese
military, the exercise near Okinawa involved two Su-30 fighters,
two H-6 bombers, and two signal intelligence aircraft. The two
fighters entered the passageway from the direction of the South
China Sea, met the bombers and surveillance aircraft returning
from the Philippine Sea, and convoyed them back to China, Tokyo
reported. A similar exercise was conducted by China in
September.... China is asserting its influence in the region by
investing into military assets and projecting power towards its
neighbors. In 2013, it declared an air defense identification
zone over the East China Sea, drawing rebuke from nations
opposing its ambitions.
Japan prepares for NUCLEAR war with North Korea by warning
citizens to shelter in underground shopping malls in event of
Kim Jong-Un bomb attack
The Sun - For the first time since North Korea began a series of
nuke tests, people in Japan are being issued with terrifying
instruction on how to deal with nuclear war. A downloadable
pamphlet is now available on the island nation’s civil defence
website. Called “Protecting Ourselves against Armed Attacks and
Terrorism,” it outlines emergency measures in the event North
Korean missiles are fired at the country. It bears similarities
to the creepy Protect and Survive documents issued in Britain
and Northern Ireland during the early 1980s following the Soviet
Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Like the UK’s booklet it give
top-tips on how to avoid being fried and radiated. It urges
people to take shelter indoors behind thick walls to avoid blast
injuries but also radiation. Underground shopping malls would be
an ideal place to take cover, it advises…. Already anti-missile
batteries have begun appearing in parks in Tokyo, which is
expected to be a primary target. Japan’s Defence Ministry’s
Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency is also mulling
whether powerful lasers could defending against missile
attacks…. Meanwhile in the UK, it has emerged that the
Government will warn people of an impending nuclear strike by
text message.
Fillon Wins France's Conservative Presidential Primary
The Epoch Times - Francois Fillon won France’s first-ever
conservative presidential primary Sunday after promising drastic
free-market reforms and a crackdown on immigration and Islamic
extremism, beating a more moderate rival who had warned of
encroaching populism.... Fillon campaigned on promises of
slashing public spending, capping immigration, support for
traditional family values and friendlier ties with Russian
President Vladimir Putin. Fillon enjoyed a surprise surge in
popularity in recent weeks over longtime front-runner Juppe, who
also previously served as the country’s prime minister....
Fillon’s toughest challenge ahead is likely to be far-right
leader Marine Le Pen. Le Pen is running an anti-establishment
campaign that particularly targets immigrants, France’s large
Muslim minority, and the European Union.... All French citizens
over 18—whether they are members of the Republicans party or
not—were eligible to vote in the primary, if they paid 2 euros
in fees and signed a pledge stating they “share the republican
values of the right and the center.”
Merkel Rows Back After Announcing Re-Election Hopes: ‘I’ll
Deport 100,000 Migrants Next Year’
Breitbart - The Chancellor, who welcomed “no upper limit” of
migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa last year, said
Saturday: “It can not be that all the young people from
Afghanistan come to Germany.” “The most important thing in the
coming months is repatriation, repatriation and once more,
repatriation”, she added. The startling change of tone came at
conference of conservative MPs in Neumünster yesterday, just
days after she announced she would be seeking a fourth terms as
Chancellor. According to Handelsblatt, Mrs. Merkel said she
expects a third of the deportations to be forced or
compulsorily, and around 60,000 migrants to return to their home
nations via voluntary repatriation programs. “If state
governments refuse to forcibly deport migrants, then of course
everyone will say, ‘I will not do this voluntarily, because they
will not do anything anyway’”, she explained. The change comes
after Mrs. Merkel’s Christian Democrat Party (CDU) suffered
their worst election result ever in the German capital of Berlin
this September. Meanwhile, Alternative for Germany (AfD), an
insurgent, anti-mass migration populist party, has been making
significant gains. They currently poll at around 14 per cent of
the vote in the notorious liberal and ‘diverse’ city.
These Are The 48 Organizations That Now Have Access To Every
Brit's Browsing History
Zero Hedge - In a move right out of the Soviet Union's darkest
days..., the law requires telecommunications companies to store
for a year the web histories known as internet connection
records — a list of websites each person has visited and the
apps and messaging services they used, though not the individual
pages they looked at or the messages they sent. The government
has called that information the modern equivalent of an itemized
phone bill. But critics say it's more like a personal diary.
Julian Huppert, a former Liberal Democrat lawmaker who opposed
the bill, said it "creates a very intrusive database." "People
may have been to the Depression Alliance website, or a marriage
guidance website, or an abortion provider's website, or all
sorts of things which are very personal and private," he said.
Officials won't need a warrant to access the data, and the list
of bodies that can see it includes not just the police and
intelligence services, but government departments, revenue and
customs officials and even the Food Standards Agency. "My worry
is partly about their access," Huppert said. "But it's much more
deeply about the prospects for either hacking or people selling
information on." Even worse, the new law also makes official —
and legal — British spies' ability to hack into devices and
harvest vast amounts of bulk online data, much of it from
outside the U.K. In doing so, it both acknowledges and sets
limits on the secretive mass-snooping schemes exposed by Edward
Snowden.... Renate Samson, chief executive of the group Big
Brother Watch, said it would take time for the full implications
of the law to become clear to the public. "We now live in a
digital world. We are digital citizens," Samson said. "We have
no choice about whether or not we engage online. This bill has
fundamentally changed how we are able to privately and securely
communicate with one another, communicate with business,
communicate with government and live an online life. And that's
a real, profound concern." It remains to be seen if the UK's
citizens will be able overturn the law once it does become clear
to the public what has just happened.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Obama administration to create new task force to hunt terrorists
worldwide – report
RT - The outgoing administration is reportedly seeking to create
a new special operations task force that would use the elite
Joint Special Operations Command’s experience to carry out
clandestine activities all across the globe as an independent
entity. The proposal includes transformation of the Joint
Special Operations Command (JSOC) from being a strike tool
employed by US Army’s regional commands into a key part of a new
multi-agency intelligence force, Washington Post reported.
Referred to as the ‘Counter-External Operations Task Force,’ or
Ex-Ops, the new organization would act globally with the stated
goal of targeting terrorists beyond conventional conflict zones
like Syria or Libya, according to Obama administration officials
who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Ex-Ops task force could
also share intelligence as well as deliver recommendations and
advice to Western militaries and security forces, or even
conduct joint operations, the report said. It will report to the
Pentagon through the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM),
according to the military officials, creating a “hybrid command
system” that can bypass the Army’s regional commands to speed up
preparations for covert operations. In the past, the US
military’s Special Forces deployed under the regional commands,
according to Stars and Stripes, but the creation of the Ex-Ops
would mean handing Army General Raymond Thomas first in command
when sending the task force into combat missions. “Now [Thomas]
can request whatever he wants and... unless there's some other
higher competing priority, the combatant commanders have to
cough it up,” said a former senior defense official.
US House Seeks Syria-War Escalation
Consortiumnews - Late in the day, on Nov. 15, one week after the
U.S. elections, the lame-duck Congress convened in special
session with normal rules suspended so the House could pass
House Resolution 5732, the “Caesar Syria Civilian Protection
Act” calling for intensifying the already harsh sanctions on
Syria, assessing the imposition of a “no fly zone” inside Syria
(to prevent the Syrian government from flying) and escalating
efforts to press criminal charges against Syrian officials.
HR5732 claims to promote a negotiated settlement in Syria but,
as analyzed by Friends Committee for National Legislation, it
imposes preconditions which would actually make a peace
agreement more difficult.... There was 40 minutes of “debate”
with six representatives (Ed Royce, R-California; Eliot Engel,
D-New York; Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida; Dan Kildee,
D-Michigan; Chris Smith, R-New Jersey; and Carlos Curbelo,
R-Florida) all speaking in favor of the resolution. There were
few other representatives present, but the House Foreign Affairs
Committee stated that the resolution was passed “unanimously”
without mentioning these special conditions.... The motivation
for bypassing normal rules and rushing the bill through without
meaningful debate was articulated by the bill’s sponsor,
Democrat Eliot Engel: “We cannot delay action on Syria any
further.... If we don’t get this legislation across the finish
line in the next few weeks, we are back to square one.” The
current urgency may be related to the election results since
President-elect Donald Trump has spoken out against “regime
change” foreign policy. As much as neoconservatives and their
liberal-interventionist allies are critical of President Obama
for not doing more in Syria, these Congressional hawks are even
more concerned about the prospect of a President who might move
toward peace and away from war.
The Pentagon Is Now Deploying Reservists Without Granting GI
Bill Benefits - Task and Purpose
A relatively new and obscure deployment code, a measure the
Pentagon created in 2014 to scale back spending on benefits, is
the reason. By law, reservists involuntarily mobilized under
Title 10, section 12304b, do not receive credit for the GI Bill
while they are activated. The Post-9/11 GI Bill is paid out by
the amount of active-duty time racked up. Reservists say
deployments are in high demand in part because education
benefits will grow much faster than relying on drill time.
Nearly a million reservists have deployed since Sept. 11, 2001,
according to data from the Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data
Center.... The issue of the 12304b authority starts with the
Pentagon. Guard and reserve troops saw repeated deployments
during operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, and were
mobilized with benefits like pre- and post-deployment Tricare
health insurance and GI Bill accrual time, similar to active
duty troops. As combat deployments slowed, the Pentagon looked
to create mobilization authorities that would fill operational
needs worldwide, but also trim the budget, [director of
legislative and military policy at the Reserve Officers
Association, Susan] Lukas said. The 12304b authorization was
included in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act and
stripped most mobilization and deployment benefits, Lukas said,
including the accumulation of GI Bill benefits. The Pentagon
started activating reservists under the authorization in 2014,
she said.... The Pentagon’s 2017 budget called for doubling
reserve mobilizations, in part to ease the strain of operations
across the globe, from the fight against the Islamic State group
to ramped-up deployments in Europe in the face of growing
Russian aggression. That means the use of 12304b is certain to
increase in 2017 and beyond, Lukas said.
Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist
From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
The Intercept - The article by reporter Craig Timberg —
headlined “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’
during election, experts say” — cites a report by an anonymous
website calling itself PropOrNot, which claims that millions of
Americans have been deceived this year in a massive Russian
“misinformation campaign.” The group’s list of Russian
disinformation outlets includes WikiLeaks and the Drudge Report,
as well as Clinton-critical left-wing websites such as Truthout,
Black Agenda Report, Truthdig, and Naked Capitalism, as well as
libertarian venues such as Antiwar.com and the Ron Paul
Institute.... In casting the group behind this website as
“experts,” the Post described PropOrNot simply as “a nonpartisan
collection of researchers with foreign policy, military and
technology backgrounds.” Not one individual at the organization
is named. The executive director is quoted, but only on the
condition of anonymity, which the Post said it was providing the
group “to avoid being targeted by Russia’s legions of skilled
hackers.” In other words, the individuals behind this newly
created group are publicly branding journalists and news outlets
as tools of Russian propaganda — even calling on the FBI to
investigate them for espionage — while cowardly hiding their own
identities. The group promoted by the Post thus embodies the
toxic essence of Joseph McCarthy, but without the courage to
attach individual names to the blacklist. Echoing the Wisconsin
senator, the group refers to its lengthy collection of sites
spouting Russian propaganda as “The List.” The credentials of
this supposed group of experts are impossible to verify, as none
is provided either by the Post or by the group itself. The
Intercept contacted PropOrNot and asked numerous questions about
its team, but received only this reply: “We’re getting a lot of
requests for comment and can get back to you today =) [smiley
face emoticon].” The group added: “We’re over 30 people,
organized into teams, and we cannot confirm or deny anyone’s
involvement.” Thus far, they have provided no additional
information beyond that.
Trump’s Brutally Honest Castro Statement Proves He’s No Obama
Daily Caller - President-elect Donald Trump called now deceased
former Cuban president Fidel Castro a “brutal dictator” whose
legacy represents decades of death and oppression. That’s a
stark contrast from President Barack Obama’s statement on the
passing of the long-time Cuban overlord. “Today, the world marks
the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people
for nearly six decades,” Trump said in a statement released on
the news of Castro’s death Saturday. “Fidel Castro’s legacy is
one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and
the denial of fundamental human rights,” Trump said. “While Cuba
remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a
move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a
future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the
freedom they so richly deserve,” Trump said. “Though the
tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be
erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the
Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity
and liberty,” Trump said. “I join the many Cuban Americans who
supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including
the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me, with the
hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba.” Trump won overwhelming
support from Cuban-Americans during the 2016 election for his
opposition to Obama’s normalization of relations with the Castro
regime. Obama’s statement on Castro’s passing was one of sorrow
and arguably obscured Castro’s record of oppression and murder.
* Related:
Photos: Miami’s Cubans Celebrate Death of Dictator Fidel Castro
The numbers are in: Trump wins Michigan by 10,704
Detroit Free Press - The Michigan Secretary of State posted
results Wednesday that were submitted by the state's 83 county
clerks on Tuesday after the votes were reviewed and certified by
each county. Before that compiled count, Trump held a
13,107-vote lead over Clinton. But after each county certified
its results, the lead shrunk to 10,704, with the biggest chunk
coming from Wayne County, which showed that Clinton had gotten
565 more votes than originally tallied by the county. The
state's Board of Canvassers will officially certify the results
on Nov. 28. The electoral college in all the states, including
Michigan's 16 electors, will cast their votes on Dec. 19…. The
vote totals that will be submitted to the state Canvassers Board
on Nov. 28 are: Donald J. Trump, Republican: 2,279,543, Hillary
Clinton, Democratic: 2,268,839
* Related:
Green Party pushes for recount in key states
Hillary Clinton’s Team to Join Wisconsin Recount Pushed by Jill
Stein
The New York Times - Nearly three weeks after Election Day,
Hillary Clinton’s campaign said on Saturday that it would
participate in a recount process in Wisconsin incited by a
third-party candidate and would join any potential recounts in
two other closely contested states, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The Clinton campaign held out little hope of success in any of
the three states, and said it had seen no “actionable evidence”
of vote hacking that might taint the results or otherwise
provide new grounds for challenging Donald J. Trump’s victory.
But it suggested it was going along with the recount effort to
assure supporters that it was doing everything possible to
verify that hacking by Russia or other irregularities had not
affected the results. In a post on Medium, Marc Elias, the
Clinton team’s general counsel, said the campaign would take
part in the Wisconsin recount being set off by Jill Stein, the
Green Party candidate, and would also participate if Ms. Stein
made good on her plans to seek recounts in Michigan and
Pennsylvania.... The Clinton campaign had assailed Mr. Trump
during the election for refusing to say he would abide by the
results if he lost. On Saturday, Mr. Trump responded to the
campaign’s decision to join the recount with a statement calling
the effort “ridiculous” and “a scam by the Green Party.” He
suggested that most of the money raised would not be spent on
the recount. “The results of this election should be respected
instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what
Jill Stein is doing,” Mr. Trump said. In Wisconsin, Mr. Trump
leads by 22,177 votes. In Michigan, he has a lead of 10,704
votes, and in Pennsylvania, his advantage is 70,638 votes.
The Mysterious Case Of Jill Stein's Surging Recount Costs
Zero Hedge - ... today a new mystery has emerged in Stein's
fundraising efforts. Apparently, the more money she raises the
more expensive the recount effort becomes. Courtesy of the
Wayback Machine we have the following snapshots from her
fundraising page over the past couple of days: November 24, 2016
at 3:46AM - In the beginning, Stein figured she needed a total
of $2.5mm to fund her recount efforts. That figure included
$2.2mm for the actual filing fees and presumably another $0.3mm
for legal fees and other costs.... November 24, 2016 at 1:20PM -
Then, just 12 hours later, after the cash just kept flowing in,
Stein figured she needed at least another $2mm as her
fundraising goal was raised to $4.5mm in total. Of course, the
filing fees of $2.2mm didn't change but the "attorney's fees"
apparently surged by about 300% and the total costs of the
effort skyrocketed to $6-7mm.... November 25, 2016 at 6:11AM -
Now, just this morning as Stein approaches $5mm in total
donations, her overall fundraising goal has surged once again
and now stands at $7mm.... So, with nearly $5mm raised so far,
the question is no longer whether recounts will occur in WI, MI
and PA but just how much Jill Stein will be able to drain from
the pockets of disaffected Hillary supporters to fund her
long-shot efforts. All that said, here is Jill Stein admitting
to CNN that she has absolutely no evidence of election
hacking....even though she asks that you please keep sending
your money anyway.
The Democrats’ real strategy in launching recounts
The American Thinker - The recount in Wisconsin, and the coming
ones in Michigan and Pennsylvania will not change the outcomes
in any of the states. No recount ever changes thousands of
votes. I do not think that is the purpose. The recounts, if done
by hand, which can be demanded, may take longer than the last
day for completing the official counts in a state and directing
Electoral College voters. If all 3 states miss the deadline,
Trump is at 260, Hillary at 232. No one hits 270. Then this goes
to Congress, where the House voting 1 vote per state elects
Trump, and Senate selects Pence. This would be first time this
happened since 1824, but in that case, John Quincy Adams won in
the House, though he had fewer electoral college votes than
Andrew Jackson. If this goes to the US House and Senate, and the
result is the same as result from the Electoral College without
the recounts, why do it? The answer is to make Trump seem even
more illegitimate, that he did not win the popular vote (he lost
by over 2.1 million), he did not win the Electoral College (did
not reach 270), and was elected by being inserted into the
presidency by members of his own party in Congress.
Electoral voters 'deluged' with death threats in multiple states
One of Michigan’s 16 electors who will be called upon to cast a
vote validating the election of Donald Trump in the Electoral
College has testified on video that he and others in the state
are receiving “dozens and dozens of death threats” from Hillary
Clinton supporters urging them to switch their votes to Clinton.
On Dec. 19 the Electoral College will convene to cast their
votes for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, with each
state’s electors pledged to vote for the candidate elected on
Nov. 8 in their state. But more than a dozen states have no laws
making it illegal for the electors to change their vote while
others have only a minor penalty such as a fine for doing so. If
Clinton’s supporters can get enough of the 163 electors from
states where Trump both won and votes can be legally switched on
Dec. 19, Hillary Clinton becomes the next president of the
United States.
Who Pays What Taxes In The US
Zero Hedge - Every presidential election brings with it a
renewed debate on taxes: should tax rates be increased or
decreased (which in turn forces economists to break out their
textbooks to brush up on their Laffer curve definitions)?
Traditionally, the question eventually boils down to one thing:
what should the tax treatment of the "rich" be: should the
wealthy pay more or less in taxes? Why the particular focus on
the rich? The answer is simple: while those American who declare
$500,000 and above in income represent less than 1% of total tax
returns, they account for a quarter of taxable income and - more
importantly - are responsible for 37% of government revenues
collected through individual income taxes. And with
approximately $1.55 trillion in individual income tax expected
to be collected in 2016, this means that less than 1% of US
taxpayers will be responsible for more than a third, or roughly
$575 billion in government revenue, nearly double what corporate
income taxes ($300 billion) are expected to bring in.
US Housing Market In Peril As "Increase In Mortgage Rates Has
Shocked Consumers"
Zero Hedge - As the Wall Street Journal points out, according to
the Mortgage Bankers Association, mortgage refinancings are set
to drop 46% in 2017. And with many American's funding their
daily expenses with "cash-out" mortgage refi's, pretty much
everyone selling goods to consumers, which happens to represent
about two-thirds of the economy, has reason for concern....
While mortgage applications have risen in recent weeks as people
have rushed to lock-in rates, eventually the MBA expects rising
rates will take their toll on new mortgage originations as well
with estimates calling for a 16% drop in volume in 2017. Of
course, with American's linking "affordability" solely to
monthly mortgage payments, it would stand to reason that rising
rates would put pressure on home prices over the coming
months/quarters.... Meanwhile, as the MBA points out, as
refinancings sink, volume levels of the good ole
"adjustable-rate mortgage" have surged in recent weeks as
lenders/buyers scramble to salvage existing purchase contracts
by maintaining monthly mortgage payments despite higher
rates.... As a reminder, on Friday, housing market expert Mark
Hanson pointed out something similar when he calcualted that to
buyers who are in need of a mortgage, "houses have never been
more expensive."
Hundreds Of Veterans Heading To Standing Rock To Defend DAPL Protesters
From Police
Zero Hedge - According to a Facebook event the two men created called
“Veterans Stand for Standing Rock,” those who join the effort will
arrive at the protest site on December 4, where they will stay until
December 7. The event description reads: “Come to Standing Rock Indian
Reservation and hold the line with Wes Clark jr, Michael Wood Jr, Tulsi
Gabbard and hundreds of other veterans in support of the Sioux nation
against the DAPL pipeline. Bring Body armor, gas masks, earplugs AND
shooting mufflers (we may be facing a sound cannon) but no drugs,
alcohol or weapons.”… Over 250 veterans have already committed, but
organizers hope to have a group of 500 or more by the time they head to
Standing Rock. Once there, the veterans intend to engage in a
traditional native healing ceremony with protesters, with whom they have
been coordinating, according to the veterans. Then, protective gear like
gas masks and body armor will be issued to anyone who needs it. The
soldiers will march to bagpipes and Sioux war songs as they head to the
banks of the Missouri River to meet police…. Though the veterans have
adopted a strict policy of nonviolence, they refuse to back down and
apparently hope to use their military status to spotlight the egregious
behavior of the police…. Veterans Stand for Standing Rock is accepting
donations to cover food, transportation, and supplies for those who
travel to North Dakota. You can donate here. You can also donate
directly to the water protectors.
Army Corps Announces Eviction of Water Protectors, Corps-Managed Land to
Be Emptied
DC Clothesline - ... the Army Corps of Engineers will be evicting
everyone from Corps-managed land north of the Cannonball River on
December 5 — just one day after a delegation of veterans plans to arrive
to defend Standing Rock Sioux water protectors and their supporters
opposing construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. A letter dated
yesterday, November 25, from Army Corps District Commander Col. John W.
Henderson to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II
reads, in part... : “Pursuant to 36 C.F.R. § 327.12, I am closing the
portion of the Corps-managed federal property north of the Cannonball
River to all public use and access effective December 5, 2016. This
decision is necessary to protect the general public from the violent
confrontations between protestors and law enforcement officials that
have occurred in this area, and to prevent death, illness, or serious
injury to inhabitants of encampments due to the harsh North Dakota
winter conditions....." Although the Corps so graciously established
what is laughably termed a “free speech zone” south of the Cannonball
River, the letter makes undeniable the fact it plans to evict everyone
from the camps already in place.... None of the details for how the Army
Corps plans to effect this mass eviction were evident in the brief
letter — but to imagine water protectors willingly giving up their
massive campaign against Dakota Access and just pick up and move to a
designated area is laughable at best. On December 5, the whole world
will be watching to see how the U.S. government handles itself in an
action directly affecting Indigenous peoples whose only goal is to
protect the water from contamination — because that track record isn’t
exactly good.
* Related:
‘We stand strong’: Standing Rock water protectors defy Army Corps’
threat of camp eviction (Video)
New federal guidelines seek to lock out apps on drivers’ phones
Ars Technica - "Distracted driving" has been getting more attention
because the government calculates that it is prevalent and is causing
more car crashes. Today, the National Highway Transportation Safety
Administration published guidelines calling on smartphone makers to
create a "Driving Mode" that shuts down app-use while a car is in
motion. The 96-page voluntary guidelines, intended to reduce "driver
distraction," also call for cars to be more easily "paired" with mobile
devices so that drivers can access them through an in-vehicle
interface.... The "driver mode" envisioned by NHTSA would lock out
things like typing out text messages, as well as displays of images or
video not related to driving maps. It would also block most text
content, like displays of most webpages, social media, books, and
periodicals. The NHTSA says it's looking forward to developing
technology that enables better "driver-passenger distinction,"
presenting the possibility of a future in which phones automatically
lock into some type of "driver mode" without needing the driver to
initiate it. Neither device makers nor vehicle manufacturers are
required to meet any NHTSA guidelines, which are voluntary and
non-binding. However, when state or national lawmakers are considering
new laws related to driving, they often rely on NHTSA data and
recommendations. The NHTSA report includes sobering statistics about
distracted driving. In 2015, some 10 percent of the 35,092 traffic
fatalities involved one or more distracted drivers, resulting in 3,477
fatalities. That's an 8.8 percent increase over 2014. The proposed
guidelines now enter a 60-day public comment period before the agency
decides whether or not to put some version of them into place.
Delete yourself from the internet by pressing this button
The Next Web - Swedish developers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck
created Deseat.me, which offers a way to wipe your entire existence off
the internet in a few clicks. When logging into the website with a
Google account it scans for apps and services you’ve created an account
for, and creates a list of them with easy delete links. Every account it
finds gets paired with an easy delete link pointing to the unsubscribe
page for that service. Within in a few clicks you’re freed from it, and
depending on how long you need to work through the entire list, you can
be account-less within the hour. If you’re getting tired of social media
and internet-induced stress in general, it’s the quickest way to get
back to a state of tranquility — and to be honest, that doesn’t sound
like a bad idea.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Simple Lavender Dryer Sachets That Ease Tension
The Alternative Daily - Looking for a simple way to help ease
tension? This is such an easy and inexpensive project. Anyone
can make these little sachets filled with the wonderful aroma of
lavender, which is great for busting stress and bringing you a
sense of calm during your busy day. These sachets work great
with any of your clothes, but they have the most benefits for
bedding. When drying your sheets, try tossing these dryer
sachets into the load of laundry. When your sheets are dry,
you’ll end up with a nice, comforting smell that will help you
fall asleep faster at night…. 1. Gather muslin bags and lavender
buds. 2. Fill dryer sachets 3/4 full with the lavender buds.
Pull drawstrings tight. 3. Toss the dryer sachets into your
laundry for a light lavender scent. If you want a stronger
scent, add another lavender-filled dryer sachet.
Selenium supplementation found to decrease risk of death from
cancer by 50 percent
(NaturalHealth365) An organic compound of selenium (Se), L-selenomethionine,
has been shown in studies to literally halve your chances of
dying from cancer, slashing the risk of cancer by an amazing 50
percent. L-selenomethionine is one of three forms of selenium
shown to play a role in preventing, and even halting, cancer in
humans…. Selenium is an essential mineral and trace element
utilized by the body as a co-factor. It works to recycle and
re-use disease-fighting antioxidant enzymes such as glutathione,
which neutralizes damage from free radicals. Selenium is also
necessary for proper thyroid function. Studies have supported
the role that adequate levels of selenium play in helping
protect against two of the most common forms of cancer: prostate
and colorectal cancer. Low selenium levels are associated with a
two to threefold increase in overall cancer risk, particularly
cancers of the bladder, esophagus, lung, stomach and liver.
Inadequate levels of selenium can cause a shocking 8-fold
increase in risk for thyroid cancer.
Health Hazards of DWR Water Repellant Coatings
Section Hiker - The DWR (Durable Water Repellent) that rain gear
manufacturers put on waterproof/breathable rain gear and hard
shells […] contain flourcarbons or PFCs that have been shown to
be a hormone disruptor, like BPA. These chemicals are
persistent, and break down very slowly in the environment. They
also bioaccumulate, meaning their concentration increases over
time in the blood and organs when you eat foods that contains
them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates
that every single person in the United States has PFCs in their
blood. At high concentrations, certain PFCs have been linked to
health problems such as low birth weight, delayed puberty onset,
elevated cholesterol levels, and reduced immunologic responses
to vaccination…. The European Union has banned the use of PFOS
and a future restriction of the use of PFOA is under review. In
the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has
initiated a voluntary industry phase-out of PFOA in cooperation
with the outdoor industry. But outdoor apparel manufacturers are
in no rush to remove PFCs from the DWR coatings they use on
waterproof/breathable jackets and are only making halting steps
in their phase-out…. The only way to speed up that process is by
public outcry and pressure. Take the microwave popcorn industry
as an example. When consumers found out that PFCs were present
in microwave popcorn bags, food manufacturers were quick to
eliminate them. Same with Teflon and Scotchguard. Next time you
shop for waterproof/breathable clothing, I suggest you contact
the manufacturer and ask about PFCs in their DWR coatings.
Wednesday - November
23, 2016 - Today In History:
1804 - Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, was
born in Hillsboro, N.H.
1889 - The jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San
Francisco.
1903 - Singer Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York, appearing in "Rigoletto."
1936 - The first edition of "Life" was published.
1943 - During World War II, U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and
Makin from the Japanese during the Central Pacific offensive in the
Gilbert Islands.
1945 - The U.S. wartime rationing of most foods ended.
1954 - The Dow Jones industrial average finally surpassed it's pre-crash
high - 25 years after Black Tuesday - when it closed at 382.74.
1971 - The People's Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security
Council.
1980 - A series of earthquakes devastated southern Italy, killing some
2,600 people.
2001 - An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a van in the West
Bank, killing Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a leading member of the Islamic
militant Hamas group.
2006 - Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko died in London from radiation
poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
Angela Merkel: Obama’s choice for German Chancellor
The Duran - Despite Angela Merkel being US President Obama’s
preferred choice to continue as German Chancellor in order to
protect his foreign policy legacy, her ability to do so and her
capacity to remain Chancellor is limited…. Merkel is the only
world leader with whom Obama has established a relationship that
could be called close. In his long series of interviews earlier
this year with The Atlantic, Obama admitted that Merkel is the
only European leader he feels any genuine connection to. Obama’s
friendship and trust has in turn shaped many of Merkel’s
policies. Her sanctions policy against Russia, her sudden
decision to go against German Finance Minister Schauble’s policy
of ejecting Greece from the Eurozone during peak of the Grexit
crisis last year, and her equally sudden decision to throw open
Germany’s and Europe’s doors to the flow of refugees from the
various Middle East wars, strongly mirrored Obama’s positions on
these questions. Merkel’s remaining as German Chancellor
therefore ensures for Obama that a close political ally
committed to continuing his policies remains in place after
Donald Trump – elected to follow a very different agenda to
Obama’s – becomes President. This explains Obama’s critical
statements about Russia following his meeting with Merkel, his
talk of ‘shared values’ (obviously a dig not just at Putin but
also at Trump), his warnings against conducting a foreign policy
based on ‘Realpolitik’ towards Russia, and his extraordinary
decision together with Merkel to persuade the European
leadership to extend the sanctions against Russia, a matter
where Trump is widely believed to have a contrary view, and
which Obama arguably ought to have left to the next President.
It is surely what also lies behind the strange media talk of
Obama ‘passing the baton’ of leadership of the ‘free world’ to
Merkel. It is highly likely that Obama – or individuals close to
him – have inspired it. In reality, Merkel’s ability to continue
Obama’s policies once Obama is no longer on the scene, is open
to doubt. Certainly, Merkel cannot do this without US support.
Germany has a large economy and is politically dominant in
Europe. However, it is not remotely a global superpower like the
US, and cannot possibly conduct an anti-Russian foreign policy
against US opposition.
UN chemical watchdog refused to send experts to Aleppo under
Western pressure - Lavrov
RT - The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
refuses to send its experts to Aleppo to check substances used
by rebels in attacks. The move was "seemingly done under
pressure from our Western colleagues," Russia's foreign minister
said. "Russian specialists found that militants in east Aleppo
used ammunition with poisonous substances, with the ammo
targeting west Aleppo. The collected samples leave no doubt that
it's a toxic agent," Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference
with his Belarusian counterpart in Minsk, as cited by Interfax.
However, when the Russian Ministry of Defense addressed the
leadership of the UN watchdog OPCW “with the demand to urgently
send its experts to Aleppo to participate in the sample
analysis,” the organization “refused to carry out this simple
task, citing security issues.” The underlying reason behind
this, Lavrov said, seemed to be “tremendous pressure from our
Western colleagues,” because “our and Syrian sides guaranteed
security [for the experts].” Russia is now working on the
possibility of delivering the samples for analysis to The Hague,
Lavrov added.
National security breach? French prosecutors probe Hollande’s
alleged mishandling of classified docs
RT - A scandal surrounding a book called ‘A President Shouldn’t
Say That’ is seeing a new twist. French prosecutors are
investigating a potential national security breach, after
Francois Hollande allegedly left secret files right in front of
reporters. French prosecutors launched an investigation into
whether documents lying in front of reporters on President
Hollande’s desk posed a threat to national security, the Paris
prosecutor’s office said on Monday. The probe is related to an
article, published by Le Monde newspaper on August 24, in which
two reporters describe a meeting with Hollande in August 2013.
The reporters described piles of documents, including ones
bearing a “classified” stamp, lying on the presidential desk
right before their eyes. It was a tense period, when the French
president waited for the US to allow strikes on Syria, and the
reporters saw the notes, prepared for Hollande by his military
advisers for future telephone talks with US President Barack
Obama…. It remained unclear, however, how the reporters managed
to acquire a copy of the classified documents. Several extracts
from the document in question were published in the article,
describing an operation prepared by the French military,
awaiting the US president’s approval. French aircraft were
allegedly ready to take off from the base in Abu Dhabi and
launch five Scalp missiles on Syrian Arab Army bases. The strike
however was never carried out.
As TPP Dies, Asian Nations Salute Their New "Free Trade" Leader:
China
Zero Hedge - Over the weekend we reported that as Obama was
speaking at the APEC summit in Peru, hoping to salvage his
global trade legacy, the TPP, China's President Xi Jinping
officially called for the launch of the Free Trade Area of
Asia-Pacific for "institutional guarantee of open economy", a
move many had expected would take place as China was eager to
fill in the void left by the US in any trans-Pacific trade
treaty…. Then, overnight, China got a present when Trump
announced in a brief video statement that his first executive
order upon becoming president would be to remove the US from the
TPP. That's all Beijing needed to hear and this morning China
said it hoped to conclude an Asia-wide trade pact as soon as
possible, in what the WSJ dubbed was "a sign of Beijing’s intent
to broaden its regional influence amid the apparent collapse of
the U.S.-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership." A Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that Asian leaders are
pressing ahead with talks for the 10-nation Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership that China has backed as an
alternative to the U.S.-led deal, and “hope that such
negotiations can achieve early results.” As a result, the shift
in regional support has been abrupt: Singapore’s Prime Minister
Lee Hsien Loong, a TPP booster, is now calling on Asian Pacific
nations to boost trade by backing the China-led pact and other
initiatives. “There are still other pathways to free trade in
the Asia-Pacific,” Mr. Lee said this past weekend…. In short,
China wins by materially expanding its sphere of influence
through a "free-trade" agreement, whose terms it will define
from day one. Indeed, the TPP would cut or reduce some 18,000
tariffs for a group of Pacific Rim nations in the Americas, Asia
and Oceania—an area accounting for 40% of the global economy.
The China-led pact is less ambitious in reducing tariffs; it
will likely be far more ambitious on setting terms that benefit
its own companies that engage in trade. As for China's
counterparts? Since China is the dominant power, they have to
accept the terms or be "nudged" out of the Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and into the cold,
protectionist world outside.
‘Sharia police’ didn’t break law by trying to impose Muslim
rules in German town – court
RT - A German court has ruled that a group of Islamists did not
break the law when forming a ‘Sharia police force’ in 2014. The
group caused public outrage after patrolling a western city in
orange vests, instructing residents to abide by the strict
Muslim code. The group's vests had ‘Sharia Police’ printed on
them in large block letters, but this did not breach the
countrywide ban on political uniforms, the judges ruled. Under
German law, a uniform has to be "suggestively militant" or have
an "intimidating effect” to constitute a violation…. The court
also noted that police in Wuppertal did not find anything
criminal about the men wearing the vests, which were not seized
by officers at the time…. The men, all aged between 25 and 34,
sparked anger by patrolling the streets of Wuppertal in 2014,
telling nightclub goers to refrain from drinking alcohol and
listening to music, and arcade customers not to play games for
money, so as not to contradict the strict Muslim religious code
of conduct known as Sharia law.
Fukushima hit by 5.7-magnitude aftershock
RT - An aftershock measuring up to 5.7 on the Richter scale has
struck Fukushima in Japan a day after the area experienced a
7.3-magnitude offshore earthquake…. No damage has been reported
following the quake which comes after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake
caused the cooling system of a reactor at the Fukushima nuclear
power plant to stop operating. The system was back working 90
minutes after the failure.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Ron Paul: ‘Shadow Government May Pull False Flag To Get Trump
Into War’
Steve Watson - Former Congressman and Libertarian icon Ron Paul
has warned that ‘shadow government’ neocons could orchestrate a
‘false flag’ incident in order to drag new president Donald
Trump into a fresh war. “I don’t how anybody can say they know
what is going to happen,” Paul told The Daily Caller, referring
to Trump’s foreign policy. “All we need is a false flag and an
accident and everybody will be for teaching them a lesson,” Paul
said, warning that such an event could trigger new foreign
entanglement. “The neocons always talked about it before 9/11
they kept saying, ‘we aren’t going to get our program in until
we have a Pearl Harbor event,’” the former congressman stated,
stopping short of saying he believes those attacks were staged.
“I think other countries could use false flags.” Paul also
added. Paul also warned that a shadow government will continue
to operate when Trump is president, just as it did during
Obama’s time in office. “Obama probably was much more attune to
a different foreign policy of less aggression but why then does
he do it?” Paul said. “I think there’s the shadow government,
the military-industrial complex, the CIA, and all the things
that can be done because they just melt away and they do exactly
what the establishment says.” the former Congressman added. Paul
warned that those within the shadow government are seeking to
influence Trump now. “He’s very friendly with a lot of them
right now, he’s talking to them,” Paul said, adding that “We
don’t have a final answer, we have to wait to see who get’s
appointed.” “He doesn’t talk about blowback and coming out of
these countries. He has a better policy with Russia but I think
he still is talking with the neoconservatives.” Paul also
stated. “The deep state is very very powerful and they have a
lot of control,” Paul said, adding “That is one of my big issues
about how shadow government is so powerful in all
administrations.”
Leaked Document Shows Trump Does Actually Plan to Build a Wall
Paul Joseph Watson - A document inadvertently leaked after it
was caught on camera proves that Donald Trump does plan to
rapidly build a border wall, confounding pundits who have
claimed it was all just rhetoric. Kansas Secretary of State Kris
Kobach, an expert on border security and legal immigration, met
with Trump on Sunday in New Jersey. Kobach was holding a file of
papers, one of which was snapped by a media photographer from a
distance. It is entitled “Department of Homeland Security Kobach
Strategic Plan For First 365 Days”. When zoomed in, the paper
reads that “in addition to 386 miles of existing wall” there is
a further “1989 miles planned for rapid build.” According to
Trump’s past statements, the total length of the wall wouldn’t
need to run the whole 2,000 miles of the border due to natural
barriers. It now appears that his border wall plan will cover
the entire length of the border and may even overcompensate.
Ben Carson offered HUD post, will consider it: Carson spokesman
Reuters - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has offered the post
of secretary of housing and urban development to former
presidential candidate Ben Carson, who will consider it over the
Thanksgiving holiday, a Carson spokesman said on Tuesday. "The
president-elected asked him to consider it and he's considering
it," Carson spokesman Armstrong Williams said. Carson, a retired
surgeon, dropped out of the 2016 presidential race in March and
backed Trump.
Trump: No 'big' vacations, no salary as president
USA today - Donald Trump is pledging no long vacations and no
presidential salary during his time in the White House. "There's
just so much to be done," Trump told CBS' 60 Minutes in an
interview broadcast Sunday. "So I don't think we'll be very big
on vacations, no." As for the president's $400,000-a-year pay,
the New York businessman said: "No, I'm not going to take the
salary. I'm not taking it." Republicans have regularly
criticized President Obama for his fondness for playing golf and
his family vacations in Hawaii.
Judicial Watch: Obama Travel Cost Taxpayers over $79.5 million
Judicial Watch - Judicial Watch announced today [July 13, 2016]
that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security revealing the Obama family’s August 2015
vacation on Martha’s Vineyard cost taxpayers $465,420.49 in
Secret Service expenses alone. This included $457,310.33 in
hotels, $271.56 in car rentals, and $7,838.60 in air/rail
travel…. The First Family’s Martha’s Vineyard vacation, their
sixth in the past seven years, was spent at the lavish Blue
Heron Farm in Chilmark, a seven-bedroom, nine-bath,
8,100-square-foot estate, sitting on 10 acres of farmland. The
estate features 17 rooms, expansive water views of Vineyard
Sound, an infinity pool, and a tennis-basketball court. It rents
for $50,000 a week. Judicial Watch previously reported that the
First Family’s travel aboard Air Force One for this trip cost
taxpayers $619,011. The current grand total of known Obama
travel-related expenses now stands at $79,630,433.93 “Taxpayers
should be incensed that the Secret Service’s resources on wasted
to provide security for endless golf excursions, political
fundraisers, and luxury vacations,” said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton. “President Obama’s travel is a scandal.
It’s about his abuse of the office and his abuse of hard-earned
taxpayer dollars.”
Melania and Barron Trump Won’t Immediately Move to White House
NY Times - President-elect Donald J. Trump’s wife, Melania, and
their 10-year-old son, Barron, will not immediately move to the
White House after Mr. Trump takes office in January, out of
concern for uprooting Barron in the middle of the school year,
transition officials said on Sunday. Ms. Trump and Barron will
remain in New York for at least another six months, the
officials said. Speaking to reporters on Sunday at his golf
course in Bedminster, N.J., Mr. Trump said they would join him
“very soon — after he’s finished with school.”… Jason Miller, a
spokesman for Mr. Trump, said, “No official statement has been
released by the Trump family regarding transition timing, but
like any parents, they are concerned about pulling their
10-year-old son out of school in the middle of the year.”
Obama Admin Fines Police Department For Not Hiring Non-Citizens
Daily Caller - From the beginning of 2015 through last March,
the Denver Sheriff Department went on a major hiring binge,
adding more than 200 new deputies. But those jobs ended up only
going to citizens, because the department made citizenship a
stated requirement on the job application. The department
admitted as much in a new settlement with the U.S. government,
which requires it to pay a $10,000 fine. The department will
also have to comb through all of its job applications from the
past two years, identifying immigrants who were excluded from
the hiring process and giving them due consideration.
“Eliminating this unlawful citizenship requirement will help
ensure that the Denver Sheriff Department hires the best and
most qualified individuals to protect and serve,” DOJ Principal
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta said in a
statement. “The entire community will benefit from these
reforms.”
State Regulators Deny The Homeless A Free Meal
Zero Hedge - The American Royal’s World Series of Barbecue is a
longstanding tradition for community members of Kansas City,
Missouri. Since 1899, the event has attracted the most talented
barbecue chefs from all corners of the state, who gather
annually to show off their skills. With so many BBQ experts in
one place, there tends to be a fair amount of leftover food once
the festivities come to a close. Hating to waste such a vast
amount of quality barbecue, some of the event’s BBQ gurus got
together and founded the charitable group, Kookers Kare.
Partnering with the Harvesters Community Food Network, Kookers
Kare has made a tradition of donating the leftover food to local
homeless shelters at the end of each annual event. This year,
the two groups collected over 3,000 pounds of meat and 1,200
pounds of sides, all bound for a local nonprofit organization
called Hope City, where it was to be served to over 3,000
homeless citizens in need. However, the Kansas City Health
Department put the kibosh on Kookers Kare’s attempts to feed the
homeless before anyone was even able to enjoy the food. Claiming
they had no fore knowledge of this charitable tradition, the
health department forbid the food from being served to the
needy. Suspiciously, the inspectors just happened to be doing a
random inspection of Hope City the day the BBQ arrived. “All of
that food was uninspected, so that makes it from an unapproved
source, it cannot be served to the public,” Kansas City Health
Department Operations Manager Joe Williamson said in response to
the department’s decision to stop the food from being consumed.
The health department did not stop at simply forbidding the food
from being served, they demanded that it be destroyed
immediately. Those who had worked diligently to collect the food
were forced to douse over 3,000 pounds of award-winning barbecue
food with bleach, in order to ensure its destruction and appease
the local health department. Meanwhile, 3,000 homeless
individuals went without a meal that day. After receiving
negative feedback when this story surfaced in the news, the
health department doubled down on its decision by saying, “3,000
people a year die of foodborne illness, so this is nothing to
play with, it’s very serious.”
Scientists Find "Persuasive Evidence" Of Vote Hacking, Demand
Clinton Recount In 3 States
Zero Hedge - Between the so-called 'Hursti Hack', questions over
Soros-linked voting machines, some peculiarities in Texas, and
the media furore over Trump's democracy-threatening questioning
of the election outcome; it is perhaps ironic that, after being
soundly beaten across the vast majority of counties in America,
NY Mag reports, a group of prominent computer scientists and
election lawyers are urging the Clinton campaign to call for a
recount in three swing states won by Donald Trump after
allegedly finding "persuasive evidence" of vote hacking.
Check out Gematria for the name Donald Trump
Breaking Israel News - Donald Trump’s upset victory in the
presidential race over Hillary Clinton, who was heavily favored
in virtually all the pre-election polls, seemed to defy the laws
of nature, reason and sense. Several rabbis have an explanation,
however: it was, quite simply, the will of God. As the rabbi who
oversees the final resting place of King David on Mount Zion,
Rabbi Yosef Berger is intimately connected to the spirituality
of kingship. For him it was clear what tipped the scales in
favor of the Republican underdog…. As Rabbi Berger pointed out,
the gematria for Donald Trump in Hebrew (דונלד טראמפ) is 424,
which is equal to the gematria of “Messiah for the House of
David” (משיח בן דוד). The Ben Ish Chai, an authority on Jewish
law and master kabbalist who lived in Baghdad 150 years ago,
interpreted the number 212 as a difficult time for Israel before
the Final Redemption. Trump’s gematria is twice that, signifying
an ongoing Messiah process…. Rabbi Berger was clear on how this
election fit into the process of Messiah. “As the spiritual
descendant of the Biblical nation of Edom, America has a very
important role to play in the Messiah. But in order to be suited
for that role, America had to be humbled,” Rabbi Berger stated.
Obama Legacy Already Crumbling As Federal Judge Blocks Overtime Rule
Zero Hedge - …back in May of this year Obama and the Department of Labor
implemented a new overtime regulation that was set to take effect on
December 1st. The rule change called for increasing the minimum salary
threshold at which employers would have been required to pay overtime to
workers from $23,660 to $47,476, or a mere 101%. The rule would have
required employers to pay time-and-a-half to salaried workers making
less than $47,476 per year for any time worked in excess of 40 hours per
week. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new regulation would
have cost employers about $2BN per year. But, all that changed today
when a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas signed a
preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the rule from taking effect
next week to allow more time for litigation. Of course, the delay will
be viewed by the Plaintiffs, and many employers around the country, as
an outright victory as it likely postpones any final decisions until
Trump takes over over the White House in January. And with Trump already
signaling his intentions to roll back many of Obama's "job-killing"
regulations we suspect this one will get moved to the top of his list.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) praised the
court's decision as a huge victory for small business owners, 44% of
which they claim would be directly impacted by the rule change.
Inside the Dakota Access pipeline protesters' campground: Burning
Man-style photographs capture everyday life for the hundreds of
activists fighting to save Standing Rock Reservation
Daily Mail - Aerial images show the stunning scope of the Dakota Access
pipeline protests and the hundreds of people who have gather in an
attempt to save Standing Rock Reservation. After a night of clashing
with police, protests continued into Monday. Sunday night saw about 400
demonstrators mounted the Backwater Bridge and attempted to force their
way past police. Hundreds were injured by rubber bullets and others were
doused by water cannons in the 15 degree weather.
Police threw grenade at DAPL protesters - father of activist who faces
amputation
RT - A Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrator may lose her arm after a
direct hit from a concussion grenade used by law enforcement officers at
the protest site, according to her father. Authorities have denied using
any weapons that could have caused such damage. Pipeline protester
Dallas Goldtooth identified the woman as fellow demonstrator Sophia
Wilansky, saying she was "struck directly by a concussion grenade"
during the Sunday protest on a bridge near Cannon Ball, North Dakota….
Speaking outside the Hennepin County Medical Center on Tuesday, Wayne
Wilansky confirmed his daughter was facing 20 or more surgeries in hope
of saving her arm. Wilansky said that witnesses clearly saw law
enforcement officers throwing the concussion grenade. “This is not
Afghanistan, this is not Iraq… we don’t throw grenades at people,” he
said, blaming the local and state authorities for Sophia's injury…. A
GoFundMe page for Wilansky says she was handing out bottles of water to
protesters when she was struck by the concussion grenade. However, a
spokeswoman for the Morton County Sheriff's Department has denied
accusations that local authorities used concussion grenades during the
protest, contradicting several reports from activists.
Video: Robert Kennedy Jr, "Trump Has A $2 Million Stake in the Dakota
Pipeline"
RT - Big Picture Politics Panel: Robert Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper
Alliance. As protests continue over the Dakota Access Pipeline - the
looming shadow of President-Elect Donald Trump threatens to inflame the
entire movement. Are the next two months the last chance we have to stop
a pipeline that threatens the drinking water of 18 million people?
Robert Kennedy Jr. - just back from North Dakota - weighs in...
Not Just Bees, Trees Are Dying Off At An Alarming Rate With Little
Public Attention
Natural Blaze - A new crisis is now happening all around us affecting
trees. It appears that millions, hundreds of millions even, of trees are
dying in North America and around the world from a basket of reasons,
promising to completely and permanently alter the landscape and
environment around us…. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an
additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial
survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since
2010 to over 102 million on 7.7 million acres of California’s drought
stricken forests. In 2016 alone, 62 million trees have died,
representing more than a 100 percent increase in dead trees across the
state from 2015. Millions of additional trees are weakened and expected
to die in the coming months and years…. Some speculate that the
widespread loss of trees due to such a wide conflagration of issues is a
sign that trees, the most rugged of all plants, are in general weakened
from an environment under complex attack by pollution and even climate
engineering projects.
Big Pharma Reaches into the Womb
Alliance for Natural Health - If vaccinating pregnant mothers
weren’t bad enough, now the vaccine companies would like a
twofer by also going after the child in utero…. 21st Century
Cures [bill] passed the House last year. The Senate has broken
up the bill into over a dozen separate pieces, which could be
considered any day now. One extremely worrisome provision seems
to put structures in place for amending the current vaccine
schedule and including more vaccinations for pregnant mothers.
Senate bill S. 2742 (the “Promoting Biomedical Research and
Public Health for Patients Act”) contains the following
language: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for
purposes of this subtitle, both a woman who received a covered
vaccine while pregnant and any child who was in utero at the
time such woman received the vaccine shall be considered persons
to whom the covered vaccine was administered and persons who
received the covered vaccine. This may have been written for
liability reasons. Perhaps Big Pharma is concerned that the
child would be eligible to sue for damages, unlike anyone
vaccinated after birth. Perhaps the thinking is that doctors
tend to have more control over mothers before birth, so why not
force vaccines on them then, rather than after birth? Then
again, this provision may be intended simply to increase
vaccinations given to pregnant mothers. If a developing child is
considered a “person” eligible to receive vaccinations, the
vaccine industry could begin to develop more vaccines intended
specifically for children in utero…. Other parts of the
legislation provide for lower standards for drug and device
approval and safety. They also encourage the development of new
antibiotics for “limited populations” that do not need to meet
standard criteria for safety and effectiveness. On top of it
all, they give more funding to the National Institutes of Health
for the development of experimental drugs and other products,
probably to hand over to Big Pharma. After all, one of the
principle architects of the bill, Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), was
the top recipient of pharmaceutical industry money in 2013-14.
The Awful Side Effects of Scented Candle Ingredients
(Infographic)
Dr. Axe - The dangers of synthetic scents aren’t always evident,
but we have the science to prove that everyone, regardless of
age or health, needs to make avoiding fake fragrances a major
priority. A National Academy of Sciences points out some vital
facts: About 95 percent of chemicals used in synthetic
fragrances are derived from petroleum (crude oil). They include
benzene derivatives (carcinogenic), aldehydes, toluene and many
other known toxic chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects,
central nervous system disorders and allergic reactions. (1)
Unfortunately, 30 years later, toxic ingredients continue turn
up in products we use and breathe in on a daily basis. Some of
the worst toxic ingredients used in lotions, shampoos, laundry
detergents, cleaning products and so much more include synthetic
scents, often listed as on labels as the elusive “fragrance.”
And many on the list are known or suspected endocrine
disruptors, compounds that tinker with hormonal health that can
trigger weight gain and even set you up for diseases decades
down the line…. When a company puts “fragrance” on the label,
don’t be tricked. This is a catch-all term actually can stand
for thousands of different ingredients (literally, at least
3,000). And when you use a product containing “fragrance” or “parfum,”
all of those mysterious ingredients are absorbed right into your
bloodstream. These ingredients are predominantly made from
chemicals and are just outright toxic for your health in so many
ways.
The Central Nervous System Responds to Toxins
Natural News Blogs - Research has proven disrupting chemicals
that target our central nervous system can upset the
communication between our endocrine and metabolic systems and
organs including our skin and microbiome…. Here are 8 toxic
exposures that can be found to be disruptive… 1-Caffeine is
undeniably a central nervous system stimulant and disrupts
microbiome.” It stimulates the brain, increases the secretion of
adrenaline and boosts heart rate. It can cause “adrenal
fatigue.” Long-term use in excess of 250 to 300 mg daily may
cause numerous health problems… “Caffeine depletes the body of B
Vitamins, which you need for proper brain and nervous system
functioning and for converting food to energy, says Michael
Murray, N.D., a naturopathic physician in Seattle… 2-Breathing
in toxic scents can harm our central nervous system. These toxic
scents include petroleum candles, incense or perfumes. These
scents can cause internal toxicity within our brain, microbiome,
liver and heart heath. 3-Exposure to mercury can cause negative
effects to our central nervous systems, kidneys, microbiome, and
cardiovascular health. According to Environmental Health
Sciences Center,”the nervous system is the principal target for
a number of metals. Inorganic compounds of aluminum, arsenic,
lead, mercury, and thallium are well known for their
neurological and behavioral effects in humans.” 4-Gluten related
products have a negative effect on good gut bacteria, our immune
system, digestive system and nervous system and therefore
affects the brain cells. Gluten also adds to an acid internal
environment….
These products claim to contain aloe vera — they don’t
The Verge - Skin gels said to contain aloe vera at Walmart,
Target, and CVS were found to have no evidence of the plant,
according to a Bloomberg News investigation. The store-brand
products were tested in a lab for aloe’s chemical markers; the
chemicals were absent, indicating that no actual aloe plant is
in the skin gels…. The US market for products that say they
contain aloe accounts for $146 million, an 11 percent increase
in the past year, Bloomberg News reports. The US Food and Drug
Administration, however, doesn’t approve cosmetic products
before they’re sold, so the agency doesn’t check whether claims
on packaging are accurate. The aloe gel samples analyzed by
Bloomberg News all listed aloe leaf juice as their main
ingredient, or the main one after water. However, when they were
tested for the plant’s three chemical markers — acemannan, malic
acid, and glucose — the products were found to have no evidence
of aloe. None of the samples contained lactic acid, either,
which would indicate degraded aloe vera. Instead, they contained
maltodextrin, a sugar used as a food additive that is sometimes
used to imitate aloe and is much cheaper. (Bloomberg News also
analyzed an aloe gel from Walgreens; it contained one aloe
marker, meaning that the plant’s presence can’t be confirmed or
ruled out.) Several law firms have filed lawsuits against
Walmart, Target, CVS, and Walgreens, after separate tests also
found that no aloe is present in the retailers’ store-brand
gels. “No reasonable person would have purchased or used the
products if they knew the products did not contain any aloe vera,’’
attorneys wrote in a complaint filed in September, according to
Bloomberg News.
Put an End to Tormenting Itchy Skin and Incessant Scratching
Dr. Becker - Both cats and dogs can develop itchy, inflamed skin, but
often the underlying cause is different. Dogs tend to itch as a result
of allergies, whereas the root cause of your cat’s itching is just as
likely to be something other than an allergy. Skin conditions that
commonly cause itching in cats include pemphigus foliaceus, ringworm,
chin acne, eosinophilic granuloma complex and parasites. Helping your
itchy cat means getting an accurate veterinary diagnosis of the
underlying cause, coupled with an effective wound healing protocol. An
itchy cat’s diet should be anti-inflammatory (low in grains and
potato-free), and should be supplemented with a fish body oil and
coconut oil.
Tuesday - November
22, 2016 - Today In History:
1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed
during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers
cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed
more than 25 times.
1935 - The first trans-Pacific airmail flight began in Alameda, CA, when
the flying boat known as the China Clipper left for Manila. The craft
was carrying over 110,000 pieces of mail.
1942 - During World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad began.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the
measures for defeating Japan.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a
motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also
seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as
the 36th U.S. President.
1967 - The U.N. Security Council approved resolution 242. The resolution
called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured in 1967
and called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon lifted a ban on American travel
to Cuba. The ban had been put in place on February 8, 1963.
1974 - The U.N. General Assembly gave the Palestine Liberation
Organization observer status.
1977 - Regular passenger service on the Concorde began between New York
and Europe.
1983 - The Bundestag approved NATO's plan to deploy new U.S. nuclear
missiles in West Germany.
1985 - 38,648 immigrants became citizens of the United States. It was
the largest swearing-in ceremony.
1986 - An Iranian surface-to-surface missile hit a residential area in
the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, wounding 20 civilians.
1986 - Attorney General Meese's office discovered a memo in Colonel
Oliver North's office that included an amount of money to be sent to the
Contras from the profits of weapons sales to Iran.
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush, his wife, Barbara, and other
congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in
Saudi Arabia.
1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced she would
resign.
1993 - Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved the North American Free
Trade Agreement.
1998 - CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal
drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was
later sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder.
2005 - Angela Merkel was elected as Germany's first female chancellor.
2013 - The discovery of Siats meekerorum was announced. The dinosaur
skeleton, more than 30 feet long, was found in eastern Utah.
Russia Deploys Nuclear Missiles In Retaliation To NATO "Threats"
Zero Hedge - ... a highly placed defense official said on
Monday, Moscow will deploy S-400 surface-to-air missiles and
nuclear-capable Iskander systems in the exclave of Kaliningrad
in retaliation for NATO deployments, confirming previous media
reports of Russian intentions to once again blanket central
Europe with potential nuclear ICBM coverage. While Russia has
previously said it periodically sends Iskanders to Kaliningrad,
until now it has always said these were routine drills. Moscow
has not linked the moves explicitly with what it says is a NATO
military build-up on Russia's western borders.... Viktor Ozerov,
chairman of the defense committee in the Federation Council,
Russia's upper house of parliament, said in remarks reported by
RIA news agency that Russia was forced to react to the planned
U.S. missile shield in eastern Europe. "As response measures to
such threats we will have... to deploy additional forces... This
reinforcement includes deployment of S-400 and Iskander systems
in Kaliningrad," the Reuters quoted Ozerov as saying.
Additionally, Vladimir Putin also on Monday was quoted talking
about how Russia has to respond to what it perceives as a threat
from U.S.-led forces in eastern Europe. "Why are we reacting to
NATO expansion so emotionally? We are concerned by NATO's
decision making," RIA quoted him as saying in an interview for a
documentary that will be broadcast by Russian TV later on
Monday. "What should we do? We have, therefore, to take
countermeasures, which means to target with our missile systems
the facilities, that, in our opinion, start posing a threat to
us," Putin said.
ISIS suicide bomber kills at least 32 including women and
children at a mosque in Afghanistan's capital
Daily Mail - An ISIS suicide bomber has killed 32 including
women and children worshipping at a crowded mosque in
Afghanistan's capital. The attacker was mingling in the crowds
inside the Baqirul Olum mosque in the west of Kabul when he
detonated a massive bomb. More than 60 were injured in the
blast, the latest sectarian attack claimed by ISIS in the
city.... The worshippers were gathering for the major Shiite
ceremony of Arbaeen marking the end of a 40-day mourning period
after Ashura, which commemorates the death of Imam Hussein.
Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was assassinated in
the year 680. His fate laid the foundation for the faith
practised by the Shiite community, a minority in mainly Sunni
Muslim Afghanistan.... ISIS claimed the attack in a statement
via the jihadist-linked Amaq news agency.... Mosques in Kabul
generally do not have any security - though police patrols can
be seen near some on Fridays - and some eyewitnesses criticised
the government over the lack of protection.... Fighters from
ISIS, which controls territory across Syria and Iraq, have been
making steady inroads in Afghanistan, challenging the Taliban on
their own turf, primarily in the country's east. The Taliban,
who are waging a bloody war to topple the US-backed Afghan
government, said they were not involved in Monday's attack....
Millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims gather each year in the holy
Iraqi city of Karbala for the Arbaeen pilgrimage, one of the
world's largest religious events. The pilgrimage is seen as a
major potential target for sectarian attacks.
Amid Anti-globalist Outcry, New Push to Grant UN Tax Powers
The New American - The most recent globalist demand for greater
UN powers over taxation came from UN “human rights expert”
Alfred de Zayas, a Cuban-born “international lawyer,” who
demanded “an international Tax Body to fight tax evasion and
corruption, phase-out tax havens, stop competition among tax
jurisdictions and abolish secrecy.” Translated into plain
English, Zayas called for a new globalist UN bureaucracy with
draconian law-enforcement powers, a full-blown assault on
self-government and democratic principles, a UN effort to
harmonize and rig taxation policy worldwide in favor of
oppressive Big Government, and a total end to privacy. The
policies would undoubtedly produce a collapse in prosperity, in
addition to crushing liberty and self-government. Despite the
use of Orwellian double-speak aimed at concealing the
totalitarian nature of the demands, Zayas was blunt in his
demands, treating the UN as if it already were (in the words of
the UN's outgoing secretary-general) the “Parliament of
Humanity.” “The United Nations must no longer tolerate the
scandal of secrecy jurisdictions that facilitate tax evasion,
corruption and money-laundering,” complained the UN “Independent
Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable
international order,” appointed by the dictator-dominated UN
Human Rights Council, in a presentation to the
dictator-dominated UN General Assembly about his report on the
subject. “Concerted action must be taken to counter criminal
abuses by individuals, speculators, hedge funds and
transnational enterprises who skirt taxes and loot governments,”
Zayas claimed. “Corruption, bribery, tax fraud and tax evasion
have such grave effects on human welfare that they must be
exposed, prosecuted and punished nationally and
internationally.”.... The ultra-far-left bureaucrat also claimed
that “the UN provides the most effective way to achieve an
equitable global tax system, increase domestic resource
mobilization and reduce intra-State and inter-State inequality.”
