Tuesday, August 07, 2018
Beth Lindstrom calls on Elizabeth Warren to apologize for 'racist' justice-system jab - Washington Times
Beth Lindstrom calls on Elizabeth Warren to apologize for 'racist' justice-system jab - Washington Times:
Republican Senate hopeful Beth Lindstrom called Monday on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to apologize for denouncing the U.S. criminal-justice system as “racist … front to back.”
“Sen. Warren needs to apologize to every police officer, judge, corrections department employee, probation worker and the many other honest and decent people in our criminal justice system who have been smeared by her alienating and careless rhetoric,” Ms. Lindstrom said in a statement.
“Sen. Warren needs to apologize to every police officer, judge, corrections department employee, probation worker and the many other honest and decent people in our criminal justice system who have been smeared by her alienating and careless rhetoric,” Ms. Lindstrom said in a statement.
History for August 7
History for August 7 - On-This-Day.com
Nathaniel Greene 1742, Mata Hari 1876, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer 1927
B.J. Thomas 1942, Garrison Keillor 1942, David Duchovny 1960
1789 - The U.S. War Department was established by the U.S. Congress.
1782 - George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart.
1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for the revolving door.
1934 - The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling striking down the government's attempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses."
1942 - U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
1960 - The Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts.
1974 - French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
1976 - Scientists in Pasadena, CA, announced that the Viking 1 spacecraft had found strong indications of possible life on Mars.
Monday, August 06, 2018
Elizabeth Heng Gets Facebook Blocked | National Review
Elizabeth Heng Gets Facebook Blocked | National Review:Is the Cambodian Genocide now a non-event? Or just too icky for the Silicon Valley Boys? Or maybe this ad-rejection is yet another powerful Republican political message that fails some subjective standard contrived in a liberal hotbed?
The Heng campaign released this statement yesterday:
James Woods Targets Jim Acosta with Biggest Twitter Knockout We Have Ever Seen
James Woods Targets Jim Acosta with Biggest Twitter Knockout We Have Ever Seen
"...This month Acosta aired his hurt feelings concerning the Trump administration’s accusation that Acosta and his fellow journalists were peddling “fake news.”
“It is not fair. It is not fair. It is not just. It is un-American to come out here and call the press the enemy of the people,” Acosta said, according to Business Insider.
But a fellow journalist did not share Acosta’s belief that presidential administrations should play nice.
In response to Acosta’s complaint, David Shuster, formerly of MSNBC, wrote that reporters should not be “sad or happy” about how administrations treat reporters.
But the most devastating attack on Acosta came from someone outside the journalistic profession: conservative actor James Woods.
Woods sought to educate Acosta about how reporters should behave in a free society:
"...This month Acosta aired his hurt feelings concerning the Trump administration’s accusation that Acosta and his fellow journalists were peddling “fake news.”
“It is not fair. It is not fair. It is not just. It is un-American to come out here and call the press the enemy of the people,” Acosta said, according to Business Insider.But a fellow journalist did not share Acosta’s belief that presidential administrations should play nice.
In response to Acosta’s complaint, David Shuster, formerly of MSNBC, wrote that reporters should not be “sad or happy” about how administrations treat reporters.
But the most devastating attack on Acosta came from someone outside the journalistic profession: conservative actor James Woods.
Woods sought to educate Acosta about how reporters should behave in a free society:
The cynical rise and painful fall of the euro
The cynical rise and painful fall of the euro"The euro and the damage it wrought.
“...When the American subprime meltdown resulted in tightened credit markets 10 years ago, Greece’s entire economic system collapsed, threatening to take other European countries down with it.
The episode revealed flaws not just in the way Greece’s government had run its economy but in the design of the euro itself.
The single currency had already undermined Greece’s prosperity, albeit while making Greeks feel rich.
The ability to borrow at rock-bottom interest rates more suitable to venerable corporations in Stuttgart had brought inflationary pressures...
There is a profound mystery about the euro, according to economist Ashoka Mody.
‘Why,’ he asks, ‘did Europeans attempt such a venture that carried no obvious benefits but came with huge risks?’
Today, despite what Pierre Moscovici and his colleagues said in Luxembourg, Greek debt, at 179 percent, is higher still.
...The country is in some respects worse off than it was when Greek protesters mobbed the parliament in May 2010, howling, “Let the whorehouse burn!”
...Germany has been the main actor in this story since the euro was conceived a half-century ago.
The strange thing about the euro is that it is an incomplete currency.
“Germany plays the role of a hegemon in Europe,” Mody writes, “but is unwilling to bear the cost of being a hegemon.”
What he means is that countries that share the euro do not share a fiscal policy..."
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12 times Christopher Steele fed Trump-Russia allegations to FBI after the election
12 times Christopher Steele fed Trump-Russia allegations to FBI after the election:
Congressional investigators know that Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the Trump dossier on behalf of the Clinton campaign, kept supplying allegations to the FBI after the 2016 election — and even after he was terminated as a source by the bureau for giving confidential information to the media.
Because he had broken his agreement with the FBI, bureau procedure did not allow agents to keep using Steele as a source. But they did so anyway — by devising a system in which Steele spoke regularly with Bruce Ohr, a top Obama Justice Department official whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Steele to search for dirt on Donald Trump in Russia. Ohr then passed on Steele's information to the FBI.
Because he had broken his agreement with the FBI, bureau procedure did not allow agents to keep using Steele as a source. But they did so anyway — by devising a system in which Steele spoke regularly with Bruce Ohr, a top Obama Justice Department official whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Steele to search for dirt on Donald Trump in Russia. Ohr then passed on Steele's information to the FBI.
95% of plastic in oceans comes from just ten rivers
95% of plastic in oceans comes from just ten rivers
The top 10 rivers - eight of which are in Asia - accounted for so much plastic because of the mismanagement of waste.
About five trillion pounds is floating in the sea, and targeting the major sources - such as the Yangtze and the Ganges - could almost halve it, scientists claim.
...THE 10 MOST POLLUTING RIVERS
- "Scientists analysed data on plastic from 79 sampling sites along 57 rivers
- Their results showed that 10 rivers account for the majority of plastic
- Eight of these are in Asia, including the Yangtze and Indus rivers
- Targeting these rivers could halve the amount of plastic waste, experts predict
- Up to 95 per cent of plastic polluting the world's oceans pours in from just ten rivers, according to new research.
The top 10 rivers - eight of which are in Asia - accounted for so much plastic because of the mismanagement of waste.
About five trillion pounds is floating in the sea, and targeting the major sources - such as the Yangtze and the Ganges - could almost halve it, scientists claim.
...THE 10 MOST POLLUTING RIVERS
- Yangtze East China Sea Asia
- Indus Arabian Sea Asia
- Yellow River Yellow Sea Asia
- Hai He Yellow Sea Asia
- Nile Mediterranean Africa
- Ganges Bay of Bengal Asia
- Pearl River South China Sea Asia
- Amur Sea of Okhotsk Asia
- Niger Gulf of Guinea Africa
- Mekong South China Sea Asia
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