7.3 quake off Fukushima triggers imminent tsunami
RT - A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake has struck Fukushima
Prefecture in Japan, USGS reported. A three meter tsunami wave
alert was issued for Fukushima. The quake struck 67km northeast
of Iwaki, a city located in the southern part of the Hamadori
coastal region of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. According to the
Japan Meteorological Agency the quake struck at 5:59am JST at a
depth of 10km. “Tsunami warnings or advisories are currently in
effect,” the agency said. Residents near the coast are being
told to evacuate and seek higher ground. Tsunami waves are
expected to hit repeatedly and are expected to arrive imminently
in the Fukushima area, the JAM warning said. “Damage due to
tsunami waves is expected.Evacuate immediately from coastal
regions and riverside areas to a safer place such as high ground
or an evacuation building. Tsunami waves are expected to hit
repeatedly. Do not leave safe ground until the warning is
lifted,” JMA warned. Meanwhile the Pacific Tsunami Warning
center has issued “a tsunami threat message for other parts of
the Pacific located closer to earthquake,” while stressing that
there is no tsunami threat for the US state of Hawaii. According
to the latest estimates by Japan's authorities, waves of up to
three meters high will arrive ashore by 6:30am local time…. NHK
News Japan warned those living on the coastline in Fukushima to
“hurry up and run away.”
Fukushima reactor cooling system stops following quake & tsunami
RT - The cooling system of the third reactor at the Fukushima
nuclear power plant has stopped circulating water following a
powerful 7.3 offshore earthquake. TEPCO said it managed to
restart the system some 90 minutes after the failure. The
cooling system servicing the Unit 3 spent fuel pool was not able
to circulate water to cool the nuclear fuel because of a broken
pump, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. The
temperature in the pool went up to 28.7 degrees Celsius. It
takes up to seven days for temperatures to rise to 65 degrees
Celsius, which is the upper operational limit, Japan’s national
nuclear agency said.
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Report: Trump TRASHES Media In Off-The-Record Meeting
The Daily Caller - “The TV execs and anchors went in there
thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to
the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style
dressing down,” the source told the Post. Another source said
the meeting contained about thirty to forty leading news
figures, including “the big news anchors from all the networks.”
But if they expected Trump to respect them more as
president-elect than he did as a candidate, they were sorely
mistaken. “Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the
deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong,'” the person
said. “He addressed everyone in the room calling the media
dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name
and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was network of
liars … It was a horrible meeting.” If Trump did in fact single
out CNN for ridicule, he had reason to do so. Emails leaked by
Wikileaks revealed that DNC chair Donna Brazile used her role at
CNN to forward debate questions to Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign. The network also reached out to Clinton’s
campaign to solicit potential questions to ask when interviewing
Trump and Ted Cruz during the Republican primary. According to
the Post, Trump also directed ridicule towards Martha Raddatz,
who helped moderate the second presidential debate and also
broke down in tears on election night due to Hillary Clinton’s
defeat. Since the meeting was off-the-record, only anonymous
accounts of it are trickling out. While the Post claims the
meeting was deeply hostile, though, CNN’s own description of the
meeting suggests it was more professional and subdued. A source
told CNN that “real progress” was made in the meeting and that
media members were able to express to Trump the importance of
having a press pool around him. Last week, Trump outraged the
media by sneaking out of Trump Tower to visit a nearby
steakhouse without alerting the pool.
Video: Donald Trump Releases Video Update on Transition Team’s
Progress
The Gateway Pundit - Donald Trump produced the video sometime
between meeting with potential cabinet members and his private
thrashing of media elites. Here is the transcript from Donald
Trump’s Monday video…
Google Is Funding a "Ministry of Truth" With Corporate Media
Outlets Known for Deadly Deception
The Free Thought Project - MSM outlets such as NYMag, LA Times
and the Independent immediately picked up on a list of “False,
Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources”
produced by a university professor. Without providing reasoning
or examples to back up the claim that this list should be taken
seriously, it was held up as a blacklist to be avoided. That may
have been only the first salvo, as far greater plans are in the
works, represented by something called the First Draft
Coalition. Funded by Google News Lab, this coalition of “over
thirty major news and technology organisations” aims to “tackle
issues of trust and truth in reporting information that emerges
online.” Notable members include the New York Times, Washington
Post, CNN and BBC. They have anointed themselves as a sort of
Ministry of Truth, as Robert Parry describes in his examination
of the “fake news” subject “So, who are the “responsible”
journalists who should be anointed to regulate what the world’s
public gets to see and hear? For that Orwellian task, a kind of
Ministry of Truth has been set up by Google, called the First
Draft Coalition, which touts itself as a collection of 30 major
news and technology companies, including the Times and Post,
tackling “fake news” and creating a platform to decide which
stories are questionable and which ones aren’t.” However, these
self-appointed deciders have their own dubious history with
accuracy in journalism.... Parry believes that if this “Ministry
of Truth” called the First Draft Coalition existed during
Iran-Contra and the Iraq invasion, the voices of dissent that
ultimately exposed government and MSM lies would have been
quashed. U.S. intervention in Syria and the nurturing of the
Salafist sect that went on to become ISIS — as well as the
McCarthyist aggression against Russia — all could not have
happened without the support of Washington think-tanks and MSM
cheerleaders toeing the government line.
Elites Staying Away From Clinton Foundation
The Daily Caller - Clinton Foundation officials were able to
attract only five new donors between July 1 and September 30 —
the controversial charity’s third quarter — The Daily Caller
News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. Foundation
officials delayed release of the quarterly report of its latest
donors on its website until the after the Nov. 8 presidential
election, which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost
to Republican rival Donald Trump. The low number of new donors
may indicate potential contributors were frightened away by
repeated news reports that the Clinton charity is under FBI
investigation regarding multiple allegations of “pay-to-play”
influence-peddling schemes involving both Hillary Clinton and
former President Bill Clinton, as well as their key political
aides. “A lot of questions have been raised, and I think donors
are understandably cautious about getting involved with this
deeply troubled charity,” Charles Ortel, a Wall Street analyst
and philanthropy expert, told TheDCNF. Cleta Mitchell, a
Washington, D.C., attorney who specializes in nonprofit
foundations, told TheDCNF, “Since the Clinton Foundation was all
built on influence peddling with, by and for the Clintons, in
order to enrich them, the question is: who will the Clintons now
be able to influence? What will the influence seekers now get
for their money?”
THOUSANDS Of Green Cards Are Missing
The Daily Caller - “It appears that thousands of green cards
have simply gone missing,” DHS Inspector General John Roth said
in a news release. “In the wrong hands, green cards may enable
terrorists, criminals, and undocumented aliens to remain in the
United States. It is vital that USCIS ensure better tools and
procedures are in place to mitigate such risks.” The USCIS [U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services] in the last three years
received more than 200,000 reports from approved applicants
claiming their cards were never delivered, the IG found.
Monday’s audit — a follow-up to a March IG report saying USCIS
officials sent hundreds of green cards to the wrong addresses —
revealed “the problem was far worse than originally thought,”
the IG said. But the actual number of missing cards is unknown,
as USCIS relies on reports from applicants, the IG said. The
number of reports about missing cards increased from 44,519 in
fiscal year 2013, to 67,247 in fiscal year 2014, to 92,645 in
fiscal year 2015, partly because of technical problems with the
agency’s immigration database and partly due to U.S. Postal
Service issues, according to the IG. The IG also found USCIS
produced at least 19,000 cards with incorrect information or
were duplicates. USCIS, in addition, gave cards with 10-year
expiration dates to 2,400 immigrants approved only for two-year
conditional residence status. USCIS hasn’t recovered the
majority of those incorrect cards.... The USCIS questioned the
fairness of the IG’s finding on cards sent to the wrong
addresses, claiming USCIS uses the last known address of the
applicant and the 200,000 figure includes people who call
multiple times for service.
Drugs Are Killing More Americans Than Road Crashes
Zero Hedge - So much for the so-called 'war on drugs'... The
United States has been gripped by a heroin and opiate epidemic
with user numbers recently hitting a 20 year high. In 2014, the
number of U.S. heroin users passed the million mark with deaths
from overdoses rising steeply. And as Statista's Niall McCarthy
writes, drugs are now killing substantially more Americans every
year than car crashes. In 2004, 30,711 deaths were drug related
compared to 42,836 in motor vehicle accidents. A decade later,
drug-induced deaths reached 49,714 while road crash deaths fell
to 32,675. As well as the cheap suppy of heroin, legistlation
aimed at eliminating prescription opioid abuse has actually
added to the problem. It involved changing the texture of the
pills to make them more difficult to crush and inject into the
bloodstream. That move made people shift over to heroin in
droves. New and deadlier drugs such as Fentanyl are also adding
to the overdose epidemic. 50 times more potent than heroin,
Fentanyl has created an overdose spike in several north-eastern
states and has been named as the drug that killed pop singer
Prince earlier this year.
Casualties Stack Up in the War on Cops
LifeZette - Four police officers have been shot in four separate
cities in the last 24 hours - and at least two of those
shootings appear to have been intentional ambushes, authorities
report. Benjamin Marconi, a detective in San Antonio, Texas, was
shot to death on Sunday while writing a traffic ticket in his
squad car. It was parked in front of police headquarters. A
driver in another vehicle pulled up behind to the unsuspecting
officer and opened fire. A police sergeant in St. Louis,
Missouri was hospitalized after being shot twice in the face
Sunday night during an ambush. The suspect was killed early
Monday during a shootout with police. “This officer was driving
down the road and was ambushed by an individual who pointed a
gun at him from inside of his car and shot out the police
officer’s window,” said St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson. Also
in Missouri, a Gladstone Police Department officer was shot near
Kansas City while trying to take a suspect into custody for a
traffic violation, and in Sanibel, Florida, an officer was shot
during a routine traffic stop.... The San Antonio detective
murdered on Sunday is at least the 13th law enforcement officer
to be murdered in an ambush-style attack since 2014.... Perhaps
even more disturbing than this epidemic of anti-police violence
is President Obama's apparent indifference to it. Obama has made
no public appearance nor issued any statement in response to the
horrific attacks on our nation's finest - despite the fact that
it has been nearly 24 hours since Detective Marconi was
assassinated.
College Teaches Founding Fathers Were ‘Terrorists,’ CEOs Should
Be in Prison
Breitbart - A report by The College Fix revealed that two
professors at a public Colorado university are indoctrinating
students with a heavy dose of Marxist revisionism. The course,
which is entitled “Resistance and Revolution,” is co-taught by
two professors, history lecturer Jared Benson and sociology
instructor Nicholas Lee, who collaborated together on the
course. In the course, Benson and Lee argue that ideals upon
which America was founded were “merely a fabrication for a
social movement.” Lee argues that they participated in tarring
and feathering in effigy, thus qualifying them as a “terrorist
organization.” Despite their claims, there is little to no
evidence that the Founding Fathers participated in such
activities.
EpiPen maker refuses to testify to Senate on $465mn settlement
RT - EpiPen maker Mylan is declining to show up in front of the
Senate Judiciary Committee to address its potential $465 million
settlement with the federal government for defrauding Medicaid.
A hearing titled, "Oversight of the EpiPen Crisis and
Settlement: Where is the Federal Government in Looking out for
Taxpayers and Patients?” has been slated for November 30.
However, Pennsylvania-based Mylan NV has opted to “respectfully”
turn down the invitation and attend the hearing. “Given the
stated focus of the proposed hearing, the fact that it involves
a pending matter, and that the government agencies in question
will not be able to send a witness to testify or provide further
information, Mylan respectfully declines the invitation to
testify,” Mylan's lawyers, Latham & Watkins, said in a letter
sent to the US Senate committee on November 18. “Given the
stated focus of the proposed hearing, the fact that it involves
a pending matter, and that the government agencies in question
will not be able to send a witness to testify or provide further
information, Mylan respectfully declines the invitation to
testify,” Mylan's lawyers, Latham & Watkins, said in a letter
sent to the US Senate committee on November 18. “Taxpayers have
paid and based on reports, continue to pay hundreds of millions
of dollars more for the EpiPen than they have to pay. This
happened because either the agencies in charge dropped the ball,
the company gamed the system, or both,” Grassley said in a
statement. “One way or another, I intend to get answers for
patients and taxpayers,” he added.
Thanksgiving: Pennsylvania Man Anonymously Leads Effort to Feed
150 Families
Breitbart - A mystery man in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania has
delivered Thanksgiving meal preparations for 150 families in the
borough of Ambler, local officials report. It is the ninth year
in a row this unknown donor has helped needy Pennsylvania
families. The donor, who has remained anonymous for almost a
decade, told Philadelphia’s Fox 29, “We started the first year
in 2008 with 30 families… this year we’re at 150 families, 3,000
pounds of turkey, $22,000 worth of groceries.” This year’s meals
were donated to the Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund, an effort
which serves underprivileged families, many with sick children.
Mary Berlin, a worker at n Easter Seals school in Lansdale, was
thrilled with the donations when she came by the Wissahickon
Fire Company in Ambler to pick up some of the meals. “It means
everything to them,” she said of the needy families she serves.
“Otherwise, they’d be going to a soup kitchen… this way they can
actually have a really nice dinner at home with their kids.”
Thanksgiving and Christmas are ideal times to donate to a local
food bank to help those in need. But needy families need help
all year around. If you would like to help, you can find a local
food bank near you at the Feeding America food bank search site
or a similar search tool hosted by AmpleHarvest.org. And don’t
forget your local church as every church has groups they work
with, as well.
Dallas Bankruptcy Threat
Economic Policy Journal - Dallas has the fastest economic growth
of the nation’s 13 largest cities. Its streets hum with
supersize cars and its skyline bristles with cranes.... Hundreds
of multinational corporations have chosen Dallas for their
headquarters, most recently Jacobs Engineering, which is moving
to low-tax Texas from pricey Pasadena, Calif. But under its
glittering surface, Dallas has a problem that could bring it to
its knees, and that could be an early test of America’s
postelection commitment to safe streets and tax relief: The
city’s pension fund for its police officers and firefighters is
near collapse and seeking an immense bailout. Over six recent
weeks, panicked Dallas retirees have pulled $220 million out of
the fund. What set off the run was a recommendation in July that
the retirees no longer be allowed to take out big blocks of
money. Even before that, though, there were reports that the
fund’s investments - some placed in highly risky and speculative
ventures - were worth less than previously stated. What is
happening in Dallas is an extreme example of what’s happening in
many other places around the country. Elected officials promised
workers solid pensions years ago, on the basis of wishful
thinking rather than realistic expectations. Dallas’s troubles
have become more urgent because its plan rules let some retirees
take big withdrawals. Now, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension
System has asked the city for a one-time infusion of $1.1
billion, an amount roughly equal to Dallas's entire general fund
budget but not even close to what the pension fund needs to be
fully funded.
U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loan Debt
Financeography.com - Officially, the nation owes $1.26 trillion
in student loan debt. Realistically, we are probably over the
$1.3 trillion mark when taking into account the fact that the
Fall semester has just started and many Spring graduates are
still in the grace period. Just one year ago, student loan debt
was at $1.19 trillion. About $70 billion worth of student loans
have been added in the last 365 days. Student loan debt has been
the largest sector of non-mortgage debt since March 2010 and it
seems to be growing at what might be an untenable pace. At the
beginning of 2004, the nation owed about $260 billion in student
loan debt and default rates were relatively low. In the past 12
years, we have added a trillion dollars to that amount and
gained about 4% in the overall college graduation rate. While an
educated populous is a good thing, the number of those not
making payments on their student loan debt as soared.
Approximately 40% of those who owe money on student loan debts
are not making any payments on them at all, either from
defaults, forbearance, deferment, or being delinquent. Some
analysts have predicted that student loans are the next bubble
ready to pop, much like the (albeit much larger) housing bubble
in 2008. What has many people on the fence is the fact that you
can get rid of a home loan in bankruptcy proceedings, but your
student loans are likely stuck with you except in extreme
cases.... In addition, federal student loans are going to stick
on a credit report for years past the standard 7 year reporting
statute of limitations.
Standing Rock protest: hundreds clash with police over Dakota Access
Pipeline (Video)
The Guardian - Law enforcement officials in North Dakota have deployed
tear gas and water hoses against hundreds of activists protesting
against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protesters also reported being hit
with rubber bullets and percussion grenades on a bridge just north of
the encampments established by indigenous and environmental activists in
opposition to the controversial pipeline. “They were attacked with water
cannons,” said LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, a Standing Rock Sioux tribe
member and founder of the Sacred Stone camp. “It is 23 degrees [-5 °C]
out there with mace, rubber bullets, pepper spray, etc. They are being
trapped and attacked. Pray for my people.” The Morton County Sheriffs
Department described the incident as an “ongoing riot” and described the
protestors as “very aggressive”. A spokesman for the sheriffs department
said that law enforcement was spraying water because protesters were
lighting fires on and around the bridge. One person was arrested,
according to the sheriffs department. “As medical professionals, we are
concerned for the real risk of loss of life due to severe hypothermia
under these conditions,” the Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council said
in a statement posted on Facebook. One hundred sixty-seven people were
injured and seven were taken to the hospital, according to Jade Begay, a
spokeswoman for the Indigenous Environmental Network. The incident is
the latest violent clash between the unarmed anti-pipeline activists,
who call themselves “water protectors”, and a highly militarized police
force. More than 400 activists have been arrested since the protests
began, and law enforcement has deployed pepper spray, teargas, rubber
bullets, Tasers, sound weapons, and other “less-than-lethal” weapons.
Hackers Force "Bank ATMs to Spew Cash": Grid Vulnerabilities
System-wide
With everything online, nothing is safe from criminals. Every
ATM and every device is potentially hackable, and now a string
of banks in Asia is learning the hard way that many people will
go to great lengths in order to hit jackpot. via WSJ:
"Cybercriminals who once earned millions by breaking into
individual online bank accounts are now targeting the banks’ own
computers, with often-dramatic results. In Taiwan and Thailand
earlier this year, the criminals programmed bank ATMs to spew
cash. Gang members stood in front of the machines at the
appointed hour and collected millions of dollars. Earlier this
month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. banks of
the potential for similar attacks. The FBI said in a bulletin
that it is “monitoring emerging reports indicating that
well-resourced and organized malicious cyber actors have
intentions to target the U.S. financial sector.” The FBI
bulletin cited software used by a Russian gang known as Buhtrap.
Sometimes the hackers break into the systems that process
transactions on banking payment networks; other times they have
hit ATM networks directly.... “These guys, who could have been
in the past just going after consumers…are breaking into
financial institutions,” said Eric Chien, technical director of
Symantec Corp.’s Security Technology and Response division. The
computer code to carry out the attacks was released earlier this
year by a disgruntled Buhtrap member”…. It seems that ample
evidence exists that the powers that be shouldn’t be wrapping
everything up in the grid, and yet they are. While these kinds
of events reinforce the reasons that we shouldn’t invest
everything in the banks, or trust the system to be there when we
need it, but rather to hedge into cash, commodities, barter and
as much self-reliance as one could muster.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Big Dairy Beware: Donald Trump Drinks Raw Milk!
Healthy Home Economist - Whatever you may think about
President-elect Donald Trump, you have to admit one thing. The
guy sure has a ton of energy for 70 years old! I know plenty of
40-somethings who couldn’t keep up with The Donald’s busy
schedule. You probably do too. Not many people could juggle the
many businesses comprising his $10 billion empire along with
running for President of the United States. How does Trump do
it? It doesn’t seem to be a rigorous fitness regimen. By his own
admission, he is technically overweight and needs to lose a few
pounds. Maybe it’s a steady supply of coffee. But, perhaps it is
actually his predilection for one of the most nutrient-dense and
traditional of foods: unpasteurized raw milk!… The great news
for the traditional foods community is that the country now has
a President-elect and First Lady who are more than a little
sympathetic to their cause. They are fans! Will the
President-elect roll back the decades long ban on interstate
sales of raw milk in the United States? My bet is that he will
at least consider it, although he certainly has much more
pressing issues to deal with first. The ban on state-to-state
raw milk commerce is the single greatest impediment to
unpasteurized dairy sales in the United States. Given that the
President-Elect is a businessman, he will undoubtedly understand
the positive implications of eliminating such a regulatory
obstacle. How would Trump accomplish this given that the federal
ban is the result of a court order, not a Presidential executive
order as widely believed? One way would be lack of enforcement
action by the FDA. You see, there is a loophole in the ban that
allows shipment of raw dairy as long as it is not in final
package form. Hence, it could be argued that raw milk products
that are frozen or not labeled are not in final package form
which opens up shipments between states. Since the FDA is part
of the Executive branch of government, of which the President of
the United States is the head, Trump could potentially allow the
loophole to be used by raw dairy farmers to legally ship across
state lines.
Probiotics could reverse diabetes as link to gut discovered
What Doctors Don't Tell You - Diabetes and metabolic syndrome,
which encompasses diabetes, obesity and heart disease, come
about when the ‘cross-talk’ between the immune system, gut
bacteria and glucose metabolism breaks down. Gut bacteria play
an essential role in regulating glucose metabolism, and
diabetes, obesity and heart disease can be the outcome when the
interplay between them and the immune system is interrupted.
Diabetes is the body’s inability to properly break down glucose
from carbohydrates. That means that diabetes could be reversed
with probiotics, which help the gut restore ‘good’ bacteria.
Right now, this is a whole new area of research, called
immunometabolism, says Dr Natalia Shulzhenko, at the Oregon
State University. “We’re discovering that in biology there are
multiple connections and communications, what we call
cross-talk, that are very important in ways we’re just beginning
to understand,” she said.
Ginseng Can Help Treat and Prevent Influenza
Healthy Holistic Living - Scientists from Georgia State
University’s Institute for Biomedical Sciences partnered with a
university in South Korea for a study. They found that ginseng
can help treat and prevent influenza A. They also found that
ginseng may be effective to treat and prevent respiratory
syncytial virus (RSV), a respiratory virus that infects the
lungs and breathing passages. RSV affects millions of people.
It’s the leading cause of inflammatory bronchiolitis pneumonia
and viral death in infants and in some elderly adults…. The
researchers found that red ginseng extract improves the survival
of human lung epithelial cells infected with the influenza
virus. They also found that it reduced the expression of genes
that cause inflammation. The author believes that red ginseng
extract’s beneficial effects may result from its antioxidant
powers and its ability to modify immune response. A related
study by the same author found Korean red ginseng extract
improved the survival of human lung epithelial cells against RSV
infection. It also inhibited the virus from replicating, or
multiplying, in the body.
Purina Beneful Walks Away from Accountability
Susan Thixton - A lawsuit against Purina linking the illness and/or
death of 1,400 dogs to Beneful Dog Food has been dismissed. Another pet
food…walks away, responsibility free. The FDA began receiving a
concerning number of consumer complaints of Beneful Dog Food in 2012, an
average of three complaints of sick or dead pets per month. In 2013 the
FDA had received so many complaints against Beneful the agency initiated
an investigation/inspection of three Beneful pet food manufacturing
plants. The FDA found… Six samples of Beneful Dog Food tested above
legal limits for cyanuric acid and melamine (the very same poisonous
combination responsible for the 2007 pet food recall). Six samples of
Beneful Dog Food tested to contain ethoxyquin which was not listed on
the label (it is illegal for a pet food to include an ingredient but not
list it on the product label). Purina refused to provide FDA with copies
of records. Purina refused to disclose the safety tests the company
performs on ingredients to FDA. Purina refused to disclose the actual
contents or weights of individual ingredients that went into lots of
foods consumers had reported killed or sickened their pet. Purina
refused to allow FDA to take photographs of manufacturing plants. Even
though the FDA found sound scientific and legal reasons for a recall
(melamine and ethoxyquin), the agency ended their investigation into
Beneful with a ‘talk’ with Purina; no recall, no accountability to the
families of dead pets…. The court’s dismissal order states two expert
witnesses – veterinarians – were not qualified as experts and their
testimony was not taken into consideration.
Monday - November
21, 2016 - Today In History:
1620 - The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the
Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S.
Constitution.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to
serve as a member of the U.S. Senate.
1942 - The Alaska Highway across Canada was formally opened.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived
in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of
Texas that would end in Dallas.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt,
announced the presence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House
tape recordings related to the Watergate case.
1979 - The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was attacked by a mob
that set the building afire and killed two Americans.
1980 - Millions tune in to find out who shot J.R.
1980 - 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las
Vegas, NV.
1985 - Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was
arrested after being accused of spying for Israel. He was later
sentenced to life in prison.
1986 - U.S. Attorney General Meese was asked to conduct an inquiry of
the Iran arms sales.
1992 - Senator Bob Packwood, issued an apology but refused to discuss
allegations that he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women in
past years.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted against making the
District of Columbia the 51st state.
1994 - NATO warplanes bombed an air base in Serb-held Croatia that was
being used by Serb planes to raid the Bosnian "safe area" of Bihac.
1995 - France detonated its fourth underground nuclear blast at a test
site in the South Pacific.
2000 - The Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to keep the
presidential recounts going.
2002 - NATO invited Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania,
Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2013 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 16,000 for the
first time.
Putin Vows to “Choke” NATO if it Continues Encirclement of
Russia (Video)
Paul Joseph Watson - During a live question and answer session,
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to “choke” NATO if it
continued to encircle Russia by interfering in Ukraine and
Georgia. Although many are expecting an easing of tensions
between the United States and Russia after the election of
Donald Trump, Putin made it clear that there is no love lost
between Moscow and the NATO alliance. Putin was asked a question
by TV host Dmitry Kisiliov, the man who previously expressed his
fear that Donald Trump would be assassinated before he became
president. Kisiliov also asserted that the Obama White House may
stage a provocation to go to war with Russia and Syria. “I feel
like out country is encircled within a ring, I personally feel a
certain suffocation, like someone is strangling me, I feel it is
NATO,” said Kisiliov. Claiming that NATO was “spreading like a
cancerous tumor” and was preparing to swallow up Ukraine and
Georgia, Kisiliov asked Putin, “So where is the red line? How do
you feel about it?” “We can choke everyone, why are you so
afraid?” responded Putin, to widespread applause from the
audience. “We are not fearful, I have no fear and nobody
should,” added the Russian president. Putin’s statement follows
a fiery exchange between U.S. State Department spokesman John
Kirby and RT reporter Gayane Chichakyan during which Kirby
asserted that he was not, “going to put Russia Today [RT] on the
same level with the rest of [the journalists] who are
representing independent media outlets.” Russian Foreign
Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded by calling the
incident “outrageous” and “revolting”.
Syrian Rebels Fret Over Trump’s Plan To Cancel Funding
The AntiMedia - President-elect Donald Trump is planning a major
overhaul to US policy in Syria, and that’s got the putative
“moderate” rebels that have been getting US funds and weapons
fretting, as the CIA program responsible for smuggling that gear
in is set to be cancelled. The CIA has been eager to regularly
increase the amount of weapons provided to the rebels, and has
sought to shift the focus of US policy in Syria toward imposing
regime change, and to dial down efforts to go after ISIS. Trump
campaigned on the oppose, moving away from the regime change
efforts and focusing on fighting ISIS. Some of the rebels are
hoping Trump’s opposition to arming them directly might actually
work out in their favor, theorizing that without direct US
involvement, Trump will be more ambivalent about what the Saudis
give the rebels, allowing Saudi forces to throw ever more
advanced arms at them. While President Obama continued arming
the rebels despite their ineffectiveness on the battle field and
growing signs that they were aligning with Islamist factions
within Syria, he limited the types of weapons the Saudis could
smuggle in to them, particularly anti-aircraft weapons that
might end up used against civilian aircraft, or given to
Islamist groups that might attack US planes.
Queen Elizabeth to Invite Trump to Britain for State Visit
Breitbart - Citing two ministers and a senior official close to
Downing Street, the Sunday Times reported that discussions
between British officials and Trump’s team would start soon to
ensure that a date could be agreed for June or July next year.
Britain is keen to reinforce its “special relationship” with the
United States as the government of Prime Minister Theresa May
prepares to leave the European Union, a divorce that will shape
the country’s standing in the world. Trump invited May to visit
him as soon as possible during their first telephone call since
his election victory, the British prime minister’s office has
said. Aides for May have said as yet there is no date for the
trip. The Sunday Times said the British government hopes that an
official state visit will be its “secret weapon” for cementing
ties after Trump met leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage
earlier this month – the first British politician to do so.
Monkey snatching schoolgirl’s headscarf sparks clashes in Libya,
leaving 16 dead
RT - Four days of clashes between rival tribal militias in the
Libyan city of Sabha have left at least 16 people dead and 50
injured. The violence was reportedly triggered by a monkey that
snatched the headscarf off of a tribal girl. The monkey, which
belonged to a shopkeeper from the Gaddadfa tribe, pulled the
headwear off a schoolgirl from the Awlad Suleiman tribe who was
passing by with a group of other girls, reported Reuters, citing
locals. Awlad Suleiman fighters retaliated in response, killing
three members of the Gaddadfa tribe along with the monkey in a
wave of violence involving heavy weapons. “There was an
escalation on the second and third days with the use of tanks,
mortars and other heavy weapons,” a local resident told the
agency by phone, adding “there are still sporadic clashes and
life is completely shut down in the areas where there has been
fighting.” Sabha is located in a tribal part of southern Libya.
Like other parts of the country, it remains plagued by violence
amongst rival factions. The region is also a major hub for arms
smuggling, refugee trafficking, and other illegal activities.
The Gaddadfa and the Awlad Suleiman are the two most powerful
factions in the Sabha region.... Once one of the richest
countries in Northern Africa, Libya was plunged into chaos after
a NATO-assisted uprising toppled strongman Muammar Gaddafi in
2011. The country is now a major hub for human smugglers who
transport refugees from across the region to Europe.
Marine Le Pen Takes "Huge Lead" In French Presidential Election
Poll Just Days After Being Written Off
Zero Hedge - The pollsters have done it again. Just four days
after the Independent reported that pollsters said Marine Le Pen
has "next to no chance" of winning the French presidency...
today we learned that contrary to previous polls, the leader of
National Front leader Marine - the person whose surge in the
past few years has been most equated to the French populist
revolt that has taken place in the UK and US - has taken a
commanding lead in the latest French presidential election
poll.... In 2012, Le Pen came third in the first round of the
French presidential race with 17.9% of the vote, behind Mr
Sarkozy with 27.18% and eventual winner Mr Hollande with 28.63%.
Four year later she is, as of this moment, an undisputed winner
in all three head-to-head match ups.... And so Europe is
panicking again: the latest French polls are "likely to add to
growing fears that the rise of global populism could see Ms Le
Pen on course to clinch the French presidential win, in the wake
of the UK’s Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s victory in the US
election" according to the Independent.... For those unfamiliar,
Le Pen has led the far-right National Front since 2011, when she
succeeded her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, the party’s founder....
Just like Trump, critics have frequently branded Marine Le Pen a
"fascist" and accused her of exploiting growing anti-immigration
sentiment. Le Pen was among the first world leaders to
congratulate Donald Trump on his victory two weeks ago, and said
that "Americans have rejected the status quo" with their vote,
an outcome she hopes to repeat in France.
* Related:
Ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy concedes defeat in French vote
1,000s rally for tolerance in Indonesia amid blasphemy probe of
Christian governor
RT - The peaceful rally came in response to a government
investigation into a Chinese-Christian governor who is alleged
to have insulted Islam. Saturday’s event in downtown Jakarta saw
people dressed in red and white – Indonesia’s national colors.
The crowd included people from all walks of life – religious
clerics, members of human rights groups, lawmakers, and
concerned citizens – as they held up posters and chanted for
unity among their country’s diverse peoples.... Governor Basuki
Tjahaja Purnama, also known by his Chinese nickname Ahok, has
been crucified [figuratively, not literally] for insulting Islam
by some members of the public, as well as opposition
politicians, since he accused his rivals of “lying” about the
meaning of a Koranic verse. Apologies haven’t helped, nor did
the revelation that his comments had been inaccurately
subtitled. Islamists from near and far, including members of Al-Nusra
Front in Syria, used the opportunity to pounce on the
Christian-Chinese politician, accusing him of twisting the Koran
and issuing calls for violence at a recent rally demanding his
removal. This has opened up old wounds, and the country now
finds itself in the throes of a fresh ethno-religious upheaval
that culminated in Wednesday’s decision to prosecute Purnama for
making his remarks. He will now have to stand trial on the
charge of blasphemy and could face up to five years in prison
over the confusion. Saturday’s counter-rally was called to
demonstrate that there are opposing voices in Indonesian
society.... Although it subscribes to a moderate form of Islam,
Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation and
occasionally grapples with intolerance toward its religious and
ethnic minorities, which include Buddhists and Christians.
However, religious attacks are typically rather mild and often
aimed at denying senior government positions to non-Muslims....
The governor’s remarks referencing the Koran drew over 100,000
people into the streets of the Indonesian capital earlier this
month to demand his removal and call for the city not to vote
for him in the upcoming February elections.
Merkel admits Europe-US free trade deal is dead
RT - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has acknowledged the EU's
new free trade agreement with the US is no longer possible with
the election of Donald Trump, who opposes the deal. “The EU and
the US are the two largest trading regions and I have always
been very committed to the conclusion of a trade agreement with
the USA. We have done well, the negotiations cannot be finished
now, but we will stick to what we have achieved. I`m sure we`ll
come back to it someday,” the chancellor said following the
meeting with US President Barack Obama during his valedictory
European tour. The US president-elect has criticized
international trade agreements, campaigning on a promise to
scrap them once he is elected. International trade deals take
jobs away from American workers and hurt the country's
competitiveness, according to Trump.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Clinton Foundation Donations Plummeted by 37 Percent
Breitbart - Donations to the Clinton Foundation tanked in 2015
amid allegations that Hillary Clinton used the billion-dollar
charity to siphon seven-figure donations from foreign
governments and corporations, who received favorable government
actions while Clinton was Secretary of State. The Clinton’s
troubled charity received $108 million in donations in 2015,
down from a $172 million haul in 2014, according to the
organization’s tax records. The Clinton’s seven-figure speech
income collapsed, too, from $3.6 million in 2014 to $357,500 in
2015, the New York Post reports.
House passes bill targeting ‘midnight’ Obama regs
The Hill - The House on Thursday passed legislation that would
allow Congress to overturn in a single vote any regulations
finalized in the last days of the Obama administration. Despite
Democratic opposition, the Midnight Rule Relief Act passed
largely along party lines, by a 240-179 vote. The bill would
amend the Congressional Review Act to allow Congress to overturn
many rules all at once by way of a resolution.... House
Republicans are doing everything in their power to keep the
Obama administration from enacting any new rules in its final
days. Earlier in the week, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy
(R-Calif.) warned the federal agencies in a letter not to
finalize any pending rules or regulations from now to the
inauguration. Those that are, he assured, will be scrutinized
and - if appropriate - overturned. While the bill targets rules
finalized in the lame-duck period between Election Day and
President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, Rep. Hank
Johnson (D-Ga.) argues its reach is much further. Despite the
bill’s colorful title, he said the legislation allows Congress
to overturn rules finalized as far back as May.... The
administration has already threatened a veto if the bill were to
make it to the president’s desk. In a statement, the Executive
Office of the President said the bill is unnecessary because the
Congressional Review Act already allows for Congress to
disapprove rules on a case-by-case basis.
NPR BANS Live Interviews With Conservatives
The Federalist Papers - National Public Radio has apparently
decided that they’re no longer going to conduct live interviews
of conservative commentators who may have “controversial views.”
This comes after an interview with Breitbart’s Joel B. Pollak.
The news site’s editor-at-large was defending his former boss
(and Trump Administration appointee) Stephen Bannon from claims
of antisemitism and “white nationalism.” Things got difficult
for the taxpayer-funded radio network when Pollak turned the
tables and reminded them that NPR has their own “racist
programming” including a story that called the 2016 results
“nostalgia for a whiter America.” Listeners to the interview
were apparently outraged that anyone from Breitbart had been
given the opportunity to defend the website or its chairman. The
station’s ombudsman, Elizabeth Jensen, is recommending that the
news service ban future live interviews of conservatives. She
said that the live format allowed Pollack to “get the better” of
host Steve Inskeep. Future interviews should be taped, she said.
“In addition, in my opinion, these interviews should not be done
live. Inskeep is an excellent live interviewer, but live
interviews are difficult, especially when there is limited time.
A little contextualizing never hurts.” By “contextualizing,”
Jensen means selective editing. She means explaining what
someone is saying, or declaring it racist or anti-Semitic.
Breitbart reports: Jensen went on to argue that
“contextualizing” had worked for a similar interview with former
Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, as well as for an interview Nov.
17 with white nationalist Richard Spencer.
Ron Paul reveals hit list of alleged ‘fake news’ journalists
RT - Former congressman Ron Paul revealed a list of “fake news”
journalists he claims are responsible for “bogus wars” and lies
about Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the election.
Journalists from CNN, the New York Times, and the Guardian are
included. “This list contains the culprits who told us that Iraq
had weapons of mass destruction and lied us into multiple bogus
wars,” according to a report on his website, Ron Paul Liberty
Report. Paul claims the list is sourced and “holds a lot more
water” than a list previously released by Melissa Zimdars, who
is described on Paul’s website as “a leftist feminist
professor.” “These are the news sources that told us ‘if you
like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,’” he said. “They
told us that Hillary Clinton had a 98% of winning the election.
They tell us in a never-ending loop that ‘The economy is in
great shape!’” Paul’s list includes the full names of the “fake
news” journalists as well as the publications they write for,
with what appears to be hyperlinks to where the allegations are
sourced from. In most cases, this is WikiLeaks, but none of the
hyperlinks are working at present, leaving the exact sources of
the list unknown. CNN is Paul’s biggest alleged culprit, with
nine entries, followed by the NY Times and MSNBC, with six each.
The NY Times has recently come under fire from President-elect
Donald Trump, who accuses them of being “totally wrong” on news
regarding his transition team, while describing them as
“failing.”.... So-called ‘fake news’ has been recently attacked
by US President Barack Obama, who claimed that false news shared
online may have played a role in Donald Trump’s victory in the
US presidential election. Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg has now
said that the social media site may begin entrusting third
parties with filtering the news.
Trump Effect: Ford Plant Is Staying in Kentucky
LifeZette - “Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman
of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln
plant in Kentucky — no Mexico,” Trump tweeted [Thursday
evening]. Trump was apparently talking about the Lincoln MKC
small sport-utility vehicle. It is made at an assembly plant in
Louisville. The media immediately pounced on Trump, saying Ford
has never said it was moving the MKC assembly to Mexico. And
they were merciless, digging through Google and the web to find
proof that Ford never said it was closing its assembly line in
Kentucky and moving it to Mexico. But according to Bloomberg
News, Ford confirmed late Thursday it told Trump its Lincoln SUV
will stay in Kentucky. That didn't stop Jesse Singal, a New York
Magazine writer, from freaking out about Trump's tweet. In a
late-night tweet-storm, Singal said the claim was "post-truth,"
using one of the Left's cutesy new terms to describe Trump's
election and his communication methods. Still, Ford and Trump
spoke. Something was said that led Trump to believe Ford is
listening. Ford had previously said it was shifting some
production to Mexico. Now Ford is under tremendous pressure to
keep jobs in the United States. The "Trump Effect" is underway —
whether the media elites like it or not.
Newborn Seized Because Mom Opposed Vaccination (And, Yes, She’s
Suing)
Off the Grid News - A case that might dramatically expand
parental rights has been appealed to one of the highest courts
in the land. If the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals rules in
favor of Jodi and Scott Ferris, it might restrict the power of
social workers and medical professionals to take children and
make decisions for families. A lower court ruled against the
couple earlier this year without giving them the trial their
Home School Legal Defense Association attorneys had requested.
In October, the case was appealed to the Third Circuit. In 2010,
a social worker and police officers seized Jodi Ferris’ newborn
baby at the Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., just hours
after birth, allegedly because the mom refused to let the baby
get a vaccination and because she preferred natural childbirth
over hospital delivery. The workers reportedly kept the baby
girl for around 48 hours and only let Ferris see the infant
every few hours. The baby was eventually returned to Ferris and
her husband, Scott, but only after a court order. “That
afternoon a social worker and two police officers came to the
hospital and took our baby and kicked us out of the hospital,”
Ferris said in an HSLDA podcast. Ferris thinks the infant was
taken from her because she refused to let the child be
vaccinated for Hepatitis B, according to The Minot Daily News.
The baby was born in an ambulance in the medical center parking
lot after Ferris was rushed there in premature labor. Ferris had
wanted to give birth at home but couldn’t because her midwife
could not arrive in time. Jodi also said she thinks her belief
in alternative medical care and natural child birth caused staff
to take action against her…. The HSDLA filed a civil rights
complaint against doctors at the medical center and a social
worker in federal court in March 2012, claiming that the
couple’s Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated.
Obama Blames “Geography” for Hillary’s Thumping (VIDEO)
After the November 8th election Republicans hold their largest
majorities of power since the founding of the party in the
1800s. In 2010 Democrats lost the House to Republicans. In 2014
Democrats lost the Senate to Republicans. In 2016 Democrats lost
the presidency to Republicans. Republicans increased their
control in state legislatures leaving Democrats with their
lowest level since the Civil War. Obama blamed “geography” for
the loss. Rich Edson from FOX News was the first reporter since
the election to ask Barack Obama about the historic losses
suffered by the Democrat Party under his leadership. Obama
responded: “Some of that is the nature of our system and
geography. As long as Wyoming gets the same number of senators
as California there’s going to be some tilt toward Republicans
when it comes to representative races. The fact that a lot of
Democrat voters are bunched up in cities and a lot of Republican
voters are spread out.”
At APEC Obama Blames “Fake News” for Hillary’s Drubbing (Video)
The Gateway Pundit - On Sunday Barack Obama continued to rail
against “fake news” in Lima, Peru. Democrats want to blame fake
news sites for Hillary’s shellacking. “As I’ve said before the
concern I have has less to do with any particular misinformation
or propaganda that’s being put out by any particular party and a
greater concern about the general information from all kinds of
sources, both domestic, foreign, on social media, that make if
very difficult for voters to figure out what’s true and what’s
not… In general if we have elections that aren’t focused on
issues and are full of fake news and false information and
distractions then the issue is going to be… what are we doing to
ourselves from the inside.”
Recalled 'Madam President' Newsweek Magazine Leaked Online
(Photos)
Blacklisted News - Someone leaked a full copy of Newsweek's
recalled "Madam President" magazine -- it's hilarious. Newsweek
licensee Topix Media, who created the magazine, said 125,000
copies with Hillary Clinton on the cover were printed and
shipped, though only 17 were actually sold. What a perfect
example of "fake news." Every lying media narrative wrapped in a
bow before the outcome had even been determined. Check out the
full magazine on imgur courtesy of moochie228 on r/The_Donald.
Percolator protest! Republican voters fight election backlash by
telling Starbucks baristas their name is 'Trump' so they have to
shout the name when their cup of Joe is ready
Daily Mail - The protest is allegedly against people
'discriminating against Republicans' and was started by Trump
supporter and actor Scott Baio, according to Yahoo News. The
protest is allegedly against people 'discriminating against
Republicans' and was started by Trump supporter and actor Scott
Baio…. A hashtag #TrumpCup began to circulate on Twitter and a
video of a barista calling the police after a man asked for
Trump's name to be written on his cup went viral, causing the
phenomenon to increase. Another video of a man shouting 'Trump'
at a barista when he felt his drink order was taking too long
added fuel to the fire. Now, dozens of people are taking
pictures of their Starbucks drink with the name 'Trump' written
on it in protest of the alleged discrimination. But many have
pointed out the protest is actually just padding the wallets of
Starbucks and their CEO Howard Schultz, who openly backed
Hillary Clinton.
Gold Star family of slain California soldier booed on flight
Stockton Record - The father of a soldier who was killed last
weekend in Afghanistan was disappointed and hurt after airline
passengers booed him and his family as they flew to meet his
son’s remains…. His son, Sgt. John Perry, was one of two killed
in an explosion at a United States airbase on Nov. 12. He was
honored at a memorial service in Lodi on Thursday and will be
buried in Arlington National Cemetery. John Perry, 30, and Pfc.
Tyler R. Iubelt of Tamaroa, Illinois, died from their injuries
after the attack by an apparent suicide bomber at the Bagram
Airfield at about 5:30 a.m. local time. The Department of
Defense said this week that the blast also took the lives of two
U.S. contractors working on the base. Sixteen other U.S. service
members and one Polish soldier participating in a NATO mission
were wounded. Perry was assigned to Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st
Sustainment Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. He
was at the base supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel….
Stewart Perry said he, his wife, Kathy, and daughter were flying
on an American Airlines flight from Sacramento on Monday to
Philadelphia, with a quick transfer in Phoenix. From
Philadelphia, they traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware
to receive his son’s remains. For unknown reasons, Perry said,
the flight to Phoenix was 45 minutes late. The crew feared the
delay might cause the Perrys miss their connecting flight. So,
when the plane landed in Phoenix, the captain made an
announcement for all passengers to remain seated and to let a
“special military family” exit the aircraft first, Perry said.
Several passengers in first class began to boo and complain,
Perry said. “Some people were saying ‘This is just baloney,’ and
‘I paid for first-class for this?’ ” He said American Airlines
“did everything they could” to accommodate his family. Perry and
his family made their connecting flight, and the pilot in
Phoenix stayed at the gate for 40 minutes to make sure they made
it on board…. “It was just disgusting behavior from people in
first class; it was terrible to see,” Perry said. “You could see
the disappointment from the flight crew.”
San Fran Home Sales Crash To Lowest Level Since 2008 As Pricing
Reset Gets Underway
Zero Hedge - With home prices now implying that only 10-20% of
residents can afford the "median" priced home, it's certainly
not difficult to understand why demand may be waning. According
to HousingWire and a new report from PropertyRadar, home sales
in the Bay Area are finally starting to rollover with Q3 YTD
volumes down 10.3% YoY, reflecting the fewest number of homes
sold over that same time period since 2008. Perhaps even more
staggering is that distressed property sales fell 35.7% YoY so
far in 2016, to the lowest level since 2001, as "low-priced"
inventory dried up and buyers have found it financially
impossible to move up to higher price tiers.... Of course, none
of this should be terribly surprising in light of the fact that
median San Francisco home prices have surged 86% over the past 4
years to a mere $1.4mm. As Paragon Real Estate points out, the
only question left to answer now isn't whether San Fran real
estate will crash, but rather just how deep the crash will be.
Facebook Reveals Seven Point Plan To Eradicate "Fake News"
Zero Hedge - ... [Facebook CEO Mark] Zuckerberg has rejected the notion
that Facebook influenced the outcome of the election or that fake news
is a major problem on the service. "Of all the content on Facebook, more
than 99 percent of what people see is authentic," he wrote in a blog
post on Saturday. "Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes."
Which is why we found it odd that since such "a very small amount" of
Facebook is "fake", why the left-leaning CEO would draft up his 7-point
plan for eradicating "misinformation" from the social network.... "1.
Stronger Detection. The most important thing we can do is improve our
ability to classify misinformation. This means better technical systems
to detect what people will flag as false before they do it themselves.
2. Easy reporting. Making it much easier for people to report stories as
fake will help us catch more misinformation faster. 3. Third party
verification. There are many respected fact checking organizations and,
while we have reached out to some, we plan to learn from many more. 4.
Warnings. We are exploring labeling stories that have been flagged as
false by third parties or our community, and showing warnings when
people read or share them. 5. Related articles quality. We are raising
the bar for stories that appear in related articles under links in News
Feed. 6. Disrupting fake news economics. A lot of misinformation is
driven by financially motivated spam. We're looking into disrupting the
economics with ads policies like the one we announced earlier this week,
and better ad farm detection. 7. Listening. We will continue to work
with journalists and others in the news industry to get their input, in
particular, to better understand their fact checking systems and learn
from them".... So to clarify, Facebook will make it easier for any Tom,
Dick, Or Harriet to complain about a story that will necessarily cut the
revenues from that entity and will rely on 'fact-checking'
organizations, establishment 3rd parties, and the mainstream media for
input.... the move is yet another step on a slippery slope, one which
begins with determining just what is considered "fake news" and ends
with blanket internet censorship along ideological lines. Which we find
especially ironic considering much of the "pro Clinton" press was
terrified that it would be Trump who would be the one to hint at or
enforce censorship.
It's official: NASA's peer-reviewed EM Drive paper has finally been
published
ScienceAlert - After months of speculation and leaked documents, NASA's
long-awaited EM Drive paper has finally been peer-reviewed and
published. And it shows that the 'impossible' propulsion system really
does appear to work.... In case you've missed the hype, the EM Drive, or
Electromagnetic Drive, is a propulsion system first proposed by British
inventor Roger Shawyer back in 1999. Instead of using heavy, inefficient
rocket fuel, it bounces microwaves back and forth inside a cone-shaped
metal cavity to generate thrust. According to Shawyer's calculations,
the EM Drive could be so efficient that it could power us to Mars in
just 70 days. But, there's a not-small problem with the system. It
defies Newton's third law, which states that everything must have an
equal and opposite reaction. According to the law, for a system to
produce thrust, it has to push something out the other way. The EM Drive
doesn't do this. Yet in test after test it continues to work. Last year,
NASA's Eagleworks Laboratory team got their hands on an EM Drive to try
to figure out once and for all what was going on.... There's a lot more
work to be done before we can say for sure whether the EM Drive is
really producing thrust – the team notes they that more research is
needed to eliminate the possibility that thermal expansion could somehow
be skewing the results. And even once that's confirmed, we'll then need
to figure out exactly how the system works.... The next step for the EM
Drive is for it to be tested in space, which is scheduled to happen in
the coming months, with plans to launch the first EM Drive having been
made back in September.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Board nixes use of carrageenan in organic food production
Center for Food Safety - The National Organic Standards Board
has voted 10-3, with one abstention, to remove carrageenan from
the list of substances approved for use in food items labeled
“USDA Organic.”…. The debate about whether carrageenan, an
FDA-approved additive made from red seaweed, can safely be used
in human food has been going on for years. Carrageenan is
commonly used as a thickener and stabilizer in infant formula,
dairy products, non-dairy “milk” analogs, meats and drink mixes.
Concerns have been raised about the risk of inflammation and
possibly colon cancer in humans and animals from ingesting
carrageenan in food products. However, there is a lack of
consensus about whether the scientific studies done to date are
conclusive about the effect on human health of consuming
carrageenan. Along with several other substances, it was
scheduled to sunset from the National List of Allowed and
Prohibited Substances in November 2018.
6 Fasting-Growing Indoor Vegetables You Can Harvest Within 2
Months
Off the Grid News - With the help of grow lights, you can
provide fresh vegetables to be harvested during the cold months
of winter. And if you get started soon, you can be eating your
vegetables in January. All of these vegetables can be grown in
two months or less: 1. Microgreens are a delicious choice for an
indoor garden. The leaves are harvested when young and tender,
which makes a wonderful addition to salads and winter dishes.
They can grow as quickly as two to three weeks…. 2. Bok choy or
Pak choi. These greens need lots of water but are fast growers.
Plant them in large pots so they will obtain moisture better.
The plants reach harvesting stage at about four weeks. Clip only
the outer leave, allowing the plant to continue producing on the
inside. Or, you can harvest the whole plant at baby size if you
want it for stir frying. 3. Beans can be grown under grow
lights, and bush beans are the best choice for indoor use.
Supports aren’t necessary, and harvesting is a lot easier, too….
Beans can be picked between 50-60 days after planting. 4.
Radishes. From seed to actual radish takes about one month. If
you plant them back to back, you can have a continuous supply of
radishes all winter…. 5. Spinach & lettuce grow well under grow
lights. If harvesting for baby greens, you can harvest when the
leaves are about three to four inches tall at about 20-30 days.
If you’re harvesting for a larger plant, then harvest between
45-60 days. 6. Arugula is a plant that has an even higher yield
when grown under grow lights. The more you cut it, the more it
grows, giving an unending supply of leaves. It can be harvested
about 30 days from when it’s planted. Pick only the outside
leaves of the plant.
What Is Going On With This Dangerous New Flu Vaccine?
Natural Blaze - Now, here’s a warning to you all. There have
been disturbing reports describing the ill-effects of a new flu
vaccine. In the USA, on a scale never seen before, the illnesses
caused, including thousands of paralyzed children or even deaths
by the new flu vaccine has not been explained. To make matters
worse, it coincides with a recent Obama signed Presidential
Executive Order promoting a policy ‘Advancing Global Health
Security Agenda to Achieve a World Safe and secure from
Infectious Diseases.’ The global medical establishment are more
demanding than ever in their guidelines to get vaccinated as
part the advancement of the agenda related to this quietly
signed Executive Order. Developed for the 2016/2017 flu season,
the flu vaccine comes with a number of new features as
documented by the CDC. There is a recommendations list,
recommending people suffering from allergies such as an egg
allergy to get vaccinated. This recommendation hasn’t been made
before because the vaccine’s adjuvants (ingredients) contain egg
traces. However, this perfect rationale for not getting
vaccinated because of a potential life-threatening egg allergy
has now been tossed out through the window. Furthermore, in the
list, there is only an injected form of this vaccine (no nasal
spray) and higher doses for the elderly with a different
adjuvant, making it something to be suspicious about. Is this
FLUAD (influenza vaccine with adjuvant) vaccine a stealth attack
on the elderly??… Flu shots have been linked to increasing the
likelihood of Alzheimer’s disease, different cancers,
narcolepsy, Guillain Barre syndrome where the body’s immune
defense attacks its peripheral nervous system and neurological
disorders. They contain a number of highly dubious adjuvants
including flu strains, formaldehyde and squalene MF 59 linked to
Gulf War syndrome.
Sugar Doesn’t Just Feed Cancer Cells it May Even CREATE Them
REALfarmacy - First realize that even without being diagnosed
with cancer, we all have at least a few cancerous cells floating
around in our “inner terrain”. A decent immune system residing
in a slightly alkaline or neutral pH inner terrain is able to
fend them off and keep them from colonizing into tumorous
masses. On the other hand, those who indulge primarily in the
SAD (Standard American Diet), which includes lots of factory
farmed meat and junk foods saturated with refined sugars or high
fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which processed foods use even with
their non-sweet products to keep you addicted, along with all
those refined carbs in refined grain baked products, are adding
fuel (literally) to the fire of cancer. Mainstream oncology
ignores this 1930s Nobel Prize discovery by Otto Warburg, aka
the “Warburg Effect”: When normal cells begin to lack oxygen
respiration to utilize glucose and nutrients metabolically for
cellular energy, they depend on fermenting sugar to thrive
without oxygen and become cancerous. Instead oncologists
administer chemo IV therapies while giving their patients ice
cream and cookies as the poison is injected into them. Big
profits from the treatment and selling those toxic drugs at a
profit also. “Cancer cells consume sugar about 19x faster than
healthy cells.” – Dr. Murray Susser, MD. Mainstream medicine
refuses to look into diet as a function of potential metabolic
dysfunction that helps promote and maintain cancer while
asserting genetic disposition as a primary cause of cancer.
Family Favorite Pumpkin Pie Recipe (Dairy & Gluten-Free)
Wellness Mama - If your family considers pumpkin pie a part of
the Thanksgiving feast, consider this healthier option this
year! It has all the same flavors of traditional pumpkin pie but
can accommodate those who are gluten free and dairy free. This
recipe also uses natural sweeteners in place of the sugar or
corn syrup used in many pumpkin pies…. Ingredients: For Crust- 1
cup of almonds or pecans, finely ground in blender until flour
like (or almond flour). 3 TBSP of coconut oil plus some to
grease pie pan. 1 egg. Cinnamon powder (1/4-1/2 tsp or to
taste). For Filling- 1 (15 ounce) can of pumpkin (nothing added)
or approx 2 cups of homemade pureed pumpkin with excess liquid
drained. 3 eggs. ¼ cup of honey or maple syrup (or to taste) -
can substitute stevia, but the honey actually helps it hold
better. 1 Tablespoon of pumpkin pie spices or about 2 teaspoons
cinnamon and ¼ tsp each of cloves, ginger and nutmeg. 1 teaspoon
natural vanilla. coconut milk to thin (no more than about ⅓
cup)…
Shelter Pets Get a Taste of Freedom With 'Field Trip' Programs
Dr. Becker - If you have a few hours of time and a love of animals, you
can take a shelter pet out for a day of fun. Field trip programs for
shelter pets exist in Hawaii, Maui and Kauai, as well as on the U.S.
mainland. Some volunteers even end up finding a forever friend to share
their home with.
Friday - November
18, 2016 - Today In History:
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer became the first American to sight the
continent of Antarctica.
1865 - Samuel L. Clemens published "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County" under the pen name "Mark Twain" in the NY "Saturday
Press."
1883 - The U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.
1903 - The U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that granted the U.S. rights
to build the Panama Canal.
1916 - Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in WW
I, called off the Battle of the Somme in France. It began on July 1,
1916.
1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating
meat on Fridays.
1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean
landed on the lunar surface during the second manned mission to the
moon.
1983 - Argentina announced its ability to produce enriched uranium for
use in nuclear weapons.
1987 - The U.S. Congress issued the Iran-Contra Affair report. The
report said that President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility"
for wrongdoing by his aides.
1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed major legislation provided the death
penalty for drug traffickers who kill.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives joined the U.S. Senate in
approving legislation aimed at protecting abortion facilities, staff and
patients.
1993 - Representatives from 21 South African political parties approved
a new constitution.
1997 - First Union Corp. announced its purchase of CoreStates Financial
Corp. for $16.1 billion. To date it was the largest banking deal in U.S.
history.
2001 - Nintendo released the GameCube home video game console in the
United States.
Japanese PM says he has 'great confidence' in Donald Trump after
first meeting with President-elect
The Independent - The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has
said he believes Donald Trump is a “reliable leader” in whom he
can have “great confidence”, after he became the first foreign
leader to meet the US President-elect face-to-face.... The
President-elect’s aides had earlier emphasised the informal
nature of the meeting, which was organised at the last minute
after Mr Abe reportedly called Mr Trump to congratulate him on
his shock election win, and suggested he drop by Mr Trump’s New
York home on his way to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
summit in Lima, Peru. It was not clear that Mr Trump had any
time to seriously prepare for the meeting, with the US State
Department saying it had not been asked by anyone in the
transition team to provide the President-elect with background
papers on US-Japan relations. “Any deeper conversations about
policy and the relationship between Japan and the United States
will have to wait until after the inauguration,” Mr Trump’s
presidential campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CBS before
the meeting. Mr Abe was said to be keen to clarify some of the
more controversial remarks on foreign policy that Mr Trump had
made on the campaign trail, including a pledge to make US allies
pay more for US military assistance, and the suggestion that
Japan and nearby South Korea should acquire their own nuclear
weapons. Mr Trump has also promised to tear up the Trans-Pacific
Partnership trade deal, of which Mr Abe has been a staunch
advocate.... Other world leaders will be looking to Mr Abe for
hints on how Mr Trump is likely to approach foreign affairs when
he reaches the White House, given the unorthodox and
controversial methods he used taken to get there.
Syria ready to open communication channels with US – Assad
adviser
RT - Syria is prepared to open lines of communication with the
US, according to President Bashar Assad’s political and media
adviser, Bouthaina Shaaban. She added that the “signs are good”
for the step. Speaking at the First Media Forum at Damascus
University on Wednesday, Shabaan said there had been no secret
talks with the US, but expressed “Syria’s readiness to open
channels of communication” with Washington, the SANA news agency
reported. The adviser also expressed hope that the incoming
administration of US President-elect Donald Trump would be
“balanced and sensible.” “We are currently observing and
studying… and we are not making any judgments now, but the signs
so far are good,” Shaaban said. However, there is still doubt
within the Syrian government about opening up lines of
communication, meaning the step is far from certain.... Syrians
are primarily concerned that “no one interferes in their
affairs,” the adviser said, as cited by TASS.... Her comments
come shortly after President Assad told Portuguese TV channel
RTP that the US and Syria could become “natural allies” in the
fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) once Trump
takes office.
Le Pen says her joining forces with Putin & Trump as France’s
leader would be ‘good for world peace’
RT - Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front,
says that if she wins the presidential elections, the world will
become a safer place, as France will cooperate with both US
President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir
Putin. Le Pen, who saw in a largely unpredicted triumph of
Donald Trump an encouraging sign in the run-up to the French
presidential elections, said Wednesday that anti-establishment
sentiment has been gaining ground all over the world. She
believes it also enabled Brexit and may propel her to the
presidential office in France come May.... Outlining the first
steps she would take as the president, Le Pen said she would
stage a referendum on France’s membership in the EU, paving the
way for repeat of the British scenario, as well as reintroduce
border checks. Reflecting on what impact her victory could have
on a global scale, Le Pen said that a possible alliance between
Russia, US and France “would be good for world peace.” .... Le
Pen, who was among the first politicians and only a few in the
West to congratulate Trump with victory, praising “the free
American people” for their choice, said she would also strive to
improve strained relations with Russia.... The chances of Le Pen
becoming a president looking dim at the moment, as according to
the latest BVA polls she is expected to pass the first round in
April only to be defeated in the run-off by a center-right
Republican party candidate. The poll by BVA names former Prime
Minister and Bordeaux mayor Alain Juppe and former President
Nicolas Sarkozy the most likely candidates for the spot, with
the former gaining 37 percent and the latter 29 percent
respectively.... However, after Trump’s victory, which was not
predicted in the opinion polls, any such forecasts should be
treated with extreme caution, Le Pen said in a BBC interview on
Monday, adding that Trump “made possible what had previously
been presented as impossible.”
Bagram suicide bomber reconciled with Afghan government in 2008
The Long War Journal - The Taliban suicide bomber who killed two
American soldiers and two contractors at Bagram Air Base in
Afghanistan’s central province of Parwan on Nov. 12 had joined
the Afghan government’s “peace process” and reconciled in 2008.
He then received a job at Bagram Air Base, which he then used to
execute his attack.... It is unclear if the suicide bomber
remained a Taliban plant at Bagram for the eight years since he
joined the peace process, or if he was recently persuaded by the
Taliban to rejoin its ranks and execute the attack. The Taliban
does have a department, known as “Call and Guidance, Luring and
Integration,” which encourages Afghan security personnel and
workers to defect. This department was created by the Taliban’s
founder and first emir, Mullah Omar, and has been instrumental
in getting Afghan security personnel to attack US and NATO
troops. The Bagram attack is worrisome as the base is one of the
most secure facilities in Afghanistan, and is a major hub for US
air operations in Afghanistan. The US and NATO are both heavily
reliant on local Afghans to provide key services as the number
of troops near an all-time low (the US has less than 10,000
troops on the ground in Afghanistan). Afghans who work at US
facilities will increasingly come under more pressure to help
the Taliban as the group continues to make gains across the
country.
London’s Muslim Mayor Urges Anti-Trump Migrants to Flock to UK
Breitbart - Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has invited Americans who
are annoyed at the election of Donald Trump to migrate to
London. Referencing rumours that such a phenomenon caused
Canada’s immigration website to crash, Khan said Trump haters
with U.S. citizenship should look into migrating to the UK.
“Millions of people, I’m told, used Google’s search engine post
the election on Tuesday – we know millions use it every single
day,” he said. “I heard one of the most googled things since
Wednesday has been ‘how do you emigrate?’ “If talented people
based in the US want to come here to London, my message is
simple – London is open,” he told the audience. Khan’s
appearance follows the announcement that Google confirmed plans
for a new, 10 story expansion to its Kings Cross headquarters,
which currently promises 3,000 jobs in Britain.
Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever
passed in a democracy'
ZDNet - The law will force internet providers to record every
internet customer's top-level web history in real-time for up to
a year, which can be accessed by numerous government
departments; force companies to decrypt data on demand -- though
the government has never been that clear on exactly how it
forces foreign firms to do that that; and even disclose any new
security features in products before they launch. Not only that,
the law also gives the intelligence agencies the power to hack
into computers and devices of citizens (known as equipment
interference), although some protected professions -- such as
journalists and medical staff -- are layered with marginally
better protections.... The bill was opposed by representatives
of the United Nations, all major UK and many leading global
privacy and rights groups, and a host of Silicon Valley tech
companies alike. Even the parliamentary committee tasked with
scrutinizing the bill called some of its provisions "vague"....
There are some safeguards, however, such as a "double lock"
system so that the secretary of state and an independent
judicial commissioner must agree on a decision to carry out
search warrants (though one member of the House of Lords
disputed that claim). A new investigatory powers commissioner
will also oversee the use of the powers.... But the government
has downplayed much of the controversy surrounding the bill. The
government has consistently argued that the bill isn't
drastically new, but instead reworks the old and outdated
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). This was brought
into law in 2000, to "legitimize" new powers that were conducted
or ruled on in secret, like collecting data in bulk and hacking
into networks, which was revealed during the Edward Snowden
affair. Much of those activities were only possible thanks to
litigation by one advocacy group, Privacy International, which
helped push these secret practices into the public domain while
forcing the government to scramble to explain why these
practices were legal.
'Million Cancer Deaths From Fukushima Expected in Japan,’ New
Report Reveals
Green Med Info - According to the new report, data provided by a
group of esteemed Japanese medical professionals and TEPCO,
confirm a direct link of numerous cancers in Japan to the triple
meltdown. As transcribed by Enenews.com, Arnie Gundersen, chief
engineer at Fairewinds stated, Nov. 4, 2015: "It's been almost 5
years from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, and the news from
Japan is still not good. Two reports recently released in Japan,
one by Japanese medical professionals and the second from Tokyo
Power Corporation – TEPCO – acknowledged that there will be
numerous cancers in Japan, much greater than normal, due to the
radioactive discharges from the triple meltdown at Fukushima
Daiichi... I believe, as do many of my colleagues, that there
will be at least 100,000 and as many as one million more cancers
in Japan's future as a result of this meltdown... [T]he second
report received from Japan proves that the incidence of thyroid
cancer is approximately 230 times higher than normal in
Fukushima Prefecture... So what's the bottom line? The cancers
already occurring in Japan are just the tip of the iceberg. I'm
sorry to say that the worst is yet to come.”… The content of the
new report defies what are chronically underestimated radiation
exposure levels and effects produced by the International Atomic
Energy Agency, TEPCO, and the Japanese government.
Related: Mystery cancers are cropping up in children in
aftermath of Fukushima
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Obama Sets New Record for Regulations - 81,640 Pages in 2016
Planet Free Will - The Obama Administration has just shattered
the previous record for pages of regulations and rules published
by the Federal Register in a single year. According to a report
by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Obama’s presidency
produced 81,640 total pages of regulations and rules for 2016,
surpassing the previous record the administration set in 2010 by
235 pages.... Obama is the only president to ever surpass the
80,000 mark of regulatory pages produced in a year, achieving
the feat four times. President Obama’s Federal Register added
572 pages on Thursday (Nov. 17) alone! Clyde Wayne Crews of the
Competitive Enterprise Institute warns that Obama’s
manufacturing of regulations is not over. With the amount of
time left in the year, the current pace of rule passage could
bring many thousands of more pages. “No one knows what the
future holds, but at a pace of well over 1,000 pages weekly, the
Federal Register could easily top 90,000 pages this year. The
simple algebra says that at the current pace we’ll add 11,190
pages over the next 44 days, to end 2016 at around 92,830
pages,” said CEI’s Wayne Crews. “This is astonishing and should
be of great concern, and intolerable, to policymakers.” Said
Wayne Crews. “It is remarkable enough that the all-time record
has been passed before Thanksgiving.” Crews called on
President-elect Donald Trump to make good on campaign promises
and cut regulations. “President-elect Donald Trump could take a
page from President Reagan, who brought page counts down from
Carter’s 73,258 to as low as 44,812. We don’t need a pen and
phone, we need a meat axe,” he said.
Missing: Secret Service Guns, Badges
The Daily Caller - Thousands of sensitive assets belonging to
U.S. Secret Service agents, including firearms, computer
laptops, work badges, telephones and even motor vehicles, have
been lost during the past 15 years, according to documents
obtained by nonprofit government watchdog Judicial Watch....
Secret Service agents reported 11,780 lost or stolen assets
between fiscal years 2001 and 2016, according to the data
Judicial Watch received, although the agency didn’t distinguish
between lost and stolen items. A total of 121 “weapons/pistols”
were lost or stolen from 2001 through 2016, including 69 in 2002
alone. The Secret Service also reported 736 cell phones, 571
badges and six vehicles as lost or stolen in that same period.
But uncategorized or “all remaining” assets account for 4,644 of
the 11,780 lost or stolen items. More assets were lost or stolen
in fiscal year 2004 than any other year — 1,362, most of which
were uncategorized. This new information suggests that sporadic
news reports in recent years about the Secret Service agents
losing cell phones and guns were snapshots of a larger
problem.... The Secret Service took nearly a year to answer
Judicial Watch’s December 2015 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request for documentation on all assets reported missing since
2001. Judicial Watch made the request as a part of a larger
investigation.
Boeing Shifts SoCal Jobs in Preparation for Huge Military
Buildup
Breitbart - With President-elect Donald Trump promising a huge
military expansion, Boeing is moving half the jobs out of its
sprawling Huntington Beach facility as the company streamlines
in preparation for huge manufacturing orders coming to Southern
California. Expecting that a Hillary Clinton presidency would be
a continuation of the Obama administration’s shrinking the
number of military personnel and weapons procurement, Boeing was
consolidating its Defense, Space & Security division, while
dramatically expanding its Commercial Aircraft division. In an
effort to keep its skilled defense industry workforce, Boeing
announced that 2,800 of the current 4,300 jobs in Huntington
Beach facility would be transferred to other locations. Their
Seal Beach facility will pick up 300 transfers; 1,600 positions
will move to plants in Long Beach and El Segundo; 500 jobs will
be sent to St. Louis, Mo.; and 500 will be reassigned to
Huntsville, Ala…. Boeing’s Southern California Defense units are
positioned to gain substantial contracts for new attack
aircraft, helicopters and missiles from Trump’s military
restructure…. Trump wants to raise military attack aircraft
purchases from 25 per year to 200. Boeing has the edge for
obtaining new orders for its highly-reliable F-15 and F-18
tactical fighter jets, because they cost about $30,000 an hour
to operate. That compares to the unreliable fifth-generation
F-35, costing $42,000, and the F-22, costing $59,000 an hour to
operate. More tactical fighters mean more high-tech Boeing
missiles, satellites and other weaponry that will likely be
produced in Southern California.
Zero Hedge Included On Liberal Professor's Targeted List of
"Fake News" Sources
Zero Hedge - We have a confession to make, everything we've said
over the past ~7 years has been fake. Well, not really, but
that's what the ultra-liberal, Assistant Professor of
Communications at Merrimack College, Melissa "Mish" Zimdars,
would like for you to believe. While it's unclear exactly what
prompted Zimdars to publish a list of "fake news" sources, we
have a sneaking suspicion it was a coping mechnism cleverly
employed by the New England, liberal arts snowflake to deal with
the stunning defeat of her chosen Presidential candidate. Or,
perhaps she was simply trying to help the folks at Google and
Facebook who have vowed to censor "fake news" sources by cutting
off their access to advertising. But, no matter the reason,
below is the full list of information resources that Zimdars,
the ultimate arbiter of credibility, has deemed "fake." Notice
that while the list includes numerous conservative news sources
like Breitbart, Infowars, Twitchy, The Blaze and Bizpac Review,
it excludes the beacon of impartiality known as The Huffington
Post. Moreover, Zimdars even provided the following helpful
categorization guidelines to help you determine the level of
"fakeness" exhibited by each site. Zero Hedge has not yet been
assigned a category, which we find kind of hurtful. [Read more…]
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Video: The Truth About Fake News
Mysterious white plane spotted circling Denver metro area
Fox News - A white plane spotted over the Denver metro area
Wednesday morning left many wondering where it came from and
where it was going. The Denver Channel reported that the flight
named IRON99 was flying from California and it was heading over
the Pacific Ocean until it veered back toward the west and
eventually over Denver. As the flight approached the city, it
began circling and flight tracking showed the plane making an
oval over the city. It made a few loops and then took off for
Oklahoma without any notion of it stopping. Officials at Buckley
Air Force Base in Aurora told the station that it never checked
in with radar towers and didn’t land at the base despite
circling over it a few times. Denver International Airport
officials also told the station that the flight. According to
the station, northeastern U.S. military bases give out the title
of IRON to military flights and it usually reserved for T-38
aircraft, which the station says are usually black. The
particular IRON99 flight only communicated with the U.S. Army
and there was no public communications record available. U.S.
Northern Command and U.S. Strategic Command neither confirmed or
denied the flight existed or the location of where the flight
was seen, the Denver Channel reported. The North American
Aerospace Defense Command said there were only two
“high-profile” flights in the air at the time.
Electoral College voters ‘deluged’ with death threats
WND - Michael Banerian, 22, of Oakland County, Michigan, is one
of that state’s 16 official electors who will meet in the state
capital of Lansing on Dec. 19 to cast their votes for Trump. He
told the Detroit News Thursday he has received threatening
emails, lots of them, from people telling him to vote for
Democrat Clinton instead of the GOP victor he is pledged to
support. Trump won Michigan’s popular vote and should be able to
count on the 16 electoral votes in that state. But Clinton
supporters have “deluged Banerian and other GOP electors with
pleas and nasty emails to reverse course and cast their ballots
for Clinton,” the Michigan Republican Party is reporting.... He
said that while many of the emails are clearly death threats,
others would fall into the category of “death wishes.”.... The
Detroit News verified one message containing a death wish and
another containing a death threat, in which the person told
Banerian he would “put a bullet” in his mouth. Banerian said he
deleted the rest of the emails and messages “because as you can
imagine they’re clogging up my email.”.... Another Michigan
elector, Kenneth Crider, told the News he hasn’t received any
death threats but has gotten more than 300 emails from people in
other states asking him to vote for Clinton instead of Trump on
Dec. 19.... BuzzFeed reported Thursday that the #NotMyPresident
Alliance, a national anti-Donald Trump protest group, has
released the personal information of dozens of Electoral College
members in states that voted Republican. A spreadsheet
distributed to supporters Wednesday included the electors’
personal phone numbers, addresses, religions, races, genders and
candidate preference. The group hopes its members and citizens
around the country will contact electors and pressure them to
change their vote from Trump to another candidate before Dec.
19.
San Francisco Teachers’ Union Provides Anti-Trump Curriculum
Breitbart - The United Educators of San Francisco, the union
that represents teachers in the city’s public schools, released
a controversial guide Wednesday to teaching public school
children about Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in
the recent election. The guide, called the “Lesson Plan on the
November 2016 Election,” informs teachers that “a racist and
sexist man has become the president of our country by pandering
to a huge racist and sexist base,” and suggests they teach
children the same. In fact, the lesson plan urges teachers not
to tell students that Hillary Clinton lost the election
(original emphasis): “DO NOT: Tell them that we have LOST and
that we have to accept this. We do not have to accept ANYTHING
except that we must and will fight for justice against an unjust
system and against unjust people.” The guide also recommends
that teachers allow students to use profanity when expressing
their feelings about the election, because “you would too if you
have suffered under the constructs of white supremacy or
experienced sexism, or any isms or lack of privilege.” The
Associated Press reports that the union “posted the plan on its
website and distributed it via an email newsletter to its more
than 6,000 members. The school district has more than 57,000
students.”
Hillary Re-Emerges Looking Like Death Warmed Up
Paul Joseph Watson - Hillary gave a speech at a gala for the
Children’s Defense Fund, which is somewhat ironic given that she
once laughed about defending a child rapist who she knew was
guilty. However, some of the people in attendance might have
thought they’d accidentally stumbled onto the set of a re-make
of Dawn of the Dead and that Hillary was one of the extras.
Hillary looked gaunt and exhausted, with huge bags under her
bloodshot eyes. The Daily Mail was a little more polite,
reporting that Hillary was “weary-looking”. That’s odd given
that she just had a week off and spent most of her presidential
campaign sleeping or AWOL…. Her dreadful appearance once again
validates concerns voiced by what the media called “conspiracy
theorists” throughout her failed campaign that Hillary was in
ill health following a number of falls, stumbles and other
bizarre behavior.
Mortgage Rates Explode Higher
Zero Hedge - Because last week’s election fell in the middle of
FreddieMac survey week, it was impossible to determine how
closely the mortgage rate would track the post-election sell-off
in the Treasury market. This week, however, the verdict is in:
over the last two weeks the 30-year mortgage rate jumped by a
whopping 40 basis points to 3.94 percent, almost identical to
the 39 basis point increase in the 10-year Treasury yield, and
sending the average 30 year mortgage to levels last seen at the
start of the year. In its press release, FreddieMac had a
favorable spin on the data: "If rates stick at these levels,
expect a final burst of home sales and refinances as ‘fence
sitters’ try to beat further increases, then a marked slowdown
in housing activity." We disagree: as we showed yesterday, in
the last few months, as The Fed has jawboned a rate hike into
markets, mortgage applications in America have collapsed 30% to
10-month lows - plunging over 9% in the last week as mortgage
rates approach 4.00%.
Obama Tears Up Drilling Permits to Stop Gigantic Energy Boom in Colorado
Breitbart - Sally Jewell, the U.S. interior secretary, just cancelled
leases to drill for natural gas on federal land in Colorado, in a
last-ditch effort to stop an energy boom bigger than Bakken Shale
discovery in North Dakota. Jewell’s Bureau of Land Management claimed
that the 25 “Mancos” energy drilling leases now being cancelled were
just a non-performing portion of 65 leases on “lands managed by the
White River National Forest” and “amount to less than ½ of 1 percent of
the active leases on public lands in the state of Colorado.” But the 25
properties were “non-performing” only because they have been tangled in
red-tape since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, even though
they were leased in 2005 during George W. Bush’s administration. The BLM
manages nearly 700 million acres of federal lands in the United States.
Because of tight restrictions, the “onshore” oil and gas wells on BLM
lands accounts for just 11 percent of the natural gas supply and five
percent of the oil supply in the United States. BLM leases generated
just $5.4 billion in lease payments during 2013, with the majority of
funds going to the U.S. Treasury to reduce deficit spending. Despite the
agency’s congressional mandate to maximize the value of public property,
the agency website reveals the BLM has reduced issuing drilling permits
every year since 2011. To justify the sudden cancellation of the
decade-old Mancos drilling permits, the BLM worked with the Thompson
Divide Coalition of environmentalists to commission a resource report
that appeared to exist for the sole purpose of undermining energy
exploration in the Mancos Shale formation, according to the Western
Energy Alliance, an industry group. The timing of the cancellation of
Mancos leases is especially egregious, because the United States
Geological Survey just announced in June that the gas resources in the
Mancos Shale formation that covers much of Northwestern and Western
Colorado, has 40 times more natural gas than the USGS had projected.
FBI secrecy over biometric dragnet prompts lawsuit
Privacy SOS - The FBI has been steadily amassing fingerprints, face
images, voiceprints, iris scans, palm prints, and other biometric
identifiers on tens of millions of people, pouring these sensitive
records into the world’s largest biometric database, known as Next
Generation Identification (NGI). Many of these records come from police
and sheriffs departments nationwide, but others come from people never
charged with—let alone convicted of—a crime. Despite the danger such a
database poses to the privacy and well being of the tens of millions of
people caught up in the FBI’s biometric dragnet, the Obama
administration has exempted the database from Privacy Act requirements
that it be accurate, up to date, and transparent. Worse still, the FBI
has entered into a secret agreement with the Department of Defense,
presumably to grant the military access to some or all of the data. In
an attempt to pry the agreement out of the FBI’s hands, the Electronic
Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy group, has filed suit. “The
FBI Director has shown a ‘reckless disregard’ for the privacy rights of
Americans,” said Marc Rotenberg, President of EPIC. “Operating in
secret, Director Comey has built a massive biometric database that
places the privacy of all Americans at risk. And he has removed Privacy
Act safeguards intended to ensure accuracy and accountability for the
record system.”
iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says
The Intercept - Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that
Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the
company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in
many instances without user choice or notification. “You only need to
have iCloud itself enabled” for the data to be sent, said Vladimir
Katalov, CEO of Elcomsoft. The logs surreptitiously uploaded to Apple
contain a list of all calls made and received on an iOS device, complete
with phone numbers, dates and times, and duration. They also include
missed and bypassed calls. Elcomsoft said Apple retains the data in a
user’s iCloud account for up to four months, providing a boon to law
enforcement who may not be able to obtain the data either from the
user’s phone, if it’s encrypted with an unbreakable passcode, or from
the carrier.... It’s not just regular call logs that get sent to Apple’s
servers. FaceTime, which is used to make audio and video calls on iOS
devices, also syncs call history to iCloud automatically, according to
Elcomsoft.... And beginning with Apple’s latest operating system, iOS
10, incoming missed calls that are made through third-party VoIP
applications like Skype, WhatsApp, and Viber, and that use Apple CallKit
to make the calls, also get logged to the cloud, Katalov said. Because
Apple possesses the keys to unlock iCloud accounts, U.S. law enforcement
agencies can obtain direct access to the logs with a court order. But
they still need a tool to extract and parse it.
High Tech Automobiles Are Making Some People Sick
Natural Blaze - Years ago the “new car smell” was found to cause people
to experience a sick feeling. The odor that causes the new car smell is
made up of volatile organic compounds and other toxic chemicals from
glues, paints, vinyl and plastics inside new cars. Those ‘gas out fumes’
can cause headaches, sore throats, nausea and drowsiness—some folks even
can experience dizziness or lethargy…. Fast forward to the newer cars
with all their electronic technology, which apparently emits
electromagnetic frequencies, and we find that new car occupants
experience equally-distressing symptoms such as vertigo, nausea,
headaches and migraines—those ‘killer-type’ headaches…. I think if you
have an older car without technology updates, you may want to hang on to
it and take good care of it so it can last ‘forever’, since all the new
technology in today’s cars just may not be worth the price you have to
pay not only in hard-earned cash, but health-wise.
Gardasil Fully Exposed: HPV Vaccine Being Tested on Infants Has
Killed, Permanently Injured Thousands
Natural Blaze - Although Gardasil is considered one of the most
dangerous vaccines on the market, trials for Gardasil are being
conducted on infants. Merck & Co is trying to sell infants
Gardasil. Gardasil is an HPV vaccine approved by the FDA on June
8, 2006, produced by Merck & Co out of research done on
“virus-like particles” at the University of Queensland,
Australia. HPV is a relatively new concern as an STD, discovered
in 1956 but brought to the public’s attention in 1984 when a
researcher attributed cervical cancer to HPV. The 80’s saw a
rise of concern with HPV’s alleged link to cervical cancer.
However, little evidence of this link actually exists, and it is
a major point of debate. Some viruses do in fact cause cancer,
such as the SV40 “cancer virus” that contaminated Salk’s polio
vaccines in the 1950’s. The link between cervical cancer and HPV
remains obfuscated. Further, evidence suggests Gardasil might
cause cervical cancer, and has caused a wide variety of injuries
in young girls from cervical cysts, to crippling conditions such
as autoimmune disorders and chronic fatigue. Some have died
immediately after receiving the vaccine. Gardasil is responsible
for thousands of cases of severe vaccine injury and even death.
Considered one of the most dangerous vaccines, some make the
case that it is the vaccine with the highest rate of injury.
Although mainstream science and media cite studies claiming
Gardasil is safe, thousands of stories of injury and death say
otherwise.
Aluminium Adjuvants Have Never Been Approved For Use In
Vaccination
Natural Blaze - Within the first year of life, the CDC
recommends that children receive a total of 29 vaccinations,
many of which contain the adjuvant aluminum, a substance used in
vaccinations to increase the immune response to the antigen (the
component of the vaccine that stimulates the immune system to
make antibodies). According to Professor Christopher Exley’s
recent research, there are currently two main aluminum adjuvants
commonly used in vaccinations today. These are AlHydrogel, a
semi-crystalline (boehmite) form of aluminium oxyhydroxide and
AdjuPhos, an amorphous salt of aluminium hydroxyphosphate. The
sulphate salt of the latter is also listed as being one
component of an adjuvant system used in vaccinations against HPV.
AlHydrogel™ and AdjuPhos™ are commonly referred to as
clinically-approved aluminum adjuvants, and yet this is not the
case. There are no aluminum adjuvants that have been approved
for intramuscular or subcutaneous injection into humans. There
are no requirements for their approval; they are only “approved”
as part of vaccine preparations.
CoQ10 found to help stop the spread of melanoma
(NaturalHealth365) A recent melanoma study looked at the
inclusion of daily CoQ10 (400 mg) along with the immune boosting
drug alpha interferon. Researchers found an incredible ten-fold
lowered risk of metastasis in those who were taking CoQ10. Coq10
benefits were even stronger in patients with advanced cases of
melanoma – these individuals had a 13 times lower risk of
metastasis. Alpha interferon normally induces extremely severe
side effects, but those taking CoQ10 had substantially fewer
side effects from the immune system drug. However, one wonders
is CoQ10 was actually doing most of the immune system boosting.
CoQ10 has also been found to slow tumor growth in cancer
patients. Researchers believe this is due to its reduction of
inflammation in the body, its suppression of vascular mechanisms
in tumors, and its overall positive effects on the immune
system. CoQ10, short for Coenzyme Q 10, is made naturally in the
body and helps essential enzymes (proteins) to do their job. It
is found throughout the body, but exists in higher
concentrations in organs like the heart, kidneys, liver and
pancreas. It is also an antioxidant that helps to protect cells
from harmful, DNA-damaging free radicals. Unfortunately, levels
of CoQ10 in the tissues and organs tend to diminish as people
age. Low levels of CoQ10 have been linked with cancers of the
breast, lung, pancreas, prostate, kidney, colon, neck, and head.
Myeloma and lymphoma sufferers have also been found to have low
blood levels of CoQ10.
7 Foods That Will Naturally Cleanse Your Liver
REALfarmacy - Since the liver is also responsible for producing
bile, another form of detoxification that is metabolically
necessary for the breakdown and assimilation of fats and
proteins from your food, it is exceedingly important that your
liver be properly maintained. Without a well-functioning liver,
your body will be unable to cleanse itself and absorb nutrients,
which is a recipe for a health disaster…. So here are seven
important foods you may want to begin incorporating into your
diet in order to maintain a healthy liver. 1. Garlic contains
numerous sulfur-containing compounds that activate the liver
enzymes responsible for flushing out toxins from the body. This
bulbous relative of the onion also contains allicin and
selenium, two powerful nutrients proven to help protect the
liver from toxic damage, and aid it in the detoxification
process. 2. Grapefruit is rich in natural vitamin C and
antioxidants, two powerful liver cleansers. Like garlic,
grapefruit contains compounds that boost the production of liver
detoxification enzymes. It also contains a flavonoid compound
known as naringenin that causes the liver to burn fat rather
than store it. 3. Green tea is loaded with catechins, a type of
plant antioxidant that has been shown in studies to eliminate
liver fat accumulation and promote proper liver function. This
powerful herbal beverage also protects the liver against toxins
that would otherwise accumulate and cause serious damage. 4.
Leafy green vegetables such as bitter gourd, arugula, dandelion
greens, spinach, mustard greens, and chicory also contain
numerous cleansing compounds that neutralize heavy metals, which
can bear heavily on the liver. Leafy greens also eliminate
pesticides and herbicides from the body, and spur the creation
and flow of cleansing bile. 5. Turmeric, one of the most
powerful foods for maintaining a healthy liver, has been shown
to actively protect the liver against toxic damage, and even
regenerate damaged liver cells. Turmeric also boosts the natural
production of bile, shrinks engorged hepatic ducts, and improves
overall function of the gallbladder, another body-purifying
organ.
Shelter Dogs See New Life as K9 Units
Amazing News - Traditionally police K9 units have been hand selected
dogs from very specific breeds, and while that still remains true for
many k9 units it is starting to change in some areas. Specifically, one
K9 trainer in Texas is making waves by introducing his latest group of
trainees, all of which were picked from shelters in the area. No longer
do trained K9 units need to be purebreds trained from birth, now police
forces can begin adopting dogs from shelters to do the job as well. Brad
Croft, the creator of Universal K9, says that he started the whole
program because he wanted to make a difference and save lives of dogs
from shelters. He picked out a group of dogs and gave it a shot and the
results he saw were overwhelming, he successfully trained a group of
shelter dogs to detect bombs, drugs, and other contraband. He’s
continued with the process and is on track to save and train upwards of
100 dogs this year, all of which will go into service with police forces
around the United States. One of the biggest benefits to police forces
is that it costs nothing at all, Croft’s group donates the dogs to any
unit in need.
It’s Coming…Pet Food made with Crickets
Susan Thixton - Would you buy a dog food or cat food with “crickets” or
“cricket meal” listed in the ingredient panel? A ground cricket treat
for your cat or dog? Get ready…it’s coming. The press release on the new
company – Dockside Pet Products and Services – states “an innovative new
pet food company serving North America with a mission to deliver the
best in pet nutrition using rescued fresh food and environmentally
sustainable ingredients to craft delicious treats, meal mixers, and meal
toppers for dogs and cats.” Dockside Pet Products plans to source “fresh
seafood, vegetables, and fruits that don’t make it to retail market and
are otherwise wasted for cosmetic or other reasons that don’t negatively
impact their nutritional value.” And the company plans to source
crickets…. My concern is though the nutrient numbers sound good for use
of cricket meal in pet food (amino acids, magnesium, etc.) – I am not
aware of any cat or dog food feeding trial proving such. Crickets or
Cricket Meal is not an AAFCO approved pet food ingredient, and it is not
considered GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) for use in pet food by
FDA. (Cricket meal would be the ground dry version of crickets used in
pet food.) How can this pet food company even be promoting this product
without going through the proper steps to use the ingredient?
An Odd Sign of Heart Disease You Won't Want to Ignore
Dr. Becker - In dogs, coughing can be a sign of several different
problems, some more serious than others. A common cause of coughing in
dogs is something stuck in the throat. If the object isn’t expelled by
coughing, you should make an appointment with your veterinarian. Other
causes for a dog’s cough can include a respiratory infection (kennel
cough), pneumonia and heart disease. A potentially serious cause of
coughing, especially in small breeds, is a collapsing trachea. Many dogs
also “reverse sneeze,” which is a respiratory event that sounds more
like coughing or choking. Coughing is unfortunately also a symptom of
heart disease in dogs. Other signs include a bluish color to the tongue,
loss of appetite, fatigue, weakness, decreased exercise endurance, a
too-fast or too-slow heartbeat and difficulty breathing. If your dog has
been diagnosed with a heart condition and coughs mainly while he’s
resting, lying down or at night, it could be a sign the disease is
progressing. Treatment of heart disease in dogs depends on a variety of
factors including the severity of the problem, the age and health of the
animal, cost of treatment and other considerations. A visit to a
board-certified veterinary cardiologist can provide more information
about the severity of your dog's condition. There are a variety of
natural therapies that can support a weakened cardiovascular system, so
consult your holistic veterinarian for the best options for your pet’s
individual situation. Other conditions that can cause coughing in your
dog include chronic bronchitis, heartworm disease and some types of
cancer. If your dog’s cough doesn’t resolve quickly on its own, it
should be investigated, and the sooner you make an appointment with your
veterinarian, the better your pet’s chances for either a full recovery
or a well-managed condition.
Thursday - November
17, 2016 - Today In History:
1800 - The U.S. Congress held its first session in Washington, DC, in
the partially completed Capitol building.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the
Red seas.
1903 - Russia's Social Democrats officially split into two groups -
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
1904 - The first underwater submarine journey was taken, from
Southampton, England, to the Isle of Wight.
1913 - The steamship Louise became the first ship to travel through the
Panama Canal.
1962 - Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by U.S.
President Kennedy.
1970 - The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on
the moon, the Lunokhod 1. The vehicle was released by Luna 17.
1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and
black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1982 - The Empire State Building was added to the National Register of
Historical Places.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto became the first woman leader of an Islamic
country. She was elected in the first democratic elections in Pakistan
in 11 years.
1990 - A mass grave was discovered by the bridge over the River Kwai in
Thailand. The bodies were believed to be those of World War II prisoners
of war.
1990 - The Soviet government agreed to change the country's
constitution.
2010 - Researchers trapped 38 antihydrogen atoms. It was the first time
humans had trapped antimatter.
Bombs strike rebel-held Aleppo and northern Syria, 54 dead
(AP) - Bombs rained down on rebel-held eastern Aleppo for a
second straight day Wednesday, pounding a district that houses
several medical facilities, including the central blood bank,
and forcing Syrian staff and patients in the only remaining
pediatric hospital to cower in a basement as buildings collapsed
around them. At least 54 people were killed in airstrikes and
artillery shelling across northern Syria, part of a
long-anticipated offensive against rebel-held areas announced by
Russia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The
bombardment hit in besieged neighborhoods of Aleppo, as well as
the surrounding countryside and the nearby rebel-held province
of Idlib. Russia said its air raids were only targeting Idlib
and the central province of Homs to root out militants of the
Islamic State group and Syria's al-Qaida affiliate. But Syrian
warplanes were pounding rebel-held districts of Aleppo, home to
nearly 275,000 people. Residents said the aerial campaign
intensified Wednesday. Syria's Civil Defense, known as the White
Helmets, recorded at least 150 raids, more than double the
number of attacks on Aleppo on Tuesday.
Hundreds protest against militants in E. Aleppo, rallies
brutally dispersed – Russian MoD
RT - Resistance against the terrorists and rebels controlling
eastern Aleppo has been growing amongst the civilian population
trapped in the city, Russia's Defense Ministry said. Eleven
protests have been staged in militant-controlled areas since the
beginning of the week. In the past 24 hours alone, some 1,500
civilians in four Aleppo districts have risen up against the
militants, ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov
reported on Wednesday, citing intelligence data. The
demonstrations were violently suppressed by the jihadists, his
statement said, adding that dozens of people were killed and
hundreds injured in eastern Aleppo on Tuesday, when militants
opened fire at those protesting the occupation. The mood for
protests and resistance is apparently sweeping across larger
militant-controlled areas in Aleppo, RT's Murad Gazdiev reported
from Syria…. Unrest is growing at the rebel presence in parts of
the city, as the population is deprived of food and is not being
allowed to leave. There has also been an attempt by desperate
civilians to seize a food storage depot used by the militants,
the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Any routes out of eastern
Aleppo are extremely dangerous, as terrorists have mined the
streets leading to humanitarian corridors. Not only civilians,
but also militants who decided to quit the resistance are being
shot at and killed, according to local reports, which also say
that punitive actions are being staged on a daily basis.
Images of Hezbollah ‘parading US armored vehicles’ emerge
online, sparking controversy
RT - Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, recognized as terrorist
organization by the US, has been allegedly spotted parading a
vast number of US-made military vehicles in Syria, triggering
questions about how they ended up in the militants’ hands. The
photos of Hezbollah’s military parade allegedly featuring
US-made armored vehicles in the Syrian city of Qusayr published
by media close to the organization raised questions the US State
Department had to confront during a daily press briefing on
Tuesday…. “Our embassy in Beirut is working with the Lebanese
armed forces to investigate the images circulating on social
media purporting to show Hezbollah displaying US military
equipment in Syria,” State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth
Trudeau said…. The US equipment on the photos appear to be the
M113 armored personnel carriers that have been in service since
1960 and “are extremely common in the region,” Trudeau noted.
Protesting soldiers teargassed, hit with water cannon by Belgian
police (Video)
RT - Riot police in Brussels turned water cannons and tear gas
on scores of angry military personnel protesting government
plans to raise the retirement age from 56 to 63. According to
local reports, an 8,000-strong crowd of servicemen and women
took to the streets of the Belgian capital to express their
disapproval at the proposal. Trouble broke out as unions met
with Minister of Defence Steven Vandeput and resulted in nearby
roadways and tunnels being closed off for a number of hours,
according to HLN Nieuws. The protest culminated in violence
close to the residence of Belgium’s Minister of Defence on Mont
St Lambert street, where protesters reportedly threw lemons and
other projectiles at police officers. Police deployed water
cannon to disperse the demonstrators…. In Belgium, members of
the armed forces are barred from going on strike but are
permitted to protest or participate in demonstrations on
holidays. Under government plans, the retirement age will rise
to 63 years in 2030 and the conditions for being granted a
military service pension will change from 2019, De Tijd reports.
War on Cash Intensifies: Citibank to Stop Accepting Cash at Some
Branches
Blacklisted News - Less than a week after India’s surprise move
to scrap its highest denomination cash notes, another front in
the War on Cash has intensified down under in Australia.
Yesterday, banking giant UBS proposed that eliminating
Australia’s $100 and $50 bills would be “good for the economy
and good for the banks.” This isn’t the first time that the
financial establishment has pushed for a cashless society in
Australia (or anywhere else). In September 2015, Australian bank
Westpac published its “Cash Free Report”, suggesting that the
country would become cashless by 2022. In July 2016, Australian
payments firm Tyro published an enormously self-serving blog
post touting the benefits of a cashless society and saying,
“it’s only a matter of time.” Most notably, two days ago,
Citibank announced that it was going cashless at some of its
Australian branches.
Barcelona Joins Social Currency Revolution, Proposes Own Bank
Notes
Sputnik News - Barcelona is about to join the likes of Girona,
also in Catalonia, Spain and the city of Bristol in the UK and
introduce its own "social currency." But the move by the Catalan
community has infuriated the Bank of Spain which has told the
Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau not to press ahead with the new
money. Mr. Colau has responded and says the currency will be
"informal." Yet for the independent currency to survive, it
needs the backing of the city and a formal financial
institution. But it works in Girona, where it has apparently
benefited many companies that have joined the single currency
program. And it works in Bristol, home of the famous
anti-establishment street artist, Banksy. Bristol also goes one
step further and lets its citizens pay taxes — and some energy
bills with the Bristol currency. The mayor of Bristol, George
Ferguson, takes 100 percent of his salary in Bristol Pounds. The
adoption of a municipal style currency has been pretty
successful in the Spanish cities of Bilbao, Seville, Toulouse in
France and parts of Bavaria in southeast Germany, as well as in
Switzerland. Brixton, in south London, also has it's own Brixton
Pound and 50 Lambeth council employees take some of their wages
in the currency as well.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Defcon Nuclear Threat REDUCED To Safest Level Following Donald
Trump Victory
UK Express - The Defcon Warning System, a private organization
which monitors world events and estimates the nuclear threat
against America, is now at Level 5 – its lowest possible state.
Just weeks ago the warning was accelerated to Level 3 following
increased tensions between US and Russia, with insiders fearing
the West was creeping closer to nuclear war. Level 3 means US
troops could be mobilized in as little as 15 minutes. But the
group, made up of experts claiming to have contacts within the
US security industry, have seen Donald Trump’s election win as a
pacifier for Russian relations. The group wrote on its website:
“The United States took a tentative step toward a more
isolationist policy with its recent presidential election.
"While it will take several months to see how the US reforms its
foreign policy, already some world leaders have expressed hope
that relations could improve, including Russia and Syria. “If
the new US President keeps to his previous statements, look for
the United States to withdraw somewhat from military
confrontations in the Middle East and possibly European theatre,
though it is highly unlikely it will abandon NATO commitments,
and the Ukraine will likely pop up again in the near future.
"Russia, however, will probably wait to see what the new
President does, as well as now being hampered by the coming
winter.” Donald Trump's election as president of America was
welcomed by Vladimir Putin, leader of the US' biggest rival
Russia. … “Meanwhile, more troops are to be sent to Europe in
2017 to bolster defences against Russian movements and NATO
continues building up forces in Poland and surrounding areas to
protect against a potential Russian assault.”
Flying Fortress: US Urgently Seeking New Air Force Ones
Sputnik News - The White House is urgently looking to replace
the presidential aircraft, as the in-use pair of Air Force One
Boeing 747-200s are nearly three decades old. The Boeing jets
have a life expectancy of 30 years, and will hit that milestone
in 2017. "The real challenge and the challenge that is forcing
us to buy newer aircraft for the president is to overcome the
fact that there are heroics going on every day to keep the
current aircraft flying and it's becoming way too expensive and
way too difficult to do that," Kevin W. Buckley, program
executive officer of mobility programs, headquartered at the Air
Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson, told the
Dayton Daily News. Buckley is planning to replace the airplanes
by 2024 with two or three Boeing 747-8s — which are larger but
more fuel-efficient than the White House’s current jets.
According to Buckley, the Air Force will often fly their planes
far past the 30-year mark, but they are not willing to take
chances with the fleet that transports the president. “We grit
our teeth and bear it in the US Air Force,” he said. “We can’t
do that with the presidential air (fleet). They need 100 percent
reliability.” Each 747-8 costs roughly $370 million, before the
presidential modifications, which include an airborne command
post, complete with communications gear and defensive equipment
such as anti-aircraft missiles. The US Air Force has budgeted
$1.65 billion from 2015 to 2019 for the new Air Force One
planes.
Feds Warn Gun Dealers to Stop Sales to Suspected Cannabis Users
The Daily Sheeple - Even though the US Department of Health and
Human Services holds a patent on the the use of cannabinoids for
medical treatment, Patent No. 6630507: “Cannabinoids as
antioxidants and neuroprotectants”, cannabis is still classified
as a Schedule 1 controlled substance which, according to the FDA
and DEA, means that it has no approved medical use and has a
high potential for abuse. Regardless of the fact that cannabis
is now legal in 8 states and the District of Columbia, there is
still a federal prohibition on gun ownership to those who use
the substance legally. According to the Wall Street Journal, the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have alerted gun dealers
that it is their responsibility to halt a transaction if they
have any reason to believe that the customer is a cannabis
user…. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws (NORML) says that nobody should have to give up their
Second Amendment rights to use cannabis. After all, why should
an epileptic person who uses cannabis to stop seizures faster
than any other medication, with no side-effects, have to
relinquish his ability to defend himself in his own home? Is his
life less important because he chooses to use a certain medicine
that is not an “approved” medical treatment? On October 31, the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that a ban preventing
firearms sales to medical marijuana users does not violate their
Second Amendment rights.
School District Pressures Homeschoolers To Teach Common Core
Off the Grid News - A California school district recently sent a
letter to homeschooling parents implying that they must use the
controversial Common Core curriculum in order to comply with
state law. The letter originated from the Morongo Unified School
District’s child welfare and attendance coordinator. “This is to
inform you,” the letter said, “ … Education Code § 48290 directs
us to make an investigation of compliance with California
private school education requirements should we receive a
complaint ….” It added: “In California, the State Board of
Education decides on the standards for all students …. These
standards are called the Common Core State Standards.” The
letter was made public by the Home School Legal Defense
Association (HSLDA). It suggested that parents enroll their
children in independent study programs and online instruction
“available through state charter and private schools.” HSLDA
President Mike Smith wrote a letter to the school district,
saying it had mangled state law. “This school district is
implying: ‘We determine whether your teachers are qualified,
whether your attendance records are adequate, and whether you’re
teaching the correct subjects,’” Smith wrote. “But they don’t
have the authority to evaluate private school programs.”
According to HSLDA, the California Board of Education “does not
set education standards for students in home-based private
schools or campus-based private schools.” “State law restricts
the authority of public school districts to oversee private
schools—including those conducted by parents teaching at home.
Once parents properly set up the private school in their home,
the district’s authority ends,” according to HSLDA.
Texas Bill Would Expand Raw Milk Sales; Set Foundation to
Nullify Federal Prohibition Scheme
Tenth Amendment Center - Legislation introduced in the Texas
legislature for the 2017 session would expand raw milk sales in
the state. Passage of the bill into law would help the process
of nullifying the federal prohibition scheme in practice. en.
Bob Hall (R-Dist 2) filed Senate Bill 95 (SB95) on Nov. 14. Rep.
Dan Flynn (R-Dist 2) filed a companion bill (HB57) in the House
the same day. The legislation would expand raw milk sales in
Texas, authorizing permit holders to sell unpasteurized milk and
raw milk products in a retail setting. Under current law, raw
milk may only be sold on the farm. If passed SB95/HB57 would
open the door for unpasteurized milk sales at the permit
holder’s place of business, the consumer’s residence, or at a
farmer’s market. The legislation also includes regulations for
storage, labeling and testing of raw milk and related products.
FDA officials insist that unpasteurized milk poses a health risk
because of its susceptibility to contamination from cow manure,
a source of E. coli. “It is the FDA’s position that raw milk
should never be consumed,” agency spokeswoman Tamara N. Ward
said in November 2011. The FDA’s position represents more than a
matter of opinion. In 1987, the feds implemented 21 CFR
1240.61(a), providing that, “no person shall cause to be
delivered into interstate commerce or shall sell, otherwise
distribute, or hold for sale or other distribution after
shipment in interstate commerce any milk or milk product in
final package form for direct human consumption unless the
product has been pasteurized.” Not only do the Feds ban the
transportation of raw milk across state lines, they also claim
the authority to ban unpasteurized milk within the borders of a
state.
Video: George Soros Funding "Paid Protesters"
The recent release by DCLeaks of hacked emails from billionaire
financier George Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) paints a
picture of a man with little regard for the sovereignty of
nations, and a man who actively promotes open borders as a means
to manipulate political scenes the world over, like a kid
playing a game of Risk. With Europe struggling with the
migration crisis, Soros' foundations have sensed opportunities
to “shape conversations about rethinking migration governance.”
Soros himself wants to make it easier to admit migrants into
Europe. In fact, he has encouraged the EU to admit at least
300,000 migrants annually and called for allocating at least 30
billion euros a year to the asylum plan. And now he is caught
again, funding the chaos taking place within the United States.
Obama’s Brother Calls for Boycott of CNN, MSNBC, New York Times
Adan Salazar - Americans should boycott biased news sources such
as CNN and MSNBC, President Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik
Obama, tweeted on Wednesday. Malik’s latest tweets follow
statements over the weekend concerning unfair coverage from the
New York Times and other establishment outlets still hellbent on
publishing negative stories about President-Elect Donald Trump.
Regarding weekend coverage, the president-elect himself slammed
The Times specifically on Twitter Sunday…. Obama made his
support of Trump clear earlier this year when he told the New
York Post he liked the businessman’s tell-it-like-it-is
approach…. Amid accusations of anti-Trump bias, The New York
Times last week wrote a letter to readers regarding its slanted
election coverage, promising subscribers it would “rededicate”
itself to honest journalism after horrifically inaccurate
predictions of a Hillary Clinton win.
'My life goal is to assassinate Trump': Ohio man is first to be
charged for sending threatening election night tweet
Daily Mail - A 24-year-old man from Ohio has been charged in a
federal court after tweeting a threat to assassinate
President-elect Donald Trump on election night. Zachary Benson,
from Fairview Park in Cleveland, posted the remark on Twitter a
few minutes before the Republican nominee was declared the
winner of last week's election. Benson tweeted: 'My life goal is
to assassinate Trump. Don't care if I serve infinite sentences.
That man deserves to decease (sic) existing.' Seconds earlier he
tweeted: '...I want to bomb every one of your voting booths and
your general areas.' Benson was arrested a few hours later and
interviewed by the Secret Service…. After the results were
announced, many of those who opposed Trump rushed to Twitter to
call for his assassination. But Benson is believed to be the
first person to be charged in connection with one of those
tweets…. Benson made his first appearance in court yesterday and
is thought to be in custody, pending a bail hearing.
AT&T And NASA Are Developing A Nationwide Drone Tracking System
Activist Post - AT&T is currently working with NASA to develop an
Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management program that will enable
agencies across the country to monitor drone activity. According to a
statement released by AT&T, this program is supposed to assist drone
operators in monitoring flight paths and navigating drones as well as
using them for surveillance. The company says that its main goal is to
protect against cyber attacks on drones. Both drones used commercially
and those used by government agencies have vulnerabilities that expose
the aircraft to hackers who may want to divert the flight path or render
the device unusable. AT&T is concerned that hackers could use a drone
connected to wireless internet to gain access to the network of the
agency operating the drone.
Google, Corporate Press Launch Attack On Alternative Media
Brandon Turbeville - On November 15, U.S News and World Report released
an article by Rachel Dicker providing a list of “fake sites” to “avoid
at all costs.” On the list, Activist Post was prominently noted as being
“fake” or, more accurately to the point of the article, a “propaganda”
site. This article comes shortly after an announcement by Google that it
would be prohibiting “fake” and “misrepresentative” sites from using its
AdSense program. The company stated to Reuters that, Moving forward, we
will restrict ad serving on pages that misrepresent, misstate, or
conceal information about the publisher, the publisher’s content, or the
primary purpose of the web property. This policy includes fake news
sites, the spokesperson confirmed. Google already prevents its AdSense
program from being used by sites that promote violent videos and
imagery, pornography, and hate speech. And, of course, the definition of
the Orwellian-named “hate speech,” violence, misrepresentation and “fake
news” is all going to be determined by Facebook and Google. War, for
instance, is extremely violent but there is a necessity to cover it and
even produce images from the battlefield in the process. Police
shootings and other forms of violence against citizens is also violent
but a necessary issue to cover. “Hate speech” is incredibly subjective
and, in 2016, speech has come to be labeled as “hate” even when it
merely respectfully disagreed with a protected identity group. But the
new Google policy and the intent to remove what is for many websites a
main source of revenue has obvious political implications and is about
much more than a desire to prevent unpleasant images, violence, and hate
from being shown to Americans.
SPLC Celebrates Twitter’s Free Speech Purge After ‘Alt-Right’ Accounts
Banned
Paul Joseph Watson - The Southern Poverty Law Center is celebrating
Twitter’s new free speech purge after numerous accounts belonging to
members of the ‘Alt-Right’ were banned. After Trump’s election victory,
Twitter initiated an “unprecedented” mass culling of ‘Alt-Right’
accounts, with even verified users being swiftly removed for holding
unauthorized opinions. The mass bans arrived in tandem with a new
Twitter policy that prevents “hate against a race, religion, gender, or
orientation”. In the world of permanently offended social justice
warriors, “hate” is having a different opinion to them, while
“harassment” is replying to their idiocy on Twitter. The SPLC, which is
currently embroiled in an effort to force Trump to ditch Breitbart’s
Stephen Bannon as his White House strategist, celebrated the news,
tweeting “good riddance” in response to a user who tweeted, “Alt-right
Twitter says Twitter has mounted a coordinated effort to wipe it out.”
The SPLC’s claim of being an impartial operation that merely exists to
monitor and counter “hate speech” has been debunked time and time again.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
DIY: A Heal-Anything, Indoor Herbal Tea Garden
Off the Grid News - Growing and blending your own herbal teas is also a
wonderful way to express your creativity using various parts (leaves,
flowers and buds) of different herbs. Herbs may be used fresh or dried –
and homemade herbal teas also can make a great gift. While the herbs
discussed below may be grown either outdoors or indoors, growing your
own indoor herbal tea garden has the advantage of allowing you access to
fresh herbs during the coldest months of the year – which is often the
time we crave a nice hot relaxing beverage the most!… Below are just a
few of the different herbs that you may want to consider growing: 1.
Lavender – easy to grow on a sunny windowsill, lavender is well-known
for its beautiful fragrance. It has a spicy floral flavor and has a
calming effect. 2. Chamomile – these tiny, white flowers are wonderful
as a sleep aid and help calm an upset stomach. They will give a slight
apple scent to your homemade teas. 3. Mint – mint tea is excellent for
soothing an upset stomach or even helping with menstrual cramps. It will
give your tea a refreshing and peppery flavor. 4. Bergamot – the herb
that gives Earl Grey tea its distinctive flavor, this plant produces
purple flowers with a citrus taste. It is also easy to grow indoors
since it can do well in either full side or partial shade. 5. Rosemary –
while you may think of this herb as one to flavor savory dishes with, it
can also be used in herbal teas. Rosemary has been used as a medicinal
plant for thousands of years as has been proven to be effective in
aiding indigestion and recently has shown promise in boosting brain
function. 6. Lemon verbena – this plant can do well indoors, assuming it
has very good drainage. Lemon verbena is said to be excellent in helping
with weight management, reducing inflammation and clearing up
congestion…..
New Transmissible Vaccine Spreads Like Virus, No Consent
Necessary
Brandon Turbeville - As governments move forward in their
attempts to force their citizens into vaccination, whether they
want it or not, researchers are now moving forward with what may
become the future of forced vaccination – transmissible
vaccines…. The idea behind these vaccines are that they would
themselves be infectious, passing along the vaccine from one
person to another as if it were a virus. Thus, it would be
possible to vaccinate a small number of people manually, but as
a result of the vaccine’s self-transmission, actually vaccinate
a very high number of people. According to PNAS (Proceeding of
the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America), several recombinant, transmissible vaccines are in
development for wild animal populations, including one to
protect wild rabbits against a fatal viral infection and another
to prevent deer mice from carrying a virus responsible for a
deadly human pulmonary disease. But transmissible vaccines pose
a special risk, essentially, they could become a virus
themselves and spread rapidly amongst the population that was
vaccinated. This has already happened with the oral polio
vaccine and both the 1960s and the 2000s, but with a
transmissible vaccine, the danger of spread of a disease would
become even more dangerous since spread and transmission are
what the vaccines are designed to do.
Chaga: The Superfood You Should Know About
REALfarmacy - Chaga, otherwise known as Inontus Obliquuus, is a
wild mushroom that grows on birch trees in extremely cold
regions. Chaga can be found in the Baltic regions, Scandinavia,
Siberia, Alaska, and northern Canada where temperatures fall
bellow -30 F for over 2 to 3 months per year. The chaga conk
grows in cooperation with the birch tree over a seven to twenty
year period, absorbing life-sustaining nutrients from the tree.
This medicinal mushroom’s DNA structure is 30% more human than
it is plant. Chaga has been used medicinally for centuries.
…Siberian tribes who used chaga had a lifespan of ninety to over
one hundred years. Indigenous Siberians would grind it and put
it in stews, soups, and daily beverages. The Siberians found
that, despite their harsh climate, the regular consumption of
chaga prevented the onset of various degenerative diseases.
Contemporary Russians have found that the districts that
regularly used chaga had no traces of cancer…. Here are only a
few of chaga’s health benefits… Supports Immune System: An
abundance of Beta-D-Glucans are found in chaga. These help
balance the response of the body’s immune system. This means
chaga can help boost the immune system when it is necessary,
while also having the ability to slow it down when it is
overactive. This makes chaga a natural Biological Response
Modifier (BRM). Cancer Fighting: Medical researchers have gone
to Siberia to learn about the effects of chaga on the indigenous
people of the region. The medical team found that although there
was a lot of talk about cancer, not a single cancer patient was
admitted to any of the hospitals in the region. They also found
that these people were brewing chaga instead of coffee in order
to save money. Researchers found that these people were
unwittingly treating themselves for cancer prevention…..
Normalize Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Levels: The betulinic
acid found in chaga is able to break down LDL cholesterol (bad
cholesterol) in the bloodstream. Anti-Aging: SOD performs vital
anti-aging functions by neutralizing oxygen free radicals, and
preventing oxidative damage to cells, and tissue. For this
reason, chaga is supremely healthy for the skin. It has proven
to be highly anti-aging as well as therapeutic for skin
disorders. You can make a face cream with chaga, raw beeswax,
and spice oils….
Cat Sanctuary In War-Torn City Just Got Bombed (Videos) (Photos)
The Dodo - A cat sanctuary where hundreds of animals and dozens of
people have found refuge and love in the midst of war and disorder has
been bombed, according to an update on social media today. "I'm so sorry
to tell you that today our shelter was bomb[ed]," Alessandra Abidin, who
runs the private Facebook group for Il Gattaro d'Aleppo, a cat sanctuary
in Aleppo, Syria, wrote today. From her home in Italy, every day, Abidin
updates fans of the sanctuary across the world. "Some cats and our
beautiful dog Hope is dead," she said. The cat sanctuary made
international headlines when Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, an ambulance driver
also known as the cat man of Aleppo, was discovered feeding and taking
care of as many stray cats as he could…. Alaa started out with about 20
cats who were left behind as people ran for their lives, in addition to
the strays he'd taken in. A year later there were over 100 — and Alaa
started the sanctuary. Now, after today's bombing, it is uncertain what
the future of the sanctuary will be…. The extent of the damage is still
unknown. We will update you when we have more information. To donate to
the sanctuary, a few steps are involved: Request to join the private
Facebook group and request PayPal details via message. Recently, when a
bomb fell near the sanctuary, The Dodo asked what people could do for
the Alaa and the sanctuary, and Abidin replied: "For now just pray and
support him."
RECALL ALERT: Spot On Flea & Tick Drops for Dogs and Cats
Dogington Post - A recall has been issued after flea and tick treatments
for dogs – containing permethrin – were distributed in packaging
labelled as flea drops for cats. Even slight exposure to permethrin can
be fatal to cats. Armitage Pet Care Flea and Tick Drops for Dogs 702 mg
spot-on solution (Vm 20205/4003) [and] Armitage Flea Drops for Cats and
Kittens. After a packaging mix-up, an unknown quantity of the Armitage
Pet Care Flea and Tick Drops for Dogs containing permethrin has been
distributed in packaging labelled Armitage Flea Drops for Cats and
Kittens. Exposure to even small quantities of concentrated permethrin
can cause severe and fatal poisoning in cats. Armitage is the largest
independent supplier and distributor of branded pet accessories and
treats in the UK.
Related:
Spot-On Flea and Tick Products Are Dangerous to Your Pets
People Are Saying This Bird Is Trump's Hair Twin
The Dodo - Regardless of where you stand on the policies of
President-elect Donald Trump, there is one thing we can probably all
agree on: Never before has a head of hair so unique graced the hallowed
halls of the White House. But as iconic as Trump's wispy, yellow coif
may be, he's actually not the first one to have adopted such a
distinctive look — and people have started to notice.
Wednesday - November
16, 2016 - Today In History:
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during the American
Revolution.
1907 - Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state.
1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The
bottle made its commercial debut the next year.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic
relations for the first time.
1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of
charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
1969 - The U.S. Army announced that several had been charged with
massacre and the subsequent cover-up in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam
on March 16, 1968.
1973 - Skylab 3 carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from
Cape Canaveral, FL, on an 84-day mission.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.
1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been
developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research.
1982 - An agreement was announced on the 57th day of a strike by
National Football League (NFL) players.
1985 - Colonel Oliver North was put in charge of the shipment of HAWK
anti-aircraft missiles to Iran.
1998 - In Burlington, WIsconsin, five high school students, aged 15 to
16, were arrested in an alleged plot to kill a carefully selected group
of teachers and students.
1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the
North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President
Clinton.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court said that union members could file
discrimination lawsuits against employers even when labor contracts
require arbitration.
2000 - Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit
Communist Vietnam.
2001 - The movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" opened in
the U.S. and U.K.
2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10
times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.
Russian carrier takes part in massive strikes on terrorists in
Syria’s Idlib & Homs provinces – MoD
RT - The Russian military has launched a large-scale operation
against terrorists stationed in Homs and Idlib provinces of
Syria, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday….
"The main targets of the strikes are warehouses with ammunition,
[terrorist] gatherings and terrorist training centers, as well
as plants for the production of various kinds of weapons of mass
destruction of the population," Shoigu detailed. He stressed
that terrorists had actual factories, not merely workshops, for
weapons production. "They are factories, not workshops, more
specifically the plants for the production of all sorts of
rather serious means of mass destruction." "Clearly, this is a
well-established industrial production, these are the targets
for today's strikes. And they will continue," the minister
stated.
US should sanction Soros & Poroshenko for destabilizing Ukraine,
says Russian MP
RT - A Russian lawmaker suggests that if the United States
really wants to punish those responsible for the continuing
crisis in Ukraine it should slap sanctions on billionaire George
Soros, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and a number of US
officials. Andrey Kozenko (United Russia) made the comment soon
after the US Treasury Department announced that it was
introducing sanctions against several Russian lawmakers
representing the Crimean Republic, including Kozenko himself on
the grounds of their alleged input in destabilizing Ukraine. “If
this is the real reason behind the sanctions, I would advise
that clerks in the Treasury Department slap sanctions on Nuland,
Soros and Biden before January 20 [the end of the current US
administration],” he said. Victoria Nuland is an assistant to
the US secretary of state, whom the mass media describe as a
mastermind behind the Ukrainian regime change in 2014. Joe Biden
is the current US vice-president, who has a deep involvement in
Ukrainian affairs (Biden’s son Hunter heads the largest private
energy company in that country). George Soros is a US
billionaire known for his involvement in international politics,
in particular the backing of the so called ‘color revolutions’ –
the seizing of power from nationalist-inclining regimes in favor
of pro-globalist forces. Kozenko added that in his view
sanctions for de-stabilizing Ukraine should be applied to the
top Kiev officials, including President Petro Poroshenko, former
PM Arseny Yatsenyuk and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
* Related:
Flashback: Prosecutors ban Soros Foundation as ‘threat to
Russian national security’
Saudi’s Issue Warning To Trump: Don’t Stop Saudi Oil Imports
OilPrice.com - President-elect Donald Trump jeopardizes the
global economy through his promises to block Middle East oil
imports for the purpose of creating an energy independent United
States, according to petrostate Saudi Arabia. Over the course of
the two-year American election process, Republican nominee Trump
promised on the campaign trail to divest U.S. interests from
“our foes and the oil cartels,” referring mainly to the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), of which
the KSA is the largest producer and de facto leader. “At his
heart President-elect Trump will see the benefits and I think
the oil industry will also be advising him accordingly that
blocking trade in any product is not healthy,” Khalid al-Falih,
chairman of Aramco and Saudi Aramco Oil Minister, told the
Financial Times in Marrakesh, where world leader’s are currently
negotiating the nuts and bolts of the landmark 2015 climate
change agreement. Saudi Arabia is the U.S.’ largest Middle
Eastern oil supplier, though the North American country gets
most of its energy from domestic and Canadian sources. Al-Falih
added that the free trade energy culture currently in place
benefits the United States because it has created a refining
industry and ignited a job-hungry shale revolution…. Critics of
American foreign policy say the U.S.’ hunger for energy played a
role in encouraging the country’s political entanglements in the
Middle East. Reaching energy independence would supposedly free
leaders from the economic risks of intervening or stepping back
from conflicts in the region, according to proponents of energy
independence.
Greek police clash with demonstrators protesting Obama’s visit
to Athens (Photos, Videos)
RT - Leftist demonstrators protesting against US President
Barack Obama’s visit to Athens have clashed with police, who
used tear gas to disperse the crowd as people tried to break
through cordons. Some 7,000 people took to the streets of
central Athens on Tuesday to protest Obama’s visit to the Greek
capital, Reuters reports. The demonstrators initially planned to
walk all the way to the US Embassy located in another part of
the city, but the procession was disrupted as protesters clashed
with police officers. “We don't need protectors!" one of the
banners carried by the demonstrators read. Some could be heard
exclaiming: “Yankees go home!” One protester was seen setting an
American flag on fire…. More than 5,000 police officers were
deployed in central Athens to maintain order. Nearly 1,000
people took part in a similar protest in Greece’s second biggest
city, Thessaloniki. Protesters are rallying against US policy
that is “creating tensions” with various countries around the
world, starting with China and Russia, as well as against the US
attempts to “overthrow the government in Ukraine,” Greek
journalist Aris Chatzistefanou told RT. Apart from that,
protesters are blaming the US for supporting“Islamic
extremists”which led to“well-known consequences.”… “The
government was trying to present to the Greek public that Barack
Obama will come and help with the austerity policy that was
imposed by the Troika,” Chatzistefanou said, also adding that
there is “no direct connection” between Obama’s promises and
what the IMF is planning to do.
Stockholm defends 'gender-equal' snow-clearing
The Local - Stockholm’s ’gender-equal’ snow-clearing policy is
not to blame for the traffic chaos which has engulfed the
Swedish capital, the architect of the policy has claimed.
“Gender equal snow-cleaning is not to blame here,” Daniel
Helldén, the city’s Green Party transport head told the
Expressen newspaper, stressing that the policy, which
prioritises cleaning pavements and cycle lanes over roads, did
not even appear to have even been followed. “There is a lack of
gender equal snow-clearing now, according to the reports I’m
getting,” he said. “It’s still difficult to walk on the
pavements — and it is important that snow-clearing prioritises
walkways, public transport and cycle paths.” Stockholm’s
municipal government, a coalition of the Social Democrats and
the Green Party, brought in gender equal snow cleaning last
year, pledging to make moving around the city on icy winter days
just as safe for women as it is for men. Men are statistically
more likely to be drivers, while women are more likely to use
pavements, cycle paths, and public transport. But on Thursday
and Friday, the policy came under renewed criticism after the
city was thrown into chaos by the unusually heavy snow dump,
with buses and trains cancelled, and major motorways blocked.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
House Republicans Unanimously Re-elect Paul Ryan As Speaker
Zero Hedge - If there was any speculation about the fate of
House speaker Paul Ryan following his acrimonious relationship
with Donald Trump over the past few months, that can now be
forgotten because moments ago House Republicans unanimously
reelected Ryan as speaker for the next Congress. As Bloomberg
reports, Paul Ryan can thank Donald Trump for helping shore up
his hold on the job. The president-elect’s appointment Sunday of
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to be his
White House chief of staff was a key signal to House Republicans
that Trump plans to try working with Ryan, a man he attacked
bitterly on Twitter several times in the final months of the
campaign. "Welcome to the dawn of a new, unified Republican
government," Ryan told reporters Tuesday after House
Republicans’ weekly closed-door meeting. "This will be a
government focused on turning President-elect Trump’s victory
into real progress for the American people."
New Orleans PD Won’t End ‘Sanctuary City’ Policies
Breitbart - The New Orleans Police Department will continue
“sanctuary city” policies that protect illegal immigrants from
deportation despite stricter immigration policies at the
forefront of President-Elect Donald Trump’s incoming
administration…. Under NOPD’s sanctuary city policies, officers
are barred from looking into the immigration status of anyone
they come into contact with, including victims of crimes or
suspects related to the same. Even if NOPD officers learn that
an individual is in the country illegally, they are not allowed
to share that information unless they are under court order.
Aside from criminal investigations, NOPD is not allowed to
cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). For
instance, the city’s sanctuary city policies forbid the NOPD
from aiding ICE in any way with operations such as raids,
whereas the law enforcement agency once helped with traffic
control. The NOPD will also continue to ignore ICE detainers
unless they are for criminal charges, with an NOPD spokesman not
mentioning any change in policy to Breitbart Texas. Similar
sanctuary cities, like Los Angeles, have recommitted to their
sanctuary policies, telling the news media that they too do not
plan on changing course on policies that have been criticized
for keeping illegal criminals safe while putting Americans in
harm’s way.
Los Angeles Police Chief: LAPD Will Not Aid in Deporting Illegal
Immigrants
Breitbart - Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday
that the LAPD will not change its stance on deporting illegal
immigrants, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s position on
the matter. “I don’t intend on doing anything different,” he
said to the Los Angeles Times. “We are not going to engage in
law enforcement activities solely based on somebody’s
immigration status. We are not going to work in conjunction with
Homeland Security on deportation efforts. That is not our job,
nor will I make it our job.” The LAPD has been historically
against deporting illegal immigrants. During Beck’s tenure as
police chief, the department has stopped turning over illegal
immigrants arrested for low-level crimes to federal authorities
for deportation and has not honored federal requests to detain
inmates who might be deportable past their jail terms, the Los
Angeles Times reported.
Democratic Senator Introduces Bill To Abolish The Electoral
College
Zero Hedge - According to the LA Times reports, retiring
California Democratic senator Barbara Boxer filed legislation
Tuesday to abolish the Electoral College altogether in light of
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote but
still losing the election. Boxer announced in a statement that
the bill, which she introduced later on Tuesday afternoon, would
determine the winner of presidential elections by the outcome of
the popular vote. She cited President-elect Donald Trump's
victory in the Electoral College despite Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton's apparent popular vote advantage. "In my
lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the
general election did not win the popular vote," Boxer said in a
statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic
system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to
change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that
their vote counts."
Related:
Trump Wins Popular Vote With Michigan’s Final Results
4 Million Sign Petition Begging Electors To Flip, Pick Clinton
Off the Grid News - Millions of Americans fear a Donald Trump
presidency so much that they’ve signed a petition asking the
electoral college electors to choose Hillary Clinton, despite
the fact that Trump won more electoral college votes on Election
Day. As of Tuesday, more than 4 million Americans – including
Lady Gaga – had signed the petition at Change.org. The electors
are scheduled to cast their votes on Dec. 19. “We are calling on
the Electors to ignore their states’ votes and cast their
ballots for Secretary Clinton,” the petition states. “Why? Mr.
Trump is unfit to serve. His scapegoating of so many Americans,
and his impulsivity, bullying, lying, admitted history of sexual
assault, and utter lack of experience make him a danger to the
Republic.”… “Hillary won the popular vote,” the petition reads.
“The only reason Trump ‘won’ is because of the Electoral
College,” the petition says “But the Electoral College can
actually give the White House to either candidate.
Report: Hillary Became “Physically Violent” After She Realized
She Had Lost the Election
Paul Joseph Watson - Hillary Clinton reportedly became
“physically violent” towards her own campaign staff after she
realized she had lost the presidential election, according to
radio host Todd Kincannon. “CNN reporter tells me Hillary became
physically violent towards Robby Mook and John Podesta around
midnight; had to be briefly restrained,” tweeted Kincannon. It
was Podesta who was sent out to talk to Hillary’s dejected
supporters shortly before Hillary called Donald Trump to
concede, with Clinton nowhere to be seen until the following
day. When asked about rumors that Hillary was drunk on election
night, Kincannon responded, “She was. I posted about that too.
She was in a “psychotic drunken rage” according to my reporter
friend. Doctor added sedatives to the mix.” Kincannon then
claimed that CNN blocked the reporter from publishing what would
have been a bombshell story. Secret Service officials and other
staff who worked closely alongside Hillary have previously
reported her problems with angry tantrums on numerous occasions.
Last year it was also reported that Clinton’s own campaign
staffers feared she could have a serious meltdown and that
Hillary had “been having screaming, child-like tantrums that
have left staff members in tears and unable to work.” In
addition to claims that she became irate, author Ed Klein said a
source told him Hillary cried inconsolably to a friend after the
results came in, blaming FBI director Comey and President Barack
Obama for not doing enough to stop the FBI investigation into
her email scandal.
Report: Majority Arrested in Portland Anti-Trump Protests Didn’t
Vote
Breitbart - More than 50 percent of the anti-Trump protesters
arrested in Portland, Oregon, in the days following the election
did not bother to vote. A search of state election records was
conducted by a Portland television station which reported that
of the 112 protesters that were arrested, 69 of them could not
be found to have turned in a ballot or were not registered to
vote in the Beaver State. The local NBC affiliate in Portland
took the names and ages of those arrested to Multnomah County
election officials who did a search on the state’s voter files,
reported KGW-NBC. Only 25 of those arrested voted in 2016 in the
state. As of the remaining 17 arrested by the Portland Police
Bureau, KGW reported that it is still trying to verify their
voting records.
Report: Anti-Trump Protesters Block Ambulance; Father of
4-Year-Old Girl Dies
Paul Joseph Watson - The father of a 4-year-old girl died after
anti-Trump protesters blocked roads and delayed an ambulance
from reaching the hospital, according to an anguished message
posted on Facebook. “I have to unfacebook for a few days. I had
a patient die during a transfer last night because our ambulance
was stopped by protesters and had to drive an extra 45 minutes
around the blocked roads,” the anonymous post reads. The report
of anti-Trump protesters blocking an ambulance has not been
verified, but it’s not unlikely given that anti-Trump
demonstrators have blocked roads in numerous cities and states,
including the I-94 in Minneapolis, the I-5 in Portland, numerous
freeways in Los Angeles, a major highway in Phoenix, and the
I-95 in Miami. During the DNC-sponsored violent shut down of
Donald Trump’s rally in Chicago back in March, anti-Trump
agitators were caught on camera blocking an ambulance outside
the UIC Arena. In some instances, irate motorists are refusing
to be stopped. One video shows an anti-Trump protester on the
ground after being clipped by a car traveling at high speed.
Trump Supporters Call For Boycott Of Pepsi, Macy’s, Dreamworks
And Netflix
ThomasDishaw.com - In a campaign to “drain the swamp” and shrink
the wallets of government elites, supporters of President-elect
Donald Trump urged one another Monday to boycott a variety of
corporate behemoths in support of Hillary Clinton and general
liberal ideals. The list posted on Reddit included PepsiCo,
Macy’s, Dell, Dreamworks and Netflix, and also featured
companies to support, such as several mass-market breweries and
fast food restaurants, the National Rifle Association, Nascar,
World Wrestling Entertainment and “cars made in America.” Some
business leaders were critical of Trump before and after
Election Day. PepsiCo, which owns Mountain Dew, Lipton, Lays,
Ruffles and Doritos, among other popular snacks, angered some
conservatives after CEO Indra Nooyi said Trump’s victory had
made people feel unsafe because of his stances against Muslims,
immigrants and LGBT rights. Macy’s dumped Trump brand
merchandise last year after he called immigrants from Mexico and
other countries “killers and rapists.”
Related:
Official List of Companies to Boycott and to Support Pepsi STOCK
Plummets After CEO Tells Trump Supporters to “Take Their
Business Elsewhere”
Student Kicked Out Of Class For Disagreeing That Trump Election
Was As Bad As 9/11
Zero Hedge - When Republican Donald Trump was elected president
last week, the intelligent, determined young women of Converse
College – along with their esteemed instructors – lost their
minds. They posted video of themselves crying on Snapchat. They
walked around campus in tears, and the administration set up
“safe zones” where students weren’t allowed to discuss the
election results. One of my professors pushed back a midterm
“given recent upsetting events,” and students planned to
organize “silent protests” on Thursday. If this sounds like the
typical college reaction to Trump’s victory, there’s a twist:
Converse is a women’s liberal arts college. From President
Krista Newkirk on down, the Converse community invested a huge
part of its identity in Democrat Hillary Clinton shattering the
last remaining glass ceiling in America. The only acceptable
sentiments to express since Wednesday have been grief and
outrage. Feelings are so raw that the few contrarians on campus
have become targets. One student even claims she got kicked out
of class after she challenged her professor’s comparison of
Trump’s election to the September 11 terrorist attacks. ‘Never
been so disgusted in my life’ Before she was ejected from class
by her professor, the student wrote a Facebook post scolding
those who were “comparing 11/9 to 9/11”: You are comparing today
to a day that killed thousands of people in MY HOME. You are
disrespectful, you are unintelligent and you should think before
you post things on social media. I am disgusted. That comparison
continued in the student’s class, she said. (The student
requested anonymity to share her story, so The College Fix is
not naming the professor either.) The professor told the class
“I haven’t felt this way since 9/11” and called Nov. 9 the
second worst day in American history, according to the student.
That spurred her to disagree and tell her professor it was
disrespectful to those who lost their lives on 9/11.
Boeing Shutters Two Plants After United Continental Delays $5BN
Worth Of 737 Orders
Zero Hedge - Earlier this morning, Boeing's shares dropped after
United Continental Airlines said it would delay orders for 61
Boeing 737 jetliners, worth roughly $5 billion, and instead
order the newer 737 MAX models for delivery in later years.
Boeing, of course, downplayed the impact of the decision saying
it would not affect its plan to increase production rates of
737s, and stressed that it continues to have orders for more
737s than it can produce. Given that, it does seem to be curious
timing that Boeing has just announced an operational
restructuring that will result two site closures in El Paso,
Texas and Newington, Virginia. While we're sure there are
"efficiency gains" to be generated from the consolidation of
sites, cutting 4.5 million square feet of facility space in just
4 years seems like there may be a bit more behind the cuts.
Strike called for by 98% of UPS aircraft workers over health
benefits
RT - Essential UPS workers have voted, nearly unanimously, to
strike against the shipping giant, threatening to halt delivery
services globally. Employees are demanding fair healthcare as
UPS cut benefits amid revenue growth and far reaching expansion
plans. “In total, 80 percent, 950 of the company’s 1,200
maintenance employees, participated in the strike vote, and 98
percent of those workers voted in favor of a strike,” Teamsters
Local 2727, a union representing UPS workers, said Monday. With
a reputation of being among the world’s leading delivery
companies, United Parcel Service Inc’s success in shipping
essentially lies in the hands of mechanics who maintain hundreds
of its aircraft daily, working “sometimes up to 39 hours
straight.” This holiday shopping season alone, the company is
expected to ship some 700 million packages worldwide. It has
been three years of negotiations between the Teamsters and UPS
over its massive reductions in healthcare and benefits for
retirees, who dedicated most of their time working for the
company. Yet UPS wants a price tag of more than $19,000 on
health coverage for a retiree and his or her dependent in the
first year and increase that each year thereafter, according to
the union. While cutting benefits, UPS has been adding to its
revenue, in the third quarter earning $14.9 billion, up 4.9
percent over the same period of time in 2015.
Big Oil: Feds Call West Texas Deposit ‘Largest’ in History
Breitbart - A western Texas oil and natural gas shale formation was
labeled the “largest” of its kind by the U.S. Geological Survey on
Tuesday. Federal surveyors announced that the Wolfcamp shale in the
Midland Basin portion of Texas’ Permian Basin now holds the record for
most oil, natural gas, and gas liquid deposits that are “undiscovered,
technically recoverable resources.” The USGS notes that within its
survey spanning from north of Lubbock to remote regions southwest of San
Angelo, an estimated and previously unaccounted for 20 billion barrels
of crude oil; 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas; and 1.6 billion
barrels of natural gas liquids are able to be extracted by means
typically involving slant drilling and hydraulic fracturing, commonly
known as “fracking”.
Anti-DAPL protesters hold ‘Day of Action’ across US (Video) (Photos)
RT - Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline are happening across
the country as the construction company has sought relief in court. With
more than 200 demonstrations planned, the Day of Action is expected to
be the largest anti-DAPL protest in months. Shortly after 6:00pm EST in
New York City, protesters were arrested. Video of the final police
warnings was shared on Twitter by Candace Bryan, who reported 36
arrests. The demonstrations are targeting offices of the US Army Corps
of Engineers and the banks that are financing the project. The purpose
is to elevate the issue and to encourage the Army Corps to exert its
power to stop this pipeline,” said Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
spokesperson Dallas Goldtooth, according to Reuters…. In San Francisco,
California, thousands of protesters blocked off parts of Market Street
before settling in outside the Army Corps offices, where they linked
arms. The demonstration also blocked employees of Uber, Square and other
companies from entering the shared building…. Protests are continuing at
the camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, near the construction site. Riot
police have advanced on the water protectors, many of whom are members
of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose reservation is extremely close
to the planned pipeline. Law enforcement used mace and arrested several
protesters, Reuters reported. The ‘Day of Action’ comes just one day
after the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of Interior delayed a
decision on whether to allow a tunnel to be built under the Missouri
River reservoir, Lake Oahe – the source of water that is the focus of
the protests. The Army Corps of Engineers said it wants input from the
Standing Rock Sioux before making a decision.
Big Brother is spying on everyone's 'rewards card' purchases (Video)
BlackListed News - It shouldn't surprise anyone that Big Brother is
tracking your purchases. What should surprise you, is how Big Brother is
using 'rewards card' purchases to spy on every purchase you make. Big
Brother is spying on everyone's 'rewards card' purchases Big Brother, or
in this case the King County is spying on everyone's pet food purchases.
An article in the Seattle Times, warns how Seattle's Regional Animal
Services of King County is spying on resident's pet food purchases. King
County, Seattle is paying a mailing company named Lacy & Par to track
residents' purchases via rewards card purchases. Lacy & Par gave the
county a list of prospective pet owners based on their pet food
purchases. The county then compared that list it against an internal
database of licensed pets owners and sent out warning letters, to
suspected violators. “The following is a reminder notice that King
County Code Title 11, Section 04.030 and City Municipal Codes require a
King County pet license for all dogs and cats kept, harbored or
maintained in your jurisdiction, failure to license could result in
fines of up to $250 per pet.” Direct Mailing companies provide detailed
information on "ideal targets" "DirectMail.com's in-house Production &
Distribution capabilities span the spectrum of fulfillment methods, from
enhancing online engagements to producing millions of personalized and
compelling direct mail pieces, hand-delivered to your ideal targets.”….
Think about the implications of using a rewards card, debit card or
credit card. Every time you choose not to use cash, you're giving direct
marketers and big brother a treasure trove of personal information.
Things are about to get worse... Direct mailing companies are creating
real-time worldwide databases of everyone's purchases, using Webtrend's
Infintity Platform.
Gardasil Vaccine Given without Consent and Ruins Life of 14 Year
Old Girl
Health Impact News - The VAXXED film crew continues interviewing
people who are vaccine damaged around the country. In this
interview in Nebraska, 14 year old Savannah Snyder is
interviewed along with her mother Sarah. Savannah talks about
her experiences in receiving her 7th grade required vaccines.
Her mother Sarah explains that she only gave permission for
Savannah to receive the required vaccines. Gardasil, the HPV
vaccine, is an optional vaccine. Sarah explains that she had
been warned about this vaccine and wanted to investigate it
further. But Savannah was given the Gardasil vaccine anyway,
without their original knowledge. She immediately started
suffering some side effects, such as a headache, almost
fainting, and skin rashes breaking out. She soon developed
pneumonia and other infections. As time went on, things got
worse. She started experiencing seizures, including grand mal
seizures. She was hospitalized many times for severe pain. Her
mother tearfully explains that Savannah would wake up in the
middle of the night and state that she was dying. Like many
other parents of children with Gardasil injuries, Sarah relates
how they had little support, and that most people just thought
it was all in Savannah's head. But after a trip to the Mayo
clinic, Savannah was diagnosed with POTS (postural orthostatic
tachycardia syndrome), a known side effect of Gardasil that
affects the heart. Savannah explains that before the Gardasil
shot, she was very active and athletic. She was in the process
of joining a gym. Now, she has difficulties speaking and walking
and needs a feeding tube.
Not Diabetic? Take a Diabetes Drug Anyway!
Alliance for Natural Health - That’s what the medical
establishment is scandalously recommending. There are billions
of dollars to be made, even if the drugs are harmful even for
actual diabetics. “Prediabetes” refers to a condition of
abnormal but not pathological blood sugar levels. People with
“prediabetes” are considered to be at risk to develop type 2
diabetes. One in three Americans are said to be prediabetic.
That is a lot of people, and it has Big Pharma salivating: $322
billion is already spent annually caring for people with
diabetes and prediabetes. The American Association of Clinical
Endocrinologists (AACE) has obliged by recommending diabetes
drugs for “prediabetes.” It should come as no surprise that the
list of the AACE’s corporate sponsors includes the largest
pharmaceutical companies in the world: Novo Nordisk, Merck,
Sanofi, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and many others.
Some of the worst diabetes drugs have by now been taken off the
market. But current diabetes drugs are still both ineffective
and involve enormous risks, especially for the heart.
First Cases of Drug-Resistant Candida Auris Spreading in US
Hospitals
Natural Society - Thirteen people in the United States have been
infected with a potentially deadly, drug-resistant fungal
infection since 2009, health officials say. Of those infected, 4
individuals died; but it is not clear whether they died from the
infection or from other underlying health problems. Dr. Tom
Chiller, who is chief of the mycotic diseases branch of the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said: “I am worried. I think
this is a real threat.” The infection, Candida auris, is a
growing global health threat and appears to spread within
hospitals and other healthcare facilities, CDC officials said….
The 13 cases were reported in Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey,
and New York. All the individuals were hospitalized for
underlying health problems an average of 18 days before being
diagnosed with C. auris. Two individuals who had been treated in
the same hospital or care facility were diagnosed with nearly
identical fungal strains. This fact is what leads health
officials to believe that patients are acquiring the infection
in hospitals and healthcare facilities. The CDC sounded the
alarm about the worldwide spread of C. auris back in June and
asked laboratories to report cases and send patient samples to
state and local health departments, as well as to the CDC. In
the months since issuing the alert, the CDC has been
investigating reports of the fungal infection with several state
and local health departments. Health officials expect more cases
to emerge as knowledge of C. auris grows and investigators dig
through patient samples.
Tuesday - November
15, 2016 - Today In History:
1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation,
precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known
as Pikes Peak.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) debuted with a radio network
of 24 stations. The first network radio broadcast was a four-hour
"spectacular."
1939 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the
Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
1940 - The first 75,000 men were called to Armed Forces duty under
peacetime conscription.
1969 - In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a
peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War.
1988 - The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO,
proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the
close of a four-day conference in Algiers.
1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months
in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a
prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.
1995 - Texaco agreed to pay $176 million to settle a race-discrimination
lawsuit.
1999 - Representatives from China and the United States signed a major
trade agreement that involved China's membership in the World Trade
Organization (WTO).
2000 - Three police officers from the Rampart division of the Los
Angeles police department were convicted on several counts of conspiracy
to obstruct justice. One other officer was acquitted. The case was the
first major case against the anti-gang unit.
2006 - Andy Warhol's painting of Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong
sold for $17.4 million. At the same auction "Orange Marilyn" sold for
$16.2 million and "Sixteen Jackies" sold for $15.6 million.
Russia prepares heavy bombers, Syrian Army gives Jihadis 24
hours to surrender
The Duran - The Syrian army has been broadcasting messages to
the trapped Jihadis in eastern Aleppo via loudspeakers all day
giving them just 24 hours to lay down their arms. There are also
reports of more elite Syrian troops from the Tiger forces and
the Desert Hawks Special Forces units being concentrated in
Aleppo. They are apparently being reinforced by well trained
Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon. There is also an indeterminate
number of Shiite militia fighters brought to the area of Aleppo
from Iraq, though it seems that they are being given secondary
support roles, and that most of the fighting on the front line
will be carried out by the Syrian army. In addition there are
also reports of Russian and Iranian staff officers arriving in
the city to help coordinate the fighting. Meanwhile the captains
of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and the
nuclear powered missile battle cruiser Pyotr Veliky have both
been talking to the Russian media. Sergey Artamonov, the Admiral
Kuznetsov’s captain, is reported to have confirmed that aircraft
from the carrier have been flying over Syria for four days. He
described the reason for their flights as follows “The flights
are performed from the deck of the aircraft-carrying heavy
cruiser. Interaction with a coastal airfield is being worked
out.” The “coastal airfield” is clearly Russia’s Khmeimim air
base in Syria’s Latakia province, which is the air base the
Russians mainly use for the strikes they carry out in Syria. The
Russians do not have any experience of carrying out air strikes
on ground targets from aircraft carriers, or of coordinating
such strikes with ground bases. It seems that they have been
using the last four days to work out systems of coordination
between the two separate services involved (the Russian
Aerospace Forces in Khmeimim and Russian Naval Aviation on board
the Admiral Kuznetsov) and to iron out any resulting
communications and coordination problems before they go jointly
into action.
As Venezuela's Currency Loses 40% In One Month, Maduro Dances
Zero Hedge - Reuters reports that the country's massively
unpopular president, Nicolas Maduro, who presided over
Venezuela's terminal collapse and is only in power thanks to the
army's support, is now trying his hand at salsa music to cheer
up his broke countrymen. According to Reuters, Maduro, a music
aficionado who used to play in a rock band, debuted "Salsa Hour"
this month and has broadcast four episodes from a radio booth
specially installed in the Miraflores presidential palace, with
each episode lasting several hours.... Though Venezuela's 30
million people adore music, especially salsa, Maduro's show has
fueled criticism that he is disconnected from reality in a
country where millions are skipping meals amid shortages and
rising prices. "Maduro's program is like a mockery," said
[opposition leader Henrique] Capriles, who narrowly lost to him
in the 2013 presidential vote and has championed a drive for a
referendum to recall Maduro. "He should have a bit more respect
for the Venezuelan people. He is not an entertainer." That
however won't stop Maduro who appears to have taken a page right
out of the Hillary Clinton book on how to become more popular
with the poor: "Maduro wants to connect with the poorest who,
despite the crisis, still get together and listen to music,"
said Andres Canizales, a media scholar and spokesman for the
Citizens' Monitor group. We don't have high hopes for Maduro's
radio show, but we can safely say that the modern equivalent of
Nero fiddling while Rome burns, is Maduro dancing salsa while
Venezuela's currency - and economy - disintegrates.
Chernobyl reactor cover slowly moved into place
Deutsche Welle - A giant arch to contain radioactive waste at
the site of the world's deadliest nuclear accident has begun to
be moved into place. Fallout from the Chernobyl disaster reached
across a large swathe of Europe. The massive, arch-shaped, steel
cover began moving into place on Monday over the cement-encased
nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine…. The ill-fated reactor
is currently being protected by a concrete dome that was hastily
built by Soviet rescue workers in the months after the accident
occurred. It is in danger of leaking nuclear waste. The new
cover, made of corrosion-resistant steel, is being financed
primarily by The European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD) at a total cost of $1.6 billion (1.5 billion
euros). The installation is due to be completed on November 29,
which is the 30th anniversary of the destroyed reactor being
covered by the original concrete sarcophagus. The EBRD called
the construction and sliding of the arch "one of the most
ambitious projects in the history of engineering."
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Vladimir Putin Holds Phone Talks With US President-Elect Donald
Trump
Sputnik News - Putin reportedly congratulated the
president-elect on his victory, and wished him success. The
Russian president reportedly told the US president-elect that
Russia is ready to maintain constructive dialogue with the new
US administration, based on principles of equal rights, mutual
respect, and non-interference in the international affairs of
one another. According to the Kremlin, both stressed the
importance of building a strong foundation for bilateral ties
through economic development.... They agreed to maintain phone
contacts, and to plan a meeting in person soon. Following
Trump's victory, he had stated that he received a "beautiful
letter" from the Russian president. The letter reportedly
expressed hope that the administrations could work together to
better the strained state of Moscow-Washington relations. “We
understand and are aware that it will be a difficult path in the
light of the degradation in which, unfortunately, the
relationship between Russia and the US are at the moment,” he
added. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had also expressed
hope of working with the new president-elect. “The current
US-Russian relations cannot be called friendly. Hopefully, with
the new US president a more constructive dialogue will be
possible between our countries,” he said in a statement on
Wednesday.
Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping Agree to Meet 'at an Early
Date' After Friendly Call
Breitbart - According to Chinese state media outlet Xinhua, the
call between Xi and Trump was a cordial once in which Xi
“expressed his willingness to work with him.”.... Xinhua quotes
Xi as stating. “I attach great importance to China-U.S.
relations and am ready to work with the U.S. side to carry
forward bilateral ties and to better benefit the two peoples and
the rest of the world.” Xinhua reports that Trump “voiced his
readiness to work with Xi to strengthen U.S.-China cooperation
and expressed his belief that U.S.-China relations will witness
even greater development.” The statement from Trump’s White
House transition team reflected the same tone as the remarks in
Xinhua. “During the call, the leaders established a clear sense
of mutual respect for one another, and President-elect Trump
stated that he believes the two leaders will have one of the
strongest relationships for both countries moving forward,” the
transition office said.... Chinese state television reported
that the two leaders agreed to meet “at an early date” in
person. Trump has scheduled one meeting with a world leader –
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday – so far, but has
said he intends to establish personal relations with as many
U.S. allies and world leaders as he can.
Canada PM says ready to renegotiate NAFTA with Trump
Yahoo News - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said
Thursday he is willing to renegotiate the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which US President-elect Donald Trump
has said he wants to change or scrap.... "I think it's important
that we be open to talking about trade deals," Trudeau - a
fierce defender of free trade, which helps bolster the Canadian
economy - told reporters. "If the Americans want to talk about
NAFTA, I'm more than happy to talk about it," he said, adding
that it was important to periodically reassess trade deals to
ensure that they continue to be of benefit to Canadians....
Bilateral trade crossing the US-Canadian border amounts to
US$1.8 billion daily. Thirty-four US states rely on trade with
Canada, which supports nine million American jobs, while exports
to the United States represents 20 percent of Canada's GDP.
Obama Administration Agrees to Take Mideast Refugees Refused by
Australia
CNS News - A little over two months before President Obama
leaves the White House, Australia’s prime minister has disclosed
that the U.S. has agreed to resettle an unspecified number of
refugees, mostly from the Middle Eastern region, who are
currently housed in offshore detention centers after being
prevented from reaching Australia by boat. Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull would not say Monday how many migrants would be
taken by the United States or be drawn on what would happen once
President-elect Donald Trump is in the Oval Office.... Asked why
he hadn’t raised the matter during a congratulatory phone call
to Trump on Thursday, Turnbull replied, “You don’t discuss
confidential matters with one administration with a future
administration.”.... Turnbull told a press conference Sunday
that a “one-off” agreement had been struck with the Obama
administration some months ago, and that the resettled refugees
would fit within, and not be in addition to, the existing U.S.
refugee quota. The outgoing administration’s FY 2017 refugee
admission target, laid out in a report to Congress last
September, is 110,000, an almost 30 percent increase from the FY
2016 target of 85,000. Turnbull also said the offer of applying
for resettlement in the U.S. would only be available to those
already housed in the offshore facilities – not to any future
asylum-seekers who attempt to reach Australia by boats operated
by people-smugglers.
Trump: Criminals will be deported first
Politico - Donald Trump will begin tackling the issue of illegal
immigration by rounding up and deporting undocumented immigrants
with criminal records, a group that he estimates at 2 million to
3 million people, the president-elect said in an interview to
air Sunday night. "What we are going to do is get the people
that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug
dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it
could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country
or we are going to incarcerate," he said in the interview, to
air on "60 Minutes" on CBS. "But we're getting them out of our
country; they're here illegally."
Trump: Vaccines Cause Autism And Will Be Investigated (Video)
Your News Wire - Trump dismissed the official claim that there
is no link between vaccines and autism, claiming there has been
a cover up to suppress the truth and that “nay-sayers will
understand soon.” “[W]e’ve had so many instances, people that
work for me. Just the other day, two years old, two and a half
years old, a child, a beautiful child went to have the vaccine,
and came back, and a week later got a tremendous fever, got
very, very sick, now is autistic.”… During a GOP a primary
debate with Trump, Dr. Ben Carson claimed there is no
“documented proof” that vaccines are responsible for autism,
however Dr. Carson, a neuroscientist, conceded that “it is true
that we are probably giving way too many in too short a period
of time.” Trump’s response echoes one he gave on Fox News in
April 2012, in which he also related the story of a child of one
of his employees who was damaged after receiving vaccines. “I’ve
gotten to be pretty familiar with the subject,” Trump told Fox
News’ Fox & Friends. “You know, I have a theory — and it’s a
theory that some people believe in — and that’s the
vaccinations. We never had anything like this. “This is now an
epidemic. It’s way, way up over the past 10 years. It’s way up
over the past two years. And, you know, when you take a little
baby that weighs like 12 pounds into a doctor’s office and they
pump them with many, many simultaneous vaccinations — I’m all
for vaccinations, but I think when you add all of these
vaccinations together and then two months later the baby is so
different then lots of different things have happened. I really
— I’ve known cases.”
George Soros Sued For $550 Million By Dead Cop’s Father
Your News Wire - The father of Patrick Zamarripa filed a lawsuit
in the US District Court in Dallas on Monday against George
Soros, Black Lives Matter and other groups for allegedly
“inciting a war on police” that led to the death of his son.
“While Defendant Black Lives Matter claims to combat anti-black
racism,” the lawsuit said, according to the Fort Worth Star
Telegram, “the movement has in fact incited and committed
further violence, severe bodily injury and death against police
officers of all races and ethnicities, Jews, and Caucasians.
Defendant Black Lives Matter is in fact a violent and
revolutionary criminal gang.” Dallas police officer Patrick
Zamarripa, 32, was on patrol July 7 this year when hundreds of
people marched through downtown Dallas. Toward the end of the
march, a sniper, Micah Johnson opened fire, ambushing the crowd
and killing five police officers – four from the Dallas Police
Department, including Zamarripa. The lawsuit lists leading
activists involved in organizing the protests, including George
Soros, Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black PantherS,
Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, Rev. Al Sharpton
and the National Action Network, Black Lives Matter organizer
Rashad Turner, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza,
Deray McKesson and Johnette Elizie…. News of the lawsuit comes
after George Soros was revealed as a driving force behind the
organizing of nationwide protests against the election of Donald
Trump — exposing the protests to largely be an organized,
top-down operation — and not an organic movement of concerned
Americans taking to the streets as reported by the mainstream
media.
University of Virginia professors ask president to stop quoting
Thomas Jefferson
Washington Times - Hundreds of students and faculty at the
University of Virginia have asked the president to stop quoting
the university’s founder, President Thomas Jefferson, because of
his slave-owning past. The letter garnered 469 signatures before
being sent to University President Teresa Sullivan on Friday,
The Cavalier Daily reported. It was prompted by an email sent
last week by Ms. Sullivan promoting unity in light of Donald
Trump’s presidential victory. “Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
friend that University of Virginia students ‘are not of ordinary
significance only: they are exactly the persons who are to
succeed to the government of our country, and to rule its future
enmities, its friendships and fortunes,’” Ms. Sullivan wrote in
the email. “I encourage today’s U.Va. students to embrace that
responsibility.”.... Professors argued that Ms. Sullivan should
refrain from quoting the late president due to his owning of
slaves and other racist beliefs, The Cavalier Daily reported....
The university has not yet responded to the letter.
Two presidential electors encourage colleagues to sideline Trump
Politico - Bret Chiafolo, a Washington State elector who has
already declared his opposition to Hillary Clinton, and Micheal
Baca of Colorado have launched what they’ve dubbed “Moral
Electors,” an attempt to persuade 37 of their Republican
colleagues to bail on Trump - just enough to block Trump’s
election and leave the final decision to the House of
Representatives. They have the support of a third elector,
Washington State’s Robert Satiacum. “This is a longshot. It’s a
hail Mary,” Chiafolo said in a phone interview. “However, I do
see situations where - when we’ve already had two or three
[Republican] electors state publicly they didn’t want to vote
for Trump. How many of them have real issues with Donald Trump
in private?” Chiafolo, a self-described “regular nerdy dude who
works for Microsoft” and Baca, a grad student and Marine Corps
veteran, insist they’re not seeking the election of Clinton — or
even a Democrat. Both, in fact, had already been considering
voting against her when the Electoral College meets in five
weeks. Rather, they intend to encourage Republican electors to
write in Mitt Romney or John Kasich. If enough agree, the
election would be sent to the House of Representatives, which
would choose from among the top three vote-getters. Both men
acknowledge that their effort is unlikely to succeed. Electors
throughout American history have rarely broken ranks.
Report: Three Million Votes in Presidential Election Cast by
Illegal Aliens
Paul Joseph Watson - Three million votes in the U.S.
presidential election were cast by illegal aliens, according to
Greg Phillips of the VoteFraud.org organization. If true, this
would mean that Donald Trump still won the contest despite
widespread vote fraud and almost certainly won the popular vote.
“We have verified more than three million votes cast by
non-citizens,” tweeted Phillips after reporting that the group
had completed an analysis of a database of 180 million voter
registrations. According to current indications, Hillary Clinton
won the popular vote by around 630,000 votes, although around 7
million ballots remain uncounted. Virtually all of the votes
cast by 3 million illegal immigrants are likely to have been for
Hillary Clinton, meaning Trump might have won the popular vote
when this number is taken into account. Vote fraud using ballots
cast in the name of dead people and illegal alien voters was a
huge concern before the election. On the morning of the election
there were 4 million dead people on U.S. voter rolls. Although
some states require some form of ID before voting, California,
Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North
Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming,
and Washington, D.C. all require no identification before
voting.
Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, 'take back power'
Politico - George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens
of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are
gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed door meeting to
retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump.
The conference, which kicked off Sunday night at Washington’s
pricey Mandarin Oriental hotel, is sponsored by the influential
Democracy Alliance donor club, and will include appearances by
leaders of most leading unions and liberal groups, as well as
darlings of the left such as House Democratic leader Nancy
Pelosi, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressional Progressive
Caucus co-chairman Keith Ellison, according to an agenda and
other documents obtained by POLITICO.... and, if the agenda is
any indication, liberals plan full-on trench warfare against
Trump from Day One. Some sessions deal with gearing up for 2017
and 2018 elections, while others focus on thwarting
President-elect Trump’s 100-day plan, which the agenda calls “a
terrifying assault on President Obama’s achievements — and our
progressive vision for an equitable and just nation.” Yet the
meeting also comes as many liberals are reassessing their
approach to politics — and the role of the Democracy Alliance,
or DA, as the club is known in Democratic finance circles....
“The DA itself should be called into question,” said one
Democratic strategist who has been active in the group and is
attending the meeting. “You can make a very good case it’s
nothing more than a social club for a handful wealthy white
donors and labor union officials to drink wine and read memos,
as the Democratic Party burns down around them.”
Portland Authorities – Night Five of Violent Leftist Protests:
20 Arrested, News Crew Attacked
Breitbart - Police arrested more than 20 people in the fifth
consecutive day of rioting and clashes with police by mobs of
leftist protesters who say they are furious about the election
of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
The revolutionaries hurled bricks and rocks at police and fought
with a news crews in the latest street battle during an
hours-long standoff that began shortly before 7 p.m. local
time.... [Portland Mayor Charlie] Hales’ and other local
authorities’ statements that “peaceful protests” are being
marred by a few fringe players stands in stark contrast to the
protest organizers’ refusal to rule out the use of a ‘diversity
of tactics,” a term that leftist protesters use to describe a
spectrum of action from peaceful protests to outright
violence.... As local TV Station KOIN reported on the comments
of Portland Police Chief Mike Marshman, the Chief doesn’t appear
to recognize that many leftists view battling the police as a
valid form of protest: “I don’t think they’re out there to
protest. I think they’re out there to battle the police,”
Marshman said. “We’re taking rocks and bottles and flares.” Law
enforcement officers from other agencies in the metro area have
been called in to help Portland Police. Marshman said they have
limited resources at PPB [Portland Police Bureau] and the long
days take their toll on officers. “They were confronted with
real provocation and they met it with appropriate force,” Hales
said. “Yes they had to use distraction devices, yes they had to
use tear gas — those were the right things to do when they were
having rocks and bottles thrown at them.”
Video: Blocks Of Anti-Trump Protest Buses Caught On Tape
Zero Hedge - Earlier today we showed that, contrary to USA
Today’s claims that the anti-Trump protests across the nation
are “spontaneous, involving people from all walks of life”,
according to Wikileaks documents at least two of the people
profiled by USA Today have a history of being professional
agitators for the Democratic party, whose task is to stir up
popular protests and – in extreme cases – unleash rioting… Now,
courtesy of a Zero Hedge reader, we have visual confirmation of
how a substantial portion of these professional, paid protesters
arrive at the site of the protest, in this case Chicago. As our
reader notes, “I have a video of 5 city blocks on the West side
of Chicago lined with busses from Wisconsin (Badger Bus Lines)
bringing in protestors. The Sears tower is visible in the
background.” The video was taken at 3:30pm on South Canal Street
in Chicago on Saturday. As our reader points out, hundreds of
the participants that took part in the downtown Chicago protests
from November 12 were bused in using these vehicles. Other
arrived by train.
Company Places Its Own CEO on Leave After He Threatens to
Assassinate Trump
Paul Joseph Watson - Matt Harrigan is the CEO of PacketSled, a
risk management company. Harrigan caused alarm when he took to
Facebook to angrily announce his plan to kill Trump after the
Republican was elected president. “I’m going to kill the
president. Elect,” wrote Harrigan, adding, “Bring it secret
service.” “Getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it
counts….” Harrigan later issued an apology on Facebook, claiming
his words were a “joke,” but his colleagues at PacketSled failed
to see the funny side. “PacketSled takes recent comments made by
our CEO, seriously. Once we were made aware of these comments,
we immediately reported this information to the secret service
and will cooperate fully with any inquiries,” the company
announced on its website. “These comments do not reflect the
views or opinions of PacketSled, its employees, investors or
partners. Our CEO has been placed on administrative leave.”
Social media websites have been flooded with death threats
targeting Trump in the aftermath of his election victory, while
riots and attacks against Trump supporters have also taken place
in numerous different cities.
Film Director Paul Schrader Calls For “Violence” to Stop Donald
Trump
Paul Joseph Watson - Schrader, who was involved with hit films
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ,
responded to Trump’s election with an alarming rant on his
official Facebook page. “I have spent the last five days
meditating on Trump’s election. Upon consideration, I believe
this is a call to violence. I felt the call to violence in the
60’s and I feel it now again,” wrote Schrader. “This attack on
liberty and tolerance will not be solved by appeasement. Obama
tried that for eight years. We should finance those who support
violence resistance. We should be willing to take arms. Like Old
John Brown, I am willing to battle with my children. Alt right
nut jobs swagger violence. It’s time to actualize that violence,
Like by Civil War Michigan predecessors I choose to stand with
the black, the brown and the oppressed,” he concluded.
Maryland high-school walkout protesting Trump began as
school-authorized function: Report
Washington Times - “More than 100 students from Montgomery Blair
High School, in Silver Spring, walked out in a planned protest
at about 10 a.m.,” Washington, D.C. newsradio station WTOP
reported on its website Monday. “Montgomery County school
officials said Montgomery Blair High approved a plan allowing
students to protest on the football field on school grounds.”
“After an hour in the stadium, students decided to leave campus
with the objective of receiving more media attention,” reported
Montgomery Blair’s student-run newspaper Silver Chips.... “Spoke
w/some students from Montgomery Blair - they say they’re not
protesting against democracy, but in solidarity w/immigrants,
Muslims etc,” tweeted Carmel Delshad, a news producer for WAMU
radio, an NPR affiliate. Students from other area high schools
similarly walked out of their respective school campuses, and
the various groups converged at an area shopping mall before
resuming their march to Veterans Plaza in downtown Silver
Spring, a large pavilion often used for concerts in the summer
months and the location of a popular skating rink in the winter.
“Per @blairprincipal, students who left campus will face
disciplinary consequences,” reported the official Twitter
account for the student-run Blair Network Communications. For
her part, however, Montgomery Blair Principal Renay Johnson has
not personally tweeted about the walkout or its possible
disciplinary consequences. Similarly there is no such
pronouncement from the school’s website or official Facebook
page. In reliably blue Maryland, Montgomery County is among the
state’s most stalwart Democratic bastions, and at least two
local politician have taken to praising the students for their
walkout.
Hanjin Bankruptcy Is Disrupting The U.S. Supply Chain In
Critical Holiday Season
ThomasDishaw.com - The last Hanjin Shipping vessel dropping off
goods in California has set sail from the Port of Long Beach,
finally clearing the many ships left stranded by the company’s
sudden collapse two months ago. But in its wake, the giant
shipping line has left a mess that retailers across the country
will be sorting out for weeks. The South Korean company’s
bankruptcy is forcing big chains to spend piles of cash to get
their goods through ports to warehouses in time for the busy
holiday shopping season. Some mom-and-pop shops will have less
to offer this year…. Ashley Furniture, which supplies couches,
beds and dressers to the likes of J.C. Penney, Target and
Wal-Mart, had the misfortune of being on the receiving end of
900 containers set to be transported by Hanjin. For weeks,
Hanjin vessels idled as port operators refused to touch the
cargo without certainty of how they would be paid. When the
ships finally began to offload containers, Ashley, along with
several other retailers, learned that Hanjin had canceled its
promised “port-to-door” delivery. Ashley executives hustled to
fill the gap, hiring trucking companies to haul the wares from
ports and contracting with new vessels to bring containers
stranded in Singapore. In October, the company asked a New
Jersey judge overseeing the shipping line’s U.S. bankruptcy
proceedings to subtract Ashley’s costs from the fees it owes
Hanjin. So far, Ashley has spent more than $1 million to
retrieve stranded containers and get the ones that have arrived
in Los Angeles out of the ports.
Trump Tech Meltdown Hits Fourth Day With Amazon Cut by $35
Billion
Bloomberg - The stock market’s post-election bifurcation
sharpened Monday as technology shares extended their worst
performance since the start of the bull market on speculation
Donald Trump’s trade and immigration policies will translate
into lower earnings. Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.
led the S&P 500 Information Technology Index down 1.7 percent
for the biggest retreat since September. The group stands out as
the only industry that normally benefits from a rising economy
not to rally on speculation Trump’s policies will stoke domestic
growth. Tech stocks in the benchmark equity gauge have slumped
3.1 percent over four days, trailing the S&P 500 Index by 4.2
percentage points, the most since May 2009. Small caps in the
Russell 2000 Index surged 1.2 percent to an all-time high. No
single fact explains the tech rout though everything from trade
and immigration policy to industry rotation to flat-out campaign
retaliation have been cited…. The industry, which largely
supported Hillary Clinton during her presidential campaign, may
also face higher hurdles for expanding their footprints after
some high-profile business leaders including Amazon Chief
Executive Officer Jeff Bezos clashed with Trump during the
election. Trump, responding to negative coverage in the
Washington Post, which is owned by Bezos, maintained Bezos
purchased the news organization to gain political influence and
avoid antitrust scrutiny. Shares of the online retailer have
lost more than $30 billion in value since Tuesday’s vote.
‘Trial of the millennium’: Judge rules kids can sue US government over
climate change
RT - An Oregon federal court has paved the way for young people in the
US to fight climate change through the courts, ruling against the
government and fossil fuel companies’ attempts to dismiss a case brought
against them. Federal Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the lawsuit brought
against the US government by a group of 21 young people aged between
nine and 20 can move forward as it “adequately alleged infringement of a
fundamental right.” Our Children’s Trust has filed lawsuits in each
state accusing the government of failing to adequately address the issue
of climate change. The lawsuit says the government's inaction is
endangering young people by permitting greenhouse gas pollution to
continue over 50 years despite knowing it was “destabilizing” the
climate. While the government and a number of fossil fuel companies
attempted to have the suit dismissed, Aiken found the case to be
valid.... The case is shaped around the issue of public trust, which
calls for the government to protect common elements, like water and
coastlines for the people.
FBI Signs Key Contract For Social Media Surveillance
The Daily Caller - It’s set to sign a contract with Dataminr in order to
obtain its Indicators and Warnings capability, “which will permit the
FBI to search the complete Twitter firehose, in near real-time, using
customizable filters,” according to the Federal Business Opportunities
official government page. The FBI apparently wants the capacity to scan
Twitter in a more expeditious and effective way so it can detect any
terrorist communications or signs of a terror attack. This will likely
set up the perennial security versus privacy debate.... But the FBI will
purchase roughly 200 licenses for Dataminr’s Advanced Alerting Tool in
order to revamp its intelligence collecting capabilities. Twitter
originally blocked intelligence agencies from using Dataminr services in
May, according to nextgov.com, but this contract only provides access to
a portion of the analytics.
Google will soon ban fake news sites from using its ad network
The Verge - Today, Google announced that its advertising tools will soon
be closed to websites that promote fake news, a policy that could cut
off revenue streams for publications that peddle hoaxes on platforms
like Facebook.... It’s thought that, given the viral aspects of fake
news, social networks and search engines were gamed by partisan bad
actors intending to influence the outcome of the race. "Moving forward,
we will restrict ad serving on pages that misrepresent, misstate, or
conceal information about the publisher, the publisher's content, or the
primary purpose of the web property," a Google spokesperson said in a
statement given to Retuers. This policy includes fake news sites, the
spokesperson confirmed.... The issue of fake news on social media
grabbed national attention earlier this summer, when Gizmodo reported
that the team at Facebook responsible for its Trending Topics news list
was suppressing links from conservative sources.... Google appears to be
taking a more active role, and for good reason. Just this past weekend,
a fake news link rose to the top of Google search results for the
question “who won the popular vote,” falsely claiming the answer to be
President-elect Donald Trump.
NASA Prepares for Asteroid Impact Within the Next 2 Decades: “It’s Going
To Happen” (Video)
Mac Slavo - NASA is preparing for the big one, as many astronomists have
found several major rocks that will be headed straight for earth in the
next 10-15 years and beyond. The threat of a destructive asteroid event
encroaching upon our life has become an increasing concern, and it is
gaining serious attention. In the long run, it is an inevitability.
Though major asteroids big enough to wipe out life across the entire
planet are rare, scientists believe they have taken place and reset
entire epochs. Moreover, smaller asteroids, comets or meteors can all do
major damage, even if they aren’t record breaking hunks of space rock.
Magnesium a must for Lyme patients
Lyme Disease Research Database - If you have Lyme disease, you
have silent inflammation. It is highly likely that you are also
deficient in magnesium, because the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia,
unlike other bacteria that require iron to survive, has evolved
to use magnesium to complete its own life cycle. The Lyme
bacteria steals magnesium from our cells to survive. Another
factor contributing to the problem, for Americans at least, is
that our farming topsoil has been depleted in magnesium which is
not replaced. So our foods tend to be deficient in magnesium,
which is problematic. Magnesium supplements have been clinically
proven to reduce pain and inflammation from fibromyalgia and
other autoimmune diseases. As Lyme is an inflammatory disease,
it makes sense to pay attention to something as simple as adding
in a vital mineral. Increasing magnesium levels through diet or
supplements may be even more crucial for people with Lyme,
because not only does the Lyme bacteria rob us of magnesium, so
does stress—both physical and psychological or emotional—as well
as the use of antibiotics.
Alarming Levels of Glyphosate Contamination Found in Popular
American Foods
Sustainable Pulse - Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used
herbicide linked to Monsanto’s Roundup Ready genetically
engineered crops, has been found at alarming levels in a wide
range of best-selling foods across the U.S., Food Democracy Now!
and The Detox Project announced Monday…. These newest findings
also come as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) postponed
hearings last month, which were due to explore glyphosate’s link
to cancer in humans. Last year, 17 leading global cancer experts
from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for
Research on Cancer (IARC) sparked a firestorm when they
classified glyphosate as a class 2A “probable human carcinogen”.
On the heels of the growing controversy surrounding glyphosate’s
safety, this unique testing project that started in 2015, has so
far found alarming levels of glyphosate in General Mills’
Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, Raisin
Bran and Frosted Flakes and PepsiCo’s Doritos Cool Ranch, Ritz
Crackers and Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips, as well as many
more famous products at levels that present significant risks
according to the latest independent peer-reviewed science on
glyphosate.
Eliminate flu symptoms with these great home remedies
(NaturalHealth365) If you do come down with the influenza virus,
an entire arsenal of natural remedies awaits, all with the power
to prevent or banish your uncomfortable symptoms – safely and
effectively. Vitamin C: n a study published in 1999 in Journal
of Manipulative and Physiological Therapy, researchers found
that megadoses of vitamin C – 1,000 mgs hourly for the first six
hours, then 1,000 mgs three times a day thereafter – cut the
severity of cold and flu symptoms by a stunning 85 percent.
Oregano oil: Oregano oil’s key ingredients – thymol and
carvacrol – have antiviral, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
qualities. Loaded with natural immune system-boosters, including
potassium, zinc and manganese, oregano oil can soothe nausea and
vomiting and alleviate diarrhea. For maximum benefit, opt for
P73 oregano to ensure that the beneficial polyphenols in the oil
will not be under 73 percent. Natural health experts advise
adding 3 to 10 drops to a tablespoon of water, swishing the
mixture around in the mouth, swallowing and then repeating the
process. Oregano oil can be used four times a day until the
cessation of symptoms. Olive leaf extract: Olive leaf extract’s
active ingredient, oleuropein, has potent antiviral properties
that allow it to interfere with the reproduction and replication
of viruses. In addition, olive leaf extract has powerful
antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial qualities. Its
ability to enhance phagocytosis – a process in which immune
cells called phagocytes surround, engulf and destroy pathogens –
can help your body clear the influenza virus rapidly. Ginger
root: To treat intestinal flu symptoms, you may need to look no
further than ginger root. Clinical studies have shown that it
reduces nausea and vomiting – so successfully that it is often
used to alleviate nausea resulting from chemotherapy. Elderberry
extract: Elderberry extract, scientifically known as Sambucus
nigra, effectively inactivates viruses. Its antioxidant
properties allow it to target free radicals that impair immune
system function, while its immune system-enhancing qualities
help increase production of disease-fighting lymphocytes…..
Common ice cream additive may cause colon cancer
STEPin2 - …Dr. Emilie Viennois, assistant professor at the
Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences,
believes that there is a likely link between a common food
additive and colon cancer. “The incidence of colorectal cancer
has been markedly increasing since the mid-20th century. A key
feature of this disease is the presence of an altered intestinal
microbiota that creates a favorable niche for tumorigenesis,”
Viennois said. Previous studies have shown that emulsifiers are
linked to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which is a group of
intestinal disorders that cause prolonged inflammation of the
digestive tract. Two emulsifiers in particular –
carboxymethylcellulose and polysorbate-80 – have been associated
with IBD…. The study press release reported the following:
Researchers observed that consuming emulsifiers drastically
changed the species composition of the gut microbiota in a
manner that made it more pro-inflammatory, creating a niche
favoring cancer induction and development. Alterations in
bacterial species resulted in bacteria expressing more flagellin
and lipopolysaccharide, which activate pro-inflammatory gene
expression by the immune system. In other words, the emulsifiers
changed gut bacteria in a way that promoted inflammation, and
also increased the chance of tumor development. The study
showing that a common ice cream additive may cause colon cancer
was published in the journal Nature.
Monday - November
14, 2016 - Today In History:
1832 - The first streetcar went into operation in New York City, NY. The
vehicle was horse-drawn and had room for 30 people.
1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the
U.S.
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau's trial began for the assassination of U.S.
President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.
1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine
Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved. The
Tydings-McDuffie Act planned for the Phillipines to be completely
independent by July 4, 1946.
1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the
English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.
1969 - During the Vietnam War, Major General Bruno Arthur Hochmuth,
commander of the Third Marine Division, became the first general to be
killed in Vietnam by enemy fire.
1979 - President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the U.S. and U.S.
banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the
U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.
1983 - The British government announced that U.S. made cruise missiles
had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests.
1989 - The U.S. Navy ordered an unprecedented 48-hour stand-down in the
wake of a recent string of serious accidents.
1991 - After 13 years in exile Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk
returned to his homeland.
1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the
first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside
inspections.
1995 - The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing
national parks and museums while most government offices operated with
skeleton crews.
2012 - The game Candy Crush Saga was released as a mobile app for
smartphones.
Modi’s currency “round up” leads to queues, chaos
MattersIndia.com - Large crowds were again gathered at banks
across the country trying to change 500 and 1,000 rupee bills,
demonetized by the government on Tuesday, in an effort to crack
down on corruption.
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4 Americans killed in suicide bombing at US base in Afghanistan
Fox News - Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the explosion
inside Bagram Airfield took the lives of two U.S. servicemembers
and two U.S. contractors working on the base and wounded 16
other U.S. servicemembers and one Police solider.... The State
Department announced the U.S. Embassy in Kabul would close
Sunday as a precaution. An earlier statement from NATO's
Resolute Support mission said the blast happened around 5:30
a.m. (8 p.m. Friday EST) and that "force protection and medical
teams are responding to the situation." The Taliban claimed
responsibility for the attack. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman
for the insurgent group, said the attack had been planned for
four months. The Taliban regularly fire rockets at Bagram from
outside its perimeter. Abdul Wahid Sediqqi, spokesman for the
governor of Parwan province, where the air field is based, said
laborers employed at the base line up at the gates around dawn.
He said it was possible the attacker could have been among the
men entering the base Saturday. The base houses the largest
contingent of American troops and contractors in Afghanistan....
Saturday's attack brings to 11 the number of Americans,
including two CIA paramilitary officers, who have been killed in
action in Afghanistan since early October.
As many as 5,000 ISIS recruits to return to Europe – Belgian
minister
RT - Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon estimates between
3,000 and 5,000 surviving Europeans among Islamic State’s
dwindling ranks, but admits that the continent's intelligence
agencies can only watch and wait to see how many of them
return.... With its previously under-powered security services,
location in the heart of the EU, and a large contingent of
Muslim immigrants concentrated in neighborhoods like Molenbeek
in Brussels, Belgium is considered a hotbed of European
Islamism.... Last year’s Paris attacks, and the bombing of a
train station and an airport in Brussels in March, were both
plotted in Belgium, which the UN says has a higher number of
Islamist militant recruits per capita than any other European
country.... Over 30,000 people have travelled to the Middle East
to help Islamic State and other Islamist militias over the past
half-decade. With its dream of building a supranational Islamic
Caliphate, IS purposefully cultivated an international appeal,
attracting thousands of fighters from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia,
Russia’s Islamic regions, and the immigrant communities of
Europe. How many remain under ISIS’ command is unclear, with the
US estimating that the group had fewer than 5,000 fighters left
to defend Mosul when the assault on the city began last month,
and perhaps as many in its unofficial capital of Raqqa in Syria.
Jean-Claude Juncker mounts fresh call for European army
Daily Mail - The president of the European Commission,
Jean-Claude Juncker, voiced his concerns after the Republican's
surprise victory was announced. He said a 'community of defence'
is required. Juncker said: 'We need more security in Europe, and
I do not mean just the anti-terror fight. 'Talking about
security we need a different way of organizing a European
defense.' He said that the French National Assembly prevented a
proposed European community of defence being created in 1954 - a
move that could have seen an army created, but was rejected amid
concerns about national sovereignty. Juncker said: 'We need it
now. The idea that the Americans will eternally see to...
European security is not true. 'Independent of the outcome of
the US election, the Americans will not see to Europe’s security
forever. We have to do it ourselves. 'And this is why we need a
new approach to the European community of defense, including a
European army.' In July, Trump cast doubts over his commitment
to Nato agreements, telling the New York Times: 'We have many
Nato members that aren’t paying their bills.' And he added: 'You
can’t forget the bills. They have an obligation to make
payments. 'Many NATO nations are not making payments, are not
making what they’re supposed to make. That’s a big thing. You
can’t say forget that.'
Trump-Putin alliance sparks diplomatic crisis as British
ministers demand assurances from US over Russia
The Telegraph - Britain is facing a diplomatic crisis with the
US over Donald Trump’s plans to forge an alliance with Vladimir
Putin and bolster the Syrian regime.... His views are in stark
contrast with those of Theresa May, who has accused President
Assad’s regime of perpetrating “atrocious violence” and said
that the long-term future of Syria must be “without Assad”....
The dramatic shift in US policy has prompted significant concern
in the Foreign Office, and Britain will use the next three
months before Mr Trump enters the White House to try to convince
him of the importance of removing President Assad.... The
Government had hoped that Mr Trump would be prepared to soften
his stance on the issue after winning the election, as he has
with several other flagship plans including his pledge to repeal
Obamacare. However his [Wall Street Journal] interview signaled
that he will pursue the alliance with Russia. Foreign Office
officials believe that it will be “incredibly difficult” but
emphasized that Britain will not change its position.
Putin Begins Banning Clinton Cabal From Russia
Your News Wire - Vladimir Putin has begun banning members of the
corrupt Clinton cabal from Russia, just days after Vladimir
Putin told President-elect Donald Trump he hopes the two nations
can rebuild their relationship. Michael McFaul, a close Clinton
ally and former US ambassador to Moscow under President Barack
Obama, is the first of many to be banned from entering Russia,
according to Russian Foreign Ministry sources. Mr McFaul, US
ambassador in Moscow from 2012-2014, said he had learnt of the
ban when applying for a visa to Russia last week. Asked what the
purpose of his visit was, McFaul said it was to help
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton prepare for what he
assumed would be her transition to the White House. Now McFaul,
currently a Stanford University professor, is banned from Russia
and Kremlin sources say he is the first of many Clinton allies
to be banned.... He was not banned because of his support for
President Obama, a Foreign Ministry source told the TASS and RIA
news agencies, but because of his “active participation in the
destruction of the bilateral relationship and relentless
lobbying in favour of the Clinton campaign to destabilize
Russia.”.... Russia is hoping for a “new understanding” and
“restored Russian-American relations” according to Kremlin
sources, with President Putin said to be “encouraged” by the
American people voting to back themselves and reject the
prospect of a New World Order totalitarian world government.
Colombian govt, rebels reach new peace deal after referendum
rejection
RT - Six weeks after a peace deal between the Colombian
government and FARC rebels was rejected in a referendum by a
margin of less than one percent, the two parties have proposed a
new deal aiming to end 52 years of strife. The new agreement
between Bogota and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia [FARC]
unveiled on Saturday incorporated suggestions from Colombian
opposition groups, religious leaders, and other stake
holders.... The revised accord is expected to be sent to
parliament rather than being put to a new referendum. The new
deal keeps a controversial part that gives FARC 10 seats in
Colombia’s parliament through 2026. It does not include a ban on
FARC leaders holding political offices, which some people
demanded.... But it does have stronger clauses for holding FARC
accountable for crimes and paying compensation to victims.
Special tribunals would review cases related to the rebels for a
period of 10 years. Concerns over lenient sentences for FARC
fighters confessing to crimes was one of the major reasons
Colombians voted against the deal in October.... Copies of the
new accord are to be made public on Sunday.
New Zealand earthquake: Two dead following powerful tremor
BBC News - Two people have died after a powerful magnitude-7.8
earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island. Prime Minister
John Key said further details were not yet known. The US
Geological Survey said it hit just after midnight (11:02 GMT on
Sunday), some 95km (59 miles) from Christchurch. A tsunami
arrived about two hours later. Officials warned everyone along
the eastern coast to head inland or for higher ground. A gauge
at Kaikoura, 181 km (112 miles) north of Christchurch, measured
a wave of 2.5m (8ft 2ins) in the early hours of the morning,
according to Weatherwatch.co.nz. At one point, the ministry of
civil defence suggested tsunami waves as tall as five metres
could hit the eastern coast. But by just after 08:00 local time
(19:00 GMT), the warning was scaled back to a "marine and beach
threat" with waves of just one metre along a small stretch of
coast, including the Chatham Islands, an archipelago 423 miles
(680km) south-east of the mainland.... New Zealanders are used
to earthquakes. The country lies on the notorious Ring of Fire,
the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles
virtually the entire Pacific rim.
6.2 quake strikes off Japan
RT - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of the
Japanese island of Honshu, according to USGS data. TEPCO said
the quake did not affect the integrity of its crippled Fukushima
nuclear plant, located relatively close to its epicenter. The
quake struck around 9:43pm GMT on Friday, some 65 km
east-northeast of the city of Sendai. The Japan Meteorological
Agency measured the quake at the lower magnitude of 5.8. No
tsunami warning was issued by the JMA. The Pacific Tsunami
Warning Center also said that “a destructive pacific-wide
tsunami is not expected.” Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc.,
the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, checked whether the
quake had any impact on the facility but did not find any
irregularities, Reuters reported citing Japanese broadcaster
NHK.
Crippled Fukushima reactor fully exposed for first time since
meltdown
RT - Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) used an industrial crane
to lift the last of its 18 protective panels Thursday. Each of
the panels weighs around 20 tons and measure 23 by 17 meters.
The protective cover was erected in October 2011 as a temporary
measure to halt a radiation leak following a meltdown caused by
a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. The dismantling
of the panels started in July 2015 and was concluded on
Thursday. At Unit 1, rubble from the damaged building caused by
the hydrogen explosion remains scattered and needs to be
removed. The entire site is highly contaminated and will now be
covered with tarpaulins to avoid the spread of radioactive
waste. TEPCO is using anti-scattering agents to keep the dust
down. Small pieces of rubble that can create dust are being
vacuumed up while mist sprinklers are being used inside the
building to keep radiation under control. TEPCO next plans to
remove 392 fuel assemblies from the spent pool and clean out the
melted nuclear fuel from inside the building, NHK news reported.
The utility company is assessing the level of radiation before
continuing the cleanup process. Scientists are also installing
the necessary equipment to complete fuel extraction which will
only start in four years. Fuel removal from Unit 1's depleted
fuel pool is scheduled to begin around March 2021, according to
TEPCO’s Mid- and Long-Term Roadmap that was revised in June
2015.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Obama Quietly Signs Executive Order to Achieve Global
Vaccination Agenda
Activist Post … Friday, November 4th, Obama quietly signed an
Executive Order titled Advancing the Global Health Security
Agenda to Achieve a World Safe and Secure from Infectious
Disease Threats. "It is the policy of the United States to
advance the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which is a
multi-faceted, multi-country initiative intended to accelerate
partner countries’ measurable capabilities to achieve specific
targets to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease
threats (GHSA targets), whether naturally occurring, deliberate,
or accidental." So basically, the agenda is to push vaccines and
normalize quarantine procedures across nations during outbreaks.
GHSA Immunization Agenda states that participating countries
must have: - A functioning national vaccine delivery system—with
nationwide reach, effective distributions, access for
marginalized populations, adequate cold chain
[temperature-controlled supply chain], and ongoing quality
control, - At least 90% coverage of the country’s 15-month-old
population with at least one dose of measles-containing vaccine.
Some notable “Five Year Action Items” include: Conduct routine
immunization activities, Implement case-based surveillance,
Achieve and document vaccination of health care workers. Bill
Gates provided the CDC with a surveillance tool that helps
identify “district-level measles risk” based on immunization
records.... What’s more, the HHS recently proposed giving the
CDC the power to detain and quarantine people without due
process.
Feds Pull Agents Off Open Border to ‘Process’ Alien Surge
Breitbart - The reassignment of U.S. Border Patrol agents to the
Rio Grande Valley Sector announced on Saturday will leave other
areas of the border less secure. Agents are being reallocated to
assist with a growing surge of immigrants from Mexico and
Central America. Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande
Valley (RGV) Sector announced that 150 agents will be
temporarily be transferred from the Tucson, San Diego, and Del
Rio Sectors to the McAllen and Weslaco Centralized Processing
Centers. Their duty will be to increase the screening and
processing of the unauthorized immigrants with a focus on UACs
(unaccompanied Alien Children) and FMUAs (Family Unit Aliens),
according to information obtained from Supervisory Border Patrol
Agent Marlene Castro by Breitbart Texas. The move amounts to
“robbing Peter to pay Paul” as officials take agents off the
line from sectors with their own immigrant surges. The sectors
are being robbed of agents are having their own surge of illegal
immigrants as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials
try to make it look like they are doing something in response to
the renewed humanitarian crisis along the southern border….
Several Border Patrol agents have expressed their frustration at
being used as “babysitters” to Breitbart Texas. They stated that
Mexican cartels have learned they can tie up Border Patrol
agents by flooding a region with these children, mostly from
Central America. They are then free to move their drug cargo and
other “higher value” human cargo through other locations.
Meet @VP @JoeBiden’s HIT & RUN VICTIM: Single Mom Of 5 w/
Possible Brain Injury & No Help From #ObamaCare
GotNews - Vice President Joe Biden’s motorcade sped through an
intersection on Halloween and hit a single mother of five, who
was on her way to work and is now incapacitated and unable to
work, with a possible brain injury — with no help from ObamaCare
or Joe Biden! The incident was lightly covered by The Delaware
News Journal, but did not interview the victim, Gina Cherwaty.
Cherwaty was left with custody of all five of her children after
the father was found murdered several months ago.... Cherwaty
says she had the right of way and Biden’s motorcade sped through
without any warning: “When the vehicle came through the
intersection they did not have their sirens on, or their lights
on to indicate they were coming. We had no way of knowing the
vehicle was coming, and the light was green. We had the right of
way. It was a red light for them. There was a Secret Service guy
standing by my car after the accident. I tried to look at the
damage that had been done, but I was told I could not and I had
to sit. I was holding the left side of my neck I was in pain.
They made me sit down, and a fireman and EMT came to me and they
called an ambulance.” Cherwaty says no one in the motorcade
stopped or got out to help. At the hospital, she was refused
care because she couldn’t afford medical insurance under
ObamaCare: “I was in the hospital all day and they did a CAT
scan and an MRI. They recommended I see a neurologist, so they
gave me a doctor’s name and number to contact.... I called the
office the next day and they turned me away because I do not
have medical insurance. “.... The injuries to Gina Cherwaty
include damages to multiple disks in her back and possible brain
injury. Neither Joe Biden nor the White House have offered
concern, comment, or help to Gina so far.
Reince Priebus named Trump chief of staff
Washington Times - Reince Priebus, the man who navigated
treacherous GOP political waters over the last two years to
emerge with a victorious presidential candidate, will be the new
White House chief of staff, the Trump transition team announced
Sunday. President-elect Donald Trump also said Steve Bannon, the
former head of Breitbart News who helped stabilize the Trump
campaign, will be his senior counselor and strategist. “Steve
and Reince are highly qualified leaders who worked well together
on our campaign and led us to a historic victory,” Mr. Trump
said. “Now I will have them both with me in the White House as
we work to make America great again.” Mr. Priebus spent years
rebuilding the Republican National Committee’s elections
operation after disastrous losses in 2008 and 2012. He managed
to tame the presidential debate process, pulled off a successful
convention against strong headwinds, and built a turnout
operation that some analysts have credited with helping Mr.
Trump over the finish line Tuesday.
Trump transition team launches website
thestar.com - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has begun trying
to fulfill his pledge to “Make America Great Again” by launching
a new website Thursday morning. The website, GreatAgain.gov,
offers information about how members of the public can apply to
join Trump’s presidential transition, executive office or a
federal department under Trump’s future administration. An
online application form asks potential candidates to submit a
resume and cover letter, description of why they hope to be part
of Trump’s administration, information such as geographic and
political party affiliation, as well as any additional
qualifications they wish to disclose. Trump’s transition team is
looking to fill 4,000 presidential appointee positions. “More
than 4,000 political appointees, many of whom hold important
leadership and policymaking positions, will be heading out the
door next year with the change in administrations,” a notice on
the website states. “Finding qualified people to fill these jobs
is an enormous undertaking, but it is critically important to
making the federal government work effectively for the American
public.”
Ron Paul on Trump's Election: Beware of Shadow Government
The Daily Sheeple - Former congressman and presidential
candidate Ron Paul ... voiced major skepticism on whether Trump
will actually follow through on many of his campaign promises.
Paul referenced Trump’s independence as being a political
outsider and that this possibly could have a more favorable
outcome than we might have seen with Hillary Clinton in the Oval
Office. However, he notes that we cannot determine what plans
for Trump’s presidency the shadow government might have.... Paul
is not particularly pleased with the war-driven neoconservatives
who are beginning to surround Trump. “Unfortunately, there has
been several neoconservatives that are getting closer to Trump.
And if gets his advice from them then I do not think that is a
good sign,” he said. “During the campaign, he did talk a little
bit about backing off and being less confrontational to Russia
and I like that. He criticized some of the wars in the Middle
East at the same time. He believes we should accelerate the war
against ISIS and terrorism.” Paul thinks that the Wikileaks
release of the nearly 60,000 hacked Podesta emails is what
ultimately secured Trump to the presidency, but he thinks that
the hidden power structure is brewing something in the
background to maintain their dominion over the US presidency.
“Yes, Trump is his own guy, more so than most of those who have
ever been in before. We hope he can maintain an independence and
go in the right direction. But I fear the fact that there is so
much that can be done secretly, out of control of our apparent
government and out of the view of so many citizens,” he
cautioned. Paul does not have high hopes that Trump will follow
through on his campaign promise to disengage from the NATO
alliance. He expects that Trump’s intentions as president will
become clear once we see who he appoints to his cabinet.
FEDERAL AGENCIES: Tears, angst as workforce braces for Trump
takeover
E&E News - U.S. EPA employees were in tears. Worried Energy
Department staffers were offered counseling. Some federal
employees were so depressed, they took time off. Others might
retire early. And some employees are in downright panic mode in
the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory. "People are upset. Some
people took the day off because they were depressed," said John
O'Grady, president of American Federation of Government
Employees Council 238, a union that represents thousands of EPA
employees. After Election Day, "people were crying," added
O'Grady, who works in EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago. "They
were recommending that people take sick leave and go home." EPA
employees stand to see some of the most drastic changes under
the Trump administration, and they may be taking things a bit
harder than other government workers. The president-elect has
vowed to repeal some of the rules they've toiled on for the last
eight years during the Obama administration, including the Clean
Power Plan rule to cut power plants' greenhouse gas
emissions.... Government workers have expressed worry about a
Trump victory in the past. A poll by the Government Business
Council released earlier this year found that 14 percent of
responding federal employees said they would consider leaving
government service if the GOP nominee won, while another 11
percent answered "maybe".
Giuliani: Anti-Trump Demonstrators Are ‘Professional
Protesters,’ Not Hillary Supporters (Video)
Breitbart - Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former New York City
Mayor Rudy Giuliani said the demonstrations over the election
are being carried out by “professional protesters,” not “Hillary
Clinton or Barack Obama supporters.” Giuliani said, “I feel very
bad about that, but if those were Donald Trump people doing that
after a Hillary Clinton election, I think a lot of people would
be — a lot more anger in the media at the fact that they’re
protesting a legitimately decided election. Having said that, I
think we understand their frustration. We certainly don’t want
to make it worse. I think they’re exaggerating the fears of a
Donald Trump presidency because they’re coming off a campaign
where they’re very disappointed. I’m sure our supporters would
have been very disappointed had Donald Trump not won. And I just
hope it is calming down. Now where it goes into violence, I have
a zero tolerance for riots.” He continued, “You know, I want to
amendment my statement a little bit. I’m not sure these are even
Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama supporters. I think these people
are, you know, kind of like professional protesters more. they
didn’t look to me like…they didn’t look to me like people who
were, you know, carefully studying political science and were
all upset about, you know, the ideology of the election.”
Craigslist Ad Exposes Paid Anti-Trump Protesters Being Recruited
for STAGED Event
TruthFeed - Here’s an example of a Soros employee literally
“posing” as a protester. Not all that “grass roots.”
Trump Protest Disrupted by Troll Changing the Facebook Invite
Breitbart - A “Houston Against Trump” protest is getting trolled
by a hacker that keeps changing the time of the event. Quite a
few watching the cyber trolling are getting some laughs out of
it. Organizers are trying to coordinate an event for Sunday,
November 20, but now there is talk of taking the Facebook event
down…. The event is being organized on a Facebook page branded
by the same name. The event organizers keep re-urging, the time
for the event is 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. One organizer said the event
was once changed to 1 a.m.
Authorities Investigate Mom Who Kicked Out 7-Year-Old Son for
‘Voting’ Trump (Video)
Breitbart - A Houston area mother is under investigation after
posting a video of her kicking her seven-year-old out of the
house…. The young boy starts to sob and his mother responds,
“Uh-Uh, the suitcase is packed by the door. Been packed since
this morning. Bye!” She then hands him a sign and says the sign
will tell people why he is standing out at the curb. The sign
says, “my mom kicked me out because I voted for Donald Trump.”
The little boy’s crime – he voted for Donald Trump in his
elementary school’s mock election…. The mother shouted at her
son, “You want to vote for him, I’m gonna show you.” She keeps
telling him “Bye!” “We don’t do Donald Trump here, get your
suitcase.” “Bye, Donald Trump lover,” she says sarcastically.
She tells the little boy he is going to be out at the curb from
now on. The video, posted on Facebook, has caused shock and
anger among those who have viewed it. At least one woman said
she notified the police. Those viewing it have spread what they
think is the name of the mother, and, have even posted what is
supposed to be her address and phone number. They have also
posted what they think is the grandmother’s name…. The boy is
now in the possession of Child Protective Services after the
video came to the attention of the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s
Department. KHOU reported that a detective said that the mother
has apologized for the video but also said she was just joking.
Law enforcement authorities were reported to say that the video
is disturbing but her actions are not a crime under the penal
statutes.
The Clintons And Soros Launch America's Purple Revolution
Zero Hedge - On the morning after her surprising and
unanticipated defeat at the hands of Republican Party upstart
Donald Trump, Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President
Bill Clinton, entered the ball room of the art-deco New Yorker
hotel in midtown Manhattan and were both adorned in purple
attire. The press immediately noticed the color and asked what
it represented. Clinton spokespeople claimed it was to represent
the coming together of Democratic «Blue America» and Republican
«Red America» into a united purple blend. This statement was a
complete ruse as is known by citizens of countries targeted in
the past by the vile political operations of international hedge
fund tycoon George Soros. The Clintons, who both have received
millions of dollars in campaign contributions and Clinton
Foundation donations from Soros, were, in fact, helping to
launch Soros’s «Purple Revolution» in America. The Purple
Revolution will resist all efforts by the Trump administration
to push back against the globalist policies of the Clintons and
soon-to-be ex-President Barack Obama. The Purple Revolution will
also seek to make the Trump administration a short one through
Soros-style street protests and political disruption.
Thousands Gather At Fifth Anniversary Of Unique Veterans
Memorial In Arizona
Western Journalism - The memorial, designed by Renee
Palmer-Jones, is a monument comprised of a row of five pillars
that increase in size. Each pillar has a large hole in the
middle. The five pillars represent the five branches of the U.S.
military and the unity between them as they serve together. The
pillars sit on a circle of red bricks that are engraved with the
names of American servicemen and women, which is a symbol of
support for the Armed Forces. The bricks are red, the pillars
are white, and the sky is blue to represent the colors of the
American flag. Each year on Veteran’s Day — Nov. 11 — at exactly
11:11 a.m., light from the sun’s rays pass through the holes in
the pillars forming a perfect solar spotlight of the Great Seal
of the United States, which is located on a mosaic on the ground
just in front of the pillars.
Veterans Day Demonstrators Counter Anti-Trump Protests
Breitbart - Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump gathered
on Veterans Day to wave signs in support of veterans and the
incoming Commander-in-Chief at the entrance to San Diego’s
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Of the more than 20 people
there supporting veterans and of Trump, one of the organizers
told Breitbart News that there was one Marine who said he was
going to reenlist because of Trump’s election. Among those that
came out were veterans and legal immigrants, according to one of
the organizers. Women and men of a variety of backgrounds held
up signs and flags on the side of the road just ahead of the
entrance to the north San Diego County military base. Some wore
Make America Great Again hats. A Marine Corps flag, Gadsden
flag, American flags and a Trump flag waved in the air held high
by the demonstrators…. Retired Marine Jeff Schwilk worked with
other Trump supporters to plan the action in less than two days.
Schwilk told Breitbart News: We were honored to rally for the
Marines and Veterans at the main gate of Camp Pendleton today
and to celebrate Veterans Day and the election of our new,
strong Commander in Chief, Donald Trump. We were able to talk to
several active duty Marines at the rally who told us that Trump
had and has overwhelming support among active duty Marines. They
know he will put veterans first in his new administration. They
are thrilled at his election and one Marine even told he had
decided to reenlist due to Trump’s election this week.
California Want to Outsource Manufacture of High Speed Rail
Trains
Breitbart - California officials now plan to outsource the
production of high-tech trains for their hugely expensive
fast-rail network, and have quietly dumped their commitment to
buy American-made trains. Gov. Gerry Brown released the news one
day after the Nov. 8 elections, when the California High-Speed
Rail Authority issued a request to the federal government for an
exemption from the “Buy America” requirements of federal law.
That law requires that taxpayer subsidies and funds be used to
buy U.S.-made products, and the exemption would allow the
taxpayer funds to be used to buy foreign trains from foreign
factories…. The real reason for outsourcing the work appears to
be the exploding cost of the program that is revealed in the
“2016 CHSR Business Plan.” Originally estimated to cost $33
billion when voters approved Proposition-1A in 2008, the rail
network’s expected cost has now skyrocketed to $64.2 billion….
According to construction project finance expert Bruce Lawrence,
he conservatively estimated that with the inflation rate for
construction running at least 5.5 percent annually, the
four-year-delay would add another $15 billion. That would bring
the total project’s sticker-shock to $79.3 billion.
Aldi to Go Full Organic, Bans Pesticides and Rivals Whole Foods
as Healthiest Grocery Store
Living Traditionally - German retailer Aldi has announced that
as of January 1st they will be removing 8 pesticides from all
products on its U.S. stores shelves.The food chain is making a
name for itself as a health-focused supermarket in recent times.
With low prices AND a focus on health, Aldi is gaining a
reputation as the food conscious shoppers go-to store. They are
expanding their organic food brands, removing some artificial
ingredients from products and adding more gluten-free items.
They have removed certified synthetic colors, partially
hydrogenated oils, and MSG from their private-label products
(which make up 90% of sales). They have expanded their sales of
fresh and organic meat and produce, including the “Never Any!”
brand of meats that contain no added antibiotics, hormones,
animal by-products or other additives. The chain will also
expand the SimplyNature line (which is free of more than 125
artificial ingredients) and their gluten-free liveGfree brand.
Their milk was free of artificial growth hormones, but now its
yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese, and other dairy products
will be as well. They have begun to offer more high-end foods
like artisan cheeses, smoked salmon, quinoa, and coconut oil.
There are currently 1,500 Aldi stores in the U.S and the plan to
open 500 more by 2018.
Video: How is This Allowed?! Wild Buffalo Rounded Up and Kept Without
Food or Water to Protect Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Site
One Green Planet - This video shows a group of wild buffalo that has
been corralled and isolated inside a razor wire wall that is surrounded
by a deep trench. In a post on Facebook, Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)
wrote, “It has been reported that wild buffalo are being corralled and
held behind razor wire fencing without food or water near the Dakota
Access Pipeline – and that there have been threats of killing the
buffalo by the construction company.” The ALDF is currently
investigating the legality of the treatment of these animals. If seeing
this makes you angry, we encourage you to learn more about what is
happening at Standing Rock and share this and other stories with
everyone you know to raise awareness. We cannot ignore this blatant
disregard for the basic rights of people, and animals, that is occurring
all in the interest of building a profit-generating oil pipeline.
New Jellyfish Looks Like an Alien Spacecraft
LiveScience: - Using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), marine
scientists dove to the deepest part of the world’s oceans, called the
Mariana Trench, east of the Mariana Islands near Guam in the western
Pacific Ocean; they were exploring the so-called Enigma Seamount (named
for the lack of information scientists have on it) when they came upon
this surreal-looking creature. Video captured of the jellyfish reveals a
stunning sight: The organism sports two sets of tentacles, long and
short, that extend from its pulsating bell. When the long tentacles are
extended outward, the jellyfish’s bell remains still. That feature, the
researchers noted in a statement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), suggests the jellyfish is an ambush predator.
Big
Pharma's chemical warfare on humanity dwarfs the number of
victims killed by all world wars and acts of terrorism
combined...
pharmadeathclock.com - While drug companies profit billions,
people are dying by the millions. Total deaths in the United
States since January 1, 2000…Chemotherapy16,881,720, Adverse
Drug Reactions 1,789,462, Hospital Errors 7,427,958, Medical
Error 1,654,408, Hospital Infections 1,266,129, SSRIs 675,269,
SuperBugs 388,279, Prescription Drugs 384,346…
Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA
REALfarmacy - Seen any walnuts in your medicine cabinet lately?
According to the Food and Drug Administration, that is precisely
where you should find them. Because Diamond Foods made truthful
claims about the health benefits of consuming walnuts that the
FDA didn’t approve, it sent the company a letter declaring,
“Your walnut products are drugs” — and “new drugs” at that —
and, therefore, “they may not legally be marketed … in the
United States without an approved new drug application.” The
agency even threatened Diamond with “seizure” if it failed to
comply. Diamond’s transgression was to make “financial
investments to educate the public and supply them with walnuts,”
as William Faloon of Life Extension magazine put it. On its
website and packaging, the company stated that the omega-3 fatty
acids found in walnuts have been shown to have certain health
benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and some types
of cancer. These claims, Faloon notes, are well supported by
scientific research: “Life Extension has published 57 articles
that describe the health benefits of walnuts”; and “The US
National Library of Medicine database contains no fewer than 35
peer-reviewed published papers supporting a claim that ingesting
walnuts improves vascular health and may reduce heart attack
risk.” This evidence was apparently not good enough for the FDA,
which told Diamond that its walnuts were “misbranded” because
the “product bears health claims that are not authorized by the
FDA.”…. This kind of bureaucratic tyranny sends a strong signal
to the food industry not to innovate in a way that informs the
public about foods that protect against disease. While consumers
increasingly reach for healthier dietary choices, the federal
government wants to deny food companies the ability to convey
findings from scientific studies about their products.
Diabetes drug shown to promote bladder cancer
(NaturalHealth365) The drug pioglitazone, brand name Actos, is
promoted as a substance to help control and regulate blood sugar
– in people with type 2 diabetes. However, some of those people
– that use this toxic drug – end up getting bladder cancer. A
study, published by The British Medical Journal (BMJ), has
confirmed those taking the drug have a higher risk of bladder
cancer among other Actos side effects. The findings also show
that the risk of negative Actos side effects – like bladder
cancer – gets higher with higher doses of the drug and the
longer diabetes patients take it…. The connection between
bladder cancer and Actos side effects was first detected
unexpectedly in 2005. Persons taking the drug were being studied
in a trial and were found to have a much higher incidence of
bladder cancer compared with the study participants who were
taking a placebo. However, these results and others like it had
been considered “controversial,” as other studies since 2005
have reported differing results about the drug…. Those who took
pioglitazone were found to have an average of 63 percent higher
risk of bladder cancer than those not taking a thiazolidinedione
drug. The risk of getting bladder cancer while on the diabetes
drug seemed to increase with higher doses and longer periods of
use.
Top Benefits of Turmeric Essential Oil! How to Prepare it?
Natural News Blogs - Turmeric is a perennial plant with roots or
tubers. Curcumin is the active ingredient of turmeric. The
health benefits of Turmeric has been known for thousands for
years. There are various ways one can use turmeric, using
turmeric essential oil (obtained from turmeric root) is one of
them. Turmeric essential oil uses abound in traditional medicine
and aromatherapy for the health and cosmetic benefits. Turmeric
essential oil uses derived from this oil. Homemade DIY Turmeric
Essential Oil Recipe: Ingredients: 2 cups of pure coconut oil,
Turmeric roots, Instructions: Rub turmeric roots on a coarse
stone with drops of water which form a smooth paste. Collect at
least two spoons of turmeric paste. In a pan add coconut oil and
heat on low flame. Add the turmeric paste to the pan and heat
for a minute by continuous swirling. Switch off the flame and
allow cooling. Remember not to burn turmeric while heating.
Allow the oil to attain room temperature. Transfer to the clean
bottle and avoid the moisture contact. Aromatic homemade
turmeric essential oil is ready…. Both turmeric and turmeric oil
are now recognized to have got anti-cancer qualities. Turmeric
essential oil can fight against the free radicals in the body
and act as an excellent antioxidant, antinociceptive and
anti-inflammatory agents. Also find the aromatic turmerone (ar-turmerone)
in turmeric essential oil as well as curcumin, the main active
ingredient in turmeric, both displayed the ability to fight
colon cancer. Turmeric essential oils contain 60-65%
alpha-curcumin. This is also the main constituent in turmeric
root which gives turmeric its anti-inflammatory properties.
Turmeric oil has been used with other essential oil such as
Frankincense for preparing anti-inflammatory and pain relieving
formulas….
CBD-Infused Cannabis Milk Soothes Anxiety And Is Hitting London
Stores Soon
Natural Blaze - Whereas THC – the component in marijuana
responsible for getting you ‘high’ – is illegal in most U.S.
states, cannabidiol (CBD) is not. In fact, CBD oil is renowned
for its many medicinal effects. One of the many chemical
compounds found within cannabis, CBD is non-psychoactive and has
been proven in studies to benefit anxiety. Though science has
not yet confirmed this, CBD is also reported to benefit one’s
mood, sleep, pain, immune response, and hormone regulation. CBD
is also widely used as a natural treatment for seizures. Because
CBD oil is even listed on the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s
website as a potential ‘cure’ for cancer, the company Rawligion
(based in London) included it in its new 100% organic hemp
drink. The drink Relax consists of 100% organic hemp milk
containing CBD, hemp seeds, cashews, dates, coconut oil,
vanilla, and water. Created by Michael Isted, a psychotherapist
and development consultant for Rawligion, the drink is intended
to help people feel calm and well-nourished. Cannabidiol seeds
do not get one high and are very nutrient-rich. Research shows
that cannabis seeds contain a healthy 3:1 balance of omega-3 and
omega-6 fatty acids (too many omega-6 fatty acids contribute to
inflammation), as well as a rich source of nutrients including
calcium, magnesium, manganese, potassium, zinc, and vitamins A,
B1, B2, B3, B6, D, and E. Additionally, the cannabis seed is a
complete protein, meaning it contains all essential amino
acids…. Rawligion and LoveHemp – a UK-based CBD oil distributor,
is expected to hit stores in the London area soon.
Friday - November
11, 2016 - Today In History:
1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower
when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The
compact called for "just and equal laws."
1831 - Nat Turner, a slave and educated minister, was hanged in
Jerusalem, VA, after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1889 - Washington became the 42nd state of the United States.
1918 - World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an
armistice. This day became recognized as Veteran's Day in the United
States.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns was dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in
Virginia by U.S. President Harding.
1938 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on
network radio.
1942 - During World War II, Germany completed its occupation of France.
1972 - The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Bihn to the South
Vietnamese army. The event symbolized the end of direct involvement in
the Vietnam War by the U.S. military.
1984 - The Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. died in Atlanta at age 84.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan accepted the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial as a gift to the nation from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Fund.
1990 - Stormie Jones, the world's first heart-liver transplant
recipient, died at a Pittsburgh hospital at age 13.
1991 - The U.S. stationed its first diplomat in Cambodia in 16 years to
help the nation arrange democratic elections.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin told U.S. senators in a letter
that Americans had been held in prison camps after World War II. Some
were "summarily executed," but others were still living in his country
voluntarily.
1992 - The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
1993 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated to
honor the more than 11,000 women who had served in the Vietnam War.
1996 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund unveiled "The Wall That
Heals." The work was a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial that would tour communities throughout the United States.
2002 - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pledged $100 million to fight AIDS
in India.
Iraqi forces preparing advance on south Mosul
Reuters - Iraqi security forces are preparing to advance toward
Mosul airport on the city's southern edge to increase pressure
on Islamic State militants fighting troops who breached their
eastern defenses, officers said on Thursday. The rapid response
forces, part of a coalition seeking to crush the jihadists in
the largest city under their control in Iraq or Syria, took the
town of Hammam al-Alil, just over 15 km (10 miles) south of
Mosul, on Monday. Officers say they plan to resume their advance
north, up the western bank of the Tigris River towards the city
of 1.5 million people who have lived under the ultra-hardline
Sunni Islamists for more than two years. More than three weeks
after the U.S.-backed campaign to retake Mosul was launched, the
city is almost surrounded by the coalition of nearly 100,000
fighters. But troops have entered only a handful of
neighborhoods in the east of the city.
Attack On Libya Stopped by Trump Win
Libyan War The Truth - The Libyan tribes called yesterday to
express their great happiness in the election Donald J. Trump to
be the next President of the USA. They also wish to thank all
the American people for standing up against corruption and evil.
They, the people of Libya know first hand the evil that this
woman is capable of by her war crimes and lies committed in 2011
to destroy their country. They have suffered for over 5 years
with her "behind the scenes" support of the illegal occupation
of their country by her radical Islamic mercenary proxy army,
her support of the 4% of Libyans that are radical Islamic
terrorists and their forcibly installed puppet governments. The
tribes of Libya have spies in every sector of Libya. They
informed me that they knew there was to be an attack on their
country this coming week-end (Nov 12th & 13th). The attack was
to target oil fields and the Libyan National army now fighting
the radical Islamic terrorists. They know that the attack was to
be staged out of Qatar directed by Hillary Clinton. They stated:
"When Donald Trump won the election, all attacks ceased to
exist, they have all stopped". They knew about the transfer of
$1.8 billion dollars to Qatar by the Clinton Foundation a few
weeks ago (this was reported here in the US). They said that
Qatar agreed to shelter $1.5 billion of Clinton Foundation money
for the Clinton's and that $200 million would be used to buy
arms and pay the mercenaries in Libya to attack the legitimate
Libyan National Army. Since the Clinton'[s have basically been
de-fanged, it appears Qatar is in a position to keep the $1.8
billion of blood money. Second, the tribes told me with joy that
the militias made up of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Ansar
Al Sharia, LIFG, etc., occupying their country, are all in
MOURNING. These radicals all say that no matter what they will
stand with their sister, Hillary. Why is this? Because Clinton
has been the one arming and funding them ILLEGALLY for the past
5 years. These so called militias are the criminals made up of
less than 4% Libyans (the rest are mercenaries) who continue to
destabilize Libya.
President Assad: Syria is ready to co-operate with Donald Trump
The Independent - Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is
“ready” to cooperate with the US President-elect Donald Trump,
one of Mr Assad’s advisers has said. Speaking to US media group
National Public Radio on Thursday – just after Mr Trump’s
seismic victory in the US general election – Bouthaina Shaaban
said any collaboration on Syria’s almost six-year-long civil war
will depend on “whether Mr Trump’s policies meet expectations.”
“I think the American people have sent a great, a very important
message to the world,” she added…. Mr Trump has indicated that
his foreign policy stance will be less interventionist than his
predecessors'. He has stated in the past that regime change only
causes more instability in the Middle East and while Mr Assad is
not exactly a welcome partner, shoring up his regime is the best
way to stem the extremism that has flourished in the chaos of
Syria’s civil war. Mr Trump has suggested withdrawing support
for the Syrian rebels still fighting in east Aleppo,
neighbouring Idlib province and the south of the country, which
could prove to finally tilt the war in the Syrian government's
favour.
Gold Price Skyrockets In India After Currency Ban
Zero Hedge - …the morning of 9th November 2016, there are huge
lines forming outside gold shops in India — and gold traded
heavily until late into the night yesterday. Depending on who
you ask, the retail price of gold has gone up between 15% and
20% within the last 10 hours. At some places, it was sold for as
much as US$ 2,294 per ounce. That is, if you can actually find
physical gold — gold inventories at stores are rapidly
depleting. All of this happened well before the international
price started to move up because of the election results coming
out of the US. Last night (8th November 2016), India’s
government banned the use of Rs 500 (~$7.50) and Rs 1,000 ($15)
banknotes. This pretty much made most currency-in-use illegal.
Banks and ATMs are closed today. The government believes that
doing this will help eradicate corruption and push counterfeit
money out of circulation. According to the Indian government,
the counterfeit money tends to come from Pakistan and helps
finance terrorism…. In the morning no opposition against the
government was in sight. But there was some animosity detectable
between people. Forgetful that they had lined up until late into
the night yesterday trying to get cash out of ATMs before
midnight, had fought at gas-stations to get their gas tanks
filled, and had suddenly been trapped with unusable currency,
people exchanged congratulations on what Modi had done…. Those
who find themselves stuck with high denomination bills today,
must accept as little as Rs 700 in usable currency for every Rs
1000 of banned currency.
Japan’s parliament approves TPP deal, labeled ‘disaster’ by
Trump
RT - Japan’s Lower House of parliament has passed the
controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade
agreement, despite the fact the deal is likely doomed after
Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory. The ruling
coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito backed the
agreement, while most of the opposition boycotted the vote.The
bill was sent to the Upper House for final approval, with the
ruling coalition expecting it to be signed into law by November
30. TPP has been one of the key points in the economic program
of Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, who wanted to boost the
country’s exports. However, experts view the TPP approval by
Japan as a more of symbolic gesture, as the deal is unlikely to
ever get a green light under Trump.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
John Bedini, Noted Free Energy Researcher, Died Unexpectedly on
Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, 4 Hours After His Brother Gary Had Died
Related:
John Bedini – You will be missed!
Make America Great Again!
This website is for we the people to make America Great Again.
There are links to apply for a job (serve on the transition team
- "President Elect Trump has promised to change Washington, DC")
and to share your story - how to make America Great...
Related:
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us your story" "How do you want to Make America Great?"
Obama Asks Congress for $11.6Bln More for Anti-Daesh Push,
Afghan Efforts
Sputnik News - Obama’s supplementary spending includes an
additional $5.8 billion, earmarked for the Department of State
and the US Agency for International Development, to support the
administration's anti-Daesh and counterterrorism objectives.
Among these are efforts in diplomatic engagement, governance and
stabilization, and for strengthening US embassies’ security as
well as humanitarian relief and recovery. “These amendments
would provide $5.8 billion for [US Department of Defense]
activities to support the Afghan National Defense and Security
Forces, and to degrade and ultimately defeat the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), including through military
operations as part of Operation Inherent Resolve,” Obama said in
letter. Responding to the request, US Secretary of Defense
Ashton Carter said that Obama’s $5.8 billion budget amendment
would help fund additional US troops in Afghanistan.,,,
Secretary of State John Kerry said some of the funds would be
used to increase security at US diplomatic missions threatened
by Daesh.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead, Schumer tells labor
leaders
Washington Post - The Senate’s soon-to-be top Democrat told
labor leaders Thursday that the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the
trade deal at the center of President Obama’s “pivot” to
strengthen ties with key Asian allies, will not be ratified by
Congress. That remark from Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who
is expected to be the incoming Senate minority leader, came as
good news to the AFL-CIO Executive Council, which met Thursday
in Washington. Schumer relayed statements that Republican
congressional leaders had made to him, according to an aide who
confirmed the remarks. Obama’s signature global trade deal had
been on life support for months as both Democrats and
Republicans campaigned against unfair trade policies ahead of
the Nov. 8 election. And Donald Trump’s triumph in the
presidential race cemented its fate. “There is no way to fix the
TPP,” Trump said in a June economic address. “We need bilateral
trade deals. We do not need to enter into another massive
international agreement that ties us up and binds us down.”
Rudy Giuliani Addresses Hillary Pardon - "President Obama Should
Leave It To The System”(Video)
Zero Hedge - Rudy Giuliani, the man that many believe Trump will
tap for Attorney General, walked a very fine line this morning
in responding to a question about whether or not the Obama
administration should pardon Hillary Clinton for her numerous
alleged crimes. While noting the obvious intricacies around
potentially prosecuted a former political foe, Giuliani noted
that "there are deep and disturbing issues there" and that
"President Obama should leave it to the system that we all
believe in to determine, is she innocent or is she guilty.” Per
The Hill: “I don’t like to see America become a country in which
we prosecute people, you know, about politics. On the other
hand, there are deep and disturbing issues there in which if you
don’t investigate them -- ” “That’s why I don’t think President
Obama should pardon her,” Giuliani added. "I think President
Obama should leave it to the system that we all believe in to
determine, is she innocent or is she guilty?” Giuliani added
that declining to probe the Clinton Foundation’s questionable
finances could set a poor precedent for similar investigations.
“It’s hard to investigate other people,” said Giuliani. “What do
you say to a foundation where you have a fraud of $50,000 when
you haven’t looked at a foundation of where there is an alleged
fraud in the millions or hundreds of millions of dollars? Now,
it may be true that it’s not true. But it hasn’t been
investigated.”… The questioning of Giuliani this morning came
after the White House Press Secretary offered the following
cryptic answer yesterday to a question about whether or not
Obama would pardon Hillary. Of course, by refusing to offer a
denial, many have since speculated that a pardon is at least
under consideration.
6 Corporations Control 90 Percent Of American Media
True Activist - Unless you go out of your way to seek truthful
news from reputable sources, chances are you – like the majority
of the populace – are fed regurgitated current events received
from a small pool of corporate sources. Indeed, the majority of
popular news channels – including FOX, CNN, and ABC – are owned
by just six companies which more often than not deliver
propaganda, social programming and perpetuate crisis narratives
to the public. The main conglomerates are General Electric, News
Corp., Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS, and each has their
own shady history… Like Vic Bishop of Waking Times points out,
the corporations have the power to influence the public’s mind
with subliminal messaging, so-called ‘reality’ television, and
bombardment of negative happenings. And if you tune into
mainstream media often, that’s the gist of what’s usually
offered. This is a big deal, considering that the media people
consume largely affects their mentality, purchasing habits, and
apathy toward what is taking place in the world. This and more
is presented in the Infographic below, which was created by
FrugalDad.com in 2011. As Business Insider notes, a lot has
changed since the guide was initially shared with the public.
For example, GE does not own NBC (or Comcast or any media)
anymore and the 6th company is now Comcast. Additionally, Time
Warner doesn’t own AOL, so Huffington Post isn’t affiliated with
them. Though some facts have changed, the Infographic offers
some important insight on what can be deemed the ‘illusion of
choice’.
Video: Trump, Obama Meet at The White House: Full Press
Conference
ABC News - President Elect Donald Trump Meets with President
Obama for the First Time at the White House | President Barack
Obama called his conversation today with President-elect Donald
Trump excellent. The two spent roughly an hour and a half
together in the Oval Office. Obama invited his successor in
order to facilitate a "successful transition between our
presidencies." "As I said last night my No. 1 priority in coming
two months is trying to facilitate, transition that ensures our
president-elect is successful," Obama said. "I have been very
encouraged by the, I think, interest in President-elect Trump’s
wanting to work with my team around many of the issues that this
great country faces. And I believe that it is important for all
of us, regardless of party, and regardless of political
preferences to now come together, to work together."
* Related:
Video: Full White House Press Briefing after Donald Trump's
meeting with President Obama
Trump Reveals Policy Goals: "Building That Wall", End "War On
Coal", Repeal Obamacare, Dismantle Dodd-Frank
Zero Hedge - On his transition website GreatAgain.gov, the Trump
team has laid out the framework of his initial policies with
policies focused i) on American Security including as Defense
and National security, Immigration Reform and Building That
Wall, and Energy Independence; ii) Getting America Back to Work
Again including Tax Reform; Regulatory Reform; Trade Reform;
Education; Transportation & Infrastructure and Financial
Services Reform; and iii) Government for the people including
Healthcare Reform (Obamacare), Veterans Administration Reform
and Protecting Americans' Constitutional Rights….
Now it's DEMOCRATS who won't accept the election result! Plot to
impeach President Trump has already begun
Daily Mail - Within hours of the Republican’s unexpected win
over Hillary Clinton, people were calling for him to be
impeached over claims of sexual abuse, fraud and racketeering.
Online searches for ‘How to impeach a president’ surged hours
after the result, with the question seeing a 4,850 per cent rise
on Google. One of the seven petitions to contest his presidency
amassed more than 13,322 signatures in a matter of hours as
furious protests across the US intensified. A number of
professors have thrown their weight behind the movement, saying
there is a ‘strong case’ to impeach Trump and stop him from
taking the top job. Speaking on Newsnight on Wednesday, English
historian Simon Schama said: ‘It is not a moment for calm, it is
a moment for contesting what seems to be a very dangerous point
in American history.,,, University of Utah Law professor
Christopher Peterson said he found evidence to charge Trump with
fraud and racketeering - felonies within state and federal law.
He claimed that Trump University was unaccredited and taught
students get-rich-quick schemes. Trump is set to go on trial in
three weeks over his now-defunct Trump University, potentially
taking the witness stand weeks before his inauguration. The
lawsuit, filed in 2010, claims Trump University gave seminars
across the country that were like infomercials, pressuring
people to spend $35,000 for mentorships. In a 23-page article,
Professor Peterson laid out why Congress should impeach Trump
over these claims.
Video: NBC Predicts Race War; Tells Americans They Have No Hope
Steve Watson - In a remarkable broadcast Wednesday night, NBC
appeared to predict a full on race war in America now that
Donald Trump is to become the 45th President. Anchored by Lester
Holt, the most bias debate host in history, the broadcast
featured a report that used a phrase coined by Van Jones earlier
in the week, ‘Whitelash’. “While Donald Trump’s many supporters
are basking in his victory, many others woke up this morning
feeling disillusioned by the headlines,” a clearly despondent
Holt moaned. “Time and time again critics accused Trump of
running a campaign with undercurrents of racism and those
concerns persist now that the election results show a sharp
racial divide,” Holt continued. Holt then threw to reporter Ron
Allen who had prepared a fearmongering race war report. “Outside
the nation’s African-American history museum, there’s deep worry
about president-elect Donald Trump’s victory and the huge
turn-out by rural working-class white voters.” Allen stated. The
reporters then suggested that Trump was able to capture the
White House because rural Americans are inherently racist and
afraid of diversity. “They see what’s been called a
‘white-lash.’ White Americans feeling left out and deep
resentment as the nation grows more diverse.” Allen suggested.
“Rallied by a candidate who promised to ban Muslims, wall out
Mexicans, and who challenged the very legitimacy of the nation’s
first black president.” he added. The broadcast also focused on
Latino voters and how “this election seems more like an
eviction” for them.
* Related:
Anti-Trump crowd smashes windows & police cruiser in streets of
Oakland (Video)
Figures. Anti-Trump Protesters Were Bussed in to Austin
#FakeProtests (Photos)
The Gateway Pundit - They must have spent a lot of Soros money
on this operation. There was a whole string of busses. It
figures. Everything they do is fake or paid for.
Trump Tower is a no-fly zone: Massive security operation springs
up around The Donald’s Manhattan home after his election victory
(Photos)
Daily Mail - Donald Trump's transition from a flashy businessman
and reality TV star to the President of the United States is
keeping the security services busy. A no-fly zone was imposed
over his home and workplace, Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue in New
York on November 9. The Federal Aviation Administration edict
bans any aircraft in a two mile radius within 3,000ft of the
58-story building, which was the setting of the NBC television
show The Apprentice and is not only Trump's main residence but
is also a tourist hotspot. The flight ban will re-route many
helicopter tours of the city, limit the work of media
helicopters as well as re-routing commercial aircraft. Drones
are also banned…. Flights are also limited over Vice President
Mike Pence's Indianapolis home. The no-fly zone will be in play
until Trump's inauguration on Friday 20 January, 2017, when he
will move into the White House…. Meanwhile, on the ground,
police officers have helped to install concrete barriers around
the Tower. A row of sanitation trucks filled with sand have been
acting as barricades along Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th
streets since Monday in order to protect the tower against car
bombs…. An NYPD checkpoint is also in operation outside the
building while 56th street between Fifth and Madison is closed
to traffic. On Thursday, heavily-armed officers could be seen
around the president-elect's home while Trump himself visited
the White House. People who work and live inside Trump Tower
will also now be vetted by the Secret Service, the New York
Daily News reports.
Edward Snowden Addresses The US Election Result In Public
Webcast
Zero Hedge - Edward Snowden, courtesy of RT, is delivering a
public address on the US election result from Russia where he is
a "temporary resident", and taking questions via social media on
privacy concerns, his pardon and other issues of public concern.
A campaign has been launched to secure Snowden a presidential
pardon before Obama leaves office in January 2017.
What He Donald Trump Did Next is Amazing! (Video)
The Political Insider - While candidates have been open about
sharing their faith in recent decades, true Christians act as
Christians at all times… even when no one is watching. The two
and a half hour meeting about faith was constructive, and all
reports are that Trump asked the Lord for wisdom and knowledge
during his campaign. They all prayed for God’s protection over
America, as our country faces serious risks from the rise of
Islamic terrorism and the rebirth of a Cold War-style Russia.
Study: Texas Cities Rank Among Best for Vets
Breitbart - WalletHub, the personal finance website, released
its annual Veteran’s Day survey which ranks U.S. cities from
best to worst places to live for former service men and women.
Overall, Texas placed favorably in the rankings with several of
its municipalities getting high marks. Analysts compared 100 of
the nation’s largest cities based on 21 indicators of
veteran-friendliness, percentage of military skill-related jobs,
and the availability of VA health facilities, all catalogued
into four broad categories–employment, economy, quality of life,
and health. Overall, the best U.S. city for veterans to live was
Scottsdale, AZ. Last year, it took second place and Irvine, CA,
which had the nation’s highest veteran income growth and lowest
veteran poverty rate, topped the list…. The bottom five were
Boston, MA (#96); Memphis, TN (#97); Cleveland, OH (#98);
Newark, NJ (#99); and Detroit, MI (#100)…. On the plus side,
homelessness has declined for veterans nationwide. Also, the
unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans plummeted to a
near-historic low in February, dropping to 4.7 percent, a full
point down from January’s figures, according to Military Times.
However, veteran benefits are not evenly distributed across the
country. In many cities, vets often wait too long to see a
medical professional, despite a $10 billion effort to expand
their access to such care. Also, thousands lost their GI Bill
education benefits as a result of for-profit school closures.
Everything Is Soaring As Trump Makes Buying Stuff Great Again
Zero Hedge - The global repricing of inflation expectations
continues at a feverish pace in the aftermath of the Trump
victory, leading to another surge in US equity futures, up 15
points or 0.7% to 2175 at last check, with Asian and European
stock market all surging after the initial shock of Trump’s
election victory gave way to optimism for fiscal stimulus will
provide a boost to the global economy. Commodity metals soared
with copper surging the most since May 2013.
Trump Win Means FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Regulation is Dead
Breitbart - The biggest impact on Silicon Valley tech companies from
Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President will be the killing off of
what Breitbart News called the “Best Net Neutrality Silicon Valley Money
Can Buy.” President-elect Trump has promised “a temporary moratorium on
new agency regulations.” For Silicon Valley tech firms, his biggest
target will overturning the “Net Neutrality” regulation passed on a
straight-line party vote by the three Democrat members of the Federal
Communications Commission on February 26, 2015. The Obama administration
claimed the new FCC regulation would enhance consumer welfare and
protect the public interest by requiring Internet service to enable
access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and
without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. Although
that sounded noble, the real objective of “net neutrality” was to force
Internet service providers to be regulated as “utilities” and be forced
to provide free search engine access. And with Google accounting for 64
percent of all Internet searches, net neutrality was essentially a huge
transfer of wealth to Google.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Sonoma County Vote Success Leads to Largest GMO Free Zone in US
Sustainable Pulse - Sonoma County in California has passed
Measure M to ban GMO crop cultivation – YES 55.9% to NO 44.1%.
The successful vote on Measure M, which took place on the same
day as the U.S. presidential election, means that the largest
ever U.S. GMO Free Zone has now been formed. Sonoma County joins
Humboldt, Marin, Mendocino, Santa Cruz and Trinity Counties, and
bridges the largest GMO Free Zone in the United States – an
amazing 13,734 square miles. The success of the vote came
despite a concerted effort by the Biotech Industry to block
Measure M. In October documents filed with the Sonoma County
Clerk revealed that Biotech companies funded the committee named
‘No on M- Sponsored and Opposed by farmers, ranchers, and
agricultural technology companies’. Karen Hudson, Yes on M
campaign manager stated; “The fact is, more and more people want
non-GMO food, and our local farms have a right to grow without
contamination. It’s that simple.” Measure M, also known as The
Sonoma County Transgenic Contamination Ordinance, was a simple
measure to protect local farms, pastures, and cover crops from
contamination by genetically modified plant pollen by
prohibiting the growing and raising of genetically modified
organisms in Sonoma County. Sonoma County has a reputation for
pure agricultural products. Organic and traditional farms that
are non-GMO represent a critical sector of the local economy,
with 80% of Sonoma County dairies being certified organic.
US EPA Approves Toxic Dicamba Herbicide for Use on GMO Crops
Sustainable Pulse - Ignoring the legal requirement to examine
threats to endangered species, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency approved Wednesday the use of the dangerously toxic
herbicide dicamba on crops genetically modified to tolerate the
chemical. Dicamba has been around for decades, but this new EPA
decision allows the herbicide to be sprayed directly on
genetically modified (GM) cotton and soybeans — opening the door
for dicamba use to jump from less than 1 million pounds to more
than 25 million annually on these two crops. The scandalous
decision comes on the heels of the agency’s recent decision to
expand approval for a new pesticide called Enlist Duo, made for
use on GM corn, cotton and soybeans. “Once again the EPA is
allowing for staggering increases in pesticide use that will
undoubtedly harm our nation’s most imperiled plants and
animals,” said Nathan Donley, a scientist with the Center for
Biological Diversity. “Iconic species like endangered whooping
cranes are known to visit soybean fields, and now they’d be
exposed to this toxic herbicide at levels they’ve never seen
before.” In recent months dicamba has made headlines because its
illegal use has caused extensive damage to crops in the Midwest
due to spray drift.
5 Essential Oils That Defeat Depression & Insomnia
David Wolfe - 1. Chamomile is a popular ingredient in
candles, tea and many aromatherapy products. It’s one of the
best herbs for alleviating stress and promoting relaxation.
Research has shown that inhaling chamomile vapors using
chamomile oil is a natural remedy for both anxiety and
depression. Chamomile soothes the mind and relaxes the body to
promote a better night’s rest. If you’re struggling with
insomnia, try applying a few drops of roman chamomile oil to the
bottom of your feet before bed. You can also add a few drops to
your shampoo, conditioner or skin moisturizer. 2. Lavender
oil has been used for years to help battle depression and
insomnia. Research has proven that it has amazing effects on
mood. One study conducted on people suffering from PTSD found
that the daily use of lavender oil helped decrease depression by
32.7%. It also drastically decreased sleep disturbances and
moodiness in those suffering from PTSD. To help relieve stress
and fight insomnia, place a diffuser next to your bed and
diffuse lavender oil while you sleep. You can also rub a few
drops of lavender oil behind your ears before bed. 3.
Bergamot oil is known for being an antidepressant. It works
by improving blood circulation and stimulating feelings of joy
and energy. A 2011 study found that pairing bergamot essential
oil with lavender essential oil helps treat depression.
Participants in the study experienced relaxation, calmness,
attentiveness, mood and alertness. Try rubbing bergamot oil on
you feet and stomach to relieve feelings of depression. 4.
Orange essential oil naturally helps to reduce anxiety to
promote a better night’s sleep. The citrus notes in orange oil
has uplifting properties that also help with feelings of sorrow
and depression. The best time to use orange oil is at night.
Place a few drops of on your stomach before falling asleep, or
create a soothing cream by mixing 1/2 cup of coconut oil with 15
drops of orange oil. Moisturize your skin before bed to fight
anxiety and insomnia….
MMR can cause skin problems and ulcers if your immune system is
compromised
What Doctors Don't Tell You - The MMR vaccine can cause serious
adverse reactions, researchers have admitted this week. The
rubella (German measles) component of the jab increases the risk
of infection from the rubella virus itself, and can cause
serious skin inflammation and ulcers in anyone whose immune
system is compromised…. Although the risk for people with
compromised immune systems has been known, and is even included
in the package inserts supplied with the vaccine, it was
theoretical, say researchers from the Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, who say they have uncovered “genuine evidence of
harm.” The researchers analysed the health profile of 14
people—four adults and 10 children—who suffered some form of a
PIDD. Seven of them still had the rubella virus in their
tissues, suggesting that their immune systems were too weak to
get rid of the virus in the vaccine. The virus can damage skin
cells and cause ulcers, and makes the person more susceptible to
the actual rubella virus, the researchers say. People with a
poor immune system already have compromised T-cells—which are
responsible for clearing viral infections—and the MMR makes the
problem worse.
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.
How to Make a “Ginger Shot” Elixir for Digestion: 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… For added
benefit, add just a touch of heat (cayenne/turmeric/etc.).
Thursday - November
10, 2016 - Today In History:
WISHING OUR MARINES A HAPPY
241st BIRTHDAY!
1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the
Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of
the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally
re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date
of the United States Marine Corps.
1951 - Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began when Mayor M.
Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ, called his counterpart in Alameda, CA.
1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.
1969 - Sesame Street debuts
1970 - The Great Wall of China opened for tourism.
1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29
vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
1976 - The Utah Supreme Court gave approval for Gary Gilmore to be
executed, according to his wishes. The convicted murderer was put to
death the following January.
1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to
visitors.
1984 - The U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp of the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1993 - John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual
assault against his wife who sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbitt was
later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill, which
called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
1994 - Iraq recognized Kuwait's borders in the hope that the action
would end trade sanctions.
1997 - A judge in Cambridge, MA, reduced Louise Woodward's murder
conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to time
served. She had served 279 days in the death of 8-month-old Matthew
Eappen.
1998 - "The Virtual Wall" website (www.thevirtualwall.org) was unveiled.
The site allows visitors to experience The Wall through the Internet.
2009 - John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that
killed 10 in the Washington, D.C. region, was executed.
NATO launches maritime operation Sea Guardian in Mediterranean
RT - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has
officially announced the immediate start of a new maritime
operation Sea Guardian which aims at increasing security amid an
anti-terror fight in the Mediterranean…. The first round of
naval patrols will be conducted by “the Italian frigate ITS
Aviere, the Bulgarian frigate BGS Verni, the Turkish frigate TCG
Gemlik.” The group will be also beefed up by a Greek and a
Spanish submarine. Back in September Germany announced its
readiness to back the mission, with the country’s cabinet
approving the involvement of up to 650 troops. “Sea Guardian”
also envisions air support, which will be provided on a rotating
basis by aircraft from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and
Turkey. First such flights are said to run through the November
17. The respective mission with the command in Northwood, UK is
mainly focusing on three objectives which are “maritime
situational awareness, counter-terrorism and capacity building.”
According to NATO that would imply an “accurate picture of daily
activity” in the Mediterranean, to spot any potential “security
concerns.”
Philippines to reduce number of joint drills with US
RT - The Philippines is set to change the format of its joint
military drills with the US, reducing the number of exercises
and excluding mock assaults altogether, defense officials say.
President Rodrigo Duterte agreed to further military exercises
with the US armed forces, but they will lack mock assaults and
their number is to be reduced, Philippines Defense Secretary
Delfin Lorenzana said on Wednesday, according to AP. The
US-Philippines drills are part of a 2014 defense agreement with
Washington that allows US troops, warships and planes to be
stationed in the Philippines. However, at a cabinet meeting on
Wednesday defense officials enumerated the benefits received
from these exercises. The changes are still to be discussed at
meeting with American military officials headed by US Pacific
Command chief Harry Harris Jr. on November 22 in Manila. The
victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election is not
predicted to affect the treaty, Lorenzana noted.
Soldiers go home’ – Italians protest American base on US
Election Day
RT - Protesters against a US military base in Italy used
firecrackers, with police responding with tear gas.
Demonstrators rallied on the day of the US presidential election
saying no matter who wins, American soldiers should “go home.”
Up to 200 people gathered in the Italian town of Vicenza on
Tuesday calling on Washington to “free” their soil from the US
military presence. Vicenza, located in north-eastern Italy, is
home to the US “Dal Molin” Army base. Some demonstrators carried
banners saying 'Clinton or Trump? Soldiers go home!’ as the
rally was staged on the day of the US election with the winner
then not known…. Italy has one of the highest numbers of US
foreign bases in the world, and is the second-largest state in
Europe after Germany which hosts an American military presence.
Putin on Trump victory: Russia is ready to restore relations
with US (Video)
RT - Russia is ready and looks forward to restoring bilateral
relations with the United States, Russian President Vladimir
Putin said, commenting on the news of Donald Trump's victory in
the US presidential election. “We heard [Trump's] campaign
rhetoric while still a candidate for the US presidency, which
was focused on restoring the relations between Russia and the
United States,” President Putin said, speaking at the
presentation ceremony of foreign ambassadors' letters of
credentials in Moscow. “We understand and are aware that it will
be a difficult path in the light of the degradation in which,
unfortunately, the relationship between Russia and the US are at
the moment,” he added. Speaking about the degraded state of
relations between the countries, the president once again
stressed that “it is not our fault that Russia-US relations are
as you see them.” Earlier today, in a message to Donald Trump
the Russian President expressed confidence that the dialogue
between Moscow and Washington, in keeping with each other’s
views, meets the interests of both Russia and the US. The
Russian leader noted in the message that he hopes to address
some “burning issues that are currently on the international
agenda, and search for effective responses to the challenges of
the global security,” RIA Novosti reported. On top of it, Putin
has expressed confidence that “building a constructive dialogue
between Moscow and Washington, based on principles of equality,
mutual respect and each other's positions, meets the interests
of the peoples of our countries and of the entire international
community.”
Hungarian PM Orban Hails Trump Victory as ‘Great News’
(Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban congratulated
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on his
election victory on Wednesday, with the words “What a great
news. Democracy is still alive” posted on his Facebook page.
Orban said in July that Trump’s plans on migration and foreign
policy were “vital” for Hungary, whereas those of rival Democrat
Hillary Clinton were “deadly”. Orban was then the first European
head of state to express a clear preference for either of the
two candidates. Orban has in the past upset fellow members of
the European Union over policy, most recently with his tough
stance on Europe’s migrant crisis, objecting to EU resettlement
plans and having a fence built along Hungary’s southern border.
“The migration and foreign policy advocated by the Republican
candidate, Mr. Trump, is good for Europe and vital for Hungary,”
Orban said in July.
Mexican President Peña Nieto Congratulates Trump
Breitbart - Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took to Twitter
early Wednesday morning to celebrate the U.S. electoral process
and congratulate President-Elect Donald J. Trump on his victory.
“The American people have chosen their next President,” Peña
Nieto wrote in Spanish on Twitter. “I congratulate USA on their
electoral process and reiterate my disposition to work together
with Donald Trump in favor of a bilateral relationship.” Mexico
and the U.S. are friends, partners and allies that must continue
collaborating for competitively and the development of North
America, the president said. “I trust that Mexico and the U.S.
will continue strengthening the bond of cooperation and mutual
respect,” Peña Nieto said.
OPEC Just Knocked $20 Off Its Oil Price Outlook
Zero Hedge - OPEC warned in newly released report that oil
prices might not rise above $60 per barrel until the end of the
decade, in an acknowledgement that an array of bearish forces
will conspire to keep a lid on any price rally. OPEC’s new World
Oil Outlook (WOO) offers medium and long-term predictions for
the oil market. OPEC’s Reference Basket (ORB) price will average
$40 per barrel this year, and the group projects that the price
will rise by $5 per barrel each year through the rest of the
decade. That only takes ORB prices up to $60 per barrel in 2020.
That is a remarkable prediction from a group of oil-exporting
countries, often known for a much more bullish outlook for oil.
There are a few reasons that OPEC is more resigned to a “lower
for longer” mantra. OPEC admitted that things have not gone
according to plan since it decided to abandon market
intervention in November 2014. The group, led by Saudi Arabia,
thought that low oil prices would stoke demand and also push out
high-cost producers, two predictions that did not play out, at
least to the degree that top OPEC officials predicted…. U.S.
gasoline demand did hit a record high this year, but it took two
years of low prices to reach that level and oil consumption
lagged behind the huge spike in miles traveled, an indication
that fuel efficiency blunted the impact of more driving.
Meanwhile, China’s demand has continued to soften even as oil
prices languished at record lows…. As always, projections like
those found in OPEC’s new report should be taken with a large
grain of salt, but for an oil cartel like OPEC to be releasing
relatively bearish figures for oil over the next five years is a
bad sign for those hoping for a rally in prices.
Panama Papers: UK probe launched into 22 suspected tax evaders
RT - The government’s Panama Papers taskforce has opened
criminal and civil investigations into 22 people suspected of
tax evasion based on information contained in the Mossack
Fonseca leaks. Another 43 “high net worth individuals” have been
placed under special review while their links to the leak are
investigated, Chancellor Philip Hammond said in a written
statement to MPs. The cross-agency taskforce was established by
former Prime Minister David Cameron in April to analyze the 11.5
million documents leaked from the secretive Panamanian law firm
Mossack Fonseca. The taskforce has also established links
between information uncovered in the leaks and eight active
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigations, Hammond said. “This
intelligence will ensure that the UK remains uniquely placed to
contribute to the international effort to uncover, and take
action, on wrongdoing, regardless of how deeply hidden the
arrangements are, as well as identify those jurisdictions where
regulatory oversight requires improvement,” his statement read.
Shadow treasury minister Rebecca Long-Bailey however expressed
doubt over the government’s commitment to combating fraud and
tax-dodging. “The fact that the government has sneaked this out
in a written statement just before recess probably says all you
need to know about how seriously they are really taking the
issue of tackling tax avoidance. “And you can see why they are
trying to hide this statement, when you consider that back in
April they claimed they were looking into 700 leads but today
they are saying they're only investigating 22 individuals – that
is a 3 percent rate of following down these leads,” she said.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
White House Doesn’t Rule Out Pardoning Hillary Clinton
The Daily Caller - White House press secretary Josh Earnest did
not rule out the possibility of President Barack Obama pardoning
Hillary Clinton before he leaves office in January on Wednesday.
“Donald Trump during the campaign pledged to jail Hillary
Clinton if he was elected over the federal investigations that
are underway. Some legal experts have said President Obama could
close of that opportunity if he pardons Hillary Clinton. Is that
something that the president is considering doing,” a reporter
asked Earnest at the daily White House press briefing. “As you
know, the president has offered clemency to a substantial amount
of Americans who were previously serving time in federal prisons
and we didn’t talk in advance about the president’s plans to
offer clemency to any of these individuals,” Earnest replied. He
added, “That’s because we don’t talk about the president’s
thinking, particularly with respect to any specific cases that
may apply to pardons or commutations.” Obama has granted 944
commutations and 70 pardons.
Schools offer counseling to help students process Trump win
Campus Reform - Virginia Tech will be offering counseling to its
students who are “waking up with fear, anxiety, concern,
questions, and confusion” over the election of Donald Trump. In
an email to “students, colleagues, [and] friends,” VT’s director
of intercultural engagement center, Tricia Smith, writes that
she wants all members of the school community “to hear clearly
that you are loved.” “I hope that every person will take extra
time today to consider this context and care for those around
them. The strength of the Hokie community has long been notable
but not every member of our community has felt they belong,” she
wrote, adding that “today, this may feel almost insurmountable.”
“I want you to hear clearly that you are loved. You deserve
wellness. You deserve to thrive. You deserve community,” she
continued. Smith then provided a list of “spaces” where students
can congregate to grieve over the outcome of the election, even
listing several counseling services that students and faculty
can avail themselves of post-election…. Similarly, Georgetown
University’s dean of students, Mitch Bailin, sent an email to
all students to inform them several offices would be available
to help students process the results of the election.
BITTER: Hillary campaign turning supporters away from concession
speech
American Mirror - A bitter Hillary Clinton’s final act as a
candidate is to surround herself with elite donors and paid
staffers, and to block out average Americans.
“Supporters/general public who have showed up at New Yorker
hotel to see HRC are being turned away,” ABC’s Liz Kreutz
reports. “Appears event is just for staff/donors, etc.”
Meanwhile, her most ardent supporters, er, reporters, have
gathered outside the hotel in anticipation of her 10:30 a.m.
likely concession statement.
* Related:
Hillary Clinton's full concession speech
President Obama calls to congratulate Trump and invite him to
White House
Daily Mail| - President Barack Obama called to congratulate
Donald Trump after his surprise victory, and invited him to a
meeting at the White House. A White House spokesperson said on
Wednesday morning that the two men had spoken, and that
President Obama had asked to president elect to travel to
Washington DC on Thursday so they could begin to discuss the
transition on power. It appears that the two men spoke shortly
before 4am on Wednesday. The White House said in a statement:
‘Ensuring a smooth transition of power is one of the top
priorities the President identified at the beginning of the year
and a meeting with the President-elect is the next step.’ That
call came after President Obama’s somber election night speech
on Wednesday, during which he told Americans: ‘No matter what
happens, the sun will rise in the morning’…. White House press
secretary Josh Earnest had told reporters traveling aboard Air
Force One last week that the president was leaving his schedule
open on Wednesday and Thursday for a possible meeting with the
president-elect.
Video: CNN’s Baldwin: Trump ‘Crushed Two Political Dynasties’ —
the Bushes and Clintons
Breitbart - Wednesday on CNN Brooke Baldwin said President-elect
Donald Trump “crushed two political dynasties,” by beating
former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) in the Republican primary and
defeating Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the
presidential election. Baldwin said, “This history that was made
and one thing I think it’s important pointing out is that
through this election cycle, Donald Trump crushed two political
dynasties in the Bush family and the Clintons.”
Video: Donald's son Barron, 10, takes center stage behind his
newly elected father - but can barely keep his eyes open for 3am
speech
Daily Mail - The youngster could barely keep his eyes open as
his father made his acceptance speech after being voted the 45th
President of the United States on Tuesday evening. Eagle-eyed
viewers spotted president-elect Trump's youngest child rubbing
his eyes, and swaying as he attempted to keep awake during the
lengthy speech at 3am. Barron Trump, one of the youngest
children of a president-elect after Sasha Obama, may only be ten
years old but that didn't stop him being crucified on Twitter
for his sleepy antics.
Video: Go Trump Go | Trump Fight Song
From Infowars emergency transmission where Owen Shroyer made a
Trump song based off of "Go Cubs Go"
General Motors announces plans to lay off 2,000 employees at two
US plants just hours after Donald Trump wins the election
Daily Mail -Trump criticized the manufacturer after reports that
it would shift some of its production to Mexico and vowed during
his campaign to prevent layoffs in the auto industry. But on
Wednesday, the company announced that it would lay off more than
2,000 workers indefinitely at two assembly plants in Ohio and
Michigan - two swings states that Trump won - starting in
January. The company said it will suspend the third shifts at
factories in Lordstown, Ohio, near Cleveland, and in Lansing,
Michigan, because customers are shifting from cars to SUVs and
trucks. About 1,250 workers will be furloughed at the Lordstown
plant, which makes the Chevrolet Cruze. US sales of the compact
car through October were down 20 percent. Another 840 will be
idled at the Lansing Grand River factory. The Lansing Grand
River plant builds the Cadillac ATS and CTS, whose sales were
down 17 percent through October. The automaker also announced it
would invest more than $900 million at a Toledo, Ohio,
transmission plant, the Lansing Grand River factory and a
casting plant in Bedford, Indiana, to prepare for future new
vehicles.
Dakota Access Is Pushing Pipeline Forward, Will Drill Under Missouri
River Within Weeks
EcoWatch - As water protectors dig in for the winter near construction
of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), many rumors have been circulating
about whether DAPL was in fact going to halt construction, as had been
requested by the Department of Justice and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
in September. Many claims have been made that the Army Corps of
Engineers, in negotiations with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, had
ordered a 30-day pause on DAPL construction. As we reported on Sunday,
the Army Corps has in fact clarified that the 30-day halt was "only a
proposal" and no work stoppage has been implemented. On Nov. 7, Unicorn
Riot documented active DAPL construction that could be seen from the
main Oceti Sakowin encampment. The afternoon of Nov. 8, as the U.S.
presidential election was well underway, Dakota Access, LLC released a
statement denying recent claims from the Army Corps of Engineers that
they had agreed to a slowdown in pipeline construction…. Below you can
see drone footage [video] of Dakota Access machines building Hesco
barriers, normally used to protect U.S. military bases in war zones like
Iraq or Afghanistan, to protect an area believed to be the drill box
site from water protectors. According to the release, Dakota Access
expects to have fully mobilized all equipment needed to drill under the
Missouri River within 2 weeks. Once all the equipment is in place at the
construction site, Dakota Access plans to immediately commence
horizontal drilling underneath the river.
Astaxanthin Reduces Mental and Physical Fatigue And Enhances The
Body's Antioxidant Defenses
Karen Foster - Daily supplements containing astaxanthin, the
pink pigment that gives salmon its color, have already been
found to boost the body's antioxidants defenses. Now a Japanese
nutraceutical firm says astaxanthin has been found to be
simultaneously effective against both mental and physical
fatigue in a new published study…. Its main health benefits are
eye and skin health although it has also been linked to joint
health and central nervous system health and is said to have an
antioxidant payload 500 times that of vitamin E.
7 Reasons to Drink Echinacea Tea Daily
Natural News Blogs - Echinacea is an herb which is native to
eastern and central North America and was used by Native
Americans to help cure many ailments. Echinacea tea is used as a
traditional herbal treatment for relieving ailments from immune
system problems. Both the roots and the above-ground parts of
the plant have been found to contain substances that stimulate
our immune system and help fight off infections…. 1. Studies
have demonstrated that echinacea tea has powerful natural
anti-inflammatory properties that can help deal with the issue.
A study published in 2009 showed that consuming echinacea tea
could help ease numerous types of inflammation. 2. There’s some
evidence that taking echinacea may reduce your risk of catching
colds. According to study people who took echinacea reduced
their risk of contracting a cold by as much as 58%. 3. The
anti-inflammatory capacity of echinacea extends to the
respiratory tracts, so for those patients who regularly suffer
from conditions like bronchitis, echinacea can help to reduce
the irritation and mucus deposition in those tracts, thereby
helping you to heal faster. 4. Consuming echinacea tea has
powerful effects against a range of infections. It can help
treat infections ranging from gum disease to malaria and
syphilis. When applied topically studies show that it is
effective against recurring vaginal yeast infections while it is
often prescribed for infections of the urinary tract. 5.
Drinking echinacea tea activates T-cell renewal and helps with
the production of antibodies and interferon, known for blocking
viral infections….
If you want to reap health benefits from baking soda, DO NOT use
this popular brand
Living Traditionally - Baking soda is a white crystalline
powder, known as bicarbonate of soda or chemically known as
sodium bicarbonate, and is very versatile and effective. One of
the most marvelous qualities of baking soda is that it’s
extremely powerful for reducing or balancing acid in the body.
Bicarbonate is an alkaline substance naturally produced in the
body that buffers acids and helps keep pH in check. The pH of
your blood is closely regulated by a complex system of buffers
that work continuously to maintain a range of 7.35 to 7.45,
which is slightly more alkaline than pure water. However, the
closer you can get to 7.45, the better your body will be in a
state to prevent and cure disease. Most of us probably use
Arm&Hammer baking soda. However, it turns out that Arm & Hammer
is chemically created. It uses a chemical reaction process
through which trona ore is mined, then heated until it turns
into soda ash…. A brand like Bob’s Red Mill are mined directly
from the ground in their natural sodium bicarbonate state. They
mine the soda directly from the ground in the form of nahcolite
(hint: nahcolite is already baking soda). In the form of
nahcolite there are no chemical reactions. There is nothing
added, or altered. It is just pure baking soda straight from the
ground, the way mother nature made it!
Wednesday - November
9, 2016 - Today In History:
1857 - The "Atlantic Monthly" 1st appeared on newsstands and featured
the 1st installment of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" by Oliver
Holmes.
1872 - A fire destroyed about 800 buildings in Boston, MA.
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the
progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S.
president.
1923 - In Munich, the Beer Hall Putsch was crushed by German troops that
were loyal to the democratic government. The event began the evening
before when Adolf Hitler took control of a beer hall full of Bavarian
government leaders at gunpoint.
1938 - Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish
businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over
25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or
"Night of Broken Glass."
1965 - The great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts
of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2
hours.
1976 - The U.N. General Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning the
apartheid government in South Africa.
1979 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously called upon Iran
to release all American hostages "without delay." Militants, mostly
students had taken 63 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran,
Iran, on November 4.
1984 - A bronze statue titled "Three Servicemen," by Frederick Hart, was
unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1989 - Communist East Germany opened its borders, allowing its citizens
to travel freely to West Germany.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin, visiting London, appealed for
assistance in rescheduling his country's debt, and asked British
businesses to invest.
1998 - A federal judge in New York approved the richest antitrust
settlement in U.S. history. A leading brokerage firm was ordered to pay
$1.03 billion to investors who had sued over price-rigging of Nasdaq
stocks.
2004 - U.S. First Lady Laura Bush officially reopened Pennsylvania
Avenue in front of the White House to pedestrians.
2005 - Three suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on
three U.S.-based hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims and
wounding hundreds.
World in shock as Trump surges to victory in U.S.
Reuters - Governments from Asia to Europe reacted with stunned
disbelief on Wednesday to the victory of Donald Trump in the
U.S. presidential election, while populists hailed the result as
a triumph of the people over a failed political establishment.
German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, an ally of
Chancellor Angela Merkel, described the result as a "huge shock"
and questioned whether it meant the end of "Pax Americana", the
state of relative peace overseen by Washington that has governed
international relations since World War Two. French Foreign
Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault pledged to work with Trump but said
his personality "raised questions" and he admitted to being
unsure what a Trump presidency would mean for key foreign policy
challenges, from climate change and the West's nuclear deal with
Iran to the war in Syria. "Looks like this will be the year of
the double disaster of the West," former Swedish foreign
minister Carl Bildt said on Twitter, pointing to Britain's vote
in June to leave the European Union. "Fasten seat belts," he
said. Meanwhile, right-wing populists from Australia to France
cheered the result as a body blow for the political
establishment.
Russian Carrier Group Arrives Next To Syria, To Launch Aleppo
Air Strikes "In Hours"
Zero Hedge - Having travelled for the past three weeks from its
base in Severomorsk, the Russian naval group in the
Mediterranean, headed by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier,
dubbed by Reuters the "Largest Naval Force Since The Cold War"
has arrived in Syria, and as RT reports, is preparing an
offensive against militants on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria,
according to reports citing a source in the Defense Ministry.
The strikes will be launched "in the nearest hours" and will
target the distant outskirts of Aleppo, the source said, adding
that there are no civilian-populated areas nearby. Jets from the
Admiral Kuznetsov, the Peter the Great battle cruiser and other
military ships in the battle group equipped with precision
weapons will take part in the operation, Interfax and Gazeta.ru
reported on Tuesday, citing a source in Russia’s Defense
Ministry. The reported operation is aimed at preventing more
militants from entering the city, which has become a terrorist
stronghold in Syria, Interfax quoted its source as saying. The
most advanced weapons, including Caliber cruise missiles, might
be used, Gazeta.ru reported. The missiles will probably be
launched from Russian submarines that could also be in the area,
it added. Ahead of the battle group’s arrival into the waters
close to Syria, Russia increased its reconnaissance in the
region, the source said. Drones and radio intelligence, as well
as data gathering from satellites have reportedly been
intensified, allowing the exact locations of the terrorists to
be determined, as well as their planned routes to break into
Aleppo.
16 US soldiers killed, 27 wounded since start of Mosul op –
military source
RT - The ongoing operation in Mosul, Iraq, is taking its toll on
US troops, with 16 killed and 27 wounded, according to a
military source in Moscow cited by TASS. The US Department of
Defense has told RT America it is only aware of one casualty….
In certain cases, however, poor coordination between ground
troops and air support was reportedly to blame for those killed
or injured. “Two special operations soldiers died following
airstrikes by US B-52H jets on Mosul suburbs,” the source said.
RT contacted the Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent
Resolve (CJTF–OIR) for comment, which in response stated that it
only has information on one casualty. We are unaware of these
reports but can confirm that one US Service member was killed
Thursday, Oct. 20. Chief Petty Officer Jason Finan was advising
the Peshmerga behind the forward line of troops when he was
killed by an IED blast,” CJTF–OIR's public affairs office said
in an e-mail to RT. The operation to retake Mosul, Iraq’s
second-largest city and the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS,
formerly ISIS/ISIL) capital in the country, started on October
17. Tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, police, special forces
and various militias are taking part in the advance on the
stronghold. Their mission is being supported by the US-led
international coalition.
Angela Merkel Warns Russia May Interfere In German Election Next
Zero Hedge - It appears it's not just the US voting system that
has been allegedly penetrated by Vladimir Putin (at least if
Trump is winning). German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on
Tuesday that Russia could try to influence Germany's general
elections next year through cyber attacks or disinformation
campaigns, following similar accusations by Washington, which
also accused the Kremlin of meddling in the US vote. Germans are
scheduled to go to the polls in September 2017. Merkel has yet
to announce her candidacy but is widely expected to run for a
fourth term. It is unclear if Merkel's warning suggests that
confidential German emails have also been hacked and are about
to be released. "We are already, even now, having to deal with
information out of Russia or with internet attacks that are of
Russian origin or with news which sows false information,"
Merkel, said at a press conference alongside Norwegian Prime
Minister Erna Solberg. Dealing with that was already "a daily
task", she told reporters in Berlin. "So it may be that this
could also play a role during the election campaign." That, or
perhaps what Merkel is more concerned about is her collapse in
the polls as a result of her hugely unpopular "open door" policy
which has allowed approximately 1 million middle-eastern
refugees to enter the country, much to the displeasure of her
countrymen.
‘Unacceptable’: Moscow slams US for 'barring Russian diplomats
from observing election'
RT - Moscow has blasted the US for limiting Russian diplomats’
access to polling stations to observe the presidential election,
calling the move “unacceptable.” The US embassy in Moscow denied
that Russian diplomats are barred from observing the vote. "The
US administration's law enforcement officials stop at nothing to
cut off Russian representatives from an opportunity to assess
the provisions of holding the upcoming elections," Deputy
Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told RIA Novosti. The deputy
foreign minister’s statement comes hours after the spokesperson
for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, wrote on
Facebook that “things went as far as open intimidation of
Russian diplomats. The State Department recommended them not to
approach the polling stations on their own, and authorities in
some states went further and threatened [the diplomats] with
criminal prosecution.”
Feeling The Oil Crunch: Saudi Arabia Cancels $266 Billion In
Projects
Zero Hedge - Saudi Arabia’s governing economic body called the
Council of Economic and Development Affairs (CEDA) has cancelled
$266.7 billion in projects, the Saudi Press Agency said, and
announced it would be settling much-delayed private-sector
payments by year end. The projects that have been canceled are
the ones that are not expected to accelerate the kingdom’s
growth or improve the living standards for its people. The
cancellations were first considered in September, but at the
time, it was noted that only $20 billion in projects would be
considered to put on the chopping block. The size of the delayed
payments—mainly due to severe hits to the kingdom’s oil
revenue—remains undisclosed, but it includes delayed payments to
construction firms, medical establishments, and foreign
consultants. One analyst, according to Reuters, estimated that
the amount still owing just to construction firms was US$21
billion.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
US General says we plan on “governing Raqqa” after takeover. Set
up safe zones to train Al Qaeda
The Duran - Mixed messages as to what happens after Raqqa is
liberated is coming out of Washington. What are the real
motivations behind America’s push to take over Raqqa. For public
consumption, the Raqqa, Syria offensive will be branded as an
operation to rid the area of ISIS. Behind the curtain, Raqqa may
potentially be used as part of a larger safe zone area where
America, Turkey and Saudi allies continue to train “moderate
rebels” also known as Al Qaeda / Al Nusra jihadist terrorists.
The end goal…to keep the war in Syria alive, and keep the
diminishing hopes of overthrowing Assad in play, irregardless of
the inevitable fact that the legitimate government in Damascus
will soon control the major urban western hubs of the fractured
nation. It’s a sinister plan that is certain to lead to more
problems than solutions…but so is American foreign policy when
it comes to Syria, Iraq and the wider Middle East. It’s also a
plan that the US State Department appears to not be onboard
with. US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a daily
press briefing… “How the liberation takes place, how we get
local governance re-established after the liberation: our
expectation, as has been elsewhere, is that outside forces would
then withdraw.” “We don’t want to see semi-autonomous zones. The
reality is, though, as territory is liberated from [Islamic
State], you’ve got to get some kind of governance back into
these areas, but by no means are we condoning… any kind of
semi-autonomous areas in northern Syria.” “Ultimately, we want
to see a sovereign, intact Syria.”
Wikileaks Election Day Special: Part 35 Of Podesta Emails
Released
Zero Hedge - Yesterday, when Wikileaks released its second dump
of Podesta emails, the so-called Part 34, we assumed that was
it. We were wrong. Moments ago Wikileaks released an "election
day special", dumping another 1,793 emails in Part 35 of its
ongoing release, bringing the total to 58,375, and one which we
can only assume is the definitive final release of Podesta
emails.
Clinton Concedes: Donald Trump Becomes 45th U.S. President
(Video)
Zero Hedge - It's over... And NBC News reports that Hillary is
said to have conceded on phone with Trump. Watch Donald Trump’s
Victory Party Speech… [Speech begins at the 3:20:00 mark]. Fox
reports Hillary Clinton will not be coming to The Javits Center
- so not accepting the results of the election - "she will not
be conceding." Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski
is calling Clinton's decision not to speak tonight "outrageous"
on CNN…. Having won Wisconsin's 10 votes, moments ago Trump, who
had 254 votes, was declared by AP the first Republican since
1988 to win Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes, which
effectively pushed him above the 270 threshold, and with a total
of 274, Donald Trump is now poised to become the 45th US
President.
John Podesta Refuses to Concede, Hillary Clinton Fails to Show
Breitbart - New York — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton failed to show up at her own victory party at the Jacob
K. Javits center, while campaign chairman John Podesta spoke
after 2:00 a.m. and declined to concede the election. Despite
trailing to Trump 254-218, and with the Associated Press already
calling Pennsylvania for Donald Trump, Podesta struck a defiant
posture, urging Hillary Clinton’s supporters to go home and “get
some sleep,” insisting that every vote be counted. During the
third presidential debate, Republican presidential nominee
Donald Trump was challenged as to whether he would accept the
results of the election if he lost. (He had already answered
that question in the affirmative in the first debate.) When he
left the question open, Democrats and media critics suggested
that his position was a threat to American democracy. Now,
however, the tables have been turned. With virtually no path to
victory, Clinton not only refused to concede, but refused to
appear.
Obamacare Is Over: Republicans Retain Senate
Zero Hedge - With incumbent Pennsylvania senator Pat Toomey's
successful in fending off challenges, and incumbent Lisa
Murkowski regaining Alaska's Senate seat, the Republicans have
retained control of the Senate. That would leave Republicans
controlling the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, meaning
that Obamacare is over... and perhaps the 4-4 Supreme Court
too…. Republicans win PA Senate race, giving them enough seats
to retain control of chamber in new Congress and overcoming odds
that had looked stacked against the party. Both sides poured
tens of millions into Pennsylvania as the battle for the upper
chamber tightened, making it the most expensive Senate race in
the country, according to Open Secrets. Outside groups spent
nearly $118 million, with both sides spending more than a
combined $13 million on ads in the final week. Republicans also
held tightly contested seats in Ohio, Indiana, Florida and North
Carolina.
2016 Election Day: Live Updates
Breitbart News’s live coverage of Election Day, 2016. Check this
page for updates on candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,
how the rest of the media is covering the vote, and stories from
polling stations across the country….
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President Election Results by State
Evacuation Launched at Florida Polling Location Amid Bomb Fears
- Reports
Sputnik News - A polling location in Orange Country, Florida was
evacuated on US Election Day amid concerns over a potential bomb
threat, local media report. Police evacuated people from Winter
Park Christian Church, at 760 N. Lakemont Ave., as authorities
were concerned about an unattended backpack, Fox 35 Orlando
said.
Louisiana Voting Machine Logged Votes Before Poll Opened
Breitbart - A voting machine in Louisiana reportedly counted
votes at a polling site before any residents had even voted on
the machine. In the southeast region of Tangipahoa Parish,
resident Brandon Allen filmed what he reported were votes being
counted on a machine that had not been used yet by residents.
Allen wrote on his Facebook page “Here in Tangipahoa Parish I
just witnessed a voting machine that they had to turn off and
call the commissioner in because when it was powered it on this
morning and already had votes on the machine for the Democratic
Party.”… A spokeswoman with the Secretary of State’s Office said
the voting machine confused poll workers when they noticed
alleged votes cast on the device. However, after being
investigated by the state, the spokeswoman said the issue was a
matter of misunderstanding, as technical difficulties led poll
workers to believe there were ballots cast on the machine.
Documented proof shows that no votes were on the device before
it was activated by poll workers.
Voting Machine "Irregularities" Reported in Utah, Tennessee,
Pennsylvania, & North Carolina
Zero Hedge - In Utah, voting machine problems in the southern
part of the state forced poll workers to use paper ballots, with
some residents sent to alternate voting locations. Machine
issues were reported in Wilson County, Tenn. — and at one point
all of the county’s machines went down, according to local
reports. Voting later resumed manually. In Texas, a computer
used by election clerks malfunctioned at a polling place, so
officials briefly diverted voters to another polling place more
than two miles away. In Louisiana, some early voters were forced
to wait as correct machines were installed. In Durham County,
N.C., paper poll books were being used Tuesday due to “tech
problems at a few sites.” In Georgia, one voter reported that
"half the machines" were down at one location. Two polling
places in Gwinnett County opened late, officials told the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Machine issues were also reported
by voters in Rahway, N.J., as well as Philadelphia…. And as
InfoWars reports, video footage posted on Twitter shows an
African-American man attempting to vote for Donald Trump in
Pennsylvania but the voting machine refusing to select any other
option than Hillary Clinton.
Nevada Judge Tosses Trump's Lawsuit Over Nevada Ballots
Zero Hedge - Update: after a rather quick hearing, the Nevada
judge rejected the Trump legal team's request for a lawsuit over
allegedly illegal balloting, saying "I'm not going to issue any
order. I'm just not going to do it." Which means that if Trump
had hoped to use Nevada as an anchor to contest the election, he
will have to find some other opportunity…. Headlines are
starting to come in that the Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit
against the Clark County Registrar’s Office in Nevada for
keeping polls open for multiple hours beyond their closing time.
According to NBC, Nevada law allows for people in line at the
time the polls close to vote, but the Trump campaign is alleging
that others were also allowed to vote even though they arrived
well after the polls closed.
Marco Rubio Wins Re-Election to Florida Senate Seat
Breitbart - Marco Rubio failed in his bid to end up in the White
House, but he’s still going back to Washington. Florida voters
elected him to a second term in the Senate on Tuesday. He had
wavered for months before deciding to run for re-election. He
beat back a challenge from Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, who
has repeatedly tried to link Rubio to Donald Trump…. Rubio held
onto had a narrow lead in polling going into Election Day over
Murphy, who was abandoned by his own party after Democratic
bosses decided to pull ad money from expensive Florida and
invest it in Missouri, North Carolina and Indiana, instead.
Review: Agent Orange Linked to Bladder Cancer, Hypothyroidism,
Parkinson’s
Natural Society - Monsanto and Dow were 2 of the 9 wartime
contractors hired by the US government to create Agent Orange, a
combination of the toxic chemicals 2,4-D, and 2,4,5-T, just over
40 years ago. The damage these chemicals have perpetrated on our
health and environment did not end with the Vietnam War though.
Aside from the long-term poisoning of soil and crops, a new
review of Agent Orange research has found evidence that bladder
cancer and hypothyroidism are more strongly linked to exposure
to Agent Orange than was previously assumed. Although the new
information does not support a previously-held belief that spina
bifida, a birth defect, occurs more often in the offspring of
exposed veterans, a report released by the Institute of Medicine
on the health effects of Agent Orange recommended the Veterans
Affairs Department grant service-connected presumption to
veterans with “Parkinson’s-like symptoms,” not just those
diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease related to Agent Orange
exposure. In addition cancer, endocrine disease, and
neurological impairment still loom large in the shadow of Agent
Orange’s use. Government agencies and their contractors who made
these chemicals claim they dissipated shortly after being
sprayed in the air, but two-thirds of these herbicides were
contaminated with TCDD, a form of dioxin, a highly toxic
substance linked to at least 15 classes of cancer and other
medical conditions, as well as several birth defects…. The
1,115-page review is the last of a series conducted by the IOM
(part of the National Academies) on health problems related to
Agent Orange and other herbicide use during the Vietnam War.
Dollar, Mexican peso, stocks topple as Trump heads for White
House
Reuters - The U.S. dollar sank and stocks plummeted in market
mayhem on Wednesday as investors faced up to a shock win for
Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election that could upend
the global political order. European shares looked set to follow
with losses of more than 4 percent as every new TV network
projection in the U.S. election showed the race to be far closer
than anyone had thought, sending investors stampeding to
safe-haven assets. [.EU] Sovereign bonds, the Japanese yen and
gold surged while the Mexican peso went into near free-fall in
chaotic trading as once again polls and betting markets proved
woefully wrong. "Markets are reacting as though the four
horsemen of the apocalypse just rode out of Trump Tower," said
Sean Callow, a forex strategist at Westpac in Sydney. "Or at
least 3 of them - it might be 4 when the prospect of a clean
sweep of Congress sinks in." As of 0742 GMT, news networks were
calling the election for Republican candidate Trump and CNN
reported that his Democrat rival Clinton had conceded. U.S.
stock futures dived 5 percent at one point, worse than the
carnage caused by the British vote to leave the European Union
in June that wiped trillions of dollars off world markets.
Investors fear a Trump victory could cause global economic and
trade turmoil and years of policy unpredictability, which among
other things will discourage the Federal Reserve from raising
interest rates in December as long expected. Fed fund futures
were even starting to toy with the idea of a cut in rates next
year and it was possible the Bank of Japan and European Central
Bank might be forced to ease policy yet further. With FX markets
reeling, South Korean authorities were thought to have
intervened to steady their currency, and dealers wondered if
central banks globally would step in to calm nerves. Japan's top
currency diplomat signaled Tokyo's readiness to intervene if
necessary as the surging yen threatened to snuff out its fragile
economic recovery. The scale of the scare was clear in the
Mexican peso, which plunged more than 13 percent against the
dollar at one point in the biggest daily move in two decades.
U.S. Completes 22 Straight Years of Merchandise Trade Deficits
With Mexico
CNS News - The United States ran a merchandise trade deficit of
$5,243,300,000 with Mexico in September, according to newly
released data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That completes 22
straight years in which the United States has run monthly
merchandise trade deficits with Mexico. The last time the United
States ran a merchandise trade surplus with Mexico was September
1994—when the U.S. ran a $4,700,000 bilateral surplus with its
southern neighbor. The U.S. Census Bureau has published monthly
figures on the export and import of goods to and from Mexico
going back to January 1985. In the 31 complete calendar years
that have passed since then (1985 through 2015), the United
States has run merchandise trade surpluses with Mexico in four
years and deficits in 27 years. Three of those years that the
U.S. ran a surplus—1991,1992,1993—were before the North American
Free Trade Agreement took effect. The fourth year the United
States ran a merchandise trade surplus with Mexico—1994—was the
first year NAFTA took effect.
Deceptive Pesticide Ads Land Bayer in Hot Water
Natural Society - Bayer CropScience LP has agreed to pay Massachusetts
$75,000 and caved in to the state’s demand that it stop saying that its
neonicotinoid pesticides are like “giving a daily vitamin” to plants,
when the chemicals have been linked with honeybee colony collapse
disorder. The moves settle allegations by the state’s attorney general
that the agritech giant misled the public about the risks its lawn and
garden products pose to bees and the environment. The products in
question include: Bayer Advanced All-in-One Rose and Flower Care, Bayer
Advanced 12 Month Tree & Shrub Protect and Feed II, [and] Bayer Advanced
Season Long Grub Control Plus Turf Revitalizer. All of the lawn and
garden products contain the neonicotinoids imidacloprid and/or
clothianidin…. The agreement between Bayer and the Massachusetts
attorney general is thought to be a first-of-its-kind enforcement action
aimed at halting false advertising claims by a manufacturer of
pesticides containing neonicotinoids…. Encouraged by the action taken by
Massachusetts, the consumer group Beyond Pesticides fired off a letter
to the other 49 state attorneys general urging them to take similar
action to stop the use of what it called “misleading and fraudulent”
pesticide advertising.
Explore the Health Benefits of Cedarwood Essential Oil
Natural Blaze - Do you know any essential oil which is derived
from the wood of a tree and is praised all around the world for
maintaining physical and emotional well-being? Well, cedar wood
oil is one among those essential oils that are known for their
sedating, calming, soothing, and relaxing effect on the mind and
body. So, it is not a surprise why Cedar wood trees were
mentioned most in the Bible, symbolizing a source of abundance,
wisdom, and protection. These days, the essential oil of Cedar
wood is widely used all across the globe for the production of
numerous natural hair and skin care products…. Cedar wood
essential is so beneficial because it comprises numerous
therapeutic components and properties to the health of
individuals. It comprises antiseptic, anti-inflammatory,
antiseborrheic, antispasmodic, astringent, fungicide, diuretic,
and sedative properties which is proven to be so beneficial in
alleviating varieties of health conditions that affect the mind
and body. Let’s read to uncover the benefits of using cedar wood
essential oil….
Shockingly Healthy Vegan Chocolate Pudding Recipe
Dr. Edward Group - This pudding is full of healthy ingredients
and makes a great dessert or snack. You can even pack a
container with the kids’ lunch for a healthy alternative to the
prepackaged pudding cups. Whatever you do, try to eat it up
within a day. Fresh bananas and avocados taste best when they’re
fresh…. Ingredients: 3 organic 7” bananas with just a few brown
spots, peeled and cut into ½ inch slices, 1/2 medium organic
avocado, cut horizontally from the stem, peeled and pitted, 4
tbsp creamy, raw almond butter (for people with tree nut
allergies, sunflower seed butter is a great alternative), 4 ½
tbsp raw, organic, unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 tsp organic
vanilla extract, ¼ tsp pink Himalayan Crystal Salt or fine sea
salt.
Cops Do The Nicest Thing For A Bird Who Built Her Nest On Their Car
The Dodo - Officers from Ohio's Parma Police Department recently
discovered that one of their backup patrol cars had been commandeered by
the little bird who, evidently, decided it was a perfect place to build
her nest. But rather than evict the feathered squatter from her cozy
spot, they did quite the opposite…. Since the spot the dove had chosen
to lay her eggs doesn't have much protection from the elements, the
officers even adhered an umbrella to the windshield to keep her nest dry
in the rain and shady in the sun. Then, just to be sure the dove
wouldn't be bothered by anyone who might be unaware that the cruiser was
now a bird nursery, they went ahead and taped off the entire parking
spot with police tape. But their good deeds don't end there. The cops
have even taken to digging up worms for her so she stays well-fed while
incubating her babies. Parma Police spokesperson Kevin Riley told news
station Fox 8 that, while all this effort on behalf of a bird isn't
necessarily crucial to their work in law enforcement, it's part of a
higher calling: "Our officers are human beings just like anyone else. We
care for all lives human and animal so the officers took a carrier to
this bird, which they nicknamed Gerty, is taken care of and can take
care of her young in the cruiser."
Tuesday - November
8, 2016 - Today In History:
1805 - The "Corps of Discovery" reached the Pacific Ocean. The
expedition was led by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. The journey
had begun on May 14, 1804, with the goal of exploring the Louisiana
Purchase territory.
1889 - Montana became the 41st U.S. state.
1892 - Former President Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin
Harrison, becoming the only president to win non-consecutive terms in
the White House.
1933 - The Civil Works Administration was created by executive order by
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was designed to
create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed people in the U.S.
1942 - The U.S. invaded Morocco and Algeria.
1942 - During World War II, Operation Torch began as U.S. and British
forces landed in French North Africa.
1950 - During the Korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place
as U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15.
1956 - After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided
to name their new car the "Edsel," after Henry Ford's only son.
1966 - Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1979 - The program, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage", premiered
on ABC-TV. The show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved into
"Nightline" in March of 1980.
1979 - U.S. Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Mac Mathias (R-MD)
introduced legislation to provide a site on the National Mall for the
building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1985 - A letter signed by four American hostages in Lebanon was
delivered to The Associated Press in Beirut. The letter, contained pleas
from Terry Anderson, Rev. Lawrence Jenco, David Jacobsen and Thomas
Sutherland to President Reagan to negotiate a release.
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered more troop deployments in
the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national
force fighting against Iraq.
2000 - Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report
that absolved the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 seige of the
Branch Davidian compound in Texas.
2000 - A statewide recount of presidential election ballots began in
Florida.
2004 - Thousands of U.S. troops attacked strongholds of Sunni insurgents
in Fallujah, Iraq.
2010 - An engine fire aboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship left
nearly 4,500 aboard without electricity during a three-day tow to San
Diego.
NATO places 300,000 troops on high alert, ready to attack Russia
over fictional “cyber attacks” and “propaganda”
The Duran - With each passing day, the constant NATO activity is
looking more and more like a preparation for full scale conflict
with Russia.... Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg
announced that NATO member nations are at this very moment
putting hundreds of thousands of troops in a state of high
alert, in an effort to deter the fantasy threat from Russia....
In summary, NATO justifies its military build up around Russia
as a response to: - Alleged Russian cyber attacks to influence
the US elections…allegations made by the honest and trustworthy
Clinton campaign, and half heartedly commented on by US
Intelligence Czar James Clapper, a man who lied under oath to
the American public. - Russia’s military exercises in its own
country. I repeat, military exercises within its own borders. -
Russia sending hundreds of paratroopers to long time ally
Serbia. - “Russia using propaganda in Europe among NATO allies”.
Whatever that means? Its cryptic and nonsensical…and of course
we know the US and NATO allies never ever engage in propaganda
against Russia, or other nations for that matter.
"The Money Has Vanished": Tesco Bank Halts Online Payments After
Cash Taken Out Of 20,000 Accounts
Zero Hedge - ... thousands of British citizens were unable to
access their money today when Tesco Bank, the lending arm of the
U.K.’s biggest grocer, said it suspended online transactions
after about 20,000 customers had money fraudulently taken from
their accounts. Tesco Bank has more than 7 million customer
accounts in total across a range of products like insurance and
mortgages. According to Bloomberg, about 40,000 of the bank’s
136,000 checking account holders experienced suspicious
transactions over the weekend, Tesco Bank Chief Executive
Officer Benny Higgins told BBC Radio 4’s Today program. Roughly
half, or 20,000, had money taken from their account. The problem
has only affected checking accounts, a representative for the
bank said. Customers can still use their account to withdraw
money from cash machines or to pay for goods at a retailer,
Higgins said. Any financial loss will be borne by the bank and
customers are not at financial risk, he said.... All Tesco Bank
will say is that it has been the victim of "online criminal
activity" so there was little detail on the nature of the
attack, the BBC noted. But what is different is that it involves
tens of thousands falling victim in a 24 hour period to what
appears to be an automated process, rather than individuals
clicking on links in phishing emails or having their details
stolen after downloading malicious software. That could involve
the attackers exploiting a vulnerability in the bank's website -
or even gaining physical access to a branch and then the central
systems. Whatever has happened, the damage to trust in Tesco
Bank and online banking in general will be greater than the
financial cost.... The crime was committed at a time “when banks
are typically understaffed and will respond more slowly,” Cliff
Moyce, global head of financial services at consultant DataArt,
said by e-mail. “Automated fraud detection systems appear to
have worked well, but a lack of people at desks will not have
helped.
Democracy could get in the way of war if High Court Brexit
ruling stands, warn generals
RT - Former senior military officers are afraid the High Court
ruling which allows MPs to vote on triggering Brexit could set a
precedent that would hinder future wars by undermining the
government’s royal prerogative powers. Two former generals – Sir
Richard Dannatt and former admiral Lord West – say the High
Court’s Article 50 ruling could bring into question the archaic
measure known as the royal prerogative. The powers effectively
allow the prime minister to circumvent democracy in order to
make quick decisions. It includes a range of vaguely defined
powers including those relating to the “control, organization
and disposition of the armed forces.” The generals fear the
ruling could therefore force governments to hold a democratic
debate before engaging in a war. Dannatt told the Telegraph the
judgment “should not be allowed to impact on the future use of
the royal prerogative as far as authorizing military action is
concerned.” “I fear it might, but it is up to the government now
to make it quite clear that that linkage is not legitimate and
should not be made.” Former First Sea Lord West told the paper:
"There are people who don’t like the ability to use the royal
prerogative to react and go to war rapidly if you need to as a
nation and I’m afraid they are wrong. “There may an occasion
where you have to take action because the time to act is so
little. You can’t go and have a debate in Parliament about it."
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets
Defense News - Barely two weeks after the US Navy commissioned
its newest and most futuristic warship, armed with two huge guns
that can hit targets 80 miles away, the service is moving to
cancel the projectiles for the guns, citing excessive costs that
run up to $800,000 per round or more. The Long Range Land-Attack
Projectile (LRLAP) is a guided precision munition that is key to
the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class’s mission as a land-attack destroyer,
able to hit targets with such accuracy that, in the words of
manufacturer Lockheed Martin, can “defeat targets in the urban
canyons of coastal cities with minimal collateral damage.” The
LRLAP is the only munition designed to be fired from the DDG
1000’s Advanced Gun System (AGS), a 155mm/62-caliber gun with an
automated magazine and handling system.... But the LRLAP’s unit
price has jumped steadily as the numbers of Zumwalt-class
destroyers were cut. From a total of 28 ships, to seven, and
finally to three, the class shrank and costs did not. “We were
going to buy thousands of these rounds,” said a Navy official
familiar with the program. “But quantities of ships killed the
affordable round.”.... Even at $800,000 a copy, the LRLAP’s
price could go higher. “That’s probably low,” the Navy official
said. “That’s what the acquisition community wanted to get it
down to.” The official added that there was no sense the
contractor was “overcharging or anything.” The decision to
accept the LRLAP cancellation is part of the Program Objective
Memorandum 2018 (POM18) effort, the Pentagon’s annual budget
process. Although the Navy made a presentation to the Office of
the Secretary of Defense on Nov. 2, the decision has yet to be
signed off on.
The Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes John Podesta (Video, 24
min.)
Activist Post - With the Wikileaks release of thousands of
emails belonging to John Podesta, very little is known in US
society about Podesta himself. While he’s maintained a low
profile, John Podesta is actually considered one of Washington’s
biggest players, and one of the most powerful corporate
lobbyists in the world. In this episode of The Empire Files,
Abby Martin explores John Podesta’s political rise, his vast
network of corporate connections and his think tank “Center for
American Progress.” Learn why the Podesta's and the Clintons are
a match made in ruling class heaven.
Police Union Rallies Against New Standards In Firearms Test
The Daily Caller - Yale University police officers rallied
against a new firearms policy, alleging that the latest
standards could potentially put their jobs at risk.... The new
firearms policy would let YPD officers get fired if they cannot
pass a firearms test within 30 working days of failing it twice.
Previously, the policy allowed them to train and retake the test
as many times as they needed. Many of the officers feel that the
new policy threatens their job, as they do not have an adequate
amount of time to prepare for it. According to a spokesperson
for the officers union, the shortage of ranges forces officers
to travel further distances to train.... [spokesman Mike] Hall
argued that officers should have 90 days to re-take the test,
instead of 30 working days.... University spokesman Thomas
Conroy argued that Yale police officers will be able to use the
New Haven Police Department’s shooting ranges once renovations
are completed. “Yale officers are provided with ample
opportunity to qualify with their service weapons,” Conroy said.
He also pointed out that the policy change allows officers 30
working days to retake the test, rather than 30 calendar days.
Calif. Proposition Requires Permit to Buy Bullets
CNS News - California residents will be voting tomorrow on a
measure that would require individuals to purchase a permit to
buy bullets and for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to regulate
the purchases.... According to the California Legislative
Analyst’s Office, the measure: Requires individuals to obtain a
four-year permit from DOJ to buy ammunition and for ammunition
dealers to check with DOJ that individuals buying ammunition
have such permits. Requires DOJ to revoke permits from
individuals who become prohibited. Allows DOJ to charge each
person applying for a four-year permit a fee of up to $50 to
support its various administrative and enforcement costs related
to ammunition sales.... Proposition 63 also adds new felony
charges for stealing firearms, broadens a ban on large capacity
magazines and requires ammunition dealers to purchase a license
each year in order to sell bullets, among other requirements.
The NRA is opposed to the measure, saying it will make
California residents less safe. “Only bureaucrats would believe
that criminals and terrorists would jump through these hoops to
buy ammunition. The enormous expense and time to enforce this
proposition will fall on the taxpayers. Fact is, this proposal
is nothing more than an anti-gun power grab,” the NRA Institute
for Legislative Action says.
Los Angeles County Sued for Millions in Medical Kidnapping Case
Health Impact News - After a six-year court battle, a mother in
Los Angeles who lost custody of her 15-month-old baby through
false abuse charges won a major battle for parental rights last
week. When Rafaelina Duval’s son Ryan was seized by L.A. County
Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in 2010, she
was falsely accused of intentionally starving him. He had been
diagnosed by a pediatrician with “failure to thrive,” but the
doctor at the time also noted that the child was in no immediate
danger, according to Duval’s attorney, Shawn McMillan. In a
stunning blow to Los Angeles County, the jury found that its
DCFS social workers “intentionally and willfully” seized her
child without a warrant, and did so “with malice.” Additionally,
the jury found that the county DCFS had “an official custom
and/or practice of seizing children from their parents without a
warrant” and failed “to enact an official policy or procedure
when it should have done so.” The jury awarded Duval $2.94
million in compensatory damages, plus $165,000 after finding in
a separate verdict that she was the victim of discrimination.
Single Mom Charged with Multiple Crimes, Faces a Year in Jail
for Participating in Facebook Food Group
The Free Thought Project - For years, Mariza Reulas and others
enjoyed the fine recipes and food trading in the social media
group called 209 Food Spot on Facebook. According to Reulas,
this group was a place where people could share recipes,
organize potlucks, and, on occasion, sell some of their food to
willing neighbors.... According to court documents, authorities
squandered taxpayer dollars in an elaborate undercover sting
operation to bust members of 209 Food Spot — because they did
not pay the government the proper extortion fees, via
permitting, to sell their food. Reulas, along with a dozen other
entirely innocent community food traders, was targeted by
authorities and charged with two misdemeanor crimes — operating
a food facility and engaging in business without a permit — for
trading homemade dishes. Everyone else who was charged pleaded
down to three years of probation. However, Reulas, rightfully
so, refuses to be bullied by these bureaucratic thugs and is
taking her case to trial.... “Food prepared in a facility that
does not inspect it creates a risk to the public,” said [San
Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Kelly] McDaniel.
However, Reulas was not operating a restaurant here. She was not
distributing mass quantities of food nationwide. No, she was
trading, and occasionally selling, a single dish at a time to
people who loved food as much as she does.... Reulas’ case comes
on the heels of another ridiculous example of statist food
control. Over the weekend, the Free Thought Project brought you
the story of a Kansas City charity who was forced to bleach and
throw away thousands of pounds of food destined for the plates
of 3,000 homeless people.
SPECIAL REPORT: Texas elections integrity in question
- As voters head to the polls this election cycle, an
unprecedented number of Texans have been questioning the
validity of our state's voting process. Here is a special report
done tonight in Tyler, Texas. It covers the Secretary of State,
electronic voting machines in Texas, missing backup records,
etc. It is a good summary of what is going on in Texas.
*
http://www.easttexasmatters.com/homepage/election-night-2016
*
http://www.easttexasmatters.com/election/special-report-texas-elections-integrity-in-question
Live: RSBN Election Night Coverage w/ Dennis Michael Lynch
Right Side Broadcasting - Tuesday, November 8, 2016: Tune in at
5:00-5:30 PM ET and 8:00-11:00 PM ET for our Election Day
Coverage featuring Dennis Michael Lynch. Watch the pregame
broadcast at 5:00 PM ET Below…
Watch: Donald J Trump Victory Party In New York City Live Stream
Right Side Broadcasting - Tuesday, November 8, 2016, New York:
The Donald J. Trump for President Campaign will hold its Victory
Party on Election Night in New York City at the New York Hilton
Midtown. The event is invitation-only for friends and supporters
of the Trump-Pence campaign. RSBN special live stream coverage
begins at 7:00 PM ET.
Video: Trump’s Final Rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan (Full
Replay)
The Gateway Pundit - Donald Trump held five rallies in five
battleground states Monday on the final night of the campaign–
Sarasota, FL 11AM, Raleigh, NC 3PM, Scranton, PA 5:30PM,
Manchester, NH 8PM, Grand Rapids MI 11PM. There was a two-mile
long line to get into the arena to see Donald Trump in Grand
Rapids.
Exit polls under siege
Politico - Slate and Vice News have partnered with Votecastr, a
company helmed by Obama and Bush campaign veterans, to provide
real-time projections of how the candidates are faring in each
state throughout the day. They expect to begin posting
projections at 8 a.m. Eastern time on Election Day — a dramatic
departure from current practice, where representatives from a
consortium of news organizations (The Associated Press, ABC
News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News) huddle in a
quarantine room without cell phones, poring over the earliest
exit poll data but declining to release anything that points to
an election result until all the polls have closed.... That
gives some pause to Election-Day veterans, particularly those in
the media, who worry that collecting and reporting this data
while votes are being cast could impact the outcome....
Votecastr won’t be the only new data source for interested
observers on Election Day itself. POLITICO is partnering with
Morning Consult to conduct a survey of voters after they have
cast ballots.... Voters will complete the interviews over the
internet, beginning one hour after the polls open in their
state. Respondents will be asked whether they have voted, and
how they voted: either using early voting, by mail or on
Election Day in person. POLITICO and Morning Consult will report
on some of the results during the day — but, like with the
traditional network exit polls, those reports won’t include
anything that characterizes the outcome of the race.
DOJ to Monitor Election Day Polls in 28 States
Breitbart - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced
it is deploying more than 500 personnel to monitor Election Day
polls in 28 states, including three counties in Texas…. The
Civil Rights Division of the DOJ announced it will be “on the
ground in 67 jurisdictions for compliance with the federal
voting rights laws.” The statement from the Department does not
disclose how these jurisdictions were selected…. A complete
listing of jurisdictions named to be monitored can be found at
this link on the Department of Justice website…. Attorney
General Loretta Lynch said her staff would be manning phone
lines on Tuesday, November 8, “to enforce federal statutes
related to voting.” The DOJ says it has been regularly
monitoring elections since the passage of the Voting Rights Act
of of 1965. Lawyers in the Civil Rights Division’s Voting
Section will staff the Election Day hotline starting early in
the morning. Lynch said that federal voting statutes are
enforced by the Department in many ways, “including filing our
own litigation when the facts warrant, submitting statements of
interest in private lawsuits to help explain our understanding
of these laws, and providing guidance to election officials and
the general public about what these laws mean and what they
require.” U.S. Attorneys in 94 offices across the nation handle
questions regarding election irregularities. Complaints may be
directed to any of the local U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the local
FBI offices or the Public Integrity Section at 202-514-1412. A
list of U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and their telephone numbers can
be found at www.justice.gov/usao/find-your-united-states-attorney.
A list of FBI offices and accompanying telephone numbers can be
found at www.fbi.gov/contact-us.
Latest Project Veritas Bombshell: Undercover Journalist In Full
Burka Offered Huma Abedin's Ballot In NYC (Video)
Zero Hedge - As democrats and George Soros continue to funnel
millions of dollars into lawsuits to fight voter ID laws around
the country, Project Veritas continues to reveal just how simple
it is to take advantage of the current system to commit voter
fraud. The latest example comes from New York City as an
undercover Project Veritas journalist walks into a polling
station wearing a full burka and requests the ballot of one Huma
Abedin. Election Official: “But your name is not in the book.
For some reason it's not here, but that doesn't mean you can't
vote by paper ballot. You just can't vote by machine." Project
Veritas Journalist: “So I can vote as Huma Abedin, but just with
the paper ballot?” Election Official: “Whatever you want.”
Reports: Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Cancels Election-Night
Fireworks Show
Breitbart - Hillary Clinton will NOT light up the sky over NYC
if she wins the Presidency -- her campaign is calling off a
planned fireworks show ... TMZ has learned. The Clinton campaign
had contacted the Coast Guard for permission to pull off a 2
minute long fireworks display over the Hudson River when the
election results went final. The fireworks would be visible from
the Jacob Javits Center, where she's holding her election night
party. But the Coast Guard tells TMZ ... Clinton's camp reached
out on Thursday -- 2 days after her fireworks plan was uncovered
-- to say it wouldn't be shooting off the 10" aerial shells,
after all. The Coast Guard says the campaign offered no
explanation for the about-face. We've reached out to the Clinton
campaign ... no word back yet. Looks like it'll be strictly
sparklers for Hillary Tuesday night ... IF she wins.
REPORT: Team Hillary Surrendering Ohio, Florida and North
Carolina
The Gateway Pundit - Website DC Whispers notes that – Internal
polling data is showing a remarkably strong trend in Donald
Trump’s favor over the last week. So much so, that Team Trump
has been quietly coming to terms with the remarkable prospect of
this country’s first 3rd Party candidate winning the presidency.
(That’s right, Donald Trump is as much a 3rd Party/Independent
candidate as he is a Republican.) The Hillary camp has pretty
much given up on Ohio, and is near to doing the same in Florida,
with North Carolina looking suspect for Team Clinton as well.
Here’s why – First, the black vote is down considerably over
2012 numbers – numbers many of the Mainstream Media polls have
been using as a template for their polling samples. Hillary
Clinton was never going to get out the black vote like Barack
Obama, and yet the polling firms continued to sample as if she
were which resulted in Hillary polling better than she actually
is. Second, the white voter turnout is said to be up – BIG-TIME,
and Trump leads among white voters over Hillary – BIG TIME.
Third, Trump continues to show well among independent voters.
Fourth, Trump is doing better among female voters than some of
the Mainstream Media polls have indicated. Lastly, Trump is
doing better among Hispanic voters than some of the Mainstream
Media polls have indicated. The Trump campaign is also looking
strong in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Virginia.
‘American Comeback Story’: Watch Unbelievable Story of How
Donald Trump Changed Boxer William Campudoni’s Life
Breitbart - A video, provided exclusively to Breitbart News
Network ahead of its public release, shows the story of boxer
William Campudoni and how a billionaire real estate tycoon, now
running for president, Donald J. Trump, changed his life. “I was
a young pro Puerto Rican boxer,” Campudoni said in the short
film, about five minutes long, as it opens over footage of him
boxing on television. “One of the originals the legendary Cus
D’Amato took in. I worked and trained with the best: Tyson,
Holyfield, and George Foreman. But before I could rise in
boxing, someone gave me a chance like nobody else would.”
Campudoni was struggling, having grown up “very poor” in Spanish
Harlem in New York, when he stumbled one night into Trump Tower
asking for a job after leaving St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Donald
Trump himself hired Campudoni the next day. “I walked inside,
and I said, ‘I’m looking for work,’” Campudoni said. “The next
day, Trump hired me off the streets. He gave me five navy blue
suits. He shook my hand and said, ‘Welcome to the family.’”….
[read more]
$6
Million Later: North Dakota Police Can’t Afford The Pipeline Protest
REALfarmacy - Law enforcement in North Dakota is running out of money
protecting the Dakota Access oil pipeline. A legislative committee will
be reviewing an emergency request to borrow more money from the Bank of
North Dakota to cover the cost of law enforcement’s involvement in the
Dakota Access pipeline protests. The department has used an increasing
amount of money since the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which
was supposed to be saved for natural disasters, but is now used to
protect the pipeline that is planned to go through 1851 treaty land. To
fight for companies behind the DAPL, officers from at least 6 states
have been deployed. North Dakota is responsible for reimbursing
out-of-state police agencies for costs that have to do with wages,
overtime, officer benefits, meals while on duty, a per diem while off
duty, lodging and mileage for the communities that sent vehicles.
overnor Jack Dalrymple will vote on Tuesday, November 8th on whether to
borrow $4 million from the state-owned bank. The panel has already
borrowed and spent $6 million from the bank in September. North Dakota
officials have also requested federal officials to reimburse the state
for the additional law enforcement costs. All of this money going
towards the police brings a lot into question. How much taxpayer money
will be used to protect the investment of a company over investments on
human health? How much money is given to law enforcement, military, and
corporations in order to silence the people fighting for justice?
5.0 Earthquake Rattles Oklahoma Oil Town of Cushing
EcoWatch - A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck Oklahoma Sunday night,
damaging buildings in the heart of the oil hub town of Cushing. Schools
are closed and parts of the downtown area are cordoned off, as the
latest in a string of 19 quakes were recorded in Oklahoma last week, an
area where such events were virtually unknown prior to the fracking
boom.,,,, The quake was felt as far as Illinois, Kansas, Missouri,
Arkansas and Texas. Oklahoma has become the world capital of
earthquakes. In neighboring Kansas, injection of wastewater from
fracking was determined as the cause of the state's largest-ever
earthquake in 2014. A study published in Science determined a link
between wastewater injection and earthquakes in Texas. And earlier this
year, a study confirmed a causal relationship not only between
wastewater injection and fracking, but to the process of hydraulic
fracturing itself.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Feds to Dish Out $1.7 Billion to Ranchers, Farmers to Leave Land
Fallow
CNS News - The United States Department of Agriculture announced
it will “invest” $1.7 billion in 500,000 ranchers and farmers to
stop production on “sensitive agricultural lands.” “The
investment, part of the voluntary USDA Conservation Reserve
Program (CRP), will allow producers to protect almost 24 million
acres of wetlands, grasslands and wildlife habitat in 2016,” the
Oct. 28 announcement said. The ranchers and farmers “enroll” in
the program to have access to the funding. “CRP provides
financial assistance to farmers and ranchers who remove
environmentally sensitive land from production to be planted
with certain grasses, shrubs and trees that improve water
quality, prevent soil erosion, and increase wildlife habitat,”
the announcement said. “In return for enrolling in CRP, USDA,
through the Farm Service Agency (FSA), provides participants
with rental payments and cost-share assistance. Landowners enter
into contracts that last between 10 and 15 years.” "We have seen
record demand to participate in this important program,"
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in the press release
announcing the funding.... “More than 1.3 million acres were
newly enrolled in CRP in fiscal year 2016 using the continuous
enrollment authority, double the pace of the previous year,” the
announcement said. “In fiscal year 2016, FSA also accepted
411,000 acres through its general enrollment authority, plus
101,000 acres in the new CRP-Grasslands program, which balances
conservation with working lands.”
5 States That Grow the Most Organic Food Per Acre
EcoWatch - A new report has found that U.S. land for organic
farming reached 4.1 million acres in 2016, a new record and an
11 percent increase compared to 2014. As of June 2016, the
number of certified organic farms in the U.S. reached 14,979, a
6.2 percent increase of 1,000 farms compared to 2014 survey
data. The Mercaris Organic Acreage Report found that the top
five states in organic cropland are California, Montana,
Wisconsin, New York and North Dakota. California leads the U.S.
with 688,000 acres. However, Montana has seen a 30 percent
increase in organic farmland, reaching 417,000 acres in 2016, an
increase of 100,000 acres since 2014 and adding 50 new organic
farms. The report also estimates that North Dakota, Colorado and
New York all increased their organic farming acres by more than
40,000 since 2014. North Dakota has surpassed Oregon as the
fifth leading state in organic acreage. Oregon is sixth followed
by Colorado and Texas.
Tiny Homes Banned In U.S. At Increasing Rate As Govt
Criminalizes Sustainable Living
Activist Post - These dwellings, typically defined as less than
500 square feet, are a way for people to break free of
mortgages, taxes, utility bills and the general trappings of
“stuff.” They’re especially attractive to millennials and
retirees, or those seeking to live off-grid. But government and
corporations depend on rampant consumerism and people being
connected to the grid. Seeking actual freedom through minimalist
living should seem like a natural fit for the American Dream,
but the reality is that many governments around the country
either ban tiny homes or force them to be connected to the
utility grid. Some of the more recent examples of explicit bans
include Etowah, TN and Wasilla, AK, which don’t allow homes less
than 600 square feet and 700 square feet, respectively. Boise,
ID doesn’t allow homes less than a few hundred square feet, as
Shaun Wheeler of Wheeler Homes found when he built a perfectly
good and safe 310 sq. ft. home. Lawmakers spout slippery slope
fallacies, saying that allowing tiny homes will lead to decay
and “unsightly little cabins plunked down next to traditional
homes.” Using government force to stamp out societal change in
response to financial factors is this councilman’s idea of
conservatism.
4 Simple, All-Natural Steps To Rebuilding Your Gums (That Don’t
Involve The Dentist)
Off the Grid News - In the past 12 years, I’ve had many patients
in my nutritional practice that have had gum issues. Once the
overall nutrition is upgraded, the gum problems disappear. This
gives evidence to the idea that when you provide everything the
body needs to heal, the gums heal. And the beauty of this
strategy is that not only will the gums heal, but so will other
areas of the body. Your body loves to heal many things
simultaneously…. Below is a step-by-step strategy for healing
your gums that I use with many patients. Obviously it is not
specific to every case, so results are variable depending on
what’s happening in your mouth. However, most people will be
able to see rapid improvement quickly. 1. Cut the sugar - Stop
eating sugary foods and beverages laced with corn syrup or high
fructose corn syrup. Sugar directly damages your teeth, causing
cavities. It alters your body pH so that minerals are pulled out
from tissues like the gums just to keep the pH constant in the
blood. It’s your choice: Either you want healthy teeth and gums
or you want sugar. 2. Eat enough protein - Protein is a
requirement for life. If you provide enough of it, your body can
start to repair itself. If you don’t provide enough, little by
little your body’s protein stores will be depleted. Since the
gums aren’t high priority, you can expect their structure to
fall sooner before other tissues in your body…. 3. Take your
vitamin C supplements - A minimum of 1,000 milligrams per day is
helpful. In many cases, 2,000 milligrams daily is better.
Vitamin C is especially important to prevent bleeding at the gum
line. 4. Use diatomaceous earth (DE) as a dietary supplement -
This is a source of dietary silica, which rebuilds gums fast.
Get the USDA food & chemical grade version of this, which does
not contain any insecticides or other chemicals. The food and
chemical grade DE is not the same as the pool grade DE, which is
toxic. Always remember food and chemical grade. Take one heaping
tablespoon twice daily and also do a mouth rinse with one
teaspoon of DE and water twice daily. You’ll notice a difference
quickly. In each tooth are approximately three miles of tubules
that rebuild your teeth. The DE goes directly into the tubules
and starts rebuilding the teeth from the inside out while it’s
also working directly on your gums.
Bee propolis has 9 surprising health benefits
(NaturalHealth365) If you love natural cures, you should know
about bee propolis. Propolis benefits are ... 1. Cancer cell
death - Propolis seems to suppress numerous types of cancer,
including prostate and colon cancer. It does so by triggering
cell death and necrosis. Unlike chemotherapy, propolis only
targets cancer cells, not healthy cells. 2. Healthier bones -
Propolis also helps to build and maintain bone tissue. It
suppresses the inflammatory response and halts bone
deterioration. 3. Food poisoning relief - The antimicrobial
effects of bee propolis make it effective against food
poisoning. It effectively fights the microorganisms C. jejuni,
Staphylococcus aureus and Enterobacter faecalis, three of the
most common types. 4. Reduces inflammation - Complications from
mouth or tooth injuries often include inflammation and
infection. The anti-inflammatory propolis benefits were found to
improve oral health outcomes. This offers promise for other
conditions characterized by inflammation, including arthritis,
Alzheimer’s disease, and heart disease. 5. Lower blood pressure
- Nitric oxide is crucial to heart health, and the TH (Tyrosine
hydroxylase) enzyme can limit its production. Bee propolis
decreases TH activity, leading to better blood pressure and
relief from hypertension. 6. An effective wart remover - Plantar
warts can be particularly difficult to treat, but propolis has
been found highly effective when applied topically. Apply daily
for two weeks for best results….
MUST SEE: Cats Totally Destroy a Holiday Wonderland in This Hilarious
Commercial
The Catington Post - Cats and Christmas. While separately both are
loved, those two words together strike panic and fear among the humans
who share their homes with a cat. How many of us forgo even putting up a
tree because we just know our feline friends will seek to destroy it?
(raises hand) This Christmas ad featuring twenty-two adorable cats and
kittens speaks directly to anyone who’s had a cat attempt to tear down
the tree. The horde of hungry, destructive felines are unleashed upon a
sweet Christmas wonderland that includes a tree adorned with
decorations, a delicious spread, a holiday train, and yes -presents!
Anyone who has a cat can imagine the hilarious cat-tastrophe that
occurs!
Monday - November
7, 2016 - Today In History:
1811 - The Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William
Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe).
1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an
elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
1893 - The state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote.
1895 - The last spike was driven into Canada's first transcontinental
railway in the mountains of British Columbia.
1914 - The "New Republic" magazine was printed for the first time.
1916 - Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the
U.S. Congress.
1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional
government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
1918 - During World War I, a false report through the United Press
announced that an armistice had been signed.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to
win a fourth term as president.
1967 - Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor Cleveland, OH,
becoming the first black mayor of a major city.
1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1967 - The U.S. Selective Service Commission announced that college
students arrested in anti-war demonstrations would lose their draft
deferments.
1973 - Congress over-rode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act,
which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional
approval.
1983 - A bomb exploded in the U.S. Capitol. No one was injured.
1995 - In a Japanese courtroom, three U.S. military men admitted to the
rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's wife
to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S.
Senate. (New York)
2001 - After a 16-month stoppage the Concorde resumed flying
commercially.
Russia demands Washington explain after reports say US military
hacked into Russian networks
RT - Russia expects Washington to provide an explanation after a
report claimed that Pentagon cyber-offensive specialists have
hacked into Russia’s power grids, telecommunications networks,
and the Kremlin’s command systems for a possible sabotage. “If
no official reaction from the American administration follows,
it would mean state cyberterrorism exists in the US. If the
threats of the attack, which were published by the US media, are
carried out, Moscow would be justified in charging Washington,”
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said,
according to the ministry’s website. NBC News said earlier in an
exclusive report that US military hackers have penetrated
crucial infrastructure in Russia, “making them vulnerable to
attack by secret American cyber weapons should the US deem it
necessary.”. The report was based on the account of a senior US
intelligence official and top-secret documents. NBC said the
hack was carried out in preparation for waging a full-scale
cyberwar with Russia.
US-backed Syrian militia move to retake ISIS ‘capital’ Raqqa
with American air cover
RT - The Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, said some 30,000
fighters are to take part in the operation.... The operation,
called Angry Euphrates, was announced earlier Sunday by SDF
commanders at a press conference in the Syrian town of Ain Issa,
about 60 kilometers northwest of Raqqa.... According to the
group, the goal of the operation is to "isolate and then topple
the capital of international terrorism" Raqqa, meaning that the
city will, first, be surrounded by SDF forces before they to
capture it.... The SDF is a militia alliance formed in 2015 with
the goal of battling Islamic State. The Syrian YPG Kurdish
force, one of Syria’s most powerful militias, is regarded as the
backbone of the alliance. Announcing their offensive, the group
urged Raqqa civilians to avoid area where Islamic State
militants are present and move to "liberated territory." Reports
say that militants within the city have begun putting up
fortifications in preparation for the SDF assault and have
reportedly forbidden the residents from leaving. They have also
mined the approaches to the city and set up a network of
checkpoints along them.... Since it was formed in early 2015,
the SDF has seized large swathes of territory along the
Syria-Turkey border and pushed IS back to within 30 kilometers
(18 miles) of Raqqa, a provincial capital on the Euphrates River
in Syria’s largely desert east. Several hundred US Special
Forces operatives were sent into Syria earlier this year to
“advise and assist” the SDF. The United States considers the YPG
the most effective force against IS, but Turkey has repeatedly
said it will not accept a role for the Kurds in the liberation
of Raqqa. Ankara, a key US ally in the region, regards the
Syrian Kurds as terrorists allied with Kurdish insurgents inside
Turkey.
Iraqis Near Mosul in 'Smoke-Filled Hell' as ISIS Burns Oil Wells
NBC News - Thousands of families are living in a "smoke-filled
hell" in Iraq after ISIS set fire to oil wells and created a
black cloud bigger than Los Angeles, a charity said Friday. The
extremists have torched more than a dozen wells near Mosul
during their retreat into the city in the face of a massive
U.S.-backed offensive. The disruptive tactic mirrors that used
by Saddam Hussein, whose forces torched oil wells to mask their
retreat from Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1991. The fires lit
by ISIS have produced thick black smoke that "blocks out the sun
and turns children's faces grey with oily soot," Oxfam said in a
report published…. ISIS has also set fire to a sulfur plant,
which NASA said was emitting "tremendous quantities of sulfur
dioxide into the atmosphere" and has caused at least 1,000
people to be treated for breathing problems. The main worry,
according to Oxfam, is that the smoke from the oil wells will
cause bronchitis among a population that has scant access to
medicine.
"The People Made Their Choice" - Theresa May Vows To Deliver
"Full" EU Exit Despite Court Challenge
Zero Hedge - In the aftermath of last week's surprising decision
by a UK High Court to force a parliamentary vote on Article 50,
a hard - or even soft - Brexit suddenly has been put in
question, having thrown the government's plans to launch a
two-year divorce process by the end of March into disarray....
So in her first public statement since the vote, British Prime
Minister Theresa May, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, said she
is confident of overturning the ruling and vowed that she would
deliver a full exit from the European Union, hitting back at
critics of her Brexit strategy who have threatened to try to
block the process in parliament. In her op-ed, May signaled she
would resist any attempt to force her to change her approach to
leaving the EU: "The people made their choice, and did so
decisively. It is the responsibility of the government to get on
with the job and to carry out their instruction in full," May
wrote. She said members of parliament who regretted the
referendum result "need to accept what the people decided".....
Meanwhile, the head of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Jeremy
Corbyn, said in a newspaper interview that he would try to block
the commencement of divorce talks with the EU if the government
does not agree to his Brexit demands. Adding to the confusion,
arch-eurosceptic and the man who led the UKIP's successful
Brexit campaign, Nigel Farage said there was a growing movement
to keep Britain within the EU's tariff-free single market - a
scenario he called a "half-Brexit" that went against the
referendum result. "If the people in this country think that
they're going to be cheated, they're going to be betrayed, then
we will see political anger the likes of which none of us in our
lifetimes have ever witnessed in this country," he told the BBC.
Echoing commentary from Deutsche Bank, Farage also told ITV that
Theresa May should call an early general election to avoid a
"betrayal" of the public over Brexit.
France to collect personal data of 60 million with controversial
database
France 24 - The massive database, known as Secure Electronic
Documents (Titres électroniques sécurisés or TES), was decreed
by the government on October 30 in an effort to crack down on
identity theft.... The TES will affect 60 million people and
marks the first time the country has collected population data
on such a scale since the start of the Nazi Occupation in 1940.
The database will include all the same information included on a
French identity card or passport, depending on which a person
holds: The first and last names, address, eye colour, weight,
marital status, a photograph and the fingerprints of nearly
everyone in France (with the exception of children under the age
of 12) will be compiled into a single centralised system. The
information taken from passports will be stored for 15 years
while identity card information will be kept for 20.... The TES...
can only be accessed by authorities to verify an individual’s
identity. But the government’s decision to issue a decree on the
system instead of submitting a bill for parliamentary approval
has raised questions over the database’s legality. “One could
think that the government is trying to circumvent the
Constitutional Court by issuing a decree, because the only way
to contest it now is to go to the State Council [Conseil d’état,
France’s highest administrative court],” [lawyer Antoine] Cheron
said.... Critics fear that the increased security it promises
will come at the expense of individual civil liberties and
privacy.... “Despite the government’s denials, the database’s
contents could eventually be paired, for example, with
information collected from surveillance cameras,” Cheron
explained. Authorities might then someday be able to
cross-reference ID photos with video footage to geolocate any
individual in France at any given time, in a scenario worthy of
an Orwell novel. Back in 2012 [Justice Minister Jean-Jacques]
Urvoas wrote a blog post entitled, “Against the honest people’s
file”, in which he warned against another possible risk of
creating a database like TES: hacking. “No computer system is
impenetrable. Any database can be hacked. It’s just a question
of time,” he wrote.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Obama FBI’s 11th Hour Shocker: Comey Says No Charges for Hillary
Breitbart - UPDATE: Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman
Reince Priebus reacts to this breaking news, with a statement
reaffirming that the Clinton’s charity, which has raised
billions of dollars, is still under FBI investigation: “The
FBI’s findings from its criminal investigation of Hillary
Clinton’s secret email server were a damning and unprecedented
indictment of her judgment. The FBI found evidence Clinton broke
the law, that she placed highly classified national security
information at risk and repeatedly lied to the American people
about her reckless conduct. None of this changes the fact that
the FBI continues to investigate the Clinton Foundation for
corruption involving her tenure as secretary of state. Hillary
Clinton should never be president.” The original story… FBI
director James Comey tells Congress review of additional Clinton
emails does not change conclusion she should not face charges.
Comey says that agents have “reviewed all of the communications
that were to or from Hillary Clinton” that were part of newly
discovered emails. Comey sent a letter to Congress Sunday
informing them that the FBI has “not changed our conclusions”
from earlier this year that she should not face charges. The
emails were found on the computer of Anthony Weiner, the
estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Comey’s brief
letter did not indicate how many emails were reviewed or what
sort of material was found in Abedin’s emails.
Clinton Directed Her Maid To Print Out Classified Materials
NY Post - Clinton entrusted far more than the care of her DC
residence, known as Whitehaven, to [Marina] Santos. She expected
the Filipino immigrant to handle state secrets, further opening
the Democratic presidential nominee to criticism that she played
fast and loose with national security. In fact, Marina Santos
was called on so frequently to receive e-mails that she may hold
the secrets to E-mailgate — if only the FBI and Congress would
subpoena her and the equipment she used. Clinton entrusted far
more than the care of her DC residence, known as Whitehaven, to
Santos. She expected the Filipino immigrant to handle state
secrets… Clinton would first receive highly sensitive e-mails
from top aides at the State Department and then request that
they, in turn, forward the messages and any attached documents
to Santos to print out for her at the home. Among other things,
Clinton requested Santos print out drafts of her speeches,
confidential memos and “call sheets” — background information
and talking points prepared for the secretary of state in
advance of a phone call with a foreign head of state…. Santos
also had access to a highly secure room called an SCIF
(sensitive compartmented information facility) that diplomatic
security agents set up at Whitehaven, according to FBI notes
from an interview with Abedin. From within the SCIF, Santos —
who had no clearance — “collected documents from the secure
facsimile machine for Clinton,” the FBI notes revealed. Just how
sensitive were the papers Santos presumably handled? The FBI
noted Clinton periodically received the Presidential Daily Brief
— a top-secret document prepared by the CIA and other US
intelligence agencies — via the secure fax…. Yet it appears
Clinton was never asked by the FBI in its yearlong investigation
to turn over the iMac Santos used to receive the e-mails, or the
printer she used to print out the documents, or the printouts
themselves. As The Post first reported, copies of Clinton’s
33,000 allegedly destroyed e-mails still exist in other
locations and could be recovered if investigators were turned
loose to seize them. Higher-ups at the Justice Department
reportedly have blocked them from obtaining search warrants to
obtain the evidence. It also appears the FBI did not formally
interview Santos as a key witness in its investigation.
Wikileaks: Clinton Campaign Chairman Practices Aleister Crowley
Black Magic
Paul Joseph Watson - In what is undoubtedly the most bizarre
Wikileaks revelation to date, Clinton campaign chairman John
Podesta was invited to a “spirit cooking dinner” by performance
artist Marina Abramovic, to take part in an occult ritual
founded by Satanist Aleister Crowley. In an email dated June 28,
2015, Abramovic wrote, “I am so looking forward to the Spirit
Cooking dinner at my place. Do you think you will be able to let
me know if your brother is joining? All my love, Marina.” Tony
Podesta then forwarded the email to his brother John Podesta
(Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman), asking him, “Are you in
NYC Thursday July 9 Marina wants you to come to dinner.” Spirit
cooking refers to “a sacrament in the religion of Thelema which
was founded by Aleister Crowley” and involves an occult
performance during which menstrual blood, breast milk, urine and
sperm are used to create a “painting”. According to Marina
Abramovic, if the ritual is performed in an art gallery, it is
merely art, but if the ritual is performed privately, then it
represents an intimate spiritual ceremony.
Egyptian Government Favors Trump, Fears Clinton Will Support
Muslim Brotherhood
Breitbart - TEL AVIV – Egypt favors Donald Trump over Hillary
Clinton in the race to become the next president, fearing that a
Democratic victory will be a “catastrophe” for the region as it
will “arouse” the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic State, an
examination of the government press shows. Even though the
Egyptian government has officially said it has “nothing to do
with” the outcome of the election, there have been abundant
statements made by Egyptian President Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi and
senior officials that reflect the regime’s strong preference for
Trump. Following Al-Sisi’s meetings with both presidential
candidates, media reports from the Egyptian government press
translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
indicate that the president’s meeting with Trump was a warmer,
friendlier and more open encounter than his appointment with
Clinton. Trump was praised for commending Egypt on its tough
stance on terror and promised that under a Trump administration,
the U.S. would be “a loyal friend to Egypt” and not simply an
ally. Trump’s foreign policy adviser Walid Phares described the
meeting as “historic” and said that Trump was committed to
“restoring the warmth to U.S.-Egypt relations, which are
presently in a very difficult phase,” Egypt’s Al-Masri Al-Yawm
noted. Al Watan reported that Trump also promised Al-Sisi to
promote legislation designating the Muslim Brotherhood a
terrorist organization. This is in stark contrast with Clinton,
who is viewed with suspicion due to her past support for the
protests against Hosni Mubarak’s regime and her disapproval of
Al-Sisi’s ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood figure Muhammad Morsi
in 2013. The government daily Al-Ahram claimed that Clinton’s
personal aide, Huma Abedin, is a member of the Brotherhood and
serves as Clinton’s liaison with the organization.
Assange: Clinton & ISIS Funded By Same Money, Trump Won’t Be
Allowed To Win (Video)
RT - In the second excerpt from the John Pilger Special, to be
exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday, courtesy of Dartmouth
Films, Julian Assange accuses Hillary Clinton of misleading
Americans about the true scope of Islamic State’s support from
Washington’s Middle East allies. In a 2014 email made public by
Assange’s WikiLeaks last month, Hillary Clinton, who had served
as secretary of state until the year before, urges John Podesta,
then an advisor to Barack Obama, to “bring pressure” on Qatar
and Saudi Arabia, “which are providing clandestine financial and
logistic support to ISIL [Islamic State, IS, ISIS] and other
radical Sunni groups.” “I think this is the most significant
email in the whole collection,” Assange, whose whistleblowing
site released three tranches of Clinton-related emails over the
past year, told Pilger in an exclusive interview, courtesy of
Dartmouth Films.“All serious analysts know, and even the US
government has agreed, that some Saudi figures have been
supporting ISIS and funding ISIS, but the dodge has always been
that it is some “rogue” princes using their oil money to do
whatever they like, but actually the government disapproves. But
that email says that it is the government of Saudi Arabia, and
the government of Qatar that have been funding ISIS.”
Obama: Latinos Should Vote to Give Undocumented Family Members a
Voice
Breitbart - In an interview with Latino star Gina Rodriguez,
President Barack Obama urged all American Latinos to vote,
specifically Latino citizens who knew illegal immigrants or had
illegal family members living in the United States. Rodriguez
asked Obama whether “undocumented citizens” should vote,
specifying that she calls illegal immigrants “citizens” because
they contribute and work in the United States. Obama ignored her
question, specifying that all Latino citizens should vote and
that fears of them getting deported if they did were “not true.”
Florida Elections Worker: "I Was Fired For Witnessing Possible
Absentee Ballot Fraud"
Zero Hedge - Per a new report from NewsMax, the 2016 election
cycle may be among the most controversial yet as a temporary
worker for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office has
been fired after reporting what she thought to be "election
fraud." In a sworn affidavit presented to the Florida State
Attorney General, this temporary worker claims that she
witnessed "four Supervisor of Elections employees sitting at the
same table actively filling out election ballots." Further,
according to the affidavit, each of the four workers "had a
stack of blank ballots to the right of them … and a stack of
completed ballots to their left.".... According to Brenda
Snipes, the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, what this
terminated employee witnessed was workers simply transcribing
faxed paper ballots from the men and women of our armed forces
from overseas. According to Snipes, those faxed ballots are a
different size than regular ballots and thus have to be
converted to the official forms in order to be counted.... Of
course, there is just one small issue with that explanation as
the sworn testimony of the terminated employee specifically
notes that the completed and blank ballots were the same size.
Moreover, if this was all just a simple misunderstanding then
why was the whistle blower fired? .... With reports like these
flowing in from all over the country and the latest polls
indicating extremely tight races in multiple important swing
states, Tuesday night is looking to be a very interesting
evening.
Nate Silver warns Clinton is 'one state away' from losing
Electoral College
Business Insider - Statistician Nate Silver warned on Sunday
that Hillary Clinton's path to capturing the 270 electoral votes
needed to win the White House now appears narrower than
President Barack Obama's path at this point in 2012. In an
appearance on ABC's "This Week," the FiveThirtyEight chief
claimed Clinton is a "2-to-1 favorite," but noted that recent
polls show Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump with a
slight edge in electoral college-heavy states like Florida,
Ohio, and North Carolina. "The electoral college math is
actually less solid for Clinton than it was for Obama four years
ago, where four years ago we had Obama ahead 320-some electoral
votes. Clinton has about 270," Silver said. "So she's one state
away from potentially losing the electoral college. You'd rather
be in her shoes than Donald Trump's, but it's not a terribly
safe position." While other polling aggregators like the New
York Times' Upshot and HuffPost Pollster have put Clinton's
chances of winning around 84% and 98% respectively, Silver's
model gives Trump a greater chance of winning.
Newsweek To Ship Thousands Of Clinton Victory 'Special Edition'
Your News Wire - Stacks of boxes with the Special Edition ‘Madam
President’ cover depicting Hillary Clinton winning the U.S.
presidential race next week were secretly photographed by a
Newsweek employee who says that there were no Trump versions
made. The find proves that the media, in collusion with the
Clinton campaign, have planned for a Hillary victory all along.
According to the Newsweek insider, printing large numbers of
magazines declaring the winner ahead of the results is unheard
of due to the high cost and risk associated. Normally draft
versions of both candidates winning would be made in a PDF
(offline) version, with printing and distribution only happening
after the results have been called. According to author Jim
Stone: The fact it is already in print,complete with barcode
when it should only be in PDF, or other computer file form says
it all. Your argument is “well they have both candidates in
print as winning so they are ready to go.” Here is the problem
with that theory. In 2012 the only candidate leaked magazine and
tv polls showed winning was Obama. No one else! That kills that
theory. There are those who are saying this release of photos by
a Newsweek employee is a Psyop to make people give up and not
vote. I say take it as confirmation that you had better get out
and vote Trump.
BREAKING POLLS: Trump +8 in OH, +16 in FL with Election Day
Voters
The Gateway Pundit - Donald Trump and Hillary are nearly tied
with early voting in Florida. Trump is not campaigning in Ohio
today. The campaign believes this is a safe state.
Donald Trump Takes Nearly 6 Point Lead over #CrookedHillary in
Latest LA Times Poll
The Gateway Pundit - Donald Trump holds his largest lead yet in
the LA Times-USC Dornsife poll. Trump now leads Hillary Clinton
by 5.6 points. 48.2 to 42.6…. Donald Trump is nearly tied with
Crooked Hillary with the Latino vote. Trump has 42.4% support.
Hillary has 45.8% support.
Emergency! Hillary Clinton Sends Obama to Save Michigan
Breitbart - According to CNN’s Jeff Zelany, campaign sources
said that President Obama wanted to go back into Iowa but was
told that it was “out of reach” and to go to Michigan instead.
The Clinton campaign appears worried about upper mid-west states
like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota that are traditionally
safe Democratic states. Clinton also made a last minute stop in
Detroit on Friday to encourage voters to go to the polls. Obama
will travel aboard Air Force One on Monday morning to campaign
in Ann Arbor, Michigan before jetting back to Philadelphia to
hold a final event with his wife Michelle Obama and Bill and
Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump is rushed off the stage by Secret Service while
speaking during Reno rally after a 'Republicans against Trump'
protester causes chaos in the crowd over fears he had a gun
(Video, Photos)
Daily Mail - Secret Service agents rushed Donald Trump offstage
on Saturday evening during a rally in Reno, Nevada, after they
determined a protester in the audience might pose a threat to
the Republican presidential candidate. 'Go! Go!' agents shouted
as they whisked Trump away and a combination of local police and
private security wrestled Austyn Crites, 33, to the ground in
the front of the crowd. Crites identifies as a Republican who
supports Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,
according to his Facebook page. A senior Trump campaign official
told DailyMail.com that the suspect, whom rally-goers already
identified as an anti-Trump protester, caused a panic when he
reached into his waistband. At that point, the campaign official
said, a voice called out: 'He's got a gun!' Trump's protective
detail sprang into action, pulling him offstage as a sea of
bodies scattered, screams rang out and authorities dragged
Crites away as he kicked and strained. he U.S. Secret Service
said in a statement that 'a commotion' had occurred 'in the
crowd immediately in front of the stage' and 'an unidentified
individual shouted, "gun".' 'Secret Service agents and Reno
police officers immediately apprehended the subject. Upon a
thorough search of the subject and the surrounding area, no
weapon was found,' the statement added…. One witness told
DailyMail.com that a holstered gun was spotted on the hip of a
plainclothes officer, adding to the confusion…. A short time
after the fracas, Trump returned onstage and addressed the
audience as he continued his rally speech, appearing unrattled
by the scuffle and spoke with his usual self-confidence.
No One Tried To Assassinate Donald Trump … But Austyn Crites
Shows Up In WikiLeaks 7 Times
Activist Post - Although it doesn’t appear that Austyn Crites
was trying to assassinate Donald Trump, it’s very interesting
that he does appear in the WikiLeaks dumps…not once but SEVEN
TIMES. Each of those leaks contains an Excel file, and Crites’
name and address in Reno is in each of those Excel files.
However…these aren’t the Podesta Emails. These are the Global
Intelligence Files. On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks
began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five
million e-mails from the Texas headquartered “global
intelligence” company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July
2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a
company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides
confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such
as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman,
Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of
Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence
Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of
informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and
psychological methods.... And the man who disrupted the Trump
rally is in them. To find his name, you have to open the Excel
files attached to each leak.... But… Things aren’t as they first
appeared. First off, no gun was found, even though two
eyewitnesses claim to have seen one. Secondly, Crites didn’t try
to kill anyone. He was there, apparently, voicing his dissenting
opinion and protesting Trump. He was quickly released by police
after being questioned.... When you put this all together, it’s
pretty hard not to think about the Project Veritas videos. The
Project Veritas videos put Scott Foval and Doug Creamer in the
spotlight, and both had FEC complaints filed against them due to
their unscrupulous methods of “helping” the Clinton campaign....
Gosh, is that sort of like an “innocent” guy with a sign getting
beaten up because someone yelled “gun”? Because it kinda sounds
like that.
Gunshots Hit Trump Sign Outside of North Carolina Home
Breitbart - The incident happened late Saturday outside of James
Powers’ home in Cary, where the gunman fired 20 shots at the
sign hanging on his front porch, WRAL reported. No injuries were
reported from the shooting, but a few bullets hit the home.
Powers believes the only motive the shooter had to shoot at his
house was due to the campaign signs on his porch…. Powers said
he won’t take down his Trump sign despite the damage, and noted
that there have been similar incidents in his neighborhood where
other Trump signs were destroyed. Trump signs aren’t the only
things that vandals have destroyed. Reports of vandalism against
Trump’s campaign offices have peppered the news over the past
few days, with campaign offices in Denver attacked twice in the
span of 24 hours. In the first attack, anti-Trump slogans and
words such as “pervert” and “thief” were painted on the brick
wall as well as the windows of the office. In the second attack
on the same office, a rock was thrown through the office’s front
window. A Republican campaign office in Alamance County, North
Carolina was also vandalized earlier this week from a spray
paint attack, WTVD reported. Last month, a Republican Party
office in Hillsborough, North Carolina was firebombed and
spray-painted with the phrase “Nazi Republicans” on a nearby
wall.
VIDEO: Trump Supporter’s Truck Torched Because of Bumper Sticker
Breitbart - A California man says his truck was set on fire
after a stranger saw his pro-Donald Trump sticker on his truck
and yelled expletives against Trump, Sacramento-area Fox
affiliate KTXL reported. Hao Lee took his 2-year-old son fishing
in Sacramento and parked his truck, a white Dodge Ram that
displayed two Trump stickers on its bumper, across the street….
Lee and his son were near the edge of the river, only 50 yards
away from where his truck was parked. Lee and his son were near
the edge of the river, only 50 yards away from where his truck
was parked. Lee didn’t move from his spot near the water,
because he wanted to make sure his son was safe. By the time Lee
approached the truck, the commotion and voices were gone and his
truck was up in flames.,,, There have been several recent cases
of vandalism against Trump campaign offices. An office in Denver
was vandalized twice in the same day on Friday, according to CBS
News.
Since 2014 The US Has Added 547,000 Waiters And Bartenders And
Lost 36,000 Manufacturing Workers
Zero Hedge - As another month passes, the great schism inside
the American labor force get wider. We are referring to the
unprecedented divergence between the total number of high-paying
manufacturing jobs, and minimum-wage food service and drinking
places jobs, also known as waiters and bartenders. In October,
according to the BLS, while the number of people employed by
"food services and drinking places" rose by another 10,000, the
US workforce lost another 9,000 manufacturing workers.... Yet
while we would be the first to congratulate the new American
waiter and bartender class, something does not smell quite
right. On one hand, there has been a spike in recent restaurant
bankruptcies or mass closures (Logan's, Fox and Hound, Bob
Evans), which has failed to reflect in the government report. On
the other hand, as the National Restaurant Association's
Restaurant performance activity index showed last month, overall
industry sentiment is the worst since the financial crisis, due
to declines in both same-store sales and customer traffic,
suggesting that restaurant workers should now be in the line of
fire for mass layoffs. Putting this divergence in a long
context, since the official start of the last recession in
December 2007, the US has gained 1.7 million waiters and
bartenders, and lost 1.5 million manufacturing workers. Worse,
while the latter series had been growing, if at a slower pace
than historically, it has now clearly rolled over, and in 2016,
some 58,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost. Like last month,
we remain curious what this "data" series will look like after
it is revised by the BLS shortly after the NBER declares the
official start of the next recession.
Here Is The Reason Why 82% Of American Workers Don't Feel Any
Wage Growth
Zero Hedge - There is a simple reason why the vast majority of
American workers, some 82% of them, are not feeling any wage
growth: there simply isn't any. As a reminder, today [Friday]
the BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] reported that average
hourly earnings for all workers rose by 0.4% on a monthly basis,
slightly more than consensus expectations. In part due to upward
revisions to earlier months, the year-over-year rate accelerated
to +2.8%, which was a new cyclical high and will be welcomed by
the Fed as confirmation that its policies are working to boost
worker income, and thus, inflation is just around the corner.
There was just one problem with that: that number is for all
workers, however when one looks at the subset of production and
nonsupervisory private workers, which in October amounted to 101
million, or just over 82% of the entire private workforce, their
wage growth story is very different. According to the BLS, these
particular workers made on average $21.72 per hour, up only 2.4%
from $21.21 a year ago, which as the chart below shows is where
wage growth for this group has been all year, and after a modest
dip in late 2014, has been largely unchanged since the start of
2014.... In other words, for the vast majority of American
workers, real wage growth is still anemic, barely outrunning
official measures of inflation, which was 1.5% in September,
according to the most recent CPI report, and was 2.2% for core
items, effectively eliminating any nominal wage growth. So where
did the wage growth go? Simple: the 18% of supervisory,
managerial workers... that are excluded from the above grouping,
but make up the balance of America's 122.7 million private
workers. It is this group that saw a surge in their implied
average wages, which soared by an all time high 4.7% in October.
Real Unemployment Rate: 9.5%
CNS News - Although much of the major media are reporting the
national unemployment rate for October as 4.9%, the "real
unemployment rate," as determined by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) and which includes part-time workers and those
marginally attached to the work force, is 9.5%.... The "total
unemployed" rate, or U6 number, is defined by the BLS as, "total
unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers plus total
employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of all
civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers,"
seasonally adjusted, workers 16 years old and over. The Gallup
survey group explains the incomplete nature of the "national
unemployment rate." "Widely reported unemployment metrics in the
U.S. do not accurately represent the reality of joblessness in
America," says Gallup. "For example, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) does not count a person who desires work as
unemployed if he or she is not working and has stopped looking
for work over the past four weeks. Similarly, the BLS does not
count someone as unemployed if he or she is, for instance, an
out-of-work engineer, construction worker or retail manager who
performs a minimum of one hour of work a week and receives at
least $20 in compensation."
* Related:
HHS: 73,137,154 Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP
BLM To Lease Ohio’s Only National Forest To Fracking Interests
Natural Society - The Bureau of Land Management plans to hold an online
auction next month which will grant fossil fuel companies the right to
frack Ohio’s only national forest. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
claims to manage public land for the “common good.” However, their
actions as a federal agency consistently show that they really serve
private interests, particularly those of the fossil fuel industry. The
BLM and their controversial land leasing program lease hundreds of
thousands of acres of land that belongs to the collective US citizenry
to private interests, who exploit and, in some cases, permanently
destroy that land. In the latest example of such “in your face”
corruption, the BLM has moved to auction the rights to lease Ohio’s only
national forest, which will be bid on by fracking companies. Following
its final environmental assessment of the effects of fracking on Wayne
National Forest, the BLM found that “no significant impact” would take
place if fracking was allowed to occur in the area. However, the
environmental assessment ignored fracking’s threat to drinking water, as
well as its effect on air quality and climate. The assessment also fails
to consider the cumulative effects of fracking in the forest and the
assessment’s findings are based on research that is over 11 years old.
Though many opponents of the BLM’s decision were shocked at the
assessment’s inadequacy, this is standard procedure for the BLM, which
gains a hefty profit from leasing the public land entrusted to them out
to private interests. The BLM is now planning an online auction on
December 13th, which will lease the first 1,600 acres of the forest.
40,000 additional acres will be leased in the coming months. The auction
will lease the land for the specific use of oil and gas development and
the acceptable minimum bid will likely be as low as $2 acre, the great
benefit of fossil fuel companies.
FEMA Housing Not Expected in Flood-Ravaged Louisiana Until 2017
Breitbart - Victims of Louisiana’s largest and most disastrous flood
since Hurricane Katrina were told by Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) officials that they will not see temporary housing units arrive
until 2017. Despite over 100,000 homes damaged and another 60,000 homes
completely destroyed, the federal agency said they are so backlogged by
temporary housing units, commonly referred to as FEMA trailers, that
flood victims would have to wait at least until the next year. FEMA said
some 5,300 Louisiana flood victims qualified for trailers, but they
cannot get them shipped and brought to residents fast enough…. “It is a
big joke, all of it,” Lavone Hatch told WBRZ in an interview, saying she
applied for a FEMA trailer months ago but still has not heard a word
from the federal agency.
Nestle Seeks More Groundwater to Expand Michigan Plant
Natural Society - The state of Michigan has given a preliminary go-ahead
for food and beverage maker Nestle to nearly triple the amount of
groundwater it will pump from beneath the state, to be bottled and sold
at its Ice Mountain plant, approximately 120 miles from Flint. Nestle
Waters North America asked the Michigan Department of Environmental
Quality (DEQ) to allow the company to increase pumping from 150 to 400
gallons-per-minute at 1 of its production wells north of Evart. The
company already increased the well’s pumping rate last year and earlier
this year, but needs the DEQ’s approval to max out the withdrawal
capacity under the Section 17 of the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)….
Many Michigan residents feel Nestle has a lot of nerve asking for the
increase, in light of Flint’s years-long nightmare over lead
contamination in their drinking water. Many people in Flint still rely
on bottled water for cooking, cleaning, and bathing as the government
continues to drag its feet in replacing the corroded pipes. Nestle
representatives defended the company’s efforts to pump more groundwater,
saying the “U.S. market for bottled water in general is driving the bid
for more Michigan groundwater.” That’s right, America. Nestle says it’s
your fault. If that’s not infuriating enough, Nestle gets to pump that
water for free. Under state law, private property owners may withdraw
from the aquifer under their property for free. The only cost is $200 in
annual paperwork.
Crack In Earth's Magnetic Shield Greater Than Expected
Opposing Views - The GRAPES-3 muon telescope [a dense EAS array
operating with ~400 scintillator detectors and a 560 m2 tracking muon
detector :-)] in Ooty, India, detected a spike in cosmic ray levels in
Jun. 2015, but the severity of the event wasn’t revealed until Nov. 2016
through a study published in the scientific journal Physical Review
Letters. The study reports for two hours on Jun. 22, 2015, particles
from a giant cloud of fast-moving plasma penetrated the Earth’s
atmosphere at approximately 1.6 million mph. The particles, originating
from the surface of the sun, caused the Earth’s magnetosphere to shrink
from 11 times to 4 times the earth’s radius -- allowing harmful solar
winds to breach the Earth’s surface. Earth’s magnetosphere acts as the
first line of defense between the Earth and the flow of galactic cosmic
rays, which shield life on the planet from harmful ultraviolet
radiation. It has a radius of over 620,000 miles, according to Wired....
"This vulnerability can occur when magnetized plasma from the Sun
deforms Earth’s magnetic field, stretching its shape at the poles and
diminishing its ability to deflect charged particles," Katherine Wright
explains on the American Physical Society's website. The solar wind
triggered a severe geomagnetic storm at the time of the event,
generating vivid aurora borealis -- also known as "northern lights" --
and radio signal blackouts in many high-altitude countries.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
EPA Accused of Withholding Documents in Lawsuit Alleging Breach
of Pesticide Regulation
AllGov - Lead plaintiff Jeff Anderson, a beekeeper who owns
honey farms in California and Minnesota, sued the EPA this past
January, claiming a guidance document the agency issued in 2013
illegally widened exemptions for pesticide-coated seeds and
their resulting dust-off. Anderson says a particularly toxic
strain of pesticides known as neonicotinoids has killed hundreds
of thousands of bees in recent years, poisoned birds and
contaminated large swaths of soil and water. He says the EPA has
failed to regulate neonicotinoids in the form of coated seeds
and seed dust-off, even though it is required to under the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
During a summary judgment hearing Thursday, plaintiffs' attorney
Adam Keats said the EPA only turned over 200 pages of internal
emails and documents, many of which were "riddled with
redactions," and withheld an additional 5,000 pages of germane
material. "The administrative record is woefully incomplete,"
Keats said. "It left us in the dark on many issues we feel would
be relevant to the case." After the plaintiffs moved to compel
the EPA to produce more documents in September, U.S. District
Judge William Alsup ordered the agency to turn over 5,000 pages
of court-sealed files for him to review behind closed doors....
Alsup suggested Thursday that the government could be
withholding relevant documents, based on his prior experience as
a Justice Department attorney in the 1970s. During his time
there, Alsup said he routinely witnessed government lawyers try
to exclude pertinent files from disclosure in lawsuits. "I was
jaded by that experience," Alsup said.
Newly Approved GM Potatoes Have Potential to Silence Human Genes
Natural Society - Late last week, the US Department of
Agriculture (USDA) approved two new strains of genetically
engineered potatoes. … Though GM crops often use gene splicing,
recombinant DNA, and similar techniques, these potatoes are the
first plant product using a new technique to advance beyond the
experimental stage. The technique, known as double-stranded (ds)
RNA, reprograms and silences the genes of the organism.
Essentially, a small molecule of RNA is inserted into the potato
cells, which reprograms and silences genes in certain pathways.
Yet, scientists around the world are aware that these
“interfering” RNA molecules can find matches within human DNA,
similarly reprogramming and silencing genes in the people who
consume these potatoes. Other studies have confirmed this, such
as a 2012 study which showed that dsRNA can transfer from plants
to humans and other animals through food. In addition, dsRNA can
silence the genes of other organisms who interact with the
potato plant, such as honeybees. A study from 2013 found that
dsRNA changed the expression of over 1400 genes in honeybees,
10% of their entire genome. The changes in gene expression
occurred when the bees were exposed to a single needle
containing dsRNA. The affected genes were involved in important
developmental and metabolic processes associated with RNA
processing and transport, hormone metabolism, immunity, and
response to external stimuli and stress. Other scientists and
concerned citizens have also noted that the dsRNA found in the
potatoes targets several complex pathways, namely those involved
in blight resistance and another involved in browning. This
means that there is also the possibility that these
modifications could interact with each other, creating new
surprise side effects. Also, one of the substances suppressed by
the dsRNA plays a vital role in the potatoes’ chemical makeup,
and its absence is expected to negatively impact its ability to
fight pests, something which will likely benefit pesticide
companies much more than consumers. With such potential for
disaster and so many unknowns, why were these GM potatoes given
the green light?
Low vitamin C levels linked to higher blood levels of lead
(NaturalHealth365) The researchers [from the University of
California at San Francisco] found a direct correlation between
high levels of vitamin C and lower blood levels of lead. These
results have major public health implications for combating lead
toxicity, especially in developing children. The study looked at
data from a national analysis of 19,000 persons ranging from
adults to children six years of age. Children in the top
one-third of vitamin C blood levels had a stunning 89 percent
lowered incidence of lead toxicity. Adults were shown to have
blood lead levels reduced by up to 68 percent with high vitamin
C intake. While lead use has been banned for over 20 years, it
had been included in gasoline, paint, products and building
components. Despite the ban, people can still come into contact
with it in older buildings and products. Lead has been linked
with mental retardation in children exposed at a young age. Lead
exposure can come from deteriorating paint, dust and
contaminated soil…. The current ‘Recommended Daily Allowance’ of
vitamin C of 60 mg (the amount in an average sized orange) is
far too low. In many cases, at least 1,000 mg per day will be
required to experience health benefits…. However, this is
important to understand, doses as high as 25,000 mg daily (and
often much greater) are usually required to be effective in
fighting major issues like, cancer and systemic infections.
5 Best Prebiotic Foods – Because Probiotics Need to Eat Too
Natural News Blogs - The “good” bacteria strains are also known
as probiotic bacteria. It is essential to keep probiotic
bacteria flourishing in your body so that those “bad” bugs don’t
take over the microbiome population. If “bad” bacterial strains
take over, many different health problems can result including:
constipation, intestinal gas, diarrhea, bad breath, candida
infections, anemia, respiratory problems, Vitamin B deficiency,
loss of good sleep and more! “Bad” bugs LOVE to eat sugary
drinks, high fat foods and artificial ingredients, and they will
communicate that to your brain. Scientists have called this the
gut-brain connection…. Scientists have found that the strains of
friendly little buggers living in and on your body love to eat
foods called “prebiotics” (a classification of certain types of
fiber). Here is a list of the 5 best natural food sources of
prebiotics: GARLIC. This flavorful food contains approximately
11% inulin fiber, and 65 % of a naturally occurring prebiotic
called fructooligosaccharides (FOS). The “good” bugs love to eat
it and studies have shown that consuming garlic may help to
prevent specific disease promoting bacterial strains from
growing. ONIONS. 10% of the total fiber in onions is a prebiotic
fiber called inulin and 6% is made up of FOS – known to
strengthen “good” bacterial strains. DANDELION GREENS. These
fiber-rich greens can be collected from just about anywhere, as
they grow like weeds. In fact, most people would consider them
just that but if you see dandelions don’t toss them. Add them to
your salad! They not only provide about 7% prebiotic fiber (4
grams of fiber per 100-gram serving) but they also help to
detoxify the body by cleansing the kidneys and liver. CHICORY
ROOT. This food is easily added to main dishes and lends itself
to many flavors. It is one of the most effective prebiotic foods
and provides about 76% inulin fiber. APPLES. They aren’t just
delicious – apples also keep the doctor away! Eating just one of
these tasty fruits provides a short-chain fatty acid that feeds
the “good” bacteria and helps kill off the “bad” bugs that can
cause health problems. They also contain large amounts of a
specific type of prebiotic fiber called pectin…. Get to know
other prebiotic foods friendly bacteria strains like to eat
including: chicory root, Jerusalem artichoke, leeks, asparagus,
bananas, oats, cocoa (dark chocolate… yep!), flaxseed, and
seaweed.
Thursday - November
3, 2016 - Today In History:
1796 - John Adams was elected the 2nd U.S. President.
1900 - The first automobile show in the United States opened at New
York's Madison Square Garden.
1903 - Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.
1911 - Chevrolet Motor Car Company was founded by Louis Chevrolet and
William C. Durant.
1941 - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Grew warned that the Japanese may
be planning a sudden attack on the U.S.
1952 - Frozen bread was offered for sale for the first time in a
supermarket in Chester, NY.
1979 - 5 members of the Communist Workers' Party are shot to death in
daylight at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, NC. 8
others were wounded.
1986 - The Ash-Shiraa, pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first broke the
story of U.S. arms sales to Iran to secure the release of seven American
hostages. The story turned into the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 - China told the U.S. that it would halt the sale of arms to Iran.
1991 - Israeli and Palestinian representatives held their first-ever
face-to-face talks in Madrid, Spain.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, was arrested for drowning her 2 sons. Days earlier
she claimed that the children had been abducted
by a black carjacker.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton dedicated a memorial at Arlington National
Cemetery to the 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
1998 - Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former pro
wrestler, as its governor.
2014 - In New York City, One World Trade Center opened for business.
NATO builds up offensive capability on borders of Russia &
Belarus, Moscow to respond – MoD
RT - The US and NATO are building up their offensive
capabilities on the Western borders of Russia and its ally
Belarus, prompting Moscow to take reciprocal measures, Russian
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told the two countries’ top
military brass. “Those actions undermine strategic stability and
are forcing Russia to take reciprocal defensive measures,
including some in the Western theatre,” the defense minister
said. NATO “has not abandoned attempts to dictate its will to
other countries through economic and political means, as well as
by military force,” he said, noting that “an information war is
in full swing.” Confronted with a complex security environment,
Russia and Belarus will join forces to strengthen their mutual
security, Shoigu added. Advanced bilateral cooperation and a
common stance on major global and regional security challenges
allow us to successfully tackle strengthening our defense
capabilities,” he stressed, adding that this approach appears to
be necessary at this point, “as international crisis response
mechanisms have stalled, while hotspots are already near our
borders.” In order to address the security challenges, Russia is
now supplying state-of-the-art armaments and weapons systems to
the army units guarding the Western borders, as well as ramping
up combat training for the troops, the Defense Minister said.
Iraqis in Mosul Find US Missiles at Captured Islamic State Base
Kurt Nimmo - The Iraqis found missiles at an Islamic State base
in Mosul stamped with USA and DOD. The discovery did not warrant
a headline on CNN or The New York Times. "Several US-made
missiles were found in al-Shoura region to the South of Mosul,"
reports Iran’s al-Alam News Network, citing a local source. "The
ISIL terrorists have sent US-made TOW anti-tank missiles to Tal
Afar and it is quite evident that they are preparing for a
long-term war," an Iraqi security official told an
Arabic-language media outlet. In early 2015 Qasim al-Araji, the
head of the Badr Organization in Iraq, told parliament he had
evidence the US armed the Islamic State, according to a report
carried by the Arabic language Almasalah. Iranian media and
other sources claim US military aircraft dropped weapons in
areas held by the Islamic State…. Iraqi intelligence claimed in
December, 2014. “What is important is that the US sends these
weapons to only those that cooperate with the Pentagon and this
indicates that the US plays a role in arming the ISIL.” In
January 2015 Iraqi MP Majid al-Ghraoui said American aircraft
delivered weapons and equipment to ISIS southeast of Tikrit,
located in Salahuddin province…. If Hillary Clinton is elected
next week the restocking of the Islamic State’s arsenal and the
war in Syria will continue. “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
waived restrictions at the State Department on selling weapons
to Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman,
and Qatar, all states that had donated to the Clinton
Foundation. Saudi Arabia had chipped in at least $10 million,
and Boeing added another $900,000 as Secretary Clinton made it
her mission to get Saudi Arabia the planes with which it would
attack Yemen,” writes David Swanson. Clinton is well aware the
Gulf Emirates arm and provide logistical assistance to the
Islamic State.
Lavrov: US will have to negotiate with Russia, can’t act alone
on global issues
RT - The US will have to negotiate with Russia on finding
solutions to international issues as no state is now able to act
alone, the Russian foreign minister said, adding that problems
in bilateral relations began to mount long before the Ukrainian
crisis broke out in 2014. The international community should not
play by Washington’s rules despite the US being a great power,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday,
referring to a recent statement by President Vladimir Putin.
“Two or three months ago US President Barack Obama said it is
they who set the rules,” Lavrov said, following a meeting with
his Greek counterpart, Nikos Kotzias. “If our American partners
think so, they will go through quite painful periods of
realizing [the fact] that no one in this world could act alone
any longer,” he added. Both Washington and Moscow are destined
“to negotiate anyway,” the foreign minister said, adding “the
sooner it happens, the better.” US-Russia relations are now at
their lowest point since the Cold War, according to many
observers, including the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey
Kislyak. Lavrov added that, contrary to widespread opinion, the
problems did not surface overnight, but rather began long before
the 2014 ‘Euromaidan’ coup in Ukraine that toppled the elected
president, Viktor Yanukovich.
Putin Warns European Countries Have “No Future” if They Continue
to Accept Migrants (Video)
Paul Joseph Watson - Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed
his bewilderment at why European countries were taking in so
many migrants given the increasing number of rapes sweeping the
continent, asserting that a society which cannot protect its
children “has no future”. In remarks made earlier this week,
Putin made reference to a story out of Austria where an Iraqi
migrant was not punished for raping a 10-year-old boy at a
swimming pool in Vienna after he claimed it was a “sexual
emergency” and that he didn’t understand the boy didn’t want to
be raped. “It doesn’t fit into my head what on earth they’re
thinking over there,” said Putin, adding, “This is the result of
the dilution of national values.” “I can’t even explain the
rationale – is it a sense of guilt before the migrants?” he
asked. “What’s going on? It’s not clear.” “But a society that
cannot defend its children today has no tomorrow, it has no
future,” warned Putin, adding that he would not look to Europe
for advice on Russia’s immigration policy given the situation
that is unfolding there. Putin’s warning arrives as pictures
emerge of a huge migrant brawl on the streets of Paris. The
French capital is still being inundated with migrants who are
sleeping on the streets after the razing of the Calais camp. A
video that went viral last month shows the state of Paris in the
aftermath of accepting thousands of asylum seekers. Some areas
of the city now resemble open air migrant camps with filth and
litter strewn everywhere.
Migrant battle on the streets of Paris: Large gangs of men armed
with makeshift clubs fight each other after Calais Jungle camp
is destroyed (Photos)
Daily Mail - This is the moment a mass brawl broke out as
migrants in Paris attacked each other with sticks - hours after
authorities moved in to smash up an illegal city centre camp.
Pictures show men lunging at each other with makeshift clubs
last night next to a row of tents in the Stalingrad district of
the French capital. Amid chaotic scenes, gangs of men were seen
brandishing pieces of wood and squaring up for a street battle.
The violence unfolded just hours after demolition workers
supported by riot police began smashing up an illegal camp full
of UK-bound migrants in Paris. It also came in the wake of the
destruction of the Calais Jungle which saw refugees transported
around the country…. While some 5000 Jungle residents agreed to
be bused to resettlement centres around France, many others
headed off independently, saying they still wanted to get to
Britain. Up to 3000 set up tents on the pavements around the
Stalingrad Metro station, which is close to the Gare du Nord
Eurostar hub in the north of Paris.
Israeli paper claims ‘paranoid’ Netanyahu feared US
super-software was rigging votes on election day
RT - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly told a
reporter via phone on the day of parliamentary elections that
there was a US-led conspiracy to remove him from power by means
of “super-software” to locate voters, Haaretz reported.
According to the paper, Netanyahu spoke with “a senior Israeli
journalist” on Election Day, March 17, 2015. “I want to tell you
that what’s happening today is election stealing,” the PM
reportedly told the journalist on the phone. “Nothing like this
has ever happened in any democracy anywhere. Because you’re in
the press, you didn’t report on this scandal here. I’m about to
lose the election,” he added. The reporter allegedly tried to
assure Netanyahu that he was going to remain prime minister
after the election, but Netanyahu replied: “I’m not.” “The V15
movement [opposition group], backed by the American
administration, brought software programs here… You know what
I’m talking about. I don’t want to elaborate over the phone, OK?
Super-software that locates voters,” he said, according to
Haaretz. “I want you to know that this is what happened,” the PM
added. Before hanging up, Netanyahu blasted the journalist and
the whole Israeli media for turning its back on him. “You won’t
touch it. You aren’t handling [the story.] That's why I'm going
to lose the election,” the PM reportedly claimed. Haaretz noted
that the reporter sensed “paranoia” in the Israeli leader’s
words about a Washington-led conspiracy against him. Netanyahu
has had a strained relationship with Obama’s administration,
with Israel strongly opposing the US push for a Palestinian
state and the lifting of sanctions on geopolitical rival Iran
after the signing of a nuclear deal. However, Netanyahu’s Likud
party won the election, taking 30 seats in the Knesset, and
later formed a coalition government, with Netanyahu remaining
PM.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Podesta Part 26: Wikileaks Releases Another 1,135 Emails, Total
Is Now 43,104
Zero Hedge - In the final stretch of the presidential race which
has just a few days left, Wikileaks continues its ongoing
broadside attack against the Clinton campaign with the
relentless Podesta dump, by unveiling another 1,135 emails in
the latest, Part 26 of its Podesta release, bringing the total
emails released so far to exactly 43,104.
Senior FBI officials were told of new emails in early October
but wanted more information before renewing Clinton probe
Washington Post - Senior FBI officials were informed about the
discovery of new emails potentially relevant to the
investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server at least
two weeks before Director James B. Comey notified Congress,
according to federal officials familiar with the investigation.
The officials said that Comey was told that there were new
emails before he received a formal briefing last Thursday,
although the precise timing is unclear. The information goes
beyond the details provided in the letter that Comey sent to
lawmakers last week declaring that he was restarting the inquiry
into whether Clinton mishandled classified material during her
tenure as secretary of state. He wrote in the Friday letter that
“the investigative team briefed me yesterday” about the
additional emails. The people familiar with the investigation
said that senior officials had been informed weeks earlier that
a computer belonging to former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
contained emails potentially pertinent to the Clinton
investigation. Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, shared the
computer with her husband, from whom she is now separated. Comey
did not notify Congress as soon as he learned about the emails
because officials wanted additional information before
proceeding, the officials said.
Confirmed: US Intel Operatives Leaked Clinton Campaign Emails,
Not Russia
Paul Joseph Watson - It’s now clear from numerous sources that
the Podesta hack, which led to Wikileaks releasing tens of
thousands of Clinton campaign emails, as well as other hacks
targeting the Democratic Party, were the work of U.S.
intelligence operatives attempting to save America from a
Clinton presidency. The Clinton campaign has repeatedly
insinuated that Russian agents were responsible for the release
of the emails, but the reality is far different. The hackers
were concerned individuals who were alarmed at Hillary Clinton’s
rampant corruption and mishandling of classified material as far
back as 2009, when officials with the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) became aware of violations of
record keeping procedures at the Department of State under
Secretary Clinton. Sources who have spoken privately to Alex
Jones but don’t want to be named have confirmed that government
and intelligence operatives worked in tandem to provide Julian
Assange’s organization with the Podesta emails. This is backed
up by former British ambassador Craig Murray, who was told by
security insiders that the email leak “comes from within
official circles in Washington DC.”
Leaked Documents Reveal A New Clinton Scandal — And More
Corruption
American Patriot Daily - Guccifer 2.0 released new documents
that show Big Banks that received TARP bailout money donated a
percentage of the funds back to the Clinton Foundation, as well
as to other Democrats. Was this payback for Hillary supporting
the TARP bailout? Was it a down payment on future influence
peddling? When the Clintons are involved, no theory can be taken
off the table. At the time of the release, Guccifer 2.0 authored
a blog post claiming the documents were obtained through a hack
of the Clinton Foundation: “Many of you have been waiting for
this, some even asked me to do it. So, this is the moment. I
hacked the Clinton Foundation server and downloaded hundreds of
thousands of docs and donors’ databases. Hillary Clinton and her
staff don’t even bother about the information security. It was
just a matter of time to gain access to the Clinton Foundation
server.” However, Donna Shalala, President of the Clinton
Foundation, said there was no evidence of a hack.
Once Above Politics, State Supreme Court Seats Now the Target of
Big-Money Political Campaigns
AllGov - Wealthy powerbrokers. Special interest groups. Millions
of dollars pouring in to elect conservatives or liberals. It
sounds like a typical election-year contest for Congress or a
state legislature, but it's actually a high-stakes battle for
institutions that were once considered above politics: state
supreme courts. Political groups view control of the high courts
as essential to either defending or thwarting state laws. And
they are more and more willing to spend big to gain the
advantage.
Feds Ramp Up REAL ID Bullying Tactics
Activist Post - On Oct. 13, the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) sent letters to five states denying their request for a
time extensions to bring their driver’s licenses in compliance
with REAL ID. That means that in 2018, residents of Oklahoma,
Kentucky, Maine, Pennsylvania and South Carolina may find
themselves on a virtual no-fly list. They will need to have
alternate ID, such as a passport, in order to clear TSA
screening. The five states join Minnesota, Missouri and
Washington, already under the DHS gun. The agency denied those
states extension requests late last year. In practice, REAL ID
co-opts the states into creating a national ID system. The
federal government has no constitutional authority to mandate
such a thing. The feds resurrect these bully tactics every
couple of years, and has done so since Pres. George W. Bush
signed REAL ID into law in 2005. Instead of following through on
threats the feds simply keep extending their deadlines. Under
the act, all 50 states were supposed comply with the federal law
by 2009. But, states rebelled against REAL ID for several
reasons, including privacy concerns and the fact that Congress
didn’t provide any funding for the mandates it expects states to
implement. Some states passed laws expressly prohibiting
implementation of the act. To date, 27 states remain
non-compliant, nullifying the national ID system in effect.
Pizza Hut Employee Given ‘Leave of Absence’ After Shooting
Robbery Suspect
Breitbart - A Pizza Hut employee who shot and killed an armed
robbery suspect early Sunday morning has been given a “leave of
absence” over the incident. The incident occurred after hours —
around 1:40 a.m. — Sunday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
According to CBS News, “Police say their initial investigation
indicates three people entered the restaurant… Sunday and were
in the process of robbing it when one of the employees used his
personal handgun to shoot one male thief.” The wounded suspect
died and the other two suspects fled the scene. The deceased
suspect was 28-year-old Michael Renard Grace. WBTV reports that
police confirmed Grace had a gun on him at the time of his
death. Pizza Hut released a statement in which they indicated
that “the local franchisee is cooperating with the police
department.” The company also used the statement “to stress that
the security of its staff is of the utmost concern.” The
employee who shot the robbery suspect has been given a “leave of
absence.”
Report: Ballots Stolen, Forged in Florida
Breitbart - The Orlando Sentinel reports that a few voters in
Seminole County thought their absentee ballots were taking too
long to arrive in the mail: By mid-October, Susan Halperin
became concerned that she and her husband hadn’t received their
absentee ballots in the mail. So Lawrence Halperin called the
Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Office to find out what
was going on. He was stunned to learn their ballots had already
been cast. Someone had stolen the Halperins’ ballots, faked
their signatures and voted. “He was just floored,” said Susan
Halperin, a registered Democrat. “To think that someone would
actually steal my ballot and fill it out is creepy.” The
Halperins, who live in the Spring Valley neighborhood of
Altamonte Springs just south of State Road 436, weren’t the only
victims. Supervisor of Elections Mike Ertel said they were among
five voters in three homes in Spring Valley whose absentee
ballots were stolen and then fraudulently submitted with votes
cast by someone else. Seminole County’s Supervisor of Elections
Mike Ertel wouldn’t say which candidate the forged ballots were
cast for. This is the first time such a case has happened since
he assumed his role in 2005, he said. Both registered
Republicans and Democrats had ballots stolen and their
signatures forged. Registered Republicans have a slight edge on
registered Democrats in Seminole County, outnumbering them by
roughly 15,000 voters. Victims were allowed to re-submit their
ballots.
Texas Woman – Who Is Not a US Citizen – BUSTED for Voting 5
Times in Texas
The Gateway Pundit - BizPac Review reported: A Texas woman, who
is not a citizen of the United States, was arrested Friday for
having illegally voted in Dallas County — five times. Rosa Maria
Ortega, 35, is presently a resident of the Tarrant County Jail,
where she is being held on a $10,000 bond, according to the
Dallas-Fort Worth NBC affiliate Channel 5 News, which reported:
Ortega is married to an American and is living legally in this
country, but is not a citizen and therefore, not qualified to
vote, said Harry White, who supervises public integrity and
white collar crime investigations for the Tarrant County
District Attorney. Ortega applied to vote in Tarrant County and
acknowledged on the application form that she was not a citizen,
White said. The county rejected her application and notified her
she was not qualified to vote.
Video: Amish Voters Rally for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania
The Gateway Pundit - Thousands of voters lined up in the rain to
see Donald Trump in Mannheim, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Including Amish voters…
Gold Tops $1300 As Peso Pounding Continues
Zero Hedge - Gold prices are now up over 2.2% since Comey's
bombshell on Friday (and stocks down over 1.6%) as the Peso
pounding continues. Following silver's surge yesterday, gold has
spiked back above $1300.
Someone Just Donated $2.5 Million to Bail Out Everyone Arrested at
Standing Rock
Activist Post - Following the recent mass arrests of 141 people at the
Dakota Access Pipeline construction site located near Standing Rock,
North Dakota, an anonymous donor just donated $2.5 million to bail out
everyone who was arrested at the protests. The news came after Tamara
Francis-Fourkiller, a tribal leader from the Caddo Nation tribe in Caddo
County, Oklahoma, was arrested at Standing Rock. Francis-Fourkiller was
released after spending two days in jail, but her family says she was
just an innocent observer in the clashes between militarized law
enforcement and Native American activists, or “water protectors.”
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Tell the USDA Growing in Factory Farm Fish Waste/Conventional
Soybean Slurry, under Artificial Lighting, is not Organic!
Cornucopia News - A few years ago, the organic community was
shocked to find out that the USDA’s National Organic Program was
quietly allowing the certification of hydroponic operations
despite the law! Organic regulations clearly state that
nurturing the fertility of the soil is an integral part of
organic management. Unlabeled, it is impossible for organic
consumers to tell what fruits and vegetables are grown in
nutrient-rich soil (impacting flavor and our health) or grown in
a liquid fertilizer solution, in industrial conditions, and
imported from countries like Canada, Mexico and Holland — where
it cannot legally be labeled as “organic”! Much of the
hydroponic or “container” grown fruits and vegetables are
produced inside sealed warehouse-sized buildings under
artificial lighting — with liquid fertilizer that could come
from a myriad of different waste products or even highly
processed GMO soybeans. Currently more than 100 facilities are
supplying U.S. consumers with “organic” hydroponic fruits and
vegetables, including the giant berry producer Driscoll’s. The
National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) will be voting in
mid-November on whether or not to allow hydroponic/container
operations to be certified organic (at their semi-annual meeting
in St. Louis, Missouri).
* Related:
Industry Watchdog: USDA Allowing Illegal “Organic” Produce
Production
A Dozen Uses Of Probiotics That Will Surprise You
Green Med Info - 1. HAPPINESS - This surprising triple-blind
study gave either probiotics or a placebo to 40 healthy people
for 4 weeks. The probiotics actually significantly reduced
negative thoughts associated with a sad mood compared to
placebo. The positive effect was mostly because of reduced
rumination and aggressive thoughts. 2. DEPRESSION - In the first
ever study of probiotics and psychological conditions, people
with more depression had significantly better improvement in
mood on a probiotic than on a placebo. A second study found that
a month of probiotic supplementation significantly improved
depression and anger. 3. ANXIETY & STRESS - The same study also
found significant improvement in anxiety. An earlier study had
already hinted at an antianxiety effect for probiotics. A
placebo-controlled study of people with chronic fatigue syndrome
found that probiotics significantly reduced their anxiety
scores. 4. ADHD & AUTISM - A remarkable double-blind study gave
either probiotics or a placebo to 75 pregnant women, beginning 4
weeks before their due dates and then continued giving the
probiotics to the infants, or to the mothers if they were
breastfeeding, for 6 months. The children were then followed for
13 years. What the study discovered was astonishing. 17.1% of
the children in the placebo group developed ADHD or Asperger’s.
Not one child in the probiotic group did. 5. COLIC - A
double-blind, study gave 52 infants with colic either a placebo
or a probiotic for 21 days. Crying and fussing time was
significantly shorter in the probiotic group who cried and
fussed for 60 minutes a day versus 102 minutes a day in the
placebo group. Significantly more infants responded to the
probiotic than to the placebo. 6. CONSTIPATION & DIARRHOEA - It
is well known that probiotics treat the common antibiotic side
effect of diarrhoea. Less well known is that probiotics can help
diarrhoea and constipation from other causes too. 7. ALLERGIES &
HAY FEVER - Several double-blind studies have shown that
probiotics improve the symptoms of hay fever… When women
supplement with probiotics while they are pregnant and give it
to their babies for the first 2 years, at the age of 6, the
babies are significantly less likely to suffer from eczema and
have significantly improved allergies… Probiotics may also be
able to reverse allergies to milk in infants….
Nearly Half Still Believe This Painful But Persistent Dog Myth - Do You?
Dr. Becker - Tail docking and ear cropping are banned in much of Europe
and Australia. Unfortunately, the procedures continue to be routinely
performed in the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact that the American and
Canadian veterinary medical associations have taken a stand against
them. In the U.S., it is the American Kennel Club (AKC) and breeders
that refuse to see the light. Many AKC breed standards call for docking
and cropping, and any dog of those breeds that has been allowed to keep
his ears and tail might as well not show up for AKC-affiliated events.
He either won't be allowed to compete, or he'll have no chance of
winning. The arguments for ear cropping and tail docking don't hold up
under scrutiny, especially since most dogs in the U.S. today live in
family homes and aren't used for hunting or burrowing. These days, these
painful procedures are done for one of three reasons: as a cosmetic
"enhancement," for the sake of "tradition" or to make a dog look
intimidating. Tragically, as much as people love their dogs and view
them as members of the family and best friends, at the same time, many
also see them as material belongings that can be bought, sold, traded,
ignored, mistreated, "surgically enhanced" or abandoned. Until that
perspective changes among the general public, and certainly among
breeders and kennel clubs, humans will continue to breed and surgically
alter dogs for appearance, rather than preserving and protecting their
natural design.
Wednesday - November
2, 2016 - Today In History:
1776 - During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the
first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted.
1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the
Army" near Princeton, NJ.
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the
39th and 40th states.
1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of
Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.
1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency.
The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline
"DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and
newspapers. (Illinois>
1959 - Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program
"21" admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy announced that the U.S.S.R. was
dismantling the missile sites in Cuba.
1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123,000 Cubans to apply for
permanent residence in the U.S.
1983 - President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal
holiday on the 3rd Monday of Jan. in honor of civil rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1986 - American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in
Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers.
1993 - The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob
Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton gave his first in-depth interview since
the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show
host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network's "BET
Tonight with Tavis Smiley."
2004 - President George W. Bush was elected to a second term.
2010 - Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, picking
up 63 seats in midterm elections, while Democrats retained a majority in
the Senate; Republican governors outnumbered Democrats after gaining six
states.
2010 - Californians rejected a ballot measure that would have made their
state the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
Iraq Threatens Turkey With War After Erdogan Deploys Tanks To
Iraqi Border
Zero Hedge - In the latest provocation between Turkey and Iraq,
the Turkish military begun deploying tanks and other armored
vehicles to the town of Silopi near the Iraqi border, in a move
the defense minister said on Tuesday was related to the fight
against terrorism and developments across the border…. The army
deployment, disclosed by military sources, came after President
Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey was aiming to
reinforce its troops in Silopi. As Reuters reports, the
deployment coincides with an Iraqi operation to drive Islamic
State from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and after Iraqi
Shi'ite militias launched a related offensive to push the
jihadists out of the town of Tal Afar further west. Erdogan said
on Saturday Ankara would have a "different response" for Shi'ite
militias if they "cause terror" in Tal Afar, home to a sizeable
ethnic Turkmen population with historic and cultural ties to
Turkey. Sinjar, where Ankara believes the PKK is developing a
presence, is situated some 50 km west of Tal Afar. Additionally,
Sirnak province, where Silopi is located, is also one of the
main areas of conflict between Turkey's army and the PKK, whose
main bases are in the mountains of northeast Iraq. Iraq's
response, as expected, came fast, and in a tweet by the official
Twitter account of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units fighting
ISIS in Iraq, the PMU said that "Any Turkish invasion of Ezidi
Sinjar will face the full force of the Iraqi PMU to defend our
lands from Turkey", effectively threatening Turkey with war
should Turkey's tanks cross the border.
Russia says Syria peace talks halted indefinitely
The Guardian - Peace talks over the fate of Aleppo are on hold
indefinitely because rebels backed by western governments have
been attacking civilians in the west of the Syrian city, the
Russian defence minister has said. Sergei Shoigu’s remarks came
as he confirmed that Russia’s naval convoy, led by its aircraft
carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, had reached the eastern Mediterranean
to strengthen Moscow’s attack capabilities, despite the refusal
of Nato countries to help with refuelling and supplies. Shoigu
said the lack of cooperation by the Spanish and Maltese
governments showed the west was not interested in combatting
terrorism in Syria. The west, he added, had failed in its
paramount duty to separate legitimate opposition fighters in
rebel-held eastern Aleppo from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the
al-Qaida-linked group formerly known as the Nusra front. The US
secretary of state, John Kerry, acknowledged the US needed help
in this area during remarks made in London on Monday.
US calls for ‘end to Saudi-led airstrikes’ in Yemen, but keeps
selling arms to Riyadh
RT - The US envoy to the UN has called on the Saudi-led
coalition to “refrain from taking steps that escalate violence”
in Yemen. Her appeal contradicts Washington’s actions, with the
Pentagon continuing to supply arms and provide military support
to Riyadh. First, the United States calls on the parties to
recommit immediately to the cessation of hostilities, which
means halting all military actions on the ground, in the air,
and at sea. That includes an end to shelling and an end to
airstrikes,” Ambassador Samantha Power said at a UN Security
Council briefing on Monday. “There is very little good news in
Yemen, but one small piece of good news is that we have seen
that the parties can reduce the violence in Yemen when they show
the will to do so,” she noted. Power slammed missile attacks by
Yemeni Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia, noting that “every country
has a right to defend itself, and the United States remains
fully committed to the security of Saudi Arabia.” It is also
incumbent on the Saudi-led coalition and the forces of the
Yemeni government to refrain from taking steps that escalate
this violence and to commit to the cessation of hostilities,”
she added. “After 19 months of fighting, it should be clear that
there is absolutely no military solution to this conflict.
Airstrikes that hit schools, hospitals and other civilian
objects have to stop. In many cases these strikes have damaged
key infrastructure that is essential to delivering humanitarian
aid in Yemen,” Power concluded.
Libya on brink of economic collapse - World Bank
RT - The Libyan economy is facing collapse as the civil war is
disrupting the country's main source of income oil production,
warns the World Bank…. As a result of falling crude prices and
low output, Libya's foreign reserves have shrunk from $107.6
billion in 2013 to a projected $43 billion by the end of this
year. Over the first half of 2016, the country managed to
produce an average of 335 thousand barrels per day, down 20
percent from last year. Libya's daily oil production before the
2011 uprising stood at 1.6 million barrels. The Libyan economy
has shrunk by an estimated 8.3 percent, leaving the country in
recession since 2013, with GDP per capita dropping by nearly
two-thirds of its pre-revolution level, the bank says. In the
first seven month of 2016, Libya’s state income of 3.2 billion
dinar ($2.28 billion) was just a tenth of what it was during the
same period last year. The Libyan dinar has dropped 73 percent
against the dollar on the black market.
Zika causes testicles to shrink & infertility in mice, alarming
sign for humans – study
RT - The mosquito-transmitted Zika virus that is responsible for
some irreversible birth defects in babies could also be harmful
to male fertility, a new study suggests. Infected mice had
shrunken testicles and lower levels of testosterone. The virus
hits male mice’s reproductive system hard, said a study
published Monday in Nature magazine. The lab tests run on mice
infected with Zika have shown low sperm counts and testicles
reduced 90 percent by weight. That’s not yet a reason for men to
panic, but already a matter for concern and further studies. “I
think this is an important finding [in mice], but this has to be
tested in humans… This virus is from a class of viruses that
causes cell death in a lot of cells, so it’s not hard to
extrapolate that if you had a lot of virus in a tissue for a
long period of time, then cells would die. That said, we
absolutely don’t know what the extent of this will be in humans…
The only way to find out is to track men longitudinally,” Dr
Michael Diamond, of the University of Washington, said in an
interview with The Scientist. “Don’t jump to the conclusion
right off that this is definitely what is happening to the
human,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, told AP.
But the mouse finding is a “red flag you need to pursue.”
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Video: The Hillary Clinton Takeover of the United States
Steve Pieczenik - Hillary and Bill Clinton are attempting a
takeover of the United States and will stop at nothing. A coup
d'état of this magnitude has never been affected in such a
subtly calculated way.
Podesta Part 25: Wikileaks Releases Another 2,460 Emails, Total
Is Now 41,969
Zero Hedge - In the final stretch of the presidential race which
has just a few days left, Wikileaks continues its ongoing
broadside attack against the Clinton campaign with the
relentless Podesta dump, by unveiling another 2,458 emails in
the latest, Part 25 of its Podesta release, bringing the total
emails released so far to exactly 41,969. The release comes one
day after Wikileaks warned that it was launching its "Phase 3"
of election coverage this week, raising questions what else - if
anything - Julian Assange has up his sleeve.
‘Dump all those emails’: Latest WikiLeaks tranche reveals
#Podesta advice
RT - Yesterday’s emails revealed that Anthony Weiner was a cause
for concern within the Clinton campaign as far back as 2011.
Emails from the former congressman’s laptop are key to the FBI’s
decision to reopen an investigation into Clinton’s use of a
private email server…. 'Dump all those mails' “We are going to
have to dump all those emails,” Podesta tells Clinton aide
Cheryl Mills in an email dated March 2, 2015, a week before
Clinton addressed the email scandal at a press conference,
claiming there was no classified material sent via the private
server. It’s not clear which emails Podesta is referring to in
the thread, but Podesta tells Mills: “better to do so sooner
than later”. Mills replies: “Think you just got your new nick
name.” ‘The power of torture’ “There is something to be said for
the power of torture,” Clinton aide Neera Tanden tells Podesta
in a July 2015 email showing her frustration over Clinton’s use
of a private email server. Tanden had previously told Podesta
that whoever told Clinton she could use the server should be
“drawn and quartered”. Ground Bernie ‘to a pulp’ Podesta is told
“Bernie needs to be ground to a pulp” in an email advising him
of tactics for dealing with Clinton’s rival for the Democratic
nomination, Bernie Sanders. The mail from campaign consultant
titled ‘Friendly advice. No mercy’ was sent in February 2016,
and tells Podesta to “Crush him as hard as you can.” Meanwhile,
just one month earlier, columnist Brent Budowsky wrote to
Podesta to strongly advise the campaign against using Chelsea
Clinton as a “political attack dog attacking Bernie over
healthcare of anything else”. “It is a sign of a campaign that
is totally out of touch with what is happening in 2016,” he
added in the January 12, 2016 email. “Chelsea should be the best
salesperson for Hillary to next generation voters, young voters,
and voters who want change.” “Campaign needs to calm down, get a
grip, think clearly and not panic.” [Read more]
Huma's Lawyer Makes First Public Statement, Blames Weiner
Zero Hedge - In her first public statement since Friday's FBI
bombshell, the lawyer for top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin,
Karen Dunn of Boies, Schiller said Monday that Abedin did not
know that her emails were on a computer that belonged to her
estranged husband, disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner.
In a statement on Monday night, Dunn, a former lawyer in the
Obama White House and a former communications director for
Clinton’s Senate office, said that Abedin "only learned for the
first time on Friday, from press reports, of the possibility
that a laptop belonging to Mr. Weiner could contain emails of
hers." “She only learned for the first time on Friday, from
press reports, of the possibility that a laptop belonging to Mr.
Weiner could contain emails of hers. While the FBI has not
contacted us about this, Ms. Abedin will continue to be, as she
always has been, forthcoming and cooperative,” Dunn said in her
statement. “From the beginning, Ms. Abedin has complied fully
and voluntarily with State Department and law enforcement
requests, including sitting for hours-long interviews and
providing her work-related and potentially work-related
documents,” lawyer Karen Dunn said in a statement Monday night.
Dunn said that the FBI had not contacted them about the issue,
though she added that "Ms. Abedin will continue to be, as she
always has been, forthcoming and cooperative.”… Meanwhile, as
Hillary Clinton continues her last week campaign rounds across
America, Huma is keeping a low profile. A campaign source told
the Post Abedin has been seen at Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters
since the news broke, working as usual.
FBI Unexpectedly Releases Documents Related To 2001 Probe Into
Clinton Foundation
Zero Hedge - Update: According to NBC's Tom Winter, the FBI
Vault twitter account "released all files pertaining to Donald
Trump's father, Fred Trump, a few weeks ago. That was response
to FOIA" and adds that "the release of WJC FBI files was sent by
the FOIA office under normal guidelines. A proper requested was
made -Pete Williams rpts.... The account, @FBIRecordsVault
started tweeting several days ago after not tweeting for a year.
The first tweet.... about Fred Trump's files." And now, it is
tweeting about the Clinton Foundation…. As the Washington
Examiner notes, it was not immediately clear what prompted the
FBI to publish the files Tuesday. However, the bureau posted the
documents on the section of its website dedicated to records
released through the Freedom of Information Act. Is this the FBI
engaging in a covert mutiny against the Clintons and the
political affiliated Department of Justice? We hope to find out
soon. The full document is shown below…
5 Separate FBI Cases Are Probing Virtually Every One Of
Hillary's Inner-Circle FBI Finds No Links Between Trump And
Russia, Probing Manafort Instead
Zero Hedge - Law enforcement officials say that none of the
investigations so far have found any link between Mr. Trump and
the Russian government. And even the hacking into Democratic
emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed
at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr.
Trump.
Feds to Award $200 Million in Grants to Feed and Educate
Children – in Other Countries
CNS News - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
has announced grants totaling $200 million “to improve the
education, food security, and health of school-age children,
especially girls in developing countries.” The Foreign
Agricultural Service grant, announced late last month and open
for applicants until Jan. 21, 2017, further states that the
funds can cover “food for education, food assistance, school
feeding, child nutrition, teacher training and gender equity.”
The grants are part of the McGovern-Dole International Food for
Education and Child Nutrition Program “that provides for the
financial and technical assistance to improve the education,
food security, and health of school-age children, especially
girls in developing countries.”
Poll: Donald Trump +7 over Hillary Clinton in North Carolina,
Now at 51 Percent
Breitbart - A new WRAL/SurveyUSA poll shows that Donald Trump is
now leading North Carolina by seven points ahead of Hillary
Clinton — 51 percent to Clinton’s 44 percent. That means that
Trump has shockingly flipped his numbers in the state in just
one month. Three weeks ago, Clinton was leading Trump by two
points in the same poll – 46 percent to 44 percent. Trump has
now passed the 50 percent threshold, according to the poll,
making it unlikely that Clinton will be able to bounce back. The
poll was conducted after the news that the FBI would revisit the
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server.
Texas Poll: Trump Lead Swells to 12
Breitbart - The KTVT-CBS 11/Dixie Strategies Poll reveals that
if the election for president was held today, 52 percent of
likely voters said they would vote for Trump, and 39 percent
said they would vote for Clinton, reported CBSDFW. The Dallas
CBS affiliate wrote, the poll result “casts doubt on any
Democratic victory on November 8.”
Desperate Dems’ Final Act: Hysteria
Breitbart - Citing shifting polls and bad news for Hillary
Clinton as the investigation into her email scandal was
reinvigorated this week, Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily
SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday that Clinton “looks kind of
hysterical, out there making wild attacks now and going crazy.”
Clinton began claiming that there are ties between Republican
nominee Donald Trump and Russia while on the stump after a story
broke via Slate; however, the New York Times quickly debunked
the item. Caddell continued, “I think they don’t know what to
do,” also pointing out that Hillary Clinton’s unfavorables
appear to be “at their highest” in the latest polling. He then
stated that he turned on his television Tuesday morning to find
that the “hysteria on MSNBC was palpable,” seemingly in response
to the same news.
Pennsylvania Police Raid Democrat "Advocacy Group" Office Over
Alleged Voter Fraud
Zero Hedge - Pennsylvania state police have raided offices of a
democrat "public advocacy" group, FieldWorks, LLC, seeking
evidence of possible voter-registration fraud. The Inquirer
Daily News, cited court records in a report published earlier
today noting that police were seeking templates that were
"utilized to construct fraudulent voter registration forms." The
office being investigated is located in the city of Norwood in
Delaware County, PA. FieldWorks describes itself as "a
nationally recognized grassroots organizing firm founded to help
progressive organizations, advocacy groups, and members of the
Democratic family take their public engagement and electoral
strategies to the next level." Yes, we would also confirm that
committing voter fraud is indeed "taking things to the next
level." Meanwhile, the FieldWorks website notes that the
organization utilizes "innovative grassroots strategies" to
"target the right voters in the right places, and using the
right tactics at the right time." The website also lists its
core competencies as "vote-by-mail, early voting, voter
registration..." Somehow, we wouldn't be surprised if they also
specialized in helping dead voters as well...though it would be
a little reckless to put that directly on a website...that's
more of a message that should be communicated in person or over
the phone.
Early Voters in Minnesota, Wisconsin Allowed to Change Ballots
Breitbart - However, other swing states do not give voters this
option. In Florida, Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina and Colorado
voters cannot change their ballots. Pennsylvania does not have
early voting. The question about whether or not voters can
change their early votes arose after the FBI announced on Friday
it was renewing its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private
email server — just 12 days before the general election. As of
Friday morning, more than 12.6 million Americans were estimated
to have already cast their ballots, according to CNN.
Oil Tanks After API Reports Biggest Build To U.S. Crude Stocks Since
March
OilPrice.com - This week’s American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a
massive 9.3 million barrel build in United States’ crude oil supplies –
the largest increase since March of this year. Experts polled by
ZeroHedge expected a seasonally consistent 1.54-million-barrel build,
but instead, API figures show the largest jump in inventories for eight
months. Distillate supplies saw the sixth straight week of declines, but
supplies at Cushing, Oklahoma saw the largest spike in three months.
Gasoline supplies experienced the largest decline in two months, down
3.5 million barrels against the more modest one-million-barrel drop that
was forecasted. West Texas Intermediate crude prices sank 1.13 percent
with the report’s release, stabilizing at $46.33. Brent prices traded
down 1.42 percent at $47.92 at the time of this article’s writing. Oil
had rallied earlier in the day on a slipping dollar, and after Colonial
Pipeline had to shut down its main pipeline for a second time in as many
months following an explosion. WTI had reached as high as $47.35 on
Tuesday. ZeroHedge noted that domestic crude inventories are still 29
percent higher than the seasonal average.
Wind Farms Cause Sleep Loss, Stress and Anxiety, Government Review Finds
Breitbart - The report, commissioned by the former Department for Energy
and Climate Change last year, found a “clear link” between the amount of
noise emitted by a wind farm and the irritation nearby residents
experience. If turbines exceed 40 decibels, there is an “increased risk”
of sleep deprivation, thus in turn leading to stress and anxiety.
However, the sleeplessness was caused more by the frustration evoked
from living near a loud wind turbine than the turbine itself, the report
added. It recommends that “excessive” noise should be curbed, citing the
possibility of modifying turbine blades to stop disturbances. However,
it is not just noise that causes irritation. The report also says that
flickering shadows caused by revolving turbine blades, as well as the
general “appearance in the landscape” of wind farms can be equally
irksome Conservative MP Glyn Davies told the Sunday Telegraph: “Where
there are noisy wind farms they are hugely disruptive. Noisy wind farms
should be shut down unless they can be changed. They would need to be
shut down permanently.” In 2014, a senior Irish health official warned
of so-called “wind turbine syndrome”, saying that infrasonic vibrations
emitted by the turbines can potentially lead to “fatigue, dizziness,
headache, difficulty concentrating, and insomnia.”
San Francisco Lab Launches New Era of Glyphosate Testing in Food
Sustainable Pulse - Anresco Laboratories, working in
coordination with The Detox Project, has started a new era of
transparent, accurate and affordable glyphosate testing, which
enables consumers to find out the truth about the levels of
glyphosate in their food. High detection (20 parts per billion
‘ppb’ and above) glyphosate testing has been available to the
food industry in the U.S. for many years, however, the chemical
is hardly ever tested for in our food despite being the World’s
most used herbicide.
Tylenol During Pregnancy Linked to Autism
Alliance for Natural Health - A recent study found that boys
exposed to acetaminophen (Tylenol) before birth were more likely
to have symptoms of autism during childhood. This isn’t the
first time that scientists have reported a connection between
using this drug during pregnancy and brain and behavior
abnormalities in children. Other studies show that exposure to
acetaminophen raised the risk of developing ADHD (attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder) by 40%. Another study found that
women taking it increased the risk of their child having
behavioral problems by 70%. Pregnant mothers aren’t the only
ones who should avoid acetaminophen and other common painkillers
like NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)—a class that
includes drugs like Advil, Celebrex, and Aleve. Consider the
following: By the FDA’s own calculation, acetaminophen was the
leading cause of liver failure in Americans between 1998 and
2003, and there’s no reason to think that this has changed in
the years since. Every year, 78,000 people go to the emergency
room from acetaminophen overdose, whether accidental or
intentional. The problem is so bad that the FDA asked doctors to
stop prescribing any medication that has more than 325 mg of
acetaminophen per dose. Of course, this ignores the fact that if
people feel the prescribed dose isn’t cutting the pain, many
think nothing of taking an extra tablet or two. NSAID pain
relievers like aspirin or ibuprofen are similarly problematic:
One study conservatively estimated that 107,000 people are
hospitalized each year for NSAID-related gastrointestinal
complications and “at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur
each year among arthritis patients alone.” Another study showed
that patients who take NSAIDs have a 90% greater likelihood of
dying from all causes. Daily or long-term use of aspirin doubles
the risk of internal bleeding and does not reduce heart attack
risk for people with no history of heart problems.
Why Calcium Supplements Will Actually Increase Your Risk of
Heart Disease
Prevent Disease.com - …new research published in the Journal of
the American Heart Association (JAHA) has again found that that
the use of calcium supplements may actually increase the risk
for incident CAC and therefore jeopardise heart health. In fact
when considering supplement use, the risk of developing CAC was
22% higher in those who used calcium supplements compared to
those who didn't. These conclusions were based on the study of
5,448 adults free of clinically diagnosed cardiovascular disease
aged between 45 and 84. The research came in response to recent
data suggesting calcium supplements may increase the risk of
cardiovascular disease events. The dairy industy has been hard
at work the last 50 years convincing people that pasteurized
dairy products such as milk or cheese increases bioavailable
calcium levels. This is totally false. The pasteurization
process only creates calcium carbonate, which has absolutely no
way of entering the cells without a chelating agent. So what the
body does is pull the calcium from the bones and other tissues
in order to buffer the calcium carbonate in the blood. This
process actually causes osteoporosis. Moreover, it has been
found that magnesium, not calcium is the key the healthy bones
and many other processes in the body. Type of Calcium Ingested
Is Key: Most supplements on the supplement market today contain
calcium carbonate which is an inferior form of calcium and
manufacturers attach a simple chelating agent like citric acid
to make it more absorbable, however the end product is inferior
to other calcium supplements such as calcium orotate, which is
the only known form of calcium which can effectively penetrate
the membranes of cells.
20 Foods That Naturally Unclog Arteries and Prevent Heart
Attacks
Natural News Blogs - 1. Pomegranate: Pomegranate is rich in
antioxidants which prevents the arteries from being damaged.
Research also shows that pomegranate improves heart health by
reducing bad cholesterol. 2. Spirulina: Spirulina is regulates
fat levels in the blood. And it’s rich in omega 3 fatty acids,
which studies show prevents heart disease. 3. Asparagus: This
vegetable is rich in vitamins and minerals that prevent blood
clots and lower blood pressure. 4. Turmeric: Inflammation is one
of the main causes of arteriosclerosis, and as you may know,
turmeric fights inflammation. 5. Cranberries: The potassium in
cranberries can lower blood pressure and reduce risk of heart
disease by up to 40 percent. 6. Watermelon: One study found that
L-citrulline (found in watermelon) can widen blood vessels and
lower blood pressure. This can actually benefit men with mild
erectile dysfunction. 7. Avocado: Research shows that eat
avocados every day can clean your arteries, lower bad
cholesterol and increase good cholesterol. 8. Broccoli: Broccoli
contains vitamin K which prevents calcium from damaging the
arteries. It’s also rich in soluble fiber which lowers
cholesterol. 9. Cinnamon: This spice unclogs the arteries of
plaque build-up. Its antioxidant properties also improve
cardiovascular health. 10. Green tea: This powerful herb
contains catechins which prevent absorption of cholesterol. This
consequently prevents blockage of arteries. Drink 2-3 cups a
day. 11. Coconut oil: Taking coconut oil regularly can unclog
the arteries and even convert bad cholesterol to good…..
Tuesday - November 1, 2016 - Today In History:
1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American
colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the
Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British
government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
1800 - U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in
the White House when he moved in.
1864 - The U.S. Post Office started selling money orders. The money
orders provided a safe way to payments by mail.
1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological
observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.
1894 - "Billboard Advertising" was published for the first time. It
later became known as "Billboard."
1904 - The Army War College in Washington, DC, enrolled the first class.
1911 - Italy used planes to drop bombs on the Tanguira oasis in Libya.
It was the first aerial bombing.
1949 - In Washington, 55 people were killed when a fighter plane hit an
airliner.
1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President
Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their
way into Blair House in Washington, DC.
1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok
Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1963 - The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of
maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.
1968 - The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and
NC-17 went into effect.
1973 - Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor
in the Watergate case.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged all Iranians to demonstrate on
November 4 and to expand their attacks against the U.S. and Israel. On
November 4, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took
63 Americans hostage.
1994 - The Amazon.com domain name was registered.
1995 - In Dayton, OH, the Bosnian peace talks opened with the leaders of
Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
1998 - Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos announced that between
1,000 and 1,500 people were buried in a 32-square mile area below the
slopes of the Casita volcano in northern Nicaragua by a mudslide caused
by Hurricane Mitch.
Special Items of interest from
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Fukushima’s cleanup going five years after its meltdown? Not so well.
Estonia Prepares To Fight An Insurgency War With Russia
The Daily Caller - Estonian citizens compete in weekend
competitions intended to teach them the skills necessary to
mount an insurgency war. The events are held nearly by the
Estonian Defense League, a government-sponsored militia group,
nearly every weekend. Estonia’s military is comprised of around
6,000 active forces, a tiny sum in comparison to the massive
Russian military stationed near the country’s eastern border.
The government knows it would not survive long in a conventional
fight with Russia, so it instead plans to engage in a
nation-wide insurgency.... Many eastern European countries
witnessed Russia’s invasion of Crimea and worry they could be
next. In response, Estonia is encouraging its citizens to learn
tactics similar to those used by insurgents in Iraq and
Afghanistan, particularly the use of IEDs.... The Estonian
government encourages defense league members to keep stashes of
clothes, canned foods and ammunition ready in case of a Russian
invasion. Around 15,500 people currently participate in the
militia organization. The league also sponsors boy and girl
scout organizations, adding another 9,000 potential
insurgents.... Several eastern European countries are preparing
for a potential insurgency against Russia, including Poland.
While both Estonia and Poland are NATO members, neither country
is operating under the assumption that the U.S. and the rest of
Europe will come to their aid should the Russians invade.
Chemical Attack in Syria's Aleppo Leaves 2 Dead, Dozens of
Civilians Injured
Sputnik News - The attack has killed two Syrian servicemen and
left at least 37 civilians injured, according to the Russian
Ministry of Defense. "On October 30, illegal armed groups fired
shells fitted with a poisonous substance against Dahiyat Assad
and Hamdaniyah areas of Aleppo city from the territory of 1070
quarters," the ministry said on its website. "Two Syrian
military servicemen were killed. Not less than 37 civilians were
injured." A statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry
earlier on Monday condemned the attacks, saying "this instance
of combat use of chemicals by the terrorists against the
civilians is not, unfortunately, an isolated case… Al-Nusra
Front terrorists and some Syrian rebel groups, allied to the
group, launched an offensive in Aleppo's south-west on Friday.
For more than three days, terrorists have been attacking Syrian
Arab Army's units, as well as residential areas in western and
central parts of Aleppo.
Related:
Armed opposition groups must end unlawful attacks in western
Aleppo
Russia, Japan May Finally Sign Peace Deal to Officially End WWII
Conflict
The AntiMedia - Russia acquired the Southern Kurils, which the
Japanese have traditionally called Shikotan, Kunashiri, Etorofu,
and the Habomai islet group, following the fall of Japan and its
subsequent signing of an agreement to give up the territory.
Japan signed the agreement out of necessity but has always held
that the islands are traditionally Japanese. Now, the
administrative rights to those islands are once more being
revisited by both Russian and Japanese officials.... “Russia
won’t agree to hand over (the islands) unless the possibility of
stationing the U.S. military there is ruled out,” sources told
The Japan Times.... The territory is highly strategic for
Russia, as it faces the Sea of Okhotsk. A foreign military
force, like the United States, occupying those islands, “could
hamper both essential military drills and the use of a major
access route to the Pacific Ocean.” While Japan still very much
follows the lead of its longtime ally, the U.S.— even to the
extent of going along with continued sanctions against Russia
over Ukraine — the fact remains Japanese-Russian ties are
warming. It’s also clear this is something the Japanese want —
for a variety of reasons.... It would seem that on the surface,
both Japan and Russia each have something the other wants. Japan
wants control of its islands back, and Russia wants to prevent
the U.S. from positioning itself militarily at such a crucial
access point to the Pacific. If such a deal is reached, it would
mean far more than a simple transference of territorial control.
It would mean one of the primary obstacles to an official
Russian-Japanese peace treaty would be eliminated.
French riot police begin destroying camps full of UK-bound
migrants in Paris
Daily Mail - Demolition workers supported by riot police today
began smashing up an illegal camp full of UK-bound migrants in
Paris. There were scuffles as mainly Afghans and Eritreans tried
to save their possessions during the raid, which started soon
after 8am. It followed thousands of migrants arriving in the
French capital following the razing of the Calais Jungle refugee
camp last week.... Up to 3,000 set up tents on the pavements
around the Stalingrad Metro station, which is close to the Gare
du Nord Eurostar hub in the north of Paris. Shortly before
today’s clearance French president Francois Hollande said: ‘We
won’t tolerate the camps any longer.’ Referring to the Paris
clearance, Mr Hollande said: ‘We are going to carry out the same
operation as in Calais.’ CRS [Compagnies Républicaines de
Sécurité (English: Republican Security Companies)] riot police
around Stalingrad said there would be a ‘gradual operation’
which is likely to go on all week until all the camps are gone.
Australian taxpayers charged over $88 million for donation to
corrupt Clinton Foundation
Hang The Bankers - The Australian taxpayer shovelled at least
$88 million into the Clinton Foundation and associated entities
from 2006 to 2014, reaching a peak of $10.3 million in 2012-13,
[former Prime Minister Julia] Gillard’s last year in office. On
the Clinton Foundation website, AusAID and the Commonwealth of
Australia score separate entries in the $10 million-plus group
of donors, one rung up from American teacher unions. In 2009-10
[former Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd handed over another $10
million to the foundation for climate research, part of $300
million he squandered on a Global Carbon Capture and Storage
Institute. Gillard also donated $300 million of our money to the
Clinton-affiliated Global Partnership for Education. Lo and
behold, she became chairman in 2014 and has been actively
promoting Clinton as president ever since — in a campaign video
last December slamming Trump, in opeds trumpeting the next woman
president and in appearances with Clinton spruiking girls’
education. The Abbott government topped up the left-wing
organisation’s coffers with another $140 million in 2014,
bringing total Australian largesse to $460 million, according to
a press release from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. And yet,
apart from the beautiful friendship with Gillard, what did
Australia get from the Clintons for all that cash? A whole lot
of trouble is what. The latest treasure trove of Wikileaks
emails released last week shows that Australian green groups
have been secretly funded to destroy our coal industry by
environmental activists connected to the Clinton campaign.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
John Podesta's Best Friend At The DOJ Will Be In Charge Of The
DOJ's Probe Into Huma Abedin Emails
Zero Hedge - Now that the FBI has obtained the needed warrant to
start poring over the 650,000 or so emails uncovered in Anthony
Weiner's notebook, among which thousands of emails sent from
Huma Abedin using Hillary Clinton's personal server, moments ago
the Us Justice Department decided to also finally join the
probe, and as AP reported moments ago, it vowed to dedicate all
needed resources to quickly review the over half a million
emails in the Clinton case…. In the letter to Congress, the DOJ
writes that it “will continue to work closely with the FBI and
together, dedicate all necessary resources and take appropriate
steps as expeditiously as possible,” assistant attorney General
Peter J. Kadzik writes in letters to House and Senate lawmakers.
So far so good, even if one wonders just how active the DOJ will
be in a case that has shown an unprecedented schism between the
politically influenced Department of Justice and the FBI. And
yet, something felt odd about this. Kadzik... where have we
heard that name? Oh yes. Recall our post from last week,
"Clinton Campaign Chair Had Dinner With Top DOJ Official One Day
After Hillary's Benghazi Hearing" in which we reported that John
Podesta had dinner with one of the highest ranked DOJ officials
the very day after Hillary Clinton's Benghazi testimony? It was
Peter Kadzik. In other words, the best friend of John Podesta,
Clinton's Campaign char, at the DOJ will be in charge of a probe
that could potentially sink Hillary Clinton…. Kadzik's role at
the DOJ, where he started in 2013, is particularly notable
Kadzik, as helped spearhead the effort to nominate Lynch, who
was heavily criticized for her secret meeting with the former
president. It gets better because, as we further revealed, if
there is one person in the DOJ who is John Podesta's, and thus
the Clinton Foundation's inside man, it is Peter Kadjik. Kadzik
represented Podesta during the Monica Lewinsky investigation.
And in the waning days of the Bill Clinton administration,
Kadzik lobbied Podesta on behalf of Marc Rich, the fugitive who
Bill Clinton controversially pardoned on his last day in office.
That history is cited by Podesta in another email hacked from
his Gmail account. In a Sept. 2008 email, which the Washington
Free Beacon flagged last week, Podesta emailed an Obama campaign
official to recommend Kadzik for a supportive role in the
campaign. Podesta, who would later head up the Obama White House
transition effort, wrote that Kadzik was a “fantastic lawyer”
who “kept me out of jail.”
EXCLUSIVE — Immigration Officer: Border Deluge of Illegal Aliens
‘Is The Worst We’ve Ever Seen’
Breitbart - The illegal aliens, mostly from Central America, are
using President Barack Obama’s policies to request asylum, work
permits and green cards. Whereas unlawful aliens traditionally
sought to evade border agents in hopes of reaching U.S. cities
where they could illegally fill American jobs, reports document
how many of these new migrants are now turning themselves in to
border patrol agents believing they’ll be allowed to stay
permanently. This 2016 influx of migrants from Central America
had exceeded 117,000 by Oct. 1, marking a new record… In the 12
months up to October 2016, 271,000 illegal immigrants were
caught trying to sneak across the border—but many others escaped
arrest and made their way to U.S. workplaces and cities….
Although the surge has been largely ignored by corporate media
and unacknowledged by the administration, “the public’s safe is
in jeopardy,” the [ICE ] agent warned. Migrants with histories
of prior criminal offenses, plus “would-be perpetrators or
terrorists whose intent is to harm Americans or our country as a
whole” could be among those being released from ICE’s custody,
the agent said. The officer said he believes the reason
corporate media refuse to cover the crisis is because “it’s an
election year and [the media] have a politically-driven agenda.
I don’t know why else it wouldn’t be covered—this is the worst
we’ve ever seen it,” the agent said.
* Related:
Leaked Images Show Illegals Casually Strolling Across Open
Border
No Prayer, No Deal – Mission Rejects USDA Food Donations Over
Regulations
CNS News - “The USDA revised regulations regarding this food
distribution to say that no religious services or religious
activities could occur during the distribution of the food,”
Executive Director of the Bethesda Mission, Chuck Wingate tells
CNSNews.com. “Well, we pray before meals, so if there’s a meal
being served – and we serve 3,000 meals a week – if there’s a
meal being served with USDA food somewhere in it, then we would
be prohibited from praying. We just said ‘nope’ that’s too
onerous for us and we’re not going to continue to accept the
food if that’s a condition of receiving it.” The USDA issued its
final rule on religious liberty protections to beneficiaries of
federally funded programs earlier this year. Among the final
rules, “The organization may not require a beneficiary to attend
or participate in any explicitly religious activities that are
offered by the organization, and any participation by the
beneficiaries in those activities must be purely voluntary.”....
Wingate says concerns over the regulations led to Bethesda
Mission asking for clarification. The response they received
from The Pennsylvania Food Bank, which is the pass-through
organization for surplus USDA food donations, informed them that
prayer before a meal is specifically prohibited. The USDA food
that was used by the Bethesda Mission amounted to roughly 1,000
pounds a month. Wingate says since the news of rejecting the
USDA program has come out there has been an increase in both
cash and food donations. The organization is optimistic that it
will be able to continue offering its services uninhibited by
the loss of the USDA food donations.
Wikileaks Warns It Is Launching "Phase Three" Of Its Election
Coverage
Zero Hedge - On Sunday night, Wikileaks enigmatically tweeted
that it would launch “phase 3 of [its] US election coverage" in
the coming week. The site put politicians on notice Sunday
evening in a tweet that also included a plea for donations. “We
commence phase 3 of our US election coverage next week. You can
contribute: https://shop.wikileaks.org/donate @WLTaskForce" the
whistleblower website announced moments ago.... Wikileaks
supporters, now including a number of disgruntled GOP nominee
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders supporters, promptly replied
with tweets expressing hope that phase three would ultimately
damage Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's
campaign.... A new archive of Clinton-related documents would
further irk a campaign still reeling from FBI director James
Comey's announcement on Friday that new emails related to the
Clinton server probe had been discovered. But there is at least
some reason to believe Wikileaks could release material that is
not solely Clinton related. Julian Assange, the head of
Wikileaks, has stated that he would publish information from
Trump if the site were sent any.
New Wikileaks: Donna Brazile Gives Hillary ANOTHER Debate
Question in Advance
Paul Joseph Watson - A new email released by Wikileaks as part
of the Podesta dump reveals that former CNN commentator and
current chairperson of the DNC Donna Brazile gave Hillary
Clinton another question the day before a major debate. “One of
the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a
rash,” the email is titled. It was sent on March 5, the day
before Clinton debated Bernie Sanders in Flint, Michigan. “Her
family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will
Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint,” reads the
body of the email. According to debate commission rules, no
candidate is supposed to be given any questions in advance of a
debate. This is not the first time that Wikileaks emails have
revealed how Brazile tipped off Hillary’s campaign with debate
questions in advance. A previous email entitled, “From time to
time I get the questions in advance,” gave Clinton the nod that
a question would be asked about the death penalty. The latest
email completely demolishes Brazile’s claim, made during a fiery
exchange with Megyn Kelly, that she didn’t receive debate
questions in advance. During the interview, Brazile appeared
rattled, at one point suggesting that the email was fake or
doctored, with no evidence, while claiming she was being
“persecuted.” This latest revelation provides yet more bombshell
evidence of collusion between the media, specifically CNN, and
the Clinton campaign.
Related:
CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile
Desperate Hillary to Release ‘Racist’ Trump Tape?
Paul Joseph Watson - Speculation is rife that Hillary Clinton –
backed into a corner by the FBI’s decision to re-open its
investigation into her email scandal – will give the go-ahead
for the release of new tapes that feature Donald Trump making
racist remarks. Hillary now faces at least three different forms
of attack over the next week – more damaging revelations from
the Podesta emails, more undercover videos from James O’Keefe
and Project Veritas, in addition to the newly re-opened FBI
investigation of her email scandal. O’Keefe has indicated that
he is about to release a video that shows Clinton operatives
making disparaging racial remarks. Speculation has also raged
that the Clinton camp is sitting on unreleased audio tapes of
Donald Trump making lewd, and possibly racist, remarks. As the
Daily Caller reported earlier this month, Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Michael D’Antonio, who wrote a biography on Donald
Trump, contacted the Clinton campaign back in March to offer
them 9 hours of taped conversations with Trump free of charge….
Nine hours of taped conversations with Trump – who is notorious
for speaking off the cuff – are almost certain to contain
something that can be overhyped or taken out of context. While
some believe the tapes will be released early this week, others
like Ben Shapiro think the behavior of Clinton campaign
operatives suggest that they are out of ammo.
Former Clinton Pollster Doug Schoen Withdraws Support for
Hillary Over Renewed FBI Investigation (Video)
The Gateway Pundit - Democrat pollster Doug Schoen, who advised
President Bill’s Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign and worked
on Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential bid, has withdrawn
his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the presidency following
the renewal of the FBI investigation into Clinton and her her
top aide Huma Abedin. Schoen said he fears a constitutional
crisis should Clinton be elected and sworn into office while
under investigation… Schoen’s bio reads in part: Douglas E.
Schoen has been one of the most influential Democratic campaign
consultants for over thirty years. A founding partner and
principle strategist for Penn, Schoen & Berland, he is widely
recognized as one of the co-inventors of overnight polling.
Schoen was named Pollster of the Year in 1996 by the American
Association of Political Consultants for his contributions to
the President Bill Clinton reelection campaign. His political
clients include New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and
Indiana Governor Evan Bayh, and his corporate clients include
AOL Time Warner, Procter & Gamble and AT&T. Internationally, he
has worked for the heads of states of over 15 countries,
including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and three Israeli Prime Ministers…”
Video: How America’s Elections Are Hacked, Missing Link
Discovered
Infowars - Author Bev Harris became known for groundbreaking
work on electronic voting machines, which can remove
transparency of the vote count. With voting machines, all
political power can be converted to the hands of a few anonymous
subcontractors…
A increased employee bonuses in 2015 to $177 million
Washington Times - Despite more problems at the Department of
Veterans Affairs, the agency handed out more than $177 million
in bonuses in fiscal 2015 to nearly 189,000 employees. More than
300 senior executives of the troubled agency received $3.3
million in bonuses, for an average payment of about $10,000
each, USA Today reported Monday. Bonuses for non-executives
averaged about $900. The report comes in the wake of an aborted
attempt by the Pentagon to recoup enlistment bonuses paid to
National Guardsmen who served in Iraq. Critics said the VA
bonuses raise fresh questions about the agency’s system for
evaluating employees.... Among the managers receiving bonuses,
the newspaper reported, was the former top VA official in Ohio
who retired the same day he received a termination notice.
Another bonus went to the chief of staff at the scandal-ridden
Phoenix VA Medical Center, who got the cash award four months
before he was fired.... USA Today said the list of those paid
bonuses included Dr. Darren Deering, who was fired as chief of
staff of the Phoenix VA Health Care System last June for what
the agency said was “negligent performance of duties and failure
to provide effective oversight.” He received a $5,000 bonus in
February. The Phoenix system was ground zero in 2014 of a
scandal involving veterans dying while waiting for appointments,
delays that were covered up with phony wait lists. Jack Hetrick,
formerly the top VA official in Ohio, received a $12,705 bonus
last January. An investigation by WCPO-TV and Scripps News
showed that Barbara Temeck, acting chief of staff at the
Cincinnati VA Medical Center, was prescribing medication to Mr.
Hetrick’s wife without a proper license. Ms. Temeck was paid a
$5,000 bonus in January.... In all, more than half of all VA
employees received a bonus, an increase of about 20 percent from
fiscal 2014. The total amount paid in bonuses rose about 24
percent, up from $142 million in fiscal 2014.
Veteran with PTSD sues American Airlines over service dog
incident
McClatchy DC - An Army veteran who suffers from PTSD says in a
federal lawsuit American Airlines agents subjected her to two
days of humiliation and stress when she tried to fly home from
Kansas with her service dog, a Labrador retriever named Jake.
Lisa McCombs said she flew without incident to Manhattan,
Kansas, on Oct. 25, 2015, but was stuck there for two days
because American regional carrier Envoy refused to let her board
a return flight with Jake, even though he was wearing his
service vest and met criteria to board the plane.... The lawsuit
describes in detail what followed. An American agent walked up
to her and, in a condescending tone, said, ‘Ummmm, you’re not
trying to fly with that?’ gesturing toward Jake. The agent
demanded documentation for Jake, but did not say what kind was
needed. Soon enough, a supervisor got involved and American
employees confirmed McCombs could not fly with Jake, saying she
would need to pay $125 for the dog to travel as cargo, or
resubmit identification for a flight 48 hours later.... An
American customer-service representative McCombs contacted by
phone seemed confused about why she was being prevented from
boarding the flight. After McCombs missed her flight, the
airline employees started grilling her about why she needed a
service dog, the lawsuit says, a violation of the ADA.... People
in the airport tried to comfort her, asking why she was being
treated so rudely. Police arrived, but merely observed the scene
until airline employees kicked her out of the airport....
[senior manager of Military and Veterans Programs at American —
a pilot and U.S. Army veteran] Capt. Palmersheim called the next
day, saying things such as, “We are owning this,” “We are
sickened and embarrassed,” “Our airline really sucked when it
came to your experience” and “We are going to make it right,
whatever that means for you.”
Wells Fargo agrees to $50 million settlement over homeowner fees
Reuters - Wells Fargo & Co has agreed to pay $50 million to
settle a racketeering lawsuit accusing it of overcharging
hundreds of thousands of homeowners for appraisals ordered after
they defaulted on their mortgage loans. The proposed settlement,
which requires court approval, was disclosed in a filing on
Friday in an Oakland, California federal court. If approved, it
will resolve nationwide claims that Wells Fargo charged much
more than it paid for third-party appraisals, exploiting
borrowers who could least afford it and driving them further
into default. Wells Fargo's settlement of the lawsuit comes as
the bank is still recoiling from a scandal over sales targets
that drove employees to create unauthorized accounts for
customers. Multiple lawsuits over those practices are pending….
Wells Fargo typically charged $95 to $125 for the type of
expedited appraisal at issue, when the actual cost was $50 or
less, the complaint said. The charges added hundreds or
thousands of dollars to borrower's mortgage loans over time, the
lawsuit said. Customers did not know they had been victimized
because the charges were described on statements with cryptic
labels such as "other charges," the lawsuit said.
U.S. Trucking Companies Slash Fleets Amid "Tepid Shipping
Demand"
Zero Hedge - it should come as little surprise that large
trucking companies in the U.S. are being forced to slash fleets
amid slumping demand and slack capacity. According to the Wall
Street Journal, several U.S. trucking companies, including
Swift, Werner and Covenant, have all been forced to cut 1,000s
of trucks from their fleets as "overcapacity has driven down
pricing." Of course, all this means that class 8 truck
manufactures are unlikely to see an uptick in new orders anytime
in the near future with Werner promising it won’t add trucks
“until they see meaningful improvement in the freight and rate
markets.”.... That said, we wouldn't hold our breath waiting for
demand and pricing to rebound. As Barclays points out, consumer
goods imports have continued to remain very weak in 2016 which
they think could "presage a slowdown in household demand."
Moreover, Barclays points out that amongst durable goods orders
only autos have held up over the past several months amid
overall declines for the larger basket though even autos have
seemingly "reached a plateau."
Alabama gas line explosion leaves several injured, others missing
RT - A gas line explosion in Shelby County has left at least seven
people severely burned and 10 acres of land are on fire. Nearby
residents have been evacuated without incident, but two pipeline
contractors are still missing. An explosion on a Colonial gas pipeline
occurred as “eight or nine” subcontractors were trying to flush one of
the lines on Monday, the Birmingham News reported. So far, seven have
been reported to be injured and two workers are possibly missing. The
fire’s intense heat has hindered the search. Eight or nine workers were
injured, according to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office, while another
four to six were being treated at UAB Hospital, WBMA reported. The
mainlines have been shut down in Shelby, according to a press release
from Colonial Pipelines. While flames from the blaze have reached 50
feet high, no damage has been reported in the nearby town of Helena. The
only homes in the vicinity have been evacuated with no injuries.
220 ‘Significant’ Pipeline Spills Already This Year Exposes Troubling
Safety Record
The Liberty Beacon - Three major U.S. pipeline spills within the last
month are just a small part of the 220 significant incidents reported so
far this year—and 3,032 since 2006—that provide a stark reminder of the
environmental hazards of an aging pipeline infrastructure carrying
fossil fuels. The costs of these leaks since 2006 has amounted to $4.7
billion…. Some 55 percent of the U.S. network of 135,000 miles of
pipeline is more than 45 years old. Technology designed to detect
pipeline leaks is highly unreliable, even though companies like Colonial
Pipeline tout their use as a way “to insure safe operations.” But a
recent Reuters report found that these technologies are “about as
successful as a random member of the public” finding a leak. Of 466
incidents studied by Reuters, only 22 percent, or 105, were detected by
advanced detection systems. The others were found in different ways,
with the public finding 99 of the leaks.
Doctors Orders: Stop Fracking Pennsylvania
EcoWatch - The Pennsylvania Medical Society—the state's largest medical
group—is calling for a moratorium on the controversial natural gas
extraction method and is urging the state legislature to fund an
independent health registry and commission research studies on the
health effects of fracking. The Pennsylvania Medical Society—the state's
largest medical group—is calling for a moratorium on the controversial
natural gas extraction method and is urging the state legislature to
fund an independent health registry and commission research studies on
the health effects of fracking…. Pennsylvania sits on one of the
country's most active and notorious fracking regions—nearly 10,000
fracking wells have been drilled in the gas-rich Marcellus shale in the
past decade, turning the state into a fracking powerhouse. However, this
activity has come at a cost to human and environmental health. One study
linked Pennsylvania's unconventional natural gas development to migraine
headaches, fatigue, and nasal and sinus symptoms. In another study,
researchers combed through years of health records from 40 counties in
north and central Pennsylvania and determined that people who live close
to fracking wells have a higher risk of asthma attacks among asthma
patients. Last week, the Yale School of Public Health published a study
determining that 55 unique chemicals could be classified as known,
probable or possible human carcinogens. They also specifically
identified 20 compounds that had evidence of leukemia/lymphoma risk.
Furthermore, the resolution highlights how fracking has been associated
with significant environmental harm…. However, Jeffrey Sheridan, who is
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's spokesman, told the newspaper that a
statewide moratorium is unlikely.
New leak may show if you were hacked by the NSA
Ars Technica - Shadow Brokers—the name used by a person or group
that created seismic waves in August when it published some of
the National Security Agency's most elite hacking tools—is back
with a new leak that the group says reveals hundreds of
organizations targeted by the NSA over more than a decade. "TheShadowBrokers
is having special trick or treat for Amerikanskis tonight," said
the Monday morning post, which was signed by the same encryption
key used in the August posts. "Many missions into your networks
is/was coming from these ip addresses.".... According to
analyses from researchers […] Monday's dump contains 352
distinct IP addresses and 306 domain names that purportedly have
been hacked by the NSA. The timestamps included in the leak
indicate that the servers were targeted between August 22, 2000
and August 18, 2010. The addresses include 32 .edu domains and
nine .gov domains. In all, the targets were located in 49
countries, with the top 10 being China, Japan, Korea, Spain,
Germany, India, Taiwan, Mexico, Italy, and Russia.... The dump
also includes various other pieces of data. Chief among them are
configuration settings for an as-yet unknown toolkit used to
hack servers running Unix operating systems. If valid, the list
could be used by various organizations to uncover a decade's
worth of attacks that until recently were closely guarded
secrets.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Genetically Modified Crops in U.S. Fail to Deliver on Promise of
Greater Crop Yield and Diminished Pesticide Use
AllGov - The controversy over genetically modified crops has
long focused on largely unsubstantiated fears that they are
unsafe to eat. But an extensive examination by The New York
Times indicates that the debate has missed a more basic problem
— genetic modification in the United States and Canada has not
accelerated increases in crop yields or led to an overall
reduction in the use of chemical pesticides.... An analysis by
The Times using U.N. data showed that the United States and
Canada have gained no discernible advantage in yields when
measured against Western Europe, a region with comparably
modernized agricultural producers like France and Germany. Also,
a recent National Academy of Sciences report found “there was
little evidence” that the introduction of genetically modified
crops in the United States had led to yield gains beyond those
seen in conventional crops. At the same time, herbicide use has
increased in the United States, even as major crops like corn,
soybeans and cotton have been converted to modified varieties.
And the United States has fallen behind Europe’s biggest
producer, France, in reducing the overall use of pesticides,
which includes both herbicides and insecticides. One measure,
contained in data from the U.S. Geological Survey, shows the
stark difference in the use of pesticides. Since GM crops were
introduced in the United States two decades ago for crops like
corn, cotton and soybeans, the use of toxins that kill insects
and fungi has fallen by a third, but the spraying of herbicides,
which are used in much higher volumes, has risen 21 percent. By
contrast, in France, use of insecticides and fungicides has
fallen 65 percent and herbicide use has decreased 36 percent.
16 Popular Foods You Didn’t Know You Could Freeze
Off the Grid News - Freezing is an easy and convenient way to
preserve food. By freezing leftovers and foods that will spoil
before you use them, you can save money and reduce food waste.
As a general rule, you can keep fruits and vegetables in the
freezer for up to a year, poultry for six to nine months, fish
for three to six months, and ground meat for three to four
months. Use resealable freezer bags or freezer-safe plastic
containers and label them with the date of storage. But you can
freeze many more food items than you probably realized. Here is
our top 16 list of foods you didn’t know you could freeze…. 1.
Garlic – You can freeze whole garlic, garlic cloves or chopped
fresh garlic. Frozen garlic does lose some of its texture, but
the flavor remains intact. 2. Corn – You can freeze fresh-picked
corn on the cob for up to one year. Pack it in freezer bags —
husk and silk and all. For store-bought corn, husk and blanch it
before freezing. 3. Avocados – The bad news is that frozen
avocados lose their consistency. The good news is that they do
not lose their taste, so you can use them for guacamole or
dressing. Wash and halve them before peeling. Freeze as halves,
or puree them with lime or lemon juice and then store for up to
eight months. 4. Mushrooms — You can freeze raw button, creminis
and portabellas mushrooms for later use. Chop and slice
mushrooms and then spread them on a cookie sheet. Freeze. Then
transfer the pieces to bags or containers. 5. Onion – You can
save chopping time – and tears – by freezing onion for cooking
later. Store peeled, chopped onion in plastic freezer bags. The
best part is you can just toss them into your recipes without
thawing them first. 6. Hummus – Scoop your fresh hummus into
plastic containers. Then drizzle a thin layer of olive oil on
the top to keep it from drying out. Thaw in the refrigerator for
24 hours before mixing and serving….
Johnson & Johnson Loses Yet Another Multimillion Dollar Case
Over Baby Powder
Natural Blaze - In the latest development in the Johnson &
Johnson talcum powder saga, a St. Louis jury has awarded a
California woman over $70 million dollars as a result of her
lawsuit claiming that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s caused
her to be stricken by cancer. The trial began on September 26th
and ended on October 27th. The plaintiff, Deborah Giannecchini
of Medesto California was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012.
The lawsuit accused Johnson & Johnson of negligent conduct in
the manufacture and marketing of its product. Giannecchini’s
lawyer told the Associated Press, “We are pleased the jury did
the right thing. They once again reaffirmed the need for Johnson
& Johnson to warn the public of the ovarian cancer risk
associated with its product.” The corporation is planning to
appeal the decision, however, as Carol Goodrich, Johnson &
Johnson spokesperson said, “We will appeal today’s verdict
because we are guided by the science, which supports the safety
of Johnson’s baby powder.”
Enzyme in Broccoli, Cucumbers and Avocados Reverses Aging In
Cells
April McCarthy - Much of human health hinges on how well the
body manufactures and uses energy. For reasons that remain
unclear, cells' ability to produce energy declines with age,
prompting scientists to suspect that the steady loss of
efficiency in the body's energy supply chain is a key driver of
the aging process. Researchers have zeroed in on an enzyme --
found in natural foods like broccoli and cucumbers -- that can
slow the chronic conditions that come with age. Scientists at
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown
that supplementing healthy mice with a natural compound called
NMN can compensate for this loss of energy production, reducing
typical signs of aging such as gradual weight gain, loss of
insulin sensitivity and declines in physical activity…. The
compound, called nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), is involved
in producing another compound that is critical for energy
metabolism. When they gave normal aging mice infusions of NMN,
they made more of that energy-fueling compound and some of the
biological problems associated with aging went away. The NMN-treated
animals did not gain as much weight, they were able to convert
food into energy more efficiently, their blood sugar was
better--even their eyesight improved. The mice receiving NMN
were also able to prevent some of the genetic changes associated
with aging.
Thousands Of “Organic” Beauty Products Found Containing Banned
Chemicals
True Activist - The FDA does have some regulations that are
overseen by the USDA via the National Organic Program, but the
policing efforts when it comes to cosmetics are seriously
lacking. By looking at EWG’s Skin Deep database, it was
determined that over 5,000 products use the word “organic” in
their brand name, product name, product label or list of
ingredients. Depending on the placement of the word, certain
regulations can be bypassed, and that’s why most of these
products are actually horrible and receive the lowest Skin Deep
score possible despite claiming to be “organic.” The use of
chemicals is still allowed even in these seemingly wholesome
products and some of these chemicals are so poor for your skin
that they are banned in many countries. When a beauty product
claims to be “made with 100% organic or natural ingredients,” it
can be misleading because they are often referring to a single
ingredient that is organic or naturally-derived rather than all
of their ingredients. Other tactics used to confuse consumers
include using the terms like “eco-friendly” or “vegan,” both of
which are even less regulated than using organic on a label.
Unless there is a third-party company that you trust backing
these claims, they are likely a farce and have no substance.
Since there is so much confusion surrounding these loaded words,
consumers should be wary when they encounter products that make
bold claims like this. Instead of taking their labels at face
value, simply take a look at the ingredients and research a few
to see what they really are. If the majority of them are things
you cannot pronounce, it’s likely that most are made with
synthetic chemicals and far from being “natural” or “organic.”
* Related:
EWG’s Skin Deep Database
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Clinton is handcuffed wearing a striped prison jumpsuit and led around
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celebrating Halloween. The couples costume embodies one of the major
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